dittos of % ®JcrI'i. 
FROM WASHINGTON. 
Congresutlonal. 
The chief feature of Concessional proceed¬ 
ings has been the virtual defeat of the Tariff 
Mill for this session in the House. A motion hi' 
Mr. Dawes, that all prior orders ho postponed 
until after the discussion and passaged the Ap¬ 
propriation Hilts now before the Committee, 
was carried by a vote of ayes, 92; nays, 77, and 
was a direct thrust at the bill. Tho House has 
discussed a bill to revive our commerce, some 
Appropriation t>ills, a bill to enforce the Fif¬ 
teenth Amendment, and several others, without 
arriving at deflnlte action, save in the case of 
the Amendment Hill, which has been passed. 
A bill has been reported in the House to re¬ 
duce internal taxes. It proposes a reduction of 
thirty-three millions on internal taxation, but 
retains the income tax at tho old rale of live per 
cent. 
The House has referred a resolution offered by 
Mr. Cox to instruct the Reconstruction Com¬ 
mittee to report a bill for general amnesty fort h- 
wlth. Mr. Uandull, to test tho fooling of the 
House, moved to tabic it, uud his motion was 
defeated by yeas SI, nays 86. 
A bill has been passed in t lie House to allow 
discharged soldiers and sailors to enter quarter 
sections of land under the Homestead Act in 
the alternate reserved sections along the line of 
railroads and other public works to which lauds 
have been granted. 
In the Senate little final work has been done, 
A number of blllB have beeu introduced, among 
them one to facilitate the transmission of Asiat¬ 
ic goods across the Continent in bond : QUO sup¬ 
plementary to the Civil Rights Bill, to secure 
"equal rights” for negroes on railroads and 
steamboats, and in hotels, theatres, common 
schools, colleges, churches, juries, &c., mid one 
granting the Uuited States steamer Illinois to 
the Hi ate of New Vork for Quarantine purposes, 
which latter bus passed the House. The Senate 
has had debates on the bill to enforce the Fif¬ 
teenth Amendment, the Polygamy Hill, and on 
tlia Woman Question, the last arising from an 
amendment proposed to the Appropriation Hill, 
m.ikiug the pay of female clerks in the Depart¬ 
ment* equal to t hat.of male clerks. Several Sen¬ 
ate is spoke in favor of tho amondmeut, but Mr. 
Williams, (Radical,) of Oregon, opposed it, be¬ 
cause tho men iuut families to support, which 
the women had not, aud Mr. Crugin, (Radical,) 
opposed if because iIm female clerks were siok 
and absent from duty half of tho time. 
Tho Naval Appropriation Bill has occupied 
much time in t he House, An amendment ma¬ 
terially increasing the pay of olhoers of tho 
navy was carried by a large majority. 
Mr. Cyrus W. Field has had a long hearing be¬ 
fore the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 
on tho subject of ocean cables. Mr. Field stated 
that he was opposed to the laying of the Belgian 
cable, under l he grant from Belgium to citizens 
of the Duited States, because it, conferred an 
exclusive privilege, although the grantees offer 
tho free use of the cable for thirty minutes in 
each day to the Government, and also agree 
that the Government shall regulate the prices. 
No decision was reached about the China cable, 
for Which Mr. Field asks t he sum of $500JHK) a 
year in gold, for twenty years. 
The Senate Judiciary Committee has made a 
report on Dio result of the Investigation into 
the charges of bribery ami corruption In con¬ 
nection with tho Georgia Bill, to tho effect that 
bribery was undoubtedly attempted to influence 
Senator's votes, but thorn is no evidence that 
any Senator was so Influenced. 
A petition Ims been presented in the Senate 
from a woman lu North Carolina, who some 
time ago was appointed postmistress. Having 
attentively read the iron-clad oath, she cannot, 
conscientiously, subscribe to it; therefore she 
Wants either the Postmaster-General to modify 
tho oath to meet, her ease or Congress to relievo 
her of her political disabilities. Her family are 
now poor, owing to the “ unfortunate war,” and 
this post-office position becomes essential to 
their support. 
