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Southern Cotton Manufactures.

The Atlantic Cotton Mills at Law
renee, whose affairs have been declin-
ing for some time, and necessitate n
reorganization and shrinkage of nomi-
nal capital, are the first victims to
southern competition in cotton manu-
facture. These mills have always man
ufactured standard brown cottons, the
low-grade goods which the new manu-
fucturers of the South first attempt,
and in which they already compete SO
actively as to necessitate the change of
product at Lawrence. .-Springfeld
(HaSS.) Repnbltcaa.
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|ompanied by the name OF the author; not nee.
|arily for publication. but ms evidence OF good
In on the part OF the writer. Write orsy on
aide Of tie paper BE particularly careful
| |clving names and dates, 10 have all lettcrs or
..ca rlain and distinct.
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If you intend TO do a mean thing
put ii oil till tomorrow.
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CREDENTIALS.


Upon reassembling, Mr.. English, ~ Cal
|ioruia, Chairman Of the Committee on Gre
entias. reported that there were no con-
|ested seats and that the States were fully
|eprcsentcd. Upon motion the report ot the
ommlttce was amended so as To admit
elegatts from the District Of Columbia and
he Territories, and then unanimously
|doptcd.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Judge Hanna. Of Indiana, Chairman OF
he Committee on Permanent Organization,
uhmiitcd the following list of officers for
he Convention:
Proncnf John A. McClcrnand. Of mi.
|nis
Iics Presidents ana Secreidries- Alabama, s.
| Lyon and w ". screws, Arkansas, Grand
|on y. Royston and w. II, Cotes, California.
%. Jack Hayes and George VI Cornwall; Colo
| ado, u. y. Martin and Sam. Mcbride, Con.
'ecticut, &. NJ Ingers0ll and Thomas Elmers
,eawarc, John W Hull and y. U. Martin; Flor
|ia, q A. stanley and J. u. llartridge, Georgia,
|suins v. Lester and II. A. Carlton, Illinois, II.
Perry and A. O. Storey; Indiana, John Is.
ftol and Thomas T.. Garvin; Iowa, ID. v. Els.
|vorth and H. III. Thayer, Kansas, Wilson
|hannon and samuel Donaldson, kentucky, w.
Manning and y. s. Goode, Maine, =.
~. ll and $. D. 1eavitt, Maryland,
y. Carmichael and r.. u. johnson, Massa-
husetts. Chas. u. Clark and Michael Norton
'hchigan, Peter White and n. A Minis, Mime
ota, +. q. Mcnley and y v. Norrsh; Missls-
| |ippi, v. y. Houston and Frank Johnson, Mis-
our, A. WI Lamb and William Munfords Me-
faska, Alex Bear and Chas. Mcdonald Neya.
a, John 9. Fall and Il g. Kelly; New ilamp-
hire, =. q. Moulton and y, A. Barker New
| ersey John Hopper and Rudolph Rahc, New
| ork, W. M. Wickham and George w Davids
Forth Carolina u Il Shaber and u. ". y.
Planning. Ohio, VIM. Garter and W. w. Arm
'rong Oregon, X. n. Thompson and II. GU
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Upon the reassembling of the Convention
Mr.. Meredith. Of Virginia, stated that he
had been instructed by the Committee on
Resolutions TO present the result Of their de-
liberations TO the Convention, but that, bis
voice being unequal TO the task, Gov. Dor
sheimcr would read the report. Gov. Dor
sheimer then read as follows:
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CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23.-Sendte Logan pre-
sented petition of disabled soldiers, asking that
the provisions of the act of June IL, 1874, be
extended to include all who lost an arm below
the elbow, or a leg below the knee, and that they
be airowed a pension of $24 per month. Nor
ton presented a petition signed by over Is 900
women in Indiana, and nearly $4,000 voters
of that State, on the subject of temper
ance. asking Congress TO appoint a commission
10 investigate and report to the effect of the aco-
holic liquor traffic. She rman, from the Commit
tee on Finance, reported bill amendatory of the
acts of July H. 1870 and Jan. 20, 1871 authorizing
the refunding of the national debt. Christiancy
introduced bill to regulate the elections and elect
i've franchise in Utah.
