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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
Jan. 25. —The acting Vice President presented 
the petition of Mis. President Lincoln which 
states that her husband was killed in the service 
of his country and respectfully asks for a pen¬ 
sion. This was referred to the Committee on 
Pensions. 
A bill was reported fro in t In* Committee on 
Retrenchment for the repeal of the Tenure of 
Oflleo act, with an amendment which (fives the 
President power to remove or suspend Cabinet 
officers during a recess of the Senate, and to sus¬ 
pend all civil officers during such recess, without 
specific charges, 
A report from the Judiciary Committed dev 
dares Unit Joshua Kill, claiming to bcaSenator- 
elect, should not now be permitted to take Ida 
scat. 
Senator Wilson, from the Committee on Mili¬ 
tary Affairs reported back the bill for the reduc¬ 
tion of tlie army, with amendments providing 
that no person over forty years old shall be ap¬ 
pointed chaplain; that chaplains shall not bo 
stationed at any post for over five years, and 
shall then be replaced by chaplains of a different 
denomination ; and that the number of second 
lieutenants to be appointed! shall not exceed 
fifty annually. 
In the 1 louse, I ho bill for granting an ad¬ 
ditional subsidy to the eastern Division of the 
Pacific Railroad, was killed for this session by 
being referred to the Committee on Public 
Lauds. 
The Senate Military Committee has decided 
unanimously to report against the confirmation 
of Generals lSuchumm and (lillem to be brigadier 
Generals iu the regular army. 
A committee of Quaker* was before the Senate 
Indian Committee to-day, urging peaceful meas¬ 
ures toward the Indians, and decidedly opposing 
tiie transfer of the Indian bureau to the War 
Department. 
Caleb Cushing’s mission to Bogota is said to bo 
a failure, and the right of way for the isthmus 
canal could not be obtained. 
.1 AN. 26.—Senator Sherman, from the Finance 
Committee, reported a resolution providing for 
the appointment, at t he beginning of the next 
session, of a joint, committee of three Senators 
and live Representatives, to examine and report 
upon the expediency of re-organizing the Civil 
Service. 
In the House the petition of Mrs. President 
Lincoln was referred to the Committee on 
Pensions. 
Gen. ItaaslofT, on behalf of the Danish govern¬ 
ment, appeared to-day before the Senate Com¬ 
mittee on Foreign Affairs, to make an argument 
in behalf of the St. Thomas annexation. The 
Danish government is backed by Mr. Seward, 
and will leave no sl one unturned to secure I he 
ratification of the treaty. 
Secretary Seward lias written a letter to the 
Senate Committee on Appropriations, in which 
he shows that it will be absurd to consolidate 
the South American Missions as proposed by 
Gen. butler. He has also called the attention ol' 
Senator Simmer to the matter, urging him to 
have tills portion.of the bill struck out, and to 
allow the Missions In remain as they are. 
The cit i/ens of Washington are determined to 
have an inauguration ball, but Gen. Grant will 
not attend. 
This afternoon the Maryland Congressional 
delegation proceeded from the Capitol to the 
White House lo odd their voices to the petitions 
before tho President for the pardon of Dr. Mudd. 
Mr. Johnson ga ve them encouragement- to hope 
llial all political prisoners would bo pardoned 
before the 4th of Minch. 
Jan. 27.—Senator liowe created considerable 
amusement by presenting a memorial from a 
Georgia deaf mute praying for the appointment 
of an able plu enologist to examine I he heads of 
all candidates for internal revenue appoint¬ 
ments to see whether benevolence, cunkeien- 
tiousnese, causality and comparison be their 
most prominent bumps, to the end that the 
Government may no longer suffer from frauds 
now so common in that department. H was ! 
referred to the Committee on Retrenchment 
and Reform. 
Tlie bill to confirm the title to Little Rook 
Island was passed; and also tlie bill to amend 
the act granting laud in Oregon in aid of a 
wagon road from Eugene City (o tho eastern 
boundary of that Stale. 
