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®BE DAILY SUN.
FstDAt McanaKo.
Hon.
battle fields of the South will attest
jthat the Whigs and Conservatives,
Joke 30. prho laid down their lives upon the
altar of love for their States and
brethren, were among the bravest and
most self-sacrificirg of the
GALLANT LEGIONS
who faced death so courageously dur
ing that long and dreadfiu war/ Nor
^ have we, nor do we now propose to
The following letter, setting forth | cast a shadow of reproach upon our
the merits of Gen. Hancock and rec- j friends for what might be considered
oomending him as a candidate for an error of judgment Our policy
the Presidency, will be found inter- j might have avoided the carnage, the
esting to all admirers of that distin- j distress and the havoc; it might have
guished soldier. We publish it at the saved the ten thousand millions of
earnest request of several esteemed property which have been lost, and it
. GEN. HANCOCK.
Interesting Letter from
Blanton Dnncan.
friends:
Geneva, May 13,1871.
Hob. Baker. Ex-Governor of Lonisiena,
Franklin, Pertab of St Mary, I*.:
Mv Dear Sir : I perceive by the
newspapers of the United States that
the political caldron is begining to
bo® and that many movements are
being made in behalf of various dis-
tutgoished men of our party. These
evolutions are not devoid of interest
to me. In so far as I may he able to
assist in anything which can benefit
the whole country, and especially en
sure peace and prosi>erity for our
section thereof, it is my duty as well
as my highest pleasure, to Send all
my energies thereto. You, as a de
voted and energetic citizen of Louisi
ana, will always do the Same.
He JJelieving that ypu have not forgot
ten'the; 5,rA ‘
noble and patriotic
stand assumed by Gen. Hancock,
v When, ib command of the South, he
followed tie dictates of justice and
dnty iji his attempt-to ameliorate the
condition- of the citizens, and to make
the military , subservient to the civil
daw,. I write to suggest that Hancock
• still alive and wiu he presented and
urged for the position of our standard
hearer, by his numerous warm and
i zealous friends.
The peculiar considerations which
ought to make Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Texas come unitedly
to his support are not alone the at-
• tenq>ts upon his part to benefit the
people of those States, but also the
circumstances which have since oc-
? curred. He-has been ostracised as it
were, for his boldness in braving the
wishes of Gen. Grant, and for daring
to have an opinion of his own, in
which kindness of heart and magnan-
J undus sympathy for the sufferings
of our people formed not the least
’portion. ' "
For your sakes, nay one might say
for the whole South, martyred in so
Tor as a just and proper acknowledge
ment of his great merits and capaci
ty are concerned, when assignments
of military positions were made; it is
• eminently proper, that your State
I should be tne vanguard or the entire
Sonth, rallying in nis behalf.
What could be more proper, than
to have the South
SOLIDLY DEMANDING
permission to name a Northern man,
' as the Democratic candidate, who
could he elected? What could be
more fitting, than the selection by
tie South of a gallant soldier, who
fought us’ as long as we could hold
our weapons, and yet, when we were
crushed and bleeding, was the first
to step forward like a ministering
angel,>t6 staunch our wounds and to
anoint them with balsam, and to raise
uB'from mental prostration by infus
a ing hopes of just and generous treat-
• ment m the future ? What more
righteous retribution in the compen
sations of life could there be, than to
pit the warrior, who believes in the
SUPREMACY OF CIVIL LAW,
against that President, who has
• again unsheathed his sword at the
bidding of partisans, and who, in his
willingness to crush our section of
the country, may yet strive to ride
into power by the complete subver
sion of the lilierties of all ? There
is but one leading question
in the choice of the next
Democratic Convention;
TO SELECT THE STRONGEST CANDI-
D.VTK.
I have not a word to allege against any
of the distinguished champions, who
seek Hie honor of carrying our colors.
But, in a crisis like tins, I deem it in
cumbent upon every man, who has a
might nave averted the dreadful vas
salage which the Radical politicians,
with an utter want of magnanimity,
have now so long compelled us to en
dure. It was not foreordained that
our views should even have the priv
ilege of essaying the peaceful battle.
