Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-21

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The steamer Katie, one of the finest passen-
ger boats on the Mississippi, sunk recently
at Helena, Ark. She will be raised.
Col. WIN. NJ. GRosvENoR, a prominent
leader and ono of the original organizers of
the Liberal movement, has assumed the ed
itorial management of the st. Louis EUening
Dispatch.
YOUNG Jewell, who has been on trial at
Brentsville, Va, for the killing of Clark,
editor of the Manassas Gazette, while the
latter was in Jail charged with the seduction
and abduction of ewell's sister, a girl of
some sixteen years, has been acquitted, the
jury being out only five minutes..-.The
horse distemper is prevailing in Louisville,
and street ira ffic is almost wholly suspended.
Washington.
GEN. o. o. HOWARD is mentioned as likely
to receive the vacant position of Major Cen
eral, created by the death of Gen. Meade.....
The annual report of the Secretary of War,
this year, is quite brief. He compliments
Congress for such completeness IN the last
years work that little room is left for legisla-
tion......A Washington letter reports the fol-
lowing as President Grants views on his
reelection His first election, he considers,
and his second the nations approval of his
political administration, and a popular vim
dication of his personal character. Long be-
fore the Philadelphia Convention he foresaw
his success. Greeley's nomination by the
coalitionists gratified him, inasmuch as it
narrowed the contest to two candidates.. Be-
sides, the character of the opposition gave
complete assurance of the result. He was
surprised at the fright received by some of
the Republicans at the Baltimore nomina-
ton, and he was thereafter urged by political
giants to make various changes in his Cabi-
net. Many of his friends had wondered at
his Indifference, but one helping cause of
that Indifference, which was known to but
few, was his knowledge of the fact that dur
ing the campaign the Republican National
Committee had a picket in every Greeley
camp of any consequence, from one end of
the country to the other, and he knew, day
by day, every phase of the coalition situation
as well as the coalition managers did them
selves."......Gen. Hancock, by the death of
Gen. Meade, is made senior Major General,
and, as such, is entitled to the complimentary
command of the Department of the Atlantic,
made vacant by the ~latter's death. That
department, however, is to be abolished, so
that Gen. Hancock will remain in his present
command.
THE Washington Patriot, the central
organ of the Democracy, has suspended pub
LEGATION, having Junk 500 900 in two years.
...... Secretary Boutwell, has no apprehension
tina the Boston calamity will produce a
financial panic. He says that he will assist
the Boston banks to the full extent of his
power, and he has caused instructions to be
issued to the Sub-Treasuries of New York
and Boston to offer that city and the business
men thereof all the aid possible.
TIE annual report of the Fifth Auditor of
the Treasury, just completed, shows that the
total collections of the internal revenue for
the year ending June 80 were $117,314,323,
the total assessments having been 1928 ,169.-
SIT. The total expense of collection was
81, 903 ,002, and of assessment, including the
compensation of storekeepers, $3,229,527.
The collections and assessments in come of
the principal States are as follows: Ohio,
collections, $I5,128,902; assessments $751;
67s, $50 Illinois, collections, $15, 647 ,157;
assessments, $17,524. 562; Missouri, collec-
tions, $4,687,4S7, assessments, $500, 800;
New York, collections, 1885 1906; assess
ments, $23, 91S,7 2S.....The President has az
pointed j. j. Roberts, of North Carolina,
Solicitor General in place of e Bristow,
resigned.
THE forthcoming report of the Internal
Revenue Bureau will show an increase in
the taxes collected this year on spirits, to-
bacco and malt liquors over the receipts
last year. The income tax yields nearly four
millions less than in 1S71"..P Postmaster
General Creswell will remain at Elkton, Md,
until his annual report is finished. He has
taken a force of clerks and a load of records
with him. He says he is so bored with Office
and other callers that he could not
prepare his report in Washington.
THE President is busy on his annual mes
sage......John M. Langston, the colored law
called on President Grant the other day,
and assured him that the reports put forth |
in Administration papers that he was a can
didate for a Cabinet position were without
his knowledge or consent, and that he did |
desire it to be understood that he was a |
candidate......It is almost certain that Secre-
tary Fish will retire from the Cabinet on the |
4th of March; and it is quite equally as GER
that Hon. VIM. M. Evarts will succeed
to the portfolio of the State Department. At
least such is the conclusion of those PRESIDENT
Washington correspondents.
Foreign.
THE London papers comment at length on
our election. One of the chief subjects in the
notices is the orderly man
ner in which the elections were conducted.
surprise is expressed at the complete
ness oft the Republican triumph-....The out
tide world will receive with becoming resig-
1ation the news that there is another insur-
'ection on foot in Spain. This time it is in
,ited by the " 1nternationals," and embraces
most of the employees of a dock yard near
Jadiz.
WHILE England, France and Germany are
eriously discussing the alarming prospects
# the failure of a supply of fuel by the ex-
laustion of the European coal beds, a similar
ear has arisen in Russia, which depends al
most entirely on wood. 1t is said the forests
re disappearing go rapidly that a scarcity
'fwood must inevitably ensue very soon ......
france furnishes the latest coal mining hor-
or. At the village of Moncreaux, while the
miners were at work, an explosion of fire.
lamp took place, causing the death of SO of
hem.....The cholera has appeared at Ores
EN-, in saxony. Among the first victims of
he plaguefwere two Americans.
TwENTY-rHREE lives were lost by the
onndering of the English ship Mauritius. in
he North Channel."..Senator Sumner has
allied for tie United States, much improved in
ealth..-.-.The we'll known American bank
ng house of Bowles Brothers, in Paris, has !
appended. Their liabilities are said to be
cry heavy. The losses fall chiefly upon
.merican tourists in E~urope-....It is an !
ounced that the Carlists have risen in the
of Arragon, Spain, and are destroy .
lg telegraphs and railroads.. Bismarck has Z
mt a memorial to the Emperor of Germany,
rging the immediate Reorganization of the
pper house of the Prussian Diet. There is
arcely a doubt that Bismarck's suggestion