p. 29 | News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 25, 1867

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

—A case of cholera occurred in Norfolk, Va., the 7th.

—A jury of negroes were impaneled at Navasoto, Texas, on Friday, June 14, the first ever recorded.

—An unmistakable case of cholera occurred at New York June 17.

—It is stated that the nominal price of board at the Saratoga hotels, this season, is $4.50 per day! Let those think of this who consider $8 to 12 per week exorbitant for board, instruction, and treatment at the Health Reform Institute.

—The Paris correspondent of the New York Times says that financially considered the great exhibition has not yet proved a success. The attendance of nearly forty thousand people a day is necessary to cover the mere running cost, while thus far the attendance has not averaged over twenty-five thousand. There will be a greater rush in months to come, but it is evident that the extravagant receipts anticipated will not be realized.

—Gov. Brown of Georgia is an earnest advocate for reconstruction on the ground that the South should get back into Congress as quick as possible, so as the sooner to be able to repay the radicals for the humiliations received at their hands.

—The Lincoln, N. C. Courier says freedmen are being shipped from the South, ostensibly as emigrants to Liberia, but in reality to be sold to Cuban planters. A gentleman from South Carolina, a prominent rebel leader, purchased a few weeks ago in Cuba, where he has a plantation, one of his former slaves.

—There was a desperate fight Monday afternoon, at Calvary Cemetery, near New York, among the members of a funeral party. It lasted an hour. Women and men were engaged on either side. Clubs, knives, and stones were freely used, several persons severely injured, and one child is reported killed. The neighboring inhabitants were so frightened that they hid themselves in the woods.

—Mr. Bodesco, Secretary of the Russian Legation, arrived on the Pereire, with the Russian-American treaty signed by the Czar.

—The cable reports that the populous and wealthy city of Birmingham was yesterday helplessly subject to the fury of a mob. The riot is called anti-Popery. If so, it is probably in opposition to the ritualistic movement in the Church of England which has aroused so much indignation. Troops have been sent to the city with orders to take energetic measures, and by this time order is probably restored.

—Robert Ottarson died at Springvale, Pa., recently. He had been insane for thirty years, but recovered his senses on his death bed, and conversed intelligently of occurrences that transpired the day and week previous to his insanity, making inquiries about a yoke of oxen which he had valued, of the work on the farm, and of old neighbors who had been dead for years, while the intervening space was a perfect blank in his memory.

—Wendell Phillips writes to the Anti-Slavery Standard of this week a letter of considerable length in favor of confiscation which he pronounces “the only trustworthy barrier against another revolt.” He desires the large estate of the South parceled out among the freedmen.

—Florence, June 21.—The startling intelligence has been received from Rome that two hundred armed men had thrown themselves into the city, it was supposed, with the intention of proclaiming a republic; but the desperate attempt failed, and 40 of the revolutionists are in prison.

—A poor widow, says the Detroit Tribune, was recently arrested at Binghampton, N. Y., at the instance of an over-officious neighbor, for setting out tomato plants on Sunday, they having been received too late to put out on the previous evening.

—Paris, June 21.—The government has decided to make a considerable reduction in the army.

The Surratt Trial.—The Surratt trial is now under full headway, and the developments already made, point to the conviction of the culprit. After so much delay, a very good jury is said to have been selected.

Crops.—The Chicago Journal says, we are informed from reliable sources that the crop prospect, not only in the West but throughout the United States, were never so promising as now. As one of the best evidences of this, we learn that Messrs. McCormick, of this city, are manufacturing 10,000 reapers and mowers the present season, which they believe will fall at least one thousand short of meeting the demand for them.

A Terrible Disease.—The Lewiston Journal says: A short time since a son of Deacon Muzzy, of South Paris, Me., complained of a severe pain in his heel. Soon the flesh seemed to become dead and commenced to slough off, and has continued until the ankle bone and both bones of the leg have become exposed, as well as the cords and tendons. The disease is still progressing. When the boy is lying on his side with no support for the foot, the joints will fall open so that the whole inside of the joint can be seen. The disease is pronounced phlegmatic erysipelas.

Important from Mexico.—A San Luis Potosi dispatch to the N. Y. Herald, date not mentioned, says that Maximilian, Mejia, Miramon and Castillo were being tried by court martial, and it was expected that sentence of death would be pronounced on the following day, and that the prisoners would be immediately shot. Maximilian had served notice on the President denying its jurisdiction on international grounds: “I am a government,” he says, “recognized by every power in the world, except the United States, and can only be tried by a legal congress of nations.” It is reported that previous to his capture, Maximilian offered to abdicate and use his influence to cause an immediate surrender to Juarez, in return for which he asked the lives and safe conduct out of the country for himself, his German officers etc. The proposals were returned. The Emperor and Mejia are placed in separate cells.

Cholera in Brazil and Buenos Ayres.—At last advices cholera was raging in the Brazilian camp on the River Platte. Nearly 700 men had died in four days. In Buenos Ayres the streets were filled with funerals, and people were dying on the piers, about doorsteps and everywhere. Crowds were rushing away, and every little hamlet in the interior was crowded with refugees.

Indian Hostilities on the Plains.—Omaha dispatches say late Denver papers are full of accounts of Indian depredations and murders. They also contain dispatches from Gen. Sherman to Gov. Hunt, in which the General says he has not troops enough to protect all exposed points, and the people, for the present, must fight the Indians themselves. He also advises Gov. Hunt to send men immediately to scour the Republican River country, and then send them to Fort Sedgwick where he will have them mustered into service for two months. Gen. Augur will scour the Platte to Laporte and cross to Snyder’s. Another party will scour the Lodge Pole and another to Laramie. Gen. Custer is expected to strike the Cheyennes that were stampeded last month by Gen. Hancock. Wagon trains, stages and ranchmen must collect and protect themselves. Gen. Sherman says the great bulk of the Sioux are not within 500 miles of Fort Sedgwick, and that the depredations are committed by small scattered bands, who, being successful in stealing horses, may combine and do something worse.

S. L. Hill, Division Engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, was killed on the 12th, forty miles north of Laporte, and Mr. Archer, inspector of the road, badly wounded. Hill’s body was perforated by nineteen arrows and five pistol balls, and scalped twice.

An emigrant train was attacked at Douglas Station on the Atchison and Kearney route on the 8th, and $2,000 worth of stock run off.

A July Session of Congress Probable.—The 14 Senators who have been with the Wade excursion party have all expressed their intention of being present at the July session, and those who were still with Mr. Wade yesterday joined him in a telegram to Mr. Schenck of the National Union Congressional Committee at Washington to advise all Republican members to be present in July, that all obstructions to the legal reconstruction of the rebel States may be removed.

The Detroit Tribune says:—There is every indication that the country is about to plunge anew into a high state of political excitement. We take it for granted, that unless Congress intends to abandon its reconstruction policy entirely, it will hold a July session, and rescue its laws from the perversions of the President and his Attorney General. The two opinions of the latter functionary on the construction of the laws of Congress in relation to reconstruction, have left those laws without vital force or practical utility. There is nothing left but for Congress to again interpose its authority. We hope to see a quorum of Congressmen at Washington on the third of next month.