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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Wakliinytoii, 
President G rant hopes to have the Darien 
ship canal well under way before the close of his 
administration, and to further this work has 
ordered the Secretary of the Navy to detail a 
sufficient force to make the necessary surveys of 
the isthmus. No doubt is entertained that the 
treaty already negotiated will bo ratified by the 
Colombian Government, and in view of tins fact 
that Government has accorded permission to the 
United States to cause the requisite surveys to 
be made. 
In the Currency and Printing Bureau of the 
Treasury Department at Washington late Satur¬ 
day evening the 37th ult., it was discovered that 
$760 of fractional currency was missing. After 
a strict search the sum could not be found, and 
all the employes, male and female, were subject¬ 
ed to a personal examination. Even this failed 
t o bring the missing currency to light, and about 
eleven o'clock ut night the unfortunate employes 
were permitted to return home. The next 
morning the lost funds were found In a room 
where they had been suffered to remain through 
a mistake iu counting. 
Senor Lomus and a large and able Cuban del¬ 
egation are in Washington, determined to make 
powerful appeals to Congress for recognition 
and aid. 
Tho mall arrangements between the United 
States and Franco will cease at ter the 1st. of Jan¬ 
uary next, and the Aini'.rlcon postage on letters 
sent to or received from France will be collected 
at the office where mailed or received; ten cents 
for each letter weighing half an ounce. Letters 
may be scot to France by the Knglish mall with¬ 
out prepayment, 
A delegation of Jews had an interviw with the 
President, on tho 301 h tilt., and presented an ap¬ 
peal asking him to use his Influence with the 
Emperor of Russia in having his ukusc expelling 
Jewish families from the Russian Empire modi¬ 
fied or revoked. The President promised cordial¬ 
ly that ho would do go. 
Minister Burlingame authorizes the announce¬ 
ment that his mission is a groat success, and tho 
constant reports of the dissatisfaction of the 
rhlnoso Government with It are fabrications, 
started by persons in China who are opposed to 
the Government, policy on commercial grounds. 
A private letter from Fung Luvyob, an at¬ 
tache of JSlr. Burlingame's Chinese mission, to n 
friend in Washington slates that Mr. Brown, the 
first Secretary of the Legation, had returned to 
China, but would rejoin the Legation iu two or 
three months. It had beon maliciously reported 
that. Mr. Brown, who is a British subject, had 
been recalled from his duties with the mission 
by the British Government. 
In the Supreme Court of tho District of Co¬ 
lumbia, on tlie ,37th ult., the Secretary of the 
Interior withdrew his motion in opposition to 
issuing a patent for McGarrahan's claim to lauds 
in California. 
The Corporation Attorney or Washington, in 
the case referred to him relating to the admis¬ 
sion of a oolorod girl, who is almost, white, into 
a school for whites, declares that the Judgment 
of the trustees upon which a ticket was granted 
to the pupil is final, mid tho holder of it may 
legally demand admission to the school indi¬ 
cated in it. 
First Assistant Postmaster-General Earle has 
resigned on account ol' the inadequacy of tho 
remuneration. He is succeeded by J. \V. Mar¬ 
shall of New Jersey, who entered upon the du¬ 
ties of the office on t he 30th ult. 
On the subject of the annexation of San Do¬ 
mingo to the United States the London Times of 
the 80th ult, says:—'* From the present aspect of 
affairs we should be disposed to expect u treaty 
to that effort." Such a result, Hie Times thinks, 
would benefit all concerned, including the peo¬ 
ple of Great Britain, tlie latter in a commercial I 
point of view. 
The public debt statement, published on the 
3d inst., shows a decrease in the debt for Novem¬ 
ber of $7,571,452, and of $71,903,534 since ilie 4th 
of March. 
New York. 
The Assistant United Slates Treasurer In New 
York City has been directed to continue the 
sales of gold and purchase of bonds during the 
month of Decomber. 
The bark Scottish Bride, from Bordeaux, ar¬ 
rived ut New York on the JJSth nil,,and reported 
that in lattitilde38* HV, longitude 74 S', she saw 
two sea serpents, one about fifteen or twenty 
feet long and six or eight in thickness; the other 
about live foot long. They looked about the 
color of a sage lund snake. 
