The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-07

| OF tne neWlN-electeu MUNICIPALITY Oh
Paris will be the completion of a charter
that will secure the rights of the peo-
pie, and prevent the representation OF
! the large towns from being swamped by
the country representation. A second
article in the same journal demands
that all matters essentially Partisan
must be within the domain of the com
mune.
The London Ne,os has a special
from Paris, dated the 9th inst, stating
that the elections passed off quietly, and
resulted in an overwhelming communist
majority. The revolutionary spirit is
completely dominant. The abdication
of Admiral Sosset and the Mayors in
creases the success of the revolution,
which, within n week. will spread to all
! the large towns, and render the posses
sion of the Government in the rural dis
tricts untenable.
A dispatch from Paris, dated March
81, says: The result of the elections is
now known. The candidates of the
Central Republican Committee have
been elected in all the arrondissements
except the lst, 2d and 9TH, where
the vote stands as follows First AKRON
Observation-Disclosures of votes registered.
22,50O; number Of votes cast, | ,034, of
which the Committees candidates poll
ed $500. Second ACCOMPLISHMENT
Number registered, 22,S53 votes cast,
u, $50; Committee polled 1000. Sew
enth Observation-Disclosures regis
tered, 22,092; votes cast, 5,l75; old Off
GERS reelected. The aggregate vote was
very light.
The Havana (Cuba) Gaceta pub
fishes decree, in which it is ordered
that, on and after April |, an export
duty will be imposed on the following
articles: Sugar, per box, 75c; per hogs
head, Sl.5O; molasses, per hogshead,
soc; wax, per pound, l0c; rum, 81
raw tobacco, per pound, l5c cigars, per
thousand, 75c on island lumber, per
cent. On and after July |, a duty of 10
per cent. will be imposed on all goods
imported. Other local taxes are to be
augmented, and the proceeds are to be
used to redeem the notes already IS
sued, or to be issued, by the Spanish
banks and advanced to the Treasury for
war purposes.
Miscellaneous.
The Governor of Michigan has an.
pointed Mrs. Harriet A. Tenny State
Librarian for the coming two years.
"A New Orleans dispatch says that
most Of the 800 Chinese from the Ala
bama railroads will go on Louisiana plan
tatiOns.
The American Express Company
have shipped from Cleveland, within a
few days past, fifteen thousand pounds
OF unleavened bread to Pittsburgh, and
four thousand to Detroit.
A detachment of 100 troops left
New York. Saturday, for the Depart
ment of Texas; 100 more will leave for
Louisville, Ky, whittier another detach-
ment will follow in week.
Walt Whitman writes that he can
hardly doubt his death after reading
the obituaries in the New York papers
but as he has not yet been officially in
formed OF his demise, he prefers Cor the
time to consider himself alive.
"A dispatch from Memphis says sev-
eral large crevasses have lately appear
eel in the Mississippi river levees. in
the upper parishes of Louisiana. which
will intiict great damage upon some of
the most productive of the low lands in
that State.
The New Orleans Times recently
published a card, signed by nearly four
hundred prOperty-owners and tax-pay-
ers, among them many Of the most prom
nent business men of the city. declar-
ing that they will use every legal means
to resist the payment of all additions to
the State debt over and above the S25.-
100000 already incurred.
The actual decline in rents in New
York are put down as follows Seven.
eight or ten thousand dollar houses.
without quotation, and the landlords
are very glad to receive offers for
houses renting last year for $4,000
$500 to 81 900 is readily taken now:
$4,000 houses can be got this year for
$500 to $500. Last years $4,000
houses are quoted at $1,000 to $1,000.
Houses renting early last year for $1,000
can be had for $l.700 to 81 900. and
last years 81 800 houses are now $1,000
to 81, 900.
1t is rumored that the United States
ship Ticonderoga, at the Brooklyn Navy
fard-third-rate, ten guns, now flagship
of Port Admiral Stringham--has been
ordered to adjust her compass with ex.
care at once, and prepare
for special and important mission. A
few weeks ago she was commissioned
anew. and was sent to Brooklyn to re-
lievc the Na,1ag nsett, which latter YES
sci has recently sailed for San Fran.
cisco direct. Many naval officers arc
OF the opinion that we are on the eve
OF some important movement in naval