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NEW YORK.
NEW, YORK;, May 10.

8 .4s NEWs DIRK, May 10.
The correspondence in relation TO
the Washington treaty, commit
nicatcd TO the Senate with the Prcsi-
dents message accompanying, was pub
lished here Ahis nIorning The c0ires-s
pondence is voluminous, and includes
the draft of the article for supplement
to the treaty, presented by Granville,
and submitted to Munster Schcnck, on
the 10th inst, for approval by the
Unitcd States Government.
The following is Granville's PROPOSE
ton, as telegraphcd, by Minister
Schenck:
WHEREAS, The Government of her
Britanfc Majesty. has concluded In re-
cent correspondence with the GOyern-
ment of the United States, Is follows:
Namely, that such indirect claims as
these for National losses, as stated in
the cases presented Oh The part of the
Government of the United Suites to
| the tribunal of arbitrationiat Geneva,
to have been sustained by loss, in the
transfer of American commercial
marine 10 British flag, enhanced by
payments OF insurance, prolOngatiOn
Of the war and the addition OF q large
sum to the cost of the war and tho
suppression OF the rebellion, firstly,
were not included in the treaty Of
Washington; and fnrtllcr, and second,
should not be admitted, by particular
vessels alleged to have been enabled to
commit depredations upon shipping of
a beIligcrent, by reason Of such. want
of diligence in the performance of the
neutral obligations, as that which is
imputed by the United States to Great
Britain. And,
WHEREAS, The Government of her
Britanic Majesty has also declared the
principle involved in the second of the
contentious heretofore set forth, will
guide their conduct in the future.
/ And,
WHEREAS, The President of the
United States, while adhercing to his
contention, that said claims were in
i cluded in the treaty, aud adopts for the
/ future the principle contained in the
second Of said contentious, SO far as
10 declare that it will hereafter guide
the conduct of the Government Of the
/ United States, and the two countries,
arc therefore agreed in this respect.
In consideration, thereof. the President
4 Of the United States, by and with adj
| vice and consent Of the Senate, thereof,
consents that he will make no claim OH
the part Of the United States in respect
of indirect losses as aforesaid, before
the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva.
/ lSigned] ScHEECK.
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FOREIGN.
LONDON, May Is.

The message Of President Grant to
United States Senate submitting the
proposed additional article to the
Washington treaty, relative to indirect
claims, serves to reassure the public
that the differences between the two
nations will be honorably settled. The
publication of the message has had an
effect upon the market for American
securities which is now iirmer than at
opening.
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ppOved April II, 1872.
CHAPTER 13a.

AN ACT TO amend Chapter twenty.
nine ofthc acts Of the Ninth General
Assembly.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the
General Assembly OF the State OF Iowa,
That section one of chapter twenty
nine of the acts Of the Ninth General
Assembly, be amended by inserting
after the words "Justice of the Peace
in the fourth line of said section, the
words, land Mayors of allincorporated
towns and cities" and by inserting af-
ter tho word courts i'll the ninth line
Of said section, the words, "and which
by law go into the county treasury for
the benefit of the school fund.-
Approved, April II, 1872.
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General Joseph II. Hawlcy, of Con-
nccticut. who is 10 be the next United
States Senator elect, from that State,
was Il soldier who won most honorable
distinction, was the excellent perma-
ncnt Chairman OF the National Repub-
lican Convention of four years ago, is
one OF the foremost journalists OF
New England, and cvinced qualities
that mark him MS one OF the moss
promising and foremost Statesmen vi
the younger class now on the stage Of
action. We rejoice in his selection.
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Mr.. Greeley, in his letters to the
Hon. VIM. L. Amcs, who is, next Ia
Long John Wentworth, the leading
Liberal Republican agriculturist OF
the West, explains his former predic.
tion that Minnesota would never raise
apples. He claims that he alluded only
to dried apples. The dried apple
tree, Mr.. Greeley says, is an exotic,
and although it seems to flourish in
some portions of the West, he is con-
fidcnt that 1t can never become accli-
mated in the rigorous climate OF Min
ncsota.--,St. Paul Press.
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The one term principle for Prcsidcat
has been agitatcd betiines ever since
the formation ofthc government. 1t
Vas also Thoroughly discussed in the
Convention which framed the Consti-
tuition. Differences Of opinion may be
very honestly entertained upon the
subject, thus far, however, those OPP
posed. havclargely preponderated, and
the prevalent idea is to leave the ques-
ton in the hands ofthe people wheth-
er any President shall be again chosen.
AT all events, this is no question upon
which a party can be formed, because
not broad enough, not of sufficient inn
portance. We do not desire to discuss
the question now, but our object is to
sayAt this time, that ii is not true as
claimed, that Horace Greeley has any
consistent record upon this point
In January, 1871, in an address to the
Republican Gem Committee, he said !:
"Wh,lc asserting the right of every re-
publican to his untranmclcd choice OF
a candidate for next President until a
nomination is made, venture TO sug-
Ycst that Genl. Grant will be far better
qualified for that monentous trust il,
1872 than he was in 1868. However,
we c0ncede that il is very natural for a
man to change his view of matters
when he himself is q candidate.
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MISSOURI.
ST. LOUIS, May Is.

