Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1877 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAS IN THE EAST A London dispatch says: “From accounts reaching here it would seem that the Russians have fared better in recent engagements than has been supposed. The battle at Pelisat has resulted in the defeat of Osman Pasha, with a oss of 2,500 in killed and wounded, while the Russians only lost 500. The fighting was for the possession of a formidable redoubt held by the Russians. The Turks fought with the most desperate valor, and were mowed down by hundreds by the galling firfe of the Russians, and were finally compelled to retire, leaving the coveted posiion in the hands of the enemy.” Buieiman Pasha has abandoned the attempt on the Russian position in Schipka pass. It is stated that Grand Buko Michael, Com-mander-in-Cliief of the Russian army in Asia Minor, has assumed command of Gen. Melikoff’s army in person, that officer having been moved for exceeding his orders. Advices from Asia Minor report that the Turks have evacuated and the Russians reoccupied the Black sea port of Sookgoom-Kale ; that the Abschasian coast is now clear of Turks, and that the insurrection in the interior luh been suppressed. The report of the capture of Lovatz by the Russians is confirmed. The loss of this important strategic position will be severely felt by the Turks, as it is believed that its capture and occupation by the Russians will bar the ■way to a junction of the forces of Osman and Huieiman Pashas. It is re]>orted that the Turks have nearly completed the isolation of the Russian corps in Hchipka pass, having obtained command of the Gabrova road, north of the Balkans. The Russians meanwhile are improving the roads and building bridges in the pass, confident that it will not be long before an army will come to their relief, and the road into Roumelix will be wanted. The Turks claim to have defeated the Twelfth Russian, corps on the river Lorn, after a severe engagement. They place the Russian loss at 3,000 killed and wounded, and the Turkish loss at 900.' The Emir of Bokhara, considering that Russia, by attacking Turkey, threatens the whole Mohammedan world, has placed his army on a war footing. Russia has advised him to disarm. In the event of his refusal, Russia will attack Bokhara, and hopes to defeat the Emir in a few weeks. The Turkish army at Bagdad, 35,000 strong, is to bo sent to reinforce the Bulgarian army. A dispatch from Sistova, dated Sunday night, Sept. 9, says: “This morning the attack on all sides of Plevna was commenced and was continued throughout the day. By 6 o’clock in the evening the town of Plevna was in the hands of the Russians, and the Turks were in full retreat in great disorder. The losses are enormous, but details are not yet received.” In Asia Minor, the hostile Generals continue to watch one another from their intrenchrnonts, but neither cares to make a move which would give the enemy advantage ground. Nicsics has at last been captured by the Montenegrins. The garrison, w'hich was originally 400 strong, lost 200 during the siege in killed and prisoners.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. A cable dispatch announces the death of Louis Adolph Thiers, the celebrated French statesman, in the 80th year of his age. The death of Thiers has created a profound impression throughout all Europe, and more esjiecially in France, where it is regarded as a national calamity. Manifestions of public grief arc noticeable to an extent which recalls the state of feeling in the United States produced by the intelligence of the sudden takingoff of President Lincoln in 1865. The Republicans are dismayed, at the sudden loss of the man upon whom they had centered their hopes and desires as the successor of MacMahon, while the Conservatives regard the circumstance as certain to operate in their favor at the ensuing elections. The London Times strongly urges that England should offer mediation between Russia and Turkey, with the conciurence of the other neutral powers. From the City t>f Mexico comes a report that cx-President Lordo, of Mexico, is to be tried for high crimes against the constitution, committed during his administration, and that Gen. Escobedo will soon be tried for treason. There are three counts in the indictment against Gambctta, the French statesman, which charge offenses against the person of the President and against the republic. There are Hix counts for public insults to Ministers. The Government will not permit the trial to be reported. It is said that the Pope, who is improving in health, has definitely resolved to restore the Roriian hierarchy in Scotland. Cardinal Manning will shortly go to Rome on a confidential mission in that connection. A band of Montenegrin soldiers recently surrounded a village near Pressika, intending to get cattle and com, During the night a fresh band arrived, whom the first supposed to be Turks. A fierce combat followed, in which 800 were killed and a number wounded. The mistake was not discovered till morning. Another terrible famine has broken out in Asia, and is desolating the little kingdom of Corea, on the eastern frontier of China, and the natives are rapidly dying of starvation. Like the Indian famine, it has arisen from the failure of the crops last season, owing to the want of rain,, and from the consumption of all reserve supplies. To add to their miseries, the plague has broken out among the people. It is reported that the Cabinets of London, Berlin, and Vienna have agreed that the time has not yet arrived for an attempt to settle the Eastern question by negotiation. The neutral powers believe that * definitive settlement, promising permanent peace, cannot be obtained until Turkey is subjugated or Russia becomes thoroughly exhausted by the protracted struggle, and is ready to seek some other means of adjustment than the arbitrament of force to which she has appealed.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Llust. A lite in New York last week destroyed J. P. Hale s piano factory and about eighty other buildings, mostly factories and tenementhouses. The flames spread so rapidly that the occupants barely escaped with their lives. Two or three persons are missing, and it is feared they perished. estimated at $350 New York city has had a genuine case of yellow fever. Frank Leslie, the well-known New York publisher, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors, who represent $330,000 of his indebtedness. His assets are his various publications, the material used therefor, and his property near Saratoga. Mr. Leslie’s financial complications were superinduced by realestate transactions. West A building on Longworth street, Cincinnati, eil the other day, with ft tremendous crash,

