The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-22

conducted
ical campaign under its provisions would it not be
prudent Ne well as right 10 yield to the verdict of
The people as expressed by their balots'
U. s. GRANT.
Foreign Intelligence.
The Metropolitan Car Works, at Birming.
ham, England, were burned few nights ago,
Loss estimated at about sa5O, 600 Four hun
dred persons were thrown out of employ
ment.
A Havana dispatch of the 9th says the
Home Government had granted, without re-
strction, the extrao' binary powers demanded
by Captain General Jovelar.
The rate of discount of the Bank of England
has been fixed at four per cent.
Madrid advices of the eth state that Senior
Ruiz, the Minister of the Interior, had issued
a circular to the provincial authorities stating
that the principal object of the Government is
to re establish order and show its compatibility
with the Republic and liberty. To secure this
object it will employ the most energetic meas.
ures. The Inguaidiad newspaper had been
seized by Government officials, and Generals
Hldalgo and Raplll had been placed under ar
rest. The province of Valencia had been de.
ciared in state Of siege. CASTELAR, had re.
jected the overtures of Figueras, Salmeron
and ri Y Margall, asking him to CO operate
with them in reorganizing the Federal Repub.
licans.
In the French Assembly on the Sth, a mo-
ton to postpone the bill concerning the
nomination of Mayors, after a violent de.
bate, was carried against the Government
by majority of forty-two votes. The Cab
met afterward rendered their resignation in
sAf,11n nff
bly, OF large number of their supporters,
which resulted in the defeat Of the Govern.
ment. President MacMahon begged the Min
listers not to retire, but to await vote of con.
tdeuce.
The Spanish Ministry have issued long mani.
festo addressed to the nation, declaring their OBJ
jects to be identical with those of the revolu.
ton CT 1868 A decree was promulgated on
the h, dissolving the Cortes, and announc.
ing that elections for the new body would be
held as soon as order was rendered secure.
and freedom and universal suffrage were un-
Murdered. A decree has also been issued call
ing out the entire reserve of 1874 for active
service. The suppressed Cariist journals have
been permitted to resume on certain condi-
tions.
cable dispatch of the 9Th states that Ste
phen Raymond, the fugitive forger of New
York Central Railway bonds, had been arrest
ed in London, and was held for extradition.
Two miles of the tunnel of the Great West.
ern Railway, between Merythen and Aberdeen,
Scotland, caved in on the 9th.
cable telegram of the 10th says Henry W.
Genet, the fugitive from New York, had been
seen in Belfast, Ireland. He was not arrested
as the offeuse for which he was convicted does
not come under the extradition treaty.
Captain Blakeney, Of the brig Margaret,
from New Orleans, who arrived at Havana on
the 10th, reports that the brig was boa, ded
the night before by Spanish gunboat, ten
miles off Moro, and he was required to show
the vessels papers. The commander of the
gunooat also wanted the briggs matches remov-
cd, but Captain Blakeney refused, and the
gunboat left.
Dispatches from Madrid on the 18th report
that Serrano will not convoke the Cortes for
twelve months. He will bend all his energies
to the suppression of the in,urrection and to
the disqualification of the country, and not un-
til these tasks are accomplished will he sum-
mon the national Legislature. A decree had
been issued dissolving all political associations
charged with conspirirg against the interests
OF the country or the integrity of its territory.
Returns received on the 18th from the elec-
tions for the German Reichs'ag were largely in
favor OF the National Liberal party, es specially
in Bavaria, Wur,emburg and Baden.
In the French Assembly, on the 18th, after
a long and violent debate, a vote Of coufi-
dence in the Government was adopted by
majority of IS. The Ministers then with
drew their designations.
The East.
The New York Legislature met at Albany
on the 9th. Lieutenant. Governor Robinson
presided over the Senate, and James C. Hus-
ted, Republican, was elected Speaker of the
Assembly.
storm of great severity ragged all day on
the 1th throughout the East, and extended
tar into the South, almost totally cutting of
Ill telegraphic communication with New York
and Washington. A Cincinnati dispatch of
the 9TH says the force of the great storm
seemed to have conferred about in that parallel
and one hundred mics east of there. At
Columbus, Ohio, the storm Frustrated all the
telegraph lines leading from the city except
one. The sidewalks in all parts Of the city
were covered with branches of trees broken
down by the weight of ice collected on them.
An increase Of freight rates from Chicago
to the East has been decided upon by q con-
ference of railroad men held at New York.
Sheriff Brennan, of New York City, and his
Deputy, Shields, have each been fined $3.50
and sentenced to thirty days imprisonment,
hoNo - A.. y
Henry Genet.
The Massachusetts, Legislature convened on
the Sth. The old officers were reelected. In
the Governors Message the commercial and
industrial interests of the Commonwealth are
represented as prosperous. The amount of
the present funded debt Of the State is $28,.
477,S04. The Governor favors the enactment
of q ten-hour law.
The New Hampshire Democratic Convention
has nominated James A. Weston for Cover.
nor.
New Hampshire adopted resolutions declaring
that the people of the State have the sole and
exclusive right Of governing themselves as q
free, sovereign, independent State; urging re.
trenchment, reform and economy in the ex-
penditures Of the National and State govern
ments; denouncing all unjust and unequal
systems OF taxation; condemning land grants
70 corporations; regretting that the veto pow.
er has never been used by President Grant for
the protection Of the rights Of the people; Of
fering an adherence to the Cincinnati and
Baltimore platforms Of 1872; declaring that
the present National Administration has
justly brought upon i'self condemnation and
the contempt Of the American people; demand.
ing repeal Of the Salary act, and declaring
that they win not support any man for onace
who voted for that bill, Or who IL not m favor
Of its repeal; opposing al monopolies which
operate for the benefit Of privileged psraous
or Glasses; recognising the grievances Of which
farmers and other producing classes complain;