Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The suppression of the Bosnian rebellion has enabled Count Andrassy to decide upon the withdrawal of 80,000 soldiers from the province, and the reduction of the remaining corps to a peace footing. Turkey has flatly informed Austria that she will resist the occupation of NoviBazar. A panic in the iron trade at Glasgow is reported by cable. Several heavy-failures have occurred. Late advices from Rome say it has been decided, in consequence of the utter failure of the negotiations between Bismarck aud the Vatican, to endeavor to reach a less radical basis, under which the relations between church and state will be regulated as nearly as possible in accordance with existing German laws. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that a terrible hurricane on the River Plata caused a great inundation. The Times, of India, publishes a telegraphic dispatch stating that the Ameer’s reply has been received and is unsatisfactory. The glut of cotton goods in Lancashire is simply unprecedented, and the mill owners are adopting measures to curtail production. The Mohammedans of the Dobrudscha are preparing to resist Roumanian rule. Austria proclaims that full amnesty has been granted to those Bosnian insurgents who took refuge in Hervia. A conflict of opinion in the Italian Cabinet in matters of internal government has led to a serious ministerial crisis. The official report as to the condition of the City of Glasgow Bank shows that the actual loss to the shareholders will foot up the enormous sum of 930,(MX),0(K). The Fenian Clancy, who was sentenced in 1807, has been liberated. A pooplo wo>a killoj outright, and forty wounded, by a railway collision at Pontyfridd, Wales. All the managers and directors of the City of Glasgow Bank have been arrested on a criminal charge of fraud. A cable dispatch says the city of Glasgow “is absorbed in melancholy contemplation of the terrible picture of crime and ruin presented in the official report of the examiners of the broken Glasgow bank. The figures and facts are so overwhelming that even financial minds, familiar with figures and cash books, seem utterly to fail to grasp the situation. A kind of apathetic paralysis appears to have seized upon the citizens. The business exchanges are absolutely stagnant. Signs of approaching punishment for the Directors are visible, and eagerly hailed by the whole community. The important feature in the report is the deliberate falsification of the returns made to the'Government of the gold held by the bank against notes issued. The legal issue was limited to £72,921, but at the suspension of the concern the note circulation was £863,403, and the coin amounted to only £321,753, but the deficiency was made to appear less by illegally including coin lying at the bank's branches. This scandalous proceeding exposes the bank to tremendous penalties under the laws of Great Britain.”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICust. Joseph R. Oakley, the defaulting cashier of the Merchants’ Exchange National Bank, of New York, has been convicted and sentenced to five yeai's’ hard labor in the penitentiary. George J. Hathaway, the rascally treasurer of the Border City Mills, of Fall River, Mass., has received a ten years’ sentence. Chace, the President of the company, was awarded a similar term some time ago. Considerable of a flurry has been created in New York financial circles by the failure of Haar A Co., an old and heavy stockoperating firm. The members of the collapsed firm charge that Jay Gould and others formed a •conspiracy against' them and effected their ruiti. Haar has been arrested and held in heavy bonds on a charge of swindling. A Providence (R. I.) dispatch reports the loss of the bark Susan, which left New Bedford on a whaling voyage Oct. 12. Only three of her crew of twenty-five escaped alive. New York papers chronicle the death of Rear Admiral Paulding, son of the captor of Maj. Andre, and last surviving officer of the battle of Lake Chainplain. An important arrest of counterfeiters was made by Detective Perkins, of the Government force, in Bradford county, Pa., last week. The gang was well supplied with #lO notes on the First National, of Lafayette, Ind., #5 notes on the Hanover (Pa.) National, and •ounterfeit gold and silver coin of all denominations. South. k - A Vicksburg dispatch of Oct. 14 reports that “ there was a political mooting going on at Waterproof, La., and ex-Chief Justice John T. Ludcling had been addressing them. A disturbance arose, and arms wore freely used. During the fight Capt. Peck and four negroes were killed. Among the negroes wounded was one named Fairfax, a nominee for Congress in Tensas parish. He could not be found, and seems to have been gotten away from the scone of action. There was great excitement The negroes were threatening to sack the town, and the whites had dispatched to the adjoining parishes for reinforcement's. ” Advices from the fever-infecte d districts of the South to Oct 16, report hot weather all along the Mississippi valley, and the outlook exceedingly discouraging. The disease was fastening itself upon new country localities daily, and the same sad scenes were being witnessed that has characterized the appearance of the plague at Vicksburg, Grenada, and other stricken towns. The fever had broken out at Helena, Ark., and Little Rock had set up a rigid quarantine against the afflicted town. At New Orleans the deaths for the preceding twenty-four hours numbered 30, with 135 new cases; at Memphis there were 18 deaths; at Vicksburg the fever has about run its course for want of material to feed upon’; at Chattanooga, o aOatiis; Decatur, Ala. J 12 new cases and 2 deaths; Cairo, 111., 2 deaths and 3 new cases; Baton Rouge, La., 46 new cases, 4 deaths. All the towns throughout the interior of Louisiana, Mississippi and Tenneshero u*. fever has appeared report no miprovenont, and no Rapes of an abatement of « plague bei.ra the appearance of frost The only BO n ol J e ff Davis has just died of yellow fever at Mb^ phiß . catastrophe j s meagerly mentioned in a telegraphic 6« ate h from Lynchburg, Va. During a ™ ored Baptist Church, crowded to the^ pacity, a piece of plastering fell, SL a panic of the most dreadful character. In the wold rush to escape from the building a number Of people were crushed to death and many oth-

