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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
Tho Roll Corninsfo n Head.

Private dispatches received IN Raj
eigh from western n. c. ON the 18th,
inst, report severe and heavy rumb-
lings in Bald and Stone mountains on
Thursday last. The trembling Of the
earth was felt more than one hundred
miles from the mountains. The shocks
are more severe than before, and it is
firmly believed by scientists that an
eruption isimminent.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
ARKANSAS


BY a recent decision of the Circuit
Court at Little Rock, Joseph Brooks
was declared Governor of the State.
Re Immediately repaired to the SUI
preme Court room and was sworn in
AS Governor by tbi,f Justice Nc
Clure; them proceeding to the Exec
utiye department be ousted Gov. Bax-
ter by force, and breaking open the
safe took charge Of the great seal.
Books issued his proclamation declar-
iaC that he would enforce the decision
of the Court, and called upon the peo-
pie to assist him in executing the law.
lie has also ordered the railroad SUI
perintendents not to bring troops to
to the city for Baxter. Baxter has
called upon the people to aid him in
SURPRISING the Instruction, and says
1.-The insurgents must and shall be put
down" Brooks, with several hundred
troops, holds the State house, and
Baxter, with a still larger force, holds
the greater part Of the city, whilst a
a company Of Federal troops are sta
toned between the two forces, and
have thus far prevented bloodshed.
Reiuforcements for Baxter are arriving
daily from all points, and it is feared
the streets of Little Rock viii, ere an
other week, stream with the blood OF
its own citizens. Baxter has invoked
Government aid, and it is hoped the
question Of GovernOrship will be set
lied without bloodshed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

The proposition to establish a di-
rect trade between the Mississippi val
ley States and Brazil by putting on a
Inc of steamships from New Orleans
to Rio Janeiro is attracting great
deal Of attention in st. Louis. n
speech, made before the board Of
trade by Col. Samuel Read, Of New
Orleans, in which he fully explained
the project and gave an elaborate ac-
count Of the benefits and profits which
must inevitably result therefrom, is
published, and was subject to gener-
al comment and approval on change
in that city Monday. All
classes Of business mon heartily en-
dorse the scheme, aud the ssspeaks
most favorably of it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

After thirty-three ballots w. B.
Washburn, has been elected United
States Senator, to fill the place vacat-
ed by the death of Charles Sumner.
The result was as follows: 267 votes;
necessary to choice 134; W. B.
Washburn 151; Curtis, 81; DAVIS,
20; Adams, 10; Loring, 4; Banks, 4;
Wendell Phillips, 1; Stephen N.
Clifford, /; John G. Whittier, l..
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

Texas is developing an incxhausta-
bic supply of salt. Her bayous are
veritable mines of wealth, if properly
worked. One Of these-thc Magma
Madra-is one hundred and twenty
miles long, and from three to six
miles broad, and not more than eigh-
teen inches deep. The water is rapid
" evaporatcd, and the salt settles in
great quantities in the bottom. The
amount of salt from this source is esti-
mated at 10000, 600 bushels in the
season, which, it is said, can be placed
on navigation at ten cents per bushcl.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

A company has been formed at
Rome to establish railway from the
base Of Vesuvius to the crater, to be
worked by steam and ropes. They
have already procured the model Of
a train which received a prize at the
Vienna Exhibition, and has been for
some time in use at Buda.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
The currency initiation Bill, which

The currency initiation bill, which
passed yesterday, if it lie approved by
the President, viii at once set free a
great volume of currency now deposit
ed and idle in banks. The value OF
this currency is somewhat lessened,
and since money becomes more abun-
dant, property values llbe enhanced
ed. Since taxation makes real estate
unstable, this useless money will be
invested In cotton-mills and other
manufactures, and industry and spec
ulation may be greatly stimulated
Appeal 17th.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

Kentucky line. In Clay county the
damage has been immense. The
Tennessee is out of It's banks as high
up as Chattanooga, and committing
unparalleled waste. From every di-
rection come reports of damage, dan
ger and distress.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

A special to the Austin CTexas)
News reports Browns company OF
minute-men routed by party of In
dams in San Saba county, killing
several. Lone Wolf is again report
ed on the war-path, bound for Texas
to ayenge the death Of his son.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