Henry M. Dnun of Albany, who was bitten liy 
a dog in August lust, died ol’ hydrophobia on 
Saturday, the27lh ult, 
A firm of sharpers, calling themselves Totten 
& Co., having an office in William street, New 
York, succeeded in swindling about one hun¬ 
dred and fifty laborers out of live dollars each, 
under pretence of furnishing thorn passage to 
New Orleans, at which place t hey were to be set 
to work at three dollars and seventy-five cents 
per day. On the day of sailing their office was 
closed, and Totten & Co. failed to put iu an 
appearauce, 
The question has arisen as to when the new 
judiciary article adopted at the late election 
goes into effect, as the enforcement of the con¬ 
stitution is provided for only us a whole, and no 
provision is made for any separate part. The 
constitution, as u whole, was rejooted, and only 
the judiciary article accepted. 
The Niagara Frontier Police Commissioners of 
Buffalo are undergoing examination before a 
commission appointed by Governor Hoffman to 
Inquire into charges against them of malfeas¬ 
ance in office. 
A number uf whisky dealers in Rondowt and 
Kingston were arrested by Marshal Harlow a 
few days ago and their stock seized and places 
of business closed. On charges of defrauding the 
revenue. It appears that no stamps whatever 
have been used on their packages, and the rev¬ 
enue officer Ju charge of tho district, it is said, 
has not reported a stamp sold for two >, irs. 
The frauds are said to amount to $1.70,000. 
On Thursday night, the 36th ult., Dr. Albert 
Day, the Superintendent, of the State Inebriate 
Asylum at Binghamton, was attacked by E. S. 
Blakely, a patient, in one of the corridors, and 
wounded in two places by the assailant's knife. 
The Doctor seized Blakely and succeeded in 
overpowering him, and holding him until aid 
arrived. Blakely had been a rebel soldier, and 
was very unruly. He had been expelled, but re¬ 
gained admittance without the doctor's consent. 
Hu has been lodged In jail. 
Albert D. Richardson, the Tribune corres¬ 
pondent who was shot by McFarland on the 2.71 h 
ult., died from tlie effect* of tho wound on tho 
morning of the 3d. lust. He married Mrs. Sago 
(formerly Mrs. McFarland,) on Tuesday the 30th 
ult., Rev. H. W Beecher and Rev. O. B. Frotb- 
iugham performing the ceremony’. 
Maine, 
Benjamin Giuiketh, who died recently at 
Kendall's Mills, was a hero of the War of 1812, 
and rescued Gen. Scott from drowning when he 
fell overboard while crossing the Niagara River. 
Tho last rail of the Bangor and Piscataquis 
Railroad was laid at Fox croft Friday afternoon, 
tho 26th ult., and the road will be opened to reg¬ 
ular traffic about the 15th lust. A movement Is 
to be made, tho coming winter, to extend the 
road beyond tho present terminus. 
New Hampshire. 
The lust rail on the Bunoook Valley Railroad 
was laid at Pittsfield on Saturday, the27th ult., 
with Imposing demonstrations. As the last, spike 
was driven home, tlie bells in lhc town were 
rung, cannon were fired and a concourse of 
citizens aided In the noise by cheering. The 
road was begun last April, and is seventeen 
miles long. 
Vermont# 
Navigation on Lake Champlain closed for 
the season on Sunday’, the 28th ult. 
Tho most healthy counties, with regard to 
consumption, In this State, are those bordering 
on Lake Champlain, save Essex county’, which 
for teu years lost, only one person to every 080 
living, and for the year ending 1807, Essex lost 
one to every 733 living. The other counties for 
the ten years, lost one i n every 307. 
Tho pile of coal which had been “laid in " for 
the winter’s stock of fuel ut the Brattleboro 
House, Brattleboro, previous to tho fire of six 
weeks ago, seems likely to last its appointed 
time. Ignited then, it has burned steadily on 
ever since. 
JTIUfcMnc.il II Notts. 
ri*A Lewis, t he heroine of Dime Rock, vhi tod 
the scboolsbip at Now Bedford on Friday’after¬ 
noon the 30th ult., in company with about thirty 
member* of the Orient Lodge, by Invitation from 
Captain Eldridgo. The boys manned the yards 
upon her approach, and an hour was pleasantly 
spent in Binging and speaking. 
On the 301b ult., tho steamships Ontario and 
Erie, built two years ago for the Boston and 
Liverpool line, but which have been idle since, 
were sold at auction in Boston for $350,217 each, 
to a New York firm. They originally cost 
$1,500,000. 
