Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

the virginius have addressed a memorial to
President Grant expressing their heartfelt and
grateful thanks for the energetic measures
| taken for their timely rescue and delivery from
death or a sentence to chain-gang or aSpan-
| ish prison
A DISPATCH from Washington says it is pro-
posed to repeal the law authorizing the Presi-
dent to appoint the Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court, and confer that power upon the
members of the court. Articles of impeach-
ment will be brought against Judge Busteed.
of Alabama. He is charged with accepting
brides and Incorporating public funds. =.
Bills calling for about $50. 000 900 for the erec-
ton of public buildings in different parts of
the country have already been introduced In
Congress Gen. b. ]. Sweet, Deputy Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, died at Wash
ington on the LIST inst, of typhoid pneumonia
Foreign.
Francois HUGO, son of Victor Hugo. died in
Paris on the 18th of December, aged A years.
-. Ralph Keller, Cuban correspondent of the
New York. Tribune recently fell overheard
from steamer between Havana and Santiago.
and was drowned. A desperate conflict be-
tween a band of Carlists and Republican
force occurred recently before Bocayrente, in
the province OF Valencia, Spain. The insur-
and wounded. Marshal Bazaine has left
Versailles for Ste. Marguerite. The steamer
Gypsy Queen sunk in the river Thames on the
Goth of December. Sixty persons were on
board eighteen of whom were drowned.
A HAVANA dispatch states that the steamer
virginius has been condemned lawful
prize BY the Prize Court in that city. "A
Madrid dispatch reiterates the statement that
the Spanish Government has determined to
demand the restitution of the steamer Yir-
ginius. as well as indemnity, basing its demand
upon the decision of Acknowledgement Will
Jams that she had no right to sail under the
has been invested with extraordinary powers,
and Burriel relieved of his command at San
tiago.
THE English steamer Becklow was wrecked
near Gibralter recently, and twenty-five out of
twenty-three of those on board were lost
1t is denied that Spain has any intention of
demanding the return Of the steamer Vir-
ginius. .Advices from Cartagena say the
insurgents are preparing to flee from the
city.
IT now appears that Burriel, the Cuban
butcher, was relieved from his command of
the Eastern Division, because in one of his
recent pronunciamentosh he attacked the Home
Government He has accordingly been sum-
moned to Madrid to answer charges which
have been preferred against him. A treaty
between Russia and Bokhara is published 1t
gives the Khivan territory, on the right bank
of the Anu Daria river. to Bokhara, who in re-
turn agrees to abolish slavery and establish
mutual trading facilities with Russia. The
cable announces that large force of Acheen-
csc have been defeated, with heavy loss, by
the Dutch troops, who suffered only moder-
ately Several heavy commercial failures
have occurred in Berlin, and monetary panic
is apprehended.
THE HAVANA papers are bitter in their
comments on the sinking of the virginius and
release of prisoners. They charge that the
Government sank the virginius in order not
to be compelled to deliver her to Spain, and is
guilty of perfdy in releasing the survivors.
One Of them Indignantly excaims: =" For the
great wrongs of the Spanish nation, terrible
atonements are reserved, and their hour
will come. .. .Thirty-two lives were lost by
the laundering of the steamship Elbe, bound
from London to Hamburg There is said to
be complete rupture between CASTELAR,, Pres
ident of che Spanish Republic, and Salmerop,
President of the Cortes. The First Metho-
dist Church has just been opened in the City
Of Mexico The court-martial at Versailles,
France has condemned six more Communists
to death. .Advices from Cape Coast Castle
report severe engagement between the Brit
ish forces and Ashantees in which the latter
were worsted, three hundred being drowned
in their fight, while attempting to cross
river. Another extensive fire accompanied
by an explosion, has occurred at Cartagena,
Spain.
Political.
II is said Senators Sumner and Schurz
viii unite with the Democrats in criti-
cising unsparingly the conduct of the Admin
istration in the Yirginius affair Judge
Durell, Of Louisiana, who is threatened with
impeachment, has made direct proposition
to the Washington Administration to resign
on condition that he be guaranteed foreign
mission. His proposal was rejected.
THE State Central Committee of the Anti
Monopolists of Iowa has called convention,
to meet at Des Moines on Feb. %.
The Grange.
THERE are $4,000 Changers in Nebraska,
and the order is growing rapidly. State
Master Brainerd, of Wisconsin, has just made
a tour of the Sta; B. and reports the order in a
flourishing condition, and the membership
rapidly increasing.
General.
THE railroads operated by the Pennsylvania
SOnpdLy arc cCAiOucil CiubdAidccCu " O
strike of the engineers against reduction of
wages. There has also been a temporary in
terruption of the running of trains on the Illi-
nois Central and Chicago and Northwestern
roads from the same cause. The announce
ment has been made that the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company will fund all the interest on
it's bonds up to and including January, 1875,
into five-y-ear per cent. coupon-bonds, con-
vertible into the company's first mortgage
bonds at par, and into the land of the COM
pany at Is per cent. of from regular prices.
AS Is customary at the close of navigation
the managers Of the great east and west trunk
lines, like the New York Central, Erie, and
Pennsylvania roads, have met in New York
and raised their freight rates. The strike of
the locomotive engineers on the lines operated
by the Pennsylvania Central has met with a
sudden check in the shape of an official mani
festo from the chief of the Brotherhood of
Engineers. who announce that the strike has
been inaugurated in direct and open violation
to the rules, advises those who have quit
work to resume again and prevent others from
stopping, and warns them not to interfere
with the operations of the railroads. The
roads are gradually getting into running order
again. ard the presence of the militia at vari-