AMERICAN ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 862, 2 May 1871, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO PAPERS).

North Carolina is the fourteenth State in the Uniou in point of population. She is one of the sixteen that have over one million inhabitants. With a view to promote newspaper production, the Government of Peru has issued a decree exempting printers from service in the national guard. Eight heirs of the Scotch Falklands have inherited 4,000,000 dollars worth of property iv Scotland. They live in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, and California. New Yoik laments the number of unoccupied houses that are to be found in its streets, and landlords coolly anticipate a reduction of from 15 to 26 per cent, in the rents. Trade is very dull there. Alabama has outstripped any Southern State in the number of miles of railroad built since the war. Alabama has built 296 miles, Georgia 231, Tennessee 155, Texas 132, North Carolina 146, South Carolina 128, Virginia 104, Mississippi, 128, Arkansas 90, Florida 44. The expenses of our wars with Indians Bince the beginning of the century amount to more than 400,000,000 dollars, while the amount of money spent in attempts to educate them has only been 8,000,000 dollars. Is this not a sad commentary on our civilization. The Governor of Mississippi recommends a tax on bowie knives and pistols ; and further, that the carrying of concealed weapons be declared a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, and the use of them, except in self-defence, a felony. The married women of Brownstown, Indiana, are on the war path, and have held a public meeting, in which they "resolved" against "worthless, lazy, whining husbands ; resembling so many insolent Egyptian mummies." All of which goes to show that the Jackson country women will not do to trifle with.