The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-13
LATEST NEWS.
HOUTR AsD wEgr.

| Savannah had received money Contri
buttons amounting 10 sac, ,5i4.88 up to til,
twenty-ffth,
There are six hundred cOnvicts in the
Mississippi penitentiary, and of the number
five hundred and thirty-nine are Africans OF
the male persuasion.
Charles Hendrick, of Des Arc, Ark,
was snatched by the strong arm of the law
from twenty minutes sleep with his bride
and sent to the penitentiary for swearsng
| falsely about her age.
At Powhattan, Ark, one day last
week, Mrs. Morrison aimed blow with a
hatchet at the head OF "old man Scott" her
stepfather, and killed her mother, an old
woman eighty years old,
Savannah (Ga.) News: There are
now more than six hundred lunatics in the
state lunatic asylum. The institution is
greatly crowded, and there are between sew
.enty and one hundred applications for the
admission of patients, for whom the author
tiles are wholly unable to provide room.
Captain P. E. Murphy, died near Mo
bile last week, of apoplexy, whilst taking a
bath. When the war Commenced, he was
commanding the receiving ship Pennsylva-
mia, at Norfolk, but resigned and entered
the confederate service, Hc commanded
the Selma IN the naval engagement below
Mobile, where he was wounded and cap
tured by the federal forces.
Dispatches announce the sudden death
at Galveston, on the twenty-seventh, of Gen.
Braxten Bragg. lie was born in Warren
county, North Carolina, in 1915, and gradu-
ated at West Point in 1897. His earliest
military reput ton was gained in the Mexi-
can war. "a little more grape, Captain
Bragg" making his name a house hold word
throughout The union. In 1855 he retired
from the army. His services as a eonfeder-
ate leader are still fresh in the mind of the
country.
A bale efseed cotton has been shipped
to Liverpool from New Orleans. 1t weighs
nine hundred and fifty-fve pounds, but is
pressed to the size of an ordinary bale. 1t
was put up at Natchez, and the Democrat of
that place presumes that the object of the
experiment is to obtain for the shipper the
advantage of the great difference in the
market value of the seed in England and
here. If the experiment proves to be profit
able, we may expect TO see a large increase
in the tonnage from New Orleans, and, as
planters will persist in selling their seed in
stead of using it at home, their profits on
this part of tn, ir crop will probably be con-
increased"
The Cherokees and other civilized In
dians CT the Indian Territory are greatly ex-
cited over the proposed removal of the |
Sioux into their country. They say the gov
is again preparing to violate the |
treaty stipulations by removing these In |
dians to their country without their consent. |
They characterize the action of the commits |
sion, in agreeing to give the Sioux homes in |
the territory of Oklahoma, as being similar |
tho the one made by Satan on the mountain !
1900 years ago. There will be a united and |
solemn protest made by all these people |
against the cOnsummation OF the alleged
outrage against the rights of the civilized, as
veil as the Sioux Indians.
1t has been permanently settled that
will be established at old Fort
Reno this winter, consisting of four companies
# infantry-t two of the Fourth, Captain Won
from Fort Bridge, and Captain
3isbee's, from Fort Hartsuff; one of the
Twenty-Third from Camp Brown, and Cap
ain P, llock's company of the Ninth infantry
rom Fort Laramie; the latter will be per-
nanent commander of the cantOnement.
General Merritt, who is now in the vicinity
# DeadwoOd, has been ordered to scout
Icross west to the Little Moon, on his way
south. BY the time he reaches Platte, or in
lbout two weeks, Crook is expected to have
fresh command ready to take the field in
person for a vigorous campaign. General
FKenzie, with the Fourth an other cavalry
will probably compose the expedition.