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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
President Grant has appointed E. S. Salo¬ 
mon, of Chicago, to be Governor of Washington 
Territory. 
The President 1ms caused to be issued to 
American Ministers abroad a circular letter in¬ 
structing them to propose to the Cabinets to 
which they are accredited a joint convention of 
the maritime powers of the world, to provide 
for the protection uud neutrality of submarine 
cables. The letter ol instructions is prepared 
and signed by the Secretary of State. 
The funeral of the late Hon. Edwin M. Blan¬ 
ton took place on Monday the 27th ult. in Wash¬ 
ington. Tho service was that of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and was read by Rev. Dr. 
Shirkie, of the Church of the Epiphany, assisted 
by two other divines of the same denomination. 
The funeral procession, notwithstanding the 
rain and the absence of everything in the nature 
of oilieiai display, was imposing in the number, 
the cliaractor aud the social and official positions 
ol those present.. The body was interred at Oak 
iliil Cemetery. Telegrams from other cities 
show that the event was regarded with respect¬ 
ful sympathy. Governor Ciufliu, of Massachu- 
'setts, directed the display of flags at half-mast 
on public buildings throughout the State. 
Ilrovet Brigadier-General Badeau, Captain in 
IJie army, on the retired list, lias been assigned 
to duty in Washington, by direction of the Pres¬ 
ident. 
Coal has been sent to Humana, San Domingo, 
the newly purchased naval station, for the use of 
Dm vessels of the North Atlant ic Squadron. 
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has 
ordered the .suspension, for the present* of t he 
collection of the pork packers' tax, assessed un¬ 
der section 4, of tin; Act of March .‘11, 1869. 
The Post-Oftice Department basis-suedan order 
lo postmasters directing them to take account of 
all franked and free matter deposited at their 
offices, and to forward a statement monthly to 
tlie Department, for the first six months of this 
yoar. 
The expenses of the Committee of Ways and 
Means for holding meetings, including investi¬ 
gations in New York, lioston.Ban Francisco and 
othereitfCS-ns well as pay for clerks, stenogra¬ 
pher, &e„ amount to $6,772, instead ol $60,000, ns 
has been reported. 
Secretary Pish lias notified holders of claims 
against Mexico that the same must be presented 
before the commission, now in session in Wash¬ 
ington, ou or before the 31st day of March next. 
Tlie monitors Intended to be sent out to meet 
the fleet bearing tho late George Peabody’s re¬ 
main* wifi be dispatcliod to Portland about the 
lOt h or 15th of this mouth. It lssald that, though 
the iron-clad Monarch would be able in case of 
war or other necessity to cross the Atlantic by 
the most direct, and dangerous passage to Port¬ 
land, yet she would not bo risked wit bout neces¬ 
sity. Tlie fleet will therefore probably go ns far 
south as the Azores before crossing the Atlantic. 
A Arc, originating from a defective floe, broke 
out ou the S4t.li ult. in tho residence of Dennis 
McCarthy, Representative of New York, and 
considerable damage was occasioned. Mr. Mc¬ 
Carthy narrowly escaped suffocation in Die 
flames, and was rescued with difficulty. 
la Indiana marriage is a civil contract, and 
mules nf the age of seventeen and females of 
the age of fourteen may enter into and form 
Mich contracts, unless within the prohibited 
degrees. If tho parties be within the ages of 
eighteen mid twenty-one, respectively, the clerk, 
before Issuing a license, iniisi ntqilire the con¬ 
sent of i be parent or guardian, It there beany; 
and when there is no parent or guardian resi¬ 
dent within the Btatc. the female, if under 
eighteen, must have resided in tlie county where 
licence i- ; sought for one month preceding such 
application: but if she is over eighteen sin* may 
control herself on tlie marriage question, and a 
License may issue without the preceding month's 
residence. 
Tlie Minnesota farmers have raised this year 
ti,500,000 bushels of corn, against 4,HOT,<77 last 
year, and 15,(J(Ki,(XH) bushels of outs, against 
7,6*2,401 last year, and both crops command bet¬ 
ter prices than last year. They also raised 
20,000,000 bushels (J f wheat, against 15,260,000 
la*t year, and although tho price of this is low, 
the tour m ops will realize nearly $2,000,000 more 
than last year. 
