ven, Pa.; L. M. Williams, Sharon. Pa.; Chas. Wear, 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa; H F. Cady, ly.iekpi.irt, N. Y. 
Feb. 10, the President sent thofollowing nomi¬ 
nation* to the Senate:—L. M, Drury, Pension 
Agent at Cananduigua, N. Y. Army Promotions 
—Ordnance—Second Lieutenant A, L. Varney, 
to bo First Lieutenant or Engineers; Lieuten¬ 
ant-Colonel,I. C. Woodruff to be Colonel; Major 
R. 8. Williamson, to be Lieutenant-Colonel; 
Captain F. Harwood to be Major; First Lieuten¬ 
ant A. M. Miller to be Captain; Second Lieuten¬ 
ants S. E. Griffith and William E. Rogers to bo 
First Lieutenants; Brevet Second Lieutenants 
E. W. Base and J. D, Mac kali, to be Second Lieu¬ 
tenants. 
PROTECTING THE U A CLOT. 
Fell. 15, tiic House passed a bill to enforce iho 
rights of citizens of tiic United States under the 
Fifteenth Amendment, to vote in the several 
Stntos of the Union. It. provides for the ap¬ 
pointment by the United States Circuit Judge 
of two Supervisors of Flection,of different poli¬ 
ties, in cities and towns having over 20,000 in¬ 
habitants, aud prescribes their powers und du¬ 
ties. It also authorizes the United States Mar¬ 
shal to appoint special deputy marshals to assist 
the Supervisors of Election and proscribes their 
powers and duties, and authorizes them to call 
to their aid the bystanders, or posse comiOUus of 
the district. The authority to call on the mili¬ 
tary authorities is stricken out. It also provides 
for the appointment in each Judicial District of 
a Chief Supervisor of Elections, and proscribes 
his powers and Unties. It extends the jurisdic¬ 
tion of the United States Circuit Court to all 
cases iu law or In equity arising under the net. 
It also provides that hereafter all elections for 
Representatives In Congress (to which elections 
tiie whole bill is confined) shall be by ballot, 
written or printed, anything in the laws of any 
State to the contrary notwithstanding. 
New York. 
In New York city the bark Lyttleton, loading 
for t he Cape of Good Hope, has already engaged 
a cabin fill of passengers, who are going to the 
diamond fields of South Africa. Ilooms have 
also been fitted up to accommodate second-class 
Over 300 letters have been received 
bung himself on Feb. 13. He leaves property 
worth $100,000. 
The Massachusetts State Senate has passed a 
bill making bailable offenses of rape and arson. 
Dr. Hiram Gove aud Eben Wight, both re¬ 
spected citizens of Boston, died, Feb. 14, of 
paralysis. 
Itliode Island. 
The proposition for a Convention to amend 
the Constitution, so that naturalized citizens can 
vote without owning real estate, has been de¬ 
feated iu the Senate, 20 against 11. 
Connecticut. 
Feu. 15, the Democrats nominated for Con¬ 
gress in the Hartford District, Dr. A, B. Good¬ 
rich of Vernon, (Julius L. Armstrong, the pres¬ 
ent member, is the Republican candidate.) In 
the Second Senatoral District, Hon. Ezra Hall 
was nominated by the Democrats. 
Feb, 9, Hon. Win. H. Barnum was nominated 
for Congress by the Democrats of the Fourth 
District. 
A Norfolk merchant has sued a Democratic 
committeeman to got pay for n barrel of flour 
which was given for a vole. The matter causes 
great political scandal in the neighborhood. 
New Jersey. 
Feu. 15, the Senate ratified the Fifteenth 
A meudment. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Rev. C. A. Fox, a Baptist clergyman, died 
in Wilkosbarre, Feb. 11. 
Ohio. 
Andrew J. Band Kir, who was convicted of 
manslaughter in killing his wife, iu Toledo, has 
been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. 
Feb. 11, 8. C. Newton, a prominent mercliaut 
of Cincinnati, died. 
Feb. 13, Dr. John Wheeler, one of the oldest 
and most prominent homeopathic physicians of 
Ohio, died ot paralysis, aged 78. 
The Ministers' Association of Cincinnati has 
sent a strong protest to the Legislature against 
the passage of a law to license houses of pros¬ 
titution. 
Michigan. 