The boats belonging to the East Boston ferry 
company have been purchased by the city of 
Boston for $375,000. Possession will be taken on 
I be 1st of April next. 
Rhode Island. 
The library of Brown University now contains 
about thirty-five thousand volumes, and is con¬ 
stantly receiving additions at Iho expense of a 
permanent fund, appropriated for that purpose, 
of twenty-seven thousand dollars. A scholar¬ 
ship lias, boon founded by the pupils and friends 
of the lute Professor Robinson P. Dunn, In 
order to perpetuate his name in tho utiiv orally 
with which he was so long connected. The in¬ 
come of this scholarship Is to be given as aprizo, 
at tho end of the Junior year, to the student 
having tho highest standing in the rhetorical 
studies of that year. 
Connecticut. 
The banks and insurance offices of Hartford 
have united in the employment of throe night- 
watchmen, who visit each bank and offico every 
fifteen minutes. 
Several cit izens of Hartford are taking meas¬ 
ures to import Chinese house servants. Those 
who have acted as such iu California will be 
tried first. 
New Jersey. 
Another suit has been commenced against 
the Erie Railway Company-this time by the 
Rogers Locomotive Works of Paterson, which 
charges t hat exorbitant freightage lias been de¬ 
manded for transportation over ihc Erie Rail¬ 
way from Paterson to Jersey City,and transpor¬ 
tation is sometimes refusod altogether, unless it 
is through an express company to which the di¬ 
rectors are especially partial. 
Early on the morn ingot the 33th ult. Cornelius 
Stahl, a German only six mout hs in tho country, 
was murdered ina shocking manner tit Newark. 
Five persons aro in custody, but the supposed 
real murderer escaped and was not arrested. 
I’lie affair is shrouded in mastery. 
A warrant has boon issued for tho arrest of 
Conductor Parker, of tho New Jersey Railroad, 
who ejected Patrick Lane from the car recently 
while the train was on the bridge over tho Hack¬ 
ensack River ut Newark, so that Lano fell 
through ihe bridge and was drowned. Parker 
publishes a card Saying that ho did not know the 
train was on a bridge at tho time. 
There is a public school oxoitement In Bridge- 
boro. It appears that the teacher was directed 
by the trustees to use a cowhide in correcting 
tlic> children, and she has boon using it more 
freely than the scholars and their parents think Is 
ueoessary. There is to be a public meeting to 
adjust, tho matter. 
Pennsylvania. 
Mrs. Evans of Frankfonl was tied and gagged 
by burglars, in the absence of her husband, and 
her front hair cut off. Tlie thieves fouud but 
$100 to repay thorn l'or their labor. 
The excitement at Huntington over the 
slaughter of thoPeiglital family continues. The 
prisoners, Balraer and Van Bordcnbuig, bavo a 
new story of tho murder, which has been agreed 
on between them, and varies from those told by 
them while in separate cells. They endeavor to 
implicate two others, to whom they ascribe the 
active part of the crime. This new talc is uot 
believed. 
On t he 36th ult. t he former editor of the Pitts¬ 
burgh Republican, C. J. Ferdinand, was arrested 
on complaint of the proprietors of that paper 
that he had sold the Associated Press dispatches 
to outside parties. Ferdinand says the publish¬ 
ers wore aware of the sale. Meanwhile tho As¬ 
sociated Press dispatches have been withheld I 
from tho Republican. 
Two men, Bennett and May, suitors for the 
baud uf tlie same woman, in Richboro, engaged 
in a fight, when May, who was the weakest, 
1'eigncTl intoxication, and appealed successfully 
to his antagonist ts> desist.. As Bennett stooped 
to pick up his coat, May stabbed him twice with 
a knifo he had whetted for the purpose, and 
killed hirn instantly. 
On the 30th ult. the managers of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Hospital resolved to appoint u Committee 
of five to confer with tho medical and surgical 
staff of the hospital, to provide for the separate 
clinical instruction to female students on one 
day in each week, the other cl in icai lectures to 
be confined to classes composed of males only. 
The Treasurer of tho Avondale Belief Fund 
reports the total receipts to Nov. 27, to be $R7,200. 
