Middletown transcript., 1877-06-02
GENERAL NEWS.


Mail steamship City Of San Francisco
have been received She left Panama
on the morning of the 11tb, with l32
passengers and 100 officers and crew,
and cargo valued at $3.50, 600. On
the morning Of the 10Th. the atmos-
phere being bright and clear, she sud-
denly struck hidden rock, not marked
upon any chart She was then about
thirteen miles from land, and her head
was at once turned towards the shore.
In twenty minutes her fires we're put
out, her hull being cut into for length
of sixty feet. but she ran for forty-two
minutes, making distance of nine or
ten miles, when she grounded in thirty
feet Of water Oh a sandy bottom. Her
passengers were all landed safely,
though every boat was capsized when
it reached the surf The conduct of
the ships officers and behaviour of the
passengers seem to have been admir-
able The shipwrecked people spent
the night in the open air, but were next
day taken of by the gun-boat Mexican
and transferred to the Pacific Mail
steamer Costa Rica. which has touched
at San Diego for coal.
BAD CONDITION OF TURKISH FIGHT-
ING Misunderstanding to a cores
pondeut of the New York Times, now
with the Turkish army in Asia. the
fighting material of their army is in a
bad condition, owing to mismanage-
ment and dilatoriness. The Times's
correspondent. writing from Batoum
under date of May 6. reports that 300
Krupp guns we're buried in the snow
on the road from Trebizond to Erzero-
um, and that more cannon were lying
on the beach at the former place, as if
impossible of being transported inland.
So, too, of the Kurds and Circssians,
of whom such great things we're and
are expected by the Turks. There was
absolutely no preparation made for
them, then, end they mise=ahlu sEmed
and equipped Under such circum-
stances they are in a sorry condition
for effective service, and will perhaps
make but feeble resistance when the
real shock of battle comes.
While union soldiers and ex-Confed-
crates we're decorating the country's
dead in common, and while two promi.
nent ex- -Confederates we're speaking un-
der the auspices of Union soldiers, ex-
Senator and ex-Secretary Boutwell, was
trying to '6re the northern heart at
Barnstable, Massachusetts. He chese
the occasion of Decoration day to vim
dicate the policy of hate, gave life to
bitterness and drive a little trade in
politics for himself There is no word
in the language to fully express the de-
graded meanness of man who seeks to
make party profit out Of dead mems
bones Boutwell, is not the whole
North; he is only oneof class Of very
w-priced radical politicians.
The General Presbyterian Assembly
at Chicago adjourned Wednesday. The
report on Chinese evangelization was
reconsidered and referred to the home
and foreign boards; the report on the
constitutionality Of the committee on
the benevolence of synods was adopted /;
the committee on the resolution of DR.
J. W. Wilder, demanding an investi-
CATION Of the board Of foreign missions,
reported that the matter be referred to
the board and DR.. Wilder be ordered to
appear before the board and substantiate
bis charges, and the report was adopted,
and after some further business the as
sembly adjourned sine die.
The wholesale drug store of w. H.
Brown & Brother, in Baltimore. was
destroyed by fire Thursday morning
Loss ninety eight thousand dollars The
insurances aggregate ninety-six thou
sand dollars The stock Of hosiery oi
John Stellman Il Sons, adjoining, was
damaged 10 the extent Of ten thousand
dollars by water. Browns drug store
was also burned in April. 1876, when
the loss was stated at two hundred thou.
sand dollars.
It is rumored in diplomatic circles
at Washington that the question oI
postponing the Paris Exhibition is under
consideration Of the French authorities
No official action has yet been taken in
the matter. but the Russo-Turkish wal
and the political crisis in France itsel
are supposed to furnish sufficient reas-
ons for a pestponemeut. The Eastern
war. it is said will prevent Russia and
perhaps Austria and England, from
participating in the Exhibition.
The nun.erously signed petitions fol
the removal of Frederick Douglass iron
the marshalship of the District Of Col
umbia have disappeared, and the lucic
explanation is given that 'some one
has taken them away aud has failed to
return them 1t is, therefore, likely
that they will never be presented to th'
President
The examination of the graduating
class at West Point commenced yester.
day. Cadet Phillips, colored, Of GeOr
gia, is one of the graduating class, and
it is stated, will go through with honor
He is the first colored graduate at th'
Military Academy.
Alfred G. Anderson, leading color
ed citizen of Hamilton, Ohio, has ap
piled for the position of Minister tt
Hayti His application is said to b
endorsed by most Of the prominent col
ored men of the country.
Four hundred of the young ladies o
Vassar College visited West Point OF
Saturday, by permission of Genera
Schofeld They witnessed the review
and parade of the cadets, and returned
to the College by the light of the moon
The exhaustion ofapprOpriations will
necessitate the closing OF the NatiOna