The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-27

proposals for the supplying of $50. 600 head
stones for the graves of the union dead.
The president is reported as having said
that he will not select the chief Justice from
amongst the present supreme court judges
The geographical results of the Polaris
expedition, so far they can now be ascer-
aimed from the testimony of Tyson and his
comrades, may be summoned up briefly: The
open Polar sea laid down by Kane and Havs.
is found to be in reality a sound of considera-
bic extent, formed by the abrupt expansion of
Kennedy channel to the northward and broken
by Lady FTanklin's bay On the west and on the
east by large inlet twenty miles wide at
opening, and certainly extending far in
land. The full scientific results of the Polaris
expedition cannot be known until that vessel
has been found and brought back with the
treasures gathered and the records and details
of her arctic explorations. but enough is told
by the witnesses whom have been examined to
excite expectation and encourage the hope of
large and valuable additions to human knowl-
edge.
The post master general has signed addi-
tionaI articles to the present postal treaty with
Canada, providing for an interchange of pos
tai cards of the United States and the Domin-
ion at the prepaid rate of two cents in full to
it's destination in either country, the prepay
ment to be effected by affixing to the card an
ordinary one cent postage stamp. Postal
cards not so additionally prepaid arc not to be
forwarded. It is expected TO go into effect
July 1. The post master general has also de-
termined to issue an order directing that all
postal cards which cannot be delivered to the
aHHraaanH abaI ha immediate 70
turned to the writer without charge.
WASHINGTON. The department of justice
attributes the unhappy condition of affairs in
Utah, as far as the non-enforcement of the
criminal laws is concerned to the neglect o
congress to provide a remedy for the difficult
ties alluded to in the presidents special mes
sage toward the close of the session, in which
he earnestly asked for legislation to prevent q
conflict of authority, if no worse consequent
ces. The President afterwards went to the
capitol and personally urged legislation, as
did also Attorney General Williams, but
without success; although jurors cannot be
procured in criminal cases, they can be OBJ
tanned in civil cases by the consent of the par
ties. There seems to be no prospect of relief
from the present dilemma except by the ac-
ton of congress.
The British government has authorized
it's minister at Washington to expend s25, 900
on the erection of new building for the leg
islation at the corner of Connecticut avenue,
near Farragut Square.
Somebody has stolen from the war de-
partment an invaluable mass of private ar
chives left there by Secretary Stanton. They
covered the whole period of the war, and were
Of siDo1IIar interest on account of the light
they threw on the real history of many of the
patriots and heroes of the war, who figured in
court-martials, contracts and army intrigues,
in a way that would not, if known, add much
to their civil reputation, although many of
them, it Is intimated, hold high positions to-
day.