Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-20

amount of their postage Tor the next nscai |
year. when the law abolshing the franking |
privilege takes effect. The estimate for the |
Treasury Department is $685., 900; for the In
terror Department, s22o, 900. The War, State
Navy and Justice Departments it is estimated
will reach altogether 81, 500, 900.
The success of the new loan is so promising
that Secretary Boutwell, has issued q call for
one hundred millions of the $40 bonds of 1862,
and will shortly issue a like call for another
equal amount.
Senator Summers health has improved SO
much within the last week or two that his
complete recovery is regarded as possible by
his friends.
The bill reported by the House Judiciary
Committee to adjust the salaries of the several
departments of the Government provides that
after March 4, 1873, salaries will be fixed as
follows: President, $50, 900; Vice-President,
$4,000; Chief Justice, $40, 500; Justices of
the Supreme Court, $4,000; Cabinet officers,
80, 900; Speaker of the House, $40, 600; MEM
bers of Congress, $4,000.
The President has pardoned two more of the
Ku-Klux confined in the Albany Penitentiary.
Washington advices report that Speaker
Blaine will unquestionably be reelected in the
event of Congress assembling on March 4.
1t is said but few members of Congress favor
an extra session.
1t is said the President will pardon nearly all
the Ku-Klux prisoners in very short time.
1t is believed that Assistant Secretary Rich
ardson is the coming Secretary of the Treasury.
1t is rumored that Ministers Bancroft, Jay
Al RI ha ad off Of
March.
Foreign.
Prince Lunalilo has been inaugurated King
of the Sandwich Islands.
Over $1,000 iron-workers in Wales are on
strike
Lehree, town in India of 5000 inhabitants,
has been overwhelmed by an earthquake, and
500 people killed.
There has been another rise in the price of
coal in London. 1t is now selling for So shil-
lings per ton.
The British isles have been experiencing in
tensely cold weather. One hundred persons
froze to death in England within two days.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee have
agreed to recommend the passage of the bill
incorporating the American, China and Japan
Telegraph Company, with a capital of
$1,000, 900.
Congress is being flooded with petitions in
opposition to the proposed repeal of the Bank
rupt 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.
The cholera has again broken out in Russia
and Hungary, in a violent form.
Robert Bowles, of the firm of Bowles Broth
ers, American bankers, has been tried in Lon
don for the fraudulent conversion of securi-
ties deposited with the firm, and acquitted.
The Spanish steamer Murillo is under de-
tention at Cadiz and her officers and crew are
held in arrest upon the charge of having run
down the emigrant ship Northfeet in the En-.
glish Channel. They deny all knowledge of the
collision.
Advices from Spain give accounts of numer
Gus encounters between the Government
troops and Carlists, in different parts of the
country, resulting uniformly in the success O.
the Royal arms. In one engagement 200 in
surgents were killed and !, 100 improved rifle
captured.
The following is a brief sketch of the Queen
speech on the opening of the British Parlia
) ment on the 9th inst. England is at peac
everywhere. The great powers have promised
to cooperate effectually for the suppression
: of slavery on the coast of Africa. Friendl
negotiations are in progress with Russia
| Izlr Il
jestys Government of the friendship o
the Car for England. The new treaty of com
| MERGE between Great Britain and France
calculated to promote the friendship of the tw
countries. The President of the French Re
= public has been appointed to arbitrate tn
difference between Portugal and England rels
S tive to the possessions on the south coast c
y Africa. Copies of the Alabama and San Jua
S awards will be presented Immediately. 1t
e considered proper to hasten the payment {
S the Alabama award. The speech expresse
regret at the rapid rise in prices, and the col
) sequent disputes between the workmen an
e employers, and promises that bills will be il
e troduced improving the system of higher edl
cation in Ireland, the reconstruction of I'll
# Supreme Appellate Court, and the preventio
S of corrupt practices at elections"
Sir Alexander Cockburn has refused IL
o Peerage and has received the Grand Cross
h the Order of the Bath.
d John G. Fremont has been indicted by IL
d Criminal Court of Paris for frauds committe
in negotiating the Memphis and Ell Paso ra
,e road bonds in that city.
d There was a lively debate in the BIRTHS
s. House of Lords on the motion for an adore
to the Throne, in which number of disguise
Lords relieved their minds on the Gene
n award.
70 1t is announced from Paris that a COZ
promise has been effected between Preside
ut Theirs and the Committee of Thirty-tl
xt latter agreeing to modify their project by e
d, tending the veto power to the Executive, al
er according him the right to participate pc
sonally in the debates of the Chamber.
Bills have been introduced in the Britt
lg House of Commons providing for the aboliti
ne of capital punishment looking to the esta
" lishment of a protectorate over the Feel