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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
Somkbody has written to l.iiirj. Grant, ask tug 
him to appoint Jc if Davis a? Feerolary of War, 
:i : a indi -in i*ol peace, harmony umiconciliation. 
Gen. Grunt D nmh-rstood to have declined, which 
is tti<! first, trustworthy liil'ormitrinn regarding 
his appointments to office. 
'The rc-appointmcnt of tlie colored police In 
New Orleans inert-, with great opposilion from 
the rebel elomenl in that city. 
Letters are being received by Congressmen 
stating 1 that there i - intense opposition to the re¬ 
assembling of the Louisiana IiOgislutore, and 
threats are made that force will lie used, if 
necessary, to prevent, it. 
Interim] He venue receipt:, mi Dee. 20 ran down 
to the very low ligtire of $2J9,(Kjl). 
Gen. Bock of Kentucky bus telegraphed to 
dohn C. Breckinridge, now In Canada, to return 
tit once to the I nited BUttes. . uooh Thompson 
uml James M. Mason are expected to return at 
the same time. 
Tlie Jinline (.'oiiimirico on Appropriations liaa 
made considerable progress. 
Senator liaui.eiyof .Minnesota bus gone home 
to look after his re-election. 
Concerning hla cabinet Gen. Grant recontly 
said that he had made no selections, and was 
much exercised about the matter. 
Hour-Admiral Kadford, who has been long in 
charge of the Washington Navy Yard, will, on 
the 20th, turn over Ids command to Admiral 
Poor,and at once take command of the Eu¬ 
ropean Bquadron. 
Robert Lincoln la at the Gnpilal. 
The terms of twenty-two Senators expire on 
the 1 til of March, uml but two have ns yet been 
re-elected. 
A messenger from Hcverdy Johnson is ex¬ 
pected during the mouth, bringing with him the 
Alabama Treaty In us complete a form as Hie 
British Government ean make it at the present 
time. 
The children of the President's family gave a 
delightful children's party at. the White House 
on the evening of December29. 
At the children's party, given by t he Italian 
Minister mi Hie evening of Dee. 28. Nellie Grant 
was crowned Queen, and her I.ndy chancellor, 
Miss Sarah Upton, read a most charming address, 
in which the Queen announced her “royal 
choice " of a husband, Edward Thornton, son of 
the British Minister, “whom," said the royal 
lady, “ 1 order you to love and esteem.” 
The Postmaster-General denies I hat lie has 
made a emit raid wlththe Bull imore and Havana 
Steamship Company to carry the mails between 
those two ports for $50,00(1 per annum. 
It will probably lie left for the Forty-first 
Congress to make the noocraury appropriations 
and regulations for the nfif ioual census In 1870. 
Gen. Frank P. Blair arrived in Washington on 
the 24th ult. on Puoltle. Railroad business, he 
bring one of tlie Government Inspectors of the 
1-Rad. 
Edward Clark, Architect at tlie Capital, de¬ 
clines to serve upon the committee to investi¬ 
gate the causes of the downfall of the Howard 
Hospital. Ills reason is that he long ago ex¬ 
pressed his opinion that the artificial stone used 
was worl til css. 
The lobby ate very confident, of pushing 
through the scheme lor subsidizing the New 
York ocean steamships within a week alter the 
re-assembling of Congress. 
Miss X. Chase, instead of Mrs. Senator Sprague, 
Will do the honors of the Chief Justice's mansion 
this winter. 
The itocoiiNtruetion Committee have not yet 
considered Thuddeus Stevens’ scheme for the 
division of Texas into throe States. 
Statistician Deimur Intends to write an elabo¬ 
rate defence of his conduct while In olV.ce, and 
administer a rebuke to the officers to whom lie 
attributes his removal. 
Ex-Gov. .Tofeph E. Brown don’t want Congress 
to take any action with regard to Georgia affuira. 
Tiie military authorities in Washington are 
dissatisfied with the condition of affairs in Ala¬ 
bama, lint it is hoped that the report of Gen. 
