Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1878 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAS IN THE EAST.

The Czar, in an addrem to the troops the other day, mentioned the necessity of holding haaeelves prepared until he obtained a duratoe peace, worthy of Russia. Cable dispatches of the Bth inst. are to the •effect that Russia was favorable to a conference of the powers, but rejected the proposal to hold it in Vienna, or any other great capital, that the Russian army was in possession of Constantinople, jts occupation being regarded as one of the terms of the armistice; that RustcnuK and Sill stria had been occupied by the Russians, and that.tbe Roumanians were vigorously bombarding Widin. Cable telegrams of the 9th inst. rep ®rt that .England had assented to Austria’s proposal for .-a conference ; that England had asked Russia ifor explanations ; that there was tremendous • excitement in London on account of the mariner in which the Bear had outwitted the Lion, crowds thronging the streets, clamoring for war, singing “ Gpd Have the Queen,” and stoning the house of Gladstone, and the office of the Daily Newa; that the opposition to the vote of credit of £6,000,000 had been withdrawn by the opposition in the House cf Commons; that Constantinople was not in actual possession of the Russians, who held only a portion •of the outer line of defenses, thus leaving it in a practically defenseless condition. According to the summary of the terms of armistice communicated to the British House of Commons, the line of demarcation places in Russian hands almost a'l of Bulgaria and Roumania up to the lines of Constantinople and Gallipoli. Three days’ notice is to be given before the resumption of hostilities. Another article of the armistice stipulates that the Turks are to remove their arms, etc., on evacuating places within the neutral zone which will divide the two armies. The House of Commons voted the extra gi snfl of £0,000,000 by 328 to 124.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. An asylum for women and children haw been burned in Tien-Tsin, China, by which 2,000 of the inmates lout their lives. Ten persons were trampled to death and many injured during a panic in a circus, caused by a false alarm qf fire at Calais, Franco. Nino millions of people are reported as destitute in Northern China. The office of Grand Vizier in the Turkish Government has been abolished, and a new Ministry been formed in accordance with modern European forms and designation, headed by Ahmed Vefik Effendi as President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the Interior. A correspondent at Adrianople relates an interview with Server Pasha, who declared that Turkey had been misled and encouraged to fight on by the promise of English support. He particularly accused Lord Beaconsfield and Layard of encouraging this belief, and said he! had documents which he would publish. He Hieciarcu that he had now become a partisan of Russian policy and alliance. Server Pasha’s ■colleagues at Adrianople confirmed his statements. After a life of nearly 86 years, and a pontificate of thirty-two years, Pope Pius lay down to eternal rest on Thursday, the 7th of February. Pius IX. was born May 13, 1792, and was therefore nearly 86 years old. His baptismal name was Giovanni Maiia Mastai-Ferretti. He received the priest’s orders in 1819, was made domestic prelate to Pope Leo XII. in 1825, was nominated Archbishop in 1827, was created Cardinal in 1810, and live years later, in June, 1846, was elected as the successor of Pope Gregory XVI. Pius IX. held the Papal chair longer than any prolate, the alleged pontificate of St. Peter being the next in duration—a little over twenty-five years. He thus proved the fallacy of the superstition which believed that no Pope would reign longer than the Apostolic founder of the Holy See. The British fleet has been ordered to Constantinople, “not as a departure from neutrality,” to use the language of Sir Stafford Northcote, “but as a protection of life and property.” The official declaration of the physicians who attended the Pope during his last illness is published. It states that the immediate cause of death was paralysis of the lungs. It is again reported that the Russians are