The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-08
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.


struck for higher wages.
+ The east branch penitentiary is to
\ built at Rusk, Texas.
w. H. Hunt has been appointed alto
ney-general of Louisiana, vice Fields, d
ceased. - t.-#
Two companies of United States trOoI
from Mcpherson Barracks, Atlanta, haJ
been ordered to rendezvous at Edgefel
courthouse.
The new rice crop is beginning to al
rive at Charleston. S. C.
John ReardOn, or Redding, one of tn
Dallas, Texas, bank robbers, has been .caI
tured.
The first bale of cotton from Nortl
Carolina was sold at the New York cottol
exchange for 1214 cents per pound.
Fifty-one workmen from Paris, Bor
deaux, Uavre, Marseilles, Lyons and othe
cities in France, sent by the French govern
meut to visit the exhibition at Philadelphia
and study the improvements which are max
ing in the different trades they represent
have arrived.
1t is now reported that the prOspec
for an abundant cranberry crop in the St
| Croix Valley, Miss, was never more prom
ising. 1t is stated that the crop this yea
will pay tor all the improvements made oI
improved marshes. The berry crop this year
so far, has been good.
The cutoff in the Mississippi river al
Vicksburg, Miss, does not as yet leave thai
| l. IL ha l-cl Hpr
aid says: "Just as we predicted before il
occurred, the cutoff has been a benefit tC
the city instead of an injury. 1t has relieved
| the suspense in regard to the matter, with
out inlicting, as vet, the least damage, and
with nothing worse to fear in the future than
possibly a small outlay to keep the harbor
clear"
A general order from the war depart
ment directs Col. Ruger, on assuming com
mand of the department of the south, on or
about September 1, to transfer the headquar-
ters of the department to Atlanta, Ga. The
companies of the second infantry, now in the
department of the gulf, will be transferred
TO the department of the south and head
quarters, and the companies of the sixteenth
infantry, now in that department, will be
transferred to the department of the gulf.
The Turkish minister at Washington,
Aristarchi Bey, has received an official declar
alton by the Turkish government, dated the
18th, giving the history of the beginning of
the hostilities with Servia and Montenegro,
representing that the Porte was compelled
to repel aggression by force, and that the
Porte had religiously adhered to the treaty
of Paris, and that the onus of having broken
their treaty stipUlatiOns rests on the princes
of Servia and Montenegro.
Strenuous efforts of the English and
German iron firms, says the Springfield Re-
publican, to supply the rolling stock of Bra
lillian railways have failed to get the trade
away from American manufacturers. The
American goods are preferred for their quail
ity, after a trial OF the European, and the
expectation or our locomotives and cars has
revived, one brig carrying out parts Of twelve
common-gause and two narrow gauge loco
motives and a half-dozen cars, the other day,
to be assembled on arrival.
A dispatch from the Yellowstone eX
petition, from the steamer Josephine, near
the mouth of the Yellowstone, August goth,
by way of Bismarck, August 25th, says that
since the junction of Crook and Terry, it is
hoped to overtake and force fight with the
Sioux The command moved west to Big
Horn mountains, where, on the fourteenth,
a trail five or six days old and two miles
wide, being the heaviest ever seen on the
prairies, was discovered. This trail finally
separated, and the Indians were foun1 to be
. To- fha
north, toward the British possessions, with
probable intention of crossing the line; the
other going south, along the Little Missouri,
for the purpose of crossing the Missouri river
above fort Berthold. There is every indica-
ton that the hoStiles have been heavily rein
forced by the agency Indians. They have their
families, and evidently intend remaining
nth this winter. The army has difficult
programme, and it will be almost miraculous
if they overtake the savages, who are well
mounted, and when the supplies are ex-
hausted the soldiers will have to return to
the supply camp. A later dispatch, 1ateGtAu-
gust 23d, by way of Bismarck, says: "Crook
and Terry, after following the trail discOv-
cred on the twelfth, moved thirty-six miles
down the Rosebud. The northern trail was
abandoned on the fourteenth, and the COM
mand pursued the southern trail, crossed
Tongue river to Goose Creek, thence re-
turned to Powder river, followed it to its !
mouth, which they reached on the eight |
eenth, where they went into camp, and will |
remain until the twenty-fourth. The wagon |
train and all supplies at the mouth of the |
Tongues are being shipped to the mouth of |
Powder river, and it is expected that the !
wagon train will reach there tomorrow |
morning. The Indian trail diverged from |
the east bank of Powder river about twenty |
miles from its moIth, south; again toward |
the Little Missouri river, whence the COM
maud will follow speedily. The entire com.
mand is short of supplies, and unless other
wise ordered, General Terry will march such
as are not needed over to fort Abraham Lin
coin. General Crooks command will scout
towards the Black Hills and via Fetterman,
home. Crook and Terry both think it too
late for extended field operations. The In
dians On the southern trail are believed to
be making toward the agencies, and Terry |
will, if possible, intercept them. The cam
paign is therefore practically closed, unless |
further instructions come from the heuten- !