Grant’s staff oilleer, sent, to investigate and re¬ 
port upon them, will contribute somewhat to 
their comprehension and settlement . 
Supervisor (ire coy of Louisiana reached Wash¬ 
ington on the .'Krilv ult., after only two weeks’ 
absence iu liis district. During this time lie did 
much towards breaking up the New Orleans 
whisky rings, which he describes as the most 
formidable in the country. 
Judge Bustcod's friends cite, as an argument 
in his favor, that no complaints of his adminis¬ 
tration come from Northern Alabama, which 
comprises a third of dud State and is the por¬ 
tion which was loyal during the rebellion. 
A Washington carpenter has a treasure. It 
reads: “ l f you have a piece of board to spare, 
please let Tad have it. A. Lincoln.’’ It was 
brought to tlie carpenter by Tail while lie was at 
work at tlie White House. 
It is said i Inti tlie change in the British Cabinet 
hassoriously delayed the Alabama negotiations. 
Reverdy Johnson telegraphs that tlie British 
Government accepts Mr. Seward's amendments, 
and agrees tonbulish the distinction between the 
Alabama and other claims which the original 
draft of the protocol contained. 
Tlie Alabama Commission will sit In Washing¬ 
ton, and John Bull has agreed dint.a majority 
of the niembersehall be sufficient to decide any 
case, and that the selection of the umpire slutll 
lie Subject to the ratification of the Senate. 
Chili lias officially signified its acceptance of 
t he proposition made by Hie United States for a 
peace conference with Peru and Bolivia. The 
Commission will sit in Washington, and Chili in¬ 
sists that during its session affairs shall stand 
in the condition ol a trace. This will probably 
be agreed t o. 
Gen. Grant has ordered that mammoth powder 
only shall be used in firing the fifteen Inch guns. 
The use of any other is positively forbidden 
until means for chocking the recoil are applied 
to all carriages, and no charge greater than fifty 
pounds is to be used without instructions from 
the Ordnance Department. 
Tlie N. Y, Evening Post, says that as soon as 
Congress re-assembles a prominent representa¬ 
tive will press to a vote a resolution recognizing 
the independence of Crete from Turkey ami 
< uba front Spain. At t ho same time a resolution 
will bo offered declaring that in the prospective 
war between Greece and Turkey the sympathy 
of tlie United States government is with the 
former. 
There was good sleighing in Washington on 
the 80th ult. 
Mr. McPherson lias no republican competitor 
for the clerkship of the House.uinl it is probable 
that the democrats will vote for him also. 
New York. 
Gn the 80th ult. tin* New York City letter car¬ 
rier-, preceded by n baud of miotic, paraded the 
streets ill their new no I forms, and with little 
Hugs designating the mull stations to which they 
belonged. The y are a line body of men, some of 
them one-armed soldiers, and attracted much 
attention. Postmaster Kelly stood at Hie corner 
of Wall and Nassau streets, ami formally re¬ 
viewed the corps as it passed. The uniform is 
very tasteful, and consists of gray stick coat, 
bound with black braid, n semi-military cape, 
similarly bound, gray pantaloons, with a broad 
black si ripe, and a gray cap, id kj bound with 
black. 
A Blackwell's Island keeper recently tried 
to shoot a New York reporter for telling un¬ 
pleasant truth? about “ the Island," as Gotham¬ 
ites call it. 
The (.'astir* Garden, New York City, reports 
:l:ow that 80,000 levs emigrants arrived in 1?08 
than in 1887. 
Trinity Episcopal Church ut Lan.iingburg was 
destroyed by fire on tlio 28(1 ultimo. 
Barge iiiimbaim of destitute canal drivers are 
furnished v.dtit accommodations ut fhe Buffalo 
workhouse. 
1 he New York Central Railroad will hereafter 
curry freight pro rata with tlie Michigan Cen¬ 
tral. Michigan Southern, Luke Shore, Cleveland 
ami Toledo, and the Wabash and North Western 
Railroads. 
