The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-01-27
Mere Mention.

Small poz is prevailing to a considerable
extent in Memphis.
John Sherman has been elected United
States Senator from Ohio
Leopold II, was inaugurated King Of Bel
GUM on December 18th, amid great enthu
siasm.
Vera Cruz papers regard an outbreak be.
tween the United States and France only a
question of time.
Daring the past year there have been in
the Northern States $50 failures, involving
liabilities to the extent of sI7625,0 900.
The total population of the United States
in 1860, was 81, l49, SO5, viz: whites, 26, 7O8,-
l57; slaves, $3.50 4, 765; free colored, 476, 562.
The Kansas Senate has passed a resoIu-
ton in favor of hanging Mr. Davis and other
leaders of the rebellion equally guilty Of
treason.
There is not a minister of the Gospel in
Idaho Territory, with population of 80
900, and one y-Idaho-eontaining 1000
inhabitants.
senator ieart, OF GAINESVILLE, died Of
small pox few days since at his residence
in that town, and on Tuesday both branches
of the legislature adjourned in respect to
his memory.
-Four men have been garroted, robbed. and
killed, and three women have committed
suicide in indianapolis during the present
week. There Is strong talk among the citi-
zens about vigilance committee to make
up for the police deficiencies.
Gen. Forrest has left Memphis for his
Mississippi plantation, with two hundred
and twenty-four male and female negro la
borers, together with their children With
them he has made satisfactory contracts
and designs rendering a good account in the
way of the staple next fall.
The Committee of Ways and Means has
introduced an Important measure into Con
gress, authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue forty year bonds payable
in this country or in Europe, to. fund the
outstanding obligations of the United States,
and repeating the legal tender clause of the
interest bearing Treasury notes.
A Vera Cruz correspondent says that
Taluca an ancient capital Of Mexico, Of
twelve thousand inhabitants, has been cap
tured by the Juarists under Muroz, and that
Marshal Bazaina with all the Imperial
troops at hand had started from the city of
Mexico to attempt to retake the position
An apparently well founded rumor says
couple Of valuable silver mines have fallen
into the hands of the Liberals All agree
that Maximilian's position is a most critical
one
A letter from paris says that Louis Napol-
con is not only anxious, but is even now
preparing to withdraw his troops from Mex
lean territory The Paris Journal des De-
bates, in an article published on the 25th
ult, reasoned that the danger Of collision
between the American troops in Texas and
the Imperialists on the opposite bank of
the dividing stream was imminent, and
thought it would be much better for France
to withdraw altogether, than to risk a war
with the United States.
A gentleman just returned to New Or
leans from Arkansas, reports that State to
be in an unsettled, disorganized condition.
In many parts of the country tho inhab it.
ants are actually threatened with famine
Life and property are everywhere insecure,
and murders and robberies are almost Of
every day occurrence No one thinks Of
travelling unarmed, the people making use
of muskets, shot guns, ETC., where no better
weapons are to be found He had gone to
that State to live, but the condition of the
country and society was such as to induce
him to abandon the idea
In the Senate of the State of Kentucky
on the lth inst, resolutions were offered
protesting against the establishment of the
Freedmens Bureauin Kentucky, and request
ing the President to abolish the same. Mr.
Harrison, from the Judiciary COMMITTEES
reported bill fixing the status of the ne
gro-freedmen and mulattoes-in Kentucky
on the same footing as free negroes now are.
and enlarges their privileges so as to allow
emigration from and return to the State, the
right of testifying in the courts in cases
where negroes are interested, makes legiti-
mate the children born to negroes heretofore.
and requires their license and legal marriage
hereafter The bill was ordered printed and
placed in the orders Of the day.
In the House series Of resolutions were
introduced denouncing the Freedmen's Bu--
reau, and requesting the President TO re-
move the same from Kentucky. They were
ordered to be printed, and referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations
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