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20,Minn] i Treasury Department's Statement of Damage to Agricultural Interests THE APPROXIMATE VALUE OF The Agricultural Property of tlic Submerged Region 1b Over Ninety Million Dollars. Tho bureau of Statistics of tho Treasury Department at Washington, under date of April 21st, has made the following report on the damage caused agricultural interests by tho Mississippi over-flood: Since tho publication on April 12 of a statement relative to the agricultural interests of the submerged districts of the Mississippi Valley south of Cairo, 111., tho area under water has been considerably extended. This extension is below Vicksburg, Miss., but on tho right or west side of tho river, aud is muinly duo to a break 2,000 feet in width, ill tlie levee at !?i<*iTs Tim flow of water at this poiiu lias totally submerged our parishes (counties) of Louisiana anil partially overflowed live others, while a break at La Fourcho crossing in the southern part of the Baine State, lias resulted in the submergence of an additional area of nearly 200 squaro miles in La Fourobo a id Teare Lou no parishes. In this newly submerged reirion tliero was in US.ai a total population of Sx?,:? '???, in the proportion of four colored persons to ono white. The region contained at the last census 7,747 farms, with a total area of over 1,000,000 acres, of which 420,000 were improved. Of this la t mentioned area, 210,000 ocres, or over one half, were last year devoted to cotton, over 01,000 acres to corn, 0,0?.0 acres to sugarcane, 2,000 acres to hay and an inconsiderable acreage to other crops. 'J lie total value of these farms, including fences and the buildings, but exclusive of their movable equipment was in 18(10 close upon $11,000,000 and the value of the implements and machinery and implements upon them was over >'000,000. On January 1, of X- the present year, they contained live stock to the value of $l,f>00,00:i and so lately as the iirst of March they wore estimated to have still on hand about $HOO,OoO worth of the crop of last season. The total Mil no of the farms submerged by the breaks in the levees that have occurred since the lath inst., v>ith their farm implements, live stock and crops on hand, is therefore close upon ?1 1,000,000. 'I his i region produced hist year nearly 100,000 i ale of cotton, over 0,000,000 pounds | ot sugar, over l.:>oo,ooo bushels of corn, besides hay, potatoes, outs mul other minor products, tiio entire production aggregating a value, even at the low prices that have prevailed, of more than "The total area submerged at this date is over 20,out) square miles. It contained at the last census j-4ii,P50 farms, with a total area of 4,tl04,4(i<5 acres, nearly onc-haif ??t" which was improved, and a total population, agricultural and otherwise, of I(St?,Pit. If to the value of its farms, farm buildings ami farm nmehinery, according to the ecu sus of 180". there he added the value of its live stock on January 1, last, t 74. i?:!Cd and of its products of last sea ' son stiil on hand March last ($4,554.754) the total of $00. 1 7(5,117 will represent the approximate value of the agricultural property of the submerged region. Among the products of this region hot year were 4(5(5,05(5 bales of cotton, worth $M5,:?l2,OiiO; 12,525,(545 bushels of corn, worth $0,005,278, and. 0,0:5:i,s;m pounds of sugar, worth $27,01(5. The total production, including minor crops, representing a value of $21,782,180 on the plantations." AN AIM'KAIi KKOM ATHENS. The Union of Which Queen Olga Is President, Issues a Plea to Christian Women. The following appeal has been issued by the Union of (ireek Women under the presidency of Her Majesty, Queen Olga and Crown Princess Sophia: ''The women of tho old and new world, Christian mothers, sisters and wives, workers for civilization and progress, guardians of lovo and justice, greeting: "Christian mothers, sisters and wives, civilized like you, earnestly appeal for your help. Our sons, our brothers and husbands, lighting for the cross, are being killed and wounded in a sacred cause. Their blood stains the last page of history of the nineteenth century, the history of civilization and progress of which you are tho promoters. "Christian women, do not share the responsibility of your diplomas. Arouse in the hearts of your husbands and sons more Christian and more equitable sentiments. Unite and your just protest. will re-echo in the hearts of tho nations and the people. Prove by your energy and Christian work that the women, the trno missionaries of right with the (lospel of lovo and justice in their hearts, range themselves on the side of the wronged. (Signed) IIki.kn Gimva," "('resident of the Union." ({alley Will Address Them. 