(in the fiflfli ultimo tin- I nited States revenue 
ofiicoiv, seized the property in Brooklyn known 
as “Whiting's Shipyard," as an Illicit distillery 
hud been found there in ful: blast. 
William E. Dodge gave a brilliant private re¬ 
ception at his residence in New York, on the 
evening of Dene in her 80, in honor of Vice I ’■■■<- 
dent-elect Colfax. 
Tile Kellogg House, together with its contents, 
the post-office and news room, at Butli, Sten lien 
county, were destroyed li.Vftn incendiary fire on 
tlie 28th ult. Tim hotel had just been newly 
furnished throughout. The contents of the 
pnst-oiliee were saved. 
-Major William Taylor, a veteran of the War of 
181:5, as well as of the Mexican War, died in 
Brooklyn, on the27th ult., at theuge ol seventy- 
four, leaving a wife and a child of one year old. 
At Peekskill, on the morning of tlie 28th ult., 
thu American Express Company's office in the 
City Hotel wits entered, the safe blown open and 
robbed of $ 1 , 200 , and the building then set on 
tire. The hotel and the adjoining residence of 
James b. Smith were destroyed. By this lire 
nine fa mi lies lost all limy possessed. 
A Bn (Talon am recently annoyed a rooster 
which in rued upon and drove him from the 
field, painfully wounded in (lie foot. 
The last rail on the Albany and Susquehanna 
Hailroad, connecting Albany and Binghamton, 
svaslaid December 20, at 0 a. m. The road will 
he open for through business on the lath instant, 
A pair of lino horses, valued at $5,000, belong- 
ing to George Kfner of Buffalo ran into Hie 
uinal on the24th ultimo and were drowned. 
ITI us mic It u setts. 
Tut: Perkins powder mill at Westfield exploded 
on Christ mas F.vo. Nobody hurt. 
A ?8<H.0CKl fire at Lynn, which occurred Dee. 
28, destroying the post-office and many public 
buildings, threw nearly 1,000 persons out of em¬ 
ployment. 
About three o'clock on the morning of De- 
eonilirr 82, Daniel (hull;tier, a Malden night 
policeman, observed two suspicious characters 
prowling around tlie depot, and, upon hailing 
them, one of Dir men fired upon him, taking 
effect iu Id? breast and killing him instantly. 
The IToosae Tunnel contract has at lost been 
awarded. Waiter ami Francis ShanJyof Canada 
undertake its completion lor $4JWB,000. They 
agree to begin energetic operations at once oil 
Hie east and west ends, and to advance from 
these 1'aee.s two hundred and fifty foot per month. 
They engage to carry down tlie central shaft to 
the base of the tunnel ljy May, 1870, and utter 
that to advance from the four luces at the rate 
of 4,900 feet a year. At this rate daylight will 
shine through the mountain in less than fou 
years. The law allows live years, but Messrs. 
Slianly hope to complete it in two yeura loss 
than that time. 
The Boston Common Council lias sixty mem¬ 
bers, but only thirteen are natives of Hie “Hub.' 
The new Legislature is to consider the pro 
priety of having all Hie municipal elections upon 
the same day with the State election. 
The new Atlantic Avenue in Boston will cost, 
Ex-Governor Letcher has recovered some of 
his property, which had been confiscated, by 
paying tlie purchaser the merely nominal sum 
ho gave for ii. 
bailors’ and Soldiers’ National Cemetery lias 
feet wide, and, won- 
$1,U(K),(KKI, lie one hundred 
deri'ul to tell, straight. 
Prof. Agassiz lias begun his winter course of 
lectures, free to all school teachers, at his mu¬ 
seum at Cambridge. 
Itliode Island. 
Thk mill at Warwick, owned by It. G. Howard, 
and run by General James Waterhouse, for tlie 
manufacture of easaimeres, was burned Christ¬ 
mas morning, 
Charles Oakl'ord, of Detroit, who claims to be 
the champion skater of America, is Soon to try 
to skate sixty consecutive hours at the skating 
rink in Providence. 