A dispatch received at San Fran
cisco on 18th inst, from San Diego
SAYS: Nearly all of the Haulapas
Apaches have surenderd. Some Of
the San Carlos Indians were killed,
but most of them having surrendered.
No recent complaint of raids into
Sonora.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

1t is rumorel that ex-President JEFF
ferson Davis, who is at present in Eu-
rope, has a war book written, and
that it will he published in England.
This work with that of General john
sons Narrative of TIE War" will
form valuable literary acquisition
to war history from a Southern stand
pOint.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

The smoldcring of the fires in the
burnt district Of Chicago continuation
a great length of time, and it was re-
marked by a gentleman that he had
lighted segar in the ruins months
after the confagration. Instances are
not rare where fires have smoldered
for years. At Singer, Nimick u Cos
Sheffield steelworks, Pittsburg, an ex-
tensive smoidering fire, that battles
the best efforts to extinguish it, has
been discovered, dangerously near the
new meeting house. The ground front
ing on the river has been formed by
the deposit Of cindcrs from the mill,
and may have been a hidden mass Of
fire for one or two years. The firm
lost considerable from n fire some
time since. Various other Pittsburg
rolling mills have had such fres-in
one instance known to have existed
for two years, and in another for some
eight or ten months.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
sUBsCRIPTION RATES.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Double-column advertisements, l0Per cent. ad-
vance on the above rates.
Triple-coiumn advertisements, % per cent. ad-
vance on the above rates.
Advertisements TO occupy special position, 10
per cent advance on the above rates.
Local Notices." lin the same type as local
reading mstter.l Is per cent. advance on the
above rates.
Obituaries, Tributes Of Respect Except such as
come officially from charitable societies), and
remarks on marriages, one-half Of regular
" Local Notice" rates. Simple announce
ments Of marriages and deaths Inserted gratis.
All transient advertisements must be paid Tor ~
advance. Yearly advertisements, quarterly
In advance.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, had q
$4,000 fire Sunday, which broke out
in Fraizier's tailor shop Forty-three
buildings were consumed. Insurance
small.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

At Portland last Friday several
crusading women were arrested on
complaint of saloon-keepers whose
places they besieged.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

An approximate estimate shows
the acreage of wheat between the
Tennessee and Hiwasseeriver's to be full.
" q third larger than last year.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

TIE Evansville Courier states that
corn can be bought in that city the
year round ct eight cents per bushel.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

A new idea with regard to weddings
has been invented in Connecticut.
\ citizen of that State announces that
his golden wedding will come Of just
thirty years from date, and offers a
liberal discount on any presents his
friends design to make him.-"e
advise all who should ever adopt this
system, to make the discount large, or
you will come out of the little end Of
the horn.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
Appeal for Aid From Governor EcII.

Appeal for Aid From Governor KeII-
The following Geographic cores
pond nee place last Friday:
E.Decutire Department, State Of
Louisiana, Nes0 Orleans, april IL
To President L. 5. Grant: The I'M
precedented rise in the Mississippi
river, aided by violent local storms,
has caused much disastrous over
flow. Six or seven Of the largest par
ishes of the State are already under
wafer, and $4,000 people, white and
black, are without food or shelter and
in danger Of starvation. The emerg-
ency is 50 great that [ feel constrained
to appeal to you directly, asking the
general government, if possible, to
extend to these poor people the same
relief that WAS given in a scared y more
disastrous calamity at Chicago.
W. ?. Kellogg,
Governor of Louisiana.
GRANT PROMISES TO "REFER."
your dispatch Of this date, asking
aid for the suffers by the disastrous
overflow of the lower Mississippi, is
received. Congress rs busy il session
at this time. l do not feel authoriz-
ed to send government aid, dis | did
in case OF suffering from yellew fever
in Shreveport and Memphis last sum-
mer, or in the case of burning of Chi
cago two years ago, without the au-
thority of Congress. Twill, however,
send your dispatch to the Louisiana
delegation, and if a resolution is pass
cd by Congress, authorizing it, | viii
exert every authorized means to avert
suffering from the disaster which has
overtaken the citizens of Louisiana. ="
L. s. Grant.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

Bufalo-gnats are causing serious in
jury to stock in South Memphis.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
SUBSCRIPTION, ~ ADVANCE.

