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FROM WASHINGTON. 
Conicrctklonal. 
Little o(' adeoteivo nature has been uceoin- 
pllshed in the Benate. Throe important ques¬ 
tions have chiefly engaged attention-Recon¬ 
struct ion in Georgia, the San Domingo Treaty, 
and Gen. Ames' eligibility as Senator from Miss¬ 
issippi. In the discussion of the Georgia Bill, 
Messrs. Schura, Trumbull, Edmunds and Wil¬ 
liams opposoa an amendment offered by Mr. 
Wilson, which was supported by Messrs. Drake, 
Sherman and Wjlson. An amendment by Mr. 
Drake, providing for martial law, suspension of 
hnbem corpus, etc., in the State, was warmly sup¬ 
ported by Messrs. Nyo, Yates and Thayer. The 
San Domingo Treaty wits considered at much 
length in executive session. Mr. Sumner made 
a speech of four hours’duration against annexa¬ 
tion. The President had previously held inter¬ 
views with a number of Senators, in regard to 
the Treaty, and his desire to secure Its endorse¬ 
ment is well known. The cost to our Govern¬ 
ment is limited to $1,500,000 In gold, the money 
to be applied to the payment of the debts of the 
Dominican Government. The credentials of 
Gon. Amos were reported back from the Judici¬ 
ary Committee, with a resolution declaring him 
ineligible, ulthough the Committee were not 
unanimous In this. This resolution was dis¬ 
cussed much of the tlrao for two or three days, 
Messrs. Carpenter and Davis arguing for it, and 
Mr. Copkliug making an elaborate argument 
against it. An important Dill reported by Mr. 
llurlan, for re-organizing the Indian Depart¬ 
ment, provides for the appointment of five in¬ 
spectors of Indian affairs, who, with the Secre¬ 
tary of the Interior and the Commissioner of In¬ 
dian Affairs, are to constitute a board of super¬ 
vision. Another, by Mr. Ramsey, authorizes the 
Postmaster-General to prescribe and regulate 
the rates of United States poetago upon letters 
forwarded to and received from foreign coun¬ 
tries with which international postal charges ay 0 
not established by postal treaties. Commodore 
John A. Winslow 1ms been confirmed as Rear- 
Admiral ; Gapt. James H. Strong us Commodore; 
and a number of promotions to fill vacancies 
thus occasioned have received confirmation. A 
resolution by Senator Fenton for the payment 
of $30 to each of the volunteer* in the late war 
who has been defrauded of his bounty money by 
claim agenis and tlnds it necessary now to sue 
the Government for the recovery of the money 
has been agreed to. 
In the House, the Anti-Polygamy Bill has 
been further discussed, and passed, with mate¬ 
rial amendments. The hill providing for the 
taking of the ninth census lias also been passed. 
A message has been received from the President 
upon the subject of the decline of American 
commerce. He declares it to be a national hu¬ 
miliation that this country is now compelled to 
pay from $30,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year, exclu¬ 
sive of passage money, for freight which should 
ho shared by American citizens wilh the people 
of oilier mil ions, and urging an early considera¬ 
tion of the subject. He believes that u direct 
money subsidy Is less liable to abuse than an in¬ 
direct subsidy, ami recommends the passage of 
two bills reported by the Select Committee, 
Gen. Logan hus made a general report on the 
sale of cadetships, recommending the dismissal 
of Gen. Schoopf from the Patent Oflico and the 
court-mart tall ng of Commodore Upshur for 
trading and buying cadetships, aud Introducing 
a bill making requisite in u cadet a two years’ 
residence in the district from which he Is ap¬ 
pointed. Tho bill, amended so as to make tho 
residence one year instead of two, together with 
the resolutions, was passed, und the Committee 
was discharged. 
The Cuban question has at last assumed a posi¬ 
tive shape in Congress. The House Committee 
on Foreign Affairs have agroed, by a vote of 
eight to one, to report in favor of authorizing 
and instructing the President to maintain 
neutrality “ in the con lest now existing between 
the people of Cuba and the government of the 
Kingdom of Spain. 1 ' This is thought to he a 
virtual recognition Of belligerency. 
