Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

BUSJ»A AND TUBKEY. THZ TEEMS OF THE PEACE PBILIMINABIES. The treaty JE>ea«s the title “ PrelimiiMjnes of Peace,” containstwenty-nine article*. The opening articles relate to Montenegro, Servia, and Bulgaria. The indemnity is fixed at 1,410,000,000 rubles, but 1,100,600,000 are covered by territorial cessions. Nothing is fixed concerning the term and prrlod of ißayitient of the 310,000,000. No guarantee Is stipulated, riot is there mention of Egyptian or Bulgarian tributes or of the Turkish fleet. The treaty simply states that Russia and Turkey siall agree subsequently about the payment. Pirot remains Bulgarian. Hervia includes Bienitzs, Novi-Bazar and Yranja. ~ Montenegro includes Antivari, Spuz, Podgoritza and Nicsics. AU the Bulgarian fortresses are to be razed and the Turkish troops withdrawn. Mussulmans may return to Bulgaria. ;Any property Of Mussulmans who have not returned, which they leave nndisjx>sed, trill be sold after two years for the benefit of a widows’ and orphans’ fund. The arrears of taxes la Bosnia and Herzegovina are to be remitted. The revenue, until 1880, is to be applied to the indemnity fm sp|ferors by the Insurrection and to provide for local heeds. Austrian and Russian Commissioners will arbitrate in all disputed claims. The navigation of the straits Is declared free for merchant vessels during peace or war. f-Jix divisions of Russian infantry and two of cavalry will occupy Bulgaria until the formation of the Bulgarian militia. The expenses of the Russian occupation to be borne by Bulgaria- t "? Roumania is authorized to make her demand for indemnity direct to the Porte, and make a direct treaty. No indemnity is stipulated for Fervia or Montenegro. Russian, Turkish and Bulgarian Commissioners will determine the Bulgarian tribute. The reform programme of the Constantinople conference will be Applied to Bosnia and Herzegovina. An organization similar to that granted to Crete in 1868 is stipulated for Thessaly and Epirus. No mention is made of Greece or Crete. Batoum, Ardahan, Kars and Bayazid are ceded to Russia. Asiatic Turkey is to be evacuated in six months. The evacuation of European Turkey is to begin immediately, and te completed within three months. The European Danube Commission retains its former rights. The Porte undertakes the expense of re-establishing navigation on the Danube and indemnifying private losses, the amounts of which are to be deducted by the Danube Commission from the sums it owes the Porte. Russia receives Dobrudscha, to exchange it for Bessarabia. The question of the Turko-Persian frontier shall be speedily settled. The treaty is to be ratified within fifteen days, bat its provisions become obligatory imnor of a RoSso-Ttirkif® allfirfce. « FOREIGN NEWS. Cable dispatches state that nothing but the peace preliminaries have as yet been signed, the drafting of a definitive treaty being a work which will probably be carried forward at St. Petersburg with all the deliberation which the gravity and importance of the subject require. Several matters not included in the preliminaries are reserved for future consideration, though it seems to be generally admitted that sufficient concessions from the original demands have been made by Russia to dispel all prospect of a coffision with England or Austria. The war flurry is considered at an end in England. In presenting the annual estimates, the other day, Sir Gat home Hardy, Secretary of War, said they had been prepared upon a peace basis, and in his speech throughout avoided exciting topics. The «6ultan of Turkey lately sent the following telegram to the Emperor of Russia : “On the occasion of the anniversary of your Majesty’s accession to the thfone* I offer you my congratulations, with the desire of renewing our friendly relations. ” And the ? OZai', in reply, telegraphed as follows: “ I thank your Majesty for your congratulations, which I received simultMteously' with the riews of the signature Of peace. >1 m 4iis coined dence a presage and lasting relations betwean üB,’t>JLAjL V 8 9 1 £ The Spanish authorities in Cuba have proclaimed freedom for all slaves in the insurrectionary districts who present themselves for the proper officers be/prethe Ist of' April. fttav(*-own<*?r wfart--have -taken part

