Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-11
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Ex-President johnson arrived in
Washington Saturday last.


The Democrats were triumphant
in the city election at Cincinnati by
a majority of about 1000.
The Democrats have carried Gin
cinnati, Columbus aud Toledo Ohio
by heavy maiorities.
Saturdays races at Selma, Ala,
were won by Nashville, Tabitha,
and Quits.
Senator Schurz will deliver
eulogy on Charles Sumner, at Bos-
ton, Aril goth.
1t is thought that the President
will veto the currency bill when it
reaches him.
4 special TO the Banner states
that there were two destructive
fires at Shclbyville in this State on
Sunday last.
The great twenty-mi!e trotting
race, at San Francisco, Saturday,
was won by VIM. Askstoward, in
SO minutes 3 seconds.
a Washington dispatch says the
financial bill which passed the Sen
ate, will not be considered IN the
House before next Monday.
\ bill is to be reported by the
proper committee to Congress to
transmit seeds, cuttings, plants,
ETC., through the mails free.
Dan Rice's advertising boat, Lau-
"a No. ?, was run down by steam
er thirty miles below Memphis on
Monday last. The crew were all
saved.
There was a meeting in N YOrk,
Friday night, the Sd, in favor of
cremation, at which letters we're
read from the Rev. NJ. Frothing-
ham, Chas. y. Dana and Henry
Bergh.
Saturday evening quarter of an
acre of the bluff below Memphis
fell into the Mississippi, burying a
sand-boat and three men beneath 4
hundred feet of water. -Four others
escaped.
The Courier-Journal is inlormed
by its special tclegraphic CORES
pondence from Washington that
four New York firms propose to
print two-thirds of the government
notes now executed at the Treasury
at an annual saving of $4,000.
Tho crevese on Bayou Lafourche,
La, is three miles above the Bode-
nal instead of below, as at first re-
ported. II occurred on the Bragg
| plantation. The break is now two
hundred and sixty feet wide. Four
teen plantations are already over
flowed, and the water is spreading
rapidly.
Courier-J ournal special: The Pres
ident has followed up his rude and
unprovoked insolence to the South
Carolina delegation from the tax
payers convention, by to-day giving
his emphatic Endorsement to tho
counter-delegation sent up by the
thieves, &C., who are now engaged
in plunderiDg t hat unhappy State.
Thomas $. Jukes, of Memphis, a
well-known dealer in stoves and
hollow-ware, and a prominent officer
of thu Odd Fellows and knights
of Pythias, disappeared very sud
denly several days ago. Fears are
entertained that he has been muir
dercd, while en- route to st. Louis,
for which place he started. Sever
al attachments were sworn out and
lowed on his property by creditors,
who believe he has abseonded.
The Appeals Jackson Miss
special, of Wednesday last, says the
legislature adjourned sine die to-
day, after passing a bill requiring a
majority of males over 81, and fe-
males over Is, in cities, towns, or
townships, to sign petition for IL
censc to sell liquor, before such IL
censo shall be issued. The Cover
nor Immediately thereafter signed
the bill.
New HAVEN, Con-, April 6, l A.
M.-The election has resulted in q
sweeping Democratic victory. Re-
turns received at the Palladium Of
fee show only few wanting to
give Ingersol plurality of 1886
over Harrison, Republican, aud a
clear majority of 1863, Smith pro
hiEiuon) receiving only a little
over 1000 votes. The Senate
stands l6 Democrats to 5 RcpubIi-
cans, and the House heavily Demo
cratic. The Democratic majority
in the General Assembly renders
the choice of q Democratic United
States Senator an easy matter.
LATER.-Complcte returns give
the following result of the vote for
Governor in this State:
Ingersoll ................ As, 7S4
HARRISON. .-..-.-...-..--. -..4O, 042
Smith. 4,S26
Scattering. 10
The Courier-JournaPs special tel
egraphic correspondence from
Washington, Saturday night, says
that scheme of the Senate select
Committee on transportation is pref
ty we'll defined. Ii embraces the
Fort st. Phillip canal at the mouth
of the Mississippi, enlarged CONS
municatiOn by way of the lakes,
the improvement Of the navigation
of The Ohio and Kanawha rivers,
portage by dOuble-track freight
railroad from the latter river by the
Kanawha valley to some point on
tide water in Virginia, and the like
work from the Tennessee river over
the Allcgany, to connect with the
Georgia system of water communi-
cation.
The following is the text of the
Finance bill that passed the Senate
on Monday last:
l. That the maximum amount of
United Statos legal tenders Is here
by fixed at 100000, 900.
2. That S46,000,000 in notes, for
circulation in addition to such cir
culation now allowed by law, shall
be issued to national banking asso-
Citations, now organized and which
may be organized hereafter and
such increased circulation shall be
distributed among the several
States, as provided in section l of
the act entitled an act to provide
for the redemption of the per
centum temporary loan certificates
and for an increase of national bank