The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-12-21

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n honorably acquitted.
p Ex-Mayor Cahoon, of Richmond, Va.
0 imprisoned for forgery, has been pardonct
by Gov. Walker.
The Lower House of the Missouri Legis-
lature has passed concurrent resolution
asking Congress to pass law granting full
amnesty to all who have been deprived of
, their rights as citizens.
Returns received in Washington indicate
that the cotton crop win yield three and
. one third million bales.
The Postmaster General has ordered the
extension of the mail service on the West
Wisconsin Railroad from Menomnee to
Hudson, is miles, at an additional cost Of
$3.50 per annum.
; The Agricultural Bureau says the area
in corn was greater in 1871 than in any
former year.
The Apache chief Cochese has boen in
vited to visit Washington at the expense of
of the government.
Don Manual Cabaz, a citizen of Ecuador.
and Manual Chavero, Collector of Customs
of the Mexican port of LaPaz, have been
arrested in San Francisco on warrant
charging them with piracy in seizing the
American schooner GreenW ood, for alleged
violation of law, at Magdalena Bay, Oct.
29th. The Lower California Company
appears to be the principal mover in the
prosecution.
! Concerning the California insurance
companies we learn tliat the Occidental
Insurance Company has reinsured outstand-
ing policies, and the Pacific Insurance
Company will have a deficit of over $780,
fOoO, which portion the stockholders will
make up by subscription
Auburn papers state that Hon. William
Ii. Seward is very low from paralysis.
Gov. Hoffman of New York has pardon
ed Gilbert \. Van Houton, who was sem |
senced for forgery to five years imprson-
mcnt.
Gov Conley, of Georgia, has vetoed the
appropriation bill to pay the interest on
gold bonds.
The ship Tantallon Castle, from Calcut
ia, saved, December 9Th, Capt. Spat and
eight men from the American bark Nav
Stetson, from New York for Aspinwall,
abandoned and sinking. The bark Canada
Belle, from Glasgow, rescued, Nov. 1st
the crew, numbering sixteen, of the British
ship River Dee, who We're subsequently
transferred to European bound vessels.
Hon. john l.. Thicker, Il state senator
from the ninth district in Illinois, died at
Springfield, H., on Sunday.
In Chicago, on Sunday, Carl Mnnart, a
victim of the fire, residing at 1856 Broom
street, committed suicide by blowing out
his brains with pistol.
The Countess Ida, wife of Don Fernan-
10 Of Lisbon, Portugal, herself native of
the United States, has sent, through Hon.
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, sixty
pounds sterling for the benefit of the Chica-
70 sufferers. 4 draft has also been received
of one thousand pounds from Dublin, Ire )
land to be fbis Pbelia makes total of four thous
and five hundred pounds from that city.
The Southern Claims Commission will ,
resume its sessions Immediately after New )
Years. Meantime they will take the two ;
or three hundred cases now ready for decis-
ion, and propose them for consideration by
the House Committee of Claims. i
\ report was presented to the South
Carolina House of Representatives last
Thursday, by the Committee of lnvestiga-
ton, headed by c. C. Bowen, to the effect
that the State has been defaulted by over
issue of SG,3l4,000. The committee rec
ommcnd that the House take the necessary
steps to hold accountable those persons
who violated the law and ruined the credit
Of the State.
a Washington special says official advces
are that Gortschakotf has ordered Catacazy
to leave America after accompanying the
Grand Duke rs far as ST. Louis, and the
legation will be placed in charge of Baron
Dautz, as its Secretary, till the arrival of
the Charge d Affaircs, who leaves at once.
4 private letter from San Domiago says
the two years lease of the Bay of SANTANA
having expired the United States flag has
been hauled down.
Upwards Of eighty buildings have been
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stroyed most of the town in October.
The budget of the French Finance
Minister shows surplus Of 100000
francs.
\ Quebec special states that on Friday
night in the House of Assembly, one of
the leaders of tho opposition created a
great excitement by charging bribery and
corruption upon the agents of the ministry,
elicitins cheers from the galleries. The
Speaker had the galleries cleared by
armed police when the crowd organ
lied meeting outside which was addressed
by prominent annexationists, who claimed
that annexation to the United States
was preferable to armed provincial
tyranny.
A man named Lew Gassett, from
Monticello, Jones county, Iowa, shot
himself in the cars, near Coburr, Ont, Oh
Friday, and has since died. Considerable
money was found on his person..
The Swiss Federsl Assembly has passed .
Jesuit communities, or employment of
Jesuits doctrinal teachers in Switzerland |
A fire at Hakadadi has destroyed nearly |
TIE whole town and property valued at over
half a million dollars
The English Parliament WI meet the |
second week in February.
ENGLISH merchants when the illness of