The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-01-27
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The Sd Michigan cavalry has been dis
armed at San Antonio, Texas, fer mutiny.
Gen Hurlbut is soon to write a history Of
the battle Of Shiloh.
It is rumored that Senator Dixon is to
succeed Mr. Wells as Secretary Of the
Navy.
Gen Frank Blair has left Missouri for
Mississippi, where he has purchased large
plantation.
Brigham Young, jr., is in Bristol, Eng
land, recruiting MOrmons for Salt Lake
City.
Plymouth (Tnd.) was visited by most
destructive fire on the Sd inst Loss $780,
900.
Middle Tennessee is fast emerging from the
chaotic mass of ruin and destruction occasi-
oned by the war;
Anderson, the Wizard of the North, has
failed again in England, and is in the bank
rupts court now.
No less than 800 persons have applied for
a share in the rewards offered for the cap
ture of the assassination conspirators.
Another coal mine explosion has occurred
near Mertherideville, England, killing 80
persons and wounding many others.
1t is proposed to build railroad from
Iuka, Miss, to EastpOrt On the Tennessee
river Cairo is moving
The number of registered steamboats, in
the western waters is go, valued at $24,
SOC, 600, with 1922, l4I tons capacity.
A movement is on foot in England for re-
viving lay orders in the English Church, au-
thorizing laymen to serve as deacons.
Mr.. Geo. Wilkins Kendall has returned
to New Orleans, after an absence of seven
years in Texas, and resumed his editorial
chair in the Picayune Office
Reverdy johnson, who argued so ably
lately, before the Supreme Court against the
test oath, voted for it in the United States
Senate.
A native Sandwich Islander is electrifying
London by his religious preaching and ex-
hortatlon. He is described as handsome
and eloquent
The Hon. David G. Burnett, the venerable
Ex-President OfTexas, is on visit to New
ark, n. J., his native city, after an absence
of thirty-fve years.
The House of Representatives at Wash
ington, on the 18th, passed the bill to ex
. tend to the negroes of the District of Colum
bia the right of suffrage.
The next session of the General Confer
ence of the NJ E. Church South will be
0 held in New Orleans, commencing on tbs
first Wednesday in April next.
e What curious being Printer is. HI
stands when he sets, and sets when h,
!, stands, and when he wishes to set with cas-
i he always stands erect
G Robert Dale Owen is to have two year
: for writing his history of the life of Presi
. dent Lincoln, and his publishers pay hin
o $4,000 when he begins the work, and SIS
o 900 when he ends it.
/ The Freedmen's Bureau has receives
$ orders to discontinue as soon as practicabl
h the freedmen's farms in Maryland and VIII
!. ginia, and to find employment for the labor
i ers now engaged thereon.
7 The Treasury Department is preparin
r plates for a new issue of fractional currenc
e of so, 25 and 10 cents. The design will b
'e entirely original, the notes being nearly ova
in form.
IS It is believed at the Freedmen's Bureau
" that at least twenty thousand freedmen
It the Southern States will be dependent upo
the Bureau for subsistence during the pre-
ent winter.
s. In Congress, Tuesday, the Senate adopte
Is a resolution, introduced by Mr. Sumner, il
70 quiring into the kidnapping of freedme
"a along the Florida coast, which is said to /
10 done to a considerable extent
= We learn from the jackson Wing tn,
j. regular trains are running north and sout
Of from that place, and that in week or tw
at cars will go through to Memphis from ths
r. point via Humboldt and the Memphis an
70 Ohio road.
it The usual monthly statement of the n
"a tional debt was issued by the Secretary
lis the Treasury, McCulloch, on the LIST of Jal
IN uary. The total amount of our national il
W debtedness Is little over two thOusan
be eight hundred and seven millions of dollar
ct showing an increase during the month
is December of over ninety two millions and
y, half
~ 1t is said by a dispatch from the collects
~ of customs at GAINESVILLE, Texas, that whe
rs the colored troops, under Colonel Davi
T. crossed the Rio Grande and captured Ba
dad, they began plundering the place an
killing the people. The scene is represer
ed to be indescribable. Citizens were sh
+ down for refusing to give their money.
IN Hogs at Chicago have undergone a deci
> ed decline, with sales to packers at s.
IN as IS on the 9th. The receipts to thi
Id date for the week were 43, 780, showing a
,t ;Doraosa Of % 900 ovar the YorevioY1s vreel