Housc.-Forts bill for the preservation of buffalo
from wanton destruction, was passed. The House
INDUCED in long and spirited debate on the bill TO
grant pensions 20 veterans of the war of 1912 .
banning introduced his Army Reform bill, by which
lac hopes to effect an annual saving of 81 100000
large number Of resolutions of minor importa uce
we're introduced.
THURSDAY, Feb. 24.-Sendte.-The House
bill 20 reorganize the Judiciary of the United States
was read and referred. The bill comforting ex-
elusive jurisdiction over Indian reservations upon
United states Courts debated at length and re-
ferred to the Committee on Indian Affair.".
Ho,,se.-A bill was passed to protect the revenues
Of the Patent Office. 1t provides that any officer
who shall receive any money other than his salary
for the work done shall be punishable
by fine or imprisonment IA bill was
reported from the Committee Public Bald
ings and grounds appropriating 100000 for a Gus
tom House at Memphis. After long debate the
amount cut down TO $500 600 and the bill passed
.... The death of Representative Starkweather
announced, and appropriate euogies pro-
nounced.
FRIDAY, Feb. 25.-Sendte. Senate
passed the bill authorizing the increase Of the
amount Of Az per cent. bonds TO be issued from
$500 600 600 20 $500 600 0OO and extending the time
for their payment to thirty years The West Point
Appropriation bill was before the Senate, and a
long debate ensued regarding the proprety of the
proposed reduction of salaries.
Housc. The House refused 10 adopt the report of
the Conference Committee for the payment Of the
interest op The District of Columbia Las bonds and
postponed IL for week Speaker Kerr received
telegram announcing the death of his brother and
Coo was called 70 assume the duties of Speaker pro
tenn. "A number Of private bills were passed.
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Michigan and the Centennial

The lumbermen OF Michigan, SAYS the De-
troit Tribune, are fully aware of the necessity
OF exhibiting specimens of their lumber at the
Centennial Exposition, knowing, ~ they do,
that no State can compete with them in variety
and quality. At Grand Haven samples are be-
ing prepared, one Of them being log seven
feet two inches diameter at the smaller end
From this log a section two feet long is to be
sent, and specimens of plank measuring twelve
feet i'll length. Muskegon will send samples
of ash and pine plank the Saginaw Valley will
contribute the premium plank Of clear pine ex-
hibited at the State Fair by Williams & Co.; La
peer will be represented by oak, ash and cork
pine, from three feet TO five in width and from
four to six inches in thickness. Some logs
twelve feet long will come from the lines Of the
different railroads running through the lum-
Der region, and ranging from four to seven
feet i'll diameter. There are two trees, Norway
pines, said to be 175 feet long, which it is hoped
can be cut in sections and 80 laid together as TO
show their length completely. Mr.. II. Smith,
OF Flint will send, oak, ash and pine Of
large dimensions ana if transportation could
be obtained he would send Il white oak
squarlnS tWenty-fOuf inches, ana eight feet
long. He has some very choice samples Of
hardwood lumber. Others in different parts of
the lumber region propose sending notable
products, and the sooner they notify the Secre-
tary of the Board, F. w. Noble, in this city, OF
their Willingness to furnish samples, the better
The State Board will pay transportation to
Philadelphia on all samples donated to them.