'Ion. .1. F. llailey, lender of the Democrats in tho IT. S. House of llepresentntives, has accepted an invitation to deliver tho commencement address at Hoanoke (Va.) college on .Tune It is et.pccted that Mr. Bailey and Senator Wellington, of Maryland, who ...:ii _.i.i ii - ' * * - Hill miurunn 1110 IllOrary Societies on I ft, will bo among tho speakers at tlio aluiiiiii dinnor on tho afternoon of commencement (lay, June Its. A Cohan llollur Coined. Tho Now York Journal aaya: The Cuban dollar will be on the streets within a fow (lays. It will ho a silver coin of tho exact si/.o of tho Spanish coin known as five pesetas. One million dollars' worth of bullion is to he converted into the coin, which, even if it is no more than a souvenir of the Cuban struggle, will still ho worth its weight. The Cuban Junta endorses tho circulation of a silver coin hearing the stamp of the Provisional (lovemment. NEWS ITEMS. Southern Pencil Pointers. ' The International Convention ?f Young Men's Christian Associations at Mobile, Ala., Moses N. Harsliaw's nomination has been sent to the United Htates Senate , as postmaster at Lenoir, N. C. | One hundred bales of tobacco, worth fl AO a iKMtnd, has been shipped to New ] York by Cuban tobacco growers from i Fort Meade, Fla. Milton G. Cope, the defaulting expresident of the First National Bank of Paducah, Ky., has been indicted for forgery. . I Greenvillo, S. C., has secured the ' Southern Bailway terminal that has formerly been at Central. Dnmage is reported from the frost of the 20th from Maryland, Virginia and j North Carolina. At Norfolk, Va., a plant has been estol.liulwxl ?.;?>. ? *? ii__ a. i o vmviiuuvu nnu U i IUI 11VW VUU? ! of peanuts daily, for the manufacture j * of peanut oil, peanut flour and Btoek ; . feed, the estimated combined yield 0 representing more than $400 a day. W. W. Kidd, of Marshall county, g Ala., has decamped. His shortage is c $40,000. 1 Wm. J. Bryan made an address he- ? fore a crowd of rhout 1,000 people in ? the Kentucky legislature, representing .. every faction in that State. r At Bnrboursville, W. Va., Mrs. j Amos 1). Reynolds was killed by her t daughter-in-law during a family row. n Her head was severed from her body p with an axe. a .James J. Willis, of Florida, the doputj auditor of the State Department ? has been removed. It is stated that during the past year Mr, Willis has been absent from his desk 284 days with pay. 1 Harris Bramlett, the most noted moonshiner in Georgia, has been captured and jailed at Atlanta. The Kentucky Building and Loan ' Association law lias been declared con- C stitutioual by .Judge Scott at Win- s Chester. j( Ninety-eight cases of liquor bought t in San Francisco for personal use by ^ citizens who clubbed together, was ^ seized immediately upon its arrival in . Charleston, S. C. ' j, Saturday in the Criminal Court at t Charlotte,* N. C., L. .T. Kirk was found t uilty of shooting Lake and seuteuced o to two years on tho chain gang. An fl appeal was entered upon the ground of c excessive punishment for a new trial. t v All About the North. t The Connecticut Senate has passed J a uiu prouunuug ireo iuucues 111 saloons. I A curfew ordinance requiring chil- a dren to be indoors by 8 o'clock is in c effect at Springfield, Ohio. ? The "king of negro minstrels," Billy , Birch, died in New York ut the age of ^ 05 years of paralysis of the bruin and chronic Bright's disease. R. C. Bundy (colored), of Cincinnati, O., lias been appointod a cadet at tlie v Naval Academy by Representative