about to court-martial and shoot Osman Pasha, for alleged barbarous treatinent of prisoners. The Pope’s last act was to provide for the continuance of his servants’ salaries, and the pensions of their widows. A St. Petersburg dispatch asserts that an offensive and defensive alliance between Russia and Turkey is to be included in the treaty of peace. A London dispatch of the llth states that Russia's reply to Austria’s proposal to hold the conference in Vienna had been received, and that not only did it reject the Austrian capital as the place of meeting, but declared that certain points in the peace preliminaries could not be referred to the conference at all. The Austrian Government has given orders io prepare the best ironclads for sea. Three men-of-war have been ordered to Constantinople. The Agence Russe says that England’s action in sending her fleet to Constantinople restores to Russia her liberty of action, and that Russia will now regulate her attitude by that of England. The Russians captured 120,000 men, including twenty Pashas, and 1,000 cannon during the war. Tho Turkish forces have evacuated Widin, Rustchuk, Silistria, Belgradischik and Erzeroum, and have withdrawn from the BujukChekmejeh lines to a line from Kujuk-Chek-mejeh to Akleunar. lhe neutral zone is twelve miles broad. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. LEhitstThere recently arrived at Baltimore, on a. vessel from Demerara, a boy answering in some respects the description of Charley Ross. It was firmly believed by the Baltimoreans that the long-lost boy had at last been found, and thei e was great excitement for a little while. To settle the matter Mr. Christian K. Ross visited that city and took a look at the boy. He at once declared that it was not Charley. Harry Genet, another of the Tweed ring, has returned to New York after an exile of several years. f The large publishing houses of James R. Osgood <t Co. and Hurd & Houghton, of Boston and New York, have been consolidated. Brooklyn shop-keepers and street-car conductors refuse the trade dollars. Augustus M. Turney, teller of the Bank of North America, one of the oldest banking institutions in New York city, is a defaulter to the amount of $100,600. He has been carrying on his stealings for a period of eight years. Had he not made voluntary confession of his crime he might possibly have continued his peculations until he had stolen all the bank’s capital, as no one had the sligh ea suspicion of his wrongdoing. Turney, wp are told, was “asteady

church-goer, lived modestly, and had no bad habits,” hence, we presume, the bank officers thought it unnecessary to inquire into his books. It is some consolation to know that they alone are the sufferers for their idiocy. The extensive Pacific Print Works, at Lawrence, Mass., have been burned. Loss estimated at $125,000. Theodore Roosevelt, a wealthy and philanthropic citizen of New York, is dead. About 300 feet of the bridge over the Schuylkill liver at South street, Philadelphia, tumbled down the other day. Fortunately, no one : ‘ was on the structure at the time. The loss by the accident is about $300,000. Wright A Son, the largest shipping merchants in Philadelphia, have been arrested upon a charge of defrauding the Government to the extent of $200,000. The largest theater in the West Division <&J Chicago—the Academy of Music—has been burned. R. E. J. Miles, of the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati, has recovered a verdict for $40,000 damages against P. T. Barnum, for a libel published two years ago. A Cincinnati theatrical manager named Miles has been awarded a verdict for $40,000 damages against Barnum, the showman, for libel. South. Henry 8. Mos?, a prominent merchant of Louisville, Ky., apd member of the City Council, is discovered to have forged paper to the amount of $40,000 or $50,000. The trial of Thomas C. Anderson, of the Louisiana Returning Board, was brought to a conclusion at New Orleans on Feb. 7, and resulted in a verdict of guilty after fifty minutes’ deliberation by the jury. The jury considerately recommended the accused to the “mercy of the court.” J. Madison Wells was still in jail at that date, and claimed that he was unable to give the bail ($10,000) demanded by the court.

