Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 February 1872 — Page 3

NEWS SUMMARY.

The r4 Tbb New York Yacht Clul has re-elected James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Commodore Charles and II. K. Markson have Leon ar retled at Niw York for smuggling 171 gold L,ni,,. and nearly 300 article of jewelry,

ou the "' 8iberi; vulued at 110,000... .. In the investigation of the printing frauds et Alban v, rareons.one of the Irs, testifies having given Ed rhelps $10,000 for lobby services. It had been the habit, he said, to give the clerks a percentage on work carried to the Arm, and in this wav

from Bun Francisco will be (22; time, one day and a half The Kansas Senate on Wedneadav iaaeJ the House memorial to

Congress to admit Canadiau lumber free. A colored cook named Churles Moore, recently employed at the Commercial House iu Gardner, 111., elojud on Tuesday with a white girl named Busan Bridlestine. Tbb celebrated old Methodist divine, Rev. Peter Cartwright, was stricken down with paralysis on Monday last, at his home in Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, III., and is now speechless and helpless. The attending physicians say his death may occur at any moment. This venerable man is 87 years old, and has been in the ministry 68 years The Coroner's iury sitting on the bodies of the persona killed by the railroad accident near Alten on Wednesday, returned a verdict that death was caused by the criminal negligence of Frederick laker, conductor of the freight train, as the principal, and Patrick Hafpin, engineer, as accessory Quite a shock of earthquake was felt at Cairo, IU., on Wednesday morning about five o'clock Jesse Zimmerman, the aged wife murderer, of Rockford, 111., has been sentenced by the Court to life imprisonment in the Penitentiary. It will be remembered that he killed his wife with a scratch-awl, several months ago. The South.. Near Fayetteville, Ark., on Monday, two young men named Jones and Durkam got into a dispute, which resulted in the killing of the former by the latter. Burkam was arrested, and in attempting to escape was shot and killed by the officers James Btough and his wife, old and respected citizens of Richmond, Ky.. became involved in

a quarrel on Thursday, during which the husband plunged a clasp-knife into the breast and abdomen of his wife fifteen or

twenty times. She only lived long enouih

to tell who was her murderer Samuel White (colored) was hanged at Charleston on

Fridav (or the murder of b idea, last sum

mer. while his accomplice, a negro named

Baldwin, had his sentence commuted by

Gov. Scott to imprisonment for life when un

der the gallows Alexis and party arrived

at Memphis on rriaay

0 Friday a crowd of twenty-five masked

men went to the jail in Richmond, Ky

where Stough, who murdered his wife on

ThurtJay, was confined, and overpowering the sheriff took the keys of the jail and pro

ceeded to Stoueh's cell, marched mm out

ahort distance and hung him to a tree. The

mob then quietly dispersed.

A wroito named Mose Moore shot and

killed Zsrh Godman, a blacksmith, four

miles from Paris, Ky., at noon on Saturday

The fastest time ever made over

Southern railroad was accomplished on the 31st ult. on the New Orleans, Mobile and

Texas road, from New Orleans to Mobile, the

occasion being: the transportation of Col

Thomas A. Scott, the Pennsylvania railroad

kin, and rartv. The distance is 140 1

miles, and the running time was 3 hours and 37 minutes. Twenty miles of the distance

a . fWll

was made in zo minutes ine doqy

m ,iiii.r'a nercentaire was paid, rega

less of whether he read proof or not...... The revenue officers raided on several illicit distilleries in the Fifth Ward of Brooklyn, on Friday afternoon, destroying several thousand dollars' worth of whisky mash, machinery, etc. The officials were aided by the police The Newcastle (Pa) Agricultural Works were destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss $80,000; insursnce $26,000...... The warerooms of Bouchard A Sortie and Thompson's bookstore at Quebec were burned on Thursday night. Loss $35,000. Homes G ree lev held a reception on Saturday evening at New York, on the occasion of his 01st birthday. Tbb house of Henry McLelien, near Erie, Pa., was burned about 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and Mr. McLelien perished in the flames. He was 75 years of age The woolen-mill and boarding-house of C. C. Aldrich A Son, at Granby, Mass., burned on Tuesday morning. Loss $25,000 ; insurod for $15,000 At New York, on Menday, while the Brooklyn Ferry Company's boat Fulton was crossing the river loaded with passengers, she sprung a leak in mid-stream. The alarm signal was given, and two other boats came alongside and took off her pas

