burp, Dec. 31. Mayor O'Leary and Gen. Miller, 
who commanded the white forces in the recent 
fighting, testified, giving details of the origin 
and culmination of the troubles. 
The capital stock of the Eagle Mowing Ma* 
chine Company of Albany, is to be raised from 
$135,000 to $400,000. 
A large number of retail watchmakers and 
jewelers of New York have organized a pro* 
tentive union. 
The Clerkship of the New Jersey Assembly 
has been conceded to Mr. Hugh F. McDermott, 
editor of the New Jersey City Herald. 
Prof. Mo&esColt Tyler of the University of 
Michigan, has come E« ’t to fulfil lecture en¬ 
gagements, and mako a brief vlst to friends. 
Mrs. J. V. R. Daniels, sister of George Pea¬ 
body, haB just given a Christmas present of $500 
to C- S. J6wit t. who saved her life on a railroad, 
a few years ago. 
The position of managing editor of the Bos¬ 
ton Trunscript by the death of Mr. Haskell, has 
been given to Mr. William A. Hovey who for 
some time has been editor of The Commercial 
Bulletin. 
The Supcrinicnde it of the State Asylum for 
t he insane says that Kate Stoddard, who killed 
Charles Goodrich in Brooklyi, is a hopeless 
lunatic. 
Wm.A. Potter of New York, has accepted 
the position of Supervising Architect of the 
Treasury Department. 
Miss Elizabeth Bancroft of Boston, lias mar¬ 
ried t be CountTayzltlewlez, of Russia, the wed¬ 
ding being very brilliant.. 
Congressman-elect Seely*, of Amherst Col¬ 
lege, declines to bo a candidate for the late 
Hon. Alvah Crocker's uuexplred term. 
Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller, wife of Joarjuln, Is 
going to write a play and act in it. 
Lieutenant General Sheridan, accompanied 
by General Rucker, Major George A. Forsythes 
ami Colonel M. Sheridan, of Ids staff have gone 
to New Orleans. 
General Sheridan and staff arrived in New Or¬ 
leans Dec. 30. 
Union Hall, In New Britain, Conn., was des¬ 
troyed last week. 
Very rich gold deposits have been found near 
Sonora on the San Miguel river Lower Califor¬ 
nia 
The operatives In the Cornell match factory, 
San Francisco, have struck against the employ¬ 
ment of Chinamen. 
The Sacramento, Cal., Colon has been pur¬ 
chased by Paul Morrill for $65,000. The man¬ 
agement is to remain unchanged. 
The 1 fudson river was filled with Ice at Pough¬ 
keepsie December 31. rendering further naviga¬ 
tion impossible. 
Five hundred discharged workmen of the. 
Washington Navy Yard have prepared an ap¬ 
peal to Congress for employment. 
Throughout New England tbo thermometer 
was from zero to 30 degrees below Dec. 31. In 
Canada it averaged about 30 below, 
Tho residents having united In a request that 
Governor Dix make Albany his future home, 
tho Governor thanked them ard said that 
stronger ties bound him elsewhere. 
August Bledorhas, of Waverly street, Jersey 
City Heights, fell dead in his room on Wednes¬ 
day evening week. He was a wealthy Now 
Yoik merchant. 
More than 100 Jersey City merchants were 
fined from $5 to $40 each one day last week, for 
obstructing the sidewalks with their wares. 
William Busteed, Esq., a member of the New 
York bar, died on the 31st nit., at bis residence 
in this city. The deceased was the brother of 
ex-Judge Busteed, of Alubama. 
Chancellor Runyon has rendered a decision In 
tho case of the Hudson River Tunnel Company 
practically stopping work on the great bore (or 
some time to come. 
General Butler's organ, the Boston Traveler, 
favors Mr. Dawes for the United States Semi- 
torsMp from Massachusetts, and thinks he will 
have a large majority of u Republican caucus 
in his favor. 
General Burnside's friends are proclaiming 
that they are sure of electing him Senator from 
Rhode Island when the Legislature meets. 
A London telegram says that the Duke of 
Montrose is dead. He succeeded his father ns 
fourth duke Iu 1836, and was Postmaster Gener¬ 
al In Lord Derby's third administration, in 1860. 
Colonel Isaac H. Hawley, a well known special 
agent of the Post Office In Colorado and New 
Mexico, died suddenly December31st. 
The New York Daily Star announces the ad¬ 
dition of four columns to its sheet, beginning 
January 1. It Is a noticeable sign of prosperity 
in the midst of the general depression. 
groups in the French Assembly to arrive at an 
understanding in regard to the constitutional 
bills. 
In Spain, Gen. Martinos Campos has declared 
in favor of tbo Prince of Asturias. 
Count von Amlm and the Public Prosecutor 
have appealed from the decision against the 
former. 
