The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-02-14

| Special deposit lciu tOr tUc reucinItioh
| of certificates of deposit, rs prescribed
| by <o,'SS,"V
Total in the Treasury. ...........$ 9S,2S5,0Oo
Debt less cash in Treasury. 2,162, $685.
| Increase during the month..-......$ 4O6,2 43
1 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies,~ interest payable in lawful
money, principal outstanding. -...--. 6,6Z3.5l2.Oo
| Interest accrued and not yet paid. 323,llI.00
Interest paid by United States......... ,sSo.9o
Interest repaid by transportation Of
| mails, 4,ho,4oz.io
| Balance of interest paid by United
| States. i4,ou,o4o.io
THE President is urging upon members Of
| Congress the necessity of taking some decisive
action this session upon the Utah problem.
CoSGREss having abolished the frauking
privilege, it now proposes to do away with the
twin evil of mileage-abil bill to that effect having
been prepared. "A pension of $50 per month
has been granted by Congress to Mrs. Robert
C. Ward, daughter of the late President Taylor,
who, it appears, is III very destitute circum-
stances. The House Committee on Claims
have reported a bill passing the awards of
claims allowed by the Commissioners on South
ern Claims. The bill embraces 1900 names,
and appropriates about 1900, 600. The House
Foreign Affairs Committee have agreed to rec
ommend the passage Of the bill incorporating
the American, China and Japan Telegraph Com
pany. with a capital of So 0o, 900. - Congress
lis being flooded with petitions in opposition to
the proposed repeal of the Bankrupt act -.
President Grant, immediately after the close
Of the present session Of Congress, will, in
company with members of the Cabinet, make
an extended Southern tour, visiting New Or
leans (via Richmond). Raleigh. Columbia,
Charleston, Mobile. and other places.
FoRETGN
RcssIAS feeling is being wrought into a war
| fever by stories of atrocious outrages COM
mitted by the Kbiyans upon their Russian
prisoners. Expeditions are being formed to
ayenge these wrongs, and the excitement has
spread among the nobility. many of whom have
volunteered to accompany the army Glas-
gov is subscribing literally for a monument to
the poet Campbell. 1t is reported that
American bankers of London loaned Napoleon
5000, 900 to facilitate a coup he was meditating,
and that since his death the money has been
returned to them. News from DIR. Living
stone represents his health as mnch improved.
The Queen of Spain has given birth to a
bnnnrine bay Theirs rafnaas IN arront tho
constitutional project submitted to him by the
Committee Of Thirty Of the Assembly. Over
I2O Internationalists have been arrested in
Montmartre, a suburb Of Paris ..Ex-Empress
Carlotta. widow OF Macmillan, is reported in q
dying condition at Dresden. &. Randolph
Rogers, the American sculptor, has been made
a member of the Roman Academy Of st. Luke,
the first citizen of the United States who has
received the honor. .Rusiichuk, a fortified
city of Bulgaria, has been the scene Of a fierce
street riot, in which IS Bulgarians and 10
Greeks were slaughtered.
Ii was the Spanish steamer Murillo, as was
surmised from the first, that ran down the
NOrthfieet in the English Channel. the other
day. She was not damaged In the least by the
collision, and has arrived at CadiZ in perfect
condition. Lisbon was her real destination,
but as her officers and crew OIL landing there
would have been Immediately arrested under
the extradtion law between Grea. Britain and
Portugal, she carried her cargo to a Spanish
port. This may enable her officers to escape
all punishment for an act Of cold.blooded in
humanity equal to tho worst Of those that rem
dered Infamous the Spanish buccaneers Of 800
years ago.. The Spanish Government has
officially notified Minister Sickles that no steps
will be taken to abolish slavery in Cuba until
the instruction in that island has been sup
pressed. There are, according to the recent
census returns, 269, 600 slaves in the island.
The great Vienna Exposition building is
completed. An incipieht revolution in Hayti
has been discovered and suppressed, and five
of the plotters executed IA strike among
the engineers and firemen Of the Portuguese
railways has been ended by the interference Of
the Government, and the striking workmen
forced, at the point of the bayonet, to resume
their places. The British isles have been viz
tied by a storm of extraordinary violence. In
London, snow fell to 8 great depth, and travel
was almost wholly suspended. The gale ragged
with great fury all around the English and
Irish coasts. Many wrecks have already been
reported, and there has been Q fearless loss of
life, especially of Torquay and around the
Sicily felands.
PRESIDENT THEIRS attended the sitting Of
The Committee Of Thirty, the other day, and
presented his views on the constitutional pro-
submitted to him. He agreed to accept
The scheme if certain amendments which he
declared indispensable were adopted. After q
searching criticism CT tire project in detail, he
urged the necessity Of being free to address
he Assembly on questions Of general policy,
concluded as follows "You humiliate
ne; accept humiliation, but I will not be-
'ome a political mannikin. ] am only q little
courageous, but the power your conditions leave
ne would be contemplate. w.. News comes
rom San Domingo of q new movement of the
Insurgents. which may prove serious to the in
ant colony of SANTANA Bay. 81 30 sa5
PRINCE LUNALuo has been ~inaueurated King
4 the Sandwich Islands. Over IS. 900 IRON
'orkers In Wales are ON a strike. :. .Lehrce. a
in India OF 5000 inhabitants, has been
by an earthquake, and 500 people
ined. There has been another rise in the
slce OF coal in London. 1t il now selling for
ehiliings per tor. ..The British isles have {
cen experiencing intensely cold weather. I
me hundred persons froze to death in England !
thin two days. 1
- GENERAL. q
THERE Is an increase in the public debt FOR
70 month OF January of s40i, 24s. j.. .Aspin- q
all was visited by q terrific hurricane ON the q
III ult., causing the destruction Of nearly d
900, 900 worth Of property. 9
The sewing machine patents are about to ex- d
and, according to tie New York Bulletin, v
is q formidable COM animation of interests J
lobby their extension through Congress. g