sengers, alter winch she suns. ine villagers of Whitehall, N. J., refused to allow the burial of the remains of Botts in their cemetery, and the minister declared that no services could be held over the body of the murderer. After an excited parley, a compromise was effected by which the body was allowed to be interred in a grave that had been opened temporarily. Ar explosion of fire damp took place in Norton's mine, four miles below Pittston, Pa., on Monday morning. Three men were killed and fifteen suffocated, but alive as ar as can be learned A fire ocsurred on Monday morning in the passenger depot of the Ogdensburg and Lower Canada railroad, at Ogdensburg, destroying the entire building, the freight depot, two cars and considerable freight Loss $30,000; insurance not known Judge Blatchford has decided that Mrs. Fisk can succeed her late i usband as plaintiff in the suits against the Union Pacific railroad, Credit Mobilier and others, by simply filing the proper petition George Van Neck, formerly a Lieutenant in the British army, and lately on the New York Herald, committed suicide at the Hoffman House, New York, on Tuesday morning Afire at Oil

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i vir .-V Tk. iw5U H th. Oil Ex- Henry Atkinson, a planter living near !LSr. JF22rT: S sUrn fc4 on last Friday, near

Horn Lake. Miss., concealed in the woods

with a bullet hole in his head. No doubt

he was murdered by two men whom he had emnlnved to assist in driving stock, as his

pockets were rifled The Supreme Court of Louisiana has decided in the case of Sauvinet, the negro Civil Sheriff of the parish of Orleans, who was refused a drink in a public saloon on account of his color, that he is entitled to recover $1,000 damages. Tbb Georgia National Bank at Columbus was attached on Monday for refusing to pay $120,000 deposited by Governor Bullock as SUte funds It is reported that a large Eortion of Helena, Ark., was destroyed by re on Monday, but, owing to the telegraph lines being prostrated by a storm, nothing definite is known. Bbfobb the Congressional Investigating Committee at New Orleans on Thursday, Captain Sinnott and Captain Scott testified

very clearly to briberies in the Legislature,

the latter having delivered money to uempbell. Carr. and other members as a consider

ation for votes and influence. Sinnott

swore to having been connected with Collector Casey and Herwig, his chief Deputy, in the handling of a large corruption fund.

Casey and Herwig had in their custody

$18,M0, understood to be for the purchase of

eighteen Senators

rhnnce. a branch office of the Western

Union telegraph Company, the office of the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company, and two or three saloons. Loss estimated at $50,000. Orb of Kidder A Atkins' hosiery mills at Troy, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. Loss $30,000. At Hunter's Point, L. I., on Wednesday, three men were fatally burned by the explosion of an oil-tank, while they were making repairs in the furnace...... An Italian, aged 00 years, died of starvation in New York en Monday, he being unable to obtain aid from the authorities, to whom he had applied H. W. Tener, a Philadelphia lawyer, has disappeared, leaving liabilities to the amount of $75,000 In the budget presented to the Ontario Legislature by the Government are $86,000 reward for the arrest of the murderer of Mr. Scott, and $80,000 to promete immigration. The Legislature has voted to adopt the use of the English Emigration Society as a part of the colonial emigration system. The West. Tbb planing-mill of Harvey Jones, at Cincinnati, was destroyed by Are on Thursday evening. Loss $11,000; insurance

