Houso of Commons. Mr. Mundella, whose re¬ 
cent address in this city on the labor question 
will be remembered by the public, made a strong 
speech in favor of the reduction, which he re¬ 
garded as of importance both to the commercial 
and poorer classes, aud as calculated also to 
strengthen the tics between the two countries. 
Tire limperor Napoleon. 
A carle despatch to the World reports the 
Einpror Napoleon as having recently “declared 
at Chiselhnrst that he would not return to 
France, nor would he listen to any proposition 
for ltis return.” 
Ireland. 
It is Faid that Queen Victoria intends to reside 
for a few weeks every year on her newly pur¬ 
chased Irish estate in County Kildare, with tho 
hopeof diminishing, if possible, the hatred of the 
Saxon so long and so offensively displayed by ber 
Fenian subjects. 
Newfoundland. 
Halifax, N. S., May 55.—The captain of the 
Newfoundland mail steamer, lately arrived, re- 
ports that when leaving the Newfoundland coast 
on the homeward trip to Halifax, ho narrowly 
escaped being surrounded by immense fields of 
ice, which were drifting toward the Newfound¬ 
land shore. Telegrams from the French settle¬ 
ment of St. Pierre, In Newfoundland, state that 
tho island is now girt from Cape Spear to Capo 
Race with tinge bowlders of ice and solid field 
ice, which defy the approach of any vessel with¬ 
in a mile of the shore. Fears are entertained for 
the safety of many vessels of tho sealing fleet, 
which have not. yet. arrived, though long since 
reported as having started for homo with full 
cargoes. 
Canada. 
Ni agara. Ont.. May 4.—The lifeboat belong¬ 
ing to Fort Niagara got adrift during a gale this 
morning, and a boat manned by six soldiers, 
and Licuts. L. G. Ashbury and J. C. Morris, 
started in pursuit, but their bout capsized aud 
all were drowned. 
find an indictment against P. A. Leonard for the 
killing of Dr. Scanland, his brother-in-law, and 
he was discharged from custody. 
May 2.—A man giving his name as Bernard 
Lisner of Hamilton, Ohio, was arrested at Quin¬ 
cy, III., yesterday, on suspicion of being the mur¬ 
derer of ex-Secretnry Tyndnlo, at Springfield. 
He came in on the train that morning from 
Springfield, and states that lie saw the body after 
the murder, that he saw a pistol by its side, and 
saw tho wound that was made on the head with 
a blunt instrument. HeteUs a number of im¬ 
probable stories. When arrested, be seemed 
greatly agitated. A slung shot and i Dirty cents 
in money were all that was found on ilia person. 
There was a destructive hail storm at. Jackson¬ 
ville, on Saturday night, April 20. Many of the 
hailstones were almo-t as large as a hen's egg. 
Trees wore stripped of their foliage. The de¬ 
struction of fruit must amount to fully half the 
crop. Vegetables and flowers sustained consid¬ 
erable damage, and there is not a skylight loir, 
in the city. Many birds were killed by the fall¬ 
ing hall. Fortunately the area of the storm was 
but a fow miles in width. 
Chicago. May 4.— The Ecclesiastical Court for 
tho trial ol' tho Rev. Mr. Cheney has agreed 
upon the following verdicti— u That the said 
Rev. Charles Edward Cheney is guilty on all the 
charges and specifications contained in the pre¬ 
sentment, and while, ns Presbyters, silting in 
judgment on the conduct of another Presbyter, 
w ibid our duty an exceedingly painful one, 
avc foci obliged to state that, in our opinion, the 
canonical and ecclesiastical sentence of degrada¬ 
tion from the ministry of the Church of God 
should be pronounced upon him.” Tho Court 
then adjourned elm die. It is understood that. 
Bullock had seduced, is dead. Previous to bis 
death, ho married Miss Pierce. 
New Jersey. 
Mu. AMzr Dodd of Bloomfield hns accepted 
the office of Vice Chancellor of the State, ten¬ 
dered him by Chancellor Zabriskie. 
Connecticut. 
The Courant congratulates Hartford on being 
tlm richest, city of its size In the country, ami 
calls for the expenditure of a million or two of 
dollars for a public park, a conservatory of 
music, technical schools of drawing, ole., and 
especially for an art museum. 
iTlassacli it setts. 