In a duel at Brownsville, Texas, between Hon. Nester Maxan and M. Do La Pena, the farmer was shot through the body and killed. Deceased was a leading lawyer. By the sinking of the steamer Lessic Taylor on the Atchafalaya river, in Louisiana, a colored woman apd child and four or five deckhands were drowned. Hon. Nester Maxan, a prominent lawyer of Brownsville, Tex., was killed in a duel, the other day, by M. De La Pona. The steamer Lessie Taylor recently sunk in the Atchafalaya river, Louisiana. A colored woman and child and five deck-hands perished. The city of Augusta, Ga., experienced a section of the day of judgment a few nights ago, A shower of hail was followed by a furious rain-storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, then came an earthquake shock, and this in turn was followed by a cyclone of unusual violence, which inflicted great damage to property, killed several people and wounded many more. It is stated from New Orleans that the two colored jurors in the Anderson trial now claim that their verdict of “ Guilty, but recommended to tbo mercy of the court,” was given under an impression that this was tantamount to an acquittal, and they were so informed by the other . jurors. From Washington it is reported that .the President is very indignant at the prosecution of the Returning Board members. It is generally believed at the capital that Gov. Nicholls will pardon Anderson. The latter has received a dispatch, signed by John Sherman, Stanley Matthews, Gen. Garfield and Eugene Hale, earnestly protesting his innocence of any fraud, and denouncing his trial and conviction as an exhibition of bitter sectional partisanship. J. Madison Wells has been released on SIO,OOO bond. WASHINGTON NOTES. The 'Treasury Department has ordered an investigation of the circumstances attending the loss of the steamer Metropolis. Federal appointments : Joseph W. Huston, United States Attorney for the Territory of Idaho; Thomas Adamson, of Pennsylvania, Consul General at Rio do Janeiro; Ernest L. Oppenheim, of New York, United States Consul at Gutteuburg ; Edward Wheeler, Collector of Internal Revenue for Arkansas. The internal-revenue receipts in December fell off $500,000 from the receipts during the corresponding month of the previous year. The receipts in January fell off over $1,000,000, and, if the decrease continues so rapid for the remainder of the current month as it has during the first four days, the falling off will amount to over $1,200,000 in February. This does not include the falling off of customs receipts, which for the last two months has been $1,000,000. The Ways and Means Committee of the House is said to be unanimously in favor of Mr. Wood’s Tariff bill. Tho House Judiciary Committee his taken a vote on tho proposition for a Sixteenth amendment to the constitution, as advocated by the female suffragists. The vote stood 5 to 5. The vote in favor of the proposition was: Lyndo, Frye, Butler, Conger and Lapham. Those who voted against it were: Knott, Hartridge, Stenger, McMahon and Culberson. Harris, of Virginia, who is opposed to female suffrage, was absent. There is no probability whatever that the committee will at anytime hereafter take favorable action on this subject. The President nominated the following Indian agents : Charles A. Ruffee, of Minnesota, Chippewa agency, Minnesota; John W. Douglass, of New York, Yankton agency,, Dakota; Samuel Ely, of Pennsylvania, Pawnee agency, Indian Territory; Philemon B. Huntj of Kentucky, Kiowa and Comanche agency,- Indian Territory. r The House Committee on Education and Labor have agreed to report a bill to distribute the proceeds of the sales of public lands among the several States for purposes of education. POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican Congressinen who visited Louisiana pending the electoral count and were present at the canvass of the votes, generally known as the visiting statesmen, held a conference one evening last week. The object of the meeting, says a Washington telegram, is understood to have been carefully to consider the present situation in Louisiana, and the duty which the visiting statesmen owe to the Returning Board. The interchange of views was informal, and no definite plan has been? determined up0n..... These gentlemen, and most of file Republican 1 / in Cdhgfrest, think that nothing should be omitted that can be done to sustain the Returning Board in their present trouble. A Washington correspondent telegraphs that “ the President is represented by some who have talked with him as very much dissatisfied with the course of the Senate in regard to confirmations. A large number of aoiaina- 1 are in possession of the Senate, and of late there have been scarcely any indications of an intention to give even the most ordinary attention to them.” The Committee on Federal Relations of the Maryland House of Delegates, to whom were referred Montgomery Blair’s resolutions and memorial calling upon Congress to reopen and

