Uttoo of i\t Mlctlu 
FROM WASHINGTON. 
Congressional. 
Little has been accomplished the past week 
of importance. The Senate's income Tax Re¬ 
peal bill bus been returned by the llouse to that 
body, the latter denying the right of the Senate 
to originate such a bill. The Senate asked a 
Committee of Conference, which was appointed. 
Judge Hill of Georgia was admitted to his seut 
ns Senator. The Diplomatic and West Point 
Appropriation bills have passed. Feb. 1, the 
Semite bill modifying the tost oath was passed. 
The bill provides:-That, when any person, who 
is not rendered luelllglble to office by the pro¬ 
visions of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Con¬ 
stitution, shall be elected or appointed to any 
office of honor or trust under the Government 
of the Uj Red States, and sliall not be able on 
acooimt. f bis participation in the late rebel¬ 
lion to take the oath prescribed in the act, of 
Congress approved the 20 of July, 1862, said per¬ 
son shall, in lieu of said oath, before entering 
upon the duties of said office, takoand subscribe 
the oath prescribed in the act of Congress enti¬ 
tled, “An act prescribing an oath of office to lie 
taken by persons from whom legal disabilities 
shall have been removed," approved 11th of 
July, 1808. 
By far the most important action of Congress 
the past week is the passage of the following: 
Homestead Bill. 
A bill to enable honorably discharged soldiers and 
sailors, their widows and orphan children, to 
acquire homesteads on the public lauds of the 
United States : 
Tie it r nacted, <t c., That every private soldier and 
officer wlui has served In the Army ot United States 
during the recent Rebellion tor 80 days, and who was 
honorably discharged and has remained loyal to I he 
Government, Including the troops mustered mt.o the 
service of the United Slate* by virtue of the third 
section of an act untitled, "An act making appro¬ 
priations for completing the defenses of Washington 
and for other purposes, approved Kcl>. 18, I662: and 
every seaman, murine and officer or olhei person 
who has served in the Navy of the United States, or 
in the Marine during the Rebellion for'.XI days, 
and who was honorably discharged, and ha* remained 
loyal to the Government, shall, on compliance with 
the provisions of an act entitled. "An net to secure 
homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain.” 
and the acts amendatory thereof, as hero! mil ter 
modified, he entitled to enter upon and receive pat¬ 
ents for a quantity of public lauds, not mineral, not 
exceeding 1G0 acres, or one-quarter section, to he 
taken tn compact form, according to legal subdivis¬ 
ions, including the. alternate reserved sections ot pub¬ 
lic lands alone the line of nnr railroad or other public 
work, or other lands subject to entry under the home¬ 
stead laws In the United States, wherever public 
lauds have been or may be grunted by acts of Con¬ 
gress; provided that said homestead settler shall he 
allowed 12 mouths, after locating Ills homestead, 
within which to commence his settlement auil Im¬ 
provement:.; and proeidid, o(.<o, that the time which 
the homnsteud settler shall have served In the army, 
navy, or marine corps, as alorosntd, or tt discharged 
on account or wound# received op disability incurred 
tn the line of duty, then tho term of enlistment shall 
he deducted from tbe time heretofore required to 
perfect title; and, prnutrterf, farther, tliul any home¬ 
stead selllcr as aforesaid may assign his homestead 
certificate, within 12 months from the dale tlic.rcon, 
to any citizen of the United Slates over 21 years or 
age, or person who has declared his intention to be¬ 
come such, who has not previously availed himself 
of the benefits or t he Homestead or Pre-emption 
laws said assignee shall sucoeod to all the rights or 
the said homestead set nor, hut no such assignor of a 
homestead oerliflea* - null I hereafter have Abe right 
to avail himself ■; benelU of this act, oi the acts 
heretofore p" . grunting homesteads to actual 
settlers, no- ,ni such assignee have the right to ac¬ 
quire any u.ier homestead under said acts; jirorlet- 
ed , however, that no patent shall Issue to u home¬ 
stead settler or his assignee who has not resided 
upon. Improved, and cultivated his said homestead 
fora period ot at least two years, except us provided 
in section 4 of this act. 
