Patrick Meehan, editor of the Irish American, 
and a prominent Fenian, was attacked in New 
York one night- last week by a man who tired 
two shots at him, one of which took effect in ins 
neck. The would-be murderer wus arrested. 
Mr. Meehan is yet alive. 
The French Republicans had a banquet In New 
York city on the evening of the 1st inQt. in com¬ 
memoration of the anniversary of the French 
Revolution in IMS. Charles Villa presided, and 
delivered ou eloquent address on the great day 
which they were celebrating. 
The Krie Railroad Company has boon enjoined 
at the suit Of the preferred stockholders, from 
recognizing the certificates bearing the tax 
stamp of the English stockholders. 
Wm. H. Seward spent all of last week in New 
York city. Lie was tendered a banquet by the 
Common Council, but the Mayor objected and 
Mr. Seward declined. 
There was skating in Central Park last week 
for the first time this season. 
by striking out the word “white” from the 
suffrage clause, and restoring the ballot to those 
disfranchised on account of participation in the 
rebellion, lias been adopted by a vote of thirty- 
eight to eighteen. The Capitol question has 
been up before both Houses. In the Senate the 
bill to repeal the act locating it at Charleston, 
was passed by a vote of fourteen to seven. The 
lest vote in the I Inure Indicates its final passage. 
Judge A. Harrison resigned on Tuesday, the 1st 
inst., a few minutes before the Legislature was 
ready to arraign him for uml-administmtion. 
A bill has passed the Pennsylvania Legislature 
for the protection of the lives and health of 
miners. It has now gone to the Governor Just 
as the miners want. it. The bill allowing hus¬ 
band and wife to testify in Ids nr her belmlf, in 
any proceeding for a divorce, has also passed 
both Houses. Governor Geary has vetoed the 
bill providing for a House of Correction for 
Philadelphia. 
third, eight of the fourth, four of the fifth and 
two of the sixth 
Of turret ships there would bo 
two of the first class, five of the second and two 
of the third; and besides these a number of 
smaller iron vessels. This fleet would place 
England on an equal footing with the highest 
naval power in the world. 
The submarine cable from Bombay, India, to 
Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, 1ms been 
successfully laid by the steamship Great Eastern. 
This Jink places England and her Indian colonies 
in direct telegraphic communication. 
Practical educational measures for Ireland and 
Scotland are to be introduced in the British Par- 
li,ament. 
Lord Grinned has announced the intention of 
tho Imperial government to withdraw the troops 
from Newfoundland, and leave the province in 
future to protect itself. 
Cholera is raging in its worst form at Moscow. 
In some cases people have been attacked while 
walking in the streets, and have died almost as 
suddenly as If shot through the heart. 
There is great distress among ail classes of peo¬ 
ple throughout the southern provinces of Italy, 
occasioned by tbe failure of a bank at Seilla. 
Italy is negotiating with the Viceroy of Egypt 
with the view to securing a naval station on the 
Red Sea, and restoring her supremacy, as a mari¬ 
time power, in the commerce of the East. 
The Pope has “secularized," Father Ilyoointhe. 
This act releases the popular preacher from his 
monastic vows, and throws him upon the world 
as a simple priest. The secularization is said to 
give general satisfaction in Rome. 
For the first time since 18,50 the police have 
permitted the wearing of masks in t'«o streets 
during tlio carnival. No disturbances occurred. 
The weather has been unfavorable causing little 
animation in the festivities. 
It is reported that J. MeLcnry Brown, the 
secrctaryof tlio Chinese embassy, will be appoint¬ 
ed to the place made vacant by the death of 
Anson Burlingame. The Chinese ambassadors 
continue their ncgoctiulions with the Russian 
Government. 
The Hessian Government lias forbidden the 
employment or children as rope dancers, horse 
riders, and gymnasts. 