A citizen of PottaviHe offers It reward of one 
hundred dollar* for tho arrest and conviction of 
the person who spat on his daughter’s dress on a 
certain evening, und fifty dollars for the arrest 
and conviction of any person detected in spit¬ 
ting on any lady's dress, 
A survey is now going on with a view of ex¬ 
tending tho line of tlie Erie and Pittsburgh Rail¬ 
road through from the vicinity of Albion to 
Eric, thus avoiding a yearly rent of $40,000, and 
at the same time securing an independent line 
from Erie to Pittsburgh. 
Maryland. 
On the 30th ult. the Government Works at 
Har|Mjr's Ferry were sold at auction. For the 
Musket Factory $176,000 was received, and for 
I the Rltle Factory $00,000, The Bale includes the 
buildings, grounds and the magnificent water 
powers attached to them. 
Virginia. 
The stockholders of Hie Chesapeake and Ohio 
Railroad bavo ratified a contract with Now York 
capitalists for the completion of their road. The , 
New Yorkers arc to finish the road or got no- : 
thing for their labor. The stockholders of this 
company held a meeting at Richmond on the 
35th ult., and It was sliowu that the receipts 
were $661,397, and the expenses $477,581, during 
tho fiscal year. 
On the 1st inst. the National Board of Trade 
met in tho Capitol at Richmond, and elected 
Frederick Fraley of Philadelphia, President. 
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad is pros¬ 
perous. The receipts for tho month of Septem¬ 
ber were $10-1,000; and it. is believed that for j 
October they will reach $130,000. The passenger 
travel is largo and remunerative. Thirty miles 
of track have been rcluid, and as fast us possiblo 
tho old iron along the lino Is replaced with now. 
South Carolina. 
In the Legislature on the SUlli ult., a colored 
member offered a resolution favoring the recog¬ 
nition of tho Cuban insurgents, and pledging the 
support of South Carolina to the general Govern¬ 
ment In oase of a war with Spain. 
Florida. 
The meteoric shower of the 13th ult., as seen 
in lliia State was exceedingly brilliant. Com¬ 
mander Gibson has furnished the Navy Depart- 
raenta minute account, or his observations at the 
Pensacola Navy Yard. Tho meteors fell at a 
rate varying from t wo or three to twenty or 
thirty per minute. 
A Isiliama. 
The Legislat ure of Alabama rc-assembled on 
the 201 li ult. Mr. Magee, one of the Democratic 
representatives from Mobile, was expelled on 
the ground that he had been a County Commis¬ 
sioner during the war. Tlie credentials of his 
opponent, Mr. McKenstry, aro under considera¬ 
tion, and he will probably bo admitted to the seat. 
Loulsln nn. 
The Jury In the first of tiio Centurie sugar 
fraud cases in New Orleans, involving nearly 
$1,000,000 in gold, gave a verdict for the Govern¬ 
ment, condemning the whole of the sugar. Tho 
fraud iu this particular case amounted to only 
$ 2 , 000 . 
The Bank of New Orleans has brought a suit 
against tho Western Union Telegraph Company, 
claiming damages In the amount, of $1,700, lor an 
alleged mistake in reporting the New York geld 
market, oue per cent, above the market price, on 
a certain day, by which error the bank lost the 
amount claimed in transacting its foreign ex¬ 
change business upon the basis stated in the 
dispatch. 
MisslKsippI, 
The latest advices we have received indicate 
that General Alcorn is elected Governor by a 
majority of about 30,000. 
Ten nessee. 
Suit has been brought by the heirs of AVilliam 
Winchester, of Baltimore, against a number of 
residents of Memphis, for the recovery of prop¬ 
erty valued at over u million of dollars. 
In the House of Represeiitalivea the bill re¬ 
pealing the law permitting negroes to hold 
office and tho jurors, was tabled by a vote of 
forty-one to thirty, and the bill repealing the 
law imposing penalties for distinctions on ac¬ 
count of race in oars, etc., was passed to a third 
reading. 
Andrew Johnson has declined tho nomination 
for delegate to t ho Tennossoo Const itutional Con¬ 
vention from Greeuo County. 
Kentucky. 
A desperate fight occurred at Somerset, Pu¬ 
laski county, on the 27th ult., between a party 
of twenty "regulators" and the friends of a 
noted character named Cooper, who had been 
whipped by tho regulators some time before. 
Three men were killed and one mortally 
wounded. 
Ohio. 
On the 2oth ult. A. F. McCurdy, a merchant 
tailor of Cardington, shot his son dead, on ac¬ 
count, it is said, of some family difficulty. 
