Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-11-01
GENERAL NEWS.


General CaIdwalader, of \. Jer-
sey, is dead, aged eighty-six.
Heayy SHOWS falling in the north
west.
The secret yerrics, cost the Govern
meut $500, 900 per annum.
Many daily papers are suspending
throughout the country, on account
Of the financial crisis,
Fort Jefferson, Florida, was very
nearly destroyed by a hurricane re-
Gently.
Gen. Longstreet, is reported be en-
gagged IN organizing an expedition for
the conquest of Cuba, with President
Grants cOnnivance.
The election in Virginia, comes oil
on Tuesday, the 4th of NoVem-
Der. \ Democratic Conservative
victory is almost dead certainty.
The Rev. John S. Spaulding, of
Erie, Penn, has been elected mis-
sionary Bishop Of the Episcopal
Church, for Colorado, Wyoming and
New Mexico
john c. Heenau. the prize-tighter,
died Saturday morning near Rawlins,
Union Pacific railroad, while on his
way to San Francisco, of comsump-
ton.
Gold Smith Maid. trotted q mile in
minutes IS seconds, recently at Chi
cagO. Her owner claims that she can
do her mile in 2:l6.
JuIGs WadswOrth has been nOmi-
mated for congress by the AppolO hall
Democracy, and the republicans in
the district formerly represented by
the late James Brooks.
Designs have been prepared for a
costly and magnificent Odd-Fellows'
temple, to be erected IN the central
part of the city of Louisville.
A disastrous fire visited Syracuse,
y. Y. on the night of the 26th. des-
trOyiuC three hotels, thirty-twO dwell
lings, and between forty and fifty
places of business.
The greenback as public institu-
ton, has increased IN public conf
dence to such an extent that We no
more read long diatribes about its
irredeemablc character. 1t has
achieved its own redemption .-Er-
change.
\ dispatch iron Washington, yes
terdav, SAYS the supreme court docket
is very full, and under the new law
allowing appeals and writs Of error
question Is raised on q test, must con-
time to increase, and perhaps even to
such an extent as to require a remedy.
The missionary bale of cotton.
which was donated 10y Col. Taylor, of
Arkansas. for the benefit of Memphis,
and which sold in that city for 81 500.
and subsequently shipped TO St.
Louis. where it sold for $50, was sold
on change in Cincinnati. on the 26th.
for $4,000. 1t will be shipped to
other cities, and sold in the interest
of the Memphis sufferers.
The ye.lOw-teyer is prevailing Ina
the towns OF Bryant, Calvert and Col
umbUs. IN the State of Texas. From
these towns the citizens who were
able TO leave, have fled, and the dis
ease is OF a very malignant type. It
Is on the increase in Columbus. and
that town is almost depOpulated. In
Bryant and Calvert, business Is almost
wholly suspended. The fever Is also
reported in Montgomery. Alabama
Bainbridge. Georgia, and Little Rock,
Arkansas.
WAsHINGroN, Oct. Z6.-The receipts
from internal revenue by the United
States TO yesterday We're five and q
half million dollars. During the cor
responding peroid of September, they
Were seven million eight hundred /.
thousand dollars. The total amount /
for this month VIII be about six and /
a half million, being 2 falling of of I
two and half to three million from
the usual monthly average. Tne Com !
of Internal Revenue hopes /
tor an early Improvement in the re- /
ceipts. and will probably not recon- /
mend any new impOsitiOns of tax du- .
ties, unless experience shall demon /
strate the necessity IN order 10 carry
on the Government without an in
crease OF the public debt. There are
taxes which have been remit
ted by Congress, which. in the opin-