The Pope Is confident In his ability to carry the 
proposition for infallibility. Every effort is be¬ 
ing made by him to Induce the Amerioftti ilisiiops 
to declare for Papal infallibility, but so far the 
I'l tram on tail est have been unsuccessful in secur¬ 
ing their adhesion. 
Count Napoleon Darn has officially written to 
the French prelate at Rome, declaring that if the 
infallibility dogma is proclaimed, public opinion 
in France will compel the withdrawal of the 
French troops from Rome. 
It is reported that the Viceroy of F.gypt has 
given a commission to M. Solera to recruit a new 
legion in Switzerland. It is also stated that an 
army of 50,000 men will be concentrated in 
Upper Egypt, The movement will be effected 
us secretly as possible. 
The Khedive has ordered Col. Coronoas, and 
other Cretan Insurgent chiefs who hud taken 
refuge in his territory, to leave Egypt, 
The Irish members of the Honso of Commons, 
at a private meeting have resolved to propose 
amendments to the Irish Laud Hill, but not to 
oppose the bill as a whole. 
The Chinese Embassy had their flrat audience 
with the Czar only a few days previous to Mr. 
Burlingame’s death. The Embassy was received 
with all the honors paid to diplomats of highest 
rank, und in reply to Mr. Burlingamo's address 
the Czar said it wus part icularly agreeable to him 
to see “the interests of China intrusted to the 
citizen of a state especially sympathetic with 
Russia.” 
The U, S. war steamer Oneida was run into on 
the 33d of January, off the coast of Japan, by 
the British steamer Bomba}*, and sunk in n few 
moments. Of the one hundred and seventy-six 
persons on board only fifty-six were saved. All 
the boats bur the iife-boat were crushed by the 
collision, and the Bombay kept on her way re¬ 
gardless of the signals of distress which were 
sounded. Surgeon Suddards and n small crew 
maned the life-boat and succeeded In reaching 
Yokohama, fifteen miles distant. Commander 
Williams refused to leave his vessel, and went 
down with threo-fourtlisof the crew. The col¬ 
lision occurred at evening, while the officers 
were at supper; and those on board the Bom¬ 
bay disclaim all knowledge of it, though the 
shock was so powerful as to drive one of the 
Oneida's timbers clear through the Bombay's 
bow. The Oneida was a third-class vessel, car¬ 
rying only a few guns, hut had seen excellent 
service. 
On the morning of the 23d tilt, the steamer 
Golden City, bound for Panama from San Fran¬ 
cisco with four hundred passengers, a cargo of 
ten nnd treasure, went ashore near Point Lnzaro, 
Lower California, and about fifteen miles dis¬ 
tant from the Bay of Santa Maria. The passen¬ 
gers, baggage and treasure were landed with blit 
little difficulty, the sen being smooth; the suf¬ 
ferings of the passengers on the march from the 
serno of the disaster to Santa Maria I lay to meet 
the steamer Colorado, are described as terrible. 
There was no water along the route, and they 
had but little lmrd bread with them. Old men 
and women and children walked for twenty-two 
hours over the Rocky Mountains and under a 
burning sun, and on their arrival at their desti¬ 
nation were on irely prostrated with faliguc. 
Fifteen p;tsst'iig. M are blissing. 
The propeller New Jersoy. from Baltimore for 
Norfolk, was burned to the water's edge in 
Chesapeake Bay on the 25th ult., and sunk in 
l on fathoms water. The captain and crew were 
picked up by the Transit. 
The Rteamer Mississippi, sooth ward bound, and 
heavily laden wii li stock and Western produce, 
struck a snag near tho landing, at Water Proof, 
Louisiana, on the 38th ult., and sank in a very 
short time. No 1 i von wore lost. 
The missionary schooner Morning Star was 
lately wrecked in tho South I’acitlc. She was 
built for the American Board of Foreign Mis¬ 
sions, by contributions from the children of the 
different religious societies which sustain this 
Board. About 2,000 Sabbath schools contribu¬ 
ted, an<l she cost about $37,000. 
