The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-12-19
GENERAL.

The affairs of the St. Louis Mutual
Life insurance association are all settled, and
the Mound City association is, to carry all its
policies.
The indications are that the house of
representatives viii pass bill fixing the sal
ary Of the members of congress at about six
Thousand dollars year, with an allowance Of
actual travelling expenses.
The ordnance and war material sent
from St. Louis to Pensacola consisted of
26 13-inch mortars, 4s to 1O-inch guns, 13
10O-pound PARROTS, 1850 Is and 2O-inch shells,
| 1900 9 TO 30 solid shot, 500 hand grenades,
and 1850 1OO-pound shells.
The senate has confirmed the follow
ing nominations: Martin Welker, district judge
for the northern district of Ohio vice Charles
T. Sherman, resigned; Geo. r. Maxwell, mar
shall for the territory of Utah; H G. Hall, of
Connecticut. council-general at Havana Alex.
R. Shepherd, governor of the district of Co
Iumbia, and others.
Gen. Sickles being retired officer,
with an annual salary of $685. was at liberty
to go where he pleased, AMI in accepting the
office OF minister to Spain in May 1860, he
has drawn the actual salary of S12, 900 for this
service but nothing on army account, as the
law prohibits the drawing OF more than one
salary. On his retirement as minister he will
draw his army pay.
A private letter from Gen. Longstreet,
at New Orleans, has been received at Wash
ington, in which he says " / have gone about
as far as I can at present in arranging and en-
rolling and organizing troops. Letters come
in every day, and from all parts Of the south,
Offering companies, regiments and brigades.
Gen. Bodge, chief of police at New Orleans,
is raising brigade Of soldiers who served in
the Union army. and Col. Beahan a brigade of
ex-Confederates for the Cuban war"
At Carbondale, H., Jno. M. Brush,
in registering his name at the Planters house,
spilled ink on the register, which provoked the
clerk OF the house. They got into quarrel,
in which the proprietor of the house, ]. W.
Mcdonald, took the part of the clerk, and the
result was that Brush was shot and instantly
killed by revolver in the hands of Mcdonald
The affair creates intense excitement, owing
to the popularity of Brush, and the fact that
the provocation was trihing. Brush was an
old army telegraph operator, and highly es-
teemed by all who knew him.
The Louisiana delegation to the ma
tional civil rights convention, accompanied by
senator West, called on the president, who, in
response to an address thanking him for the
care and attention he had given the colored
people of Louisiana, said he would always en-
| deavor to secure for the colored man all the
rights which should accompany his enfran-
chisement. Certain rights we're still withheld,
but he hoped that ere long they would find
! themselves in full possessian of all the legal
| privileges which belong to free men. He did
not know what congress would do in the mat
! ter but he thought it likely that body would,
| at its present session, pass some civil rights
/ bill, and that if such bill is defeated, it viii
probably be because some extreme measure
will be urged by person claiming to be par
/ ticular friend of the colored man. After
general handshaling the delegation took their
leave.
Rear Admiral Scott, at Key West,
will have the strongest naval force under his
command that has been collected by the gov
] srnment at any American port since the termi-
nation of the war. The monitors Saugus and
Mahapoc are there already, with the Assipec
/ and Worcester, the latter the admin ais flag
ship. The Colorado sails from New York !;
she is screw steamer of 16 guns. The Flor
ida, carrying 16 guns, is expected to follow
1 her. The franklin and Brooklyn, the former
carving 80 and the latter 20 guns, will sail
from Boston within week. Capt. Lowry, Of
the Canandaigua, had two hours consultation
| with secretary Robson and chiefs of bureaus
Of the navy department. during which details
and etiouette of salute to the flag was arran-
ged, so far as they could be at present. The
Spanish naval force on the coast OF Cuba is
reported to consist of American gunboats,
which were oonvoyedto to sea two years ago by
vessels of our navy. Our naval force in the
harbor of Santiago is more than sufficient to
cope with it in a belhgerent emergency, and
should such an emergency arise, it is believed
that the British fleet in the West Indies would
render assistance to our forces
The secretary of the treasury las
written to the chairman Of the ways and means
committee recommending additional taxation,
that the revenues may meet expenses and en-
closing bill for that purpose The restora-
ton of the duty on tea and coffee, which will
Weld about $50, ,OOO, 600 per annum, is included
in Recommendation. The secretary also
inolosed letter from Commissioner Douglass
making the following recommendations In
creased tax of ten cents a gallon on distilled
spirits. which would yield several million dol
lars annually four cents additional per pound
ON tobacco. which would yield four millions
ON illuminating gas. $3.50, 900; on gross receipts
Of railroads from passengers and ireights
So, ,OOO 600 on steamboat gross receipts from
passengers and freight, 100000; on insur
ance companies, 81, 800. 600 on telegraph re
CENTS. $3.50. 600; and on express companies
receipts, $500, 600 making IN the aggregate
500 150 600 This with the tax on tea and COT
fee would make forty two millions. The com
missioner says if more revenue Is wanted
could be obtained to the ex ent Of ten million
by restoring the taxes formerly m schedui
: B. which inciudes stamps on all legal lnstfu
ments, deeds, mortgages, etc.
Captain-Ceneral Jovellar, of Havana
, authorizes the statement that the entire islan
is tranquil and has no doubt that all viii b
arranged peacefully and satisfactorily wtthou
7 the slightest difficulty. He low declares TIA
4 he does not Intend TO leave Havana, or trans
Q fer his power into the hands of Gen. MerelC
The feeling Of the people in Havana is quiet