Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1877 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAR IN THE EAST. A telegram from Erzeroum says “the following intelligence has been received from Kars : On the 19th inst. the Russians attacked Fort Ahenz, before Kars, and were repulsed. Ismail Pasha arrived at Zeidekan on the 23d inst. He is expected to join Ghazi Mukhtar Pasha at Zewin. Gen. Tergukasoft is pursuing Ismail Pasha.” A Russian official dispatch, dated Tutchenitza, before Plevna, Oct. 25, says : “Yesterday, after a desperate engagement of ten hours' duration, Gen. Gourko’s detachment, co-operating with a portion of the Imperial Guard, captured a strong Turkish position between Gurnji-Dubnik and Teliche. Gen. Gonrko then stationed himself on the Hofia road, strengthening his jiosition with new - fortifications. This engagement also resulted in the capture of Achmet Ewsi Pasha, together with his chief-of-staff, and many other Turkish officers, about 3,000 foot soldiers, and an entire regiment of cavalry. Four cannon and a quantity of rifles and ammunition were also captured.” There is a general belief in London that the Russians are about to make a desperate effort to capture Plevna and pulverize Suleiman’s army, and that if successful in these undertakings they will retire most of the forces beyond the Danube for the winter, leaving only sufficient garrisons at the bridge-head at Sistova and in two or three other strategic positions that will be essential in next year’s operations.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Cable dispatches make brief mention of a terrible mine explosion near Glasgow, Scotland, by which 300 or 400 men lost their lives. Advices [from Cape Town, South Africa, state that war has begun in Trauekei between the Galekas and the British and their native allies There has been some severe fighting. The principal buildings for the Paris Exhibition of 1878 have been completed. Advices from Havana report that the Spaniards have captured the President and one or two other dignitaries of the Cuban republic. Gpn. Grant left England on the morning of Oct. 24, and arrived in Paris the same evening. Turkey, securing the release es £280,000 Egyptian tribute, is about to negotiate a new loan of £5,000,000, the interest to be secured by the £280,000. Dom Pedro and his wife, the Emperor and Empress qf Brazil, reached their home at Rio Janeiro on the 25th of September, and were received by a magnificent popular ovation. The city was grandly illuminated, and the people were evidently much delighted at the return of their wise and venerated ruler, after a year and a half’s absence seeing the world. President MacMahon, when receiving Gen. Grant, in Paris, said he was much gratified to make the acquaintance of ho illustrious a soldier. He offered to open all the military establishments to his inspection, and to furnish the means of knowing everything concerning military affairs. Gen. Grant accepted the offer with thanks. A London dispatch states that “complete access has been obtained to both pits of the High Blantyre colliery, and it has been ascertained that 250 persons perished.” Late advices from the City of Mexico state that “ Diaz shows an inflexible determination to extradite criminals on the Rio Grande, l>elieving extradition necessary to preserve national' decorum. Several regiments of infantry and cavalry have marched for the border. Th* Lcrdoists are actively organizing to co-operate with Etcobcdo on the Rio Grande.”

OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SITTING BULL COMMISSION. Camp on the Milk Biver, M. T.,) Oct. 20, 1877. f To the Hon. Secretary of War and the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, Washington: The commission met Sitting Bull and his Chiefs at Fort Walsh on the 17th inst. The instructions were carried out literally. Sitting Bull and his chiefs declined the proposals. The address of the commission and the answers of the chiefs have been telegraphed to the New York Herald, and it is deemed unnecessary to repeat them in this telegram. After the conference was over, the Canadian authorities had a conference with the same individuals. In reply to a request of the commission to know what transpired in the conference, Col. McLeod, Commissioner of the Northwest Territory, addressed to us the following letter : Oenti.e'mkn : In answer to your note I beg leave to inform you that, after the interview of the Commissioners with the Indians, I had a talk with the latter. I endeavored to impress upon them the importance of the answer they had jnst made; that, although some of the speakers to the Commissioners had claimed to be British Indians, we denied the claim, and that the Queen’s Government looked upon them as American Indians who had taken refuge in our country from their enemies. I pointed out to them that their only hope was the buffalo; that it would not be many years before that source of supply would cease, and that they could expect nothing whatever from the Queen’s Government except protection so long as they behaved tlemselves. I warned them that their decision not only affected themselves but their children, and that they should think well over it before it was too late. I told them they must not cross the line with a hostile intent; that if they did they would not only have the Americans for their enemies, but also the police and the British Government, and urged upon them to carry my words to their camps, to tell all their young men what I had said and warn them of the consequences of disobedience, pointing out to them that a few indiscreet young warriors might involve them all in most serious trouble. They unanimously adhered to the answer they had given the Commissioners, and promised to observe all that I had told them. Ido not think there need be the least anxiety about any of these Indians crossing the line; at any rate, not for some time to tdhic. In haste, most respectfully yours, James F. McLeod, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding N. W. M. P. Alfred H.’Terry, A. G. Lawrence, Commissioners.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Mrs. Gilman, wife of the convicted New York forger, is hopelessly insane, and has been sent to an asylum. Nineteen persons are reported at the New York police headquarters as missing. They average all the way from 5 to 75 years old, and have disappeared since the beginning of the month. The Bay State Iron Company, of Boston, has failed. Liabilities, $501,626 assets. $1,279,727. Gallagher and Murray, two of the Pittsburgh rioters, have been sentenced to terms of six and three years in the penitentiary. The manner in which Senator Blaine’s daughter met with a serious accident (brief mention of which was made in a telegraphic dispatch) is thus related in a letter from Augusta, Me.: “ Talking with a gentleman in the parlor of her father’s house, she toyed and played with a tiny pistol that belonged to her brother. I he visitor begged her to put it away, although it was unloaded, and spoke gravely of using even empty pistols as playthings. When he ardse to go away, she laughingly ran up stairs

