Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-05-22
NEWS ITEMS.

CHASED hy the french government Tor
So 900, 600
The Great Eastern will not return
to New York, the late trip having proved
financial failure
The death sentence passed on the
Fenian Burke has been committed to inn
prisonment for life at hard labor
-Maximilian is reported still at Guerra
taro Vera Cruz is still closely invested
Provisions are so scarce in that city the
the people are eating horse flesh.
The besiegers of Vera Cruz are said
t be suffering as we'll as the beseiged-
Over 200 of t form. are in the hospi-
tai 1t is thought that hunger will soon
compel the Imperlalists to surrender the
city Of Mexico
President johnson has accepted
Masonic invitation to visit Boston On the
ton there
General Sheridan has issued an order
forbiddtng citizens Of New Orleans from
carrying firearms, practice that has be-
come quite too common and dangerous in
tEat city. t@-
Somebody in the Chicago Times
nominates Jeff. Davis for President, and
Horace Greeley for Vice President The
loyal people Of the country since Gree
leys recent silly exhibition of mistaken
mercy towards the arch traitor, would
now about as soon vote for him as for
Davis, and all men of the Chicago Times
school of politics would doubtless delight
to vote for the tic ct proposed.
In Nashville, desperate character
named Coffee, who has just been sent to
the penitentia"y for Is years for robbery,
sprang suddenly to his, feet at dinner on
Monday, brandishing a large carving
knife, and called upon all who wanted
liberty to follow him. He leaped over
the table and dashed toward breech in
the wall made to enlarge the penitentiary
grounds, followed by d sperate crowd,
white and black, but just as he reached
the breech he was ielled by a billet of
wood, and his followers qualed and re-
treated. Not a shot was fired.
A rious disturbance occurred in Mobile.
on Tuesday Of last week, while Represen-
tative Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was ad
dressing the citizens The Judge had
been speaking IN temperate and candid
manner, when an effort was made to ST.
lence him. The tumult increased until
naetee ensued Revolvers were brought
into requlsltlon, and amid a.per ect fus-
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persed. Several men were killed and
others wounded. The troops were order
ed out and speedily succeeded restoring
order.
JEFF. Davis advised his brother in
Mississl pl that he should visit New York
Immediately; from thence it is understood
he will go to Canada. where his children
are, unless be determines to have them
meet him In New York Afler-seeing
them he will return to Mississippi His
friend announce he will live as quietly
and secluded as possible during the sum
mer and fall
The Charleston, S. G., street cars
have become comparatively deserted since
the appearance of the military order ena-
bling negroes to ride in them the same as
white folks. The cars were formerly
chiefly patronized by the ladies and chill
dren and the railroad companies have al
most entirely lost this class of patronage.
Their: is no law in Charleston for bidding
the ladies and child ed walking or put
| ting themselves to any kind of inconven
fence to crafty their spite against the ne
groes, who probably have what few white
people in other cities haye-room enough
IN the cars.
The Pittsburgh Commercial saws
number of wealthy American gentlemen
chiefly Pennsy lvanians, have offered to un-
nertake the building of the ship canal
connecting the lakes with the St. Law
renee. 1t will extent across Canadian
territory from Lake Huron to Lake On
tario, and will cost an enormous sum of
money, but the advantages to be derived
therefrom, and the immense amount of
freight that will seek that channel of con-
veyance, will render il one OF the most
profitable undertakings ever attempted in
America.
The ex Confederate MIjor General
Ewell is quietly cutivating farm a cou-
pie of thousand acres at Spring Hill Tenn
He very sensibIy devotes his attention
chiefly to stock raising and to the cultiva-
ton Of corn, and plants little err no cot
ton. He is noted as being the most sue
cesstul employee in the section, hav NJ
no trouble what ever with the freedmen
he, L g
ing them in the maintenance of their