A bill has been reported in the House for tho 
removal of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It provides 
for t he selling of the present grounds, but names 
no now locution. 
itllNCCllailCOIlM, 
Tin: President has prepared and will send to 
Congress, as soon as Georgia and Texas are ad¬ 
mitted, a message recommending Ihal Universal 
Amnesty bo declared, and restoring their civil 
lights to nil engaged In the Rebellion, who come 
forward and ask them. 
Officers Of the Revenue Bureau have been to 
see Gen. Sherman about military aid for enforc¬ 
ing the collection of Brigham Young’s income 
tax, and ho says they shall have all t hey need. 
The tax to be collected is upwards of $3,000,000. 
Gens. Sheridan, PloasOnton, Custer, Davies, 
Torbet, and other cavalry leaders, arc consum¬ 
mating plans for organizing a Cavalry Society. 
All cavalry officers and privates are invited to 
meet in a convention called for the 8th of April, 
at Philadelphia. 
Gens. Grant aud Sherman have accepted invi¬ 
tations to attend the annual re-union of the 
Army of the Potomac in Philadelphia, on the 
9Lh of April. 
The President is in doubt ns to how far ho is 
authorized to go In sending United States troops 
into any State, and has declared his purpose to 
send a message to Congress on the subject, com¬ 
municating all the facts, and asking them to in¬ 
dicate what course la to bo pursued. 
The Supremo Court has decided adversely to 
tho claim of Commodore Meade against the 
United States under the treaty with Spain of 
1813. 
The President says Ocn. Ounby merely Inter¬ 
fered in Richmond to prevent bloodshed and 
riot, as was his duty. 
Among tho nominations sent to the Senate 
wore those of General Alfred R. Pleasanton, to 
lie Collector of Internal Revenue for the Thirty- 
second District of New York, vice Bailey, re¬ 
moved; Samuel Harlow, to be Collector of the 
Fourth District, vice Pleasanton transferred; 
and George II. Sharp, lobe United Stutos Marshal 
for the Southern District of New York, vioe Har¬ 
low, transferred. 
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue Is In 
favor of the abolition of t ho present moieties 
to informers, but thinks Congress should ap¬ 
propriate, say $350,000 annually for detective 
purposes. 
A very lively tight has been had in the New 
York Legislature, the Assembly being the direct 
battle-field. It grew out of the bills to re-organ¬ 
ize tho New York City government, and culmi¬ 
nated on the 23d ult. By a coalit ion between the 
country Democrats and the Republicans, it re¬ 
sulted in the oomplete defeat of the Charter, the 
Police and tbu Supervisors’ Bills. Great excite¬ 
ment ensued. The House paid a complimentary 
tribute to the memory' of Mr. George WakCinan 
in a series of resolutions, and through several 
speeches. The old Broadway Underground 
Railroad Bill has been Introduced in the Benate. 
The Missouri Senate has passed a substitute for 
the Funding Bill, recently adopted by the House, 
which provides that all moneyB of the State In¬ 
terest Fund shall bo transferred to the State 
Sinking Fund for the paymentof the State debt. 
This substitute has been rejected by the House, 
und therefore the two bodies ure at a dead lock. 
The House has amended the bill establishing 
separate schools for colored children, toy provid¬ 
ing that colored children shall be provided with 
seats In white schools, where separate school* 
are not established. 
The Mississippi Legislature has received a mes¬ 
sage from Governor Alcorn, recommending tho 
speedy organization of the militia on a peace 
basis, the arms and ammunition to be placed at 
convenient depots, atvl the districts rendering a 
calling out of the troops necessary, to pay the 
resultant expenses. \ resolution lias been in¬ 
troduced in the Senate declaring the election of 
State Printer and Librarian unconstitutional, 
inasmuch as tho Legislature bod not submitted 
their resolution to go into joint session to tho 
Governor for his approval, as the new Constitu¬ 
tion provides. The House has passed a resolu¬ 
tion allowing each member one dollar’s worth of 
postage stamps per week. 
