Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-12-18
TELEGRAMS. Sc.

Priv ate advices in tbis city state that Maxi
MILAN will not accept the proposition 10 re-
tam power in Mexico. He will remain only
long enough to make a show of passing the
Government over to other hands, and leaving
the country sader formal stipaiatjons. Ten
fhousand French troops have left that coun.
try, fifteen thousand remaining to embark
uuTlng tue winter and spring.
The papers in connection with the court
martial appointed to investi gate the charges
against Lieutenant Colonel Denis have been
published. There are Elk specific charges
nsaIDs; him, the principal one being that OF
.,dEgl aeeful conduct while in command OF
the Canadian volunteers before Fort Erte on
the I'd OF Gne.' The court declared the charges
not sustained, and honorabiy acquitted Colo
mel Dents.
The st. Louis Republicans Messina New
Mexico) correspondent says Detective Thomas
X. Fautres arrested Charles aud Eugene Ham
llton, alias Dr. Livingston and Professor
Lewis, in FL Passo, November 26.on the charge
OF robbing the bank of Rschurie & Co, of Elk
horn, Wisconsin, of one hundred and eie ht "
thousand dollars. These men have been
steadily pursued for thirteen months.
A special despatch to the Charleston Courier
says the South Carolina House OF Delegates
has passed a bill renewing the guarantees of
bonds TO the amount OF 81 500, go of the Green
vile and Columbia railroad; also guaranteeing
SiCN,bOG OF the Columbia and Hamburg rail-
Road bonds.
The boiler of J .. Browns planning mill on
Floyd street. collapsed two fiues Yesterday
morning, driving the boiler a considerable dis /.
tance through a stable,i killing Mr.. Hand,
watchman; one mule, aud more or less In :
juriDg several negroes and mules in the stable
I The North Carolina State Legislature passed
bill granting an amnesty to all officers and
soldiers of the United States and Confederate
States armies for offences committed against
the criminal laws while in the discharge of
their duties ..t 4. -
III. b. Lewis, n grand nephew of General
washington, tried in King George county
virginia, for The murder OF Ur. Rose was con-
vlcted and sent to the penitentiary for three
years. 80 r ......l.e aa.r..s -. -.. ..
An order Of the Canadian Council exennts
from duty four and meal made from grain
sent from Canada TO the States to be cround
and brought back within one week from the
time ofexport. .r. f.- h B. 100
British American provinces now IN London
nave pronounced against Ottawa and i'm ia yor
or Montreal as the capital OF the confedera-
ton. F.U fr 80
The boiler OF the rolling mill o, Woodrow.
Mears Co, IrOntoD, Ohio, exploded yestar
nay morning, knocking the building into frag.
ments, and killing the engineer and iniur,np
several others. Loss about $1,000
he military commission tor the tria, of DR.
watson, OF Rockbridge, and others, will con-
mond, Iext Wednesday. SD
The bill Incorporating the Virginia Express
Company with special PRIVILEGES finally
passed both Houses OF the Virginia Legisla.
ture.
The Virginia Senate ordered the en.ross-
ment OF the bill amending the usury law II
authoriles ten per cent. interest. .-
Resolutions of sympathy for Jefferson Davis
have passed bQth Houses OF the South Caro-
lima Legislature.
The Virginia Senate concurred in the House
resolution for recess till January 3.