Daily per annWn By Nail, $1,000
Semj- Heehly per dnnan, 4.W
Ecebiy per amHcm, 2.Gl
Shorter periods in proportion.
Address
UNION AND AMERICAN,
maris NASHVILLE. Tenn.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

Josh Billings acknowledges an H.
come of $50, 600 per annum.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23

Prince Aathur of England hasjoin-
ed the Free MasOns.
, 1874-01-06

President Burroughs, Of the Chicago Uni
,ersity, has rendered his resignation to the
Board Of Trustees. aud its acceptance will
probably follow. The reaBons Which impel Dr..
burroughs to sever connection which has ex-
lifted for sixteen years are stated in his letter,
which is given elsewhere, They arc in brief
that be feels he ought no longer to carry the
double burden OF presiding over the educational
attairs Of the University and at the same time
laboring to put it's finances in solvent condi-
ton The Committee to which the resignation
vas referred propose that it bo accepted, and
that nereupon Dr.. Burroughs DO made Chan
cellor OF the University, 80 that he may
g4vo his undivided energies to congenial duties
An endowment Of hnlf a million is needed Ut
once, the Committee stale, to enable tho insti-
tuition to do it's work worthi1y and successfully,
and meeting Of tie Trustees is to be hold III d
few days to consider the means for ruising this
ann
, 1874-01-06

The exposures of the petty abuses practiced on
the Treasury of tho United States are becoming
more and more numerous. The contingent fund
of the Treasury Department-thst is, the money
placed at tho discretionary disposal OF the
ol1icers-has increased during the lest ten years
from s94, 900 to 1927, 800 for the present year.
The gas bill OF that Department alone amounts
to S1s.000, which 1t is charged includes the
private gus bills Of number Of bureau officers
aad chief clerks. Tho Boston Post puhlishes
the statement that, in addition to the many
horses and ca11nses employed BY the various
Departments, the charge last year for horse-car
tickets was $4,000. THIS Was equal to eG0, 600
single rides or 800 rides every day in the year,
including Sundays and holidays Who gats
these tickets il just now one Of the mysteries
Of Washington City. Wo yesterday published
statement showing the fees aud salaries paid to
the persons employed in collecting the customs
revenue IN sixty-two DISTRICTS In those dis
tricts the aggregate revenue collected was
G51 and the foes and salaries Of the officers,
excluding all other expenses. amounted to
s394, ,497. We have now q statement OF the cost
OF collecting the iuternal revenue in the various
States for the year 1s72-'73, and some Of the
exhibits arc surprising:
, 1874-01-06

The Board Of Trade OF this city held its an-
nua1 meeting yesterday for the election Of Off
GERS. No election was reached for President.
Mr.. How received s39 votes, but 400 arc needed
for choice. the other officers were chosen as
announced elsewhere. The retiring President
Culver presented the ueua report Of tho Board
Of Directors. The present system OF State
inspection Of grain by Beard OF
three persous, with their headquarters
1Go miles distaut, is pronounced Unsatisfactory,
and measures are recommended to placo the in
epection OF grain on the same basis as that Of
the other produce sold on Change. The Board
also request the Railroad Commissioners Of the
State to enforce l1v now silent on the statute-
books compelling railroads to guarantee the de-
livery Of the same quantity Of gram that they
receive. Thsy favor the construction Of q
through freight steel railway to the East, but
oppose any subsidies or grants from cousreas in
It's behalf.
, 1874-01-06

The Illinois journals arc rapidly joining in the
demand that the Legislature shall adjourn i'm
uediately. and without entering upon the buai-
ness which it ia proposed to bring before it.
The Mount Vernon Free Press holds that there
is not only no necessity for further legislation
at this time, but that it is ecandalous that the
Legislature should deliberately spend $500, 900
of the peoples money at time when people are
crying for bread and the industry Of the country
is p.ralyzed. The Free Press says further:
II the members Of thu Illinois General Assembly
have paid any attention 1t Ill to the Of evens
during the past year. they must have observed the
rapid growth Of sentiment directly opposed to, and
which upon Ill suitable occasions has severely con-
demned just such uncalIedfor, unnecessary. unrea-
sonab1e expenditures OF public money is proposed
by this adjourned season It IL the union Of the peo
pie resist such outr7ges this that haa wiped out
the odious Of party from deliberations for the
public good. It is the union Of the pn1s to reform
just such abuses thai is sweeping recreaut public
servants from Office er5hsxs, md cau8ouadlog the
once proud party 1eadaz1.
This IL ths hind Of talk xnioh sA1arY-atahbats,
, 1874-01-06
MORE CONSOLIDATION.