Feb. 15, the Senate Finance Committee re¬ 
ported a bill creating a Public Building Com¬ 
mittee of tli ice, und appropriating $300,000 
towards erecting temporary State offices on the 
site now occupied by the Capitol building, $100,- 
000 for the commencement of the erection of a 
Capitol to cost $1,000,000 on the site now occu¬ 
pied by tiic Siaie offices, and $10,000 for procur¬ 
ing plans for the same. 
Indiana. 
At a Great Peru, Iiul., F. P. Loveland, form¬ 
erly editor of the Miami Co. Republican, John 
Cummings, aud a third person, name unknown, 
perished iu the flames. 
Illinois. 
The Supreme Couri hns decided that, railroad 
companies cannot be compelled to deliver 
freight beyond the terminus of their tracks, 
and cannot require a shipper to put his grain in 
bugs, barrels or other packages, since they do in 
fact hold themselves out os carriers of grain in i 
built by acting in that capacity. In the case of 
Hempstcadfigt. Chicago and North western Rail¬ 
road in the smite court, contracts between the 
Northw> , =teru CouxihuV and certain elevator 
propiieraw, by virtue of which the Company 
agree to deliver all grain brought to the city 
over their lines to said elevators, are declared 
void. 
At the Illinois Valley Coal Mine Company’s 
shaft, near Lasalle, Feb. 10, a miuer named 
Knowles stepped into the “cage” to descend to 
his work. The engineer, Instead ol' loweringthe 
cage, raised it, and Knowles, apprehending dau- 
ger from contact with Hie pulley, jumped for 
the landing from which he had started, but, iu- 
stead of alighting on it, lie struck his bead 
against a post, and was dashed backward into 
the shaft, falling a distance of 530 feet, aud was 
instantly killed. 
Fob. 15, a dispatch says:—The bill to tax the 
lands oi the Illinois Central Railroad Company 
has been matured aud will certainly pass the 
Legislature. 
Iowa, 
Judge King, au old aud prominent citizen of 
Dubuque, died Feb. 13. 
Min nesota. 
A Bin, has been introduced in the House to 
divido up the 500,000 acres of Internal Improve¬ 
ment lnndsamong 13 railroad Companies. If tlie 
bill passes, the Minneapolis and St Louis rail¬ 
road wtlJ get 85.000 acres, tlio Southern Minne¬ 
sota, Dubuque and St. Paul, the Lake Pepin and 
Omaha, aud several other romls 00,000 acres each. 
Kansas. 
Feb, 9th, a bill has passed the Lower House of 
the Legislature, to allow criminals to testify in 
their own behalf, und husband aud wife to tes¬ 
tify one l'or the oilier in criminal eases. 
The Senate has passed a bill making liquor- 
dealers liable to be sued for damages by the per¬ 
sons to whom they sell liquor. The owner of 
the building where the liquor is sold is also liable 
lor damages. 
Nebraska. 
The Legislature has taken a recess until March 
1, to give time for the Committee to investigate 
the charges of misdemeanor against Gov. Butler 
and make a report. 
Bishop Clarkson of Nebraska reports that, of 
the 75,000 Indians in the bounds of his diocese, 
15,000 attend religious services. He thinks the 
effort for their civilization has been a grand 
success. 
Utah. 
Biugham Young returned to Salt Lake City 
Feb. 10th, from Southern Utah, where he has 
been spending the winter. He was escorted in¬ 
to the city by a mounted body guard. 
Arizona. 
A bill has been introduced in the Legislature 
for the issue of Territorial bonds, to the amount 
of $200,003, to raise funds for the defense of the 
frontier settlements against the Indians. 
Tennessee, 
Feb. 9tli, at Winchester, five persons arrested 
in Franklin Co., by a Deputy U, S. Marshal, for 
illicit distilling, were released from the Super¬ 
visor’s force by 300 armed men, the property res¬ 
cued and the officers maltreated. 'The dispatch 
asserts that one of the rescued prisoners, Jessie 
Arlidge, a member of the late Constitutional 
Convention, declared that he could not be taken 
out of Franklin Co. 
Col. John Baxter has obtained a judgment of 
$27,000 for libel against the Knoxville Whig und 
Register. 
Mississippi. 
Feb. 12, the steamboat Judge Wheeler ex¬ 
ploded her boilers, and was burned aud sunk at 
■ Bell s Landing, 45 miles above Vicksburg. The 
following persons were killedCon.Hogan and 
Thos. Welsh, deck hands, and another person, 
uanie unknown. Wounded—Cupt. Nolan, seri¬ 
ously ; Charles Storey, carpenter, slightly, und 
C. W. Pope of Lillie Rock, badly. 
The Governor of Mississippi recommends a 
taxon bowie knives and pistols: and, farther, 
that the carrying of concealed weapons be de¬ 
clared a misdemeanor, punishable by fine aud 
Imprisonment, and the use of them, except in 
self-defense, a felony. 