The Senate Military Committee has voted 
against the proposition to erect a monument in 
honor of General Rawlins. 
The Army Bill, as amended by the Senate, has 
been returned to the House. General Logan, 
wiio lias charge of it, intends to take it up at the 
earliest opportunity and move to non-concur in 
the Senate amendments and refer it to ft Con¬ 
ference Committee. 
The Banking and Currency Committee have 
agreed to report to the House a bill providing 
for $95,000,000 additional National Bank circula¬ 
tion, for the cancellation of $85,000,000 of three 
per cent, bonds, aud $40,000,000 of greenbacks, 
and providing for a free banking system on a 
gold basis. This is l h ft same as the bill originally 
reported by Gen. Garfield. 
Tito bill recently Introduced by Representa¬ 
tive Bennett to change and more effectually se¬ 
cure the collection of internal taxes on distilled 
spirits, and to provide for the exportation of 
spirits from the United States, contains seventy 
sections. These refer for the greater part to the 
survey aud regulation ol'stills and material em¬ 
ployed in addition to tho prescribed license, 
means designated to prevent frauds, and regula¬ 
tions for spirits in bond. The bill has been care¬ 
fully prepared iu accordance with the views of 
leading Western and Eastern distillers. 
Miscellaneous. 
By the order of Secretary Belknap, discharg¬ 
ing employes and ordering sales of surplus pro¬ 
perty, the expenditures of the War Department, 
on account of salaries, are reduced as follows 
Quartermaster’s Department, per year, $662,134; 
Commissary Department, per year, $91,140; 
Medical Department, per year, $21,408; total, 
$774,673. The proceeds of the sales of property 
to be turned Into the Treasury is estimated at 
$.765,300; total, $1,339, 973. 
The President 1ms prepared several amend¬ 
ments to the St. Domingo treaty, in order to 
avoid objections made to it by Senators in its 
present form. Quo of them places the amount 
to be paid t o t hatj Republic at $1,500,000, with a 
provison that the claims of foreign governments 
shall first be paid; next the subjects of foreign 
powers and their domestic debts. The citizens 
of St. Domingo are to be fully protected iu civil 
and religious rights. 
An excursion down the Potomac was partici¬ 
pated in tho other day by the President, his 
Cabinet, many Members of Congress, and other 
distinguished officials and their wives, to the 
number of nearly five hundred. It was given by 
certain citizens of Washington, and was a very 
fine affair. The steamer carrying the party pro¬ 
ceeded some ninety miles down the river and 
then returned. 
The corner-stone of a monument to the mem¬ 
ory of Baron Steuben was laid in Washington 
last week. 
Suits are being prepared against theex-Collec- 
tors of Internal Revenue who arc In arrears. The 
estimated total is three million dollars. 
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NEW YORK STATE. 
The State Judicial Election, which took place 
on Tuesday of last week, resulted in a complete 
victory of the Democratic party by about 70,000 
majority. There was little interest manifested 
outside of New York City, where a vote of some 
104,000 was polled, and where the Democratic 
majority was about 60,000. The successful ticket 
is as followsj— Chief Judge, Sanford E. Church. 
A**ocMc Judges, William F. Allen, Rufus W. 
Peck bam, Charles A. Rapallo, Martin Grover. To 
these are added Charles J. Folgcr and Charles 
Andrews, probably, in accordance with a pro¬ 
vision of the Constitution, that, the two candi- 
dat.es on the minority ticket receiving the largest 
number of votes shall also be declared elected. 
Mrs. Mary Capinnesof Albany bad $5,500stolen 
from tier residence the other day. 
They now have a steamboat on Otsego Lake. 
What would Natty Bumpo think of the new 
fangled Invention, could the old hunter oome 
back to his accredited haunts? 
A man named Samuel P. Board well shot his 
wife in a hotel Ju Now York Oit.y on the 18th 
inst. The lady was taken to tho Bellevue Hos¬ 
pital In a dying eonditiou, and the murderer was 
arraigned at tho Tombs. 
