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MADEID, March 25.-The Ministerial
Eleo toral Oom m itt ne, after a oatefttl can?
vass, make the Cortos consist of 150
Unionists and 170 Sagos ta Progressists.
LONDON, Maroh 25.-The Queen has
departed for Berlin, eta Paris. The
Queen will decline a visit - from Thiers,
and proceed as privately as possible.
A meeting at Cork to denounce tho
International Sooiety was disorder , y, and
there waa some fighting.
MADRID, March 25.-Don Espartero,
notwithstanding his declination, has
been nominated for the Cortes from Ma?
drid. ?
ROME, March 25.-It is stated that
Frederick Charles of Prussia, while here,
advised a re-organization of the Italian
army on the Prussian plan.
LONDON, Maroh 25.-The iron-clad
Thunderer, turreted, and carrying fonr
guns, of thirty-five tons each, bas been
launohed.
aiatrlnan Intelligence.
ST. LOUIS, Maroh 24 - Dr. Wm. A.
Hudson has been convicted of abortion,
and sentenced to three years' imprison?
ment.
CHICAGO, March 24.-Tho falling walls
of Jill's brewery hurt B?X-ono fatally.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Maroh 25.-Two re
Bolations were introduced in the Senate,
instructing the Congressional delegation
to oppose any reduotion in the wool
tariff.
BOSTON, March 25.-It is stated that
the proseontion of Wm. F. Weld Sc Co.,
of Boston and New York, has been com?
promised by the firm paying 8600,000.
WASHINGTON, Maroh 25.-Col Holmes
Colbert, representative of the Chickasaw
Nation, died hore to-day, of pneumonia.
His body will be taken home. ' Ho will
bs honored with Masonic obsequies.
The Honse was filibustering the civil
rights bill over the morning hoar. The
Senate did nothing.
NEVT YORK, March 25-Evening.-At
a meeting of the Internationals, a letter
was read from Switzerland that 207
glass blowers were disoharged, beoanse
they belonged to the Internationalists.
The speaker announced that he bad been
discharged from a lithographic establish?
ment for Internationalism, and subse?
quently the whole foroe quit work. The
printers of Toronto sent a despatch ask?
ing the privilege of joining tho society.
One speaker deprecated tho making, a
politioal thing out of the organization.
Twenty-one new small-pox oases pince
Saturday. 800 of Stewart's employees
were vaccinated to-day.
Erie advanced from 52@56%, with nu
morons sales on foreign acoouut.
NEW ORLEANS, Maroh 25.-The South
bound train on the Mobile and Kew Or?
leans Railroad was wrecked by a oulrort
giving way, near Ocean Springs, Seve?
ral passengers were severely injured, but I
none killed.
Jndge Abell, this morning, ceatonoed
Jas. H. Haney, deputy constable of the]
first Justice Court, to three yean in the
penitentiary, for embezzling SIB en
trusted to him by a lady to pay her taxes.
WASHINGTON, March 25- Evening.
Oov. Curtin, Minister to Russia, has re?
signed.
It is stated that the Secretary of State
has sent an energetic note to Madrid
against the Spanish treatment of Dr.
Howard. Rear Admiral Lee's report
from Havana, on the 13th, says thero is
nothing new to report;
The British and American Claims
Commission mot, and, without deciding
any oases, adjourned till Thursday next.
It is understood there will be very little
business of importance before the com?
mission until next fall. They will meet
occasionally, but few cases only will be
heard upon thoir merits before the ad?
journment over for the summer.
In the Senate, after unimportant busi?
ness, the unfinished business, being the
tariff bil], came up, when Mr. Chandler
moved to lay it on the table for to-day,
in order-to proceed with tho bills from
the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Sher?
man said he would not oppose the mo-1
tion of Mr. Chandler, as to-day had been
set for tho consideration of bills from |
the Committee on Commerce. He said I
he didn't know cxaotly what to do about
the tariff bill, iu view of the action of
the Sonate on Friday last. The question
was whether it would be well to await
now the tariff bill of the Honse, or to
take np and pass the House bill to repeal
tho tax on tea and coffee. At any rate,
he suggested now that the Senate to?
morrow take up and pass the House bill
to repeal tho tax on tea and coffee, in
view of tho uncertainty whioh prevailed
in business circles; for, on Friday, he
had received lettors and telegrams from
forty leading commercial houses and or?
ganizations, asking the moaning ol the
action of tho Senate on Friday.