Indiana. 
The convicts of tho Southern Prison have 
been living on wheat bread for the past month— 
something unusual. They generally eat corn 
bread three inches and a half thick, but wheat 
is now cheaper than corn. 
Forepaugb's monagorlo building at Conncrs- 
viile was fired by an jncendiary on Wednesday 
night, the 34th ult. Tho animals were nt once 
set free, and a scene of the wildest excitement 
ensued. A flock ol’ sheep within the enclosure 
was sot upon by a lion and several of them were 
killed. Tho lion'also encountered a bull, who 
fought liiui bravely for some time, but was at 
length overpowered and killed. 
Illinois. 
Dr. McFarland, Superintendent of the State 
Hospital for tlie Insane, in Jacksonville, has 
published a letter in relation to the practice of 
admitting visitors to the apartments of patients. 
He suys that under a sense of duty to the af¬ 
flicted, this practice will heucefortii be discon¬ 
tinued. 
The City Council of Quincy has appropriated 
$12,000 in five-year bonds of the city, drawing 
eight per cent, interest, the proceeds of the I 
same to be applied to placing the Fire Depart¬ 
ment of the city in good working condition, and 
to pay tho indebtedness already due to the em¬ 
ployes of the department. 
The heirs of the late General McConnell, who 
was murdered 1q his house in Jacksonville last 
February, intend to sue for the recovery of the 
whole of tho public square in that city, as soon 
as tlie Court House is removed therefrom. It is 
said by the terms of the deed to the county tlie 
ground l9to revert to the original owners when¬ 
ever the county ceases to use it for county pur- 
purposes. 
Michigan. 
R. K. Turner of Quincy, Ill., and P. M. Smart, 
of Boston, on behalf of themselves and other 
capitalists, have purchased an interest In some 
four thousand acres of mining landson Lake Su¬ 
perior, including the Black Bayproperty. These 
lands contain large mineral veins, and arc chiefly 
situated near Fort William. 
WiMCOUKin. 
A man named Field, recently murdered at Ma¬ 
nistee, had a life full of miraculous escapes. He 
was saved from drowning three times, nearly 
blow off hta bead once by the accidental dis¬ 
charge of a pistol, spent se veral weeks In a South 
American prison, was wrecked on tho Baltic, 
and lias now mot a cruel and bloody death at the 
age of twenty. 
Minnesota. 
The students of the State University at St. 
Anthony have been organized into a battalion 
of two companies, and instruction iu tho school 
of the soldier Is given daily to all able-bodied 
young men. The military feature had its origin 
iu the act of Congress gran ling lands to tho State 
for the purposo of establishing an agricultural 
college, “where the loading object shall be, 
without excluding other scientific and classical 
studios, and including military tactics," to teach 
such branches of learning a* are related to agri¬ 
culture and the mechanic arts. 
ArkmiKaN. 
Recentlv a planter named Johnson of John¬ 
son county, laid a fight with threo of his negro 
laborers. Knives alone were used by all parties 
and Johnson killed his threo opponents, receiv¬ 
ing twenty wounds himself, none of which will 
prove fatal. 
California. 
On Friday night, tho 2Cth ult., the Giant Pow¬ 
der Mills, situated near Sun Francisco, exploded, 
killing two white men and wounding a third. 
Throe Chinamen were also injured, the building 
blown to pieces and the glass iu tho neighboring 
buildings shattered. The shock was felt a great 
distance. Dr. CrJscmans, a chemist, and tho 
superintendent of tho works, was instantly j 
killed, liis body being fearfully mutilated. A 
considerable quantity of nitro-glyccrine, the 
principal ingredient of tho giant powder, was 
stored in tho building, but tlie cause of tho dis¬ 
aster is unknown. 
Poor B. Foster, one of the proprietors of the 
San Francisco Morning Call, died tsuddonly on 
Friday, the 26th ult. 
A defalcation has been discovered in the ac¬ 
counts of Paymaster W. G. Marcy, at the Marc 
Island Navy Yard, amouuting to about $140,000. 
Utalk. 
On Sunday, the 20th ult., Brigham Young de¬ 
tailed one hundred and ton saints as missiona¬ 
ries and sent them forth to preach their faith in 
tho trans-Mississippi States. They arrived at 
Omaha on tho 2flih ult. and then dispersed. 
