The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-02-29
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June last. The result, the Concord
Statesman says, has been an increase in
the ordinary expenses of the State for the
six months ending Nov, 80, 1871, of more
than SIC, 600 over those for the CORES
ponding period of 1870.
TiIton paper, the Golden Age, is anx-
ious that Frederick Douglass should be
elected Vice President of the United
States, because, beng colored, he is
direct representative of the colored race,
and because, being an able and great man,
he is an equally good representative of
the whole country.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee Of Ohio leads off with the endorse
ment Of Grant as candidate for re-elec-
ton, associated with Ex-Governor Denni-
son, of that State. for Vice President
| The State Convention is to be held on the
9th of March, and delegates will then be
chosen to the National Convention.
Henry Ward Beecher says that if the
ballot is tainted il is heart disease for the
country, and the people aud Government
must die.
Senator Schurz seems to have grudge
| against the editor of the Stats Zeitung
because he is collector of Chicago. The
fact that he has collected the revenue
more faithfully than his predecessor-the
brother-in-law of that Senator-may have
something to do with his animosities.
The Treasury has been large gamer by
the removal of the one and the appoint
ment of the other, which in sufficient
cause nowadays for drawing the fire of
the Missouri Senator. Chicago Journal
The United States Treasurer holds as
security for national bank circulation
1912, 3S9, ,45O, and for public deposits $l5,-
432, 900. The national bank circulation
outstanding at this date is $3.50, 404, GAG.
The national bank circulation outstanding
is S5l9.4OO. The New York bank state
ment for last week is as follows: Loans,
decrease, $50, 5000; specie, decrease,
81, ,6S2, 900; deposits, decrease, So, 3,322,-
300; legal tenders, decrease, 1906, 800;
circulation, increase, $l2, 500.
A Washington dispatch says the House
Ways and Means Committee has refused
to agree to report bi. prohibiting the
collection of the income tax for ISL
This settles the question and the tax will
be collected as heretofore. Arrangements
will at once be made by Commissioner
Douglass for the collection of the tax.
Fifty-six land grant bills are now pend
ing in Congress, twenty-six being in the
House. The total number of acres en-
braced in the grants is considerably over
200. 600, 900, or greater area than Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Iowa combined.
Two hundred barges were torn loose
and carried away by the movement of ice
at Cincinnati. They were principally
owned in Pittsburgh. Twenty-fv thou
sand bushels coke and coal went down.
The estimates of losses va-y from $780,,
900 to $4,000
A detachment of U. s. troops from
Fort Abercrombie. on last Saturday, pro-
ceeded to Fargo, Dacotah Territory, and
arrested twenty liquor dealers. The
charge against them is selling liquor on
the Indian Reservation that extends from
Elm river on the north, to Traverse lake,
on the south.
| A private letter from Fort Benton,
Montana, states that during the latter
part of December the thermometer mark
ed SO degrees below zero; the buffalo, an
telope, cattle and horses, were frozen to
death in large numbers.
1t is reported that Archbishop Nc
| Closky succeeds to the Primateshlp va
Gated by the death of Spaulding, and
Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina, is to
be Archbishop of New York.
The number of bills introduced this
session is in the Assembly, 49O, of which
324 were introduced prior to the last day
for the introduction of new business in
the Senate, 144, of which 81 were intro
duced before the last day. Last year the
number OF Assembly bills introduced uI
| to the 10th was 5l6 Senate, 202 tota
up to the 9th, when new business was
cut off, Assembly, 1852; Senate, 30l.
| From thirty to fifty thousand people
witnessed the laying of the cornerstone OF
the new Ciey Hall building. San Francis
co, on the 22d. Three thousand Masons
in full rcgalia were in line. The entire
Second brigade of the National Guards
was under arms.
J, 1t would seem that the efforts OF some
of our official people to discredit Baron
Won Gerolt with bis own Government
have met with only partial success. They
were effective enough to send the Baron
home. and to deprive US of his staunch
and sincere friendship ia Washington
But since his arrival in his own country
he has received several signal proofs oil
the confidence aud esteem of his sovereign.
He has received from Prince Bismarck a
warm approval of his conduct in Ameri.
ca. and from the Emperor an autograph
letter conferring upon hims the rank Of
Privy Councillor, and liberal pension or
l his withdrawing from the Diplomatic
i service.
Day after day, the Democrat" who
still retain the power OF speech, charge
the Republican party with corruption,
the real fact being that. Ike all human