In the Senato, among the bills Intro?
duced to-day was one by Ramsay, from
Minnesota, to construct and aid in re
' building the levees on thc Mississippi
River, and for other purposes; incorpo?
rating the Mississippi Leveo and Tele?
graph Company, with a capital of
$10,000,000, to conslruot levees and n
line of telegraph from Girardean, Mo.,
to Fort Jackson, La., on both sides of
tho river, free from Stute taxation, and
with a land grant of twenty-five sections
per milo along the line of said levees.
In the Honse, the bill bridging tho
Ohio, near Evansville, was passed, A
bill for Gulf steamship service between
New Orleans and certain Mexican ports
was passed. A motion to suspend, the
rules aud pass the supplemental civil
rights bill fulled, by yeas 08, nays 78;
not being two-thirds, it comes up again
next Monday. A bill authorizing the
building of the Mexican Gulf Railway
was introduced. A bill authorizing the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Depot
to be built in the henrt of tho city failed
of two-thirds-yeas 119, nays 62. Il
comes np to morrow, when a majority
will pass tho bill.
[NOTE.-This is tho Pennsylvania Cen?
tral vs. tho Baltimore and Ohio.]
? mili ?HMM i uti 11 |>|'^>||*^jsWBHB^11' m^m m 1
. Probabilities-The ' DaronieleK$?w
Continue falling from tho lower lakjis ta
North Carolina and Eastward to th? At?
lantic. The area of rain will extend
i North-eastward over the New Enalind
State? during to-night. Riaing baro?
meter. North-westerly winds and olear
I ing weather will extend from the upper
Mississippi Ydley Eastward over-tho
upper lake region to the Oli?o Valley
and Western Pennsylvania and over tho
Southern States very generally during
to-night and on Tuesday morning, and
over the Middle States on Tuesday.
Dangerous winds are not anticipated for
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
In the Snpreme Gonrt, a motion for a
mandamus in the Kentucky war claim
case was rejected.
The National Democratic Committee
meets early in May, after the meeting of
the Cinoinnati Convention, to ?x a time
and place for holding the National De?
mocratic Convention. The time will
probably be the 4th of July; the place,
St. Louis.
Financial ant] Commercial.
LONDON, Marah 23-3 P. M.-Consols
93%. Bonds 92.%.
PAKIP, March 25.-Rentes 55 f. 90c.
LIVERPOOL, March 25-3 P. M.-Cotton
opened quiet and steady-uplands ll;
Orleans ll^@llj^.
LIVEKPOOL, March 25-Evening.
Cotton closed quiet, steady and un?
changed .
NEW YORK, March 24.-Tho cotton
movement shows receipts at all ports of
39,189 bales, against 49,972 last week,
60,063 previous week, 73,702 throe weoks
sinco. Total receipts since September
1, 2,386,475 bales, against 3,210,087 for
thu corresponding period the previous
year. Decrease B?UCO September 854,396
bales. Exports from all ports 63,988
bales, against 97,053 same week last
year. Total exports for expired pottiou
of cotton year 1,600,625 bales, against
2,160,117 esme timo last year. Stock at
all ports 427,388 bales, against 624,419
same date last year. Stocks at interior
towns 77,034 bales, against 92.881 last
year. Stock at Liverpool 376,000 bales,
again Bt 780,000 last year. American cot?
ton afloat for Great Britain 202,000
bales, against 340,000 last year. Indian
cotton afloat for Europe 413,000 bales,
against 190,000 last year.
NEW YORK, March 25-Noon.-Stocks
strong. Governments dall and steady.
Gold quiet, at 9%, Money firm, at 7.
Exohange-long 9%; short lOJ^. Flour
and com dull and unchanged. Wheat
dull and in buyers' favor. Pork steady
-mess 13.00@13.05. Lard quiet-steam
9@9??. Cotton quitt-uplands 22%;
Orleans 23; sales 400 halos. Freights
quiet.
7 P. M.-Cotton very qaiot; sales 371
bales-uplands 22%; Orleans 23. Flour
quiet and unchanged. Whiskey 89%.
Wheat heavy and lower-red winter
Western 1.70@1.71. Corn heavy and
lower, at 70>?(a>71>? for Southern; yellow
71@72. Rioe in fair request, at 8jj?@
9j^. Pork closed steady. Lard quiet.