DIT. LOUIS, May 10. IS
The civil authorities Of Cass county
having failed to bring TO justice the
lnultlerers of Stevcnson, Cline and
Dutro, AT Gum City, ia That county,
on April 2lth, the Governor issued d
proclamation yesterday offering three
hundred dollars reward each, for the
arrest Of the persons engaged in that
crime.
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for the construction of the building.
SEC. 2. To meet the ordinary and
current expenses of the Institution, In
Guiding salaries to officers and teachers,
wages to laborers, (male and female, )
repairs, etc, there is hereby appropria-
ted the sum of twelve thousand dollars
per annum; and in addition thereto,
forty. dollars per quarter for each
pupil.
SEC. 3. All acts or parts OF acts in
consistent with this act are hereby
repealed.
SEC. Is. This act, being deemed BY
the General Assembly Of immediate
importance, shall take effect and be in
force from and after its publication in
the Iowa State Register and Iowa State
Leader newspapers published at Dos
MONIES, Iowa.
Approved, April 18th, 1872.
| hereby certify that the foregoing
acts was published in the Ddily Stat
Leader, April 10th, and in the Dali,
I0sco State Register April q, 1872.
ED. WRIGHT,
| Secretary of State.
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The Albany Eccwiag Journal says
at is understood that private let
ter from Mr.. Greeley has been handed
around during the past two or three
days, advising the acquittal of Super
intendent Miller. We are somewhat
at a loss to understand whether this is
an exemplification Of that peculiar re-
form on whose platform he is now a
candidate for the Presidency, or
whether it is 4 part of that effort which
he is expected to make in order 10
commend himself to Democratic
favor, but are inclined to think it is
both. The spectacle Of a reform Re-
publican candidate for the Presidency
interposing by private letter to save a
venal Democratic officer is refreshing.
Mr.. Greeley has begun his joint cam
paign of srcf3In' and Democracy very
promptly, but not thus far with dis
tinguislled success.
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CHAPTER 1876.

AN ACf TO amend article seven, chap
ter twenty-five of the Revision OF
1860.
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted By tie Gem
elut assembly Of the State Of Io,ca,
That SO much Of article Z, of chapter %
OF the Revision Of 1860 as provides for
the submission to the electors Of any
county of tho question whether hogs
and sheep shall be permitted to run At
pealed.
SECS. That section 2S8 Of the Re-
vision ofl86O, be-. and the same is
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0EspSesane.

