Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-13
NE VS. BIZ MAIL.

The senior class at West Point is confined
to barrack limits for mobbing three cadets.
The Germans of Philadelphia are to pre-
sent the Crown Prince of Prussia with q
splendid sword.
Six business houses were burned at Leba-
non, KY, on Monday night. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Theophilus C. Callicott has accepted the
Presidents pardon and is now at the Hoffman
House, New York city.
The United States steamer Tennessee has
been ordered to Norfolk from New York to
await the orders of the Secretary of the
Navy.
The total expense of the East River bridge
will amonnt,i. is supposed, to about Sl2 O0O,-
OOO OF this sum S5,0O0,OOO are already
provided for, out of which $l,50O,00O have
already been paid in.
Hon. John Covede of Pennsylvania died of
heat disease, at Harrisburg, on Wednesday,
Mr.. Covode was born in Westmorland coun-
ty, Penn. March II, 1908, and was therefore
at his death in the sixty-third year of his age.
1t is understood that the President will not
send a message to Congress in relation to the
condition of the South. and recommending
further reconstruction for some of the South
ern States, but that he will content himself
with sending in the orders on file At the War
Department, which give full history of af-
fairs in the South, and contain all the infor-
nation called for by Congress.
A comparative statement of the receipts
from the several sources of revenue for the
first five months of the current fiscal year
shows an aggregate falling off of 81 1868, 9lO.-
fhn Inrs cnt- al sv
comes, stamps, gross receipts, sales and PASS
ports. The reduction effects a saving to the
Government of over 100000 per annum. A
further reduction will be made before the
work of consolidation is completed.
The Committee on Ways and Means have
agreed to report the Senate bill authorizing
Secretary Boutwell, to issue, in addition to the
amounts authorized in the Funding law of
last session, three hundred million dollars in
five per cents. The Committee amended the
bill so as to deduct the newly authorized
amount from the four per cents authorized in
the present law, and not to increase the ag-
gregate of the different classes, the clause
permitting the payment of interest quarterly
instead of semi-monthly.
The Senate Wednesday, before debating
the San Domingo resolutions heard Mr.. Sum-
ner in opposition to the House joint concur
rent resolution creating new committee on
ocean telegraphs and Mr.. Revels on bill to
aid in repairing the levees of the Mississippi
When the consideration of the San Domingo
resolutions were resumrd, Mr.. Stewart in IA
vor was followed by Mr.. Schurz in opposition,
and Messrs. Wilson and Morton advocated
the resolutions. Mr.. Summers amendment
was rejected, 20 to Sc, and several other
amendments offered by Mr.. Sumner was also
/ votad dNwu w cnh Mt iall tbaf inr;fx
in unanimously. In the House bills were re-
ported to procure information about the crops
in foreign countries, and to prevent cruelty
to animals while in transit. The death of the
Hon. John Covode was announced and a COM
mittee of the whole the bill making an appro-
priation for the Louisville and Portland canal
was debated, and afterwards passed by the
House.