Pcunaylvania. 
Hev. Dr. Mii.ton Vai.kntin'e was inaugurated 
President ol' Pennsylvania College, at Gettys¬ 
burg, on the21st ult. 
I leneeforwurd all ministers of the Gospel, edit¬ 
ors and teachers are to bo passed free over the 
Lehigh Valley Hailroad, upon exhibiting proper 
v om hem Ul i ii, ii Identity. 
The passenger depot of the Richmond line of 
horse ears, Philadelphia, containing twenty-two 
ears, Was burned on the morning of Dee. 80. 
Western Pennsylvania has ton aspirants for 
Senator Buekuiew's position. 
A public meeting at Pittsburgh recently pro¬ 
nounced strongly against solitary confinement.. 
A convention of colored men met at Pitts¬ 
burgh, on the 28th ult.., to lake measures to 
secure the right, of suffrage in that, State. 
Virginia. 
Tin: Caroline County people have raised three 
1 Hind red dollars to help 15. A. Pollard in prose¬ 
cuting the murderer of his brother. 
On the 29th ult. R. T. Daniel, City Common¬ 
wealth Attorney of Richmond, was removed 
from office by the military and L. H. Chandler 
appointed in his place. Tin's is the first action 
under the application of the fourteenth amend¬ 
ment to the Constitution. 
been established near Hampton. 
The American Missionary Association has 
erected a large school building near Hampton, 
for the education of colored children. 
Illinois. 
The papers have already tarted the cry that 
the cold weather has killed next summer's 
peaches. 
Governor-elect Palmer has signified to the 
Springfield Zouaves that he intend? to designate 
them as hi* body-guard during his adminis- 
trnt ion. 
John W. Wiley ol' Chicago has been ordered by 
1 lie Court to pay Caroline Grant, $1,500 for dam¬ 
ages sustained by breach of promise. 
('nlii'ornlu. 
In San Francisco, on the 24th ult,, the first and 
second mute of the ship Santee were sentenced 
to the State Prison the first for tivo years, and 
the second for one —for brutal treatment of 
two apprentice hoys during a voyage from New 
York. 
A San Francisco dispatch, of Dec. 29, states that 
the Custom House officers had seized $40,000 
worth of opium which Hie steamer Great Repub- 
iic hud Just brought from Chi rut-and an attempt 
laid been made to smuggle through without pay¬ 
ment of duties. 
diaries W. Brooks, Japanese Consul at San 
Francisco, left that city on the 29th ult., over¬ 
land for Boston. 
Captain Emtnerson of the ship Kingston, died 
on Hie voyage from Bombay to Ban Francisco, 
lie was a native of Buckspori, Me. 
SiOUlaSmia. 
Sergeant Bates, the pedestrian, was lately 
robbed while asleep in a New Orleans lodging 
house, of ninety-five dollars and the pocket book 
presented him by President Johnson. 
Three steamboats, par tially loaded with cotton, 
wore sunk during December iu the Bed river. 
One of these, the St. Nicholas, struck on the fa¬ 
mous dam constructed at the fulls by General 
Banks’ army. 
Minnesota. 
At Sauk Rapids on tlie 10th ult., the workmen 
quarrying stono lor tiro dam across the Mfiala- 
sippl, found in the solid rock a gigantic grave 
containing a petrified human skeleton, ten f<<*t 
nine and mic-lialf Inches in length. The thumb 
and fingers of the left hand, and the left foot be¬ 
low Hie ankle are gone, but all the rest is in good 
preservation. Over the grave was placed a tint 
limestone rook, perfectly separated from the 
surrounding granite. 
The Nordisk !’• •llteblad, a Norwegian paper, 
will he real ter be published at Minneapolis. 
Tpxmk. 
