The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-11-21

SERIOUS charges are made against Indian
Commissioner Smith in connection with his
sale OF the Leach Lake pine lands, in North
ern Minnesota. Owen O'Conor, of Dixon,
will spend the remainder of his life in prison,
if not released by Executive interference, as a
penalty for having murdered Dennis Allen.
The Chicago and Alton road is to be prose-
cuted for violation of the Illinois Railroad
law. - Col. II. D. Cock, President of the Hi
nois Board of Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioners, died at his residence in Normal
Oh the 9th inst, aged Sc years. Fifty thou
sand dollars worth of property was destroyed
by a fire in Fcrt Wayne, Ind, on the 9th
inst.
Two men charged with robbing the train on
the Rock Island railroad, in Iowa, have been
arrested at Wellington, Kansas. . James H.
Lucas, the wealthiest citizen of St. Louis, died
on the 10th inst, from the effects of a paralyt-
ic stroke he received four years ago. He was
10 years old, and has left property estimated
at from So, 900, 900 to s1O,0 900, 600.
THE SOUTH.
THE R1drr REV. John EARLY, D. D., Bishop
of the NJ. E. Church South, died on the 5th
inst. at Lynchburg, Va, aged SO years..
Sterling, Price & Co, a commission firm in st.
Louis, dealing principally with the South,
have failed for $500, 900.
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, n few days ago, a
posse consisting of an officer and three men,
who were i'll search of two negro hog-thieves,
were fred upon by a party Of colored men
who had espoused the cause of the thieves.
Three of the posse were instantly killed. and
the third MORALLY wounded Gen. William
j. Hardee. the well-known Confederate Gen
eral, died at Wytheville, Va, on the 9th of
November.
THE business of the East Tennessee and Nir-
ginia railroad is seriously paralyzed by a strike
of the engineers. firemen and brakemen. The
company has sued 200 of the strikers i'll the
courts of Knoxville. Tenn. for Il .000,0G
damages. and obtained an injunction restrain
ing them from obstructing the business ofthe
company.
A Waco Texas) dispatch says the Indians
along the Texas frontier are worse than at any
time since the war. All Of them are OF their
reservations. being headed by Big Tree, who
was lately pardoned ont OF the Penitentiary.
Over 1000 lately crossed the Wichita, and are
der:edating on the settlers ....R. NJ. I. Hum
ter, of Virginia. has written a letter urging
the United States to loan $500, 00o, 600 to tie
South III 4 per cent. thiriy-ycar bonds, for
which the planters are to pay 6 per cent. and
give a fret mortgaoe OH their lands. Hunter
says that tir. Lincoln advocated this PLAN.
The widow OF the late Gen. Robert L. Lee
died at Lexington, Va, on the It'll inst.
Over 40C0 operatives have been thrown ont
Of employment by the stoppage of mills and
factories around the Louisville Falls. The
yellow fever has entirely disappeared from the
South.
WASHINGTON.
REV. Mr.. NEWMAN has forwarded to the
Treasury Department 4 highly interesting re-
port from Japan. Two Of the most noticeable
features i'll it are the production Of iron 10y the
Japanese which can be laid down in this
country at a much che2per price than English
iron: and the extent TO which tobacco il cult
waited in japan in place Of rice. as being much
profitable.
SECRETARY OF war PELENAP, who is being
married almost daily by the correspondents,
denies that he has any matrimonial intentions
for lie present. Gen. Alfred Torbcrt. Of
Delaware. has been appointed COnsul-Genera
at Paris, vice ]. Meredith Reed. who goes to
Troy III place of Mr.. Francis. the present
Greek Minister.
II is stated that the President will restate
in lis meesage The propriety Of q free banking
in his annual report. renew his recommends.
ton for a census to be taken in 1875.
SECRETARY FISH has been interviewed on the
subject CT the Nirginius and the Spanish ex.
e%cutions at Santiago &c Cuba. Mr.. Fish said
that his natural sympathies were with the
Caban cause, but that in his official position
he could not act ar a champion OF oppressed
humanity while unauthorized fiiibusters were
using the United States ports to ii. out eXpe-
ditions. contrary to law and treaty. He stig-
matiZes the execution OF Gen. Ryan and hiE
comrades as an inhuman and atrociour
GAhaOANt4- W "AiA'h nv 'lfailirh NO4AaitlttIT.
and not the home Government. are to blame.
President Grant is C! edited with being in favor
OF ali active protest against the outrage.
REL
The French National Assembly met at Yer
sailles. oil the 5th inst. President MacMahol
sent in a message to the Assembly. a liberal
synopsis of which is telegraphed by the cable.
IT. IaoIa,nu lie 1nr,lt, 30 Al.
alliance that elected him, and afirms the
sovereign power of the Assembly. In speak
ing Of the future form of government. his
language il very guarded, but lie manages to
make it convey d recommendation that his
term should be prolonged and his authority
increased. After the reading of the mes-
sage, a member of the Right moved that the
Presidents term be prolonged ten years,
and that a committee Of thirty lie ap-
pointed to examine projects for the future
form Of government. This WAS met by a
motion from a Bonapartist for a plebisc:te on
the 4th of January next, but the motion of
the Right prevailed by Il large majority. A
subsequent vote, however, on a motion intro
duced by NJ. Dufaure, shows that the Govern
ment had 1862 members, and all the opposing
factions 3iS....A Havana dispatch announces
that the filibuster steamer Virginius has been
captured by the =! anish gunboat Tornado.
She had 10 passengers and crew. Proceed
ings will be Immediately commenced against
the prisoners. In the recent election in
Prussia the Liberals gained 80 members Of the
Diet.
PRINCE BISMARCK has laid before the Ger
man Federal Council a proposition from the