Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-09-11

TREASURER SPINNER doubts whether cover
ing back pay into the Treasury, as repentant
members are doing, places it legally beyond
their reach. The money is theirs by law, and,
as the transfer to the United States is without
consideration, it is a question whether any
legal defense could be made to the suit of an
heir-at-law, for instance, for it's recovery-...A
Washington dispatch says the Manitoba ques-
ton will be brought before a British tribunal
in a few days. Minister Thornton says the
British Government is firm in it's conviction
that the action of its officials was strictly in
accordance with law, and expresses his con-
adverse to the parties in custody. The court
will be held at Fort Garry, Winnipeg.
Meanwhile, the proposition to release the
American prisoners on bail is rejected.
Foreign.
The high price of bread causes an agitation
in the populous quarters of Paris, and it is ap-
pretended that serious troubles may ensue.
A special meeting of the Cabinet Council has
been called to consider the question. Several
members of the Assembly propose, as a remedy
duties as to cereals. 1t is reported that
seventeen Krupp guns have been sent from
Keil, for the Carlists.
The cholera is raging in Pesth, Hungary.
The deaths average 600 a week, in a popula-
ton of less than 800, 600. h British Gov
eminent has decided to send an expedition
from Cape Coast Castle against the Ashantees.
-. Serious riots are reported in the city of
Leipsic. -. Twelve of the Barcelona (Spain)
artillerymen, who recently mutinied, have been
sentenced to death. Don Carlos has issued
a stringent order against the interference by
his forces with railroad communication in
Spain. The penalty of death is decreed for
violation of this order. .
The Carlists and Communists in Spain are
making common cause with each other. The
Khivans took advantage of the absence of
Gen. Kaufman a short time ago to get up an
instruction. 1t was easily quelled by the
Russian troops, who, in retaliation, destroyed
the town of Khiva, the Capital of the Khanate.
THE Prussian Government has ordered
the expulsion from the country of all emigra-
German subjects. "A boiler in a flax factory
near Stockholm, Sweden, recently exploded,
killing nine persons, and n!ur1ng a great
many more.:iAn instruction has bro
white settlers have been murdered.
The expedition of Sir Samuel Baker, about
which so much has been said and written, dur
ing the past three years, turns out to be a
failure in every respect. 1t is stated that he
has returned to his starting point after a loss
of th~ree-fourths of his soldiers, furnished by
the Khedive of Egypt, and the wasting of an
immense amount of money. The objects of
his expedition were the abolition of slavery in
the provinces lying between Gondokoro and
the Lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza, and
the settling of certain geographical questions
connected with these lakes, to facilitate which,
he was furnished with three iron steamers
built in sections. 1t is now affirmed that he
has lost his steamers, has settled no geo
graphical questions, and has not abolished
slavery.
AND now comes forward another pretender
to the throne of Spain-the Prince of Asturias
who, it is said, will shortly proclaim his sue
cession. The black flag has been hoisted by
the insurgents at Cartagena, Spain. The
trial of Marshal Bazaine will m on
the 9th of October. 1t is said the Spanish
Government will shortly issue letters of
marque to private vessels to cruise in the Bay
Biscay. . The Carlists under Saballo have
suffered a severe defeat in the north of Spain.
1.-The Japanese Government has ordered
home all the students from that country now
studying in Europe and America-some 600
in all. The reason assigned for their recall is
that those who have heretofore returned home
from their studies have not shown that pro-
ficiency that the Government officials we're
led to expect. The Spanish Cortes has re-
jected by a decisive vote a bill extending
amnesty to the insurgent Communists. -.
The Journal des DebdtS, of Paris, has a sig
nificant article from the pen of M Lemoille,
in which the writer maintains that the republic
is impossible, and that France must have a
limited monarchy. 1t is announced that
France will pay to Germany the last INSTALL
ment of the war indemnity on the 14th Of
October. Thu report about the instruction
III Khiya, and the destruction of the city by