Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18


go. They are under the act of Feb 90, 1862
The coupon bonds are of the fourth series.
Coupon bonds: $50. No. 1O,0O1 to No. Is, 40O
both inclusive; $780, No. p, sol to No. 40. 0OO
both inclusive $500, No. 1901 to No. 20, 000
both inclusive; 81 600, No. 39,0O1 to No.
&C. 600, both inclusive. Total. $2i, 063, $50.
Registered bonds $50, No. 2.0O1 to No. q 25,
both inclusive; 500, No. 1851 to No. 1918.
both inclusive; $500, No. s,651 to No. e154,
both inclusive $1,000, No. S. 701 to No. SS,073.
both inclusive $1,000. No. II. Col to No. IL 800,
both inclusive; Il, 900, No. Is sol to No. 1891.
both inclusive total. 1886, $50: grand total.
go. OOO, 900.
Political.
Hon. Geo. G.. Wright United States Senator
from Iowa, announces that he will not be a can
didate for reelection. He has determined 20
withdraw altogether from the political arena
and resume the practice of his PROFESSIONALS
legal.
Howard Knowles has been appointed Col
lector for the Fifth District of Illinois. vice r.
II. Whiting. elected to Congress, and EXON
ACOlOlCNj AisiS DcCh
Collector for the Second District of South Caro-
lima.
The President has nominated to the Senate
Hon. Godlove s. Ortiz, of Indiana, for Minister
to Austria
The 18th of March has been set apart by Gov
Garls nd, of Arkansas as day of thanksgiving
to the Almighty for the action of Congress in
adopting the Poland report.
The following is list of the Chairmen of the
new standing committees Of the United States
Senate: Privileges and Elections. Morton
Foreign Relations. Cameron Of Pennsylvania
Finance, Sherman; Appropriations, Morrill, of
Maine Commerce Conking Manufactures,
Robertson; Agriculture, Frelinghuysen Mill
tary Affairs Logan; Naval Affairs, Cragin Ju-
dietary, Edmunds Postoffices and Post Roads.
Hamlin Public Lands, Oglesby Private Land
Claims, Thurman ; Indian Affairs, Allison !;
Pensions, Ingalls, Revolutionary Claims, Ste
venson Claims, Wright District of Columbia,
Spencer; Patents, Ferry of Connecticut Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds, Morrill, of Vermont !;
Territories, Hitchcock Railroads, West Mines
and Mining, Sargent Revision of the Laws,
Boutwell, Education and Labor, Patterson :;
Civil Service and Retrenchment Clayton to
Audit and Control Contingent Expenses Of the
Senate. Jones of Nevada; Printing. Anthony :;
Library Howe; Rules, Ferry of Michigan En-
crossed Bills, Bsvard; Enrolled Bills, Conover :;
Transportation Routes to the Seaboard Win
dom; on Levees of the Mississippi River, Al
corn.
r.
bled at Cleveland on the 18th inst. Sixty dele
gates. representing twelve States were present.
Permanent organization was effecCed by the
election of Prof. Hooton, of Illinois. Chair
man J. L. Campbell, Illinois C. W. Camp
bell (colored). Virginia and Il. ]. TreveIick-
vice-Presidents A. Cameron. Secretary, Stir
ring speeches in favor of greenbacks and an
independent political party were made, and
resolutions to the same effect adopted.
The President has decided to recognize Gar
land as Governor of Arkansas
Miscellaneous.
Recent deaths At Fall River Mass, Hon.
James Buffinton, Representative of tho First
Congressional District of that State, aged SIS
wears he had been in i'll health for some time.
and it is believed his death was has.ened by the
fatigue attendant upon the protracted session Of
the House over the Civil Rights bill in London,
Arthur Helps. the celebrated English author,
essayist. etc.. aged IS years in London, Lieut.
Gen. James Hope Grant, the celebrated English
commander, aged 81.
The war between the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania railroads is still carried on with
unrelenting vigor and energy. President Gar
rett. of the Baltimore and Ohio. refuses to
bulge from the firm stand he has taken. and it
is generally believed that he will make the
present low rates to the East permanent. and
thus compel the other trunk lines to come down.
II is the universal belief that Mr.. Tom Scott,
the great railway potentate, has for once met
more than his match.
Western farmers and shippers will be re-
joced to learn that Erie canal tolls the coming
season will be nearly so per cent. lower than
heretofore.
Under the decision of the Postmaster-G General
no third-class matter will hereafter be sent
through the mails. unless its regular rate of
one cent per ounce is prepaid. The following
section in the law enumerates the matter in
cluded i'll the third class
"SBcrIoS l33. That mailabe matter OF the third
class shall embrace all pamphlets, occasional
publications, transient newspapers, magazines,
hand-bills, posters, unsealed circulars, pros
psctuses, books, book manuscripts, proof-sheets,
corrected proof-sheets, maps, prints engrav-
ings. blanks, flexible patterns, samples Of mer-
chandise not exceeding II IN weight,
sample cards, Photographic paper letter envelopes
postal envelopes and wrappers, cards, plain and
ornamental paper photographic representations Of
different types, seeds cuttings, bulbs, roots sco.s
and all matter which may be declared mailable by
Law, aud all other articles not above the weight pre-
scrbed by law, which are not from their form and
nature, liable to destroy, defsce otherwise injure
the contents of the mailbag, or the person of any
one engaged in the postal service. All liquids
posons. glass, explosive materials and obscene
books shall be excluded from the mails"
1t is almost certain that Gen. Schenck win
shortly retire from the English mission. He
has long had such step in contemplation. In
recent letter to a friend in Washington Ia
says: Il am beginning to loathe the burdens