Sec. 3. An*/ fw it farther enacted, That any person 
entitled, under the provisions of the foregoing sec¬ 
tion, to enter a homestead, who may have heretofore 
entered under the homestead laws a quantity of land 
less than tfiu acres, shall he permitted to enter under 
the provisions of this not, so much land, as, when 
added to the quantity previously entered, shall not 
exceed bin acres. 
Sec. 3. Am» be it farther enacted, That in case of 
the death of any person who would t>e entitled to a 
homestead under tho provisions of the first section 
Of this Act,hi* widow, if unmarried, or in case of her 
death or umrrtuee, thou his minor orphan children 
shall be entitled to all the benefit* enumerated In tins 
act; provided, Unit if such person die during ills en¬ 
listment, the whole term ot bis enbstmunt shall be 
deducted from tho time heretofore required to per¬ 
fect the title. 
SEC. U And be it farther enacted, That every pri¬ 
vate soldier, and seaman, marine aud officer, who 
served tn the army anO navy for the said period of 
90 days, and is now inscribed on the pension rolls ol 
the United States,or Is enrolled to be. so tnserlhod on 
account of wound* rcculvcd or dismantle,- incurred 
in the lino ot duty, may. tn lion of the rights, privi¬ 
leges, and benefits hereinbefore conferred, enter 
upon, by an agent- or attorney, and receive a patent 
fot one-quarter section or land, as provided in sec¬ 
tion 1 or this act. aiul sliall he entitled to all the 
benetUs of said first section, or liable to all tho pro¬ 
visions thereof, except as to tins actual residence, 
and that, nil acts and things required to be done by 
said homestead settlor by sold first section may he 
done by said agent or attorney: i'enviiUil. That no 
such agent or attorney shall net as such for more 
than one person at the same Lime. 
Sec.*. And be if farther e added, That all declara¬ 
tions anil proofs required tinder thi* act and the 
former acts granting homesteads to actual settlers 
nmy bn taken before the judge* nr clerk ot any court 
of record In the Untied States,or in any Stale or 
Territory, and when duly authenticated, Under the 
official seal of such court shs I hi ol tin samu forae 
and effect tie if taken before t he Register or Re Cm v or 
of the proper Land Office. 
Sko. 0. Am/ be il farther enacted; That the Com¬ 
missioner of the General Lund Office shall have au¬ 
thority to make all needful rules and regulations to 
carry into effect the provisions of this act. 
FROM THE MIDDLE STATES. 
New York. 
The term of the Commission of Appeals, to 
begin on the first Tuesday of May, will be held 
at the Court-house in New York city. 
At a. late miction in Grocnville, Orange Co., 
cows averaged $*10 per head, and hoy $22 a ton. 
The expenditures of the Washington Agricul¬ 
tural Society, ast year, were $3,055, aud the re¬ 
ceipts $3,300.07. 
Judge James of Ogdenstmrg, decided at the 
Clinton county Circuit Court, recently, that u 
Board of Health had no right to enter a house 
and remove a sinall-pox patieut. 
An ice bridge has formed across Niagara River, 
below the Falls, and it is said to be frozen so 
hard that it may remain for many weeks. 
Westfield, Chautauqua Co., Is moving energeti¬ 
cally in the direction of securing the extension 
of the Union and Titusville Railroad to that 
place. 
Two women were burned to death in Syra¬ 
cuse, Jan. 30, in tho conflagration of their dwel¬ 
ling on East Water street. Their names arc 
Mrs. Nicholson and Airs. Smith. 
The Chautauqua County Agricultural Society 
have decided to issue bonds to the amount of 
$4,000 for Greeting new buildings and improving 
the fair grounds. 
The two new paper mills just finished at Mid¬ 
dle Grove, in Greenfield, Saratoga county, have 
gone into operation. They belong to George 
West and. Mr. Brown, and are making straw and 
manilla paper for bags. 
