The News Condensed

An organized gang of Mollie Maguiros, who i havo been committing deprcdations in Weatmoreland county, Pa., for tho past two years, haa Jiist been brokcn up by one of tho band tnniing informor. 8ome of them are nnder arrest and others havo fled. Several murders are cbargcd to them. A blackmailino story was writton and printed in tho New York Sun, tho intendod victim beiug no lees a personage than tho high Eussian Princess Sovaroff, who is now sojourning in Now York, and said to bo in high favor at the court of the Czar. The Sun publishers refused to divulgo tho author's name. Couut Kalpnorat, nophow of tho Princess, went to tho Pólice Conrt to obtain a warrant for the arrest of the publishera of the offenoivo article. He was informcd that a warrant conld not beisBued. Upon subsequent logal advioo, tho Princess resolved upon an entiroly different courso, and one that will tend to mak'e the case not only celebrated, bnt of international importar.ee. The blackmail having boon attempted tbrough tho Fostofhoe, tho offense comes within tho juriediction of the National Govornmont. The attention of the Bnssian Qovernment will bo called lo the publication, ar.d efforts made through it to havo the Unitod States Government take the matter up. Stimulated by tho enccess of the Princeton Btudents, a large party of young mon irom Yalo Ooilogo attempted to hazo the Count Johannes while the latter was perf orcning in a New Haven theater. Eight of them woro so succeesful as to apend the rest of tho night in jail. THE WEST. Zacioas O. Mitciiell, a hitherto prominent and respected lawyer of St. Louis, Mo., has fallón into deep dipgraco. Ho has been arrested on a charge of forging a noto for $300. Tho proof agaiust him is positivo Cameron, Ambcrg & Co., well-knowu printers and blankbook inanufacinrera of Chicago, havo snstained a sevore loss by fire. The daraage to their establishment ia èstimated at $60,000 At a meeting of the butter-dealers of Cincinnati, the oiher day, it was docided to memorialize the Legislaturo, axking the passage of such laws as will compel the branding of packages containing oleomargarino with ita name. Iu pursuanco of a joint resolution which passed both houses oí the Ohio Legislatura, a national fsalute was fircd at Colmnbus, on jfarch 4, in honor of the final passage of the Bilver biU Two Missouri murderers weie bung on Friday, Maroh 1 - John W. Daniels at Warreusburg, and Richard Green at Kansas City. Reports from the Upper Missouri rivcrcountry represent that three couriers from Gen. Miles have beon killed by some of the runaway savages from Eed Cloud agency, and there is something of a tcare at Bufordl It is also reported that Sitting Bnll bas visited a Yankton camp, near the boundary, fcr the purpose of trying to buy provisions for bis poople. Ho paid thero was no buffaloos across the fiue, and that the Sionx in Canada are starving. Ex-Senator Ben Wade died at his home in Jefferson, Ohio, March 2, at the advanced age of 78 years. Mr. Wado left an estáte vnlued at $80,000, and mado no will. A San Francisco telegram says the loss by the great nood in the Sacramento valloy wiU reach at least $800,000. THE SOUTH. A Richmond (Va.) telogram says that "Gov. Holliday has vetoed the Barbour bilí, which embodied the schemo of the anti-debt-payers in the Virginia Legislalure. The veto created great exeitement, and a bointerous attempt was mado in the House to prevent its reading being heard. The bill, it is said, cannot be paused over the veto, and will occasion au extra sea8ion of the Legislaturc." Ck)BK-piiANTiï;a ia progressing in Texas, and the wheat fields present a grand appearanco. Good reports from tho growing whoat come from all the sections heard from Thero was a quadruple execution at Marión, Ala., on Friday, M-,ch 1. All fonr of the crimináis were colored men, acd all died protestiug their innocence Tliere was the usual blow-out at New Orleans, Memphia, and other Southern cities on Mardi Gras day, March 5. A terrible tornado recentlv ewept through Casey coimty, Ky., carrying dcath and destruction wherever it was feit. The whole of the family of Vincent Wesloy, oonsiating of himBelf, wife, two grown daughters and boy named Sloim, nophew, and William Taylor, a neighbor stopping at hia house, wcro killed outright. Mrs. Wesley's body was blown 40C yard. Her clothing was entirely ëtripped off. The two danghters wero carried fif ty yards and were found locked in each othor's anus! The father and ncphew