The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-01

gssted that it would serve for the location of
. new bonded warehouse.
WADE HAMPTON, M. c. Butler, and Ksr-
shaw, Of South Carolina, have reached
Washington, TO ask for q hearing before the
Ku-Klux Committee, 70 defend themselves
against the charge made in the Senate, that
they were in active sympathy with the Ku-
Klux in that State.....The Senate in execu-
tive session on Monday confirmed the NOM
nation Of Charles Hale, of Masssc husetts,
as Assistant Secretary Of State.
ACCOUNTS of fearful norther on the Mexi-
can coast are received. The English bark
Psnuco, from Liverpool, which arrived at
Vera Crus, ON the 9th inst, dragged her
anchor, and the vessel was lost. Twelve of
the crew were drowned......A Halifax dis
patch says the steamship New York expert
enced terrible weather on the voyage from
Bremen. Her boats were carried away and
her bridge broken. Captain Won Ensten
was knocked about on deck and badly cut in
the face One of the sailors fell from aloft
TO the deck and was killed.
GEoRoE II. Boxer, the newly appointed
Minister Of the United States to Constsnti-
nople, was on Monday presented TO Prssi-
dent Theirs in Paris by Mr.. Wash
burne, our Minister to France. The Paris
Opini0ne Rationale asserts that q conspiracy
has been discovered in which three Cone
rails under the late Emperor are leaders.
Their plan was TO disperse the Assembly by
force and take possession of the Government,
when they were 70 be supported by large
number Of ex-offcers and soldiers of the
Empire from the North. Tho Opinione says
that in consequence Of this revelation the
Belgian frontier ]: carefully guarded, and
no one 10 permitted TO cross into France With
out passports ...... Bogumil Dawson, the emf
nent tragedian, died near Dresden, February
2, aged M......In the annual estimate for the
expenses Of the English army for the year
there 10 Q reduction Of one million pounds
from the estimate of last year.
IT is reported that viscount Monck, who
was Governor General of Canada from 1851
to 1868, will DO appointed viceroy of India
TO fill the vacancy caused by the assassina-
tion of Earl Mayo......The English court
circular announces that the Prince Of Wales
intends to 90 TO Yarmouth to recuperate......
The injuries to Mime. Ristori, the well-known
tragedienne, by the recent railway accident
supposed. In addition to flesh bruises, Ris-
tori sustained q fracture of the knee-pan,
which will render her unable to attend to
professional duties for Q long time.....lt 10
reported that on Sunday last the Pope signed
decree convoking the Ecumenical Council,
the place of meeting to be either in the
Island OF Malta or in Tyrol, as shall be
hereafter determined, and that when the
council meets the Pope will leave Rome......
Baron Gerolt, late German Ambassador at
Washington, is given by the Emperor a
liberal pension and place in the Privy
Council, with the title Of His Excellency.
......Gen. Won Moltke and Won Room have
been created life peers BY royal decree, and
will take their seats in the upper chamber
Of the Prussian Diet......There is much ex
element in Paris and Versailles over the
alleged Bonapartist conspiracy. The police
force has been doubled, and troops have re-
ceived orders to remain at their barracks
ready for action.....The Austrian Reichs-
rath, by two thirds majority, has passed
the compulsory electoral bill, which makes
the provinces, and is intended TO bind thsui
closer 10 the Crown.
TIE English Press Directory gives the
mum Der Of journals in Great Britain at ,456.
..... The yacht. Enchantress will be sent to
suez to receive the remains of Earl Mayo,
and convey them TO England......Three
assassins of Generals Lecomte and Thomas
were executed on Tuesday morning at
Satory, France......The Paris Gaulois says :
King Amadeus, Of Spain, 10 disguised with
the ungovernableness of the Spanish people,
and has urged his father, King Victor EN-
manuel, of Italy, to sanction his abdicatoL.' =
The Gduiois further says that Emmanuel
counsels patience......The police authorities
of Berlin have information that . man is
the life Of Bismarck, and an active search is
going on for the would be assassin ...... The
Pope has asked permission of England and
Austria for the meeting of the Ecumenical
Council in their dominions.
TIE publication of the newspapers LIE
Gaxlois and L'Aimse has been suspended
BY order Of the French Government......sev-
eral Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church
are urging the Pope to hold the Ecumenical
Council at Trent, in the Tyrol. The Aus
TRAN Government, however, does not seem
disposed to grant permission asked by His
Holiness, for the assembling of the Council
within its d minion. Should the Pope be
successful in his application, he will not at
tend the sessions Of the Council in person,
but will remain in Rome, and be represent
cd at the meeting BY Cardinal......lt is Of
Acially announced that an apothscary from
Possn, Pole, has been arrested at Berlin
on suspicion Of contemplating the assassina-
ton Of Bismarck. The man 10 q fanatical
Catholic, formerly in the Papal 2ouaves. He
threatened to take the life Of the Prince
upon his arrival. A pistol was, found upon
the prisoner. The United States steamer
Kansas has sailed from Havana for Key
West, TO take on board the expedition for
the survey Of the Nicsraguan route.....
Troubles are multiplying in Hayti, and the
stability Of the present Government ismore
uncertain than ever. An attempt was made
on the night of the 5th inst. to burn the city
of Port au Prince. Flames burst out stimuli
taneously in different quarters Of the city
Consideration prevailed, A revolutionary