On Christmas Day parties ol Irish and Swedish 
laborers had a light at Morris Luke, Minn. One 
Of each parly was killed, and seven, in all, 
wounded. Tlie fight continued three hours, and 
fifty men wore engaged in it, 
Tho Chinese laborers for (lie Texas Central 
Railroad, t wo hundred and fifty of whom have 
reached St. Louis, are under a con! met for three 
years at $20 per month and their board, and 
their passage to and from San Francisco paid. 
A Montreal paper says frauds to an enormous 
amount have been committed in tlie bonded 
warehouses iu that city, with the co-operation 
of the officials. 
IV*. K. Muir, of the Michigan Central Rail¬ 
road, lias boon appointed General Superinten¬ 
dent of the Great Western Railroad, in place of 
Mr. Swineyard, resigned. 
An ex-polleeman of Detroit, named Kune, 
was round in the streets in that city on Friday 
night, Dec. 84th, with his throat cut, Mis next 
door neighbor, Michael Costello, was soon after¬ 
ward arrested as the murderer, tho two having 
h.id a quarrel iu a saloon but a short time pre¬ 
vious. 
On Friday, Dec. 24th, a fire broke out in a 
large grain and flour store in Broad street, Phil¬ 
adelphia, which burned through Saturday aud 
Sunday. The loss will probably amount to 
$80,000. Ou the 25th a large store in Fourth 
street was burned, involving a loss of about 
$200,000. Tho Columbia Sugar Refinery, corner 
of Third and Vine streets, was burned on tho 
26 1 li; loss, $220,000, 
The trolling stallion Hilly Lockwood, which 
had made a half mile in and for which his 
owner refused $6.<HXJ al the last Buffalo meeting, 
died in Detroit on the 25th ult. 
Dr. Bears told the people of Houston. Texas, 
that If they established public schools they 
should have $2,000 from the Peabody Education¬ 
al Fund. 
The Tyson House, Manistee, Mich., and the 
block opposite, were burned on the 2Sth ult.; 
loss about $00,000. 
George Mountjoy of Philadelphia recently 
convicted of frauds on the revenue connected 
with whisky, was on Monday, the 27th ult., sen- 
tensed to two years’ imprisonment in the East¬ 
ern Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $5,000. 
Mountjoy was allowed until Saturday, January 
1, to close up his business. 
The Friends ol Temperance, an n soeiatlon of 
Southern origin, started in Virginia in 1*08, is 
rapidly extending, and has Just been introduced 
into Texas, where it promises to flourish great¬ 
ly. Its object is tho promotion of the temper¬ 
ance reform, primarily, and, secondly, for social 
and benevolent purposes generally. 
At our latest advices the Hudson River, from 
liondout to Hudson, is clear of lec, and Hie 
boats are running. The moving ice at Hudson 
caused considerable damage to vessels and piers. 
The Ice moved from Albany Wednesday morn¬ 
ing. December 20, and the river was clour. Sub¬ 
sequently it filled with flouting ice from the 
Mohawk. 
There is trouble in Kansas and Missouri over 
railroad mat ters. Operations are suspended on 
the Kansas Pacific Road between Kansas City 
and Leavenworth, aud t he Missouri Pacific-have 
withdrawn their rolling stock to the State line. 
The difficulty is between tlie Missouri Pueifieand 
the Missouri River Railway Companies. 
The steam flour mill of Gideon Truesdule,at 
Kenosha, VVis.. was destroj'ed by fire on the 29tti 
ult. Loss, $17,000: Insured lbr $10,000. 
Jlov. F. Sehoeppe, Dr. Bchoeppe’s father, has 
written a letter from Montreal, asserting that It 
is a deliberate lie that he left Ins sou to the mer¬ 
cy of bis accusers, and repeating the declaration 
made by him In writing, about three months 
ago, to Judge Graham, in Carlisle, Penn., in re¬ 
sponse to his remarks about the genuineness of 
Miss Steiuoeko’a will, that she did, in liis pres¬ 
ence, subscribe her name to the document, and 
that he, with his own baud, subscribed his name 
to it without knowing, at the lime, Its contents. 
