The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-01-13
General Gossip.

II court martial is being organized in
Washington for the trial of Capt Semmes,
late of the c. S. Navy.
a terrific tornado swept over Pulaski
Tenn, on the 28th, demolishing houses, and
killing and wOunding several persons.
Henry Winter Davis, of Baltimore, one
Of the ablest as well as one Of the most Vi
olent Radicals in the Southern States is
dead
Telegraph business has become quite
brisk between Memphis and Nashville-so
much So that another line ofwire is in con-
temptation.
Mr.. Crosby, proprietor Of the Chicago
Opra House, has failed to the tune of $780,,
O00, and the Opera House and other proper
ty are advertised for SALE
Young Ketchum, the New York theft, has
been tried and sentenced to four gears and
sic months Imprisonment! It's pity to
treat him so unkindly for only stealing three
millions of dollars.
The military made New Years call on
the President on the Ist General Grant,
and Sec. Stanton headed the army and
Admiral Farragut and Secretary Wells head
ed the navy.
On Christmas morning, every gable, gate
way, or barn door in Norway is decorated
with sheaf of corn fixed on the top of
higa pole, from which it is intended the
birds shall make their Christmas dinner.
The Post's Washington special says there
| are rumors, not generally credited, that
within two or three weeks, the President
will issue proclamation declaring the work
of the restoration of the Union complete.
The operations of the United States Treas
ury at Washington, for the month of De
cember, was upward of seven millions dol
lars per day. There seems little or noSsabate-
ment of the labors of this vast and import
ant department.
The gold coinage at the mint during the
month of December was one million one
hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars.
Silver coinage, nearly thirty-thOusand dol
lars, and copper coinage, over one hundred
and three thousand dollars.
! Secretary Seward left Washington on the
naval steamer De Soto, for aR ocean trip to
the southwark. The voyage is now said to
be merely undertaken for the benefit of his
health, and without any important national
or international object, as has been rumored
Two ladies and a gentleman were fear
fully burned in Memphis, one day last week
by the accidental igniting of a cup Of ben
zoine which had been left on hot stove
One Of the ladies died from the effects o.
the burning, and the other lady and gentle
man are lying in q critical condition.
Secretary McCulIoch has published tht
monthly statement of the public debt, as i
appears from the books and returns In tht
Treasury Department on the first Of Janury
eighteen hundred and sizty-six: Debt bear
ing interest in coin, one thousand one hun
) dred and sixty-seven million one hundre,
and forty-eight thousand two hundred ant
ninety-one dollars and eighty cents.
The second organization among tn
) French Canadians, residents in the state 0
New York, has commenced with an intern
: al quarrel similar to that Of the Fenians
One faction Is anxious to plunge headlon
into war, declare against England, establish
a Canadian Republic, with the capital AM
departments at Elmira, n. Y, and to inyad
Canada The other faction is opposed t
any such rash action. The Head Centre O
Chairman Of the Convention has publishe
letter IN which he takes ground again'
any hasty action