The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-12-06

,laced in the hands Of W. c. Ralston, of the
Bank Of California. Meme are losers except
he original incorporation. The San Fran
Bulletin publishes an expose Of the
operations of Arnold, who sold the discovery
TO the H~arpending Company for $l5o,ooo.
The South.
A FRI at Lexington, KY, last week, de-
over thirty buildings, and at time
the destruction ofthe whole city
Loss very heavy. ~
THERE have been over 1000 deaths from
sual.-pox in st. Louis since last May.
William J. Virgins, an old and popular
Of ST. Louis, has just died of small
pox.
TaE steamer H. NJ. shreve was burned, re-
c.ntly, at Chester, so miles below st. Louis.
1.-THE horse distemper has seriously inter
fered with business at Memphis, nearly all
the horses and mules being sick.
Washington.
THE President has appointed G. W. Fair
man Postmaster at Philadelphia.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has become so seriously incumbered with
business that some measure of relief is re-
auired at the hands of Congress, and it is
said q bill for this purpose has been drawn,
and will be introduced early in the session.
1t contemplates an intermediate court, which
shall possess the ordinary powers Of the
present Supreme Court, and before which all
cases shall b, argued. The Supreme Court
proper shall be made stationary, and justices
relieved of all circuit duty, which shall be
performed by the judges of the intermediate
court, the Supreme Court to give its entire
attention to passing upon and deciding ques-
tions of law which shall come before it from
the intermediate court. The bill will also
provide that the intermediate court shall not
construe any law, but decide cases which
come before it in accordance will the con-
struction placed upon the laws by the SUI
preme Court......The November report of
the Statistician of the Department of Agri-
culture gives the cotton prospects subs,an-
TALLY the same Interpretation as the October
statement. The comparison by States with
last years crop is as follows: North Carolina,
l2l; South Carolina, l24; Georgia, 1l9
Florida, I92 Alabama, Ill Mississippi, liz;
Louisiana, l2I; Texas, 1875; Arkansas, lis
Tennessee, ITO. The total production as In
Dictated by the returns Of the 6rst week in
November is made nearly 3,450,000 com
mercisl baler......The Commissioner ap.
pointed to investigate the ~depredations oil
Mexicans in the Rio Grande will soon sub
init their report to Congress. 1t is stated that
they place the damage done by these maraud-
ers at $50, GOO, 600. The report ofthe Secretary
Of the Interior 10 a long document, devoted
almost exclusively to summarizing the years
werk of the various branches of the public
service under his charge. 1t maintains that
the present Indian policy is the most sue,
cessful one that can be devised, and will
recommend no change in regard to it....... The
work Of laying down the experimental pneu-
matte tunnel has been commenced at Wash.
ingtoH.
THE President has appointed Brig. Gen.
Mcdowell, whose name headsthe list Of off
GERS of that grade, to be Major General in
place Of Gen. Meade, deceased.
Foreign.
The conservative or opposition Numbers Of
the French Assembly have agreed upon
platform of measures that they intend to ad.
voclte, smopg which are the prolongation oil
President Theirs term for four years, the Gre
alton of the ofics OF Vice-President, and III,
establishment of q second legislative body.
The Assembly has just passed two important
bills-one restoring TO the Orleans family the
estates that were confiscatei after the revo-
luton of 1852, and another providing more
literally for trial by jury......Robe Bowles,
senior member Of the American banking
firm of Bowles Brothers, who recently failed,
has been arrested ard imprisoned in London
on the charge of fraud and embezzlement.....
The captain and mate of the British brig
Carl, tried at Sydney, Australia, for the inhu
man butchery OF a number Of South Sea lsl'
and natives, whom they had kidnapped t.
sell into slavery-a brief account OF which
we have priIted-haye been found guilty
and condemned 70 death.
The police difficulties in London were still
unsettled at last accounts. The letter carrier
nave joined the movement for an increase
of pay.....Late European mail advices fur
nish details Of the hurricane that swept owe
the Island Of Sicily in the early part of No
vember. The description is almost incred-
ibie in the "henomena Of destruction it por
trays. The Town of PslazzDlo, containing
q population of 5000, was literally swept on
of existence, and the inhabitants left with
out shelter. The destruction of life is tn
most appalling feature of the calamity, up.
ward Of fifty people being killed outright
and many manned for life....... Dispatche
from Rome intimate that anothtr Ecclesias
teal Province will be established in England
| with Liverpool as the Metropolitan See. Tbi
! would indicate that the Catholic Church i
making formidable progress in that country
......Marshal Mcmahon has intimated Ina
he will not accept the Presidency of tn,
French Republic should Theirs resign.....
The famous Tichborne trial is again up il
the London courts....Kipg Amadeus rheu
matte pains continue TO grow wor5e--.."Rev
dictionary sy ,ptoms," Carlist uprising
" Armed bands" and similar expressions
continue to form the chief staple Of the dis
patches from Spain....A meeting called il
Rome in the interest of universal suffrag,
has been suppressed.
LATE advices from Paris indicate thai thu
political complications in the National As
sembly, which at one time seriously threat
ened the peace and harmony OF the new
Republic, have been brought to a happy
termination, IND friendly relations estab-
lished between President Theirs and the
Conservatives. Tho former pledges himself
TO make all reasonable conce IsiOns to secure
harmony in the Government. A bill has
oeen drawn up-to which 1t is said there will
be little or no opposition-prolongiug his
term four years, and providing fo- . Vice
President; the President and Vicc-Presiden,
to he re-eligible to Office only fer a second
term, and one-third of the Assembly to be
received annually; the President to be
entitled to suspend the PRONUNCIATION Of bills
passed by any Assembly until otter the an
nual election, then, if the Assembly insists
on the law. il must ha Dromuloatad II il
understood that this project Of the law meets
thea approval of Thiers......The German Gov
erdment has pledged itself to aid Great
Britain in The suppression of the slave trade
in Eastern Africa......The latest new. from
San Domingo is, that President Baez has sue
cceded in capturing two Of president CabraPs
Generals, and has. as is tho custom in that
climate, murdered them oth......It is be-
coming alarmed at the increased emigration
from that country TO the United States.
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