Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-02

hat some was sold to the wife of Senator
Wilson, and offered to the Senator, but that
he declined to buy.
A DELEGATION of citizens of Louisiana, rep
resenting the commercial and business
interests of the State, called upon the Presi-
dent the other day. The delegation was
headed by Hon. John A. Campbell, formerly
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
who acted as spokesman of the party. AS a
means of settling the disturbed condition If
affairs in that unfortunate State, the Presi
dent was requested to send there an Associ-
ate Justice of the Supreme Court and a
Circuit Judge from another State, to hold a
term of the Circuit Court, that the matters
in difference may be fairly and impartialiy
IA bill for the admission of
Utah as the State of Deseret has been intro
duced into Congress.....The President has
sent to the Senate the following nominations:
Charles B. Wilkinson, Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Sixth District of Missouri.
Postmasters-B. M. Crawford, Wamego, Kar-
sas ]. W. Whips, New Lexington, Ohio;
L. T. Chever, Dels ware, ILL.,; Mrs. Eliza Sell
lers, Pekio, Ill; F. W. Trip, Farmer City,
Ill; Samuel Mathews. Sidney, Ohio; John
Macarthur, Chicago, III.
THE House of Representatives has now on
its file over 5000 bills, and the Senate about
1,SoO."...It is estimated that the President
will send Judge Bradley to New Orleans for
WIG PoA PO9S " "AA N1N N0-S1
there in regard to the situation.
IT is stated that the daily returns from
internal revenue are reaching, toward the
close of the year, quite 100000 per day, and
show in the aggregate an increase so far
above the estimate as to fully justify Con-
gress in further reducing taxation by abol-
ishing the stamp tax on checks and matches.
......A Washington dispatch says that Speaker
Blame expects his Reelection by the next
Congress; end a good deal of wire-pulling is
likely to take place before that time. Free
man Clarke, of New York, is mentioned as a
probable candidate for the Speakership.
Some Southern members mention Horace
Maynard for the position. Fernando Wood
will be the candidate of the Democrats. Ord
way will be dropped SIS Sergeant-at-Arms;
also King, as Postmaster of the House,. It
is announced that Mr.. Boutwell, will posi-
lively leave the Cabinet in March, and will
run for the Senate in place of Henry Wilson.
......A model of the Franklin School building
in Washingten-one of the finest in the
country-is being prepared for the Vienna
Exposition.
Foreign.
IT is announced that a ministerial crisis"
is imminent in Spain......A Paris telegram
says: Gen. Chanzy's corps is being rapidly
increased to 100000, while Ducrot, "a doubt
full Republican,, has only 4S, 600 men under
bis command. President Theirs says that
he intends to keep the Monarchists in ave."
THE Spanish Cortes has approved, by q
vote of 1872 to 6, the declaration of President
Gorilla of the purpose of the Government to
introduce a law for the abolition of slavery
in Porto Rico.
SIX culprits are awaiting execution for
murder in London.---.The ship Matchless,
of Boston, was wrecked off the cost of North
umberlsrd. All on board were lost.......M.
Roen, a distinguished member CT the French
Institute, has been struck from the jury list
because be denied the existence of God......
Robert Bowies, the American banker who
reeently failed, wont into bankruptcy, and
was arrested on . charge of swindlipg and
thrown into Newgate prison, has been re-
leased on $780, 600 bail.
THIRTY lives were lost by the sinking of
the ship Matchless, off the coast of Northum-
berland, England.-..The periodical Minis
terial crisis in Spain has just occurred, three
members of the Cabinet having resigned.
The sitting of the Certes was interrupted for
a few hours, until the vacant places were
flled......A gale of unprecedented violence
lately swept over Naples, inhicting much
damage to property and shipping-...The
King of Italy is i'll with eumati fever......
The closing year will De notable for the
number of disastrous floods that have visited
the continent of Europe. Italy, Belgium,
Denmark and parts of Germany have
suffered from visitations of this character,
and now the valley of the Seine in France
and large areas in the counties of Leicester,
Derby and Nottingham, England, are the
scenes of destructive foundations. In the
vicinity of Cambridge the River Cam over
flowed its banks, and the streets of the city
were fooded In some sections the inhabit-
ants were compelled 10 take refuge in the
upper stories Of their dwellings. The recent
Rainfall was unprecedented, and is estima-
ted at the extraordinary figure of so, 00O, O0e
tons of water"".Gen. Fairchild, our new
Consul to Liverpool, has been waited upon
by a deputation Of the American Chamber of
Commerce, who rendered him a hearty well
come to that city.
The French Assembly has passed a law re-
storing to the Orleans Princes their confs-
Gated property.-"..The Paris. Corsaire, a
Radical journal, has been suspended. for adj
vocating socialism. 1.-THE notorious Cora
Pearl has been expelled from France in con-
sequences OF the son of a wealthy Partisan
attempting to commit suicide in her apart
ments ...... The recent inundation of the River
Tbamas is said to have been the greatest
since the flood of 1852.....An explosion lately
occurred in a coal mine at Silverdale, En-
gland, by which eight miners were suffocated.
......A serious crisis is predicted in France
when the Assembly meets.
THE Liverpool packet Germania recently
went ashore at the mouth of the River
Gironde, France, and thirty of the passen-
gers and crew were lost-...The bill for the
abolition of slavery in Porto Rico has been
into the Spanish Cortes. There
is no doubt but that it will pass both houses.
Political.
TIE resolutions censuring Senator Sum-
MGR for introducing his oblivion" resolu-
ton into the United States Senate have
passed the Massachusetts, Legislature by a
large majority.