Our people, a minority of the United
States, accepted or proffered the gage
of battle. Those who urged action
did not thoroughly understand the
Northern mind, and that delusion
was a fatal one which induced the be
lief of a divided North, in a section
al war.
The present is a crisis in our fate,
fully as vital as was that of 1860.
And, again, I venture to plead for
calm, well-considered and wise action.
If we misunderstood the tone of
Northern sentiment, the error that
we may commit may destroy us as
well as our friends in the North.
There are men in the South who be
lieve that our section will ultimately
secure its former aseendancy in the
councils of the nation. Iam not one
of them. The laws of nature are ir
resistible, and so are those of events.
We might as soon expect to reverse
the current of Niagara as to subvert
the inevitable sequences of our war.
There'should be no hesitation to pro
claim our prompt acquiescence there
in, and thus take away from subtle
schemers their capital in trade, which
is the constant
DEFAMATION OF OUR PEOPLE
and the uterly false construction of
our views. To practical minds an
act demonstrates far more than a
thousand words. If, therefore, our
people should say, “We waive all
revolutionary attempts, though forced
by the bayonet to accept many laws,
we have, in good faith, enfranchised
our former slaves, given them equal
political rights, and propose to acqui
esce in all legal enactments,” andif
that should be followed up by pre
senting to the North Gen. Hancock,
a true and tried soldier and statesman,
in whom they have every confidence,
the result would not be doubtful.
What good will it do to agitate past
issues r
The recent legislation of Congress
for the purpose of
FOMENTING DISTURBANCES
or manufacturing them, and thus
frightening a certain number of Con
servative voters into the support of
Gen. Grant, will be sufficient for his
success, even without a resort to force
or fraud in 1872, if wise action is
not concerted in the South to check
mate them. The Presidential contest
is narrowed down to the control of
less than two hundred thousand voters
in the North, who will defeat us unless
we unquivocally show them that there
is no danger of disturbances from
the South, and that our candidate is
a man whom the North can confide
in with more certainty than in Gen.
Grant That Grant* is to be the
opposing candidate is unquestionable.
The last military bill rivets it beyond
recall. Who can defeat Gen. Grant ?
Only a military man, who can secure
the votes of tens of thousands of
former soldiers who voted for Grant
in 1868; or a civilian, who from
former Republican associations can
secure the support of a portion of
that party. The latter candidate is
probably out of the question.
If we present General Hancock to
the Northern delegates in convention
they will accept him, for the South
ern States cast the majority (83) of
the reliable Democratic electoral
votes.
He is probably the only Democrat
whom we could select with a certainty
of success. It is to our interest to
drop of patriotism in his veins, to take any chances whatever,
disced all personal considerations, The result in Connecticut ought to
and to have an eye single to the des- open the eyes of every man who is
tiny of the country, and the conse- not ^mfuliy blind. It proves the
queuees which our -failnre in 1872
may entail; and more especially is
tills compulsory on every Southern
man. We absolutely require rest and
peace and years of solid prosperity
to regain what we have lost in the
past ten years of war—
TOR WE HAVE NOT YET HAD PEACE,
nor is it likely to be vouchsafed to us,
ao long as the bauble of power is with
in the clutch of Radical ambition,
or the rich, prizes of Southern El
Dorados are to be attained by hun
gry adventurers.
In 1860 there were hundreds of
thousands like me, who followed such
leaders as Alex. H. Stephens in regard
to the policy of the South. We be
lieved that me battle for the Consti-
proves
compact organization and strength of
the Radicals. We can win the game
with ease, and ver we may throw it
away by folly. Idle declamation and
assertion will give us no strength. It
is the conservative element of the
North, now acting with the Radicals,
which we must divert from them, or
consent to let the elections for the
next century go in the same smooth
groove.