investigate the electoral question, have reported adversely to their adaption. w Vd h MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The members of the Louisiana to Judge Bradley, of the. Unite! (Jjfaisjfo issuie a writ of ofizior-f ifiF®?^ 8 ® 8 * rom Io meSJmtdk Mlißqirt.. Judge Brißlpy, in a daci||oii| o| smti«l4mgih, ref used, ing Board makes application cn the ground of prejudice and inability to secure their rights, and the fact that the Jury law of 1877 is hostile to catered, Jhktice Bradley says the application raises three quesB First, was toe presentation of th£ petiSecond, if-toe State court bad the ngM to examine, had toe Circuit Court the right to re-examine and issue a certiorari or other writs ? Third, if the Circuit Court had such rights, did the petition show sufficient ground to the first two questions? Justice Bradley answers that, in the Jury law of 1877, there is nothing open to constitutional objections, and also the prejudice is not such a cause as warrants a transfer. Neither the Fourteenth amendment nor the Civil-Rights bill was violated. There is no State legislation hostile to either. Grain in sight in the States and Canada : Wheat, 10,268,974 bushels; com, 5,817,483 bushels; 3,476,478 bushels of oats ; 754,592 bushels of rye, and 4,622,630 bushels of barley. McCormick reports that the American Exhibit at Paris will be creditable, though not ae good as it might have been had there been longer time for preparation. In machinery and agricultural implements the display will be unusually good, but a great many articles of this sort had to be rejected for want of room in which to show them. An excited mob visited the Parliament house In Quebec, Canada, a few evenings ago, burned an effigy of the Solicitor General in the espla-. nade, broke some windows, and raised a lively rumpus generally. The cause of the demonstration is the unpopularity of the Government on certain questions, notably their railway policy. Look out for counterfeit trade dollars. They are well executed, and calculated to deceive the casual observer. Failures: Joel Hayden & Co., brassware manufacturers, Haydenville, Mass., liabilities $400,000, nominal assets $600,000 ; the Wyandotte Rolling Mill Company, Detroit, Mich., liabilities $425,000, nominal assets about sl,ooor--000; Hallett Brothers, proprietors of dollar stores in Cleveland, Detroit and other cities, liabilities heavy; J. & J. Woodley, leather, Quebec, Canada, liabilities $400,000, assets $170,000; W. C. Sapp, dry goods, Mount Vernon, Ohio, liabilities heavy; D. H. Brigham & Co., clothing, Springfield, Mass., liabilities $250,000 ; Peter Herdie, lumber, Williamsport, Pa., liabilities $1,000,000 ; toe Hinckley Locomotive Works, Boston, Mass., liabilities $300,000 ; Joseph Gilmore, coal, Pittsburgh, Pa., liabilities $85,000; Robert Henderson <fc Co., coke, Pittsburgh, Pa., liabilities over SIOO,OOO ; J. C. Ferguson, porkpacker, Indianapolis, Ind., liabilities $500,000; J. W. & E. Cheney, millinery, Detroit, Mich., liabilities $42,000 ; Sweet, Cool & Co., boots and shoes, Buffalo, N. ¥., liabilities $150,000; Daniel Robertson, tea importer, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $210,000; the Mercantile Savings Bank, Boston, Mass.; John T. Henry, Curran & Co., heavy druggists, New York city, liabilities not stated ; L. Woods & Co., importers of woolen goods, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $200,000, assets $150,000 ; William Sturges, capitalist and speculator, Chicago, liabilities $1,165,000, assets $750,000; Leblanc & Robitaille, grocers, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $100,600, assets $50,000 ; William A. Butters & Co., auctioneers, Chicago, liabilities about $15,000, assets nil. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Monday, Feb. 4. —Senate.—A large number of petitions were presented from all parts of the country, most of them remonstrating against changes in the present tariff duties, and the restoration of the tax on tea and coffee, all of which were referred. Other petitions, favoring the organization of a Department of Industry, the head thereof to be a Cabinet officer, were presented and referred... The following bills were introduced: Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported a substitute for the bill to prevent abuses in respect to mileage of District Attorneys of the United States; by Mr. Dawes, regulating the-authen-ticity and use of proxies in the meetings of shareholders of national banking associations I by Mr. Spencer, to incorporate the National Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company; by