The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-06-02

ADvTcEs from the West ID lies report .ho-
lera at Kingston.
Tbs Derby race vas won WV tHe iavorite
I" Lord Lyons" Twenty-six horses started.
TIE elections New Brunswick ~ far
have resulted IN favor Of tine confederate
candidates.
The steamer City ~ Memphis. from New
Orleans, exploded her boilers about 4O mile.
below Memphis, Wednesday. Sixty persons
were lost and injured.
THE State Department learns that nn
Austrian trC D. have been sent to Mexico
and it does not expect, that any will ~ sent
BY the distinctions Of two large ware
houses at 81. Louis, "Wednesday night, prJ-
perry amounting to S260, 900 VA consumed
ADDITIONAL news BY the Persia states thar
str0ug efforts are being made Ivy convene Y
European congress for the settlement er ths
German question.
IT is proposed ia Congress wv erect nav
house for the President, ana turn the present
White House into public building for THE
use OF the State Department.
The Tyson Iron Company IN Plymouth.
VT, incorporated in 1863, has recently faie1
Il has been engaged fur the last Two wears
in casting pig iron.
1T j. now anthoritatively stated that the
Government will not ~ prepared for tAe
t-lal Of Jed. Davis at the approaching JvnA
term ut Richmond, the inference from which
D. that the trial cannot come OF earlier than
October.
GIN. STsSExAS's report relative IN ths
Memphis riots states that twentv-fDur nv
groes were killed, eight Of whom we're al
charged soldiers and that the rioters wer-
composed of the police, fireman and tie
rabble and negro haters In general.
GOV. PARsoSs, Of Alabama, reports that
there are 200 poor, starving people ia
that State, and urges that the number or
ratio1s now being issued BY the Government.
through the Freedmen's Bureau, be increased
to 23,LO0.
A GRIND meeting Of Indiana soldiers u
contemplated for the coming Fourth ~ July,
at which the interesting ceremony of pre-
seating to the State all the flags carried WIZ
Indiana regiments in the war will take place
JOIN O. fremont has sent an agent 70 I'll
Louis with 1926, 900 TO make the first paw
ment to the directors Of the southwestern
branch Of the Pacific railroad On his re-eut
purchase
LFUT. GES. GIANT will soon make tnur
through tie Western and Middle States.
when he will visit 81. Louis, Nashville.
Memphis, CorinIh, and other places. H-
will be sbsent from Washington two or three
weeks.
From South American advices furnish VI
il appears that She aaair at Callao was Y
sfgnsi defeat TO the Spanards 20 much WY
that the spanish feet had withdrawn from
that neighborhood, and were reported wv
have sailed for Montevideo.
The arrangements for constructing uew
Academy "a Mnasc in New York CITY arr
already advancing towards perfection. TIL
directors intend that the building shall be "
great improvement uFon the one destroyed,
and it ~ their purpose 70 make il entirely
fire.proof.
The steamship Union,I which arrived at
New York on Wednesday with immigrants,
reports thirty-three deaths from cholera on
the passage and has az present fifteen cases
or sickness from that disease on beard
The steamship Peruvian, from Liverpool,
lost thirty five passengers from cholera, aud
twenty eight are now sick on board.
Tx vessels captured BY rebel pirates dur
ing the late war numbered 293, with al AZ
gregats tonnage Of ls2, 307. The number Az
tualy destroyed was steamers, 81 ships, TIA
banks, IS briggs and 81 schooners. Tha cap
tuIed property was of the value Of $25, 300
900, Of which $2l coo, 900 worth was des-
troyed. Thirty eight Of the captured vessels
were bonded and released.
A Pans letter to the New York Posi- Gays
that Notwithstanding the prospects d var
and the great excitement In financial mat
ters, the Exhibition makes steady progress.
Under no circumstances will the Exhibition
be postponed, for 1t IL a special object Of
the Emperor 70 have II succeed, and thus
insure 70 the city of Paris a large income
from the numerous visitors and to himself
much honor. Fhe building would GOV er
space twice the size Of Madison 81 uare,
New York. The distances are one mile
arou. the building, and two miles around
the grounds. The latter are arranged for
nm immense park and garden. The EN-
peror has contributed SAC, 900 from his own
prirstspufse toward prizes exhibitors.