On moiloii of Mr. Sohenck the House agreed 
to hold eveiling sessions for general debate. 
Mr. brooks of New York presented a petition 
from the board of Underwriters of Unit city 
asking for a bill to regulate and control the 
manufacture and sale of petroleum and other 
dangerous lhpilds, so as lo preserve life and 
property. 
Ou motion of Mr. Stoner of Missouri, one 
year's pay as a Ileprescnlal ive was allowed to , 
Mr. Switzer, who contested the seat of Mr. An- t 
derson of Missouri. ( 
A discussion in reference to the pay of the 
clerk of tlici’ommiiteeon Public Lands brought ( 
out Mr. Washburnoof Illinois, who declared that ] 
if the constituents of members could know of 
their extravagance, lie believed they would come | 
down and run them into the Potanina. [Laugh- , 
ter.] Wlmt weru the figures of the expenses of , 
the House7 Jle would toll them, Capitol police, 
$05,000; clerks, $80,000; sergeant-at-arms, $0,000; { 
post-office, $20,000; laborers, $10,000; folding- i 
room, $00,000? doorkeepers, $44,000? clerks to 
committees, $00,000; pages, $8,000; total, $835,000. s 
Jan. 28. — To Ihe Senate the President pro tern, l 
presented a communication from the Secretary t 
of the Interior recommending Congress to make i 
immediately an appropriation for the relief of i 
certain starving aud destitute Indians on the i 
Upper Missouri River. e 
Memorials for Female Suffrage, for the pro- I 
tection of new fruits, and for equal suffrage 
were presented, < 
The bill relating to the appointment of mid- 1 
all it linen from Hie Southern States was passed. t 
In the House the bill appropriating $43,100,000 
for the expenses of the army was reported and c 
made the special order for Monday, Feb. 1. t 
A resolution was passed Instructing the Ue- l 
construction Committee to inquire and report s 
what turtlicraction should betaken by Congress t 
i i.r pouting the representation ot Georgia in that b 
body. t 
At tho evening session general debate took t 
place upon the suffrage question. t 
Jan. 29.— Senator Sumner presented a petition 
of boston merchants protesting against the rat i¬ 
fication of the Alabama treaty, on the ground 
that it proposes to place on an equality the claims 
of British subjects and American citizens. The 
petition says that the former were the result of 
disagreement, regarding the ordinary forms of 
neutrality, while the latter arose out of nets of 
piracy and bloodshed, sanctioned, encouraged, 
and even perpetrated by British subjects. 
A bill providing for the reduction of the army 
was |uissed, with an amendment prohibiting the 
filling of the two vacant- brigudlerxhlps. 
Tin; bill appointing a committee of five to in¬ 
quire what legislation is necessary to secure tho 
taking of the Ninth Census, in 1870, was passed. 
In the House, Mr. Brooks of New York pre¬ 
sented a memorial signed by prominent citizens 
of New York und Brooklyn asking permission to 
erect, us a post-road, a bridge over the East River 
between those two cities. 
The bill appropriating $5,740,000 for postal ex¬ 
penses was made the special order for Tuesday, 
Feb. 2, 
Jan. 30. - The President pro tom. laid before 
the Senate tho resolutions of the Wisconsin Leg¬ 
islature relative to u canal between Lake Michi¬ 
gan and the Mississippi. Also a memorial from 
citizens of Dakotah protesting against a division 
of that Territory. 
Memorials of the Wisconsin Legislature in re¬ 
gard to tlie improvement of the Wisconsin 
River; of boston merchants in favor of a new 
Reciprocity Treaty with Canada; of the New 
York Chamber of Commerce recommending a 
plan for tlie settlement of the financial difficul¬ 
ties of the nation; and for Female Suffrage were 
presented. 
A bill was introduced to enable tlie citizens of 
Montana to form a State constitution. 
The Senate refused to reconsider the vote by 
which it refused the use of the Capitol for the 
Inauguration ball. 