This declaration, lie says, he makes for the vin¬ 
dication of truth and justice, and to repel all 
wicked and malicious slanders. 
Five thousand two hundred and fifty-nine ves¬ 
sels, of an aggregate tonnage of 2,048,000 tons, 
cleared from tlie port of Buffalo during the sea¬ 
son just closed. This is a lulling oil from lust 
year. 
The people of Queens county, N. Y., at a Con¬ 
vention held at North Hempstead, the IBtli ult., 
decided to do away with toll bridges and toll 
roads. The system is said to be Injurious to the 
appreciation in value of property in that county. 
A movement is discussed by the Social Science 
Association in Boston to establish industrial 
schools connected with the public Schools, to 
teach girls sewing, cutting aud making gar¬ 
ments, and all useful domestic work, and to pro¬ 
vide some institution like those of the Young 
Men’s Christian Association, for Improvement 
In education and amusement. 
The Boston Traveller says that tho generous 
offer or $100,000 for buildings for the Boston 
Theological Seminary, made by Isaac Rich, on 
condition t hat the Methodist® raiao $ioo,ooo more 
by a certain time, is Ukoly to be accepted. One 
gentleman of Lynn, Mass., has put. down his 
name for $10,000 of tho last-named sum, and 
there are numerous smaller sums. 
Tho Sau Francisco Alta shows that there has 
been a decline of $1,808,706 In the receipt of gold 
there during the past eleven months, as com¬ 
pared with the same period last year, and a do- 
cline of $1,808,408 in the receiptor silver, making 
a lessened production equal to $6,677,175 or about 
17 per cent,. 
E. S. Woodford of West Winsted, Ct., has 
stocked, for tlie Fish Commissioners of Connec¬ 
ticut and Maine, about twenty-five ponds in 
those States with black bnss during tlie past sea¬ 
son, The fish, it is claimed, are peculiarly well 
adapted to stock the thousand and one small 
lakes in the M iddle Slates, whenqe tho trout have 
boon driven by the voracious pickerel. 
The five warehouses in Maeoti, Ga., have re¬ 
ceived since Sept. 1st, about 65,000 bales of cot¬ 
ton, of which about 37,000 bales have been sold 
there, and the balance is in store for higher 
prices than those now ruling. 
The buildings of the Insane Asylum in Sou 111 
Boston, Mass., and those of the Kearney Hos¬ 
pital, in the same pi nee, were somewhat dam¬ 
aged by fire on the 26th ult., tlie former to the 
exton 1. of $5,000, and the Inner of $1,500. 
Tlie Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo has 
been refused admission to the Ecumenical Coun¬ 
cil, aud will return home. 
Ezra Gregory, u farmer of Dresden, near 
Whitehall, N. Y.,sbot and killed Lewis Lougrey, 
a neighbor mid a fanner also, on Hie 27th ult., 
as he alleges, iu self defence. The trouble 
originated from Gregory's cattle straying Into 
LougreyV premises. Gregory was arrested, and 
an investigation is in progress. 
A fire broke out at 2 A. M. Monday, tiic 27il> 
nil., in Boiifh Selma street, Syracuse, N. Y., 
which was not subdued until lute in the forc- 
uoon. Seven brick stores were destroyed, live 
being entirely burned out, and the others 
crushed by failing walls. Tho loss is estimated 
at $150,000, and the insurance $225,000. 
A convict, from Cattaraugus county, N. Y., in 
the Auburn Prison, inis been left property in 
New York valued ul $12,000. He has served six 
months of a term of two years and six months. 
Miss HeratusIIarootunln, a young and beauti¬ 
ful Turkish lady, whs brought up before Judge 
Troy, In the Kings County Court, tlie 22U ult., on 
a writ of ficilug/scorpus. D appears that.she was 
brought^to this country by C. H. Christian, the 
keeper of a confectionery establishment on 
Fulton avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.. and abandoned ; 
that she sought Ids protection; when he ordered 
lier arrest, aud caused Justice Lynch to semi her 
to the Penitentiary for two months. Judge 
Troy, on hearing the fuels in the case stated, 
ordered the young lady’s discharge, stud recom¬ 
mended the District-Attorney to call tlie atten¬ 
tion of the Grand Jury to the ease. 
