Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 March 1872 — Page 3
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Eoht. , the trial f Mayor Hull st Now York Friday, (Survey testified that of a frsudu.tM f NMM he only rer.ive.l thirtym. .iw rr. iM. Tlx' remainder wai diitribuSL'STfXwII To Tweed. $60.000; I ( Um V rir.iH Club. $00,000; to Woodward, clerk V': ; Hoard o. Supervisors, $13,000; and fLltU, amounts tO Beveru! other turtles. S ' tnmiiiK ft otWomo m emiaafwi
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,v the nii;iiior. '" l" "" The ko00 of Captain Bryant, ut MaohiusiM.rt Me., win l.umedon Thursday morning, ki.taiu Hryant, together with his wile and two ßrahd .dtttgmten, ROrUBM in the fire. Mrs. JAM Madih.w at New York on Saturday recover..! $.r,000 ugaiust tho Btatou Island Ferry Company for tha death of her husband by the Wertfield explosion In the harbormaster' investigation at New York on Saturday ne of the witnessesstatcd Hint he would give $25,000 lor the privileges
ninved by one of tho harbormasters,
whom thero are eloven in tho city. At a meeting of tho Directors of tho Erie railway at New York on Monday, Gen. Dix was elected President and Gen. McClellan Vico President of the mad. Eight new directors were also chosen, thus completely routing Gould and tho remainder of the tbievei Carlo Vogt has been arrested at Philadelphia, charged with murdering Chevalier DuUois de Bianco, in Brussels, last number, aettini; fire to his house and stealing
.purities value, at 10.000. A portion of
the stolen property wm lound on
The fine residence ot Älr. 1). J. Keekie, at Montreal, whs burned on Saturday night. Loss $50,000 A farmer's child near Biddeford, Me., last week died of cold and starvation while its parents were away drunk, and a famished hound horribly mutilated the corpse. EiEt i. Shai KSER.of Morrisburg,ra.,wno
has been tried for the murder of his firstai.d second wives and John Sherlock, by poisoning, has been convicted of murder in the first degree The packing room of the Meri len Malleable Iron Works, at Meriden, Conn., was burned on Monday evening. Loes $60,000 At Greenbush, N. Y., on Tuesday, Samuel Fargue shot his wifo dead, fired at his daughter without effect, and cut his owa thro:.t with a jagged, rusty, jack knife, inflicting a frightful wound Evidence has leen given before the New York Beaate Committee, that $5,000,000 full paid stock of the Eeach pneumatic tunn-1, New York, has been issued, incurring an indebtedness to that amount for noothor consideration than the purchase of its charter and patents, and nu part used in the construct. n of tie road. The lumberyards of II. R. Deacons, Huns ckcr Jk Co. and Patterson A Co., at Phi'adelphia, were damaged by fire on Tuesday night to the amount of $60,000; inmrancc $54,000 A complete change in the direction ot the New York and Mahopac railroad took placo on Wednesday. The road comes under the control of Van-derbilt.
