Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1877 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAS IN THE BAST. A now bridge over the Danube at Nikopolis has been completed. Dispatches of the 14th give meager particulars of the assault made by the Russians on Plevna and the capture of the Grivica redoubt. Osman Pasha’s strongest position. The storming parties captured five guns and two standards, but with terrible loss on the part of the assailauts, as the commander of the regiment was killed, and a General and 5,000 men were wounded. The number of dead had not yet been reckoned at the time of the dispatch of the telegram. The Ixindon Times correspondent tclographs : “I estimate the forces engaged at about 57,000 on the Ituaso-Roumanian side, against from 60,000 to 70,000 Turks. The valor of the Russian “—v ■ hn praised, as the attack was unskillfully directed, and the want*, of life unnecessary. The Turks were very skillfully handled. The Khedive of Egypt will send a further contingent of troops to Turkey. A Russian official bulletin, dated Foredin, the 13th, says : “On yesterday (Wednesday) we made no further attacks, but bombarded the Turkish fortifications and the town of Plevna at short range. Toward 4 p. m. the town began to burn, and two explosions were observed within the fortifications. The Turks made little reply to our fire and directed all their efforts against our loft wing which threatened their rear. At this point Gen. Skobeleff repulsed five furious attacks, but was comjHilled in the evening, after the sixth attack, to ovacuatc the fortifications which he captured on Tuesday. During Wednesday night our troops intrenched themselves in their positions. From the beginning of the battle up to 1 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon 6,000 wounded had been brought to the field hospital.” Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs that the Russians have evacuated Ardahan and retired to Fort Emiroglou. The mobilization of all the Roumanian reserves has been ordered. The Grand Duke Nicholas telegraphs to St. Potorsburg, undor date of Poredin, Saturday, Sept. 15 : “On Friday evening the Turks assaulted Grivitza, but, with the assistance of the Russian and Roumanian reserves, wore repulsed. To-day we continue shelling the enemy’s fortifications, and the town is burning. According to reports received up to Friday, 239 woiuidod officers and 9,482 men passed through the hospitals since Sept. 7. The number of killed is about 3,000. The total loss is about 300 officers and 12,500 men. Up to the morning of Sept. 14 the Roumanians had lost about sixty officers and 3,000 men killed and wounded.” A Bucharest correspondent telegraphs as follows, undor date of Sunday, the 15th: “A dispatch has reached here this morning from imperial headquarters, stating that the Turks had made desperate efforts to recapture the Gravitza redoubt, making seven ineffectual assaults and losing 10,000 men.” A correspondent with the Turkish army in Romnelia sends the following: “ Fover has broken out in Suloiman Pasha’s camp. Every house in Kaznlik is a hospital. The place reoks with the fever stench. All the country from Schipka to Yeni-Saghra can only be ridden over with camphor in one’s mouth. Doad bodies are lying on the roadsidos and in fields and gardons. From 400 to GOO bodies are in Yeni-Saghra, and havo been there ever since tho battle some weeks ago. There is a reign of torror from Adrianople to the Balkans. All respectable male Bulgarians are hunted down by tho order or connivance of the authorities.'’