p t-rs'Sp-F<s.f SIeSs - &
Cherry trees at Dubuque, Iowa,
promise . wealtll offruit.
Cornin Nenlala county, Neb., is up
and ready for cultivation.
Apple trees iii various parts Of mdi-
ana promise q heavy crop Of fruit.
The Rock Island Union says farmers
are busy planting their corn and prom
isc to put in heavy crop.
Wheat in the vicinity Of Lainsburg,
Mich, has seldom, If ever, looked worse
and much of it is being plowed up and
put into spring crops.
The wheat crop in the south part OF
Shiawassce county, Mich, is very poor.
AID. Favillc, living near Lake Mills,
Wis, sold the milk Of 80 cows to the
cheese factory at that place for $1,SOO
and still had months in which to make
butter.
The editor of the Muscatine Jour
nal has been shown samples ofgrowina
rye from fields in that vicinity, which
are % feet high and unusually vigor.
Gus and healthy in appearance.
The Mankato, Mimi, Union of the
3D. inst. says "Spring crops now all
in. and wheat is up and doing finely
Although the season has been back.
ward and cold, nothing so far has
destroyed the prospects for good crops
The late rains and warm weather
have sent vegetation forward woudcr.
fully in southern Wisconsin.
Wheat in Wayne township, Marion
county, Indiana, averages fourteen
inches in height, and promises fint
crop.
In the vicinity of Anna, ILL.,, straw,
berries arc looking finely. Apples
| peaches, pears, cherries and grapes
never promised better crops than now
The Rochester (Mim) Record, Ma,
4, says the crops have been put in unus
ually well this season, andAvith timely
rain we may look for an abundant har
vest
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S;e1cral Devens, at the meeting of


GENERAL Devens. ut the meeting of
the Army of the Potomac at Cleveland,
was assigned to speak for 1.-THE Presi-
dent of the United States, As no
politics are allowed at these gatherings,
it was difficult position to fill. lie
concluded his speech, however. with
the following happy quotation from
Milton's description Of Cromwell:
Wherefore you speak contemplate
OF his parts, know not, but suspect
youarenot free from the error common
to studious and speculative men,
Because Oliver was an ungrateful
orator and never said either in public
or private anything memorable, you
will have it that he was of mean capaci-
ty. Sure this is unjust. Many men
have been ignorant of letters. without
wit, without eloqucncc, who vet had
the wisdom 10 devise and the courage
to perform that which they lacked
language to explain. Such men, often
in troubled times have worked out the
delivcrance of nations and their own
greatness, not by logic bHt by wari-
ness in success, by calmness in danger,
by firm and stubborn resolution in all
adversely. The hearts of men are their
books; events are their tutors; great
actions arc their eloquence, and such
an one, in my Judgment. was his late
deeds shall ayouch him for great
statesman, a great soldier, true lover
Of his country, a merciful and generous
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CHAPTER l33.

AN ACT to determine the weight per
bushel of certain undried fruits
named herein.
SECTION l. BE il enacted by the
General Assembly ofthc State of Iowa,
That the weight Of a bushel of apples,
pears, peaches or ounces, shall be for
ty-cight pounds, each respectively.
The weight of a bushel of cherries,
grapes, cluTants or goosebcrries, shall
be forty pounds each, respectively.
The weight of Il busllel Of straw ber-
rics, raspbcrrics, or blackbcrrics, shall
be tlirty-two pounds, each, respective
ly.
Approved. April II. 1879.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
SCRANTON, May Is.

SCRANTON, May 10.
Another fire damp explosion occur
rcd at an early hour this In0rning, at
Bellevue shaft, killing three men in
stantly and wounded many others.
Fears of other explosions were SO
prevalent among the men tllat work
had to be stopped at once.
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CHAPTER I3l.
AN ACT Dividing the State in

