Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A Romedispatch says a more pathetic Moene than that of Garibaldi’s arrival at the : railway station there has seldom been beheld. "The shouts raised as the train entered the sta- ’ lion were speedily silenced on the circulation ■of the report that the General was HL He was carried from the train on a mattress placed on a large litter. He lay extended and motionless, with his eyes closed, and a red handkerchief bound around his head. It looked as though a corpse was being carried in state. It was found impossible to move him from the litter, which was placed on an open carriage and driven, accompanied by the mournfully silent crowd, to the house of bis son, Menotti baldiAnother disaster lias overtaken the in South Africa. For some weeks it )has been known that Col. Pearson’s force at lEkowe was in a very critical position. It ap--1 pears that Pearson, weary of waiting for relief, made an attempt to cut his way through the savages. The attempt was repnhed and a large number of the sortieing party killed. Particulars of the affair are lacking, but it is feared in London that Pearson’s whole command, weakened by this heavy loss, has been overpowered and massacred. And still another disaster is reported. A convoy of Applies proceeding from Derby to Luneburg, escorted by 104 men of the Eightieth regiment, was attacked by 4,000 Zulus. Owing to a previous alarm, the British were under arms, but ’were overwhelmed by the enormously superior I force of the enemy. Oapi. Moriarity and forty unen were killed, and twenty are missing. Affairs in Egypt are becoming comiplicatod. The Ministers appointed on behalf <of England and France refuse to resign, in accordance with the desire of the Khedive, who Jhas, nevertheless, appointed a now Ministry. ‘There is considerable excitement in England ; and France at the attitude of the Khedive, and . France is preparing to send a naval force to Alexandria. It is reported that King Alfonso, of ■Spain, is to marry the Archduchess Maria, daagbtar of Archduke Charles, of Austria. The Russian Nihilists have marked all the Czar’s attendants for death. The Bulgarian Assembly have decided upon granting absolute freedom to the ’press. The Sultan recently addressed a telegram to the English Government, formally condemning the proceedings of the Khedive as a danger to the whole East, expressing a willingness tj cancel the firman regulating ths Egyptian succession, depose the Khedive, and send Halim Pasha to Alexandria in a Turkish man-of-war as the Khedive’s successor. There seems to be no longer a reasonable doubt that the plague has disappeared in Astrakhan. The special commissioner of the Government, Gen. Molikoff, and the whole corps of foreign doctors have left the place. A dispatch from Berlin states that Germany, though entertaining no idea of annexing the Samoan islands, intends to protect German interests and prevent the Americans from establishing themselves there, to the detriment of other nations. A Kieff (Russia) correspondent of the Petersburg Journal gives the following ’account of a massacre of Nihilist prisoners: “ Persons under arrest in the Kieff prison resolved some time ago to tunnel under the walls and escape. The scheme was betrayed by one of the conspirators. The authorities allowed the prisoners to continue the excavation. When the tunnel was completed, and the prisoners had entered it, one after the other, intending to come up through the opening beyond the prison precincts, the soldiers previously posted at the opening shot the escaping prisoners as they came up. When the bulk of the prisoners, terrified by the noise of the firing, stopped and remained in the tunnel, soldiers were sent in from behind, and the unfortunate wretches, caught between two fires, were all shot down. The proceeding seemed to give the officials much amusement, and the Director of the Kieff prison was praised and deoorated for having acted with such cleverness and decision.”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Ka«t. John P. Phair, was hanged at Windsor, Vt, last week, for the murder of Mrs. Ann E. Freize, at Rutlaud, June 9, 1874. There are few cases in criminal annals which have created such intense interest For over four years Phair’s counsel have made a desperate fight to save their client’s neck, and three times has the criminal been reprieved. The bill to give women the right to vote on municipal affairs in cities and towns has been rejected in the Massachusetts Legislature, but the bill to give women the right to vote for members of school committees has been passed. ISoutn. Revenue detectives have captured twenty moonshiners in North Carolina and destroyed over 6,000 gallons of illicit mash. Extensive revenue raids through suspected sections are now in progress. The business portion of the town of Coffeyville, Miss., has been destroyed by fire. West. A band of Indian chiefs from Washington Territory and Oregon have gone to Washington city for a big talk and a general treaty. They represent a half-dozen tribes and about 5,000 warriors. They have been wanting to go to Washington for some years. They are partly civilized and would be dangerous customers in an outbreak. John W. Gregg, ex-Superintendent of the Money-Order Department of the Chicago Postoffice, has been found guilty of embezzlement by a jury in the United States District Court A letter has been received by Archbishop Purcell from Cardinal Simeoni, Secretary to the Pope, declining to accept the Archbishop’s resignation on account of his long service to the Church. The Archbishop was instructed to select a coadjutor, with the right of succession to the Bee of Cincinnati. March earnings of nineteen Western railways show an increase of >263,000 over the. same month last year. The Illinois House of Representatives has passed a bill to establish compulsory education. The real estate of the defunct Fidelity Savings Bank, consisting of the bank building, the safe depository vaults and Hooley’s Theater, were sold under the auctioneer’s hammer, at Chicago, last week, for >191,000. The building originally cost >600,000. WASHINGTON NOTES. The United States Supreme Court has rendered its decision in the Chicago whisky cases. The decision is adverse to the whisky men, and reverses the judgment of the Chicago court The court holds as to immunity that the District Attorney had no power to grant it, and that the most those to whom it was granted