The condition of 232 National Banks in the 
State, exclusive of New Fork city and Albany, 
as reported to the Comptroller of the Currenoy 
at the close of the year, show that the aggre¬ 
gates of resources and liabilities were then $127,- 
309,233; loans and discounts, $04,749,138; United 
States bonds, $36,000,000; specie, $490,700; legal 
tender notes, $5,610,732; three per cent, certifi¬ 
cates, $36,412,741; profits, $12,000,000; deposits, 
$42,628,300. 
The survey of the Carthage, Watertown and 
Sacketts' Harbor Railroad has been made, and 
the Jiue located from Watertown to Sacketls’ 
Harbor, and the road Is now completely graded, 
the cattle passes and culverts built, from the 
eastern limits of Watertown to Carthage, and 
the right of way paid for, also much ol the right 
of way within tho city. 
On the 24tli of January, James Watson, Coun¬ 
ty Auditor of the comity of New York, while 
driving on Eighth avenue, was so badly injured 
by being run Into by a passing team as to result 
in his death. 
A Mias Beal of Schnectady has commenced a 
number of actions against land owners in the 
village of Amsterdam, valued at $50,000 to $75,- 
000, claiming title under a will made in 1828. The 
parties in possession claim the title from other 
parties, and it will be a sharp contest. 
Filkins, the express robber at Albany, lias 
been indicted for robbery, and plead not guilty 
on being arraigued. 
The total amount refunded to the States for 
expenses incurred in raising volunteers from 
1861 to 1871 was $36,750,961, and there is now duo 
$8,785,972. Of the amount refunded, New York 
received $2,334,006, aud there is now due the 
State $898,319. 
Pennsylvania. 
On the 23d of January, five ooal miners at 
Ormsby’s shaft, Heritage, were descending, when 
the rope broke, precipitating them a distance of 
one hundred and fen l'eet, killing four almost 
instantly, and tho fifth is not expected to live. 
At Titusville, Jan. 28 th, Mr. James S. Windsor 
was assassinated by some person as yet. unknown. 
There was no evidence of tv struggle, he having 
been fearfully cut in the throat aud side of the 
head. 
Tbe miners’strike still continues, though the 
opinion is expressed that arrangements for com¬ 
mencing work are In progress. Several of tho 
Sbamokin mines arc in operation. 
Hon. John Covode, for some years Repre¬ 
sentative in Congress from the Twenty-fourth 
District of Pennsylvania, died at the United 
States Hotel, Harrisburg, very suddenly ou tho 
Hlh of January. 
New .Tcrncy. 
A fire at Morristown, Jau. 29th, in Rogers' 
grocery store, destroyed property to the amount 
of $25,000, about, half covered by insurance. 
Sclmlk's brewery, at Newark, was damaged 
$25,000 by fire, recently. Fully insured. 
The trials of the Camden election rioters have 
already occupied over two weeks in the United 
States District Court. Over sixty witnesses have 
already been examined, and there are as many 
more summoned to testify. 
There has been considerable excitement about 
the Erie Railroad shops at Jersey City, in conse¬ 
quence of the workmen not receiving their pay, 
which is two moil tlis in arrears. There are near¬ 
ly 3,000 men employed in these shops and around 
the depot, whose wages vary from $1.30 to $4.50 
a day. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
Connecticut. 
The Republicans have nominated Marshall 
Jewell of Hartford for Governor. 
A suit is pendingdt Bridgeport tn which aman 
of fifty years seeks damages of a widow of 
seventy-four for refusing to unite heart and 
hand with him for the journey of life. 
Maine. 
The State Temperance Convention was held 
at Augusta, Jan. 31st. Gov. Perham presided. 
The attendance was small. The reports from all 
parts of theState are cheering. The resolutions 
ro-affirm adhesion to prohibition, and recom¬ 
mend temperance meetings throughout the 
country on the 22d of February. 
The citizens of Dover and Foxoroft have 
asked the Legislature lor authority to build 
reservoir dams in the Piscataquis River oppo¬ 
site those places, for the purpose of obtaining 
an ample supply of water in case of drouths. 
The mill property In those towns is valued at 
one million dollars, and the necessity of a con¬ 
stant. supply of water is very obvious. 