Arkansas. 
The Governor has nominated and the Senate 
confirmed John E. Bennett ns Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court, vice Bowen, resigned. 
Alabama, 
A large meeting was held at the Mobile Board 
of Trade rooms recently, in behalf of theMobito 
| and Northwestern Railroad. A subscription of 
half a million is wauted, of which all but $110,0(10 
has been taken. • 
North Carolina. 
The Legislature has passed a bill to restoro 
the act making arson and burglary capital of¬ 
fenses. 
South Carolina. 
A body of 500 masked horsemen surrounded 
the juil of Union county on Sunday night, tied 
the jailor, and took out ten negro prisoners, 
confined on charges of murder and arson. Six 
of those were shot, two hung, and two are miss¬ 
ing. The pretext for the crime was that the 
prisoners were about to be removed to Colum¬ 
bia on a writ, of habeas corpus. 
Kentucky. 
Lueut.-GOv. Leslie was inaugurated Gover¬ 
nor of Kentucky Feb. 13, vice. Gov. Stevenson, 
resigned. 
Fred. Zimmerman of Louisville, sentenced 
last December to ton years' imprisonment lor 
manslaughter, in killing Captain O’Morris, has 
been pardoned by the Governor. 
IVest Virginia. 
Feb. 12, at Wheeling, John Kein, one of the 
proprietors of Kein's Hotel, and Joseph Schul¬ 
ler, his hostler, were k 1110*1 by a falling wall. 
Louisiana. 
Charles J. Became;., Professor in the French 
St. Theresa School iu Now Orleans, died Feb. 11 
of heart disease. 
Missouri. 
The Missouri State Senate lias passed a bill 
exempting the property of a wife in executions 
levied upon her husband's property. 
L. Hurt, formerly of Adams Express Compa¬ 
ny, was arrested iu 8t. Louis Feb. 14, charged 
with embezzling $1,400 from, the company while 
agent at Bowling Green, Ky. 
Georgia. 
Amkiucus is thinking about organizing a tem¬ 
perance insurance society. Each member pays 
$5 as an initiation foe, aud $5 us dues each mouth. 
At the end of the year rhe money is divided 
equuliy among those who have remained faith- 
ful to the pledge. 
Toeru is an orphan school in Atlanta, which 
is supported by a State lottery, aud has two hun¬ 
dred and fifty pupils. 
Work has been suspended on the Montgomery 
and Eufauia railroad for want of funds there 
seeming to be a general crisis iu bonds, prevent¬ 
ing negotiations. 
Texas. 
A boy, near Orovillc, was attracted by a hog 
squealing lu a ravine. Ho went down to the 
place, and saw a California lion in thexiot of de¬ 
vouring a hog. He put his dog on him, who 
finally treed him. The hog the lion had killed 
was a wild one, and weighed 150 pounds. Plnck- 
ton raised his rifle aud shot the monster through 
the head, when he fell dead. He measured eight 
feet and four iuches iu length from snout to the 
tip of the tail, stood two aud a-hulf feet high, 
and weighed about 200 pounds. It was very lat, 
the fat around the kidneys alone producing one 
gallon of pure oil. 
Feb. 15, a dispatch from Bevlin says: —Tlio 
Krrvz Zeiluno estimates that the French elec¬ 
tions have resulted in at least a two-thirds vote 
iu luvor of monarchical institutions, and says 
that scarcely one-third of the members chosen 
to the Assembly are republicans. The Im¬ 
perialists are also badly beaten, and the future 
of France seems to be between the Bourbons 
aud the Orleamsts. 
A Versailles dispatch Fob. 10 says:—Prince 
Napoleon lias transmitted to Count Bismarck a 
request that he should exert Ids influence in 
support of his (the Prince's) candidature to the 
Imperial purple of France. Bismarck, however, 
declines to do so, aud has advised Prince Napo¬ 
leon accordingly. 
Gambol ta is said to be dangerous!y ill. 
Feb. IG, M. Grovy has been olected President 
of the National Assembly by a vole of 519 to 18. 
A caucus of a majority of the delegates resolved 
to establish a Provisional Republic, with Thiers 
as President, Farm as Premier,and the Duke de 
Decazes as Minister ol Foreign Affairs. Tlio 
other Ministers are to be MM. Simon, Picard, 
Buffet, and Bartliioy. On the conclusion of 
peace the Convention will adjourn to Paris, and 
will submit ton plebiscituin the future form of 
government. 