burying a number of people in the ruins. One woman was killed, three men fatally injured, and some half a dozen other persons badly hurt. - \ The obseouies of Brigham Young, at Salt Lake City, were remarkably common-place, considering the eminence of the man in the community where he lived and died. The body was inclosed in a plain redwood coffin, and was borne to the grave by the employes of the late President The cortege was preceded by a band and followed by the family, the different orders of the priesthood and the adherents, all on foot Prof. Watson, of the Michigan University, has discovered another asteroid. It is described as “a planet of the eleventh magnitude ; its nght ascension is twenty-three hours and ten minutes, and its declination zero degrees, forty-five minutes. Daily motion, retrograde fifty-five seconds of time in right ascension, and south one minute of arc in declination.” Private Dalzell’s reunion of ex-Federal and ex-Confcderate soldiers at Marietta, 0., was attended by several thousand volunteer soldiers of both sides hi the late war, and everything passed off satisfactorily to the participants in the gathering. Chief Joseph’s band are still roaming about Montana, confiscating stock and occasionally capturing a scalp. At last accounts they were in the vicinity of the Yellowstone, having burned the bridge across that stream. Gen. Howard’s command was far in the rear, with every prospect of the relative positions being maintained. Advices from Camp Robinson report that Shedding Bear’s band, who have been robbing and murdering in the Black Hills, have surrendered and promised to be good Indians hereafter. That irrational savage, Crazy Horse, has been acting in a manner calculated to justify his name. He was arrested at Spotted Tail agency and taken to Camp Robinson, Neb., for safety. While the officers were trying to disarm him in the guard-house Mr. Horse stabbed Little Big Man in the side. Horse was also stabbed, and the Indians are all torn up by the encounter. The noted Sioux chief Crazy Horse, who was stabbed by Chief Little Big Man, at Camp Robinson, Neb., has since died of his wounds. A Denver dispatch says the United States Marshal seized GO,OOO railroad ties, cut from Government timber, and on the cars, hear Boulder. Wontli. Four murderers confined in the jail at Newcastle, Ky., were taken out the other night and hung by a mob. The armj worm is devastating the cotton in Tennessee and Arkansas. Many fields in the vicinity look as if fire had swept through them. , '

'POLITICAL. POINTS. Thojßreenbackers of Massachusetts assembled in convention at Boston last week and nominated Wendell Phillips for Governor. The platform denounces class legislation, land grants and subsidies, protests against the further issue of gold bonds for sale in foreign markets, and demands the remonetization of silver. The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg on the sth of September and nominated the following ticket: Supreme Judge, J. P. Sterrett, by acclamation; State Treasurer, William B. Hart, by acclamation; Auditor General, J. A. M. Passmore. The Committee on Resolutions reported the following, which were adopted : Resolved, That, while wc recognize and respect the difference of opinion existing among us as to the course pursued by President Hayes toward the South, we are heartily in accord in honoring the patriotic motives which have guided him. and in hoping that the results of this policy will be peace, good-will, and complete recognition of the equal rights of all men in every section of the country, and to the efforts of his administration to carry into effect the principles of the platform upon which he was elected we pledge our hearty and cordial support. Resolved, That the Electoral Commission having been created at the urgent solicitation of the Democratic party, and after the oft-repeated declarations of its leaders in both houses of Congress that no faction could cavil at its decisions, we witness with profound astonishment the assaults of that party upon the august tribunal of its own creation, because its decisions disappointed their expectation of official patronage, which assaults, so far as they seek to impair the confidence of the people in the just title of the President to his high office, are equally childish and foolish, but may become extremely mischievous in assisting to diminish the popular respect for the decisions of lawful tribunals. The third resolution calls upon the members of the State and National Legislatures to assist the return of prosperity to the country by adopting such measures as will conduce to that end. The fourth and fifth resolutions oppose any grant of more than 160 acres of land to any one person, and also oppose the reissue of patents by act of Congress. The sixth resolution is as follows : Resolved, That the long and successful 'existence under the laws of Congress of the double-coin standard warrants us in demanding an cariy repeal of the legislation which demonetized silvc’r and established an almost exclusive gold standard ; and we, therefore, favor a return to the free use and unrestricted coinage es the dollar of 1798, and its restoration to the position it held as legal tender during eighty years of our national existence, thus preserving the equality of the commercial value of the silver dollar with the gold dollar, keeping both in circulation. The seventh resolution indorses the administration of Gov. Hartranft.

