The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-04
RECENT EVENTS.

Vermont has gone Republican 10y a
small majority.
The public debt statement shows a re-
duetion Of the debt during August OF
S1,626,7 ,79O.
All Germany celebrated with great
enthusiasm the anniversary Of the bat
tie Of Sedan.
Ex-Governor Herbert, OF Louisiana,
has begun libel suit against the World
Company for $4,000.
Mount Etna has been in state OF
eruption since the 10Th. Streams Of
lava are pouring from the eraters.
The negro troubles in Louisiana are
reported ended. The negroes, left without
leader, dispersed. One white and two
blacks were killed.
The new ship Sierra Nevada, which
sailed from Liverpool, July 2nd, for San
Francisco, took fire and was destroyed.
The crew was saved.
The Carlists twice assaulted Pingcerda
on the 3lst, each time without success.
They then set fire to the houses outside
the walls and destroyed them.
The pavilion of the Mechanics Fair,
San Francisco, continues to be thronged
with visitors. The receipts of the Fair
to September end are over SG5,OOO.
Pingcerda still resists successfully re-
peated attacks of Carlists, whose losses
are heavy. They are preparing to burn
the town with incendiary projectiles.
\ party of six surveyors from Law
renee, Kansas, were massacred and
scalped by Indians on We elnesday last
near Lone Tree, forty miles south OF
Fort Dodge.
Gov. Osborne of Kansas has called an
extra session of the Legislature for the
18th Of September, to devise means for
the relief of those settlers whose crops
have been destroyed by grasshoppers.
\ body Of armed white men recently
surrounded church where colored per.
sons were holding services, and without
the slightest provocation fired into the
congregation, killing four persons out
right.
General Custar reports to Lieutenant
General Sheridan the return, August
3lst, to Fort Lincoln Of the Black Hill;
expedition. and says: ave explored
and located that portion OF the Little
Missouri hitherto unknown, about one
thousand miles"
Services were held as usual in Ply
mouth Church on the morning of tn,
3Oth ult.; also in the evening. On tn,
same day, Beecher preached at TwiI
Mountain, y. H., to an audience o
more than 1000. His text was the 4tl
aud 9Th verses of the 18th chapter o
Romans, and the sermon was one Of hi
most successful efforts.
The Ne1c Free Press publishes tn
text of the circular note from the Rus
sian Government, dated August 18th
declining To recognize Spain. The not
says Russia cannot recognize = govern
ment which is unrecognized in its owl
country; that she has no wish to inter
fere with the internal affairs of Spair
and favOrs no party there.
Authentic information was receive
by the Post-Oifice Department, Septen
Ter lst, to the effect that last Friday
train on .he Albemarle and ChattanOog
Railroad was stopped by means of a falls
signal near York Station, Ala: this
Immediately upon its halting it ws
boarded and taken possession of by
band OF armed men, who shot the co
ored mail agent.
! \ large meeting was held in Memph
to express the indignation of the CON
munity at the barbarous murder OF IL
, colored persons taken from Trenton iai
Resolutions were adopted expressing II
horror and indignation OF the COMMIT
nifty at the foul crime, demanding OF III
state Government prompt, energet
measures for bringing the murderers {
justice, thus relieving the State as Il
as possible from the disgrace of sue
horrible crimes, asking the Governor
, employ the police experts of Memphis
, assist in capturing the assassins, and
, employ the best talent in the State to 4.
sist the Attorney General in prosecutin
! them.
Fighting still goes on in Spain. Tn
Carlists made another Unsuccessful n
; tack on Pingeerda on the 2Sth. The dt
fence was most courageous, even th
women assisting in repairing breeche
in the ramparts during the fight. Owe
two hundred Carlists were killed. Th
. Republicans intend to blow up the plaC
, if the Carliats succeed in capturing it.
force of Carlists entered CalabOZra,
miles southeast of Lorongo, on the 25t
inst. They sacked honses, levied contri
buttons of $4,000 from the Clergy, she
, four volunteers, freed convicts an
4 burned the railway station. 1t
+ thonght that 100000 men will he adde
to the army by conscription.
\ call has been issued for a ''Nation.
oportsman's Association" to meet {
Niagara Falls, New York, on the 9th {
$eDlpnber having for Ito ,b;oot e.