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Franco and Germany have presented remonstrances to tho Porte against the release of the Salonica murderers. Gambetta, the French Republican leader, has been fined 2,000 francs and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for his alleged insulting remarks at Lille. He has taken an appeal to a higher court. Another terrible disaster has occurred in the English channel. Two ships, both British, one from London (tho Avalanche), for New Zealand, and the other (tho Forest), from London, for New York, collided off the English coast, and both foundered. From the Avalanche, which had a crow of thirty-two. with fifty passengers, only the third officer and two seamen were saved, and, from the Forest, which had a crow of thirty-one, and no passengers, tho Captain, chief mate and soven seamen escaped. The total number of those who perished is ninety-six. Nows comes that Henry M. Stanley, tho African explorer, has arrived on the west coast of Africa, after a troublesome journey across tho continent along the line of tho Lualaba and Congo layers. Stanley’s last letter* are dated from Enftbowa, Congo river, Aug. 10, and say he arrived at that point from Zanzibar Aug. 8 with only 116 souls, and in an awful condition after the long, terriblo journey through the heart of tho African continent.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Euest. Now York papers announce the failure of Augustin Daly, the well-known theatrical manager. George E. Sponcer, United States Senator from Alabama, was married in Now York, a few days ago, to May Nunez, a young actress. A farmer named Hitchens, with four sons and two daughters, took refuge under a tree during a storm, near Georgetown, Del. The tree was struck by lightning, and three of the children—two sons and one daughter—were instantly killed. A counterfeiter named Hutchison was shot dead at Tyrone, Pa., the other day, by a United States detective, while endeavoring to escape. William M. Tweed has given to the public, through an investigating committee of tha Now York Common Council, another chapter of his history of municipal rings. According to his story, he disbursed about $600,000 to secure the passage through the Legislature of the celebrated charter by which he was enabled to plunder the city. This money was furnished by various tradesmen and politicians, tho Erie railwav, through Jay Gould, contributing a considerable sum. He gives tho names of a number of members of the Legislature who were bribed to vote for the charter, the price for votes ranging from $26,000 to $60,000. Tweed charges explicitly that A. Oakey Hall, the Mayor, was the most exacting of all the thieves in the ring. West. Advices from lowa and Illinois state that the bulk of the com crop is now beyond the danger of serious harm by frost. The Mormon Apostles have ohosen John Taylor as President of the Twelve and successor to Brigham Young, to be assisted by a son of the dead Prophet, Daniel H. Wells and Congressman Cannon. A bloody chapter of crime comes to us from the town of St. Elmo, Fayette county, 111. Mr. John Sooles, an estimable citizen of the place, returned home with his family, after an absence of several days, and found a tramp

in possession of the house. The latter made for a cornfield, where he was pursued. Being brought to bay, he coolly shot Mr. Scoles dead. News of the murder spread, causing the wildest excitement, and in a lew minutes upward of 100 armed men wore in pursuit of the murderer. Mr. Frank Barnes, an estimable young man, was the first to overtake him. The fiend turned upon his pursuer, and, holding a revolver in each hand, commenced firing. Barnes was shot through the head and instantly killed. Mr. Frank Wiseman, another excellent citizen, came up about this time and also received a bullet through the head, from the effects of which ho died in a short time. Still coolly facing the advancing citizens, he aimed with his right-hand revolver, and fired, killing a horse from under a name is not learned. Then, giving a. tpmbly demoniac yell, he rushed toward the entire party of about a dozen horsemen. This bold and utterly unlooked-for action by the demon disconcerted tbo party, and caused them to turn and flee in all directions. Still intent with devilish murderous deeds, he again aimed and hit a horee, wounding it so it fell, unable to move further, and tho rider was obliged to escape on foot. Tho desperado then turned and fled to the woods, making his escape. A dispatch from Camp Robinson, Neb., states that Lame Deer’s band of warriors, numbering upward of 400, have surrendered, and agreed to upon a reservation. This leaves the Black Hills and Big Horn country free from hostile Indian^. The Chicago papers chronicle the burning of the Hyde Park Hotel, a fashionable hostelrie located in the suburbs of that city. Loss about $130,000. Over 20.000 people witnessed the unveiling of tho soldiers’ monument at Dayton, Ohio, last week. Speeches were made by President Hayes, Secretary McCrary, Chief Justice Waite, Bcnj. F. Butler, and others. President Hayes last week paid a flying visit to Senator Morton, at Richmond, Ind. The interview between tho President and the sick Senator was very brief, at the conclusion of which the formor took the train and returned to Fremont, Ohio, where he participated in the reunion of his old regiment, Wade Hampton delivered his promised address, at the fair at Rockford, 111., on tho 13th inst., and was respectfully listened to by 10,000 people. A new cattle plague, in the shape of Texas ticks, or lice, has appeared in various parts of the West, and threatens to prove a serious disorder. A singular crime has been perpetrated iu Chicago. It is no less than the theft of a large steam propeller lying in the river. The thieves put to sea with their prize in the night, and at last accounts nothing had been heard from her. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says the Warm Spring Indians left the San Carlos reservation, killed fourteen men, daptured a freight train, killed the teamsters, and bm-ned the goods. A body of troops, under command of Maj. Tapper, pursued, overtook and attacked the Indians, killing forty. Sitting Bull, by a half-breed messenger, has proposed a conference with Gen. Miles, on the basis of his being allowed to settle in the Big Horn country instead of going on the Missouri River Reservation, Sitting Bull’s messenger says he declared ho’d not go on the reservation or surrender his guns or ponies, because, though tho Great Fathor might intend to take care of him, the agents would cheat the Great Father, and give him only shoddy blankets and stinking flour. A horrible murder, for purposes of robbery, was recently committed in Placer county, Cal., the victims being Mr. and Mrs. Oder and Mr. Sargent. The perpetrators of the crime wore Chinamen’s shoes, and were traced to the Mongolian quarter of the town of Rocklin. Four of them were arrested on suspicion and narrowly escaped lynching. The citizens of the town gathered en masse and compelled every Chinaman to leave the town. Their houses were demolished as fast as they, left them. SOXltll. Several cases of yellow fever have occurred at Femandina, Florida, and Northern visitors at Jacksonville and other places are leaving-jp-great haste. The Chisholm murder is to be thoroughly investigated by the Grand Jury of Kemper county, Miss. The coast towns of Florida are greatly excited about the yellow fever, which has broken out at Femandina. As yet it has been confined to that city, but the inhabitants of other ports have instituted strict quarantine regulations, as a precautionary measure against the spread of the disease. POLITICAL POINTS. A Correspondent of tho Cincinnati Evening Times, who interviewed President Hayes while en route from Marietta to Fremont, Ohio, asked the President how he came to construct his policy, which was seemingly so at variance with his recent views while on the stump in his last gubernatorial campaign. Did it grow upon him gradually as circumstances seemed to require. The President replied as follows : • ‘ Well, those views began to take form in the words of my letter of acceptance. I considered the situation of things in the South ; saw how impossible it seemed to restore order, and peace, and harmony; saw the violence and bloodshed at their elections ; how white Republicans as well as black were shot down during their political contests, and I asked myself, Why is it, and how long must this continue ? Those men down South, the white, educated citizens, are as good men as you or I. They are Christians, not thieves, nor cut-throats, nor bandits; yet they see these things, and approve them, if they do not take part in them. Why is it, and how long will they continue ? While thinking these questions over, my mind reverted to the scene of the war, and the incident at the battle of Cedar Mountain came to mind. It was a hard-fought engagement, and for a time we could not tell how it would end. We who were in command had determined that if a certain movement resulted in one way we would give certain orders, but, if it resulted otherwise, different orders would be given. With our field-glasses we were watching the course of things. All at once I saw a commotion in the thickest of the fray. The artillery had got to work, and were throwing shells fast and with unerring aim into the solid ranks of the enemy. Heads were being blown from their bodies, arms and legs tom from their sockets, and souls sent to one world or the other unprepared, and yet I rejoiced and congratulated my fellow-officers that we were victorious. How could this be ? Why was it ? It was because we were at war. That one word solved in my mind the problem of the South. The people there were at war. There was a conflict going on. The social and political relations of the people were not natural, not harmonious. There were disturbing elements among them, and while they existed or were undniy active there would be conflict. Let the causes of the conflict be removed and there will be peace and ultimately harmony and prosperity.” “But,” said the reporter, « we do not seemnoh disposition in the South to manifest a loving temper toward ns in the North.” The President mildly retorted; “How do yon know?