Senator Henderson presented a concurrent 
resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, in¬ 
structing the Senators and Representatives from 
that. State to vote for the bill to aid the Central 
branch of the Pacific Railroad. In presenting 
them lie thought it. but right to state he bud 
voted against the bill before receiving tho reso¬ 
lutions. 
Senator Harlan offered a resolution, which was 
agreed to, instructing the Secretary of the inte¬ 
rior lo inform the Senate what quantity of pub¬ 
lic lands have been granted to aid the construc¬ 
tion of railroads, wagon roads and canals, and 
tlie Improvement of river harbors throughout 
the country. 
'Hie bill was passed making appropriations for 
the support of the Military Academy at West 
Point. 
The Naval Appropriation bill was passed. 
Eulogies upon Congressman Finney of Penn¬ 
sylvania, were then pronounced. 
in tlie House tho Constitutional Amendment 
with regard to the suffrage was passed by a vote 
of one hundred and fifty to forty-two. It. reads 
us follows: 
No State shall make or enforce any law which 
shall deny or abridge t" any male citizen of the 
Unit*si States of tile age of l wenty-one years or 
over, und who is of sound mind, mi equal vote 
in all elections in which heshall have such actual 
residence as shall la) described by law. except lo 
sueli us have engaged Or may hereafter engage 
in insurrection or rebellion agaiiiBt the United 
Stales, and to such as shall bo duly convicted of 
treason, felony or other infamous crime. 
The Senate bill to confirm titles to lands in 
Nebraska was passed. 
New York. 
The Albany aud Susqnehanu&h R. R. has made 
a contract with the Delaware, Lackawanna and 
Western It. R. to transport coal to Albany, and 
the first train, of twenty-two cars, ran through 
on tlie 28th ult.. The. coal will be retailed at 
$8.50(gt8.75 per ton. 
On the 25th ult. the Now York Board of Health 
adopted an ordinance which forbids the sale of 
kerosene, us atl illuminating agent, which takes 
lire below one hundred and ten degrees Fahren¬ 
heit. 
Tho case, of the “Morning Star Sunday School” 
was argued before Judge Ingraham of the Su¬ 
preme Court on the 25th ult. Decision was re¬ 
served. 
On the 25th nil. the Assembly passed a series 
of resolutions requesting Congress to furnish 
the necessary funds for removing Hie obstruc¬ 
tions in tho East River at Hell Gate. 
Tho one hundred and ninth anniversary ol’ 
tlie birth of the poet burns was celebrated in 
Now York on the 25th ult., with banquets by 
the two burns Societies. 
On the 25th nit. Judge bla toll ford of the U. S. 
District Court in New York pronounced the 
sentence of Blalsdeil, Eckel and MeLarou for 
fraud upon the Revenue Department in connec¬ 
tion with whisky distilling, blaisdcll was sen¬ 
tenced to three years' Imprisonment in t he State 
Prison at Sing Sing, which disqualifies him from 
the rights of citizenship after his release, which 
the t wo following sentences do not. Eckel wuh 
sent to the Albuny Penitentiary for three years, 
and McLaren, who was only an employe, to four 
months imprisonment. Sentence upou Jive 
counts in the indictment of the first two was 
suspended until their sentences are fully exe¬ 
cuted. 
Oil the 28th ult. the Somite passed a bill fora 
free bridge over the Susquehanna between the 
towns of Union and Vestal in Broome county. 
A bill was introduced Into tlie Assembly on 
tho 28th ult. making it a misdemeanor for any 
person except sheriffs and duly appointed offi¬ 
cers to carry concealed firearms. 
A resolution was passed to appoint a special 
committee to inquire into the affairs of the de¬ 
funct. Merchants' Union Express Company. 
Tho New York Board of Health has made 
some headway in checking the sending of bad 
meat to the markets of t hat city. In London 
the most resolute steps have been taken by the 
authorities, and not only have heavy fines been 
imposed on parties briuging bad meat, but. a 
wealthy farmer has been sent, to prison for the 
offence, without the privilege of paying a heavy 
fine. 
