The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-05
General News Summary.
Washington News.

cannot make contract for the manufacture
of postal cards until Congress makes spe-
cific appropriation to pay for them. By the
Postal Code bill the Postmaster-General was
authorized and directed to prepare and fur
nish postal cards, but when this bill passed
the Postal Appropriation bill had already
been acted upon, and contained no provision
for said purpose.
A recent Washington dispatch says nearly
100000 letters went to the Dead-Let.er
Office last year. They have been partly clas-
sified, as follows: 5000 letters had no coun-
ty or State direction; more than 1000 lack
ed stamps, and 5000 were posted without
any address at all. The sum of $92, 900 in
cash, and more than $1,000, 600 in drafts,
checks, ETC., were found in these letters. 1t
appears that on an average every letter mis-
directed, or that goes to the Dead-Letter
office from any cause, contains 81.
Up 10 the Goth applications had been
made to the Post-O Office Department in Wash
lngton for over two millions of postal cards.
and about twenty-five informal proposals
had been made by manufacturers to supply
them after the designs determined. From
this some idea may be had of the disap-
pointment caused throughout the country
will have to wait for special appropriation
by Congress before it can furnish such
cards.
saloon-keeper in Washington has been
fined hundred dollars, and has had his
license revoked for refusing to sell liquor to
a colored man.
All the members of the Cabinet in Wash
ington on the 2Sth called on the President, to
hair nafc md h -,
regard to matters pertaining to their several
departments.
The President has appointed the following
Postmasters: Charles G. Gapen, at Macon,
ILL.,; John R. Blatty, at Eaton, Ohio.
James G. Rankin, Assistant Supervising
Architect of the Treasury Department, has
resigned, and has been appointed Superin-
tendent of the new Post-Office and Custom
House Building in Chicago.
There was a meeting of the Cabinet in
Washington on the Goth.
A Washington telegram of the Goth says:
Information received at the Attorney Gen
erals office from official sources in North
Carolina, makes it necessary to give The
Ku-Klux cases another and more partic u1ar
examination. President Grant has, therefore,
decided n OF to issue pardons at present.
Isaac 81. Sturgeon of st. Louis; G. w.
Johns, of Washington; and D. w. Willard,
of Lansing, Mich, have been appointed Com
missioners to examine the report to the
President upon roads constructed by the
Kansas Pacific Railway.
The President has appointed Charles NJ.
Travis United States Consul at Para, Brazil
Foreign Intelligence.
The elections for the Spanish Cortes took
place on the oath and resulted in Minis
teriaI triumph. No disorders occurred.
According to recent news from the Aus
tralian diamond fields, large numbers of the
precious stones continued to be found.
There has been disastrous flood in Bra
zil. Many buildings were washed away,
and much other damage done.
There was report in London on the Doth
that the ex-Empress Carlotta was dying. All
hope had been given up, and tie last sacra-
ment had been administered.
The reports, on the Goth, of the condition
of the cereals IN France were favorable. The
crops are pronounced very good in forty-two
departments, good in thirty seven, passable
in six, good in Corsica, and excellent in AL
geria.
A telegram dated Bombay, August 81, an
nounces that the cholera had appeared in
tn valley of the Ashmere, and was raging
with great violence.
A brilliant banquet was given at Berlin on
the evening of the Goth, in honor of Admiral
Alden, of the United States Navy, by Hon.
George Bancroft, American Minister.
A letter received in New York on the 9th,
Via Copenhagen, from R. w. Bryan, astron-
omer, of the Polaris expedition, says the
health of all on board was good, and they
were confident of reaching the North Pole
soon.
A Geneva (Switzerland) telegram of the
9th says there was every reason to believe
that the Arbitrators had settled in principle
the question of indemnity, and had fixed ap-
proximately the amount to be awarded for
vessels destroyed by the Confederate cruis-
ers. The total amount of damages awarded
the United States would probably be be-
tween e., 900 900 and "a, 0OO, 900.
Recent letters to the New York Herald
state that American Consul Teel had been
arrested by the Haytien authorities at Mi
ragoas, on a .trumped-up charge of having
rounterfeited the paper currency of that Re
public. Minister Bassett had demanded his
release, which was peremtorily refused.
A dispatch from Oporto, Portugal, on the
2Sth, states that the steamship Perseverance
had gone ashore during fog at the entrance
of the harbor, and was a total loss. Thirty
persons were drowned.
il confia grafton at Oritta, Canada, on the
27th, destroyed the better part of the town
Loss $500, 900.
cable telegram of the 29th says the chol.
era was reported to be raging in India, and
the fatalities were enormous. Thousands
had died in the city of Lahore, and several in
other large cities.
A Vienna dispatch of the 2oth says the ex
Empress Carlotta was fast sinking, and there
was no hope whatever OF her recovery.
President Theirs is said to have ordered
the prohibition in France of all demonstra
tons on the 4th of September, the anniver
sary of the establishment of the Republic.
Potter, LeverssR & Co., London diamond
merchants, in a communication to the Lon
don Times of the Goth, state that a few
months ago an American came to that city
and brought large number of diamonds il
the rough, paying no atten.ion whatever tc
the weight or quality of tn stones. These
they intimate, were used by the alleged dis
coverers of the diamond mines in Arizc q.
to sustain their assertions.
The cholera has appeared at Grodnec, il
the western part of Russia.
General Sherman visited Glasgow on tn,
2Sth ult. He would sail for home on the 5tl
of September.
The London Times of the Goth alt. saw
that the foot and mouth disease was increas
ing among cattle to an alarming extent not
withstanding all the precautions adopted