The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-01-04


Hon. Aaron A. Sergeant was elected
Senator from California on Wednesday,
Dec. 9Th, by a full party vote of the
Legislature, viz Sargeant l72, Wallace,
Dem, 46 He is al able and efficient
statesman, and will make his mark in the
Senate, as he has in the House.
The executive documents regarding
Cuba, just published, show the lamenta-
bic fact that the murdered beys-medi-
cal Students were sacrificed to appease the
fury of the volunteers and to prevent
| them from committing greater excesses );
that they did not merit death. but had
tampered with The tomb Of volunteer
Captain in mere playfulness.
The editor Of Harper's Weekly puts a
great deal in a few words, as follows -
"a party which. while defending and ex-
tending human slavery, called itself Dem
ncr-.sie-~'c.,l' ~ dc actively in one part Of
the country, and passlveIy in the other,
trying to overthrow the government,
conservative, may also, when foiled in
the attempt to destroy the Constitutions
solemny call itself Constitutional
The motley host called the Democratic
party is quite as un constitutional as it i.
democratic. and as conservative as it is
constitutional.
The mail steamer from the Cape of
Good Hope brings the intelligence that a
treaty OF annexation OF African territory
to Great Britain had been finally conclud-
ed and produced much excitement In that
territory. Brand, President Of the Free
States, has issued formal protest against
the transfer of the diamond fields to
Great Britain.
The discovery Of gold in considerable
quantities has been made in the Trans
vaal Republic. The reports have at
tracted many adveuturers to that quar-
ter. Diamond seekers were abandoning
the diamond districts for tie newly dis
covered gold country. Capetown contin-
ued thronged with arriving and returning
fortune hunters. Business ia the colony
was making great strides
The St. Louis Democrats special from
Sedalia, Mo-, says Christmas day witnes-
sed preconcerted out break of ku-Klux
at Marshall, Saline county, Mo-, and vi
cinity. A large number Of armed men
turned out in pursuit of negroes. Patrols
were placed near the town and every
traveller was halted and questioned All
business was suspended, and mob violence
reigned supreme. 1t is not known how
many negroes were killed but q crowd Of
armed men were starting out, swearing
they would kill every negro in the county.
Edward Wilson, who left Marshall at l l
o clock, saE the bodies of FIVE, two hang
ing by the neck and three lying in the
road. and one terribly wounded.
The number Of Presidential electors in
1872, will be 357, making l79 votes ne
cessary to choice. The whole number
of representatives is 2S3. The whole rep
resentatiye population is 3S, ll3, 353 Civ
ing the ratio of 1873, 900, with additional
members for the larger fractions to make
up the whole number.
The New York Sun has been bitter
foe to Grant administration since his in
auguration, and no falsehood has been
too much for it. Its course is easily ex-
planned. 1t is edited by Charles A. Dana,
a man who never forgives an afront and
a man. who can hate with all the vindic-
tiveness of an Indian. He was formerly
Assistant Secretary of War and expected
to be made Collector of the Port of New
York by President Grant. Ga failing to
receive the appointment, he begun an in
scrupulous war on the administration
which has been continued up to the pres