The Hickman courier., 1872-10-05
News Of the w eek

rounding formation is remarkable-one
carries galina. black and gray sulphur,
etc. A large number of men are al
ready at work on ii, and it is the sensa-
tion of the whole mining region.
New York Custom house officials
state that the actual value of tho silks
stolen from tie public store viii not ex-
ceed 81 ,0eO.
The vessel reported wrecked on ms
kar Rock on the 18th inst, was the
blrk Newcastle, Capt. Wilkins, which
cleared at Liverpool, Sept !, for Savan-
nah 1t has been a. eertained that thir-
ty of the crew We're lost.
1t is said that efforts are being made,
which have not yet assumed any official
form, to require Messrs. Laird, the con-
structors of tn, Confederate privateer
Alabama, to pay a I ortion or the sum
awarded to the United States by the
Geneva tribunal.
A Reading, Pa, dispatch says there
is great excitement there, owing TO the
warfare now going on between the
Philadelphia and Reading aud Viii
mington and Reading railroads. The
inhabitants are in great alarm at the
sym:oms of an impending riot, and a
special detachment of 1,Oe0 policemen
has been ordered out. The Philadel-
lhia and Reading road has sought to
obstruct the liue ofthe Wilmington and
Reading, which was recently construct
ed as an opposition company, and the
matter is already in the courts.
Attorney q eneral Williams decides
that the remitter of a postal money or
der cannot, under the existing law, re-
woke an or1er or stop its payment by
merely giving notice TO the Post office
authorities but that he must present
the money order itself before he. can re-
ceive back the money or prevent its be-
ing paid to the person in whose favor
the order is drawn.
4 Philadelphia despatch says City
Treasurer Mercer and Charles F. Yer
kes, the broker sentenced to the East
ern Penitentiary last winter for en-
bezzling city funds, have been released
upon a pardon by the Governor. There
is condition which states that if there
is any money paid for services in con
nec,ioA with the receiving of the par
dons, then they are to be null and
void.
Henry f. AIvoid, special Indian
Commissioner, aud Enoch Hoag, Su-
perintendant of Indian Affairs, ar
rived at St. Louis with fifty-one wild
Indians from the country west of Ar
kansas and Texas, and five. interpre-
tors. The party consists of twelve
Comanches and seven squaws, four
Kiowas and two squaws, six Arapa-
hoes, three Goddess, three Wachitas,
six Towoccas, one Waco, one Keeshie,
one Delaware. Capt. AIvord states
that he don't want this considered a
peace commission.
Workmen in clearinfaway debris at
the asylum at Newburg, Ohio, ciiscov-
cred the bodies of Miss Walker, Benz.
.Burghs and that os an iron peddler of
Newburg who has been missing since |
the fire. Two other persons are still /
missing.
The most furious storm of the season i
has juat swept over the entire chain of
Northern lakes. Being unlocked for. +
its effects on the shipping were terrible, I
rs the following list of disasters viii (
show: The bark Butcher Boy sunk
the schooners Cadet and Fayette
Brown, ashore badly damaged. An
ME Noght collided with the Butcher
Boy, and badly damaged. Schconers
Won Valkenburg, Phalarope, Kenosha,
Yankee Blade, Fenton and Sweep
stakes, ashore; more or less damaged. /
Brig Montezuma, ashore gone tn
pieces; it is reported the Captains wife
was drowned. Lumber barges, Treat. /
Harvest Belle and Detroit are on the
beach, Many sorrows and smaIl vessels
were sunk or driven ashore. The tug
Advance ashore total wreck. a raft
valued at S25, 900, wreck ed rear Coburg.
Two large timber RATS are ashore on
Lake Huron below Point Au Barvues.
The propeller Galena is ashore on
Thunder Bay Island, and has probably
gone to pieces. An extraordinary
amount Of rain fell The storm ap-
ears TO have been general throughout
the Northwest.
The Acting Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue has decided that whole
sale and retail liquor dealers NAV con
tinue to sell malt liquors under their
special tax receipts as such without
being assessed as malt liquor dealers,
and that the collection of taxes col
lected contrary to that construction
shall be suspended until the question
can be brought before Congress. Per-
sons who sell only malt liquors are
liable to only specific taxes, $50 or $50.
accordingly as they are wholesale or re-
tai dealers in malt liquors.
Grain men of Chicago estimate the
corn crop of this year at twelve hun
dred an fifty million bushels = the
largest ever raised in the United States.
They have had a killing frost in all the
Northeastern States, but corn is gen