Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-24
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS


Accompany has been formed and a grant OBJ
tanned from the queen of Spain, to lay a sub
marine cable between Porto Rico. Cuba. and
the United States.
An ancient abode of Napoleon l, the Vile
ue San MARITIME, on the island of Elba, has
been sold to Crocsus well known in the spec
ulating world
Napoleon III and Victor Emanuel are en-
deavoring to effect an arrangement with the
Pope to end the French occupation of Rome,
reconcile the Pope with the Kingdom of Italy,
and obtain direct recognition of Italy and
Austria.
The Emperor of Austria has issued a mani
festo guaranteeing the right of the people to
participate through their representatives, in
legislation and The conduct of the finances
In reference to the Mexican question, Mr..
Seward, in a dispatch TO Minister Dayton, at
the French Court, says that ''the destiries of
the American continent not to be perma-
nently controlled by arrangements made in
European capitals
Fenianism is still the absorbing topic in En-.
gland and Ireland, and the discovery that tho
organization extended to the ranks Of the
British army has caused much I'M
easiness. The Government organs assert that
the United States Government is strongly
opposed to the Fenians and will do all in its
power to defeat them
In San Domingo the death penalty for polit-
ical offenses has been abregated, newspapers
are being started and the prospects of the
country are in every way encouraging.
Recently published correspondence shows
that the Chinese Government forbade the
Ala6anaa and other rebel cruisers entering its
ports. ~-
Earl Russell has addressed a circular to the
European Governments, denouncing the Slave
Trade as piracy, and suggesting that furnishing
it as such be proposed to their several legisla-
lures. ,...,
Mayrocordato, the Greek patriot who fought
side by side with the poet Byron at Missel-
onghi, died recently in Greece. Five days of
public mourning were ordered in his honor. !
There are not less than $1,000 American
travellers in Europe. q
Arnold, the inventor of the centrifugal pump
and the paying -out apparatus for submarine tel
egraph, died on the 3lst ut, at Clifton,
England.
Domestic. 80
A newly devised powder-magazne, in which
powder is non explosive, was, tested at the
Washington Arsenal on the 9Th.
For the year ending June 30, 1865, 4, 0OO,-
600 letters were returned to the Dead Letter
Office in Washington, containing S250,0O0.
A Cincinnati girl lately eloped and was p,,r-
sued 1000 miles by a detective, being at last
captured by him in Quebec.
A young lady was accidentally locked up in a
church in Brooklyn, n Y, on the LIST instant,
where she remained for 10 hours, and when
released was in very exhausted state.
Twenty-Five Government locomotives and
$50 passenger cars were purchased recently by
Southern railroad companies for SALT, OOO and
80 locomotives and 600 cars were sold on
the 18th at Alexandria, Va.
The negroes in Alabama are generally work
ing the lands on shares, receiving from one
fourth to one.tenth of the crops, beside food
quarters and clothing.
The crops in Alabama are not good, and it
it thought food will have to be brought there
by the Government to prevent starvation.
An embassy from the Bey of Tunis has ar.
rived at Washington with letters for President
johnson and Mrs. Lincoln.
The proposed monument to Steppen A. Doug.
las, which has been delayed for lack of funds,
has been commenced
The coal miners strike in Lackawanna Val.
Gull, HAS come 10 an emu. ms VIII ada
some -, 600 tuns to the daily coal supply, and
will probably cause fall in prices.
Mr.. Mercer, with colony of 200 female EN-
igrants sailed for Washington Territory Oc.
tober l.
Maj orr Gen. Hooker was married on the I'd
inst, in Cincinnati, to Miss Olivia Grocsbeck
OF that city. 'fN..
LltefAfYs
The library .of the Hon Peter Force, of
Washington, the most valuable collection of
antiquarian literature IN tho United States,
has been purchased by the New York Histori-
cal Society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson lost his entire prop.
erty by the Concord Bank robbery, except his
homestead
De Bow is about to resume the publication
of his Review.
DR.. Bard is about to revive the INemghis
Acatanc3e, suspended in 1862. ~
Robert Z. Lee was installed as President of
Washington College, at Lexington, Va, on
the 9Th inst AT General Lees request the
ceremonies were of u very unostentatious char
acter.
PAPER called The Journal of Freedom
advocating universal suffrage, has been estab.
lshed in Raleigh, N. c., by the Federal officers
Agricultural.
The vintage has commenced in France, and
an abundant crop Of wine is certain
In Algeria the cotton-fields give promise of |
an abundant crop.
A man who has been engaged cultivating the
tea plant for several years in Georgia says that
his plants grow finely and do as well in that
State as they do in their native country The
yield is from 800 to 1000 lbs. to the acre.
Lake Copais, in Bnotia, Greece, is to be
drained and Its bed planted with cotton Into
this lake the classic Helcon flowed
W. s. Mccormick, Inventor of the famous
reapng- machine, died lately in the Illinois
State Lunatic Asylum +.t
Financial.
The Imperial Government of Mexico has is.
sued q paper warning foreign citizens against
the loans of the Republican Government.
There have been established by the Govern.
ment ,572 National Banks.
A meeting of American bond holders has
been held at Frankfort Germany, with the
view Of placing the soundness OF American
finance before foreign powers in clearer
light. /
The sum of IS, OOO 900 in gold has recently
been Invested in Colorado mining lands by En-
,lish capitalists. ....s ...s.
SURE REMEDY FOR A FELON-Take soft
Dap, and stir in air-slacked lime till it is of
he consistency of GLACIERS putty. Make a
Gather thimble, fill it with the composition, I
lSert the finger and the cIIra is carfain V