The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-04-15
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1iEE York, April THE hoax bf the
Pacidc- Nail Steamship Company, when
Dillon assumed the administration Of AZ
fairs, showed over 3 hall million dollars
charged against the Chinese agency. The
Chinese agency replies By telegraph that
they have advanced one hundred Thousand
dollars, making differences Of four bur-
dred thousand dollars. The Chinese ageDt
has been ordered TO New York. It's hoped
there is some mistake.
NRw YonK, April THE board Of d.
rectofs OF the Panama Railroad have elected
r. w. Park. President; J. Mccullough,
wee President.
Officer Shelley has arrived from sherman,
Texas, with a counterfeiter, Isaac Baxter,
and robber, George Van velsOr.
NEW YORK, April sly esterday Count
Marifassi fulfilled the mission entrusted
to him by the Holy See Of announcing OFF,
cially TO Archbishop MeClosky that the
Holy Father had been pleased 10 confer
upon him the title and elevate him to the
rank Of cardinal of the Holy Roman Catho-
lie Church. The ceremony took place at
Cardinal McCloslzy's residence, and was
witnessed by a number Of the clergy and
laity. The Cardinal, on taking the skull
1Ionsiqno Roncetti delivered the black
berettI. The public ceremony Of receiving
the beretti viii take place April %.
NEW YoRK, April San order of arrest
has been issued in the new suit against
VIM. N. Tweed, with three million dollars
bail. A further order of attachment
against Tweed's property has been granted,
but details are withheld until the levy Is
made. The proceedings are under the new
law, which authorizes the attachment con-
currently with the order Of arrest. These
proceedings are the forerunners Of suits
against the SWeeny, Connolly, Woodward,
Cowan and the remainder ST the ring.
NEW YORK, April "a man giving his
name as III. S. Carson delivered himself to
the police saying he was a defaulter in
$25, 900 to the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad.
. NEW York, April 10. The Erie Railroad
Company announce reduction of fare from
New York, taking effect on Monday, as fol
lows: To New Orleans, from $50 10 $44
to Mobile, from $40 to $50; to Memphis,
from $3.50 to $32.25; to Montgomery,
from $37. 80 to $31.50, with proportionate
reductions from Boston and Philadelphia
to the Southwest.
NEW York, April 10.-Dan Bryant, the
minstrel, is dangerously i'll, of pneumonia.
The Tribune celebrates its thirty-itth an
niversary to-day by taking possession
of its new building, and printing quad.
ripple sheet with picture and description
of the building, giving figures of its circu,
lation, showing the average to be over So
600 daily. M
Lewis v. French, secretary, and Charles
s. Garcia, connected with the Palisades In.
surance Company, indicted for conspiracy
to defraud, were convicted.
The accounts of the China agent of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company have been
examined and found correct. A mistake
occurred in the accounts of the agency be
tween Hong Kong and Yokohama.
No trouble has ensued from the strike oil
the longshoremen, but neither party show
signs of disposition to compromise.
The editorial andeity staff of the Tribune,
which was this morning for the first time
issued from their magnificent new building,
signalized the event by the presentation to-
day to Mr.. Whitelaw Reid of set of silver.
The railroad pro rata freight bill was de.
feated in the Assembly to-day.
The Presidents sonin-law, Sartoris, sails
tomorrow for England.
Col. John NJ Powell, Of Mississippi, at
tempted suicide in Brooklyn yesterday with
morphine, but will recover,
Charles E. Tappan, the last surviving
member of the we'll known anti-slayery
family, died in Washington yesterday, aged
ninety years.
New York, April 12. The coroner's jury
found John NJ. Powell dead from an over
dose of morphine, while laboring under
temporary alteration of the mind.
Six desperate convlcts succeeded in get
ting out of the penitentiary on Blackwell
Island, yesterday, but five were recaptured
before they got across the water. The
sixth is thought to be hidden on the island,
and search for him is in progress.
New YORK, April 1S.-The Post has the
following Washington special: The state
ment is made, upon excellent authority,
that the Supreme Court will not render any
decisions of political nature at this term
of the court, postponing all such until after
the fall elections. This has given rise to a
story, which is credited in high quarters,
that the court has been polled, and ma.
iority found opposed to declaring the en-.
forcement acts constitutional. The belief
IS that the court win sustain the views oil
Judge Bradley in the Louisiana case, from
winch an appeal was taken, and the case
brought into the Supreme Court. -sas
NEW York, April 13.-The Acapulco ar
rived from Panama with commander Lulfs
party. They have completed the survey
from Panama to Aspinwall and pronounce
the route the most feasible Of any YET
surveyed. - -
Central America is unusually tranquil.
washington CITY.
WAsHrNGToN, April 7.-The Court 81
Claims has Just decided that full pardon
and amnesty to those concerned IN the late
war, while it blots out or throws intogob-
livion all personal offenses, does not restore
the proceeds placed in the treasury from
lconfscated property sold. The word s'paE.
don' must, the court says, be construed
according to its meaning as found in the
English statute law. At the time Of the
formation Of the Constitution the king had
no power to restore estates except those n
which he might be interested. Besides
the proceeds of the confscated property
being covered in the treasury, it could not BE-
drawn therefrom except by virtue Of law
passed in conformity with the Constitution.
WAsHINGToN, April 6.-The noted coun.
terfeiter, Pete Mccartney, escaped from
the custody Of United States Marshal
PurnelI, Eastern District Of Texas, at Bre-
mond, this morning. Mccartney is in-
OicCeu IN lOuf ulutItub 10uAD4AAa AA8llIcI8.
This is his third escape within four months.
WAsHNeroN, April 9. - Bowles Baker
and others from Texas visited the Presi-
dent Their object was to further change
Federal officers in Texas.
The Secretary of the Interior has added
topographer and astronomer to the Black
Hill expedition, and full nap'Of the Coun.
try with BOUNDARY lines sketched. ~
Attorney Hill retires on the Adjournment
of the Supreme Court
Judge Loving expresses his intention Of
retiring from the court Of claims.
Judge Peck, who has nearly reached his
seventeen year, viii soen retire, but bis
successor will not be made known till the
vacancy occurs.
a telegram received at the Navy Depart
ment this afternoon, from Rear Admiral
Mullaney commanding the North Atlantic
Station. announces that the United States
steamer, Plymouth, had sailed from Key
West for Matansas and windWard ports ;
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