Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1877 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAB IN THE EAST. Later accounts fully confirm the report that the city of Kars, in Asia Minor, with 300 cannons, stores, etc., has fallen into the Russian hands. The Turks lost 6,000 in killed and wounded, 10,000 prisoners, and many flags. The Russian loss was about 2,700. The Russian soldiers made but trifling booty, and spared peaceful citizens, women and children. This is a severe blow to the Turkish power in Armenia. It is reported that the Montenegrins have stormed and captured the citadel of Spitza. This gives them possession of the coast from the Austrian frontier to Boyana. The Russian forces in Bulgaria and in the Dobrudscha number 280,000 men, and the Turkish forces 240,000. Seventeen thousand Russian soldiers have been detached from the Kars assist in the siege of Plevna. Rahova, an important position on the Dan übe, has been captured by the Roumanians after a three days’ engagement. There has also beeu some severe but indecisive fighting on the river Lom.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The marriage of the Duke of Norfolk to Lady Flora Hastings was solemnized at the Oratory at Brompton on the 21st of November. The scene and ceremony were of brilliancy and impressiveness hardly surpassable. The services were performed by the Bishops of Southwark, Nottingham and Port Louis. Devastations bjMie famine continue throughout the northern provinces of China. The cholera plague is decreasing in Japan. O. B. Bradford, formerly United States Vice Consul General at Shanghai, has been tried before the new Consul General, G. Wiley Wells, on a charge of opening letters sent through the United States mails, for the purpose of making their contents known to Minister Seward. He was fined $250 and imprisoned twenty days. President MacMahou, of France, has succeeded in constituting a new Ministry. The new Cabinet is headed by Gen. Grimaudet de Rochebouet, President of the Council and Minister of War, with M. Dutilleul as Minister of Finance. The latter has been connected with the Financial Bureau of the French Government for many years. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. Philadelphia was the scene, on Sunday last, of a brutal assassination. Alexander B. Sayre, a regular attendant upon the services, left his seat, advanced up the aisle to where his wife was sitting, drew a pistol and shot her through the back, inflicting a wound believed to be mortal. They had been separated for two years, and Sayre had once been imprisoned for breaking an arm. A thorough investigation of the affairs of the missing Pittsburgh lawyer, 8. B. W. Gill, shows that he is a rogue of no common order. His assets, which were reckoned at little less than half a million, have dwindled to little or nothing, and his liabilities swelled to over $300,000.

Col. McDaniel, of turf celebrity, obtained the postponement of a cause in which he was defendant by horsewhipping plaintiff’s attorney in a Princeton (N. J.) court. A fire at No. 18 Leonard street, New York, damaged the linen-goods stock of Smith & Taylor SIOO,OOO. Judge George Grennell, member of Congress rom 1828 to 1838, died at Springfield, Mass., ast week, aged 91. The New York papers have accounts of another mammoth swindle—this time committed by Louis F. Theresson, a lawyer doing in Pine street under the firm name of Theresson A Bryan. The amount of defalcations discovered is $130,000. Theresson is a vestryman of the Church of the Incarnation. He is also Treasurer of the St. Luke’s Hospital Society of the same church, and was, until recently, the Sunday-school superintendent. Jacob Huntzinger, late President of the Miners’ ’Trust Company Bank at Pottsville, and his son, Albert, cashier of the bank, charged with conspiracy to defraud, have been found guilty, after a trial of five weeks. New York papers chronicle the death of Moses H. Grinnell, an old, wealthy, and prominent citizen. West. An old man of 00 years, named George Hickson, committed suicide at St. Louis, the other day, by flinging himself into the Mississippi river from the railing of the great bridge. Recent heavy rains in Virginia have swollen the streams to an unusual height, and caused great destruction of property. The losses by the flood in the James river, at Richmond, are estimated at between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. South. Col. Wiley Reed, of the Confederate army, killed at Fort Pillcw, was disinterred the other day, after thirteen years’ burial, and, to the astonishment of his relatives, was found to be in aperfect state of preservation.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The United States Marshal for Northern Alabama has been asked to resign, because he bet SSOO that Hayes would be elected. The President thinks that such action is unbecoming a public officer. Gen. Sherman was before the House Committee on Military Affairs the other day with reference to the Mexican border troubles. He stated that the present military force on the border was insufficient to protect the lives and property of citizens, and recommended an increase. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury McCormick has tendered his resignation. The Central National Bank, of Chicago, has petered out. Its indebtedness to depositors is about $250,000. The assets are said to be sufficient to save the depositors from loss. Indians recently attacked the Deadwood mail coach at Sulphur Springs Station, and fired a volley at the driver and passengers. The latter took to the bluffs and escaped. The Indians then ransacked the mail bags, made an unsuccessful attempt to capture the treasurebox, and decamped.