Some of them aro destined for Chicago, Cincin¬ 
nati, Philadelphia and tbo larger cities. 
Wyoming. 
On the 30th ult. tho Council of the Territorial 
Legislature passed the Female Suffrage bill al¬ 
most unanimously. 
Red River. 
The Canadian Dominion Government has re¬ 
ceived dispatches from Llcut.-Gov. McDougall 
confirmatory of the Red River insurrection, but 
hopes aro entertained that the haif-broods will 
bo satisfied when the proper explanations are 
made aud quiet restored. 
At a convention of Red River insurgents 
assembled at Fort Garry, November 10, to deviso 
a government for the colony, the following 
propositions were offered; —Compromise with 
Licut.-Gov. McDougall, an independent repub¬ 
lic, annexation io the Untied Suites, a colony 
under British rule, or return to tho Hudson Bay 
Cumpany’s protection. 
Advices from Red River, by way of St. Paul, 
Miun., and Toronto, represent that tho insur- 
geuls, on the 16tli of November, held a council 
which was adjourned to the 18th ult., without 
definite action. A proclamation issued by Gov. 
MoTavisb, calling upon t he people to do nothing 
contrary to law, produced n “marked effect." 
The insurgents number five hundred, of whom 
but three hundred are armed, and aro said to 
have become rather lax in their watch of tho 
frontier. A dispatch by way of Chicago repre¬ 
sents them as still very defiant and disposed to 
yield to nothing but force. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Rrltain, 
A Dublin dispatch says tho Government in¬ 
tends to increase the military force in Ireland. 
Several Fenian demonstrations have recently 
boon mado in various localities in Ireland. At 
Tipperary and Clcminel the proceedings were 
characterized with considerable disorder, aud a 
number of houses were stoned during the march 
of the processions. 
Tho day of sailing of tho Monarch, with 
George Peabody's remains, was appointed fur 
Wednesday, the 8th inst. 
Tho Fenian, Burke, is put forward as a candi¬ 
date for the British Parliament by the Irish of 
Southwark. 
The increased duty in French textiles causes 
considerable agitation among commercial men 
iu Manchester, England. 
The London Times, on the s' \ject of the Irish 
policy ol the Government, sa>s, iu substance, 
that the development of Irish demands must be 
stopped, os the permission to propagate suoh 
mischievous delusions will involve the Govern¬ 
ment in the guilt. If it is to be inferred that 
legislation is only to be limited by the demand 
of Irish peasants, no surprise should be felt if 
contempt of law ripen Into violenoe against au¬ 
thority. In the meantime infractions must be 
punished. 
France. 
On the 27th ult. the prominent members of 
the French Tierts Parli met in Paris to discuss 
the proposition of interpellation. A resolution 
reflecting on the Ministry was adopted. 
Disturbances have occurred in tho Depart¬ 
ment of Tarn, France, and troops have been 
sent to AI by to restore order. 
The election of M. Rochefort to tho Corps 
Legislatif Is regarded by the London Times as 
"tho last important protest of an angry popu¬ 
lace." 
M. Ollivier declared in a Committee of the 
' Corps LogiBlatif, on tho 2d inst., that they must 
rally round tho dynasty if popular excesses 
were to be guarded against. 
On the 29th ult. the Emperor delivered the cus¬ 
tomary speech on the re-asscmbl ing of (he Senato 
and Corps Legislatif. The agitation of the past 
two months is ascribed to “subvei"sive passions" 
and the 14 excesses of t he Press and of public as¬ 
semblages," by which society was menaced uud 
freedom compromised. Franco desires liberty 
and order, and While he asks tlie Legislators to 
help him secure liberty, he will answer for the 
order. Tho suppression of slavery in the New 
World, the freeing of the Russian serfs, the Irish 
Churcii reform, tho Ecumenical Council, the Pa¬ 
cific Railroad, tlie telegraph, the Mount Ceil is 
Tunnel, and the Suez Caual are alluded to as the 
triumphs of the epoch of which all have reason 
to be proud. In conclusion he declares that 
there Is to bo a more direct participation of tho 
nation In its own affairs, which will give a new 
force to the Empire. 
On the 30th ult. the Corps Legislatif held a 
stormy session, arising out of the exasperating 
character of the interpellations of the Opposi¬ 
tion. Among other questions raised were the 
prorogation of the Chambers in September last 
and iho ‘‘assassination or citizens," coupled with 
a demand for tho impeachment of the Ministers. 
