The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-11-21

pointment of Corporation Counsel for the city
of Chicago.
Frank Fisk, business agent for the Dayton
(O.) Evening Herald, has disappeared for parts
unknown with large amount of the concern 8
funds.
Tho South.
The Attorney General and Deputy Marshal
of the Western District of Texas were assassin
ated on the 25th Of October bya desperate
who had been convicted of murder and made
his escape from prison.
Cicalla, the dishonest Acting Mayor Of
Memphis, has been unanimously expelled from
the Board of Aldermen.
s. s. Mallory, ex-United States Senator from
Florida, and formerly Secretary of the Con-
federate States Navy, is dead.
| The New Orleans Times has a dispatch
from Colfax, La, announcing the killing by
the citizens of seven of the nine negroes who
were implicated in the recent Grant parish
outrage.
Washington.
The case Of the Virginius was discussed at
O"S'hos AhOctihb vi tho AVN ihbts W. uo-
cision can be reached with regard to it till full
official information has been received.
Senator Morton is at the capital. He is re-
ported in good health, and in favor Of green
back relief.
b isbane is again laying down his pneumatic
tube between the Capitol and the Government
Printing Office.
1t is intimated that Secretary Richardson
will recommend, in his forthcoming report
that the S44, 900, 900 reserve be legalized and
brought into active service, and that to obvi-
ate the inadequacy of the revenue to meet the
necessities of the Government, the duty on
coffee and tea be restored.
A. G. Boston, a partner in the well-known
clearinghouse Of Riggs & Co.. committed
suicide a few days ago.
The recent Spanish outrage is the all
absorbing topic in official and private circles
at the National Capital The Government is
manifcsting determination to be prepared
for whatever comes out of the affair Sounds
of war are heard in the hitherto quiet navy
yards, and busy preparations are going for
ward to get vessels of war ready for sea. The
Secretary of War has issued orders to mmedi-
ately put in repair the Florida forts.
Internal revenue receipts for the first half
of November, $3.50, 962.
Postmaster General Creswel has finished
his report to the next Congress. 1t is under
stood that he strongly urges the schemes for
postal savings banks and postal telegraph.
Secretary Belknap is reported to have said, |
in reference to the secret deliberations Of the
Cabinet meeting concerning the Virginius
case, that the amplest measures had been de-
cided upon to obtain satisfaction for that out
rage. The American people, he said must be
hard to please if they would not be satisfied
with them. Seven hundred men were at work
all day Sunday in the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
and almost equal activity is manifest in the
other yards.
Washington correspondents are pretty gen.
orally agreed that Conkling is the coming
Chief Justice.
The charge for registering domestic letters
is to be reduced. Hitherto it has been fifteen
cents; but, after Jan. l, eight cents only will
be charged,
President Grant has made public an in
formal expression of his views on the Vir-
ginius case. He and his advisers feel as in
dgnant as any at the conduct of the Span
ards, and are determined to protect American
citizens, and to compel respect for the Ameri-
can flag, but they are still unwilling to act
except upon full and trustworthy information
which is yet to come. The Virginius, the
President said, if properly cleared, had
right to enter any port in the Spanish pos
sessions, and Spain had no right to interfere
n any way with eur merchant ships upon the
nigh seas.
Potatoes are now worth more per bushel
han wheat. Congress will be petitioned to
suspend the duty of fifteen cents per bushel
On the important tubers, so as to lot them in
rom Canada, Nova Scotia and the Bermuda
Islands.
Foreign.
An extensive plot in favor Of the Count de
Paris has been discovered i'm Paris and il il