Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-12-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

certainly declined The Mexic5n mission.
4 company has been organized in Spain
to lay e telegraph line between Coba ana
the United States.
Gen. Scott arrived at Key West on the
9TH, and left for New Orleans. He viii
spend the month Of January at Key West.
A dispatch from st. Louis. last night,
says navigation or the upper streams
may be considered closed.
A California Judge has decided that le-
gal tender notes cannot be received for
fines in the county courts Of that Stale
The Senate Committee on the District
of Columbia, it is said, have resolved that
universal suffrage shall he established IN
the district Of Columbia.
Another murder was committed in
Nashville on the 18th. The keeper of a
oil-gate on the Lebanon pike was sh
by a band of robbers
Alexander H. Stephens, in declining
the United States S~eDatOrship f-OIa Geor-
gia, made the sensible suggestion that
men should be elected to Office who has
not been identified with the Confetrrac, h.
II Is understood that the Joint Congress
icnai Committee on the Ge2;h OF Lincoln
viii report IN favor Of holding memorial
e~ervices in February, with Hon. I. Ii
Stanton as orator.
The first bill passed by Congress this
session is that prohibiting line iDpOrls
ton of foreign cattle 10 prevent the
spread of disease. 1t now awaits the
Presidents siguatuTe.
The River street bridge, Bufftlo, broke
down 0a tue 18th, letting into the watei
a drove OF cattle and a coal wagon. Til
horses were drowned, the driver bsdi,
injured. and a few CT the cattle were aisc
drowned.
Propositions nave been submitted t.
the Senate TO amend the Constitution b.
declaring the iudissoluhi!iiy of the Union
and providing that no GebC Contracted b.
towns. counties or States, IN aid Of ID
rebellion shall be assume either by q
State or the United States.
Mexican news of the 2Sth ult. states
that The Liberal General D.Uza a. report
ed TO have been twice repuized Oy Ii
French frocss In the District OF I~gnallo
The French hold Mzz tin. A doz IA sci
diers dressed IN uniforms Of The Unite
States were captured ly the lmperiAlsis
The Frnian Congress opened in Ner
York OF the 18Th. The new President
Roberts, sent IN his address, Ia which l..
SAWS the present difficulties viii s,Tyet
strengthen the orcaniztiion. UMahOns
ordered the Committee out Of door
which bad called uu him Tor the boon:
and pareis Of AIS Office.
There is 4 rumor that NAPOLEON, a shor
time since, asked Of Seward the recnenl
- Lrr--.F II -fu,rHs,-r
eoyeuL E.enI. on Ihe ground That il L#C
naintalDed itseii rwo yPa!s and was 81
titled to recognition. SewaId lePlie;
thai lleIe was 40 gtoCnd for such recog
milton. That the people OF tie Unite,
States were pieogeu against II, AMI tia
The lecple Of VI, Xico have hot yielded
and do not intend 10 yield obedience i
Asximiiisn.
In he Senate, there has been consider
able debate on the bill 10 maintain IA,
freedom of the emaUcIpated siaYeS; Nj
Wilson, OF Massachusetts, advocating II
Sir. SaulsbUry, OF Deieware, opposed i.
Messrs. Trunbull, Sherman n COwen
while not opposed 10 the bill, regarded il
as premature. They we've doubtful o
the right of Congress to legisiate on th'
subject until the adoption OF The Constr
tuuonai Amendment was officially an
aounced.
The news from Europe is 10 the Cd
Fenian excitement in Ireland is on The
increase. Stephens, who escaped from
Dublin, is reported 10 have reached Paris
The keeper OF his prison has been sus
pended and committed for trial. The
editor Of the h,sa People has been sen
fenced to twenty years penal servitude
Captain CorbeJE. who commanded III,
pirate Shenandoah when she first let,
England has been tried and acquitted OIL
The charge of violating The foreign en-
listment act by selling the steamboat &c
the rebels and existing men tor her
John Bright condemns The brutality o.
the English officers in Jamaca.
Deserlions from the regular army are
becoming alsTmipgly frequent.
At g meeting in Washington on the
4th, Gen. Banks delivered an address
strongly fayoring negro suffrage.
Two national banks with a capital OF
5000, 900 each, nave been established ii
Charleston, S. c.
About fifty vessels per week leave New
York for points South Of Baltimore and
Washington.
A Georgia correspondent denies that
the negroes expect a distribution OF land,
to be made among them on Christmas.
The Secretary Of the Tressnry is re
ported as saying that ne will not only be
able to get along the present-year with
ont further loans, but will diminish 10
some extent, the public debt.
The proper authorities nave decided
that soldiers who re enlist in the regular
army within 80 days after their discharge
from the volunteer service, will receive
en- additional 81 monthly pay-maNing
the wages, Sl8 per month for privates.
The French Minister ct Washington,
has become somewhatalarmed AT the war
like tone of the Congressional resolU-
tions relative to Mexican a%ffsirs. and on
the 4th sent his Secretary of Legation to
France, to report the state OF affairs TO
the Emperor, and to bring back bis in
structioDs.
Secret agents of the Fenians have re-
turned from Ireland. somewhat discour-
sged at the partial failure Of the move
ment there, but hopeful of ultimate sue
cess. They report the existence Of gree;
excitement Oh tie subject. Dublin pre-
scented a martial aPPesrsuee-hores, FOO;
and artillery soldiers a5ounding-during
the late trials.
The rebellion in Jamaica most certain
ly has been effectua.ly suppressed. The
latest advices repeat his piece Of in'or-
nation for the tVeniieth time. England
ropos to increase her despntlsm over
Jamaica by making The members OF its
legislature lfe-oficers-and appointed
by the Crown
Specials to the New York papers from
Washington state that ia the event of The
fo1m~l appointment Of r Minister from
the United States to the Republic Of
Mexico. the French Minister wall With
draw from this country: also Il is conciu-
sively settled that the Southern members
will not be admitted to seats IL Congress
this winter.