Napoleon and France. 
The following is the proclamation addressed 
by the Emperor Napoleon to the electors of 
France: 
Wranri msitobe, Feb.S.ltfri.-Botroved by fortune, 
i wive kept, since itiv captivity, a profound silence 
nrueli is misfui tune * mourning. As lone as the 
armies epuf/yuted t*aeii other* 1 ubtouineii Iron) uny 
st€‘pji or wor<Jfr capable nf canMny party dlssohfeinns, 
nut i can no longer remain silent Deforomy cotmirv’a 
motors * ill,out appearing insensible of ItHMifler- 
m*r*. AY ni'ii I wu.iinaUOH prtevoncr J opuM uot treat 
tor ponce. t>e* hum my i *** Jutlun* wmiM appi'iir to 
iutvc been flat uteri t*v t*ei>onal coaeltfora lions. I loft 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
COUNTERFEIT PLATES SEIZED. 
The following is a list of the counterfeit 
plate3 seized by the Treasury officers : 
Ono hundred dollar counterfeit* on first National 
Bank of Boston. Ohio National Hank of Cincinnati, 
and Cenlral National Bank of New York ; plates cap¬ 
tured March It, tniiT. About I-'IW.IWU is believed to 
hare been put in circulation. 
Tiro hundred dollar plates Intended for a hnnk in 
Massachusetts; captured March 14,1887, before any 
notes had been printed. 
^Ktfty dollar unfinished plate, captured January, 
Twenty dollar on National Bank of Commerce, Mer¬ 
chants’ National Bank of New York . Oneida Nation¬ 
al Bank of L’Dca. N Y.: Tradesmen's National Hunk 
of New York ; and Nliue and Leather National Bank 
of New York; captured September. 1870, The same 
plates had been used to print note* on the live banks 
by changing the names. Amount put in circulation 
nut known . about 110,000 captured with plates. 
Ten*on First and Third National Bank of Phila¬ 
delphia; plates caponed September 37. I8G9, with 
$33,000 of the money. About $100,000 had hoc a 
printed, 
Tens on Merchants’ Nuilonal Bunk of Chicago are 
known to be now in circulation. 
Tens on National li.ink of Watertown. New York ; 
photographic ncjmtirea, unfinished; captured Sep¬ 
tember, 1SUG. 
Fives, unfinished plates, captured September 0, 
JS'16. Fives on People's National Bank of Jackson, 
Mich.; pistes cunt nred May, 18C7, with $9,000 In coun¬ 
terfeits . few boueved to be now In circulation. 
Imvos, unfinished plates, on Utica City National 
Bank , captured September 24, tw;s. 
‘ - 7....:., “ __i.; poor 
[dates ; captured June 20, 1.809. Coneid- 
i counterfeit were put in oir- 
FIvc* on Jewett City National Hnnk, Conn.; 
lithographic plates ; c",: A - — .. fl 
enihlo quantities of this .. 
dilution West of Uie .Mississippi. 
COUNTERFEIT NOTES IN CIRCULATION. 
The following is a list of nil the counterfeits 
known ut the Treasury to be tn circulation, the 
plates of which have not been captured; 
Tons on Hour City National Bunk of Rochester, N. 
Y.; Saratoga County National Bank of Waterford, 
N. V.; High la i Bank "i Newburgh, N. V.; 
Albany City, N. V.. National Hank; First National 
Hank of Ited Hook, V V.; Auburn City, N. Y.. Na¬ 
tional Bank; Mutual National Bank of Trov. N. V.; 
American National Hank of New York-.First Nation¬ 
al Bank of Loekpurt, N. V ; National Bank of Com¬ 
merce, N. Y-, and First National Bank of I’ouglikeep- 
no. N. Y. 
Two* on Maine National Bank of N. V.; Market 
National Bank of N. Y.; st. Nicholas National Bank 
ol N. V.; Natlonnl Union Hank of lamleiipark. N. Y.j 
National Bank of Rhode Island, Newport, It. I. 
Ton of the eleven $10 counterfeit* and four of the 
five $2 counterfeits arc printed from the same plates, 
with only the uamo of the bank clmuged. 
Co ii a res wi on at, 
PENSIONS roll 1813 VETERANS. 
