Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1871-04-08

creased PROBABILITY tlldl tGe eieCllollpl WV
ernor will devolvc upon the Legislaturc;--
The Republicans have a majority of five in
the Senate and fifteen in tire House, which
will insure the election Of Jewell, (Rep. y
Kellogg, rep. for Congress, has 49, ma:
jority. .~..-~ - :,
. -. SECOND DISPATCH. =: :.
HARTFORD, April 5.-The latest returns
give English. (Dem.) plurality. Tho cleo
ton now undoubtedly dcvolves on the Leg
islature.
81. Louis Elections. = .. =
ST. LoC1s, April 5.-T1e Democrats have
swept the city BY probabl! two thousand ma
jority. -
SECOND DISPATCH.
ST. LOUIS, April 5.--The DemocratIc
majorities here range from 300 to 5000.
The Democrats elect 10 ont Of - aldermen.
which, with those holding over, mako the
city counsel tic. The Democrats have car
ried the municipal elections throughout the
State.
EF In the Anti-Ku-KIux bill now be-
fore the House, tho President is authorized
to suspend the writ of habeas corpus; de-
clare martial law, and to use the:army and
navy as he thinks proper against the people
. of any State from Maine to Texas. BY the
terms of this Russian ukaso. the President
is no longer to be SIMPLY the,exycutoEE Of the
law as contemplated BY the Constitution, he.
is invested with absolute powers as to the
law itself. Practically. be can thus. make
or uumake the laws. This is despotisn,, pure
and simple. This is what Senator Sumner
calls arruing the President Of Republic
with the kingly prerogative.'
e The fugitive schoolmaster from Ala
bama. now 8ourishing about Washington,
and who boasts of having been whipped on
the bare back BY ku- KIux, for being
Republican, it turns ont was caught in the
act of committing an outrage on the person
of one of his colorcd female pupils and re-
. ccived sound thrashing at the hands of the
father Of the girl and her friends. Send Oh
the troops.
! SHARP-Mr Beck, of kentucky, said in
! the House of Representatives on Thursday.
| that no man who had hot served on the Re-
construction Committee knew what liar
was. This be said alluoing to the Williams
who had sworn before that committee to out
RACES committed upon them by rebels.
! TO Mr.. platt. Of Virginia, who attempted
to interrupt him. Mr. Beck said Il do not
yield. The gentleman will learn more by
listening to me than By talking himself. -
, Laughter
" The appropriation for current ex-
penses of the State government of Virginia
this year amounts to $780, 900. The fund
ing bill recently passed appropriatcs ST.
100000 for the payment Of interest on two
thirds Of the State debt on the 1st of next
January. The taxes will only yield to the
treasury this wear s., 700, 900. and the Whiq
wants 10 know where the rest Of the money
is 20 come from.
THE CHESAPEAKE AHn ONO RAFLRoAn
CoSTRAcTs.-There were about seventy
FIVE contracts put in at Richm md. Va, on
! Tuesday, for constructing the los miles Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio road west of the
White ulphur Springs. Bidders, however.
will not know their fate until the 10th Of
April.
G- Charles Carter Lee, Esq. brother Of
Gen. f. f. Lee, and Capt. S. S. Lee, died
on the 2lst ult.. at Windsor, Powhatan
county, Virginia, in the 75rd year of his age.
q A French author has satirically ad-
dressed book to "William l.. King of
Prussia. by the grace of God, and Emperor
of Germany by the efusion of blood"
~ War vessels have been ordered to fit
out for sea Immediately at the Brook! yn
Navy Yard. and speculation is rife as: to the
: N sauing of the movement.
; II The Wyoming pspers SAY THAT the
people Of that Territory are ABOUT To- t:.abah-
don woman suffrage as both miscellaneous and
impracticabls.' :
~ 4 bill fixing ten per cent, as the-ls-
+ gal rate of interest, has been defeated in:tle
Legislatureof Ohio. =. .. - ::
Rir Present indications are That Congress
will not adjourn before the end Of. tits
month. -: ....:~. -. :.
| 81 ohm Topham, aged 90, :Presidspt; iE
I. the American Tract Society FOR forty years
died iR Boston Saturday.