Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-11

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cubic wards of levee are required to be built
to save the State from overflow next year;
that Louisiana cannot pay for the construc-
ton of more than a third. and suggests an APP
peal for national aid. Three County Com
missioners of Barnwell county, s. c.. have
been convicted of corruption and sentenced
respectively to ten years, nine years, and
thirteen months in the Penitentiary.
The Mayor of New Orleans has addressed
another urgent appeal to the people Of the
North for aid for the Louisiana sufferers, in
which he says: deadly famine In Loulsi-
ana would be a national disgrace, which the
wealth and philanthropy of America must
prevent at al hazards"
LoUIsIANIANs now in Washington state
that the damage to many Of the levees which
occurred during the war has never been re-
paired They further declare that the raw
ages of the late flood upon the whole leyee
system are utterly impossible of repair by
the impoverished people, and that recon-
struction can only be accomplished through
national aid. Senator Alcorn proposes that
the Government shall undertake the rebuild
ing OF the levees, and thus furnish labor to
people whose crops are destroyed. This
course will insure the next and future crops,
and will stay the impending famine. 1t is
estimated that 5000, 600 cubic yards of levees,
costing 5000. 000 will be required.
Washington.
GEN. GARFIELD, Chairman OF the House
Committee on Appropriations, stated to a
Washington correspondent, the other day,
that the appropriations for this year have been
cut down fully $50. 900 900 below the esti-
mates, and that he has assurance that there
will be no deficit in the revenues for the cur
rent fiscal year. The total revenue receipts
g. Al 20, Let fySf
1S1, OLA. A strong effort is being made to
bring the celebrated claim or George Choir
penning before the Court of Claims. The
House Judiciary Committee has reported in
favor of it Cannon, the Mormon Apostles,
legislative career is about to be nipped In the
bud. The House Committee on Elections
have decided to report in favor of his expul-
sion.
IT is not considered probable that the pres
ent Congress will take any action on the
postal telegraph question. After a lapse Of
nine years, the payment to the officers and
sailors of the navy OF what are known as the
Farragut prize-moneys has at last been COM
menced. =. 1t seems to be pretty generally ac-
cepted that Congress will adjourn at the time
set-June o. The Secretary of the Treasury
has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to sell S5,000,0o0 Of gold during June.
SECRETARY RICHARDSON has resigned the
Treasury portfolio. and is succeeded by Gen.
Benjamin F. Bristow, Of Kentucky. The
President subsequently nominated Richardson
as Judge of the Court of Claims. Banfield,
Solicitor of the Treasury, also rendered his
resignation, which was accepted. Bristow is a
lawyer of prominence, is Al years old, and
native Kentuckian.
THE contents of the late Senator Summers
house at Washington were sold at auction
last week. The attendance Of those anxious
to obtain some memento of the departed
statesman was large, and the bidding spirited.
General.
In the General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church North, at st. Louis, fraternal
overtures from the Old School Synod of Mis-
souri, were received the other day. This
Synod was connected with the Old School
branch of the Church previous to the re-
union of 1862 1t refused to acquiesce in
the basis upon which the Old and New
Schools agreed, on the ground that it re-
cognized too distinctly the supremacy of
the civil power. Since then concessions
have been made on both sides, and the
Synod has voted to give in its sdherence to
the Assembly.
The twenty-second annual convention of
the International Typographical Union COM
menced its session at st. Louis on the LIST
inst Nearly 100 delegates were present from
all parts of the country The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year :
President, w. A. Bodwell, New York First
Vice President, Henry White, Memphis Sec
ond vice-Presdent. W. T. Redfeld. of Wash
ington; Secretary and Treasurer, W. A.
Hutchinson. Chicago Corresponding Secre-
tary, W. s. PRIDE Wilmington.
THE Presbyterian Assembly, at st. Louis,
disposed of the woman question by the adop-
ton of a resolution, offered by DIR. Altman,
of New Jersey, to the effect that the session
and pastor of each church shall settle the
matter whether women shall speak and pray
| in the social prayer-meetings, and that the
General Assembly should express no opinion
| on the scriptural text involved. :. The Ameri-
can Medical Association commenced it's twenty
/ fifth annual session in Detroit on the ID inst,
1863 delegates being present, representing most
of the States and Canada
The National Congress Of Brewers was in
session at Boston last week The President,
Henry Claussen, in his address stated that
500, 1913 barrels of fermented liquors were
brewed in this country during the year which
ended on the 30th of June, 1878; that $780,
910,S23 were invested in beer breweries
SIG. 7O7, 1893 in Warehouses; S44 554, 100 in
] barley-lands; Fl, 603, $50 in hop-lands, making
a grand total of 1852, 776, 696. The increase
in the consumption of beer he put at !, 900, 600
barrels The General Assembly of the Pres
byterians adjourned at st. Louis on the Sd
inst. Cleveland was decided upon as the
place for the meeting of the next Assembly.
Political.
THE -Mouopolists Convention for the
State of Iowa is called to meet at Cedar
Rapids. June 80.
GEN. BkIsTow was confirmed by the Senate
as Secretary of the Treasury by unanimous
vote. The vote IN the confirmation of ex-
Secretary Richardson as Judge of the Court
of Claims was strictly partisan, all the Demo
Gratis dissenting.
SENATOR BRowNLow, of Tennessee, has
come out strongly against the Civil Rights
bill. The New Hampshire Legislature has
elected James A. Weston Governor for the
ensuing year.
Foreign.
THE report that the Hohenzollern candi-