to her brother’s room, got a cartridge and put it in the cylinder, and came bounding down, calling to her friend, who was passing out of the front yard, to see her shoot; but, before she had leveled the weapon, in her gleeful hurry she pressed the trigger, and the ball struck between her eyes, passing upward. Miss Blaine clasped her head with her hand, and crying ‘Oh! lam shot!’ fell to the floor. Burgeons have probed for the ball, but cannot find it. The child suffers terribly. Inflammation of the brain r is feared, but the surgeons give the family hope.” The Grand Jury of Philadelphia has indicted John S. Morton, Samuel B. Huhn, B. F. Stokes, John R. Nagle, and George N. Vickers, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Market Street Railway Company out of $200,000. Edwin Adams, the well-known actor, died at Philadelphia last week of consumption, after an illness of several months’ duration. He was 43 years old.

West. The Chicago papers report that the wholesale trade of that city continues brisk. Gen. Howard reports 68 citizens murdered and 179 uoldiers killed during the whole campaign agninst the Nez Perces Indians. A dispatch from Fort Walsh, British territory, says: “To-morrow night Sitting Bull’s force sets out for their old camp on Wood mountain, but it is probable that a settlement will be found them on Souris river in the Dirt Hills region. The Canadian Indians, who hung around the fort during the conference, are delighted with the way Sitting Bull talked back at the Commissioners, and express great confidence in him. He told me an hour ago that he would live quietly on Canadian soil, and would, on no consideration, violate Canadian neutrality, and before he died he hoped to * make the Americans cry.’ The Nez Perces are scattered all over, and are inclined to rest. Walsh says there will be no more trouble until the Indians feel themselves strong enough to begin another campaign, probably in the spring. The police regret the failure of the commission, but are satisfied that they can make satisfactory arrangements with Sitting Bull.” Dispatches from Red Cloud Agency describe the breaking up of the Indian camp there. One of the largest fleet of vessels that ever entered Chicago harbor in one day arrived in that port recently. In nine hours, from Ba. m. to sp. m., there were 143 arrivals, and tho total from 3 a. m. to 9. p. m. was 161. There were 6,000 or 7,000 of the Sioux at that point, all of whom have started quietly on the long tramp of some 200 miles, to their new homes at the confluence of the White and Missouri rivers. Chicago has one less place of amusement, Wood’s Museum having been almost entirely destroyed by fire. For some reasons the burning of the Museum may be regarded as a benefit, for, by its destruction, one among several fire-trap theaters in Chicago has passed out of existence. The only place of amusement in the city where all the contingencies against fire are provided is McVicker’s Theater. In this place a spectator is as safe as he would be in his own house. W. K. Ackerman has been elected President of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Lewis Meyers, Treasurer of Auglaize county, Ohio, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for embezzling $47,000. South. The Confederate Gen. Forrest is slowly dying of chronic diarrhea. He weighs less than 100 pounds.

POLITICAL POINTS. John Morrissey has received the anti-Tam-many nomination for Senator from the Seventh District of New York, the home of John Kelly, the chief of the Tammany organization. It is reported that a syndicate, composed of prominent New York banking firms, has been formed for the purpose of funding the Southern bonds. Since the beginning of the war no interest has been paid upon the Southern State, county or municipal indebtedness. These bonds aggregate $500,000,000. The proposed syndicate Ijas matured a plan which, by the Legislatures of the several States, will secure the funding of the debt and the payment of interest. WASHINGTON NOTES. The bill introduced in Congress by Senator Jones provides or the coinage of silver dollars of the weight 412 X grains Troy, at any coinage mint or the New York assay office, in exchange for silver bullion upon the same terms and conditions as gold bullion is deposited for coinage under existing laws. The bill also provides that no charge shall be made for the coining of standard bullion into these dollars, and proposes to make them legal-tender for all sums. Capt. Daniel Hall, of New Hampshire, has been appointed by the President Naval Officer at Boston. Congressman Smalls has gone to South Carolina to attend his trial. An appeal, probably a vain one, has been addressed to the President in his behalf by Northern Republicans. An effort is making in Washington, on behalf of the Supreme Court Judges, to secure them mileage while traveling their circuits. These officials are the only public functiona ries not included in the provision allowing trav eling expenses while proceeding to and from points of duty. From the official report by the Patent Office of the fire which destroyed two wings of the model-room it appears that the total loss was $1,500,000, including the amounts necessary to restore models, drawings, etc., and to put the building in a flre-proof condition.

the spare tonnage of steamers that will sail from Boston for Liverpool in No’vember, for shipments of grain to that port without the intervention of Eastern “middlemen.”