Look at the figures. What States
can we expect to carry with certain
ty ? Alabama, 8; California, 5; Del
aware, 3; Georgia, 8; Kentucky, 11;
Maryland, 7; Missouri, 11; New
York, 33; North Carolina, 10 ; Ore
gon, 3; Tennessee, 10; Virginia, 10;
West Virginia, 5—Total 124. But
tution should have been fought in- to elect we require 159. Now, where
aide of the Union, where we had the are we to get the others? Dealing
Supreme Court to protect our inter-1 frankly with each other as business
set, before ^partisan legislation had: men, we could discuss our chances in
•tricken down our legitimate de- j doubtful States. Under the military
fences; and where the thirty South- law just enacted we will be swindled
earn Senators, by the aid of the North- and probably lose Arkansas, Florida,
ern Democrats, could have foded the j Louisiana and Mississippi, which un-
machinations of the Radicals. The j der a fair and legitimate vote are all
majority overruled us and said that Democratic. We have therefore to
the proper course was the Montgom- {fight the battle in Connecticut, 6; In-
ery Congress and Government. Did diana, 13; Nevada, 3: New Jersey, 7;
we, because of that, falter m our de- New Hampshire, 5; Texas, 6—in each
votion to Southern interests? The I of which the change of a few hun
dred votes will decide the result.—
Three were Democratic and three
Radical at the last election. And we
have to contest the election with
UNSCRUPULOUS OPPONENTS,
who have all the plunder and all the
power to back them. If we carry
all of these States except Nevada or
New Hampshire, we have just enough
to elect. Will any honest man say
that our chances to carry all but one
would be a safe betting point ? And
yet, if we lose two of them, or even
one with six electoral votes, the elec
tion is gone, unless we carry Pennsyl
vania. With that State safe,, we
could dispense with several of those
enumerated above, and still win.—
Now, I speak advisedly when I say
that Pennsylvania Democrats will be
a unit for Hancock—that her State
Convention will instruct the delega
tion to nominate him, and to cast her
vote for him from the first ballot. I
repeat, also, that Hancock can get
twenty thousand votes in that State,
which no other Democrat can. After
onr Convention in 1868, distinguish
ed Radicals in Washington did not
conceal their joy from me that Han
cock had not been nominated. They
feared him and Chase alone, and one
of the most distingushedpoliticians of
Pennsylvania, who knows every nook
and corner thereof, and has managed
its political campaigns for years, can
didly answered my demand for the
truth, that “Hancock would have
beaten Grant thirty thousand
votes.”
Shall the South ignore such facts ?
Shall we turn away from the cer
tainty that we can secure a reign of
justice and affection, instead of one
of oppression and hate ? That is all
that we of the South can claim or
ask; for with it would come that
lasting peace,
that brushing away of the clouds of
misrepresentation and foul calumny,
which to-day is the real barrier be
tween the North and the South. And
the negro race would no longer be
stirred up by the adventurers, who
seek to embitter their docile instru
ments at any cost, so that rich, returns
may flow unceasingly into their capa
cious maws. The Ku-Klux bill, with
all its enormities, would drop harm
less to the ground, if—when orators
attempted to raise the affrighted bris
tles upon credulous bumpkins’ heads
by recitals of Southern horrors and
outrages—every Northern Democrat
could reply, “And yet these people
are supporting from preference our
great soldier, Winfield Scott Han
cock.” It would take the pith and
marrow out of every lie concocted by
the Radical press.
For the South the stake is a great
one. She has far more to lose than
the North by the result of the next
election. # And, as practical men, I
place the issue before you and other
friends in the South, whether it is
not wise now to consult with each
other, ascertain whether my asser
tions and my figures are not correct,
and be prepared to act hereafter with
that unity of purpose, which alone
gave our section its great strength in
the past. • ^ ‘
I have taken the liberty, my dear
sir, to address this letter to you, in
the hope that yon will take steps to.
bring the subject treated of in it, to
the notice of the Southern people;
partly because of my knowledge of
your position in your State, and
partly because I am certain that from
your having been for some time con
nected with Gen. Hancock in the ad
ministration of the civil affairs of
the State of Louisiana—while he was
the commanner of the Fifth Milita-
ey District—there is no one more
competent than yourself to speak of
the fitness of that gentleman for the
station to which I would desire to.
have him elevated by the suffrages of
the law-abiding citizens of a const!
tutional republic.
