Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-15
The following is the public debt statement
for the month of July:

Fractional currency .............-... 42Ol537I Al
Total without interest 2247 929 23
Total 2.273.4l6 700 SO
Cash in Treasury con....... 6ssiSss9 "a
Cash in Treasury currency. l603S 1854 IS
Debt less cash in Treasury Ss as ~ 81
Decrease during the month of July. 34276S7 is
The Department of Agriculture has COM
menced the distribution of several superior
varieties of fall wheat to all the States and
Territories adapted to its growth This dis
tribution will be completed during the current
month, when large distribution of rye will
follow.
The payments made from the Treasury, by
warrants, during July, were as follows: Civil
and miscellaneous, S7,311. 582; war, $780,
$50; navy, $2,71S, 402; Interior, pensions and
Indians, $2,5O9,sOO. Total, S16,O4O, 1888.
Treasurer Spinner, during an attack of ver-
tigo, the other day, fell from his chair and cut
his head severely.
Commodores John L. Worden and George
F. Emmons are to be promoted to the rank of
Rear Admiral.
Foreign.
Miss Nellie Grant was in Vienna last week.
The Agassiz scientific exploring expedition
sailed from Panama for San Francisco on the
22d ult
The war in Central America is still progress
ing. The San Salvador troops have captured
and pillaged the city of Honduras, and the
British and Spanish Consuls have asked for
war vessels to protect the interests of the
subjects of those nations,
&c
$50 200, 900 to carry on the war in Cuba.
The cholera has broken out in Berlin.
William Bradford, an American artist, has
received commission from Queen Victoria
and the Marquis of Lorne to paint for them
several pictures representing scenes in the
Arctic ocean.
The American residents of Paris entertained
Stanler, the New York Herald correspondent,
at a banquet, on the first inst, at which Min
lister Washburne presided. Mr.. Stanley, IL
the toast of the evening, traced the
expedition of Stanley into Africa from it's orr
gin to the discovery of DR.. Livingstone and
said this achievement added new honor to the
American name, already renowned for such
enterprises. The toast and speech received
immense cheers. Stanley, in responding, said
such honor as attached to the expedition be-
longed to Mr.. Bennett. He entertained the
company for some time with accounts of his
travels and adventures in Turkistan, Russia,
the Crimea and Jerusalem
The Mexican Government has proclaimed a
general amnesty, embracing all engaged in the
recent revolution, and restoring them to their
also ordered a general election, to occur
shortly.
The London journals comment to some ex-
tent upon Summers letter, an abstract of
which was telegraphed, and the prospects of
the Presidential canvass in the United States.
The Times expresses an opinion that President
Grant had been much injured by the refusal
of the Geneva Tribunal to entertain the indi-
rect claims. The Daily SIN says tnat the letter
of Sumner cannot but increase the chances of
Greeley.
Seventeen thousand emigrants sailed from
Liverpool for America during July.
The Paris Temps doubts the genuineness of
the Livingstone letters sent by Stanley to the
Herald. 1t quotes the opinion of the German
5eographer Kiepert, who discovers various
blunders in the letters. He
thinks part of the narrative was invented bv
Stanley, and hence the whole is valueless, and
hints that it is possible Stanley never saw DR..
One of the leading members of the Interna-
ional Society in Europe predicts it's dissolu-
ion at the next general congress, to be held
Ii the Hague in September.
Thanksgiving services for the great success
If the new French loan we're held in the
churches throughout France on Sunday, the
Eth of August
The French National Assembly has adj
ourned until November
DIR. Houard has put III claim against
Spain for damages occasioned by his imprison-
nent. The claim will come before the Span
Commission, now sitting at
Washington City.
Late advices from South America report
hat the Indians, in large numbers, are lnvad-
ng and ravaging the Argentine provinces
vest of the Platte. Settlements have been
Numbered, houses burned, and in some cases
women and children persisted in the flames
1t one place party of English residents de-
ended themselves six hours against a horde
# sayages, until the house they held was
burned under them. This invasion, it is said,
will postpone, if not prevent altogether, the
threatened war between the Argentine Con-
and Brazil.
dispatch from Suez reports that 1000
Egyptians have invaded Abyssinia with view
o conquest, and that the Abyssinians were
marching to meet the invaders.
The southern provinces of France have been
listed by heavy freshets, causing great de-
truction Of property.
London correspondent telegraphs as fol-
ows on the 9Th inst. According to an inter-
Jew between Stanley and the correspondent
# the London Telegraph, DR. Livingstone for
Varded quite number of letters to England.
controversy is likely to arise as
o the manner in which DIR. Kirk British Con-
III at Zanzibar, has acted. This apparent
ack of enterprise and sympathy on the part
# DIR. Kirk was the subject of conversation
'etween Livingstone and Stanley. The latter
scribed it to apathy, but DIR. Livingstone
aid: "No, it is jealousy" sHow can that
re ?" asked Stanley. Livingstone answered :
You do not know the circumstances of this
Expedition of which 1 have charge. At nv
equest it was offered by Dr. Murchison to DR..
Kirk. he refused it," Here an extraordinary
act alleged by Mr.. Stanley may be mentioned