The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-09-30
EDITORIAL Summary OF --latest
News.

The British Claims Commission is now
in session in Washington.
THE Southern Commercial Convention
assembled in Baltimore Oh last Monday
The Commercial Convention is still in
session in Baltimore.
The trial of tie Mormons for polyga-
my is progressing at Salt Lake City.
New York CiS is threatened with a
bread not.
Vicksburg reports DO new cases Of
yellow fever. Charleston reports five
deaths. a
THE Congressional KuKlux Commits
tee has adjourned to the first of Noyem-
Der.
The National Colored Convention now
in session in St Louis re nominate Gen.
Grant for President.
The chOlerafis abating in Germany.
The Grant family reached LeavenwOrth
/, yesterday.
Hodge. the millionaire robber of the
pay department is undergoing trial 10
Baltimore. He plead guilty.
The Southern Commercial Convention
now in session in Baltimore, elected r.
II Bishop, president.
A steamer IS quarantined off New
York, having reported case of Cholera
on board
The Philadelphia Press says; "The
party that carries Pennsylvania this Fall
will have all the odds IN its favor in
1871"
MEMPHIS is-getting up an expedition
to 60 to New Orleans to witaess the
great tidal wave on the 9th Of October
continuing till' the 9th.
4 clerk in the Tennessee Comptroler's
Office vas arrested yesterday charged with
stealing $4,000 from the State. His
name IS Wade.
The Republicans Of the.State of New
] FORK are holding wrangling and bots
teroes session at Syracuse. All efforts
have failed 10 harmouize the Greeley and
Murphy parties.
A crisis as between the Federal and
Mormon authority Is evidently near at
Laud in Utah. Both are equally deter
1ained, Tut there should be no question
concerning the result.
Some officers of the Postofice and
State Department were put under arrest
yesterday charged with robbing the De-
par;meut Of gold ana silver treaty seals,
which they melted into gold.
THE Democrats Of Wisconsin have
engaged ex-senator Hendricks, Mr. w
S. Croesbeck, Ex-Governor Randall, and
other able speakers. to canvass the State
in favor of Mr. Doolittle.
The Butler Gubornatorial campaign
in Massachusetts is violent The Con
veution met in Worcester yesterday,
"wednesday. It is said Butler viii
rus independent.
1t is reported that a correspondence
has been discovered in the Tuilleries,
developing a plan to put Napoleon on
the tbrone of Belgium. The discovery
occasions a sensation in Belgium.
The Galveston Ne,es, believing that
the Republican party viii nominate a
colored man for Vice President, at its
coming convention, prophesies that Lieut.
enant Governor Dunn, of Louisiana, will
be selected.
A court-martial is now sitting at the
-. 1 81 obo
against several officers and men of the
United States troops stationed at that
place.
A dispatch from Paris, says that Pres
ident Theirs is disturbed by fears as to
the safety of his life, and that his bed
chamber is guarded by night patrols.
GEN Wade Hampton, in letter adj
dressed to the editor Of the Southern
Home, expresses the opinion that the
South should not take part in the next
National Democratic Convention.
NJ. j. WIcKs, President Of the Mem
phis and Charleston Road. Major Johu
son and other citizens of Memphis con
template engaging in the manufacture Of
railroad cars, on an extensive scale.
THE people of Monticello, Arkonsas,
are greatly e&eited over the report Of
finding a gold nine four miles west Of
that town Similar reports come from
Dallas, in Polk county Both mines are
said to give promise of fine yield.
THE L. S. Judges are after Brigham
Young on the bigamy business. He
says, he will obey the summons as wit~
ness or submit even TO a warrant to arrest
but be will not yu.d to imprisonment.
SEVERAL gentlemen from Louisiana,
now In New York. have received dis
patches stating that yellow fever is rag
ingin New Orleans. Among the vie-
inns to this terrible disease IS Senator
Beck
President Grant. it Is understood, is
threatening war with Hayti. The gov
eminent Is about to take action to com
pei the Haytien government to pay
500 600 due the heirs Of the late Sidney
Oaksmith, of Paleiaqua, on account of
the rebel ram Atlanta.
The Republican State Convention of
New York assembled at Syracuse yes
terday, wednesday,. The Greeley and
Murphy wings are having lively fight. /
TO morrow's Daily COURIER will be
able to announce the victor.
Disraeli, in a speech in London, Mon
day. declared that the Queen was physi- +
eally and morally incapacitated from T
from reigning any longer. The conster-
nation Is so great that some journals will
snnnresa lhia nnrtinn Of the sneech