The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-12-27

and H. S. McComb, but to exclude all other
persons not officially summoned, and TO
maintain a strict secrecy in their proceed
ings....The Senate has confirmed the fol-
L.. Orr, Minister to Russia; Julius White,
Minister TO the Argentine Republic Nelson
T~russler, United States Attorney for Indiana;
Samuel Bard, Postmaster at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
SECRETARY OF TIE INTERIOR DELASo has
gone TO Cuba for his health 1905 1t is believed
tina. the bill increasing the Presidents salary
to $50, 900 will pass both houses Of Congress.
......As illustrating the extent OF the once
seeking maria, it is stated that over hve
hundred letters have been addressed to Chief
Justice Chase in regard 10 the vacant Mar
} shalship Of the United Safes Supreme Court.
tn. Secretary of War has issued an order
stati. & that, inasmuch as all political dis
~tinctions of race have been. abolished in the
country, no imposition or iudignity to the
colored cadet at Annapolis, on account OF
race or cDlcr, will be tolerated ...... The heirs
of the late Stephen A.. Douglas have pre-
scn,ei to Congress a claim for $25s 900 worth
Of their cotton and other property seized in
Mississippi during the war .....John u.
Nicolay, of Illinois, succeeds Col. Parsons as
Marshal Of the Supreme Court OF the United
States.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
has denied the writ Of prohibition in the
case of Warmoth against Kellogg, deciding
unanimously that it had no jurisdiction in
the matter.....Quit a sensation was created
by the testimony of H. S. McComb beiO-e
the Credit Mobiiier Investigating Committee,
that he witnessed the payment OF a number
Of shares of stock to Congressman Brooks, to
be used in influencing Democratic membere.
Mr.. Brooks. however, stigmatizes the testi-
> mony of McComb as utterly false. Vice
, President Colfax went before the committee
and made a general denial of the charges
made against him during tho campai. n......
The Methodist Book Concern of Nashville,
Tenn, has fled q claim with the HOUSE
COMMITTEES on Claims for neatly $500 600, for
this use of their buildings by Union soldiers
= during the Wharf.-The President has sent to
the Senate the following nominations for
P~ostmasters: D. Eaton, Albert Lea, Mimi;
, J. d. Ii. Anter, Webster City, Iowa; All.
Wilson, Pella, Iowa D. H. Frost, Bellepl in,
( Iowa; A. B. c. Hitchcock. Sidney, Iowa; H.
{ Grant, Stevens Point, Wis; c. Stewart; st.
/. Joseph, Mich; T. E. Clapp, White Pigeon,
Mich. J. r Higgins, Palmyra, Mo....ItI is an
t nounced tba. the President has concluded to
PARDON all persons COW under conviction for
Ku-Klux ~ofenses, where such is asked for
. ny u icFusaoic 1oishU'S'
. THERE was q storm time at the meeting
of the Credit Mobilier Committee, the other
day, when Cakes Ames submitted his state
: ment, rejecting severely upon McComb.
! The latter became greatly excited, and de-
. manded the right TO examine Ames, which
. the committee refused. Judge Jerry s. Black
is counsel for McComb, while Ames has en-
ployed Caleb Cushing TO represent him be-
= - H. III. Ho.,n n.,nt ~,
: on Territories has unanimously agreed to
. report a bill enabling Colorado 10 ,rm a
State Constitution preparatory to her admis-
zion into the Union as q State 1900. The British
r and American Mixed Commission have dis
g., allowed the claim of Barron, Forbes / Co,
a the English commercial firm doing business
U in Mexico, who ask compensation for $685.
e 00O, goo for quicksilver mines taken possession
Of by the United States in 1916 The House
( Committee on Postofices aud Post Roads have
!. agreed 10 recommend the establishment of L
D.. letter carr cr system in all cities Of 10000
r Notwithstanding developments of The
: C edit Mobilier investigation have become
: the sensation OF Washington. Cakes Ames
4 the other day presented a stat ment which
r disagreed decidedly with several Of the de-
s niils rinted during the campaign, and ALTO
y iurn.shei a list of members Of Congress TO
VIII IN he had sold stock. His te. timoIy,
with that which has gone befJre, has fixed
direct or indirect ownership or int rest in
d The Credit Mobilier upon nearly all Of those
n whose names appeared il the McComb list.
Foreign.
GANBErTA, t2gether with Louis Blanc and
SO other French Ra l%icals, has issued a mani.
festo, in which be demands that the N itional
Assembly be dissolved and a new election
held, in order to secure an Assembly free
f from the factions that disable the present
. body, and undivided in its supporto Of Theirs
e and the Republic.
INTELLIGENCE comes from London of thu
loss in the North Sea of the emigrant ship
Is Franklin, from Hamburg for San Francisco
Eighty persons are known TO have pcrished
.-..Psris and Versailles were GENTLY visit
y ed by a terrific gale, killing several person.
and causing great damage TO property.
:. A meeting III support Of the Tichborre claim.
:, ant was hid IN London the other night, al
which the clsiman. ard several of his adj
F." herents marie speeches. There was much
disorder during the proceedings, and parties
u. in the audience WHO expressed disbelief in
the assertions of the alleged Sir Roger we're
roughly treated by his friends and hustle
out of the hali."..The London papers pub
lsh a letter from Garibaldi, in which he says
he Joined France ia 1870 purely from de.
'Nhioh ~ PiIaNilitop hC q
il a pang of snr,~ becsuse be had to fight
ID against those noble Germans who, in their
x progress towsrd truth, are struggling against
the hydra of Jesuitism. He confesses with
t. shame that Italy is going back 10 the Inqui-
K, sitioo.-..News has bean received at Berlin
es from Herr Mauch, the German explorer Of
Africa. He wss on his way home......B Bra
10 iii and the Argentine r public have brought
their little differences 10 an amicable cou
II ciusion py peaceable negotiation, and the
prospect cfa wal, which u. one time was so
IS thteltening, has entirely disappeared.
Z IT is reported that employe, of all the
English railway companies will strike on the
Fl ofJanuary Iii reported that Biamarck
c will resign the Presidency of the Frussian
Council, to devote his entire time to his
dutiss as Chancellor OF the North German
Minister Schenck has returned
to London, after a protractcd visit in South
ern Europe.
J VIscoUSTEss BgAcoSsrIELD, wi Q OF Right
Hon. Benjamin D~israeli, is deId.......The
French National Assembly has had a long
c and exciting debate over the petitions fer
. the dissolution of that boiy. Tt o discussion
I Is described as the most violent and acri-
D monious that has ever taken place in the
; Assembly. !. was decided, by q vote of 400.
to POI, TO reject the petitions. The conflict
between Theirs and the Assembly, it is be-
leved, cannot last long, and that one or the
ether must soon yield.
TIE London papers deny that Eliza Cook,
the well known poetess, is dead. She is in
the enjoyment of excellent health......A
large open air meeting at Stockton, England,
IN favor of Fenian amnesty, was charged
| unfp thu Afhar l.u ~ E--l.I - al,