A Convention of the United States Indian 
Commission was held at tho Cooper Institute on 
the 18th inst ., to consider the subject of a peace¬ 
able settlement of all our Indian difficulties. 
Delegates were present from various parts of 
the country, including representatives of the 
Indian Commission, of t he Cherokee and Creek 
tribes, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, tho 
Land Reform Society and the Universal Peace 
Society. General Sherman sent u letter declin¬ 
ing attendance, aud saying that ho thought the 
Commission would do better to convene on the 
plains. Much feeling was expressed against tho 
General's views. 
A tire in the Van Luye Charcoal Grinding 
Company's building, on Cherry street, Now York 
City, destroyed the machinery and stock, and 
damaged the building, to the extent of forty or 
fifty thousand dollars. 
Tho warm season was Inaugurated lu the me¬ 
tropolis several days ago by a caso of sun-stroke. 
A serious accident occurred on tho Elevated 
Railway In New York City, ft few days ago. 
They were testing tho road with a platform car 
carrying 40,000 pounds of iron, preceded at a 
little distance by a passenger car containing 
eight or nine persons, when a span gave way, 
precipitating both cars to the street below. All 
the passengers were more or less injured, but 
none fatally. 
William Cullen Bryant delivered a discourse 
on the evening of the 17th inst., before the New 
York Historical Society, in Steinway Hall, on 
"The Life, Character and Writings of Guliun C. 
Verplanck.*’ 
There was a fire at Greenpoint, L. I., on the 
evening of the 18th inst., resulting In the com¬ 
plete destruction of a turning-mill, at a loss of 
some $30,000. 
Thomas Hickey was shot and killed by some 
person unknown, iu a quarrel in front of a 
house of ill-fame on Adams street, Rochester, 
one night last week. The murderer hasnot been 
arrested. 
Another fire was raging in the mountains op¬ 
posite Poughkeepsie last week. 
Mr. George 8. Whitney, a well-know d banker 
of Mount Morris, has failed, with liabilities to 
the amount of $50,000. 
The Canal Bill, as finally passed, contains an 
appropriation of $300,000 for the Chenango ex¬ 
tension. 
The stockholders of the Utica, Chenango and 
Susquehanna Railroad Company have voted to 
ratify the lease of their road to the Delaware, 
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, 
and to increase the capital stock to three mil¬ 
lions. 
General Thomas Jordan has addressed an ap¬ 
peal to the ladies of the city of New York in be¬ 
half of the wretched aud almost nuked women 
and children of Cuba. He asks for clothing, 
oven tho remnants llung aside in the stores, 
which will be received with gratitude by all, and 
even by many once used to refinement and 
luxury. 
Thos. J. Fisk, many years a conductor on tbo 
Eric Railroad, died in Avon on the 141b inst. 
Governor Hoffman has vetoed the New York 
Arcade Railroad Bill. He names thirteen ob¬ 
jections to tho bill, aud while conceding the ne¬ 
cessity of some improved railroad communica¬ 
tion for the city, Insists that the bill passed by 
tho Legislature is Insufficient and unjust to 
property-holders. 
Charles Stowell of Little Falls, a brakeman on 
the Central Railroad, was killed on the 18th inst. 
at Whitesboro. He was engaged in coupling 
cars, when he fell, and the wheels passed over 
him. 
•-- 
FROM THE WEST. 
The steamer War Eagle was burned at the 
wharf at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on the lath inst., 
entailing immense loss. Some kerosene on board 
Oftught fire from a lantern dropped near the bar¬ 
rel, and the vessel wassoon enveloped in flames, 
which drove alt the passengers into the river. 
Four persons were drowned. The flames com¬ 
municated to the Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail¬ 
road depot and elevator buildings, and these 
were also consumed. Every thing on the boat 
was lost, and nil the freight in the depot con¬ 
sumed. Not a single thing was saved. 