era badly maimed. Among the killed were the bride and groom. A dispatch from Natchez, Miss., dated Oct 16, says: “A fight occurred with the negroes yesterday in Goldman’s field, some four miles above Waterproof, La., in which it is said that thirty-six negroes were killed, .and the whole of them dispersed. Some apprehend further trouble, while the general impression is that the negroes will not again assemble. Assistance was pouring from aq directions. Fifty more men left here this evening, in answer to a call from St. Joseph, La. >'No plantation has been burned. A communication just received from a citizen of Waterproof states: ‘ All quiet and settled. Ten negroes killed yesterday.’ Waterproof is situated immediately on the banks of the Mississippi, in Tensas parish. The parish at the last election registered 5,000. colored and 450 white voters. The following is said to be the origin of the trouble: Fairfax, candidate for Congress for the Fifth district, called a meeting of colored Republicans at Waterproof. The quarantine officers interfered, and the negroes collected in large numbers around Fairfax’s house, just out of town. An armed posse sent out to expostulate with them was fired upon, and three of the posse were killed. ” Advices from the plague-ridden lo calities of the South to Oct 18 report the advent of cooler weather and a gratifying decrease ih the mortality roll. The fever broke out on the relief boat Chambers, which was sent down the Mississippi loaded with supplies for the isolated points along the river, and the expedition was ordered to proceed up the river to quarantine, below St Louis. Lieut. Benner, the commander of the vessel, died, and was buried at Vicksburg. There was great grief over his untimely taking off, and nearly every well person in Vicksburg followed his remains to the grave. From he breaking out of the epidemic to the 20th of October, 3,700 people fell victims to the yellow fever in New Orleans. The total cases of fever reported numbered 12,300. It turns out that the rumored negro insurrection in Tensas parish, La., had little or no foundation. There was some ill-feeling between the races, wliich threatened serious trouble, but it all passed away without any one being killed. West. The hoisting works of the Lady Bryan Mining Company, at Virginia City, Nev., have been burned. Loss, #2OO,(MX). Lyman Potter, the wheelbarrow man, has safely arrived at San Francisco, where he was met and escorted through the streets by a great crowd. There was a severe snow-storm along the Northern Pacific railroad on the 17th of October. In some places the snow was of sufficient depth to impede the movement of trains. A fire in the Burchard block, adjoining the Plankinton House, Milwaukee, destroyed #25,000 worth of property. The great bridge across the Mississippi river, at St. Louis, is to be sold under the Sheriff’s hammer on the 20th of December It is believed that the Cheyenne savages whom Maj. Thornburgh chased, but failed to catch, have established themselves in the sandhills of Northwestern Nebraska, with the intention of raiding the settlements during the winter months.

W ASHINGTON NOTES. The Supreme Court is now in session. The President and Mrs. Hayes visited the Winchester (Va.) Fair last week. A verdict of acquittal has been rendered at Montreal in the cases of the Orangemen on trial for illegal assembly on the 12th of July. The presiding Judge instructed the jury that meetings in lodge-rooms were not illegal, and the twelve “good men and true” had no alternative but a declaration of not guilty. It is said the Orangemen will bring a suit for damages for false arrest. The October report of the Department of Agriculture estimates this year's corn crop at 1,300,000,000 bushels. The yield of wheat will exceed 41X1,000,000 bushels—probably the greatest quantity of wheat ever produced in one year in any country—and the crop of oats will be larger than the very fine one of 1877. Green C. Chandler has been appointed United States Attorney for the Northern district of Mississippi.

POLITICAL POINTS. A Cincinnati dispatch says that “official returns of the late election have been received from all the counties in Ohio but fourteen. Unofficial reports have also been received from these, so that very close estimates can now be made upon the result The total vote cast will fall short of that of last year. The Republican majority for Secretary of State will be 4,102. The National vote will reach somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000, a small increase upon last year.” Hon. Justin S. Morrill has been reelected to the United States Senate from Vermont The full official returns of the Ohio election give the following as the total vote cast for each candidate for Secretary of State: Barnes, Republican, 274,120; Paige, Democrat, 270,996; Ray, National, 38,332; Robinson, Prohibition, 5,674; Barnes’ plurality, Samuel J. Tilden is out with a letter denying all knowledge of the cipher telegrams recently published in the New York Tribune, alleged to have • been exchanged between his friends in relation to the purchase of electoral votes in South Carolina and Florida. He says of the alleged telegrams, “ which relate to an offer purporting to have been made in behalf of some members of the State Board of Canvassers of Florida, to give, for pecuniary compensation, certificates to the Democratic electors who had been actually chosen, none of these telegrams, nor any telegram communicating such offer, or relating to such offer, was seen by me, translated to me, or the’ contents of it in any manner made known to me. ” In relation to the ciphers bearing on the canvass of votes in South Carolina, Tilden says: “I can speak of them no less definitely and positively. No one such telegram, either in cipher or translated, was ever shown to or its contents made known to me. No offer or negotiation in behalf of the Gon vanners of SonHt C! «’v>lina. or any of them, or any dealing w;ith any of them in respect to certificates to electors was ever author ized or sanctioned in any manner by me, di - rectly or through any other person.” Clarkson N. Potter declines a nomination for Congress in the Twelfth New York district.