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THE DYNAMITE ARTISTS,
Looking After Supposed AccOmpIices
OfIhe Author OF the Bremerha-
ven Catastrophe.

LONDON, December 31.-The London
Times has the following: ga detec-
tive from Bremen has arrived in Liv-
erpool to investigate the operations OF
I 1hOmassen, alias Thomas, with the
view OF discovering whether that man
had any accomplices. 1t has been as
certained that ThOmassen bad made
several trips between Liverpool and
New York, and he once attempted to
obtain heavy insuraDces on goods which
he wished to ship. The suspicion has
been raised that ne might have been
privy to the loss Of the steamer City of
Boston, in January, 1870. Thomassen
and wife left New York in Juue follow
ing that diEaster, and went 10 Dresden,
where they lived in stylish manner.
A shOlt time before his death Thomas
sen was asked If he knew the Boston,
he promptly replied; "Yes. Inman
steamer. 1 knew her very WE'LL" The
Messrs. Inman have no trace Of Thom-
assen, or Thomas, in their books
at Liverpool, but most careful
inquiries will forthwith be
made at New York into the Boston's
list of passengers and cargo, and the in
surance on the latter. Last October
Thomassen engaged passage on the
steamer Celtic, and at that time he
made several attempts to insure a box
which he alleged contained thirty thou
sand dollars in GOLD, and was each time
baked by demand for an inspection,
but sailed October l4th, and returned,
landing at Plymouth, November 9TH.
The voyage Is therefore presumed to
have been wasted, having heen made
only to quiet suspicion. Thomassen's
movements in Liverpool were mysteri-
GUS; although he informed the passage
brokers that he was an entire stranger,
he took his meals and slept away from
his hotel most of the time he was in {
city. He was seen in company with an
other person at Waterloo dock, after he
visited and inspected the Celtic. The
police believe he had RccOmplices in
Liverpool, who may stin possess his ap-
pliances,
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JACKSON.
Excessive Rains and Hot Weather.
Cotton Ruined-A Progressive,
Moral and PubIic-SpiriIed
Town.
From an Occasional Correspondent of the AP.

From an Occasional Correspondent OF the AP.
PEAL
JACKSON, December 31.-The excess
i've rains and the warm weather are
the subjects of conversation generally.
1t is feared they will injure toe health
Of the country, and affect the crops next
yea, for it Is an old adsge, and perhaps
true one, Z" q cold, dry winter for
good crop" Speaking of crops, will
give you an incident that took place in
this county in this year, 1875, that shows
ths danger of planting large crops of
cotton. A planter had eighteen hun
dred acres in cotton. and made very
little over one hundred bales, and the
cOnse qUence was he had to make an
assignment Of his property. s. long as
the southern people plant such large
crops Of cotton, such results will follow.
The motto should be, fewer acres and
more good cultivation. / am sorry to
inform you that there is less wheat sown
ID this section than was last year. The
only plan now to remedy this is to plant
large crops OF corn. Nothing yields as
much food and forage to the acre
as corn, and, If properly managed,
nearly au OF our land will produce
good corn. The people mere are very
anxious TO getthe workshops of the New
Orleans, st. Louis and Chicago railroad,
and what they want they ara willing to
pay for. They agreed by full vote to
give sixty thousand dollars to get tine
workshops. Jackson is a progressive
and pu6lic-spirited town, and if any
place in West Tennessee ever improves,
it will be JGckson-and her enterprising
spirit will be the cause. AS an evidence
of the moral and religious character of
this community, 1 will mention the fact
that the MethOdists have three flourish
ing churches here, and the Baptists,
Presbyterians, Cumberland Presbyte-
rians anu Roman Catholics each have q
church here.
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TELEGRAPHTC BREYITIES.

