The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-01-20
Mere Mention

Candy IS to 60 to Washington as the success
sor Of Adjt Gen. Thomas, resigned.
There are many Indications here, says
Washington special, that the Government
inelines to the recognition Of Macmillan
A hunter in Colorado killed SIX fagns in
one day and sold them for handsome sum.
There was the thrift thatfollows fawning.''
The small pOx is prevailing extensively at
Cairo, especially among negroes. Nothing
is being done to prevent the disease.
The Cabinet Ministers, tits said, win have
their salaries raised to $4,000 per annum.
Their salary is now $4,000.
Another counterfeit ten dollar greenbaok
has made its appearance. It is much heay-
Ter than the genuine in appearance.
In a recent work published at San Fran
cisco, the whole gold product of the Pacific
country since I849 is set down at $3.50, 0QO,-
O0O oC1' -5Etllst }lli-- 10 2
The tide of foreign emigration is rapidly
setting Southwark Emigrants have already
arrived in Louisiana from Germany in con-
siderable numbers.
Mr. A. Outly, guest at the Worsham
House, Memphis, was garroted in that city
one night last week, and robbed of all the
money he had on his person.
Last Monday night week destructive fire
occurred in Nashville, (which destroyed prop
erty to the amount of $3OO0OO Mr. c. H.
Moores, of the firm of Cooke, Moores 81 Co.,
was burnt to death in his counting room.
The city Of Macon, Ga. has population
of 10000 of whom one half are blacks
The monthly average of deaths among the
negroes before and during the war was about
forty it is now five hundred
Strong efforts are being made in Washing
ton to have our standing army permanently
fixed at 10000. The pressure for military
Offices is also immense upon Congress and
the executive departments.
The right of States to tax Federal securi~
ties is to be again brought before Congress.
Should it be established, the interest on
Government bonds will have to be raised,
says Washington special
The large engine house of the BellefOn-
tame railway, at Gallon, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire on Thursday night with twelve loco
motives The loss is heavy, and is estimated
at.from three to FIVE hundred thousand dol
lars.
Louis Hill, son of 1 N. Hill, on Court
street. Memphis, accidentally shot another
lad named Edward Dedrick on the 18th inst j,
while carelessly handling pistol. No hopes
are entertained of the wounded boys re-
covery The boys are between nine and
twelve years Of age. rs
The Treasury Department is waiting for
Congressional action, and declines to settle
the vast number of cotton claims and claims
for commissary and quartermaster's stores
seized during the rebellion although many
of them are urged by persons of undoubted
loyalty.
According to information received by the
Mexican Minister at Washington, the Impe-
rialists hold in the six eastern States only
the military road from Vera Cruz to Mexico,
and to the city of Ozaca. The headquar-
ters Of the Republican forces are said to be
twenty-five leagues from Vera Cruz.
In Missouri there are in operation nine
teen coIored schools, with twenty-three
teachers, and thirteen hundred and forty
nine scholars. In Arkansas there are thir
teen schools, with seventeen teachers, and
fourteen hundred and seventy-eight scholars.
A letter from Paris says John SideI is
living quietly in Paris, His family goe;
very little into society. Mr. Mason is II
London Jacob Thompson and J. p. Ben
iamin are also there, and John c. Breckin
ridge is shortly expected from Canada, with
his family Major Huse, formerly agent fol
the purchase of arms in the Confederacy, is
in Paris. Mr.. Gwyn and his daughter are
now residing in London Major General J
b. 6teadman, Military Governor of Georgia
is in Washington.
A dispatch from New Orleans says that
Gen Clay Crawford has arrived at Browns
vile, Texas, with an appointment as Genera
in the Mexican Liberal army, and is recruit
inc an American division to serve under hi:
command. Offices have been opened fol-
that purpose. Carvajal is expected with
large sum Of money to defray expenses
Gems. Wallace and Logan are reported t,
be engaged in the movement, and Gen
Crawford is to join Escobado, and move OIL
Monterey, where their base is to be estab
lished.
The House Committee on Freedmen, a
their meeting on the 18th, authorized thei
chairman to report bill continuing thu
Freedmen's Bureau, and enlarging its pow
ers in accordance with the instructions ant
recommendations of General Howard. Tn
Bureau according to the bill, is under tn
Jurisdiction Of the Secretary of War, VIII
is authorized to issue supplies of all kind
to refugees. 1t authorizes the President t.
set apart in the States of Florida, Mississip
pi, and Arkansas, under the homestead law
three millions Of acres Of good lands, tn
same to be allotted in parcels Of forty acre