The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-23

| FROST, WOOD * Co., the iOunury OF ~. w
Page and two other smaller buildings. Loss
$4,000 insured for $4,000.
The South.
THE Georgia National Bank at Columbus
was attached on Monday for refusing to pay
$4,000 deposited by Governor Bullock as
State funds......It is reported that a large
portion Of Helena, Ark, was destroyed by
fire on Monday, but, owing to the telegraph
lines being Frustrated by storm, nothing
definite is known.
BEFORE the Congressional Investigating
Committee at New Orleans on Thursday,
Captain Snnott and Captain Scott testified
very clearly to briberies in the Legislature,
the latter having delivered money to Camp
bell, Carr, and other members as a consider
alton for votes and influence. Sinnott
swore to having been connected with Col
lector Casey and Herwig, his chief Deputy,
in the handling of large corruption fund.
| Casey and Herwig had in their custody
$4,000, understood to be for the purchase of
eighteen Senators.
THE steamer Sabine, from Ouichita
river, with l 900 bales Of cotton, collded
with the steamer Richmond twelve miles
above New Orleans on Sunday morning.
|
| Richmond was considerably damaged, but
ren dered all the assistance possible taking all
| the passengers and some 800 bales ofcotton Off
the Sabine. The Sabine will probably prove
a total loss. ..... The Governor of Virginia has
| COMMITTED the sentence of Woods. a ruffian
negro, to have been hanged on Friday for
the murder of Lewis Schwartz, to life i'm
| prisonment.
THE South Carolina House of Representa-
tives on Monday, by a vote of 20 to g.,
adopted resolution demanding the resigna-
ton of Sawyer and Robertson, on account of
their opposition to Summers Civil Rights
Amendments to the Amnesty BILL. Cover
nor Reed of Florida has been impeached.
Mr.. Day, of Virginia. a Republican, has
been appointed Governor.
Washington.
THE President transmitted to the Senate
on Wednesday information furnished by the
Secretary of State in response to a resolution
of inquiry regarding the retention in Vene-
zucla of the American steamers Hero, Dud-
| ley Buck, Nutrias, and San Fernando, the
property of the Venezuelan Steam Trans
| portation Company, an American corpora
| ton. 1t appears that these vessels were
seized last fall the first by the Venezuelan
| Government troops, and the other three by
the revolutonists. Acting Secretary Of State
Davis wrote Minister Pile on the 22d of
| September, demanding the immediate resti-
tuition Of the vessels Hero and Dudley Buck,
and, upon learning of the seizure of the
other two, made a similar demand for
| further restitution. In reply, the Venezue-
| Ian Minister Of Foreign Affairs wrote to Mr..
Pile in November, disavowing the acts, and
promising, upon proof, to make the ncces-
sary reparation.
UP to the 5th inst, the sums awarded to
Americans by the Joint United States and
Mexican Commission amounted to 1915, 0OO
The amount claimed in the aggregate was
| ST 500 900. Awards to Mexicans amounted
to only $4,000. The aggregate claimed was
| $4,000, 00.....Thomas X. Cree, of Pitts
! burgh, Pa, has been appointed Secretary of
| the Board of Indian Commissioners, Uice
Vincent Collyer, resigned.
Mrs. ADMIRAL DAHLGREN has laid claim
before each house for the amount due from
the Government to her late husband for the
use of guns upon which he had patent
This claim was fully recognized by the
Navy Department, but previous to the Adj
miraPs death he had made no collections.
1.-The President has appointed Sayles j.
| Bowen, ex- Mayor Of Washington, Minister
to Ecuador Another expedition under the
command of Commander Crossman will soon
be fitted out by the Navy Department to
survey the Nicaragua route for an inter
oceanic canal.
THE location of the new Government
buildings in Chicago was decided upon on
Monday. The square purchased il two
| blocks south of the former position on Dear
born street. The other sides of the square
| are Clark, Jackson, and Adams. The price
agreed on is 81 900.
Foreign.
PARIS special says tlat President Theirs
was shot at on Monday night, but not hit.
| The attempted assassin escaped ..... The
Patric says the German Government has
| notified France of its willingness to accept
French colony in part payment of the war
| indemnity.
Mr.. DENNrsoS, Speaker of the English
House of Commons, has resigned in conse-
| quence of i'll health. The French National
Assembly. after an agitated discussion,
passed a resolution authorizing the prosecu-
ton of publishers of provincial papers
which have lately contained articles insult
| ing to the Assembly.
THE steamer Colorado, which sailed from
Liverpool on Thursday for New York, when
just outside of the Mersey was run into with
great violence by the Arabian, inward
bound. The Colorado received severe
damages, and was run ashore to prevent her
sinking in deep water with all on board.
The Arabian, which was comparatively I'M
injured, rescued all the passengers of the
Colorado, except five in the Storage, who, it
| is supposed, jumped overheard in the panic
which followed, and were lost. The passen-
gers were brought back to Liverpool.....A
new company, which proposes to lay tele-
graph cable direct to New York, has been
registered in London. One of the features
of it's prospectus is promise to fix the tolls
on dispatches at twenty shillings per ten
words.... In the House of Commons on
Thursday Mr.. Gladstone moved vote of
thanks to Right Hon. John Evelyn Denni-
son, the retiring Speaker of the House, and
also resolution recommending his elevation
to the peerage. Mr.. Disraeli, who was
present, seconded both motions, and they
were carried by acclamation......Mi Minister
| Washburne is about to return to the United
States, on temporary leave of absence.
| Secretary Hoffman will act as charge
d'a6aireS during his absence.