Freights quiet. Money easy, at 6@7.
Sterling heavy, at 9|^@9^. Gold
@9J8'. Governments sternly. Tennes
seos firm; new South Carolinas strong;
others dull. Sales of futures, to-day,
890 bales, as follows: March 22 316(a)
22ki; April 22K@22 5-16; May 22%(S
22 15-16; June 23 5-16@23??; August
23%\ December 19.
BALTIMORE, March 25.-Flour firm and
unchanged. Wheat higher and active -
Pennsylvania 1.80. Corn active-white
and yellow 64. Rice 90@95. Provisions
dull; buyers and sellers apart. Pork
13.75. Bacon heavy-shoulders 5%.
Lard 8^@9. Cotton quiet and steady
middling 22,'.{; receipts 523 bales; sales
138; stock 11,095.
CINCINNATI, March 25.-Flour steady.
Corn drooping. Pork in light demand
nud holders firm-11.75 offered; 12.00
asked. Lard unchanged. Bacou quiet
-shoulders 5; sides 6^@7^. Whiskey
higher, at 85.
LOUISVILLE, March 25.-Bagging un?
changed. Flour and com firm. Provi?
sions in limited jobbing demand. Whis?
key 84.
MOHILE, March 25.-Cotton quiet -
middling 21 Jg; receipts 1,080bales; sales
500; stock 35,962.
GALVESTON, March 25.-Cotton steady
-good ordinary 20; receipts 2?2 bales;
sales 500; stock 35,038.
NEW ORLEANS, March 25.-Cotton
quiet-middling 22J4"; receipts 4,270
bales; sales 4,300; stock 162,100.
WILMINGTON, March 25.-Cotton quiet
and steady-middling 21??; receipts 87
bales; sales 127; stock 4,401.
NOIIFOLK, Maroh 25.-Cotton quiet
low middling 21; receipts 718 bahs;
sales 100; stock 2,752.
SAVANNAH, Maroh 25.-Cotton firm,
but little doing; rain restricts buyers- j
middling 21%@21??; receipts 1,701
bales; sales 150; stock 50,272.
CHARLESTON, March 25.-Cotton
quiet-middling21%; receipts 218 bales;
sales 50; stook 18.883.
AVOUSTA, March 25.-Cotton firm -
middling 21 !?; receipts 175 bales; salo?
250.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.- Cotton
quiet-middling 22?^.
BOUTON, March 25.-Cotton dull
middling 22%; receipts 259 bales; sales
2,000; stock 14,000.
Mr. A. Worthen, the State Geologist
of Illinois, accounts for the presenco of
tonds in rocks in tho following manner:
Tho toad seeks shelter in a ere vico for
the winter, there he remains in a dor?
mant oondition until the constant drip?
ping of water holding carbonate of \\rao
in solution seals him in completely.
Here ho remains until released by the
hammer of the workman.
A curious incident took placo recently
at a Puris theatre, Tho actor who
played "Albert," the blind artist, in
V Avaugle, was taken suddenly ill, and
tho character was assumed by another
who was compelled to read the part,
manuscript in hand. The absurdity of
a person ufilicted with loss of sight read?
ing affecting speeches may be imagined.
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Rumor baa lt that ouq of Vb? membors
of the,Murat family, while OH his wfty
from England to Fiance, qnito recently,
waa -arrested at Calais and compelled to
return. Count Murat, or Prince Murat,
as some will prefer to call him, ie a mem?
ber of the Imperial family; and the pre?
sumption on the part of the Thiera Go?
vernment that he was bent on some busi?
ness in conneotiou with the restoration
of the Bonapartes was not unnatural.
Ii this report .proves to bo oorreot, it
will furnish another and most substan?
tial proof that the Thiers Government in
painfully sensitive as to the danger
which threatens it on the side of the
Bonapartes. Nay, more. It seems to
imply that tho danger ?B not imaginary,
but real. MuoMahon ia still at tho hoad
of the army; and while changea nre made
in all directions, tho Fronen, army re?
mains substantially what it was under
tho empire. Tho general feeling is, that
while MaoMnhon might at any moment
removo President Thiers, it is not in the
power of President Thiers to dispeuno
with the services of tho oommander-in
chiof. In France, things are not yet
quite as they Bhonld be. We aro most
anxious to see the republic prosper and
take root. But what with the daily exe?
cutions of CommuuivtH, the inexplicable
and fruitless coquetting with royulty, and
the awful dreud of tho return of the
Bonapartes, wo are not encouraged to
believe that Franco hus yet found her
goal. Thore must bo more sorrow be?
fore there is rest, peace and prosperity.