Mr. Saunders, supplementary to the joint resolution in relation to the Paris Exposition. It authorizes the President to appoint eighteen additional Commissioners. . ..Mt. Bayard addressed the Senate in opposition to the passage of the Silver bill. House. —A resolution ordering the preparation of a graduated income tax was offered in the House, and received 165 yeas, the nays numbering only 88. As it required a two-thirds vote, the resolution did not pass. The affirmative votes came chiefly from the Democrats, and the negatives from the Republicans... .The following bills were introduced : By Mr. Southard, authorizing the payment of customs in legal-tender notes; by Mr. Mills, providing that all Bonds hereafter issued by the Government shall be payable, principal and interest, in gold, silver'or legal-tender notes; by Mr. Davis, of North Carolina, to reduce the tax on brandy nade from apples, peaches or grapes, 35 cents; by Mr. Riddle, for a constitutional amendment providing for the election of President by the direct vote of the people; by Mr. Sexton, making the receivers of railroad corporations amenable to processes and judgments of the courts of the several States through which said railroads are run.... Mr. Ellsworth presented an affidavit from the Doorkeeper denying as utterly without foundation the charges against his official integrity, and earnestly requesting an investigation on tho part of the House. Referred to the Committee on Civil Service Reform. Tuesday, Feb. s.—Senate.—Mr. Conkling presented the petitions of a large number of citizens of many counties in New York in favor of the remonetization of silver.... Mr. Wallace, from the Committee on Finance, reported, with an amendment, the bill introduced by him some time ago to authorize a long »ond for investment of savingsj and gave notice that he would call it up for consideration at an early day. It directs the Seer, tary of the Treasury to issue SIOO,000,000 coupon bonds of the denominations of $25, SSO and SIOO, and of equal sums of each of said denominations, rqdet mable in com after fifty years from the date W their issue, and bearing interest, payable semi-annually in edin, at the rate of 3.65 per cent, per annum.... Mr. Eaton continued the discussion of the Silver bill, taking ground against it. He Was followed by Mr. Howe, who spoke in favor of the measure.... Mr. Conkling presented a petition from the citizens of New York setting forth the appalling famine raging in Northern China, and suggested the appointment of acornmission from the residents of China to act in connection with the United States Minister in procuring and distributing relief.... Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Postoffioes and Post Roads, reported, with amendment, the Senate bill to regulate the compensation of Postmasters and for other purposes. House.—The bill extending the time for the completion, of the Northern Pacific railroad ten years was reported and recommitted... .Mr. Hewitt, of Newport, presented two pefitions, one 4om New York and One from Boston .asking Congress to adopt appropriate measures to mitigate the hardships of the famine now raging in China... .The bill to authorize the constructton of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Memphis was taken up, briefly discussed, and referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the Union... .The Military Academy Appropriation bill was discussed and amended. Wednesday, Feb. 6.—Senate.—Mr. Davis, of Illinois, presented the proceedings and t r§polutions of a meeting of the friends of silver, held in Chicago, Dec. 13. He quoted from the resolutions* which favor the remonetization of silver, and declare that the Government “ cannot waive its right to pay its bonds in silver or g01d.”....Mr. Ferry presented a petition of wool-growers of Michigan remonstrating against any change in the duty on foreign wool. Ref erred.,.. Mr. Bruce presented joint resolutions of the Mississippi Legislature in favor of the passage of abill remunerating certain citizens of Mississippi, null-owners and log-men, for damages sustained by them on account of the seizure of certain lumber and logs in the lumber district by agents of the United States.., .The Senate bill to remit ths taxes

