The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-12-06


"A delegation of Sacs and Foxes OF
Missouri are in Washington, to COM
plete arrangements for the sale of their
present reservation in Nebraska and
Kansas, and removing to a new one
in Indian Territory.
r The Pacific Mail steamer Arizona,
which was thought to be lost, has ar
rived undertow, at San Francisco, With
disabled machinery.
Over eight hundred persons are
employed by the Government in print
ing fractional currency and internal
revenue stapms, under the recent act OF
Congress. -
The losses by the burning of the
tobacco storehouse in Jersey City, will
be reduced by salvage to $500 900.
The total loss by the fire at Galva,
ILL.,, is ow figured at $2lS, 900. Thir-
ty five business firms were burned out,
and thirteen families rendered home!
less.
$. b. Keys & Co., bankers of Gin
cinnati, have suspended in conse-
quence of indirect losses in the north
west corner.
New 1ork-Lace shawls valued at
ten thousand dollars, belonging to
Henry w. Ducker, and found in a
Duane street auction house, have
been seized by the government On
the ground that they were smuggled
goods. Ducker had been connected
previously with smuggling. A regis
tered letter containing cut studs to the
amount of 1000 dollars was seized
yesterday at the post office. Proceed
ings have been commenced in each
case to secure the confiscation of the
goods.-1he steamship Columbia of
the Havana line has been confiscated
by the United States District Court on
charges of smuggling cigars.
"A fiendish attempt was made on
Friday night, by depositing three heavy
cross-ties across the Harlem track at
Williams Bridge, to throw off the
Boston express. Fortunately they
were not fastened securely, and were
readily displaced py the locomotive
a reward OF $1,000 is offered for the
arrest of the guilty parties -Four
thousand eight hundred and fifiy-four
immigrants arrived last week. Total
since Jan. /, 272, 200, against POS, ,627
the previous year
1t is stated that the vacant Major
Generaiship has been rendered TO Gen.
Burnside, but declined by him for De-
cuniary reasons. General Meigs. the
present Quartermaster General, will
now, it is understood, be promoted to
the vacancy.
-One hundred and thirty-tw0 car.
goes of wheat have been sent to Eng.
land from San Francisco since July.
By direction of the Secretary OF
the Treasury the practice of transmit
ting transfer checks in redemption o.
old deface1 and mutiIated currency in
sums of five dollars and upwards, and
legal tender notes in sums Of fifty dol
| lars and upwards, forwarded bv ex.
press to the Treasurer of the United
States, will be discontinued Dec. l
1872. Thereafter the returns for such
remittance will be made in all cases by
express at the expense of the depart
ment in new legal tender notes, OF
fractional currency, in such denomina
tions as the owner may request. When
no request is made the returns will be
made in currency of the same kind a.
that received.
AT the meeting of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters in New
York, 1t was decided to reduce the com.
missions of agents to 10 per cent, ex.
cept for dwellings and farm houses, in
which cases companies are allowed to
fix the rates of their own agents. An
increased tariff has teen adopted in
New York City, and a similar advan &c
ordered throughout the country.
Aid is to be sought from the Gen.
eral Government for the Improvement
of the Ohio River A memorial was
adopted oy the Ohio River Improve.
ment Convention, before its adjourn.
ment, asking Congress to appropriate
( two million from the National Treas
ury for the work. The ground on
which the States interested ask for il
Is, that they contain S5 per cent of the
population, yield 45 per cent of the
produce. aud pay one third of the rev.
enue of the nation.
The Buffalo Board of Trade has
unanimously recommended that the
Erie and Oswego Canals be made sew
enty feet wide and seven deep, with
double locks west of Syracuse, and
that the former should be made navi.
gable from the Buffalo River to the
Lower Black Rock. They ask the
Legislature to pass q bill, which will
put at the disposal of the State ruff
-cient funds to improve the Canal, apC
make it as nearly free canal as posi-
ble.
\ -Riebel & Lincoln's bedstead facto
ry, on Brswn street, Philadelphia
burned on the sd, Loss $4,000 t.
$4,000. The premises occupied by b
ID. Kelley, sash and door manufactur
er, also burned, causing a loss o
$4,000.
Denver Col-Stanton, the mai
with the $3.50, 600 ruby, arrived her
from Arizona last week and freely ex
hibited tie gem, which is very beauti
ful, though jewellers doubt as to it
being anything more than garnet
He also shows what he calls $50, 90
diamond. The diamond excitemen
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