A paper-bag factory at Bloomington,
Illinois, was burned Friday morning.
Bishop DupanlOup, OF Paris has gone
TO Rome to urge the canonizAtiOn oi
Joan of arc.
Hon. w. ]. Stone was unanimously
elected speaker of the Kentucky legisla'
tare yesterday.
The new United States frigate Tren-
ton was succ, ssfuliy urched at New
! York yesterday.
David Gsrvin, a prominent merchant
Of Fremont, Ohio, accidentally shot
himself 20 death yesterday.
Several serious aud some fatal acci
dents occurred in New York during the
celebration Of the New Year.
Charles II. Ham denies the author
| ship of the Inter. Ocean article on the
/ whisky frauds published a week or &c
ago.
Heavy rains, causing disastrous foods
/ in tie rivers have occurred in the
northern part Of Scotland during the
past four days.
A WashiDgtoa telegram says Ehal
Z sse--Erss- etlanope sssfffes rfIe ch6rf q
nsde against him by the A'abama Il Z 5
lative committee.
Ten storehouses. the courthouse, post.
office, end ten other buildings, were de,
stroyed by fra at Piedmont, Wes. Vir-
ginis, yesterday morning.
Mrs. Sophia Spain was found dead or
her floor, in Nashville. yesterday morn
ing. Joseph Warner, a boa d II, was ar
resled on suspicion Of foul play.
Isaac H rockingham, chief-cIerk In
| the stsmp-deperrment OF the Boston
| pOstoffice, vas arrested on yesterday
charged with embezzling stamps.
Ass't-QuaTtermsster.Gepersl Thom.s,
| on the retired list since 1873, while wlk-
] ing Friday afternoon nesr The tIeGury
department, in Washington, was seized
with 8 severe psralytic stroke.
The late Hon. Joel Parker, LII D.,
| bequesthed property valued at between
/ ninety and one hundred and atty thou
sand dollars for the purpose OF consu-
tuting the law department IN Dart
mouth college.
A dispatch frsm Baton Rouge, Louis.
/ lana, says: "On Saturday last thirteen
! persons were poisoned at 8 dinuer-party.
/ Levy Speiegs and Lizzie Richards, both
coIored, were arrested, and while being
conveyed 10 jail here, were taken from
! the posse bg a band OF armed men. The
! body OF the woman WIS seen hanging TO
| a tree six miles f5Om here. Nothing has
| been heard Of the man.
A dbp4tch from Southwest Pass, at
| the mouth of the Mississippi, yesterday,
says. "The captains gig, Of the ship
Zslandis, capsiZed in 6 heavv sea while
4 en- route from East Bay to Pilot Town.
I Is contained Captain Allen, the second
I nnSte, and Pilot q. GsrsdOTf, and sever
al sesmeD. They were ali washed sshore,
with the exception OF the second mate,
who was drowned. A pilot, who started
TO their rescue, brought the survivors 10
Pilot Town.
The Canadian government has been
notified that surveys OF the Canadian
Pacific railway from opposite ends Of
the route have been connected, These
chains Of accurate instrumental meas
urement are the first of the kind that
have ever been made between the At
Isntic and Pacific within the limits Of
thu dominion. Application will be
made to parliament at its next session
for an act to incorporate company to
construct railway tunnel under Detroit
river, near Amherstburg, and for other
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FTHE Washingto correspondent Of The
gSew York World announces that the
special Centennial committee OF the
,ouse will probably press upon the esrly
tteDtion of the session the appropra-
jon Of one million FIVE hundred thou
sand dollars, which, il is claimed, are
required from the government to COM
plete and insure the success Of the exhi-
bition. Against thisi viii be argued in
tho house that the &C. OF congress sp-
proved Juue s. 1874, requesting the
President TO extend q cordial inv.tslion
10 the governments Of other nations to
represented ct Philadelphia, express
ly provided that the United S1tes shall
not be liable, directly or indirectly, for
any expenses attending the exposition.
The opponents Of the appropriation also
intend to cite the vote on Mr.. Holman's
resolution declaring the judgment Of the
house to be against any appropriation by
congress for any public or private enter.
uriee.
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CHICAGO, December 3l.-RevenUe-
Agent Brown and Dsputy-CollectoI
| Springer acting under orders of Revenue,
Supervisor Matthews, to-day seized the
disiiilery Of the Illinois distillipg com.
/ parry, formerly known as the North.
/ Yves ern distilli1g company. 1t is the
/ largest house Of the kind now running
its fuil capacity being two thousand
eight hundred bushels q day. Ii ii
owned sud run by Edward F. Lawrence
/ Jos. +. BallentiBe and John Robinson
There were found two thousand barrels
I Of liquor al the time OF the seizure, and
a hazty inyentJTy showed the worth oi
/ the distilleTy 10 be about one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars.
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y MORA.
Desperate Condition of Affairs in thai
btate-The People Destt9Gfe and
StarViDS-SIate of the ReYO-
luton.
san Diego (Cal.) Union. !