AN ACT Dividing the State into
nine Congressional Districts.
SECTION l. Be IL enacted bY TIC
General assembly Of the State Of Io,ca,
That this State shall be divided into
nine Congressional Districts as fol.
lows: 3
First District-Thc counties of Lee,
Van Buren,, jefferson, Henry, Des
Moines, Louisa, and Washington, shall
compose the First District.
Second District-The counties OF
Muscatine, Scott, Clinton, Jackson,
Jones, and Cedar, shall compose the
Second District.
Third District Theepunties of .Du-
buque, Clayton, AllAaAkec. Winuc.
shiek, Tayel4e, Buchanan, and sDcla.
wave; shan compose the Third Dis.
tlict.
Fourth District-Thc counties OF
Black Hawk, Bremen, Chickasaw.
Howard, Mitchell, Floyd, Butler
Grnndy, Hardin, Franklin, Ccrro Cor
do, Worth, Winnebago, Hancock and
Wright shall compose the Fourth Dis
trict. fsS
| Fifth District-The counties OF
johnson, Iowa, Powcshiek, Marshall,
lama, Benton and Linn, shall COM
pose the Fifth District. -
Sixth District-Thc counties OF
Davis, Wapcllo, Keokuk, Mahaska,
Jasper, Marion, Monroe, and Appa-
moose, shall compose The Sixth Dis
trict.
Seventh Distriet-The counties OF
\
..sn, I'oih,- f,r,sr-1y as..a;s....,. dair. and
Guthrie, shall compose the Seventh
District.
Eighth District-Thc counties OF
RiDggold. Union, Adams, Taylor,
rage, Montgomery, Cass, Audubon,
Shelby, Harrison, Pottawattamie, Mills
and Fremont, shall compose tho
Eighth District.
Ninth District--Thc counties OF
Story, Boone, Hamilton, Webster,
Humboldt, Kossuth. [Crockcr.l Em-
met, Palo, Alto, Pocahontas. Calhoun,
Greene, Carroll, Sac, Bucna Vista, Clay.
Dickinson, Osceola, u 'Bricn, Cherokee.
Ida, Crawford, Monona, Plymouth.
Sioux, Lyon, and Woodbury., shall
compose the Ninth District.
SEC. 2. Each of said Districts shall
DC entitled to one representative In
Congress; and the first clcctiomg
members of Congress under this act
shall be at the general election in the
year QUO thousand eight hundred and
sevcnty-two. Members of Congress
shall be elected at the general election
held every two years thereafter.
SEC. ). The returns OF elections
for members of Congress under this
act shall be made 10 the Secretary of
State; and the canvass shall be made
as required by law for the return and
canvass for Auditor of State.
Approved, April II, 1872.
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Gen. Joe Hooker, the brave old
soldier of the late war, was in the city
yesterday. He is very helpless and
feeble from paralytic prostration, and
has to be constantly supported by his
son. He went west to the mountains
for the benefit of his health. -Davea-
port Democrat.
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NEW York. Nav IL,

An Important portion of the treaty
correspondence was published this
4. NJ, making eleven columns in the
Herald. Accompanying Granyille's
letter to Schenck, of March Goth inst,
is memorandum which would make
about eight columns, merely elabora-
ting Granville's argument.
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CONNECTICUT.

New HAVEN, May Is. 6
Ferry has been elected United States
Senator on joint ballot by majority.
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Centervillc tells good yarn of a
boy who fell off runaway horse, was
dragged half a mile through the
brush, under big pond, and over
six-raii fence, and still lives. Brave
boy! :
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The correspondent of the Inter
Ocean, writing from Washington, on
Monday, says: !. The demon of dis
cord in the Democratic ranks broke
forth to-day in rich sensation on the
floor of the House, in the shape of an
indignant and eloquent speech by Dan
Voorhees, against being classed as a
Greeley supporter. IL was regular
bonbsllell in the Democratic camp. and
created great CONSERVATION among the
Greelcyitcs. who denouncss2xFoyA
as having been boagll. Ap BY Grant !;
bntsshe sileneed All his slanderers iii
short osder, and when he compared
Giant and Greeley from aSouther1l
standpoint and showed that Grant
had been an infinitely better friend to
the South than Greeley; that Grant
prevented Lee aud johnson from being
arrested, in violation Of their paroles.
when Greeley wanted them tried aud
hung for treason. a perfect storm OF APP
plausc broke forth from both floors
aud galleries. Tho -sranneh WAS thu.
grratsensational topic of the day. and
its effect was universally canvasscd."
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hereby, repealed, and the following is
enacted In lieu thereof: "Sec. 29S.--
That from and after the first day Of Oc-
tober, A. d. 1872, every owner Of
swine or sheep shall restrain the same
from running at large and inthc event
ola failure to do 30, shall be liable for
any. damage done by said swine or
sheep, to be recovered by action BY tho
party injured against any person own
ing said stock, and all damages and
costs recovered under the provisions OF
this act, shall be alien upon oil stock
committing such damage"
SFC. 3. That section $50 Of the Re-
vision of 1860, be amended by striking
out the words Gin said county," in the
second line thereof and inserting in
lieu thereof, the words, "in the county
in which he resides. ~
Sec. 4. All acts and parts Of acts in.
consistent with the provisions of this
act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, April IL, 1872. AR
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The Dubuque Telegraph Greclcy's
Iowa organ, thinks there is no doubt
but that good many Democrats will
vote for Grant in preference to Gree
lev $50
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New York Market.

