The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-07-11


The Secretary Of War, after dligent investi-
CATION, has come to the conclusion that no
records have been removed from the depart
ment, as charged.
The Commissioner Of the General Land
Office rules that parties making entries under
the first section Of tho Timber Culture act
OF March 8, 1873, are entitled to only one year
to complete the planting of tho prescribed
area with trees.
The Secretary of War has sustained the re-
port Of the Board Of Engineers in locating the
proposed La Crosse railroad bridge at the foot
Of Mount Vernon, in that city. Tho bridge is
to be made post-rosd.
Up to the 4th OF July, about 81, 900, 900 post
al-cards had been issued by tho Postoffce De-
partment, and moro than twice that number
had been ordered.
The Government has procured an injunction
forbidding the Directors Of the Union Pacific
railroad to pay either principal or interest on
the securities which are hold by those con-
cerned in tho Credit Mobilier.
Preparations to print the new National Bank
currency, authorized by Congress, have already
commenced.
Gov. Davis, Of Texas, had conference with
the Commissioners Of Indian Affairs the other
day. ut which it WAS decided not to release tho
imprisoned chiefs Santana and Big Tree.
The Hon. VIM b. Allison and other dis
tinguished citizens of Iowa have retitioned
the Attorney General to compel the Union
| Pacific railroad to operate it's road in connec-
ton with it's branches as a continuous line in
the manner required by acts of Congress-. 1t
appears All unjust discrimination is made by
the Union Pacific against the Kansas Pacific
and other branches in charging heavy local
freight and passenger rates on all business
from their branches thus practically cutting
them Off from the through traffic. The At
torney G eneral's decision will have an impor-
tant bearing upon the finances of the Union
| Pacific.
There is S7s, 900, 900 in coin and coin cer
tiicates in the Treasury.
| A Washington dispatch Of the 4th says
The Government counsel have not yet decided
| what to do to Offset the combined movement
of the Onion Pacific railroad for. the purpose
of defeating the Credit Mobilicr suit, and the
matter remains in = very unpromising con-
dition.
| 1t is authoritativey stated that neither the
President nor the Secretary of the Interior
will interfere in behalf of the Modoc prisoners,
but that the finding of the court-msrtial will
be approved.
deficit of nearly ono million dollars hav-
ing been discovered in the accounts Of eI-
Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson,
who resigned his position in President Buchan-
ans Cabinet in 1861, to join the rebellion, ali
examination has revealed the fact that the
defalcation was committed by one of his
clerks.
1t is stated that the civil service rules, as
modified, are being strictly enforced in all tho
departments.
The committee appointed to investigate the
| financial management of the Howard Univer-
J sity have submitted their report, i'll which they
completely exonerate Gen. Howard from the
.charge of incorporation of the funds Of
the institution. They say: 1.-THE recorded
proceedings of the Board Of Trustees will
show that no single dollar of the university
money WAS ever voted ss a gratuity to Gen.
Howard nor any money at any time, under
any preteXt to which he was not justly en-
titled. in consideration for valuable and indis-
penssble services faithfully rendered.
Foreign.
The English Government has received dis
patches from Sir Samuel Baker, dated May 20.
He reports that the Upper Nile region, as far
south as the equator, has been annexed to
Egypt, and that the inhabitants are orderly.
The slave trade has been suppressed. He
| a. /,
The earthquake in northern Italy was a
more serious affair than at first reported.
Nearly every village north of Venice counts its
killed and wounded, numbers of churches are
prostrated,or shaken beyond further useful
ness, hundreds Of houses have been destroyed,
and the people are encamped by thousands in
the fields, having lost their homes, or being
afraid to trust themselves within their uncer-
tain walls.
1t il announced that President MacMahon
intends to ark the Commission of Pardons to
remit the sentences of those Communist prs-
oners whose behavior has been unexception-
able since their conviction.
The Constitutional Committee has submit
ted to the Spanish Cortes its draft Of Federal
Constitution for the Republic. 1t provides
that the President shall hold Office for four
years, and for one term only; also, that Spain
be divided into eleven States-Cuba, Porto
Rico and the other colonies being denominated
| Territories.
Holland has made no settlement of any
kind with the Acheenese, and could not listen,
the Colonial Minister says, to any such pro-
pesals as those she is recently reported to
have made. A second expedition against
Acheen has been fitted out by the Govern
| ment.
The Emperor of Germany is again on his
legs.
The Bank OF England forgers have been
examined at London, and fully committed for
| trial.
Seven hundred and fifty Mormon emigrants
have left Liverpool for America in the steam
ship Wisconsin.
Cespedes has resigned the Presidency of the
Cuban Republic, and is succeeded by Salvador
Cisneras.
In consequence of the passage of the bill
abolishing constitutional guarantees, the Irec-