san Diego (Call Union.l
TUCSON, December EO.-Mr. w. S.
Bronson and Major T. J. Blakeney, well
known in San Francisco and Virginia
City, have just arrived here overland
from Guaymas through the State OF
Sonora. They cOrroborate the reports
heretofore received concerning affairs
there. They say that the people of the
State are in ali almost destitute cOudi-
liOn. Tue revolutionary troubles hETe
ilrgeIy preyehted the piantips u wheat
and RaEl ". laEla ssz tie eGaui9g year the
people nfust depend upon crops on OUru,
pumpkiis, beans and the like; and from
present appearances, less than the
usual amount of these will be planted.
They took great pains to ascertain
the sentiment Of the people regarding
the present State authorities and the
revolutionary forces, snd fiud it general
and oulspOken in favor of the IevOlu-
ton. When asked why, then, they do
not join General Ssrna's iOrces, and
make the revolution success, the peO-
pie shrug their shoulders and make no
definite answer. These gentlemen say
that three hundred Well armed and
managed troops could march through
the State despite the State forces. They
say, also, that the Federal authorities
are entirely neutIal in the contest now
going on, notwithstanding the fact that
they have recognized the election Of last
summer as legal. Messrs. Bronson aud
BlakeIy were told by the pTefect of Gu
symas thatif battle between the revo-
lutionists and State forces should occur
there the three hundred Federal troops
at that place would take no part what
ever. The gentlemen wera not molest-
ed on their trip, but they were warned
st Guaymas and interior towns of the
hazardous character Of the journey.
They believed they never would have
got through but for their vigilance and
constant display of repeat ng rifles and
pistols. The stage lies over nights on
that road, and one of them kept watch
while The other would take short nap.
They say they never saw q more easy
route for railway than that between
Tucson and Gusymss, but there is 10
hope OF prosperity in the State without
a new and firm system of government,
such as seems impossible under existing
circumstances. Mr.. Hovey, wagon
master for Goldberg, OF Tucson, reports
that the herder OF the train was stopped
a few minutes after starting from the
wells, about three miles in the rear Of
the train, by thres Pima Indians, who
seized him and decamped with horse,
saddle, blankets, etc. Mr.. H)vey says
this is the fourth time he has lost by
these Indians
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HUMBOLDT.
A Healthy Race Rich Lands and Good
Water - Proposed Agricultural
SchOOI-Mistakes-Ef
From an Occasional Correspondent of the Ar-

From an Occasional Correspondent Of the AP-
PEAL.l
HUMBOLDT, December 81, 1S75.-I ar
rived at this raillcRd center to-day, and
as have only short time to stay will
give you my IMPRESSIONS Of the place. 1t
st ems to be too near Forked-Deer river
for health, but all accounts agree that it
is subject to fewer cases Of severe sick
ness than any town of the ssme size in
the State. This may be owing to the
fine water they have here. They say
that the experts who examined this
place Isst year in regard to the lunatic
asylum did them great injustice, and il
must be admitted that facts appear to
sustain them in this assertion. They
are now anxious to ests sblish an agTicul-
tursl school and experimental farm near
this place, at which the boys will be
taught farming and will practice it.
This is considered one Of the hest places
in West Tennessee for a school of that
kind, as it is about the center Of West
Tennessee, and at the junction of two
important railroads. They wish to COM
mence with about two hundred acres Of
land, and they would as soon have poor
land as rich. because their object is to
show how much il can be improved. 1t
is thought that there are land owners
near here who will give forty CT
fifty acres of land each, so as TO
make up the requisite amount.
Other farmers in the different
portions of the State will furnish them
with work-stock, fine cattle, hogs, sheep
and mares. They do not intend to raise
any ordinary stock on the farm. Their
object Is to show that as fine cattle,
horses hogs and sheep can be grown in
West Tennessee ss in any country. Glib.
son has been the great grain and stock
county in West Tennessee, and, there
fore, they think the experiment should
be made in this county whether fine
stock can be successfully grown in, West
Tennessee. There is a floating rumor
that Colonel Ripley Dunlap, who has
just returned from Texas, where he has
large landed interests, has an idea of
leaving Humboldt This the people
here and the travelling public. would
greatly regret, and it Is hoped that the
rumor is without foundation. The peo-
( pie here feel that they made q mistake
/ years ago in not offering the Mississippi
/ Central railroad company inducements
to put their workshops here, and such q
mistake will never be made by them
again. They now See that only towns
/ that have liberality and public spirit
/ can prosper and grow. The United
! States officers and soldiers who are sta
| toned here make themselves very
/ agreeable, and are quite popular. The
| health OF the garrison shows that this is
net a sickly place, as has been reported
! by soma persons whose means Of in
/ formation were not good.
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university building cost one hundred
and twenty thousand d0ilax, nesriy al
OF which was raised by the Jubilee
singers. Mrs. Fisk, by D. rsOnal effor.
In rev YORK, Tajsed sufficient funds to
furn' sh the forty rooms ui tle building.
The institution partakes somewhat Of
the nature Of normal college. as since
It's establishment, ten years ago, 1t has
annually graduated about o1e hundrtd
teachers aud candidates for the minis
Try, all colored. The university was
established by, and is conducted under
the control Of, the American missionary
association, but various denominations
are represented in the board OF direc-
tors and clrps of teaC Chers and professors.
The building is On a commanding emf
nence, about one mile west Of the city,
and with its superior architectural de-
sign and finish, and large and imposing
Dimensions, presents as fac view as
any coll' ge building in America.
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THE vICE-PREsIDENCY.
opinion Of Hon. George ". PsselIal on
thr VcNed and EcsiHg Question.

