Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13

of the Penitentiary. the PULASKI Chsncery
Court Phillips Criminal Court, Snd the four
Observation-Disclosures of the Supreme Court.
A SHREVEPORT Oa.) dispatch, July 80, SAYS
the white taxpayers of Natchitoches parish,
numbering 700, met in convention ON the 9th,
and demanded the designations of the District
and Parish Judges, Tax Collectors and Parish
Attorney. The two Judges left the parish,
and have not been heard from, but the others
complied with the request. All quiet; no
violence apprehended-
The Governor of Louisiana has signed
the death warrant of the five men implicated
in the murder of Elisha Eastwood, in April
last. One of the condemned is white man,
two are mulattoes, and two negroes.
ALLEN HARRIS was stabbed and killed at a
political meeting in New Orleans on the 1st
inst.
A FIRE broke out in the store-room OF Hope
WOODEN mills, Louisville, Ky., on the night of
the 4th inst, causing loss of $4,000.
The entire firm of Alexander. Dorman &
Co., cotton dealers OF st. Louis Mo-, were ar
rested on the 5th inst. charged with forgery.
The operations of that branch of industry
realized them over 100000
Washington.
DESPITE the action of the Government In
refusing to send the military to yicksburg,
the executive powers of the State still persist
in the statement that the public peace is an
dangered. Gov. Ames. who has been away
from his post. has returned, and on the 30th
Of July he telegraphed to President Grant.
ir,t he oip tho az
forth in the kilograms and mail advices pre-
viously forwarded by Lieut.. Gov. Davis
Smith. the colored cadet, who was dismissed
fiom West Point on the ground of his alleged
deficiency in philosophy, prints three
column card in Fred Douglass paper, in which
he says he has been harshly dealt with.
-. Col. A. II. Colt, President of the Hi
nois Republican Association in Washington
has been appointed Chief Clerk of the Internal
Revenue Office.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of July 81 says
Supervising Architect Mullett announces that
he expects to have the south wing of the new
State Department ready for occupancy by the
let of October. Only about 500 men are
now employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard. but
1t is stated that 400 more will be put at work
early next month. 1t is announced that the
Treasury Department has now for the first
time in many years. the proper number of
clerks authorized by law. and the salary-list is
not one dollar in excess of appropriations.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell
gold during the present month as follows:
II, 500, 900 on the first and third Thursdays.
and II, 600 600 ON the second and fourth
Thursdays, each, making in all 5000. 900 .
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune of the 25th
uit. says Mr.. l.. 81. Crounse. late Washing
Ion, H. A
announced as the editor of the new Admins
tration organ to be started in New York at an
early day.
Thus far there has been no satisfactory ar
rangement arrived at between the Govern
ment and the railway companies refusing to
carry the mails at the old prescribed rates.
The steamer Dispatch has been placed at
the disposal of the Senate Naval Visiting
Committee. The vessel is loaded with pro-
visions and good things for the trip, which
Will occupy about four weeks sailing around
the coast.
The Attorney General has received and ac-
cepted the designations Of j. Newton Temple
the District Attorney for the Western District
of Arkansas and John A. MINIS, the District
Attorney for the Northern Distric. of Alabama
THE managers Of the Freedmen's Bank
are in trouble. The returns from the various
branches come in but slowly. and the deposit
ors object to the funds being removed to
Washington. for fear they may be misappro-
priated- Gen. o. o. Howard was banqueted
by the Young Mems Christian Association here
on the 4th inst. previous to his departure for
his new command on the Pacific coast. Tom
Scott. the railroad king, has come to the res
cue Of the Postoffice Department in its exist
ing troubles with the Philadelphia and Will
mlngton railroad, which refuses to carry the
mails from here to New York city without adj
ditlonai compensation Scott takes the mails
over his hines at the present rates, the route
being only q miles longer.
GES. d. d. SMITH, of New York, who for the
past two years has held the position of Super
vising Inspector of Steamships. was on the
9Th inst. removed, by order of Secretary
Bristow.
General.
ALL the warehouses the London & Port
Stanley Railroad Company, at st. Thomas
Ont, Canada, five in number, together with
private dwelling. were burned on the LIST inst
The losses are placed at $50, 00g; insurance
S25,
THE suicide of the notorious Lord Gordon
is announced by special telegram from
Fort Garry to the st. Paul Dispatch of the Sd
inst. A dispatch from Fort Garry, Mani
toba. states that the grasshopper plague is
not so bad in that country as represented.
Political.
The Alabama Democratic State Convention
on July 20, nominated George S. Houston, by
a unanimous VOTE for Governor. A. r. Man
ming was nominated for Lieutenant G overnor.
The Republicans of the Eighth Illinois
District, on July 80, nominated Hon. G.. L..
Fort for reelection. The Central Executive
Committee of the Reform Cor FarmersO party
o. Illinois held meeting at the Briggs House,
in Chicago, July 80. 1t was an informal sort
Of gathering, and. beyond fixing the 9th of
September as the time, and Bloomington as
the place for the next meeting, nothing def
mite was accomplished
In Indiana the campaign on the Republican
side was commenced by speech from Senator
Morton at Terre Haute, en- the S1st of July.
in which he discussed the spirit of the two
parties, the financial question, civil rights,
the temperance issue. Canadian reciprocity.