The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08

Debt less cash in Treasury. 2,l47,4 ,19i
Decrease during the month .........S 37O,5ls
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in lawful
money, principal outstanding ....... G4,623,5l2 90
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 323,l17 90
Interest paid by United States. ..... 20,447,95G 10
Interest repaid 10y transportation Of
mails etc. 422S, 1853 90
Balance of interest paid by United
States lo,2zZ,i3z w
All claims presented to the Southern Claims
Commission sitting at Washington, have now
been numbered and registered, and their num-
Der is found to be 22,295, and their aggregate
amount claimed to be something in excess OF
$50, 900 900.
The Treasury Department has directed the
prosecution of all lake and river passenger
vessels that persist in carrying gunpowder,
nitro-glycerine, or other powerful explosives.
Foreign.
Great Britain declines to make any arrange
ment for the admission of postal-cards from
the United States, the authorities thinking the
present rate of postage cheap enough.
President MscMahon says Frances greatest
necessity is peace, and that the Government is
resolved to maintain it.
The Duke of Edinburgh's yearly allowance
is to be increased to 1925, 900 OH his marriage
with the Russian Princess
The French Assembly has been prorogued.
The cholera is SO bad in Vienna that the
troops have been removed from the city.
Vienna telegram There is no doubt that
many Of the highest prizes for goods exhibited
at the Exposition will be awarded to Aneri-
cans"
The Spanish steamer yigilantc, seized by a
German man-of-war, has been given up to the
Spanish Consul at Gibralter
The steamer Virginius succeeded in landing
on the Island of Cuba, for the insurgent army,
700 improved rifles, 200, 900 cartridges, ton
of gunpowder, 200 sabers, revolvers, maehetes,
etc, besides a large quantity of medicine,
clothing, etc.
The cable brings us a rumor from Paris re-
specting the future government of France. 1t
is stated that plan has been matured to e.
tablish a monarchy. 1t is part Of tho scheme
that MacMahon shall serve as President only
six months longer, when he shall resign and
assume command Of the army. The purpose
of this is to make it certain that the army can
be used to assist the Inauguration Of the
monarchy
The proposition to raise the allowance of the
Duke of Edinburgh to 1925, 900 not only pro-
voked strenuous opposition in the British Par
lament but the popular mind lis considerably
stirred up about it, and meetings have been
held in several towns to protest against the
barsted outrage
The horrors of the massacre perpetrated by
the Spanish insurgents at Acoy have scarcely
parallel in history. A correspondent. de-
scribing the awful affair says THE women
played conspicuous part in the mas
sacre, they did in Paris during the
Commune Nothing which occurred in
Paris, even in the last frenzied agony
of desperation and bafied fury, at all APP
proaches this brutal massacre. The defend
ers OF the Town Hall, after being sub
jected to other horrible insults and injuries.
were stripped naked and held up from the
balcony, in full view of the bowling mob
below. Their names were called out. one by
one and the mob was asked whether it would
have them dead or alive. According to the
answer, either their heads were cut off and
their mutilated bodies thrown down from the
balcony, or they were thrown down still alive
the mob below trying to catch them, as they !
fell on bayonets and pixies and everybody then
rushed to assist in dspatching what remnants
of life were left or, if too late for this, to
further mangle and disfgure the breathoss
bodies. One OF the principal and most re-
spectacle inhabitants was seized by the insur-
gents, and after his clothes had been sprinkled |
with petroleum he was set on fire and made to
run, while shots were taken at him. Other
atrocities scarcely less terrible are reported"
A large number of Carlist conspirators have
been discovered in Havana.
The French towns of Nancy and Belfort have
been evacuated by the German troops.
A bill providing for the separation of Church |
and State has been introduced in the Spanish |
Cortes.
Twelve or fifteen persons were killed, and |
many wounded, by recent accident on the |
Northwestern railway of England.
Many of the Jesuits expelled from Germany |
have found homes in England and Wales.
King John, of Saxony, is afflicted with |
dropsy.
A ran-storm in Lima, South America re-
Gently caused damage to the amount of half
million dollars.
The cities of Valparaiso and Santiago. in
South America, were recently visited by
severe earthquake.
Forty thousand slaves have been set free by |
the Russians in Khiva.
The entire Russian loss in the campaign |
against Khiva was 81 killed and 90 wounded.
Turkey has just negotiated loan for S75,
10000 the bonds to bear six per cent. in
terest
Paris is greatly agitated over a meeting of
the Count of Paris and the Count Of Cham
bord at Vienna, which portends a union of the
forces and plans of the Bourbons and Orlean-
lists in their monarchical movement. Vigil
lance committees of the Left and extreme
Left of the Assembly hold daily sessions, and
are prepared to call the leading members of
their respective parties together when the
time comes to take action.
ACCORDING to the New York bulletin,