I New York Herald.
/ WASHINGTON, Dscemter 2S The
/ question who H. the real Vice President
/ Of tie United Sta e. i still exciting in.
/ terest here. An opinion OF Hon. George
| w. Paschal, o! Washington, author Of
/ Psschafs AaROtdted Constitution,
/ against Mr.. Fsrry's r'g1t 70 hold over,
| hiss attrac' ei attention. II IL found that,
with the exception % toe fret four H.
stances cited by him where the senate
met during the absence, permanent OF
otuer9is OF the NiCe-PresiJe8t,t the pres
iden LrO tenlOOTe of the senate have held
over. Under JEFF one construction i
wt- uncel, OCd thul the IoTeIs and Gu.
ties Of lch o.ilceIS ceased 81 the cad of
the s-icn for which taey were elected
Ia tnt q - four IL .SDcCS referred TO,
th- uud e. .znding was ot- rved, bat
since, % the number # nearly sixty IN
stances j. h-s been ignored, and it hR S
become custom ary for the president OF
toe senate pro ts7npOTe 10 hold over and
resume the chair al a subsequent assion.
In Mr. PE-chal'~ opinion, publ ste1
this morning, he referred t)' the case Of
Daniel Cisrk, and said that Andrew
JJnL- %, NIce-PTos dent, became Pres.
lent Bv the death Of Mr.. Lincoln, April
lOtO, 1000.
at would seem" ne continues, ''if
there was then any president pro tenn.
pore, ne must have been chosen Febru-
ary 9, 1865. Lafayette L. Foster was
chosen March Z, 1866, which would iu-
ply that no choice was made after the
death OF Mr.. Lincoln until that time.
But the senate record Of the second ses.
sioE of.the thirty-eighth congress shows
that the Vice-President, Mr.. Hamlin,
being absent, Daniel Clarke, who had
been chosen preside Ut pro teAnpore at the
previous session, resumed the chair aud
performed the functions Of office
until the election OF Mr.. Foster
Mr.. Foster, after bis election as
president pro tempOTe, at the special
session Of the senate, March z, 1865,
held that Office without subsequent cleo
ton until the end OF his t rm. The first
session OF the fOTtieth congress began
March 4, 1867, the senate, at the last
session, having elected Mr.. Wade pyesi-
dent pro teBlp0re, in place o. MT. FCuter,
whose term expired with that session.
Mr.. Wade resumt d the chair, and under
this appointment he continued to per-
form the duties OF president pro tempOre
during the two remaining sessions OF
the foTtieth congress until the end Of his
own term of office
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-02

TIE New York Tribune, in its issue
{ the thirtietb uliimo, publishes the
suit Of an interview by one Of it's cor
sspondents with q Democratic con-
x,essnan OF national reputation, who
,As been ciphering on the Presidential
PROSPECTS. He tells the results OF this
iguring, which is practically to make
New York, New jersey, Connecticut
aud Indiana the battle-ground, aud "a
give the victory 10 which ever par.
~ carries those States. Mors sig
nificant than his calculations is
the glimpse this gectlemsn gives
OF the Democratic plans in the house.
The majority propose, he says, to pass
Blaine's amendment, and 50 put the
school question ont OF the way; and &c
~ the one-term amendment, and
II force the Republican senate 70 do
ame, or give our party the sd
L q gong 70 tle country on that
t& Also.
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THE FISH UNIVERSITY.
Dedication Ceremonies Yesterday-'tA
Feast OF Reason aad Flow Of suI.-