For the first time in fourteen years the month 
of January has passed without a homicide in 
New York. But. there have been not a few at¬ 
tempts to commit, the crime, however. 
On the night of tlie 29th George Williams, tax 
collector for Gcucseo, Livingston Co., was at¬ 
tacked near that village by three highwaymen, 
brutally beat on, bound hand and fool, robbed of 
six hundred and twenty-six dollars, and thrown 
by the roadside insensible. When lie recovered 
he managed to free his feet and make his way to 
the village,, where he gave the alarm. The 
townspeople turned out ana scoured the coun¬ 
try, but with no result. 
i About seven o'clock on Sunday evening, the 
- 3Lst ult., two men entered a gambling saloon on 
1 Broadway, New York, and seizing the only man 
s they found, they bound and gagged him and 
3 then robbed the room of $7,700 and $1,000 worth 
f of Jewelry, and then escaped. 
{ 31 nine. 
f SAMtTKt, H iu, has been sentenced, in Portland, 
i to be hung for setting fire to a building in the 
night, time. 
The four prosecutions against IJeut.-Com- 
■ raander Carpenter for alleged obstructions of 
the York County Deputy Sheriff in his attempts 
• to serve writs in the Kittery Navy Yard have, 
! throe of them, been stopped, and one carried by 
• exceptions to the July session of the full bench 
■ of the Supremo Court. Precedent decisions as 
1 that of Judge Story, In 1819, in tho trial for a 
1 murder at Fort Adams, Newport, it. J., have 
‘ established that In land owned and occupied by 
the United States tho Federal Courts alone have 
Jurisdiction, 
On the 19th ult. I he thermometer at Bethel ran 
down to thirty-one below zero, at Bryant’s Pond 
to thirty, and twenty-six at Dixfleld. 
The Judiciary Committee of the Legislature 
will soon reporta bill abolishing capital punish¬ 
ment except for murder in the first degree. 
New lin in pall I re. 
John M. Lane of Concord, has just recovered 
a verdict of $1,158 against his mother-in-law and 
brother-in-law for enticing his wife away. 
This the first, case of the kind ever brought be¬ 
fore'the New Hampshire courts. 
A lad and lassie of Exeter, aged fourteen and 
fifteen respectively, lately madeu futile attempt 
to elope. Each put on an Immense supply of 
clothes and proudly walked to Newmarket Junc¬ 
tion, where they were captured and lgnomini- 
oussly separated and carried home. The boy 
said he “ loved the girl, and wanted to see her 
oftoner than his mother would allow him to at 
homo." 
Vermont. 
Weston passed through Burlington on the 
30t.h ult., on which day he had made sixty-seven 
miioH and was still walking, although the roads 
were very slushy. 
JTlasNachuMettw. 
Robert E. Pitman, President of the Senate, 
has declined the nomination to a seat upon tlie 
Bench of the Superior Court. On nomination of 
Governor Chilliu Justice Lincoln F. Brigham of 
the Superior Court, has been promoted to Its 
Chief Justiceship, mode vacant, by the promo¬ 
tion of Judge Ames to the Supreme Bench. 
There are two seats in the former Court still 
vacant. 
The P. L. L.’s threaten to combine with the 
Democrats, in rase the Prohibitory Law is re¬ 
enacted. 
Amherst College is going to raise $5,000 to con¬ 
cent rate a museum of Comparative Anatomy 
around the admirable nucleus formed by Prof. 
Edward Hltohoook. 
The Eastern Railroad's income for the year 
ending Nov. 30,18<i8, was $1,452,212, and tho ex¬ 
penditures $1,020,881. As the expenses were 
$32,358 less than for 1807, and the receipts $73,173 
more, the net gain Is $98,740. 
The twenty-one paper mills of Lee consumed 
14,1X10,000 pounds of rags last year, and tlie four¬ 
teen other paper mills in Berkshire county con¬ 
sumed exactly us much more. 