The boiler of the towboat Neville exploded 
on tlio 2fith ult. above Lawmnccburg, on the 
Ohio River. Three persons wore klllcdaiid four 
badly injured. 
By the explosion of a boiler in a rolling mill at 
Scranton, Pa., ou the 28th ult., a portiou of tho 
roof, with all its heavy timbers, shafting, 
seventy-five feet by ninety-five feet, was blown 
into the air, and fell with a tremendous crash, 
and some twenty men were buried in tho ruins, 
half of whom were taken out dead. 
The drying works at Ncponset, Mass., were 
destroyofl by (ire on the 2d Inst. Six women 
,,-cre burned iv dctUk. Ttte Iwt'./.'nr was :u\ old 
wooden structure, one and a half stories high ; 
the attic, where the unfortunate women were 
employed assorting cotton and wool, being kept 
at about 125° Fahrenheit for drying the material, 
and having no exit but by a ladder und trap¬ 
door. 
A shocking gunpowder explosion occurred at 
Morfti Colliery, South Wales, lately. A quantity 
of powder in store at the bottom of the mine 
was unhappily fired, and the result was terrific. 
The ground shook ashy an earthquake. Twenty- 
three persons lost their lives, anil about thirty 
more are badly injured. 
The Miaslssippi Centra! Railroad was the scene 
of a fearful accident on tho 26th ult. A train 
leaving Humboldt behind time, rapidly ap¬ 
proached Buckner’s Trestle, spanning a ravine 
forty feet in depth. The engine crossed safely, 
but the remainder of tbe train ran off the track, 
crushing the trestle and completely wrecking 
the baggage, moil, express and three passenger 
cars. Two women, four children, twelve white 
and three colored persons are known to have 
been killed, and a large number were more or 
loss hurt. 
The schooner Benjamin Butler, from Eliza- 
bethport, N. J., Tor Providence, was run down 
and sunk off Watch Hill, It. L, on the 25th ult. 
The vessel was cut in two, and went down in- 
Four men were lost. 
FROM WASHINGTON, 
Congressional. 
In the Senate the House amendments of the 
Disability Bill have been concurred in. A reso¬ 
lution against a currency expansion has been 
agreed to without division. Mr. Revels,colored, 
from Mississippi, has been duly admitted and 
sworn In,—the vote of admission being strictly 
partisan. The nomination of General Sickles as 
Minister to Spain has been reported from tlio 
Committee with but one dissenting vote. A res¬ 
olution introduced by Mr. Wilson looks to tho 
further suppression ol' iho slave trade on the 
coast of A friou. Mr. Sumner has made a long 
speed] in support of the Funding Bill. Thecro- 
dentlalsof Gen. AmoB has been referred to the 
Commit lee on the Judiciary. 
Among the most Important nominations made 
by tlio President or late are those of Charles II. 
Lewis of Virginia (brother of Sonator Lewis,) as 
Minister Ui-sidcul to Portugal, in place of Mr. 
Shellubargcr, resigned, and Commodore John A. 
Winslow, who commanded tbe Konr.su go in the 
fight with the Alabama, as a Rear Admiral in tho 
navy. 
In tho House, two resignations have been sent 
to the desk of Ihe Speaker,—those of John T. 
Deweeso, (Had.) from tbcThird District of North 
Carolina, and James 8. Goltudny, (Dem.) from 
the Fourth District of Kentucky, induced by 
the forthcoming report of the Military Com- 
mittoo recommending the expulsion of both 
persons for trading in cadetships. Mr. Golladny 
indignantly denied the charge, but, was unwill¬ 
ing to remain in the House after learning Hint 
the Committee had made up a cose against him. 
The Mi I Mary Committee reported a resolution, 
which was passed promptly* condemning Mr. 