In the House, Feb. 10, a bill granting pensions 
to soldiers of the war of 1812, which provides for 
pensions to the surviving officers and enlisted 
and drafted men, including militia and volun¬ 
teers, who served sixty days in the army or navy 
in the Revolutionary War, Or in the War ol J812, 
and were honorably discharged, and to the sur¬ 
viving widows of such officers aud drafted and 
enlisted men. Pensions arc to be at tlio rale of 
$ spor mouth. 
DISPOSAL or USELESS MILITARY RESERVATIONS. 
Tiie House passed. Fob. 11, the Senate bill for 
the disposition of useless military reservations, 
with an anicndmont. The bill authorizes tlie 
sale of the military reservations at Forts Lane 
and Walla-Walla, Oregon; Fort Zurab, Kansas; 
Camp MeGarry, Nevada; Fort Sumner, New 
Mexico; Forts Jessup and Sabine, Louisiana; 
Forts Wayne and Smith, Arkansas; such portion 
of Fort Abercrombie ns lies east of the ItedRIv- 
Oi*of the North ; and such portion of Fort Bridge, 
Wyoming, as are no longer required for military 
purposes. 
SALE OF TIMBER LANDS. 
Feb. 11, the House passed a bill for the sale of 
timber lauds in California and Oregon, and Wash¬ 
ington Territory. It authorizes the sale of tim¬ 
ber laud in quant i lies not exceeding G4U acres, at 
the minimum price of $1.25 per acre, except the 
alternate sections wit-bin railroad grants, which 
may be sold as double miuimuui lands. 
SOLDIERS’ HOMESTEAD BILL. 
Feb. 13, in the Senate, Mr. Pomeroy, from the 
Committee on Public Lauds, reported the House 
bill to enable honorably-discharged soldiers aud 
sailors, their widows aud orphan children, to ac¬ 
quire homesteads on the public lands of the 
Uuitod States, with amendments striking out the 
provision allowing the assignment or homestead 
ccrtiQoatcs, and by omitting the section allow¬ 
ing the entry of the land by an agent or attorney. 
The Committee also recommend that the Com-, 
rnissiouer or the General Laud Office have au¬ 
thority to make all needful regulations to carry 
I lie act into effeol, especially concerning the de¬ 
clarations and proofs required. 
FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS 
Compensation was voted to Nicholas P. Trist, by 
the Houso, Feb. 14, as compensation for negoti¬ 
ating tlio treaty of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo, subse¬ 
quent to his recall as Minister to Mexico. 
THE TEST OATH REPEAL BILL. 
Feb. 15 the President sent the following mes¬ 
sage to Congress : 
To the Senate und House of Representatives: 
1 have this day transmitted to the Senate the an¬ 
nouncement that the Senate bill, No. 218. “An act 
prescribing the oath of office to he taken by persons 
who participated tn the lute rebellion, hut who are 
not disqualified from holding office by the Four- 
I'.ilh Amendment to the Constitution of tiie United 
States,has become a law in the manner prescribed 
by the Constitution, without the signature ut the 
l’rosidaiiL 
If this were a bill for the repeal of the test oath re¬ 
quired of persons elected or appointed to offices of 
honor or trust it would meet my approval. The 
effect of the taw. however, is to relieve from taking 
a proscribed oath all those persons whom It. was in¬ 
tended to exclude from such offices, aod to require 
it from all others. 
By this law the soldier who fought and bled for 
his country is to swear to his loyalty before assum¬ 
ing official functions, whilst the general who com¬ 
manded hosts for the overthrow of this government 
is admitted to place without it. 
I canhOt affix my name to a taw which discrimi¬ 
nates against the upholder of his government. 
X believe, however, that it is not wise policy to 
keen from office by nn oath those who are not dis¬ 
qualified by the Constitution, aud wlm are the choice 
of legal voters. But. whilst relieving them of an 
oath which they cannot take, 1 recommend the re¬ 
lease also of those to whom the oath has no applica¬ 
tion. (Signed) U. 8. Grant. 
THE 1813 PENSION BILL SIGNED. 
Feb. lotli, the President approved and signed 
the act gran ting pensions to certain soldiers and 
sailors of tiie war of 1812, and to the widows of 
deceased soldiers. 
NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT. 
Feb. 15tU, the followingnomiuatious were6eut 
lo Hie Senate: 
K. \Y. Foster of Arkansas, to be Surveyor General 
of Louisiana. B. C. Whiling. Superintendent of In¬ 
dian Affairs for C alifornia. R. H. Isnbeilc, Tension 
A rent at New Orleans. 