The male inhabitant? of Clarksville, at Hie 
mouth of Hie Rio Gnmdc, have a bad habit of 
doterllng 1 heir village and spending the evening 
on the Mexican side of the river. Taking advan¬ 
tage of this fuel u band of Mexican robbers rode 
into the village on the evening of Doe. 18 uml 
murdered two Custom House officers, seriously 
wounded u third, ami failed to find : * fourth, 
whom they wished to kill. Mr. George ’I'. Ham¬ 
mond, one of the murdered men, was but t wenty- 
si.v yours old, and his young wife and child won: 
expected from Niwii?; um iui the not steamer. 
The robber? were traced to the point where they 
crossed the river into Mexico, iiui were not cap¬ 
tured. The funeral of the murdered men was 
attended by the inhabitants of Clarksville and 
Brazos, us well as by all the United States officers 
and many from the Mexican side of the river. 
miNNoti r*. 
Tun day before Christmas two freight trains 
collided on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Rail¬ 
road killing both the engineer and fireman. 
On the 27th ult., a train on the Iron Mountain 
Railroad was thrown from the track near Jeffer¬ 
son Barracks ami precipitated down an embank¬ 
ment, Nearly every onu on board were injured 
but none fatally, 
Gen. Davaldson, chief quartermaster of the 
Military Division of Missouri, has written to the 
St. Louis Board i' Trade Suggesting that if Hie 
standard id' the Ml • niri River .steamboats Is not 
raised and the risk of transportation diminished 
the government will look to other means with 
which to supply its military posts. Later dis¬ 
patches state that the Hoard appointed a com¬ 
mittee to report upon the project. 
A meeting of Germans lias boon called it St. 
Louis to take action upon the extravagant ex- 
petidittires of the city government. 
An Indian boy from the far West recently 
passed through to a Missouri town as freight, 
having a tag marked with his destination and 
tied to his clothes. 
Mreliiga n. 
The people of the upper peninsular arc again 
agitating the subject of a division of the State. 
The interests of tin* two peninsulars are very 
conllieting, and there seems to be no good rea¬ 
son why the new State of Ontonagon should not 
be formed. 
A terrible lire at Grand Haven on the .‘.Mill 
destroyed the Congregational ( hurch, postoffice, 
the hall occupied by the Episcopalians as a 
church, an entire block of stores and several 
other buildings. Loss $50,000. 
To nne usee. 
Near Lavorgne, Rathcrford Co., a lather of 
five children, while intoxicated, attacked his 
wife with a knife, and she defending herself 
with a stick killed her husband. It was decided 
to bo justifiable. 
The Ku KJux fortunately do not always have 
their own wuy, as was found in Jaeksonboro on 
Christmas week. Twenty masked ruffians de¬ 
manded entrance to tlie house of one Simon 
Ackers, and bring denied threatened to burn it. 
Mrs. A. then opened the door and her husband 
killed one of the K. K.’s on the spot and tnan- 
iged to escape. The gallant Ku Klux thereupon 
shot Mm. Ackers, but did not Injure tier fatally. 
In Meigs On. a civil officer, accompanied by a 
posse of six, attempting to make an arrest, was 
resisted by an armed bund equal in numbers to 
liis own. A desperate light ensued, in which 
nearly half the combatants were killed and two 
mortally wounded. 
Nebraska. 
Gen. Frank P. Blair, as Inspector for the 
Government, has gone to examine the last new 
section of the Union Pacific Railroad; it reaches 
a point 1,120 miles west of Omaha. 
George Francis Train was enthusiastically re¬ 
ceived by the Fenians of Omaha on the 29th ult. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
England. 
An elector in Middlesex is said to have voted 
for the conservative candidate because be had 
been told if Gladstone became Minister the 
Smithfield burnings and Spanish Armada would 
reappear. 
The postal contract with the North German 
Lloyds steamers for carrying the Anglo-Ameri¬ 
can mails, ha? been renewed. 
The constituency of John Bright offered to re- 
j elect him without his personally appearing bc- 
f .re them, but he said he wished an opportunity 
of explaining his reasons for accepting a Cabinet 
position. 