could expect was to secure a continuance for the purpose of seeking Executive clemency. Federal appointments: A. P. McCormick, to be United States Judge of the Northern District of Texas; W. W. Henry, to be United States Marshal of the District of Vermont; Jas. B. Hallowell, of Kansas, to be United States District Attorney of Kansas; A. L. Thomas, of Pennsylvania, to bo Secretary of the Territory of Utah. Secretary Sherman paid a visit to New York, last week, and had a conference with Sub-Treasurer Hillhouse and the leading bankers. His future fina cial policy is as yet undetermined. Secretary Sherman issued the first call, last week, for the redemption of 10-40 5 per cent Government bonds of 1860, amounting in all to >10,000,000, the principal and interest of which are due on and after June 9, 1879. Secretary Evarts is negotiating a treaty of commerce and reciprocity jrith Mexico. The President has nominated George 8. Smith, of Nebraska, Surveyor General of Nebraska. A new or revised commercial treaty between the United States and Japan is officially promulgated, ratifications having been exchanged at our Department of State this week. The select committee appointed to investigate and report the best means of preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases adopted a bill for presentation to Congress. It gives to the National Board of Health plenary powers, and appropriates $650,000 to earry out the provisions. The President has nominated Robert P. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Moscow. A Washington telegram to the Chicago Inter Ocean says: “ A gentleman traveling with Gen. Grant writes home that the General says he will not be a candidate for President under any circumstances." A. Washington correspondent says that members of Congress have pretty generally given up the hope of any adjournment before the middle of June. The opinion is freely expressed by the Republican members that the session will last at least until July.

POLITICAL. POINTS. Municipal elections were held throughout Ohio on the 7th inst At Columbus, Collins, Republican, was elected Mayor by 1,700 majority. In Cleveland and Cincinnati the Republicans also elected the Mayor by about 1,200 majority. In Sandusky, Zanesville, Akron and Painesville the Democratic tickets were ccessful. At Toledo the Nationals elected the Mayor by 500 majority. Dayton, Republican by a small majority. Returns of the Michigan election indicate that Judge Campbell, the Republican candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, is elected over the Democratic-Greenback candidate by about6,ooo majority. At Albany,N. Y., the Democrats elected ten, the Democrats and Nationals twenty-one, and the Republicans four Supervisors. John Guttman, Democrat, was re-elected Justice of the Justice’s Court by 3,000 majority. At Kansas City, Mo., the Greenbackers elected the Mayor. Under the heading, “The Candidates 1880,” the New York Times publishes reports showing the state and tendency of public opinion throughout the Union upon the the choice of candidates most likely to be made by the Republican and Democratic parties for the Presidential campaign of 1880. The introduction says: “We nave information from every State in the Union, gathered by more than 170 correspondents stationed at from one to nineteen points m each State. Each correspondent covered a large field, including many important centers of political thought and discussion. The letters are from intelligent men of both political parties. Our correspondents do not give their individual views simply, but the preferences expressed by the people of their sections. The results point unmistakably to the nomination of Gen. Grant by the Republicans, and of Mr. Tilden by the Democrats. The vast preponderance of Republican sentiment in favor of Gen. Grant leaves all other candidates in the rear.” The announcement is made on the authority of Gov. Hendricks that he will not again take a second place on the Presidential ticket in 1880. The Kentucky Republican State Convention met at Louisville, last week, and nominated Walter Evans for Governor. An interview with Alexander H. Stephens touching the policy of the Democrats in Congress is published. He says the President will not veto the Army bill, Stephens believes a majority of the Democrats were in favor of unlimited coinage of silver, and all in favor of relief from the present contraction. A majority are also in favor of modification of the present revenue laws and tariff. Hd predicts the passage of the bill to pension veterans of the Mexican war. Congress, he says, “is too busy at Presidentmaking to do its duty. While the great pending questions of taxation and currency are unsettled people care little who is President, and the contest is a mere scramble for office. ” DOINGS OF CONGRESS. The New Hampshire Senatorial case of Charles H. Bell occupied the attention of the Senate on the 7th. Mr. Booth introduced a bill to repeal the Atlantic and Pacific railroad grant. Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill foe the relief ot the central branch of tbe Union Pacific Bailroad Company.