The comical freaks of tho Japanese
are exciting much amusement at Wash?
ington. They eat ice creum aud hard?
boiled eggB by way of a light mid-night
supper. Their favorito amusement is to
walk up stairs and ride down in the ele?
vator, and they wander from one hotel to
another, under the impression that all
are parts of one stupendous whole oara
vansery. Latterly, they have offected
the civilized dress; but even here
their peculiarity s manifest themselves
in boots Boveral sizes too small and gloves
many sizes too large. lu their now rig
they boar such a striking likeness to the
ordinary fifteenth amendment as to be
frequently mistaken for servant".. At
their late reception Iwnkura's yonug
nephew was so miatakeu,nnd ordered by
a Congressional gueflt to bring some re?
freshments for his wife. The youngster
imagining this to be a high mark of
honor, coinpliod, and was rewarded with
a fifty cent stump. Upon receiving it he
bowed several times to tho ground, and
then ruHhed ont of tho room. Shortly
afterwards, a sensation was created by
his re-appearance in full official robe?,
with the fifty cent stamp pinned con?
spicuously on his breast. Ho evidently
regarded the stamp as the badge of some
order of nobility, ns did all his brother
Japs, who followed him around among
thu guests, with pride aud delight pic?
tured ou their face. Spinner's signature
did it, undoubtedly.
.-. -
A MYSTERIOUS MUHDER.-The murder
of a young lad, uamed MacDauiel, by a
uegxo mau, which was perpetrated last
Tuesday, near the fifteen-mile post on
tho Georgia Railroud, is reported from
Augusta. Tho murderer escaped, and
but few details or the crime have been
received. It appears that a Mr. Mac
Daniel owns a mill on the Georgia Rail?
roud, aud Tuesday afternoon, about 1
o'clock, his son, a young man fifteen
years old, entered the mill. There was
in tho building at the time only a negro
min, whoso nutue is not given. What
paBsed between tho parties is not known,
but in a few minutes the report of a pis?
tol was heard. Parties entering tho mill
found MacDauiel shot t brough tho breast
nud in u dying condition. He hud beau
shot by tho negro, and tho latter had
mado his escape. Yonug MacDauiel !
lived only for a few minutes. Parties
immediately started in pursuit of tho
murderer, and hu waa traced to a point I
three miles from Augusta, but there tho
ohio was lost.
A curious example of Chinese imita?
tiveness is reported from lincho, a town
about 100 miles Went of Pekin. It
seems that tho Rev. Isaac Pierson, a
Christian missionary, preuohing to the
people, seeing sigus of disorder, quietly
withdicw from tho place where he was
speakiug. He was followed by a rab?
ble of fellows, who stoned him, knocked
him down, and otherwise shamefully
handled him. Ho reached home with
soiled and torn clothing, and blood run?
ning freely from wounds on his head
and f ice. Tho good man, evidently,
could not have been treated much worso
if ho hud been a Chinaman, timidly
shrinking through tho streets of tho
Christian city of San Francisco.
Tho remains of a mastodon have re?
cently been discovered in tho swamp
nour Otisville, Orange County, New
York. Nearly nil the bonos havo been
dug out, and tho skeleton, when put to?
gether, will bo fourteen feet high and
twenty-iivo foot long. Tho contetits of ;
the stomach were also discovered, aud
found to consist of very large leaves and
long blades of strange grass, from ono
inch to three inches wide.
ANOTHER RAILROAD.-A bill for a
broad gauge railroad from Philadelphia
I to New York has passed tho New Jersey
Assembly. This may yet end in auother
lino through from Baltimoro to New
York.
A Connecticut rat, during tho lato cold
?nap, triod to nibble something from nu
axe, bael its ton g no stuck fast to tho
iron, and froze to elcath.
Upwards of 40,000 persons aro assem?
bled, within a length of seventy milos,
diamond hunting, noar the Yaa! River,
Capo.
At Virdeo, III., last week, a ohild
named Hilliard bit its touguo and bled
! to death, before the flow could bo
I stopped.
j 209*persons were killed in tiiea'reots
I of London, lust year, by vehicles.
