Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
CURRENT NEWS.
GENERAL.

The President has nominated Thomas
sE Settle, of North Carolina United States
District Judge Tor Florida, and Benjamin.
F. Flanders, United States Assistant Treas
urer at New Orleans. a.
The entire Iglesias Government OF Mexi-
CO arrived in San Francisco on the 18th
having taken passage on a Pacific mail steam
er to escape capture by Diaz. They had
intended to disembark at Mazatlan ard or
ganize their Government there, but arrived.
K lust in time to find that Diaz had gained
~ssaa the allegiance of the people of that region.
Iglesias and his party were very
earnestly sswanted'' on shore, but the Cap
ha tain of the steamer refused to surrender
them to be shot as rebels, and they sailed
on to San Francisco. The President and
his Cabinet were expected to take the Pa
hciie Railroad to St. Louis, thence to New
= Orleans, and thence to the States on the
eastern side of Mexico, where they hope to
find a more favorable reception. s@
1t was reported from Washington, on the
s7th, that a movement is on foot in this
country to raise a force of from 1000 to
20, 600 men for the purpose Of placing Pres
ident Iglesias az the head of Mexican affairs.
a Several graduates of West Point, who won
distinction in the late War, are said to be en-
gagged in the enterprise, and are furnished
with the necessary SO sinews of war; Re-
> S~cruiting officers will be sent to several OF
the Southern States, where it is believed a
sufficient force of excellent fighting men
can be raised in a very short time. The
inducements that will be held out to these
flibusters are said to be grants of land in
e. athe richest mining districts OF the States of
Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and
Lower California. These five States OF
Northern Mexico are sparsely settled, and
10 - palI riiva~ no~xAn
and other valuable minerals. The region is
the finest grazing country in the world, and
there are tracts Of agricultural lands amply
sufficient to feed a population Of several
millions.
The British ship Ada Irondale, with a
cargo of coal from Scotland to San Francis
co, took fire in the lower hold on the yoy-
age, and when discovered the fire had made
such headWay that the crew were forced to
abandon the vessel, which they did on Oct.
10, in three open boats. On Nov. 8, after
great suffering from exposure and hunger,
and the loss of one boat and one Of its crew,
the survivors reached Marquesas, 2,400
miles distant from the point where they
abandoned their vessel.
The Railroad Gazette reports the new
railroad milege for the year 1876 as 2,442
miles, of which 3SS was in Texas, $50 in
SalIOGnta, LIU III OLAO ANA III SOIOl auos
This is the most extensive of any year since
1873. There was also built 537 miles Of mar
row-guage in 1916. The total mileage in
the country of broad gauge is now rs, $40.
A cargo OF arms and munitions OF war for
the Turkish Government, valued at SILL
700, 100, was shipped from New Haven,
Conn.,, on the 2Sth, on the British steamer
Lotus, to Constantinople direct.
The National Executive Committee Union
League of America, at a meeting held in
Philadelphia ON the 25th, elected Gen.
Daniel Ullman, of New York, Chairman for
the ensuing year, and adjourned to meet in
Washington OH the 14th Of February.
The President signed the Electoral bill on
the Goth. In his message approving the act,
he says he believes the bill gives assurance
that the result of the election will be accept
ed without resistance from supporters of
the disappointed candidate, and that the
highest officer shall not hold his place with
a questioned title Of right. The President
alludes to the imminent peril the country
has escaped through the adoption of the act,
and says the country needs and desires
peace ard harmony, which the bill is well
calculated to promote.
The United States Supreme Court, on
the Goth, adjourned till the 10Th of Febru-
airy, on account of the Impending with
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judicial branch of the tripartite Electoral
Commission.
1t is reported that a vast scheme of con-
spiracy and fraud by means of false invoices
has been recently discovered blythe Gus
toms officers, in which are implicated a
number of leading importing firms in vari-
Gus cities, together with United States Con-
suls and revenue officials abroad.
The report of the Senate Special Commit
tee, appointed to investigate election mat
tiers in Florida, was presented to the Senate
on the Goth. The CONCLUSION arrfsed at by
% q the Committee is that the Hayes Electors
have a legal majority Of 1903, as asceftained
and published by the State CanEassing1
Board. The Committee believe that the
finding Of the Board is conclusiyea and can not
be revised by a recanvass, or reached by
writ OF quo agdrrGntO, because the Electors
are functaS o6iciO, or reversedby Congress,
because the Constitution lodges the whole
power in the State. The report was adopt
ed by all the Republican members of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections. A
minority report will be made by the Demo-
Gratis of The committee. ..,Eky
The Electoral Commission, as finally
completed, is constituted as follows: Ser /
ato~rs-Edmunds, Morton and Frelinghuy- |
sen, Republicans, and Thurman and Bay
ard, Democrats;
Hunter and Abbott, Democrats, and Gar
field and Hoar, Republicans; Supreme
Court Justices-Clifford, Field, Strong, Mill
Ter and Bradley, the two former classified,
politically, as Democrats and the three
latter as Republicans. The leading counsel
engaged for the Republicans are VIM. nj.
Evarts and E. W. Stoughton, OF New York,
and Stanley Matthews and S. s. SheIa-
barger, Of Ohio; and for the Democrats