The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-08

| cOrdrWOOd. Ine SnaWaOgunk p1Ouuleh u
for miles, is literally sheet Of fame
The Erie Railroad Company have los
heavily in cord-wood, and the farmers ii
many places have been compelled to fight
| fire for weeks. Some lives are reported
to have been lost The woods in the OF
| tawa district Canada, are also In flames.
These fires, although widely separate.
appear to rage simultaneously. Large
quantities of game-bear, deer, and fox.
es, with which the burned district a6oan-
ded-must have been destroyed. The
loss in the whole territory cannot fall be.
low 100000.
Decoration Day, May 3Oth, was duly
observed, wherever Union soldiers lie
buried, with the usual tender and impress
sive ceremonies. This beautiful and pat
riotic custom of strewing the graves of
our brave dead with the sweet flowers OF
spring time has already become a nation
al household memorial. 1t appeals to the
truest, deepest sympathies of the heart,
and its observance is the natural express
sion of a peoples gratitude for the sacri-
fees of those who fell for their country.
President Grant, wife, children and
father-in- law, Gen. Porter, wife and son,
have arrived at Long Branch and
Immediately took possession of the Presi-
dents cottage. Collector Murphy dined
with the President at six o'clock.
A new clause in the postal treaty with
Germany has reduced the rates of post
age between that country and the Unit
ed States Letters will now be forward
ed to and from America at the rate of
two and half groschen (about five cents)
for half an ounce.
The cholera is said to be extending
west from St. Petersburg. 1t finds its
horror principally in large cities where
the laws of health are more persistently
violated than in the country.
THE reduction in the public debt for
the month of May was 4,439, 35s-a
million more than it was reported itwould
be few days ago.
There is prospect of serious times on
the Indian frontiers A requisition for
additional forces has already been made
by Scofield for the Arizona Indians on
the war path.
Bottles have been washed on the coast
of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick con-
tanning reports from the steamer City of
Boston, lost months ago. The hand.
writing in the bottles has been recog-
nized and pronounced genuine.
A letter from Gen. Spinner received
the time it was written he was at Chest
er, England, quite i'll.
Tucson { Arizona dates to May Goth
report that Coches baud, recently routed
and driven over the Mexican line, has
returned, armed with Henry rifles and
needle guns. and committed numerous
murders. Ten men have been killed and
several wounded, already!
The Chicago Journal says that Lieu
tenant General Sheridan, accompanied
by Colonel Forsythe, arrived home last
evening, in splendid health from his Eu-
ropean trip. He speaks in glowing terms
of the cordial reception he everywhere
met with abroad as the representative of
of the army of the United States.
THE arrival of immigrants was larger
last month than during the previous
month this year. Nearly every week
from 5000 to 5000 landed atCastle Gar
den-the majority Irish, and Germans
are next in number. Last month there
arrived 43, All, making 77.l9l thus far
this year. In May last year, 46. s2S ar
rived, making total up to the end OF
the month of 85,S75.
A Washington special to the Sun, says
| that on Monday last Gen. Sickles was in
structed by telegraph. to notify the Span
| ish government that the estates belong
ing to Americans in Cuba, which have
been sequestered, must at once be re-
turned to the owners. and the damages
of their sequestration be paid, or that
warlike measures will at once be set on
foot by the United States government.
The order to Gen. Sickles was to give
the Spanish government week, in which
to make an answer. Probably lie.
| A New York dispatch says: ''Seriou.
trouble is reported among the Tammany
leaders, especi &liv Tweed, Hall, Collonny
and Sweeney. Tweed has refused to meet
the Board of Apportionment, and the
other three are in tribulation, being un
able to ..detemine what course Tweed
intends to take. Open war seems brew
ing between Sweeney and Tweed, and
the former has already opened fire on the
latter, through two of his organs. Swee
.ney believes Tweed is getting everything
into lis own hands.
IT is favorite pastime with many ed
itors at the north, who know nothing o
the matters they speak of, and care les
only So they can make point agains
the administration, to assert that there
is no such thing as the Ku Klux Klar
that there is no more lawlessness a
the south than at the north. The Char
lesion IS. c. Republican which ma,
we'll be supposed to k7so,o whereof i
speaks. says i:
ssThe Ku Klux itself is one of the wors