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A casa somewhat resembling the fa?
mous Tichborne trial, and, itv one re
speot, at least, reminding one of Obarles
Reade's "A Terrible Temptation," is
soon to be tried at Constantinople. The
story is romantic enoogh for a novel or
Elsy, and runs thus: There ?B now in
london a Turk, aged about twenty-five
years, calling himself Mustapha Djehad
Bey, and claiming to be the lawfnl son
of the late Kibriali Mehemet Pacha, ex
Grand Vizier, and whilom the Sultan's1
envoy to the Oourt of St. James. In
1847-such is the claimant's story
Kibrisli's wife, tho widow of a European
physician, bore to him a Bon. the pre?
sent Mustapha Djuhad Bey. On the
following year, tho Pacha went to reside
at the British Court, and during his ab?
sence, the child becamo so seriously ill
that its mother, feariug that should it
die, ber husband would take another
wife, foigned to giv? birth to another
child, which, in the knowledge of a
eunuch and a woman of the harem named
Fatmah, was merely a supposititious
child, bought or borrowed. But the
first born recovered, Pacha having
already been told that Heaven had
blcHsed him with another son. The
mother was caught in the toils she her?
self had woven, for Fatmah and the
eunuch used their knowledge of her de?
ceit to over-ride and rule her. The mo?
ther, Melek Khanum, becamo weary of
this state of affairs, and confided her
troubles to Reshid Eifeudi, the Pacha's
man of business. Fatmah was soon dis?
missed, and the eunuch waa smothered
in his bath. Madam Kibrisli was tried
for the murder, but the charge waa not
substantiated. The Pachu carno to Cou- 1
utantinople during the progress of the
trial, and finding things in such a stute
of imbroglio, divorced his wife. The1
question of the legitimacy of the first
born then arose, and Melek Khanum,
actuated, as she now says, by n feeling
of revenge for the divorce and the
Pacha's subsequent marringa, averred
that Mustaphb Djehad Bey bad boen
borrowed also. Theo the boy Djehad
became a wanderer, served as a menial
in Egypt, joined the Papal Zouaves, be?
came a lay inmato at the Convent of St.
Lazurre, and when his father died last
September, went to England, and there
proposed to defend his claims to Ki?
briali Pacha's property.
WORDS PROM PAMS.-We have re?
ceived a private letter from Puris, dated
28th February, which says the winter I
has beau a gloomy oue, with no better)
prospects for tho spring. Paris is dull
and the people are suffering. Numbers
of untented 6tores and vacant apart?
ments meet the eye on ovory side. The
shop-koopers are very much depressed;
they aro without stock and with but
very little credit; and even if their
shelves were filled with goods, wheroare
the purchasers? None but tho few struy
Americans that flutter around for awhile,
merely giving them a chance to keep up
appearances of business. The multitude
are clamoring for a ruler; they want
strong Government, and, moro than all,
they want to bring the seat of govern?
ment back to Paris. The present state
of things cannot continue, to exist; tho
excitement for a republic, for which the
working classes fought so desperately, is
fast fading away; a decided re action bus
taken place, and they are again longing
for all that pomp and show which they
have boen educated to; they wont once
moro to see tho Champs Elysees thronged
with gilded equipages, and the Boule?
vards enlivened with the clattering hoofs
of the cnirnssieur. People are goltiug
away from Paris; there are strong sigus
of difficulties approaching, and a strong
fleet is keeping a watch in the channel.
Many think that Napoleon will mako an
effort, oven at tho risk of his head, to
re-enter France. There is a guuerul feel?
ing of insecurity, und families that eau
aro leaving tho once bright and gay
Paris. - Haiti more Sun.
A witness of a recent shouting affray
in Memphis, Tenn., utterly refused to j
testify in tho case, and was committed
to jail for contempt of court. A re?
porter of the A valanche visited bim there,
and to him tho witness, whose name is
Perkins, told the following story ac?
counting for his eccentric conduct:
When he was about eighteen years old,
and at college, his chum shot another
student while in a fit of auger, and he,
Perkius, was compelled lo testify in tho
ease, which resulted iu a verdict of wil?
ful murder, and his young friend was
hanged. While kneeling besido tho
dishonored corpso of his room-mate he
"took a solemn oath never nguiu to testi?
fy in any case where his testimony might
: possibly cause tho extremo penally of
the law to be inflicted upon any person."
j He hus kept this oath religiously, and1
! now says that, rather than bruak it, he j
! will remain iu jail for life.
