The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-25

come to the end of the cussed thing,
and there was the wall risin' 800 feet
straight up in front of us, and them
fifty Utes right behind us, and there
was no way to get out"
Here the old man paused, and com
menced whittling-the interviewer wait.
ing the while for the rest of the story
but nothing more came, SO he asked
Well, Mr.. Bridger, how did you get
ont ?"
Jim reused up, and after making an
effort, apparently to bring his mind
back to the subject, answered
Get out why, we never got out,
they killed Us right there
FROM WASHINGTON.
Appointments by th4 Presidept-AnaIIs s
OF the FIeedmen's Bure eau-CottOn Pro-
duct OF IS74ImpTOVement of the
MisEisippi-Recent Nominations, Etc.
The president has appointed Benia-
min Moran, Of Pennsylvania, to be
minister resident in Portugal. Moran
has been for many years secretary of
legation at London. The president
sent the nomination to the senate to-
gether with a large number of ap-
pointments made during the recess,
and the appointment of John W.
Thatcher, of Virginia, to be commits
sioner; Ellis Spead, of Maine, to be
assistant commissioner of patents. In
executive session the senate referred
these nominations to the appropriate
committees.
Col. P. B. Hunt, Paris, KY, has
been appointed supervisor of internal
revenue for Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi, and Louisiana. vice Supervisor
Cobb, removed for ineficiency.
Secretary Fish has received an i'm
portant dispatch from minister Cush-
ing, at Madrid, announcing that he had
received an official communication from
the Spanish minister of foreign affairs,
in which indemnifcation for the Ameri-
can citizens captured on the Virginius
was virtually conceded. Whether this
has been reached by arbitration, as in
the case of the British subjects taken
from the same vessel, or not, is not
stated.
The report of the commissioners of
the freedmen's savings and trust COM
pany shows cash and cash items on
hand at several branches, as called for
by the books of The company, at the
close of business, July II, 1874, amount
ing to $40, 9,131. OF this the sum of
S31, ,689 only, had been received up to
November go The difference-$17,-
442-is found to consist mainly of tenn
p0rary loans, due bills and shorts car
ried in the cash of some of the branche S.
A portion Of this amount the commits.
sioners fear will be a total loss. The
commissioners say that, owing to the
defective system of booking, etc. Gen
eral confusion OF the accounts, au1
considering the material they have had
to rely on and the persons to deal with,
it is somewhat doubtful whether, they
shall ever be able to obtain a cor
rect statement of the liabilities and as
sets of the company. At any rate, it
will be slow and tedious process. The
monthly repOI Is Of the branches show
that there are on the books OF the COM
pany over 172, ,O6G depositors' accounts
still open, and each of them requires a
careful examintion. For long time it
has been known that the deposit ledger
balances of several of the branches,
including those of the Washington
branch, were inaccurate and unreliable.
The cotton product of 1874, as esti-
mated by the cOtton-growers in their
returns to the department of agricul
ture, somewhat exceed three and a half
million bales. The yield per acre is
reported less than in 1863. In most of
the states the weather for ripening and
gathering the top crop has been very
favorable. The reports are nearly
unanimous in stating that the proper.
tiOn of lint to seeds is large. The per-
cottages of last years aggregate of
bales in th9 principal cotton states are
a. follows: Virginia 80, North Caro-
lima 50, South Carolina 90, Georgia 90,
Florida 100 Alabama 95, Mississippi
80, Louisiana SO. Texas 80, Arkansas 50,
Tennessee 81. This result corresponds
very closely with the indications cf the
monthly statements of the condition
made by the department during the
season.
The commission sent to Europe to ex-
anime the jetty system at the mouth Of
the Danube and other rivers, with a view
to ascertain whether it could be adopted
in deepen ng the mouth of the Missis-
sippi, are now at the southwest pass.
It is understood Gems. Comstock and
" lSANO hAO Va OuO OplhLOL4 LAlAb bllC ICbbt
system is impracticable for the Missis-
sippi, and that the Fort st. Philip ca
nai, being examined by another com
blockade, which has seriously
interfered with the commerce of the
river. The commission of which Gen.
Warren is president, appointed by the
president to report upon the bestmethod
Of improving the levees of the Missis-
5ippi and reclaiming the lands, are
unanimous in the opinion that the gov
should begin at once a compre-
lensive system of rebuilding and i'm
proving levees bordering on the Arkan-
sas, Mississippi and Red rivers, as, 0tn,
arwise, the crevasses caused by the
foods Of last spring will expose the in
labitants of the submerged districts to
more serious trouble than they have yet
and utterly impoverish the
people.
The president has sent the following
nominations to the senate Dan. A.
Pardee to be United States district
udge for Louisiana, vice Duren, re-
signed Michael O'Shaughnessy to be
collector of internal revenue for the first
district, and A. P. Shattee for the sec
md district of Mississippi; for United
States attorneys, James R. Beckwith
or the district of Louisiana n. s.
Macafee, for the northern district of |
and W. Fl. Clayton for the
western district of Arkansas, and James
?. Pagan, United States marshal for
ha western district of Arkansas.
John Macarthur, of Philadelphia, hav-
ng declined the Office of supervising
irchitect, the position will be rendered
o Mr.. Walsh, of st. Louis, now super
Intending the construction of the new
)ostoffice in that city.
Extricating Mired Animals
A correspondent of the Western Ru-
al writes Lately, I had a COW mired |