staze robbers. An arme.l party pur- '"'" -"- ' m TT
ti him, when a desperate Bait ensued. Caris as a precaunon aga usi irouoie ou ine
e robber was shot three times, mortally antnversary ot .e communist msuriwwon. J . t A . . 1.1 in f 1 , . mem.tPV rF lh Karl rtf
Dded, and taken prisoner. 11 admits - X. . Z Vni.::
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A. T. Stewart has arranged for the con
struction of loo houses at Jamaica Plains, L. I., this spring, at a cost of $190,000 The number of firms in New York engaged under false nnnics in swindling persons by means of lottery, counterfeit money, and other schemes, is over five hundred. T he Post Office authorities have an alphabetical list, and are showing increased activity in fighting the evil The Iran City Brewery, of Pittsburgh, owned by Fraunhcim k Feilsch, was seised by the revenue oflice-s on Thursday for making false returns and other ofTi'nses against the government. The seizure embra.e.l the entire stock, machinery and other personal property found on the prenrses, amounting to about $15,000. The West. A riR at Lincoln, 111., on Thursdsy night, destnyed Thubey's jewelry store; Brewer's Ball, occupied on the lower floor by stores, and Houster's Block. Loss estimated at $50,000 to $75,000 Twenty mules were burned to ileal b n Saturday in a freight car on the Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad, by the straw on the lloor taking fire by a spark from the locomotive On Saturday a atage driver between Stockton and Jenny Lind, Cul., Raw a man in the chap
arral, and recognized him as one of the
recent
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mst no wn en truce
robuericB, but refuses to give Ins name. Lravbr A MerviVs ssw mill, situated at Moline, Mich., was blown up on Monday. Three men named J. Leaver, J. Staffer, Bnd Frederick Huff, were killed, and five others injured, some of them quite seriously. The water was allowed to get too low in tho boil, r The livery establishment of W. II. Torry, at Webster City, Iowa, was entirely destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, consisting of a large stock of buggies and sleighs, and twelve vslusble horses. No insurance On Saturday night, Michael Dunn, with a son three years old in his
arms, attempted to cross the St. Louis A andelia railroad track to East St. Louis, in front of en approaching train, and was run over and fatally wounded. The child escaped with the loss of the toes of the right foot A young man named Joseph Newmsn went to Breese Lake, 111., on Sunday last, to shoot ducks. Newman discharged one barrel of his gun at a duck, but the ether barrel snapped. lie then blew into tho barrel to see if it wss loaded, when it was discharged and blew the top of hie head off. Trr Supremo Court of Kansas has set aside the verdict in the Medlicott case, and
ordered a new trial, mainly on the ground that the lower Court admitted as testimony the dying ststernent of Ruth, the murdered nisn The West Hotel, at Mendon, Mich., was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. Loss $10,000; insured for $5,000 A yoang man named John Wallace was shot and killed by a Mr. Harvey, in Saline, Kansas, on Monday night. Wallace was on a spree, and made a noise before Harvey's door, whereupon the latter shot him The Secretary of War has ordered the removal of certain obstructions in the Chippewa river at Eau Claire, Wis G. W. Kirk, a cltisen of Clark county, Indiana, committed suicide at Jeffersonville, on Monday, by throwing hiniRelf under a moving freight train Geo- W. FiRhbac.k, one of the proprietors of the St. Louis Democrat, has commenced suit against his partners for a dissolution of tho
firm Slid a valuation of the property Christian Frlbolin, a (iermun music- teacher, living at Mas t ili, a kbort distance from Belleville, 1 II., charged with au at.einpt la commit a rape in October laat, blew out lit brains on Katurd y last, in constoueueo of sn intiiaaliou from his bondsmen tl.it tln v were about to deliver him up to the Sheriff. Tue WiaeOBsil State Republican Convention met ut Mudison on Wednesday. The delegateR to the National Convention were instructed to east their unit. l vete for a renomination of Grant Samuel C. Landry, a rckidcut of Flint, Mich., employed as brakemaii en u coal train, was run over on Tuesday morning ami fatally injured David L. Taffart was run over by a train ol
ears at Rt. h uns on Wenaesuay, and instantly killed W. H KitteuhouBc, a conductor of the Belleville uud ßouticrii Illiiioih railroad, W is run over and killed at Belleville, III., on Wednesday. His head was horribly crushed. Pkter Smith shot snd killed Michael Bchailer, his brothor-in-luw, in a drunken quarrel at Gross Point, near Chicago, on Wednesday. The murderor was arrested Tho Calumet feeder dam of the Illinois and Michigan canal is to bo removed immediately. Thousands of acres of land now overflow! d will ho reclaimed in consequence D. 0. Cole, for several years Secretary of tho Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, is discovered to be a defaulter in the sum of $25,000. Cole haa fled, leaving his young wilo and two children behind Willie Bradley, 16 years old, was killed at Shelbyville, Ind., on Thursday, while trying to couple cars The Globe Insurance Company of Chicago announces its readiness to pay all its losses in full. It is the first Chicago company to resume business since the fire. The South.