$7,000. Oi Friday evening, as the Treasurer of Santa Cms county was turning oft the gas in his office, he was seised by armed and masked men, who had been concealed in the Alee, bound and gagged and threatened with instant death unless he unlocked the vault, whieh he did, when the robbers took out $20,000 in gold coin, looked him in, and left him. No clue to the robbers yet Or Monday evening the livery establishment of J. H. Esta brook, at Denver, Col., was bsrned. Forty horses perished in the flames. Total loss $45,000 The saw-mill at Wodburn, Ind., owned by Jacob Blackburn, burned on Monday morning. Loss about $6,000 ; no insurance A haunted house within a block of the public square at Quincy, 111., is the sensation. The occupants deserted it pell-mell Monday night on oceount of dismal sounds and Strangs freaks within its walls. Several intelligent men were among those who unceremoniously fled Addison Hires, ex-me.i ber of the Legislature, was stabbed and killed by Dr. Johnson at Platte City, Mo., last Friday Mrs. Fair has been granted a new trial by the Supreme Court of California, on the ground that the Court erred in not allowing the counsel for the defense the closing argument, and permitting evidence of former

bad character for chastity Charles Kita- ; ler, employed in building the Newport and Cincinnati bridge, fell irom that structure on Monday ana was killed. Two laborers named John Kearns and Patrick Grady were almost instantly killed in 8t. Joseph, Mo., on Monday. They were engaged in excavating earth, and the bank fellupon them crushing their lower extremities almost to a jelly. Fi vb persons were killed and eight severely injured by a collision between a passenger and freight train on the Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis railroad, near Upper Alton, on Wednesday The store of Smalley A Co., at Cambridge City, Ind., was burned on Wednesday morning. Loss $12,000; insurance $4,000 Afire at Port Huron. Mich., on Wednsaday, entirely destroyed the buildings and stocks of D. Graham, hats and furs; D. Guerin, boots and shoes) F. A. Weyers, groceries ; J. B. Farrand, dry goods. Loss $00,000; insurance $8,000 This season, Yosemite tourists will be carried by rail within eighty miles of the valley by either the Mariposa or the Coulterville route. The horseback ride is reduced to two and a half miles. The fare

8i bhi kii-tion hsve been opened at Madrid to aid the people I f France in the payment of the war indemnity to Germany The Archbishop of Cologne has ordered four

professors ol the University lo suoscnoe to the dogma of Papal infallibility, the penalty

n case of refusal being excommunication.

.A dispatch from Berne says the bwiss

Federal Government has forwarded to the

French authorities a protest against the de

notation of Communists into Switzerland.

..Deputy Commissioner Cowan, of Cal

cutta, India, has ordered nrty nc.ua muti

neers to be blown from tue mourns oi

cannon.

A Paris special says t-iat President Thiers

was shot at on Monday night, but not hit. Ths attempted assassin escaped The

Patrie says the German Government has notified France of its willingness to accept

French colony in partpiyment of the war

indemnity.

Mr. Dbnrimr, Speaker of the English

House of Commons, has resigned in consequence of ill health The French National Assembly, after an agitated discussion, passed a resolution authorising the prosecu

tion OI puDllSners OI provincial ymyrto which have lately contained articles insulting to the Assembly.

Tbe steamer Colorado, which sailed from

Liverpool on Thursday for New York, when

just outside of the Mersey was run into with

rsat violence by the Arabian, inward ound. The Colorado received severe

damages, and was run ashore to prevent ker sinking in deep water with all on board. The Arabian, which was comparatively un-

niured. rescued all the passengers of the

Colorado, except five in the steerage, who, it

is supposed, jumped overboard in tne panic which followed, and were lost. The passengers were brought back to Liverpool A

new company, wnicn proposes to lay a seiegraph cable direct to New York, has been registered in London. One of the features of its prospectus is a promise to fix the tolls on dispatches at twenty shillings per ten

worda In the House of Commons on

Thursday Mr. Gladstone moved a vote of

thanks to Right Hon. John Evelyn Dennison, the retiring Speaker of the House, and

also a resolution recommending nis elevation to the peerage. Mr. Disraeli, who was nreaent. seconded both motions, and they

were carried by acclamation Minister W&ahburne is about to return to the United

States, on temporary leave of absence

Secretary Hoffman will act as charge

d'affairu during his absence.

