Wolf, wham lie will hold until flic Kiowas sur¬ 
render. Gen. Sherman says that Cons. Sheridan 
and Hazcn are together, and can settle the mat¬ 
ter perfectly. 
The amount of fractional currency received 
Com the Printing division of the Treasury De¬ 
partment, for tb week ending January 2d was 
$378,5(3. 
Secretary McCullough has extended the time 
for discontinuing the office of .Superintendent 
of Exports and Drawbacks at New York until 
March 4, 
Gen. A. Gillum, commanding Fourth Mili¬ 
tary District, has |>ecn ordered to Washington. 
The regiment raised by Gen. Crawford ol' Kan¬ 
sas with which to fight the Indians Is composed 
of workmen on the Pacific Railroad who were 
temporarily idle. These volunteers are said to 
have been the worst class, of men, atld their oon- 
for three days; but on the fourth one of the 
captives killed him while asleep. 
Ontario. 
Tjie Provincial Legislature met at Toronto 
on the Gth inst., but adjourned without transact¬ 
ing any business, out of respect to the late W. 
McL. Shaw of Lanark. 
On the Cth at Gananoque four policemen went 
to the house of a noted character, named Chap¬ 
man, to effect his arrest and that of ‘-Carry" 
Chase for horse stealing. The two desperadoes 
drew their revolver? and a general light ensued, 
in which three of the police were shot, two it is 
feared fatally. Chapman was shot in the arm, 
but with Chase escaped. Intense excitement 
pre' ails, and large bodies of men have gone in 
all directions to secure their arrest. 
Finlay. Son & Co.'s dry goods establishment, 
on Dundas street, London, was burned on the 
6th. Loss, $30,000. 
France. 
A writer in the London Times of Jan. 4, says 
the year ends with the most precarious peace the 
world ever saw, notices the growth of democratic 
sentiment in France, and declares that the Em¬ 
peror must either check the Press or abandon 
I lersonal govern men t. 
I lie Paris lMtrlc of the 5tli says that the sym¬ 
pathy in France with the objects of the Chinese 
Mission is so groat that Mr. Burlingame is as 
sure of success as in England, 
Hio out-tiow of specie from the Prink of 
France still continues. The regular weekly 
statement made on the 8th showed that the bul¬ 
lion in the vaults was 37,500,000 francs less than 
at the corresponding period of the week before. 
Paris dispatches of the 10th state that the Chi¬ 
nese Embassy Is receiving every attention 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
J uuge Drummond of the IT. S. Circuit Court 
at Chicago decided on Die 0th that every provis¬ 
ion of the whisky Act of July 30,1807, is in ac¬ 
cordance with the Constitution. 
Suits have been instituted in the Superior 
Court of Chicago to make good the title of that 
city to its real estate, the possession of which is 
alleged to have been obtained by forge; 1 titles. 
Jaequiu’s brewery at Washington, Tazewell 
Co., was burned on the 6th inst., entailing a loss 
of $11,000. 
Gov. Oglesby sent bis message to the Legisla¬ 
ture on the 4th inst. 
Of the 36,000,000 acres of land in the State, 
21,000,000 are improved and 10,000,000 underact ual 
cultivation. 
During the two years ending December 1,1868, 
$2.350,08.3.50 of the State debt were paid off. 
There are at prevent in the State 
Washington. 
Ja.v. 5.—Both Houses re-assembled to-day. 
Senator Morton offered a joint resolution for¬ 
bidding the iondingof any submarine cable upon 
the shores of the. United States without the con¬ 
sent of Congress. 
Senator Sumner presented a petition of Hun¬ 
garian citizens of the United States, praying that 
a Consulate-General bo established at Buda 
Pesth, for the purpose of .spreading information 
among Hungarians relative to tills country. 
Tile same Senator presented the petition of the 
\ irgini.i i ni versify that the duties bo remitted 
upon philosophical apparatus ordered rrom Eu¬ 
rope. Also a pel ition of citizens of Philadelphia 
and I/uilsiunu for a constitutional amendment, 
securing equal political rights n> all citizens. 
A. o another from Georgians, praying Congress 
to intervene in the affairs of that, Slate. 
Senator Ferry presented a resolution, which 
was paused by a large majority, requesting the 
President to furnish the Hi-nuto with a copy of 
ills Christ mas Universal Amnesty Proclamat ion, 
with a statement of his authority for issuing it. 
The rest of the day's session was consumed in 
discussing the question of re-imbursing claim- 
unts for property lust at the Soul It during the re¬ 
bellion. 1 ho discussion, which was long and te¬ 
dious, developed the fuel t hat the Senate' was op¬ 
posed to any such payment. 
ill the House,a bill to re-im burse the Iowa war 
claims was passed. 
A bill was passed repealing that portion of the 
naval laws which prevent the selection of a civi¬ 
lian for Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engi¬ 
neering. 
Both the Finance Committee-of the Senate and 
the Ways and Means Cominit.tco of the House, 
urire An-. Rollins to retain his position during tho 
present administration. 
