Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-12-05

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
c~onstrue any law, but decide cases which
come before it in accordance with the con-
struction placed upon the laws by the SUI
IRENE Court......The November report of the
Statistician of the Department of Agriculture
gives the cotton prospects substantially the
same Interpretation as the October statement.
The com +arison by States with last years
crops is as follows: North Carolina, 121
South Carolina, 124; Georgia, 119; Florida,
102; Alabama, Ill; Mississippi, liz; Louis
lana, III; Texas, 1875; Arkansas, lis; Ten
nessee, lilo. The total production as indica-
ted by the returns of the first week in No
vember is made nearly 3,450, 900 commercial
baie5.....The Commissioners appointed to in
vestigate the depredations of Mexicans on
the Rio Grande will soon submit their re.
port to Congress. 1t is stated that they place
the damage done by these marauders at $780,
600 ,000..-.The report ofthe Secretary of
Interior is a long document, devoted almost
exclusively to summarizing the years work
of the various branches of the public service
under his charge. 1t maintains that the
present Indian policy is the most successful
one that can be devised, and will recommend
no change in regard to it......The work of
laying down the experimental pneumatic
tunnel has been commenced at Washington.
The President has appointed Brig. Gen.
Mcdowell, whose name heads the list of Of
fcers OF that grade, to be Major General in
place of Gen. Meade, deceased.
Foreign.
The conservative or opposition members of
the French Assembly have agreed upon a
platform of measures that they intend to ad-
vocate, among which are the prolongation of
President Theirs term for four years, the
$50 W. --l
the establishment of a second legislative
body. The Assembly has just passed two
important bills-one restoring to the Orleans
family the estates hat were cenfscated after
the revolution of1s52, and another providing
more literally for trial by jury-...Robert
Bowles, senior member Of the American
banking firm of Bowles Brothers, who re-
gently failed, has been arrested and mpris-
oned in London on the charge of fraud and
embezzlement......The captain and mate of
tralia, for the inhuman butchery of a num-
Der of South See Island natives, whom they
had kidnapped to sell into slavery-a brief
account of which We have printed-have
been found guilty and condemned to death.
LATE adyices from Paris indicate that the
political complications in the National As
sembly, which at one time seriously threat
ened the peace and harmony of the new Re-
public, lave been brought to a happy ter
mlnaBlOl, and Irl6n0IY relations eSbaOl1S10Q
between President Theirs and the Conserva-
tives. The former pledges himself to make
all reasonable concessions to secure harmony
in the Government. A bill has been drawn
up-to which it is said there will be little or
no opposition-prolonging his term four
years, and providing for a Vice-President;
the President and Vice-President to be re-
eligible to office only for a second term, and
one-third of the Assembly to be renewed an
nually; the President to be entitled to sus-
---l l. -c IsI1- $1,000 l.
any Assembly until after the annual election;
then, if the Assembly insists on the law, it
must be promulgated. 1t is understood that
this project of the law meets the approval of
Thiers....The German Government has
pledged itself to aid Great Britain in the sup
preston of the slave trade in Eastern Africa.
1.-THE latest rws from San Domingo is,
that President ,aez has succeeded In captur-
ing two of President Cabrels Generals, and
has, as is the custom in that climate, MUIR
dered them both."..Italy is becoming alarm
ed at the increased emigration from that
country to the United States.
The health of the King of Spain is gradu-
ally improving.....A serious outbreak of the
Republicans is threatened in Italy......The
New York Herald's Paris correspondent
says, in regard to the division ofthe political
forces in the French National Assembly, that
there are six distinct groups, classified thus
First, the extreme left or republican union f;
Seconu, the republican IeIG or mOQerate re-
publicans; third, the left center or still more
moderate republicans fourth, the center of
the right, who prefer. Orleanism; fifth,
the right, who desire a monarchy, preferring
Henry "; and sixth, the extreme right, who
believe in extreme legitimist notions, the
white flag of the Pope, and no dynasty not a
thousand years old. No party has a majority,
and M. Theirs exists by dealing with six
parties like a juggler with six eggs on six
plates in his hands. He never holds more
than one part at a time, and keeps the rest
spinning through the air.
PRESIDENT THEIRS is told by the Committee
of the French Assembly appointed to answer
his message hat it needs no reply, as he Is
only the delegate of that body. The appoint
ment of a select committee of fifteen is sug-
gested for the preparation of a bill to give
France a responsible ministry, but no other
solution is offered of constitutional questions.
II Theirs tenders his resignation-which he
to do on certain contengencies-it
is said the faction known as the Right is
ready to accept it, and make Gen. Chan
GARNER Dictator of France.-..Terri6c gales
have prevailed in The English Channel.
Many vessels were wrecked, and thel loss of
life was considerable--..Eliza Cook, the
English poetess, is hopelessly iil...-.Ameri-
can and German yes, els are rendezvo Using
at Alden, in Arabia, preparatory to sailing
for Zanzibar to suppress the slave trade.
1
THE official vote of Ohio for President
Grant, 2s1,s15; Greeley, pa, S21
Black, 2,1o0; o'Conor, 1,16S. Grants ma
jority over Greeley, 37,5SI-...The official re-
turns from Virginia give Grant, 93,46s;
Greeley, 9 1852.
AND now comes the announcement that
Senator Trumbull will not resign the Chair
manship of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
1.-THE vote of New York is as follows:
Grant, 44o, 900 Greeley, $685. O'Conor,
1,454 ......0ficial vote of Tennessee Greeley,
94,2l9; Grant, IS ,683. Majority for Greeley,
,576......Grant's official majority in Wis
sonsir is 1852, in a total vote of 191 1852.
MINISTER WAsHBURNE declared in a public
speech at Chicago, the other day, that he was
not q candidate for Judge Trumbull's seat
N the Senate......O Official vote of Iowa: Grant, !
Greeley, 71,121; 0'Conor, 2,2O2......
The total vote of Minnesota, at the late cleo
was So, 1856, and Grants majority 2 ,231.
1.-THE official vote of Indiana stands:
7rant, 1s6, I3I; Greeley, 1862; O'Concr,
I,414. Grants msjority. 81 ,O94.
General.
TEE steamer San Salvador, from Savannah,
IA, arrived at New York the other day with