Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-12-26


grafton on the 18th, over $780, 900 worth of
property being destroyed, upon which there
was an insurance of $150,000.
Gen. Crook is 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 savages
constantly, and hunt them down in every
direction.
Chief of Police MicGraw, of Quincy, H.,
was recently shot by q desperate, and owes
his life to the fortunate circumstance that he
carried 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. Warmotb.
we're temperate in tone. The Governor ad-
vised that an appeal be made to Congress for
redress. A 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Federal troops be withdrawn from the State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 tie estab-
lishment of military government over the
State.
boat containing five pilots was sunk near
Wilmington, N. c., a 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 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 60 the people
of the 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-
fuse to obey the orders of Gen. Longstreet,
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 a 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. Is.
" Hen. John McEuery. New Orleans La:
:" Your visit with hundred citizens will be
uHavailing, SO far as the President is con-
cerned. His decision is made. and will not be
changed, and the sooner it is acquiesced in
the sooner good order and peace will be re-
stored. Gro. L. WILLIAMS
Attorney General"
Phil. Arnold, the head manipulation in tie
recent Arizona diamond fraud, announces
through the Louisville Courier Journal that
he has discovered silver mines IN Kentucky
worth 100000, 900, and has bought for
80, 100000 all the property in the vicinity of
the alleged mines.
Half of the town of Chesterville, s. c., has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,O0O.
The boiler of . saw mill in Wayne county,
No., exploded, the other dav. with frightful
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 it Mobilier scandal
commenced at Washington last week. The
committee decided to admit the counsel of
Cakes Ames and 81. 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, Mis,ister to
the Argentine Republic; Nelson Trussler
United States Attorney for Indiana Samuel
Bard, Postmaster at Chattanooga, Tenn
Secretary of the Interior Delano has gone
to Cuba for his health.
1t is believed that the bill increasing the
Presidents salary to $50, 1000 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 indlgnity 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 CLAIM for
$250.000 worth of their cotton and other
property seized in Mississippi daring the
war.
John G. 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 unani-
mously that it had no jurisdiction in the
matter. FH
Quite sensation was created by the testi-