Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOBEIGN NEWS. A correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs that “untoes Shen? Ali gives us [the British] satisfaction the present occasion will be seized to wcure for ourselves the passes piercing the mountain ranges along the whole Afghanistan frontier, from the Kuyber to the Bolan.” The opposition of the Magyars to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia has culminated in the resignation of the entire Hungarian Ministry, who allege their inability to provide the money required as Hungary’s contingent of expenses of the occupation. Count Andrassy desires to reduce the expenses by withdrawing a groat part of the army from Bosnia, but the military party oppose this measure. The occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has already cost Austria over 4,000 men. Gen. Grant is back in Paris, where he was dined in grand style the other day by Minister Noyes. A negro insurrection has broken out at Santa Cruz, in the West Indies, and murders and other atrocities are being committed. A dispatch from Rome says “ the negotiations between Germany and the Vatican have failed. Germany will yield nothing, and the Vatican cannot yield all without alienating its most faithful partisans.” A Simla dispatch reports that “no communication has yet been received from the Ameer of CabuL The natives bring down word that the Ameer is collecting his forces from all quarters to oppose the advance of the English. ” >Smith, Fleming & Co., of London, East India merchants, and Potter, Wilson <fc Co., of Glasgow, ship-owners and colonial merchants, have failed, the former for $10,000,000 and the latter for S3,(XM),(XX). ment was brought alxrnt by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. Saad Getden Pasha announced to the inhabitants of Podgoritza, in Albania, that the Turkish Government had ordered that the town bo turned over to the Montenegrins, whereat the enraged populace fell upon the luckless Pasha and the 15(1 officers and men under his command and slew them. The Porte has sent a circular to the powers requesting them to compel Austria to conform to the declaration of her plenipoten - tiaries at the congress, and to stop the advance and excesses of her troops pending the decision of the powers. Unless this is done, the circular says, the Porte will consider Austria a violator of international law. Kingston, Jamaica, advices give some particulars of the negro insurrection in Santa Cruz: “The tiring of cane-fields in Santa Cruz has been renewed. A large number of insurrectionists have been shot. A French frigate has arrived at the island and landed troops. Fugitive women and children have been shipped to St. Thomas. Forty estates have been burned. Only fourteen are left.”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. The Gregory House, at Lake Mahopac, N. Y., has been destroyed bvfire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. West. Recent forest Mires in Oregon have done a vast amount of damage. The fire has swept over a large section of country, destroying houses, crops, fences, and bridges. The recent heavy rains have extinguished the fires. Chicago papers chronicle the death of Lewis E. Meacham, of the editorial staff of the Tribune, one of the most reliable authorities in sporting matters in the West. Dispatches from Topeka, Kansas, re port that a band of the runaway Cheyenne Indians attacked a party of cattle men not far from Hayes City. A fight ensued, in which eighteen citizens were slain and five wounded. The Indian loss is not stated. The tiroops had a fight with the Indians the following day. Corporal Stewart and five soldiers of the Twen-cy-third Infantry were killed, and laeut. Broderick was wounded. Dispatches of the sth inst. from the M ost report the troops in hot pursuit of the raiding Cheyenne Indians. The trail of the savages was marked with blood, at every step, he number of settlers who have fallen victims to their treachery is estimated at between sixty and seventy. It is said their objective point is Red Cloud Agency, and that the plan is to capture and massacre the garrison. Henry Greenebaum, late President of wo leading banks in Chicago, and at one time considered one of the soundest bankers in that city, has been arrested on a criminal charge of stealing $225,000. There seems to be serious danger that the scattered settlements of the Black Hills will be raided by Indians. ASt Paul dispatch says: A band of about 200 Arapahoes and Cheyennes are coming down from their reser-* vation in Northern Wyoming toward the Hills, with hostile intent, and it is not improbable that a dash in the same direction may be made by some of the savages from Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies. Dispatches from Topeka, Kan., give a summary of the outrages committed by the Indians who went north some days ago: “After crossing the Kansas Pacific, they started northwest zfo Decatur county, and raided the settlements there. Their main depredations were on Sappa creek. Every residence for twelve miles was plundered and almost everything destroyed. All the cattle were stampeded, and what of the crops was left by the Indians has been oaten up or destroyed by the stock. The number of people killed is not yet known, but the following bodies have been found and brought to Oberlin and buried: H. P. Humphrey, James G. Laning, William leaning, Thomas Miskelly, Mr. Tnle, Marcellus Fell, M. F. Abernathy, Mr. Irwin. Two other members of the Laning family have been killed and their mother brutally outraged by several Indians. John Marshall and a man named Stedman are badly wounded, and Fred AV alters and Mr. Wright are missing. The house of H. D. was surrounded by Indians, but he and his wife, with a shot-gun and revolver, defended their house till they drove the Indians away, killing or wounding several of them. Other cases similar to this have occurred. Nearly all the settlers along Sappa creek have taken refuge in Oberlin, and are being cared for. They have literally been stripped of everytliing they possessed. Seventeen men are known to have been killed by the Indians in the vicinity of Sappa. There were 28 deaths from yellow fever at Memphis on the 30th ult; at New Orleans the deaths numbered 35; at Vicksburg, 7. The Howard steamer Kate Dickson, sent out from Vicksburg to relieve the sufferers along the river, reports a great deal of sickness aU e way from Vicksburg to Greenville, at which place there were but about one dozen well people to be found. A Baton Rouge (La.) dispatch of the 30th ult reports the fever extremely virulent there; 125 new cases and 6 deaths occurred the previous twenty-four hours.

