Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1878 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAS IK THE EAST. The Servians have been badly defeated by the Turks in an engagement near Novi-Bazar. A Russian official telegram states that a Russian detachment which had crossed the Balkans by byways occupied on Tuesday a position in the rear of the Turkish fortifications in the Trajan pass. The Turks, being also attacked in front, abandoned their positions, which were occupied by the Russians, whose vanguard advanced in the direction of Teke. A Constantinople dispatch of the 10th says: “ The Council of Ministers have agreed upon the conditions of an armistice, and submitted them for the Snltan’s approval. In epening direct negotiations purely for a military armistice, the Porte is said to be acting upon Lord Dorby’s advice.” ► The appointment of Itaouf Pasha as Com-mander-in-Chief of the Turkish armies would seem to signify that the Porto is ready to make great concessions in the approaching peace negotiations. Raouf has been Minister of War in the Cabinet controlled by Mahmoud Damad, tho Multan's brother-in-law, whose voice has been for peace rather than for war during the entire campaign of last year. It is announced that Hami Pasha has beon appointed Grand Vizier in place of Edbem Pasha, resigned. A telegram from Constantinople announces that the Turkish, Ministry has beon reconstituted, but Server and Hafvet Pashas retain the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Justice respectively. The Prince of Montenegro, having applied to tho Russian headquarters for inßtnictious relative to an armistice, lias been informed that he need not send an envoy, as tho Grand Duke would take oharge of his interests. A Pera correspondent sends the following: "Tho Porte has refused to allow tho questions of peaco and an armistice to bo considered together, as it was understood that theso questions wore to be kept separate during tho preliminary negotiations. I believe the Porte has determined that a defense of Adrianople is virtually impossible." It is officially stated that the term of armistice proposed by Turkey is six weeks. A Constantinople dispatch of tho 11th says: ‘ ‘ Tho Porto lias received the Russian answer to tho Turkish communication proposing an armistice, intimating that tho negotiations must be conducted on a basis of eventual peaco conditions. The reply of tho Grand Duke Nicholas to tho Turkish Commander-in-Chief, that ho would refer the latter’s overture for an armistice to. St. Petersburg, states that negotiations could only be conducted with himself, direct, and that, there could bo no question of an armistice without a basis for peace.” Russia’s demand that a peaco basis should be determined before an armistico would bd granted has been finally conceded by Turkey, and Sorver Pasha, Foreign Minister, and Narnyk Pasha, have been appointed to negotiate, with full powers, for a peace and an . armistice together. Acting under instructions from their respective Governments, Prince Reuss and Count Gorti, Ambassadors respectively of Germany and Italy at the Turkish capital, have informed the Porte that if it allows Great Britain to send her fleet to Constantinople, Germany and Italy will demand that permission to pass the Dardanelles bo granted to their fleets. As indicating the existence of an understanding between Germany and Italy in reference to the Eastern question, tho episode is not without significance. A Russian official telegram announces that the Turkish fleet has bombarded Eupatoria, in tho Crimea, damaging the barracks, guardhouses, arsenal, quarantine establishment, and some private residences. The Porte lias asked the Russian Government to state what conditions of peace would be satisfactory. Tho Cossacks have cut the Tirnova and Yamboli railway south of the Balkans. John Bright, in addressing his constituents at Birmingham, Eng., declared that he was strongly in favor of non-intervention in the Eastern war.