The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-11-24

vor the erection of public building in Chi
cago for Government uses which will be
equally as large as any similar edifice in
| the country. The estimated cost OF such
building is fixed at about 100000 The
Secretary of the Treasury will make this
suggestion in his annual report to Congress,
and il is understood that the President
will in his next message recommend Con-
gress IT, make liberal appropriation for
the purpose.
The Supreme Court of the District of Co
! lumbia has rendered decision adverse to
the females who entered suit to enforce
their claims to vote. II he court bases its
decision on the organic act creating the new
district government, which expressly re-
stricts suffrage to males...... Minister Nelson,
at Mexico, has been instructed to call upon
Juarez to take measures to prevent the con-
slant depredations of the Mexcans on the
Texas frontier. These incursions have been
growing more frequent and daring, and UNI
less soon stopped, Gen. Augur, the new COM
mander at San Antonio, will be called on to
interpose the military arm to arrest or drive
back the invaders.
THE demand for troops to assist in the
enforcement of the Ku-Klux acts in the
South exceeds the supply. The Attorney
General and Secretary of War have had a
conference for the redistribution of troops
in the martial law district in South Caro-
| lina....T The proposition of all the Demo
| cratic and some of the Republican members
of the Ku-klux Committee to recommend
| Congress to provide general amnesty is not
certain to be adopted by the full committee.
! So far as the Presidents views are known,
he is said to be opposed to general amnesty
now, and will not recommend it in the an
| nual message.
Foreign.
THE emigration returns of the port of
Liverpool, for the month of October, show a
total of 1868 departu for the United
States. 1.-THE British expedition for the OBJ
servation of the total eclipse of the sun on
the 18th of December prox. has arrived at
the island of Malta.
Tn unwilling of the statue of the En-
paror Macmillan took place at Vienna, on
the 9TH, with solemn and imposing ceremo-
MES The Emperor Francis Joseph, Arch
! dukes, and members of the Ministry took
part in the solemnity. Large crowds of
| people also attended, and manifested their
respect for the Inflated monarch by impress
| sive silence.....The movement for enhanced
|
among the several trades are on the in
crease.....A negro woman, of highly re-
spectacle character, has been arrested at
| Jacmel, Jamaica, upon the extraordinary
charge of cannibalism. The accusation al
leges that she has killed and eaten twenty
six children, whom she had invegled into
her premises for that purpose.
ANARCHY prevails in many States of
Mexico. The revolution in Nueva Leon
still continues. The revolutionary move
ments are spreading to other provinces. The
revolutionsts in Zacatecas have invaded the
! State of San Luis Potosi. Numerous bands
of men are sacking the villages and hacien-
das in the States of Hidalgo and Mexico and
the Federal district. Robberies are COM
mitted in sight of the gates of the city ......
The remains of General Robert Anderson
| will be conveyed to America in the United
States steamer Guerrero.
A swINDLER named Charles J. Whiting
ton, of No. "a John street, New York, has
| been sending circulars to London, offering
counter felt notes on the Bank of England at
| low rates. The police magistrates there
| have telegraphed the facts to the New York
police. Wilmington is doubtless one of the
saw-dust" swindlers.....The Lord Mayors
show, with the usual display and procession
on the 9th ......A terrible explosion occurred
on Thursday, in the coal mine near ST.
| Etienne, France, while the gangs were at
! work. None of the men nave vet been re-
covered alive. Twenty-Five Bodies have
! been taken out, and 80 miners are still in
! the pit, all of whom are supposed to be dead.
! The explosion was caused by fre-damp......
The general councils Of the departments
| throughout France are considering the sub
pf a m obi baN
already adopted the system, and there is
! good reason to believe that ii will eventu-
ally accept and carry it into practical opera
tion.....A conference of diplomats will be
held at Dresden at an early day to devise
precautionary measures against the Inter
national Society The degree of Doctor of
! Medicine has been conferred upon Miss
Dimock, an American lady, by the Univer-
sity OF Zurich, Switzerland. She had com
pleted her studies in the medical school at
tached to the university.
THE steamship Halsatia, of the Hamburg
American line, in Leaving Plymouth, Eng
land, while on the way to Hamburg, collded
with a schooner which sank, and all the
crew perished.... Prince Pierre Bonaporte,
notorious for his participation in the assas-
! sination of Victor Noir, was married on
! Monday at the French Legation in Brussels
to Mdlle. Riflln....Pope Plus X. declares
himself sole King of Rome, and announces
his determination to hold no official inter
course with any foreign representatives at
the court or near the person of Victor En-
manuel.
A FORMIDABLE plot of Sonapartist Generals,
headed by Fleury, to arrest Theirs and
proclaim the empire, has been discovered.
The plotters' papers are in the possession Of
| Theirs.
MAYOR HALLS DIsGRACE.-Until re-
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