The State Pathological Society is actively at
work also, and will astonish every one with the
elegant display Of fall and winter fruits at the
opening of the exhibition. They have from
fifty to seventy-fiye varieties of apples alone
The Centennial Commission have decided TO
erect building for Pomology, and VIII arrange
the fruits not geographically but effectively
grouping apples with apples pears with pears,
etc. BY this means the physical change of soil
and climate will be demonstrated, and Michi-
gan will have good opportunity to show her
advantages for fruit-growing by the products
she exhibits. Individual exhibitors are prepar-
ing their articles, and will never regret the OPP
portunity to display their wares which il now
presented.
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Feb. %. &c" and on the other side Nov Is,
Ihe cord and tassels are of gold, and the staff
il of rosewood, surmounted by an eagle. 1t
J.. said TO be the abandonment banner in the
State. Twenty members Of the company were
blindfolded and executed silent manual con-
sisilng of forty eight orders ono orders being
given) winding up with "order arms" and
every gun came down "a one. The execution
W n perfect, every gun moved in unison during
the entire performance. In perfection OF ann
the company is not equaled by many of the
older crack companies. The evenings enter
tai lament was concluded by dance, which was
kept up to late hour, and enjoyed by all who
participated
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Detroit Post recon-.
mends Chippewa County, in this State, to set
tiers. We extract from his letter some items,
as follows: "Wthin twenty miles, the re-
hottest point Of Detour at the mouth OF the
st. Marys River, there are now over 200, 600
acres of as good land for many purposes of ag-
ricalture as any in our fair State, all OF which
yet belong to the United States, and is subject
to entry under the Homestead act, or for cash.
These lands are timbered with beech, maple
and cedar all of which are valuable and will
more than pay for clearing up the land ready
for cultivation. There is no doubt but
that when the Marquette and Mackinaw
Railroad is built, the terminus on the Upper
Peninsula will be at Detour, and it is fully be-
Ieved by competent judges that a ferry from
that point to Cheboygan, or even Port Huron,
could be run with as much certainty as now
from Milwaukee to Grand Haven. When that
is accomplished, and not until then, Detroit
will get her share Of the Lake Superior trade,
instead Of the lions share going to Chicago and
other points West. From observations for the
past thirty years, feel confident that any one
with capital of 500 to secure eighty acres of
land, with a brave heart and good wife and
hoe, can soon be surrounded with all the
comforts of life and good home"
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direction, and we cannot commence TO soon.
The history of the United States is not taught
in five thousand of the six thousand schools of
the State. IL occurs to me that this Is not the
way to insure good citizenship in the future.
III our children are thus educated-or rather
uneducated- we shall by-and-by become a ma
ton OF doubters and croakers hope the pa
rents and children, the school officers and
school teachers OF this State will rec to it that
this be changed at once. II from the inspra-
ton Of the time this single reform shall be re-
cured, the Centennial will indeed prove
blessing.
On Saturday, the 18th day Of April mex, |
urge upon every citizen of this State who
owns a piece Of Gods ground whether it be
large or small, whether in city or country.
town or village-tO plant a tree, that our chill
dren and our childrens children may know and
remember rs the tree planted by patriotic
hands in the first Centennial year of the Re-
public. In a country Of landowners, where
the poorest man may, if he will, own the
ground he stands on, this seems most sp-
proprate memorial act, and / earnestly hope
our people will heartily unite in adopting this
suggestion.
am well aware that these are perhaps only
symbols-external show-but will they not be-
speak an inward glow Of patriotic impulse, and
may they not set in motion in the plastic minds
of our youth-and perchence OF elder folk-a
current of patriotism and love of country, that
shall know no ebb !?
Let us now resolve to cherish the legacies OF
Free School, Free Church, Free Press and Free
Town-meeting left us by our Fathers. Let us
preserve simplicity and economy Of govern.
ment as cardinal points in our political creed
and thus make sure that under God govern
ment of the people, by the people and for the
people, shall not perish from earth
JOIN J. BAGLLY.
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ont death and destruction at fearful rate
Two persons are known TO have been killed,
large number seriously injured, and the dam
age to buildings fences ETC., viii reach about
$500, 900.