NASHVILLE, January l.--The new
Fisk university, lamed In honor OF
General Clinton 3 Fisk, was formally
dedicated to-day u presence of a large
assemblsge Of people, white aud black.
Governor Porter and other State off.
eials, Bishop M'Tyeire, of the Method,
ist church south, and quite a number o.
clergymen aid edacstors were present
General Fisk who is president OF ths
board OF directors, presided ana made
the opening address, which embodied
an earnest and eloquent plea for cordia
relations between the races, for the edu.
cation and cultivation of the coloreC
people, and for the cultivation of a lib
eral and patriotic feeling everywhere
Abounding as it did In the most eener
GUS sentiments toward The southern peo
pie, snd urging thst the dead past bury
its dead 1T elected warm commendations
Governor Porter, Bishop M'Tyeire
x-Commissioner Smith, president o
Howard university, and others, ais
made addresses. The occasion was ,
notable one, marking sn important erl
In the advancing intelligence and pro
gress OF the negro race In the south. Th,
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ADDITIONAL RIVER REPORTS

ST. LOUIS, January 1.-River station
ary. Weather alternately clear and
cloudy and very high winds. Rain this
afternoon. No arrivals or departures.
LOUISVILLE, January L. Weathe,
warm, with indications of rain. Ar.
rived: louisville, New Orleans. De-
parted: Iron Mountain, New. Orleans;
Louisville, Cincinnati. River falling,
with p feet in the canal and 20 feet on
the falls.
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SOME days ago the APPEAL called St
tenjon TO the unjus. and petty persecu-
tiou to which ex-members Of the Con-
fsderAte navy were being subjected in
San Francisco. This has been carried
so far by some OF the papers Of that city.
already infamous in connection with the
recent monetary crash, that it has been
deemed necessary, by 3 gentleman well
known and highly esteemed in Men,
phis, to come to The defense Of Captain
IHaddeI, late commander Of the Shen.
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ESTABLISdED 1910.

andcah, and Incidentally TO that
Of bis officers and crew. /. viii
( be seen that our correspondent
dea,s with the scariIous attacks o. the
San Frncisco Bulletin ard Morning
[ C4V IN = manly, dignified snd scholarly
way, qlite ia keeping with the courage,
sddIe . and discretion tbst character
lied him and bis nobe commander
during the late war, aud tnat In law,
equity and justice be has achieved a
victory that 10 sophistry or prejudice
can mar or cur.sil. Captain Scales de-
serves. and will, 10 doubt, receive the
thanks Of his late companions in arms.
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Trg dedication o; the FISK universi J
Nashville yesterday was alike cIeiit-
= 10 the State authorities, orr lead
educator, ard the promoters Of 9
iefsence thtt has slr aiy proven o.
stimable value 20 the colOled people
merely Of Tennessee, bet OF the
be south. We congratulate all psr-
coucerrei.
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CISCINSA1I, December 3l.-The Ga
-ette's Charleston, West Virginia, sDe-
clal says: There was great excitement
over the attempted lynching Of Dawson,
Eastepe and PelcheF, the ] ee murdeurs,
last night. The sheriff succeeded Ia
getting away with them by the means
Of s skiff, and placed them in the Lin
coin county jail. Ii is thought that the
mob viii capture train and follow the
party. There is intense feeling against
the prisoners, and it is generally hoped
that the mob will succeed in hanging
them
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he New York Tribune thinks that
retary Bristow's chances for the
.sidoncy have been visibly increased
the ridicul1us attack Of the Chicago
e. Ocean. We think otherwise. His
snces for the Bspublicsn r nomination
q perhaps Increased, but he does not
nd the ghost Of a chance for the Pres
nev
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HE particular attention Of members
he Mississippi leg stature is called to
F. tier elsewhere, from q distinguished
.nessesu, VINO writes persuasively
c5Dcluslvely on the question Of the
fhitsd States seratorship. I.is a letter
At cannot fail OF effect with thinking
n who are desirous that the State so
emily emaneipated from the thrsl-
10 Of Radicalism, shsl have in the
.dted States senate of the next con-
Fess the services OF the sblest Of her
ublic men.
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No. 3259.-In the Chancery Court Of shi 1y
county, Tenuessee.-H.S Sci hRter ct al. vs.l. Z
Stephens ct al.
II appearing from the sherif's resuu Ia
this cause that tine defendants, K. e. Step lsoss
W. h. Stephens and u, NJ. stephens, are Mt 10
be found in his county;
1t is therefore ordered, That they maze i1e.r
appearance herein, at the courthouse a. TIE
city Of Memphis, Tennessee, on or oefoI3 ne
first Monday in February, 1876, and Fss1-
answer or demur to com Dlainaut's bill. q ne
same viii be taken for confessed as 70 men
and set for hearing eZparte; and that a copy
Of this order be published once a week 10
four success I've weeks, in the Mem PMS a el-l-
This 29th day Of December, $50.
A cOpy-aJtesJ:
z. A. COLE, Clerk and MastsI.
By Z. B. McHenry, ~. G. and y.
King * Miller, soils. for COmpl'l. decB tAN