The latest advices from St. Louis fix the num¬ 
ber of killed by the recent disaster on flic Mis¬ 
souri Pacific Railroad at nineteeu, aud the 
wounded at thirty. The coroner's jury have 
rendered n verdict against Odor, the conductor, 
and Tracy, the engineer, of the freight train, for 
culpable negligence. 
A war party of the Ogallalahs, dressed in 
clothing furnished by the Government, called 
at the cabin of a settler liviug on the Nebras¬ 
ka River, 130 miles north of Sioux City, Iowa, 
the other day, and while shaking hands with the 
man’s wife, shot her, then killed her little eon, 
and took her daughter, aged thirteen years, a 
prisoner. The husband escaped. The excite¬ 
ment in that region is very great, and it is feared 
it will be depopuJated, Loud calls are made for 
Sheridan and Baker. 
Seven outlaws entered the town of Ladore, 
Kansas, recently, spent the day in drinking, and 
at night applied at a boarding house for lodg¬ 
ings. Being refused on account of their drunken 
condition, one of the party knocked Roach, the 
landlord, insensible with a revolver and they 
then went to the bed occupied by the two 
daughters of Roach, aged twelve and fourteen 
yearn, and ravished them. A quarrel arose 
among the demons, and one was shot dead while 
satisfying his lust. At. daybreak the party fled, 
one taking with him to the woods the youngest 
girl. Tho town was immediately aroused, and 
parties started in every direction in search of 
the fiends. The one with the girl was soon over¬ 
taken and hanged to a tree- Two others were 
found secreted in town, and were hanged to the 
same tree. The remaining three were also cap¬ 
tured, and two of them hanged. 
The Indians are raiding along the line of the 
Kansas Pacific Railroad for more than one hun¬ 
dred miles, and have already murdered several 
settlers and run off a large amount of Stock. 
A party of white men, while on a pleasure trip 
to the Falls of the Yellow Stone, in Montano, 
had their stock stolen oue night recently by a 
band of Indians known as *‘ Sheep - Takers." 
They pursued the Indians at daybreak, and the 
latter hastily constructed a raft and attempted 
to cross the Yellow Stone River, hut when in 
the middle of the river, the current, took the 
raft down stream, and its eighteen occupants 
were swept over the fall to instant death. 
Ten laborers on the Kansas Pacific Railroad 
were recently killed by Indians who made a raid 
on the road. 
Tho Illinois Central Railroad depot and freight 
bouse, the principal block of t lie town, and grain 
elevator at Winona, Ill., were burned on the 
17th inst, 
A tire in Canal street, Chicago, on the 14th 
Inst., destroyed property to the value of $75,000. 
A fire at Oskosh, Wis., ou the 17th inst., de¬ 
stroyed S. Irvine & Co.’s fiouring-mill, and 
Welsh. Jenkins & Co.’s fiouring-mill. I^os-s to 
tho former, $30,000. The lat ter’s loss $30,000. 
The Missouri Republican State Convention is 
to bo held in Jefferson City on tbo 31st- of 
August. 
A Mrs. Elizabeth Hatch shot Miss Jessie Bush 
in St. Paul on the 17th Inst., Inflicting a fatal 
wound. Jealousy was the cause. 
Gen. Wood lias been placed In charge of the 
Kansas Pacific Railway fine from Wallace to 
Denver. He has four companies of cavalry aud 
throe of infantry, aud the garrisons at Fort Wal¬ 
lace. Lyons and Reynolds under his command, 
and is instructed on no account to let. the grad¬ 
ing be suspended for want of protection to tho 
workmen from the Indianswho have committed 
depredations on tbo route. 
Private letters from Southern Kansas and the 
Indian Territory say the small-pox prevails 
there to a great extent. 
The Mormon aut horities at Salt Lake City, on 
the 17th inst., during a recess of the Court held 
by Chief Justice Wilson, closed the building 
agaiust the Judge aud Hie United States Mar¬ 
shal, and for some time refused to permit the 
Court to continue the sitting, but after a con¬ 
sultation gave up the hall to the Court. 