in the rebellion will receive bo- pay to their emancipated chattels, while loyal,. owners will, be compensated. In itootWr prqjgaiAltio® notice ir given that heteairerjjbuba wttl be rep*' resented [in the Spanish Dories, and that important ba institute in the island as rapidlyas possible. ’ The authorities at Washington are in receipt of information which fully opnfirms the repm-ts of the collapse of the Cuban insnrrection and* the surrender of nearly all the insurgents. The new Pope, has appointed his Cabinet. The offices are all ecclesiastical or concerned with the affairs of the Pontiff’s household, except that of Secretary of State, to which Cardinal Franchi has been appointed instead of who held it undir t ius IX., and who was objected to by the Catholic powers oh account of his reactionary ideas. The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England has refused to recognize as a Mason any person initiated in a lodge where the belief in God is denied or ignored. Londpn dispatches of the 7th state that the Congress Of the would certainly meet in Berlin, and Bismarck "wis fooked upon aS the propar man to preside. Lord Derby admitted, in PwrMment, tMfall treaties bOd now become void, and took a despondent view of the situation. Half a million dollars’ worth of propertyhas been degtroyeg by fire in the city, of Panama. r( T >or^*V f *> 1 h Havana AhaLAh§ It is reported from Constantinople that Suleiman Pasha has been drowned in the Bosphorus as a punishment for his part in a conspiracy to dethrone the Britan. I . t The Kaffirs have sustained another severe drubbing at the hands of the British troops in South Africa. Gen. Grant was banqueted by British Envoy ayard, at Constantinople. From thence he went direct to Athens, where he was royally received and entertained by the King and'Queen of Greece. A brief cable dispatch tells of the destruo- • tion by fire of a steamship in the Mediterran<an sea, with a loss of 500 lives. The paeBengirs are said to have been Circassians from

the Turkish port of Cavalla, or Kavala, which is one of the boundary towns of the new Bulgarian province. A peace demonstration in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday, the 10th inst., wae broken up by a Government mob. Br&dlaugh, one of the orators of the occasion, was cudgeled and fled in a Cab* the Dtfke'Of Teck- Was mistaken for the Russian Ambassador, and hustled and insulted by the mob, and Gladstone was hooted and hissed by the crowd. • • .

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. EitaU Three men were killed and ten seriously injured, by the fall of a trestle platform uaai in building a bridge over the. Potomac riyer, at Rowell’s Bend, Md., last week. . ,-i. > West. Enormous damage to crops and live-stock has resulted from the protracted flood in Sacramento river, in California. One farmer alone lost 20,000 sheep and 6,000 acres of wheat; and the total damage is estimated at about. SBOO,OOO. A The San Francisco city government is at a dead lock for want of funds. £ Advices from Fort Keogh say that Gen. Miles was organizing an expedition to go in search of the hostile Sioux. A national convention of the cheese, buttet and egg men was held in Chicago last week. About 300 delegates were in. attendance. A Joliet dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says that “Rande, the wholesale murderer, has not been assigned to any occupation by the prison authorities, and it is said he stubbornly refuses to work. He will probably be managed on the principle of ‘No work, no eat,’ and his EgSklibrie aljSwfed to rasp his sternum until he ft ksttsfidd’tlftt'a little healthy laboi is better a good dead of starvation.” "The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided that dealing in grain options in Chicago is gambling, and that contracts in Nebraska founded thereon are void. Chicago papers announce the death of Hon. Charles L. Wilson for thirty, years publisher i and proprietor.of the Chicago E«enirtg journal. He died at SanAfitonio, Tex., where he was sojourning for the benefit of his health* Mr. Wilson was a native of Connecticut, and was 60 years old. Arnold, Constable A Co., the second largest dry-goods dealers in Now York city, have leased the Singer building in Chicago (lately occupied by Field, Reiter A Co., and MOW being rebuETt), and wißiriiortly open an extensive wholesale and retain dry-goods house in the Garden City. The region of country extending from Cheyepne 400 miles westward was visited by a tremendous snow-storm on the Bth and 9th of Sirch, which placed an effectual embargo upon kinds of travel. The Union Pacific railway was completely blockaded, Tor. taenjy-jjour hours. Ov? South. A terrible tornado recently swept through Casey County, Ky., carrying death and destruction wherever it was felt. The whole of the family of Vincent Wesley, consisting of himself, wife, two grown daughters, and boy ; named Sloan, nephew, and William Taylor, a 1 neiglibor stopping at * Iris house, were I entirely stripped off. The two daughters were 1 carried fifty yards, and were found locked in each other’s arms. The father and nephew were fearfully mangled, and all must have been killed by the first force of the tempest. In the vicinity of Mount Olive, Mi e. Morgan, wife of John W. Morgan, was killed, and the dwelling and outhouses of F. Floyd were completely swept away, and the timbers scattered <n every direction. Albert Young, Silis Wright, Robert Jones, and Lucius Porter w ere hanged at Marion, Ala., on the Ist inst., for the murder of Mr. Isaac D. Moore, on the 6th of November, 1876. All of them protested their innocence to thejast moment. The business portion of the town of Hot Springs, Ark., has been swept away by fire. Loss between $200,000 and 300,000. Three heavy failures are announced from Louisville. Ky.—Harvey & Keith, the largest dealers in boots and shoes in the city ; the Newcomb-Buchanan distillery, the largest in the country, and J. A. Zeanore A Son, wholesale liquor dealers. The propeller Hope was run down and sunk by the steamboat 'Texas, in the Missisijppi river, near New a .few days ago. Paul St. Pierre,, bis wife and two children, were drowned, being: in the cabin of the propeller, A violent Wind-storm rtsiteththi city of Atlanta, (Ja., at 11 aclofflr oh tirtrmorning of Sijnday, (he 10$. inst. The churches weru/all filled-wirti-worsbipers at- rhetime*. ..ißai’uind struck the Episcopal church broadside, and I ■hook it to its foundatiehs. The rector cried out to the congregatfoii to throw themselvetf under the seats.. This advice folio wed, and prob ably mentrafterthewd!fiee-wa*wuwMj»of ruins, and Kshipeu wgrajauried beneath the debris. able to rwiK not onefwras killed, and* htesi injwrea, all <# wlwJfi will proba-| bly recover. Several other churches were injured, tAe walls shaken, t and partly stripped.# The > 2 - ly unroofed and the ear sheds of the railway depot unsettled. l-Tbw mferclnwAs.baßk ers and business men generally of •Louisville, in mass-meeting the, other night, passed a resolution strongly favor-, ing the repeal of the Resumption act and Bankrupt law.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Presideht, foif-the fourth time, has nominated Alex. Reed, fdr Postmaster at Toledo, Ohio. WASHINGTON NOTBS. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senath: Geo. C. Tapner, oL *Bi>U h Carolina, Co&u| at Liege; Marshall H. TwitChell,«of Ldttißiana, Consul at IKI Aston, Canada.; £hjtrles Bartlett, ,<jf Maine, Gonful at Giitthiloupe; Albert A Sorter, of Indiana, First Comptroller OT tne'Treasury; Edward 8. J. Nealy, Collector es Customs, Bath, Me.; James E. Simpson, of lowa, Collector of Rp venue, Third District. Edward H. Jkfijfrison, es New Jersey, Register of theLan'ffuffice, Boise City, Idaho; Commodore Edward F. Nichols, to be Rear d,tlw Pr of tertPTti 15otkin,. of ■TMfitWy’w "Hi" I About 4JSQO bills have been introduced ifi Congress since the beginning of thte present session. It is stated that" our Government will certainly recognise IJiajs as President. of Mexico at an early date. : During lhe present term of the Court of. Claims the court has decided adversely upon claims aggregating upward' of $500,000, and given judgments to the amount of only $5,200,; It ip stated from Washington that « there is* a growing feeling among members of both houses against present action upon the tariff? There seems to be an almost universal protest against it from business men in all The argument is that the damage to the gen-