Deweeso, and declaring him unworthy to be a 
representative of tho people. The evidence in 
hie case was very brief, and was directly to the 
point that ho sold his cadetship for the Naval 
Academy for $.500, and—pending this investiga¬ 
tion—laid returned the money. The Committee 
then submitted to tho House, whether they 
should continue to investigate eases arising in 
previous Congress, where the alleged offender 
was not a member of the present House. Tho 
chairman thought they had jurisdiction of tho 
act, but not Of the person. The question was 
then raised us to whether the Committee should 
finish the investigation Commenced in eases ol' 
ex-naeinhors; and finally the House decided, 
after considerable debate on the matter, to con¬ 
tinue the investigation only so i'ar as it affected 
members of t his Congress and Other officers of 
the Government. 
A bill has been reported by Mr. Bennett, and 
passed, authorizing the construction and main¬ 
tenance of a bridge across the Niagara River at 
Buffalo, tmd making It a post road. 
The cadet investigations have been continued 
by the House Military Committee. Lists have 
been received by the Committee of till cadets 
now at Annapolis nud West Point, and opposite 
their names answers to question* which have 
been propounded to them, showing where they ; 
were really appointed from und by whom ap¬ 
pointed, &c. The list shows that a very largo 
number have not been selected from their proper 
districts, and gives the Committee clues to some 
entirely new cases. 
A bill reported by Mr. Ingersoll, in the House, 
for a land grant of 640,000 acres to a railway in 
Missouri and Arkansas, after being variously 
amended, has been referred to the Committee 
on Public Lands. A bill t<? establish a military 
railway between New York and Washington hits 
been under discussion ; and that for the admis¬ 
sion #f Georgia has been reported. 
IHlsccllaneon*. 
A party Of about, one hundred and fifty 
ladies and gentleman, numbering many prom¬ 
inent officials of iho Government and dip¬ 
lomatists of other countries, paid a visit to the 
British war steamer Monarch, lying near An¬ 
napolis, on the85th ult. They were handsomely 
entertained on board the vessel, and treated to 
a sail down the bay for several miles. 
The Navy Department is awaiting official 
reports ol the Oneida disaster, which are ex¬ 
pected in duo time from the surviving officers. 
Surgeon Suddards and Master Yates, before 
framing the rules for the searching investiga¬ 
tion which will be made of every circumstance 
attending the disaster. 
The public debt, exhibit shows a reduction in 
February of about $6,000,000. 
Mr. Bowen, of Tho Independent, and Gen. 
Jones, Postmaster of New York, have set forth 
before the Posluiaster-Gcuerni some facts in 
relation to tbe enormous rates that are paid for 
the transportat ion of flie mails. According to 
these statements a barrel of Hour sent from 
New York to Omaha, at the rate per annum 
charged for mail matter, wottld cost $240. Mr. 
Cresweil informed them that when Congress 
shall abolish the franking privilege, lie will be 
prepared to recommend cheap postage, ranging 
from thirty-three to fifty per cent lower tlmn 
the present rates. 
The House Committee on Commerce has de¬ 
cided to recommend that the fur seal fisheries ot 
Alaska be leased to a private company for twenty 
years. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has $100,660,000 
in United States bonds purchased during the 
past year. 
FROM THE WEST, 
FROM NEW ENGLAND 
Thf. main building of the Illinois Female Col¬ 
lege at Jacksonville was burned on the 2Sth ult. 
Tho furniture was all saved, though in a dam¬ 
aged condition. There were about one hundred 
and fifty young ladies in the building, all of 
whom escaped uninjured, and saved their wear¬ 
ing apparel aud books. 
The Ohio Editorial Convention was held at 
Springfield on the 35th and 28th ult. Officers 
were elected as follows:—President, Emile Rotho 
of Cincinnati; First. Vice-President, John Hop- 
ley of lJuoyrus; Second Vice-President, C. M. 
Nichols of Springfield; Secretary, J. M. Myers. 
Among the Jurors drawn for the March term 
of tlio Albany County Court, Wyoming, were 
eleven ladies, some of them tho wives of the 
most prominent citizens. The excitement caused 
by this proceeding was intense. 
