The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-09
News Items.

News Items.
Favorable adyices have been received
at Washington of the prospects Of the
Christians in the Canadian war;
A cable dispatch hints that the late
conference of Russian statesmen on the
Eastern question has warlike siguii-
canoe.
A Paris dispatch of the Sd states that,
all reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, the project of general conference
has been abandoned.
Gen. Hancock has appointed Mr.
johnson Baker Governor of Louisiana
vice B. +. Flanders, resigned. Baker is
of Conservative antecedents.
The internal revenue receipts have
shown gratifying increase within the
past two weeks, having risen from $3.50,
OD0 TO S ,000, 900 per day
A passenger car on the Harlem Rail
road was literally blown down fifteen
feet embankment in heavy gale few
days ago. Several persons were injured,
but none seriously.
Gov. Bullock, of Massachusetts,, was
inaugurated on Friday. La his message
he deprecates confscation, or other ex-
treme measures, and favors the election
of Grant to the Presidency.
The English commander in Ireland is
making active preparations to resist an
lnsurrection which is feared in the coun-
ties of Cork and Tipperary, and also to
prevent the landing of parties of Fenians.
1t is announced that the French police
have discovered and seized the Fcnian
headquarters il, Paris, with a number of
letters and documents which, they have
forwarded to the English Government
Among the papers is said to be plan
for burning portion Of the British
Channel feet.
= The Grant campaign in Norwich,
Conn, was inaugurated on Saturday night
last by one OF the largest political meet
ings ever held in that city. The enthu-
siasm was abundant, and the speeches
very earnest III the presentation Of Cen
cra Grant for President and ex-Govcrnoi
Buckingham, OF Connecticut, for Vice
President. Addresses We're made by
Hon Lafayette s. Foster Gate acting
Wee y e u! :atl, Col CROSBY, Hon. J. hn
T. Wait, and Hon H. H. Starkweatller.
Tx Senator Foster, i'll the co .rse OF his
remarks, said that he believed General
ttraut united in himself more Of the at
tribute, necessary IN the President of the
nation than any other man In it. He
was not only ii great soldier, bat was pos
sessed of great administrative ability.
Since he had held the Office of Secretary
OF War ilc nau rci ,nIed abuses, cut
down expenditures, abolished sinecure
Offices, an CONDUCTED the mil Il, y affairs
of the country with greater ability than
had ever been shown in their manage
mcnt before. Ii he could do this in the
War Department.. what might he not do
In the White House? A resolution
nominating Grant and Buck!ng ham was
carried amid storm of cheers.
We have now: besides the Cuba cable
and many other small ones, two Atlantic
cables in operation, a third one Oh the
eve of construction from France to the
| Island of St. Peter :, and thence to the
United States, and at the present time a
company is being organized in England
Atlantic. Of which Brcst, France, and
New York will be the tr,n,ia,. The
company is called the Franco American
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organize with a capital stock Of s900, 900
One third of the stock and directors will
be given to England, one third to France
and one-third to the United States The
books have been opened in England and
It's share OF the stock subscribed The
French bankers, it is SAID have guaran-
tced the subscription OF another third.
\ contract has already been made with
tue India Rubber and Gutta Perclla Tel
egraph Company. Of Silvertown, Lon
don, for the manufacture Of three thous-
and seven hundred miles Of cable. which
will support Itself in water "A distance vi
thirty miles. The contractors have taken
the English subscription as an advance
payment, and viii at once proceed with
the manufacture of the cable, which will
probably be laid next summer. This new
company have received valuable conces-
sions already, including one from the
French Government, giving them for five
years all transatlantic business coming this
way that touches French wires, and one
from the Submarine Telegraph Company
across the English Channel, who agree te
give them ali the messages that touch
their wires en- route to Brest.
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