The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-13

quality OF the work, that the acquisitions thus
FAR made on the department amount to q, 000,-
900, and only 100000 have been delivered.
The department has declined, as has been
stated, to receive the latter installments, on
account Of the inferior character Of the card
board.
A dispatch from Annapolis to the Secretary
of the Navy states that Midshipmen Young OF
Mississippi, Butterfeld Of Kansas, Socket Of
Georgia, Rowan OF West Virginia, and O'Keefe
and Gridley of New York have all been con-
cerned in assaults upon colored Midshipman
Conyers by attacking him with stones, and
that the riotous Midshipmen had all failed in
their examination. and will be dismissed from
the Academy regardless of this offense.
The castaways from the Polaris have arrived
at the Washington hayward in good condi-
ton. Not having experienced warm day for
two years, they were naturally very much OPP
pressed by the sultry climate of the capital.
The Secretary of the Navy has arranged for
an examination of each person separately,
with view of solving the mystery surround
ing the expedition and the fate of its leader.
Elias Griswold, rebel Provost Marshal of
Richmond during the war, has been appointed
by the President Special Agent Of the Post
Office Department.
1t has been determined by council OF Cabi-
net Ministers to refer the question as to the
disposition of the Modocs to the Attorney
General The ground was taken that the
priority of offense would give the Oregon au-
thorities Jurisdiction over these offenders, as
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to the assassination of Gen. Candy, and the
subsequent hostility to the United States
| troops.
An analysis Of the testimony taken by Sec
rotary Robson of the officers of the Polaris
crew seems to satisfy officials that there is
no evidence of the poisoning of Capt. Hall, or
of mutiny or heartless desertion on the part of
the crew.
An enterprising individual, writing to the
| Government from Tiffin, o., offers to pay
$50 900 for the privilege of exhibiting Capt.
Jack throughout the country during sixty
days.
The President has taken up his summer
quarters at Long Branch.
Thomas Wright was hanged at Washington
on the 9th inst.
| neutrality-suspicious. Nlllhlus, W Niom NdS IT,
ferred the question as to the proper disposition
of the Modocs has decided that, as a condi-
| ton of war existed between the United States
and this tribe, and as they murdered persons
who were under the protection of a flag of
truce, they are properly subject to the DISPOSE
ton of military court. Accordingly, Capt.
Jack and his fellow-murderers will be tried by
a military commission.
| The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
writes that his Office does not sanction tho
practice of cutting forty and sixty-pound
packages Of plug tobacco in halves for sale,
and tobacco offered for sale or exposed for sale
in half-box without having marks of the
brand, the caution notice. and stamp which the
law requires, is liable to seizure and forfeit
ure, and should be seized
The Geneva award Of SIS 600 is to be
paid Sept. IA.
The official examination of Capt. Tyson and
party shows that no suspicion OF wrong
attaches to any of them; that Capt. Hall died
a natural DEATH and received the medical at
tention furnished the expedition; and that the
separation of the survivors on the ice-floe
was purely accidental, they having been placed
| tuSIc III boou ny thO O"P""i' Va 'AS
Polaris. The subsequent drifting from them
is attributable to the movements of the ice,
the storm and the darkness, and while they
think the Polaris did not make as great all
effort to save them AZ she might. they believe
that there was no malicious intent to abandon
them.
There is said to be a movement in official
circles for the annexation of Guatemala to the
United States.
The Chronicle says: at has leaked out
thatCapt. Buddington was the main cause of the
failure Of the Hall expedition. Shortly after
the death Of Capt. Hail. when all the discip-
line Of the ship became lax, and each appeared
to work on his own hook he became intoxi-
Gated and with pistol in his hand drove the
hoe-of-ice party from the ship, giving them
quantity of provisions, and then deliberately
deserted them
Foreign.
Eight hundred of the employees of the Great
Western railway of England are on strike
President MacMahon has appointed Gen.
L'Admirault to the command of the army at
Versailles.
News comes from Shanghae of horrible
wholesale massacre in the Province of Yum
nan, Southwestern China. 1t is stated that
the victorious forces fell upon their captives
and massacred thirty thousand. The Sultan