The great feature of the celebration of Wash¬ 
ington's Birthday in San Francisco, was tho Open¬ 
ing of tho On mi Ha Urso Musical Festival. The 
immense building prepared for it was densely 
crowded, nnd the adjacent, streets wore tilled 
with people unable to obtain admission. Tlio 
programme Included tho Anvil Chorus, with 
1,500 voices, two hundred instruments, the big 
gun, the mammoth organ, thirty anvils, ami 
electric guns, and closed with the grand anthem, 
“ America." 
It is reported that Indian hostilities are in¬ 
creasing, and fears are entertulnod that they 
will bo worse this season than ever before. A 
renegade named John Richards has been stirring 
up the warlike propensities of the Sioux, and 
they are sending out war parties In the direction 
of the Platte. It is believed they will strike the 
posts and settlors in Wyoming. 
A large cave lias boon discovered underneath 
the city of Alton, III. It Is In places seven feet 
high, and has the usual characterist ics of eaves, 
it. has already been traversed some hundreds of 
feet, und a full exploration has not yet been 
made. 
In Dayton, Ohio, recently, a little girl of eight 
yearn was attacked by two ferocious dogs anti 
literally torn limtyfroin Mmb. 
A shuck of oi trijfcq tmko was felt on Wednesday 
in the Ruts inn rawer and Napa Valleys, Califor¬ 
nia. The volcanic peak of Mount. Si, Helens 
was the center of the disturbed region. 
Late Arizona advices report the Indians quiet 
near Prescott,* but in open warfare in large 
numbers in the Southern portion of t he Ter¬ 
ritory. They had attacked a mail train cn route 
from Apache Pass to Tucson; but the driver 
and the escort escapod. It was reported that 
Salt Lake settlement had been uttacked and nil 
the cattle captured. 
Tho trains on the Pacific Railroad, notwith¬ 
standing tho recent heavy snow storms, run on 
time. Passengers report the winter traveling 
pleasanter than the summer, on account of the 
absence of alkali, dust and heat. 
Brigham Voting, with several of the leading 
Mormons, has started for Southern Arizona on 
a prospecting tour, understood to be for the 
selection of a new site for his Zion, in ease it is 
thought best to move front Balt Lake City. 
An unsuccessful attack lias been made on 
Fort Bertbold by the Sioux. Another attack 
was expected at. last advices. 
The weather has been intensely cold in the 
Lake Superior region, tho thermometer getting 
as low as 50* below zero, and between Escabmm 
and Marquette the snow has been so deep that 
the trains were not able to get through for 
nearly a week. 
The Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Rail¬ 
road and the other roads, which form, what is 
known as the Vermont Central line, between 
Ogdensburg and Boston, have been leased to the 
Vermont Central und Vermont and Canada Rail¬ 
road for a term of twenty years. 
The annual meeting of tho Massachusetts 
Spiritualist Association was held in Boston on 
the 2d inst. Measures were taken for a more 
thorough organization. 
A bill is before the Massachusetts House to 
incorporate a Now England Conservatory of 
Music with ft cap tit itl of $100,000. 
A c hild of Louis Wolf whs burned to death in 
Hartford, Ot., on the 28 th ult. by its clothes taking 
tire while Jell alone for a short time by its 
mother. 
The political campaign in New Hampshire was 
very earnestly waged last week, four tickets 
being in the field—Democrat, Republican, Labor 
Reform and Temperance. Hon. Henry L. 
