New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-15
GENERAL NOTES.

IT is stated by the Cleveland newspapers
that the expenses Of the POstOfce there have been
reduced the extent Of $780, by disseminating the office
Of Deputy Postmaster and assigning the duties OF that
official to tIe cashier sE enase dn @ enf
rerenchment very rarely begins in the upper stratum
Of "a POst-Otfce.
The new scheme of education in Yale Col
lege principally consists in the addition OF thorough
School of Science for those who would pursue such
branches distnctively smaller proportion
of classical education. The Classical College" remains
unchanged for those who desire TO commence with
classical basis, except in the elevation of the depart
ment of modern Languages and literature with the intent
that the instruction conveyed In French and German
shall be OF that higher plane Of finish required Ill the
classics.
Nobody but the colored people had airy
Fourthof-Juy in Columbia, s. c. The Comma ndant Of
the post Bumfor decided that the celebration in
tended Of partisan character and declined order
ing the military band assist in the procession which
consisted of four volunteer militia companies, lcoored
and the members OF some political societies. At the
cusOn Of their march meeting Of colOred persons
boring about 5000 held In Sidney Park and addressed
cOored speakers. Among the orators Of the occasion
were the Hon. W. Beverley Nash, J. f. Greene, James
Davis W. H. Purvis, and the Rev David Pickett. The
speeches had reference the $4,000 votes the cOOred
people poll in South Carolina, and urged the selec
ton from among cOlOred men OF inc candidates Tor the
500 offices under the General Government which these
votes can control
A correspondent describes Phoebe City, Utah,
as containing about LOCO miners The mines in the vi
entity, principally SILVER, are 10 some extent uer inc
management OF San Francisco capitalists. Water is
scarce that pay for 1t 10 cents gallon. As yet
there is tax this liquid There is but one
spring in Phoebe and that dries up every Summer. The
OF the town is said TO be largely in the hands OF
Jews. Only person has been shot, so far; the dis
puants about jumped" claims &c, being usually
tent make STATIONS with blank cartridges from
rifie-guns Mormon settlements In the vicinity supply
vegetables and meat There seems, however, 10 DO 10
between the Gentiles" and the MormOns and
the latter described not disnguishablc by
homesuuu garments than by "lpaQeu DutteImllk
IBustache, and faded sOIrcl hair"
The people of Texas are convinced that if the
manifold advantages presented by the State TO immi
grants generally known throughout the country,
its population would double within tweyemonth In
order TO dsse inmate such information and 10 correct
erroneous impressions which may have been spread
abroad an endeayor will be made to place the facts be-
fore the people through the medium OF the press OF the
country. With this view meeting of the members OF
the press throughout the United States has been called
10 take place Houston the 18th of November next
in order that they may for themselves the state, aud
norke OF the Inequalities OF its citizens. An assOcia
non Is organized, OF which u. L. McGary, Of The Brcn-
ham Banner Is President; J. g. Rankin, Of ne Hemp
stad ReDortr, Vice President and w. f. Shot, OF The
Houston Times Secretary and Treasurer To carry out
this undertaking.