Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-03-25
GENERAL NEWS.

The st. Louis Republican says that
Grants friends arc true as steal.
Robert Dale owen has partially rccov-
cred h's health, and l. abou, 10 sail for
Europe on a pleasure trip
Boston yesterday celebrated the one
hundrcdth anniversary of the evacuation
of that city by the British troops.
The railroad 10 Hot Springs, Ark, is
now finished 10 that point, and trains are
running regularly.
Wash Rockwell was shot and instantly
killed in New Orleans yesterday by r..
Desposito.
urging Bristow and Adams for the Pes
ideney.
Great suffering and loss OF property in
consequence of the storm ia England,
France aud Belgium are reported.
David Jacks, Of Monterey. Cal. nettsd
S37, 800 on 10000 acres planted in wheat
h-t year.
The biil tos the admission of New Mex
leo rs State in the Union passed the
senate, March 10Th.
The Arkan sas Democratic State Con-
yentiOu has been called To meet In Little
Grants home organ, the Washington
Chronicle speaks feelingly of Bellln2p's
smisfortune. " while Grant accepted his
resignation ''with great regret"
RICHMOND, March 1.-THE state Con
servative committee has changed the day
of holding the state convention 20 May
thirty-first.
Let each farmer resolve, without re-
gard to the course Of his neighbOr, TO
raise all his own home supplies. and TO
plant only half as much cotton as hereto
fore
In view OF the developments in the Or
vii Grant case. so good a Republican or
gan as the Cincinnati Gazette is moved
to ask whether Belknap had any reason
TO suppose that levy on post trader
Ship would bring him amy censure from
his chief"
Ii is now considered a settled fact that
MSrsh, now ia Montreal, viii make his
appearance jn Washington some time this
week. The Impeachment proceedings n
isslnsg ie..AilalE'HT Tiii-fl4uRilezs soon be re-
samed.
The plow~ uoW should be kept moving
in earnest. Let there be no cessation.-
Let the corn land be prepared thorough
". PIow not furrow for cotton until
,
General Bsaxton Bragg. with some gem
tlemen from Mobile, Alabama, and Aus
tin, Texas, are taking steps for the estab-
lishment OF au extensive colony IN Wes-
tern Texas.
Mrs. Beardsl9S, in the innocence OF her
heart. supposin6 the affair Il regular bus
iness transaction, bought cadetship for
her from Ananias Hays. The question
now is will the rule, ''Let no guilty man
escape apply in the ease Of a woman.
A Paris letter says: '.Thc last vagary
in evening costumes for ladies Is a return
TO classic styles. The dresses are worn
attached tOa clasp at the shoulder, leay-
ing the arms bare and the bosom reckless
~ decolete."
The rush Of people 10 the Black hills in
creases daily. Eighty-four went west
from Omaha on Thursday, and yesterday
a special train of twelve ears, containing
mostly persons there bound, left here FOR
Cheyenne.
CoLUMBCs, Ohio, March 1.-THE Dem
Ocratic state central committee and
number Of prominent Democrats met
here this morning and after fail discus
sion decided to issue a call for state
convention 10 meet iu Cincinnati on May
18th.
a decrease III loans of S6Sl 100; specie,
decrease, S77O, 100; legal-tenders, decrese,
- ,02l 400; deposits, decrease, S6,5l7, 800;
circulation. decrease, f2i4 400; reserve
decrease, 1,lGg, ,325. The specie ship
ments TO Europe were $500 in Amer
lean gold coin.
When the exposures of the old Ring in
New York took place, the Democrats, al
though having an enormous majority in
that city, repudiated the candidates Of
the partv which placed the men guilty of
those frauds In office. When the expo
sure Of Belknap's corruption in Office was
made, New Hampshire Republicans in
dOrsed the party which placed him ia OF
flee.
CONCORD, y. IL, March l7.-Beturns
from all the towns and cities in the state,
save two-EatOn and Randolpii-giye
Cheney 1858 plurality over Marcy, and
3,2IS majority over all, the total vote be-
ing, Cheney II ,GGS, Marcy 37,975, Ken
dali and scattering 42O. The two towns
TO be heard from gave last year, Cheney
81, Roberts I.
Violent Wind, s!eet and snow storms
have done ia many localities OF the West
considerable damage. The peach pros
pect il is feared has been materially alice
ted. In England. France and Germany
the stormy elements are creating great
havoc. Ia many sections the floods are
the most disastrous ever experienced,
and the los OF life aul subsequent suffer
ing from deStitution f. appalling
BelkuapiS being spread ont - q screen
to the other ra-rll-. Che EepUblicaE or
gans all talk about Belknap; mildly OF
course, but still about Belkhap. II is
Bellluap tlIis, Belknap that, aud Belknap
the other, and they astutely speak of this
one IaDse from official virtue. 'IiS thus
that the happy taxpayer is kept inform
ed. His pocket is picked while he il lis
teuiug TO great moral ideas, and is lac ev-
ei comes 10 his senses he will be told that
the ex-Confederates have got his money.
It Is limited in Washington that the
strongest element Of opposition TO reiun-
ding the cotton tax arises from the fact
that law to that effect would develop as
much fraud and rascality as the Credit
MObilier exposure. 1t is affirmed that
not one-third of the tax collected was ev-
er returned to the Government, and the
receipts that would be presented as cyi-
Jences Of taxes paid would show To what
All enormous amount the Government has
been robbed.
II i universally admitted, says Bayard,
of the Brooklyn Argus, tAat u boy be-
tween the ages OF ten and sixteen is the
most eXasperatiug nuisance IN the world.
The other evening one Of these wretched
creatures stalked into q parlors full of
company, and addressing his father in
the customary deafeniug tones, said;
Pop, whats tiiis Z hear about our min
ister:''
ThereupoH several of the ladies pres
rut cast startled looks about them, and
then .'iit ONT Of tae apartment in con-
siderable confusion,