Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-29
The South.

A1o OOOA GR0AhtO " S0NAO ~ -
from Virginia, having won the prize in a COM
p~etitive examination at Norfolk. There we're
twenty centestants-ffteen white and five
colored. "A Roman Catholic church for col
ored people. the first established west of the
Mississippi, was dedicated at st. Louis re-
Gently, with imposing ceremonies.
TRAcK-LAYING is progressing on the Texas
and Pacific railway, between Jefferson and
Dallas, Texas, at the rate of two miles a day.
THREE hundred delegates, representing thir-
teen States, were present at the opening ses-
sion of the Governors Convention at Atlanta.
800. Galveston spent 500, 900 in feting the Con-
gressional ex~cursionists, ON the occasion of
their recent visit.
Washington.
SENATORS CAssERLY and Bayard, of the Sem
ate subcommittee on Transportation, have re-
turned to Washington from an extended trip
along the existing and projected line of the
Virginia and Kanawha canal from the James
river to the Ohio. They examined the possi-
bility of a tunnel of a mile through the Allie
ghanies, and we're assured by a competent en-
gineer that it could be completed in four
years from the time the requisite assistance
was rendered by Congress. Senator Casser-
", of California, has returned his back pay.
-. Charges of corruption having been made
in connection with the recent award of con-
tracts for Indian supplies, an investigation is
demanded by Secretary Delano and Commits
sioner George H. Stuart.
The President has appointed William E.
Davis Assistant Treasurer at Cincinnati. -.
Chief Justice Chase's will is short and simple,
and names Henry D. Cooke as sole executor.
1t is said he leaves SIC, 900 to WHEREFORE
University, Ohio; Sc, 900 to his niece, Mrs.
Aud, and the remainder of his estate, about
S175. 900, equally between his daughters, Mrs.
Sprague and Mrs. Hoyt. The Indian Bureau
has received from a Special Commissioner
sent out to talk with the Indians who threaten
the progress of the Northern Pacific railroad,
which is to the effect that the tribes are quite
determined in their hostility to the building of
the road, and that there is little
hope of conciliating them....The regu-
lations for a postal treaty with France
progress slowly, but promise favorably....
The postal card manufacturers at Springfield,
Mass, have promised to increase their facili-
ties so as to turn out 1, 000, 900 cards daily.
1t is insisted at the State Department that the
charges against Gen. Van Buren,, Commits
sioner-General to Vienna, WIZ denounced
Minister Jay as a cowardly knave or liar,
have been proven. Secretary Fish is very
severe in his criticisms upon the course of
Van Buren,. and claims to have positive
proof that Van Buren, was guilty of several, if
W ~s R tAOp
him.
IT is announced that the weather reports of
the Signal Service Bureau are to be supple
mented by daily reports of the water gauge of
the chief rivers of the Mississippi Valley. In
case OF flood, or any sudden movement, the
observations will be made and reported every
three hours, but in ordinary cases only once a
day. Judge Pierrepont declines the Russian
mission. Col. George Williamson, of Louisi-
ana, an e~x-Confederate officer. has been ap-
pointed Minister to Central America.
THREE of the eight sloops-of-war which
Congress directed Secretary Robson to add
to the navy are to be built in private yards.
The others will be built in the different navy
Yards. Three of them are to be built of iron.
the rest of wood, and all will be screw-pro-
pellers....A Washington dispatch says the
Government has a grand annexation scheme
on hand, looking to the acquisition of the
Sandwich Islands, a slice of Northern
Mexico, and other stray patches of
territory, including ultimately Canada...
Judge Edwards P~ierrepont is mentioned as the
probable successor of Chief Justice Chase. 80.
Ex-Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut, has been ap-
pointed Minister to Russia. 1t is announced
that the ex-Secretary of the Navy, Gideon
WeIles, who kept a diary of all that was done
in the Cabinet, will reply to Charles Francis
Adams. Among other things, he will be able
to prove that MIR. Lincoln desired to appoint
Mr.. Dayton Minister to Great Britain, and
was only induced to change his mind and ap-
point Mr.. Adams by the urgent appeals of Mr..
Seward
DORIAN B. EATON has been elected President
of the Civil Service Commission In accord
ance with an act of the Thirty-ninth Congress,
Associate Justice Clifford. of the Supreme
Court. will act as Chief Justice till the Presi-
dent fills the vacancy.
Foreign.
THE financial panic still continues in Vienna.
It has extended to Odessa, Russia, where all
business has stopped, and discounts have rose
to an unprecedented fgure....An inundation
of the Turkish Province of Bosnia has caused
the loss of many lives. and great destruction
of property. Thus far the management OF
the Canadian Pacific railroad project seems to
have been patterned after our transcontinenta
Jobs with singular fidelity. The concern that
is headed by Sir Hugh Allan represents ou1
Credit Mobilier very accurately. Letters are
reported to have been discovered which passed
between Sir Hugh and his colaborers, and
which prove that the Government, as a con-
dition precedent to awarding the contract to
the Allan syndicate, required them to expend
$3.50, 900 for partisan purposes, that is, to
secure the return of members of Parlia-
ment favorable to the Administration.
Another Carlist vistory is reported from Spain.
Vienna has been visited by a gale of ex-
traordinary violence, seriously damaging the
Exposition building "A report comes from
Paris that the Legitimists and Orleanists have
combined in movements for the overthrow of
President Theirs. Reports from Khiva re-
present that the Khan is greatly alarmed al
the approach of the Russian columns, and has
ordered a levy en- nadsse of the able-bo lied
male population to resist the invasion.
HoNG KoNG, China, was visited by a great
~confagration on the 22d of March, which
burned over A acres and rendered 5, 900 people
homeless. On the 29th of March the city Of
Osaka, China, received a similar visitation, the
fire raging for "a hours. {. Ottawa, Canada
was recenf1v visited nv a disastrous fire which