The total receipts of the European and North 
American Railway last year were $217,393.78; 
expenses, $107,557.66; leaving a net profit of 
$109,836.12, 
Judge Goddard, in Portland, last week, in the 
suit ®f G. F. Emery against city of Bangor, 
brought, to enforc tlie payment of certain cou¬ 
pons in gold instead of currency, decided that 
gold should be paid, remarking that defendants 
are not at liberty to repudiute any part of their 
original contract with their bondholders. 
There is a water famine at Portland which, 
perhaps, exceeds in severity any of the troubles 
suffered by other cities this season. There has 
been almost an utter failure recently ot the 
supply from Lake Sobago. Most of the house¬ 
holders recently supplied by the water company 
took out their cisterns, and this failure leaves 
them without any means of procuring even 
what is necessary for common wants. The 
water companies are apparently using their 
best efforts to remedy the disaster, but tbe un¬ 
precedented low stage of water in the Luke 
makes it u difficult matter to furnish a supply. 
Twenty-three iee companies are now in opera¬ 
tion on the Kennebec River, with seventy-eight 
houses, having a capacity of 403,500 tons. 
Vermont. 
Lyman Stevens of Danville took a washing 
machine on trial some time last fall, and, at the 
request of the agent , placed his name in a book 
for reference. Recently Mr. Stevens received 
notice from one of the Montpelier Banks that 
his note for $150 was due. 
The Secretary of State publishes a note in 
which he sa.vs the act? of the last session of the 
General Assembly are voluminous beyond pre¬ 
cedent, malting a volume of 600 pages or more, 
and yet it was Imped to issue the book about the 
first of February. 
Massachusetts. 
The premises and stock of Hapgood & Co., 
wholesale shoe dealers, Boston, were damaged 
by fire recently to I lie extent of $50,000. 
Five years ago the Boston and Albany Rail¬ 
road paid $90,000 to laborers for shoveling snow 
in asingiemonth—December. This winter their 
total outlay for that purpose has not reached 
$90. Such a winter as this for horse as well as 
steam railways was never known before. 
A tnilk manufactory has just been developed 
at Worcester, run by Mr. L. H. Whipple of 
Shrewsbury, who lias been arrested for keeping 
adulterated milk and selling tbe same. lie bad 
at Worcester a room fitted up with a great tank 
or can. holding 180 gallons, into which the good 
milk was put, but every time it was filled forty 
gallons of a mixture of burned molasses, chalk, 
salt and water was put In, and the whole mixed 
together and sold as genuine couutry milk. The 
business has been thus conducted for some time, 
all tiie customers receiving their share of 
“ milk," except a lew who furnished small cans 
to be filled with t he milk of one cow, for chil¬ 
dren. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
Ohio. 
The contest for Lew. Campbell’s seat in Con¬ 
gress from tbe Dayton district, has been with¬ 
drawn. 
A large meeting of soldiers has been held at 
Sidney to organize a Colonization Society for 
the purpose of taking advantage of the Soldiers’ 
Homestead luw, now before Congress, as soon 
as it passes. It is estimated that at least one 
thousand soldiers will join in the enterprise. 
The colony expects to locate iu some of the 
Western Territories some time next summer, 
and propose to carry tho project out on a gigan¬ 
tic scale. 
On the 28th of January a fire totally destroyed 
the contents of the vineyard of Nazareth Col¬ 
lege, near Dayton. 
The Jury, In the case of Dr. Galantine, who 
chot Dr. Jones, at Cleveland, Oct. 8tli, for im¬ 
proper intimacy with bis wife, returned a ver¬ 
dict of manslaughter. Ho was sentenced to ten 
years' imprisonment. 
The Old American House at Painesville was 
destroyed by fire January 31, with a loss, includ¬ 
ing some adjoining property, of $15,000. 
Illinois. 
Tuf. bill to restricl all railroads from charging 
or collecting more than three cents per mile as 
fare lias passed the Stele Senate. 
Iowa. 
At Albio, some days since, a banker named 
Steele stopped payment, and was arrested as a 
delimiter. He was taken from the officers by a 
mob, and it was feared be would be hanged, lie 
has since been returned to the officers by those 
who took him away, he having agreed to a set¬ 
tlement. 
