Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-15

circular GAZING upon the Natlonal DahhS
for reports of their condition at the close OF
business Friday, Oct. 2.
The State Executive Committee Of the Dem
ocratic and Conservative party of Alabama
have issued an address to the people of the
United States, denying the truth of the
charges made by Minister Spencer, Congress
men White, Hayes and Pelham, and j. j..
Martin as to outrages in that State, and
alleging their untruth, and that such
charges were made for the purpose of in
fuencing the elections in the North and West
and to procure Federal troops to be sent to
control the election in Alabama.
The Railway Commissioners Of the North
western States, recently in session at Madison,
Wis, adopted form for reports, so that the rail
road statistics of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota
and Wisconsin will be collated and published
in uniform series of tables. The next meet
ing will be held at Springfield on the 9th Of
December, when the consideration of the sub
iect of legislation and classification viii. be
resumed.
A Charleston Is. c. dispatch states that
10000 voters of the city, black and white, as
sembled in mass meeting on the night of the
Sd, to demand from Gov. Moses the removal
Of the Board of Election Commissioners, al
leging that they are INSCRIPTIONS partisans.
A committee was appointed to present to the
Governor petition for the removal Of the
Commissioners
A Washington dispatch of the 9TH says the
Commissioners to settle the affairs of the
Freednen's Savings and Trust Company had
written to a correspondent to the effect that
it was impossible to say when a dividend
would be paid. They had only $4,000 of the
100000 required for dividend of 20 per cent.
1t had been determined to close the thirty
three branches at the end of this month.
A number Of Texas steers, which arrived in
New York on the evening of the 4th, while
passing through the lower part of the city, be-
came infatuated by the noises and lights, and
eight of them broke from the droyers, rush
ing in various directions. Before the steers
were shot nearly fifty people were injured by
them, some seriously.
A recent dispatch from the United States
Marshal at Montgomery, Ala, announces the
arrest of several persons charged with com
plicity in the murder of one w. p. Billings in
August last
The New York Times of the 9TH publishes a
dispatch from New Orleans stating that, upon
the arrival of the United States troops at
Coushatta, some fifteen White Leaguers who
were engaged in the recent murders at that
place left town and fled to Arkansas and
Texas
A letter was received at the Postoiiice De
partment in Washington on the 9TH from
special agent sent to investigate the murder
of a colored route agent in Alabama IA little
over a month ago, which says: "The reign of
terror existing in this country at present far
exceeds anything of the kind have ever seen
Armed bodies of men are riding over the coun-
try, and colored people are afraid to go into
the fields to save their crops from waste and
ruin" This letter is dated :" In the Woods,
near Livingston, Sumter County, Ala, Sept
29.n
The Conservative State Central Committee
Of Louisiana has issued an address to the
people in which they claim that the White
Leagues were organized rs an offset to Black
Leagues, composed of colored men, which at
one time, they say, were numerous through
out the State
There will be total eclipse of the moon
on the night Of the oath inst, visible in this
country. The eclipse will begin little before
and end about three O'Clock on the
morning of the 18th, the total occurring
about one o'clock
Washington dispatches OF the 18th state that
applications for troops were constantly reach
ing the War Department from Alabama,
Tennessee and Louisiana. Gen. sheridan had
been requested to spare a regiment'from his
command and the Thirteenth Infantry had
been ordered to report to the Department of
the South. The Secretary of War says if he
were required to comply with all the applica-
tions received it would be necessary to largely
increase the force of the army.
{. c. Warren, of Princeton, H., has OBJ
tanned Judgment for $1,000 against the Chi
cago, Burlington n Quincy Railroad for ex.
'ortionate passenger and freight charges
The Grand Jury at Salt Lake City, Utah,
have indicted one of their own number,
Thomas f. Kicks, for polygamy. He is
charged with having five wives, three of whom
were married to him since 1862 His own
laughter is one of the principal witnesses.
The Attor ney General of Wisconsin has
stipulated with the general solicitor of the
Chicago x Northwestern Railway Company
o unitedly ask the United States Supreme
court TO take up the railroad case appealed
rom the United States District Court at
Madison, and set it down for trial on the 10th
lay of December next
Gov Kellogg, in reply to recent address
,f the Conservative State Committee, asserts
MS anxiety to secure Il fun registration and a
air election, and declares his willingness to