Next week tho popular comedian, John Dill
Ion, always a favorite in Chicago and through
out the West, will make his bow to the audience
at Mcvicker's Theater, it being his first appear
ance at that house in twelve years. He opens
in Byrons new comedy Married in Haste,
which had long run in New York. Dilons
acting has improved very much of late.
Princeton, Ind, suffered great damage by
a terrific tornado that swept over it last
Sunday night. Several persons were killed,
and many badly injured. Some forty houses
we're demolished. The loss in money is about
1900, 900.
DIR. Joseph Hooper, of Bay City, Mich,
editor OF the Michigan odd Felto,o, died sud-
denly on the morning of the 2sth of congestion
OF the lungs.
Sitting Bull has determined to try concln-
sions with the United States troops on the
question of the observance of the treaty re-
quring his tribe to remain ON the reservation
He has collected ], 500 braves at the mouth Of
Powder River, in the Yellowstone country and
defes the combined forces of Gems. Custer and
Crook, numbering 1000 men, to convince him
that the Government really amounts to any
thing. An expedition is already en- route fer
the neighborhood of the obstinate redskins,
and it is safe to predict that before many moons
are wasted Sitting Bull will cease to be sitting
bully in that locality.
South.
In the Louisiana House of Representatives
on Feb. %, resolution was introduced and
carried instructing the Speaker to appoint a
committee who should investigate the charges
against Gov. Kellogg and requiring the COM
mittee to bring in resolution Of impeachment
/ in case the charges could be sustained.
The Mississippi House of Repres entatives
has adopted resolution, by vote Of &c to IA.
impeaching Gov Ames for high crimes and
misdemeanors.
The committee appointed by the Louisiana
House of Representatives to investigate the
official conduct of Gov. VIM. p Kellogg, made
their report Feb. &c, recommending that the
said Kellogg be impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors.
4 The Louisiana House of Representatives, by
a vote of 81 to As, has adopted the report of
the Kellogg Investigating Committee, together
with the resolutions recommending that arti
cles of impeachment be preferred against that
officer. The Senate was then notified OF this
action and the House adjourned. The Senate
organized into a court of impeachment for jul
dical proceedings, examined into the charges
against the Governor, and dismissed the case'
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Sultan Of Turkey has signed decree
granting amnesty to all insurgents who return
10 their homes within month.
Among the insurgent Carlists nterned in
France, motley collection of adventures OF
al nations have been found-deserters from
the French and other armies, and freebooters
of all classes, drawn into the pretenders serv-
ice, apparently by no other or better motive
than the hope Of plumber and the pleasures OF
such a lawless, hcentions, marauding life, as Ii
usually offered in the camp Of a revolutionary
force.
Ruskin has been elected TO an Oxford profess
orship.
A Madrid dispatch says tie Carlist war is re-
garded there az virtually ended.
Austria has ordered Herzegovnian refugees
in her territory to return home within a msnth
or be forcibly expelled.
One effect OF the recent French elections has
been to render necessary more liberal con-
struction Of the new Press laws, which under
Buffet were enforced, especially against the
Republican newspapers, with such strictness as
10 call forth the unanimous condemnation Of
that class Of journals. Many cases arising dur
ing the recent political contest have, by order
of Dufaure, Bullets successor, been allowed
to lapse, this course being, in the opinion Of
the Government the wisest under the circum-
stances.
An English trading vessel was seized by some
Spanish coast guards the other day, about five
miles from Gibraltar but the prize crew were
overpowered by the Englishmen, who brought
the merchantmen, with all on board, safely into
the fortress
Reports of the floods in the Hungarian sec
ton of the valley of the Danube, show the de-
vastation to be of vast extent and most distress
ing in its consequences. Twelve thousand
people in single city are homeless and hun
bred large manufactures in New Pesth have
been destroyed. The suffering among the
houseless and impoverished people is terrible.
