The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-02-23
POLITICAL SUMMARIES.

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POLITICAL SUMMARIES.
Secretary Boutwell, isrepresented as
being very sanguine as to the success OF
the proposed new loan. 1t will be grand
| thing for our government and country If
| his anticipations in this regard are real
lied. The success of that loan will indl
| cate such an increased confidence in our
financial ability and integrity as will
make further loan at less rate of in
terest possible.
! Congress is still hard at work, and
much of its time is spent on approprla-
| ton bills The St. Croix railro ad land
grant has been defeated, and that body,
it is said, is down on all land grants
| Pres Grant has vetoed the bill for the
relief of certain naval contractors. on the
ground that the contractors would have
lost nothing if the work had been done
in the time specified. That is sound.
"A resolution has passed Congress re-
commencing the suffering poor Of France
and Prussia to American charity. No
doubt many people in both countries are
in starving condition, and appeals to
the citizens of the United States for aid,
under such circumstances, are not made
Ia vain.
1t is reported, and undoubtedly true,
|
that many prominent English statesmen
favor the annexation Of Canada to the
| United States. We should net be sur
prised to see Canada become portion of
the United States before San Domingo.
The revolution in Bolivia, at first a
mere quarrel between defeated aud sue
cessful candidates, has grown to fornida-
BILE dimensions. The disaffected Morales
has recruited large army, chiefly of In
dams from the mountain regions, and has
won several engagements with the Gov
eminent forces. The most important of
these resulted in the capture and pillage
of Potosi, which was left in ruins.
The positive announcement that a
| practical route for canal across the 18TH
mus of Darien has been discovered will
doubtless be hailed with delight by those
who recognize the Importance of that en-
terprise to commerce. But the statement
| received from Panama is too indefinite to
| be accepted unhesitantingly, and we pre-
fer to await the official report of Capt.
| Selfridge confrmatory Of the agreeable
intelligence
The French elections have only too
perfectly justified the apprehensions we
expressed in regard to the fatal effects of
Republican dissentions The Govern
ment of National Defense was deprived
beforehand Of the moral force it could
have exerted among the peasantry if it
had been compact and united As twas,
| the only symbols of authority these igno-
rant rustics could see or comprehend were
the local gentry, who were usually of the
traditional monarchical parties, and the
| clergy, who Of course supported candi-
dates hostile to the Republic. The re-
suit is what might have been expected.
Tn the principal cities, where newspa-
pers and public meetings have enabled
the voters to gain some idea of the ques-
tions at issue the Republican candidates
have been generally successful. In the
rural districts the three monarchical par
| ties appear to have divided almost the
entire field among themselves. Gems.
| lie Flo and Trochu have been returned
by their faithful Bretons from Finisterre;
Mr.. Theirs has been elected by an enor-
nous majority. and other prominent Or
leanists will take their places in the As
semhly prepared to advocate the claims
of the Count of Paris to the throne =
For the shame and disgrace of France.
there viii be many Imperialists, as at
present reported. and a large number OF
men elected as the candidates of the clergy.
The Ultramontanes will doubtless be in
favor, as their first choice, of the Count
of Chambord, but FILLING to elect him,
they will be much more likely to sell out
|
esty of the House of Orleans or the radi-
cal liberalism of the Republic
THE New SPANISH KING. The new
King of Spain goes to bed every night
at ten o'clock. ike good Christian, and
rises bctimes, which astounds the Span
iards of the Court, who have been in the
habit of turning night into day. He ha:
also abolished the absurd etiquette of the
Spanish Coarts. of which so many ridi
culous stories used to be told. The King
refuses to allow his royal fingers to be
kissed, and shakes hands like any plebeiar
\ correspondent writes of him:
He walks about the streets without
An escort, visits the poor, an make,
purchases in the shops. The K ne con
tributed 5000 for the poor of iiadrid
an equal amount for the needy members
of the citizen militia Having ascertain
cd that the pay of the public schoo
teachers was several months in arrears
the King has refused to draw on the
treasury for his own until the claims O
) the teachers are satisfied He also ex
pressed his Inten ion to grant a general
amnesty tor political offences, but the
constitution takes this power away from
| him.
| This boy, for he is little else, is doin.
much to disarm the hostility and pride O
the Spanish people, and, it is said, edu
cate them up to the republic.
A terrible railroad accident occurred
; on the Hudson River Road at New Ham
} burg last Monday week The excres
train raI into coal oil train. smashin.
one of the oil cars. and the oil, took FIRE