Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29
WASHINGTON.

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turned to Washington from an extended trip
along the existing and projected line of the
Virginia and Kanawha canal from the James
river to the Ohio. They examined the posi-
bility of a tunnel of a mile through the Allie
ghanies, and were assured by q competent en-
gineer that it could be completed in four
years from the time the requisite assistance
was rendered by Congress. . Senator Casser-
ly, of California, has returned his back pay.
-. Charges of corruption having been made
in connection with the recent award of con-
tracts for Indian supplies, an investigation is
demanded by Secretary Delano and Commits
sioner George II. Stuart.
THE President has appointed William E.
Davis Assistant Treasurer at Cincinnati. -.
Chief Justice Chase's will is short and simple,
and names Henry d. Cooke as sole executor.
1t is said he leaves $40, 1000 to Wherefore
University, Ohio; Sc, 900 to his niece, Mrs.
Aud, and the remainder of his estate, about
SIZE, 900, equally between his daughters, Mrs.
Sprague and Mrs. Hoyt.. The Indian Bureau
has received from a Special Commissioner
sent out to talk with the Indians who threaten
the progress of the Northern Pacific railroad,
which is to the effect that the tribes are quite
determined in their hostility to the building of
the road, and that there is little
~lations for a postal treaty with France
progress slowly, but promise favorably....
The postal card manufacturers at Springfield,
Mass, have promised to increase their facii-
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1t is insisted at the State Department that the
charges against Gen. Van Buren,, Commits
sioner-General to Vienna, who denounced
Minister Jay as a cowardly knave or liar,
have been proven. Secretary Fish is very
severe in his criticisms upon the course of
Van Buren,, and claims to have positive
proof that Van Buren, was guilty of several, if
not all, the improper acts charged against
him.
IT is announced that the weather reports of
A. O;O,,ol Cory;oa R,,raa, a-a 70 la o1,Dn1a-
mented by daily reports of the water gauge of
case of flood, or any sudden movement, the
observations will be made and reported every
three hours, but in ordinary cases only once a
day. q. Judge Pierrepont declines the Russian
mission E. Col. George Williamson, of Louisi-
ana, an ex-Confederate officer, has been ap-
pointed Minister to Central America.
THREE of the eight sloops-of-war which
Congress directed Secretary Robson to add
to the navy are to be built in private yards.
The others will be built in the different navy
yards. Three of them are to be built of iron,
the rest of wood, and all will be screw-pro-
pellers. IA Washington dispatch says the
Government has a grand annexation scheme
on hand, looking to the acquisition of the
Sandwich Islands, a slice of Northern
Mexico, and other stray, patches of
Judge Edwards Pierrepont is mentioned as the
probable successor of Chief Justice Chase.
Ex-Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut, has been ap-
pointed Minister to Russia. It is announced
that the ex-Secretary of the Navy, Gideon
Welles, who kept a diary of all that was done
in the Cabinet, will reply to Charles Francis
Adams. Among other things, he will be able
to prove that Mr.. Lincoln desired to appoint
Mr.. Dayton Minister to Great Britain, and
was only induced to change his mind and ap-
point Mr.. Adams by the urgent appeals of Mr..
Foreign.
TuE financial panic still continues in Vienna.
1t has extended to Odessa, Russia, where all
business has stopped, and discounts have rose
to an unprecedented figure....An ~inundation
of, tho Turkish Province of Bosnia has caused
the loss of many lives, and great destruction
of property. Thus far the management of
the Canadian Pacific railroad project seems to
have been patterned after our ranscontinental
Jobs with singular fidelity. The concern that
is headed by Sir Hugh Allan represents our
Credit Mobilier very accurately. Letters are
reported to have been discovered which passed
between Sir Hugh and his colaborers, and
which prove that the. Government, as a con-
dition precedent to awarding the contract to
the Allan syndicate, required them to eXpend
1850. 600 for partisan purposes, that is, to
secure the return of members of Parlia-
ment favorable to the Administration. =.
Another Carlist yistory is reported from Spain.
Vienna has been visited by a gale of ex-
traordinary violence, seriously damaging the
Exposition building. IA report comes from
Paris that the Legitimists and Orleanists have
combined in movements for the overthrow of
President Theirs. Reports from Khiva re-
present that the Khan is greatly alarmed at
the approach of the Russian columns, and has
ordered a levy en- n1dsse of the able-bodied
male population to resist the invasion.
HONG KONG, China, was visited by a great
conf1agration on the 22d of March, which
burned over A acres and rendered s, 600 people
homeless. On the 10Th of March the city of
Osaka, China, received a similar visitation, the
fire raging for "a hours. -. Ottawa, Canada,
was recently visited by q disastrous fire, which
destroyed thirty-six buildings. Loss, $3.50, 600.
-. Sir Hugh Allan's mission to London, to
raise ESQ, 600, 900 of the e105, 000, 900 which are
needed for the construction of the Canada
Pacific railway, has not been a success. He
has been opposed by the Times and Telegraph;
all the influence of the Grand Trunk railway
has been against him, and he finds himself
utterly unable to win the confidence of English
capitalists in tho scheme The Shah of Per-
panied by all the members of his Cabinet and
three of his wives. 1t is estimated that the
expense Of his European tour will be five mil
lions sterling . III complete reconstruction
of the French Ministry upon a strictly repub-
lican basis is reported certain.
THE New York HeruLds sensation CORE
.spondent in Cuba, O'Kelly, is to be sent to
Spain. don Carlos is at the head of the
Carlist army in Navarro. 1t is said he has
Is, 900 men under him, and that he has con-
cluded a loan of 400, 600, 900 reals with English
bankers. The Spanish troops, it is reported,
have received a crushing defeat in A~rragon...
The health of the Pope is improving The
report of the capture of Khiva blythe Russians
is confirmed, and it is further stated that the
was made prisoner. Russia is thus
placed in a position to enforce her demands
further military advances.
Among the hundred or moro failures which
have occurred at Vienna during the panic,
there was no bank involved of any Importance.
houses that went down are reported to be
all small concerns. The cause of the crash
seems to have been an imitation of bank stock
and railroad securities, and widespread specu-
lation. &. Sir Samuel Baker, the great African
traveller, who was recently reported to have
been murdered, together with his heroic wife,
accompanies him in his perilous adven-
lures, has been at last heard from. A letter
received.from him on the 18th of May at
Egypt, in which he states that he
reached the White Nile in safety.
THE political agitations in the French As
sembly have again commenced. The action
of Theirs in demonstrating his Cabinet has
aroused the Right Center, who demand that
he explain the reasons for the changes he has
A motion for the dissolution of the
Assembly has been voted down. Greece has
to abolish all her diplomatic mis-
except that at Constantinople-. Costa
Rica is again agitated by a fierce revolution,
and there has been severe fighting in the
of Panama. Snow fell in the north