The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-11

in a letter to the Chief of the Bureau OF Sta
tistcs, dated Aug, II, says: ave have not
had drop OF rain in this vicinity for 3G5 days
Everything is scorched hot and burning up.
Many cattle have died of starvation"
A message has been Gent to the President
from Shreveport, La, signed by leading
merchants, bankers and professional men OF
that city, denying that any resident Of that
parish participated in the recent murders,
claiming that no spirit of lawessness exists in
that parish that cannot be controlled by the
local authorities; claiming that the condition
of affairs there has been misrepresented
abroad and asking that commission of fair
minded men be appointed by the President to
visit Louisiana and ascertain the truth.
The places in Louisiana designated for
troops to prevent outrages are New Orleans:
Baton Rouge, Shreveport, ALEXANDRIA, Monroe,
Harrisonburg and st. Martinsville.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Maury coun-
ty, Tenn, held at Columbia last week, adopted
resolutions denouncing in strong terms the
lawless outrages recently committed in that
State, and appealing to the citizens Of the
counties in which the disturbances have oc-
Cured to preserve law and order without Fed
eral intervention.
Tho Arkansas Constitutional Convention
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has ADJOURNED 10 the 2Oth OF October-soVeral
days after the election on the new Constitu-
ton. Should the Constitution be ratified,
the Convention will stand adjourned sine die.
Washington.
Inc fouowihS Is the deDt statement lor
september:
OK per cent emf 6: 15S 9oO
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1o'Ai com 0onus' zoo, -oO
Lawful money debt. observation-disclosures H,67s,O0O
Ma'ureu deD, oo5 eag
Certificates OF deposit ............... 5s.79O,OOO
fractions! 90 600
,-
Iotal without in'erest'''''''''''' ol'''Vo'o'o
Total debt OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ,257, 2l5, 263
IT,, ,r.o-os. a.. 90 9Zc ~
Cash in Treasury coin. SiC8S g 9S
Special deposits held for redemption
of cert'hcates OF deposit, as provided 10000
1890
Deb, 1ess casb IN Treasury. .... s914o17sG14
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Bonds issued - rba Pacinc Railroad
Companies, interest payable in lawful
rta pe! Isid b Trited States o. S9S Sa6
Interest repaid by transportation Of
iin,, r::; ai h Iini;ci 0''''o'
States. ........................ 80. 1s,936,7O4
The new Postmaster-General, Marshall
Jewell, has assumed the duties Of his Office.
The internal revenue receipts for the first
two months of the present fiscal year exceed
the amount received for the corresponding
period last year by over half a million
dollars.
1t is given ont from Washington that no
formal order will be Issued from the War De-
partment as to the distribution of troops in
the Department of the South, but the whole
matter will be left with the department COM
mander who will dispose of the forces as he
may deem exnedient The troops now in the
Sonth are distributed "a follows. Three
comnanies Of the Second infantry in Alabama.
six in GEORGIA. and one in Tennessee. The
ertire Third infantry at Holly SPRINGS. Miss.
tl,roo commando of the sixteenth infantry
IN Kentucky two in Arkansas one in Nissis.
sirri one in Louisiana and one in Tennes-
sae EIGHT conn,ni of the Seventv- eighth
irfontrv in Soutb Carolina and two IN Geor-
oio Fiobt ccnranies If tbe Fifth ar.illerv
i, ploriJs ono in Georeia two in South
Carolina and one in VIRGINIA Six conpapies
~ tho second artillery in North Carolina
ono in South Carolina one in Virginia. and
fopr in MARYLAND. making the whole number
If troons in the several Southern States be-
tween zoo and 1000.
The Washington National Monument Asso
citation reports the gratifying success Of lie
appeal for contingent subscriptions. and the
society is sanguine OF the success OF the en-
terprise during the Centennial year.
Secretary Brstow has directed that steps
be taken at once for the reorganization Of the
secret Service Of the Government.
POLITICAL.
The Arkansas Constitutional Convention
has voted down, by vote of three to one,
proposition to repudate what is known as the
Halford bonds. This was the second decisive
vote against reputation.
The Republicans of Nebraska met in State
Convention at Lincoln on the I'd inst, and
nominated Silas CARRIER for CrOyernOr and l.,