on Ifij&veifrlfrviaEs bxnjii WW e*lled up by Mr. Duritaiif HulU* discussed imtilthe expiration Of the. tataS- wif lija.'and MiJThuaaan Spoke in tot MTAtiax rth followed by Mr. KemnliiifaaxM to* bilL and the by Sena- ~ ephmltted * substitute sos IKb pending w. H.providea for fito coinage of «Uv« doUare of 412 W at the mints of the United Rtate4. but mngold ehall tottite standard ot valiuu The present subsidiary silver coins are to be legal tender raaU cases to the amount of $lO. Silver dolltoMuMf-ButoMfary eeta and bars stamped at the mints or the New York Assay Office, with their weight and fineness, and trade-dollars, are to be made legal tender according to their market value, to be fixed monthly by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Treasurer of the United States, and the Director of the Mint. House.— The debate on unseating Pacheco, Republican, and seating Wigginton, Democrat, of Call? forma, was begun in the House, but no vote was reached... .A resolution was adopted directing an their capital.... The discussion of the Silver bill was continued, Mr. Blaine having the floor. He opposed the Bland bill, but expressed himself in favor of silver under certain conditions. He proposed, as a compromise, a dollar of 425 grains, giving the profits of the coinage to the Government, and addressed the Senate at length in support of his idea. Mr. Blaine was followed by Mr. Johnston, of Virginia, who advocated the Bland bi 11.... There was a spirited debate, in executive session, over the nomination of Henry W. Hilliard, of Alabama, to be Minister to Brazil. His confirmation was opposed by many Republicans, but particularly by Messrs. Conkling, Edmunds and Hamlin. The nomination was defended by Messrs. Lamar, Hill, Butler of South Carolina, Matthews, an 4 Burnaldc. Messrs. Conkling and Edmunds directed their efforts toward establishing the fact that Hilliard was a Democrat, and had never been a Republican. The nomination was finally confirmed bv a small majority. Messrs. Matthews, Hoar, Burnside aud Christiancy voting with the Democrats. House. —The House took up the California con-tested-election case of Pacheco vs. Wigginton, and by a strict party vote, after a long debate, declared Wigginton, the Democratic claimant, entitled to the seat. This was the only business disposed of by the House. Friday, Feb., B.—Senate.—Mr. Conkling ttxl a petition of the ministers and congregations of toloreis churches in various States and Territories, asking the pxs««e of a law to protect thr-th agafpst outrages on account of ifeco, <»lor, religious 'and Bolitidti opines Mr. preisenteff n petition of citiHenfc of Michigan, remonstrating against the Government of the United States entering into commercial and so-called reciprocity treaties with other Governments.... Mr. Hoar submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Appropriations to consider and report whether the work on public buildings in Washington, which is now suspended, may be resumed forthwith, so as to give present employment to workingmen whose families are suffering from destitution. Agreed to Mr. Saunders called up bis supplemental jpint resolution providing for the appointment of eighteen additional Commiaßioeers to the Paris Exposition. It was discussed and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.... Consideration was resumed of the Silver bill, and Mr. Hill, of Georgia, took the floor and spoke in opposition to the measure. He was followed by Mr. Withers, of Virginia, in advocacy of the bill, after which the Senate adjourned till Monday. House. —Bills of a purely private nature only were considered in the House, consequently the proceedings were dull and uninteresting. Saturday, Feb. 9.—Senate. —Not in session; House. —The House met for gsneral debate only; The first speech was by Mr. Joyce, in advocacy of a slx-year Presidential term, and. of civP-setvice 4rcformt- He was followed by Mr. Chittenden, too spoke against the proposed silver legislation. Mr. Chittenden, in the ooBraf:.- of his speech, referred to the silver meeting in Chicago last December. The Shylocks mentioned in the Chicago papers’ report Of the meeting were active bankers aud business men at home and abroad, who, through the Chamber of Commerce of New York, gave Chicago outright a .round, million of dollars in the hour of her desolation —the very same men who subsequently loaned Chicago scores and scores of other millions, which have been hopelessly squandered and lost in Quixotic ventures. Mr. Harrison replying, said that, while the people of Chicago acknowledged the generosity of the world when that city was in ashes, yet they did not feel that the rich m#n of New York who helped them in their hour of need should now keep them from rising from, their ashes. Mr. Kenna advocated the remonetization of silnpr; the repeal of the Resumption act, the abolishing of the national-banking system, and the granting of full legal-tender qualities to greenbacks. Mr; Ellsworth spoke in opposition to the attempt to array labor against capital for the purpose of gaining political power, and advocated a general amnesty bill. Mr. Hayes' replied to the arguments against the remonetization of silver, and defended that proposition. Mr. Haskell also spoke in favor of silver remonetization, and Mr. Bell advocated a bill to pension soldiers of the Mexican v ar.