Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-30

that Mr.. Black, Democrat, Is entlCleQ TO the
seat from Florida, and that Walls (colored),
who has thus far held the seat and drawn
pay during nearly the whole Congress, must
leave it.
THE House Postofice Committee has unani-
mously resolved that Postmaster-Genera Cres-
wells decision that letters mailed with an in
sufficient stampage is Illegal. Cows. War
moth, McEnery, and a number of other proml-
nent L~ouisianians, have been summond to
Washington to give their testimony in regard
to the election muddle in that State.
IT is said the President will shortly issue a
number of additional Ku-Klux pardons.
THE House Banking and Currency Committee
have decided to report a bill relieving national
banks from the operations of the local usury
laws The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided that imitation wines of home
manufacture are exempt from taxation
THE Senate has voted, two to one, to abolish
the franking privilege after July 1. The fol-
lowing is the vote: ~Yeds-Alcorn, Anthony,
Foreman, Casserly. Chandler, Cole, Conkling,
Cragin Ferry (Ct.1, Ferry CMich.), Flanagan,
Hamlin, Harlan, Hitchcock, Howe, johnson,
Kelly, Lewis, Pratt, Ramsey, Sawyer, schurz,
Scott, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Stockton,
Thurman, West, Wilson, Window, and Wright
-33. Ndys-Ames, Bayard, Buckingham, Car
penter, Corbett, Edmunds, Freinghuysen, Gill
bert, Hill, Mschen, Norwood, Pool. Robertson,
Spencer, Stevenson, and
OIOOPO JILL 4do PdoS4 bAO OAosO "ANA
ment raising the number of vessels to ten, as
it stood originally. -. Colorado, through her
delegate, is still vigorously knocking at the
-. The President has signed the bill incorpor-
ating the Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company.
Foreign.
NEWS from Livingstone, dated Nov. 30, states
that the last train of supplies sent out had
reached him, and that he has begun another
march into the interior of Africa. 1t is esti-
mated that over $4,000 persons witnessed the
funeral ceremonies of the ~ex-Emperor Napo-
leon. While the Prince Imperial was returning
from the chapel, he WAS saluted with a cry of
.-Vlue rEmpereur g' The Prince exclaimed,
siThe Emperor is deadl Viue Ia France :"
-. Adyices from London and Paris state that
the Imperialists are confident of a speedy re-
storation of the Empire, with the Empress as
Regent. The italian Senate has approved the
bill forbidding theological instruction in the
public schools...-A report comes from Rome
that the bodies of the Apostles Philip and
James have been discovered in the Church of
the Apostles.
THE Committee of Thirty of the French As
sembly have agreed to the preamble of the con-
~stitutional project reported by its sub-commit-
tee, which declares that the Assembly integral
ly reserves to itself constituent power. The
adoption of the preamble is regarded as a vic
tory for the Right, as the question of a mon
archy or a republic is left untouched Prince
Napoleon has left London for Switzerland. He
u duIAOILLOu GhC ctdtCI4ChG bA1hJ hO VIZ tdhC
no part in political manifestations. Hesays he
desires only to gain his lawsuit against the
Government of France for his expulsion from
That country; that he has no pretensions to the
throne, and does not favor the Regency; and
that he submits to the Government which
France now has.
SAMUEL R. GRAVES, member of Parliament
for Liverpool, is dead....The Turkish Govern
ment has sued the London Times for libel in
publishing an article containing untrue state
ments with reference to Turkish finances.
Right Hon. Edward Bulwer Lytton, the we'll
known English author, died in London, on
Jan. 18, aged g..
MEssRs. ONsLow and Whaley, members of
the British Parliament, have been fined e1O0
each for publicly accusing Sir John Duke Cole
ridge of conspiring to deprive the Tichborne
claimant of his rights. /. .Baptiste Wriothesley
Noel, the ~well-known English theologian, is
dead.
IT is said the English people are almost
unanimous for Cuban independence. The
Worlds Exhibition at Vienna will open in May.
The American Commission is very active in
securing space and providing accommodations
for exhibitors from the United States 1t is
believed that the union of the Legitimists and
O~rleanists in Franae is thorough and complete.
-. Three more Communists have just been
butchered on the bloody plain of Satory-...
The court-martia sitting at Algiers has con-
demned to death eight of the perpetrators of
the Palestro massacre, and sentenced thirty
seven others to various terms of imprisonment.
THE smallpox is raging with unprecedented
violence in Chill The last words of Decamp,
the Communist executed at Satory the other
day, were: "I die assassinated. Down with
false Witnesses, lawyers, and Thiersi" Beust
died cheering "the Republic, the Commune,
and the army" Feronilly died without utter
ing a word. Only one volley was fired, as all
died instantly. In the cases of ten other
Ga-orornsoko ruha ; - have 6nnaa an,,ka
about the same time, the President has COM
muted the sentence to imprisonment for life.
IA report comes from London that a con-
ference has been held at Chiselhurst, at which
it was decided that the Empress Eugene and
Prince Napoleon should be the political guar
dams of the Prince Imperial, and therefore di-
rect the movements of the party. 1t is said
that no manifesto announcing the intentions
of the B~onapartists will be issued. The Prince
Imperial viii not be called Napoleon w., but
be known as Count Pierrefonds. He has
adopted as his motto: strength, but not
Impotence"
THE 18th of January was a good time for
railroad accidents, no less than seven trains,
on as many different roads, having been
wrecked on that day, resulting in injury to
forty-fye persons. Fortunately these injuries
were, with few exceptions, of a slight nature,
and more of them may prove fatal.
THE Directors of the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railway have authorized the issue of
S5, 0O0, 900 worth of mortgage bonds, to run 80
years and bear z per cent. gold interest, and
to be used for steel rails and to additionally
equip the road. The work is expected to last
two or three years. The Western Union Tele-
graph Company has made a reduction of 25 per
cent. in the rates from New York to points be-
tween Chattanooga, Atlanta, New Orleans, and
Vicksburg. Other telegraph lines viii follow
suit. It is reported that another large ex-
petition of the friends of the Cuban revolu-
t~ionists, with arms and ammunition, has sue
cessfully landed on the island. "A cargo of
700 coolies arrived at Havana, recently, and
were disposed of at 5000 per head.
The National Prison Reform Association
convened at Baltimore on the Goth of January.
Horatio Seymour presided. =. United States
Senators have been elected as follows: nli-
nois, Richard J. Oglesby; New York, Roscoe
Conkling (re-elected) Wisconsin, Timothy o..
Howe Cre-elected) Pennsylvania, Simon Came
ron (re-elected) 1t is said hundreds of ad-
venturers are anxious to emigrate to SANTANA
Bay, but the company will not forward them
until a colonizing system is perfected.
CORES of petitions, signed by thousands of
names, are pouring into the Ontario Legisla-
ture, asking for a prohibitory liquor law.
Fires.
JAN. 19.-Gloyersville, N. Y. Loss, $50, 900;
insurance, $50, 600. Toledo, o.. Loss, $780,