The Kentucky Legislature has adjourned to 
meet again in January, 1871. 
Tho Maine Legislature adjourned nine die on 
the 34th ult., having passed in seventy-eight 
days. 338 bills and 1(6 resolutions. 
General J. C. Webber has been appointed 
Mayor of Vicksburg by Governor Alcorn und 
confirmed by the Senate. 
The California Legislature has passed a hill 
appropriating #48,000 for the continuation of tho 
State geological survey. 
In the Virginia House a resolution censuring 
Gen. CUnl»y was reported, but not noted on. In 
the Senate a Republican member offered a reso- 
lution requesting Gov. Walker to suspend fur¬ 
ther appointments under the Enabling Act until 
the Constitutionality of the law shall be decided. 
It was defeated. 
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NEW YORK STATE. 
Collector Bailey bus mysteriously disap¬ 
peared from his Revenue office in New York 
City, and an examination of ids affairs by Gov¬ 
ernment authorities shows him to bo a defaulter 
to the extent, of from $100,000 to $330,000. His 
securities are good, and the Government, will 
lose not hing. The developments in his case have 
created much excitement In the metropolis. 
At a convention of school-book publishers re¬ 
cently held in New York City, a School-Book 
Board of Trade was organized. As a result tho 
retail prioes lor all school-books are to be fixed 
by the respective publishers, from which a 
maximum discount has been fixed by the Board. 
All field agents and commission accounts arc to 
be withdrawn on or before July 1st of the pres¬ 
ent year. 
The New York Medical College for Women 
held its seventh annual Commencement in Now 
York City last week. Several young ladies were 
graduated among them, one colored, who re¬ 
ceived the highest honors. 
The body of a man named C. W, Johnston, an 
agent for a Boston house, was found lying on 
the deck of a freight car, on the way freight 
train bound oast on the Niagara Falls branch of 
the Central Railroad, on the 21st ult. It was 
supposed he was struck by a bridge and instant¬ 
ly killed. 
The Central Railroad depot in Syracuse Is be¬ 
ing at last transferred to more eligible quarters 
some distance away from tho old location. 
Thos. Nick las was hanged in Little Valley, Al¬ 
legany county, on the 18th ult., for the murder 
of Dr. And raw Mead In December last. He 
made full confession of the dreadful deed. 
A farmer named Anthony Enos, living near 
tlie line of Hut New York Central Railroad, was 
run over on the 19th ult. by locomotive No. 21, 
and instantly killed, at the Center, a place some 
four or five miles west of Albany. 
The turnpike bridge which spanned the Dela¬ 
ware Itiver til Fort Jervis was blown down last 
week by a gale of wind. The wreck Is com¬ 
plete. The loss is #3(1.000. 
A new gas light company is to be organized In 
Troy, wilh a capital stock of one hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars. 
A fire on Crosby street in New Y’ork City, on 
the 22d ult., destroyed property to tho value of 
$ 200 , 000 . 
Judge Romeyn of Rensselaer county has re¬ 
fused to admit to bail the Witbecks and other 
anti-renters, indicted for the murder of Deputy 
Sheriff Griggs of Greunbush. They will remain 
in jail till their trial in Saratoga county, which 
will probably bo In May or June. 
The Post-Offico Department has established a 
new post-office at Ingall's Crossing, the first sta¬ 
tion south of Fulton on the Midland Railroad. 
A new railroad is contemplated from Troy to 
Guilderlaud, Albany county, there to connect 
with the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad. 
This distance is only about twelve miles. 
Tho Ice men on the Hudson bavo finished their 
work. Reliable reports show that, 298,000 tons 
have been housed and stocked, not including 
12,000 tons on Rockiuiid Lake. 
The second anniversary of Sorosis was cele¬ 
brated by a meeting and banquet at Delmonico’s 
on the 21st u!l. Mrs. C. B. Without was chosen 
President for the ensuing year. 
