The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-19

:Pasha is Grand Vizier, and Ghasi Osman
Pasha Minister Of War.
Seventeen States were represented in
the Commercial Convention which met. at
New Orleans, on the 4th. Resolutions wcro
almost unanimously adoptcd-urging upon
Congress to take immediate favorable action
upon the Texas Pacific Railroad bill; dsclar-
Ing that the aid already granted by the Gem
eral Government to the Northern Pacific
Company should not bc withdrawn, and that
the Union and Central Pacific Companies
should be held to the strictest compliance
| with their charters and the laws regulating
them.
DIR. A. C.. Barstow, IF PrOyideHce,
missioncrs, and representing the CottgrsGA-
tlonal Church In behalf VI the education and
conversion Of tho Indian race, WAS hrfGsc the
Joint Commission On the Transfer Ut the
Indian Bura0 to the War Department. on the
4th. and testified that, IN hts Judgment, tho
proposed transfer was unwise, aud, II effected,
would certainly work adversely to tho Christ
ian operations now In progrcss. n. NJ. Kings
ley, Of New York, iaemher of the same
board, and representing the Presbyterian de-
nomination, said We need an army with hoes
aud spades for tho Indians, rather than an
army with swords and rifles.
Definite tidings were received from
Gen. Roberts column In the Pciwar Pass, on
the 9Th. The advantage was with the Afghans
ut first, but Gen. Roberts finally succeeded in
thanking their position and attacked them
from the rear. After harti-fought engage.
1,.,s n, fhs, huw hair
cannon anu great quantity Of ammunition.
The British loss was about eighty killed and
wounded.
The British Parliament convened, on
the 5th. The Queens speech refers to the
movement against Afghanistan, and congrat-
ulates the country on the victory won by Gen.
Roberts. 1t was brief. The debate upon an
address in reply to the Royal speech was be-
gun at once, and the policy of the Government
was sharply criticised.
A Paris telegram of the 9Th says
Turkey had ceded to England Alexandretta,
a seaport of Northern Syria.
A large boiler used at Hayden's Roll
ing-mill, in Columbus, Ohio, exploded on the
afternoon of the 5th. Several persons were
killed and others seriously injured.
A Lahore Qndia) telegram of the 9Th
says Gen. Roberts would winter on the heights
east of the Peiwar Pass.
A London dispatch of the 9Th says it
was reported in influential quarters that an
arrangement with Russia was being re aehed
which was likely to assume the form Of par
tition of Afghanistan.
Sec'y Schurz was before the Joint
Commission relative to the transfer of the
Indian Bureau to the War Department, on
the 9th, and stated that he disclaimed any
personal desire to retain control of the Indian
service under the Interior Department. He
then detailed his reasons why he thought the
proposed transfer unwise and impolitic. He
thought the Indians were entitled to humane
treatment, and that could only be rendered
through the processes of civilization, educa-
ton and kind treatment; this the military
were not fitted to promote. He denied very
emphatically the red-tape system of reporting
Indian outbreaks, which it had been asserted
was required under the present administi h
tioHof Indian affairs.
A Chicago daily of the 9Th says a
new counterfeit of the standard silver dollar
had made its appearance. A lady drawing
some money from the Sub. Treasury, in the
city, on a pension, had received one of the
pieces, and it was not detected until offered
at one of the Chicago stores. 1t is described
as being an exact imitation of the genuine
dollar. the only difference being that it weighs
sevcn-tenths of grain less. The piece is
made Of composition heavily plated with silver.
A rumor was current in London, on
the Sth, that an advance on Jelalabad had
been ordered, and that Shere Ali had fled to
Turkistan, in consequence of a revolution in
Cabul. Gen. Biddulph had telegraphed that
he had found an open road to Candahar.
The Ameer has forwarded a reply to
the British ultimatum. The letter is said to
be as unfriendiy as his former one. The mes
senyer who brought the letter explained that
it was delayed because he reached All Musjid
during the fighting, and returned to Cabul
He says the Ameer was incensed at his return,
and ordered him to proceed at once.
Ministerial changes in Russia and
Italy were reported, on the Sth.
An American has been arrested in
Constantinople, on the charge of conspiracy
against the Sultan.
A resolution censuring the Govern
ment for its Inauguration of the war with AZ
ghanistan, Without the advice and consent of
Parliament, was introduced and debated in
the British House Of Commons, on the 9th.
A Darmstadt dispatch of the 9th says
that the Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess
Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria, was
dangerously i'll Of diphtheria.
Ex-senator Morrill, appeared before
the Indian Commission, on the 9th, and argued
against the transfer of the Indian Bureau to
the War Department. He advocated radical
changes in the existing law, and said the
Indians should be properly educated and 10
Called. John Young, the Agent of the Black
feet Indians, said they were opposed to the
transfer.