Early on Thursday morning, three ne-
Vogt I groes broke into the houBo of an old man of
eichtv years named James McNeill, near
Shelby City, Ky., and brutally murdered him. splitting his head open w;th sn ax and
stabb ug him in several places. Two of the three negroes have been arrested and identified by the wife of the murdered man. Ges. Longstiief.t has resigned as Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans. A si it was entered in the United 8tnteg Circuit Court at Richmond on Monday, by direction ef tho Attorney General of the United States, to foreclose a mortgage executed by the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company during the late war, to the Confederate States, to secure $1,000,000, which it is claimed has reverted to the United States Mott's Palace Flour Mills at Columbus, Ga., were burned by an incendiary on Tuesday morning. Loss $75.000; no insurance Tho letter-carriers of Richmond resigned in a body in consequence of
the dismissal of their cniel by the l tmaster A bill repudiating one-third of the public debt, represented by the bonds
known as West Virginia certificates, passe'i
the lower Virginia House on
All new railroads in Tennesaee are to get
flO.Ofili a mile subRidy, and must pay into
the State treasury one-half per cent, of the
grosR receipts within twy years alter receiving the subsidy. The Kentucky State Republican Convention met at Louisville on Wednesday.
About 300 delecates wee present, one-fourth
of whom were colored. The delegates were
instructed fer Grant and Harlan A r.e
alternoon naner. styled the Jifqiitcr, has
appeared at Memphis. It is edited by F. A
Tavlor. lute editor of the Appeal Judge
Bustecd. of the United States District Court
of Alabama, sittine in bankruptcy, on Wed
nesday eranted OB order for the Rale of the
Alabama and ( hattanooga railroad, subject
to every lien of the Mate ot Alabama for m
dorsemeuta of the bonds of said railroad,
and for all interest paid by the State on the indorsed bonds. Tho sale is ordered for the
22d of April by the assignees
consequently result In an increase of the resource of the country The new English iron ela I ram Rupert was launched on Tuesday from lue Kovernmenl dock yard at Chatham Advu es trom Mo Jniro Rtat that a tremendous land tilde oeiurred on the line of the Paulo railroad. An inclined plane, miles in extent, moved from its foundations, and bnrie I t I rad, f'-r a bmg distance, under earth and rocks. It was believed that it would lake two mouths' work to restvre the road to working order.
Five new English war vessels have been launched during the past two weeks A telegram from ii bra! tar rejKrts a distressing disaster in that harbor, whereby a number of poople bei nging to the royal navy lost
their lives. A boat ncionging u mm anmu steam frigate Ariadne, at anchor off the town, while going from tho vessel to the shore, captiaadL and eleveu persons were drowned, including two officers It is re
ported that Thiers on Wednesday gave Unat
notice to sngiaa i oi me renuncitiou oy France of the commercial treaty between
the two nations Posen, the apothecary
who w.-;s suspected of contemplating a mur
derous attack m Bismarck, has been re-
leased. Proct'edintrs in Congress. In the Senate on the Hin the Secreretary of the Interior was directed to communicate toe information in his posses? i. concerning tho occupation of the Indian Territory by unauthorised persons Statues ot Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman were formally presented to the United States, in the name of the people of Connecticut, to be placed in the old hall of the House of Representatives. In making the presentation, Mr. Buckingham and Mr. Ferry mide appropriate addresses. Mr. Anthony offered a resolution accepting the statues, and returning the thanks of Congress to the people ot Connecticut for presenting them, and briefly addressed the Senate on the subject. The resolution was unanimously adopted The Senate then went into executive session, and soon after
adjourned to Monday, the 11th.
