The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-02-07

after q long and not very harmonious consulta-
ton, to unite in asking President Grant to
take Senator Pool, of North Carolina, into his
Cabinet to represent the South. The Senate
has confirmed the nomination of &c. Bancroft
Davis to be Assistant Secretary Of State, vice
Charles Hale, resigned.
PRESIDENT GRANT is reported to have de-
clared that he expects no other change IN his
Cabinet than the retirement of Secretary Bout
well. Senator Summer is still quite feeble.
His physician visits him twice a day, and IN
iects morphine into his arm to enable him to
sleep. . Three large trunks full OF documents
are part of the baggage brought to Washing
ton by the members of the McEnery Returning
Board, summoned there to testify in the case
of the contesting Senators from Louisiana. -.
The House has passed the bill relieving John
H. Regain, of Texas (ex-Copfederate Post
master GeneraD, of his political disabilities.
go. Postmaster-G General Creswell has decided
to revoke his double-postage order, provided
the Attorney General will sustain him. rlf
The bill just passed Congress abolishing the
franking privilege makes a clean sweep of the
whole system after June next. LENDERS are
not even allowed any stamps, as in England,
for official correspondence.
FOREIGN.
The smallpox is raging with unprecedented
violence in Chill. /. The last words of Decamp,
the Communist executed at Satory the other
day, were: 81 die assassinated. Down with
false Witnesses, lawyers, and Thiers!" Beust
died cheering .'the Republic, the Commune,
and the army" Feronilly died without utter
ing a word. Only one vulley was fired. as all
died instantly. In the cases of ten other
Communists, who we're to have been executed
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 Bonapartists will be issued. The Prince
Imperial will not be called Napoleon ~, but
adopted as his motto: "Strength, but not
Impotence"
The cable brings news Of q terrible marine
disaster in the English Channel. The emigrant
ship Nor.hieet, from London for Australia,
with 4l2 passengers, exclusive OF her crew
collided with an unknown steamer, and was cut
to the waters edge. When the collision hap
pened a panic occurred on the Northfeet. Tie
passengers, who were asleep, rushed from their
berths to every portion Of the ship where they
thought they might be safe, and utterly re-
fused to obey the orders of the captain. That
officer, as a last resort to enforce obedience to
his commands, was compelled to fire upon the
terror-stricken people. One of them was
wounded. 1t is believed thai if the passengers
them would have been saved. The Northfleet
was lying at anchor at the time he collision
occurred. The cargo consisted Of railway iron.
Three hundred and twenty-one persons were
drowned, including the captain OF the Inflated
vessel. Only 81 persons are known to have
been saved. It is believed that every other
person who was on board has found . watery
grave. No attention was raid by the steam
ship to the emigrant vessel after the collision,
and she proceeded on her course, leaving the
sufferers to their fate. Tho English Gov
eminent has ordered . preliminary in
y~estigation into the disaster. The
Court goes into mourning nine
days for the death of Napoleon. Ths Frenci,
Assembly has passed a bill prescribing severe
penalties for drunkenness. More arrests of
Internationals have been made in France
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mingham, England, to protest against the
African slave trade. Resolutions were adopted
urging her Majesty's Government to support
the American Government in the demand it
makes on Spain for tho abolition Of slavery in
the Antilles "A great anti-slayery meeting
was lately held in the Royal Theater, Madrid,
under the auspices of the Abolition Society.
The theater was crowded from floor to dome.
Brilliant speeches we're made, aud the enthusi-
asm was intense. The committee of the
Spanish Cortes on the abolition Of slavery in
Porto Rico estimate that the indemnity to be
paid by the State to slave-owners In that island
will amount to 10000, 900 reals.
SPAIN has sent q fresh reinforcement Of
1000 soldiers to Cuba. ). 1t is iumored that
James Gordon Bennett, Of the New York
Herald, is about to establish a great London
daily on the American plan, -. The latest
European dates assert that the most formid-
able opponent of President Theirs is neither
Gambetta nor Louis Blanc, but NJ. Jules Du-
faure. /. 6. Buckingham Palace has been placed
at the disposal OF The Shah Of Persia for his
residence during his visit to England. In
the Spanish Cortes, the committee on the abo-
lition of slavery in Porto Rico has declared in
favor Of granting the owners an average in
demnity of $3.50 per slave 49,. Minister Ban
croft has returned to Berlin.
Much uneasiness exists in London in conse-
quence Of the English note to Russia regard
ing the disputed boundary question in Central
Asia, and q war between England and Russia
is regarded as among the probabilities. -.
Eugenie is about to bid adien to Chiselhurst.
THE Coun de Chambord has the support
of seven Orleans Princes for his claim to be
the rightful King of France 1t is reported
that the Spanish steamship Murillo was the
vessel that ran dow the Northfleet, in the
English Channel, and that she, too. went
down, with all on board -. Louis Napoleon is
stated to have been very deyout the last two
or three years of his life, sndt 10 have attended
mass every Sabbath and holy day with scru-
pulous care. Before his death he made
confession and received absolution.
The London papers say that from the post
mortem examination in no case of Napoleon,
that while death was the result of a sudden
from the operation twice undergone,
added to the severe suffering which followed |
on each occasion, and all acting upon a consti-
tutionai state already desperate, it was not due
TO ANY miscarriage Of the operation itself.
The disease of the kidneys was pronounced to
be Of such a nature. and so advanced that IL