were fearf ulJy mangled, and all must have been killed by the first forcé of the tempest. In the vieinity of llount Olive, Mrs. Morgan, wife of John W. Morgan, waB killed, and the d welling and outhouses of F. Floyd were completely swept away, and the timbera ecattered in every direction. WASHINGTON. The President, not long ago, reoeived information to the effect that colored men wero teing kidnappcd from Florida, taken to Cuba and sold into elavery. He has determined, if such ia the case, to put a stop to this newlyarisen tlave trado, and, with that end in view, has dispatched a confidential agent to Havana, in the pêrson of Congressnian Leonard , of Louisiana, for the purposo of obtaining all the facts in the caso. Db. Lindebman, the Director of the Mint?, has mado all arrangements for running the coin milis to their full capacity on tho now uilver dollar, in conuection with which gold only will for fomo time be coined. It is thought by the middlo of April the coinage of tho silver dollar will be at the rato of $3,500,000 per month. The supply of fractional silver co ns at the mint and different treasury offices is ramcient to meet any demand likely to ariso for soveral months to come Tho Senato Finacce Committce last week coneidored the bill to repeal the Kfisumption act, and postpond the nubject. Somo predict that tho Committee will take no final action for ono month. The committeemen indícate a desiro to aRcsrtain tho effect of the Silver law beforo taking action on the resumption queBtioD. The follonring is the public -debt statement for March 1 : Ril per oent bondfl $748,665,830 I ivo per cent. bonds 703.266 B.W Four and hidf per cent. bondH 200 (M) (MX) Four per cent, bondu 70o'850000 Total coin bonds $1,727.782.500 Lawful money debt .$ 14,000,000 Matured dtfbt 7 235 760 íí!SÍte?der""; ..."'." 348'.88Íl'.4M Cortiflcatee of deposit 28,55.5.(KW Kractional currency 17,190,698 Coin certihcates tóOOO Total wlthont interert $ 242,882.124 Total debt ÜÓ7f,80b.'S8t Total mtcrest T2.r,0.m Cash In treasury: cuSencvV::::;;:::;::;;;;;;;;;; $ 132-" Curreucy held for redemptiou of frac' tional currency 10 000 000 Special deponits held for redcmpüon ' ' of certincates of deposit 28,655,000 Tota) In treaeury $ 172563921 Debt lesa cash in treasury Í 2 0Í2 037 1 20 Deercase of debt durinK February.. j!2So'i37 . Deercase eince June 30, 1877.. 18 12l'ri "'"vï pames, interest payable in lawful inonoy : Principal outetandintf... , 64 623 512 Interest accrued and not yet paid ".'.'..'. 'rA613!Í Interest paid by Vuiloa State 87 S-Jfi'ail Interest repaid by tranaportation of '81"W4 maüs, etc ,,,,,,, Balance of interest paid by "United a'153'"1 HUtes 28,737,203 The House Comruittee on Public Buildings has agreed to recoinmend an appropriation of $245,300 for the construction of a building suitable for a National Museum in Washington The plan of tho building adoptcd by the committee is similar in character to that erected for the National Exposition, and will cover two acies, everythiug to be on one floor. The President lias mado the following appointments: Consuls- George C. Tanncr, of South Carolina, at Verviera and Liege; Marshall H. Twitchell. of Louisiaua, at Kingston, Canada; Charles Bartleit, of Maine, at Quadaloupp. Miscrilanemis-A]bert O. Porter, of Indiana, Firt Comptrolkr of the Treasury: JvJward S. J. Nealy, Collector of Customs at iiatl), Me. ; James E. Simpton, of Iowa, Collector of Internal Iïevenue, Third District of Iowa; Edwitrd H. Morriton, of New Jtrsev, lioguitcr of the Land Office at Boiso Citv. IdahöCommodore Edward F. Nichols, to "be Rear Admiral of the Navy; Thomas C. II. Sm;th of Ohio, Paymaster of the Army; Alexandor C. IJotkin, ot Wisconsin, United States Marshal for tho Territory of Montana. GENERAL. Gbain in sight In the Statea and Canada. Wheat, 0,285,000 bushels; com, 4,836,C00 bnshels; oatf, 2,i)82,0C0 bushol; rye, 790,000 bushcls Georgo H. Baker, late Minister to Eussia, believes that in tho present European troublcs Russia will stand with Oermauy, whatever may como, and that Austria wiil stand with Germany. He tbiuks the Russian party at Constantinoplo, compoeed of tho Turks w]io favor an allianee with Bqafo, íb very strong, Hos. A. Q, Caitell, fprinorly United 8ttpg 8ntor from iïflff M(ïVj l now n lnmuo( a mad-houso A. New York dispntch says: " The 4-per-cent. bonds soera to sait the farmers out West, who aro subscribing largely. It is naid that orders from Western cities for subscriptions to tho now popular loan