Michigan. 
In 1860 there were 246,802 school children in 
Michigan between (ho ages of five and twenty. 
By the late census, there are 391,459, a gain of 
144,657, or sixty per ceut,. in ten years. 
A special election is to be held in the Saginaw 
judicial circuit on the 10th of April, to fill the 
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge 
Sutherland. John Moore is appointed to the 
vacancy' in the meantime. 
The Dutch Reformed Church, Muskegan, has 
petitioned the Legislature for the restoration of 
capital punishment. 
Mimiotiri. 
It Is ainK*l of tho Missouri agricul¬ 
tural lands will be ready for sale or lease by the 
first of March. There are in all two hundred 
and roily thousand acres. 
Gov. Brown has sent a message to the Legis¬ 
lature reoomuiending modifications in the di- 
vorcelaws, and making adultery a penal offense; 
also the establishment of a bouse of refuge for 
juvenile criminals, and other reforms. 
Wisconsin, 
By the burning of the Halliday House, Keno¬ 
sha, Jan. 31, Mrs. M. J. Merrill and four children 
perished, and several others were badly burned, 
and Edward Weller was missing, aud supposed 
to have been burned. 
A memorial to Congress, against the repeal of 
the income tux, passed Hie Assembly by73to9. 
Minnesota, 
■ The citizens of Redwing has taken meas¬ 
ures for building a new seminary that will cost 
$15,000. 
Tbe Northwestern Railroad has taken meas¬ 
ures for bridging the Mississippi River at Wi¬ 
nona. 
Nebraska, 
One thousand head of cattle are being pur¬ 
chased at Omaha by the Government, to be dis¬ 
tributed to the suffering IndiansnearForts Fet- 
terman aud Laramie. 
California. 
Hitherto tho Japanese Government has pro¬ 
hibited tho raising of swine, ns being impure, 
but recently it has decided that it Is advisable to 
encourage the production of pork ns itn article 
of food, and lias removed the prohibition. An 
agent is In California purchasing stock on Gov¬ 
ernment account. The last steamer for Yoko¬ 
hama carried 200 live hogs, the brig Perry Ed¬ 
wards 500, and the ship St. Joseph 200 more. 
The Government officials have detected some 
of the crew of a Pacific Mail steamer at San 
Francisco in smuggling opium largely. The un¬ 
faithful men weredisehnrged, to stive the steam¬ 
er from seizure. 
In the latter part of January, some volunteers 
from San Diego, going in quest of some Indians 
who had been depredating, killed two of them, 
from which trouble is expected, as about 5,000 
Indians are in the vicinity, living between Up¬ 
per and Lower California. A party of Indians 
nl tempted to stop the Los Angelos stage, near 
old Shu Diego. 
Arizona. 
Recently, Lieut. Grodelbaugh and twenty 
soldiers were surprised, forty miles east of Pres¬ 
cott, by 150 Indians, aud lost twenty-four horses. 
Dr. Stigers was shot in tho shoulder. F. Myers 
was severely wounded. It is supposed that sev¬ 
eral Apaches were killed. Subsequently, Capts. 
Hawley and Monahan overtook the Indians and 
defeated them, killing several. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
Arkansas, 
A new source of wealth has been discovered 
in the caves in the Boston Mountains in Arkan¬ 
sas. Some of these are miles in extent, and 
contain millions of tons of nitrons earth. Near¬ 
ly all the saltpeter used in the manufacture of 
gunpowder in the Confederacy during the re¬ 
bellion was made of material procured from 
these eaves. The earth contains the elements 
ol' a valuable fertilizer similar to guano. Ar¬ 
kansas, besides containing some of (lie richest 
cotton lands in the South, has large deposits of 
coal aud iron, aud in some sections zinc, lead 
aud copper. All of the lead ores are rich in 
silver, some of them yielding over $1,000 per ton. 
Georgia. 
During the past year the Maoon Manufactur¬ 
ing Company turned out 1,418,923 yards of cloth. 
The actual profit for t he year was 12X per oeDt. 
on the capital. From the profits of the last six 
months the directors declared a dividend of live 
per cent. 