Shut- 1 tuc. s Joseph E. Kelly has confessed to the , murder of Cashier Stickney, Homers- J. worth, N. 11., admitting that he com- . mitted both the murder and the robbery. Jas. R.Gentry, who was to have been hanged on the 22d of this month for the / murder of Actress Madge York, at Harrisburg, Pa., has been sentenced to life imiirisonmeut. Chicago sneculators make ?4,000,000 w ou the wheat rise of last Saturday. The body of Gen. Grant was moved . last Saturday to its permanent resting place. t< t The business portiou of the town of r Boca, O., has been burned. The total f, loss will reach ?80,000. The cause of f tho fire was attributed to tramps. j A cyclone destroyed the town of Chand- 'J ler, Okla., east of Guthrie. A a dozen or more people were killed and ^ probably 150 were injured. Miscellaneous. Greece has a population of 2,187.20S. s V Pneumatic tube mail service will soon bo tried in Boston. {! t An unsuccessful attempt was made a at Rome, Italy, to assassinate King n I HlimllArf. Kv nil il'nti n-Ai'lrna ? , ? J MM .. VM WUU WUW 1 out of work. a The Southern Presbyterian board of Foreign Missions have closed their fiscal year freo of debt, and with more than $100 in the treasury. A good J"' showing. H The trial of the only remaining issue in the Fair will case has begun at San 11 Francisco. Instead of a contest for the whole estates, and a struggle over - s (MR),0(H), it is a tight for #1,000,000 the case having narrowed down to a legal battle over two pieces of real estate winch iUiss ITeT.'.e TTaven Says "eimloi* Fair conveyed to her by pencil deed a t few days prior to his death. j One hundred women of the Warren ' Avenue Congregational Church, of v Chicago, have just earned SI each for the church. At a meeting the other evening each one told what she did. One shaved her husband; another got J; five cents whenever she got up before ( her husband; another ottered to wash v for her son, and got 31 for letting the ' shirts alone; another assessed her bus- . band 31 for a shine. Still another got the money by not singing a song. ( me woman starved her husband till he paid up. Soveral thousand razor-back hogs im- j' ported into Iowa from Texas during j the past yenr have died from kidney ? worm. -? ? Washington. Hnrrtlfl \t ? mvxi.1i, iii juniiit), nan been a| pointed to be envoy extraordi- f nary and minister plenipotentiary of tho United States to Hawaii. The President has aent tho following nomination to the Senate: John \V. C. Iiong, to be postmaster at States* ville, N. C. a Secretary Sherman aays that the do- ^ claration by Turkey that war is on with I (Ireeco will not affect or involve the United States. 1 THE INDUSTRIAL. SOUTH. rha Contracts Slude During the PmI Week Are of a -Very Extensive Character. The industrial aunouncementa for the veek ending April 22d, include a large lumber of important new manufacture ng enterprises, the most notable being lie following: A $50,000 power mill at Birmingham; . $300,000 Improvement Company at Elba, Ala.; plans and >I>eeiti cations now ready for the prolosed 32,000 spindle and 1,000 loom :otton mill at Birmingham; contract warded at Little Bock for a 1100,000 cotton mill company, at Pouan, Ga.; $100,000 electric plant comlany at Savannah; $20,000 job printing lompany at Macon; $100,000 company it Arlauta, Ga., to manufacture Bicyle tires; gas company at Louisville, iy., proposes expending $200,000 on mprovemonts; ship yards at New Oreans to make extensive additions; $2,100 company at New Grleans to corn>leto the sewer system; $250,000 m in iral water company, also at New Oreans; $.">,000 creamery coin pan v, $5,OO clothing factory, $250,000 tfuware nunufacturing company and traw joods factory in Maryland; $000,000 opper mining company in North Caroina; $50,000 publishing company and ' 4,000 warehouse companv in youth Carolina; water works ami bridges in I'ennossce; $t<0,00() mill company, $11,00 gin company, large grain elevator, aattress factory, $10,000 printing com>auy, $5,000 glove company. $50,000 elpphone company and large flouring nilIh in Texas; large flour mill wall ittpcr mills aud gate factory in Virginia; , $70,000 oven coke plant and a $100, 00 mining company in West Virinia. OREKK SOLDIKItS IH'IIXKD. idlioni Pasha's Stores Captured?May Withdraw Turkish Troops From Crete. Athens, April 23.?