News and Miscellany by Editor

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 14, 1875

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

"MEN'S hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." Luke 21:26.

DISTRESS OF NATIONS.

WHILE some other nations who have been perplexed with internal strife are becoming more tranquil, the United States is threatened with serious trouble in the State of Louisiana. From our various exchanges we learn that the ground of difficulty is respecting the legality or illegality of the election of certain legislators.

The S. F. Chronicle of Jan. 1, says: "It is evident that an overwhelming majority of the people of Louisiana are opposed to Kellogg. These are good citizens, men of property, business and social position, and it is hard to say that a whole community is wrong and a faction right."

In its issue of Jan. 3, the same paper says: "The Courts, exercising the authority confided to them by the State Constitution and laws, declared Kellogg to be the rightfully elected Governor of Louisiana."

"The opponents of the Kellogg administration formed themselves into a military organization; formed companies, regiments, and battalions; armed themselves, drilled and paraded, and proclaimed it their intention to overthrow the legal government. They carried their intentions into effect, and in the city of New Orleans gave battle with ball and bayonet to the forces of law and order. They triumphed. McEnery came forth from his hiding-place with proclamations, and assumed the functions of the gubernatorial office. The President was called upon to interfere; he did so, and restored the government the Courts had ordained; recognized the government of Kellogg simply because he was the Governor pronounced by the law. The President has since referred the matter to Congress. In the meantime, the minority party organized the Legislature by a trick, it is said, after having kidnapped at least three colored members of the majority. While this crime was being consummated, and in order to prevent it, and at the request of the legal Government, troops were marched into the corridors of the Hall of Assembly to maintain order and support the laws."

STILL LATER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Governor Ames, of Mississippi, telegraphed to the President on Monday, asking that a company of troops be sent to Vicksburg to preserve order. The dispatch was referred to the Secretary of War, who ordered the troops as requested.

General Sheridan, it seems, is at New Orleans, making arrests and endeavoring to maintain the Kellogg government. The New Orleans Times of Jan. 5, says: "We have no government, legal or illegal, and have not had for the last two years." It then calls this proceeding of the government "a riot, an insurrection." The New York Tribune says of it, that it is "the greatest outrage that ever, in the history of the country, has been practiced upon the citizens of a State." The N. Y. Sun calls it "the crowning outrage."

To say the least of it, this Louisiana trouble is assuming serious aspects and savors strongly of civil war.

SPAIN.

The Republic of Spain and the war of Don Carlos and others has suddenly been brought to a stand still. Prince Alfonso, son of ex-Queen Isabella, has been proclaimed King. He is seventeen years of age. A Paris dispatch of Jan. 2, says Alfonso has granted complete amnesty to all Carlists. He desired to be the King of all Spaniards. The dispatch states that the recognition of the kingdom by most of the European cabinets is momentarily expected. The S. F. Chronicle of Jan. 8, says: "Alfonso proclaims a free Church and a free Press in a land where the Inquisition flourished and where freedom of speech and freedom of print has but feeble encouragement."

The telegraph announces that now Spain has a settled Government, the United States will press her claim for indemnity on the Virginia affair, which will make a little perplexity on that score.

FIRES.

JAN. 4, at Portland, Oregon; loss $8,000. Jan. 7, postal car burned on the Baltimore and Potomac road; loss $400,000 in bank notes and other documents. Jan. 9, Western Hotel burned in Sacramento; loss $100,000 and three lives lost. Same date, fire in Baltimore, Md. ; loss $350,000.

Jan. 5, a terrible fire-damp explosion at Rotherdam, Yorkshire, Eng. ; 90 persons reported killed,