NEW YORK, May is.
Flonr-Steady.
Wlleat---Still nominal.
Corn-tluiet, 75@ 81. f,
Oats-Duli, heavy, 5e@6i.
Pork-Dnll, nominal, slssal.
Whisky-S9is. 80
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New YoRK. Nav III

Resolutions of encouragement, for
striking carpenters, were adopted by
various trades Unions in the city.
Master bricklayers contcdc eight
hours. and the demands of stair build
crs successful in the same movement.
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CHAPTER I39.

AN ACT to empower the Board of
Trustees ofthc Agricultural College
to grant diplomas to the students
therein.
SECTION /. Be il enacted by. the
General Assembly of the State Of Iowa,
That the Board of Trustees of the
Iowa State Agricultural College, be,
and arc hereby, empowered to grant
diplomas, on the recommendation OF
tho Faculty, to any student who shall
lave completed either OF the industrial
courses prescribed by said board, Oral
equivalent thereof. fs.is
Approved April Is, 1872.
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NIADRIp. Nav l,

The force Of sCarlists which entered
Spain from Portugal were met near the
frontier by a body Of government
troops and driven back into Portugal
territory. n
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An cnthuj lastic editor in North
Carolina assd Is that the Democratic
candidate fo9 Governor is "a son Of
thunder in I |c mountains, where he
was bred ~ where he is best kno wn,
and a towa 81 strength to the party in
the whole 8 kte." s9s q
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r1RIs. Ma,

An official decree appears to-day
announcing the appointment of Duke
d Noailles as minister to Washington.
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RocyfEsTEtp. Nav

The Democratic State Convention
organized By the temporarily election
Of fFliomas K'nzota as chairman, and
then took recess till afternoon.
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Sr. LOUIS, May Is.
Flour-Firm, unchanged.
Wheat-Quict. little doing, No. q
fall, nominally 1920
Corn-Stronger; No. 9 mixed, 81.
0ats-sfronger; mixed on track Al.
Rye-Lower at 92@92.
Barley-Firm.
Whisky-Higher; S31.@l.
Pork-Quiet 1928.
Lalsl--Quiet.
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New York, May |
The Tribune tomorrow publishes
the following:

The Tribune Tomorrow publishes
the following:
"A CARp.-Thc Tribune has ceased
to be a party organ, but the nomila-
ton of its editor at Cincinnati seems
to involve il i'm Il new embarrassment.
All must be aware that the position of
IA Journalist, who is at the same time Il
candidate, is, at best, il.ksomc and diff
cult and that he is fettered in action
and restrained in criticism, by the
knowledge that whatever he may say
OF do is closely scanned by thousands
eager To find in ii what may be so in
tcrpretcd as to annoy and perpleX
those who are supporting him AS a
candidate and to whom his shocked
condition will not permit him to be
scrviccablc. The undersigned, there
fore. Wilhdraws absolutely from the
conduct of the Tribune, and will hence
forth. until notice, exercise no control
Or supervision over lis columns.
lSigmed] HORACE GREELEY
Now thai is nice and clover in
Horace, But We would suggest that
in as mach as the Tribune has already
copied and published all the tulsomc
adulation il could pick up from the
Democratic press in relation to the
great and good Horace that now, as
Mr.. Toots would say Its no conse-
quencc, and Horace had just as well
run the sliebang right along. Indeed
we would much prefer that he would,
as the people then would have more
opportunity to witness his vagaries.