You form your opinions, no doubt, from reading the papers, “but editors of newspapers do not always express the popular general feeling of the people, either North or South. I think meet of the people in the South, as I know they are in the North, are more disposed to encourage fraternal, harmonious, social and business relations than the extremists, who, unfortunately, too often get control of newspapers, hut even these, or most of them, will come around all right in time.” Montgomery Blair is a candidate for the United States Senate from Maryland. The Republicans have carried Maine by about 6,000 majority. The Legislature, as usual, is strongly Republican in both branches. The Pennsylvania Workingmen held a State Convention at Harrishure last week, adonted • platform of principles, and placed a full ticket in the field. The Republicans of Wisconsin held their State Convention at Madison on the 11th of September. Hon. William E. Smith, of Milwaukee, was unanimously nominated for Governor ; J. M. Bingham for Lieutenant Governor ; Hans Warner for Secretary of State; Richard Gnenther for State Treasurer ; W. E. Carter for Attorney General, and W. C. Whitford for Superintendent of Schools, E. W. Keyes resigned the Chairmanship of tho State Committee, and Horace Rublee was chosen to fill the vacancy. The following platform was unanimously adopted: That we reaffirm the principles which have guided the national Republican party hitherto. That we declare it to be the steadfast purpose of the Republicans of Wisconsin to co-operate with all good citizens in maintaining in letter and spirit the constitutional amendments framed to secure equal rights and protection to all, in maintaining the plighted faith of the nation and in promoting reforms, to secure economy and efficiency in every branch of the Government. That we most earnestly desire the pacification of the Southern section of our Union and its speedy return to national prosperity. We are mindful that this can be gained only by obedience to law, by protection to all in every right, and by a careful regard for that class of citizens least able to protect themselves. In the efforts of the present national administration to restore peace and concord to the South, wo recognize a magnanimous purpose to remove every excuse for lawlessness and violence. We hope that this magnanimity will be duly appreciated and that the reciprocal pledges made by prominent citizens and officials of the Bouth will bo faithfully kept. We shall rejoice if the Southern policy of the President produces the hoped-for results of order and peace; but if these results shall not follow thiß experiment we demand that other measures be adopted which shall secure to all citizens, without distinction of race or color, the fullest enjoyment of their constitutional rights. That the determination of the National Executive to render tho civil service more efficient and less obnoxious to criticism meets our approval. The perfection of our system of government in every detail of administration is one of the most important duties of the hour. AU efforts in that direction should be fairly considered, and neither hastily approved nor condemned. That in the purposes and patriotism of President Hayes we declare our unshaken confidence. That the attention of Congress is called to the necessity of such modification of the Patent laws as shall, while affording adequate recompense to the inventor, at the same time secure the people from undue exaction for the use of patented articles. That we rejoice that the fidelity of the Republican party;in upholding the national credit has brought our currency so near the point of resumption of specie payment. We hold that the silver dollar should be restored to its former place as money,and made legal tender for the payment of debts except where otherwise distinctly provided by law, with the coinage so regulated as to maintain equality of value and preserve the harmonious circulation of gold, silver and legal notes as money. That, while we earnestly condemn all violence, outlawry, and mob rule, yet the Republican party expresses its heartiest sympathy with the condition of the workingmen who are willing to work but are unable to find employment, and public attention should be called to the grave importance of the labor question, and the most eareful consideration should be given to the same by Federal and State legislation. That wo oppose any further bestowal of public lands upon railroad corporations, and urge the establishment of such Govern,, jnt regulations over inter-State railroads as their importance as national highways and the interest of the people demand. That we congratulate the people of Wisconsin that during the many years in which the Repub- . lican party has been in the ascendency no stain has been found upon the record in this State, and, therefore, confidently point to its whole history, and especially to the wise and economical administration of Gov. Harrison Ludington, as the best evi dence and guaranty of its intentions and purposes for the future. The Democratic State Convention of New York has been called to meet at Albany on the 3d of October. The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have nominated full tickets for State officers. A State Convention of the Workingmen’s party of Ohio was held at Columbus last week. The Greenback Executive Committee were present, and consented to withdraw their State ticket and unite with the new movement if their ideas of currency reform were heartily acquiesced in, which was agreed to in open convention. The following ticket was then nominated: For Governor, Stephen Johnson; Lieutenant Governor, Christopher Lewis; Supreme Judge, Milton L. Clark; Treasurer, James Jenkins; Clerk of the Supreme Court, E. P. Pitkin; Attorney General, George A. Duncan; School Commissioner, John O. Logan; Board of Public Works, C. C. Strong. At the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, held at Worcester, last week, the following nominations were made: Governor, William Gaston; Lieutenant Governor, William R. Plunket; Secretary of State, Weston Howland; Treasurer and Receiver General, David N. Skillings; Auditor, John E. Fitzgerald ; Attorney General, Charles P. Thompson. The following platform was unanimously adopted:

We reaffirm and announce the National Democratic platform of 1870 as an authoritative exposition of the principles of our past, and we congratulate our political brethren of the whole country that these principles were indorsed in the national canvass by the suffrages of a decided majority of the American people. We believe the people fairly elected a majority of the Electoral College in favor of the Democratic candidates, and, while in the high interest of public tranquillity we submit to the authority of the constituted Federal administration, we denounce upon the guilty Republican party stern retribution for a great public crime by which the people were defrauded of their rights to be governed by the rulers of their own choice, and by which the elective principle . was wounded in its most vital part. We challenge for it the opprobrium of history and the indignant judgment of all honest men. We congratulate the country and the supporters of free government everywhere upon the happy results of restored public order and reviving industrial prosperity, and the inauguration of a new reign of domestic peace and liberty regulated by law in the southern section of the Union, that have ensued upon the adoption of Democratic principles and measures of administration by the Executive Department of the Federal Government in reference to Southern States. We recognize in these auspicious results the signal vindication and practical triumph of the constitutional doctrines so faithfully contended for by the Democrats in the late political contest, and the statesmanship of the wise fathers which seeks the welfare of the republic by the support of the equal rights and dignities of all the States in the Federal Union. We trust that hereafter there will be no Southern policy, no Northern policy, but one common policy for the whole Union and an equality of the rights and duties of all men before the law.

Resolved, That we are opposed to the re-enact-ment of the Prohibitory law. Resolved, That the practice of borrowing money for other objects than those of strict pnblic necessity has generated schemes of extravagant expenditure, until taxation has become a well-nigh intolerable burden. Honesty, economy and “ pay as you go” should be rules in all appropriations of the people’s money. The power of the State, county, cities and towns to borrow money ought to be rigidly limited so an end may be put to the system which « anticipates the labor of the coming ages, and appropriates the fruits of it in advance; which coins the industry of future generations into cash, and snatches the inheritance from children yet unborn.” Resolved, That we are in favor of the honest payment of the public debt, and of a currency on a gold bas^. Resolved, That the present depression of the industrial. commercial, and. financial interests of the country Is largely due to onr maomiy, under the present laws, to dispose of the snrpins piwino»« which other countries want, and which, but for the restrictions and injurious legislation, the United States would, to a great extent, produce and sell better and cheaper than any other n-tl-MISCELL ANE OTJS GLEANINGS. A railway train on the Canada Southern road has just accomplished tho extraordinary achievement of making a run of 111 miles in 109 minutes. Score another victory over the “ blarsted Britisher.” In the international contest between the American and British rifle teams at the Creedmoor range, New York, the immense superiority of the Yankees in the use of the long-range rifle was attested by a most creditable victory. The teams consisted of eight men on a side, selected, after long and careful practice, as the crack marksmen of their respective countries. The shooting lasted two days, each man firing fortyfive shots in each day’s contest—fifteen shots at 800 yards’ distance, fifteen at 900 yards, and fifteen at 1,000 yards. The following is the score: Americans, 800 yards - 1,1-13 Americans, 900 yards 1,101 Americans, 1,000 yards 1,090 Total j 3,334 British, 800 yardß 1,117 British, 900 yards 1,073 British, 1,000 yards 1,052 Total :..... 3,242 The Americans winning by Dinety-two points. President Hayes dropped into Cincinnati on Saturday evening, the 15lh inst., and /was accorded a hearty reception. After tho formal reception and the delivery of the customary speeches he was driven to the residence of Dr. John Davis, where he remained until Monday, on which day he left for Louisville. In the latter city his reception partook of the nature of a grand ovation, nearly the w r hole population turning out to greet him. He was met at the depot by jan immense throng, and escorted to the Galt Honse. In the afternoon the President was escorted by the military and Reception Committee to the Exposition building, where he was received by the children of the public schools. In the evening the President and Mrs. Hayes gave a reception at the Galt House ; Tuesday they devoted to sight-seeing, and in the evening they gave another reception at the Exposition building. Tuesday night, the 18th, the President and his family, accompanied by Secretaries Evarts, Schurz and Key, and several other dignitaries, left on a special train for Nashville.