The Peruvian insurgents have been defeated 
tn an important engagement. 
The 13th anniversary of the death of Prince 
Consort, Dec. 14, was observed by Queen Vic¬ 
toria and the members of the royal family with 
the usual solemnities, a religious service, con¬ 
ducted by the Dean of Windsor, being held in 
the mausoleum at Frogmore. 
The Emperor aDd Empress of Russia wear 
pretty good clothes. The latter has a red vel¬ 
vet mantle lined with 230 sable skins, and 
valued at about $20,000. The emperor baa a 
cloak of blue fox skin worth $24 000. 
The German Consul at San Sebastian write. 
that the captain and a portion of the crew of 
the German bark Gustave have been im¬ 
prisoned. The Carl Is ts fired upward of 2, (XX) 
rounds at the vessel while endeavoring to enter 
the harbor of San Sebastian. 
Frank Cramer has been arrested at Altoona, 
Pa., on a charge of manufacturing counterfeit 
nickels. The proof is clear. 
Gen. Pope reports the surrender of 100 more 
of the hostile Indians at the Cheyenne and Ar- 
rapahoe agency. 
Yeddo, in Japan, will probably belit with gas 
this week for the first time. 
A silver-mounted meerschaum pipe, colored 
by the late Lola Montez, is on exhibition In San 
Francisco. 
A bald-headed eagle made its headquarters 
on the spire of the Center Church at Hartford, 
Christmas Day. 
Seven thousand copies a day Is the averago 
sale of Gladstone’s Vatican pamphlet—a sale, 
wethlnk,quite unprecedented In book-making 
annals. 
It is thought that a union of the two centers 
of the French Assembly la possible. The quts- 
tlon of a reorganization cf the Cabinet is 
settled. 
Tbo statement that tho announcement, that 
Dr. Colenao, Bishop of Natal, had been prohib¬ 
ited by the Bishop of London from preaching 
in the Rev. Mr. Brooke's church was received 
with hisses. Is said to bo Incorrect. A corres¬ 
pondent of The London Timm says the an¬ 
nouncement met with tho most resj>ectful 
silence and attention. 
Sixty thousand colliers 1u South Wales have 
struck work in consequence of a reduction In 
their wages. 
The River Elbe Is dosed by Ice. 
The insurgents In the jurisdiction of Villa 
Clara. Cuba, have burned tho Margarita and 
Alberlcbs plantations and assaulted travelers. 
Owing to the recent flies In Huvana, the for¬ 
eign insurance companies have raised their 
premiums about 40 per cent., aDd have adopted 
uniform rates of premium. 
In consequence of a very heavy full of snow 
many railways in Austria wholly or partially 
discontinued traffic Dec.31. Proighttrafflc was 
at a stand-still throughout tho country. Com¬ 
munication between Vienna and Prague was 
entirely interrupted. Trieste was isolated. 
A London telegram, Dec. 31, tells of cold 
weather in England in this wise:—“Navigation 
on the River Humber above Hull is stopped by 
ice. The harbor of Goole, on the Ouse, Is 
closed. Drift ice hinders the navigation of the 
Thames. The railways tn Western England are 
blocked by snow. Some local lines have sus¬ 
pended traffic altogether.” 
Since tbo beginning of tho famine In Asia 
Minor 50,000 persons have migrated from various 
parts of the country to the City of Adana. Half 
of them have since succumbed to disease. Tho 
struogo climate and extreme rapaciousness of 
the tax-gatherers .end to aggravate the distress 
and increase the mortality. 
The Earl and Countess of Dudley lost a pack¬ 
age of jewelry valued at $260,000 at a railway 
station in England recently. They have offered 
a reward of $5,000for its recovery. 
The archbishops of Cologne lias again been 
fined 30,000 thalers and w ill probably be impri¬ 
soned again before long. 
Duchesne Poacelet, the watchman who sign¬ 
ed a letter to a French Archbishop ottering to 
kill Prinoo Bismurk, asserts that the alleged 
conspiracy was only a joke. He says he signed 
the letter w'hile intoxicated. 
Canada's tobacco bill for 1873, including 
smoking and chewing tobacco, cigars, pipes 
and snuff, foots up $8,421,085. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES 
Boston merchants are exhibiting commend¬ 
able interest and energy In pushing forward 
their new railroad lines, to cross the Hudson at 
Poughkeepsie. 
A reception was given at the Manhattan 
Club, New York, In honor of Governor-elect 
Tilden and Mayor-elect Wickham, at which 
they. Gov. Ingersoil, Governor-elect Bedle. ex- 
Gov. Hoffman, and many others made addres¬ 
ses. 
Mr. Alvinza Hayward of Ban Francisco has- 
sold hta Crown Point mill and mining property- 
fur $1,600,0000. He has donated $20,000 of th© 
proceeds to a charitable Institution. 