In the House on the aame day Mr. Shanks,
from the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill authorising the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the Ute In-
lians in Colorado for the extinguishment of
their right to the south part of their reser
vation. He explained that tjis reservation
contained 14,000,000 acres, including valua
ble mineral lands, while the Indians only
numbered 4.000. It is desirable to have the title put in the Government, so that mineral
interests there mignl be developed. I ne bill was passed The amended bill making
Pittsburgh a port ot delivery was concurred in The bill for the payment of $100 bounty to soldiers, or their widows and
orphans, mustered into service prior to July 22. IUI, up to which time no bounties
were allowed, was taken up. un motion ot
Mr. Kllogg, of Connecticut, the bill was
amended, mkinc it apply to s ellers who
bill was passed granting the Davenxrt and Rt. Paul r 1 1 road right of way over the Government Rock Island i III., brid e, the company to aaotribslM one third of the expenses of maintaining the bring- The House ti i n u I t ii. io Committee oi t .e Whole ou tLe Poatoffice Appropriation bill, which was discussed until adjournment. In the Senat on ÜM 14th the hill for the erect:on of public buildings at St. Louie was passed The Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up. Au amendment was adopted increasing the salaries of United States District Judges and the Judges of the Court of Claims to $3,000, and the bill passed The Tariff bill was discussed without action Adjourned.
In thi House on the same day a but
coat iTKO.OOO, and than 111,000.
ia now worth not leaa
Explanation Dodge.
u peculiarity about inventi-
naesed sppropriating $337,000 to reimburse
Kansas for her expenditures
in equipping, troopR A
ClairnR
coin-
Rvibsiitiritr, and paying
bill authorizing the Southern
Commission to appoint special miseioners to take testimony
pas.ed Mr. Garfield, from the Confer -nee Committee on the bill for the St. Louis Custom -H-use, made a report appropriating $600.000 for the site, and $760,000 for the building. The report wss agreed to and the House ad'ourned.
Foreign. Tbk Medical Commission
nor, the Queen's assailant, is of sound mind, but an enthusiastic Fenian. O'Connor said to the Commission that he used an unloaded nistol because ho only desired to frighten
the Queen into a compliance with his de
mand. Any fatal result from his assault won Id have brought the Prince of Wales to
the throne, and thatevent he does not deRire. He wiRhes the Queen to be the Isst English monarch Tho payment of 2,000,000,000
francs war indemnity, togethfr with interest to date on the remaining 3,000,000,000, waR completed on Wednesday at Strasbourg.
This irives Fiance entire control of six de
partments. in which she is allowed to main
tain as large a military force as she desires.
and around
francR on
county, lie. and, the family Reat ot the de
ceased.
Taa Emperor of Germany has pardoned all French culprits confined in Germsn
prisons The condition of the French ns
tional tressury, even after the peying ot the fourth 500,000,000 of indemnity, is satisfactory. The Minister of Finance is enabled
to report a balance of 450,000,000 hand.
A nisrATcn from Pisa, Italy, announces the death of Joseph Mazxini, the well-known
Italian Republican.
It is stated that the French Government
is negotiating with the
lin, with a view of anticipating the full
payment of the war indemnity, thereby securing the complete evscuation of France hv the Germans A meetine of the share
holders of the Suez canal was held in Taris
on Tuesday. President LesReps made a renort. in w hich ho stated that the direction
of the company has no intention of selling
the canal to anv crovernmeni ; inaiine iramc
over the canal is largely increasing, and thst
the receipts during the months oi January and February of the present year amounted
to 2.577.000 francs A number oi promi
nent Russians are negotiating with the Polish refugees in France for their return to their native country. These negotiations
lnnk in n reconciliation between the Czar
and the disaffected Poles, a general amnes
ty, and the appointment of the Grand Duke Alexis to bo the Viceroy of Poland The
Russian fleet, with the Grand Duke Alexis nn hoard. Railed on Tuesday from Havana
for Rio de Janeiro.
AccoRPixa to advices received at Paris
from flnnin. a crisis is at hand. King Am
adeus is concentrating his army around Ma
Mi. .lianrminff the National guard, and
urennrinc to defend his throne The Lon
ton T.mt vi that the election of the new
Board of Krio Directors, snd ine eievauon m
General Dix to the Presidency, will restore confidence to the American enterprise, aud
were mustered in betöre tne ein osy oi August, and was then passed The House
went into Committee of the wnoie on me
Monday Post Office Appropriation bill. The bill ap-
propnatesf 2,20o,0(io. v srious amendments
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were proio8ed snd rejected, and me committee rose without reaching a vote Ad
journed to Monday, March 11.