from the Finance Committee, reported adversely on the bill raising the salaries of clerks in the Executive departments The Amnesty bill occupied the remainder of the sesiion. The time of the House on the 7th was taken up by the discussion of the Education bill, An amendment by Mr. Poland that tbe aci shall not repeal, impair, or suspend sny preemption or noniestead law, was agreed to without division. The next amendment wi offered by Mr. Butler, of Tennessee, requiring distribution to be made on the basis of school ags of the population. Agreed to. Tbe nextamendment, offered by Mr. Goodrich, requiring a distribution on the basis of illiteracy, was agreed to yeas 12, nays 82. The next amendment was one offered by Mr. Hereford, against requiring mixed schools, snd it was agreed to yeas 114, nsys 80 Adjourned. In the Senate on the 8th Mr. Sumner reported favorably upon the bill establishing a semi-monthly service on ths Chinese route with a double subsidy On motion of Mr. Sherman, the bill was passed authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem three millions per month of three per cent, certificates On motion of Mr. Trum

bull tbe bill to restore the records of the United States Courts in the Northern Dis

trict of Illinois was passed The Amnesty bill was taken up, and an amendment by Mr. Frelinghnysen, that all reference to churches be stricken out, was carried Adjourned. In the House on the same day Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Elections, reported in the Pennsylvania ease of Cessna against Myers, that Myers was entitled to a seat. The report was ordered printed The Educational bill passed yeas, 111; nays, 90. Adjourned.

-Five

Tu special House Committee to examine the Treasury accounts have discovered a surplus of $1,000,000 which they have thus far been unable to account for One of the

female clerks in the Postoffice Department wae married last week and there have since hMtn nearly one hundred applications for

tk ut'.iT There are more than 600 ao-

nlications of other Isdies on hand for the

first vacancy.

Tna President transmitted to the Senate on Wednesday information furnished by the Secretary of State in response to a resolution of inquiry regarding the retention in Veneiila of the American steamers Hero, Dud-

lev Buck, Nutrias, and Ban Fernando, the

property of the Venesuelan Steam Trans

portation Company, an American corporation. It appears that these vessels were , last fall: the first by the Venesuelan

Government troops, and ths other three by th revolutionists. Acting Secretary of State

n.via wrote Minister Pile on the 22d of

flr,imhr. demanding the immediate resti

tution of ths vessels Hero aid Dudley Buck, and, upon learning of the seisure of the other two, made a similar demand for further restitution. In reply, the Venesuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote to Mr. Pile in November, disavowing the acts, and

promising, upon proof, to make tne neces

sary reparation.

Ur to the 5th inst.. the sums awarded to

Americans bv the ioint United States and

Mexican Commission amounted to $576,000

The amount claimed in the aggregate was $11.500.000. Awards to Mexicans amounted

to only $36,000. Ths aggregate claimed was

fl8.O00.OOO Thomas K. Cree. of nite-

burgh, Pa., has been appointed Secretary of

tbe Board or Indian Kommissionen, vtce

Vineent Ccllyer, resigned. Forelspa.

