Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-27
DOMESTIC.

A dispatch to the New Orleans Times, of
the l4th, from ColfaX, La, states that seven
of the nine negroes who were implicated in
the recent Grant Parish affair had been killed
by the citizens.
A great four-mile race came of at San Fran
cisco on the 18th, in which "Thad. Stevens
was the winner Of the race and the $50, 900
purse. Four heats were run, in the third of
which "True Blue" fell disabled on the track,
In the Circuit Court Of Appleton, Wis, II.
w Bass, of Fond du Lac, has recovered a YER
diet Of $4,000 against the Chicago & North
western Railway for his forcible ejectment
from the ladies' car last winter
The Secretary OF War, who was in New
York City on the 18th, Is reported to have
said to an intimate friend who called on him:
"You are aware that have been considered
somewhat bloodthirsty in this matter, but the
entire Cabinet are now of my mind. At
Cabinet meeting held yesterday we were
unit, and if the American people are not salts
aed with the measures resolved upon at that
meeting to vindicatc the National honor, they
must be very hard to please"
The Postmaster. General has finished his
annual report. He renews his recommends
ton of Government postal telegraph, and
enforccs at length his views in favor of post
Office savings banks. He makes no recon-
mendation of subsidies to steamship lines for
carrying the mails.
Work continued in the Navy yards on Sun
day, the 10th, seven hundred men being en-
ployed at Philadelphia, getting monitors ready
for service
In conversation relative to Cuban matters
ON the 18th, President Grant said the Gov
eminent was being careful in what it was
doing, and might do, to work upon facts and
not upon assumptions and unfounded reports,
rs 1t was essential that We should be prepared
to maintain our position, He said he shared
in the denunciatiou by the public of the cap
ture on the high seas of vessel sailing with
regular clearance papers under the United
States flag, and the startling events which
followed. Spain never having considered the
island Of Cuba in State Of war, and there
being no proclamation by the United States
according belligerent rights TO the insurgents,
The Nrginius, If regularly cleared for the
island of Cuba, had right to enter
Havana or any other open port of the
the Spanish possessions This Government
did not recognize any right on the part
of Spain in the present state of affairs TO in
| terfere in any manner, with our merchant ships
upon the seas, except in the usual right in her
| own ports, and within one marine league of
| the coast Of Cuba or her domnions, and of
! this fact she is aware. He said further that,
as a matter of course, it is the determination
|
| all their rights, and 10 compel respect TO the
flag. The present naval preparations were
made with this in view, and not to initiate war
by the President; that power being vested in
| Congress, hut to be prepared for all possible
| contingencies.
/ The charge for registering domestic letters
! is to I've reduced from fifteen to eight cents, TO
/ take effect January l.
At amass-mcctipg of American and Cuban
/ citizens held in New York on the night OF the
! lIlh, Il was unanimously resolved that the
/ Government ought TO take the promptcst and
/ most decisive measures in relation to Cuban
affairs, and war was invited as preferable TO
1 submission to the late outragcS.
4 4 Chicego morning daily Of the 18th says
/ the dispatches from all parts of the country
( indicated that the popular sentiment as to the
. Cuban business WAS ''warlikt TO a degrc. that
has not often been witnessed IN this country.
10 many places this takes the form Of offers
( Of troops, ana Il is scarcely eN,rayagant 70
say that these are sufficient already to consti.
+ tute an army that could march from one end
\ Of Cuba to the other In this State alone the
companies that have rendered their services
would make brigade Of infantry and a regj-
mout Of cavalry"
4 Washington dispatch Of the 18th says the
i Navy Department had ordered recruiting oii-
/ ces To be opened throughout the country, and
1 the navy VII be recruited 10 the utmost