The Portland daily press., 1875-08-06
From the Maine State Press Of Ang. 5, 1875.
History of Seven Days.
The News for the week ending Wednesday
@+t Night, Aug. A.

The News for the week ending Wednesday
Night, Aug. A.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Indian Commissioners called upon the
President Thursday He announced his con-
fidence in the Indian policy which he has in
augurated and pledged the full power of the
Executive to make the investigation of Prof.
Marsh's charges most thorough.
A band of counterfeiters has been arrested
near st. Paul, MINI.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has ordered
the sale of 80, 000, 900 of gold during the month
of August.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the retirement of $1,016, Az of legal tenders,
being 80 per cent. of the bank notes issued
during the Month of July.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM IN THE WEST.
During the past week the States OF Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky, aud part of Illinois, has
been visited by rains of unparalleled severity,
causing immense injury to growing crops and
property in general. The weather has been
unfavorable for harvesting for some time, but
on Thursday the rain began to fall in such
quantities as to produce floods 1t is impossi.
BILE to get at a close estimate of the damage,
but the dispatches indicate that it is very
heavy in all of the states named At Harveys.
berg, Ind A., on Saturday of last week there was
cyclone which demolished houses and swept
everything before it. Five persons were killed.
Indiana dispatches report that the storm has
done great damage to all the railroads, washing
out trestle bridges and overlooking miles Of
track, precluding the running of trains. The
crops on the bottom lands are nearly all de-
stroyed; In Ohio the damage has been general
along the rivers. Thousands of acres of corn
has been washed away and the rivers are full
of floating grain An Indianapolis, Indiana,
despatch says that reports from 80 of the 80
counties OF that State and % of the eastern
counties of Illinois, in which the damage has
been uniform, showing that wheat is two thirds
ruined by sprouting in the stock. Corn is in
fair condition except on low land where it is
under water. The general tenor of all the
dispatches is that the crops are entirely de-
stroyed on the bottom lands. 1t is now proba-
bic that the freshets on the Ohio and other
tributaries of the Mississippi will cause such
rise in that river as to destroy the fine crops on
its shores, as the levees will be destroyed. At
latest accounts the Ohio was rapidly rising, but
accounts from other sections state that the
water is gradually receding. 1t is hoped that
later and more accurate accounts will show that
the loss has been over estimated, but at least it
must be large and cannot but affect the prices
OF breadstuffs. Elsewhere will be found further
particulars.
= POLITICAL.
The campaign in Ohio attracts the attention
of the whole country on account of the curren-
cy issue. Senator Thurman has made his long
expected speech. He declared that he was on
record as hard money man and did not en-.
tirely like the platform. He thought. however,
it was not SO bad as it appeared and could be
construed both ways. At any rate, he should
heartily support the nominees as greater issues
than that of the currency were at stake. His
party associates Try to make the best of his
speech, but the Independent papers are very
severe on his speech. Senator Sherman made
the campaign speech the other day in which
he made the following remarks respecting the
currency:
"The commercial world estimates the value of
our currency by the time it is supposed it will
take to redeem it in gold; and to accomplish its
redemption, SO that our notes and gold will be-
come Interchangeable, is now the highest OBJ
ject OF statesmanship, and will result in the
greatest good to the laboring classes" He de.
MED that contraction makes money scarce or
adds to the present financial distress. He con-
sidered at length the position of the Republi-
can and Democratic parties on the curren cy
4ueS!ion, ciaimlnS tHaG the Republicans had
steadily acted for the best interests of the
whole country, defending the action of Secre-
tary Chase and himself in originating national
banks, asserting that the proposition of the
democrats will result in reputation, and closed
by asserting that the country will continue to
depend on the Republican Party for its further
progress.
In Maine the campaign is hardly opened
The Democratic papers seem to rely upon
abuse as the most potent means of securing
party success.
The election in Kentucky took place Mon
day and resulted in the usual Democratic tri.
.pmph. In that state the Democracy are for in
fation and are Bourbonish to the full measure
The majority for Stevenson for Governor will
be about the same as that for Leslie in 1871.
Gen. Harlan made gallant canvass
The Democratic Convention of Mississippi
has declared against the color line and recog-
nize the political equality of all.
The Oregon Democratic State Convention de-
clares for specie payments, for the control of
railroads by the legislature, and opposes Chi
nese immigration. A radical Democrat. son
ofGen. Joe Lane was nominated for Congress.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Letters from the Indian Territory represent
that over fifty persons have been killed or
wounded in the election feuds of the past week.
The white citizens are appealing for pfotec-
ton.
The Chicago Times publishes an affidavit
South Chicago, to the effect that Sunday even
ing he picked up on the Lake Shore road
bottle containing the following, which was
written on card July 18th, 2 a. m.:
I'VE cannot stay up more than an hour
longer as the gas is rapidly escaping"
The date is that of the night of the night on
which Donaldson and Newton S. Grimwood
started from Chicago in the balloon, from
which nothing definitely has since been heard.
The affidavit sets forth that the bottle was
found on the shore, having apparently been
washed upby the sea, which has set in this d.
rection for several days. Also that the de-
ponent has no knowledge of how it came
there and believes that it was thrown up by
chance and thatIthe note was written by Grim
wood. The note is barely legible, and appears
to have been written hastily.
An unknown tramp was run over and killed
at North birmingham, Mass, Monday.
A canal bridge in Ogden, New York, fell
Monday, carrying with it nine persons, in
Guiding Peter Wright and his family, con-
sisting of his wife and three children, who
were crossing the structure in lumber wagon.
All escaped but one of Mr.. Wrights sons, aged
IL years. The coroner's verdict declares that
the bridge was rotten and gave way without
any unusual strain.
The body of murdered man named Freder-
lex White of Sterling Centre, Mass, was found
on Colts wharf, New London, Monday. He
was apparently about % years of age.
Capt Sisney was shot and killed one night
last week while sitting in his doorway at Car
bondale, ILL.,, by one of the Williamson county
band of assassins.
The citizens of Nashua were thrown into
great excitement Friday by the report of firing
upon travellers in the vicinity of the city by
tramps. Preparations were made to search for
the perpetrators, but it was afterwards found
that the shots were fired by a farmer to fright
en- BURBERRY pickers from his premises.
Two boys, named Gould and Howe, were