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

| or exchange OF bonds OF the State ana pay
ment Of interest thereon.....The steamer
Importer sunk at Horse Head, below Van
Buren,, Ark, on Tuesday. She is q total
loss. She had 1000 bales of cotton en- route
to New Orleans.
A LARGE fire occurred on Thursday night
in the village of Abbeville Court House,
South Carolina. All the hotels and one side
of the business square were destroyed. the
origin Of the fire IS unknown. George r.
| Dennis was on Friday elected United States
Senator from MARYLAND to succeed Mr.. Vlck-
ers..".. The late Alexander Larman, of Balti-
more, left $l70,OOO to the various benevolent
institutions of that city......The Kentucky
Senate on Friday, by 20 yeas to IL nays,
voted to allow colored persons to testify in
| their coutrs.
The Union Pipe Foundry of Dennis, Long
& Co., at Louisville, Ky, was destroyed by
fire on Sunday. Loss, 1880 insurance,
$10,O00......In Louisville, KY, on Saturday
morning, young man named Theodore
Thomas, in a fit of insanity, shot Mrs
Green and her two aughters-Wilhe lmina,
| aged IL, and Larmina, aged 3. The two
former were shot in the stomach, and Will
probably die. The latter, who is wounded
in the hip, will recover. Thomas also at
! tempted To shoot a brother-in- law, and then
| put the pistol to his own head and fired.
The bullet glanced, inhicting painful but
! not dangerous wound.
HARRISON PATRICK, a noted Ku-Klux of
Estelle county, KY, engaged in the troubles
last summer, was captured on Friday and
taken to Louisville.
Washington.
THE resignation of Vincent Collyer as Sec
rotary of the Board of Indian Commissioners
has been accepted. The Territorial Dele
gates have united in request to the Presi
! dent that hereafter, in making appoint
ments in the territories, he would select
| from citizens Of the same, as he does In case
! Of the States.....Secretary Belknap, under
! Joint resolution of Congress, has set apart
,52l acres for military post at Fort Smell
| ling, and has conveyed the remainder Of the
military reservation to purchasers on prn-
ciples of equity There are twenty-five APP
plicants for a position made vacant by the
| resignation of clerk in the Postotfce De-
partmcnt on Monday last. The Postmaster
General has directed that the applicants be
submitted TO competitive examination, and
| that the names of three who pass the best
examination be sent him; from these he
will seltct one for the appointment.
THE Directors of the American Colonial
ton Society closed their annual meeting on
Thursday. There are over 1000 names en-
! rolled for passage to Liberia....ln the
American and Mexican Claims Commission
several American claims have been rejected
upon it appearing that the I'M uries com
| planned of were inflicted by the Macmillan
authorities, for whose acts the Mexican Re-
public is not held liable
THE Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared a dividend of 30 per cent. to the
Ocean National Bank, New York, payable on
and after goth inst. on all approved claims
.... Mr.. Kimball, head Of the tobacco divis-
| ion of the Internal Revenue Department,
has prepared paper for the information of
the Ways and Means Committee, estimating
the number of tobacco consumers in the
United States ut 5000 900, who each use j
pounds and IA ounces of tobacco and 1877
cigars annually. He says a tax of "a cents
per pound, the prohibition of the sale of
leaf to consumers, and thorough collection
of the taxes, would produce a revenue of
| $25 900 900.
The War Department has decided TO
strengthen Fort Pulaski, below Savannah,
and the forts in Charleston harbor. The
walls of Pulaski will be surrounded with
earth, and The latter will be the principal
material used in restoring the works at
| Chareston....The amount refunded to the
States for expenses in raising volunteers
from 1861 to 1872 is 500, ,OOO. The bal
ance claimed on suspended accounts is
| $5,OO0,O00
Foreign.
THE Channel Tunnel Company has been
registered in London as legal corporation
81 ! Dill =.
of the Dutch possessions on the Guinea coast
meets with violent opposition in Holland,
where it is generally stigmatized as dis
honorable The Telegraph Construction
and Maintenance Company Of London have
signed . contract for the laying OF an At.
lantic telegraph cable to New York, direct
...... 4 numbe of eX-otlicers of the French
army, at the invitation OF the Japanese
| Government are about to proceed to Japan
to instruct the native army in military tao
tics.... Published statistics show that 10000
emigrants left Germany last year, nearly all
going to the United States.
THE assassin of the Prussian soldier at
Luneville few days since was a man
named Crelel. He has been arrested and
confesses having committed the deed ..... The
| Courier de France says the Government is
entertaining the idea of ceding the monopo-
ly for the sale of tobacco TO the Rothschilds
and several other bankers for a period of
thirty years upon condition that they fur
nish sufficient funds to Immediately pay off
the German war indemnity 1.-THE Spanish
Ministry have directed the Governors of
Provinces to suppress the Internationalists
within their jurisdiction, but at the same
time not TO interfere with the liberty of
speech, and to take notice of simple
enunciations of the principles of the Inter
national Society, as the laws of Spain pro-
vide no punishment for such utteranos.....
The budget which has been submitted by
the Russian Minister of Finance to the
Council of the Empire shows that during the
part year the receipts have exceeded the ex-
penditures 100000 oubles.....Indians from
Mexico are burning ranches, killing settlers,
and running off stock from Texas, between
Laredo and Eagle Pass, to their camps on
the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
TERRIBLE explosion occurred in car
fridge factory in Greenwich, England, on
Friday afternoon. The clothing of large
number of girls employed in the factory
took fire, and they rushed shrieking through
the town into the surrounding marshes, in
! hopes of uuenching the flames The factory