In the Semite, a communication was received 
irom ‘-“eretary ol the interior, recommend¬ 
ing IO favorable consideration the Indian Com¬ 
missioner's estimate for “an appropriation re¬ 
quired for medaliousof U. S. Grant, President ol’ 
the United States," which it is always customary 
_eighiy-seven 
wool-eardiog mills, and one hundred and thirty- 
three inanufacti»rics of woolens, with u capita) 
of sd,000,000 invested in buildings and machinery 
ami employing 3,4.30 operators, one-fourth of 
whom are women, and consuming annually 
4,000,000 of the 1,0131,000 pounds of wool clipped 
from over 2,300,060 sheep. The investment of 
capital In manufactures la steadily increasing. 
Additional coal shafts are being sunk in Illi¬ 
nois, and additional eoal mines being opened. 
The present annual product of coal is not less 
than 8,000,000 tons. 
Indiana. 
At Lafayette parties arc digging, under the 
direction of an astrologer, for the $00,000 sup¬ 
posed to have been hidden near the Junction by 
Frank Reno, the express robber recently hung 
me ranoaesy u formal audience at an early day. 
■Spain. 
Madrid dispatches of the 5th state that four 
of the insurgents in Malaga fired into a party of 
refugees while under the protection of the 
American ting. Tho general in command had 
tho offenders arrested and punished, and has 
rincc communicated the facts, and tho measures 
lie has taken in relation to them, to the com¬ 
mander of the American squadron in Spanish 
waters. 
A Oarlist conspiracy has been discovered in 
Barcelona, with ramifications in Saragossa and 
other places. Many of those Implicated have 
been arrested, among them Costello, a noted 
Carl 1st. 
The peasants in Andalusia, pressed by poverty, 
have organized into plundering parties and arc 
pillaging Uie rich landholders. 
Dispatches of the Otli state I hat Gen. Prim has 
officially declared that the Prov isional Govern¬ 
ment does not intend to disarm tho volunteers. 
Honor Hagosta, Minister of the Interior, lias 
is aied a circular ascribing the troubles at Cadiz 
and Malaga to the intrigues of re-net ioni; ts and 
charges that their object is to prevent the taking 
Senator Pomeroy of Kansas introduced a bill 
on the fitli inst. providing for a weekly mail 
I mm New York to Sisal and Vera Cm/„ Mexico, 
with n subsidy of $.3,000 for the round trip. 
S ecretary and Mrs. McCullough have issued 
cards for receptions to lie held oil the 23d of 
January and the 5th of February. 
New ¥orh. 
Governor Hoffman was inaugurated on New 
Tears day. I'he day was very stormy, tbc se¬ 
verest, thus far. of the re:: on, but amid the 
driving Allow and high wind the usual intrude 
took place. 
At half-past live New Year';- day tho staff of 
Gov. Fenton dined a t the Dclavr.n House with 
the .staff of Gov. Huffman. 
On Monday, the ith inst., the Legislature met. 
The Senate was called to order by Lieutenant 
Governor Alien C. Beach. The Auseuii>lyelected 
Freeman G. TourigJovo of Sain toga, Speaker, bj r 
a vote of set enty, to fifty-! wo for William llitch- 
m.iu oi Now 3 ork. '! ho Governor's Ale? 'ago was 
read in both Houses. 
On tin- 7th instant tlio Legislature adjourned 
until Wednesday the 13th. 
The State Council of the Union League of 
America, met at Albany on the tltli, and elected 
the following officers for the State of New York: 
President, Clms. W. Godard of Kings; Vfcc Pr<:«i- 
P.mG, Win. D. Alexander of New York, and Ly¬ 
man It. Buns of Erie; Trmmrer, (.’has. C. Pinck¬ 
ney of New York ; h'rarrtartra. Thomas. C. 
till;, alludes to the Hester Vaughan ease, and 
asks l or an act permitting the Governor to com- 
mult; a death penalty into imprisonment for a 
term of years. 
The joint Republican caucus on the Cth nomi¬ 
nated John Scott of Huntingdon for 0,8. Sen¬ 
ator. 
I leister Clyraor lias written a letter declining 
to be a candidate for the Governorship. 
In his message, Gov. Geary states that the 
schools are in a satisfactory condition, lau he 
estimates that 75,006 children la the state are 
without school facilities lb; Ihereforo urges 
improvement in the School system and an in¬ 
crease of teachers’ salaries. 
Gov. Geary urges the adoption of measures to 
prevent i'nuidulottl culturalization. 
The State finances arc prosperous, the debt is 
annually diminishing, and the Governor recom¬ 
mends retrenchment in every department. 
Mrs. TwitcheU's trial was to begin on tho llth, 
Delaware. 
The Legislature mot on ihf «th. John Wil¬ 
liams of Kent was chosen Hpoalior of the Semite, 
nml John Hickman of S;iksc: speaker of the 
House. 
James A. Bayard, appointed Senator in place 
of the late Senator Riddle, is to be elected for 
the remainder of tin 
c iiuc.vpirod term ; and from 
March •!, I860, it is probable that his son, Thomas 
F. Bayard, will lie chosen. 
After organizing on the (1th, both branches of 
the Legislature* attended the funeral of ex-Sena¬ 
tor Martin W. Bates. 