The carriage manufactory ol’ J. Curtis, in 
Kingston, N. Y., was destroyed by first last week. 
Loss, $10,000. 
A stock company is to be formed at Union 
Springs, for the manufacture of agricultural im¬ 
plements on a grand scale. 
The Otseningo Mills in Binghamton, N. Y., 
owned by Moore & Myer, were burned lately. 
Loss. $30,030. 
A destructive fire occurred in Albany on the 
19th ult., damaging N. F. Ruso’s commission 
store to the amount of about $15,000. 
The West Side Elevated Railway, in N. Y. City, 
has been completed as far as Thirtieth street, 
and is to be opened for passenger traffic at once. 
The drapery around the altar of St. John's 
Church, in Albany, took fire lately during an 
evening service. In attempting to extinguish 
tho flames the priest was severely burned, and 
a seeno of the wildest confusion ensued. The 
erowd rushed for I ho floors and many persons 
were severely Injured In the jam. 
A great tiro occurred In WiUiamsluirgh last 
week, destroying a large amount of property. 
Castle Garden, the old concert hall on the Bat¬ 
tery, lung used as an emigrant depot, caught 
lire one evening last week, and was damaged to 
the extent of $5,000. 
About two hundred boys congregated on the 
See between Troy and West Troy, on the 30th 
ult., and engaged in a regular pitched battle. 
The police ended the Conflict, 
A new post-office has been established at 
Sherburne Four Corners, In Chenango county, 
and Charles Hart well appointed postmaster. 
A new bridge over tho Hudson River is to he 
built at once in Albany, for the use of Hie New 
York Central and Hudson River Railroads. It 
will extend from a point near the Delavno 
House to a point very near the old railroad ferry 
landing, and its entire length will be 1,<M0 feet, 
Jt will carry a double lino of railway tracks, and 
also one, and perhaps two sidewalks for foot 
passengers. One span will be a draw, for two 
Openings. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND, 
By the explosion of a kclr on the night of the 
lfit.ii ult., the blcaehory and dye works of B. 
Merry & Co., at Pautucket, It. I., were almost 
entirely destroyed. Loss about $30,000. 
The trustees of the proposed Museum of Fino 
Arts in Boston have organized and elected Martin 
Brunner President.. They will petition the City 
Council fora building site. 
A train on the Connecticut and Passumpsic 
Rivers Railroad was thrown from tho track, 
above Grafton, one day last week, by a broken 
rail. Two cars went down an embankment 
seven feet high, and ten passengers were injured, 
In Norwich, Ot.. lately, two boys named Bell, 
aged eight and ten years, fell into tho Shetucket 
river and were drowned. 
Worehestor, Mass., lost over $40,000 by a fire 
last week. 
The Gore Block was partially burned In Bos¬ 
ton on the 19th ult. Loss $00,000. 
A brutal fight took place at the house of a 
negro named Prince St. John, in Pleasant Val¬ 
ley, Conn., on the loth ult., which resulted in tho 
killing of n negro named Aaron Frocraun, of 
Sheffield, Mass., by Ed ward Dolphin, of Wlnstod, 
and tli©serious wounding of Dolphin's wife and 
8t. John. Whisky was tho cause. 
Some laborers on the Connecticut Western 
Railroad undertook to rob tlie saloon of Joseph 
Forsyth, at Tariffville, Conn., last week, when 
Forsyth tired into tho orowd with a double-bar¬ 
reled gun loaded with buckshot, shooting one 
man through the lungs and breaking the arm of 
another. 
A severe lire occurred’ in Bangor, Me., on the 
I9th ult., destroying several storos, and resulting 
in heavy loss. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
The municipal trouble in Richmond was quite 
serious. Gen. Canby interfered on t he 18th ult., 
by raising the siege against Cutioon. and on l lie 
following morning, when Oft boon's police were 
being stationed, Ellison’s police arrived and ar¬ 
rested them all. Both mayors held a court that 
day. A skirmish subsequently took place be¬ 
tween the opposing panics, in which one man 
was killed and on© or two others injured. Gov. 
