The Placer herald., 1871-11-11
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.


children born hereafter free, and creates an
emancipation fund for the gradual liberation
of slaves Gov. Palmer, on the Both OF
October, wrote to Attorney General Bush
nell, now in Chicago, instructing him to take
proper steps to have Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan,
Col. Frank I. Sherman, Major Colston and
Others connected with the organization of the
Home Guards, a member of wltch shot Col.
L. w. Grosvcnor few days after the great
ire, presented to the Grand Jury for ndict
ment for their connection with that tragedy.
1t is said Mayor Mason will also be indicted.
1t il also reported that Atorney-General
Bushnell and prosecuting attorney Reed
were in consultation in reference to the mat
ter. The German navigators did not as
previously stated, reach the North Pole, OF
any open Polar sea, but near Sptzbergc,
they found Il favorable state Of the ice, anG
believed they could have gone into the sup
posed open polar sea- However, they stop
ped and turned back $50 miles this side o.
he North Pole -. Forbes, Grants Pension
Agent in Phil,delphia, has pocketed or spent
5000, ,O00 which must be rel placed by more
taxes on the people. George b. Williams.
late one Of Grants officials, has gone to ia.
pan to show he authorities there how they
tan more efleciuay oppress the people b,
taxation. 1t is consong to know that on'
,f the most despolic governments on earil
can be taught how TO more eheetnally op
press its people by Grants administration
Boston wants the next National Republican
Convention held there . Proof is said to be
;ound that State Senator Bowen, Republ-
AN, of New York, received so, 900 fo
voting for the tax levy bill $40 600 for vot
ng for all the ring bills; So 600 for votin,
or the Erie bill, and $5 600 for the cit,
charter bill q. . Daniel Stanton, the new,
.lectcd Auditor-General Of Pennsylvania,
lied suddenly last Sunday A terrible ex-
Ilosion Of locomotive occurred at Ports
mouth, Ohio, ON Saturday last, killing two
men and wounding others Two hundred
.oorcd people sailed from Virginia durinq
he week for Siberia, Africa . Fred Doug
ass, colored, is Republican candidate ioi
lie New York Legislature from the Roches-
er district he SMALLPOX is on the III
'reasc in Philadelphia, SO having died Of
hat disease last week
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Nov. 6.
At nine and half o',locl last night thu,
giving way OF a column in the lower room Of
lie African Baptist church. corner Fifth and
York streets, created Il panic among the con
,rcgnion in the upper room, and the whol,
,ody pushed, j'mmed and rushed down tn,
two narrow stairways on each side Of the
loor--lhc men iranpling over the w0,nei
nd children in fright. Eleven were killed
,urigh,--two Of them children and "A mum
,er more or less wounded. One had lie,
rokcn, The killed are all women. The
Gene was terrible and heart rendng; mother
creaming over their dead children, and hus.
ands in agony over their wives. The col
INN or pillar which give way proved to have
,een set ON the lower floor between The josis,
With nothing under it but inch flooring,
ATLANTA, Nov. G.
Both branches Of the Legislature passed
he following resolution:
Rcs0lrcd-1 hat Rufus b. Bullock, late
Governor, who has resigned his Office, left the
State under circumstances creating II gray,
,uspicon that he is guilty of high crimes amt
nisdemeanor-, III cha 'rging in "A letter bearn.
he date of October 23d, 1871, addressed IL
lis political friends, the people Of Georgia
hat majority of the House of Representa-
ives had pledged themselves 10 vote article
f impeachment against him without Just
,ause; that he said they had determined tc
'nseat sufficient number of representative,
md Senator's to secure his cony ction, with
,ut regard to the truth and validity of til,
hirges that he DETAINED this General Assem-
,ly by charges which are untrue; that ih.
statement in The same letter, TO the eficc'
hat the people of Georgia have recently de
,ounced OF ignored the Constitution of the
United States IL false and def ,matory of til,
,eoplc of This State On TIE contra v, We
assert that the people of this State d, now
- ,Ley did six months ago, whon, accordn,
a letter of said Rufus B. Bullock, they
we're peaceablv disposed, a,quesce in the
esut If the war, and neither entertain an,
hostility oword the United States, nor den>
any person within the limits Of the Stat,
qua. protection of its laws.
BosToN, Nov. 6.
I he news Of the disaster to the whaling
leet has advanced whal. oil from sixty ccnls
20 one dollar per gallon. The insurance office.
h,d little if any risks. The New Bedford
,.lices lose one million.
A negro woman of high respcctahiliiy has
been arrested in Jamaica charged with can.
ibalism. The accusation alleges that sh,
>illed and has eaten twenty-six ehildrei
whom she had mveiglcd into her premises
or that purpose. E. On Tuesday last at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, as atorers were cut
ing new road through the hill and hollow
inown as Hank hollow, they excavated q
sack containing Sl2, 600 in gold and silver
The money was hidden there eighteen year,
$50 by man named Muir, who murdered u
aomrade, Californian, in that city. Mun
was captured and hung by mob Of Caliior-
mans lie said he had bid the money under
stump in This hollow, but refused to tel
where: Many have hunted for this secrel