The London Times and Standard of December 
28 both condemn tlie proposed Conference upon 
the Eastern question si* useless. 
London dispatches of the 2d state that Hobart 
Pasha bad formally demanded the surrender of 
Hi<> Greek steamer Erosis; and also that iu 
Athens war is considered inevitable. 
The Burlingame Mission hits begun dolilicra- 
lioi.s, and everything is Huts far progressing fa¬ 
vorably. Mr. Burlingame hold that, vessels of 
war should only he employed to protect life, 
when immediately exposed to danger. All other 
interference should be a matter of diplomatic 
reference before any act was done which might, 
involve China and England in war with each 
other. 
Tlie London Times thinks the Alabama claims 
tvill lie finally adjusted under the Incoming ad¬ 
ministration of Gen. Grant. Roverdy Johnson 
Is not likely to be removed by the new adminis¬ 
tration. If Mr. Seward wishes to delay the set¬ 
tlement he should be humored ; but the basis of 
t he protocol already agreed upon by Lord Stan- 
leyand Mr. Johnson must remain fixed and will, 
sooner or later, command the consent of both 
countries. 
A terrible explosion occurred in t lie coal mines 
at Wigan on the 81st, from which twenty-two 
dead bodies were taken out the first day. 
The Mouse of Commons met on the .'Kith ult. 
for preliminary business only. After adminis¬ 
tering tlie oath to the Cabinet Ministers, who 
were re-elected, and ordering elections to fill the 
vacant seats, the I louse adjourned until Feb. 18. 
On the :«)!li nit., Roverdy Johnson made a 
speech to a deputation of the London Working- 
mens' Society, in which lie said that the Natu¬ 
ralization Treaty between England and America 
was sure to be ratified by the Senate. 
The house of Wm. Brunner & Co. of Manches¬ 
ter, suspended on the 20th ult. These iieavy 
dealers in manufactured cottons had extensive 
A rnerican connect Ions. 
The general impression is that the Liberals 
will lie successful iu the ensuing elections to fill 
tiie vacancies hi the House of Commons. 
On the evening of the 2d, a meeting of work¬ 
ingmen was held a! Lambeth, Rev. Newman 
Hall presided, and an address was presented to 
Hie American Minister, who in reply said that 
the eonlinuuncQ of good feeling between Eng¬ 
land and Ame. iea was sure to be demanded by 
the people of both countries. This was enthusi¬ 
astically received. 
The leader in the Times for Jan. 1. denounces 
the projects of the Liberals for the abolition of 
primogeniture, &e., und says that England Is es¬ 
sentially aristocratic and conservative. 
The directors of Overend, Gurney & Co.'s bank, 
which failed some time ago, have bqeu arrested 
and held to bail for fraud in the management of 
its affairs. 
Ill a recent speech John Bright promised, on 
the part, of the new English Cabinet, an econom¬ 
ical reformation in the administration of the 
government. 
In liis election speech at Greenwich, Mr. Glad¬ 
stone said that lie was not yet wholly in favor of 
the ballot; but if free voting was impossible 
without it lie would favor it. 
The London papers of Dec. 21 and 22, are 
unanimous in their condemnation of President 
Johnson’s message, especially of the portion re¬ 
lating to the bonds. 
Ontario. 
Patterson'S woolen mills, at Durham, were 
burned on the 28th ult. : loss $20,000. 
Telegraphing Is taught in the Commercial Col¬ 
lege at Toronto. 
Quebec. 
Mitch destitution exists among tlie poor of 
Montreal, and soup houses have again been 
opened. 
The number of fires in Montreal to the 30th of 
December, for the year 1808, were 174; while 
those of 1807 were 114. 
France. 
Tiie Paris newspaper, organ of theCubail party 
at Havana, suspended publication on the 22d 
ult., on account of the tyranny of the govern¬ 
ment censorship. 
