Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-24
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Jones and Logan ON she Wrong Side,
New YORK, January IS.
The Times to-day, in reviewing h re-
cent Senatorial elections, says: On the
whole they have not strengthened the Re-
publicans as a party, for in the more i'm
portant duties before them in the struggle
over silver legislation, which il likely to be
the first Of paramount importance to the
business interests Of the country which
Congress will nave to face, Jones and
Logan will be on the wrong side, while
Allison and Carpenter must be set down at
best doubtful. J.. NJ. Orville, Of Vermont,
is the only one whose fidelity and sagacity
can be counted on with entire certainty.
100000 Ablc-Bodied Blacks.
New YORK, January %.
The Tribune says that Senator WINDOWS
project for q negro Territory seems to be
growing. A delegation of colored men,
including Senator Bruce, assured Mr..
Window that 100, 900 able-bodied blacks
would seek such u refuge. Such men are
the sinews OF the South, and their with
drawal could not fail to be a serious matter
for that section.
New Newspaper Enterprise.
New York, January 20.
The Tribune says Storey, Of the Chi
cago s.Times," has arranged, it is re-
ported, to publish q daily edition of his
paper in San Francisco. That edition and
the Chicago edition differing only in their
local news. NOW for a how from the Bay
papers.
DR.. Linderman Dangerously III.
WASHINGTON, January 20.
DIR. Linderman, Director of the Mint, is
dangerously i'll. His physicians have no
hopes of his recovery.
The Work OF Capturing Inlians.
Fort ROBINSON, January %.
The Cheyenne Indian campaign has
closed, for . time at least. On Monday,
Colonel Evans, with Companies b and d,
of the Third Cavalry, found the renegades
in o snug position in the cliffs, four miles
north Of the stage road, and partially sue
ceeded in cutting off their progress. They
effected their usual escape and moved to-
wards the Red Cloud Agency. Captain
Vessels, whose scouts conveyed this news
to him, started Immediately on their trail
with his four companies of cavalry, and
at noon Yesterday he came up to them,
some forty-fve miles from this post. Then
the work of capturing them, either dead or
alive, began in earnest. In fact bu. thirty
two, with nine of that number badly
wounded, are alive of the forty-nine fugi-
tives that we're in the field, leaving seven
teen killed. Captain VESSELS was slightly
wounded. First Sergeant Of Company E
and an Indian scout we're also wounded to
an unknown extent. Three OF Captain
Vessels command, q Sergeant, a farrier
and one private, were killed. This news
verbally by courier last night, and
more couriers, with the details of the bat
tie, are expected soon. Ambulances have
just started put to bring in the dead and
wounded.
Later news from the field strtes that only
nine Cheyennes, all of them wounded, were
captured. The balance Of the party. twenty
three in number, were killed. Seventeen
are still ~unaccounted for. 1t is supposed
some died from their wounds and
others escaped.
A -. Louis Reporter Imprisoned.
ST.. Louis, January 23.
There is quite o commotion in the news
paper and legal circles to-day, caused by
the Imprisonment of M. Renshaw, a re-
porter for the Giotc- Democrat, for con-
tempt o. court. A few days ago he wrote
an article giving some information touch
ing on the investigation by the Grand Jury
OF the causes which led to the burning Of
Powell's carpet house some weeks ago. He
was summoned before the Grand Jury,
and refusing to reveal the name of his in
formant, he was reported to Judge Laugh
lin, and by him committed to remain in
Jail until lie gave the desired information.
A writ of habeas corpus will be applied for
at once by the proprietors OF the paper. and
the question whether newspaper reporters
can be compelled by Grand Juries to vio-
late . pledge of secrecy will be contested
to the fullest limit.
An Address to the Electors Of the
State.
ALBANY, N. Y, January 30.
An address prepared by the Democratic
legislative caucus, to the electors OF the
State, is being circulated in the Senate n
Assembly to-day for the signatures Of
Democratic members. The substance OF
the address is that the Republican majority
in the Legislature, for the purpose Of re-
tanning control Of the government, have
refused persistently to %reapportion the
State as the Constitution directs, and that
consequently tho present Legislature is an
unconstitutional body.
A Wan Br1ta;Iy Murdered.
LOUISVILLE, KY, January %.
Solomon johnson was brutality murdered
near Robinson's Greek, Pike county, yes
terday. by James Bentley, who escaped. A
crowd is on the murderer's trail, and 1t is
probable that he will be lynched if caught.
What Geacral Butler Did Say.
WASHINGTON, January 20.
Upon the assembling of the Potter Com
mittee to-day, General Butler said that if
he made the statement yesterday, as re-
ported, to the effect that the cipher dis
patches were in his possession all last sum-
mer, and that at one time he missed them
from his desk, he must have been drunk
or insane. Laughter. What he did say
yesterday, was, to show the impossibility
that the dispatches printed in the "Tri-
bune' came from him. His cock-eye had
good reason to believe that the kilograms
were copied for the Tribune" before they
came into his hands.
A Petition Among the Merchants.
NEW YORK, January 23.
A petition was circulated among the
merchants here, yesterday, favoring the
bill Of Senator Eooth, which proposes the
interchange Of subsidiary silver coins and
U. s. notes. Many merchants hesitated to
appsnd their