Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Four hundred Mormons have just bailed from Liverpool for Utah. A ltome dispatch says the health of Pope Leo declines daily, but, unless the physicians insist upon his departure, it will be difficult to induce bim to go to the country. Cable ditpatches fully confirm previous rejiorts of the success of Schouvaloff’s mission, and the actual agreement of all the powers to be repretented in the congress, which will assemble on the 11th of June. Lord John liussell, the distinguished English statesman, is dead. Re was 86 years of age. A terrible marine disaster occurred in the English channel on the morning of the 31st nit. Ihe German squadron, consisting of the ironclads Prusren, Grosser Kurfurst and Kn-nig Wilhelm, were steaming down the channel, on route for Plymouth. When opposite Ludgate, England, about five miles from the shore, the Kouiig Wilhelm ran into the Grosser Kurfuiit. The shock was terrifio, the latter vessel filling and sinking within five minutes after the collision. To add to the horrors of the situation, the boilers of the vessel exploded, scattering death and destruction in every direction. The ill-fated vessel had on beard t>oo persons, about 400 of whom were lost. The Grosser Kurfurst was built in 1874, and was one of the most powerful ironclads in the German navy. Another attempt bus been made to murder tlte Emperor William of Germany. Ho was wouuded in one arm and on the cheek, but his hurts aro not dangerous. Tho shots were firod while the Emperor’s carriage was passing a house in which the assassin, a Dr. Nobeling, occupied apartments. When the doors was forced, tho doctor attempted to kill himself, but his life was saved in order that il may be taken, hereafter, by tho public executioner. Tho weapon used by tho would-be assassin was a double-barreled shot-gun. The Emperor received about thirty small shot in the face, bead, both arms, and back. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Another lot of mills have shut down in Fall Itiver, and 4,000 more unfortunate operatives aro out of work. Kimberly, Carnes & Co., one of the largest iron firms of Western Pennsylvania, with works located at New Castle, Greenville, Sharon, and other points in the Shonango valley have failed for a large amount. Joseph H. Kohler, a former wealthy banker of Now York, has failed for $460,000. Depreciation in real estate. Tho Syndicate has taken from the treasury tho remaining $15,000,000 of the 4>£-per-cent. bonds, which completes the $50,000,000 bargained for on *he 11th of April. West. . A portable saw-mill on tho farm of Robert Lynn, near Hillsboro, Ohio, exploded *,iiv, uhici i 1..,,, hining unuo men ana severely scalding sovtral others. C. li, White, Auditor, and G. H; Hefford, General Fassongor Agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad, are short in their accounts several thousand dollars, and will be prosecuted for embezzlement. A terribly destructive tornado visited the town of Richmond, Mo., a few days ago, causing a distressing loss of lifo and property. The storm leveled everything in its path, a breadth of at least 3DO yards, demolishing buildings to their foundations, stripping trees of their bark and foliage, and leveling everything as if swept by a torrent. Over 100 bouses in the town and vieinity were swept away. Twelve persons were killed outright, and upward of 100 injured, many of them beyond hope of recovery. Tho cyclone was the color of steam, aud at timos tho funnel-shaped cloud would break open in places and emit what appeared like black smoke, then gather together again, and, with increased force, continue cn its march of destruction. At first it approached slowly—not faster, perhaps, than a man could walk. Then it moved faster, leveling everything in its path with tho ground, and producing almost complete devastation. The sound it produced was infernal, resembling (hat of a groat cataract. Amid tho wails of women and children and the groans of tho dying, strong men shed tears to witness the general destruction, and tho death aud suffering of relatives and friends. South. William H. Robiitscn was executed at Milford, N. C., on the 31st ult., for the murder of Eliza Raj'. Both were colored. POLITICAL POINTS. The New York Greenbackers will bold their Slate Convention at Syracuse, July 23. Postmaster General Key is out in an open letter, addressed to the people of the South, warning them against any attempt to unsoat President Hayes as fraught with danger to the public peace, and urging them to support no person for Congress who .is not pledged to sustain the title of Mr. Hayes. Congressman Totter, of New York, Chairman of tho special Presidential investigating committee, has also written a letter upon tho subject of tho pending investigation, in which he says : There is not the slightest chance of revolution or disturbance. When the whole country was at fever heat on the subject of the election, a way was found to establish a tribunal to pass upon the election, and every one submitted to that determination. The President’s title rests upon that. If now It should appear that there was fraud which- palpably affected tho electoral vote, and which the commission did not notice, and If a legal remedy exists for correcting the error, you cannot believe that such a proceeding, under the law, could lead to disturbance. If there bo no such pg»l remedy existing, and Congress should hereafter, by the approval of tho President, or by twothirds of both houses without that approval, pro\ido one, why