M. Mens tier, lute French Minister of Foreign 
Affairs, is seriously ill. 
Two hundred and forty copies of Rochefort's 
Lu Lanttrne were recently discovered In the 
crinoline of a beautiful young lady, who had 
arrived from Brussels for the purpose of study¬ 
ing the ancient masters ut the Louvre. 
The Great Eastern begins this month the tak¬ 
ing on board of the Franco-American cable. 
An English paper says the Emperor of Austria, 
the King of the Belgians, uml President John¬ 
son have sent their expressions of condolence to 
the family of the late Baron Rothschild. 
The legal tribunals of France have forbidden 
the new official organ to use the title, Monllcur; 
which the former official organ still retains. In 
consequence of this decision an official decree 
lias been issued which assigns to the new organ 
of the Government the name, Journal Official <U 
V Empire. 
At Louis Napoleon's New Year reception of 
the Diplomatic corps, he said that ho realized 
with much pleasure the conciliatory spirit ani¬ 
mating the European Government*. Ho confi¬ 
dently hoped that the year 1889 would prove as 
satisfactory as the year just closed, und that the 
course of events would dissipate unfavorable 
apprehensions and consolidate the peace so ne¬ 
cessary to the welfare and progress of civilized 
nations. 
There was a very large outflow of specie from 
the Bunk of Franco during the last week of t lio 
year. The bullion on hand was 81,000,000 franca 
less than at the corresponding day of the week 
preceding. 
The latest dispatches, Jan. 3, announce that 
several French ironclads are preparing for sea. 
On Hu: 2d, Marshall Nicl, Minister of War, re¬ 
ceived the officers of the Garde Mobile, and 
complimented the Garde upon the confidence 
lelt by the country in that arm of its defense. 
Minister Burlingame and the 
basy have reached Paris. 
Tbf Paris Pafrlc , of the 3d, in an editorial on 
the Chinese Em busy saysChina, observing 
her international obligations, comes to treat 
with the great commercial nations," and ex¬ 
presses the belief “tlial in the negotiation of 
treaties with her the Powers will find that addi¬ 
tional markets for the commerce of the world 
w ill be developed in the new regions which will 
be open to civilization.” The Fatrtc conse¬ 
quently looks for the success of the Burlingamo 
mission. 
Greece and Turkey. 
The Greek Chambers have voted the money 
usked for by the Government. 
i he Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs has 
officially declares! that the Government is ready 
to make any sacrifices to maintain the rights anil 
independence of Greece. 
The Russian Government has denied the 
Greeks the privilege of using the Russian flag 
for any purpose whatever. 
Paris dispatches of December 20th report a 
collision between the Greek and Turkish forces 
In Albania, in which tlie former were victorious. 
Constantinople dispatches of December 29th 
report great activity In the Turkish arsenal.?, on 
account, of the impending war with Greece. 
Supplies and munition? of war have been for¬ 
warded to Jloliart Pasha, who is blockading 
Syra. 
Tlie Journal ilc St. 'Pelcnimro editorially ex¬ 
presses tlie hope that the Porte will withdraw its 
ultimatum to Greece before the assembling of 
the Conference. 
It is said that the Turkish Government has 
shown good feeling toward the Greek residents 
of Constantinople since the withdrawal of the 
Greek Minister. 
A Corfu dispatch of the 1st inst. rays that the 
Greek Government is actively engii'ccd in per¬ 
fecting nnd completing the armament of the na¬ 
tional troops. 
Dispatches of the 3d state that tlie C.infer- 
cnee will moot at Paris on Saturday. the (ah, and 
should its deliberations prove abortive, Hu sia 
will demand the strict non-intervention of the 
European powers iu the approaching conflict. 
It Is probable that both Greece and Turkey 
will lie represented at the Paris Conference, the 
former by Alexander Rizo Itangabe, a noted 
Greek poet; and and the latter by Fund Pasha, 
the Turkish Minister of Foreign Alfaii-s. 