eral interests is so great that it will be far better, so far as general results are concerned, to rtop

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. wbs?lJ|(So tJSJSL brndfeje,) Oat* 2,!)14,<»0 rye, A WashlnMc|i it iswcqr generally accepted as pXble £t thj c< *5,000,000 by the Halifax Fishery Commission, or rather by Mr. Delfosse, the Belgian Minister, who had the casting vote, will never be paid and it is even questioned whether, under all the circumstonces a the claim for its payment will Gfllat& O BSwffiSßto Monday, March 4. —Senate.—VBe-President Wheeler occupied the chair for the first time in sevkvai diyeltldN bill supplemental to: thtalaw Iti bwltton or bars wUh the Treasurer pr any Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and for the issue to such depositors: of certificates in denominations: of not l«ss ffian 820, to. be receivable for duties and all form* of public taxes, and to ibe -pfiyaMk Mr. Bruce in 4 roduced a bill to authorize the payment of bounties tothe heirs of soldiers who were to mileage of Disti ict Attorneys of the United'S fates, and spoke in explanation thereof.... Several private bills were passed ....The Senate, in executive session, confirmed Bayai d Taylor as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany; Jehu Baker, of Illinois, Minister Resident at Venediers and sailors of 1812 and their widows. Mr. Joyce, of Vermont, wanted a dause lnHerted excluding from its benefits any one who had participated fn the rebellion. The bill was passed by 217 yeas to 21 nays... .The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Frye, for the exenange of sflvef eotas of the United States for United States notes; by Mr. Ward, reducing the number of customs ofliqers, arid rcgulaUug tbefif cpns3irtkti»neTWTMT. Vanoe, authoriafng Circskit-kiid-lxaiiiat Judges to fine and imprison at discretion in cases of conviction of illicit distillation, in lieu of punishment now required ; by Mr. Sayler, providing for thd classification of mail matter and fixing postage rates ; by Mr. Pollard, appropriating $409,000 foii deficiendes jn the Interior Department for the fiscal year endIn|r Jnne 30, 1876; by Mr. litner (oy request), to repeal the Jaw imposing a tax on medicines or medical preparations; by Mr. Stone, for a whter-route to facilitate* transportation between Lakes Michigan and Erie; by Mr. Gibson, providing for a commission to supervise the’construction of works to improve the navigation of the Mississippi river; by Mr. Williams, of Michigan, to establish a board of fish commissioners, to regulate and protect fisheries on the lakes; by Mr. Potter, toxegulate immigration ; also, to authorize bondholders and other creditors of railroad corporations to elect receivers in suits in equity pending in the United States eourta... .Mr. Bright offered a resolution directing outstaHding i<»d»teiider iiaMt at current New York premium on gold and the commission for selling, or whether he has authorized the sale of such bonds for legal-tender notes on any other terms than above stated ; and, if so, the number and amount of the proceeds of such bonds, and who were employed as agents to dispose of them. Adopted.

