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low, but enormously destructive TO the agri
culLuralla lands. The streams and mining works
are within the State of California, and it seems
that in at least one instance a mining enter
prise has been enioined by the local Court
from prosecuting the work in such way as
to cause the injuries complained of;
but l have not learned that it has
been decided by the highest Court
whether the injury to navigation
vented by judicial action. The work pre-
! jscted would involve an expenditure within
the next eight years of nearly a million and
half of dollars, with doubtful results, and
as the exact character of the work to be dose
is not indicated in the Act, il my hesitation
as to approving the proj=ct have thought
proper to refer to the debate in the House
upon the passage of the particular clause in
| question. have gathered from the rem arks
made in the debate, which seemed to receive
the unqualified assent of the Chairman of
the Committee on Commerce reporting the
bill, that it was not the intention to commit
the Government to policy Of providing
reservoirs for the storage of detritus from
future mining operations, it being thought
that they were but partial remedy. and
would not accomplish the purpose designed
if hydraulic mining should continue; and it
was stated that the committee did not Adolf
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nary reports. The project now before me for
the expenditure of the main part OF the ap-
preparation seems to be Ia exact accord with
those reports, which did not receive the ap-
probation of the committee. l have not,
therefore, yet considered it proper to do more
than continue the dredging operations"
| Pacific Coast Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, January Ssh.-The following
changes are announced for the Pacific coast
Pestoffices established-Index, Trinity coun-
ty, Cal, Daniel L. Smith, Postmaster;
Saddle, Umatilla county,. Or. Orwell T.
Douglass. Postmaster; Endicott, Whitman
master; Lake Bay, Pierce county, w. T.,
Henry Tillman, Postmaster; Rankin, Lewis
county. w. t., Joseph Rankin, Postmaster
Riparia, Columbia county, W. T.. Thomas
j. Peabody, Postmaster Stoddard, Yavapai
county, A. IT,. George w. BirdsalI, Post
master. Postofice tinuei-Sartep,
Klikitat county, W. T. Name changed
Deschutes, Wesco county. o., to Sherar
Bridge; Jane Sherar appointed Pcs mistress.
Postmasters appointed Batavis. Solano
county, George Nj. Coulter Pujol, San Diego
county, John Murietta dollhouse, Fresno
county, Cal, Jasper w. Bennett Battle
Mountain, lander county, New, Thomas w.
J Paul Paradise Valley, Humboldt county,
New, John w. Powell Murphy, Josephine
county, Or. James w. Werner; Tygh Val.
ley, Wasco county, Or, Marion Van Duyn
Remington, Pima county, A. T., Mrs. M. NJ.
Baltens.
TeDnessee's Ascending Treasurer.
NASHVILLE, January Shat 2 o'clock
this morning Governor Hawkins received the
following:
New ORLEANS January Sth-1:30A A. NJ.
| To the Governor of Tennessee Ths Marshal says
Polk is in San Antonio, Tex. What action shall |
| take in the mstter? ]. A. FARRELL,
Principal Commercial Detective Agency, New
| Orleans.
| A dispatch was sent in reply, to bring or
send FL. I. Polk here imme diately, and was
signed by Alvin Hawkins, Governor. Gov
ernor Hawkins, at 10 o'clock, telegraphed the
| Governor of Texas to hold Polk until requi.
sition in form could be forwarded. To-day
resolution was adopted in both Houses of the
Legislature, authorizing the Governor to offer
q reward of $1,000 for the delivery of Polk to
the Tennessee authorities and directing him
60 Immediately make requisition on Texas
for the return of Polk to Tennessee.
New ORLEANS, January S:h. = Captain
| Farrell, of the Detective Agency, this morn.
ing received dispatch from Governor Hawk
inc, of Tennessee, instructiDg him to hold
Treasurer Polk prisoner until requisition
could be forwarded. The detectives say they
cannot hold the prisoner on the Governors
dispatch until the Tennessee authorities reach
San Antonio. Polk passed through this city
on Friday. He purchased arms. ammuui.
ton, blankets, drugs, etc.
NASHVILLE, January 8sh.-Governor Haw.
kins has received dispatch stating that
Treasurer Polk has been released on habeas
corpus.
ST. LOUIS. January Sth.-A Loredo spe-
cial says Treasurer Polk had two valises
full of money-one gold and one gresnbacks,
and it is intimated that their contents NAV
have had some influence in securing his re-.
lease from the detective who arrested him.
Suicide OF n Man and wife.
DETROIT, January Ssh.-A double suicide
was committed in this city Saturday night
and Sunday, evidently with the coolest pre-
meditation. A man named J. Edward Monck
| and wife were parties to the shocking trans
action. He was discharged empleye of the
Customs department If Chatham, Ontario,
boarding at the Franklin House here. On
Saturday evening their month old child was
given into the temporary charge of lady
connected with the hotel TO take care of.
Monck then locked his wife into her room
and went away. The lady, finally growing
tired of her charge. sought about midnight to
| return the child to its mother, but was unable
| to get into her room. An entrance was
finally secured by means of q pass-key, when
Mrs. Monck was found dead on the bed,
with every evidence that she had died from
morphine. administered by her own hand or
that of her husband. The same everiug
registered under an assumed name,
and telling the clerks that he would
not take breakfast, went to the room
assigned him. He was found yesterday
afternoon in an unconscious conditisn from
the effects of desc of morphine, and died
latter in the evening. Both parties were
| under go and have parents and other rela.
| tives living at Chatham. Il is supposed that
| dependency ever his discharge from his pc
sitior, and failure CT all efforts at restora-
ton, drove the pair to the commission of the
crime. Next to nothing is known of their
| previous history, or any other cause to which
] the shocking event can be attributed. Thsir
relatives have already taken the bodies back
| to Chatham.
PugiIfstic.
| NEW YORK, January 8zh.-Richard K. Fox
Is reported in an evening paper with saying:
Il have forwarded railroad tickets for Mace
and Slade. They will leave San Francisco
on the 11th, ard next Sunday, in company
with William Harding, I shall go to Chicago,
| and there NEE. them. Sullivan will meet
| Mace with hard gloves under the four minute
| rules Macs il supposed to be in excellent
| condition, and he and his partner are keeping
up their training as they travel along. As
soon as Slade arrives here he will be matched
| for o genuine prizc- lug fight for 81, 800 and
the championship. The fight will take place
within 100 r.iles of New Orleans. Sullivan
says be has no fear of meeting Mace, or the
giant that accompanies him, but is willing to
concede that in the match with Mace he has
q strong scientific antagonist"
steamship on Fire Mt Sea.
NEW York, January Sth.-The steamship
Dorar, of the North German Lloyd Steam
ship Company, arrived from Bremen to-day,
bringing eleven cabin and 345 steerags pas
sangers Ga the 6 h instant, while at see,
fee broke out amidships in the hold, causing
excitement among The passengers; but the
flames were extiDguished by the crew. Ths
damage to the cargo cannot be ascertained
until the vessel is unlosded. The origin of
the fire is o mystery, but is supposed to have
| been produced By spontaneous combustion.
Smallpox Raging In Virginia.
| LYNcHBURG, January Sth.-Small-pox is