Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-07

velopments may be looked for within ninety
days...."The United States Supreme Court
commenced In adjourned term last week.
1.-THE Secretary of the Treasury will soon
take measures to supply the steamboat in
spection service with machines for testing
boiler plate, under the provisions of the act
of Feb. %, 1S7l......F From the following let
ter addressed by Gen. Grant to George H.
Stuart, Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of the Board of Indian Commissioners it
seems that the report, set on foot a short
time ago, that the President contemplated
a change in his Indian policy, was without
any foundation:
"ExEcUTIvE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.
GEO. II. STUART, Eso.-My Dear Sir: Your
favor of the oath inst, saying that a change
is reported to be Contemplated, is just re-
ceived. Such a thing has not been thought
Of at present. If policy toward the Indians
can be improved in any way, 1 will always
be ready to receive suggestions on the sub
ject, but if any change is made it must be
on the side of the civilization and Christian
ization of the Indians. 1 do not believe our
Creator ever placed different races of men
on this earth with a view of having the
stronger exert all his energies in extermin-
ating the weaker. If any change takes place
in the Indian policy of the Government
while I hold my present Office, it will be on
the humanitarian side of the question. Very
truly yours, GU. s. GRANT"
IT seems to be pretty well settled that Hon.
E. B. Washburne, our present Minister to
France, will be made Secretary of State
when President Grant remodels his Cabinet.
1.-The forthcoming report of the Postmas-
ter General will show that the expenses of
the department. for the present year are
greater than last year by about s., 250, 900
and the receipts about So, 000, Oc0 larger than
those of 187l...... William B. Crosby, of New
York, has been appointed Consul General at
Rome.
Foreign.
THE German troops are being slowly with
drawn from France. The provinces of Marine
and Upper Marine have been evacuated, and
a body of French soldiers entered Rheims
the other day, amid the cheers and rejoice
ings of the populace....-. Roussel, a promi-
nent Communist leader, has been convicted
at Versailles, and sentenced to be shot,.
The recent sale of American coal for ship
ping purposes has frightened the British coal
dealers into a reduction of a dollar and a
half a ton in all contracts for steamer use.
The home consumers SO far receive no bene-
fit from it. This kind of competition is a
new thing for Observation-Disclosures overflow
of the River Pc, in Italy, with disastrous re-
suits, is reported...-..The coolies on the plan
tations in the vicinity of Demarara, ] Jamaica,
recently rose against the planters, and fifteen
of the former were killed before the riot
was suppressed.
THE decision of the Emperor William of
Germany in the San Juan boundary dispute
has been formally communicated to the
American and British Governments. The
Emperor holds that American claim is most
in accordance with the true Interpretation of
the treaty of 1888. The English papers
comment at length on the award, and, as is
almost universally the case where a decision
is adverse to British interests, d%enornce It'll
round terms. The Times says cit is unsatis-
factory, unclear and undecisive, but we
(they) will accept it." The Post gravely
insists that it "will not tend to improve the
relations between England and America"
1.-THE French President has forbidden the
sale of caricatures of the ex-Emperor Ma
poleon and his family ......T The Spanish Cortes
has rejected by a large vote the proposition
to abolish capital punishment for political
ofenses
SENATOR SUMNER has returned to London,
much improved in health. Minister Ban
croft has left Berlin for a months sojourn in
Italy....The French journals foreshadow the
he's adoption, at the coming session of the
National Assembly, of constitutional amend
ments making Theirs President for life,
creating an upper chamber and the office of
Vice-President, and restricting the right of
universal sufrage....Many persons lave
been drowned and a vast amount of prop
erty destroyed by the floods in the River Pc,
in 1taly....The trial of Marshal Bazaine,
soon to commence at Versailles, France, will
be of thrilling interest. The preliminaries
are nearly completed, and the most import
ant witnesses have been summoned. There
is a strong feeling against the unfortunate
Marshal, and the whole French populace
desire to see him convicted. Thousands al
ready regard him as a doomed man.
A SERIOUS conflict has arisen between the
upper and lower houses ofthe Prussian Diet
on the Country Reform bill, providing for
local self-government in the rural districts.
A majority of the Deputies threaten to re-
sign if the upper house refuses to pass the
bill, and the Emperor is said to be in favor
of it.....A congratulatory dispatch has been
received by President Theirs from President
Grant on the progress of republicanism in
France.....Count de Chambord is intriguing
with the Orleanists to effect the defeat of the
proposed constitutional amendments at the
coming session of the French National As
sembly.-..A Havre dispatch announces
bound for the United States, but that ship
owners refuse to allow them to depart, in
consequence of the ten per cent. increase of
duty imposed by the United States on goods
imported on French bottoms......The census
of the city of Vienna, Austria, just completed,
shows a population of zoe ,O00.
THE notorious Consul Butler was in London
at last a%ccounts.....Thomas Hughes tom
Brown, of Rugby, declines a reelection to
the English Parliament.....The three experts
to whom the Emperor William referred the
San Juan case recommend as a compromise
the adoption of the middle channel as the
boundary line between British and American
territory......King Cholera is on his westward
having appeared in Hungary, Prus-
STA and Ireland.