On tho evening of tho 18th inst,, a gang of six 
or eight prisoners made a desperate attempt to 
esoape from tho Ptoo. prioon nt. Joliet by run¬ 
ning through a gate while a team wits passing. 
The guards fired on them, killing two. The bal¬ 
ance were capt ured. 
De Havens, an mronant, urndc an ascension 
from Rock Island, fowa, and when over the city 
of Davenport, and rapidly nearing the ground, 
his balloon collapsed and ho was thrown through 
the roof of a summer house. 
Avery destructive fire occurred iu St. Paul, 
Minn., on tho 19th, several buildings being de¬ 
stroyed, with a loss of nearly $75,000. Two 
young men in Bryant AStratton’shuildlng were 
obliged to leap from a third story window to the 
ground. Both were badly injured, and one at 
least will die. A woman aud a child perished in 
the flames. 
The dedication of the grand Hospital of the 
Soldiers' National Military Asylum attracted a 
great crowd to Dayton, Ohio, on tho 19th inst. 
Among the distinguished guests were Governor 
Hayes and wife of Ohio, Governor Baker of In¬ 
diana, Dr. Walcott of Milwaukee, and Generals 
Willish and Sobenck. Letters from the Presi¬ 
dent and Vice-President of the United States, 
Generals Sheruiun, Sheridan and Meade, Chief- 
Justice Chase, and the Governors of a dozen 
States, expressing regrets and sympathy, were 
read. Brief speeches were made by Governor 
Hayes, Governor Baker, General Willish, Gene¬ 
ral Schenck, Dr. Walcott, aud the Rev. Mr. 
Thomas of Brooklyn, New York. Medical men 
pronounec tlio hospital to be the finest on the 
continent. Tho whole institution commands the 
admiration of all who see it. There are over 
1,300 veterans now at the Asylum. 
The Missouri State Editorial Association held 
its annual meeting in Kansas City, May 18. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
A Convention called by the Eight - Hour 
League, assembled in Boston last week. Wen¬ 
dell Phillips presented resolut ions, among them 
the following: 
That tills Convention regards the shortening 
of the hours of labor as the first change to tie 
urged on the attention of the community, be¬ 
lieving that the leisure ttaut secured to the work¬ 
ingmen will be in the main well used, and aid in 
fitting them for that system of co-operation 
which is the best basis for a fair and final ar¬ 
rangement of the relations of capital and labor. 
A new liquor bill has been reported in the 
Massachusetts Senate, which allows the sale of 
lager beer, aud provides for sales of liquors by 
druggists and apothecaries lor medicinal, me¬ 
chanical and chemical purposes, such persons 
not to sell to minors or on Sunday, except on 
the prescription of a physician. Tho Liquor 
Commissioner is required absolutely to import 
his foreign liquors, and not to do sounder the 
direction of another, and he must purchase his 
domestic liquors direct from the manufacturers, 
who are authorized to sell to him. 
The Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows for 
Connecticut held its annual session iu Hartford 
last week, and elected S. D. Fairchild of New 
Haven, Grand Patriarch, and other officers, and 
chose Mr. Briggs of Waterbury as Representa¬ 
tive to the Grand Lodge of the United States. 
While some boys in Portland, Me., were play¬ 
ing with an old musket, the other day, John 
Tanner pointed it at Patrick Curtin, pulled tho 
trigger and blew off the top of Curtin’F head. 
Tanner was so distressed at his carelessness that 
he jumped into the river and drowned himself. 
A State mass Temperance Convention will be 
held at Auburn, Me., on the 17th of June, to 
nominate a candidate for Governor and transact 
6ucb other business as may come before it. 
Mrs. Edward O. Webster of Somerville, Mass., 
was burned to death recently,herclothes taking 
fire while she was lighting a fire with a lamp. 
Owing to an illness from paralysis she was un¬ 
able to extinguish the flames. 
The annual convocation of the Grand Chapter 
of the Royal A rcli Masons of New Hampshire 
met in Concord last week. 
A dangerous rock was blasted out of Newport 
harbor, last week, by a torpedo and electric 
battery. 