Tho Boston City Government lias authorized 
the Mayor to petition the Legislature for an act 
increasing the Board of Aldermen to sixteen 
and Common Council to forty-eight. 
Governor Baker, of Indiana, ina recent lotter, 
expresses ids intention to recommend in Ids 
message to the next Legislature a reformation 
of tlie State laws governing the subject of di¬ 
vorce. Tin* Legislature will not meet until Jan¬ 
uary, of next year. 
On the 27th ult., a very important ease to stock 
brokers was decided in the New York Court of 
Appeals, and tlie law lias been finally fixed upon 
a much disputed question. The substance of the 
decision is, that a broker who sells out his cus¬ 
tomer's stock after his margin is gone, but with¬ 
out giving him notice of the time and place of 
the sale, is liable to Hie customer lor I he highest 
price of the stock down to tho time of the trial, 
because tlie customer owns Hie stock, and (he 
act of the broker is a wrongful commission. 
This was a test case, selected by the Brokers’ 
Board. 
California lias had another earthquake. It oc¬ 
curred at C o'clock on Sunday evening, the 26th 
ult., and was felt far down the coast, and east¬ 
ward to Nevada. Church bells were rung, walls 
were thrown down, clocks were stopped, and 
railroad trains were injured by the tossing of 
heavy rooks upon the tracks. The consternation 
was very general. The dispatches, which are 
brief, add a postscript that the shocks continued 
all of Sunday night. No loss of life is yet re¬ 
ported. 
The Lumberman’s Savings Bank at Oldtown, 
Me., was entered by burglars on Sunday night, 
December 27. The vault door was blown open 
with powder, and an attempt was made to open 
a steel box, but failed, after injuring the box so 
that it must bo broken open. The robbers de¬ 
camped hastily, leaving tools and blood marks, 
showing that they sustained Injury in the at¬ 
tempt. 
There is a proposition to increase the salaries 
of the Supreme Judges of California from $6,000 
to $10,OIK) per annum, the salary of the Chief Jus¬ 
tice to bo $12,000. The State Constitution pro¬ 
hibits any increase of salary during the term for 
which an officer was elected, and it is proposes! 
to evade this by increasing the salary of Judge 
Wallace alone, who has Just been elected,before 
his term begins, with the understanding that he 
shall divide the surplus over $ 6,000 with Ills broth¬ 
er .) ustlecs. 
Charles French, a young man t wenty years old. 
son of Styles French of New Haven, and atuem- 
ber of the Sophomore Class Of Yale Col lege,while 
skating on the WhitneyvJJlo pond, near New 
Haven, on Friday afternoon the 21th nil., and 
pushing ills sister, a little girl, before him on a 
sled, broke through IllO ice, and carried with 
him into the water the sled and child. Several 
men who were by made every effort to save 
them, but. by great exert ions the little girl only 
was rescued. The body of young French was 
soon after recovered. 
On Tuesday night, Dee. 58th, the savings bank 
at Rockville, Ct., was robbed by burglars, who 
went to the Treasurer's house and got the keys, 
without, disturbing anybody. They stole $6,000 
in bonds and $150 lo bills. The Schoharie Coun¬ 
ty Bank, Schoharie \ illage, was robbed of $5,000 
on the 89th. 
Tlie shareholders of the Aerial Steam Naviga¬ 
tion Company held a meeting in Sau Francisco 
on the 17th ult., and voted to build a new avitor. 
The last, model which was built, and which was 
pronounced a success, was destroyed at a lire in 
San Francisco. 
Near Belvidcrc, III., three niemliors of a Ger¬ 
man family have recently died of trichinosis, 
communicated by eating trichinoscdhum. Eight 
other persons are In footed so severely that it is 
thought they will die. The triebirue can be seen 
in immense numbers In the moat, and also in 
the llcsli of those who have died, 
Tho Baltimore City Council has voted that it 
Is not advisable for the city to be represented 
by a military organization at tho funeral of Mr. 