Boston, April 30.—A ease which has been on 
trial before Judge Gray of Worcester, wherein 
the Hon. T. K. Earle of Worcester and his wife, 
from whom be la divorced, arc interested, was 
on Friday last decided, giving the custody or | 
their two children, a boy and girl, 13 ami T years 
of age, to tho wife. To-day Mr. Earle hired a 
carriage, and accompanied by two friends, wont 
to Salem and abducted the children. He was 
arrested. 
Samuel Chapin of Springfield, shot himself 
fatally Saturday, April 39, while laboring under 
religious excitement. 
Mrs. Norwood, formerly of Maine, committed 
suicide at South Hadley Falls by cuttiug her 
throat with a razor. 
Khodc Island. 
Rufus Waterman was killed by a circular 
saw In Providence, May 1. 
Pennsylvania. 
A citizen of Reading is said to have mourned 
Ibe death of thirty-six of his children. Ho Is 
now lll'iy-llve years old and lias bad three wives, 
and lias four children living. 
The miners have practically abandoned the 
contest with tho railroad monopolists. Tho 
General Council representing the laboring in¬ 
terest met at Pottsvillo on the 3d, aud discussed 
nl sonic b'ugtli the question of * lie exist ing 
dend-lock and the bust, mode of overcoming it, 
but nothing definite was arrived at beyond the 
adoption ol a resolution authorizing each contily 
Organization to settle the difficulty by arbitra¬ 
tion in any manner it may deem best. From 
Scranton wo learn that the miners who huvo re¬ 
sumed work huvo been again threatened with 
violence, and it has been deemed udvisablo to 
call additional military to the scene. It. is said 
that the miners' laborers are organizing with 
prosecution. The Adairs threatened his me it 
ho “peached." Tho sworn deposition of the 
woman. Polly Steadman, states that on Wednes¬ 
day evening, April 3<5, shortly after nightfall, 
while the family were preparing to retire to 
peaceful repose, the dog began to bark violently: 
looking through the chinks between thelogs,sho 
received a pistol bullet in tho eye. The men 
mentioned above then rushed in, shot Silas dead, 
and struck down ihe children. The bed-clothes 
were piled on the floor and fired, and the men 
departed. The woman managed to drag herself 
and one child, less injured than tho rest, out. 
doors. The others were burned as they lay. The 
assassins have been arrested. 
Ia Anna Dickinson Tlarrlcd ? 
This question has often been asked and as 
often denied, but during her recent, visit to this 
city she distinctly stated to a man of this city, in 
the presence and hearing of another, that, she 
hud agreed to meet her husband at a certain 
hotel in this city. She is evidently concealing 
tho fact of her marriage, but wby 1—Syracuse 
Journal. _ 
DOMESTIO NEWS. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
Paris, April 39.—At a sitting of the Commune 
yesterday, M. Ground, in reply to an interpel¬ 
lation, said there was something offensive in 
asking Europe to recognize the belligerency of 
Paris. It, was puerile to ask for what they had 
already had. Tho Commune waged war irre¬ 
proachably. No explosive bullets were used; 
there was no bombardment of places filled with 
women and children. These violations of the 
usages of civilized Avar rare lie charged upon the 
Army of Versailles. In tho cartridge boxes of 
the prisoners taken by t he national troops ex¬ 
plosive bullets had been found, and tho wanton 
shelling of the most, crowded parts of the city 
had been going on for weeks. 
Paris, May 1.—Gen. Cluseret has been dismiss¬ 
ed from the office ot Minister of War by the 
Commune, and is replaced by M. Rowel, The 
Ot du People- says Gen. Cluseret hns been ar¬ 
rested by order of the Executive Committee, | 
with the approval of the Commune. Gen. La 
Cecilia Is in command at Fort Is^y. Gen. Duras- 
sier replaces Gen. Okokuvitz, Avho lias been 
ivmtnded. 
The London Times' Versailles special dispatch 
says the insurgents at Ncuilly arc themselves 
throwing petroleum shells into Paris to keep up 
the indignation of the populace against tho Ver¬ 
sailles Government. The people are led to be¬ 
lieve that they come from the lines of the Army 
of the Assembly. 
May 4.—Dispatches from A r crsai!les announco 
that Hie Government forces have carried by as¬ 
sault Hie insurgent position at Snqnct Mill,about 
ouo mile south of Forts Bioetre and d’l-sy. One 
hundred and fifty of the Communists Avere kill¬ 
ed. and ten cannon and three hundred prisoners 
captured. The mill has, however, been evacu¬ 
ated liyAhe Versailles troops, as it is exposed to 
a destructive lire from the insurgent fortifica¬ 
tions. 