The chairman of the boston Committee on In¬ 
ternal Health has •. rihtivd ti'.r city usii amt dirt 
carts to be covered witli canvass to prevent the 
annoyance to pedestrians from dust. 
A few day* since a lady in Pittsfield picked, on 
her premises, a violet aud other Hewers which 
were growing in 1 lie open atr. 
Another very disastrous fire occurred in Lynn 
on the 25th ult., destroying several shoe factories 
and entailing a loss of $200,(XX). 
nil ode Island. 
The members of the Legislature are paid one 
dollar a day; and the State is so amtil I that nearly 
all live at their homes during the session, going 
to the capital in the morning and ret urning borne 
lit night, 
Two cases areon record in providence in which 
applicants for aid from the city authorities used 
the order on a grocer, which was given them, to 
obtain cigars. 
The boston, Newport and New York Steam¬ 
boat Co. has sold one of its surplus bouts for 
$30,(MX). James Fisk, Jr., is said to have made an 
ineffectual attempt to buy t he line for $1,100,1X10. 
Il<! was told that if ho would add $100,000 to his 
offer it would be considered. This he declined, 
and intimated that, if he did not purchase he 
would make a lively, fight with the line next 
summer. 
Connecticut. 
The Democratic Stale Convention met at 
Hartford on tho 27th ult., and re-noinluatod the 
present State officers, us follows: Governor, , 
James E. English; Lieut. Governor, Ephraim H. 1 
Hyde; Secretary of State, Leverett, E, Pease; 
Treasurer, Edward S. Moseley; Comptroller, 
Jesse oiney. 
The bronze statue of the late Bishop Brown¬ 
ell, founder of Trinity College, Hartford, is to 
be set up on the college campus, and lie unveiled 
at the next Commencement. 
In 1838 New Haven had 12,000 inhabitants; it. 
now has nearly 00 , 000 ; its manufacturing pro¬ 
ducts then were $3,(KXI,0(X), they arc now $75,000,- 
000; then land sold for $1.25 a foot, now in some 
places it is worth $1,000. 
New Jersey. 
John P. Stockton was elected United States 
Senator on the 20tli ult. He Is son of Richard 
F. Stockton who was instrumental in huvingthe 
bill passed which abolished (logging In the navy. 
Pennsylvania. 
On the 23d ult. the freight-car repair shop of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona was de¬ 
stroyed by five together with twenty-eight cars. 
The incendiary was seen and chased, nut man¬ 
aged to escape. Tho loss by this fire is some 
$200,000, and four hundred men are temporarily 
thrown out of employment. 
Mayor Fox of Philadelphia has issued a proc¬ 
lamation announcing that the ordinance to pre¬ 
vent. the killing of birds within the qity limits 
will he rigidly enforced. 
Virginia. 
Orders have been issued from the War De¬ 
partment, relieving, on the first of May next, 
nearly all the artillery officers now on duty at the 
Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, ami scatter¬ 
ing them throughout tile county. 
Missouri. 
A St. Louis telegram of the 28th ult, says that 
Indian Chiefs claiming to be entitled to repre¬ 
sent the Kiowas and the Sacs and Fox tribes 
were in that city on their way to Washington to 
make treaties of peace on behalf of the Kiowas, 
Camanehe8 and other tribes. They say that if 
the troops are. withdrawn from their hostile at¬ 
titude the Indians will return to peaceful pur¬ 
suits and accept such terms as the Government 
may' determine upon. They complain bitterly 
of the manner in which they have been treated 
by Indian agents in the distribution of annuities 
and desire that, they all be withdrawn. 
Kentucky. 
About 11 o,clock on the night of the 24th ult, 
the Tennessee River packet. Le Clair, in attempt¬ 
ing to pass over the falls of the Ohio at Louis¬ 
ville, struck upon one of the abutments of the 
bridge and sunk. She had on board some fifty or 
sixty passengers, who, it is believed, were all 
saved. There were some fifty horses and mules 
on hoard. These were cut loose, and left to save 
Hieiriselves as best, they could. 