In the Senate on the 11th twelve
thousand copies of the census report were ordered to be printed After the introduc
tion of several new bills the Appropriation
bill was taken up. The amendment ap
propriating $50,000 for civil service reform was adopted by a vote of 15 to 21 Without further action the Senate adjourned.
In the House on the 11th a reso-
lution was adopted for investigat
ing the charges affecting Secretary Robeson, and Messrs. Blair (Mich.),
Sargent, Peters, Voorhees and Warren were
sppointed a select committee Mr. Getz offered a resolution instructing the Commit
tee of Ways and Means to report on the propriety of abolishing all internal revenue laws, and imposing taxes on States in proportion to populstion, which was agreed to.
find thst O'Con- -.... Mr Fa-n.worth from Am Fat OMm
omiuiiiee. rei. riea a uni 10 in i n .ut
system of straw bids for car.-ying'mails, and
Croviding that any tiers on wue nas puv ia a id and who then fails to enter into con
tract and to perform service, shall be
deemed truiltv of misdemeanor, and be lia
ble to a penalty M 5,0" nne and one year s imprisonment. An amendment authorizing the Postmaster General to accept new
sureties from contractors in place of exist-
iiic sureties was aereed to. ine Din as
amended then passed Mr. Killinger of
fered a resolution declaring that the ponoy
of granting subsidies in public lands to
railroad and other corporations ougni i u
discontinued, snd th t every consideration
of public nolicv and eaual justice to the
hole people require tne puonc u;nu iu uw
held for homesteads lor actual seiners ami for educational purposes. Agreed to with
out a division Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 12th the bill
rr.nl nir tho nzht of way to the ureal
O w Southern railroad in Florida was passed
A resolution was adopted asking the
President to inform the benste what
amount of money had been expended by the Government during the past three years lor
telegraph service, including cable dispatches, and the rates paid The Legisla
tive Appropriation bill was taken up. An
amendment was adopted appropriating $50,000 for the publication of laws in the
nawsnaners. An amendment providing that
after the publication of the laws of the present Congress the publication of the laws
Our Opportunity. The Democratic party never in its history has had a Letter opjiortunity of vindicating it-elf as the party of the people thun now; and the question preaenta itself in the form of an inquiry : will it accept the means within it reach to give to the country an honest admin-
i.-tration ol attairsr the Kepaniicaw party rode into power at a time when the circumstances were most propitious made bo by a long hold of jower by the Democratic party, which had in the mc-antimo become careless, and to some extent profligate, in the management of atl.i t . by long continuance at the head of public matters. They therefore fell an easy prey to the enemy ; and, as a sequence, the war. with its untold horrors, was precipitated upon the country. )rVhen th? war came, the Democratic m .-ses, true to the flag, buried all animosities, and sallied to its defense: and on every field lie buried beneath the sod t-ome of the nobiest and bravest of
the party. At the close of the war they returned to their homes to engage in civil life. Thev have not Wen very ac
tive as partisans since, and thereiore the country has continued an easy prey to Republican rule. But so entirely anti-democratic has become the Republican party that appearances look toward a formidable union of the Democratic hosts once more in defense of constitutional government The prospect of success was never more flattering. Let wise counsels prevail in thecoming canvass, and the Democratic party will be triumphant. It does not require a very
keen vision to see that with a ur'teu
front and an availment of all the means
at command, Grant and his adherents can be routed most effectually.
Let us not be too particular, but let
us avail our.-elves of all means that are honorable to rescue the land from the
misrule of the Grants. Let us invite men of all creeds to join us in the great and glorious work of exterminating the corrupt ionists the brioe-takers and
thus relieve the country trom tue on mm under which it now rests. Chicago Xeics.
