American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-11-23

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en- as the standard of valuation of the
fishing privileges accorded to Ameri-
cans on the Newfoundland banks, in
the future settlements of such bills.
A BOARD OF inquiry. to examine into
the causes of the late outbreak of the
Southern Chevennes, has been conven-
ed at Fort Leavenworth. A large num-
Der of witnesses, among them several
scouts, have been summoned to give
their testimony. Every fact connected
with the outbreak and the raid through
Kansas viii be carefully examined into,
after which full and exhaustive report
will be made. -.
A LAEGE number of arrests of par
ties charged with offenses against the
Federal Election laws have been made
in South Carolina and Florida. The
prisoners were in all cases released on
bail. In Madison County, Florida,
Judge Witherspoon, of the Canvassing
Board, has been arrested on charge of
destroying precinct returns, on account
of alleged informality. the result of
which is to defeat the election of
Bisbee, Republican, in the Second Con-
gressional District. Chief Justice Ran
dali ordered special session of the Su-
preme Court to convene at Tallahassee
on the 10Th, when the question of or
dering mandamus to compel the re-
counting of votes would be considered.
THE Marquis and Marchioness of
Lorne, accompanied by their suite,
sailed from Liverpool on the 14th in
the steamer Sarmatian, which was fitted
up for the voyage with royal magnifi-
cence. There will be grand jubilee
in Halifax to celebrate their arrival.
AFTER consultation with Secretary
Sherman, and as an aid to bring about
specie resumption, the New York Clear
ing-house has decided upon the follow
ing plan of action after January 1, 1879:
1. To decline receiving gold coins as
special deposits, but accept and treat them
only as lawful money. ------.-------
2. To abolish special exchanges of gold
checks at the Clearing house.
banks at the Clearinghouse either in gold
or United States legal tenders.
4. To receive silver dollars upon deposit
only under special contract to withdraw
same in kind.
5. To prohibit payments Of balances at the
Clearing house in silver certificates or in
silver dollars, excepting subsidiary coin in
small sums, say under SO.
6. To discontinue gold special accounts
by n .tice to dealers, LIST of January next, to
terminate then.
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch to the As
sociated Press says: Col. Frank Zach
arie, who was sent by Governor Nichols
as a special agent to Tensas to report
the true condition of affairs there, has
returned and submitted a lengthy re-
port. He says that, notwithstanding
exaggerated reports from Tensas, he
could only succeed in finding that IL
negroes had been killed.
THE St. Louis Times Oemocratic)
and the st. Louis Journal Repuhlican)
have been consolidated as an independ-
ent and non-partisan journ al, under the
name of the St. Louis Emes-Journal.
Mr.. Hume, of the Journal, becomes
managing editer of the new paper, AS
sisted by Messrs. Emory S. Foster and
Eugene Field, both old Journal men.
Major Sylvester, of the Times, goes to
Washington as. correspondent of the
new journal.
IT was reported ON the 18th that the
remains of A. T. Stewart, stolen from St.
Marks Churchyard, New York, had
been recovered, and some of the guilty
parties arrested, but the police authori-
ties efused to furnish any infor nation
until the whole gang implicated in the
business had been bagged.
THE National Yellow Fever Commits
sion, in their fortkc oming report, will
advocate d system of n ational quaran-
tine, under the direction of the United
States Government. The Commission
are cony1nced from their investigations
that yellow fever is. not Indigenous in
the atmosphere in any part Of the Unit.
ed States, and that in New Orleans it
was caused by importation. Whatever
doubt there may be ini the case of New
Orleans, there is no doubt that it was
carried from New Orleans to every 9TH
or point. The disease does not seem to
be prevented from prevailing epidemic
ally either by distance from the sea lev
elias under favorable circumstances for
its dissemination it might prevail in any
part of the United States. Heretofore,
seaboard qua rantines, as far as the Gulf
Of Mexico is concerned (and making ex-
captions this year in the case of Texas),
have been inadequate to prevent
the introduction of the disease.
The difficulties of in land quarantine are
SO many and SO great in cases of towns
on the Mississippi River, or in cases of
towns having extensive railroad connec-
tions, as to be almost practically i'm
possible. With this view of the facts,
the Commission are of the opinion that
the onlr reasonable protection to keep
yellow-fever from this country is a sys-
tenn of strict national quarantine.
REV. DIR. DE LA MATYR, National
Congressman-elect from Indiana, in a
published interview gives it as his opin-