The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-11-27

Gus, Wilmington, Manpac. Manhattan.
Nahaut and Wyandotte. They have all
been ordered to sea. and the Mahopac
was yesterday reported as being ready at
Norfolk, Va. The monitor Roanoke
will be ready in a month.
Surgeon E. n. Abadie and Assistant
Surgeon f. A. Koerper are ordered to
report to the General Com manding Mill
tary Division of the Atlantic, for as
signmeut. to duty in that division.
The steamers Powhattan and Terror
have just returned. to the Phiiadel phia
Navy Yard and will accompany the Man
haitian to sea The latter went into
commission yesterday. -
The following balances remained in the
Treasury at the close of business yester-
day
Currency, ,.....................$ s., PIG, S65. Is
Special deposit of legal ten
ders for redemption of cer-
tifcates of deposit. ~I5, ,43O. 100000
Coin..................- 81 O45, 359.S5
Including coin certificates. %, 756, 900 90
Outstanding legal tenders 362. .SO7. Gil 90
= DIR. Higbee, President Mercersburg
College, Mereersburg, Pa. writes to the
Commissioner of Education that skele-
ton of mastodon is being exhumed
under his direction, from !. marsh a few
miles from that place. He states that
the skeleton will doubtless be recovered
almost entire, with the exception of the
skull and tusks. which were destroyed by
workmen Some l3 years ago while digg-
ing the foundation for mill.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Gen. Eaton. Commissioner of Educa,
ton, who sailed for a European trip on
the lst of August last, returned to Wash
iDgton on November I1th. He visited
the Ministers of Public Instruction in
France. Belgium, Italy, Austria. Berlin,
and some of the smaller German States,
also the officers of the Council of Educa-
tion in England and Scotland and the
Federal Office in Switzerland. where the
educational statistics for all tie cantons
are gathered. But the main point of his
Worlds Exposition. He visited twenty
two Universities, and many schools of all
grades and kinds examining their or
ganizations and methods of instruction
He held many extended conferences with
many educational thinkers and studied
the educational forces operating in the
different countries the difficulties en-
countered and the striking contrasts in
results. Libraries. and apparatus, for
instruction so rapidly increasing in Eu-
rope occupied much of his attention.
He has gathered vast number of Ed
ucational works, and reports Tor the Ii
trary of the Bureau. and from the Com
missioner in charge of the Vienna Ex
position he secured the promise of pho
tographs of the educational exhibis of all
countries there represented. The edu-
cational interests of this country cannot
fail to be greatly benefited by the knowl
edge thus procured of the best educa
tional experience in Europe. Gen. Eaton
is now closely engaged in the preparation
of report of his Bureau.
SECRETARY RICHARDSON INTERVIEWED.
An Associated Press report gives an
extended interview with Secretary Rich
arison which. if correct, fully shows the
unity and entire accord of the Cabinet
with the President on the subject of re-
dress for Cuban outrages, and the conf
dence of his colleagues In the wisdom and
spirit of Secretary Fish regarding the
the Virginius trouble had caused many
perplexities on account of outrages on
Americans in Cuba and delays in the &C
tion of the home government regarding
the same The Secretary oe the Treasury
said, The Treasury Department is fully
t-----.-4l far -anu CONTINGENCY that MAY
arise. The opinions of Secretary Fish
are correct regarding the national honor,
and the Treasury Department is prepar-
ed to maintain those opinions. / assume
that if we had war with Spain. it would
result in the annexation Of Cuba. We
would lose a large. sum of money the first
year, but. after that. our Internal collec-
tons, especially on sugars and tobacco.
would much more than compensate for
the loss" LIFE