The
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utions into Radical rascalities. .No I. er are the charges preferred .nan the aroused cornea voluntarily forward and proffer an explanation u interest- . i? it i-- na cuiaie. In every in--lance thus far tin- miid-t typ'- of investigation ha ; rov. sufficient to blow this exphina' on to Sinti a. Then-win Senator dames Wood. He went to Albany pennile-s, with $l.'i.(MX) in unatia-lit-d judgments hanging over hi head at borne. He served lor $'1 a !-y, and at the end of two years it came not that be had depoaitea 121,000 In Tweed's Savings B nk. When the 7Vi6un made the damaging fact public the Senator was ready with an explanation, lie nev-r received the mcney ; he did receive the money, but he gave his note for it; Mr. Tweed lent him the money; it wasn't bi3 money at all, but belonged to an "embarrassed'' friend of his and on to the climax of ronfuiion. And now when the investigation which he -courted," with about the name fondness that Mr. Pickwick courted the Widow Bardt ll. has been granted, it is noticeable t h it through the closed doors of the committee-room come rumors to he effect that there imt whitewash . nouirh in Albany to cover the black
ened character of .Senator James Wood. U ica Observer.
A Broad Democratic Platform. The Hon. R. D. Hubbard, the Demo m S m
cratic candidate tor uovernor oi Con
necticut, recently wrote a letter to a committee of Germans assembled in
mass meeting at Hartford whicu was distinguished for its practical sense and
calm di-cus?ion ot certain topics uis-
cussed by the convention. He declared
himself in favor ot religious liberty in political life, the purity of the ballot-
box, the enforcement of the laws, proper
iiualitications in candidates for othoe.
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and o! popular education in its uroa-iest
.-ense ; and opposed to all sorts ot corruption and evil practice in politics, no
matter where or in wnat party, i ue law, in his judgment, should know no difference between the home-born and
the foreign-born, ami this principle should apply also to the distribution of office, in like manner he declared his opposition to the attempt to put un
reasonable restrictions on tne rigni oi naturalization. In regard to 'temperance laws," he considered that it ia im
possible to lay a legal embargo on men s mouths in respect to drink or diet, and that even if this could be done, it ought not to be allowed under a free government. The traffic in liquors, he thought, need regulation, and its abuse needs
r dress ; but prohibition was out ot the
question.
More Radical Riugs. It seems as there was to be no end to the exposures of corruption existing under the present Administration. The Cincinnati Commercial says that Secretary Boutwellwas notified six months ago that there was a whisky ring in New Orleans in which United States officials must be implicated, and that the proofs that there were important frauds in that city were laid before him. Yet nothing hn- been done in the matter. Affairs have come to a pretty pass when the influence of Government is exerted to protect the men engaged in frauds upon the Treasury, to the destruction ol the business interests of honest men
who pay their taxes and conform to the laws.
Political Notes. The New York Tribvne, speaking of the resolution of the State faction dominant in South Carolina, indorsing the National financial policy which has reduced the public debt and lessened the public taxation at the same time, says : ''Considering these lascals have sold themselves to measureless infamy over and over by stealing their poor State poorer than she ever was before, quad
rupling her exjienses, doubling her debt, :,nd trebing her taxea, this resolve strikes us as the Cuimborazo of imposture and villainy." R. C. Delarce, the colored '.Representative from South Carolina, is very careful in the manner of the bestowal of his weighty influence. At a recent Radical assemblage at Columbia, he held up a printed Conservative t icket, and declared that " neither he nor the colored people would vote it, even if it had Jesus Christ's name on it." Such a ticket would find very few supporters in the
Radical party which would be all the better for the ticket. Thi St. Louis Democrat asserts that the May Convention of Liberal Republicans will ratify the ticket nominated by the Labor Reformers, but the Cincinnati Commercial says it will do no such thing: that it will make no nominations, and that the entire work of the Convention will consist in framinn a declaraticn of
principles against the Whiggery in the Republican party. Hov. Joseph Brooxs, of Little Rock, Ark., made a speech on Monday night, in which he statrd he would neither support any member of the present Administration, nor any person who did support them. The Iemocrats were successful in the
municipal elections at Manistee ana Owasso, Mich., and both show Demo
cratic gains.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee of Arkansas have issued a call for a State Convention on the 10th of June.
