The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

Congress has removed the political disabiii-
ties of Robert NJ. T. Hunter, OF Virginia
The several Executive Departments OF the
Government are making estimates for the
amount of their postage for the next fiscal
wear. when the law abolishing the Thanking
privilege takes effect. The estimate for the
Treasury Department il 1926, 900; for the In
terror Department, gao, 900. The War, State,
Navy and Justice Departments it is estimated
will reach altogether sl,50o,0Oo.
The success of the new loan il 30 promising
that Secretary Boutwell, has issued call for
one hundred millions of the 500 bonds OF 1867
and will shortly issue u like call for another
equal amount
Senator Summers health has improved 40
much within the last week or two that his
complete recovery is regarded AZ possible by
his friends.
The bill reported by the House Judiciary
Committee to adjust the salaries of the several
departments of the Government prov ides that
after March 4, 1873, salaries will be fixed as
follows: President, $50, 600; Vice-President
| 80 1000; Chief Justice, S1O,5OO Justices OF
the Supreme Court, 10000; Cabinet officers,
10000; Speaker of the House, $4,000 men,
bers of Congress, IS, 600.
The President has pardoned two more of the
Ku-Klux confined in the Albany Penitentlary.
Washington advices report that Speaker
Blaine will unquestonahy be reelected In the
event Of Congress assembling on March 4.
1t is said but few members of Congress favor
an extra session.
| Z. "A h. will ms nearly al
! the Ku-Klux prisoners i'll very short time
1t is believed that Assistant Secretary Rich
artlson is the coming Secretary of the Treasury.
1t il rumored that Ministers Bancroft Jay
and Sickes are to be recalled after the 4th of
March.
Foreign.
Prince Lunalilo has been inaugurated King
Of the Sandwich Islands
Over $4,000 iron-workers in Wales are on
strike.
Lehree, town in India of 5000 inhabitants,
has been overwhelmed by an earthquake, and
500 people killed
There has been another rise in the price of
coal in London. 1t is now selling for 50 shil-
lings per ton.
The British isles have been experiencing in
tenselv cold weather. One hundred persons
froze to death in England within two days.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee have
agreed to recommend the passage of the bill
incorporating the American, China and Japan
Telegraph Company, with a capital OF
! $4,000 900.
Congress is being flooded with petitions in
opposition to the proposed repeal of the Bank
rupt act.
President Grant, Immediately after the close
of the present session of Congress, will, i'll
company with members of the Cabinet, make
All extended Southern tour, visiting New Or
leans (via Richmond) Raleigh, Columbia,
Charleston, Mobile, and other places.
The cholera has again broken out in Russia
and Hungary, in a violent form.
! Robert Bowles, of the firm of Bowles Broth
ers, American bankers, has been tried in Lon
don for the fraudulent conversion of securi-
/ ties deposited with the firm, and acquitted.
The Spanish steamer Murillo is under de-
! tention at Cadiz, and her officers and crew are
held in arrest upon the charge of having run
down the emigrant ship Northfeet in the En-
! glish Channel. They deny all knowledge of the
collision.
Advices from Spain give accounts of numer-
ous encounters between the Government
troops and Carists, in different parts of the
country, resulting uniformly in the success of
the Royal arms. In one engagement 200 in
surgents were killed and 100 improved rifles
captured.
The following is brief sketch of the Queens
speech on the opening of the British Parlia-
ment on the 9th inst England is at peace
everywhere. The great powers have promised
| to cooperate effectually for the suppression
of slavery on the coast of Africa. Friendly
negotiations are in progress with Russia.
Count Schouvaloff has assured her Ma
! jesty's Government of the friendship of
the Car for England, The new treaty of COM
merce between Great Britain and France is
calculated to promote the friendship of the two
countries. The President Of the French Re
public has been appointed to arbitrate the
difference between Portugal and England rela-
/ tive to the possessions on the south coast of
Africa. Copies of the Alabama and San Juan
awards will be presented Immediately. 1t is
considered proper to hasten the payment of
the Alabama award. The speech expresses
regret at the rapid rise in prices, and the con-
/ sequent disputes between the workmen and
employers and promises that bills will be in
| troduced improving the system of higher edu-
cation in Ireland, the reconstruction of the
Supreme Appellate Court, and the prevention
Of corrupt practices at elections
Sir Alexander Cockburn has refused the
Peerage, and has received the Grand Cross of
the Order of the Bath.
John c. Fremont has been indicted by the
Criminal Court of Paris for frauds committed
in negotiating the Memphis and FL Paso rail-
road bonds in that city.
There was lively debate in the British
House of Lords on the motion for an address
to the Throne in which number of Disguised
Lords relieved their minds ON the Geneva
award
1t is announced from Paris that COM
promise has been effected between President
Theirs and the Committee of Thirty-the
latter agreeing to modify their project by ex-
tending the veto power to the Executive, and
according him the right to participate per.
sonally in the debates Of the Chamber.