P -t Musters: —i 'yi us K. Osgood, Savannah. Ga; 
Jacob Sterne. Jefferson, Texas; John F. McNeely, 
Petersburg, 111.; II. B. Fargo, Greenville, Slleh; W. 
H. Martens, fi. i.h-irles, Mo.; J. IS. Williams, Baxter 
Springs. Kitn-rs: V. 7 Rtewnrt, Chtdopuh, Kansas; 
8. O. M • •c i.C. .. Kansas; A. H. Hamilton, 
Otlu.invu. iO"a; J. w. . 4u oi, , Waterbury. Vt.; Jus. 
J. Cook, Bennington, Vt.; J. K. Forbert, White Ha- 
I vahea, and lUninina stain of defense. The extent 
of her misfortunes might posMbly Imre been Mir.Red, 
but while attention wag directed to tier enemies nn 
insurrection arose in Pai ls the son!, ot the Kept.-sen- 
tat)Vtv* W;i« V1 4 >Ifj1 4 -n ; t?*♦* MllVty ot 1 111 1 was 
threatened, itn <1 i lie Ktujjirt* \> luoii ici* been three 
time;* acuhuuHMi i»v the people, 'yu.n overthrown und 
iiDnoijonec 1, myujccluijued— 
>y nill matter mv »leHiiijy. it the cuuhljv t> njivocI.” 
Instead of protesting again*! the violation of my 
light. 1 hoped f..r the success of the deicnso.nml ad¬ 
mired the palilLih: dev. a ion uf lhu children-of 
f ranco. Now. « hen the sirngelu is su.-p.-ii.Jed, and 
all reasonable eliuncc ol victory has dlsaiipuiircel, is 
time !.. cut I lo account tlio usurpers, for bloodshed, 
iina nilj), j»ud nqtium !v rod resource*. Jt is iumosMble 
toahtfndv.n ihu dcMU.ies ot France to an umiuthur- 
izeil Cloveriiment« which was lutt m authority cma- 
naUiijr from universal Mullftijr*. OrOer, CThldcHue, 
and u moIM pence, are only ro.-oYerable whe . Hie peo¬ 
ple are co it Milted re* pectin# the Govt-rnmniU most 
capable of repairing the OlHivtens to the country. It 
is esAcuOul Hint Fruijfcfe should he united in her 
wishes I'ortny*?!*, orui*ed by injustice and bitter 
I deceptions, ldo not know or claim my repeatedly eon- 
firmed rights. 'Uicfeib no roomful pcibOluiI ambi- 
tiori. lUit. till tdu people me regularly assembled 
and express their w ill, it is inyiiut y to *u> that all acts 
aro 1iicg1t1111.it.. Thorc is ynlv one Government, in 
which r. -M.les Ujp National sovereignty, able to heal 
the wounds, to bring hope to the firesides, to reopen 
the profaned church. - for prayers, and to restore in 
austry, concord und peace. 
England. 
The force of tho regular army is to be brought 
up lo l:>3 v 2i.i0 meu—flu increase ol 19,980. 
Feb. 11, a dispatch says that a French tran¬ 
sport, wit h 1,250 persons on board, has foundered 
off Gape la Hogue, aud that all on board were 
lost. 
Feb. 11, tho Houso of Commons voted the 
Princess Louise, by unanimous acclamation, an 
annuity of Ltl.UOU per annum and a dowry of 
£30,000, to bo paid on her marriage with the 
Marquis of Lome. 
Feb. 15, iu the House of Lords, Earl Granville, 
iu reply to n question, said tho High Commis¬ 
sion, which is about to meet in Washington, is 
without power to settle Hie questiou of the 
Fisheries, but is only authorized to frame a plan 
of adjustment, on which the decision of tho 
members must be unanimous lor submission to 
their respective Governments. 
THE LONDON CONFERENCE. 
Mr. Gladstone has given, as reasons why 
France was uot represented ut the London Con¬ 
ference. that the Prussian authorities liad prom¬ 
ised M, Favro a pass for himself to attend the 
Loudon Conference, if he should be sent as the 
representative of France, but the Prussian flag 
having beeu violated when the application was 
renewed by M. Favre to the military authori¬ 
ties, the bombardment had begun, aud M. Favro 
declined to leave Paris. 
Austria. 
Emperor Francis Joseph lias convoked the 
Reichsruth to meet Feb. 20. 
Spain. 
The Cortes has passed a law making the sale 
of Cuban tobacco u monopoly in the bauds of the 
Government. 