Tbb number of emigrants who sailed from

Liverpool in the month of January exceeds

that of December by 1,150. The burning of

Chicago seems to hsve stimulated the emi

gration of carpenters and masons Dis

catches have been received st Madrid from

the Governor General of the Phillipins

Islands announcing s serious attempt at re

volt. A company of 100 native soldiers,

belonging to the artillery service, rebelled

and took Dossaseion of a fort. The pi

was subsequently carried by assault by ths

regular troops, and an tne insurgents sinea

Proceedings in Congress. The Senate held no session on the 3d. In the House on the 3d the Indian Appropriation bill was passed, with an amendment providing that no payment be made to hostile Indians, and that deductions for Indian depredations are to be made Several bills for the extension of patents were passed A lively debate was had upon the Educational bill until adjournment. In the Senate on the 5th the credentials of Mr. Ransom, Senator elect from North Carolina, were presented and referred Mr. Chandler presented memorials from Michigan lumbermen against the Chicago

relief bill Mr. Kellogg presented the petition of leading men of the rice interest in

Louisiana against the abolition oi tue duty

n rice MT. Morion ouereu a mnaine

in relation to the manufacture of Bessemer

steel, and said that he would call it up at

an early day, and submit it wi:n ome remarks on the superiority of Indiana-made

steel, and the importance oi improving tne

harbor at Michigan City, lnd., so as to bring

the iron mines of Lake Soperior into more direct communication with the coal fields of

Indiana The Amnesty bill was taken up and discussed sntil adjournment

In the House on the 5th tbe Amnesty bin

was passed. It removes from political disability all persons engaged in the rebellion

except those who resigned tneir seats as

members OI lngress, or wu miiuu mm nffWra of the army and navy, and afterward

joined the rebellion, or members of the con- ' . a... i:-v .J 4. J iL. ...

yention in any Dsne wnicu ucu -dinance of secession. The bill requires all

persons relieved to take tbe oath of allegiance to the United States before a clerk of the United States District Court in which they reside Mr. Peters moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution declaring that the highest patriotism and most enlightened public policy demand of all political parties, and of all cltisens, acquiescence .. . . . .1. I v:A...iii

in tne rnirteentn, lourwuiu uu rnmuiu amendments to the Constitution, and sueh reasonable legislation of Congress as may

be necessary to make them, in their letter

nH an'rit. the most eflectuai. Agreed to

HO to 61 Mr. Brooks, of New York, mTi to auanend the rules and adopt the

resolution recognising the Thirteenth, FourLumth and Fifteenth amendments as valid

parts of ths Cons i itution. Agreed to 186 to

Terrible Gunpowder Explosion

Men Blown to Pieces. The powder-houses belonging to the Miami Powder Company, located between Xenia and Yellow Springs, Ohio, on the Little Miami railroad, exploded about 10 o'clock on Monday morning. Five men were killed Mero, Ballard and Robinson (white) and Conley and Duncan (colored). The bodies were shockinglv mutilated and burned.

Conley was blown into fragments, and nothing could be found of him but a uortion of his head. Samuel Miner was

blown across the mill-race, and his hearing partially destroyed. Others were badly stunned, barely escaping with their lives. All the maimed were men of families. The shock was so great that in adjacent towns and cities much consternation ensued. In Dayton the children rushed from the school-buildings, the fire bells rang, and it was the general apprehension that some great calamity had occurred within the city limits. In Troy and Tippecanoe the houses were shaken as by an earthquake, and the shock was distinctly felt at Urbana and

Xenia. A brick house, standing more than a mile distant, had its windows completely blown out, and was otherwise damaged. Hundreds of windows were broken at Yellow Springs. The first explosion occured in the

wheel-mill. This communicated with the press-mill, where the powder in process of manufacture is contained in canvas bags. The double dry-house, fifty feet square, containing a vast quantity of dry powder, came in next for destruction. Then followed the

glaze-mill, the canning-mill and packing-

bouse. Tne milts were suuaiea some distance apart, but the concussion was so great as to produce an explosion in all. From twenty to thirty tons of fjwder were in the destroyed buildings, he company estimate their loss at $25,000.

