The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-27

grafton on the 18th, over $3.50, worth OF
property being destroyed. upon which there
was an insurance of sl5O,0OO.
Gen. Crook il prosecuting the war vigorous
" against the murderous Apaches in Arizona,
having already slain over 100 Of the dusky
devils since he commenced the campaign. He
declares his policy is to follow the sayages
constantly, and hunt them down in every
direction.
Chief of Police MicGraw, Of Quincy, H.,
was recently shot by desperate, and owes
his life to the fortunate circumstances that he
carried a watch, which stopped the pistol ball
aimed at his heart. Go and buy watch.
The South.
A large meeting was held in New Orleans,
on the 18th, OF citizens who regard the action
of Judge Durell and the Custom House fac
ton as an invasion of their rights. The
speeches, one Of which was by Gov. Warmoth,
we're temperate in tone. The Governor adj
vised that an appeal DO made 10 Congress for
redress. committee of 100 was appointed
TO visit Washington, lay their grievances before
the President and Congress, and ask that the
Federal troops be withdrawn from the State
House and the people be left TO govern them
selves, or else that the present unbearable
conflict of authority be quoted by The estab-
lishment of military government over the
State.
boat containing five pilots was sunk near
Wilmington, n. c., few days ago, and all of
the men were drowned.
Gen. Leslie Combs, of Kentucky denies
over his own signature the report that he had
been murdered by a desperate, or any other
man.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 18th gives
the following as the status of the contest be-
tween the two rival State Governments at that
date The Warmotk Legislature has adjourned
to the first Monday in January. The Pinch
back Senate has expelled Senators Campbell
and Mcmillan for acting with the Warmothites.
The representatives of forty-eight houses in
the principal Northern, Western, and Eastern
cities, doing business in New Orleans, met this
evening and signed an address TO the people
of tn North, requesting them to write pro-
test to Congress and the President against the
arbitrary usurpation of power and place by
political adventurers. The State militia re-
or any one else acting under authority of the
Kellogg faction. A hundred armed Metro
politan policemen marched to the armory with
the intention Of capturing it, but at the last
moment, just as collision seemed i'm
minent, they were prudently withdrawn.
The following dispatch has been received
by Hon. John McEnery, the fusion Governor
elect, from the Attorney General:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.
Hon. John McEnery. New Orleans, La:
Your visit with hundred citizens will be
unavailing, 80 far as the President is con-
cerned HIS decision is made. and will not be
changed, and the sooner 1t is acquiesced in
the sooner good order and peace will be re-
stored. Gro. L. WILLIAMS,
Attorney General"
Phil Arnold, the head manipulation in the
recent Arizona diamond fraud. announces
through the Louisville Couier-Journdl that
he has discovered silver mines IN Kentucky
worth $500, 900, 900, and has bought for
80, 900 all the property in tho vicinity of
the alleged mines.
Half of the town of Chestetve S. c., has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500
The boiler of :. saw mill in Wayne county,
NO., exploded, the other day. with frightfu
effect. The mill structure was literally blown
to atoms, fragments being picked up half
mile away. -Four persons were killed out
right, and three others dangerously wounded.
Five men were sntombed in a trench which
they were digging at ST. Louis, last week.
Washington.
The investigation by the select committee
Of the House into the Gre 1T Moblier scandal
commenced at Washington last week. The
committee decided to admit the counsel Of
Cakes Ames and II. S. McComb but to ex-
clude all other persons not officially sum-
moned and to maintain strict secrecy in their
proceedings.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations by the President: James l.. Orr,
Minister to Russia julius White, Minister to
the Argentine Republic; Nelson Trusslcr,
United States Attorney for Indiana Samuel
Bard Postmaster at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Secretary of the Interior Deano has gone
to Cuba for his health
1t is believed that the bill increasing the
Presidents salary to $4,000 will pass both
houses of Congress.
AS illustrating the extent OF the Office-seek-
ing mania, it is stated that over five hundred
letters have been addressed to Chief Justice
Chase in reghrd to the vacant Marshalship of
the United States Supreme Court.
The Secretary of War has issued an order
stating that, inasmuch as all political distinc-
tons o. race have been abolished in the coun-
try, no imposition or indIgnity to the colored
cadet at Annapolis on account of race or
color will be tolerated
The heirs Of the late Stephen A. Douglas
have presented to Congress a claim for
5250,000 worth of their cotton and other
property seized in Mississippi during the
war.
John q. Nicoay, 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 unani-
mousIy that it had no jurisdiction in the
matter.
quite sensation was created by the testi-
mony of II. S. McComb before the Credit Mo-
bllier Investigating Committee. that he wit
messed the payment of number of shares of
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