The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-11
TIMELY TOPICS.

premature, as it is known from the
best authority that the final conclusion
of the arrangement has to await the
formal recognition of the new govern
ment OF King Alfonso by the United
States. The credentials and instruc-
tions under this head me now on their
way to Minister Gushing. The prelim-
mary agreement stipulates for the pay
ment of S1s, 600 in full satisfaction Of
the Virginius claims of a personal char
acter, and the abandonment on the part
of Spain of all reclamstions against the
United States. The Autograph letter
from Alfonso to the president is purely
a formal one, only announcing his ac-
cession to the throne and expressing his
desire for continuance of good rela-
ti0ns. No day has yet been fixed by the
secretary of stlte for the presentation
of this letter to the president by the
Spanish minister. It is presumed it
will not take place until the government
of King Alfonso shall have been recop-
nizsd by our government, through its
representative at Madrid, and pending
questions satisfactorily adjusted.
THE house committee which visited
Mississippi to investigate the condition
OF affairs in that state, have submitted
two reports, the republicans uniting IN
majority report, and the democrats in
minority. The former review fully
the causes leading to the election OF
Crosby from office. They state that
the regularly elected officers were ousted
from Office, and the entire records,
papers, Offices, court houses, and all
county property unlawfully and riotous-
ly seized upon by an unlawful combina-
tion of men, not only without warrant,
but in direct and palpable violation and
deliberate transgression of ali the prin-
ciples and forms of law known TO any
civilized people. Tue report concludes
as follows: The committee believe
there is an urgent necessity for further
action by this congress, and concur in
recommending the pa. sage of the eau
Gus bill and the adoption of the follow
ing:
Resolyed, That the violent overthrow
of law ami order in Vicksburg justides
the application OF Gov. Ames for troops
and the action of the president in or
dering them sent to that city.
A PAPER read before the Minnesota
agricultural society a few days ego
showed that $50, 600 acres of woodland
were stripped bare in that state every
year, and, at that rate, it was stated,
the people would freeze to death by the
year 1900, having frittered away all
their fuel. Several millions of trees
have been planted, however, within a
few years in Minnesota, so they may
have few sticks left when the twenti-
eth century dawns on the world. In the
southern states the destruction of tim
Der has been far greater than in the
north. Who'e forests of fine large trees
have been girdled and Turned up, in
order to cultivate cotton. A more wan
ton destruction of trees he's rarely beer
seen, and in the neir fu uTe the results
will be apparent if the European system
of tree-planting is not Immediately
adopted. Onr southern winters will
grow pe5ceptibly colder with the de-
sruction of the forests, and state legis-
lation on the subject of tree planting,
as is the case in some western states, is
desirable.
CHICAGO, when in need of sensa
lien, always falls back on either a fire
or the Communists. When there is no
actual fire, one is imagined, and the
newspapers write it up as if it really
happened. When the fire sensation is
played out, the Communists are brought
to the froI t, ard it is telegrsphed oil
oven the country that Chicago is about
to be sacked 10y lascals. People are
getting used to this sort of Chicago adj
vertising, so they are not astonished to
learn that the late predicted Commn-
ist raid upon the hearih-ston of Chi
clgo's citizens turued out to be con-
temphble tizz'e. About thirty or forty
drunken idiots stage cred throuy Oh the
'reets crying Down with the tyrantr'
but the police knocked them down with
their clubs and gave the frightened
Chicagoans an opportunity TO cone
down from their D oofs and out Of theit
cellars, whittier they hal fed
THAT gigantic undertaking, the tun-
rel under the British Channel, is at
length in fair way of accomplishment
The French minister of public wotls
has Just laid before the a assemby a bill
to declare of public utility the construe-
ton OF a railway uuder the channel
between England and F.ance, and to
approve Of convention, signed on the
10 II January, 1875, between the minis
ter OF public works and NJ. Michel
Chevalier, the latter representing "a COM
pany IN course of formation for the
sn'ession, without subvention or guar
antee of interest, of the said tunnel
railway. The enormous capital re-
quired will be forthcoming, snd it is
expected that operations will soon COM
nence. Engineers regard the work
with great interest snd favor.
THE Republic has bsen definitely
adopted as the form of government in
France, aUd the work of framing con-
ttitution-modeled in some respects
ON the American constitution-has made
very fsir progress 10 the assembly. 1t
may prove after al that republic is
practicable in France, in spite of the
failure of all previous attempts in that
direction. The new constitution is ex-
tremtly conservative and will greatly
disglst the communists and the extreme
radicals, but il may very possibly COM
msnd the support of all conservative
psople except the personal adherenis of
the various p'etendeIs to the French
throne, aud thus give peace and pros
perity to France
A WASHINGTON dispatch says it is
proposed to provide a small appropria.
ton IN the sundry civil appropriation
,ftI for fh.