(Cable.)?After he bombardment of Katlirine, on the iulf of Halonica, when the Greek quudron had put to flight two battalDns of Turks aud the inhabitants of hat place, "the Greeks entered the enrenchments and found that the Turks iad left the immense stores of alhein Pasha. The valuable stores iad been left almost uuproected, in the belief by the Turks hat a blockade of Greece by the fleets f the powers would prevent the Greek leet from attacking the Turkish towns hi the Gulf of Halonica, which are near he railroad stution of Salonica, and t'liich have been used to land stores for he Turkish army and forward them to he front. The capture of these towns, lot to mention the loss of the stores, laces a serious difficulty in the path of hlhem I'asha. It is stated here that ,s soon as the Turkish eonununder-inhiof heard of the news of the capture >f riatumonaand Katrina he dispatched 0,00u men to guard the coast of Mucelonia, fearing a flank attack from the ;ulf of f-alomcft. The greek fleet in reurniug from the capture of Katrina, omharded the port of Litehori. A number of (irecks who were rounded at (Iribovali and unable tofolow the Greek retreat were shut up in a mall church by the Turks, who set tire 0 the building and burned them to loath. It is also reported that the ,'urkish troops will be withdrawn from 'rote. I'KillTKItS FOR (iltKKCK. 1 Lurgc Body Will !Sh11 From Now York-?Some Fruni the South. Five hundred and sixty-two Greek ecuits sailed from New York last iaturday on the French line steamship juCliampague for Havre. From there hey will be transported via Marsailos o the scene of the conflict between heir countrymen and the Turks. The ecruits come from different cities as ollows: Chicago, 250; Birmingham, ila., 15; Atlunta, 8; Minneapolis, 20; ioston, 25; Lowell, 8; Hartford, 0; 1 Teuton, N. .T., (>: Baltimore, 0 lndianpolis, 12, and about 200 from New .OIK. Hasclmll Season Regius. The National League baseball sea011 for 185)7 opened Thursday of last reek in the various league cities, under leasing auspices. The weather was all hat could he desired, and the total ttendauee reached the enormous figres of 61,480. Philadelphia led with 7,084. As arule the scores were close ml the gamesliotly contested. A Message From ihe President. Thursday the President sent to the enate a message in reference to a enate resolution giving information i oncoming the reciprocity treaties lade under the McKiuloy law. It ontainn only the reports of the Harriot! administration in 1802. Carlisle's Cireat Kortunr. A judgement of the Federal Court of Lppeals at New Orleans on ncase instiuted nineteen years ago places Major high Carlisle, of (luntersville, Ala., n possession of 100,000 acres of land vith 11,000 tenants. Will Not <Jo to Cuba. Owing to the President deciding to ioniinate William It. Day, of Cnuton, >., to he Frst Assistant Secretary of itate he will not go to Cuba as a special ounsel to watch the prosecution of the tuiz investigation. ('nliruti- tlx. "..- ? , ^ . y ?? ?.' ^FWMp 1'inilf i/rnu * Samuel C'olgato, multi-millionaire, iiul hea?l of the largest aoap an<l perumery houses in the country, died of leurt trouble, at his home in Orange, U .1. The Itlvcr Slowly Falling. The latest from the flooded districts s that the Mississippi river is slowly ailing, find that the Arkansas farmers re returning to work. The crop will ie a month late. Revoe Nominated. The Kentucky Legislature has at last ueeeeded in nominating a United itates Senator since the withdrawal of Iuuter. The balloting was merely a iiriiialit.v and resulted in Dcvoe's 110111ur'ion 011 the <JMth ballot. JUT lltt IS I-Ml Of the Opening of the Woman's Exposition of the Carolinas. 