Yours truly,
Blanton Duncan.
Missouri Radicals in Trouble.
A Washington special to the Cou
rier-Journal of the 24th, says:
Gen. Isaac Shepherd, of St. Louis,
chairman of the State Central Republi
can Committee of Missouri, lias been in
town for several days, in search of’ the
Administration, and left for Long Branch
to induce the President to remove Gen.-
Smith, postmaster of St. Louis, and pro
cure the appointment of M. Hilton in his
stead. The demand for that change is
based upon the refusal of postmaster
Smith to the discharging of men of luke
warm and conservative proclivities. Con
gressman E&vens, of Springfield, Mo.,
feels no less aggrieved at Grant’s mani
fest influence to a thorough overhauling
of Federal office-holders within the State,
and has repeatedly set forth elaborate
memorials on the deplorable condition of
the Radical party in Missouri, depicting
its speedy disintegration unless certain
changes are made. It is not improbable
that Haven’s paper, the Springfield Pa
triot, will soon come out against Grant.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
says: A disease they call spotted fe
ver is killing many valuable horses in
New York. If it should kill Dexter,
and Dexter’s death should kill Bon
ner, and Bonners death should kill
the Ledger, and the death of the Led
ger should paralyze the pens of Fanny
Fern and Sylvanus Corncob, the glory
of American literature would be at an’
end. For goodness’s sake let the vete
rinary surgeons of New York spread
themselves.
The Democratic Congressional Com
mittee is about to commence the dis
tribution of Schurz’s speeches on
San Domingo, the civil service and
Tlie Tomb of JLee.
A correspondent, in the course of a
letter givingin detail the commence
ment exercises at Washington-Lea
College, Lexington, Virginia, last
week (for which we find it impossible
to make room), thus speaks of the
tomb of General Lee:
“Hundreds of people visited on yes
terday the tomb of Lee, which is in
the basement of Lee Chapel. The
neat marble slab which covers the
vault, the simple, inscription (‘Robert
Edward Lee—Born January 18,1807
Died October k2th, 1870’), the rail
ing of black walnut (the posts cap
ped with marble), and the decorations
of flowers, evergreens and immor
telles, impressed every one with - the
exceeding good taste* with which ev
erything had been arranged. But we
had opportunity on yesterday of judg
ing what the tomb: will be when tne
design of. the Memorial Association
will be carried out. Valentine, the
gifted young sculptor, had placed near
the tpmb his model in plaster of the
sarcophagus, which the Lee . Memo
rial Association propose to place over
the grave.
It represents General Lee as asleep
in his nightly bivouac beneath the
stars, his military cloak around him,
and one hand lightly resting upon
the sword which lies at his side. The
face is copied from the bust, which
Valentine made just a few months
before General Lee’s death, and
which has been pronounced by fami
ly and frieuds a speaking likeness.
The picture is easy and graceful, just
the position in which the old hero
used to sleep, the couch on which it
rests is inscribed with the coat of
arms of Virginia, and other appro
priate devices.
“ In a word, the model is a grand
triumph of art, and has elicited the
most unbounded expressions of en
thusiastic approval. When the plas
ter shall have given place to the pure
marble, and the plans of the Associa
tion for remodeling the room shall
have been carried out, it will be. a me
morial worthy of the-great ’ chieftain,
entitled to take rank with the finest
similar works in the world, and will
place the name of Edward Valentine
along side of the great masters. The
Executive Committee of the Memo
rial Association have adopted the
model, and directed its execution/'—
Savannah Republican.
The Louisiana Sugar Crop/
According to the third annual state
ment of Mr. Bouchereau, just pub
lished, the Louisiana crop of sugar
produced last year was 144,381 hogs
heads; weighing 168,378,592 pounds.