of 4-percent. bonds are being received in New York at an average of nearly $100,000 a day, principally from Chicago, St". Louis and Cincinnati." Failubes : John I. Adams & Co., wholesale grocere, New Orleans, La., liabilitie $1,500,000 ; Whitlook & Andcreon, woolen goods, New York, liabilities $200,000 ; Joseph Woodley, boots snd Bhoes, Quebec, Canadá, liabilities $150,000; Bornard, Bastían & Co., lumber, Montreal, Canada, liabilitios 5100,000 ; Gallagher A Thoruton, dry goodB, tiharon and Greonville, Pa., liabilities $60,000; W. H. Hiñes & Co., irou founders, Fond duLac, Wis., liabilMos $60,000. Thero were uixtyseven failures in New York during February, with lifcbilitios ammmting to $2,658,958. There wero forty-four failures in Chicago during tho samo poriod, tb. liabilities aggregating $2,391,005. Gen. Gbant has arrived in Constantinople. Ho was juet in time to vritness the closing scènes in the great military spectacle whereat all Europe has gazed for nearly a ycar past. FOtlTIOAL. Eepeesentativk Socthahd, of Ohio, has introducod in Congross a bilí to ameud the Federal constitución by an article providing for the election of three Presidents, representing the Southern, the Western, and tho Middle and Easteru States, tho threo to be a Council for the Government, etc A Washington correspondent says, "There is a movementon foot to contest Hayes' titlo by a writ of ouster, influential parties in Washington anrl New York oucouraging the proceeding.".... Tho President has appointed A. W. Beard Collector of tke port of " Boston, vice Simmens, whosc commissiou has expired. Thero waa a hot fight over this appointment. Simmons was the candidato of Ben Butler, whilo Board wan pressed by the Hoar faction. It is said the Preüident'B action will widen tho Republican broach iu Massachusette. FOREIGN NEWS. Cable dispatchos of tho 27th uit. state that negotiatious between Russia and Turkey were concluded, and the basis of a permanent poace agreed upon ; and that Russia had no intention of relinquiBhing any of her advantages to pleaso eitlier Austria or England, but was resolved to fight rather than abate one jot of her intentions. A Eomb dispateh indicntes that the new Pope " will not be aa liberal as bas been supposed " - in other worda, that Pope Leo XIII. will be a different kind of man from what he lately was as Cardinal Pecci. A numbeb of heavy commercial failures are announced in Cork and Belfast Ireland It is announced from London that in the event of war Lord Napier wiü be placed in command of tho British forces, with Sir Garnet Wolseley, the hero of the Ashantee war, as Chief oí Staff Dr. Arif, President of the Bed Crscent Society in Constantinople, appoals to Amorica for help. Thousands of victims are auccumbing day by day, he says, to hungcr and cold, and the cry for aid is to those throughout the world who sympathize with suffering hu manity. Cable dispatches of the lst inst. say that a greater part of the Kuseian conditions had been accepted by the Porte, thougb the queation relativo to tho surrender of the Turkish fleet was still unsettled. It was rumored in several Kuropean capitals that there would be no conference, and that Russia, Eugland and Austria would bo left to eettlo their difforences among themselves. There was much excitement in St. Petersburg over tho activo war preparations in England. Bx the BeeeBsion of half a dozen Orleaniets from the conservativo eide of the French Senate, the Bepublicans are likely to secure control of that body without waiting for the next elections A Vienna dispatch asserts that Austria needs very little in the way of special proparation for war. "For tho laat seven years," the dispatch aays, "preparations have -been going on, and", sinco laat year, whon the posaibility of auch a measure arose, the plans havo been worked out to the yory smallest detail." Among the other blessings derivcd by Houmania from the making of that country the ltussian base of operationa against the Turks, is the infection of all the railway rolling stock of the country with the poison of typhns fever. The pestilence ia said to be epidemie in the Russian camps. and the Koumanians insist that the army should return to ltnssia bv sea, instead of marching back through tho principality. Rüssia offered a Eop to Austria by suggesting that ahe has no objection to the latter occupying Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Prince of Battenburg looms up as the prospectivo sovereign of Bulgaria. He is a nephew