Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-11-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The United States Circuit Judgeship
is now reported from Washington to
have narrowed down to Baxter, of Knox
vile, and Judge Cooley, of Michigan.
THE good news-if true-comes from
Washington that careful canvass Of
the House has already Ebeen taken, and
shows i: majority of fifty against any
Texas Pacific subsidy bill. The measure
is said to he weaker in this House than
in the last.
THE Senate has determined to 60 into
q thorough Investigations of the Louisiana
business in connection with the election
of United States Senators, ard give the
bottom facts to the world. That is pre- !.
cisely what should be done. Let us
know the whole truth, aid then judge of
the case.
Il
ment to prevent the confirmation of Bell
as Assistant Secretary of the interior,
and members of the committee to which
his nomination was referred are receiving
numbers of confidential and i'm some cases
anonymous letters from employees in the
protesting against it.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, has two
Post Masters. one commissioned by Post
General Key, and the other by
his first assistant, Mr.. Tyner. The latter
got his papers at Washington, went home
and was duly Installed before his COM
petitor's papers, which were mailed
reached him, although dated three days
earlier. 43 e -
THE banner Republican county in Iowa
is Emmet--that is to say, it gives the
largest proportional majority. There is
not single Prohibition or Greenback
vote in the county, and in two townships
not single Democratic vote. In another
township there was only one Democratic
vote to sixty-two Republican. The DEM
ocratic party of Emmett county might as
we'll disband. 5
THERE is going to be considerable OPP
position TO the confirmation Of the new
of Indian Affairs, Mr.
HOyt, of New York. just what the OPP
position is, Or where it come from, MEM
bers of the Committee on Indian Affairs
decline to state; but it is supposed that
the same reason why eX-Secretary Chan
der removed him from the Board of In
dian Commissioners will apply here.
RESPECTING the order intermtting
the receipt of deposits of silver for COIN
age into trade dollars, the director of the
minis states that within the past few
about 100000 of trade dollars
have gone into circulation i'm the Atlantic
and Western States, and to that extent
occupy the place intended tor fractional
silver coins, and the government been
deprived of the seignorage which it woula
otherwise have received. The director
says that if .hero- has boon any mistake
it was in not sooner issuing the order.
A RUSSIAN official dispatch, dated
Tutchenitza, before Plevna, October %
says that yesterday after desperate en-
gagcment of ten hours duration, Gen,
Gourka's detachment, cooperating with
the Imperial Guard. captured strong
Turkish position between Guernji, Dub
nix and TelIche. Gen. Gourka then
stationed himself. on the Sofia road.
his position with new forti-
fications. This engagement also resulted
in the capture of Mehemet Ewsi Pasha,
together with his chief Of staff. Many
other Turkish officers, about 5000 foot
soldiers and an entire regiment. of cav
airy, four cannon and a quantity of rifles
md ammunition were also captured. Our
oss is unknown, but must have been
ALL the clap-trap about Chief Joseph
Of the Ncz Perces contemptuously de-
Ginning to surrender to Gen. Howard, the
Bible Chief, and offering his gun to Gen.
Miles, is exploded. A dispatch to the
New York Herald, and other reports
from officers present at the surrender, say
hat Joseph offered his gun first to
General Howard. The General, although
he ranking officer, remarked to General
Miles that the battle had been his, and,
declining to receive the gun, pointed TO
Gen. Miles. In short the chief did not
pass the "BibIe Chief'' in contemptuous
silence and walk up to Gen. Miles and
say, 81 want to surrender to YOU" Now
will the high-pressure correspondent who
invented that dramatic episode report
how far he was from the battlefield at
the time of the surrender.
In his forthcoming report Comptroller
of the Currency Knox will renew mis-
of last year for the re-
peal of the provision of law imposing
tax of one half of one per cent. annually
upon the average amount of deposits
held by the National banks, and also of
the one requiring the affixing of a two
cent stamp upon bank checks. The first