! -.-f
A doctor, down in Nottingham, X. H.,
; received a letter asking advice, the
I other ?lay, which cou tai u ed two .stamps
j for rettun postage. After he had
! "licked" ono of the stumps, was
! soized with a convulsive action (if the
! heart, and told bia wife he was poisoned.
The good lady, to satisfy herself on this
point, "licked" tho othor stamp, and
was prostrated several days by tho ex p??
riment. Tho doctor thinks it was a
South Carolina Ku Klux plot to annihi?
late him, and warns tho people to be?
ware.
Grant is a civil service reformer, in a
j hurry. Ho and his collar man packed
I 300 meu into the Portsmouth (N. H )
j Navy Yard, a few months ago, to carry
that district. They succeeded, nt the
, expenso of tho Uuited States Treasury,
j The meu were ou "half pay," having
nothing to do, except to voto for the
tuant party.
By closiug the telegraph offices in
j England, on .Sunday, tho approach of a
! violent storm wns not signaled, and, tis a
; result, n groat many vessels put to sra
, aud were wrecked. These vessels should
j have reniai neil in port over Sunday.
' I til.
ARREST OF ALLEGED SOUTH CAROLINA
BANK ROBBERS.- The New York Tribune,
ot Friday, says:
Detectives hare been for some time on
th? track of the robbers of several Sooth
Carolina banks, abd yesterday Deputy
Sheriff Jarvis reeeived a requisition
from the Governor of South Carolina,
approved by Governor Hoffman, for the
arrest of J. L. SteavenB, one of those
alleged robb?rs, and his delivery to Ro?
bert Soirver, who is charged with the
duty of taking Steavens to South Oare
lina. On this requisition, Mr. Jarvis
arrested a young man who passes nuder
the name of D. R. Eberhard, olaims to
be au iron merchant from Chicago, and
is thc person interested in manufacturing
and selling tho "charm bells," sold as
relics of the Chicago tire. A man named
Sample identifies Eberhard as a person
who is known to him as J. L. Steavens,
and who sold to him a quantity of bank
notes and bills of broken banks, Baid to
have been a portion of the money stolen
from thu South Carolina banks. Eber?
hard strenuously denies this, claims that
it is a case of mistakon identity, and
calls to support his statement Georgo P.
Smith, who resides in the Hoffman
House. Mr. Smith declares that Eber?
hard is not Steavens, and that Sample is
mistaken, and he has given tho sheriff
references which have excited reason?
able doubts in tho miud of that officer.
Mr. Jarvis, ou Consulting counsel, con?
cluded to retain Eberhard in. his own
custody ontil to-day, and to await fur?
ther developments; for, although anxious
to perform his duty rigidly, he is de?
sirous of giving the accused an opportu?
nity to correct a possible mistake.
Fate and the superior forces of Cabrai
have once more triumphed over tho irre?
pressible President of Santo Domingo.
Baez has again lost the town of Sava
neta, and having neither money nor am?
munition, and probably no men, was
unable to repol the attack of Cabrai,
(who was reported to be ia the same im?
pecunious, armless and nrmyless condi?
tion as his fierce enemy,) and has been
defeated by him at San Juan. To add
to his misfortunes, he is now in danger
of assassination. Aa attempt ha? already
been made to kill him, aud the assassins
were so far successful that Adolfo Coon,
a cousin of Baez, was shot in the street.
The mnrderer, one Juan Julio, was ar?
rested, but subsequently escaped.
TnE LONGEST BniDOE IN THE WORLD, j
The Tensas aud Mobile Bridge, or
bridger, on the Mobile and Montgomery
Railroad, extends from Tensas Station,
on the Mobile and Montgomery Road, to
tho city of Mobile, a distance of fifteen
milos, crossing both Mobile and Tensas
Rivers, and including ten draws, one for
each of tho navigable channels into
which tho rivers are divided. The bridge
itself is constructed of wood, but its pil?
lars or supports are iron cylinders, which
rest on a solid surface of wooden piles
driven down evenly with tho bottom of
tho stream and tho mud of tho interven?
ing morasses, It has been three years
in the course of construction, at u cost
of abont $1,500,000, and now that it has
been successfully completed, it is per?
haps tho longest structure on tho globe.