South Carolina. 
Ex-Gov. Francis W. Pickens died at Edge- 
field on the 25th ult. II© was one of the origimd 
secessionist*, and was quite prominent during 
the wur, but at its close retired to private life. 
Louisiana. 
The ship Jane Hill sailed from New Orleans 
on the 30th ult . with 4,703 hales of cotton, which 
is t he largest cargo shipped from that port sinco 
the close of the war. 
Illinois. 
The bill for the prevention of cruelty to ani¬ 
mals has been ordered to be engrossed for a third 
reading. 
On the 27tb ult. the Senate passed the House 
bill for the revision of the public laws and pro¬ 
viding for (laying the Judges of the Circuit. 
Court $1,000 per annum for certain reports and 
suggestions concerning tho laws of the State. 
On the 28th In the House a bill was passed re¬ 
quiring Circuit Judges to make reports and 
revisions relative to a revision of the Statutes. 
Rev. T. E. St. John, who went to the Church 
of the Redeemer in Chicago from the First Uni¬ 
versal ist. Church of Worcester, Moss,, has ac¬ 
cepted a call to his old pastorate, which has 
recently become vacant. 
On the 25th ult. two Chicago boys under four¬ 
teen years of age indulged in a little fight of 
their own, and one of thorn ran into his house 
and got u dagger, wit h which he stabbed his an¬ 
tagonist, but providentially with no very serious 
results. The would-be assassin was held to 
answer in tlie sum of $500. 
On the 24th ult., at Chicago, a man named 
Booth bar assaulted a detective, who was trying 
to arrant him, with a hatchet, inflicting wounds 
which are probably fatal. 
Wisconsin. 
Mat. II. Carpenter was elected to the U. 8. 
Senate ou the 26th ult., and the result was an¬ 
nounced In Joint session of the Legislature ou 
the following day. 
Tim report of the lumber inspector of tho 
Fourth District shows 2,954,HI feet of logs scaled 
during the year. 
The Senate has adopted resolutions inquiring 
into the propriety of instructing the inmates of 
the Children's Homo in useful industry. 
The suit of James B. Hart against the First. 
National bank of Madison to recover $2,500, the’ 
reward offered for the arrest and conviction of a 
forger on that bunk, was decided iu bis favor on 
the 191 h ult., and he wn* awarded $2,214.28. Two 
days thereafter he began bis second eUU for 
$20,000 for his unlawful arrest by tho bank’* offi¬ 
cers, charged with being un accomplice of the 
forger. 
California. 
The New England pioneers who went to Cali¬ 
fornia in J848, ’49 and ’50 are arranging for a 
grand excursion and home visit on the comple¬ 
tion of the Pacific R. It. next year. . 
The beautiful and prolific Japanese chestnut 
trees are beginning lo he planted in San Fran¬ 
cisco. 
A Han Francisco dispatch of the 29th ult. says 
that nine shocks of an earthquake were l'elt that 
day, ami people were becoming alarmed, al¬ 
though the shocks were light, and no damage 
was done beyond breaking a few panes of glass. 
Texas. 
The iron safe of the Phenlx Express Company 
was robbed on tlie 16th ult., while in transit be¬ 
tween Galveston und Houston, of $10,000 iugold. j 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. 
A London dispatch of the 28th ult says:—Tho 
Times has a leading article this morning on the 
financial statements recent ly made by Messrs. 
McCulloch, Welles and Washburno. and says if 
t heir ideas are accepted by the government, the 
people will place the United States bonds on a 
footing with those of Massachusetts. 
A Dublin telegram of the 27th states that a 
meeting of influential citizens wuh held the 26th, 
at which resolutions were adopted urging tho 
government to pardon the Fenian convicts. 
London dispatches of the 29th announce that- 
Lord Monck, recently Governor-General of 
Canada, has been elected chairman of the Fran¬ 
co-American Cable Company. 