A Cadiz telegram says proclamation has
been published there declaring that the King,
his brave army and Government, with the pa
triotic cooperation Of all parties, have put an
end to the civil war in Spain. Fifty thousand
Spanish soldiers sill Immediately go to Cuba,
to put down the instruction in that island.
A London dispatch announces tnat Russia
has incorporated Khokand among her posses
sions, Gen. Scobeef has been appointed
Governor Of the new province. to which the
name of Ferghan is given.
Advices have been received at The Hague
announcing the death, by cholera, at Acheen,
OF Gen. Pei commander Of the Dutch forces.
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History i'm the Schools-MemoriaI Trees.


Gov. Bagley has addressed the following
proclamation to the people Of this State
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Lansing, Feb. %, 1876.
without the sanction of Legislative authority
or established precedent rs guide, / cannot re-
sist the temp tation that the Centennial year we
have just entered upon brings to me of asking
your attention to a few suggestions and thoughts
as to the use we shall make OF it. Though
az political organization we cannot lay claim
to even semi age, yet as one of the
younger brethren Of the great household Of
States, we hold in grateful love our place in the
family We have within our borders no Mecca
like Plymouth Rock or Bunker Hill to which
patriotic pilgrims turn their willing footsteps,
yet large proportion of our people are the de-
scendants Of the Fathers Of the Republic-the
men who in council framed our Government,
aud on score Of battle-ields fought and died
to establish it.
The lapse Of time the demands of business,
the new life we are living, all tend to a forget
fulness of the old time and Of the history our
fathers made with pen and sword. Is it not
well, therefore in this anniversary year to
pledge anew our affections to the land we
live in, +" to rebuild the fire of patriotism on our
hearthstones, and renew the love Of liberty and
country in our own hearts, that in the times of
the Revolution warmed the hearts Of our an
cestors?
Have we not forgotten, in the hurry and
strife Of our money-getting, in the rapidity with
which events have crowded upon one another in
these latter days, the blessings that have come
to us, rs rewards Of our own merit rather than
the hard earnings of the eaily builders Are
we not growing thoughtless Of our country, its
institutions and Government, and careless OF
it's perpetuity? Political quacks imagine new
diseases affecting the body polite, and invent
panaceas for their cure, without a protest from
the people. One urges that property should
govern-another. education another, birth
place-one desponds for fear the Government
is not strong enough, while another shoulders
at the Capitalization of power, and here aud
there perchance is a misanthrope who has lost
all faith in a government of the people.
Shall we not in this hundredth birthday OF
the nation, turn away from these teachers Of
false doctrine, resolving TO hold fast not only
to the form, but to the spirit of the Govern
ment az it was established in its simplicity and
strength: So resolving and so doing. we need
not fear for the future.
We, OF Michigan, need to do our duty in tA.s
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

Mrs. Gen. Babcock tainted on receiving the
news OF the acquittal of her husband.
Gen. Babcock's defense cost him S32, 600.
The annual reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland will be held at Phila-
delphia July 6 and Z. Secretary Bristow will
deliver the Grafton.
JAS. +. Lyon, Of Racine Wis, has testified
before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
as to his connection with the celebrated Emma
Mine. He was one of the original owners of
the NINE and explained the secret history of
the scheme to entrap English fnanciers. His
statement, if true, is very damaging to the
good name of several persons of high position
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that Gen. Babcock world resign his position as
Private Secretary to the President was entirely
premature. He has no intention of resigning,
1t appear. by the latest Washington advices.
Mr.. Waddell, Of North Carolina, has present
ed bill in the House the object OF which is to
restore the franking privilege.
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Insurance Statistics.

The following summary exhibits the financial
condition Dec. 81 1875 OF the stock, fire, ma
rine, and fire marine companies reporting to
the State insurance bureau, and at this date
authorized to do business for the current year,
aud their receipts and losses in Michigan during
1875:
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1876-07-01

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