Dawes of Massachusetts was on the stump for 
the Republicans. He spoke in Concord on the 
28th ult., and the meet ing was presided over by 
Geo. A. Pillsbury, formerly a prominent Demo¬ 
crat* 
LEGISLATIVE 
Amono the most important bills lately brought 
before the New York Senate are one to consoli¬ 
date tho City and County of New York ; one to 
establish a Police Department, in Brooklyn ; one 
to increase thenumber of Judgesof the Brook¬ 
lyn City Court, and to regulate the Jurisdiction 
thereof; and one to suppress lotteries. Tbo 
Senate has passed the bill abolishing the office of 
Auditor of tbe Canal Department; that pro¬ 
viding l’or tho eleotlon of Judges of the Courts 
of Appeals and Common Pleas of the City and 
County of Now York; that to abolish the New 
York Court of Special Sessions and tho Canal 
Board and contracting system; and that to 
amend the Excise Law—the latter by a vote of 
seventeen to fourteen. In the Assembly there 
have been introduced a large number of local 
hills, and few of general interest. One or t hose 
last is to facilitate the construction of the New 
York and Albany Railroad, and another pro¬ 
vides for tho formation of a new count}* from a 
part of Steuben county. 
Milwaukee offers to give its new Court House, 
which has costa million dollars, to the State of 
Wisconsin If tlio Capital is removed to that city. 
A bill has boon Introduced in tho Legislature 
aut horizing the removal. 
Tho Minnesota Legislature has passed the 
Woman's Suffrage hill, submitting tlio question 
to the vote of the mule and femaloadultcitizens 
at the fall election, and it is now u law. A bill 
has passed both Houses applying ihe “internal 
improvement lands" of Minnesota to the pay¬ 
ment of the old railroad bonds, with an amend¬ 
ment. that it be submitted to a vote of tho peo¬ 
ple at the Spring election, and shall not become 
operative until $8,000,00) of bonds shall have 
been deposited with the State Department. 
The Missouri Legislature has passed a Consti¬ 
tutional Amendment, to bo submitted to the 
people next, fall, establishing Universal A muesty 
and Impartial Suffrage. The lower House has 
passed a l»ili requiring the School Board of St. 
Louis to appropriate to every private school 
now and hereafter established in St. Louis, $10 
for each scholar receiving free tuition In such 
school. 
The Alabama Legislature has adjourned, after 
a session ot ninety days, in which two hundred 
anil nine teen bills were passed. The legislation 
related principally to legalizing marriages, de¬ 
creeing divorces and loaning the Credit of the 
State to railroads. 
A bill lias been reported in the Virginia Legis¬ 
lature requiring all State officers to take the 
Oath required by the Fourteenth Amendment. 
The Legislature has elected John L. Marye, Jr., 
Lieutenant-Governor, ami YV. II. Ruffncr, Su¬ 
perintendent Of Public Education. In the ease 
of the Lieutenant-Governor the Republicans 
declined to vote, claiming that the election was 
unconstitutional. 
The Maine Senate, under n suspension of the 
rules, has passed, to be engrossed, the resolution 
to pay all contracts made prior to Feb. 25th, 1862, 
in gold. 
The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill to pro¬ 
vide “subjects" fur medical students. 
The Senate of Tennessee has concurred in the 
House resolution relative to the Fifteenth 
Amendment. Resolutions have been adopted 
by both Houses to investigate the charges 
against A. J. Fietcbcr, Secretary of State, of 
fraud iu the sale of agricultural land scrip, do¬ 
nated to Tennessee by Congress. 
After passing resolutions complimenting Gen. 
Reyuolds, and transacting other business of but. 
little importance, both Houses of tbo Texas 
Legislature have adjourned sine die. 
The North Carolina Legislature has passed the 
bill repealing all nets authorizing special tax 
bonds, or requiring that taxes be levied to pay 
the interest on these bonds. Tho House, by a 
large majority, refused to provide for any in¬ 
terest on oitlicr the old or now bonds. 
Tbo South Carolina Legislature has adjourned. 
Tho bill to authorize tbe investment of trust 
funds in State bonds has become a law; also 
Dial to provide a Sinking Fund for the State, 
under the provisions of which it is thought one- 
sixi.ii of the State's bonded debt will be pur¬ 
chased and canceled during the year. An ap¬ 
propriation was also made to pay the interest on 
the State debt in gold. 
