The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-16

Ball, a Baptist clergyman, attacked ana uiSIeleeu
force Of eco blacks, killing seven OF them.
The affair happened in lssaquena county, q
miles from Vicksburg. The offense of the
negroes, according to the dispatches, was the
offering of protection to some OF their fellows
who had been arrested and escaped from JAIL
Careful estimates place the cotton crop OF the
South at over 4, OO0, 900 bales.
Advices from the Texas border report no I'M
provement in the condition OF affairs on the
Rio Grande. There is general lawiessness ana
discomfort all along the frontier. On the lower
Rio Grande the feeling between Americans ana
Mexicans is intensely bitter.
Washington.
The bill introduced in the Senate by Mf
Morton, in regard to the counting or the votes
for President and Vice-President. is copy OF
the bill on the same subject which was pre-
pared by the Privileges and Elections COM
mittee and reported to the Senate last FEB
ruary.
The appointments of Messrs. Chandler, New,
Pierrepont, and J. @. Smith as Commissioner
of Indian Affairs have been confirmed by the
Senate wit hout reference to committees.
The President made very singular error IN
his annual message-one which is creating
much unfavorable comment among the legal
fraternity. He says, in his message, that Con-
gress should devise some better method OF Verl-
flying claims against the Government than at
present exists through the Court of Claims es-
pecially those claims growing out OF the late
war, and that very large percentage OF the
amounts passed and paid are either wholly fraud
uIent or are far in excess of the real losses
alleged TO have been sustained on small farms.
The blunder made by the President IL this that
the subiect-matter of which he treats Is out
side of the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims,
and the points which he makes have no apph-
cation to that Court, which has nothing what
| ever to do with the class of cases alluded to.
There is a good deal of Indignation among
Republican Senators and Representatives at ex-
Senator Henderson's attack on the Administra-
ton. in his speech in the Avery trial at St.
Touis. and much satisfaction is felt at his dis
missal. Samuel Glover, of st. Louis, succeeds
Mr., Henderson as Assistant District Attorney.
President Grant, it is announced, will shortly
send to Congress supplemental message on
the subject of the Cuban question. The Presi-
dent is said to be opposed to the recognluon
either of Cuban independence or belllgerency'
and to take the ground that annexation is not
to be thought of. He is believed to favor the
establishment of semi-independent colonial
Government, similar to that of Canada Tor
Cuba and the remainder of SPANS West India
possessions.
Dr Tinderman, Director of the Mint, has de-
cided that if it is desired to establish another
Mint solely to coin silver, Indianapolis Is the
best location, but if to coin both gold and silver
st. Iouis has the best facilities OF any western
CITY. There will be lively squabble over the
location of the new Mint, as Chicago wants It
bad, and will fight hard for it.
John D. Young, an ex-M G. from Kentucky,
has been appointed messenger of the House.
Political.
The services of ex-senator Henderson as
assisting prosecuting officer in the whisky
cases at st. Louis, have been dispensed with
on account of disrespectful language TOWARD
the President in one of his addresses to the
jury.
The President has appointed A. P. Averill.
of Mississippi, Minister to Belgium, and Z. s.
Tobey Postmaster at Boston.
THE Hon. Mark Bangs of Lacon, ILL.,, has
been appointed to succeed Mr.. Ward as United
States District Attorney for the Northern Dis
trict Of Illinois.
It is stated that only three Democratic Senar
tors voted for the confirmation of Chandler az
Secretary of the Interior.
Samuel T. Glover having declined to take
charge of the whisky ring prosecutions at ST.
Louis, Hon. James o. Brodhead, prominent
Democrat of that city, has accepted the posi-.
ton.
A Washington dispatch says that since the
Republican employees of the House have been
COMPELLED to surrender their places to Demo
crats the Democratic clerks in the Depart
ments will be compelled to vacate their places
70 make room for the discharged employees OF
the House.
There will be a meeting of the Republican
National Committee in Washington on the 18th
of next month, when day viii be fixed Tor the
assembling Of the National Convention.
Judge Birney, of Bay City, Mich, has been
appointed Minister to The Hague.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives,
at Washington, has appointed his uncle, Green
Adams, of Kentucky, Chief Clerk, in place OF
Clinton Lloyd. Adams was member OF the
Thirty-sixth Congress, and afterward Sixth
Auditor of the Treasury.
The message which the PRESIDENTIAL shortly
send to Congress on Southern affairs will re-
late for the greater part to the late troubles IL
Mississippi and the mode of conducting the
elections in that State, the information having
been gathered by persons designated for thai
purpose.
The st. Louis WestLiche Post (Carl Schurz
| paperl nominates Henderson for President.
C0n0raI.