Maryland. 
Judge Pinckney, of the Baltimore Circuit 
Ccurt, has decided that emancipation gives the 
slave his civil rights, and that a contract of mar¬ 
riage is made legal and valid by tho consent of 
the master and the moral assent of the slave 
from the moment of freedom. 
Virginia. 
John Minor Bovts died at his home, in Cul¬ 
pepper Co., Vit,, on the morning of Jan. 8. His 
prominent connection with American politics 
and his firm loyalty during the rebellion are 
well known. He resided at Auburn, near Brandy 
Statiou, and was stricken with paralysis, of 
which he died, on tbcOlll. His age was sixty-six. 
Gen. Stoneman has disbanded the famous 
Public Guard which ha? done duty tmmud the 
public buildings of Richmond for so many 
years, and which, before t he war, used to make 
Northerners feel as though in a foreign country. 
fieri. Stoneman, under advice of Secretary 
Schofield, declines to pay the members of the 
late Constitutional Convention. 
So far as heard from, the State press are di¬ 
vided ob follows ou tho new movement for im¬ 
partial suffrage: -- For it, eleven Democratic 
papers, and against ir, eight Democratic and 
two Republican papers. 
Tho revenue collections for 1808 for the district 
including Richmond wore $760,(too, nearly $200,- 
000 more than in 1867. 
Sally Anderson, the colored murderess, was 
finally released on the 30th ult. at Richmond, 
Gen. Htomamui having declined to instruct the 
Mayor in tho promises. 
l^ortU Carolina. 
Tt is said that the Legislature will reinstate 
the Supreme Court in its proper rooms. 
The State Treasurer has reported to tho Legis¬ 
lature that the failure to pay the interest on the 
State debt was utilised by inability to borrow the 
needed $305,pOO without pledging the stocks, &e., 
of the State as collaterals. ' 
Florida, 
A RESOLUTION was offered in the House on the 
Cth, directing the Speaker to appoint a commit¬ 
tee of live to investigate the conduct of Gov. 
Reed- 
Kentucky. 
The message of Gov. Stevenson, submitted to 
the Legislature on t he Gth, is very coneiliatovy 
In tone. 
Kentucky's debt on (he 1st of December was 
$1,161,43f>.<K 
Gov. Stevenson wants the constitutionality of 
the Civil Rights bill tested in tho LL S. Supreme 
leans on the 7th In ;t. 
Ma.j.-Gi:n. Lovm.i, II. Rousseau, command¬ 
ing tho Fifth Military District, died at- New Or¬ 
leans on the night of Jan. 7, of a sudden attack 
of inflammation of the bowels. He was born in 
Kentucky in ISIS, and served through the Mexi¬ 
can war In I860 he was uniiniinousiy elected to 
the Kentucky Senate. Ills distinguished ser¬ 
vices during the late rebellion will not .soon be 
forgotten. Although the 8th of January is New 
Orleans' great holiday, the lings, both Aineriern 
and foreign consular, were displayed at. h al f 
mast throughout the day. By ids death the 
military command devolved upon Gen. Bu¬ 
chanan by virtue of his seniority. 
Nevada. 
The Legislature met on the 4th, electing T. D. 
Edwards President of the Senate, and D. O. At¬ 
kinson Speaker of the House. 
The Republican caucus of the Nevada Legisla¬ 
ture lias re-nominated W illiam M. Stewart for 
United States Senator. 
Colorado. 
The Denver Board of Trade has unanimously 
passed a resolution approving the Indian policy 
of Gens. Sherman and Sheridan. 
Montana, 
The Helena Post says that in one of i he fa¬ 
mous min"? in that district there are 1,000 tons 
of excellent ore ready to he crushed, and 10,000 
tons of equally good quartz in sight; and that 
the ledge contains quartz worth $5,000,000. 
Tho Council has adopted a report in favor of 
removing the Territorial capital from Virginia 
City to Derr Lodge City, in the House a reso¬ 
lute struggle will be made in favor of Helena. 
Memorials against the copper tariff bill now 
pending, signed by New York shipbuilders mnl 
by i In- principal mining and sradltiug Companies 
on the Pacific coast, were presented. 
In i be House tho Hi •eretary of the Interior wan 
directed to make no more payments to tho con¬ 
tractors fur stationery until the Investigating 
Committee shall have reported. 
The Postmaster-General sent in word that lie 
should pay Wells, Fargo & Co., as they had 
threatened to stop carrying the mails unless lie 
did. By a parliamentary quibble, raised by Mr. 
Johnson, Mr. W'ashburim's resolution forbidding 
any such payment until tho matter shall be fully 
investigated, was pushed over until Monday, the 
lUli inst. Mr. W. denounced the action of the 
Postmaster Gnritsr.il in the reverent terms, and 
said lie ought to be impeached. 
The bill to increase the rank, pay and emolu¬ 
ment, of Hie surgeons of the navy was killed 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