Nathaniel Gale, for many years clerk In the 
naval Office Department of the Boston Custom 
House, lias been arrested, charged with defraud- 
ding tbo Government or $6,000 in gold iu the 
collection of invoice duties. 
A fire last week, caused by gas explosion in the 
grocery store of P. P. Pearson, in Baugor, Me., 
destroyed the stock and badly injured thebuild- 
tng- Mr. Pearson was in the act of lighting a 
gas-burner when the explosion took place. He 
was severely burned. 
In Medway, Mass., on the 19tli inst., the boat 
manufactory of Clark Partridge was burned. 
Loss, $15,000. 
Gilmore's extensive shoe manufactory at 
North Raynham (Mass.) was burned last week. 
Loss, $70,000. 
Recently while the children of Mr. A. L. 
Hathaway were playing near Lake Champlain, 
at Shelburne, <hey found two pieces of gold on 
the beach. They carried the money home and 
showed it to Mr. Hathaway, who went to the 
spot and succeeded lu finding eighteen pieces 
tnore. The pieces proved to be gold guineas, 
with dates ranging from 1749 to 1776. The gold 
value of the money found is about $100. 
Center Harbor boasts of a great, curiosity, in 
t he shape or a colt which was recently foaled by 
a mare belonging to J. B. Dow of that town. 
The most remarkable feature of the colt is, that 
it has but one eye, which is very large, and is 
placed in the center ol' its forehead. It has no 
nostrils, neither lias it any upper jaw, the under 
jaw being quite perfect. 
A Shaker fraternity at Alfred, Me., thinks of 
removing to Kentucky. 
The private carriage formerly owned by 
Daniel Webster, and presented to the late Cbas. 
March, was sold by auction, at Portsmouth, on 
Saturday, for the sum of $86. 
Thomas Frothhigham, aged seventy years, 
banged himself in his residence in Boston on 
the 15th lust. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
The first cordial public commingling of white 
and colored citizens iu Charleston took place 
thereon the night of the ICtb inst-, when there 
was oue of tho largest mass meetings ever held 
in the city, under a call for “citizens of all 
ditw's, colors, and political parties,” to begin a 
movement for retrenchment and reform in the 
Stato Government. A mixed delegation was 
appointed to represent Charleston in a State Re¬ 
form Convention to be held in Columbia on July 
15, to Which thy other counties are invited to 
send delegates. G reat enthusiasm prevailed. 
Tho entire buaiueaa part of Henderson, N. C., 
was destroyed by fire on the 17th Inst. It began 
on Main street, spread very rapidly, and soon 
consumed every building on both sides of the 
street for a distance of two hundred yards. 
Every business house in thetown was destroyed. 
The fire is believed to have been the work of an 
incendiary. 
Capt. T. A. Holtzolnw was struck in the head 
with an ux and killed while walking with his 
wile near Greenville, 8. C„ a few days ago. 
Tho Delaware Republican Stato Convention to 
nominate candidates for Governor, Congress¬ 
man, &c„ is to be hold in Dover on the 9th of 
June. 
Tho square bounded by Stanfield, Crape, Love 
and Murigny st reets. New Orleans, was destroyed 
by fire last week. Loss $30,000. 
A grocery, liquor store, warehouse, brass foun¬ 
dry, plumbor shop and residence were burned 
in Wheeling, W. Va„ on the 15th inst¬ 
ill Charlottesville, Va., recently, upon the re¬ 
turn home of u party of young ladies and gen¬ 
tlemen who had been prat icing at a target with 
pistols, oue of them. Miss Eveline Goodloe, 
daughter of P. IT. Goodloe, of Memphis, Tenn., 
laughingly pointed a pistol at herself, aud was 
making some playful remark, when the pistol 
exploded accidentally, tho ball passing directly 
through her heart, causing instant death. 
Tlio Tennessee Senate lias passed a bill, on first 
reading, prohibiting intermarriage botwoen 
whites and colored persons. 