This was a very large increase; but
nevertheless the crop was below aver
age to the acre, owing to unfavora
ble weather. The yield of. molasses
was over ten million gallons, an in
crease of nearly 100 per cent, on the
previous year. The successive sugar
crops, since the war, have been as
follows:' 1870, 144,381 hogsheads;
1869, 87,900; 1868, 84,256; 1867, 37,-
647; 1866, 41,000; 1865,15,000. The
largest sugar crop ever produced was
in 1861, when the crop footed up
469,510 hogsheads—unusually large,
since the previous erop was only
228,758 hogsheads. The Picayune
says the sugar crop is now re-estab-
lisned on a solid basis, and for the
current year will probably be 200,000
or 225,000 hogsheads. Many hun
dreds of negro laborers have . been
brought out from Tennessee, Virginia
and the Carolinas, and no inconsid
erable amount of white labor has been
drawn into the cultivation of the
cane. v- :
• -* ;
, Carious Jewish Case.
A Chicago dispatch dated the 25th.
instant says:
A curious case will come before Jus
tice Doggett for adjudication this week.
The complainants are Elkin Hertsman,
a Jewish Rabbi, and D. P. Reynolds, and
the defendant is Thomas Wilkins, an
Englishman and son of ! a Jewess, who
has been married several years and has
children. When young,-he declined to
embrace,the Jewish faith, but recently
announced his intention to do so. He
consulted Rabbi Hertsman, and was in
formed that if he would subscribe to the
formula he would be admitted to a Jew
ish synagogue. This he agreed to. This
formula included circumcision of him
self and son, aged six years, baptism of
his wife, and then a re-marriage accord
ing to the Jewish rites. Previously,
Wilkins had agreed to pay all attendant
expences, medical and ceremonial, but
when the bill was, presented, amounting
to $95, Wilkins pleaded poverty, and
several members of the congregation
proposed to make up the sum and pay
the bill. Before doing so, it was discov
ered that Wilkins was worth $10,000, and
that he was about to dispose of his busi
ness and go to England. The Rabbi, on
learning these facts, instituted legal pro
ceedings to recover the claim, and the
trial will take place on Wednesday.
*- •-*
The Health of Mr. Colfax.
A ’Washington dispatch of the 25th
says
A letter just received from Vice-Presi
dent Colfax, dated South Bend, says, the
doctors allow him to write two or three
letters a day, instead of twenty or thirty.
He adds : “I am leading here the laziest
life possible, and looking back to the last
dozen years, I wonder now that the blow
did not fall earlier. Every biennial Con
gressional canvass I made from seventy
to one hundred and ten speeches and the
interim between them was filled with
public life with all its exacting dnties—
lecttning, <fcc. My journies across the
continent to the Rooky Mountains, “the
only relaxation of the last half dozen
years, postponed the evil day for me,
A NewFeature in the Bowen
Bigamy Case.
The New York Herald's Washing
ton correspondence of the 24th, has
the following:
Attorney General Akerman arrived here
this evening, after an absence of some
two weeks at his home in Georgia. He
returns much invigorated in health.
Owing to the influences which have been
brought to bear, the first case .which he
will take up for examination is .that. of
Bowen, the tried and convicted bigamist.
It is well known here that this case, as it
at present stands, involves simply politi
cal considerations. Until the sentence
of the court was announced public sym
pathy van all on one side. Since then
developments have taken place which
demonstrate that Bowen is the victim of
political as well as personal persecution.
The President, who has been approach
ed in this matter, both by petition and
personal communication, has referred
everything to the Bureau of Justice, and
has affirmed that in his actions he would
be controlled by its recommendations.—
Among Bowen’s frieuds there is strong
apprehension that by reason of his prej
udices the Attorney General will be in
fluenced to decide against Bowen; but in
the Attorney General’s department the
opinion seems to be well founded that his
recommendations will be entirely gov
erned! both by the law and facts in' the
case. .,' ;
The New Loan a Failnre.
