The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-24

splendid Chamber Of Commerce.
The South.
r. II. Mari has been appointed by John
McEnery. the Democratic claimant Of the Gov
ernorship of Louisiana, to succeed w. l.. Nc
MILAN as United States Senator, in opposition
TO Pinchback.
FIT. Riddle Democrat, has been elected to
fill the vacancy in Congress from the Fourth
Tennessee District.
John w. Johnston has been chosen to be his
own successor in the United States Sena
from Virginia.
A plea of guilty has been entered bya batch
of Covington (Ky.) illicit distillers.
Nick Thompson (colored) was hanged for
murder at Quitman, Ga, on the 18th of De-
cember. Another murderer, W. b. Thompson,
was executed at Lewisburg, Ark, on the same
day.
The Mexican cattle thieves are again at their
devilish work on the Rio Grande. party re-
Gently stole 800 head Of cattle and 30 horses
near San Felipe, Texas and ran them across
the river. The citizens are greatly excited in
consequence, and threaten to organize them
selves and cross the river.
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was recently destroyed by fire. Loss, $500
A horrible massacre is reported near Atoka,
in the Indian Nation. The BODIES Of four per-
sons were found burned on the prairie, two of
which were females. Two were burned be-
yond recognition. The others were whites. A
pony, with lady's sde-saddle, dog, and
gun, were found near. They had all been
shot. Three men, seen riding nine miles from
the spot, are supposed to have done the shoot
ing. The prairies were fired to destroy the
trail.
Washington.
The following is the anti-subsidy resolution
introduced in the House by Mr.. Holman of In
diana, and adopted by vote Of 223 yeas to 33
nays
Resolred, That, in the Judgment of this House. III
the present financial affairs of this Government no
subsidies in money, bonds, public lands, indorse-
ments, or by pledge of public credit, should be
granted to associations corporations engaged or
proposing to engage, in public private enterprises
and that all appropriations from the Public Urea
sury ought to be limited at this time to such
! amounts only as shall be imperatiyely demanded by
the public service.
Those voting in the negative are nearly all
Southern members as follows Cabel, OAR
rail-, Douglas, Dunnell, Goode, Hancock, Har-
ris (va. }, House, Hunton, Hyman, Jones (Ky.),
Kelley, Lamar, Mills, Morey, O'Neill Parsons
Reagan, Reilly Slemons, Smalls, Strait, Stone,
Ferry, Throckmorton, Tucker, Vance On. c.,
Wallace (Pa), Wells (Mo.) Wells (Miss.),
White, Yates, Young-33.
George L. Bangs, Superintendent of the
Railway Postal Service, has resigned.
About 800 Senators, Representatives in Con-
gress and newspaper men left Washington on
the afternoon of the 18th inst. on dead-head
excursion to Philadelphia, to examine the Cen
tennial buildings.
The President has nominated to the Senate
Mr. George F. Seward as United States Minis
ter to China, and Mr.. James Brney, of Michi-
gan, as United States Minister to the Neither
lands.
The Postmaster General, in the course of
a few weeks, will put into operation an ex-
tended plan for the exchange OF registered
pouches between important distributing Offices.
In these pouches all letters mailed to the ex-
change offices are inclosed, accompanied by a
letter bill, showing the numbers Of each pack
age, and receipt given for each pouch obviates
the necessity of receipting each package sepa-
rately, thereby saving great deal of time and
trouble to postal-car clerks and others, who are
the proper custodans thereof while in transit.
Southern and Southwestern members declare
their purpose to oppose any bill locating the
new mint at indianapolis or st. Louis, unless
an appropriation is made to reopen the mint at
New Orleans for coinage purposes.
The Chicago Tribune's Washington cores
pendent says the members are anxious for q
short session Of Congress, and that there il
talk Of adjourning about the LIST of May.
Political.
The following is the full text of the resolu-
tons introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Morton,
defining the political obligations of the States
under the Constitution:
Resolved, BY the Senate, the House of Represent
atives concurring that the people of the United
States constitute a nation, and people in the
sense of national unity.
Resolved, That the Government of the United
States is not compact between the States in their
municipal and corporate characters, but formed
by the people Of the United States in their primary
capacity; that the rights of the States defined
and guaranteed by the Constitution and not by any
outside theory Of State sovereignty, and that the
rights Of the States cannot DO enlarged or dimin-
ished, except by an amendment to the Constitu-
ton.
Resolved, That the rights OF the States have the
same sanction and security in the Constitution as
the rights and power of the National Government
and that local domestic government by the States,
within the limits of the Constitution is essential
of our free Republican system.
Resoloed, That the doctrine that a State has the
right TO secede from the Union is inconsistent with
the idea of nationality s in conflict with the spirit
and structure of the Constitution and should be
garded as having been forever extinguished by the
suppression of the rebellion.
The anti-third-term resolution introduced in
the lower House of Congress by Mr.. Springer,
of Illinois, and passed by vote of 292 to IS,
reads as follows:
Resolved, That in the opinion Of this House, the
precedent established by Washington and other
Presidents of the United States in retiring from the
Presidential Office after their second term has be-
come, by universal concurrence, part of our Re-
publican system of government and that any de-
psrture from this time-honored custom would be
unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to or
free institutions.
Those voting in the negative were BRADLEY