American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-04-13

Europe has induced farmers to Civ
increased attention to cereal produc
tons.
THE House Committee on Pacifi
Railroads have completed the pro-rat
bill by inserting the names of Charlie
Francis Adams, aJr., of Massachusetts
Albert Fink, of Tennessee, and judy
Thomas NJ. Cooley of Michigan, as cor
shutting the Board of Pacific Railroa
Commissioners.
A LONDON telegram of the lst say
the following appointments have beer
officially confirmed: Marquis of Sails
bury, Secretary of State for Foreign
Department; Right Hon. Claiborne
Hardy, Secretary of State for India
Hon. Frederick A. Stanley, Secretary
of State for War; Sir Henry Selwin ID
bitson, Secretary of the Treasury il
place of Stanley.
THE following is the full text of the
Queens Message delivered to Parlia-
ment ON the LIST:
East, and the necessity of taking steps for
the maintenance of peace and for the protec-
constituted, in the opinion of her Majesty a
case of great emergency. within the meaning
OF the acts OF Parliament in that behalf, her
Majesty deems it proper to provide additional
means for the public service Therefore, in
Thought it right to communicates to the Iiouse
of Commons that she is about to direct that
the reserve forc,. or militia reserve force, or
necessary. be forthwith called out for per-
manent service.
THE following is the sentence in Sails
bury's circular to the Powers, verbatim,
in which he objects to the treaty of San
Stefano:
The combined effect of the treaty, in ad-
dition to the results upon the Greek popula.
ton, is to depress to the point of entire sub
lection the political independence of the Gov
eminent of Constantinople, and the formal
Jul lSdlct1On which that Government extends
over geographical positions, which must be
of the deepest interest to Great Britain 1t is
close or open the straits which form the r.
tnral highway Of the nations between the
2Egean Sea and Euxiue. Its dominion Is
recognized at the head of the Persian Gulf
on the shores of the Levant and in the imme-
diate neishborhood OF the suez Canal. and
1t can not be otherwise than a matter of ex-
treme solicitude to this country that the
<Sovernment to which this jurisdiction be-
longs should be so closely pressed by politi-
cal outposts of greatly superior power that
its independent action and even existence
arise not so much from the language of any
single article in the treaty as from the opera
ton Of the Instrument as whole A discus
sion limited to the articles selected by one
Power in the Congress, would be an illusory
remedy for the dangers to English interests
and to the permanent peace of Europe, which
would result from the state of affairs which
the treaty proposed to establish
THE public debt statement for April
4 oh sv,f Ia 1.ht g., L., L
of S2,313,614 and the following bal
ances in the Treasury: Currency, S75I,-
S57; special fund for the redemption OF
fractional currency, 80, 900, 900; special
deposits of legal tenders for redemption
of certificates of deposit, s25, 215, 900
coin, S13S, 1857, SOS, including coin GER
tificates, s57, 400; outstanding legal
tenders, S347, 84s,712.
election, held on the Sd, nearly COM
plete, give Van Zandt, Republican, for
Governor, II lis; Lawrence, Democrat,
7,195; Foster, Greenback, 5S3: scat
tering, 81. Van Zandt's majority, $500
His majority last year was AL. The
Legislature is very largely Republican.
THE Maryland Legislature has adopt
ed Montgomery Blair's resolution, ask
ing Congress to reopen the Presidential
contest A Washington dispatch says
that prominent Democrats IN Congress
assert that not single Democratic Sen
ator is favorable to the proposition.
AN0TupR Ion oth u anp 70 rapna lat
Secretary Sherman and the House Com
mittee in regard to the preparations for
resumption and the ability of the
Treasury to maintain resumption, was
held on the 4th. The Secretary stoutly
resisted all efforts to weaken his faith in
the power of the Treasury to carry out
the resumption law, and reasserted his
convictions both of his ability to do SC
and of the good policy of the act.
THE House on the 4th, by vote OF
139 to 80, adopted resolution decIar-
ing the position of Doorkeeper of the
House of Representatives vacant, and
temporarily deyolving the duties of that
Office upon the Sergeant-at-Arms.
1HE Democratic members of the
House of Representatives met in caucu.
on the evening of the 9TH for the pur
pose of nominating a Doorkeeper il
place of Col. Polk. Gen. Charles w
Field, of Georgia, was nominated on the
first ballot, the vote being as follows
Gen. c. w. Field, of Georgia, 50; Gen
Shields, of Missouri, 20; Harry Nc
Coy, of Maryland, IS; Walter ii
French, of Massachusetts, Z; w. X
Pendleton, of West Virginia, 2. Total
vote polled, 116. Gen. Field Is "a native
of Kentucky. He graduated at Yves
Point in the year 1849, and served in
the Confederate army under Lee, anc
soon after the close of the war entered
the army of the Khedive of Egypt
where he remained until 1877, when h,
returned to the United States. His 20
litical disabilities were removed q few
months ago.
A YOUNG Norwegian girl who lost hel
mind was taken to the Iowa Insan,
Asylum, and while there forgot hel
mother tongue. On being discharged
cured, she began to regain it, but sign.
of arrangement simultaneously appear
ed, and by the time she could agar
speak Norwegian huently she had to b,
taken back to the asylum.