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. The Republicans have been signally victorious in the French municipal elections. Victor Emanuel, King of Italy, died at Rome on Wednesday, tho 9th inst., aged 58. His eldest son, Humbert, ascends tho throne as King of the Italians. A firo in Honolulu, Sandwich islands, devastated the esplanade portion of that city, destroying tho Government warehouses, tho wharves and sheds devoted to tho use cf ocean mail steamers, and a number of private buildings. Loss about $250,000; insurance, $63,000. A steam-tug has loft the river Thames for Ferreol, Spain, to take tho Cleopatra obelisk to London. Failures to the number of 1,890 were reported in the Dominion of Caqala in 1877, with liabilities of $25,500,000. A dispatch from Berlin says Russia is negotiating with other Baltic powers for the purpose of prohibiting the war vessels of nonBaltic powers from entering that sea. Demetrius Bulgaria, the well-known Greek politician, has just died of apoploxy. He was President of the Provisional Government of Athens in 1862, later President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, and at the time of his death Chief of the Greek Revolutionary Committee. The marriage of King Alphonso, of Spain, will be postponed for a few days from the date originally fixed, in consequence of the death of Victor Emmanuel. The recently liberated Fenians—McCarthy, Chambers, O'Brien and Davitt —were received at Dublin with great enthusiasm, an immense crowd greeting them at the station on their arrival. Henry M. Stanley was received with much honor at Rome. A splendid gold medal, the gift of the late King Victor Emmanuel, was presented to him. A destructive fire occurred in London, England, last week, in the warehouse of Crocker, Sons & Co., calico printers. Loss, over $1,000,000. C’hachapoyas, the capital of the Amazon, has been visited by an earthquake which demolished several houses and damaged many more. Fortunaioly there was no loss of life. Walk swaying to and fro, the groaning of roofs, the noise of falling tiles, the walls cracking and throwing out clouds of dust, combined with the shrieks, groans and desperation of the agonized inhabitants, made a frightful scene. Callao also experienced a severe shock of earthquake, but no damage was done.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Hemy R. the private depositors who lost heavily by tho robbery of the Northampton Bank, has recovered $25,000 of Union .Pacific 6 per cent, gold bonds, with two o-r*’ Interest, at a cost of $6,000. a short t un« iff« lb* baa* burg}*?* pfedg*) sjos,ooo

of the best railroad bonds for a loan of .SB,OOO. The bonds recovered were among the collaterals. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed the sentence of death passed upon the “Mollie Maguires” Hester, Tully, McCue, and Kehoe. Dennis, tdias Buckeye Donnelly, another notorious “ Mollie Maguire,” has been sentenced to death at Pottsville for the murder of William Sanger, at Raven ran, in September, 1875. He made a speech before his sentence, declaring his innocence of the crime. The Great Barrington (Mass.) Savings Bank has suspended, pending investigation by the State Bank Commissioners. Its deposits arc $407,000, and its total liabilities, $414,000. Rev. Dr. J. C. Eccleston, of Trinity Church, Newark, N. J., the Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, has finally determined to decline the office tendered him. John F. Henry, Curran A Co., one of the largest firms in the patent and fancy medicine business, has suspended payment. The firm has been reputed worth over $500,000, but much of this was in patent-medicine rights. A heavy storm and gale occurred last week ou the coast of Maine, doing much damage. At Camden trees and fences were prostrated, the damage in the village exceeding SIO,OOO. At Eastport forty chimneys were blown down, and soveral small fishing-vessels went to pieces. The schooner Nightingale is ashore in Broad cove, and full of water. At Oldtown the steeple was blown from the Baptist church. Two schooners put into Seal harbor and went ashore on Norton’s island. Several schooners went ashore at Tenant’s harbor. A dispalch from Lynn, Mass., says: “Nearly the wholo city is on a strike, so far as the shoo business is concerned. The firm of C. S. Sweetzer & Co. drew up a petition for the workmen to sign, renouncing the Crispin organization and Board of Arbitration, or they would throw off their belts. The workmen replied defiantly, and sent word to the Crispin headquarters they wore ’holding the fort.’ Tho City Marshal has removed all the arms from the armories. There are 189 shoe manufacturing firms in tho city, and, if four-fifths shut down, 2,500 or 3,000 people will be thrown out of employment. Tho Crispins were engaged all the forenoon getting out a price-list, their ultimatum, but it will now ho unnecessary.” Tho Conway National Bank, at Conway, Mass., has been destroyed by fire. Tho Stato Savings Bank, at Trenton, N. J., has stopped payment. West. Gen. John O’Noill, tho well-known Fenian leader, died at Omaha, Neb., a few days ago, of paralysis. Tho Board of Trade of Chicago has adopted a memorial urging Congress to extend the time for completing the Northern Pacific railroad. ABannock City (Mont.) dispatch says : “Tho Bannock Indians are alarmingly aggressive. Bands are roaming over tho Beaver Head country, tearing down corrals and feeding farmers’ hay to their horses. The people are moving into Bannock from Horse prairie, fearing an outbreak. Several companies of troops are needed now at the head of Horse prairie, and if we don't get them immediately our ranches will bo deserted and destroyed.” So n tli. The banks composing tho Clearing-House Association of New Orleans have passed resolutions protesting against the remonetizing of silver. The business men of Nashville and the other Southern cities are agitating the ques tion of establishing direct trade with the West Indies. A delegation has gone to Havana with that object in view. At Concord, Ivy., recently, Deputy Sheriff Buggies, with a poßse, overtook the notorious Underwood brothers, who had been stealing horse%from farmers, and demanded their surrender. The Underwoods immediately fired at the party; instantly killing Buggies. The fire was returned, wounding both outlaws. It is thought the Underwoods would be lynched by the excited farmers. Heavy rains have caused another rise in the Virginia rivers. The bridge over the Staunton river, on the Richmond and Danville road, just replaced, was again swept away, the third time inside of two months. An iron bridge over the same river, on the Virginia and Midland road, between Lynchburg and Danville, was also washed away. This bridge was destroyed during the groat flood in November, and but recently replaced. The Roanoke river at Weldon, N. C., is very high, and the water ristog six to eight inches per hour. The railroad bridges at that point are threatened. Robert Fishburne and Walter S. Harley, of Walterboro, S. C., fought a duel near Savannah, Ga., last week—weapons, revolvers. Harley was fatally shot in the abdomen at the first fire.

POLITICAL POINTS. A special Washington telegram to the Chicago Trilmne says: “There are numerous printed statements to the effect that a number of members are coming back, determined to revise the electoral count, and to have an investigation of the Presidential election. Senator Conkling is credited with being the prime mover, and it is asserted that, while no attempt will be made to implicate President Hayes, efforts will be made to involve Stanley Matthews, Secretary Sherman, and Gen. Garfield in an alleged Presidential bargain. The name of Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, is quoted as the person who will consent to introduce the resolution in the Senate in behalf of Senator Conkling, while to Gen. Butler is attributed the leadership of the movement in the House. Democrats claim that there are affidavits in existence from Cassanave and Kenner, members of the Returning Board, in which these two worthies assert that there was a bargain for the Louisiana electoral vote, to which they were parties as members of the board, and that the bargain made with them has not been fulfilled. The name of Gen. Grant is also used as a party to this understanding.” The Republican State Convention of New Hampshire met at Concord last week, and nominated B. F. Prescott for Governor. Resolutions were adopted denouncing any legislation tending to repudiate the public debt, disapproving the remonetizing of silver, opposing money subsidies and land grants to private corporations, condemning as factious and mischievous any attempt to reopen the Presidential controversy, and the following in relation to the national administration: Resolved, That the Republicans of New Hampshire reaffirm and readopt the Cincinnati platform which pledged the party to these declarations and principles, to-wit: That the United States of America is a nation; the full protection of all citizens in the full enjoyment of all their rights; the permanent pacification of the Southern section of the Union ; redemption of the United States notes in coin by a continuous and steady progress to specie payments ; that Senators and Representatives who may be judges and accusers should not dictate appointments to office, the invariable rule for appointment to have reference to tire honesty, fidelity, and capability of the appointees, leaving to the party in power those plaoes where the harmony and vigor of the administration requires its policy to be represented ; the deprecation of all sectionftj feelings and tendencies; the speedy, thorough and ucspart&f prowouttos and punishment of all brtf*/ ofßotol trait*} cfftmm to briber