The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun writes on the 25th
as follows: “The failure of the United
States five per cent, loan in Europe
has been a well ascertained fact for
some time, which recent advices from
the various agents of the Treasury
Department simply continue to con
firm. As .heretofore stated in these
dispatches, the agents find the Euro
pean markets stocked with first-class
American six per cent, railway mort
gages, which investors prefer to a five
per cent. Government bond. In view
of this condition of affairs, and in or
der to creates demand for the loan,
the statement is again revived that
the Secretary of the Treasury will
soon give the three months’ notice re
quired by the sixth section of the
Funding Act, and redeem on Novem
ber first twenty millions of the five-
twenties of 62’s held abroad. This
notice is expected to hasten the con
version of these bonds into new loan.
As the coin balance of the Treasury
shows a margin of about twenty mil
lions above the amount actually re
quired on hand, it is quite manifest
that the Secretary will not be able to
make very rapid progress in the re
demption of two or three hundred
millions of matured ^ve-twenties.
The Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad.
The war upon this railroad has
kept things lively about Chattanooga
for some time; but Stauton is the
top dog in the fight, having won over
all competitors. At one time it was
thought all was up with him. Busteed
had declared him and his company
bankrupt and appointed men to take
hold of the road and manage it un
til further orders. But Judge Woods
exercised the right to revise Busteed’s
decision in the case and set it aside,
returning the road to Stanton, who
has resumed control of it and will
put it into operation at once.
We are somewhat inclined to side
with Stanton in this matter. We
think the prosecution against the
company amounted almost to a per
secution, and that, after the road had
been finished so nearly to completion,
over so many obstacles, Stanton
should have been permitted to com
plete the work. There is no doubt
of his ability to complete the road,
and when completed it will he in con
dition to meet its liabilities without
any undue sacrifice.
Most men would have been intimi
dated if subjected to the ordeal
through which Stanton has passed;
but stimulated by a strong will,
coupled with some Yankee pertinaci
ty, he has surmounted the obstacles
that were in his way, and, all in pro
bability, will soon be gliding along on
the flood-tide of success. We rather
admire the way in which he has
.fought and won the battle. Certain
ly he is entitled to a good deal of
creditin'. • *
Hettie Me E wen’s Flag.
The Secretary has just received the
flag made by Mrs. McEwen, which
floated from her house while the city
of Nashville, Tenn., was in possession
of the rebels and was found still
floating there when Gen. Buell’s
Union army occupied the city. The
flag will be placed in a room in the
War Department containing several
other flags of historical interest.
General Sherman mentions in con
versation that everywhere he went on
his recent tour of inspection, he met
with a warm reception from the peo
ple, espeesally in Louisiana and Texas.
The Governors of those States in
formed him that peace and order
therein would favorably contrast with
any period previous to the late war.
He found the army in good condi
tion.
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telegraphic items.
From the Daily Sun of June 30.
California Politics.
Washington, June 29.
The Republican Nominating Conven
tion has nominated Booth for Governor.
The platform endorses heartily Grant’s ad
ministration; demands the abrogation of
the treaty with China, and favors a pro
hibition of Chinese emigration.
The BouUcell-Pleasonton Vnpleasatttarts.
Washington, June 29.
The Cabinet meeting convened at 11
o’clock this morning. Secretary Robeson,
Fish and Delano absent. Boutwell had
his say in Court. Pleasonton will have
his this evening. Politicians are much
interested at the result.
More .iboul the Douticell-PIesanton .ItTalr.
Washington, June 29.
A special dispatch to the Louisville
Ledger says there is the best authority
for stating that the President has been
considering for some time the difficulty
between Pleasanton and Boutwell; and
that "he has reached a conclusion, though
for the present its announcement is de
ferred. They say that the real question
to be determined is, whether Pleasanton
has generally administered the affairs of
the Internal Revenue Bureau to the
satisfaction of the country, and this ques
tion they both answer in the negative. It is
obvious that this is special plea on which
General Pleasanton’s resignation, will be
accepted, though Grant will adopt any
such rule for his own course. Pleasau-
fcon will possibly receive some unimpor
tant foreign commission.