On Tuesday nighl tliroo divisions of the Army 
of the Assembly, under 
NEWS AND NOVELTIES. 
Bound dances arc said to be going out of fa¬ 
vor in England, the more modest and dignified 
square dances resuming (heir sway. 
Tre beautiful frost tracery at Mount Wash¬ 
ington is said to resemblo the /rieze-Avork of 
Phidias on tlu; Parthenon. 
Some years ago a man bought apiece of land 
in Chicago for $15 and a mule. Tie sold it, and 
is now not worth a cent, while the laud is worth 
$ 1 , 000 , 000 . 
In Milwaukee, Wis., n manufacturer of wash¬ 
boards, ns an advertising medium employs n 
dozen well dressed young women to march 
through tin) streets of the city, each ivitli a 
Avnsh-bonrd under her arm. 
The Now Haven, Ct., woman who recently got 
married, and took her Avodding tour in a horse- 
car, wrote to a friend the next morning, saying 
she was just ns well satisfied as though she had 
traveled around the Avorld. 
The present style of men's hnts is an exact re- 
production of the fashion of Ikffi. The present 
scrambled stylo of ladies' head dress Is of older 
origin, being tbo identical fashion which pre¬ 
vailed before the invention of combs. 
iron a city of its size - it has at present q popu¬ 
lation of about 90,000-Frnnkfort-on-the-Main is 
said to bo the wealthiest in Ihe world. Over a 
hundred of its citizens (merchants and hank¬ 
ers) are reported to be Avorth more titan $5,000,- 
000 each. 
About a year ago, in a town in Nevada, a girl 
presented herself at the bedside of a young man 
and asked him if he loved her. He said he did. 
In less than a year thereafter there came a suit 
for breach of promise and tho young fellOAv had 
$3,000 to pay, 
THE tioking of the clock at the Cambridge Ob- 
This 
berlain was shot aLdlnstantly killed at Mason 
City, Til., by Z. cqHpTHotb parties met armed 
Avitli shot guns. WVk>iso got the first fire. 
MissPhobe W. fuzzens, avIio lias gained con¬ 
siderable notoriety as n lecturer on avoiiimii suf¬ 
frage and kindred subjects, was graduated May 
4, at St. Louis, as Bachelor of Laws in tho Law 
School of the Washington University. 
Arkansan. 
A Litter Rock dispatch, dated May 2, says 
serious troubles are reported in Chicatacounty, 
tho largest, negro district In the State. These 
troubles grow out of political disaffection. 
Louisiana. 
New Orleans. May 1.—The water continues 
to pour through the Bonnet Carre crevasse. The 
levee on both sides is still giving way, although 
unremitting labor is being made to stop the 
further spread of the crevasse. The roar of the 
current at the break can be heard at the dis¬ 
tance ot more than a mile. Weil informed 
planters estimate that the loss to the sugar crop 
will exceed 30,000 hogsheads. 
NkAV Orleans, May 4.—A tornado swept over 
Baton Rouge and vicinity on Tuesday, causing 
great destruction of property. Trees were up- 
mnlrd, aud bricks artd plonks Avcrc whirled iu 
in tlie air. The north and south Avails of the 
Penitentiary, the roof of the shoe factory, and 
the cells in the south wing of tho building Avere 
bloAvu uivay. The whole second story and roof 
of the storehouse of tho United States Arsenal, 
with 300 feet of tho laboratory, (a frame build¬ 
ing,) and the roof of one of the powder maga¬ 
zines, Avcro rent in fragments, The roof was 
torn from tho Roman Catholic church. A num¬ 
ber of frame houses Avere unroofed and other¬ 
wise damaged. The sugar house and a number 
of cabins on the plantation of Joseph Barnard 
Avere blown down, and one negro avus killed 
and several wore Avounded. Tho sugar house, 
gin house and cabins oil the plantation of James 
MeCollcn were all destroyed, and many colored 
persons were severely injured. The sugar I muse 
and all tho cabins on the plantation of W. S. 
Pike were blown down and two colored men 
were killed and a number were wounded. Many 
boats and scows laden Avitli coal were sunk. Tnc 
loss will roach $100,000. During the storm eomo 
the immediate com¬ 
mand of Marshal MacMabmi, advanced toward 
the enceinte of Paris through the Bois do Bou¬ 
logne. An entire corps was ordered io folloAV; 
but, owing to circumstances Avhlch it is impru¬ 
dent to explain, the movement was not consum¬ 
mated. 