of the Czar, and is about to marry a daugbter of the Emperor's sister, the Grand Duchess Maria Nicolaevna. A Ministerial crisis has oceurred at Quebec. involving the resiguation of tho Premier anc the formation of a new Ministry by the loader of tho opposition Pope Pecci seems to have reconsiüored hia ñrst intoution to continuo in the " prisoner-of -tho-Vatican" business. Lat reports eay he intonds to disbaud the Swis Guarda and other armed peoplo horetoforo re tained in tho pontifical palace, and to reside mostly at Castle Gandolfo. a pretty viliagc fourteen miles from Eome, situated on a high volcanic peak It is an nounced in Vienna that, according to trustworthy advicos from various quarters, a part of the Iiusaian army will e;ter Constanti noplo ahortly, whether the t-reaty is signed or not From varioua sources tho information is convoyod in the cable dispatohes of the sign ing of tho treaty of peace by Itussia and Tur ! koy on the 2d iust. The fact was anuounced by the Grand Duke Nicholas to hi soldiers en the occasion of a grand re view at San Stephano, and the receipt of 1be intelligence in St. Petersburg was the occasion of great rejoicing Pope Leo XIII. wa crowned in the Sistine Cbapel March 3d, The eer emony commonced at 9:30 in the morning, anc terminated at 1:30 in the afternoon. Cardinals prelateB, and diplomatiats accredited to the Vatican, and other persona were present. The Pope was afterward carried to his apartments bleaaiDg the spectators on tho way. A few houses wero illuminated at night. By proclamation of the Spauish anthoritie in Cuba all slaves who have served in the rank of tho inBurgents in any capacity are to be given their freedom upon applying to tho proper authorities. Auother prociamation an nounce8 that Cuba will hereafter have a repro eentation in the Spanish Cortes on equal term with Porto Rico, according to the population o tho iland A London dispatch of tho 6tl inst. saya : " Littlo has been learncd abot the tenns of peace. The money indcmnity ha been reduccd to 10,000,000 ronbles, and, althongh Kara, Baynzid and Hakium aro ceded to ltussia, Erzcronm and the greater portion of Armenia will remain undor Turkish rule. No Turkiah war shipa are ceded to Rassia, nor will tho Egyptian tributo be required to pay the indomnity." The Grand Duko Nicholaa lias sent the followiug dispatch to the Itusrian Kmperor: "Idomyself the honor of congratulating your Majesty npon tho concluaion of peaoe. God haa vouchsafed to us tho happiness of accomplishing the holy work began by your Majosty, and, on the anuiversary of tho enfranchisoment of tho serfa your Majesty haa dolivered the Christians from the Mussulnian yoke." THE PRESIDKNT'S VETO MESSAGB. Following is the f uil text of the President's roeasage vetoing the Silver bill : To the House of RepresenUUves : After a very careful conaideration of House bill No. 1,093, entitled " An act to authorize tho coinage of the atandard silver dollar and to restore its legal-tcnder character," I feel compeüed to return it to tho Houso of Representativea, in which it originated, with my objcctions to ita passage. Holding the opinión, which I exprested in my animal message, " that neither the iLt'.'ioata of the GoVernmen nor of the people of tho United Staten would be promoted by disparagiug eilver as one of the two precious mutals which furnish the coinage of tho world, and that legislation which looks to maintaining the volume of intrinaic money to au full a meafture of both metala aa their relativo commercial values will pormit would bo neither unjust nor inoxpedio-jt," it bas been my earnost deaiio to concur with Congreas in the adoption of uch meaaures to incroase the ailver coinage of tlio crmutry aa would not impair the obligation of cemtracto, either public or private, nor injuriously affect public credit. It ia only upon the conviction that thia bill doea not meet these essontial requirements that I feel it my duty to withhold from it my approvnl. JSy present official duly a to this bill permits only an attent ion to the Kiecific objectiona to ita paspage, which se?m to me po important as to justify me in asking from the wisdom and duty of Congress that f;irthcr consideration of the bill for which tlm c mstitutiou has in suoh cases provided. The bill provides for the coinage of eilver doliera of the weight of 412% grains eoch, of ttandard flilver, to be a legal tender at their nominal valué for all dcbta and dues, pnblic and private, except where othenvise eipresely