Tho scheme for consolidating the Chicago d
Northwestern and the Milwaukee Il st. Paul
Railvay Companies is again revived. lhe oo-
iectious which defeated this measure year ago
have, it is said by the New York Times. been
removed. The new Company Ut the consol'aa-
ton is ,fected) is to be called the Chicago, Nil
vau1ee j. St. Paul Railroad Company. The con-
solidation OF course involves the increaae Of the
capital stock, which in this case is said to DO
$5,00o,00o. Adding tho property OF the 1"o
Companies tngather, while it does not increase
the aggregate property. is used rs Pretcxt
for making stock dividend. While this pro-
ceed1,g is threatened at our own doors, some
thing of even greater moment has j'st
takop place in Pennsylvania, where sew
eral mining aud transportation companies
Which connect tho anthracite coal-helds OF that
State and tho markets have been consolidated.
The companies thus uniting are the Wilkesbarre
Coal and Iron Company. the Honeybrooke Coal
Company, the Central Railroad Company Of New
Jersey, and tie Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company T1u aggregate present capital OF
these Companies excaeds probably SIC, ,00o, 900.
and how much they will add to this, on the occa-
sion OF the union, has not Jet been made public.
With the exception Of tho Reading Railroad to
Philadelphia. these Companies control all the
present routes from the coA-mines to New York.
These considerations havo d different aEpect
from what they had few years ago. Then
apt nd aa1 f-Ruf.
ficient thoy bought aud controlled State Gov
ernments at pleasure; they issued watezed stock
at Their own will .hey were absolute, and put
the public and public opinion at defiance.
Then, consolidation was the strengthen-~s Of
corporations already exercising monopoiea with
suprome contempt for public interests. But
uattets hare changed within the last year
Monopolies are no longer the masters Of the
people. Tha people have taken tho
choice Of State Governments into their
own hands. and they have Epplied
their prorogaeires to the regulation, con
troll and discipline Of these corporations.
Consultations at this time look like attempts
to evade day Of reckoning. Such e1pedieats
will bc Of no avail, because the judgment has
already been written that all corporations OF q
quasi character are nubjecz to public control,
and that they will not be permitted to lazy e1-
tor.iouate rates for the service they perform,
nor claim dividends and profits upon capital not
actually invested. That this Judgment will be
carried out to the 1ettor in duo time there Gnu be
no question, and hence consultations Of com-
panles, doubling up Of railways and eoncentra~
ton Of management, will not aTail The hand
OF reform will reach them al the sooner.
, 1874-01-06
TIE SENATE. TIE PRESIDENT, And TIE


That President Grant has never. from the
frat. understood the constitutional object OF his
appointing power as lawyers and Statesmen un-
derBtand it, has long bsen apparent even to his
most partial friends. It forms the very reason
why be has any most partial friends. They have
been favored by appolutnonts made on the
theory that the appointing power is part Of the
Presidents perquisites,-a personal emo]ument
IS purely his own as his salary OF his horses.
By no act has President Grant admitted that
eithtr the Senate. the Republican party, or the
American people have any business 10 inter-
meddle with the motives which govern the in
haences which obtain. or the faults that dis
grace, his appointments. But willis the Presi-
dents contempt for the ancient theory, that the
appointing power is sacred trust, has been toll
Grated by the Senate, when it only introduced
into the service incompetent Collectors, or other
administrative officers whose function it w1es to
obey, it is hard even for Morton, Carpenter,
Conklng, and Cnmeson. and We imagine it must
be grief even to tue Department clerks to sec
the Chief-J Justiceahip OF the Supreme Court made
a bauble, with which the President rewards nj,
incompetent favorite. Lawyers have ret to
hear ot the celebrated cause In which Mr. Will
lams VIA ever engaged ut ths Bar Judges
, 1874-01-06