The approaches of the Versailles army to Fort 
d’lssy nre rapidly advancing, and It is iioav re¬ 
garded os impossible for the Communist garri¬ 
son to escape. The cannonading and musketry 
fire continue, and several engagements of an 
unimportant nature have occurred. 
It is positively stated that M. Thiers refuses to 
enter into a commercial treaty Avith Germany, 
and that Prince Bismarck ha6 protested against 
the unjust discrimination made by France 
against German commerce. 
Germany. 
Berlin, May 2.—In the German Parliament 
to-day t He bill incorporating Alsace and Lor¬ 
raine with the empire came before the House. 
Prince Bismarck restates tlio arguments on 
Avliieh Hie measure avus based. The annexation 
id these provinces to Germany avus necessary to 
give Her a bulwark against (lie recurrence of 
French aggression, eases ot Avliieh had been 60 
frequeut iu times past. One instance of com¬ 
paratively recent date was cited. Co the 8th of 
August, 1866, France sent to Bei lin an ultimatum 
demanding the cession ot Mayenoo. The illness 
servatory can be heard in San Francisco, 
is done by connecting the pendulum of the clock 
to the telegraphic Avire in such a manner that 
the main circuit is broken and instantly closed 
again at every swing of the pendulum. 
A deaf and dumb practicer of street mngi> 
in Chattanooga. Tenn., recently cut up a green¬ 
horn’s handkerchief in performing a trick, and 
handed it. back to him in a mutilated condition, 
explaining the reason lie did not restore it toils 
original good condition avus because lie avus out 
oT practice. 
A woman In Springfield, Mass., found nice 
looking towels selling for ten cents apiece at a 
recent auction sale, and so took a lot at tho same 
price. When she got home she washed them in 
order to got the sizing out, and succeeded admi¬ 
rably j but, unfortunately. Hie pulp of the paper 
of which they Avere made washed out too. 
The Ohio Legislature recently passed an act 
which requires railroads to Construct platforms 
or aprons betAveen passenger cars on their lines, 
Avith sideboards or network of wirn or strap iron 
at each side of said bridges, of at least equal 
bight Avith the ordinal’)' railings upon car plat¬ 
forms. 
The Scientific American says it is now “ impos¬ 
sible to construct a burglar-proof safe-for the 
thief, with biscyJindersnf compressed hydrogen 
and oxygen, can, in a few Feconds, burn holesof 
any size in the hardest metal—his fire-drill en¬ 
abling him, in u few minutes, to Work his way 
into the strongest safe that was ever constructed. 
The Memphis Appeal says:—“ It was the erly- 
iual purpose of the Ku-Klux, by their ghastly 
npparel, in which they traA'ersed the country, 
to appeal to negro superstition and prcA’cnt 
depredations at night. But Radicalism raised 
The An ot Congress, entitled An Act to enforce 
the pn.viHlbns of the Font teenth Amendment to t he 
Constitution of i ho United Slntcs. and for other pur- 
noses,” unproved April 20. A. 6 , ISTi, tiring u law of 
extriinrdlniirv public Importance. I consider it my 
jjutv to Issue this, my proclamation. nalUngthouaen- 
tiou of tUti people of i he United Suties thereto, on- 
lolninv upon all good r lnxena, mul especiallv upon 
public Dffleor*. to be zoul.m* In the enforcement 
thereof, and warning all person* t" abstain from 
committing any of the acta thereby prohibited. The 
lew of Congress applies to all pulls ot rho I ntted 
States, un i will be enforced everv« here t„ the ex¬ 
tent or the powers vested In the Executive. Hut in¬ 
asmuch the neersMl.v therefor is well known to 
huvo hem caused chiefly hy persistent violations of 
the rights >r c.titeens of the United suites by combi¬ 
nation* of lawless and disaffected persons in certain 
localities Uilcly the theater of his.irrcvtlnn and mili¬ 
tary conflict, l do paulr.tiliirly exhort tho people of 
those parts of the country to suppress all such yoni- 
binations hy their turn voluntary efforts tuvimgh tho 
agency of local laws,ami loniutnuim the rights of all 
citizens of tho United Slates and to seen re Loall sucll 
citizen* the ennui protection of i he lows. 