Peabody, but it will send a committee, to con¬ 
sist of the mayor and five members of each 
branch of Hie council. 
The Montgomery Opera House, Lafayette, 
Ind., was destroyed by lire on the 24th ult., in¬ 
volving loss amounting to over $10,000. 
A Mrs. ltlgnoy has taken a $12,000 contract for 
macadamizing streets In St. Louis. 
Important changes arc soon to be made in the 
management of the Great Western Railway of 
Canada. By nu arrangement with tlie English 
directors tlie road will he placed under the con¬ 
trol of the Michigan Central and other connect¬ 
ing railroads. 
Lieut. Spear, agent, for the Southern ULe In¬ 
dians, declares that they are peaceably inclined, 
and that the whites will lie responsible for any 
trouble that may arise with them. 
In Brooklyn, N. Y„ on Christmas Day the 
boiler of a steam tug exploded at the Atlantic 
Dock, arid so great was tlie effect of the explo¬ 
sion that the roofs of a number of store-houses 
were blown off, and window shutters whirled 
hundreds of foot into tho air. Throe men on 
the boat at the time of Hie explosion escaped 
with their lives. Only one of them, the en¬ 
gineer, was severely injured. 
The reception of Gen. Slhophen A. Hurlbert, 
United Btntus Minister to Colombia, took place 
at Bogota on the 13th Of November. Tlie Pres¬ 
ident of the Republic made a speech flattering 
to tlie United States and Gen. Grant. Minister 
Hurlbert, in U1 h address, informed his Colombian 
Excellency that Mm Hue/. Qana! was a suect- s, 
and expressed the opinion that it was high time 
the American nations were doing something to 
connect the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific 
by a similar work. 
Two Cubans, Jose Crcspiles and Jose Rubo, 
who were convicted for an attempt to incite re¬ 
bellion among Catalan volunteers, were exe¬ 
cuted by the garrote in Havana on Christmas 
Day. 
Ex-Secretary Seward inis recently been visit¬ 
ing places of hnlorioul interest in Mexico, but 
was to sail from Vera Cruz for Havana on the 
2d inst. important movements in opposition to 
the Governmeiyt are reported, but the most 
formidable of the in.surgofit bands have been 
uompellod to take to the mountains by tho Gov¬ 
ernment troops. 
The shook of an earthquake was felt a few 
days before Christmas about forty utiles below 
Quebec, which continued one minute. 
Advices front the West f tidies, by way of Ha¬ 
vana, represent great excitement to have fol¬ 
lowed the announcement in San Domingo of the 
lease of Batumi a by tlie United States, mid a <lc- 
torminitMon to overthrow Baez before tho ratifi¬ 
cation of the treaty by Congress. 
Negotiations for tho cession of St. Thomas art* 
reported iu Hint Island to have boon ro-opened. 
A telegram from Si, Paul, In regard to the lied 
River rebellion, contains a declaration of inde¬ 
pendence of the Provisional Government of Ru¬ 
pert's Land and the Northwest Territory, signed 
by John B. Bruce, President, and Louis Rcillc, 
Secretary. The document is to the effect, that 
Hie people, having been released from their al¬ 
legiance to 1 lie Hudson Bay Company, have a 
right to be independent, and that Canada has no 
right to coerce them assubjCCbsof the Dominion. 
They tiold themselves in readiness to treat with 
Canada as a free Province. Col. Dennis, who or¬ 
ganized the Indians in support of Gov. MoDou- 
gal, is said to have disbanded his forces, and to 
have lied to American territory. 
On the 29th ult. papers were filed in the United 
Stales Circuit Court, at New York City, in sup¬ 
port of tlie petition of ltcwena Florence, niece 
of Lhe late General Twiggs, for tlie removal of. 
her suit against General B. F. Butler, for the re¬ 
covery of the value of the swords of General 
Twiggs seized during the war, from the Superior 
Court to the United States Circuit Court. 
The Mississippians cast at the late election 
1J4,784 votes, against 120,091 in June, 1868. Gen¬ 
era) Alcorn received 76,687, and Judge Dent 
38.097; Alcorn’s majority 38,590. 
