The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-08
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They had intended to disembark at
Mazatlan and organize their Govern
ment there, but arrived just in time
to find that Disz had gained the ale
glance of the people of that region.
Iglesias and his party were very
earnestly wanted" on shore, but the
Captain of the steamer refused to sur
render them to be shot as rebels, and
they sailed on to San Francisco. The
President and his Cabinet were ex-
pected TO take the Pacific Railroad to
st. Louis, thence to New Orleans, and
thence to the States on the eastern side
of Mexico, where they hope to find
more favorable reception.
IT was reported from Washington,
on the 9th, that a movement is on foot
in this country 20 raise force of from
10000 to 10000 men for the purpose of
placing President Iglesias at the head
of Mexican affairs. Several graduates
of West Point, who won distinction in
the late War, are. said to be engaged in
the enterprise, and are furnished with
the necessary "sinews of war" Re-
cruiting officers will be sent to
several of the Southern States,
where it is believed suffi-
cient force of excellent fighting men
can be raised in a very short time. The
inducements that will be held out to
these fillibusters are said to be grants
of land in the richest mining districts
of the States of chihuahua, Durango,
Sonora, Sinaloa, and Lower Califor-
MIA. These five States of Northern
Mexico are sparsely settled, and are
rich in deposits of gold, silver, copper,
and ether valuable minerals. The re-
gion is the finest grazing country in
the world, and there are tracts of agri-
cultural lands amply sufficient to feed
a population of several millions.
The President signed the Electoral
bill on the 29th. In his message APP
proving the act, he says he believes
the bill gives assurance that the result
of the election will be accepted without
resistance from supporters of the
disappointed candidate, and that
the highest officer shall not hold his
place with questioned title of right.
The President alludes to the imminent
peril the country has escaped through
the adoption of the act, and says the
country needs and desires peace and
harmony, which the bill is well calcu-
lated to promote.
THE United States Supreme Court,
on the 29th, adjourned till the 10Th of
February, on account of the impending
withdrawal of five of the Justices to
form the judicial branch of the tripar-
tite Electoral Commission.
THE Railroad Gazette reports the new
railroad mileage for the year 1876 as
2,442 miles, of which 3SS was in Texas.
$50 in California, 27O in Ohio and 1856
in Colorado. This is the most exten-
sive of any year since 1873. There was
also built $50 miles of narrOw-gauge in
1876. The total mileage in the country
of broad-gauge is now 76,640.
THE report of the Senate Special
Committee, appointed to investigate
election matters in Florida, was pre-
scented to the Senate on the Doth. The
conclusion arrived at by the Commit
tee is that the Hayes Electors have a
legal majority of 10S, as ascertained
and published by the State Canvassing
Board. The Committee believe
that the finding of the
Board is conclusive and can not
be revised by a recanvass, or reached
by writ of quo acarranto, because the
Electors are fit'lctuS e6fcto, or reversed
by Congress, because the Constitution
lodges the whole power in the State.
The report was adopted by all the Re-
publican members of the Committee on
Privileges and Elections. A minority
report will be made by the Democrats
of the committee.
A decision has been rendered by Cir
cult Judge Carpenter, of South Caro-
lima, that neither Chamberlain or
Hampton has been legally installed as
Governor for the present term, and that
Chamberlain is therefore the legal Gov
ernor by right of holding over until his
successor is qualified.
IT is reported that vast scheme Of
conspiracy and fraud by means of false
invoices has been recently discovered
by the Customs officers, in which are
implicated number of leadi, g import
ing firms in various cities, together
with United States Consuls and revenue
officials abroad.
JUSTICE BRADLEY has been chosen as
the fifth member of the Judicial branch
of the Electoral Commission. Judge
Joseph p. Bradley was born in Albany
County, n. Y, March Il, 1918; gradu.
ated at Rutger College in 1886;
was admitted to the bar al
Newark, n. j., in 1889, where
he has since resided. He was appoint
ed to the bench of the Supreme Court
by President Grant, March q, 1870. In
politics he was formerly Wing, and
in later years has ranked as a moderate
Republican. He headed the Republi-
can Electoral ticket in New Jersey in
1868.
Col. PRESTON B. PLUMB was chosen
United States Senator from Kansas, On
the 3lst, on the sixteenth joint ballot.
Col. Plumb is a resident of EmPoria,
was formerly publisher of the Emperia
NeocS, and is now President of a bank.
THE Electoral Commission, as finally
cOmDleted Is constituted &C follows