1 REDUCED RAILROAD RATESMm. Sallle Southall Cotton Will Deliver the Opening Address. Kverythlng to He In Readiness. j . The greatly reduced rates which tho Southern States Passenger Association has accorded the Woman's Exposition makes the success of the enterprise, which already was assured, now doubly sure, for hundreds of people will avail themselves of this opportunity to travel, and visit the exposition und other events which take place in Charlotte during the month of May. This rate is the exceedingly low one of one fare for tlio round trip fiom any point in North and South Carolina with a live days limit, and upon May tilth and 20tl? the unprecedented rate of one cent per mile is given with three days limitation. This is indeed cheap traveling and as May is the most deliglitiiil month in ' the year, and the Exposition thoroughly attractive, overy one will attend. The building is rapidly nenring completion, and that no time may be loBt in which to have all in perfect readiness for the opening, the arrangements for an electric light plant within the building are now being perfected, so that if necessary work can go on at night, that all the exhibits may be in place at the proper time. The opening is announced for the evening of Tuesday, May 11th, when a reception will be held to which all are cordially invited. Mrs. Sallie Southull Cototo, of Falkland, N. C., will deliver the opening address. Mrs. Cotton's address before the Mothers'Convention at Washington in the early spring was a fine effort, and one which wou for her the econ; a 1.. al. ~ : 1 * iuun ui inn um y uie |?rtnil 1 lie ill prt'ssui Washington but the otlier large cities as well. l>ay by day fresli exhibits are arriving, which insures every department a complete and splendid display when the time arrives for throwing open the doors to visitors. The art department, with its many fine exhibits, cannot be described. It must be visited and studied if one would comprehend the wealth of its exhibits. "Breaking the llome Ties," the canvas of which everyone has heard, and all want to see, will arrive on the morning of the opening. This is to-day the most popular picture in America and the management of the Women's Exposition feel a deep sense of gratification over its securnnce for their exhibit. The admission rate has been made equally as low us the railroad fare, as it was the earnest desire 011 the part of the executive body that 110 one should forego the pleasure and profit of a visit, in fact, several visits to the exposition. Ho for this reason the admission was placed within reach of all. Single admission tickets 25 cents, commutation tickets five for 81.00. Individual season tickets, not transferable, but good for any numbc: of admissions, $2.50. Children of 12 and under, 15 cents. The pleasure to be derived from the Art department ulone is well worth the admission price, but when it is considered that every exhibit in the departments of science and industry, educational, historical, etc., is equally replete uud Ratifying then can one arrive at some idea of the scope of the Expositimi Ami tlio avliiliiie nro oahhwo. hensive aiuf compact. The building is, of course, largo and roomy, hut every exhibit will he placed under the one roof. There will he 110 long, tiresome walks past exhibit after exhibit of one nature. Each and every display is selected aud then made complete in every detail so far as possible. A College tiets $100,000. The will of Judge Brlioldon, former member of the State Supreme Court of Illinois, was probated at Roekford. He leaves an estate of over $;i00,000, and among the behests is $100,000 to his alma mater, Williams College, and $100,000 to tlAmpton, Va., Institute. Women Kligible for 31llltiu. The Colorado Legislature has just passed a hill making women eligible for the State militia, and it is authoritatively announced that the Governoi of the Centennial State will fix his sig nature. Knnctincnts of ihehnw. Enactments by the Texas legislature make habitual drunkenness a cause for divorce, make the penalty for horse theft two to ten years' impr sonment instead of live to fifteen as now, and reduco the minimum imprisonment for pel jury to two years. tllvoii l'p the Fight. Dr. Hunter has been withdrawn from tl:e race for United States Senator from Kentucky in favor of Hon. VV. J. Delate, and it is said the light between him ami Holt uroiuino* to be a lively