Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-07-18
9 News Items.
Chief Justice Chase is at Saratoga.

Chief Justice Chase is at Saratoga.
Gen. Grant has returned to Washington
from West Point. sf' aA IN saRN
The report that the cholera has appeared
in st. Louis is denied. s
Gen. Grant has again left Washington for
West Point.
$2,93G,7 IT'S in specie was sent to Europe
from New York on Saturday.
Major-General Schofield has issued strict
quarantine regulations for the ports Of Vir-
ginia. 5
Secretary Browning returned to Washing
ton from Illinois on Saturday, much imprOv-
ed in health. ~
Our Vice Consul General at Havana, re-
ports the yellow fever as raging in malig-
nant form at that port
The President on Saturday sent to the
Senate a Reciprocity treaty, recently made
with the Sandwich Islands.
The st. Petersburg papers pronounce the
alleged diplomatic note Of the Russian Gov
eminent, in regard to ireland, fabrication
There are quite number of Maximilian's
officers In New Orleans, wearing badges OF
| mourning
Baron Stoeckl is of opinion that the Car
Alexander II would visit this country ifinvit-
ed by Congress.
The Board of Health of New Orleans re-
port that city in good sanitary con dition and
Tree from any epidemic.
Sheridans friends are initiating a move
ment to make him the Republican candidate
for President.
A meeting of Germans was held in Rich
mond, Va, last night, and Republican club
organized.
Commencement exercises of Amherst Col
lege took place yesterday. Forty-eight stu
dents graduated.
The Democratic State Convention of Min
nesota met yesterday and nominated candi-
dates for State officers.
Two lads, aged respectively IS and l3 years,
were drowned last night while bathing in
the Connecticut river, near Hartford.
On Thursday night, havy gale prevailed
at Cape Island. The high tide threatened to
carry off the bath houses at one time.
Ink made from india rubber is the latest
invention. 1t will be used mainly by writers
who are inclined to ''stretch story"
Austria has despatched Admiral Tegethof
to Mexico to procure the body of Maxinil-
ian.
The King of Prussia is going to send a
special envoy to the United States to make
new postal treaty.
Congress cannot adjourn before the latter
!, part of next week, il is thought A recess
will probably be taken until the latter par
| of October.
Brigadier- General John G. Lee, of Seneca
, has been nominated for Lieutenant Governor
Of Ohio, by the Republican Convention
, vice Hon. Samuel Galloway, declined.
Aiken, who acted as counsel for Mrs. Sur
raft in her trial before the Military Commits
G sion, has been appointed clerk in thu
+ Treasury Department
In the French Corps Legislatif, on Satur
Q day, M. Olivier said that unless liberal re
forms were realized war would be inevita
BILE.
The missing preacher Merrill, who wa
supposed to have been drowned at Platts
: burg. is at Detroit. The life insurance com
+ | panies will probably look after the fellow.
q 1t is reported that the United Steame
tyts0a,ehQnna has been sent to Sisal to de
mand the body of Santa Anna from sh'
u Mexican Government, but the rumor i
$ doubted.
Rev. s. M. Merrill, recently reported t.
s have eloped with young lady in New York
s and more recently reported drowned, la
e heen heard of in very indirect way iron
r Detroit.
r Gen. James +. Rushing arrived at Wash
|, ington yesterday from tour OF inspection
= of the posts on the plains. He considers tn
If accounts of Indian troubles greatly eXagger
It ated.
o Bya new postal treaty with England, jus
o ratified, the postage on single letter betwecl
!. the United States and Great Britain is re
/ duced to sixpence, (about twelve cents), o.
!. and after January !, 1895. sU
|. A Charleston, S. c., dispatch says tina
" CAPTAIN Gunnison, L. w. Daggett and lady
:. and four negroes, were lost on the 5th inst
y by the capsizing of the steamboat II. i
;r Bell, in Woccamaw river.
Ie Large deposits of coal have been discover
le ed on the line of the Union Pacific RailroaS
Kansas branch, one hundred and sevent
miles west from Pond Creek, on the route
Albuquerque.
At Paris, on Saturday, the corner. stone
anew Protestant church was laid in. Il
in presence of large concourse OF spectator
,s This church is intended for the use OF Ame
9. lean residents and visitors.
q The annual meeting of the stockholders
"a the Central Pacific Railroad, was held atlSs
as Francisco, ON Saturday. All the old office
r. were reelected. The company, by means
rt teams have transported locomotive to u
d. east side of the mountains.
an In the Surratt trial, yesterday.tne defen
or examined number of witnesses to pro
n that j. ii. Surratt was not in Washington {
IT, the night of the assassination of Preside
l." Lincoln, and that the witness, Wm.C Cleaye
n was not worthy of belief. q
y, Secretary McCulloch's Investigating Cor
ne mittee have concluded their labors, and III
eh that the Treasury vaults contain few &C
y, lars over what the books call for. fosslo
W the surplus is +" conscience money, acc
ne dentally non-entered on the books.
le- The Commissioner of Indian affarirs h
tes sent to the Senate a report on the existi
a Indian troubles. He condems the militia
y, NJ movements as inefficient to preserve peac
ss . and recomends locating the Indians on re
se, eryations, and indemnifying them for 4
no damages they sustained at the hands of p
fn fnr Since the City of Mexico has been GA
w tured by the Liberals, nothing has been hea
in by the French Government of its Miniet
ith at the late Court of Maximilian. Napole
IRE has signifed his intention Of sending strp
in fleet to Vera Cruz, to release his Mexic
ia Minister if he is prisoner, or to resent q
N lindignity which may have been offered b
by the Government of Juarez.
I'll The local of the Mt. Pleasant Jotaf
II. says there is a man in Burlington, Iowa,
,r a stinpy that he picks the flies out OF thel
ant .ar Iovpl and brushes the sugar oil th