should the legal determination thereafter have any more produce disturbance than the decision of the Electoral Commission did 7 The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have nominated Gen. F. H. Lane for Governor. Tho Democratic Congressmen from Tennessee bitterly denounce Postmaster General Koy for writing a letter in opposition to the investigation. They assert that it was prepared for bim, and that the only choice left him was to sign it or leave the Cabinet. Mr. Key protests that he wrote the letter with the best of motives, without dictation from or consultation with any one, and that if he had the thing to do over again he wouldn’t alter a word of it. The lowa State Democratic Convention met at Dos Moines ou Wednesday, May 29, and nominated tho following ticket: For Secretary of State, T. W. Walker ; Auditor, Col.Eiboeck; Treasurer, E D.Fenn, Register of the State Land Office, T. 8. Bardwell; Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge J. c. Knapp; Clerk of the Supreme Court, M. V. Gannon, Reporter of the Supreme Court, J. J 3, Elliott; Attorney General,

John Gibbons. The platform favorß a tar.lT for revenue only, opposes the granting of subsidies by the General Government, denounces the financial system of the Republican party as responsible for the misery and want that now afflict the country, favors the repeal of the Resumption act, opposes any further retirement of United States notes, and demands a “thorough examination into the election frauds of 1870.” Representative Alex. H. Stephens has written a letter in reply to the statement of Congressman Potter touching the object of the pending Presidential investigation. Mr. Stephens views the whole proceeding as “ unwise, unfortunate and mischievous,” and thinks “ its effect will be to disturb the peace, harmony and quiet of the country.” In closing his letter he says: My own opinion is, as I have repeatedly said, that this affair will prove in the end either a contempti ble farce or a horrible tragedy. Whother it will lead to the Mexicanizatiou of our Fodoral republic, the result must show ; but I say, as I said on another recent occasion, that all soft words instilling in the mind of the people of this country the idea that Mr. Hayes can be peaceably unseated by Congress arc as delusive and guileful ae the whisperings of the great arch-flend, in the shape of a toad in the ear of Eve, from which sprung all our woes. WASHINGTON NOTES. The bill passed by the Senate establishing a new form of government for the District of Columbia abolishes all tho present official boards in the District, and exempts colleges and other educational institutions from taxation. Following is the full text of ihe bill passed by Congress to prevent the further retirement of legal-tender notes: Re it enacted, etc,, That from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury or other officer under him to cancel or retire any more of the United States legal-tender notes; and when any < f said notes may be redeemed or be received into the treasury, under any iaw from any source whatever, and shall belong to the United States, they shall not bo retired, canceled, or destroyed, but they shall be reissued, and paid out again, aud kept in circulation; provided, nothing herein shall prohibit tho cancellation and destruction of mutilated notes, and the issue of other notes of lika denomination in their stead, as now provided. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Vinnie Ream, the sculptor, was married in Washington, last week, to Lieut. Hoxie, of the armj r . Secretary Sherman has not as yet found a way to issue the 2,000,000 of standard silver dollars coined each month, but is confident he will be able to do so before long. The Florida section of the Potter investigation committee left for the South last week. The public-debt statement for June is as follows : Six per cent, bonds $ 738,619,000 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,650 Four and a half per cent. bondß 235,000,000 Four per cent, bonds 91,850,000 Total coin bonds 61,768,735 630 Lawful money debt $ 14,000,000 Matured dol.t 6 G, 143 600 Legal tenders 340,743,313 Certificates of deposit 35,70>,000 Fractional currency 6,658,698 Coin certificates 52,823,640 Total without interest $ 451,930 652 Total debt $2,240 809,802 Total interest 31.336,417 Cash in treasury: Coin $ 189,708,021 Currency 3,094,748 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,000,000 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit 35,705.000 Total in treasury ... $ 238,507.769 Debt less cash in treasury $2,033,637,460 Decrease of debt dumiß May 3 070,198 Decrease since June 30, 1877.. 26,520,772 Bonds issued to Pacific Rail road Companies,interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,615,587 luterest paid by the United States 37,896,334 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 9,452,577 Balance of interest paid by United States 28,412,757 MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Grain in sight in the States and Canada : Wheat, 7,550,000 bushels ; corn, 8,220,000 bushels ; oats, 2,158,000 bushels; rye, 573,000 bushels ; barley, 1,310,000 bushels. - James Skead, lumber dealer of Ottawa, Out,, lias failed for $022,000. In an interview at Gettysburg, on Decoration day, President Hayes reiterated tho declaration of Secretary Key that “no man need hope that tho schemes of the men who have engineered tho movement to unseat President Haj’es can be carried out without bloody civil war.” To this the President added, for himself: “I swore to preserve the constitution of the United States, and I will deliver the executive office in its integrity to my successor. They can impeach me in tho House of Representatives and try me in the Senate. There is no‘other way in which I will recognize any attempt of Congress to remove me.” FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Monday, May 27.