Walker wrote to Gen. Canby. protest ing against 
bis interference, and pronouncing it illegal. At 
last accounts the city was quiet, and Hie whole 
matter wus before the courts for adjudication. 
The Comanche Indians arc committing depre¬ 
dations in Texas. A party'recently drove four 
men from their wagons. A party of whites 
started in pursuit, when a fight occurred which 
resulted in six Indians being killed and one 
white man. In every raid which Hie Indians 
make on t he frontier, more or less white men 
are killed,.and women and children butchered 
or carried away. 
Tho steamboat Now York, with nine hundred 
bales of cotton, and the steamboat Charles 11. 
Durfree were burned at the wharf in New Or¬ 
leans on the 21st ult. Tho losses art* $150,000. 
Twenty small houses in t he square bounded by 
Morales, Annette, Good-children and Bt. Ber¬ 
nard streets were also burned on the same day. 
Loss $50,000. 
Colonel Yergor has voluntarily returned to 
prison in Jackson, Miss. Ho had never been be¬ 
yond the city’s suburbs since his escape. After 
reaching tho jail he sent a letter to Governor 
Alcorn, saying he understood the prison authori¬ 
ties had been censured for his leave-taking, and 
he Wins unwilling they should suffer for it. lie 
stated that it had always been his intention to 
stand a trial. 
The sheriff of Elizabeth county, Va., lately 
went out with a posse to put a purchaser in pos¬ 
session of a farm near Hampton, but was resist¬ 
ed by about t wo hundred colored squatters, who 
fired upon them. The sheriff ret rented and 
called upou Hie Governor for assistance. 
The prospects for an abundant poach crop in 
Delaware arc said by the papers of that State to 
be excellent. 
Gov. Stevenson of Kentucky has ordered a 
special election In the Third Congressional Dis¬ 
trict on tho 25th of April, to fill tho vacancy oc¬ 
casioned by the resignation of J. S. Oolladay. 
The Mobile and Ohio road transports emi¬ 
grants free of cost. The charge on the New Or¬ 
leans and Jackson and the Vicksburg aud Meri¬ 
den roads is one cent per mile. 
In a difficulty in Eatonton, Ga., the other day, 
Major J. T. Perryman was shot aud killed by Mr. 
Sandy Luther. 
Ten negroes have registered in St. Louis as 
voters, notwithstanding the ratification of the 
Fifteenth Amendment has not been officially 
proclaimed. 
Gen. Canby has sent two companies of troops 
to Albemarle county to suppress domestic in¬ 
surrection. 
The Memphis and Arkansas River Packet 
Company’s steamboat Guidon was snagged and 
sunk in the Arkansas River on the 33d ult. No 
lives were lost. 
The steamer Dolphin, from Philadelphia for 
Kichmoud, Va., was burned at Patuxent, Md., 
on the 33d ult. The crew bod a narrow escape. 
A fire in a large dry goods store in Louisville 
resulted in $20,000 loss. All the goods, counters 
and shelving on the first floor, where the fire did 
not reach, were found to he saturated with ben¬ 
zine, and one of the proprietors has been arrested 
and held to bail in the sum of $20,000. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
The boiler of a portable saw mil), situated 
near Shinersbiirgli, in Medina Co., O., exploded 
on the 11th ult., killing seven men instantly. 
The building was utterly demolished, and the 
scene of Hie disaster next morning was horrible 
to view. 
Thomas I). Carr was executed at St. Clnlrsvillo, 
Ohio, on the 24th ult., lor the murder of Miss 
Louisa Fox. Ids affianced, over a year ago. The 
murder was one of peculiar atrocity, and the 
murderer, if Ins own story be believed, was a 
wretch of the darkest dye. He boasted of hav¬ 
ing perpetrated fourteen cold-blooded murders 
und of having attempted five others. 
The holler In Anderson & White’s flouring 
mill, Annawuti, Ill., exploded on the 19th ult,., 
killing the engineer and wounding another man. 
