The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-11
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

Gen. Wade Hampton is spoken of a
probable democratic candidate for gov
erncr of South Carolina.
Colorado produces $4,000 in silver
for every twenty-four hours, $4,000 in gold
and $1,000 in other minerals, or $4,000
da lily, IaI to So, 100000 yearly.
Rice culture in Louisiana employs
10000 people, on 200 plantations; p. oduces
a crop worth So 100000, and develops tusi,
ness to extent of $F0,OOO,OOO
All the cavalry now on duty in south
ern Kansa, Texas and the Indian Territory
have been ordered to join Gen. Terry or
Crook, and will leave for tkeir destination at
once.
The st. Augustine (Fla.) Press COM
plains that the Indians are allowed to walk
the streets as late as 10 o'clock at night, with
bayonets and cartridge-boxes strapped
around them.
Gov. Stone, of Alabama, has COM
muted the death sentence pronounced
against Alexander Alsop for the murder of
VIM. Berger, to imprisonment for life. Alsop
was sentenced to be hung next Friday.
The citizens of Owensboro having
failed to raise the $4,000 necessary to pur-
chase the Evansville, Owensboro and Nash
vile railroad, all trains have been discon-
tinued over the road, and the purchaser of
the road will begin Immediately to tear u
| the rails and convert them into cash.
A letter from South Carolina says two
companies of the regular garrison left
! Columbia for Aiken, opposite Hamburg, on
| the twenty-second, and VIII remain there all
summer. This is done in obedience to orders
| from the war department. Two companies
| have been ordered to Hamburg.
Runners are reported arrived at Red
Cloud agency, said to have come from Crazy
Horses band of Minneconjous, stating that
that chief, with a portion of his band had
left Sitting Bulls domains, and they are en-
route to the agencies, avowedly to treat for
peace.
The Mississippi valley direct trade
with Brazil project, which has lately been
engaging so much attention at St. Louis and
New Orleans, seems to have fallen through.
chiefly owing to what the st. Lonis Com
mercial Gazette calls the indifference of the
sleepy capitalists, merchants and manufac-
turers of those two cities.'
A mother of four children in New Or
leans has been convicted of regularly send
ing them out to steal. by practice they be-
came very expert, and the profit of their
theiving enabled the woman to buy a house
and live comfortably. She devoted herself
to the sale of the stolen articles and the gen.
eral direction of the children.
On Tuesday, July is, when the ther-
mometer was 94o in the shade at the foot of
Pixies Peak, Col, there occurred on top OF
that high mountain furious snow-storm,
completely covering the peak and sides with
a coat of white.
News comes from Red Cloud agency
that some dissatisfaction is felt by the In
dians at the meager supply of food, which
consists entirely of corn, flour and beef.
They insist on sugar, coffee and tobacco in
fulfillment of treaty stipulatons, and further
attribute the departure from the agencies of
those who have joined hostilities to this
fact, rather than to the desire for war.
Gen. Sheridan recommends the in
crease Of the companies of the second,
third, fourth, fifth and seventh cavalry to
one hundred men, as was done for the two
regiments on the Rio G ande. The number
OF men reql ired to FL up the seventh regi-
ments will be $500, and the expense
II 200.
New Orleans Oa) Bulletin: Ad-
mirable in situation beyond any city in the
world. if she have enterprise and sagacity
in keeping with her natural advantages, |
New Orleans ought to command wealth and |
growth beyond any other. WhO indeed |
shall be restored to self-government by the |
repeal of the pestiIent legislation which has |
en>laved her, and the bell of Ieliverauce !
shall ring in the era when the race of the |
rival cities that lie in the lap of the great |
valley shall be startled,
A new feature is about TO be intro |
duced into the cotton trade of New Orleans
that to all accounts will have u favorable
effect on the business at that city. This is
in the form of a new and imin, nse cotton
press, having n COMPRISING power greater
than any similar machine now in use in this
country. The dimensions of the cylinder
are seveuty-fve inches diameter and ten feet
stroke of piston, and by an improvement
patented by the company the power will be
hundred and twenty-five pounds OF steam,
will put net pressure of about ? ,2OO tons
upon a bale of cotton after deducting loss
from friction.
Advices from Gen. Crooks command, |
in camp on the south fork of the Tongue
river, July 23d, via Fort Fetterman, July
Goth, are of importance. The main body of
Sioux are believed to have taken to the Big
Horn mountains, where game is more abund-
ant and the grass fresher The efforts of the
Indians to burn the grass in the valleys
makes it almost imperative on Crook to fol-
low them up at once. His force musters
twelve hundred regular soldiers and citizen
besides the two hundred Snake
allies, and he feels that he can at least hold
his own on any ground the enemy may
select. 1t is expected the wagons will be
parked on the main branck of Tongue river,
near the mountains, and, with the pack
train loaded with from fifteen to twenty
days rations, a vigorous but careful advance
will Immediately follow. 1t is not deemed
advisable for Crooks end Terry's forces to
unite previous to a move by one or the other
Of the commands, as ii is thought that the
Indians would make stand against one of
he columns, and that by arraying them, and !
having the other column reserved to either I
light or follow up, something decisive may {
be expected during the summer campaign I
The enemy is believed to be on the head
waters of Ash Creek and the Little Big i
Horn, not far from the Montana and Wyom- ]
ug line, thirty to forty miles from Crooks
present camp. Gen. Merritt left Fetterman
his morning with eight companies of the l
fifth cavalry. Two more on their way to !
Fetterman will take some hundred and Fifty !
and follow in few days.
EAST.