There was some abatement of the pestilence at nearly all the towns in the interior of the feverinfected region. A Little Rock (Ark.) dispatch reports that “Deputy United States Marshals Woodard and O’Donnel have returned from a successful raid on the illicit-whisky distilleries of Sharp, Baxter and Izard counties, in Arkansas. The Marshals’ posse consisted of twenty men. Ten prisoners were captured.” Advices from the yellow-fever infected points of the South, on Oct. 4, give the following reports: New Orleans, 51 deaths and 111 new cases; Memphis 33 deaths and 133 new cases; Vicksburg, 8 deaths; Holly Springs, 9 deaths and 26 new cases; Hickman, Ky., 2 deaths; Brownsville, Tenn., 2 deaths and 15 new cases; Chattanooga, Tenn., 4 deaths and 10 new cases; Greenville, Miss., reports “1,350 people here when the fever broke out, 260 deaths to date (Oct. 4), 600 convalescents, and 120 down;” Baton Rouge, La., 10 deaths and a large number of new cases; Biloxi, Miss., 20 new cases, no deaths; Osyka, Miss., 3 deaths and 7 new cases; Thibodeaux, La., 16 new cases, no deaths; Jackson, Miss., fever just broke out and rapidly spreadirig, great panic; Bay St. Louis, Miss., 3 deaths and 18 new cases; Tangipahoa, La., 2 deaths and 6 new cases. At nearly all these points the weather was reported warm, with no near prospect of frost, the only enemy that Yellow Jack fears. Rodney Green (colored) was hanged at Magnolia, Miss., on the 4th inst., for the murder of his brother-in-law.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Attorney General Devens, in response to questions submitted to him by Secretary Sherman, has rendered a decision to the effect that the subsidiary coins are not legal tender in any sum exceeding $5. The publie-debt statement for Oct. 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $713;494,900 Five per cent, bonds 703,200,050 Four and a halt per cent, bonds 250,000.000 Four percent.bonds 151,500,000 Total coin b0nd551,818,201,550 Lawful-money debts 14,000,000 Matured debt 12,524,090 Legal tenders 34* 743,090 Certificates ot deposit 4c.710.000 Fractional currency 10.297,429 Coin and silver certificates 34,'174,070 Total without interests 438,425,195 Total debt „$2,283,211,435 Total interest 28,039,290 Cash in treasury, coin $ 232,059.040 Cash in treasury, currency 1,972.593 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,000,(MX) Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposits 40,710,000 Total in treasurys 285,342,240 Debt, less citsh in treasurys2,o2s,!K)B.4Bs Decrease during September 3.190,534 Decrease since June 30. 1878 9,878,345 Bonds issued to Pacififrailroad companies, interest payable in lawful . money; principal outstanding 04,023,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 909.352 Interest paid by United States 39,835,039 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 10,279,181 Balance of interest paid by United States 29.555,858 The President has appointed O. H. Irish Chief of. tho Bureau of Printing ami Engraving, vice McPherson, resigned. The President and family will move into the Executive Mansion from the Soldiers’ Homo next week. The White House is being prepared for their reception. Secretary Schurz appears to think that it is not good civil-service reform for him to make campaign speeches, as he lias steadily refused to repeat his Cincinnati speech. A general order, just issued from the War Department, calls the attention of officers of tho army to a section in the Army Appropriation bill passed at the last session of Congress prohibiting tho use of the army as a posse comitatus except in such eases as may be expressly authorized by the constitution or acts of Congress.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Texas Republicans have nomi nated A. B. Morton for Governor and Richard Allen for Lieutenant Governor. The Colorado election, held on the Ist inst., resulted in the success of the Republican ticket, Pitkin being elected Governor and Belford chosen to succeed Patterson as Representative in Congress. The Republicans of Gen. Butler’s district (Seventh Massachusetts) have nominated William A. Russell for the next Congress and demanded of Gen. Butler the resignation of his seat in the present Congress. The Republicans of the Hartford (Ct.) district have nominated Gen. Joseph R. Hawley for Congress. The Nebraska Republicans have nominated AlbinusNance forGovemor, E. C. Carnes for Lieutenant Governor, E. K. Valentine for Congress (long term), and T. J. Majors to fill the unexpired term in Congress of the late Frank C. Welch. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, is reported, by a New York paper, as saying that he “ thought it probable that three Presidential candidates would be in the field in 1880—a Republican, Democrat and Greenback candidate. It was possible, too, the House of Representatives would be called upon to elect the next , President” Hon. N. P. Banks has been laid on the shelf by his Republican constituents in the Fifth Massachusetts district. The convention, after fifteen ballots, nominated Hon. S. man, of Somerville, for Congress.