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Montgomery, Feb. 9, 10 p. m.—The Constitution of the Provisional Government has been printed, and is now being made public. The Preamble says:
We, the Deputies of the sovereign and independent States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, invoking the favor of Almighty God, do here, in behalf of these States, ordain and establish this Constitution, for the Provisional Government of the same, to continue one year from the inauguration of the President, or until a permanent Constitution or Confederation between the said States shall be put.in operation, whichsoever shall first occur.
One of the essential features of a submarine cable is the speed of signaling. In operating long cables delicate instruments are required, and the currents arriving at the receiving end are feeble in comparison with those employed in land-line signaling. The longer the cable, naturally, the feebler the impulses arriving at the receiving end.
A short cable, a cable of under 1,000 miles being generally considered a short cable, gives a speed of signaling amply sufficient for all purposes, with a conductor weighing about 100 pounds to the mile, surrounded by an insulating envelope of gutta-percha weighing about an equal amount, says Scribner’s Magazine. When we come to a cable of about twice this length it is found necessary, In order to get a practically unlimited speed — that is, a speed as high as the most expert operator can read at — to employ a core of 650 pounds of copper to the mile, insulated with 400 pounds of gutta-percha to the mile.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 9. — Official letters from the commanding officer of Sidney Barracks reports that Pawnee Killer and Two Lances, accompanied by ninety-three lodges of Whistler’s band of Sioux and two of the Brule band, have left the reservation, and are moving to the hunting grounds south of the Platte, by way of Lewis Canon. They claimed that they bad the verbal permission of the Agent to do so. Two Lances reported two other bands near Lewis Canon, one of twenty-five lodges of Arrapahoes, and another of some fifteen warriors, after the Utes, who had a few days previous stolen a largo number of horses from there. There is no question but that the Indians are highly incensed at the treatment.