Gov. Beveridge of Illinois has ordered a special 
election In tho First Congressional District on 
•Ian. 23d, to ill! the vacancy caused by the death 
of the Hon. John B. Rice. 
Col. Eugene Lehardy, a prominent civil engi¬ 
neer and railroad man, who spent many years 
In efforts to build up the South and draw’ the 
attention of Northern and European capitalists 
to be section, died In Rome, Ga., on Sunday 
week. 
Robert J. Dallas, the late cashier of Molson’s 
Bank, Toronto, who robbed the bank of 43 
$1,000 biink notes, and fled, was arrosted in 
Elizabeth, N. J., last week, with $43,700 Of the 
money on his person. 
A tiro at Ottovva, Ill., Dec. 29, destroyed I he 
Opera House, valued at $65,000 and Russel &■ 
Sons furniture store. Russell & Sons’ loss is 
$15,000, The insurance on the Opera House Is 
$25,000, and on the furniture store $5,000. 
By direction of the Secretary of the Treasury 
demands have been made on the Central Pacific 
Railroad for $1,836,000, and or. the Union Pacific 
for $1,040,000. 
The books of the Internal revenue office, 
Washington, show that the quantity in dis¬ 
tillery warehouses on the 1st of December, 1874 
was 11,537, 257 gallons. 
The Warden of the Penitentiary has been 
ordered to treat William M.Tweed just like an 
ordinary convict. 
Gerrit Smith was not unlike the late Senator 
Sumner, in many respects of commanding 
presence, an open, serene countenance, a good 
speaker, clothing by no means fashionable but 
ample and befitting, a turn-down collar and 
loose necktie, graceful in his movements, and 
as good a specimen of nature's noblemen as 
Virginia or Kentuck, where they are said to 
abound,ever produced. 
Chaunoey Rose of Terre Haute, Ind., ga ve 
$356,000 to Institutions there last week, divided 
as follows:—To the Terre Haute School of In¬ 
dustrial Science, $266,000, and to the Vigo 
County Orphans' Horae, $150,000. He has be¬ 
fore given large sums In benevolence and 
charity. 
The War Department will co-operate with 
the Interior Department in the protection of 
the Black Hills from invasion by miners ; and 
for once wo shall keep faith, with the Indians. 
Tho inventory of James Fisk's estate shows 
him to have been virtually bankrupt when ho 
died. Locked up in tho courts and absorbed 
by tbo lawyers and slock sharks, his million, 
which rumor while ho lived counted as many 
millions, dwindles to nothing, or worse than 
nothing. 
California Is reported quite content with 
the results of tho closing year financially; It 
will go out beyond the mountains in a golden 
Western sunset. 
Duringtho past, season 670,000 tons of property, 
valued at $13,015,580, were left at Albany, by 
the Erie and Champlain canals ; and 58,999 tons, 
valued at $4,169,037 were cleared. 
Tho Hawltee family of North Saugus, Mass., 
still occupy the farm owned by their ancestors 
in 1630, the year of the settlement of Lynn, 
Salem, and Boston. The house was erected in 
1765. Adam Huwkes owned the iron mine 
which supplied ore to the first fouudery estab¬ 
lished in the country. Another homestead 
ovor 200 years old, two miles from this one, is 
still held by a branch of the same family. 
A Hanover, (N. II.) man is largely engaged in 
trapping skunks. Last year he sent ninety 
skins to Boston, the yew before 1,500, and this 
year he expects to send 2,000. 
A Methodist minister In Kansas, owing to 
the late failure of crops, received only fifty 
cents for his first quarter's salary, and another, 
with a wife and live chlldroD, had neither milk, 
but ter nor flesh on the table for six weeks, and 
used roasted rye for coffee. 
The Tribune, which recently proposed a dol¬ 
lar subscription for Kansas and Nebraska suf¬ 
ferers, saysiu its issue of Dec. 81“ The stream 
of dollars for the relief of tbo Kaunas and 
Nebraska sufferers c.out inues to flow In upon us. 
The total amount of the subscriptions thus far 
is $5,52". and there Is every Indication that the 
generosity, which has fitted so well with the 
Holiday season, is by no means exhausted.” 
Gen. Ogden, Chief of the Louisiana White 
League, last week testified before the Con¬ 
gressional Investigating Committee, regarding 
the objects of the White League. Other testi¬ 
mony went to show that the presence of the 
United States soldiers prevented people from 
voting. 
The officers of the Black River Insurance 
Company are taking steps to have the name of 
that corporation changed to the “Northern 
Insurance Company or New York.'* 
The late Col. McArdie of Albany left a be¬ 
quest of $1 000 to the popular editor of the 
Albany Express. Col. Cuyler. 
