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London, England, 1870-04-26 00:00:00

however, writes (very unnecessarily we think) to state
that he never gave anything to Miss Thompson over which
he had not absolute power of disposition. The locket and
the ring had been given to him by Mrs. Watkins months
previously, while he did not part with them till he had
ceased to live with Mrs. Watkins. It is passing strange
that the idea did not suggest itself to him of letting Mrs.
Watkins get back those gifts through a less circuitous
channel.

TELEGRAPIIS FOR CHINA.--The Danish frigate
Tordenskjold, with the fine steamers Celia and Great
.Northern, have arrived in the Thames, to receive some 2,300
miles of Hooper's telegraph cables for the Chinese seas. The
first section of these lines measures 1,200 miles, and will
extend from Posetta to Shanghai, and the remaining 1,100
miles will be laid between Shanghai and Hong Kong. The
7'ordenskjold carries out the shores end and part of the
cable, and the other two vessels aro intended to convey the
remainder of the line to China, and leave England next
month. The cables consist of a copper conductor, a
strand of wires, covered with layers of pure india rubber,
over which is placed the separator" and a coating of
patent material, which has been found to effectually resift
the attacks of the greatest enemy a submarine has, the
terado. Specimens lately arrived from the Persian Gulf
of gutta percha and india-rubber insulated wire show the
attacks of these animals to be far more prevalent on gutta
percha than india-rubber in its natural state ; indeed the
latter of late has been steadily gaining ground in pre-
ference to gutta-percha as an electrical insulating ma-
terial.

POLITICAL NEWS.—George W. Julian, Repub-
lican, and present M. C. from the 4th Indiana district, has
been defeated for a re-nomination by Judge Wilson, who
supplants Julian with his party by a small majority.—
The Republican majority at the city election in Cincinnati
on Monday, April 4, was oiler 3,000. The new board of
aldermen will be composed of 15 Republicans, 6 Demo-
crats, and 2 Independents ; the city council, 28 Repub-
licans, 16 Democrats, and 4 Independents. The school
board stands 26 for the Bible in the schools and 22 against.
—ln Cleveland the Republicans had 1,100 majority in the
city and 2in the city council. The prohibition ticket re-
ceived 240 votes.-- The full returns from Connecticut
show a poll of 87,428, a falling off of 951 Democrats
and 2,133 Republicans from the vote of last year. Eng-
lish had 44,130, a majcirity of 832. The State Senate
has 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, and the House
126 Republicans and 113 Democrats. Ex-Senator Fos-
ter, and ex-Congressmen Alfred A. Burnham and B. B.
Thurston (formerly of Rhode Island), are elected to the
House. Probably Mr. Foster will be the Republican no-
minee for Speaker.— The election in St. Louis has resulted
in the choice of eleven Republican Aldermen to three De-
mocrats and one Independent. Of the school directors
eight are Republican and three Democratic. At St. Joseph
the entire Republican ticket was elected. Kansas City
and Leavenworth were carried by the Democrats, coloured
men voting• without opposition in those cities.—The Rhode
Island elections give Padelford, Republican, 10,193 votes
for Governor, and Price, Democrat, 6,295. There were
282 scattering votes.
. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.--The Democrats of
Albany have nominated the Hon. George H. Thatcher for
Mayor.—Gen. Robert E. Lee has gone with his daughter
to spend a month in Savannah for his health. He met
with an enthusiastic reception at every town in the South
at which he stopod.—General Forrest has lately been in
New York.—General Logan already announces that he
will be a candidate for re-election as Congressman at large
from Illinois.—Mrs. Caroline Neil is now a Judge of the
Court of Oyer and Terminer in Wyoming.—A Salt Lake
letter says that Brigham Young is in constant dread of
assassination.—Of the new Texas Senator, Morgan C.
Hamilton, it is said that he never smoked a cigar or took a
drink; and yet he claims to represent Texas.—Governor
Geary had re-appointed Col. M'Farland Superintendent
of the Soldiers' Orphans' Department for three years, but
the nomination was not confirmed by the State Senate.—
Gen. A. J. Hamilton is a candidate for United States judge
in Texas.—PreSident Grant, Secretaries Bellknap and Cox,
and Gen. Sherman were to leave Washington on Saturday,
April 9, to attend the meeting of the Grand Army of the
Potomac at Philadelphia.—A meeting in memory of Major
Gen. George H. Thomas was held in the Hall of Represen-
tatives at Washington on the night of April 5. The Hall
was crowded, the audience including the President and
Vice-President, Senators and Representatives, Judges of
the Supreme Court, Diplomatic corps, Cabinet members,
and army officers, including Gen. Sherman. Gen. Cox
presided. Addresses were made by Gen. Sherman, Chief
Justice Chase, liens. Cox, M'Cook, Slocum, Garfield, and
others, and appropriate resolutions were adopted.—The
New York Star says :—" Mrs. General Custer attended
the Purim masquerade at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, cos-
, tumed as a lady of the Court of St. James, while her blonde
cavalier of a husband personated an English fox hunter.
Capt. Edward H. Savage has been confirmed by the alder-
men as chief of the Boston police. —Col. Albert G. Browne,
jun., reporter for the Superior Court, is recovering from a
severe attack of congestion of the brain.—Congressman
Laflin of New York is spending a few days by the bedside
of his father, Walter Lath,' of Pittsfield, who is seriously
ill.—Rev. S. C. Damon, one of the pioneer missionaries to
the Sandwich Islands, who, after ten years' residence
there, has been enjoying a year's travel and rest among
his old New England friends at Worcester, is now about to
return to Honolulu, where he will be the agent of the
American Seamen's Friend Society.—Charlotte Cushman,
so long a resident of Rome, will return to the United
States, next summer, and will make that country her home
hereafter. —Captain John E. Blaine of Pennsylvania, a
brother of Speaker Blaine, has been appointed Special
Agent of the Treasury Department.—Rev. Horace Cook
has demanded a trial before the New York Methodist can-
ference which convened Wednesday, April 6. His defence
is that his elopement with a young girl some time since
was caused by temporary insanity.—James Tuck, City
Marshal of Jackson, Miss., was shot dead by Henry B.
Sizer, merchant, April 7.—Miss Laura Keene is to assume
the management of the Charleston Academy of Music.
Mrs. Eliza Jane Smith, of Darlington, has been arrested
for beating her husband to death with a heavy walking
stick ; an invasion of Woman's Rights—The husband of
Mrs. Bloomer, as the poor man is always called, has been
renominated for Mayor of Council Bluffs.—Sir Charles
Bright, the great English telegraphic engineer, sailed from
New York, April 7, for Havana, to superintend the laying
of the new West India cable. --From Copenhagen we
learn that the Minister of War, Herr von Itiasleeff, has
resigned ou account of the non-ratification of the sale of
the Danish West India Islands to the United States.—Mr-
P. T. Barnum is about to start on a tour to California.—
A sum intended for the purchase of a testimonial, to pre-
sent to Professor Morse on his eightieth birthday, has so
increased as to induce the donors to cast a statue of that
gentleman instead, as the father of the telegraph.—Gov.
Haight, of California, is greatly censured for approving
the bill granting $15,000 out of the Public School Fund
for the benefit of the Catholic schools of San Francisco.
—Vice-President Colfax has contributed to the Indepen-
dent an article on the life and character of his friend,
Anson Burlingame. He paints the late Ambassador from
China in flattering language, but no more than is his duo.
o eRNALISM.—C. H. Hubbard, of Springfiel I,
has become agricultural editor of the Vermont Record and
Farmer.—General Butler's negro boy having failed at
West Point, he has now appointed as cadet the son of Mr
Colby, the Democratic editor of the Newburyport 'Jerald,
and member of the Legislature.—Hugh J. Hastings, of the
Commercial Advertiser, has purchased an elegant mansion
on Fifth-avonue, New York, for $66,000.—1n St. John's,
Newfoundland, there are teu weekly or daily papers, one
monthly temperance journal, and a mercantile journal,
issued bi-monthly.—The Daily Evening Journal is the title
of a new paper that made its first appearance in Washing-
ton April 5, published by Messrs. S. B. English and Co.
BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—The President of
the Pennsylvania Equal Rights League has issued a pro-
clamation setting apart Tuesday, the 26th inst., as a day
of thanksgiving, jubilee, and general rejoicing over the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment.—Gov. Bowie, of
Maryland, has vetoed the Act incorporating Chestertown
in that State, oa the ground that the citizens entitled to
vote under the bill are described as " white male citizens."

