Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-12-16

washburn formally restored to Oscar de
Lafayette. grandson Of the Marquis La
fayette, the watch presented to the latter
by Washington, to commemorate the
surrender of Lord CORVALLIS at York
town. The restoration Of the valued
relic took place at the American En-
bassy. and was attended by many dis
tinguished personages. NJ. de I,afay-
cite, in reply acknowledged his thanks
for the relic, and also thanked Wash
burn for the kind words he had uttered.
and added that the Lafayette family were
filed with profound gratitude for the
sympathetic remembrances which have
been preserved for them for so many
years. He requested Washburn to ex-
press to the American people and their
Congress and Government the thanks Of
the Lafayette family. and their homage
and admiration for their grand country.
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TIE vIcKsBuBa TRouBLEs.-The dis
turbances at vicksburg we're. - usual,
caused BY set Of thieving officials, who
were stealing all they could lay hands
on, rapidly bankrupting the county |
and making property without value in
consequence of the fearful burden Of |
taxation. The following telegram af- |
fords brief but complete explanation Of
tie situation: III.
vIcxsBURa, Dec. 9.-The Board of Su.
pervisors to-day accepted the resignation
Of Sheriff Crosby. An election will be
ordered soon. An examination Of the
records furnish the evidence of forgery
and ENHANCEMENT by Sheriff Crosby,
Chancery Clerk Wash. Davenport, and
other negro officials, who are all under
indictment except Crosby. The stolen
records were found this evening under
Davenport's house. Davenport is
fugitive.
The Coso Mines. in California, which
were prospected as long ago as 1860, are
again attracting public attention. The
Panamint News, OF Dec. 9Th, says:
We learn that there is q great rush,
particularly from Lone Pine and Cerro
Gordo, to the new Coso District. 1t
seems to be an established fact that there
are some huge lodges, Of the best and
richest quality Of smelling ores. in that
district, and the same, next to Pana-
mint, bids fair ere long to be the biggest
in the county.
A LARGE and influential organization
Of colored men has been formed at
Memphis for the express purpose Of dis
owning and frustrating the baleful rule
Of the carpet-baggers. Time rights most
errors, and that is very rapidly approach
ing when to the very worst elements of
society will not be committed the task
of controlling States and municipalities.
PooR P1cKEr.-A petition is being cir
culated in California asking the Supreme
Court OF that State to release Philoso-
pher Pickett. The poor man is q little
cracked, but perfectly harmless, but just
as he stands, has great deal moro sense
and magnanimity than the members Of
the tribunal that, to their shame, have
imprisoned their victim for four long
months.
TIE London Times gives the particu-
lars Of the terrible privations endured by
part Of the crew Of the ship Arracan,
which was burnt at sea. The men were
thirty-one days in an open boat, the
greater part Of the time without provis-
ions or water. They were rescued 600
miles from land by the ship City Of Man.
chester.
Is IT not curious that while Page. the
Congressional attorney Of the Central
Pacific, is pretending to make fuss in
Congress about Chinese emigration, his
employers, the railroad company, are
working large forces Of Cinnamon ex.
tending the southern Pacific. Is 1t not
we'll for precept and prastic to 60 to.
gether.
RECENT dispatches indicate that the
Canadian Pacific Railroad is being COM
menced in good earnest. If this under.
taking is finished in a few years, it will
serve as an effsctual check upon the ra-
pacity Of the other trans.continental
lines.
Col. FoRNEY says the British Govern.
.. ment will send commissioner to the
, centennial.
! TIE British Prime Minister, Disraeli,
is very sick, and it is thought likely be
will retire from public life.
AT San Francisco A. W. Won Schmidt,
the we'll known civil engineer, has been
arrested on charge of perjury.
, NEWS BY MAIL.
New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Tribune,
; referring to the Proctor-M oulton settle