The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-07-16


S'ates ........ ..................... 17,l34,655
Hon. Eugene Hale on the 1st declined to &C.
cept the Office of Postmaster-General,t to which
he had been appointed by the President. I'm
paired health is given as the reason of his
declination.
The Comptroller Of the Currency has called
upon the National Banks for a report exhibit
ing their condition at the close of business on
Friday, June a6
Charles F. Conant, of New Hampshire, for
many years chief Of the Warrant Division of
the Treasury, has been appointed Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury, rice SAWYER, re.
signed.
Up to the I'd over 600 clerks had been dis.
missed from the governmental departments in
Washington.
Washington dispatch of the LIST gives the
following information Of interest to pension
ers:
The act approved June 10, 1874. entitled IAN
act to increase pensions in certain cases. pro-
Nldes that all persons who are now entitled to
pensions under existing laws, and who have lost
an arm at or above the elbow, or leg at or above
the knee. shall be rated in the second class, and
shail receive 81 per month: provided that no
furnished to such persons as shall be entitled to
pensions under this act. This act, by its terms
was to take effect from and after June l. 1879
Gen Baker; Commissioner Of Pensions. to-day
announces that persons embraced within the pro-
Visions OF this act can secure the benefits of the
. ,s formal application and without
torney will not be recognized in an application
Tor increase Of pension provided by this act. A
sioner of Pensions nclopng his pension certificate
and giving his postofce address, will be euficient
Presentation of his claim.
Large numbers of depositors, principally
colored men, were at the Freedmen's Bank in
Washington on the I'd to draw their funds, but
without success, the uniform answer being
that the institution had gone into liquidation,
and the secretary had been instructed to pay
out no more money.
Washington dispatch of the Sd says that
one of the colored members of the Legisla-
ture of the District Of Columbia had been
arrested for forgery
The President OH the Sd rendered the Post
master-Gencralship to Hon. Marshall Jewell,
of Connecticut, United States Minister to St.
Petersburg. Mr.. Jewell announced by tele.
graph his acceptance on his return to this
country in August. Pending his arrival First
Assistant Postmaster Gen. Marshall has been
commissioned.
The total value of all adhesive stamps ID
sued by the Postofice Department during the
fiscal year ending June so was over $24OOO,-
Ooo, and the number g., 7ss, 40.
Foreien Intellieene.,
Dispatches received by the Madrid Govern.
ment Oh the 10Th convey the startling intelli.
gence that Marshal Concha, commander of
the Republican forces before Estella, was
killed on the preceding day in an attack upon
the Carlist intrenchment at Muro, near Estella.
When the national troops learned of the death
OF COncha they returned to their former posi-.
tions. Gen. Zabala, Minister of War, sue.
cccded to the command. Besides Marshal
Concha, one Brigadier and several staff OH.
GERS were killed. The entire loss of the ma.
tional troops is stated in official dispatches to
have been 1,5O0 in killed and wounded. The
Government was organizing fifty battalions
for active service. The death Of Concha, &C.
cording to Paris dispatches, was an event of
considerable political importance. .r
Reports of destructive fires in velhynia,
Poland, are received. In two days over !, 100
houses were burned. The two succeeding
days the town was again visited by fire and
reduced to ashes.
letter received in Holland from Sumatrs.
under date Of April 10, states that the Achecu
csc on the night Of March 20 made an attack
on Dutch fort, captured 1t and overwhelmed
the garrison. The loss Of the Dutch is placed
at 600 killed and 4, 500 wounded.
Among the stories current In Paris on the
LIST was one to the effect that Marshal Concha
was killed at the instigation of Marshal Ser
rano because he was an Aphonsist Il 10 said
that an accidental fire in two houses near Es.
tella was made pretext by the Carlists for
massacring all the wounded Republicans who
icli into their hands at the battle of Muro.
Don Alphonzo was wounded in the arm
during the recent battle. Dispatches from
Madrid on the morning Of the I'd report that
the Republican troops were greatly excited
over the reports Of the murder and mutilation
Of the wounded by the Carlists, and it was
feared that they would make sanguinary
reprisals.
Gen. Michel Dominique has been elected BY
the National Assembly President Of the Re-
public Of Hayti.
A Paris dispatch Of the LIST says the Sub
Committee Of Thirty had drawn up new
Constitutional bin providing for the contin.
nance OF the title Of President Of the Repub-
nc; ior second Chamber; for personal
septennat to terminate with the expiration Of
MacMahon's sevcn-yea term, or sooner in case
On ms death or resignation. No provision IL
maae ior successor to the President thus
leaving an opportunity for the restoration az
the empire or the monarchy when the septen-
nat ends.
A resolution offered in the British Parliar
ment comforting homo rule upon ireland WAS
defeated o ~ a BY 81 to 45a
Madrid Dispatches of the ID say that the