In the General Conference ol the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South, at Memphis, Bishop 
McPeyerro presided. Bishop Wigbtman was 
solicited to write the life ol Bishop Soule. The 
Committee on Missions reported in favor of 
continuing the present system, with the excep¬ 
tion of having only one Board, to be appointed 
by Bishops, of five managers: also, that John 
Howell be continued Superintendent of Indian 
Missions, and for interchange of German teach¬ 
ers between Louisiana and Texas, and tor Ger¬ 
man hymn books, aud this report was adopted. 
The Committee ou Sunday Sohools recommend¬ 
ed a General Sabbath School Convention, to be 
composed of one deligate for each twenty-eight 
members of the conference, which provoked a 
lengthy discussion, The report was finally 
amended by substituting fifty as the number of 
delegates, and the rceommendaDon was adopted. 
The Conference received fraternal messages 
from the Methodist Pretestant Church Confer¬ 
ence, in session at Baltimore. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
An American yacht has won the champion cup 
abroad. The second of the scries of three races 
between the American yacht Sappho aud the 
British yacht Cambria was won by the former ou 
the 14th inst., by the virtual backing out of the 
Cambria. Mr. Ashbury anticipated defeat, and 
by an unmanly quibble,’and against the decision 
of the umpires, avoided the contest. The Cam¬ 
bria sailed but a short distance, then tacked, and 
returned to Cowes. The third race took place 
on t he 18th inst., and resulted in another victory 
for the Sappho. 
The vote on Die Plebiscitum was verified and 
officially proclaimed in the Corps Legislatif ou 
the 18th just. When the ceremony was conclud¬ 
ed, the majority broke forib in enthusiastic 
shoutsof “ Vive I’Empcreur.*’ Jules Simon, one 
of the irreconcilablca, attempted to make a pro¬ 
test, but was silenced by the voice of the Cham¬ 
ber. The Government is visiting the organs of 
disorder with severe punishment. The editors 
and publishers of the Hcveil and the ttojrpd have 
been sent to prison,and the edition of the Marseil¬ 
laise of yesterday seized. Tho latter announced 
its own suspension until July 18, wheu Editor 
Rochefort’s terra of Imprisonment expires. 
During the two months of remaining incarcera¬ 
tion, M. Rochefort is to write a history of “ The 
Last Empire." 
The Emperor Napoleon, It is stated, has re¬ 
ceived a letter from Queen Victoria, congratu¬ 
lating him on having escaped the late danger. 
A bill has been introduced in the British House 
of Lords reudering education compulsory, and 
establishing a tax for the support of schools. 
Tho efforts of Captafu Eyre of the Bombay, to 
procure the reversal of the judgment against 
him In the case of the Oneida, have failed. The 
Board of Trade, of which Mr. John Bright, is tho 
head, has confirmed tho sentence of suspension 
against him by the under court. English papers 
agree that the evidence sustains the most unfa¬ 
vorable estimate of Eyre’s character. 
The small-pox is spreading in Paris, the type 
being unusually virulent- 
There was a revolutionary banquet in London, 
recently, largely attended by prominent French 
revolutionists, to which Victor Hugo sent a 
characterist ic note, containing assurance of his 
hearty sympathy. 
The valuable statuary in Christ Church, Ox¬ 
ford, was rooently removed during the night, 
andhurtied into lime. The press is severe against 
the perpetrator of this outrage. 
The German Reichstag has passed to a third 
reading tiie bill carrying into effect the provis¬ 
ions of tlio postal convention between the 
United States and the North German Confede¬ 
ration. 
Tlio expected changes in the French Cabinet 
are beginning to be realized. The Duke de 
Orammont becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs, 
to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of 
Count Napoleon Daru. M. Jacques Philippe 
Megc is the new Minister of Public Instruction, 
and M.CharlesIgnacePliohon is Minister of Pub¬ 
lic Works. 
Tho naturalization treaty between the United 
States and Great Britain Ims been signed in Lon¬ 
don by Mr. Motley, the American Minister, and 
the Earl of Clarendon, the British Foreign Sec¬ 
retary. 