—Senate.—Mr. Beck introduced a bill to repeal the existing taxes on capital and deposits of Hacks and bankers, and to impose taxes on a dividend in excess of 8 per cent....A resolution was adopted calling upon the President for ali the memoranda, minutes aud correspondence in possession of' the Government relating to the appointment of M. Delfosse as one of the Halifax Commissioners.... The bill providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia was passed.... Tho Senate decided, by the ol se vote of 28 to 26, to take up the bill to forbid the further retirement of legal-tender notes. House.—Bills were introduced as follows : By Mr. Willis, to regulate tho sale of United States securities ; by Mr. Wood, to establish a permanent sinking fund ; by Mr. Chalmers, to encourage the higher education of the colored race ; by Mr. Neal, to establish a National University at Washington.... Mr. Southard, from the select committee on counting the votes for President and Vice President, reported a bill on that subject.... The House then took up the Army Appropriation bill, and adopted the amendment* fixing the strength of the army at 20,000, prohibiting the uec of any pari of it for any purpose not expressly authorized by Congress, and transferring the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department. Tuesday, May 28.—Senate.—Mr. Hamlin, from the Committee ou Foreign Relations, reported a bill providing for the payment of the award made by the Fishery Commission at Halifax, under the treaty of Washington. The committee enter a vigorous protest against the injustice and trickery by which the award was secured, declaring that in all future negotiations the Government of the United States will refuse to recognize the award as affording a precedent to determine the value of the in-shore-fishery privilege. The Senate passed the House bill forbidding the further retirement of legal-ten-der notes. House.—The House passed the Army Appropriation bill. It fixes the army at 20.000 men, forbids the use of soldiers for local police purposes in any of the States, and transfers the Indian Bureau from tho Interior to the War Department.... The Senate amendments to the bill repealing the Bankrupt law were concurred in, and the bill passed. The repeal goes into effect on the Ist of September.... The Democratic members pf the House held a caucus immediately after the close of the day s session, and resolved to postpone consider o?? °l t T be queßtion of Anal adjournment until the Bth of June. Wednesday, May 29.—Senate.—Mr. Windom, from the conference committee on the Consular and Dip’omatic Appropriation biU, submitted a report, which was agreed to, and the hill passed The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was reported from the Committee on Commerce It provides for the expenditure of $906,000 more than the House bi 11.... The larger portion of the day was spent in considering the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. House.—The House voted to amend the Benste resolution for the Anal adjournment

of Congress by substituting June 17 instead of June 10 as the date.... Mr. Atkins, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill appropriating $20,0< oto defray the expenses of the Select Committee on Presidential Election. The Republicans filibustered to prevent the passage of the resolution. Friday, May 31.— Senate.— The bill authorizing the President to appoint an additional Judge for the Seventh United States Judicial Circuit, embracing Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, was passed.... The Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was passed. House. —1 he bill appropriating $20,(00 to defray the expenses of the Presidential investigating committee was passed... .The Senate bill for the relief of settlers on public lands, under the pre-emption laws, in reference to the computation of time for perfecting titles, was also passed....A large number of private bills were disposed of. Saturday, June I.—Senate.— The House resolution fixing June 17 as the day for the flDal adjournment was concurred in.... The Senate devoted the entire day to the discussion of the Halifax fishery award question. Nearly every Senator spoke. Mr. Edmunds’ resolution expressing a desire on the part of this country to terminate that clause of the treaty of Washington which gives our fishermen the right to the Canadian fisheries and gives the Canadian fishermen the right to bring fish into our market was passed, as was the resolution thus amended. House. —The following bills were passed : Authorizing the Solicitor of the Treasury, with the consent of the Secretary of War, to cancel certain contracts for tho sate of land made at Harper's Ferry in 1869, to resell the same, and to sell, or lease, ail other real estate or riparian rights owned by the United States at Harper’s Ferry; giving Circuit Couris supervisory jurisdiction in certain criminal cases.... The bill appropriating $500,000 for the construction of a fresh-water basin for iron-clad vessels near the Norfolk Navy Yard was referred to Ihe committee of the whole, after which the House discussed the bill amending the internalrevenue laws.