The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-03

gusta Chronicle and Sentinel, and memter-
elect to Congress from the Eighth Georgia
District, in dead.
The New Orleans Times, the leading jour
nal of that city, il not of the South, has been
forced into bankruptcy, and the Office closed.
One-half of the business portion OF OAR
danelle, Ark, has been destroyed by fire.
Washington:
There was stormy time at tho meeting of
the Credit Mobilier Committee, the other day,
when Cakes Ames submitted his statement,
rejecting severely upon McComb. The latter
became greatly excited, aud demanded the
right to examine Ames, which the committee
refused. Judge Jerry S. Black is counsel for
NcComb, while Ames has employed Caleb
Cushing to represent him before the CON-
mittee.
The House Committee on Territories has
unanimously agreed to report bill enabling
Colorado to form State Constitution pre-
paratory to her admission into the Union as
State
The British and American Mixed Commits
sion have disallowed the claim Of Barron,
Forbes & Co., the English commercial firm
doing business in Mexico, who ask componsa-
ton for s23,OOO,OOO for quicksilver mines
taken possession of by the United States in
1876.
The House Committee on Postoffices and
Post Roads have agreed to recommend the
| establishment of letter carrier system in all
cities of q, 900 Inhabitants.
Of ha oh
| investigation have become tho sensation of
| Washington. Cakes Ames the other day pre-
scented statement which disagreed decidedly
with several of the denials printed during the
campaign, and also furnished list Of men,
! bers of Congress TO whom he had sold stock.
| His testimony, with that which has gone be-
| fore, has fixed direct or indirect ownership or
| interest in the Credit Mobilier upon nearly al
of those whose names appeared in the Nc
Comb list.
The President has signed bill for tho con-
structlon of bridges across the Ohio river
A new Civil Rights bill, with an Amnesty
bill tackled on, has been introduced into the
House Of Representatives by Mr.. Morey, of
Louisiana.
claim of Richard H. Garrett, of Virginia, for
compensation for the destruction of his barn
in the capture of j. Wilkes Booth.
Cakes Ames, in his testimony before the
Credit Mobiler Committee, on the 18th, men
toned the names Of Bingham, of Ohio, and
Hooper, of Massachusetts,, as persons to
whom he had sold stock; also that some
was sold TO the wife of Senator Wilson, and
offered to the Senator, but that he declined to
buy.
,cgation Of citizens of Louisiana, repre-
sentng the commercial and business interests
of the State, called upon the President the
other day. The delegation was headed by
Hon. John A. Campbell, formerly an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, who acted as
spokesman of the party. AS means of set
Ting the disturbed condition OF affairs in that
unfortunate State, tho President was request
ed to send there an Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court and Circuit Judge from an
other State, to hold term Of tho Circuit
Court, that the matters in difference may be
fairly and impartially adjudicated.
A bill for the admission of Utah as the
State OF Deseret has been introduced into
Congress.
The President has sent to the Senate the
following nominations: Charles b. Wilkinson,
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth
District of Missouri. Postmasters-B. NJ
Crawford, Wamego, Kansas; j. W. Whips,
New Lexington, Ohio; L. L. Chever, Della
ware. H. Mrs. Eliza Sellers, Pekin, H.; F.
W. Trip, Farmer City, H.; Samuel Matthews
Sidney Ohio; John Macarthur, Chicago, Ill.
The House of Representatives has now on
it, files over 200 bills, and the Senate about
1900.
1t is intimated that the President will send
Judge Bradley to New Orleans for the pur-
regard to the situation.
Foreign.
bismarck has resigned the Presidency Of
the Prussian Council, and istsucceeded tenn
porarily by Gen. Won Room.
Hamilton Ontario, has just had a 5000, 1000
blaze.
1t is announced that ministerial crisis"
is imminent in Spain.
A Paris telegram says: "Gcn. Chanzv's
corps is being rapidly increased to 100, 900,
while Gen. Ducrot, a doubtful Republican,
has only $4,000 men under his command
President Theirs says that he intends to keep
the Monarchists in awe"
The Spanish Cortes has approved by vote
of ASP to 6, the declaration of President
Gorilla of the purpose of the Government to
introduce law for the abolition Of slavery in
Porto Rico
Six culprits are awaiting execution for MUIR
der in London.
Tho ship Matchless, of Boston, was wrecked
of the cost of Northumberland. All on board
were lost.
NJ Roen, distinguished member OF the
French Institute, has been struck from the
jury list because he denied the existence of
God.