stipu'ated in contracta. It is well kuovrn that the market valuó of that number of grains of ttahdaid ■tlver duriug tho past year has been from 90 to 93 cents, as compared with tbo standard gold dollar. Thus the ailver dollar anthorizod by tbia Bil ver bill is worth 3 to 10 per cent. leas thn it purports to be worth, and i made a leganendir for debís uontracted wlicu the Uw diq not reoogntae uoh ooino as lawful monsy. f be rigbt to py dn in Rilvpr, or in certiftcates of silver deposita, will, when ' thoy aro issned in snfficient amount to 1 late, put an end to tho roceipt of revonuo in ) gold, and thns compel the payment of silver ] for both the principal and interest of the public debts. Prior to February, 1873, thero was $1,143,498,400 of the bonded dobt now i outstanding issued, when the eilvcr dollar was unknown in circulation in this country, and was only a convenient form of eilver bullion for exportation. Sinco February, 1873, $1583,440,850 of tho funded debt has boen isBuod, when gold alone was the coin for which tho bonds were eold, and gold alono was the coin in which both partios to the contract understood that the bonds would be paid. Those Ixmd8 onterod into the markets of tho world. Thoy woro paid for in gold when silver had groatly depreciated and whon no one would have bought thom if it had been undorstood that thoy would bo paid in silvor. The eum of $225,000,000 of thcso bonds has been nold during my sdministratiqn for gold coin, and tho United States received the benefit of these Bales by a reduction of the rato of interest to 4 per cent. During the progreos of theso sales a doubt was suggosted aa to tho coin in which tho paymont of these bonds ould bo made. The public announcemont as thereupon authorized that it was not to be nticipated that any further legislation of Conrees or any action of any dopartment of tho overument would sanction or tolérate the reemption of the principal of these bonds orthe ayment of tho interest thereon in coin of less aïuo than the coin authorized by law at tho timo of the issue of the bonds, being the coin exaoted by the Government in excbango for tho same. In view of thoiiofacts it will be justly regardod as a grave breach of publio faith to undertako to pay these bonds, principal or interest, in silver coin worth in tho markct los than the coin received for thom. It is said that tho silver dollar made a legal tender by this bilí will, undor its operation, bo equivalent in value to the gold dollar. Mauy supporters of this bill believe thia, and would not juütify an at tempt to pay debts eithcr public or private in coin of inferior valuó to tho money of the world. The capital defect of the bill is that it cotitains no provisión protecting from its operation pre-existing debts in case the coinage whioh it creates shall continue to be of loss value than that which was tho sole legal tender whon they were contractod. If it is now proposed for the purpose of taking advantage of tho depreciation of silver in the paymont of debts to coin and mako a logal tender a silver dollar of a íosb commercial valuo than any dollar, whether of gold or paper, which is now lawful money in this country, such mensure, itwülhardly bequestioned, will, in the judgment of mankind, be an act of bad faith. As to all debts heretoforo contracted, the silver dollar should be made a legal tender only at its markot value. Tho standard of valuo should not be changed without the consent of both partios to the contract. National promises should bo kept with uuflinching fiuelity, There is no power to compel a nation to pay it just debts. lts credit dependa on its honor. The nation owes what it has led or allowcd its creditors to expest. I cannot approve a bill whicb, in my judgment, authorizes the violation of Bacred obligations. Tho obligation of public faith transcendí! all quostions of profit or public advantage. lts unquestionable maintenanco is the dictato as woÜ of tho hihest expediency as of the most neoessary duty. and should ever bo carefuUy guarded by the executivo, by Congress, and by the poome, It is my firm conviction that if the country is to be benefited by a silver coinage it can be done only by the issue of silver dollars of full value which will defraud no man. A curreney worth less than it purports to bo worth will in tho end defraud not only croditors but all who are engaged in a legitímate busiress, and nono more surely than those who are dependent on their daily labor for their daily bread.