Suez. 
The unfavorable reports which have been 
started In regard to the condition of the Suez 
Canal, are publicly contradicted by M. Losseps, 
the Chief Engineer of the work, and tittention is 
culled to the fact that fifty vessels have passed 
through tho canal safely during the last ten 
days, and returned. Two steamers, of 2,400 tons 
burthen, have passed through the canal, mid its 
success is pronounced assured. 
Rome. 
The members of tho Ecumenical Council will 
moot at tho Vatican on the 8th of December, 
and after the ceremonies preliminary to the 
opening, the Popo will declare the Council 
opened, 
Ituxsla. 
An old law governing the residence of .Tews 
within tho Empire lias been enforced in some 
localities, and about 3,000 of these peoplo huvo 
boon removed from tho Bessarabian provinces 
to tlie interior within a few days. Tho action of 
the local authorities, it is thought, will not meet 
tlio approval of the Czar. 
Tho subject of cotton cultivation and trade 
at Bokhara and in other Russian possessions iu 
Asia, was brought to tho attention of Prlnco 
Gortachakott, on tho 30th ult., by a deputation 
who waited on him for that purpose, with a 
view to competition with tlie United Stales, 
Denmark. 
The ratification of the sale of tho Island of 
St. Thomas to the United States by Denmark, it 
is officially announced at Copenhagen, lias been 
postponed for six months. 
North Germany. 
On tho 3d Inst, the Embassy from China was 
received by tho Prussian Minister of Foreign 
Affairs. The American treaty with China will 
probably bo the basis of one with Prussia. 
A Berlin dispatch gives currency to a rumor 
of the revival of tho Scheswig-Holstein ques¬ 
tion, and says that important dispatches on this 
subject have been exchanged by the Austrian 
and Prussian Governments. 
Turkey ami Egypt. 
The Parts Patriz of the 27th ult. says that an 
ultimatum lias boon sent by tho Sultan to the 
Viceroy of Egypt, with a ihreat of deposition, 
and the appointment of the Khedive's brother 
in the event of non-compliuiicc. 
Tho persistent lack of harmony bet ween tho 
Sublime Porte and the Viceroy of Egypt has 
moved the Governments of Great Britain and 
France to great efforts to effect a settlement of 
the points at issue. 
The Viceroy of Egypt, it is said, has presented 
the Empress Eugenie a diamond diadem worth 
6,000,000 of francs. 
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Semi-Weekly, ?2 per your; 7Veekly, 81 per year. The 
circulation of tho Chronicle Is not excelled by any 
paper of its class In Western Hew Fork. 
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A BOTTLE of MAGNETIC CURJ.1QUE sent Free. 
It curls straight hair iu beautirul curls ON THE 
first application. Address, with Stamp, 
PROF. BYRON, Garrettsvuile, Ohio. 
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USE JOHN DWIGHT & CO.’S 
BEST SALERATU8 or their SUPKfi CARB. 
SODA. No others are equal to these for cooking 
purposes. Established lSiti. 
A HOME AND SCHOOL. 
A LADY living In the suburbs of one of the most 
beautiful and lioalthy cities of Western New York, 
would take two children Into her family, where they 
could have a Mother’s love and care, and the advan¬ 
tages of a School in the house, taught by her daugh¬ 
ters. Terms—including tuition, board, room, fuel, 
lights, washing. Ac.,—$500 per annum. Refers to Mr. 
Moore of the Rural New-Yorker, and the Rev. 
Dr. Bright of the Examiner and Chronicle. 
Address Mrs. U. E. C., euro of Rural New-York¬ 
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MONEY AND STOCK MARKET. 
New York, Dec. 3,1869. 
Monby is in good supply at the legal rate. First- 
class houses obtain what they need at 6 percent, 
upon Governments as collateral. Gold has been 
down to 1311V during the week, but the refusul of Sec¬ 
retary Bontwell to sell at. less than 122 has prevented 
the too rapid decline. The opening price to-day was 
122 K, and the closing 1231V. 
United States bonds have declined from 1 to 2 per 
cent, since our last quotations. 
The stock of the consolidated New York Central 
and Hudson River Railroad sold to-day at SS.VaSS.Y- 
Stocks generally are about 1 per cent, lower than last 
week. 
