The true northerner., 1871-08-18

to cover in a single patent more than one
article Of manufacture, unless the several
improvements presented are necessarily re-
lated to, or connected with, each other. In
other words, as many applications must be
filed as there are distinct features in the in
vention ....A record of steamboat boiler
explosions, kept in the Office of the Board of
Supervising Inspectors of the Treasury De-
partment, shows that there were more lives
lost by the Westfeld disaster, at New York,
than by all the steamboat explosions in
either of the past two years. In 1869 there
were 81 lives lost by explosions on steamers
of all characters, including river, lake and
ocean craft; and in 1870 the number was
but "a, of which SS were passengers and 2l
crew.
CHIEF DETECTIVE WooD is out with a COM
munication charging Secretary Boutwell,
with maladmin;stration in his Office. 1t
looks very much as though this was an
other feature" in the Boutwell, Please al ton
unpleasantness... The Secretary of the
Treasury has decided that boats conveying
foreign merchandise between New Orleans
and st. Louis under the regulations of May
8, 1871, are not governed, as respects clear
ance and manifests, by the act of Feb Is,
1910, nor JHe ACT OF Ndrcn 1911.
The President, on the Sth inst, suspended
Commissioner Pleasonton from office, and
appointed j. w. Douglas as Commissioner of
Internal Revenue until the next session of
Congress. The report recently circulated
that Charles Francis Adams has declined
the appointment of arbitrator under the
treaty of Washington, is incorrect. The
President has received letter from that
gentleman, informing him of its acceptance
49,. Secretary Fish declared on Tuesday, to
a Herald reporter that he had no intention
of resigning "".. Official statistics just com
pleted show that for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1870, the value of wheat and wheat
flour exported from the United States was
S57, ,429 $50, of which $9,99S,922 was from the
Pacific coast.
Foreign.
SPECIAL cable dispatch from London
says papers have been seized at Marseiles
relating to the purpose of the International
lists to fire the docks, burn the shipping, and
to take the city during the confusion which
was supposed to be a consequence of the
confagrations. Nancy and Bourges were to
be fired and taken on the same plan..... The
Deputies of the Left Centre, in caucus, have
resolved to vote for the promulgation of
Thiers's powers and for changing his title
to that of chief executive, with the power of
President.... Donald Dalrymple, Esq, for
merly an eminent surgeon and physician,
ard now member of Parliament for Bath
will, after the session of Parliament, visit
the United States for the purpose of making
a study of the American course of treatment
for the reformation of inebriates.
COUNT DE REMUsAT has been appointed
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uice Favre re-
signed. .... NJ. Quertier, Minister of Finance,
! has completed the payment of another in
stallment of 500 ,O00,0 900 francs of the war
indemnity .....Gen. Mcmahon reports the
total casualties of the Versailles forces in
the second seige of Paris at 75,l42. .... Trains
for the transportation of passengers and
| freight will commence to run through the
Mount Gents tunnel on the 18th of Septem-
Der, when there will be formal inaugura-
tion of the road.."..A motion has been made
in the French assembly, on the part of the
deputies of the left centre, for a prolonga-
ton of the powers of Thiers for three years.
Thers to be President Of the republic, to
which he shall be alone responsible 1t is
understood that the motion is supported by
400 members of the assembly 1.-The Brit
ish charge d'affairs at Teheran telegraphs to
the foreign office that the famine in Persia
is over, but provisions are at exhorbitant
! prices.."..The French postofiice authorities
are about arranging q money order system
with England and the United States.
The Orangemen and Catholics Of Ireland
are preparing for riot at Londonderry on
August ~. The military of that city will
be held in readiness, and reinforcements dis
patched by the Government to meet the
! threatened emergency......The weather
! throughout England continues fair, and
! favorable to the crops.....An unknown
American vessel, which had been aban-
doned at sea, has been towed into Penzance.
She had an extremely valuable cargo of
| paraffne.
A RIOT took place in Dublin on the even n g
of the 9th inst. The friends OF "amnesty"
attempted to get up meeting, but were dis
persed by the police after fight of half an
hour. Many persons were severely injured
....It is said the question of the prolonga-
ton of the powers of Thiers as Chief Ex-
ecutive will be allowed to go by default.
Gen. Vinoy, in a communication to the Off
cial journals, expresses with much warmth
his gratitude for England's generosity dur
ing the late war. He names the battle fields
! in which the valor and humanity of the
English was equally conspicuous.
THE New York Herald publishes private
letter from the Empress Eugenie, dated
Chiselhurst, June 27, upon Trochu's charac-
ter, and which animadverts on him severely
for his defense in the French Assembly
She says he betrayed the Republic, and was
equally false to the Empire She charges
him with knowledge of the plans of the
revolutionists, Sept 4, which frustrated the
engagement for intervention to which GER
tain power had been pledged 49,. Paris spe-
cials say the intensity of feeling against
Germany increases, and the feeling of the
entire nation is for another war as soon as
France has recovered her strength.
IT is reported that Napoleon is to take up
his residence in Switzerland. ....A foot and
mouth disease has broken out among the
cattle in the county of Meath, Ireland, and
of an extremely violent type.....A bill has
passed the French Assembly to compensate
the inhabitants in the different departments
for losses suffered during the war;. The
riots in Dublin, which occurred after the ar
rival of the Prince of Wales, were all sup.
pressed without loss of life. The populace
howeyt r, are very bitter against the Prince