In the West Y'irginla House of Delegates, a 
joint resolution to amend Die State Constitution 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Cuban Revolution progresses but slowly. 
Particulars have been received of the trial and 
execution of eighteen members of the Cuban 
Junta, who were arrested at Santiago do Cuba. 
They were tried by court martial, convicted of 
treason, and sentenced to suffer death. They 
were not allowed the assistance of counsel or 
the privilege of summoning witnesses in their 
defense, but were all executed soon after the 
termination of the trial. Among them were 
two Americans, John Francis PortdaiidQ, nat¬ 
uralized citizen, and Charles Dannery, native 
of the United States. The Havana Spaniards re¬ 
port the voluntary surrender of two hundred 
and twenty-eight insurgents near Villa Clara, 
and one hundred and forty more at Las Minas. 
Letters from Holquin state that Col. Ashley, of 
Gen. Goieouria'sexpedition, waskilled, and live 
men had surrendered. About twenty of tho 
part}** which originally landed have been shot. 
Hay lien affairs are still unpromising. More 
of Balnavc’s adherents have been shot. Rear- 
Admiral Porter, commanding the United States 
North Atlantic Squadron, entered tbo harbor of 
Port-au-Prince on tlio 0th inst., with the flag¬ 
ship Severn and the iron-clad Dictator, had an 
interview with the Haytian authorities, an¬ 
nounced that the United States had formed an 
alliance with President Baez of San Domingo, 
and warned tho Huytien Government that ho 
would punish any attempt on its part to give 
aid to Gen. Cabral, the leader of the insurrec¬ 
tion against Baez. This menace created much 
excitement in Hayti, and was regarded iu some 
quarters as an act of war. The Admiral, after 
the interview, steamed off to Cape Haytien. 
St. Domingo has popularly declared In favor 
of annexation to the United Slates. 
News from South America is to the effect that 
Lopez has been overtaken by troops of tbe Ar¬ 
gentine Republic, and ills force of six hundred 
completely routed. Lopez escaped, leaving be- 
hiud all his sick und wounded, together with tho 
families he held as prisoners, and throwing into 
the river a great part or his artillery. 
President Monegae of Venezuela has issued a 
proclamation announcing two victories over the 
rebels. General Barriez, oue of the insurgent 
ebiefB, has been taken prisoner. 
Paraguay is reported to be in a very bud con¬ 
dition, people dying from starvation in the pro¬ 
vinces and even in the city of Assumption. 
From the Northward we learn that general 
discontent prevails in Newfoundland, in conse¬ 
quence of the dispatch lately forwarded to tlio 
Governor of the island by Earl Granville. This 
dispatch contains the peremptory refusal of the 
English Government to afford further military 
protection to the people of Newfoundland, leav¬ 
ing them to provide for their own defense, or 
become subject to the Canadian Dominion. 
A new treaty for a ship canal through the 
Isthmus of Darien lias been signed by the Presi¬ 
dent of the United States of Colombia and Gen. 
iiurlbut. Minister of the United States of North 
America. 
stoutly 
A keg* of powder exploded in the blacksmith 
shop of the Connecticut 'Western Railroad in 
Winstead, Conn., on the 2d inst. There were 
about twenty persons in tbe building at the 
time, all of whom were injured, but none seri¬ 
ously. 
A branding iron, lettered "Santee," Iirb been 
found at BkibcrbeCn, which lias been identified 
by n former master as belonging to the missing 
American ship Santee. Its discovery leaves no 
doubt ihatshewas the vessel which went down 
with all on board on the night of December 30, 
off Skiborboen. 
No tidings have yet been received of the 
missing ocean steamers City of Boston .and 
Smidt—the former of the Inman Line, out thirty- 
seven days from Now York City, and the latter 
out forty-two days, bound hither. It is hardly 
probable that either is now afloat. 
