Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-12-30

with George A. Steele, chairman of the
Republican State Central committee, j.
M. Dolph, counsel for the Republicans
in the recent electoral muddle, and Sec
rotary of State Chadwick left San Fran
cisco on the 2lst, for the East.
THERE is movement being made at
Philadelphia, looking to the removal of
the state capitol from Harrisburg to Fair
mount park, and to make the Centennial
Memorial hall into state house. About
one-quarter of the people of the state
live in that city, and it is claimed, by the
advocates of the change, that the inter-
ests of all the citizens Of the state will be
advanced thereby.
JOHN MOORE, one of the Democratic
electors of Tennessee, is found to be incl
Eigible in consequence Of his having re-
signed from the United States navy and
gone into the Confederate army. He
did not resign his position, and so create
a vacancy for the other electors to fill,
but acted with his fellow members. Ac-
cording to Democratic logic, his ineligi-
bility either.created a vacancy or gave
the place to his Republican competitor.
THE grand sachems of the Democratic
party, i'll the different states, have been
holding "pow vows" and passing ''bun-
combe" resolutions about the rights of
the House to participate in the counting
of the electoral votes, and on the eighth
of january they propose to hold grand
conclayes in the several states and make
a declaration of 'wah," IN case the House |
should lot be allowed to say who is to be
the next President.
PRESIDENT LERDo having been cap |
tured, President Diaz having taken the |
capital, and President Iglesias having re-
fused to give Diaz four members in the
Cabinet, the Hewitt-Tilden system of
government is now pretty we'll a-going
in Mexico. Diaz and Iglesias will con-
tinue the struggle between themselves
for the Presidency. Diaz thinks, as Til
den does, that he has invested altogether
too much money in the campaign to
give up such prize quietly.
THE effect of the reported new move
ment toward genuine reconciliation of
the North and South is getting to be
very telling, if one can judge from the
Chicago Times. 1t begins to talk about
Hayes and the Confederates." The
Chicago Post predicts that as the reunion
proceeds the Times will proceed to talk
of Hayes and the Rebels" Hayes and
the Gray Hayes and and the Ku
Klux," Hayes and the Nigger-killers,'
Hayes and the Bulldozers."
AS specimen of the wOrthlesSness of
the evidence taken by Morrison's House
investigating committee, at New Orleans,
the public should nCte the following:
Witnesses before Morrlson's committee
testified that Eliza Pinkston's wounds
were not very bad, after all; that her
being brought before the Returning
Board OH lounge, and fainting, was all
sham that they saw her skip up the
steps of the custom house. the day she
testified, etc. This evidence was cheer
ing to the Democrats; but, unfortunate
ly, it has been completely upset by the
testimony of two of the official ply
sicians of the charity hospital, who swore
positively that Eliza, at the very moment
when the Democratic witnesses saw her
skipping up the custom house steps,
was in bed in the hospital, unable to
move, and that she had been there ever
since.
AN international commission from Eu-
rope has arrived at Panama to make sur
veys for an inter-oceanic canal, and it is
not impossible that the golden oppOr-
tunity for the United States in counec-
ton with the canal project may slip by,
and the entire work and success of the J
great enterprise pass into other hands.
The next great engineering work of the !
world will be canal to connect the
waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
1t is bnt question of time when the
work will be undertaken. The pressing j
wants of fine great world of commerce
the world of progress and rapid transit,
demand that the distance
from the chief ports on the Atlantic to
those on the Pacific shall be lessened.
The United States government is, for Os-
tensible reasons, much better fitted to UNI I
dertake the work than any other. Still,
the leading minds Ofthe Old world do not
overlook the Importance of the matter, as
is evidenced by the arrival of the inter-
commission. However the most :
practicable route tor canal yet selected
was tha. surveyed by Capt. Il. o. Self
ridge, of the United States navy. The
line adopted by Capt. Selfridge, as ex-
planned i'm the report of the secretary of
the navy in 1871, AMI subsequently re- 81
begins at the mouth of the G.
AtratO river, in the gulf of Darien, as +
cends the river Onejhundred and twenty
miles, TO the mouth of the Napipi, and
thence by canal across the isthmus to the
Pacific at Cupica bay. The Atrato is nav
gable for ships of the largest size, :
being some fifteen hundred feet wide,
md at no point less then thirty feet q
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