Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-10-16
MORTON, ROSE & Co. have been appointed

MORTON, ROSE & Co. have been appointed
fiscal agents of the State Depart ment in Eu-
rope....A reliable Washington correspondent
says: sit seems to be agreed all around that
ures affecting the finances will be brought for
ward, including the project for free banking,
which came near going through last winter"
Simon Cameron was at the capital last
week, and predicted that the coming session
of Congress will he chiefly occupied in discuss
ing the repeal of the Salary bill and the finan-
cial and cheap transportation questions.
Foreign.
THE Carlists of Spain are meeting with re-
verses in every direction. Several leaders
have deserted their commands. A Madrid dis
path says hundreds of deserters from Carta-
gena are coming into the lines. They repre-
sent that Generalization and INSTRUMENTATION
within the city are increasing. John Bright
has been formally installed as a British Cabinet
officer. Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated
painter, died in London on the LIST inst, aged
H.. Central America continues to be agitated
by political troubles Panama is constantly
menaced by the revolutionists, and troops are
kept constantly under arms. Filibusters are
said to be continually arriving from New Or
leans, a great many of whom are blacks. . 1t
is denied that Cardinal Bornechase's mission
to Rome had any reference to the French mon
archical question. This is a good season for
sick monarchs. The King of Saxony is the
latest, and his recovery is pronounced
doubtful.
The political atmosphere about Paris is
gradually lowering, and the public need not be
surprised at any future announcement. Theirs
has been called to the metropolis to assume
the leadership of the Liberals. :. The friendly
relations between Russia and Japan are about
to be ruptured. The cause of the difficulty is
q misunderstanding concerning the ownership
of an obscure island. ..The German naval
Capt. Werner, who seized the steamer Vigilante
in the harbor of Cartagena, is to be court
arshale The Afghans have been badly
defeated by the Persians in a battle fought
near Balkh, in Central Asia. Two Swiss ex-
plorers have been murdered by the natives in
Central Asia.
ADv1cEs from Spain represent the cause of
the Republic as gaining ground rapidly.
Five persons were killed and a dozen manned
by the fall of a chimney in the village of
Northfect, England, the other day......Sir
Samuel Baker, the African traveller, and His
wife will visit this country next summer. -.
The Echo de PdTlement of Brussels has adj
vices that a Monarchy will be declared in
France upon the convenIng of the Assembly.
-. The Pope declines the various polite invi-
tations he has had to emigrate from Rome. In
an address to a delegation of 800 of the faith
full, the other day, he said Confusion has
entered the enemy's camp. They strive to in
duce me to leave Rome, but I never will.
Central Asia is in a terribly disturbed condi-
ton. A civil war is raging in Khokan the
Turcomans of the desert around Khiva are
obstinately fighting the Russians the Afghans
are warning on the Persians and the Bey of
Trashir is fighting the Chinese. Bokhara
seems to be the point of contention.
MATTERS in France are growing decidedly
interesting. The Republican members of the
Assembly are fastening to Paris for consulta-
ton. Theirs has written a letter, in which he
says the Left must defend the Republic, the
principles of 1883, and the tri-color, without
which the counter-revolution would be an
odious and revolving lie. The London Oh
seruer has a report that $50 members of the
Assembly have pledged themselves to support
a restoration of the monarchy. 1t is also
rumored that Theirs has consented to an alli-
ance with the Imperialists to defeat the
restoration. -. Many of the white settlers in
the Fejee Islands refuse to pay their taxes,
and a state of anarchy prevails. 80. Owing
to the failure of the crops, a famine
prevails in some sections of hungary.
The ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, is hav-
ing a financial panic. b announcement
that the "Old Catholic" Bishop Reinkens,
who has been recognized by the German En-
peror, will take the oath of allegiance to the
Empire, fol eshadows a step in the direction of
the disestablishment of he Pope's spiritual
ruls over the Catholics of Germany.
THE French Monarchists are taking time by
the forelock. They have already selected a
Cabinet in anticipation of a change of govern
ment. The veteran Changarnier is named for
Secretary of War, and is the only one of the
prospective Cabinet who is known in this
country as prominently identified with French
politics. It trial of Marshal BaZaine was
commenced at Versailles on the 9th inst.
Nearly all the witnesses who had been sum-
moned were present, and the courtroom was
filled with the most distinguished men of
France. Bazaine appeared in the full uniform
of a Marshal of France, with the ribbon and
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on his
breast. He took his seat in an armchair by
the side of his counsel, and was courteously
addressed nv the PraSl0ent of the Court aa
=" Monsieur lie MArechal" throughout the pro-
ceedings. The Due d'Aumale is credited with
the positive assertion that Bazaine will be on
demned to death and then pardoned.
THE Spanish Carlists have received a terrible
drubbing in the Province of Navarro. The
insurgents of Cartagena recently made a sor-
tie, and were also badly punished. There
have been 1, 500 deaths from cholera in Vienna
since July 16.
Political.
THERE has been another revolution in Ar
kansas politics. The Attorney-General has
dismissed the suit against Gov. Baxter, the
latter has disbanded the militia, and the Re-
publican organ at Little Rock has declared in
favor of Baxter. The Governor declares that
his general policy will remain unchanged,
albeit charges are freely made that he has
sold out.
The New York State Democratic Conven-
IlOu, dJ OIlSd, WHICH, WIS pTesluou over ny
Horatio Seymour, adopted the report of the
Committee on Credentials, which favored the
admission of the Tammany Hall delegation
from New York city, whereupon the Apollo
Hall delegation withdrew to their hotel, pre-
pared a formal protest, charged that the Com
mittee on Credentials was packed, and resolved
to "calmly and confidently appeal to the
ballot" in New York city to rebuke the AFRO
gance of Tammany Hall" The convention
held out the right hand of fellowship to the
Liberal Republicans as worthy coadjutors in
the work of reform. A resolution was
adopted to exclude from the State Committee
any member of Congress who voted for or
accepted the back pay. The following
nominations were made: Diedrich Willers,
Jr., Secretary of State; Asher G.. Nichols.
Comptroller; Daniel Pratt, Acknowledgement
Thomas Raines, Treasurer SylvanusS. Sweet,
State Engineer and Surveyor; James Jackson,
Canal Commissioner, and George w. Mills
paugh, State Prison Inspector. -. Henry L.
Pierce, Mayor of Boston. has been nominated
by the Republicans of the Third Massachu-
sets District to succeed Mr.. Whiting Ode
ceased) in Congress.
NAvAL-OFF1cER KING and Surveyor Gilpin,
of the Baltimore Custom-House, are charged
with levying assessments upon their employees,
and the matter is to be investigated.
THE Apollo Hall Democracy, who were ex-
Guided from the New York State Democratic