Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-09-26

est respect by the multitudes that thronged
the sidewalks.
! The State Auditor of Louisiana was recently
sent to prison for contempt of court.
The ice supply of New Orleans is nearly ex-
hausted, and the city is threatened with an ice
famine.
Hon. Richard II. Rousseau, a prominent
member of the Louisville bar, and brother
of the late Gen. Lowell 81. Ro usseau, is
dead.
A terrible state of excitement exists in
Washington county, KY, caused by the attacks
of body of disguised men upon the laborers
of the Cumberland and Ohio railroad. The
| contractors and laborers have been notified to
leave the county. The citizens claim that the
road is not being constructed in accordance
with the agreement when they voted sub
scription. Hence their opposition to the
prosecution of the work.
| A party of masked men recently went TO the
residence of Henry Miller (colored), at Chris
tiana, Rutherford county, Tenn, before day
| light, and on his attempting to escape, shot
| him dead.
| The last rail has been laid on the South and
North Alabama railroad. This road, forming
an extension of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad to Montgomery, Ala, is link in the
most direct line from Louisville to the Gulf of
Mexico at Pensacola and Mobile.
The feud between the rival factions of the
Creek Nation threatens to eliminate in open
war and bloodshed. Both parties are under
arms, and an early collision is apprehended.
Washington.
Tobacco and cigar peddlers who pursue their
business on railroad cars will hereafter be
considered as dealers by the revenue authori-
ties, and be obliged to sell from properly
stamped packages, under special tax receipt.
The receipt must show the route, number of
car, etc. The same rule will apply to all YES
sells navigating inland waters.
There are $500 employees in the Treasury
Department, LOO of whom are females.
President Grant paid flying visit to the
capital last week. After remaining a few
hours, he set off again for his cottage by
the sea-"
Secretary Delano has returned to Washing
ton. His health Is still very delicate.
A Washington telegram of Sept. 10 says:
The Administration organ, it is understood,
reflects the Presidents views when it declares
this morning that the 9 time for action on the
part of the Government has about arrived,
and those Indians who have been invited to
accept the olive branch of peace and refused,
viii be taught that the strong arm of the Gov
eminent will reach the very last scoundrel OF
them who may have been implicated in the
L. Al.
is well nigh exhausted, and the late outrages
have been so severely commented on by the
press throughout the country that our citizens
are prepared for the most stringent enforce
ment of law and order, even at the lannon's
mouth. A little East India justice would be
useful at this time; and whether the murder
GUS wretches are blown from the mouth of
cannon or slaughtered in the field, it is of
little consequence to the world at large. Ger
tainly the interests of civilization would not
suffer if the entire savage tribes were exter-
minated"
The Bureau of Education has been collect
ing some almshouse statistics, from which it
appears that the average cost of keeping pau
pers is $112 per annum, and that on an average
they are kept ten and a half years. In some
of The States it costs $500 per annum to keep
raupers.
Although (says Washington telegram) it is
thought at the Indian Bureau that there is no
danger of an Indian war, official advices, in
which the President shares, show that serious
hostihties are probable at very early day
along the whole Indian line.
Another delegation of savages, representing
the Kiowas, Comanches, Arapahoes, Chey-
ennes and Wichitas, and numbering some forty
warriors, will soon start from the Indian Ter
ritory for Washington, under escort of Indian
Agent Tatem.
According to the last monthly report of the
Department of Agriculture, the cotton crop of
1871 promises small increase over the yield
of last yer.
Foreign.
President Theirs will. on the opening of the
French Assembly, propose the creation of the
Office of Vice President.
The German, Russian and Austrian En-
perors, having conferred many orders upon
each other. have made their formal adieus,
aud Alexander and Franz Joseph have left
Berlin for their respective capitals The
Emperor of Austria conferred the Cross of
the Order of St. Stephen of Hungary on
| Prince Bismarck. Prince Gortschakoff, Gen.
Maunteuffel, and Count Andrassy were decor
ated with the Order of the Black Eagle by the
Emperor of Germany, and with the Order of
st. Andrew by the Emperor of Russia. The
| Emperor William made the Emperor of Aus
tria honorary Colonel of the Schleswig-Hol-
stein regiment of Hussars, and the sons of
the Prince Imperial of Germany were ap-
pointed to oolonecies IN the Russian army.
Bismarck gives it as his opinion that the
meeting of the Emperors has strengthened
confidence in peace, which was almost as
valuable as peace itself. He wished history
would now remain at stand-still for
while.
Pere Hyacinthes letter concerning and de
Tending his recent marriage, and which b,
published in the French papers. declares i
to be the farthest from his intention to re
nounee his high calling, claims, with man.
arguments appended, to show the business o
his claim that marriage and the priesthoo,
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