Tuesday, March s.—Senate.—Mr. Thurman introduced a bill to prohibit members of Congress from becoming sureties on certain bonds.' Referred.. . .Mr, Spencer, from, the Committee on Military Affairs, rcpdned adversely on the Senate bill extending the time for presenting claims for collecting, drilling, or organizing volunteers for the war of the Rebellion, and it was indefinitely postponed... .Mr. Beck delivered a long argument in support of hl*’.resolution directing the Secretary «f the Treasury not to purchase any bonds for the sinking-fund during the next fiscal year.’ He maintained that by an erroneous method jot bookkeeping an expess of $37,000,000 has been carried to the credit of the fund. He blamed Senators Morrill and Dawes for this, and insisted that, in the present depressed condition of the industries, no more money should be appropriated for this purpose. The resolution was referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Morrill spoke in reply to Mr. Beck, after which the Senate adjourned, r r*. House.—Mr. Marsh offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to take steps looking to the collection of the $28,000,000 indebtedness due to the United States from the Ceptral and Union Pacific- Railroad Campania.. >„ fUfhe Fortification bill, appropriating- $275,0(10, .Was passed Judge Kelley delivered a two hours’ speech pn finance. It was designed as a reply to Gen. Garfield’s November sppeon on silver. Judge Kelley’s review of Garfii'Td’B speech was caustic. He said it was deypid of logic, and_was a mere rhapsody, and was welcomed by the bulflouist press as an answer to the silver argument; and was distributed through the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and thus possessed a semiofficial character..,. Mr. Riddle, from the Committee on Territories, reported back adversely the bill to establish the Territory of Pembina. Laid on the table.... The House, in committee of the whole, discussed the bills authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary Clerks, and making an appropriation for the same ; making appropriations for detecting trespass on public lande, and for bringing into the market public lands in certain States.

Wednesday, March 6.—Senate. —The Senate ‘bill to authorize the 'Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad Company to extend its road into the Territory of Dakota to the village of Sioux Falls was taken uj/, discussed, and passed*. ...Mr. Chaffee, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a substitute for the Senate bill authorizing citizens of Colorado, Nevada, and the Territories to f All And remove timber on the public domain for mining and domesbe assigned and located or appnea oy actualsettlers ami provtdingTor the issue of paiouts in the name of the. locator or his legal rvnesentative. Placed on the calendar... .After a lengthy debate, the Senate parsed the bill authorizing the issue of bonds in small denominations, rtmntng 'fifty years, and bearing 4 per cebt, interest. House.—The House passed the Fortification bill, ffilffiSSE authorizing a enecteb tm-m,* of the. United States Court in Mississippi to-toy the timber depredators. The document was very brief, and stated, in substance, that not enough -time was allowed by the bill to allow the Government to prepare its case, and that there were no funds on hand to pay the expense of. an extra session of the cotu-L The bill and message were. inefermrix to toe «. &he Hfttiso tlretlay in conmrittM oHthe whole on the Deficiency Appropriation bill, th o time being principally consumed by Mr. Garfield in a set H>eech ip reply to Mr. Kelley’s speech, delivered, on Thursday, March 7.—Senate.—The Senate discussed the bin relating to reopening the courtmartial case of eX-Surgeon General Hammond without reaching a vote.... Mr. Sargent called up his joint resolution in regard to Chinese immigration, Mississippi River Improvement Commission, and for the improvement Pfrnavieation on that river. House.—The House Committee on Accounts to worKTn*c3nnectiOTi with th^several Wreßfigating committees. A spirited discussion ensued, but the resolution was passed—l 33 to 104~. Friday, March B.—Senate. —N°t in session. House.—Communications were read from American type-founders, protesting against certain petitions for the abolition of the tariff duty on.type.... The House debated the bill to appropriate $376,000 to pay Southern mail contractors for servicenrendered th, Government grior to the war. * / t March I vice of the Government for the fiscal year ending JUfife 80; 1878.... The Consular and Diplomat!# Appropriation bill was considered in committee’of the Whole .„. Mr. Kelley delivered a speech in reply to MriGsriteldte.Speech of Wednesday, and lfc.«nbof'mmterernSmferce 111 faV ° r ° f the extension