Queen Victoria and the Alabama Claims. In her speech at the opening of Parliament on the 6th inst., Queen Victoria referred as follows to the Washington treaty :

" The arbitrators appointed pur&usmt to the treaty of Washington for the purpose of amicably settling the Ala imnia claims, held their first meeting in Geneva Bases were laid before the arbitrators on behalf of each party to the treaty. In the case so submitted by the United States, large claims are included, which are understood on my part not to be within tbe province of the arbitrators. On this aubject I have caused a friendly communication to be made to the government of the United States. The Emperor of Germany has undertaken to arbitrate on the San Juan water boundary, and the cases of the two fovernments have been presented to is Imperial Majesty. The commission to sit at Washington has been appointed and is in session. Ths provisions of tbe treaty which require the consent of the Parliament of the Dominion of Can

ada awaits its assembling." The attendance of members of the House of Commons was unusually large and the opening session was rather stormy. Mr. Disiaeli called the attention of the house to the paragraph of the royal speech in reference to the arbitration of the Alabama claims. He animadverted at some length upon the treaty of Washington, for the faults of which he blamed the Foreign Secretary, Earl Granville, and Premier Gladstone. In view of the developments which had been made by the assembly of arbitrators of Geneva, Disraeli wanted to know why the government was exultant over the edification it had given to Parliament on the subject. The royal speech was signally unsatisfactory and showed, in his opinion, that the government still lacked a proper appreciation of the gravity of tne question at issue between

England and the United btates. ine American claims were greater than those which would follow a total conquest. They were preposterous and unpractical, and, if admitted, would be fatal to the power and honor of England. "Yet," said Disraeli, sneeringly, " the whole subject is disposed of in one brief paragraph of the royal speech." Mr. Gladstone followed in reply. He said that the treaty of Washington itself shows that En eland is ready to

Adjourned

In the 8enate on the 6th Mr. Sumner

presented a memarial ef the householders of the District of Columbia, asking the aid of Congress to protect them against the extravagance of the Territorial Government, and setting forth that it has already incurred a

debt ot 9 13,tMW,ove, equai o onu-ium oi me value of the whole district Mr. Edmunds ofTered a resolution asking the President to send to the Senate any information in his possession relative to the alleged intention of Great Britain to revoke the Treaty of

Washington. Mr. Cameron, mairman oi the Committee on Foreign Relations, said :

" Mr. President I do not snow way tnis ru.nl ut Inn ia offered. I cannot imagine that

the Government is in possession of any such information as the resolution calls for. I have no idea that the British Government is going to repudiate the treaty, or any part of it, and I would not be the first to suppose

that they would oe guilty oi an ac oi ui wrong to us and dishonor and disgrace to themselves." The resolution went over The Amnesty bill wss again taken up, and discussed until adjournment. I n the douse on the th the Secretary of War was requested to report what military posts may be disposed of. Mr. 8wsnn presented a petition of soldiers for an equalisation of bounties The House resumed consideration of the bill to establish an educational fund, and to apply the proceeds of the pubii UnH. to the education of the people. The

vote on an amendment putting printer's ink, type-metal and printing paper on tbe free list was ruled out of order as being a revenue m.unn. which must first be considered in

ftnmmittM of the Whole. Ths bill went

over, and the House adjourned.

Tii ant. on the 7th passed the

Pension bill. It appropriates $30,000,000

A resolution was adopted directing ths Committee of Investigation and Betrench...i ti innnir- whether any United States

Senator has received any money undercover -r ......i raa. ar otherwise, from ths Treae-

r ik. tin i ted States, ia violation of

u. ..A in reoort the result of their inqiury

a early as practicable Mr. Sherman,

a

Human Bloodhounds. The Pontiac (Mich.) Gazette, speaking of the colored man, Edward Harris, whose wanderings through the country while sufferingfrom disease have been noted, says : The first intelligence we have of Harris is that he stopped at the Waverley House at Flint, stating to the proprietor that he was sick, snd unsble to go further. A physician ( Dr. A xford ) was sent for, who pronounced his disease

the small-pox, and requested tnat ne might be kept closely until arrangements could be made for his protection. Instead of obeying this humane advice, the keeper of the hotel drove him off, and got him on a oar bound south, thus

lending nis sua in autriuuNug uugnant disease, that might have been put

out of the way of further mischief if the

precautions of the physician had been heeded. This was the first error, if we can call such deliberate cruelty by so convenient a name. When the conduc

tor called for his fare, Harris acknowl

edged he had the small-pox, and was

without money, and was dropped at Grand Blanc at night, poorly clad and

starved. Thence be started

half

through the snow, on a bittercold even

ing, with the fever raging in his veins, to walk to Holly. The news, however, preceded him. and before he reached r. . m . v. : I 1 .

