The Hickman courier., 1868-07-04
our News sum mary.

yet their money back.
THE Court Of Common Please will
meet in this place. Monday the 18th.
RIPE peaches from the South, have
been received in Hickman.
'ruE proceedings Of the City Council
the week are OF interest.
urR RAIrReAD-We have no addi-
1innsl news IN regard 10 the y & w
Railroad The difficulty remains unset
tle3. aud we see no prospect Of sn early
adjustment.
ouR MARKEr.-H. NJ. Robinson has
authorized his agents to pay 81 FOR good
" bat up to the 9th Of July. Prices
generally range from 81 75 to 81.
Buyers are paying 81 65
per boz.
Pc rheae croP IN many parts OF Ten
n''ssee and Mississippi has been already
harvested
d<Rs large an area has been this year
planted in cotton a. ever before, but. in
Eli parts OF the South more breadstuffs
will be grown than for years previously.
1t is proven by experience that wheat
Of the very best quality can be grown in
&il parts Of the South
More than eighty thousand Free Ma
son@are reported in New York city.
There are rumors that the Radical Off :
f'ials in Louisville in this State may get
their walking papers shortly.
The New York delegates to the De-
mocratic National Convention have
agreed to support Mayor Hoffman for
Vice President
.hr. Elliot Chairman Of the Commit
tee on Freedmen's Affairs, las prepared
bill providing for the discontinuance of
the Freedmen's Bureau on and after the
first of January next, but making Gen.
Howard secure in the Office of Commits
sioner until that time
The House Committee on Foreign At
fairs propose the establishment of agen-
eies in Europe to encourage emigration.
II is said that Mr.. Seward will support
Grant and Colfax this fall, no matter
whom the Democrats nominate.
The health of Hon, James Guthrie is
daily becoming more feeble.
The Senate has rejected the nomina-
ton Of Hon. 5. s. Cox as Minister to
Austria.
There is reason to expect that the
President viii issue a proclamation of
general amnesty, to take effect July 4th
saysa special to the Cincinnati Com
mercial.
President johnson has bought beau
tftul farm of FIVE hundred acres al Hen
derson's Depot, in Tennessee, with two
Touring mills on it,
The San Francisco Examiner says
that the three States of California, Ore
gon aud Nevada. may be set down as sure
tor tue Democratic candidate in Noyem-
Der. California will give 20 600 Demo
cratic majority.
THE excitement ever Tennessee bonds
is AZ fever heat. Threats OF reputation
arc mnde. The Comptroller says not q
collar Of the July interest viii be paid.
an injunction against the Board OF FL
nance has been applied for. No sale for
Tennessee bonds.
BREcKINRIpeE-The story that the
return of John C. Breckinridgs vac has
tened by tho New York Convention, and
hat he has had a telegraphic correspon-
oence with Fendleton's friends about the
Propriety OF his being present OBJ the
Iourth of July, is a radical fabrication.
1t is neither true as matter Of fact nor
ebsracteTistic as a matter Of probability.
Gideon J. Pillow wa. sued on notes
and bills to the amount of 2105, 900, for
negroes purchased in 1860. He lost the
ease easd has carried it to the Supreme
oGrt of .4Tks sRsas
A gentleman who has Travelled much
recently over Missouri, says that crops
will be larger than they have been for
ten years. Wheat is luxurious, and
grapes and peaches will be abundant. 9
STEPHENS OF GEoRGIA.-One of the
Georgis delegation says that Alexander
H. Stephens il in favor of the nomina-
ton of Andrew johnson.
ApJorRxNEST Resolutions. The
House. by vote Of 81 to 47. adopted
rcsolution offered by Mr. Washburn, of
Illinois. providing for an adjournment
on the 18th of July. Senator Conkling
has prepared resolution, providing for
llic -Uln, WHICH VIII
probably be the day finally agreed on. !.
AFTER all the DELAY, and backing and
fling on the subject of the Tariff bill, it
s-@1ow stated in the Cincinnati Gazette's
Washington correspondence, published
veasterday, that s'there does not seem to
be ANYBODY who thinks the measure can
be made law at this session." Nothing
Of consequence and importance to the
SIMPLE seems TO get through the Radical
Congress.
THE election returns from Mississip-
pi continue TO puzzle and madden the
Radicals The loyal papers declare it
Is all mistake, and sngaciously advise.
everybody to wal, for the news until the
Jacobin satraps shall have had time to
e manipulate the ballots. The job would
seem 20 be an ugly one for our Radical
frien1s
The crops in Kansas re reported to-
be the best ever known. Corn and
wheat are particularly fine, aud expected
10 aversge thirty bushels to the acre
throughout the Stale.
Seuato- Henderson was married in
WaShingtos on the 25th ult, to Miss
2 Mary Foots. Among the gacsts we're
= shs Missouri and Eernort delegations
in Congress, the President of The Uni
ted States, Secretaries McCslloeI AID |
Browning, Chief Justice Chase, mem
her. Of both Housss Of Congress, With /
ont regard to politics. aad many ladies'
TIE following is list Of the ''seal-
awag" Governors. who claiH 20 have been
elected in seven Of the Southern States:
Aisbama-Wm. II. Smith.
trtaneas-Powell Clayton.
florida Harrison Reed
Georeil- Rufus r. Bullock
louisiaiia II c Yarmouth
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