Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-02-06

Omchl Information from Fort Mcintosh re-
ports that twelve or fifteen bandits are roam.
ing ing ABOUT the country between Nueces river
and San Antonio, Texas They had killed
eight persons, and were pillaging. Major
hogan, with q small party, started in pursuit,
and succeeded in killing three of them, and
man. Captain John A. Wilcox, with a scout
ingporty, on the 18th January, near Ran saba,
pursued a party Of Indians, and overtak,ng
them, killed two. The Indians abandoned
their horses and sought refuge in the noun
laiHs.
The special House committee in Louisiana
has reported bill calling q State convention
TO alter and amend the State consttion 1t
proVloes that an election shall he held on the
second Monday of April, and if the people
oecloe In 1avor OF a convention it shall s.
semole on the first Monday of Nav. The bill
passed the House by a vote of more than four
hIns. Its passage by the Senate is considered
certain, butit is expected that the Governor
will veto 1t. 1.-The does so, the bill will pass
by a atwo-thirds vote over his veto.
The dispatch from junction City, Kansas
dated January 81, saying that place would b.
the terminus OF the Union Pacific railroad
anrpg the coming summer, meant that juno
ton City won d be the outer point on the road
from which freigbting to Colorado and New
Mexico would be done this season. The Union
Pacific railroad is already completed twenty
Iniles beyond Junction City, and trains are
moving to that point; and the road viii BE-
finished TO Fort Ellsworth, sixty miles further
by the first OF April.
The Fenian prisoners arrived at Kingston,
y. W., Menday night, and were escorted by
the warden 10 the penitentiary. They had
their hair cat closely. Colonel Lynch resisted
having his whiskers and imperial shaved, bul
when the rules were explained he submitted
Colonel Lynch and Father Mcmahon were set
10 Work In the foundry department.
The State commissioners of the Hoosac tun-
mel have advertised for proposals tor con-
rtFrl 4 no rly k.~,t.
ern approaches, and in sinking the central
snaft, which has yet TO go nearly six hundred
feet deeper before the grade will be reached,
ana one thousand and thirty feet below the
surface.
Yesterday, between twelve and one o'clock,
the office of Leonard W. Jerome, on Wall
street, New York, was entered by burglars
ana robbed OF 8 100000 in United States Five
twenty bonds. The detectives have some
hopes OF securing the guilty parties.
The State Senate of Louisiana Yesterday
adopted the report from the Committee on
Federal Relations on the constitutional amend
accede.
The steamship Worcester. frem Liyerpool.
got into Annapolis Monday night, where she
is detained by ice. Among her passengers are
nine seamen of the brig Filter, of Philadelphia,
which fouLdered at sea.
The remains of Hon. Henry y Magraw wera
ourleoJesterday morning in the graveyard
belonging 10 the Presbyterian church ~ Port
Deposit. Md, of which his father has been pas.
tor tor more than thirty years.
Ed. II. Wayland, the Erie raiIroad clerk,
who absconded from Jersey Jersey City wItn
Sl5.OOO was arrested ia Richmond, Va. last
night.
Moilie Trussell, of Chicago, sent to the peni-
tentiary for one year for killing her paramour
was pardoned Monday, after an imprisonment
Of abo at one month.
In The Tennessee Senate the Committee on
Federal Relations reported a resolution re-
questIng David Patterson, United States Sena-
tor, 10 resign.
II is authoritatively stated that the Canadian
Parliament will meet on the first week in Nav
The Execut We Council meets at Montreal ON
the 18th inst.
Money is still coming from England for the
Quebec relief fund.