TRAGEDY AT TUE DINNER TABLE.-In
New York, on Monday, a Gorman named j
Frevert, whilo intoxicated, shot his wife I
at the diuner tablo, while surrounded by
their little oin ld reu. The act was thought
accident, aud not design. The ball from
the pistol entered her mouth, aud taking
a backward und upward direction,
crashed through her skull into her brain.
Shu fell dead on tho threshold of the
mom. Fro vert fora moment seemed iu
capablo of comprehending the extent of
his net; but as he woko up to the con- j
sciousness that he had killed his wife, ho 1
became distracted. Ho bent over hor j
fuce and kissed her over and over again, ,
and called on her to come back to life.
Ho subsequently became a raving maniac.
South American papers say that an in?
surrection of a number of slaves hap?
pened on the Otb of February, near Rio
de Janeiro. It seems that the slaves, in?
toxicated by tho villainous native drink
of caxache, and armed with bill-hooks,
attacked the residences of Seuhorn
Teixeira Cortes and Banho, near tho vil?
lage of Sapucuiu, in tho parish of Ap- 1
parecida, and made a desperate attempt
to force tho heavy wooden doors of tho ?
houses, iu order to murder their masters. 1
A few shots from a rovolver caused tho
; drunken blacks to flee, and a telegraphic
! despatch to the capital brought a large
posse of mounted policemen to thu
! scene of thu revolt. Half of the slaves
were captured within a few days, and al?
most all the others within a week.
Prince Bismarck is reported to have
romurked, lately, in the course of a con?
versation upon tho subject of tho capa?
city of thoso employed in tho service of
tho (ierman Government, that among
the Jews there are undoubtedly rela?
tively moro mon fit to hold publio posi
I lions than in nny other denomination.
j Au unknown mau visited Vinegar
Hill, near Bowling Green, Kentucky,
nu tho 10th, aud deliberately blew his
brains out with a pistol. All that tho
suicido loft was a 1.:tie noto, requesting
to be buried in the old fort, and thirty
five dollars for his funeral expenses.
Next.
LaHt your proved a fatal ono for the
Swiss guides. Twelve of them lost their
lives by casualties which occurred on tho
Alps.
Tho English Government in Iudiu is
taking precautions to prevent the exter?
mination of the race of elephants by
sportsmen.
The burials in Calfary Cemetery. Long
Island, arc at thc rate of 30,000 bodies
per annum, or over eighty interments
per day.
i Lato accounts represent tho internal
slave Iradi) of Africa to bo conducted on
au extendive ami most cruel scale. Might
make-* righi iu Africa,
AdAssiz'a FISHES.-A letter from th?
HaBsler expedition, at Bio Janeiro, tolls
of the good use the naturalists are mak?
ing of their long detention. Sixteen
large oases of specimens are already on 4
their homeward way. With other epewi
mens, however, Professor Agassiz has
not been equally fortunate, as an enthu?
siastic servant at the boneo of a friend
where he was staying poured the aleohol
off the fishes, scaled them and served
them up at the table fried.
The Bonapartist agents in France tell
some strange stories to the credulous
peusantry to secare their espousal of tho
bauisbed Emperor's cause. In the Sooth
of France, among other things, they go
about telling the peasants that there-'
turn of Napoleon III will cause Alsace
and Lorraine to be restored to France,
by means of a projected marriage be?
tween the Prince Imperial and the niece
of the Emperor William, who has pro?
mised to give these two provinces to her
as a dowry.
Two farmers of Clay County, Mo.,
were recently bitten by a mad dog, and,
fearing that they would be attacked by
hydrophobia and injure their wives and
children, they had heavy irons made and
fastened upon them. Their hands were
securely manacled, strong irons baie
were fastened about their waists, and to
this WHS welded a chain, one end of
which was fastened to a ring-bolt in the
floor; and thus they lay awaiting the
upproach of the most terrible of mala?
dies. N
"Vive l'Empereur!" is ss startling a
cry at present in Pr .is, as "Vivo Ia Be
public!" would have been eighteen
months ago. Yet citizens were surprised
to hear the former repeated, a few even?
ings since, under the very nose of a po?
lice inspector. After a vigilant search
on the house-tops, the offender was
found to be an esoaped parrot.