tne town an onicer uiei uwu uuium a loaded pistol at his head, compelling him to make a circuit of the village.

His feet were now so swollen from the

cold that he carried his boots in bis

hand and walked barefooted through the snow. Pursued like a savage beast, without food, slowly freezing in spite of a high fever, he reached Davisburgh, where he found a brief respite, but was

soon started again on his way, after be in a- detained for stealing, and reached

Pontiac, when, after wandering about a few hours, he was finally taken in charge by the city officials and confined in a rudely constructed shed, where, after a brief struggle with the disease and the cold, the poor fellow died on Monday night, and it was with the utmost difficulty that any one could be found to bury him on Tuesday night, but it was finally accomplished. The old sieve used as a pest-house was immediately burned.

make every concession, short of national honor, to establish friendly relations with America, and to set an example to be followed by other nations hence

forth. "The government," said the Premier, " is ready to explain everything in connection with the treaty, but it will not admit that it has unwittingly made a mistake." The paragraph in the speech is the only fair and unmistakable interpretation of the treaty. He could, if desired, refer to the preposterous character of the American demands, which, of itself, proved their absurdity, for they were such as no people in the last extremity of war or in the lowest depths of nations! misfortunes,

with the ipirit of tbe people ot tngiana in their hearts, would ever submit to. Cheers. Mr. Gladstone concluded by saying the government would maintain the position it had taken firmly, though in a friendly manner. The following is a summary of the claims against Great Britain that are made in the American case before the Geneva Conference. I. For the destruction of vessels and property belonging to the government of the United Slates, 25,( MX II. For the destruction of merchant vessels, and property sailing under the flag of the United States, $17,800,633. III. For other damages or injuries to persons, growing out of tbe destruction of each class of these vessels. In respect to this item the " case" aavs it is impossible at nreaent for the

United States to present a detailed statement, but the amount of the claim cannot be less than hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of dollars, on account of the hardy, helpless seamen and their families. IV. For national expenditures in the pursuit of the cruisers, $7,060,478. V. For loss in the transfer of the American commercial marine to the British flag. I In respect to this item the United States ask the arbitrators to estimate the amount which ought to be paid to them, after we submit statistics in respect to our tonnage before and after tne rebellion. VI. For enhanced pay menu of insurance by citizens of the United States, so far as now known, $1,120,795.

VII. For prolo igation of a civil war, the addition of a large sum to the cost thereof, and of the suppression of the rebellion. As to this item the United States claims that after the battle of Gettysburg offensive operations bv the insurgents were conducted only at sea, through the Anglo-Confederate cruisers, in the hope of involving the oountry in a war with Great Britain, and that the latter ought in equity to re imburse the United States for the expense thereby entailed upon them.

VIII. Interest upon an ine ciaims up to the day when the award is payable by the terms of the treaty, which twelve months after the date of the award, at the usual rate of interest in the city of New York, where most of the claims or individuals are held, which is seven per cent, per annum. The United States claims that interest should be computed from an average day, say July 1, 1873.

A ceaatspoNPiHT writes to the Balti

more Sun " that he takes no stock in the ' new woman's club.' He nays that the 'old woma's club is enough for him frequently too much."

There are J4 newspapers published in the SUte of Iowa. Of these, 153 are Republican, 38 are Democratic, 25 with politics unknown, and 4 are neutral. The daily papers in the State number 21, of which 14 are Republican, and 7 Democratic