Kentucky. 
Mr. Robinson’s farm, in Clark county, will 
yield from thirty-two acres 32,000 pounds of 
nice clean hemp, and portions of the tract will 
yield 1,200 pounds to the acre. 
The Legislature has passed a bill providing for 
the appointment of commissioners to revise, 
digestaud compiIet.bestatutelawsof Kentucky. 
For the conventional interest bill a substitute 
has been pussed to submit the question to the 
people. 
Louisiana. 
The New Orleans Picayune of Jan. 13th says: 
Tiic steamship Crescent City, which cleared yes¬ 
terday, took out 50 (tales palmetto leaves for 
Liverpool. These leaves find ready’sale in Eu¬ 
rope, and arc worth .€45 per ton of 2,240 lbs., 
equal, with gold at eleven cents premium, and 
• figuring 1,he pound sterling at $5, to $249 75 in 
currency, or about lOJic. per pound. Tbrae 
lea ves can be had for the gathering, the forests 
of Louisiana and Florida abouudlng with them. 
The Treasury Department has in format ion 
that $1,000in gold was recently stolen from tbe 
cashier at the New Orleans Custom House, and 
all efforts to discover tho thieves were unavail¬ 
ing. Collector Casey refunded the amount 
stolon from his own private funds. 
Mississippi. 
The cose of E. M. Y'erger, charged with shoot¬ 
ing Col. Crane, Mayor ol .Jackson, came up in the 
Circuit Court, on the argument of epeeinl pleas, 
which have been Interposed by the prisoner’s 
counsel. It was not completed. The Jackson 
Pilot says that the case has been badly managed 
from the beginning, and can only result in ex¬ 
pense to the State, without thcconviction of the 
slaughterer. Able counsel are engaged on both 
sides. 
The Enterprise Courier recommends that the 
citizens of each county in the State obtaiu an 
injunction to restrain the collection of the 
school Li x. J t seems t hat there is a general hos¬ 
tility to tho school system established by the 
Legislature. 
Texas. 
Over $8,000 have been paid out by the Treasury 
of t he State to veterans of the Texas revolution 
under the law passed during the session of the 
last Legislature. 
Tennessee. 
The steamer W. R. Arthur was burned Jau. 
28th, fourteen miles above Memphis, from an 
explosion of the boiler. Eighty-seven lives are 
said to have been lost. The cargo of the Arthur 
amounted to 1,300 tons, consisting chiefly of 
cotfee, sugar, molasses, salt and cotton, and all 
intended for points on the Ohio river. The en¬ 
tire loss on boat and cargo will exceed $300,000, 
the bulk of which is iusured iu Cincinnati aud 
Eastern offices. 
Virginia. 
The Sheriff ol Fairfax county, Mr. Frank 
Sherman, has tendered his resignation, assign¬ 
ing as a reasou his unwillingness to hold an 
office iu llie discharge of the duties of which he 
may have to execute tho orders of court, in¬ 
flicting stripes on persons convicted of petit 
larceny. 
The Jeff. Davis Mansion in Richmond has been 
purchased by tbe Board of Education of that 
city for school purposes, and is now open. 
In the U. S. District Court, Richmond, Kate 
Cummings (colored) obtained a verdict, of $1,000 
damages from the Orange and Alexandria Rail¬ 
road Company f" 1 ' having been ejected from the 
train at Alexandria, because she, having a first- 
class ticket, refused to go in the colored people’s 
car. 
The Committee of the Legislature have agreed 
that of the Agricultural Land Scrip Fund, one- 
tlnrd should go to the colored people's college 
aud the remainder to the two State colleges. 
AVcst Virginia. 
Bills for removing the Stale capital have 
been introduced into both Houses of theState 
Legislature. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
France. 
The Frnnco-Prussian War. 
The Faris correspondent of the Tribune re¬ 
ports an attack ou the Hotel de Ville, Jan. 22d, 
by 300 National Guards, which was successfully 
defended by the Gardes Mobiles. Five were 
killed and eighteen wounded. A simultaneous 
attack on the prison of Musas wus successful, 
resulting iu the release of Gustave Fiourens uud 
others. 
