The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-11-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.

of eight Thousand jewellers in New York
over six Thousand are idle.
In response to appeals from the laborers
of Brooklyn, the board of city works have
set 45O men to work on public improvements.
The commissioner Of patents shows a
net revenue during the past year of only two
Thousand dollars, whereas his bureau few
years ago turned into the treasury from sixty
thousand to one hundred thousand dollars per
annum.
Carl Schurz has come back from Europe
well satisfied with the relative prosperity and
discretion of AmFica. lie says that Austria is
rotten. France haggard, Spain hopeless, and
North Germany debauched with the sudden
influx of money.
Orders have been received at the Philadel-
phia navy yard to fit out the monitor Manhat-
tan for sea by Friday next. large force of
workmen have been employed. It is under
stood that other monitors at League island
are to be made ready for sea at once.
Orders have been received at the Brook
lyn navy yard to get the sIoops-of-war Kear-
sarge and Juniata ready for sea at once.
The torpedo boat Admiral Porter has been
launched and will be made ready for active
operations in a few days. All the officers about
the yard arc greatly excited over the news
from Havana.
The failures in the tea trade are attributed
rather to the competition which is growing up
in the west than to the panic. The great west
ern marts, it is said, are receiving their teas
mainly by way of San Francisco and many
smaller firms here have been wound up, owing
to this withdrawal of trade. The decreasing
trade is maintained as the cause of one of the
heaviest importing firms advertising two YES
sells of their fleet for sale
Dispatches from Victoria say the steamer
California arrived from Sitka, and confma
the news Of the recent discovery of rich gold
fields in Cassian county. She brought down
twelve miners and $4,000 in dust The ex-
element is intense. One party took out S197
in eight ours rocking. The parties who
came down on the California intend returning
early in the spring. The miners wintering on
Sticken have bought up all the provisions SO
that large supply will be required in the
spring.
At Philadelphia committee appointed at a
mass meeting of workingmen have had an in.
terview with mayor Stakely, for the purpose OF
asoertaining what could be done to provide EN-.
plOyment for the thousands of persons out O.
work. The mayor recommended that a peti
ton be addressed to the city council boards
when committee would be appointed to take
some action. Much outdoor work, he said
could be providet, but there was also the ne
cessity for providi lg employment for those &C.
customed to IN cor work
The Oubsn unta of New York announces
that all the E,e ans possible will be used tC
form an expo ton 20 set out at once to Cubs
to take rever' for the execution of the pa
triots seize on the Virginius. corps ii
forming conf osed of Americans alone to pro
ceed to Cuba Already two thousand name
have been put on the roll, many of them oil,
and well-tried soldiers. Gen. Quesada is form
ing another expedition, and it is said thre
thousand names are enrolled, the majorit
Cubans and exiles. The Cuban bureau
thronged the greater part of the time.