PhotaidJs Bey, I lie Turkish Miufster, atAtheus, 
has returned to Constantinople. 
Hobart Pasha, on the 22d nit., with seven ves¬ 
sels of war was blockading Syra, in which the 
Erosls took refuge. 
Tlie Greek Government, continue? rapid prep¬ 
arations for war. 
Lite dispatches state that many Russians are 
volunteering for tlie Greek service. 
The Chamber of Commerce of Syra has peti¬ 
tioned the Government at Athens to pronounce 
against war. 
Spain. 
Doctors in Madrid are not worth much. A 
party of travelers called on one to prescribe for 
a child, who owned he could make nothing out 
of the ease; thought the disease was the gout, 
hut. it might be and probably was, something 
else. Calling two others in lor a consultation, 
all three came dressed iu tlie deep* A mour ning 
and smoking segara a sight to frighten the 
strongest invalid and send a timid one into fits. 
Between spitting and puffs they agreed that it 
might lie one tiling or it might be another, and 
then departed, taking each two hundred reals as 
a fee. 
The Spanish government hoe contracted a loan 
with F.rlanger of Paris. 
Ten thousand troops will he sent from Cadiz to 
Cuba during January. 
in order to reduce expenses during 1889, a sup¬ 
pression of thirty-seven of each of the Captain- 
Generalships. Generalships and Bishoprics lias 
been suggested. 
Marshal Pavia, recently Governor-General of 
Madrid, is dead. 
Madrid dispatches of the 30th ult. state that 
there was u popular demonstration in Seville a 
few days before, und that General Caballero de 
ltoda was ordered there with a body of national 
troops. The people wore disarmed, however, be¬ 
fore lie arrived. The dispatch of the 31st states 
that Do Rodn, having restored quiet and dis¬ 
armed the National Guard of Seville, returned 
to Cordova. 
Disturbances have occurred in Malaga, where 
portions of the people have erected barricades 
in the streets. Dispatches of the fid and 3d state 
that Gen, Do ltoda had a sharp engagement in 
the streets, completely routed the insurgents 
and restored order. The war vessels In the har¬ 
bor acted In concert with General De ltoda, and 
poured a galling fire into the ranks of tlie insur¬ 
gents, who lost four hundred men. " The coun¬ 
try is now tranquil,” ns we are continually told. 
The Paris papers state t hat at the New Year’s 
reception Napoleon told Sonor Ologuza, the 
Spanish Envoy, to convey to his government the 
warmest wishes of himself personally, and of 
France for the happiness and prosperity of 
Spain. 
(Dina. 
The English fleet of three vessels reached Nan¬ 
kin Nov. 8, and the next day the British Consul, 
with a guard of marines, called on the Viceroy 
and demanded full reparation for the Indignities 
offered the missionaries at Hang Chow. The 
Viceroy, proposing to delay the discussion, was 
told that if lie did not comply by 5 P. M. the 
Chinese gunboat, anchored off Nankin would 
be seized. He thereupon complied with tlm de¬ 
mands. Three hundred men were sent to Hang 
Chow to degrade and punish Smith The Chinese 
gunboat was sent to Cllin-Kiang with a British 
officer on board, who will surrender her to the 
Chinese officers when all demands have been 
complied with. The Brit ish fleet then returned 
to Shanghai. 
Italy. 
Pio Norm i9 now in the .‘Sid yeurof ids papacy. 
No one ol' the nearly 200 Popes has ever reigned 
25 years, and the Roman common people have a 
superstition that no one ever will. 
In Ids reply to the New Year’s congratulations 
of the military staff, Victor Emanuel said that 
the present situation of Italian affairs was good, 
hut Ihatif the present amicable situation should 
become clouded, and trouble should In the fu¬ 
ture appear to be Imminent, he should confi¬ 
dently rely upon the loyalty and patriotism of 
the unity to sustain him in maintaining peace 
and the national honor. 
Riotous disturbances, arising out of the at¬ 
tempt of the revenue officers to collect the un- 