A resolution was adopted authorizing the President of th* Senate to appoint a select committee of five to take Into consideration all matters relating to the Freedmen's Savings afifi Trust CtMnpSny. The Hotwe Was tt»t ia hmIM. The Army Appropriation bill was reported to the BChate, without amendment, on the Sth. Mr. Blaine gave notice of an amendment making it “ a penal offense, punishable with fine and imprisonment. for any military, naval or civil officer, or any other person, except for the purposes named in the bill. to appear armed with a deadly weapon of any description within a mile of any polling-place where a general or special electlbn for representative to Congress is beihg held. Mr. Bayard’s resolution, calling npon the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the sums paid to John I. Davenport, Supervisor of Flections at New York since 1870, was adopted. Consideration of the New Hampshire Senatorial case was then resumed. Messrs. Oarland. Wallace, Kernan and Carpenter opposed and Mr. Oroome favored the admission of Mr. Bell. The House, after an hour of wrangling over precedents in a debate in committee of the whole, immediately proceeded with the Legislative Appropriation bill, and commenced the formal reading of it. The Senate did nothing beyond discussing the New Hampshire Senatorial case on the 9th. Mr. Davis opposed the admission of Bell, and Messrs. McDonald and Jones (Fla.) .poke in favor of his admission. The House devoted the entire day to the discussion of the machinery of parliamentary procedure, and some important changes were made in the rules. It was decided to appoint special committees on Census, on Civil Service, on Means of Ascertaining the Presidential Vote, on Origin and Introduction of Epidemic Diseases, on Ventilation of the House, on the Labor Question, and to increase membership of the-Committee on Enrolled bills to seven, on Coinage to eleven, on Ways and Means to thirteen, and on Agriculture, Judiciary, Elections, Commerce and Appropriations to fifteen each. Among the most important changes was a new rule which authorizes the Committee on Commerce to report the Biver and Harbor bill at anytime. The most important change of all was a new rule, adopted by a vote of 1.3 v yeas to HO nays, which permits the committees on Ways and Means, Banking and Currency, and Coinage to report bills at any time, and on motion of any member the House may, by a majority vote, fix a day for the consideration of any public bill which may be reported by any of these committees. A new rule, which will be of great benefit for purposes of general was adopted, which provides that the morning hour shall not bo dispensed with except by a two-thirds vote of the members present. This will prevent a single committee from monopolizing the time of -the House, as is now frequently done. At a Democratic caucus of the House members, after the adjournment for the day, a resolution was passed, with but one dissenting vote, that the House will regularly proceed to business on Monday, the 14th. The Senate finally settled the New Hampshire Senatorial case on the 10th by the admission of Charles H. Bell. The vote was 85 yeas to 28 nays. Two Bepubllcans—Carpenter and Conkling —voted with the minority. Senator Davis, of Illinois, voted against Bell. Ten Democrats voted with the majority, namely, Bayard, Gordon, Groome, Jones, McDonald, Bandolph, Voorhees. Walker, Whyte and Williams. The House was at work on the Legislative Appropriation bill. The Army Appropriation bill was taken up in the Senate on the 11th, and Mr. Withers explained its provisions. No amendments were adopted, the Committee on Appropriations having agreed to resist all amendments, and the majority of the Senate seconding them accordingly. The reason assigned by Mr. Withers for such a course was that amendments would delay the passage of the bill. Mr. Hereford cabled up Mr. Hoar’s resolution declaring the Democratic programme for the passage of