Subscriptions are being raised in many places 
throughout Michigan to defray the expenses of 
anew trial fur Vnnderpool, convicted of mur¬ 
der, In case one is granted. 
Small-pox is killing off the friendly Indians in 
Arizona. 
The Apaches are murdering the whites in every 
direction. 
Marshall Brothers’ organ manufactory at 
Ripou, Wis., was burned on the J9ih ult. The 
loss is $12,000, and the Insurance $5,000. 
Gen. Shepherd, of Boston, has been appointed 
Adjutant-General of Missouri. 
The report that Gon. Sheridan would like to he 
relieved is authoritatively denied. 
Tho repair shop of the Milwaukee and St. Paul 
Railway Company in Milwaukee, was burned on 
tlie 23d ult,, including four engines and six box 
cars. Tho total Joss Is $100,000, mostly covered 
by Insurance. 
The Ball Lake Nows comments defiantly upon 
tbo Cullom Anti-Folygiuiiy Bill that passed the 
House of Representatives on Wednesday. It 
says to the Benate: “Pass the CtillOm Bill, and 
if it falls, raise armies and attempt to light, 
drive, and exterminate, and then watch Hie re¬ 
sult. If men wish to push Mormonism ahead, 
let them persecute." 
Tlie Directors of the California Insane Asy¬ 
lum report an alarmingly rapid increase of in¬ 
sanity in Hint state. There is one insane person 
for every six hundred of the inhabitants. The 
number under treatment in the Asylum last 
year was 1,335. 
The Seventh - day Adventists have just held 
their annual meeting at Battle Creek, Michigan. 
Tlie General Conference lias representatives 
from fifteen of the United States aud from 
Switzerland. 
The latest Intelligence from the Ban Diego gold 
fields is somewhat unfavorable. Although a 
number of good lodes were discovered, they re¬ 
quire capital to develop them. Tho weather at 
the mines is cold arid stormy, and tho mines are 
unprotected, consequently prospecting Is slow 
work. 
A man whose name is unknown was killed and 
devoured by wolves in SanSloe county, Mich., a 
few days since. He was at work in a lumber 
camp hauling logs, and Ids team coining homo 
without, him, search was immediately made, but 
resulted only in finding ids bead and ufew bones, 
the remainder of his body having been entirely 
eaten up by the ravenous beasts. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Another insurrection has broken out In 
Haytl. The Pickets in the southern department 
are in arms against the new Provisional Govern¬ 
ment. and the partisans of the Jste. President 
Sainave are Joining them. Tho Government has 
sent reinforcements to the army in tho field, and 
several war steamers have also been dispatched 
to t he south. 
Different reports come from St. Domingo 
touching the feeling in regard to annexation to 
the United States The vote in the city stood 
1,008 for; 9 against; but in other places there is 
much opposition. 
One of the British Channel fleet, tho Warrior, 
which was ordered to cruise in search of the City 
Of Boston, lias arrived at Lisbon, but brings no 
tidings of the missing steamer. A Loudon dis¬ 
patch says that nnderwitcre now decline all risks 
on her. She uppeara to he definitely given up 
for lost. 
It is believed that the Trintnfo is still safe. A 
short time after Hie execution of Balnave she ap¬ 
peared off Port-au-Prince, but, hearing that her 
purchaser had been put to doath, and no one 
having come to claim her, lier captain took a 
voyage among the West Indian Islands. 
The American ship Ventus, from Callao to 
Antwerp with guano, lias been lost. No par¬ 
ticulars. 
Tlie society The Army of tho Potomac will 
have their second reunion on the 9th of April, at 
lhe Philadelphia Acfldemy of Music. Poems will 
be recited by Oliver Wendell Holmes and 
another distinguished poet, and an oration 
delivered by Gen. John H. M&rtlndale, which 
will be followed by a banquet at the Continental 
HoteL 
Tlie boiler of tho coal breaker of the Wolf 
Crack Diamond Coal Company, near Mineraville, 
Pa., exploded on the 22d ult. The building was 
demolished, and the boiler carried over a hun¬ 
dred yards. Three boys were instantly killed, 
and a large number of other employes badly 
injured. 
