Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-12-25
TELEGRAPHIC.
The Gazette office, at Little Rock ARK.
,,9s ,li-truycd by ire Monday.

on tho ran lidlidie To'tu II 10 I
lumbus, Ohio, Saturday
1t is reported that an armed bcly of I
MexiCars advanced On the town Of C%mDO /
lCal.,J Friday, but retired on discovering .
preparations for defense
six thousand persons, it is estimated,
Witnessed the execution of W. b. ThOmp-
son, at Lewisburg, Ark, Friday.
Two men were found frozen 10 death
Saturday night, one near Fremont, y.
H.. a1d one at Lowell, Mass,
SIX hundred bales Of cotton burned
with the barge Te'r., near MOrgan's
Point, Texas, Friday night.
IN. Goldsmith st c., dealers in ma
Val stores, Boston, have failed, with lia-
bilities aggresating 1923, 900.
\ convention to frame a constitution
for the STATE Of Colorado assembled I'm
Denver Monday.
The $50, 600, four mile race, at san
Francisco, is now announced TO take place
February 22d.
Gen. Jovellar, Minister of War, has
been appointed Captain General of Cuba,
and will shorty leave for Cuba.
X. ". UImiin was arrested in Forrest
City Ark, Monday, supposed to have
been concerned in the Corinth, Miss,
bank robbery last year.
Don Pedro, emperor of Brazil, will
embark on the goth Of March fer New
York, to begin his tour of North Ameri-
ga and Europe.
Mount Fesuvius shows gradual in
crease OF fire and smoke. Instruments in
the observatory are ia motion, and Prof.
PSlmieri predicts "a long period Of erup-
ton.
Eorty-seyen hunter, from the United
States have been arreste, fc- killing dear
out of season in the vicinity of Moose
creek, Ontario. They have been fined
and the game confiScared.
The Italian commission on the Ameri-
can Centennial exhibition has received
600 applications for space in the Italian
department. The larger Fart Ga the ex-
hibiiors will send work of at.
Mary Ogle threw he-sel' under the
wheels of an express train, nea Pitts
burg, saturday, and in backing up 70
pick up the body, ,he cars killed an old
man who was walking on the track.
To-day, Monday, the courthouse, one
of the finest in the State, at Camden
Ark, was consumed by fire. The books,
records, and all papers pertaining to the
NAtAh OilltS W ere htsliDJ Nn-
A Commission of Lunacy has reported
to Gov. Tilden, of New York, that Jacob
Standermans, sentenced to be hanged fer
the murder of his sweetheart. is insane,
and he viii doubtless be sent for life to
the State Lunatic Asylum.
The president of the Centennial Board
of Finance publishes card saying the cit
liens of Philadelphia contributed the
funds necessary to entertain, Saturday
last, the President, Supreme Court and
Congress. The Centennial Board OF Fl
nance bore no part Of the expense.
1t is reported that a compromise has
n...efIected between the Califonis
Pacific railroad aud the bonGhOlders
! The managers agree TO bring the over
/ land travel over that road, and make
Vallejo the terminus OF the California and
/ Oregon road.
! 1t is LOrted that Mexicans crossed the
/ Rio Grande below San Felipe and stole
/ eight hundred head of cattle and fifty
/ horses form Strickland a. Slaughter
/ The citizens are raising companies, and
/ threaten TO cross the river. Great excite
me 1t prevails.
/ The Secretary of the Interior has deci-
+ ded upon the appeal of the long contested
: case of the heirs of Murray Mcconnell
| rs. Chicago and Northwestern X. p. Co.
involving the title in land lying on the
north and at the mouth or Chicago ri-rr
| upon which the depot of the Company
now stands, and of which the reported
value is several millions. The decision
being in favor Of the company, and To the
effect that their title to the land is valid.
WASHINGTON. December 2O.-The con,
current resolutions which Senator
M'Donald, of Indiana, Will offer in tbs
senate, after the holiday recess, as sub
| stisute for those recently submitted by
senator Morton, and of which he gave
notice To-day, have not yet been perfect
| ed, and therefore could not be presented
The following is a rough sketch of them
, containing the substance thereof, though
| the phraseolOgy may be changed some
wha1 before their presentation to the
! senate:
Resolved, That the people of tn,
United States constitute nation, anC
are one people in manner only and L
/ the extent provided for in the Fed
al constitution and amendments there.
to.
Resolved, That the united colonie.
declared and archieved their indepen-
! dencc, and the Federal constitution was
/ formed and adopted by several States for.
merly comprising the confederacy, ant
] Ndllth LllG l GAlNb EDLdlGo III -ALltIltI. Allk
/ chief purpose of what was to form more
! perfect union and establish justice, issue
! domestic tranquility and provide for Z
/ common defense, and powers not delega-
| ted to it by the United States, nor pro
! hibited by ii to States, were reserved e
| the State respectively and to the PEG
/ pie.
! Resolved, That as the States were al
! the time of the formation and adoption OF
. rho Eplaf-gl SfIfrIflnn each
I free and independent, except in 20 fan
! only as such sovereignty had been eN-
I prcssly delegated to congress by the ar
| ticles of confederation, the rights resery-
| ed to the States and to the people in the
formation Of the Federal government
were sovereign rights which cannot
| be impaired without usurPation, and the
| only save rule by which to administer
/ the Federal government with respsect Il
/ the rights of the State and people is {
! strict construction of the constitution
/ and amendments thereto, and the assump-
ton of no doubtful powers.
Resolved, That in the formation OF
| the Federal government it was the clear
design to leave each Slate, and the people
thereof, sovereign as to all matter of 4
local domestic concern, and to confer
upon the Federal government sovereign
| powers as to such matters as might affect
the general welfare of all of the States, OF
rs might be necessary to secure domestic
tranquility, which powers are defined in
the Federal constitution and its amend
ments; the people of the United States
therefore, from the nature and character
of their gOvernments-Statea and national
and from their relation to each other,
are not 4 national unity, in the ordinary
sense of that torn.
Resolved. That il being the design 10
make the government formed under the
Federal constitution perpetual, the right
of any State or number of States TO Sc
cede from the Union was not reserved
and so far as the right has been claimed
TO exist il should be deemed forever set
tied against it by the late civil war.