POLITICAL POINTS. The full official vote of Wisconsin for Governor, at the late election, gives Smith, Republican, 78,753; Mallory, Democrat, 70,482; Allis. Greenback, 26,163; Smith over Mallory, 8,271. A Washington telegram says Col. R. G. Ingersoll, in company with Senator Oglesby, called on the Secretary of State, and stated he did not desire his name to be used in connection with the Berlin mission, as he did not wish the position. The official vote of New Jersey gives McClellan, Democrat, for Governor, 97,830, to 85,120 for Newell, Republican. The Greenback candidate for Governor polled 4,588 votes.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Monday, Nov. 19.—Senate.—The resolution of Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, for the appointment of a committee to inquire into alleged dis crepancies in- the books of the Treasury Department, was passed in the Senate. .. The Senate receded from its amendments to the Army bill which were non-concurred in by the House, and passed the bi 11.... The Senate, in executive session, confirmed several nominations, including that of Filley to be Postmaster at St. Louis. House. —The Paris Exposition Appropriation Dill was under consideration in the House. Sunset Cox made a very humorous speech on Mr. Hewitt’s pi ©position to make an exhibit of the American method of cooking hoe cake and corn dodger. Tuesday, Nov. 20.—Senate.—The bill to enable Indians to become citizens was discussed and postponed till Dec. 10... .A motion was made by Mr. Thurman to discharge the Committee on Privileges and Elections from further consideration of the credentials of M. C. Butler as Senator from South Carolina. After considerable discussion the matter went over... .The Vice President appointed Messrs. Davis (of West Virginia), Beck, Allison, Ingalls, and Cameron (of Pennsylvania), as the special committee to examine the books and accounts of the Treasury Department in regard to the alleged discrepancies, etc., authorized by the resolution of Mr. Davis. House.—The House passed the bill appropriating $150,000 to defray the expenses of Commissioners to the Paris Exposition. Mr. O’Neil presented the petition of all but one of the Philadelphia national banks, and of certain saving fund companies, against the unlimited circulation of silver coin. Wednesday, Nov. 21.—Senate.—The resolution of Mr. Thurman ordering the discharge of the Committee on Privileges and Elections from further consideration of the credentials of M. C. Butler, claiming a seat as Senator from South Caro Una, was, after a long debate, adopted by a vote of 30 yeas to 29 nays—the Democrats thus achieving their first victory in the Senate since 1861. They were aided in this by the vote of Conover (Rep.), of Florida, and the absence of two other RepubUcans—Patterson, of South Carolina, and Sharon, of Nevada.

House.—The House devoted the entire day in debating the Deficiency Appropriation bill without passing it. The debate took a partisan turn toward and ‘ he foll ©wing colloquy occurred beMessrs. Crittenden (Dem.) and Frye (Rep.): thTprMM t^? d€n ~ Docß “ e gentleman think that erate in hu t r'£ wr . Ollg 111 P uttln ß an ex-Confed-Ido i M^ i wm? binet7 Mr - (emphatically)— sid^do^> g doL» Othe ” ° n 016 Re P ubllcaD Thursday, Nov. 22.—Senate.—The Senate, by a vote of yeas 29 to nays 82, refused to lay on the table resolution of Mr. Thurman to disfrom further consideration of the credentials of m g. Eutta m Senator from South (Hlinota), CcmoVey (Florida), and Patterson

(South Carolina) voted with the Democrats in the negative. The question then being on the adoption of the resolution, Mr. Edmunds moved to amend the resolution so as to discharge the committee from further consideration of the credentials of Mr. Kellogg as Senator from Louisiana, instead of M. C. Butler, as Senator from South Carolina. This was rejected—yeas, 30; nays, 31. Mr. Conkling then submitted an amendment as follows : Resolved, That the Committee on Privileges and Elections be directed to report in the matter of the credentials of William P. Kellogg and Henry M. Spofford, claiming seats as Senators from Louisiana, and that, meanwhile, the case of South Carolina be postpc ned. Rejected—yeas, 30; nays, 32. Mr. Edmunds’ motion to adjourn till Monday resulted in a tie vote, and Vice President Wheeler cast the deciding vote in the affirmative. House. —Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Franklin, for the organization of the Territory of Oklohama; by Mr. Davis, to exempt steam-plow machinery from payment of duty; by Mr. Stone (Iowa), creating postal savings banks.... Mr. Hale, of Maine, made a motion to the effect that the Committee on Privileges and Elections be discharged from further consideration of the contested case of Belford vs. Patterson, of Colorado. Laid on the table—yeas, 165; nays, 94.... Mr. Ewing made a long and earnest speech in support of his bill to repeal the Resumption law. Fbiday, Nov. 23.—Senate.—Not in session.

House. —The House, after a lengthy debate,passed the bill repealing the Resumption act by a vote of 133 to 120. The following is the text of the bill: A bill to repeal all that part of the act approved Jan. 14, 1875, known as the Resumption act, which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of United States bonds and redeem and cancel greenback currency. That all that portion of the act approved Jan. 14, 1875, entitled, “An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments,” which reads as follows, to-wit: “ And whenever and so often as circulating notes ehall be issued to any such banking association so increasing its capital or circulating notes, or so newly-otganizea as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem the legal-tender United States notes in excess only of $300,000,000 to the amount of 80 per cent, of the sum of national-bank notes so iss Ped to any such banking association as aforesaid, and to continue such redemption as such circulating notes are issued until there shall be outstanding the sum of $300,000,000 of such legaltender United States notes and no more, and on and after the Ist day of January, Anno Domini 1879, the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem in coin United States legal-tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States in the city of New York in sums of not less than SSO, and, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized to use any surplus revenues from time to time in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States described in the act of Congress approved July 14, 1870, entitled ‘An act to authorize the refunding of national debt,’ with like qualities, privileges and exemptions, to the extent necessary to carry this act into full effect, and to use the proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Saturday, Nov. 24.—Senate.—Not in session. House. —The House spent the entire day in the consideration of the Deficiency Appropriation bill, and did not succeed in completing it. A protracted struggle occurred over an amendment to reappropriate the. unexpended balance of the appropriation made last year for carrying the mails, amounting to over $700,000. The amendment was stricken out by a vote of 129 to 108.