The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-05-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
GREAT excitement has been caused among
the Brooklyn Fenians by the discovery OF
large defalcation by prominent officer.
IT IS officially announced that the 10Th
Illinois cavalry and the 37th Illinois infantry
the last Of the Illinois troops ia the Ser
vlc-haye been ordered To w mustered out
MACMILLAN is reported to have raised a
loan 10 Europe A large quality Of arms
for the Mexican lmperalists, shipped from
New York, have reached Vera Cruz. II i
stated from Europe that Austria mas already
shipped 1000 troops for Mexico 10 replace
the French. ..-
The proprietors Of the Fort Putt Cannon
Foundry, Pittsburgh, inteni sending A bjg
twentv-lnch cannon from that city to TIE
Paris Exhibition. Ii viii be % feet long
"a feet diameter AZ the breach. and will
weigh 80 tons. When completed X will NJ
mounted on an excellent iron carriage.
weighing eight tons, and will be accom-
panied by specimens ofballs. shells and ear
tridges. The cost Of this monster viii w
about $4,000. 1t requires 100 tons OF
melted iron 70 cast one, and fourteen DAYS
70 cool it off properly.
The strike Of the ship carpenters, ioiners
and caulkers, in New York, continues. and
the employers say i il lasts much longer
they will remove their business To other
ports. The average amount received week
y as aid to the caulkers, j. from 81 SOD To
$4,000. The Workihgmen's Union, II wv
said, are about to contract loan Of S35 0Oy
to aid the strikers.
The n. Y. Iribzae's Florence, Italy. cor
respondence, April SOth, opens his letter
thus =" Within a fortnight we shall be-
involved in war. The abandoned Fortres.
OF Cremona is being fortified Ill haste tbs
fleet concentrated all the soldiers on fur
Tough are recalled, even the reserve of the
classes Of 1884, % and 3G. All the official
papers fire the Italian heart. The Generals
assembled ia military council. Everybody
prepares for war, and still they try to shift
the responsibility upon the Austrian arma-
ments. In fact Napoleon is the great wire
puller, who first pushed Bsmark and now
pushes LaMarmora, so that Austria cannot
avoid war"
Advices from San Domingo state that on
The "a OF April the insurgents attacked the
government troops at Nieba and defeated
them, taking 1870 prisoners and most of
their guns. The Haytien government i
backing the rebels, and supplying them
with arms, ammunition, money and prOvis-
ions. Primentai had been proclaimed pre-.
sident, and the INSURGENTS were MARCHING
on the capital.
A BABE which jumped from the arms of
Its mother into the Ohio river, al Louisville.
a few days since, and was in danger M
being swept over the falls, was rescued bv 4
Newfoundland dog on board the steamer in
which the mother was travelling.
A BED Of rock salt on Petite Anse Island.
La, covering over 100 acres, supplied near
y the whole trans-Mississippi district dur
ing the rebellion. 2l,G00,O0O pounds we're
taken from it in three months. and all that
has been taken away il bat a small quantity
compared to what is left.
JOHN STUART MLL stated III Parliament
recently, that il the present rate of con-
sumption Of coal in England continues.
three generations at the most, or verv nos
sibly considerably shorter period, will
leave no workable coal nearer to the surface
than 1000 feet in depth; and that the ex-
pense OF raising it from that depth will en-
tiIely put it out of the power Of the eoun-
try to compete in manufactures with the
richest cOal-felds Of other countries. TIE
exhaustion of coal, he said, would put it
out Of the power Of future generations to
do anything towards paying Off the national
debt, and he urged the setting aside of sew
eral millions year now, for the purpose of
diminishing the debt.
HE JAMAICA RARBARITIEs,-The London
Times publishes the result of the inquiries
Of the committee appointed to investigate
the Jamaica atrocities The total number
Of persons shot and injured was four hun
dred and thirty eight. Six hun lred mea
and women were logged, and one thousand
houses were burned, depriving fou- thous-
and persons OF their homes Elgat hun
dred witnesses were examined, an their
evidence revealed the resort Of the Il itsh
officers to system Of barbarism that ", ia
have disgraced Sepoy in the eyes Of g.
savage