A Proposed New State

Jactcsox, Tenn., July 29.- A convention fortued of delesrates ttMa the portions ot' Nortli Missïssippi, West Tenneesee, and Western Keatucky, inteiested in the inovonient lookinj; to tho farmation of a new State out of these fnictions asseiubli-d hertj morning air!, organized by the appnihtmeut of Maj. li. Jt. Hurt, of Tcnut'ssee, teutporary chnirman, j and the appointment of a comraittee of thrèe from eaofa Stato to report permamanunt offlöers for tho convpntion, aftor wliich it adjourned until ii.:j' r.M. On reaBsémbting the ooinmitte on Pernpnt Orgiinizatiou reported for President. Kenneth Rayner, of -Nlississipi, vvith a list of Vicfi Presidenta and Beorêtai-iéa. V rosolutirm offered by J. L. H. Tomlin, of Tonnesse, was adopted for the appointmnnt ot' a central committee of Iö, eomposod of iive from each State, with power to ajipoint sub-cominitees, to puro an aüüress ana m otuer w.-iys manifest the advantages of forming the pro posed new State, and inresting tho eomraitteo with power and diseretion to memorialize the Legislatures of the old States and Congress looking to the proper legislation necessary to ita foruiation. Further committees were appointed with referentie to the government of the present session of the convention and other minor details. Resohitions were offered by Mr. Polk, of Tennessee, setting forth tho advantages and fixing boundarits to the project, all of which were rcferred to appropnate coinmittees, and will be ruado Bubjeote of action totnorrow. The representation is largo and still arriving. Enthnsiam is high, and the pmpose single and unanimous. The was harmonions. Some of Germany's expelled Jcsnits are finding their way to the United States. About thirty or forty recently arrived in Xiv York City, and ruore are reported as ready to follow f rom timo to time. Few ui' ths priestK can spenk tho Enjrlish language, but will soon leurn it. Their ultimato destination is tho Fur West, along the line of the Pacific Iiailroads. E. II. Itoberts & Co., of Cincinnati, have corniii riced a snit against the city to recover $130,000 lor lumber destroyed by the great oil fire in June, on the ground that tho oil was stored in viola-, tion of the city ordinance, and that they ropeatedly requested the city to enforce the law. Two cars were thrown from the track of the Nashville división of the St. Louis & Southuasteru liailroad on Saturday night, wounding about lö persons, none dangerously.