one. Merry-Makers* Week. Merry-Makers' Week in Augusta, (la , beginning or the 2?th of this month and extending over May 1st, will he one of the most enjoyable occasions ever held in that city. Damage to I ruck Farms. In lower Virginia and eastern North Carolina the loss to truck growers and und fruit raisers from the frost of Wednesday morning, the 21st, is placed at Si.Utu.onu. The U. S. Senato lias fixed May f> as the time for voting on the Anglo-Arner ioan arbitration treaty. The cost for repairing the cruiser Brooklyn by the Cramps, which went aground in the Delewnre River, 011 Schooner Ledge, amounts to $1118,000. President McKinley has announced, and Secrotary of State Sherman lias echoed the announcement, that applications for consular appointments will not be taken up for consideration bofore the lAth of May and probably not until the latter part of that month. f ' LEVEES STILL. HOLDINO. The Bed and Kansas I&lvers Spread* 1 ( Iok Over the Interior. I A Mempbis, Tenn., special of April 30 says the river toward Vicksburg, Natchez and Iloleua and St. Joseph, La., is reported either stationary or falling. This condition is the result of a vast amount of water passing through the crcvasso at Riggs' and ltoed's levees, above Natchez, ami at Hancock's, below. The levees in the vicinity of Natchez continues to hold under the great strain, but their holding is now of little interest to the planter: in Concordia, Tensas and Madison . -.Irishes, as the water has backed up ai> >ve and below will soon flood the rich hinds of i these parishes, and the result will be almost as disastrous as if othc breaks | had occurred. The tied ami Kan: :s rivers are now swelling, almost runn ig over the bunks, and by tomorrow t ley will begin spreading over a sectiou of 110 miles to tho interior. Work continues on the levees, however, without abatement, and everything possible is being done to hold the leinainder of the levee system intact. At Memphis tho river continues to fall. Rei>orts from Creenville, Rosedule and Cairo state that an encouraging decline is noted. Tv: N N K-SKKTK.M' 10X XIAL. pl*aami??.? i..1 ll'ni - .. ..11I.U-) tint I TIM Hit- J Jluttoii and Start tho Machinery. r This is the programme to by followed \ on the opening day, Miiy 1, Centennial Exposition. The exereises will bo brief j and simple: c Tlio Ijegislature. Governor Taylor ? and his statf, and the Kxeentivc Committee of the Cent?nnial Company and t the Supreme Court will assemble at the \ Auditorium, where they will be seated i on the stage, where the Women's Hoard ( will also have seats. President John W. i Thomas will begin the exercises with au i address upon the purposes of tho cen- r tcnnial. Gov. Taj* I or will follow, speak- t ing of the importance of tlio celebration < and its meaning; Director General ! Lewis will give a brief review of work ? accomplished and with the delivery \ thvu of the keys to President Thomas, 1 be wiii declare the Centennial Exposi- f tion open. At the same time President 1 McKinlev, in Washington, will press a < button starting the machinery and one 1 gun will bo tired to announce tho event. 1 licet Sugar Seed in Demand. . The Agricultural Department n'? < Washington is being importuned from 1 all parts of the country on beet sugar ' seed. The demand comes from Ohio, t Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, the Da- , kotus, Texas, New Mei.v?o, Iowa. NIis- \ souri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Tennes- t see, Kentucky and Virginia. A Ne ( brarka sugar refining company donated t five tons of beet seed to the Depart 3 nient, and the Department purchased c two tons additional. The supply is ? about exhausted by the demand. It t successful, the industry will probably t be developed in mnuy of the States in 3 which experiments are made this year, < supplanting corn and wheat. i Itoqiicst Made I'm' 4(),(1<><) Ofllees. J The Washington Dispatch says: "A > delegation representing the league of 1 Republican clubs of America held an 1 extended conference on Saturday with , President MoKinley. The delegation asked that something like -!0,000 offices , should be restored to