Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-10

PRESIDENT HAYES mas ulSappIOVoO tuo
sentence of the court martial held at
Fort Wayne in the case Of Lieut.. Edwin
r. Clark, recommending that officers
dismissal.
THE total amount of bonds called in on
account of the sale of ~ per cents is
SOS, AS, 800. OF this amount $685., 761,-
$50 have been presented and redeemed,
leaving $685., $50 outstanding.
HAVANA dispatches state that much
damage has been done the tobacco and
other crops by the drought of the past
three months. The total sugar crop, it
is estimated, will not exceed four hun
dred thousand tons.
THE Senate Judicial Committee
doesn't honor G. Washington enough to
make his birthday legal holiday in the
District. The committee last week re-
ported adversely on the bill providing
for such addition to the number Of
holidays.
COLONEL KEOGH, secretary of the Re-
publican national committee, has ar
rived in Washington from his visit to
North Carolina, and reports that the
twenty delegates from that state will
stand twelve for Grant and eight for
Sherman.
The Tilden wing of the New York
Democracy having called their Demo
cratic state convention to meet in SYRIA
cuse on the Goth of April, the Kelly and
Tammany wing have called c0ntesting
Democratic state convention to meet on
the same day in the same city. This
makes it very probable that there will
be double delegation from New York
to the Democratic national convention
at Cincinnati.
The latest interOceanic canal project
is for connecting the Atlantic with the
Mediterranean by a canal from Bordeaux
to NarbOnne. The opening of such
channel would practically make an end
Of British domination of the traffic of
the Mediterranean, of which Gibraltar is
now the key. The scheme is urged alike
on military and commercial grounds
upon the French Senators and Deputies
by Du Clerc, Vice President of the SEN
ate, in circular addressed to them.
The immense tide of immigration that
is again setting setting in to this coun-
try Is indicated by the figures published
in dispatches to the daily press. These
show that upward of twenty-One thou
sand immigrants landed at New York
during the month of March, being more
than double the number for the CORES
ponding month last year. The total ar
rivals for the first three months of the
present year number over one hundred
and thirty.fOu thousand.
FROM the Inter-Ocean Washington
specials we learn that in the river and
harbOr bill, as agreed upon by the sub
committee on commerce, liberal prOvi-
sion is made for harb0r Improvements
on the lakes. The appropriation for Chi
cago breakwater is 1926, 600; Lake Huron
harb0r of refuge, $4,000; Detroit river,
$4,000; Buffalo, Sc, 1000; Cleveland, $780,
600; Erie, $4,000. Only these larger ap-
preparations are given. What amount
the ChebOygan harb0r will be recon-
mended to receive has not been made
known.
THE public debt statement, issued
April 1st., shows that the total debt, less
cash in the Treasury, is 1880, 392, 1924.
The decrease in the last nine months, has
been little over fOrty-six millions. OF
the bonded debt nearly seven hundred
and forty millions is in four per cents,
and two hundred and fifty millions in
four and half per cents. The reduc-
ton for the month of March amounted
to nearly $15,OOOOOO. Only once before
has so large q decrease been made in a
single month, and that was in April,
1872.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
Representative Willis has admitted that
he was in possession of batch of letters
written by Mrs. Christiancy to her hus-
band in Peru, but he declined to allow any
of them, or any hint of their contents, to
be published in advance Of their in
PRODUCTION as testimony in court. lido
not DESIRE" added Mr.. Willis, ito have
the case tried in the newspapers. You
can say, if you choose. that the character
of this correspondence is such that it
will entirely exOnerate Mr.. Christiancy
from the charges his wife has brought
against him."
A CINCINNATI writer gives the follow
ing in regard to q new Invention which
he says will eclipse the telegraph, tele-
phone and other electric means of COM
He says the invention is
consists in securing communication be- !
tween two electric instruments without |
the use of wire or any material cOnnec-
ton. Two instruments are electrically
affiliated by the new method, when a
touch on one is responded to on the
other no matter how distant, and per-
sons will be enabled to converse between
any distant points without the use of
wires or Intervention OF operators or
companies. This we think will be ac-
about the time Keller gets
his motor in operation.
THE decision of the United States Cir
cult Court in California, in the case of
TiburciO Parrot, tried in the San Fran
cisco police court for employing Chinese
in violation of the state law, is another
blow at the Confederate Democratic doc
trine Of states rights. Parrott applied |
to the United States Circuit Court for q
writ Of habeas corpus, claiming that the |
state law was in violation of the treaty |
with China, and the constitution Of the |
United States declares United States |
laws and treaties to be the supreme law |
Of the land, anything in any state law
or state constitution to the contrary not |
The Circuit Court issued |
the writ of habeas corpus, heard the case,
and discharged PARROT, deciding that
the state law is contrary to the treaty, |
and therefore void.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says "the |
House Committee on Elections disposed |
AZ Tho Donnnllu- Waahhurn contest hv |