The Hickman courier., 1871-02-25


Eecided that foreign merchants can sell
BY sample iu this State withoutincurring
any penalty.
Mr. Representative McAfee of the
Kentucky legislature was married at
Frankf fort. on 18th inst, to Miss Nellie,
daghter of Hon. Humphrey Marshall.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 22-It is report
ed that thirty three Republican members
of the House have or will resign to NOR
row. The Republican Senators will do
the same.
SENATOR Sumner is prostrated by a
violent attack Of angina pectoris, super
induced By the San Domingo excitement,
and other differences between him and
the Government.
SPECIAL Washington dispatches say
there is no probability that the Cincin
natl Railway bill will be passed this ses
sion, but that it will be put through the
next. beginning on the 4th of March.
The protracted d contest for Speaker of
the Kentucky Senate has given rise to
considerable apprehension about Goven-
or Leslie's health
A correspondent of the Kentucky Ga
zette advocates Hon. Thos P Porter fos
Governor. as he is "a devoted friend to
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
THE Memphis appeal says the multi
tudes of unemployed negroes, from plan
tations, crowd the thoroughfares of that
city, guzzle mean whisky, and are con-
stantly in trouble with the city authori-
ties.
IISoUTH Carolina has a negro Lieuten-
tbt Governor, three negro Congressman,
Eleven negro State Senators, eighty ne
gro Representatives, and one negro
Judge of the Supreme Court.
\ ST. PETERSBURG, February Pin
consequence of the apprehension of an
epidemic in Europe, the Russian Gov
ernment has ordered reports to be made
by its agents of the sanitary condition Of
the countries affected by war. Should
the reports render it advisable, Russia
will propose a Sanitary Conference.
SENATOR ELECT VANCE, it is said, de-
spairs of being allowed to take his seat
in the Senate, and has returned to North
Carolina. 1t is not improbable that be
will resign so as TO allow new election.
In that case. General Ransom, an ex-
Confederate, who has had his disabili-
ties removed. is the coming man.
The WAR IN ARKANsAs-A
private telegram from Little Rock to
night states that the War Department
at Washington has issued instructions to
take the necessary steps to preserve or
der 1t also states that the Republican
has another leader urging arson and riot
1t is also stated that Gov. Clayton has
the west end of the Capitol guarded by
armed men. s
A VERY wholesome measure was in
trodused in the House of Representa-
yes, Monday, looking 20 the punishment
Of the audacious thieves and swindIers in
New York and other Northern cities. who
are sending circulars through the post
officers, proposing to supply fools OF
knaves with counterfeit money aud bobds.
Congress should not only create such
law; but might we'll afford to put an
army of reliable detectives on the track
of these graceless experts.
The PROSPECT BEFORE Us.-That
a bill will be put through Congress be-
tween this and the Presidential election,
having for its object the re election Of
Gen Grant, may be regarded as sure
thing. Glimpses of the features that
are likely to enter into this necessary
Radical measure have already been dis
closed to us by the current proceedings
of the two Houses at Washington It
is, perhaps, idle to speculate as to these
features just now. They will be stringent
enough to answer the purpose, as far as
can be foreualculated by the leaders of
the dominant party, who will balk at
nothing that seems to them essential to
close and thorough work.