Tho nitto-glycerine factory of T. P. Schaffer, 
at Little Perry Farm, Bergen county, N. J., blew 
up on the 17th ult. Two laborers were killed, 
and the building was utterly demolished. Tho 
factory oontaiued 7 pounds of nitro-glycerine 
and 25,000 pounds of material. 
As a result of the war in Paraguay .that eou n 1 ry 
is said to be one vast ruin. Townsare depopulated 
and the people are literally starving. There are 
thousands living on roots and whatever fruit 
they can find. Twenty thousand widowed wo¬ 
men are hanging about Asuncion, vainly striv¬ 
ing to procure passage to Buenos Ayres or 
Montevideo. Gangs of deserters arc prowling 
through tho country, robbing and murdering. 
Lopez is safe in the mountains, succored by the 
Indiaus, but the Brazilians hold possession of l he 
whole country with that exception. 
Mrs. Gen. Stonewall Jackson will not sell the 
sword of her husband, which was wanted by the 
Southern Historical Society. 
A disastrous fire destroyed tho freight depot of 
the New Jersey Central Railroad, at Jersey City, 
last week. Two men were burned to death and 
several were badly injured. The pecuniary loss 
is estimated at least at $120,000. 
The Alumni of Princeton College had their an¬ 
nual meeting aud dinner at Delmouico’s on the 
24th ult., W. C. Alexander, Esq., presiding. Ad¬ 
dresses were inndc by Dr. McCosh, Dr. Adams, 
Rev. T. L. Cuyler and others. 
The cable from Aden, Arabia, through the Red 
Sea to Suez, has been successfully laid, thus 
completing a direct submarine line from Bom¬ 
bay to Suez. 
Tho ship C. C. Horton, Captain Taylor, from 
London, February 11, for Boston, was abandoned 
at sen, in it sinking condition, on the 12th ult. 
News has been received of the total loss of tho 
hark Amelia Ghering, on Lobes Keys. The ves¬ 
sel was bound from Antwerp to New Orleans 
with a cargo of iron. I Icr crew were saved. 
It Is again asserted in London that the Ameri¬ 
can bishops at Rome refuse to support the Infal¬ 
libility dogma. 
The Venezuelan revolutionists made an attack 
on the town of La Guayra and were repulsed. 
They have completely surrounded the town of 
Puerto C'abello. A bottle was fought between 
tlie forces under President Manages and the 
revolutionists near the city, but the result is un¬ 
known. The general opinion is that the revolu¬ 
tion will bo successful. 
At the commencement of a storm on the 18th 
ult, at Bt. John'sN. B« a portion of the bottom 
of 1 lie harbor and I lie adjoining shore sunk with 
a rumbling noise twenty-five feet. 
The latest Cuban intelligence said General 
Puello had returned to Puerto Principe, and 
would soon march towards tho city of G'rego de 
Avila. General Goyoueche was still at Carna- 
guaya, where he was erecting fortifications. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
THE trial of Prince Picric Bonaparte, for the 
killing of Victor Noir, was in progress at Tours 
last week. Among tho chief witnesses sworn 
were Millicrc, De Fouvlelle, Groussett and 
Rochefort for the prosecution, and Do Cassag- 
nae for the defense. Public feeling wavered 
from day today, ns the testimony pro and con 
seemed to have weight. The leading purposeof 
the defence was to prove I hut the Prince did not 
Shoot until Fowviellchad drawn a pistol and also 
that a plot had been inndc against the life of the 
Prince before the affair of Rue d'Autenil; but 
tho evidence failed to sustain either allegation. 
M. Floquct. commenced tho argument for the 
prosecution on tho 24th ult. He reviewed tho 
lives of Noir, Fouvlelle,and Prince Bonaparte; 
pointed out (he differences in their characters: 
dwell on the reputation of the Prince ns a. man 
of violence; asserted that he was known to have 
killed four men, und related how lie left, tho 
military service without permission in 18-19, for 
which Louis Napoleon dismissed him from the 
army. At this point the Prince became greatly 
excited, and exclaimed Hull there was a plot to 
aggravate Dim. He was severely reprimanded by 
tho Court for interrupting the counsel. At the 
conclusion of the arguments for the prosecu¬ 
tion. M. Fouviolle wus brought in, and the pre¬ 
siding Judge sentenced him to ten days’ confine¬ 
ment for contempt of court. 