An early introduction of a bill abolishing 
slavery in the colonies is promised in the Span¬ 
ish Cortes. 
The students at the Universities of Florence 
and Naples have indulged in seditious cries and 
other disorderly conduct, and the Naples Insti¬ 
tution is closed. 
Unusual outrages are reported to have been 
committed at Naples and in tho island of Sar¬ 
dinia. The brigands are charged with these 
crimes, but it is probable t hat Die political fac¬ 
tions are responsible for their perpetration. 
Further disturbances iu portions of Japan are 
reported. 
The canonization of Christopher Columbus is 
contemplated at Rome. 
Espartoro has written a letter to Marshal Prim 
declining Ihe candidacy for the Crown or Spain 
on account of bis great age. Tho Cortes has 
pawed tbo bill authorizing civil marriage, by a 
vote of 143 yeas to 31 nays. Tho Press continues 
to urge a settlement of the question of tho 
throne, and Die anxiety in political circles for 
the termination of the provisional status daily 
increases. 
The British House of Lords has had the bill le¬ 
galizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister 
under discussion. Lord Houghton and tlio Mar¬ 
quis of Lausdowne favored the bill. The Earl 
of Kimberley pronounced the proposed mar¬ 
riages immoral. The House refused, by four 
majority, to pass the bill to a second reading. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Cubans uow have a war vessel afloat. 
The steamer George B. Uptow sailed from New 
York on the 14th inst., having had clearance 
papers for Port-au-Prince, some cargo, aud a 
number ol' passengers. 8he came-to about ten 
miles north of Barnegat, where aecbooner eamo 
alongside and addiDona) passengers, shot and 
shell am! powder were put on boai'd. Previous 
to that, the Upton was transferred to tho Cuban 
authorities, and when ready to start on her mis¬ 
sion did so with the Cuban flag Hying on her 
peak ami pennant on her main, aud two hun¬ 
dred fighting men on board. The steamer is six 
hundred and seven tons register, one hundred 
and seventy-five feet Jong, seventy-live feet 
beam, thirteen feet hold, is a screw, and steams 
fast. Thomas L. Dorwin is her commander, aud 
the military corps on board is commanded by 
Gen. Eugene Valiente, late of Gen. Goicourla’s 
staff, and under him are Col. Drake De Kay and 
Capts, Harrison and Wesfermau. This is really 
the most formidable expedition ever sent out to 
aid the Cubans. 
Painful news comes from Port-au-Prince. One 
of the Piquet chiefs, the notorious Siffra, who 
was one of Bainave's leaders, has escaped from 
Joremic, and has appeared on the plains of Aux 
Cayes with a band of followers. They have 
burned andplllaged the village of Porta Pimcnt, 
killing men, women and children, and commit¬ 
ting most horrible atrocities. Siffra was one 
of tho most brutal of all of the Piquet leaders, 
and lias a long score to settle for murders aud 
other barbarities committed during and 6ince 
the the time of Salnave. The Commandant of 
the District Coleaux is iu pursuit of him with a 
formidable force, aud the men have sworn not 
to leave the woods until he is taken. 
During the late hail stonn iu Philadelphia, on 
the 8th inst., a funeral procession was badly 
broken up by the horses becoming unmanage¬ 
able and running away. The hearse was broken 
to pieces, but the corpse was in no way marred. 
The driver of one of the carriages will probably 
die from his injuries. 
John Deal lias beeu executed at Reading, Pa., 
for the murder of Richard M. Harlan in October 
last. The criminal expressed penitence for his 
crime, aud died almost, without a struggle. 
The disabled steamship Biberia arrived at g 
Queenstown ou the 13th inst. J 
Lisbon advices from Soul h America contain *4 
accounts of a formidable insurrection in the 
province Of Entre Rios, to which point the Ar- ^ 
geutine Republic was hurrying troops. General 
Urquiza, cx-Diotator of tbe Republic, bad beeu v 
shot and mortally wounded by an assassin. The J 
Brazilian volunteers were returning from Para- 
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