Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-03

The Spanish authorities have re- |
moved the butcher, Gen. Burriel, !
of his command, at Santiago de |
Cuba.
Captain General Joveller of Cuba
has been clothed with dictatOrial
powers.
a stencil of corruption now
comes from Brooklyn, New York.
The charity convention has squan-
dered or misapplied 100000. And
away we go.
MARSHALL, TEXAS, Dec. 30.-
The Texas Pacific Railroad was
completed to Texarkana, the pro-
posed junction with the Cairo and
Fulton road, yesterday, and regular
traius will commence running at
once.
The Vicksburg Herald says: eve
were mistaken the other day in
stating that the late Mrs. Stamps
was the only sister of the Hon. JEFF
ferson Davis. He has sister still
hving-Mrs. Amanda Bradford now
on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. DIR.
e. J. Mitchell, of this city"
New YORK, Dec. SO.-Early this
morning a fire broke out in fife
story building, No. 60 Greene street,
and before the flames were extin-
guished damage was done to the
amount of nearly two hundred
thousand dollars. SOrner & Bro,
dealers in caps and furs, lose one
hundred thousand dollars ThOs.
J. Cook & Co, and X. j. Wood,
commission houses, ten thousand
dollars each, and Sylvester, Brush
Il Co, dealers in furs, fifty thous-
and dollars.
New YORK, Dec. 3O.-After land
ing at the yard last evening the sur
viVing members of the passengers
and crew of the steamer Virginius,
they marched in an irregular line to
the Fulton ferry, taking a boat
there to New York, and thence pro-
ceeding to a Cuban restaurant in
Pine street, where they were hos
pitably entertained. They were
clad in the navy Uniform of the
United States, and marched brisky
through the streets, showing no
signs of their recent sufcrings.
When transferred TO the tugbOat
from the steamer Juniata, which
carried them to this port from San
tiago, they gave rousing cheers for
their several benetactOrs, leading
of with three for the commander of
the British steamer NiObe, to whom
they feel indebted for the preserva-
ton of their lives.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. %
The President has approved the bill
removing the political disabilities
of Z. J. Harvie, Thomas ;. BOcOck
and Daniel Trigg, of Virginia, and
John IL. Regain, of Texas.
The Attorney-General has q re-
port from Colonel Whitney, of the
Treasury secret service force,
upon the frauds of United States
officers in the Western District of
Arkansas, under Marshal BrittOn
and his successor, Logan III. Roots.
The reports claim that nearly all
the officers in that district are in
some way compromised, and that
the government has been regularly
and Systematically defrauded by
manufacturing claims through bo-
gus arrests of bogus persons, bogus
witnesses, bogus fees, and bogus
service of warrants at distant
points, and charges for travel never
performed. One of the Senators
from Arkansas is attempting to pre-
vent action being taken in the mat
ter.
The executive committee of the
National Oranges has just adjourn
ed, after q weeks session here. The
organization has raised 100000
during the year; has paid its debts,
and has a surplus of $4,000, forty
thousand of which it has invested
in government bonds. On last Sat
urday the number of applications
received for authority to establish
new oranges reached one hundred,
the most received on any one day.
The applications now come chiefly
from Eastern, Middle, and South
ern States.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has decided that henceforth no
duties shall be charged on impOrta-
tions of tropical fruit.