AMERICAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 663, 26 May 1870, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

The Sparkling Dew, which arrived at Sydney from California, brought American papers to the 24th Feb. New Toek, Feb. 20. The Rev. Mr Coryler preached a sensation sermon on the late Voorhites murder last evening, and attributed the murder to liquor. He declared that rum-selling and murder go hand in hand, and charged the men whp held persons to chambers(P) that crazed Byron were accomplices in the crime. He referred to the ByronStowe scandal, and took occasion to cast a volley of stones at the poet. He thought that the whole and only true story of Byron's life might be summed up in one word—gin. Correspondence from Salt Lake City shows that the passage of the act to give women suffrage in Utah was the work of both Mormons and Gentiles • the Legislature being Mormon and the Governor Gentile. The two parties entertain different views of the way in which it will work.

February 21. The trial of Reynolds, the murderer of Townsend, commenced to-day. In addressing the jury, the District Attorney Garvin (?) said—We are standing in an atmosphere epidemic with crime in towD and country. No one is free from the knife of the assassin or the violence of the highwayman. They should let their verdict attest that the murderer should be punished. Mr Sumner announced that he had received for presentation to the Senate a beautiful volume containing the Lord's Prayer in 100 different languages, and moved that it be received and deposited in the Congressional library. Agreed to. Washington, Feb. 22.

The Indian Commission announce that they have the sickening details of Colonel Baker's attack on the Peyaus in Montana, January 3. Of 173 killed, only fifteen were fighting men ; ninety were women over forty years of age. There were fifteen children under twelve years of age, many of whom were killed in their parents' arms. The whole village had been suffering two months with small pox, and half a-dozen were dying daily. February 23. Mr Phillips, United States Consul at Santiago de Cuba, writes on February 3, that political affairs in Cuba are deplorable. It is estimated that 50 per cent, of the Spanish volunteers are disabled from sickness, and the hospitals are full to. overflowing. It is generally known and admitted by liberal-minded Spanish officers that it is impossible to suppress the insurrection.

Chicago, Feb. 20. The Times Washington special says Chandler, who was a member of the joint committee on the conduct of the war, intends to make a speech in the Senate on Monday, reviewing FitzJohn Porter, and sustaining the courtmartial in his case, At Beardstown, Illinois, on the 17th instant, a desperate character, named Wilcox, was beating a drunken man in a saloon, when the proprietor of the saloon interfered, Wilcox drew a revolver and fired, killing one of the proprietors and mortally wounding the other. The murderer was taken from gaol on Friday night by the friends of the murdered men, who gathered quietly and captured the sheriff. They took the keys of the gaol for the purpose of taking Wilcox out to hang him. He showed fight, having obtained an iron bar, when they shot and killed him. They took the body out and hung it to a tree. February 21. The Times New York special says a large meeting of influential Democrats opposed to the Tammany ring was held yesterday. Sydney, Feb. 21. A band of Indians, about thirty in number, attacked Moore's section men at 10 a.m. to-day, at their station house, six miles east of Antelope station, on the Union Pacific Railroad. The men drove them off. and started to Potter station on a hand-car to report, when a running fight took place, during which one Indian was seen to drop from his horse, and the men feel certain that he was killed. Indiakopolis, Feb. 22.

The Republican State Convention met here this evening, G-eneral Thomas M. Brown was elected permanent chairman, with one vice-president from each Congressional district, and Rev. W. T. Mailing (colored), vice-presi-dent for State at large. The resolutions adopted congratulate the country on the restoration of law and order in the Southern States, and the return of peace and fraternal feeling; declare that the national debt must be paid in accordance with the letter and spirit of the laws under which it was contracted ; and denounce any attempt at repudiation.