The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-03-24
BOLIVAR, HARDEMAN. COUNTY, TENN, March "a 1866

A desperate conflict took place a few day.
ngoson. a plantation in Steward county, Ga.
during which three whites and seven negro.
were killed, aad number of others In
jured
Mr.. John McGayock, Of Franklin, Tenn
has donated suitable iot of ground out Of
his landed possessions, embracing a portion
Of the battle>feld of Franklin, for the burial
Of the Confederates Whe fell on that oeca-
sion -
The election in Connecticut on the first
Monday in April is important from the fact
that the Legislature then chosen viii elect a
United States Senator for six years, the term
of Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, now presiding
officer of the Senate, expiring next year.
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One Of the heaviest robberies ever com
nitted was the abstraction of bonds from
Rufus Lords banking house, Exchange Place
New York city, on Saturday morning. Il
IS thought the perpetrator was a sneak-thief,
who waited his opportunity after steady
Reconnaissance, and then when the coast
was clear to take possession Of the bonds
and stock certificates. A reward of $780,
600 is offered
The Reconstruction Committee have or
dered the printing of 10000 copies of their
report. They have picked out such wit
nesses as would testify to suit them, and
then reported part of the testimony elicit
ed, and had it printed for effect in the elee-
tions shortly to come of.
Friday afternoon, Gen inst, In accordance
with orders from Washington, s r. Mallory,
eX-Secretary of the Confederate Navy, was
released from Fort Lafayette. He has been
in failing health for some time, and, it is un-
derstood, that he was released 10 onse-
/ quence of representations by physicians
that prolonged confinement would prove
fatal. He viii rejoin his family, which has
been residing for some time in Connecticut.
A new express company, the Merchants
Union, has been formed in Western New
York with capitaIof Sl5,000,O0O, and the
arrangements already eompletedfor immedi,
ately opening business. E. r. Ross is Pres
sident VIM. II. Seward Yiee-President, and
MajorGen. H. w. Slocum Secretary.
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Archbishop spalding, of Baltimore, has
received letters from the Pope of Rome, ap-
| pointing him Apostolic Delegate, with aua
thOrity to eonveneea plenary council Of. all
archbishops and bishops in the United States
during the present year, and to preside over
them. The council it is thought, viii be
assembled some time in September or
October
Afellow by the name Of Duggan, radi-
cal member of the Legislature from East
Tennessee, was hauled out of a negro den
in Nashville arfew nights ago, from the en-
bl ses~ Of sable nymph, and taken to the
lock-up" He was fined the next morning,
and, we hope, ere now is expelled from the
Legislature houisuihe Democrat
That's I" forlorn hope" Don't you
know that :" birds of a feather flock to
gether7g feodFse they do, and hence
there's no chance of busting the Honorable
Mr.. 'Duggan. .-..,-..--. -----.ea.l O.
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I'm Charleston, S..C,a a few. days ago, Judge
Aldrich sentenced a white. man, convicted
of robbery, to receive thirteen Iashes on the
bare back, IN. accordance with the State law
General Bennett interfered and prevented
the inhiction of the punishment, declaring
that g it was againstthe spirit of the civiliza-
ton that peryades society at the present
day"
A GRUMBLrMe, GRowLINe SEr.-The Lon
don Times of the nth of February thus
notices the first night of the session Of
the House of Lords
Gas is usual on such occasions the speeches
were chiefly composed of twaddie
The alusion to Jamaica made by the
Marquis Normandy was very tame and
feeble.
The Duke of Rutland was silly and viO-
lent concerning the cattle plague
The Duke Of Richmond had growl at
the cattle plague.
q Earl Grey INDUCED in a grumble at the
anticipated character of the ministerial re-
form bill
"The Duke Of Argyll seemed to have no
other notion than that of killing ali the sick
animals
1t cant be possible that the English Par
Lament is striving to initiate the Tennessee
Legislature No use, no use IL can't be
did
TIE Nav CoTroN CRoP.-In the March
number of DeBows Review the editor, who
has just completed tour through the cotton
States, estimates the next cotton crop at not
moro than one million five hundred thousand
bales He adds These figures are not
likely to be increased by anything that is
now to happen, and may be greatly reduced
by the ignorance, neglect or desertion of the
laboring classes, which. judging from. the ex-