Gen. Sickles telegraphs to the State Depart¬ 
ment that the negotiations for a Mixed Commis¬ 
sion to consider the claims lor injuries to the 
persons aud property of Am erica ti citizens by 
the Spanish authorities during the insurrection 
ill Cuba, have been concluded. 
Italy. 
The Italian Parliament has adopted a resolu¬ 
tion declaring the libraries aud picture galleries 
of the Vatican to be national property. 
Canada. 
At Halifax, Feb. 10, the American schooners 
A. H. AVonson and A. J. Franklin, together with 
their stores, cargoes, etc., were condemned as 
forfeited to the Queen, by reason ol their viola¬ 
tion of the Fishery luws, by the Vice-Admiralty 
Court. Judge Sir William Youug, in pronoun¬ 
cing judgment, expressed his regret at the pain¬ 
ful duty imposed upou him, but the evidence of 
disinterested witnesses iu both cases was so con¬ 
clusive that he could uot refuse to believe it. In 
the latter case, be expressed the hope that tho 
Dominion Government would act liberally aud 
remit the penalty, in whole or in part. 
The Province of Ontario has voted $30,000 to 
encourage emigration, aud $20,900 to build 
houses and clear from three to five acres of 
land on a number ot f re e-grant lots. 
In Montreal, the whipping post, as u punish¬ 
ment for uiiuor crimes lias been revived, it is 
said, with excellent results. 
Feb. 15, the Dominion Parliament was opened 
at Ottawa, with the usual formalities, by the 
Governor-General, Lord Lisgar. He feels con¬ 
fident the House will pass a bill to indemnify 
the Government l'or expenses in resisting inva¬ 
sion; announces that the Legislature of British 
Columbia is praying to be admitted into the 
Union, and trusts that the boundaries of Canada 
may at au early day bo extended from the At¬ 
lantic Fo the Pacific; recommends a liberal land 
policy ; thinks tiie fishery question in a fairway 
of adjustment; recommends the consideration 
assimilating the currency of the Dominion, &c. 
passengers, 
by her owners In reference to passages, aud 
about 200 persons have called. 
Mr. Charles Hallet, while driving for water on 
the Depot grounds of the Long Island Railroad 
Co.at 8ag Hatbor, struck oil at twenty feet, 
aud when he put his pump at work, brought up 
oil, Instead of water. The discovery created 
the greatest excitement, and tiie hunt for good 
water was brought to a close. 
The Rev. W, Condil, pastor of the First Presby¬ 
terian Church In Oswego for the past forty 
years, died Feb. 12. 
At Alice Cary's funeral, February 14, the fol¬ 
lowing gentleman acted as pall-bearers:—Ho¬ 
race Greeley, Bayard Taylor, Frank B. Carpen¬ 
ter, Oliver Johnson, Richard B, Kimball, Dr. 
Fred. Holcombe mid A. J. Johnson. Among 
the literati preseut were Wm. Wallace, Rev. O. 
B. Frothiugham, Rev. C. F. Lee, Rev. Dr. Cook- 
man, James Parton, Fanny Fern, Dr. Haliock, 
Charles Wilbur, Jennie June, John Savage aud 
many others. The “ Sorosis" attended In a 
large body. 
At Fonda, N. Y., Feb. 10, Charles B. Conklin, 
charged with being concerned in the express 
robbery on n train between Fonda and Albany, 
lust August, was acquitted by a verdict of “Not 
guilly.” 
A couple wore married the other day in Plain- 
field, Otsego Co., partook of their wedding din¬ 
ner in Winfield, Herkimer Co., took tea in 
Bridgewater, Oneida Co., aud were all tho time 
under the same roof. The house stands " across 
the Hue.” 
Feb. 14, the first annual exhibition of the 
Western New York Poultry Society opened in 
Buffalo. About 1,400 fowls were on exhibition. 
The attendance was large. 
No more bodies of victims of the lato railroad 
disaster at New Hamburgh have been louud. 
JtKalne. 
At Portland, Feb. 11, the divorce suit of Mrs. 
N. J. Miller agaiust her husbaud, resulted in a 
verdict granting her a divorce. This case has 
attracted much attention, in consequence of tiie 
high social position of the persons interested. 
The ground of the complaint was habitual 
drunkenness and abuse. The defense was a 
counter charge of the adultery of the plaintiff 
with Judge Gco.F. Bltcpleyof the United States 
Circuit Court. The wife proved her case, while 
the husband failed to establish his charges of im¬ 
proper conduct on tlio part of his wife. Mrs. 
