Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-01-15
The World by Telegraph.


SPRINGFIELD, Jan S.-Ellen buchanan.
who had been arrested and committed Tor the
murder of her child at Chicopec, was brought
TO tins city and lodged in Jail yesterday.
Leroy Whiting committed for an alleged
rape on woman fifty>seven years of age,
has also been placed in the hands of the
Sheriff.
ToEoNTo, Jan. 9.-The sentences of the
seven Fenian prisoners, including Lynch and
McMahOn, condemned to death at the last
AsslZes, are committed to twenty years i'm
Prisonment in the penisentiary Orders were
received by the authorities here TODAY from
the Solicitor General, and the prisoners will
be sent to. night, by a special train, to the
Kingston Penitentiary.
The trial of the remaining thirty prison.
ers commences at neon tomorrow, before
Judge Morrison, and will be conducted the
same as the others were, with same counsel
on behalf of the crown.
The prisoners will be defended by able
counsel engaged by Mr, Thurstor, the Amer
lean consul.
OfTAwA, Jan. Ollie Pontiac Mills. on
the Upper Ottawa, were burned yesterday.
FoRTREss MONROE. Jan. S.-A terrible
fire occurred in Norfolk this morning at Gre
o'clock, which consumed the Atlantic Hotel.
ono of the principal and finest hotels south
CT Baltimore, and several valuable business
sites. The hotel building was insured for
S3O, 900. a. G. Newton, the proprietor lost
in furniture, stock of wines, &c, about $50.
eco, half Of which is covered by insurance.
GALVESTON, Jan. 9.-Tbo steamer Thames
has putt in here for coal. Her passengers from
the interior dfscredit the reported cnDturc of
San Luis Potosi
Six thousand Liberals are scattered over
the country, piIlaging the Inhabitants They
arc without ammunition. Mejia has 2 900
men, armed and well supplied. They think
that the Liberals were GcIeatcd
Marshal Bazaine has ordered the last of
the French troops to be embarked by the I'd
Of March. The whole force are going to the
coast with the rear guard at Chiacos.
When the officers of tie United States
steamer SCsquehanna landed at Vera Cruz.
some OF the Mcxicans' chccred them. for
which they were afterwards beaten and badly
wounded by the French soldiers.
On the Sd Of January some.robLers threw
train of the track, near Vera Cruz, and all
the passengers. They also robbed the dill
gencc and outraged three female passengers.
Chas. MOorhead, of New York, and Davis
& Co., the largest banking firm in San Luis
Potosi, were imprisoned for six weeks in a
GERS.
CHICAGO, JAN 9.-Last Monday evening
there arrived here a gentleman from France,
who proceeded to the residence of Mira. Lin
coin, and without pomp or speech, presented
her with medal in behalf of thirty thousand
French people, in token of tkeir respect for
Abraham Lincoln.
he Chicago Academy of Siusic held their
annual meeting last evening, when the Pres.
ident, George c. Walker, reported that their
funds amounted to So, 600, one hall of which
would be devoted to the construction of a
fre-pToof builGiDg on Wabash Avenue this
year.
The Wool Grower Association of Illinois
met at Springfield yesterday and adopted a
resolution that 1t is of vital importance to the
wool growers of Illinois, and to the DEPEND
ant or related industrial interests, that the
House Tariff bill on woods and WooIcus, nov
pending in'the Senate of TIE United States.
or ono equally protecting become law.
a committee was appointed to memorable
the Legislature to instruct our Senators to
support the above bill.
q letter was read from Senator Yates, ap-
proving of the pending bill
Gen Palmer made speech, in which he
said that the man who talks free trade, in the
present condition of the country, deserves
pity,
The Convention finally resolved that The
true policy OF the Government is protection
Of Tie producing and manufacturing interests