FROM THE SOUTH, 
Governor Walker, of Virginia, has appointed 
Judge Robertson, W. T. Suthcrlin, and P. H. 
Aylott commissioners to adjust tho State debt 
with West Virginia. 
A party of disguised men entered the Sheriff’s 
house ut Harrisonburg, La., on tho niglit of the 
27th uit., qud killed CotoncI Charles Jones and 
his eldest son, who were in custody of the Sheriff, 
charged with killing General Liddell, a short 
time since, on board the steamer St. Mary's. 
A firo In Galveston,Texas,recently, destroyed 
property estimated to be worth $1,000,0(H), con¬ 
sisting mainly of merchandise. 
Thomas W. Roche, conv icted in Richmond on 
the 2d inst., of dealing in counterfeit tobacco 
revenue stamps, was sentenced to oue year in 
tho Albany Penitentiary. 
At Dyer Station, Tcnn., on the night of the 
16th ult., Robert Corley was murdered for his 
money in ids own saloon. Ho was found lying 
on his back with a knife sticking through his 
nock, and several wounds ou the head from an 
axe. His door was locked, and the key laid on 
the doorstep outside. 
Governor Alconi offers traveling expenses, 
houses, provisions, and agricultural implements 
to all who will emigrate to Mississippi, his ad¬ 
vances to be reimbursed out of the first year's 
crop. 
Captain Cominerell, aud the officers of ihe 
Monarch, have been enjoying the hospitalities of 
Baltimore. 
Half a million dollars’ worth of cotton is said 
to be lying in the fields of the region tributary to 
Memphis, which cannot be picked for want of 
labor. 
One of the buildings of the Manchester, Va., 
Cotton and Woolen Manufactory was destroyed 
by fire on the 3d inst. Loss, $20,000. Over one 
hundred and fifty persons are thrown outof em¬ 
ployment. 
Auditor Wyckliffc, of Louisiana, has been 
unanimously impeached. On tho article pre¬ 
scribing punishment there was but one negative 
vote. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The obsequies of the late Anson Burlingame 
were celebrated in St. Petersburg on t he 2d inst., 
amid a groat assemblage of people. Nearly the 
entire diplomatic corps and many high Russian 
officials were present. Tho Czar testified his 
respect for the deceased Minister by calling in 
person on Mrs. Burlingame. 
King Louis approves of the protest of Dr. 
Dollengcr against papal infallibility, urges him 
to persevere in the defense of the State from the 
undue influence of the Church, and orders the 
Observance of his own birthday with murks of 
public respect. 
All tho private property of ex-Queen Isabella 
remaining in Spain has boon embargoed by the 
Prince d’Assise, her husband, to prevent waste 
of their children's inheritance. 
The Countess of Girgento, daughter of Queen 
Isabella, iuts commenced legal proceedings 
against her husband for squandering her dowry. 
Mr. Childers, First Lord of the Admiralty, has 
stated that when all the vessels now in process of 
construction were completed the ironclad fleet 
would couatat of two broadside strips of the 
largest size, six of the second class, nine of the 
NEW YORK STATE, 
An explosion of glycerine at Morrisania, on 
the 2d inst.. was most alarming, and resulted se¬ 
riously. Blasting was in process on a new race¬ 
course in construction, and a premature igni¬ 
tion wrought the damage. One man was in¬ 
stantly killed, and eleven others were severely 
wounded. 
The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad has 
been leased perpetually lo tlio Delaware, and 
Hudson Canal Company, on terms satisfactory 
to all interested. Even Hie Eric* Railroad mana¬ 
gers are said to be content with the arrange¬ 
ment. Mr. Ramsey, the indefatigable and able 
projector of the road, will remain ns virtual 
President, and the general management will con¬ 
tinue unchanged. 
The annual reunion of St. David’s 8ociety 
(Welsh) took place on the eveningof thelst inst. 
at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York city. Two 
hundred guests were present. Mayor Hall and 
others made speeches. 