The Congressional Committee to investigate 
the Mississippi troubles began work at Vlcks- 
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TIMELY TOPICS, 
Spain a Monarchy Again. 
Among the items of nows announced on New- 
Year's morning, was the intelligence, by cable 
telegram from Paris, that Alfonso, Prince of 
Asturias.—son of Isabella II. and cousin of Don 
Carlos, -had been proclaimed King of Spain by 
the armies of 1 lie North and Center, and that 
Marshal Serrano and the Ministers acquiesced. 
The Minister of tbo Interior Issued a circular 
announcing the Important event, and sent the 
following dispatch to the Governors of th© 
Provinces: 
Alfonsv the Twelfth has been unanimously 
proclaimed King bv the army, nation and min¬ 
istry. A regenev has been formed under the 
Presidency of Canovas Delea-dillo, without a 
portfolio. "Wo hope your patriotism will induce 
you to firmly maintain the great interests con¬ 
fided to you. 
The Captain-General of Madrid telegraphed 
the news to ex-Queen Isabella and congratu¬ 
lated her upon the grand triumph In behalf of 
her son, achieved without, bloodshed. To this 
she responded, “The King proceeds to Spain 
Immediately.” 
King Alfonso telegraphed to the Pope asking 
his blessing, and promising that he will, like 
his ancestor-., defend the rights of the Holy 
See. nis Ministry is announced as follows: 
Castro, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Cardenas, 
Minister of Jusltoa; Jovtllar, Minister of War; 
8 i!av«rria, Minister of Finance; Molina, Minis¬ 
ter of Marine; Robledo, Minister of the Inte¬ 
rior; Orovls, Minister of Commerce; Ayala, 
Minister of tbo Colonies. 
Alfonso Francisco de Asis Fernando, the new 
King, was born Nov.28,1857, and was the Prince 
of Asturias until Isabella abdicated inhisfavor 
June 25. 1870. Then he assumed the title of 
Alfonso XII. _ 
Funeral of OerFt Smith. 
A telegram dated Utica, December 81,says: 
“Tho funeral of the lute Gerrit Smith took 
plaoe from bis residence at Peterboro at 1 
o'clock, P. M. Notwithstanding the thermom¬ 
eter was at 30° below zeio, the attendance was 
very large. The services were very simple, and 
were conducted by the Rev. S. R. Caltbrop, a 
Unitarian olergyman of Syracuse. Among the 
pall-bearera were Gen-John J. Knox of Knox- 
boro, the Hon. Chas. B. Sedgwick of Syracuse, 
the Hou. Henry A. Foster, the Hon. D. C. Lit¬ 
tlejohn and the Hon. Hamilton Littlefield of 
Oswego, Noah Brister (colored) of Peterboro 
and George Bland (colored) of Geneva. The 
orphaus of the village, protegesaf thedeoeased. 
and the children of the Sunday School,furnish¬ 
ed the music for the funeral services. The re¬ 
mains were interred In thePeterboroCemetery. 
Among rite mottoes displayed in the residence 
of the deceased were the following:—“ Equal 
Rights to All." “ Rescue Cuha Now." “ Human 
Rights above all Laws and Constitutions,” 
"That one is a man proves that he Is entitled 
to all the rights of a man." 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, 
FOREIGN NOTES, 
Forty-eight Young Men’s Christian Associ¬ 
ations own buildings to the value of two mil¬ 
lion dollars. There are nine hundred and 
forty Young Men’s Christian Associations in 
this country. 
Texan palaeontologists are positive as to the 
human origin of a skeleton, twenty odd feet 
long, one of whose knee pans fills a large car¬ 
pet bag, while a molar tooth measures eleven 
Inches In length and six inches across the sur¬ 
face. 
Mr. H. F. Durant has spent $1,006,000 on build¬ 
ing a college exclusively for the female sex 
near Natick, Mass. 14 Every officer and teacher 
in the Institute, from President dow n to Pro¬ 
fessor, and downwards, is to be a woman." 
It is announced that Prof. Ed ward 8. Morse, 
the naturalist of Salem, will sail from San 
Francisco In March on a trip around the world, 
Two boats, each with 30 passengers, left the 
burning ship Cospatrick; of these only three 
have been rescued. 
It is reported that the Duke Decazes will 
retire from the French Ministry. 
The Carlists have been defeated in the prov¬ 
ince of Barcelona. 
At the Provincial elections In Manitoba last 
week, the Hon. R. A. Davis, Premier of the 
Manitoba Cabinet, was re-elected to the Pro¬ 
vincial Parliament for Winnepeg by 15 ma¬ 
jority over Capt. Scott. 
Sir John Kurslake, M. P., has undergone an 
operation, and although the result has been 
temporary blindness, there Is every reason to 
hope that It may lead to the ultimate recovery 
of bis sight. 
An effort will be made by leaders of various 
