The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-01-03

late FIRE at Dsrdanel!e, Ark.....M Miss Amelia
Pesram, q beautiful and accomplished young
lady Of Owensboro, Ky, recently shot her
self accidentally through the heart with q
pistol.
Washington.
% A DELEGATION Of citizens Of Louisiana, rep
rescnting the commercial and business inter-
ests of the State, called upon the President
he other day. The delegation was headed
by Hon. John A.. Campbell, formerly an As
sociate Justice Of the Supreme Court, who
acted as spokesman Of the party. Al q means
Of settling the disturbed condition of affairs
in that unfortunate State, the President was
requested to send there an Associate Justice
Of the Supreme Court and o Circuit Judge
from another State, to hold Q term of the
Circuit Court, that the matters in difference
may be fairly and impartially adjudicAted.
......A bill for the admission Of Utah % 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 Di.trict:..:of Missouri: Post
masters-B. n. Crawford, Wamego, Kansas /;
]. W. Whips, New Lexington, Ohio; L. T.
Chsver, Delaware, H.; Mrs. Eliza Sellers,
Pekin, ILL.,; F. W.. Trip, Farmer City, Ill.
Samuel Matthews, Sidney, Ohio John Nc.
Arthur, Chicago, Ill.
A NEW Civil Rights bill, with an Amnesty
bill tackled on, has been introduced into the
House Of Representatives by Mr.. Morsy. Of
Louisiana.....T Toe House Committee on Claims
have rejected the claim of Richard H. Gar
rett, Of Virginia, for compensation for the
destruction Of his barn in the capture Of J.
Wilkes Booth......The President has signed
the bill for the construction Of bridges across
the Ohio river......OAke Ames, in his testi.
mony before the Credit Mobilier Committee,
on the 18th, mentioned the names Of Bing.
ham, of Ohio, and Hooper, of Massachusetts,
l as persons 70 whom he had sold stock also
hat some Was sold to the wife of Senator
wilson, and offered 10 the seoatcr, but that
he declined to buy.
Tue House of representatives has now on
its file over 5000 bills, and the Senate about
l,3oo......It is estimated that tho Prssiden,
will serd Judge Bradley to New Orleans for
the purpose of cenferring with the Judiciary
there in regard TO the situation.
IT is stated that the daily returns from in.
ttrnsl revenue are reaching, toward the close
of the year, quite $500, 900 per day, and show
il the aggregate an increase 90 far above the
estimate as to fully justify Congress in fur
her reducing taxation by abolishing the
stamp tag on checks and matches--..A
v .hington dispatch ;.ys that Speaker
Blaine expects his rs election BY the next
Congress, and a coed deal Of wire-pu!ling
10 likely 70 take place before that time.
Freeman Clarke, Of New York, 10 mentioned
a. . probable candidate for the S~peaker.hip.
some Southern members mention Horace
Maynard for the position. Fernando Wood
Will be the candidate Of the Democrats.
0riway will be dropped a. sergsant-at-arms
also King, as Postmaster Of TIE Aouss.....N
is announced that Mr.. Boutwell, will posi-
lively leave the Cabinet in March, and win
run 70, the Senate in place of Henry vii.
SONIA model Of the Franklin School
building in WashiDgton-ous Of the 6peat
n the country-is being prepared for the
Vienna Exposition.
Foreign.
IT is announced that a " ministerial crisis"
is imminent in spain.....A Psris telegram
says: "Gen. Chsnzy's corps is being rapidly
increased TO loo, 900, while Ducrot, . doubt
full Republican, has only Is 5000 men under
his command. President Theirs says that
he intends TO keep the Monarchists in ave."
1.-THE Spanish Cortes has approved, BY .
vote OF lS2 to 6, the d. declaration OF President
Z,rilla Of the purpose Of the Government 70
introduce 9 law for the abolition Of slavery
in Porto Rico.
Six cuIprits are awaiting execution for
murder in London.....Tho ship Mstchless
was wrecked of the coast Of Northumberland.
All on board were lost......M. Roep,a dis
tinguishsd member of the French Institute,
has been struck from the jury list because be
deaied the existence of loo d.. Robert Bowles.
the American banker who recently failed,
went into bankruptcy, and was arrested on q
charge Of swindling and thrown into New
cate prison, has been released on SO, 900
bail.
TaIRrr lives were lost by the sinking Of
the ship Matchless, off the Cost of North
cumberland, England.-..The periodical Min.
i~sterial crisis in Spain has just occurred,
three members OF the Cabinet having 70
signed. The sitting of the Cortes was inter
rupted for Q few hours, until vacant PLACES
were flled.-....A gale Of unprecedented vic.
lence lately swept over Naples, infictipg
much damage TO property and shipping......
The King Of Italy 10 i'll with rheumatic fever.
The closing year will b, notable for the
plumber Of disastrous foods that have visited
the continent OF Europe. Italy, Belgium,
Denmark, and the ports of Germany have
suffered from visitations Of this character,
and now the valley of the Seine in Frsuco,
and large areas in the counties Of Leicester,
Derby and Nottingham, England, are the
scenes OF destructive foundations. In the
vicinity OF Cambridge the River Cam over
flowed its banks, and tho streets of the city
were flooded. In 90 sections the inhabi-
tants were compelled 10 take refuge in the
upper stories OF their dwellings. The recent
rainfall wal unprecedented, and 10 estimated
at the extraordinary figure Of 81, 600 900 tens
Of Watermelon. Fairchild, our new Consul
TO Liverpool, has been waited upon by . dep
merce, wit rendered him q hearty welcome
to that city.
Tas French Assembly has passed . Law
restoring to the Orleans Princes their con-
fscsted proper:y--...The Paris C~orsrire, .
Radical journal, has been suspended for sd-
vocating socialism 1.-THE notorious Cora
Pearl has been expelled from France in con- |
sequence Of the son Of q wealthy Parisiaa
attempting to commit suicide in her apart |
ments.....The recent inundation of the River |
Thames 10 said 10 have been the greatest
since the food Of lS52.-....A explosion lately
occurred in . coal mine at Silverdals, En-
gland, BY which eight mintrs were suffocated.
.-..A serious crisis 10 predicted in France
when the Assembly meets.
TIE Liverpool packet Germania recently
went ashore at the mouth of the River
Gironde, France, and thirty o. the passsn-
gers and crew were lost..... The bill for the
lbolition OF slavery in Porto. Rico has been
Into the Spanish Cortes. There
Is no doubt but ID at it will pass both houses.
Political.
TsURLow WEED has written q long COM
TO the New York Herald, show
pg the imprscticability Of carrying out the