The Treaty of Washington Signed.
The Queen has certainly signed the
treaty of Washington, and the documents
left England on Saturday last. It will
probably reach here by Tuesday or
Wednesday. The copy signed by the
President was sent out by General
Shenckfor the British Government.
Cost of Ku-Klux Committees.
It is estimated that each Ku-Klux wit
ness C03trthe country $250, and many of
them much more, so that the temptation
to visit the Capitol, at public cost, is suf
ficient for wandering carpet baggers,
vicious negroes, or low scalawags, who
from the staple of those called here on
the Radical side from the South. Over
thirty thousand dollars has thus far been
expended.
Cost of Corean News.
The Secretary of the Navy received
from Admiral Roders, a dispatch that
left Corea on the 23d inst, aud'was tele
graphed from Shanghai via Hong Kong,
Sangapore, Ceylon, Bombay and Suez.
The dispatch contained 110 words and
cost the Government three hundred and
fifty-four dollars and forty-six cents. It
will be seen that this dispatch makes no
mention of the killed and wounded on
board vessels of other nations. The Ad
miral probably omitted reference to these
in order to save tolls.
The Navy Department has been in dai
ly receipt of dispatches and letters from
friends of the officers and men with ex
pedition, inquiring as to the fate of their
relatives or acquaintances.
The Greenback.
The aggregate resources of National
B inks for the last quarter, amounted to
$1,694,198,103. ttor the quarter ending
June 10th, 1871, it is thought the amount
will .be increased about $50,000,000—
owing to increase in number of banks.
The vacancy occasioned by the resig
nation of Capron in the Agricultural Bu
reau has beeu tendered to P. P. Frocs,
Esq., of Germantown, who declines,
then to Edward Walls, an eminent law
yer of Carlisle, Pa., who also declined.
Boutwell and General Porter have gone
North.
New Orleans, June 29.
The Mayor has vetoed the resolution
of the City Council authorizing the con
struction of a levee along the lake shore
for the protection of the city—at a cost
of near three million dollars, on the
ground that better protection can be pro
vided for one liuudiod thousand dollars.
The Governor and his Lieutenant.
Gov. Warmouth is sick at Pass Chris
tian. His colored Lieutenant-Governor,
Duun, has opened the executive offiee,
and is transacting business.
The Oxford Troubles.
Memphis, June 29.
About thirty men have been arrested,
charged with complicity in Ku-Kluxing
negroes while disguised, near Oxford,
Miss. Able legal talent on both sides
has been secured. Wives are permitted
to testify in behalf of their husbands.
The trial is creating great interest.
Struck “F/c.”
Erie, Penn., June 29.
A vein of heavy lubricating oil was
struck while boring an artesian well at a
depth of 450 feet.
Sentenced to Death.
Topeka, Kansas, June 29.
A man 22 years old and a woman 40,
have been tried and sentenced to death
fur kiliiug the husband of the woman.
There had been an intimacy between the
parties from the early youth of the man;
who had several times been advised to
commit the murder, but she took no part
in the deed. J .
Maine Nomination.
Portland, June 29.
Hon. Sidney Perham was nominated
for Governor by acclamation.
The New York Polaris, fully equipped,
went to sea this evening, going out with
the tide. A large number of friends
bade Capt. Hall good-bye.
■£ Kentuckian Corean-td.
Louisville, June 29.
Lieut. HugliW. McKee, U. S. N., who
was killed in a fight with the Coreans on
June 11th, was attached to the flag-ship
Colorado. He was a native of Kentucky,
from which State he was appointed in
the navy on the 25th of September, 1861,
Destructive Storm.
Memphis, June 29.
A violent storm, wind, hail and rain,
passed over Helena, Arkansas, yesterday.
Several houses were unroofed.
Steamer A J. White last evening was
struck by the hurricane above Napoleon.
She was ca-ried back down the river
many miles and n-urly capsized. The
excitement was so gr at that two passen-'
gers jumped overboard and drowned.