Tho nomination Of Attosney-Gcnernl Williams
as Chief-Justice, it is positively stated, will be
withdrawn to-day by The President. President
Grant Visited tie Capitol yesterday on the novel
e1rand Of pressing the nomination for con-
d.matloa, Just as he lobbied for the
San Domingo scheme, but the surprising
restlt is reported that his eyes wero
opened by the Senators whom he summoned
to consultation to the mistake he had made,
and he left them With the assurance given above.
The nomination Of Caleb Cushing as Minister to
Scam was up before the Senate yesterday, but
action on it was deferred. apparently in the be-
LET that Mr.. Gushing was ths Presidents next
choice for Chief-Justice, aud that bus name
would be submitted in place Of that OF the OBJ
1odous Attorney-General
, 1874-01-06

The debate On the Salary bill in the Senate
yesterday turned on the amendment offered by
Senator Pratt, who proposes tha: all tho members
OF tie present Congress shall be paid at tho cate
Of 5000 year, and shall be made to reimburse
the Treasury for the additional pay they have
drawn since March 4, 1878. Tie amendment
VAS opposed by Senators Logan. Morrill,, and
Stewart, md alvo :ated Ly Senators Thurman
and Edmunds, who declared themselvea in favor
Of any mcasurs that would help repair the
wrong that had been DONE An attempt will ba
made to bring the bill to vota to-dly.
, 1874-01-06

The alleged decease OF the Jeffersonian DEM
ocratic- Republican principle was very vigorously
contradicted in the House Of Representatives
yesterday, by Alexander II. Stephens, in his
speech in opposition to the Supplementary Civil
Rights bill, and he assured tho country that this
vital principle would continue to 1--we as long as
thunder and lightning, and several other natural
phenomena which lie ramed, continued to ap-
pear Mr. Stephens delivered long written
speech in opposition to the bill. which he dlsfa~
vorcd, not from prejudice against any class or
lace, but because it was beyond the const1tu-
tiond powers Of Congress, and because such
law would grove iue1pcd1ent, o7en If the Con-
stitution gave Congress the power to pass it.
, 1874-01-06

96.9o@6.35 per 100 Tbs. Highwlnes we're active
and 1c stronger, closing at 94c per gallon. Flour
was quiet aud strong. Nheat Was active. and
2kc higher, cloeing at s1.22N cash, and s1.253sz
seller February Corn WAS in good demand and
&c higher, closing at 543zc cash. and 5sc Beller
February. Oa:s were more active and }4c
higher, closing ut SOC cash. and 40@4o3Sc seller
February. Rye vas quiet and firm at tic. Bar
ley was in better dem@nd and higher, closing at
sl42 for No. 2, and s1.2o for No. 8, both ''regu-
laf" Live hogs were active aud strong at $3.50
@5.50. Cattle and sheep we're in GOOD demand
aud unchanged.
, 1874-01-06

The attempt which was mado unsuccessful'y
mission appointed to investigate what is called,
tor convenience sake. the labor question, was
removed yesterday by Mr. Hoar, Of Massachu-
sets. He moved that a commission of three be
appointed to report Oh the seneral condition OF
tue 1abo.ins classes, the division Of the products
Of labor between them and capitalists. and how
these are affected by The commercial. financial,
and currency laws of The county. Very much
tue same ground is covered by the Bureau OF
Statistics OF Massachusetts, and Alr. Hoar prob
ably drow the hint for his bill from its opera
tiona
, 1874-01-06

large demand for just such men in this country
1t the present time, and BY the time be could &C.
auire citizenship and aca1stom himself to the
ways Of the New World, the people would
bo in q mood to appreciate him. There is little
use in man's throwing away life, that might
be 30 useful elsewhere, upon people who can
not understand his high aims and noble pur-
noses. He eau do the cause OF Republicanism
great service in this country, where it needs the
support and counsels Of such as he, wh9le he
can do nothing for it among people Who do
not comprehend it OF want it. CASTELAR, aud
the United States would be mutually benefited
by the change, and Spain would never learn to
know what she had lost.