Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-07-20
Latest News by Telegraph.
Dates to July 12.

NEW YORK, July 11,-Chief Justice Chase
thinks the Impeachment movement piece of
great folly. ae 4 12
Indian Outrages continue on the Platte.
Lieut.. Kidder and ten men, with dispatches
from Fort Sedgwick for Gen. Custar, are be-
lieved to have fallen by Indian hands.
The report that the Government is negotl-
ating for the Sandwich Islands is not true.
In an attack by Indians on Fort Wallace, the
savages were repulsed. Thirteen soldiers killed.
Frequent attempts at murder and robbery
by negroes around Norfolk and Portsmouth,
| Virginia, have been made. raf
A London dispatch of yesterday states that
Russia invites the Governments of France and
the United States, in conjunction with Russia
and Great Britain, to examine into the state
of affairs in ireland.
WASHINGTON, July 12.-The Kentucky con-
tested election cases in the House are post
poned to December, for Congressional action.
A resolution, for an inyesti CATION into the
treatment of Federal prisoners by rebels dur
ing the war, was adopted after striking out q
provision extending grace and cIemency to
witnesses implicated
A resolution of inquiry whether any Ameri-
can citizen had been arrested or punished by
Great Britain for words spoken in favor of the
| United States, was passed.
The Impeachment Committee will not be
ready to report before October. Five men,
bers of the Committee think no case has been
made out fs4a
/ A delegation of white and black Radicals
| from North Carolina and Alabama are here
praying for the entire abolition of the present
civil government in the South. They want
the Radicals put IL power in every Southern
State. 4t.e .a7'f
The House passed Thad Stevens supple
mental Reconstruction BILL l19 to 3.
I J. P. Leese, of California, and Mowry, of
Arizona, are urged for Minister of Mexico, by
respective hackers.
BrOwnlow has proclaimed that he will arrest
and punish all who do not accept his interpre-
tation of the franchise law.
/ Citizens of Franklin, Tenn, assert that the
late riot in that city was begun by the negroes,
Late particulars from Mexico say Maxlmil-
ian was bound and blindfolded No indignity
was offered him. Before he was shot he reca-
pitulated the causes of being caught in Mexico,
and denied the authority of the Court which
tried him, and hoped his death would stop the
etfusion of blood in Mexico. He called a
Sergeant Of the guard, gave him a handful of
money, and requested as favor that the SOL
i diers should aim at his heart, Five balls en-
tered his body but did not kill him Immediate
Ily when two soldiers were ordered to shoot
him in the side. His last words were, Poor
tCarlotta. y
/ Miramon read paper stating that the only
regret he felt in dying was that the Liberals
remained in power and that his children would
be pointed out as children of traitor. Meiia
made no address, but met his fate quietly aud
brayely. Esc0bedo presented the sword OF
Macmillan to Juarez, in the Government Pal
ace, Much dissatisfaction and grief were
manifested by the spectators. a
In the Senate, Chandler justified the execu-
ton of Macmillan, and hoped Congress would
pass resolutions Of sympathy with Mexico, aud
pledge her armed support against any Europe
an nation. Nye eulogized Juarez and Justified
his conduct towards Macmillan. Howard
and Yates took the same ground.
Resolutions to take means to suppress In
dian hostilities on the Plains were laid over.
The reconstruction bill came back from the
4 House with amendments. as1a
NEW YORK, July 12-The members of the
Irish Brigade will wear Grape on the left arm
thirty days in memory of ThOs. f. Meaghor
British officers beheaded the King of the
BeleW Islands for having killed an English
Captain for trading there.
i Cholera has broken out in Nicaragua.
/ A Government train of forty wagons, OF
M0rmOns returning from Salt Lake to Jules
tburg was attacked by Indians while camped
near Crow creek, and Andrew Bourkerson
mortalIy wounded.
Gov Smith, of Montana, offers $1,000 for
the recovery of the body Of Thos., F. Meagher.
All the Courts of Montana adjourned in honor
to his memory, ana addresses of condOlence
were made by the leading men.
4 Mr.. Ould, ex-rebel Commissioner for ex-
change of prisoners, has been before the I'm
tDeachment Committee Gen Butler closely
questioned him as to the conduct of Gen. Grant
Under Sheridan's registration in Louisiana
there appears 81 ,428 white and 74,Il6 black
voters.
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