The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-12-21
CLIPPINGS.
The New York Tribune states editori,

AuS A>CW L vi 1TtOUuc States 6UltOrlal-
ly:
1--WE are assured that Gen. Schenck 8
interest in the Emma Mine was acquired,
and his promise to serve as Director of
the Company secured, before he was ap-
pointed to the British Embassy Or ex-
,pected to be-. It seems to us that this
fact should be accepted as conclusive" :"
New postal arrangements have been
concluded between the United States and
Denmark, whereby henceforth letter post
age will be seven cents instead of ten,
and newspaper postage four instead of
six. This will go into effect on January
1st. A system of registered letters has
also been adopted. Under this new con-
vention, New York and Chicago become
the only two American Offices of exchange
of mails.
The Louisville Courier Journal is skep-
tical in regard to the workings of tho
''possum policy" and cannot, for the life
of it "see whore John Quincy Adams
gets his figures and the st. Louis Repub-
hican its facts. The Schurz Blair Brown
programme" it thinks develops
poorly. IfLyman Trumbull will none of
it, no more win Charles Sumner and
Horace Greely, and as for the Cincinnati
Commercial and Chicago Tribune, they
are moro off than ever they were ON. 4"
The young Grand Duke Alexis did q
pleasant and graceful thing when he sent
S.. ZOO for tho poor of New York. He
has enjoyed his visit here. we are glad to
learn, and naturally wants others beside
himself to have pleasant recollections of
the occasion. His gift, received in the
same kindly spirit with which it was sent,
will make more friends for the modest
young scion of the Romanoffs.
+, The action brought by two or three
National banks of Madison, Involving the
validity of the State law for the taxation
of shares in the National banks for the
years 1865 and 1866, and which was de-
cided against the plaintiffs by our Su-
preme court, and an appeal taken to the
United States Supreme court, the de-
cision has by that body been affirmed ty
Chief Justice Chase, the whole bench
concurring. This will reduce the State
tax from fifty to sevcnty-five thousand
dollars. that being the sum invoved in
the action. ga
The Republican members of the Legis-
lature of Missouri, held meeting at
Jefferson City, on the 7th inst, and
pledged themselves to united action in
the future, and to sustain the action of
the National Republican convention,
coming They condemn those individu-
ais who, having been honored by the Re-
publican party in the past, are now seek
ing, by chicanery and dissembled profu-
sions of hberality, to prostitute their
positions, and destroy their party fol
their OWN aggrandisement. They sub
NIT that the present administration of the
Republican party compares favorably
with that of any that has ever existed in
any nation.
Russia is going ahead. The construc.
ton of tie canal to connect the Caspian
Sea with the Euxine will be begun in the
spring. The Menyclt and the Kouma,
large rivers which drain the north slope
of the Caucasus-cne flowing Into the
CT pian and the other into the estuary
of the Don-are to be joined so as to
open the Caspian to all nations. More
over, Russia will largely increase her mill
tary strength by being able to combine at
pleasure the Black Sea and Caspian flo
tillas. 1t is not stated whether the new
waterway viii be open to merchant YES
sells. s.s.
Gov. Campbell of Wyoming Territory,
thus speaks in his recent message =
"W omen have voted in the territory,
served on juries and held Office. It is
simply justice to say that women entered
for the first time 10 the lnstory.of the
eountry upon these new and untried du-
ties. have conducted themselves IN every
respect nth "a much tao, sound judg-