land grant* to corporations and monopolies; the adjustment of duties on imports for revenue so as to promote the interest of American labor and advance the prosperity of the whole people. . Resolved, That we recognize the paramount duty of President Hayes to render these high and solemn professions actual and living realities; and, while we admit honest difference of opinion in respect to past acts, we welcome and approve his patriotic and sincere efforts to keep faith with the people and secure to the whole country the blessings of a just, efficient and honest Republican national administration. A call is issued for a National Convention of the National party, to be held in Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d of February next. It reads as follows : The undersigned, believing the present financial policy of those in control of the Federal Government is destructive of the best interests of the people, and that if continued it will bring general ruin and unprecedented suffering on the industrial classes, and also believing that thorough organization and unity of action may induce those in power to take such Bteps as will avert such calamitous results, call upon thote, regardless of political affiliations, who will unite for independent action to select one delegate in each Congressional district, and afterwards, by proper authority, two delegates for each State at large, to meet in national convention, in the city of Toledo, on the 22d day of February, 1878, there to take such action as wisdom may dictate. Upward of 100 names are appended to the cal!, prominent among them being those of Wendell Phillips, of Massachusetts; Peter Cooper, of New York; Thomas D. Hoxey, of New Jersey; Alexander Campbell, of Illinois; Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, and Moses W. Field, of Michigan. The Democrats and Greenbackcrs in the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature formed a coalition and captured all the offices —the Greenbackers taking the Speakership, and the Democrats the remainder. In the lower house of the Maryland Legislature, list week, Montgomery Blair introduced a memorial asking Congress to investigate the title of Rutherford B. Hayes to the office of President. He made aD elaborate speech, in which he charged that President Hayes obtained his title to office through corrupt bargaining with the Louisiana Returning Board and his political opponents, and urged the importance to the country of obtaining a rightful solution of the question involved. Mr. Lieb, Republican, moved to lay the memorial on the table, and called for the ayes and noes, which resulted —ayes 13, noes 54. It was then referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. George 11. Pendleton will be elected United States Senator from Ohio, to succeed Stanley Matthews, whose term expires March 9, 1879, he having been nominated by a Democratic caucus. Senator Edmunds has embodied in a letter to the President, at the request of the latter, his views of the relations whrili should exist between the Executive and the Senators and Representatives in tho matter of nominations and appointments to office. The right or the propriety of dictation by members of the legislative branch of the Government is distinctly denied by Mr. Edmunds, who holds the belief that a custom which was of itself unobjectionable has grown into an abuse—that is, that from being invited to furnish information concerning the character and fitness of applicants for office, Senators and ‘Representatives have come to regard appointments as their prerogative. The annual meeting of the American Social Science Congress was held last week at Boston. David Ames Wells, of Norwich, Ct., was elected President for next year. Rev. H. Wines, of Illinois, and Thomaß Wentworth Higginson, of Rhode Island, were chosen delegates to the Prison Congress at Stockholm.