the status tliej' j occupied prior to Mr. Cleveland's last , civil service extension. These olliees include chiefs of divisions in the va- t rious departments, confidential clerks, j many employes in the different post- ; olliees and custom houses throughout ' the country, tliose engaged in the in- 3 ternal revenue service and all the high ] officials now exempt from removal for j politicul reasons." ? More Settlers Kx peeled. J It >s expected that 1,000 Waldenses ; from the Alpine valleys will arrive in J Tennessee this spring to join the colony of :l"?0 that established itself near Morguntown,*N. C., in 1898. The first colony that came to this country set- / tied in Burke county, North Curolina, in 1898. Under the leadership of Dr. Teofilo Gal and Rev. H. A. Tron, the colonists purchased several Jlinnimnd ] acres of land and obtained a period of twenty years in which to pay for it. ] Turks Completely Repulsed. The latest from the Grscco-Turkish ' war says that after a desperate battle 1 the (ireeks captured and burned I)amasi. Vigilia is still resisting. Another division of the Greek troops, it i is reported, lias traversed tho Heveni < pass and captured three block houses, This division has almost reached j Damasi, where it will effect n union 1 with the force that captured the town. The 20,000 troops under General Smolentiz, displayed tho greatest bravery. Populists to Reorganize. The committee of the National Heform Association have decided to wage war on Marion Butler, as chairman of the Populist party, and also to re organize the party,owing to he Butler refusing to call the national committe together. The committee's cull is for a convention to bo held at Nashville, Tenu., July 4th, next, with one delegate for 2 )0 middle-of-the-road Populist votes cast in the recent Presidential election. lirokc Its ISccord. Italy broke its record of emigration in 1800, the numher of persons leaving the country being 300,008, three-fifths \ of tlio numher intending to stay away , permanently. Sixty-eight thousand ] persons came to the United States. < Devoted to Negro Education. There are in the Southern States nearly 100 endowed schools and colleges devoted to negro education. These institutions represent an investment of nearly $10,000,000 and are ' maintained at an annual expense of i about $4,000,000. Corbett Challenges Klt/.slmiuons. ' Tames J. Corbett has formally challenged Robert Fitz.simmons to meet I once again in the prize ring, and has deposited $0,000 as a forfeit. , AN IMPORTANT CIRCULAR Letter In Aid of the United Confeder arte Veterans' Re-Union. Below can bo found an important cir;ular letter from the headquarters of :he United Confederate Veterans, is?ued April 1.1th, in connection to the o-union which is to take place at Nash.'ille, Tonn., on Tuesday, Wednesday tud Thursday, May 2'2ud, 28rd und Mth, 18?7: It will be the largest and most iniwrtant U. C. V. re-union ever held. The I'ersounel of the Nashville reunion committee under the leadership of its 'hnirman Col. .T. B. O'Bryan, is a Al..i H i - ? 11 ,umiiiiitx Him uviTvuiiiif; win no none 'or the comfort ami convenience of the )hl veterans and all visitois which is n the power of man; it is a splendid joilj' of very able and distinguished lomrades, who are fully alive to the nagnitude of the work entrusted to hem in entertaining and caring for heir old comrades, and it w ill he their >ride to mako it the most memorable eunion upon record; and the citizens >f Nashville are aglow with enthusiasm, md patriotism, at the prospect of dispensing their far famed hospitality to ho surviving heroes of the lost cause. Also to urge ex-Confederate soldiers md sailors everywhere to form local associations, and send applications to bese headquarters for papers to orguuzo Camps immediately so as to be in iiuo to participate in the great eunion at Nashville, and thus unite vitli their comrades in carrying out the amiable and philanthropic objects of he organization; as only Veterans w ho >elong to organized V. C. V. Camps an participate in the business meeting it Nashville. Ibisiiiess of tlio greatest importance o the survivors of the