A dispatch from Houston, dated the 23d ult., 
saj's that. General Davis has been chosen Gover¬ 
nor of Texas by eight hundred majority, and 
that no election is to be ordered in Milan and 
Nayaroo counties. 
Arms and ammunition, said to be for the in¬ 
surgents, were found on tho plantation Telio 
Lamar, near Matanzas, Cuba, on the 23d ult. 
Lamar was arrested and tried by court martial 
and executed the next day. 
Genera) Terry has been assigned to tlie com¬ 
mand of Georgia, as a district, under the Recon¬ 
struction acts, in addition to ills duties as com¬ 
mander of t he Department of the South. 
General Ames has issued a proclamation an¬ 
nouncing tiio result of the recent election in 
Mississippi, aud designating Tuesday, the 11th 
inst,., for the assembling of the Legislature in 
Jackson. 
Four thousand tons of wheat were cleared for 
England, from San Francisco, on tho Sfilli ult., 
and ten vessels are now loading for the same 
destination., 
A Boston dispatch says the January dividends 
of the manufacturing companies show a de¬ 
crease, but not such as to warrant the rumors of 
dull times prevalent there. 
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour was thrown 
lTom his carriage between UL .a and Deerfield, 
ami his shoulder dislocated. 
A little girl named Annie Gillcm, four years 
old, died in Louisville, on the 30th ult., from 
hydrophobia. 
Ou the 30th nit.. Judge Smith, of the Supreme 
Court, gave Ins decision, at Rochester, in the Al¬ 
bany and Susquehanna Railroad case,in favor of 
the Ruinscy ticket oT directors. 
The Governor of Matanzas, Cuba, has ordered 
all those having arms to deliver them to the au¬ 
thorities, under pain of trial and court martial. 
Albert Austin’s cigar manufactory, Snffield, 
Ct., was burned on the 30th ult. Loss, $36,000; 
insurance, $14,000. 
It appears from the medical testimony at tho 
Comma 's inquest, that Mr. Guller of New York 
City, was not poisoned by his wife, but that his 
death was caused from lead poison absorbed in 
the system from drinking water drawn through 
lead pipes. 
On the 30th ult., at a special meeting of the 
New York Union League Club, addresses com¬ 
memorative of l he life and services of Secretary 
Stanton were delivered by Wm. Cullen Bryant, 
Rev. Dr. Bellows, Itcv. Dr. Thompson and Gen. 
Van Buren, and a committee was appointed to 
raise a fund for tho benefit, of the family of the 
deceased statesman. 
Supervisor Fulton reports to Commissioner 
Delano that ho has seized tho establishment of 
Hie Bacillc Match Company, at Ban Francisco, 
for alleged violations of tlie Internal Revenue 
laws. 
On account of the mild weather the contract¬ 
ors of the branch to Sag Harbor of the Long Is¬ 
land (N. Y.,) Railroad arc pushing the work along. 
The rails have been laid beyond Canoe Place, and 
if Hie mild weather holds on, will roach Sag Har¬ 
bor before, the end of January. 
A subscription has recently been started in 
Trenton, N. J., having for its object the pur¬ 
chase of tho celebrated gun, tho “ Swamp An¬ 
gel," which is designed by the Trcntonians for a 
monument to the Union soldiers of Mercer 
county. 
The police of Newark, N. J., are occupied a 
considerable portion Of their time in making 
“ descents ’’ upon canal boats for the capture of 
river thieves. A party of eight colored men, 
who were arrested in the act of committing 
robberies upon some canal boats on the 29 th ult., 
has led to the discovery of the whereabouts of u 
large amount of property stolen during tho fall 
and winter. It is also expected to result in the 
arrest of other gangs who are in complicity with 
the prisoners. 
The Port Oram Iron Company have recently 
erected a large furnace at Fort Oram, N. J., at 
an expense of $250,000. 
Tho property owners of Madison, N. J., and 
vicinity threaten a suit against the Morris aud 
Essex Railroad Lo compel them to discontinue 
the use of coal-burning;locomotives. 