WASHINGTON NOTES. 8. A. Galpin, Chief Clerk of the Indian Bureau, has been removed by Secretary Sehurz on account of corrupt practices. The report submitted to Secretary Scburz by Joseph K. McCammon, of the Department of Justice, Capt. Thomas H. Bradley, United States army, and George M. Lockwood, Chief Clerk of tho Interior Department, the Board of Inquiry convened by him in June last to investigate the Indian service, is a very elaborate and luminous document. The report condemns ‘ ‘ the absence of regulation, system and method ” in the bureau’s administration ; also the suppression of charges against agents and contractors; the carrying on of semi-official correspondence by subordinates without authority; the careless disposal of records; the relinquishment of authority by responsible officers; the loss or disappearance of important papers, and the factious opposition by clerks and others to tho Board of Indian Commissioners. It also refers in terms of disgust to the “ unfitness of the Chief Clerk, the Corresponding C’erk, the Annuity Clerk, and others: theinompetency displayed in the accounts division: the inefficiency of the land division; the habitual lack of circumspection in tho finance division; the uselessness of the civilization division, and the demoralization of the bureau throughout.” McGarrahan’s big suit against the New Idria Mining Company, which involves the title to quicksilver mining property of vast value, and which has been fought in the courts and in Congress for abont fifteen years, has at last been decided against him in the United States Supreme Court. The Washington National Republican states upon what it “regards as high authority that the President will sign the Silver bill whenever it shall be submitted to him.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Business embarrassments : M. Rader & Son, tobacco, New York, liabilities SIBO,OOO, assets $87,000; D. H. Brigham & Co., clothing, Springfield, Mass., liabilities $250,000 ; Second National Bank, St. Louis, Mo., no loss to depositors. The Hudson Bay Company’s bark Lady Tompson, from London with an assorted cargo, while entering Esqnimault harbor, Vancouver island, ran on a rock and is probably a total loss. The bark Osmyn, from Seattle, Hr San Francisco, collided with tho bark Am tela on the 9th inst., near Narrowstone point, Puget sound, and sunk. She was a -total loss. The Aureola was slightly injured. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Thursday, Jan. 10.--Senate.— Over forty Senators were in the Chamber before the Senate was called to order at n00n....A great part of the morning hour was taken up in the presentation of petitions in favor of the adoption of a sixteenth amendment to the constitution, prohibiting States from disfranchising persons on account of sex, all of which were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections... .A large number of bills were introduced and referred to appropriate committees, among them the following: By Mr. Sargent, to regulate Chinese immigration; by Mr. Plumb, to reorganize the pay department of the army; by Mr. Voorhees, in relation to prize money to all fleet officers; by Mr. Sargent, to relieve certain legal disabilities of women, providing that any woman who shall have been a member of the bar of the highest court of any State or Territory, or of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for three years, shall, on motion, be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States; by Mr. Jones, of Florida, to repeal certain provisions of the acts of Congress making appropriation* for the support of the artuy,... Mr. Sargent submitted resolutions in re* to 4 sbtteems fmm iwffrai*),

which were, on objection, laid over....Mr, Edmtrnds submitted a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States, prohibiting States from making an appropriation for sectarian purposes. Referred to the Judiciary Committee.... A motion was made to hold a session on Saturday to allow a committee of women an opportunity to address the Senate on a proposed sixteenth amendment. Rejected—yeas, 13; nays, 31.... Adjourned till Monday. House. —The House met at noon, and 250 members responded o their names.. . The resolution reported by Mr. Wood, prior to the reef ss, directing investigations to be made into the management of the several departments of the Government, came up as the first business in order, it having been postponed till after the reading of the journal. .... Mr. Hewitt presented the petition of the New York Chamber of Commerce, praying for the passage of a bill to correct all errors in the assessment and collection of duties on imports, whether in favor of or against the Government. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.... The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Luttrell. of California, to prohibit the employment of the Chinese, or Mongolians, on any public works of the United States; also, to prevent the naturalization of Chinese, or Mongolians; also, to punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in Territories and other places subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; by Mr. Cox, of New York, for the coinage of 5-cent silver coins, and the discontinuance of 5-cent nickel or copper coins. ... Mr. Wood’s resolution was then taken up in committee of the whole, and discussed, when Mr. Hale offered a substitute, which was adopted by 101 to 99. The committee then rose and reported to the House, which immediately adjourned. Friday, Jan. 11. —Senate.—Not in session. House. — The substitute of Mr. Hale to Mr. Wood’s investigation resolutions, as reported by the committee of the whole, being in order, Mr. Wood offered his original resolutions as a substitute. After some colloquy, they were passed as originally presented, by a vote of 111 to 107... .Bills were introduced and referred as follows : By Mr. Price, to promote the deposit of savings and the refunding of the national debt; by Mr. Sapp, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue coupon bonds of the denomination of sls, $25, SSO, and $l9O for the investment of savings.... After some unimportant business the House adjourned till Monday.