appropriation bills to be unconstitutional and r volutionary, and made a speech against it, insisting that no such action was contemplated as would justify such a conclusion. The House was at work on the Legislative Appropriation bill Speaker Randall announced the standing committees, which are as follows: Elections—Springer, Manning, Slemons. Speer, Colerick, Armfield, Beltzhoover, Sawyer, Phister, Ke fer, Camp, Calkins, Field, Overton. Weaver. Ways and Means—Fernando Wood, Tucker, Gibson, Phelps, Morrison, Mills, Carlisle, Felton, Garfield, Kelley, Conger, Frye, Dunnell. Appropriations—Atkins, Blount, Singleton (Miss.), Clymer, Blackburn, Wells, Cobb, Forney, McMahon, Bak r, Monroe. Hawley, Hu bell, Cannon, Hiscock. Banking and Currency—Buckner, Ewing, Davis, Young. Lewis, Lounsbery, Ladd, Chittenden, Fort, Price, Crapo. Pacific Railroads—McLane, Chalmers, Bliss, Clark, Dickey, Ellis, Martin. Wellborn, Harmer, Belford, Newberry, Bailey, Butler, Worth. Claims—Bright, Dickey, Davidson, Covert, O’Connor, Davis, Bamford, Lindsey, Barber, Bowman, Crowley. Commerce—Reagan, Bliss, Ross. Kenna, McLane, Thomas, Turner, Acklen, Beale, Deuster, Clardy. O’Neill, Waite, Henderson, Townsend (O.), Russell. Pub ic Lands—Converse, Wright, Steele, McKenzie, Williams (Ala.), Ketcham, Ryan, Sapp, Washburn, Bennett. Postoffices and Post Roads—Money, Clark, Cook, Evins, Singleton (Ill.), Shelley, Jones, Ketcham, Joyce, Stone. Bingham. District of Columbia—Hunton, Henkle, Bouck, Clark, Martin, Samford, Klotz, Neal, James, Heilman, Aldrich. Judiciary—Knott, Harris, Culberson, Hurd, House, Ryan, Herbert, New, Hammond. Lapham, Robinson, Reed, McKinley, Williams, Willets. War Claims—Bragg, Robertson, Warner, Rothwell, Thompson, Simonton, Carpenter, Ferdon, Tyler, Bayne, Russell. Public Expenditure—Finley, Manning, Davis, Tillman, Simonton, Beltzhoover, Joyce, Mason, Cowgill, Brigham. Private Land-Claims-Gunter. Martin. Caldwell, Muldrow, Stevenson. Myers, Lay, Mitchell, Norcross Burrows, Vooihis. Manufactures—Wise, Beale, Nicholls, Smith, Richardson, Taylor, Lowe, Hall, Horr, Hammond, McCook. Foreign Affairs—Cox, Nelson, Bicknell. King, Nicholls, Herndon, Hill, Killinger. Rice, Morton, Robeson. Territories—Muldrow, Cravens, Bouck, Muller. Martin, Frost, Bachman, Humphrey, Aldrich, Young, Dick, Maginnis. Revolutionary Pensions—Whiteaker. Bland, Cabell, Dibrell, Singleton (Ill.), Ryan (Pa), Converse, Farr, Mlles, Pierce, Gillette. Invalid Pensions—Coffroth, Lewis. Caldwell. Hostetter (Ind). Persons (Ga ), Hatch (Mo.), Taylor (Tenn.), Smith (La.), Hazelton (Wis.). Davis (1)1.). Updegraff (Ohio). Railways and Canals—Cabell, Shelley. Kimmel, Slemons, Wise, Osmer, Turner, O’Reilly, Fisher. Blake, Honk, Ford. Agriculture—Covert, Aiken, Steele. Dibrell. Henry, Lo Fevre, Richmond, Persons. Hatch, Me Gowan, Wilber, Valentine, Godschalk, Anderson. Forsythe. Indian Affairs—Scales. Hooker, Gunter, Waddell, Poehler, Whiteaker, Wellborn, Errett, Deering’ Pound, Haskell, Aimslee. Military Affairs—Sparks, Dibrell, Bragg, Johnston, Smith, Le Fevre, White, McCook, Marsh, Browne. Militia—Ross, Scales, Henkle, Thomas, Turner, Speer, O’Brien, Dick, Farr. Daggett, Hawk, Miller. Naval Affairs -Whitthorne, Goode, Morse, Elam, Davidson, Talbott, O’Brien, Harris, Harmer, Briggs, Brewer. Minos and Mining—Stevenson, Acklen. Arnifield Atherton, Waddell, Klotz, Loring, Mitebell, Urner, Einstein, Campbell. Education and Labor—Goode, Willis, Lay, Tillman, McMillan, Ballou, Barlow, Osmer, Van Aeriiam. Revision of the Laws—Harris. Clark (Mo.), Town shend, Giddes. Richardson, McMillan, Lowe, Orth Thomas, Osmer, Gillette. Coinage, Weights and Measures—Stephens. Vance, Ellis, Bland, Willis, Warner, De La Matyr, Claflin, Ward, Fisher. Patents—Vance. Smith (G<R, Aiken, Townshend (111.), Buchanan, Talbott, Smith, Ward, Caswell, Ballou, Dwight. Public Buildings and Grounds—Cook, Young, McKenzie, Kimmel, Atherton, Kitchen, Murch, Clark (la.), Jorgensen, Starin, Shallenbergcr. Accounts—Henry, Morse, Martin, Boyd, Smith. Mileage—Cobb, Knott, Mills, Chittenden, Overton. Expenditures of State Department—Clymer, Herndon, King. Frost, Newberry, Barlow, Crowley. Expenditures of Treasury Department—Morrison Forney, Turner, Buckner, Reagan, Hill, O'Neill, Weaver, Starin. Expenditures of War Department—Blackburn Felton, Wells, Jones, White, Norcross, Houk. Expenditures of Navy Department—Townshend (111.), Phelps, Kitchin, Hull, Wood, Lindsey Neal. Expenditures of Postofficc Department—Ladd Money, Sparks, Poehler, Blake, Valentine, Bingham. “ Expenditures Interior Department—Muller, Whitthorne, Clardy, Williams (Ala ), De La Matvr, Jcr gensen, Burrows. Expenditures of Public Buildings—Deuster, Bright, Herbert, O’Reilly Ford, Forsythe, Yokum. Expenditures of Department of Justice—Blount, Culberson, Springer, Hurd, New, Phister. Davis Clark (Iowa), Thomas. Einstein, Sballcn bergcr. Levees of the Mississippi—Robertson. Chalmers. Johnston, Osmer, Turner, Myers, Evins, Dunn Bayne, Boyd, Caswell, Prescott. Rules—The Speaker, Stephens, Blackburn, Gar field. Frye. Reform in Civil Service-Hostetter. Cravens. House, Kenna, O’Connor. Sawyer. Hammond Hayes, Hazleton, Butterworth, Richardson. On the State of Law Relating to Electoral Count —Bicknell, Hunton, Carlisle, Stephens, Ewing, Lounsberry, Dunn, Orth, Updegraff (Iowa), Van Voorhis, Yokum. Ventilation of Hall of House—Kimmel, Covert, Carlisle, McMahon, Stone, Kelley, Robeson. Causes of the Depression of Labor—Wright, Dickey, O’Connor, Murch, Sherwin, Cowgill, Martin. On Epidemic and Contagious Diseases—Young, Gibson, Hooker, Goode, Morse, Smith, Updegraff (Olio), Aernam, McGowan. v-’s Printing -Singleton (Miss.), Wilson, Hayes, *

Enrolled Bills—Kenna, Coffroth, Ward, Aldrich, Wilber. Library—Geddes. Richmond, Claflin. Census—Cox, Hooker, E1afll ? Finley, Colerick, Thompson, Rothwell, Boring, Pierce, Daggett, Sherwin. The House Wis busy with the Legislative Appropriation bill on the 12th, the pending amendment being that increasing to $250,000 the appropriation for controlling and for eradicating contagious diseases among domestic animals. After a long debate the whole subject was stricken from the bill and the-proposition agreed to recommending that the House refer the whole matter to the Committee on Agriculture, with instructions to report promptly. On motion of Mrz Haskell, the appropriation tor investigating th habits of the cotton worm and other injurious insects was placed under the control of the Entomological Commission. Mr. Bragg moved to strike out all provision for the Southern Claims Commission, and to insert a clause repealing the law creating the commission. Consideration of the amendment was postponed until the 16th. The Senate held no session. the Republican Senators had a caucus which lasted two hours. After a thorough discussion ot the situation, during which nearly every Senator participated in the debate, the conclusion was reached that the Senators would unitedly urge an aggressive warfare against the political amendments to the Appropriation bill in the line marked out by ex-S<6-retary Robeson in his speech. The caueus unanimously agreed to disregard the position assumed by Gen. Garfield Ihat the legislation cotlid be accepted if presented as a separate measure. They held, on the contrary, that if the legislation on its merits could be acceptable it would not lie revolutionary to pass it on an Appropriation bill. They decided rather that the proper constituti nal ground to maintain was that outlined by ex-Secretary Robeson—that to repeal that section of the United States law binds the hands of the President of the United States, cripples the civil power, and prevents the Executive, or the courts, or the Marshals, or any civil posse, or any body ot armed men in the exe- • ttion of justice, to appear at the pills. This, the R. publicans w.ll maintain, is a violation ot the constitution, and of the fundamental principles of civil liberty, and cannot be tolerated.