The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-13

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DANIEL II. WELLS, Mayor of Salt Lake
city, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, upon
indictment of the grand jury, for bigamy,
and released upon $4,000 bail..... Gen. James
Totten, who was Gen. Lyons principal ar
tillery officer at the battle of Wilson's
Greek, and who served under several Gene
rails during the war, died on Tuesday, at
Sedalia, Mo.....The smallpox is very &C.
we're in Walla Walla, Oregon..... Intense
heat continues throughout California. There
have been many cases Of sunstroke in Ari-
zona..". bed of mica has been discovered
near Oskaloosa, Iowa, OF depth of 30 feet.
The South.
GOV. ALcoRN, of Mississippi, has just COM
pleted, in New York city, the sale of 100000
acres, the entire amount of scrip given>by
the United States to the State of Mississippi.
The purchaser was G. f. Lewis, of Cleve-
land, o., and the price 90 cents per acre,
amounting TO $3.50 900. The slight frosts
which have recently occurred in the South
have dispeled the fear Of further ravages Of
the yellow fever.
I The safe of the Southern Hotel, at St.
Louis, was robbed of So 500 on Saturday 80.
The following are the rates adopted by TIE
Ticket Agents Convention at st. Louis, be-
tween New York and some of the principal
Southern and Western points: To Chicago,
$22; ST. Louis, $27 Louisville. S24 ; Cairo,
S30.75 Memphis, $685.; New Orleans, $50 !;
Cincinnati, 500 Cleveland, Sl4 Columbus,
$780, Denver, $Sl Fort Scott, $4l.....Col.
Nelson, who killed Gen Clanton, recently,
gave himself up at Knoxville on Sept. so,
and entered into bonds in the sum of $25, 600
b, tlao 1 Tln al
cipal election took place on Saturday at
Nashville. X. j. Morris was reelected
Mayor by a decisive majority ATTORNEY
General Farron, of Georgia, has been ac-
quilted of charges of swindling and cheat
ing brought against him......One of the
cables of the old suspension bridge across
Wheeling creek, at Wheeling, W. Va, broke
on Sunday with nine persons on it, three OF
whom were killed and three seriously in
jured. The bridge has long been considered
an Misunderstanding. Yellow fever has de-
populated Cedar Keys, Fla.
Ar Ostrander's Landing, Ky, on Friday
afternoon, two men, while engaged in des-
perate fight in a small skiff, upset the boat
and were drowned IA portion of the new
railroad bridge over the Verdigris river,
near Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, fell on
Tuesday, killing three men and injuring
sixteen others, some eight or ten fatally"
Both branches Of the Tennessee Legislature
met and organized Oh October 2.....John C.
Vaughan was elected President of the Sen
ate, and James d. Richardson Speaker Of
the House of Representatives.
Washington.
THa President backs out of his promise to
return to Washington on Oct 3, and tele-
graphs that he prefers to withdraw his
promise to attend an adjoining county agri-
cultural fair on Wednesday next He has
marked out travelling programme which
will occupy most of October,....A letter re-
Gently received in Washington from an
officer in the Arctic expedition states that
Capt. Hall hopes to carry the Polaris to so
degrees north latitude. The season was
very favorable, and the sea very clear of
ice. God willing" he says, eve may ac-
cOmplish the object of the expedition so as
to return home next fall. 1.-THE Board of
Steamboat Inspe ctors who examined the
Ocean Wave disaster have submitted their
report TO the Treasury Department. 1t
shows q fearful record of incOm potency,
negligence, and careleSsness, and finds the
owners, agents, engineer and inspector Of
the boat culpable in the highest degree. The
boiler had been in disuse for long time,
and had been patched. Besides the vessel
was freight boat, and had no business TO
carry passengers, even for an excursion.
This violation of the steam boat regulation
caused the death of 81 persons and the
wounding of many others.....The superin-
tendent OF the general recruiting service in
New York has been ordered to forward 100
recruits to Louisville, where they will be
reported to the commanding General of the
South for assignment to the 10th infantry,
and 100 to Atlanta, Ga, for assignment to
the ID infantry.
SECRETARY Fish has st last made known
to his official associates here ais decision to
withdraw from the Cabinet soon after the
November elections. The President is still
urging him 70 retain MS porttolo.....T The
Census Office has compiled returns of the
agricultural resources IN Ohio. The follow
ing are some of the principal figures: Inn
proved land, II 800 600 acres-an increase of
1000 600 since 1860. Wood land, ) 800 900
acres-a decrease of 900 900 Cash value
of farms, Sl,0O0,05I ,OO0-an increase of
S3S0,000,0OO. Value of all live stock. Sl20,-
SOC, 900. Wheat $4,000, 900 bushels; corn
$1,000, 900 bushels; oats, $4,000, 900 bushels /;
tobacco, $4,000, 900 pounds wool, 20 500 900
pounds hay, 2,25O,OOO tons Estimated
value OF farming productions, including bet
terments and additions to stock, SOS, $50, =
O0O.....The Secretary of the Treasury has in
structed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to buy 1000, 900 bonds each Wednes-
day and sell S2,O0O000 gold each Thursday
during the month Of October.
TIT most important army order issued
lstely is that granting three months leave
Of absence, in addition to the three months
allowed to all thc graduates of West Point,
to Second Lieut.. Fred. Grant, son of the
President, the object of which is to allow
him to continue his services as civil engineer
for railroad company 500. Over forty officers
at the head of bureaus and divisions in the
departments at Washington, including the
Cabinet officers, are now absent from their
posts. The Second Comptroller has COM
pleted his annual report, from which it APP
pears that he has settled, during the past
year, accounts involving $500 900 OOO."..I 1t is
reported that Andrew d. White, of New
York, is to succeed Secretary Fish ..... Rear
Admiral James Alden has been assigned TO
the command of the European fleet, to re-
lieve Admiral Boggs.
Tue Secretary of the Treasury has called
in 81 800 900 three per cents, upon which
interest ceases on Nov. 30.