Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-21
TELEGKAPHIC SUMMARY.

A formidable Indian raid is fear
cd in Texas, supposed to be led by
Lone Wolf.
The Evansville (Ind merchants
Saturday passed resolutions in IA
vor Of expansion of the currency
and Of free banking.
The ship Ailsa, with three thous-
and bales of cotton, is partly burn
ed and filled with water at New
Orleans. Loss, $4,000.
Thursday next, the Massachu-
sets legislature, will elect a Uni
ted States Senator, 10 succeed Mr..
Sumner.
The Cnmmitto of the Taxpayers
of South Carolina, appointed to
present an appeal to Congress, will
meet in Washington on the Goth in
slant, instead OF the I9th.
Mrs. Stiles, of Jacksonville,
Indiana, wits OF a besicgcd saloon
keeper, rang an auction bell while
the ladies were praying in front Of
the premises.
Col. Oliver p. Robbie, formerly of
the United States army, committed
suicide at San Francisco, recent
~, by shooting himself twice thro'
tho head. Cause unknown.
Col. ii. &. Ransom, Of the New
Orleans quartermaster department,
died at Jeffc rsonvIlIc, Indiana, re-
Gently Col. r. had relatives in
Memphis.
The union passenger depot, at
Denison, Teas, with the Adams
Express and Texas Express Offices
adjoining, and thirty freight cars,
burned Saturday. Loss $4,000.
The Freedman ) -Burcau-G eneral
D. .. Howard court of inquiry re-
sumed its sessions in Washington
Monday, at which but little progress
was made.
The races opened at Augusta,
Saturday, the 18th, Jim Hinton
and Granger winning. The Jockey
Club presented Bacon and Jones
with a silver cup for their efforts to
revive the amusements of the turf.
Judge Brady, of New York, has
granted the motion of the counsel
of VIM. NJ. Tweed to make the
clerks record of his sentence con-
form to the language used by Judge
Davis, thus substituting the county
Jail for the pcnitentiary.
Snow storms in the Northwest
have been unusually severe during
the present month, and the suffer
ing and distress has been immense.
The snow in some places is said to
have been over twenty feet deep,
and that on level ground.
DR.. Edward Boecher protests a.
gainst the approaching Congrcga-
tional Council Called by Drs.
Storrs and Buddington against Hen
ry Ward Bcecher) as ex-parte, Il
dishonor to the word Of God, and a
violation OF the fundamental princi-
pies of COngregationalism.
A special to the Banner states
that Jno. Duncan, one of the Rey-
nold's murderers, was killed at Coal
Greek, by Tom Sadin, on Satur-
day last. He refused to give up
his arms whom captured, when he
was shot through the head by Sad
iu, Duncan was sixty years old.
Gov. Kcmper, OF Va, vetoed the
charter recently passed for the city
of Petersburg, on the grounds that
it is antagonistic 10 the fundamcn-
tai principles on which our instRu-
tons are based, ana that it is mex
podient to pursue a course calcutta
ted to disturb the growing conf
dcncc between races and SECTIONS.
A dispatch from Raleigh, North
Carolina, says that passengers from
Weston on yesterday mornings
train, confirm the reports of rum;
bling noises on tho surface, and q
general upheaving of Bald noun
tain in western Carolina. The
people living on and near the noun
tain are moving, and 4 volcanic
eruption is expected. Reporters
left Raleigh yesterday evening for
the mountains.
Saturday last was devoted by
the House of Representatives to
general debate. Mr.. Kellogg CRcp.,
Conn., concluded the speech begun
by him last Wednesday on the leg
islativc appropriation bill. All the
other speeches were on the till to
regulate interstate railroad com
merce, and were made by Mcssrs.
Pratt Rep, Iowa,) Stannard crop,
MOI Hazclton Crop. Wis., Bur
rows (Rep., Mich.,) and Eden { Dem.
Ill;uOis)
The State of Yves; Virginia hav-
ing up to this time refused TO pay
her share OF the State Indebtedness
prior to the war, and having declin-
ed 4 proposition for arbitration, II
measure has been effected in the
at Richmond directing
the Acknowledgement to bring SUIT
tho State of West Virginia
in the Supreme Court of the United
States for onc-third of the public
debt standing in tho name Of Vir-
ginia on the tenth day of April, '65,
interest to that date.
The special Geographic CORES
pOndence of the Courier. Journal
from Washington reports that, in
view of the possibility of the cleo
ton of Mr.. Dawes to the United
States Senate, speculation has al
ready begun concerning the chair
of the Way and Means
Committee. Mr.. Kelley, of Penn
syivaRia, would naturally succeed
10 the prcicrment, but is unpopular
by reason of his high tariff views
and general stupidity and folly.
Since his recent incumbcncy as
acting chairman of the committee,
he has been swollen very nearly to
the point of bursting, and this real
would endanger bis life.
1t will be troublesome point for
Speaker Blaine to solve; but he has
decision enough, and will probably
pick out Mr.. Burchard, of Illinois.
No Democrat would of course be
taken to be the leader of such \
committee.
ThcrI was a disastrous fire in
Nashville on Tuesday night. The
fire was discovered issuing from