A London telegram of the 29th says that an 
invitation lias been extended to Reverdy John¬ 
son, the American Minister, to dine Willi the 
corporation authorities of Glasgow in Feb¬ 
ruary, Mr. Johnson lias accepted the invitation. 
France* 
A Havre dispatch of the 27th ult, states that 
tho American ship Alaska, Capt. Small, which 
had just arrived at that port, from New Orleans, 
with a cargo of New Orleans cotton, took fire 
that morning in the harbor and burned furious¬ 
ly. She would probably be totally destroyed. 
The Alaska was owned by TImyor & Lincoln of 
Boston, aud sailed last from Now Orleans on the 
10th of December. 
London dispatches of the 28th ult. first men¬ 
tioned the following accident to the fine steamer 
I’ereir©, but particulars were withheld for two 
days, and Havre telegrams of the 28th give the 
following: The steamer Pereire, Captain Du¬ 
chesne, sailed from Havre on Friday, the lfith 
Inst,, for New York, touching at Brest, which 
port she left, the day following. Hie 16th. She 
experienced strong head winds and heavy 
weather almost from the start. The storm in¬ 
creased in violence, until, when five days out 
from Brest, it became a furious gait’, which 
threatened the destruction of the ship. Heavy 
seas broke over her, carrying away entirely her 
forward deck cabin, the dining saloon for the 
second-class passengers, deluging tlie engine- 
room and partially disabling the ship. The 
storm caused the vessel to lurch tremendously. 
and the passengers and crew were thrown from 
place to place with great violence. The loss of 
life and injury to persons on board are attri¬ 
butable to this cause only. 
At length, on the 21st Inst., the Pereire shipped 
un immense sea, estimated at a thousand tons, 
which completely Hooded tlie cabin and killed 
on© of the passengers outright—a Miss Funck- 
elburg, from Germany. The storm coming from 
the West, and Captain Duchesne doubtful of his 
ability to successfully ride it out, thought it pru¬ 
dent to put the vessel about, which was done, arid 
she arrived safely at Havre on the 26th Inst. As 
before stated, three of the crew and three of tlie 
second-olass passengers were killed and many 
others injured. The injuries, however, were 
mainly slight, and all are now doing well. Mr. 
Callaghan, a Catholic priest, Mr. Foulquier, a 
Frenchman, and Miss Funekelburg, were the 
only passengers killed. The latter had her neck 
broken. None of the first-class passengers were 
injured, before the arrival of tlie Pereire at 
Havre, the passengers assembled in the cabin 
and unanimously passed resolutions compli¬ 
menting the Commodore of the fleet, Ca.pt. Du¬ 
chesne. for his courage and seamanship, as de¬ 
monstrated not only In the present case, but 
many times before, and especially irt the collision 
of the Vesta with the Arctic, on the American 
coast years ago. 
A Paris telegram of tlie 29th says the regular 
weekly statement of the Bank of France, made 
public to-day, shows that the amount of bullion 
in vault has increased GOO.OOOf. since last week. 
Prince Napoleon gave n reception on tlie 29th 
to Mr. Burlingame, the Chinese ambassador, and 
suite. 
Spain. 
A Madrid dispatch of the 28th ult. says that 
tlie Governor of Burgos was assassinated yester¬ 
day when about to take an inventory of tho 
goods in the cathedral in that city, Tlie excite¬ 
ment is intense. The people generally sustain 
the government. Many arrests of suspected 
parties have been made. 
A Madrid dispatch of the28th ult. states that 
the Provisional Government for the purpose of 
preventing the repetition of such outrages as 
the one Just perpetrated at Burgos, lias issued a 
decree establishing the equality of all religious 
sects before the law. 
A Madrid telegram of the 27th ult. states that 
the Government lias laid claim w all libraries, 
archives, and works of art possessed by the 
churches as property of the State. It was while 
carrying out the orders of the government that 
the Governor of Burgos was assassinated. This 
©vent can si's Intense excitement. 