An armistice was concluded, which was thus 
announced by the Emperor William Jau 29th: 
“Last night tin armistice for three weeks was 
signed. The regulars and Mobiles are to bo 
interned in Paris as prisoners of war. The Na¬ 
tional Guard will undertake the maintenance of 
order. We occupy all the forts. Paris remains 
invested, but w ill be allowed to revictual as soon 
as arms are surrendered. 
“The National Assembly is to be summoned 
to meet at Bordeaux in a fortnight. All tbe 
armies in tho field will retain their respective 
positions, the ground between opposing lines to 
be neutral. 
"This is the reward of patriotism, heroism 
aud great sacrifices. Tlmnk God for this fresh 
mercy. May peace soon follow.” 
The German troops occupied the forts around 
Paris the next day. The contribution imposed 
upon Pans by the articles of capitulation, is 
53,000,000 francs. The terms of Hie capitulation 
are that the prisoners of war are to remain in { 
Paris during the Armistice, having first surren¬ 
dered their arms; the National Guards and Gen¬ 
darmes are to retain their arms, as are also the 
police; all Francs-tireure arc to be disbanded; 
German prisoners are to be exchanged; tbe 
public funds are to remain in Paris. 
The distress in Paris is very great. The Ger¬ 
mans are supplying articles of the first necessity 
from their own stores, and driving cattle into 
Hie city*. 
Postal communication between London and 
Paris has been re-opened. 
The Government at Bordeaux has issued a de- 
dree ordering the elections for the National As¬ 
sembly to be held on the 8th inst. 
Garabetta bas issued a proclamation, saying: 
“Frknchmbn Prussia believes the Armistice 
will dissolve nur armies and secure the election 
of a Chamber ready to conclude a shameful 
peace. It depends on France to upset these 
calculations. It is necessary to make the Armis¬ 
tice a period for the instruction of our young 
troops. Continue with unrelaxed vigor the or¬ 
ganization for defense, and for war If necessary, 
while you Install a National Republican Assem¬ 
bly’ willing to make such a peace only as is com¬ 
patible with the honor, rank, and integrity of 
France.’’ 
Au official dispatch announces that Bourbaki '3 
army, 80,000 strong, entered Switzerland Feb. 1st. 
A special telegram from Berlin says the con¬ 
ditions of peace prescribed by Bismarck toFavre 
embrace Hie cession of Alsace and Lorraine, in¬ 
cluding Belfort and Metz, tho payment of ten 
miilards of francs as Indemnity for the expenses 
of the war, the cession of Pondicherry in India, 
and the transfer to the German navy of twenty 
first rate frigates. 
Of the operations previous to the armistico 
taking effect. Gen. Manteuffel reports that tho 
Fourteenth Division of bis army captured ten 
guns and seven mit railleuses, and took two gen¬ 
erals and 4.000 men prisoners at Chaffois and 
Sombacnurt, west of Pontariicr. The Seventh 
Brigade, coming upon the south the next day, 
captured two eagles and 2,000 more prisoners at 
Frusne, half-way on the road between Chnupng- 
noleandPontarlior. Our losses wore light. Tho 
roads to Pontarlier were strewn with material 
abandoned by tho retreating French, 
Tbe dispatches of Feb. 2d furnish evidence of 
a more pacific feeling on the part of the French 
people, not only inside Paris, but in many of 
tbe provinces also. There seems to be a dispo¬ 
sition to have tho nrmistice eventuate in per¬ 
manent peace. The French commander made 
arrangements with the Swiss Government be¬ 
fore crossing the frontier. 
Cuba. 
The voluntary surrender of about 500 men in¬ 
cluding Gen. Cncneles Purro, Gen. Andres 
Dominiques, Capt. Santa Perez, and Perdomo, 
the successor of Madrinai, of tlie insurgent 
forces, to the Spaniards, is announced. 
The EuMteru Question. 
The reassembling of tbe Conference lias been 
again postponed, in consequence of the illness 
of Earl Granville. 