—The San Francisco Mint coined, during the montlTOf
March, 82,215,000—making the total coinage since Jan.
1 61,820,000.—A police justice at Richmond recently fined
his father-in-law $5 for getting drunk.—General Butler's

appointment of an ineligibly-coloured cadet is considered

by the Boston Post a shrewd advertising dodge.—A letter
from Minnesota says that " notes and due-bills here are

Written on parchment, to prevent them wearinc, out by car-
rying, as that is all theyare good for ; they can't Co collected."
—Vicksburg announces that she can spare some burglars for
less amply supplied cities.—A Boston lady was recently
observed trying to regulate her time-piece by a marine
compass in the window of a nautical instrument store.—
Wallingford, Connecticut, celebrates its two hundredth
anniversary in Sep' ember next. —North Carolina has sent
87,000 partridges to the North during the past season.—
A detachment of the Canadian Pontifical Zouaves, who
have fulfilled their two years' term of enlistment, have
arrived in New York, on their way back to Canada.—A
New York paper says that really good newspaper men aro
extremely scarce and in great demand, but that there are
hundreds in that city who account themselves journalists
of ability, and yet are not worth their salt.—John S.
Clarke, he comedian, arrived at New York Monday,
April 4, on the steamer Yale de Paris. This fast steamer
made the voyage from Brest iu eight days and 20 hours.
—Cincinnati and St. Louis are g3tting up buffalo hunting
parties for summer sport.—Thera is some anxiety at Now
York for the steamer Missouri, which sailed for Havana
on Mardi 24, mid has not been Dud of since.