The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-05-11

agreed upon. The amount, thirty-three mil
lion dollars; about three million five hun
bred thousand dollars less than last year.
The New York World says: In view
of the fact that the state of New York will
exercise a powerful, if not controlling in
fuence in the election of the next president,
the democratic party is more and more crys-
talizing about the name of Gov. Tilden.
The house committee on territories has
agreed to report favOrably on the senate bill
for the admission of New Mexico. The only
important amendment provides that an cleo
ton for the adoption of a state constitution
shall not be had earlier than June, 1877. The
senate provides not later than January, 1877.
It is stated that the French minister
of foreign affairs is considering the basis of
a commercial treaty with the United States.
1t is proposed to place French silks and
wines on an advantageous footing as to tariff
in the United States, while France in return
is to subject American cotton to only a small
import duty.
The recent decision by the United
States supreme court in the Arkansas Hot
Springs case in favor of the government pro
vides Uncle Sam with property valued at
| $1O,OOO,OOO. The tract is claimed by ex-
Governor Rector. It contains a large pOpu-
lation and the celebrated Hot Springs The
case has been in litigation twenty-five years,
and two of the litigants have been pOcketing
| $4,000 a year each out of the property for
ten years. The RectOrs have not made up
their mind to abandon the fight for the boz
nanza.
At the beginning of the next fiscal year
a large reduction will be made in the clerical
force of the United States treasury depart
ment which will render necessary the dis
| charge of several hundred of the present
| employees. The amount of this reduction
will depend upon the action which congress
finally takes on the appropriation bill now
pending in the house.
In order to cover the expenses of the
centennial exhibition, it will be necessary to
obtain 81, 500, 900 through the medium of adj,
mission fees, as that is the amount of the
deficit, the total expenses having been esti-
mated at $S,5OO,OOO, with the following re-
sources:
State of Pennsylvania. 900, OOC
| City of Philadelphia...... 800, OOO
| Concessions gifts and interest 49,. 100000
Stock subscrlptiO -. 25UO,OOU
| Appropriation by the United States 100000
Total ,0Oe, 900
A Washington dispatch states that
steps are being taken by the encouragement
to take possession for the government of the
Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas. Judge
Pierrepont will move for the appointment
of receiver for these lands. 1t is under.
| stood that threats have been made against
persons attempting to take possession for
the government, and in this event it is GER
tain that troops will be brought into requi'
sltion to enforce the decision of the court.
The much talked of cutoff that tore
through the narrow strip of the Mississippi
river opposite Vicksburg last week is one Of
the shortest ever known to have occurred in
the valley of the river. The distance around
the bend or newly formed lake is about five
miles, and the newly made channel flow:
across so as to strike the eastern shore near
" opposite, but a little below the southern
part of the city. 1t is likely that the only
effect of this freak of the river on Vicksburg
will be to change the landing for steamboat,
to a point somewhat lever than it is now
that is, if the lake ever fills up with sand
bars, so as to make the water too shoal fol-
them to ascend to the present landing point
The area of the newly formed island oppo-
site the city is less than 5000 acres. Last
| August, when a survey was made, the dis
lance across the narrow neck of the PENN
suIa was 951 feet. The engineers then caIcu
lated that the cut would make through ana
Vicksburg would be left on the margin o.
the newly Ike some time about Jan
uarv last. They were of course slightly mis-
taken as to the time.
Mr.. L. S. Hunt, of Boston, has com
piled some statistics concerning the minera
wealth of the country which are really in
| teresting. He divides the country by NORTH
and south line at the eastern base of tn,
Rocky mountains, upon the Atlantic side o
which are coal, iron, copper, lead, salt and
petroleum, and upon the Pacific side th'
more precious minerals. The grand total o
coal for 1873 he finds to be about fifty mil
lions of tons. In 1872, iron reached its high
est figures of production, the total being twt
million eight hundred aud eighty thousant
and seventy tons. In 1874 the Lake Supe
( rioi mines alone turned out seventeen thou