A dispatch from Constantinople to theLondon 
, Times says tho Porte insists that Hie Loudon 
Conference shall restore to Turkey full control 
of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus, and refuses to 
consent to any new international stipulation 
limiting tbe navigation of those Straits. 
Eugland. 
Mr. Gladstone, replying to the Bristol Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, who urged the settlement of 
the Alabama claims, said ho was assured that 
Her Majesty’s Government had given its assent 
to every allowable proceeding looking to a set¬ 
tlement, and was still so disposed, believing that 
the long unsettled state of the controversy was 
disadvantageous to both countries. 
Spain. 
The Minister of Foreign Affairs tins issued a 
circular to the diplomatic representatives upon 
tho foreign policy of the monarchy, comprised 
in the words, " We desire to live at peace with 
all nations.” The circular deplores tbe pro¬ 
longation of tho war between France and Prus¬ 
sia; says that tho accession of King Amadeus 
to ttie ihrone hits already been recognized by 
the Governments of France, Italy and Belgium, 
and uonoludes by saying that the now Govern¬ 
ment desires to re-establish the former cordial 
relations of Spain with the Pope? 
Tho Government lias important revelations 
concerning the assassination of Prim. The 
principal agent was an old detective of Gonzales 
Bravo, who distributed money to the conspira¬ 
tors. Prominent persons, identified with another 
dynasty, are also implicated. 
Austria. 
Tn the Austro-Hungarian Diet, Jan. 31, Baron 
Von Beust advocated an increase of tlie arma¬ 
ments of the Empire, both military and naval. 
He repudiated the idea of Austria being influ¬ 
enced by any policy of revenge; but said that 
the danger of warlike complications involving 
Austria, was not a phantom peril. The policy of 
the Empire was peaceful and prudent, but con¬ 
tingencies were possible, and tbe foreign Powers 
must learn that Austriu is ready for defense. 
Italy. 
TnE Senate has adopted a resolution for tho 
removal of the capital from Florence to Rome, 
ou the 30th of Juue; also one expressing satis¬ 
faction with the engagement of the Ministry 
concerning the independence of the Pope and 
the liberty of the Roman Catholic Church, the 
effect of which policy would be to exempt tho 
Pope from subjection to any temporal aut hority. 
An autograph letter had been received from 
Emperor William, thanking his Holiness for his 
peace counsels, aud expressing conciliatory 
views. 
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CANADIAN NEWS, 
A dispatch was received in Ottawa from Vic¬ 
toria, stating that the Legislature of British Co¬ 
lumbia lias accepted the proposals for a confed¬ 
eration with Canada. 
Five stores situated on Notre Dame street, 
Montreal, were damaged by fire, Jau. 29. Loss 
about $13,000; insurance, half that amount. 
Henry Cora was dreadfully burned, and his sou 
Henry and a servant girl named Fanny Burgess, 
were suffocated. 
A young son of Mr. George Moses of Bowman- 
ville, had just retired from the supper table into 
a room adjoioing, and is supposed to have 
climbed into a rooking chair. A cry was heard, 
and tbe father went to Bee the cause. Tbe rock¬ 
ing chair had been overturned, and the child 
falling thereform had dislocated his neck, aud 
was dead. 
Tbe local Legislature of Manitoba met on the 
2d of February. The Ministry is complete, con¬ 
sisting of Mr. Boyd, Provisional Secretary, and 
Mr. Gerard, Minister of Public WorkB and Agri¬ 
culture. Mr. McKay will probably be Commis¬ 
sioner of Indian Affairs, and Mr. Ciark Attorney- 
General. Tbe Schultz party is very excited, and 
in some quarters they threaten to oppose the 
Government with violence, claiming that nearly 
nil the volunteers will join them. 
Advices from Saskatchewan state that2,000 In¬ 
dians and freemen have died of confluent small* 
pox. The disease is represented as frightful in 
its ravages, whole families being carried off by it. 
The Montreal import trade for eleven months, 
shows an increase over last year of $7,000,000. 
The census of Manitoba, which has just been 
completed, shows that the population is less 
than 12,000. To be exact, there are 6,212 males, 
and 5,703 females. There are 265 widows, aud 
only 103 widowers. 