A married man of Rerih Amboy, N. .T., lias 
eloped with a girl of nineteen, taking with him 
his four children. 
Ou Dec, 29tli a fire destroyed the Alleghany 
City, Pa. Poor House stables, with the contents. 
Tho losses $4,000; partially insured. 
The warehouse of D. W. Barry, and the corn 
cribs adjoining, at Norris, JII., were destroyed 
lij fire on the .mb ult. The loss is fully $13,000, 
and is fully covered by insurance, 
A ease involving State aud Federal jurisdiction 
has arisen at Mobile, Ala. The State law levies 
a tax upon the Southern Express Company. The 
Company applied m Judge liustccdof the United 
States Court for an injuction, which was granted. 
The State Auditor lias issued a circular to tax 
collectors, ordering them to collect the tax in 
spite of Hie injuction. 
Tho export trade of Sau Francisco by 6ea to 
New York l'or the year 1869, aggregates $5,000,- 
000, which fifty-three per cent, went by the Pa¬ 
nama stealnera. One hundred packages of tea 
were shipped to New York, and five hundred 
and seven to Chicago, by railway, on the 30th 
nil. Seventy-eight packages of silk-worm eggs 
were shipped to Lyons. France, on Die 28Hi ult. 
Tho Deputy Collector of the Currency i3 pre¬ 
paring a bill making changes in the Mint Law's 
by which tlie chief office of tlie Mint will be 
established in the Treasury, and all other offices 
be required to report there, aud be independent 
ol the Mint at Philadelphia. The Treasurer of 
the Mint, should the bill become law, will no 
longer perform i he du lies of Assistant Treasurer 
of the United States. 
Iu relation to the robbery of $12,000 iu unsign¬ 
ed notes of Hie First National Bank of Jersey 
City, stolen from Hie vaults of Hie Comptroller 
of the Currency, Washington, a circular is issued 
recommending the rejection of all $50 and $100 
notes of that bank, as it is supposed attempts 
may be made to put the stolen notes in circula¬ 
tion. 
Earthquake shocks were again experienced in 
Virginia Oily, Nevada, on the 29th and 30th ult., 
some of them of an alarming nat ure. 
On tho 27ih ult. the store of J. S. Henderson & 
Co., at Mt. Blanchard, O., was robbed of $4,970 in 
money, and the store tired, and a stock worth, 
between $30,000 and $40,000 destroyed, with ether 
property. 
On the 30th ult Mr. Steadman, of Oneida Co., 
N. Y., was killed in attempting to get on a train 
in attempting to get on a train of cars at Oil 
City, Pa. 
Two planters in Pike Co., Ark., Elkins and 
Nash quarreled recently, and the former shot 
the latter, killing him instantly. 
According to an estimate furnished by the 
Secretary of the Interior in response to a reso¬ 
lution of Congress, the public land in the South¬ 
ern States remaining unsold and unappropriated 
is 47,479,619 acres. Tlie Virginias, the Caro linos, 
Georgia, Texas. Kentucky and Tennessee have 
no public lands within their limits. 
An Ottawa dispatch saj's that the Dominion 
Cabinet has determined upon the recall of 
would-be Governor of McDougall. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
A London dispatch says General Sickles has 
submitted to the Spanish Government a project 
for securing the neutrality of ocean cables, to 
which scheme the British Government had pre¬ 
viously given its approval. 
The interview between tho sovereigns of Italy 
and Austria will take place Jan. 15, 1870, at An¬ 
cona, after which King Victor Emmanuel will 
visit Vienna, in company with the Emperor. 
The Bishop of Havana has disappeared from 
Madrid, and is believed to have gone to Franco 
with another Bishop who declines to recognize 
the Government, the Regency or the revolution. 
Tho Dalmatian rebels, it is reported at Vien¬ 
na, have laid down their arms. 
A Republican Society bn* been discovered 
among Hie soldiers of the Paris garrison, and 
seventy-four of them have been arrested. 
The reported reconciliation between the cx- 
Quccn Isabella and Hie Duko of Montpcnsior is 
denied in a Madrid dispatch. 
Advices received from Rio Janeiro in London, 
it is said, confirm the flight and disappearance 
of Lopez. 
