Marshall County Republican., 1872-02-22
The South.

fire on Monday, but, owing to the telegraph
lines being prostrated by a storm, nothing
definite is known. ~ Errc
BEFORE the Congressional Investigating
Committee at New Orleans on Thursday,
Captain sinnott and Captain Scott testified
very clearly to briberies in the Legislature,
the latter having delivered money to Camp
bell, Carr, and other members as 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 1900 bales of cotton, collided
with the steamer Richmond twelve miles
The Sabine sank in few minutes. The
Richmond was considerably damaged, but
rendered all the assistance posi- BILE taking all
the passengers and some 800 bales of cotton off
the Sabine. The Sabine will probably prove
a total loss 1.-THE Governor of Virginia has
commuted the sentence Of Woods, 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 vote of 20 to 9,
adopted resolution demanding the resigna-
tion of Sawyer and Robertson, on account of
their opposition to Summers Civil Rights
Amendments to the Amnesty bill IT,. Cover
nor Reed of Florida has been impeached.
Mr.. Day, of Virginia. a Republican, has
been appointed Governor.
Washi-g -gton.
THE President transmitted to the Senate
on Wednesday in formation furnished by the
Secretary of State in response to resolution
of inquiry regarding the retention in vene-
zuela of the Anne .ican steamers Hero, Dud-
ley Buck, Nutrias, and San Fernando, the
property of the Venezuelan Steam Trans
portation Company, an American corpora
tion. 1t appears that these vessels were
seized last fall; the first by the Venezuelan
Government troops, and the other three by
the revolutionists. 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 neces-
sdAJ &c Pal alAoA'
Up to the 5th inst, the sums awarded to
Americans by the Joint United States and
Mexican Commission amounted to 1915, 900.
| The amount claimed in the aggregate was
| S11 $780, GOO. Awards to Mexicans amounted
| to only $4,000. The aggregate claimed was
| SIS 900, ,000...... Thomas K. Cree, of Pitts
| burgh, Pa, has been appointed Secretary of
the Board of Indian Commissioners, uice
Vincent Collyer, resigned.
| Mrs. ADMIRAL DAHLGRES 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 a patent
| This claim was fully recognized by the
| Navy Department, but previous to the Ad
mirals death he had made no collections
1.-THE President has appointed Sayles J.
Bowen, ex-Mayor of Washington, Minister
to Ecuador. or......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 is 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 ,25O,e0O.
Foreign.
| A PARIS special says that President Theirs
was shot at on Monday night, but not hit.
The attempted assassin escaped ... The
Patrie says the German Government has
notified France of its willingness to accept
a French colony in part payment of the war
| indemnity.
Mr.. DENNIsoN, 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.
! TIE 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 un-
| injured, rescued all the passengers of the
Colorado, except five in the steerage, 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
1 registered in London. One of the features
of its prospectus is a promise to fix the tolls
on dispatches at twenty shillings per ten
| words.... In the House of Commons on
| Thursday Mr.. Gladstone moved q 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 ...... Ministe,
| Washburne is about to return to the United
States, on temporary leave of absence
Secretary Hoffman will act as charqs
dafaires during his absence.
4 IN the English House of Commons on Fri.
day, Right Honorable Henry Bouverie
Brand, the Ministerial candidate, was elect
ed Speaker without opposition The Patri.
says tho Committee of the National Assem-
bly,, which is investigating the facts con-
nected with the capitulation of the French
notifications and armies during the recent
war, has obtained proof of Marshal Bazaine's
treachery to the Republic. 49,. The difficulty
about the Alabama claims is said to have
depressed American securities in Europear