TENNESSEE. 



TERRITORIES, IT. S. 



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As to what bonds will be rejected, it is proper to 

 state that those known as the Mineral Home Kailroad 

 bonds, amounting to $100,000, and numbered as fol- 

 lows, to wit: From No. 9,851 to 9,865, and from 

 9,896 to 9,980, all of said numbers included, all being 

 green bonds, without letter denoting series, and 

 those known as the bonds of the Insurance Company 

 of the Valley of Virginia, amounting to $'20,000, and 

 numbered as follows, to wit, from 6,001 to 6,017, in- 

 cludiug both numbers, also Nos. 6,740, 7,546, and 

 7j547, all of green issue without letter denoting se- 

 ries as well as the Tennessee Confederate war 

 bonds, will be rejected. If there be any others that 

 may not be registered, or funded under the provi- 

 sions of the funding act, their existence is not 

 known in thin department. And when it is consid- 

 ered that out of more than ($13,000,000) thirteen 

 millions retired since the early part of 1870, no such 

 bond has been detected, the presumption is very 

 strong that none such are in existence. The bonds 

 and coupons presented will, however, be critically 

 inspected, and, if any are found to have been fraudu- 

 lently issued, or not issued under laws existing at the 

 time they were issued, they will be rejected. 



Believing that the new assessment law would 

 develop a largely-increased amount of taxable 

 property, ample to meet the requirements of 

 the State, the Governor saw no necessity for 

 an extra session of the General Assembly. 

 The interest maturing July 1, 1874, will be 

 met out of the revenues of 1873 ; and, should 

 any increase in the revenue become necessary 

 to meet subsequent installments, it can be made 

 in the assessments and levies of 1874. 



The following statement shows the educa- 

 tional condition of Tennessee on the 15th of 

 October, 1873, excepting the counties of Deca- 

 tur, Jackson, Marion, and Tipton, which had 

 not reported. 



Population between the ages of six and 

 eighteen years : 



White males... ...161,908 



White females 158,130 



Total whUe $14.088 



Colored male* 58.007 



Colored females 60,897 



Total colored 103,404 



Total between six and eighteen 417,443 



An enumeration was ordered of all persons 

 between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, 

 since for three years after the organization of 

 the schools, such persons had the privilege of 

 attending school ; but, in many of the counties, 

 this part of the enumeration was neglected by 

 the directors. According to the returns made, 

 however, this class amounts to about one-eighth 

 of the number between six and eighteen. The 

 incompleteness of this enumeration is unim- 

 portant, nince the distribution of funds is made 

 upon the basis of the population between six 

 and eighteen. 



Number of schools organized, white, 3,869 ; 

 colored, 580: total, 3,!i4<. 



N'irnber of pupils, between six and eighteen, 

 enrolled, white, 146,233; colored, 23,446 : total, 

 169.679. 



Number of pnpils, between eighteen and 

 twenty-one, enrolled, white, 7,518; colored, 

 879: total, 8,397: total number of pnpils en- 

 rolled, 178,076. 



Number of teachers licensed, white males, 

 3,263; white females, 801 ; total whites, 4,064; 

 colored males, 410; colored females, 206; to- 

 tal colored, 616 : total number of teachers 

 licensed, 4,680. 



Number of teachers employed, white males, 

 2,899; white females, 177; total white, 3,676; 

 colored males, 355 ; colored females, 187 : to- 

 tal number of teachers employed, 4,218. Aver- 

 age per month paid teachers, $32.04. The 

 lowest average per month paid teachers in any 

 county is $20, in the county of Bledsoe. The 

 highest is $50.63, in the county of Obion. 



On the first Monday in October, the first 

 semi-annual installment of interest on the per- " 

 manent school fund was apportioned among 

 the counties. This amounted to $75,375, and 

 furnished about eighteen cents per head. The 

 next apportionment will be made in April, 

 1874, and will include the State poll-tax, then 

 in the Treasury, in addition to the second in- 

 stallment of interest. The State received $30,- 

 000 from the Peabody fund in 1873. 



During the year Nashville was visited by a 

 kind of cholera, which caused the death of 

 about 700 of its citizens. The epidemic had 

 first appeared at Memphis, and along the Mis- 

 sissippi River, in the form of a cholera-morbus, 

 quite sudden, rapid, and fatal. It made its 

 appearance in Nashville in the latter part of 

 May, during the continuance ot the Exposi- 

 tion, when the city was filled with strangers. 

 In a few days the deaths became so numerous 

 as to cause general alarm. On the 7th of 

 June 21 persons died from this cause, of whom 

 10 were colored ; and on the 10th of the same 

 month, when the epidemic had reached its 

 height, the deaths numbered 72, including 49 

 colored persons. From June 7th to July 10th, 

 697 persons died, of whom 430 were colored. 



The disease differed from Asiatic cholera, as 

 seen in years past, only in having, in most 

 cases, bilious evacuations in place of the pecul- 

 iar "rice-water." Generally there were first 

 greenish, watery dejections, then vomiting of 

 ingesta nnd bilious matter, followed soon, if 

 not relieved, by collapse, with the usual cold 

 surface and extremities, and blue, shriveled 

 skin. 



If the evacuations continued long unchecked, 

 they sometimes became purely rice-water, but 

 in many cases they were bilious to the last. 

 In not a few cases the dejections were entirely 

 rice-water. 



Cramps in the abdominal muscles, and in 

 those of the extremities and other parts, were 

 present in nearly all severe or fatal cases. 



On account of the bilious evacuations, many 

 physicians hesitated to pronounce the disease 

 cholera, and hence it was often termed " the 

 prevailing sickness," "the epidemic," etc. 



TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED 

 STATES. ARIZONA. In the early part of the 

 year no little trouble was caused by the 

 depredations of the Apache Indians, against 

 whom consequently military operations were 