General McMahon appears to have
made his devotion to the Government of
Louis Napoleon profitable. He is a
Marshal of France, a peer of the realm,
Dake of Magenta, and owns a number
of valuable blocks of buildings in Paris
and large estates in Algeria.
Mr. Voss, of New York, whose son had
committed suicide, was called before the
coroner; but after testifying that he
didn't know why the boy killed himself,
soically asked to be excused, as he was
in a hurry to get back to his work.
Joseph Lemotbre, the champion vil?
lain of the age, having committed within
eight years numerons murders, arsons,
robberies, etc., was guillotined at Mar?
quise, France, on the 5th inst. He was
only twenty-six years old.
From the evidence on the coronet's
inqnest, it was doubtful whether Colonel
Charles Forsyth, in Mobile, was killed
by tho accidental discharge of his pistol,
or whether he or some one else tired the
fatal shot.
James C. Davit shot and killed his
wife at the Metropolitan Hotel, Cincin?
nati, 'yesterday. He declares that the
shooting was accidental. Mrs. Davis
was a circus performer, and was known
as "liosa."
The Jews, wo are ti ld, have been per?
mitted to erect a synagogue in the city
of St. Petersburg, which is a token of
religious freedom in Russia, almost as
significant of progress os the freedom of
her serfs.
The largest rope in the world has
been completed in Birmingham. It is.
nbont six miles long, fivo anda quarter*
inches in circumference, and weighs
over sixty tons.
It is seldom that man shoots himself
in splitting wood, but a Kentuckian ac?
complished tho feat successfully, the
other day, by hitting a pistol in his
pocket with tho axe handle.
Captain Andrew Heath, tho oldest
Free Mason in the State of Main?, died
at Bath, on Saturday; aged niuety-thvee
years.
I A Minnesota elopement "slipped np"
by tho young lady slipping down on the
ice and shrieking n shriek in front of the
: paternal mansion.
Auotlon fSctJ.<O?L> .
A'eat and Desirable Collage.
BY D. C. PEIXOTrO ? SON.
On MONDAY next, April 1, at 10 o'clock A. M.,
I in freut of the t, .uri Home in thia city, we
I will sell, without reserve,
All that LOT, with desirable COTTAGE
! thereon, situated on Barnwell street,between
i Gervais and ?Senate etreets, nitarmriog front
! on Barnwell street 101 feet, moro or lees, and
; ruunuig back 208 feet, more or less. The
house contains live upright roe-ins, pantry,
dressing and basement rooms. On tue pre
. mises are all necessary out-buildings, ano an
j excellent garden, with choice fruit trees. The
above bounded on the East hy barnwell street,
: North by Treuholm, Weat by Itiuhard -Davis,
and on the Som h hy Mrs, lt. Kirkland,
j TEKMS or SALK.-One-half cash; balance in
I nuu year, secured by bond and mortgage,
; hearing internet at seven pei cent, per au
I num. Purchaser to pay us for papers aud
stamps. " March 26 tuwthm
Lost or Stolen,
ON the car^ on the 12th blatant, between
Augusta, tia., aud Wilmington, N. C., u
I large black 'THUNK, marked to Miss M. A.
Smith, Wilmington, N. C. Any informatii n
. concerning said trunk, left wit ii the proprie
, tor of tho National Hotel, in Wilmington,
? will he thankfully received, or any person re
' turning said '.rut.k. to him will be libel ally re
j warded. March 26 1*
Registration.
17 HI DAY and SATURDAY, March 29 and
' 30, and MONDAY, April 1, are tho dtsig
I nated days on which every voter must regis
. ter. Tho following places aro dotic,nated aa
thu Registration Pods:
WAHL? 1-At Steward Hall, corner Richard?
son and Greene streets.
WAIID 2-At tho Court House.
WARD 3-Phrenix Hook and Ladder House,
corner Taylor and Assembly streets,
j WAUD4-At O'Connell's Store, on Sumter,
between Lumber Hud Upper streets.
_Maivh 20_
Dissolution and New Firm,
THE firm of CHILDS & WILEY having
boon dissolved this day, by L. I). dunns
1 soiling his interest to M. L. KIKARD, the
hnsiness will bo coirtiunod in the name ot
i hINA.UI) \: WILEY.
Coi.CMHiA. S. C.. March 28,1S72.
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