Fully sensible of the responsibility imposed upon 
the Executive by Hie net of CongreHs to which pub¬ 
lic attention Is now coded, and rrlm UinC In full into 
exercise any of the extra 'riUnnry powers thereby 
conferred upon me except, in eases of Imperative 
necessity, | do, noveribule**, deem tt my duly to 
make kiiown that I will not lieMtnto to exhuust the 
power thus vested In the Executive, whenever mid 
wherever It shall become necessary to do so tor the 
purpose of securing to all citizens of the United 
States the peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaran¬ 
teed to them by the Constitution and lows. U is my 
earnest wish that peace and cheerful obedience to 
tbo law may prevail throughout the land, and that 
ull traces of our late civil strtfe may be speedily ro- 
moved. Those emis cun bo eustlv reached by acqui¬ 
escence In the results nt the conflict now written in 
our Oou»Uiutlon,H«d by the due and proper enforce¬ 
ment ol equal, just and Impartial laws in every part 
of our country- The failure ot local communities to 
furnish such menus for the attainment of results so 
earnestly desired, Imposes upon the National Gov¬ 
ernment the duty of putting forth alt Us energies for 
the protection ol 't* citizens of every race and color, 
and for the restoration ot peace and order through¬ 
out tho entire country. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my band 
and causod tho seal of the United States to bo of. 
fl IJone at the city of 'Washington, this third dny of 
Mav in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and seventy-one. and of the independence 
of the United Slates the nxnoty-fifth. 
1 L. S.j U. o. bliAM. 
By the i i© ®hl^ji^xeN FISH, Socretury of State. 
Nexv Iforfc. 
Wednesday evening. April 21, Avery D. Put¬ 
nam. iu endeavoring to protect two ladies in his 
company in a street car in New York city from 
insult, was attacked by a drunken rowdy named 
William Foster, who struck lifttt on the head 
with an iron ear hook. Saturday murniug, April 
29, Putnam died. Foster lias been indicted for 
murder by the Grand ury and will be speedily 
tried. Mr. Putnam av, a bgMy respected mer¬ 
chant, and the atrooi and inexcusable at¬ 
tack upon him lms awakened great indignation 
among the citizens of Ncav York, who demand 
justice and the protection of the law in very 
emphatic terms. 
tetter foi ling exists throughout the State, and 
fewer outrages have been committed since Gov. 
Scott announced ids purpose of calling out the 
military unless the county officers manifested a 
readier disposition to check all attempts to vio¬ 
late the laws by arresting those known to have 
openly defied the civil authorities. In some 
counties, it is stated, negroes have succeeded in 
getting possession of a quantity of arms, uud 
threaten that if any more of their own color are 
murdered or taken out at night aud whipped, 
they Avid retaliate on the Avldtes. 
North Carolina. 
Ex-Gov. Manly died in Raleigh, N. C., May 1, 
aged 75. 
Raleigh, May 2.—The Sentinel publishes to¬ 
day an account of a terrible outrage said to have 
boon committed near Ruth ford Court-house. 
Silas Weston, u free negro before the Avar, has 
for many years been living with Polly Steadman, 
aAvhite woman of loose character, Avho has or 
had four Avhite children, the oldest about 14, and 
I the youngest nearly 3 years of age. Some time 
In consequence of the fact that in the unen- 
tal world women are often left to die because 
male practitioners are refused admission to the 
sick room, n movement has been started in Eng¬ 
land to establish a " Female Medical Society to 
prepare and send female physicians to the Las • 
Lord Shftesbury is President, and Hie plan has 
the indorsement of Sir John Boivring- 
The official salary lists In Illinois show .that 
the Governor gets $3,000 a year; the Secret an 
of the Board of Education $3,000 and Ins tra\ < - 
ing expenses: the UffUtenant-GoA-ernor isipaffi 
$500 for presiding over the Senate, and the 
of the same body $1,200. Tho Adjutant, Quar¬ 
termaster and Paymaster-Generals each recci j 
$2,000 (as much as the Governor,) and Hie, e > 
Commissioners the same. Tho Judges <> 
Superior and Supreme Courts are paid f- r 
apiece, and of the Court of Common I leas 
500 apiece. 
London, May 1.—Earl Granville, in tho House 
of Lords to night, declined to answer a question 
respecting the state of the negotiations for the 
settlement, of the San Juan boundary question 
ivith the United States. Lord Granville stated 
that the Government Avas under the obligation 
of secrecy until the treaty ratifications Avere ex¬ 
changed. 
The proposition for a reduction of the rate of 
postage on letters betAveen Eugland aud America 
to one penny has been rejected in the British 
able scientific: attainments. In 1864 he Avas elect¬ 
ed Secretary of State, and has since resided in 
Springfield. 
May 1.—The Grand Jury of Chicago failed to 
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