Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-12-06

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year.
Murat Halstcad, Of the Cincinnati
Commercial, is 10 address the next
meeting Of the Kentucky Press As
ISOLATION.
The government supervising
architect, advises against the eight
hour law being adopted by the
government.
Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, an
Hounces that Bishop Cummins will
be tried for violating section l, Of
canon ., of the Church.
Ex-Governor Haight, disclaims
the candidacy, for the United States
Senate, for California.
This would seem to insure the
election of Gov. Booth.
4 dispatch from Eureka, Nevada,
states that q volcano has broken out
in the Piutc mountains, ten miles
from that place. Dense volumes Of
smoke are issuing from the crater.
Judge Cadwallader, of Philqdel-
phia, has put Jay Cook, X Co.
into bankruptcy, and appointed a
receiver. Look ont for revelations
of wholesale swindling.
Should the times continue TO i'm
prove as they have done duCiug the
past two or three weeks, L Is be-
lieved that January will see all the
mills Of New England and the East
running on full time
The war fever has done this much
good. 1t has developed the fact
that our navy Is rotten, and that, in
the event of war, New York would
be ID almost as much danger as Ha-
vana.
A San Francisco telegram says it
is believed among politicians, that
Ex-Governor Haight, anti-railroad
Democrat, will bc elected for the
unexpired term Of Senator Casser-
Is resigned.
New Y DIRK, November 27.-The
navigation of the Hudson river,
from this city to Albany, is sus-
pended, and steamers arc going into
winter quarters to-day. This is the
earliest closing Of navigation during
the present century.
The Montgomery, Ala, Mail saws,
the State of Alabama, is unques-
tionably bankrupt, and urges the
legislature now in session, 10 "com-
promise our Indebtedness, honestly
and intelligcntly, with our cred
itOrs."
The colored people of Kentucky,
recently held a convention in Frank
ford and demanded a fair distribu-
ton of the officers, within the gift
of the Republican party of that
State, or they threaten to withdraw
from the party.
Milt Malone, a Georgia murderer,
of high social standing, just a few
days before he was to be executed,
committed suicide, by taking NOR
phine. He addressed a letter to his
attending minister, stating that he
! did not "believe in Christ, nor the
| Bible, but that he believed in one
great God alone" And thus he
died, calmly and exultingly.
The ocean Steamer, Vile du Havrc
was struck in mid ocean, on the
| 23d of November, by the British
ship, LOche Erne, and sunk. Two
/ hundred and twenty-siX persons
were lost. Prominent members of
| the Evangelical alliance, arc reported
among the lost.
Judge Advocate, Gen. Holt pub
| fishes a long rejOinder to eX-Presi-
/ dent johnson, in which he says
Johnson is guilty of gross perver-
/ sion, in his statement of what oc-
Cured at their interview, just pre-
vious to the execution of Mrs. Sur
raft.
New YORK, Nov. 2S.-James II.
/ Ingersoll, convicted on Wednesday
| of forgery upon, the county, during
| the ring rule, Was sentenced to-day
/ to five years in the State prison at
| hard labor. John d. harrington,
Jr., convicted at the same time of
the same offence, was sentenced to
eighteen months Imprisonment.
Bishop Geo. d. Cummins, of Ken
/ lucky, who recently withdrew from
! the Protestant Episcopal Church.
| is about setting up little concern
of his own. Cheney, of Chicago,
/ endorses him, and the Bishop is
| happy. However, Bishop Cum
Minis, although n man of eminent
/ piety, has neither the ability or vim
to make a great reformer.
! BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, Noyem-
Der 27.-AlbertO Garcia, chief of the
Mexican bandits, who robbed the
store of Mr.. Shurbert, at Conception,
/ Texas, some DAYS ago, of about
/ thirty thousand dollars in cash, and
arms, and other goods, and fled to
/ Mexico, has been captured by the
authorities, brought TO Matamoras,
and is held for extraditiOH. This
arrest has been made with moro
prOmptness than any previous one
for years.
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
RIOT.-One hundred men who were
discharged by the contractor on the
railroad between Tcnco and Ia
come, Washington Territory, with
out being paid, have armed them
/ selves, gone to the end of the track;
notified the wOrkmen that nothing
more shall be done till their claims
are settled. Forty workmen were
driven away. 1t is reported that
the men are doing considerable dam
age TO the road by filling in CUTS
Track-laying was stopped this af-
ternoOn.
WAsHINGTOS, November 27.-
The adjudication of the affairs of
JAY Cooke 4 Co., in the Bankruptcy
Court is looked for with great in
teTcst, as promising developments.
Those who ought to know, charge
that the books and papers of the
firm, will show that large amounts
of money have been paid at different
times to a great many of the most
prominent and hitherto unsus-
pected members of Congress, both
in the Senate and House. 1t is
charged that the transactions OF the
firm have been characterized by a
systematic course of bribery and
corruption on an extensive scale.
WAsHINGToN, d. c., November
29.-The following statements has
been prepared by the Comptroller
amount of National bank currency,
legal tender notes and fractional
currency issued to Oct. Is and Nov.
l:
National Bank currency, Oct. ID,
$3.50, OO5, sos; Nov. l, $3.50 1872, S74.-
Legal tender notes, Oct. Is, $3.50, 500
SIS; Nov. l, $3.50. 9j2, 206. Fractional
currency; Oct. Is, 1869, l91; Nov.
l, So, O76, 40. Total, Oct. IS, $780,
3l5,125; Nov. l. S759, 16l, 539. De-
duct the amounts held by the Treas
ury, and by the banks, Oct. IS,
S116, 469, 997; Nov, l, S12S, 14O, 727,
which will leave unaccOuHted for !
Oct. Is, $759,SlS,13S; Nov. l, $751;
O2O,5l2.