8. We are in favor of the law, and against lawlessness and anarchy, with all their attendant horrors and crimes. Equal rights in making laws impose equal duties in obeying them when made, and we tender our hearty thanks to Gov. Hartranft and the officers and soldiers of his command for the prompt, and we hope effectual, suppression of the lawless disturbances which recently occurred in this State. 9. That we hold in equal respect the rights of capital to control its investments and of labor to determine the value of its services ; that we deprecate any assertion by violence of the rights of cither, and we assert it as the duty of all citizens to hold their respective rights within the just limitations of the law, and that any attempt to coerce either by unlawful means should be promptly repressed by such lawful authorities as the exigency demands. The remaining resolutions, except the eleventh, which favors a protective tariff, relate entirely to State affairs. Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, avows his approval of the President’s Southern policy, but does not like his civil-service order. Thomas C. Anderson has been appointed Deputy Collector of Customs at the port of New Orleans. It is positively asserted in New York political circles that Senator Conkling will pronounce against the administration in the State Convention at Rochester. In a letter to the Newark Advertiser over his own signature, Justice Bradley denies the charges of the New York Sun. He says he did not read or express an opinion on the Florida case other than the one made public, and says he decided the electoral vote honestly and free tfrom political or other extraneous considerations. In regard, to the California election a San Francisco dispatch says: “The Democrats

have elected ten Senators and fifty-seven Assemblymen. The Republicans elect ten Senators and twenty-three Assemblymen. Including hold-overs, the Democrats will have thirty eight majority on joint ballot.” WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington dispatch announces the appointment of Mr. William Henry Smith, at present General Agent of the Western Associated Press, as Collector of Customs at Chicago, vice J. Russell Jones, suspended. The resignation of the latter was not forthcoming at the request of President Hayes, and hence the suspension and appointment as stated. The New York Republican Association, at Washington, has disbanded in consequence of the President's civil-service order. Hon. J. B. McCormick, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has resigned. Solicitor of the Treasury Rayner pleaded guilty in the Police Court to an assault upon the managing editor of the National liepublican, and was fined S2O. The President has decided to appoint a new Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A man named Wickliffe writes to the Louisville Courier-Journal that Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna, is not Marshal Bazainc, but that he is Col. R. Clay Crawford, a native of Hawkins county, Tenn. He was Colonel of an artillery regiment in the rebellion; afterward served under Juarez in Mexico; then lived in retirement at a country seat near Philadelphia; became weary of idleness and went to Egypt, and was transferred from the service of the Khedive 1 o that of the Sultan. The story is circumstantially told, the narrator claiming to have been in correspondence with Osman for several years. In disposing of his property, Brigham Young endeavored to make an equitable division between his seventeen wives, sixteen sons and twenty-eight daughters. The estate is valued at $2,000,000, and the will divides it so that all th u legatees will have, with such other property as he has from time to time conveyed them, an equal proportion of the old man’s goods. Gold continues to tumble. Tiro price fell last week, in the New York market, to the lowest since the war. Senator Morton’s physician thinks his patient will be able to take his seat in the Senate at the regular session of Congress. The annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee has just been held at St. Paul, Minn. The attendance numbered about seventy-five, mostly from Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri.’ Gen. Sherman was elected President for the ensuing year. Friday, Sept. 7, was a big day for Marietta, Ohio, and a big day for Private Dalzell. President Hayes, Postmaster General Key and Attorney General Devens arrived in the morning and took part in the grand reunion of exsoldiers and ex-sailors. An immense concourse, estimated at 20,000, welcomed the party at the train and escorted them through the streets of the city to the residence of Gen. T. C. 11. Smith, where the President remained a guest. In the afternoon there was speech-making and a general love-feast. The President, in his speech, avoided any discussion of political topics, his whole effort being in defense of his Southern policy. As usual, he introduced Judge Key, who spoke of the North and South to-day, contrasting it with the position before the war. Gen. Devens followed in a speech of half an hour. ,r he Presidential party left in the evening for Fremont, w’herc they were accorded a cordial reception. The Turkish Minister to the United States furnishes the following : “In view of the various accounts circulating about the origin of Osman Pasha, the Turkish Legation has the honor to inform, the press that the Marshal of that name was born in Asia Minor, of Mussulman parents.”