The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-20

who may necessarily be affected by the reduc
ton are to receive one years pay on being
mustered out
The cause of the present Indian outbreal
on the frontier, according to statements o.
officers of the Indian Bureau. is the
fact that the Interior Department has beer
unable to provide the Indians with their an
nual supplies, owing to the inadequacy of the
Indian appropriation. The fund of the pres
ent fiscal year is entirely expended, and there
is deficiency OF 81, 100000 The Interior De
partment has no means of relief until Congress
shall make additional appropriations.
Several important amendments to existing
laws have been agreed upon by the House
Committee on Judiciary. 1t is proposed
to allow criminals to testify in their own be-
half ALSO to amend the law prescribing pun
ishment for mansaughter, so that in the dis
erection of the Judge a court may sentence per-
sons convicted of manslaughter to twenty
years imprisonment the limit being at pres
ent three years.
President Grant has appointed the Court of
Inquiry to try Gen. Howard. Gen. Sherman
is at its head, and associated with him are
Gems. Mcdowell, Pope, Meigs, and Holt.
Maj A. B. Gardner is Advocate General.
The Court Martial will begin March 3.
Foreign.
A London dispatch announces the loss Of
the German bark Hercules. Fourteen Of her
crew persisted.
The war in Ashantee is closed, and the En-
glish troops are en- route for home. The saw
ages having been completely subdued, have sur
rendered the British subjects held by them,
and given guarantees for good behavior in the
future.
A London telegram says there is dispo-
sition on the part of the Queen Of England to
appoint the Earl Of Derby as Premier instead
of Disrael.
Havana advices report serious rioting in the
streets Of the city on account of the dissatis-
faction of the people at the Spanish volunteers
being kept there instead of sending them to
the field. Two encounters between the Span
ards and Cubans are reported, in which the
latter we're victorious.
The cholera is raging in Rio Janeiro, Buenos
Ayres and Mentevideo.
The extensive establishment known az Tay
lor's Pantechlacon and Carriage Repository, in
Belgravia, London, was recently destroyed by
fire. Loss about SIS, 100000.
The deaths of Cardinal Tarquini and Mrs.
James Anthony Froude are announced by
cable.
The Car of Russia will shortly pay visit
to Queen Victoria.
The Car of Russia, at dinner given in
honor of his royal visitors from Austria and
England the other evening, declared, in ef-
feet that Russia, England, Prussia and AUS
tria had entered into an alliance to preserve
I" the peace of the world" The Emperor of
Austria subsequently Endorsed the declara-
ton.
ireland elects fifty-one Home Rulers to the
new Parliament.
The southeastern portion of Europe has
been experiencing severe gales, and many dis
asters by land and sea are reported.
King Lunalilo, of the Sandwich Islands, is
dead
1t is announced from London that DR..
Beke, the great English explorer, has found
the true Mount Sinai, in Arabia, at an attitude
Of 1000 feet above the sea level.
The final result of the British Parliamentary
elections is summed up as follows; Conservs-
tives returned 351; Liberals and Home
Rulers, 302. OF these Acc were elected after
A Contest The total number of votes poled
in the United Kingdom and Ireland was 2, $780,
BOO. Ireland returns Is Liberals, 30 Con-
servatives, and SO Home-Rulers. Gladstone
has resigned and Disraeli has been ordered
by the Queen to form new Ministry.
Spanish accounts from Cuba give reports
IF battle, in which 5000 Spaniards defeated
md put to fight, after eight hours fighting
md loss of only 154 men, a column of 5000
patriots.