Southern army vill demand careful consideration lini ng the session of the Seventh Annurl 'onvention, at Nashville, Tenn., such is the hest methods of securing imuirtial history, and to enlist each uute in the compilation and prcservaion of the history of her citizen sol liory; the benovolent care through Htuto aid or otherwise of disabled, lestitute, or aged veterans nnd the vidows and orphans of our fallen irotuers m uriUH; to consult us to tlic car.ihility of the formation of a I'. C. V. Benevolent Aid Association; the euro >f tho graves of our known and unknown dead buried at Gettysburg. Fort Warren. ('amps Morton, Cuuse, Dongas, Oak wood Cemetery at Chicago, Johnson's island, Cairo and all othei; points, to nee that tliev are annuully leooruted.tho lieadstones preserved and rotectcd and complete lists of tlie names >f our dead lieroes with tho location of heir last resting places furnished to heir friends ami relatives through tho ncdium of our camps, thus reseuiug heir names from oblivion and bunding ,hem down in history; the consideraion of the dillereut movements, plans md meuun to erect a monument to the neniory of Jefferson Davis, President >f the Confederate States of America, dsn to aid in building' monuments t<> >ther great leaders, soldiers and sailors >f the South; also to assist in the pro notion and completion of the proposed "lhittle Abbey;" to voto upon the proposed change of the name of the Association from U. C. V., tg> CI- N- A, : and q change the present budge or button vliich is not patentable for the new one iroposed which is; and to make such ihanges in the constitution and by-laws is experience may suggest, and other natters of general interest. Total number of camps now admitted Kin, with application in for about one lttndred and fifty more. Following is lumber of camps by States: Northeust Texas Division SI; West Texas Division 5.V, Southwest Texas Division 38; Southeast Texas I)i\i.sion 51; Northwest Texas Division 17; total Texas 217. Alabama Hit; South Carolina 81; Missouri 71; Mississippi tit J; Arkansas .V.); Georgia .18; Louisiana fit; Kentucky 89; Tennessee :: ; Virginia '4; Florida 80; North Carolina 29; Inlian Territory 12; West Virginia 11; Dklahoma ft; Maryland 41; New Mexico I; Illinois 2; Montana 2; Indiana 1; District of Columbia I: California 1. Very respectfully, (iko Mooiimax, adjutant General and Cnief of StatT. J. B. Gordon, General Commanding, 824 Common stveet (up stairs), New Orleans, La. No Troops Withdrawn from Cuba. The Spanish minister at Washington las received a telegram from the Presilent of the Connc.il of Ministers, Senor L'anovas, saying that the report of the recall of 80,000 men from Cuba has no more foundation than the fact of its publication in an opposition paper at Madrid. Minister de Lome says no ftoldiers will l>o withdrawn from Cuba. Captain General Weyler has telegraphed that he does not need more reinforcements to terminate the war and thnt ho will soon end it. He Smells a Mouse. At Washington Senator I'ettigrew inroduced a resolution directing the I'ostmnster-General to inform the ben ite of the amount ho paid out to rail oads for carrying the mail from Washugtoii to Atlanta and to New Orleans ;ach year since 189.V, also, whether at llie hu.t weighing on that road an uu isual amount of advertisements wero carried, and what steps were taken at that time to prevent fraudulent praeieos on the part of the railroad ofti ials. Skinner un<l White Clash. A Washington special says: "Iloprelentative Skinner and representative \\ into, colored, ot .xortn ( arolina, are slashing over the consulship to Victoria. S. The former is supporting /. it. Hespos.* and the latter John P. Loach. Leach has Senator Pritchard's endorsement." War In Knrnest. I-'ieree battles are reported between llreeksand Turks. No great advantage has been gained by either side, hut the Greeks hold a strong position mid the Turks cheer the news of a declaration of war. The weather continues cold and the latest news is that the i'u rkish losses are severe. A dispatch from Minister Terrell states that the Ajnevicuns in Turkey and Grqece are in uo dancer.