It is understood that the Georgian
who recently invented a " patent railsplitter "' does not intend to run it for
President.
in newspapers shall cease was also adopted.
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uovernmeni.ai.iier- , x ion. iU Kill rr.nl.
Ill IUC lil'UBC U IU5 .Vi. MV ..... ft
ine to the Central l'acinc ranroaa me uae
of half of the island of Yerba Buena, in Bin
Francisco hsrbor. was taken up and finally
recommitted to the Pac.fic Railroad Com
mittee, with instructions to amend by pro
viding that the President appoint three
vmiiiiionera at the expense of the Central
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Pacific road to hear all parties lnterestea, who shall award, three months after the
nrvi.intrnent.nueh sum for t b use of hall
of the island as shall be iust and couitable,
to be paid by the Central Company a resolution declaring B. F. Myers entitled to
the seat from tho Sixteenth Pennsylvania
nmtriet waR adopted The House went
into Committee ol the Whole on the Post-
office Appropriation bill, and soon after ad
journed.
In the Senate on the 13th a bill
passed authorising a survey, and marking off the boundary line between the United
sttatea and the British Possessions from the
i..k nf the Woods to the summit of the
Uookv Mountains The remainder of the
nession was taken up with the discussion of
Mr Conkline's resolution as to recotnmen-
.t.tiona for omce bv the Senators from New
York, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska. I.. t,o ii. mam nn tht aame day a bill
passed providing that minors shall not be enlisted in the military service without the their narenU or Kuardians A
The
beams retarv
Two
a poor
Rascalities of Robeson. New York Sun thus benignly upon Grant's favorite, the Seo
of the Navy : years ago, Geo. M. Robeson was lawyer in Camden, N. J. Now
he is General Grant's Secretary of the
Navy, and a very rich man in ashing-
ton. Kooeson nas become i icn uy ruw hing the pe pie of the Unite I St ttes.
Iiis robberies nave oeen enormous iu
amount, and arestul coing torwaro. in
all the history of political corruption
ind official robLerv no one, not even
William M. Tweed, can be pronounced
superior to Robeson. The steam ma chinery in the United States man-of-
war Tennessee, is new an t con twr
000. It is said to be good and u-etui,
but. according to Chief-Lngineer King
needs to be raised on a level with the
shaft. This change Mr. King proposed
to have made, but he was sent to fcu rne to act him out of the way, and i
private arrangement was made with Johu Roach & Son to buii I a new en
gine. There was no adver ; cement, as the law requires, but a s ret bargain
was concluded with Roach. As Koach
La a Democrat, political coi -.derations
had nothine todowith the n-gotiations
The rascality is in the mode of paying
for the enirine. Roliesou has contract
ed to pay Roach ftf0,H"0 in cash, which
ia nimm ita worth, and to itive him, in
addition, the present cneine, which
At the charter election in Oswego, N.
Y., on the 4th inst.. Alanson 8. rage,
Democrat, was elected Mayor.
The Election in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire election occurred
on the 12th inst., resulting in the choice of the complete Republican ticket, as
follows:
Governor Exekiel A. Straw, or .man-
Chester. . . ... .
Railroad Commissioner Aloert a.
Twitchell, of Gorham.
Councillors 1. Samuel 1. low ; i.
John H. Morrill; 3. Wni. P. Newell ; 4.
Dexter Richards; 5. Chester liutchins.
Governor Straw was elected ty a ma
jority estimated at 1,500.
Write the Name of the Coanty. The Pobtmaater General issues the following notice : "Owing to the rapid increase in the mails and the establishment of many new Post Offices throughout the country, thia department finds it necessary, in order to secure a speedy transmission of the heavy mails now passing, particularly over the trunk lines of railroads, to request the public, that in all cases the name of the county as well as the roil Office and State, be superoenbed upon letters, circulars, newspapers, and other matter forwarded by mail. J. A. J. Ceswiix, Postmaster General."