Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-11-20

ALL accounts from the South represent that
it is financially in a better condition than at
any time since the war....In Loanoke county,
Ark, near Little Rock, a few days ago, a
posse consisting of an officer and three men,
who were in search of two negro hog-thieves,
were fired upon by a party of colored men
who had cspoused the cause of the thieves,
Three of the posse were instantly killed, and
the third mortally wounded. Gen. William
]. Hardee, the well-known Confederate Cen
eral, died at Wytheville, Va, on the 9th of
November.
THE business of tbs East Tennessee and vir-
ginia railroad is seriously paralyzed by a strike
of the engineers, fremen and brakemen. The
company has sued 200 of the strikers in the
courts of Knoxville, Tenn, for 81, 600. 900
damages, and obtained an injunction restrict
isg them from obstructing the business of the
company.
Waco CTexas) dispatch says the Indians
along the Texas frontier are worse than at any
time since the war. ALI of them are off their
reservation, being headed by Big Tree, who
was lately pardoned out of the Penitentlary.
Over 1000 lately crossed the Wichita, and are
depredating on the settlers. ...R. M I. Hun
the United States to loan $500. 000, 900 to the
South in 4 per cent thirty-year bonds, for
which the planters are to pay 6 per cent, and
give a first mortgage on their lands. Hunter
says that Mr.. Lincoln advocated this PLAN.
The widow of the late Gen. Robert E. Lee
died at Lexington, Va, on the 7th inst.
Over 4, ZOO operatives have been thrown out of
employment by the stoppage OF mills and
factories around the Louisville Falls THE
yellow fever has entirely disappeared from the
South.
THE Attorney-G General and Deputy Marshal
of the Western District of Texas were assas-
siuated on the 25th of October by a desperate
who had been convicted of murder and made
his escape from prison.
Washington.
NJ - L. H.
Treasury Department q highly interesting re-
port from Japan. Two of the most noticeable
features in it are the production of iron by the
Japanese which can be laid down in this
country at q much cheaper price than English
iron ; and the extent to which tobacco is Guilt
waited in japan in place of rice, as being more
profitable.
SECRETARY OF WAR BELKNAP, VIII is being
married almost daily by the correspondents,
denies that he has any matrimonial intentions
for the present. Gen. Alfred Torbert, of
Delaware, has been appointed Consul-General
at Paris, vice J. Meredith Reed, who goes to
Troy in place of Mr.. Francis, the present Greek
Minister.
IT is stated that the President will restate
in his message the propriety of a free banking
law. . Secretary of the Interior Delano will,
in his annual report, renew his recommends
ton for a census to be taken in 1875.
SECRETARY Fish has been interviewed ON the
subject of the Virginius and the Spanish ex-
e~cutions at Santiago de Cuba. Mr.. Fish said
that his natural sy~mpathies were with the
Cuban cause, but that in his official position
hc could not act as a champion Of oppressed
using the United States ports to fit out expe-
ditions, contrary to law and treaty. He stig-
matizes the execution of Gen. Ryan and his
slaughter, for which the Spanish volunteers,
and not the home Government, are to blame.
President Grant is credited with being in favor
of an active protest against the outrage.
The case of the Virginius was discussed at
a Cabinet meeting on the 18th inst. No de-
| cision con be reached with regard to it till full
official has been received.
Foreign.
THE French National Assembly met at YER
~sailles, on the 9Th inst. President MacMahon
sent in a message to the Assembly, a liberal
| synopsis of which is telegraphed by the cable.
He declares his loyalty to the conservative al
lance that elected him, and afirms the sove-
reign power of the Assembly. In speaking of
the future form of government. his language
is very guarded, but he manages to make it
convey a recommendation that his term should
be prolonged and his authority increased.
| After the reading of the message, a
member of the Right moved that the Presi-
dents term be prolonged ten years, and
that a committee of thirty be appointed
to examine projects for the future
form of government. This was met by a
motion from a Bonapartist for a plebiscite on
the 4th of January next, but the motion of
the Right prevailed by a large majority. A
subsequent vote, however, on a motion intro
duced by M. Dufaure, shows that the Govern
ment had 362 members, and all the opposing
factions 34S...:A Havana dispatch announces
that the fibuster steamer Virginius has been
captured by the Spanish %gunboat Tornado. She
had ITO passengers and crew. Poceedings will
be Immediately commenced against the pris-
oners. In the recent election in Prussia the
Liberals gained so members of the Diet.
PRINCE BISMARCK has laid before the Ger
man Federal Council a proposition from the
United States Government, inviting Germany
to participate in the Philadelphia Centennial.
and has recommended its acceptance d. The
apparently interminable Tichborne case has
secured a fresh lease of life, an extension of
time having been granted upon motion of the
claimants counsel to November, 1S74....A
vast amount of property has been destroyed
in st. Petersburg by the overlooking of the
river Neva.
NJ. BUFFET has been elected President of the
French Assembly. The rate of discount at
the Bank of England has been raised to nine
per cent. The rate has reached a higher price
but twice before, in 1857 and 1863. There
has been a heavy decline of stocks in London,
and symptoms of a panic are beginning to be
manifested.
The French Ministry resigned in a body, the
other day, but President MacMahon refused
to accept their designations. The Carlists
are reputed to have achieved a great victory
over the Government troops near MIRANDA
del Arga. The Spanish Lieut.-Gen. De Rivera
was killed. ...An the rivers in the Island of
Jamaica recently rose to an unprecedented
height, causing great destruction of life and
property. London is threatened with a fnan-
cial panic. There, it seems, shares of new
diamond, gold and silver mines of the widest
description, securities of doubtful railroads,
and bonds of lettering and rotten govern
ments, were taken with avidity, and in amounts
that were astonishing. The Continent has
suffered from the collapse of these schemes,
and now London is feeling the pressure. 1t
is estimated that the shrinkage in that city of
the securities mentioned has been at least one
billion dollars within the past year.
BISMARCK has been reinstated as President
of the Prussian Ministry. .Ex-President
Theirs expresses the belief that the hopes of
the Monarchists in France have been COM
pletely dissipated, and that a Conservative Re-
public is assured The inherent savagery of
the Spanish character has received another
illustration. A Havana dispatch states that
all the insurgent prisoners captured in the re-
cent fight near Puerto Principe-eighty in
number-were shot on the field of battle by
order of the Spanish commander. y. The re-
ported Carlist victory near Miranda del Arga,
Spain, is denied. Monday, the 10th of No
vember, was a day of public rejoicing over the
adoption of the constitutional amendments.