In a letter to his Prime Minister, M. Emile 01- 
livier, the Emperor of tho French says it would 
be expedient, in the present condit ion of affairs, 
to adopt all reforms which will restore constitu¬ 
tional government to Franco, in order to put an 
end to that Umuodentb: desire for change which 
possesses certain spirits, who disturb the public 
mind by their belief in I he instability of tho 
present regime. Ho urges M. Olllvlor tocoucert 
with bis colleagues for the submission to him 
(the Emperor) of a project for a Scnaim < 
tum , which will fix, Invariably, certain funda¬ 
mental provisions divide the legislative power 
between tho two Chambers and restore to the 
nation a part of the representative power which 
has heretofore been delegated. 
A spirited debate was had on the 22d ult., in 
the British House of Commons on tho hill to 
enforce the law6 iu Ireland. Mr. Dunning of 
Cork, denounced the clause providing for a 
censorship of the press. Lord Claude Hamilton 
charged tho Liberals with promoting the agita¬ 
tion or Irish matters for the purpose of provok¬ 
ing coercive measures. Mr. Wballoy pronouuced 
Popery to bo tlie author of Ireland's woes. The 
Chief Secretary for Irelund said that tho Fenian 
und agrarian agitation was never stronger than 
now. Mr. Gladstone closed the debutoin favor 
of the bill, and upon a division the vote stood, 
yeas, 435, nays, 13. The hill now goes to the 
House of Lords. 
Greece Is to have a railroad. It is to be con¬ 
structed from Athens over the Isthmus and along 
the Gulf of Corinth to some point ou the Western 
coast. 
The steamship Samaria reached Queenstown 
safely on the 20th ult., having put back there on 
account of a broken shaft. 
Adelina Patti narrowly escaped being burned 
to death In the railway train from St. Peters¬ 
burg, going south, last week. 
Mecklenburg lias ratified the treaty for the 
abolition of tho Scheldt dues. 
King William of Prussia has given audience to 
tho eldest sou of Mr. Burlingame. 
The ship Michael Hutchinson, just arrived 
from San Francisco, sank in the harbor of Liver¬ 
pool on tho 21st ult. 
The Prussian Ministers have tendered their 
resignation because of tlie King’s resistance to 
the proposed reduction of the army. Tlie King 
deliberates before acceptIng the resignations. 
The bill to prohibit tbo separate States of the 
German Confederation from issuing hunk notes 
has passed to a second reading In the Chambers. 
Up to lust accounts only two victims of tho 
Oneida disaster bad been found, one of whom 
was Capt. Williams. His funeral took place in 
Yokohama on the 8th of February. Minister 
Delong and Lieutenant-Commander Muhin were 
chief mourners. The French, Prussian and Eng¬ 
lish Ministers, the Admiral of the English navy, 
and military and naval officers of various na¬ 
tionalities, tho Consular staff and a large con¬ 
course of civilians were in attendance. 
The steamer Mary ran into Hie steamer Nor¬ 
mandy, in tlie English Chaunel, off the Guernsey 
coast, on the 18th ulL Tho Normandy wont 
down with her captain and tinrly persons. She 
was one of the mail boats running between 
Southampton und tho Channel islands, belong¬ 
ing to the Southwestern Railway Company. 
From four to live tbousaud houses were de¬ 
stroyed by tire at Yeddo ou the 4th and 5th of 
February. 
Spanish affairs are unusually threatening. 
The resignation of Admiral Topote ns Minister 
of the Murine has been accepted, and Gen. Prim 
has issued orders to the army officers and to tlie 
Madrid garrison to obey no orders in extreme 
eventualities, unless they are slgued by him. 