Miller is the daughter of Charles Peters of Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. 
A private despatch announces tiie death of 
Prof. W, R. Ennlngor, at Jacksonville, Flu., re¬ 
cently. He was a musical direct or and instructor, 
aud well known in Maine. 
Henry Van Meter, colored, aged 110, and a 
widely known character, died iu Bangor, Feb. 12. 
New Hmupsliire. 
Chief-Justice Bellows, in opening court at 
Newport recently, spoke very decidedly agaiust 
tiie means used to swindle money out of per¬ 
sons who ofttimes cannot afford ro give it, at 
church fairs and other gatherings, such as post 
offices, lotteries, grab bags, guess calces, Ac., 
witli the intent ro raise funds for disseminating 
the gospel. Tho Judge said that all these are 
recognized in law as indictable offenses, and ihe 
proper officers fuiled to do their duty were they 
suffered to pass unnoticed. 
Feb. 0, ou the Sugar River Railroad, near 
Bradford, five men, named Thomas Doyle. Jeff. 
Curtis, John Murphy, Peter Foster aud Dennis 
Fane were badly burned by the premature ex¬ 
plosion of a blast. Doyle's recovery is im¬ 
probable. 
IHassacliusetts. 
At a meeting of the fish aud salt dealers of 
New England, at Boston, recently, it was stated 
that the annual value of our ocean fisheries is 
$50,000,000; that 40.000,000 bushelsof salt are used 
in the United States every year, or about one 
bushel to each inhabitant; and that the average 
rate of duty on salt is now 224 per cent, adva- 
lorem, making the average cost per bushel to 
tiie consu mer fif i y cents, whereas, without duty, 
it would be Vtut twenty-five cents. 
Feb. 14, Col. Thos. E. Cbickering, one of the 
most widely known citizens of Boston, dropped 
dead from apoplexy, at tiie Tremont House. He 
was about forty-four years of age. 
There arc soma two hundred plants in ono of 
the school houses in Springfield. Scarcely n 
window in the building but lias its row of plants, 
pictures'adorn the walls, and all Hie appliances 
for making the rooms pleasant aud a sojourn in 
them profitable, abound. 
Mr. Holt of North Reading, aged sixty years, 
THE STEAMER TENNESSEE. 
No news has yet been received trom the 
steamer Tennessee, though letters have been 
written aud opinions expressed by those high iu 
authority that there is no cause for apprehen¬ 
sion, aud no reason for expecting news of her 
arrival at San Domiugo prior to the present time. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
France, 
A dispatch from Berlin says the war contri¬ 
bution of 200,000,000 fraues exacted from Paris 
has beeu apportioned —150,090,UOU to North Ger¬ 
many, ami 50,000,000 to South Germany, 
The Government of the National Defense at 
Paris has issued a decree abrogating the requisi¬ 
tion decrees of the Delegate Government at 
Bordeaux. 
A terrible plague has appeared among the im¬ 
mense droves of cattle intended for the relief 
of Paris, aud a sanitary cordon has been estab¬ 
lished around tiie animals which have become 
infected. The deaths are so numerous that it is 
impossible to bury the carcasses, and they are, 
therefore, being loaded on condemned war¬ 
ships, which are towed out to sea and sunk. 
At Bordeaux, Feb. 13th, 390 Deputies of the 
new French Assembly met and adopted the rules 
and regulations of the Chamber of 1849. Jules 
Favre, tor himself, and in the name of Ids col¬ 
leagues at Bordeaux and Paris, resigned the 
powers eonflded to them us the Government of 
National Defense. He stated that tiie Ministers 
would remain in office until the constitution of 
a new Government, to maintain order. Gari¬ 
baldi declines a sc-at in tbe Assembly offered 
him by several Departments. 
The delivery of the arms to the Germans has 
been completed by the Army of Paris. Tiie 
Germans are destroying the French guns, which 
prove to be useless on account of the removal of 
portions of the breech-loading apparatus. 
Hostilities continue in the Departments of 
Jura and Doubs, the French refusing to accept 
the armistice. 
The following calculation of the result of the 
recent elections may be considered entirely re¬ 
liable:—The Republican party has elected 159 
representatives to the Assembly, the Legiti¬ 
mists have returned 50. The Orleanists have an 
immense majority, and return 400 representa¬ 
tives. The Bonapartlsts have elected 20. 
Garibaldi resigned his place in the Assem¬ 
bly, Feb. 14; also his command in the French 
army, aud ret urned home. 