Violent demonstrations have been made by the 
people in Madrid against the Papal Nuncio, and 
the government has withdrawn its official recog¬ 
nition of his diplomatic power. 
Tho dean und chapter of the cathedral of Bur¬ 
gos have been arrested and Imprisoned. 
A Madrid telegram of Hie 29th states that the 
Provisional Government the day before had 
issued an address to the nation to restore calm¬ 
ness to the public mind. They declined to take 
active steps against reaction, but declare that 
they ure closely watching it, and, if necessary, 
will combat it. All religious questions they 
leave to be finally disposed of by the Constituent 
Cortes, which is soon to assemble. 
The abolitionists have presented « petition to 
the Government asking them to issue a decree 
setting free all children born Iu slav ery since 
September, qua#. The petition was referred to 
the Constituent Cortes. 
The diplomatic eorps have addressed to the 
Government u protest against the treatment of 
the Papal Nuncio. 
The city of Madrid is quiet, but the volunteers 
are kept underarms. 
It is stated that the members of the Provis¬ 
ional Government aro unanimously in favor of 
the Duke MontpenMer for the Spanish throne. 
The Aeh bishop of Burgos has been arrested, 
and is now in the custody of tie- military. 
A proclamation has been Issued granting a 
general amnesty to the Insurgents of Porta Rj«o. 
A Madrid telegram of the 31st states that Mon- 
signor Feranchi, the Papal Nuncio, is about to 
withdraw from Madrid. All the foreign Minis¬ 
ters In this city, with t he exception of the rep¬ 
resentatives of Russia, have protested against 
the Insults offered to the Nuncio. 
Prussia. 
A Berlin dispatch of the 29th says that the 
! House of Deputies has passed the bill confisca¬ 
ting the property of tiie King of Hanover. The 
proposition to iudiet the King lor high treason 
was rejected. 
Austria. 
A Trieste dispatch of the 28th ult. says that 
an extensive fire occurred in the business por¬ 
tion of the city tlie night previous by which the 
custom-house, the railroad depots in the vicinity 
and several Government warehouses were de¬ 
stroyed. 
Greece. 
Paris dispatches of tiie 27th ult. state that Gen¬ 
eral l)ix, the Minister of the United States, at a 
public banquet this evening, made a speech in 
which he declared that the cause of the Greeks 
was identical with the cause of liberty through¬ 
out the world, and he assured the people of 
Greece that they had the sympathy of America. 
London telegrams ol' the 27th state that the 
Greek government will probably give in its ad¬ 
hesion to the conclusions of the Conference of 
Paris, bid it ts feareo that Its signature will be 
accompanied by reservations which can only 
tend to protract the difficulty with Turkey. 
Athens despatches Of the 29th ult, state that it 
is reported that Bulgaria, Prime Minister, has 
resigned. 
The action of the King of Greece upon the 
terms submitted by the recent Conference is con¬ 
sidered as uncertain. Nothing definite as to his 
intentions relative to the matter isos yet known. 
A cablegram of the 20th ult. says that, United 
States Minister Tuckerman, in a speech delivered 
at a public dinner In Athens on the 28th, ex¬ 
pressed the kindliest feelings of the American 
nation for Greece, and pledged the cordial sym¬ 
pathy of his government for the Greeks in their 
anticipated trouble with the Turk*. 
Paris telegrams of the 30th announce the ar¬ 
rival nt Athens of Count Walewski, Hie beurer 
of tlie protocol of the Paris Conference, and that 
an unfavorable reply to it is expected from the 
Greek Government. 
The neutrality of the Gi'eat Powers is said to 
be assured. 
A Paris dispatch of the 31st ult. says that the 
Russian Government, through its Minister at 
Athens, urges Greece to accede the proposi 
tions of the Conference of Paris, it is rumored 
here to-duy that the Greek Government has 
yielded, and will sign the protocol. 
