The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-12-21
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

-Four hundred and three vessels
are laid up at Chicago.
Tho mail has been robbed between
Now York and st. Adams, Vt.
"A snow six inches deep 10 reported
at L%ynchburg and other points in
Virginia,
"A Montreal dispatch says that two
British gunboats have been ordered
from Quebec to act as q convoy to the
Cunard steamers.
The London Times publishes atel.
egram from Berlin, which says that
the Ptpo has been officially invited to
VISIT tho United States. The same dis
patch also says that Macmillan is a
prisoner.
In the prosecution Of the United
States claims before the French Court
tho United States was required to de-
posit 10000 francs rs security for costs
it she should lose the suit.
-Roberts, Of the Fenian Brother
hood, sent 5000 to Bishop Lynch, for
the relief Of the Fenian prisoners at
Toronto, but it was returned by the
Bishop, who declined to have anything
10 do with it.
"A Canada paper says that Surratt
has always maintained that his plan
WAS to carry off Lincoln to Richmond,
and hold him as a hostage for Southern
prisoners, and that Davis knew moth
ing of Booths intention TO commitmur.
dor, sc.
Rich specimens of gold bearing
material are reported from the new
mines in Canada. The first specirens
we're discovered twenty feet below the
surface. The crown inspector thinks
the drifts run through several town
ships. Three thousand persons visited
the mining regions within a month.
Tho detectives are after c~ontraband
diStillerieS in New York, and stuff
f~acetiously termed whisky, made in a
thirty-six hour process. There is said
to be = panic among the delinquent
manufacturers, and a consequent inac'
tivity in trade. Twenty-Five distillerles
have been seized.
Tile New York Herald's Wash.
ington correspondent says that Col.
Slower, who has just returned from
Salt Lake City, reports that many out
RACES are being perpetrated on Gentiles
by the Mormons. Brigham Young
had sworn vengeance, and his fol-
lowers were jealous in carrying out
mis- wishes.
Tho Surgeon General Of the Con-
fedsrate army is said TO have received
his pardon.
Tho Canadian Government IN
tends placing a military force near st.
Adams, on account of the military
preparations being made by the Rob
erts wing of Fenisns. Large quaint
ties of military stores arrived at Mon
trsal on Sunday, by the Grand Trunk
Railroad from Quebec.
The South Carolina House Of Rep.
resentativeG has indefinitely postponed
the resolutions expressing sympathy
with Davis, The L~egislatureha has adopt
ed resolutions accepting the Agricul
tursl College grant, and appropriatinl
it to the State University. COMMITTEES
on the Constitutional Amendment ano
National Convention report against tn,
latter, thinking South Cardinals opin
ion would accomplish no good, anc
such y course would be undignifed.
Correspondence received at Sal
Francisco from Sonora, Mexico, repre-
asnts matters there as in a very unsat
isfactory condition. Martinez, one q
the Liberals, had practiced severe ex
tortions upon the inhabitants; the In
dams were troublesome, and the Oh
Mexican tariff, substituted in the plac
Of the Imperial one, was oppressiv,
The Americans complain that th
Liberal commander does not favor the
interests, and they call for the prote'
ton Of an American war vessel.
How 20 Advertise.
Horace Greeley, in a late letter {