The Swedish Government has decided that the 
same vessel need not pay lighthouse dues twice 
in tho same month. 
The resignation of the French Ministry is 
officially announced. A let ter from the Emperor 
isaiso published inviting M. OUiviCr to form a 
new Cabinet, who shall represent the legislative 
majority and be prepared to carry out i be Sen¬ 
ates Consultant of September 8. The Emperor 
counts on The Legislature and tho Cabinet to 
put in successful operation a constitutional 
regime. The Liberal Journals of Paris regard 
this as a sign of the end of "personal govern¬ 
ment,’’ and the Ural, chapter of tho " Liboral 
Empire." The regular session of the Corps 
Lcgislatlf opened on the 28tli ult. when M 
Schneider was chosen President. 
The French Emperor, lu a letter to M, For cade, 
accepts the resignation of the Cabinet with re¬ 
gret, and thanks him for the services rendered 
to the country and to the Emperor. Count. 
Daru and Louis Joseph Buffet, leaders of tho 
“ Left Center," have declined seats in the new 
Cabinet, ami it is reported MM. Talhuuct und 
Segris, members of the “Right Center," M. 
Mngnc, Flnaucla) Secretary. M. Lobceul. Minis¬ 
ter of War, and Admiral Kiguult, Minister of 
Marine, will be retained, M Row her Inis been 
appointed President of the French Senate. 
A Suez correspondent of the London Daily 
News 8a,vs that, work lias been stopped on the 
canal, although It is stilt hazardous for vessels of 
moro than 21 feet draft. 
Tlie Spanish Minister of Justice, Senor Zarilla, 
in a speech on the 28th ult., declared that if a 
king could not be found the Government would 
form a republic. 
The Pope’s influence with the Council, accord¬ 
ing to tho correspondent of the London Times, 
is perceptibly diminishing. 
A dreadful calamity Occurred iu a theater in 
Bristol, England, on Monday night, the 27th ult. 
A panic seized Hie audience and In the crush to 
escape from the building eighteen persons were 
killed and many injured. 
Elections for the aj/untamientos , which were 
dissolved by the Government, have been or¬ 
dered, ami were to be begun on the 3d inst. 
The elections to fill the seats in Lhe Cortes left 
vacant by tin; Republican Deputies who took an 
active part in the late insurrection will take 
place ou Hie 20th inst. 
in the Cories tho Republican minority have 
made an energetic protest against these elec¬ 
tions, anti they demand the restoration of tho 
former aiiutitamientoii. They declare that they 
will carry i lie matter before tlie legal tribunals, 
but counsel the people in the meantime to keep 
tho peace, and make vigorous efforts at the new 
elections to return their true friends. 
Tho Ceremony of blessing a ducal hut and 
golden sword-—which niarlcs the eve of Christ¬ 
mas In St. Peter’.* -took place ou the 24th. It is 
an old custom, dutiug buck six hundred years. 
The sword, which is a model of artistic skill, was 
specially manufactured in Paris for tho oeea- 
riou. It is adorned with diamonds, rubies, sap¬ 
phires aiul emeralds. Tlie bill is iu Hie shape of a 
dove. A splendid ducal hat of purple colored 
silk, furred with ermine, uud surrounded with.a 
novel hat band made in the form of a crown, 
aud decorated with precious stones, is attached 
to the sword. The but and sword are designed 
for one of the crowned heads of Europe, but 
Lhe name of the sovereign is at present with¬ 
held. Some suppose that Napoleon is to be tlie 
favored monarch; but hi? present relation?to 
Holy See are not of u character to warrant the 
belief. The ruler of Belgium is named as one 
of the candidates for the gift. The Pope blessed 
the sword and bat in the afternoon, and then 
deposited the gilt?, preparatory to their presen¬ 
tation, in tho chapel. 
Rumors that secret negotiations arc in pro¬ 
gress for a peninsular union are current, and 
cause much public excitement in Lisbon. 
M. de Lessepsdenies tho stories ot danger in 
navigating the Suez Canal, and adds that tlie 
depth in the shallowest parts has been increased 
seventy centimeters. 
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