Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-12-26
THE EVENING STAR
KILOGRAMS. Ge.

To-day as well al yesterday be q holiday
throughout England. Business ts entirely sos-
pended, ano the exchange and markets In Lon
doa and Ltverool are closed.
The order mastering out Of the United
Staies service General %. Brewn- head OF the
Freedmen's Bureau N Virginia, has been re-
voked.
The bill for the emancipation of the Jew.
has passed the Austrian Retchsrath.
The ram Stonewall left RIO Janeiro Noveu-
Der 18th for Japan. The Peruvian exploring
expedition. under Adm1 Tucker, had reached
iqnitos, whence IL would descend the Amszon
20 Para:
Accounts received At Massowah OF the con-
dition and progress Of the British expedIn on IN
Aoyssinia are all favorable. The army va.
steaouy advancing IN the interior, and up 20
the date OF the latest Dispatches they had met
with no opposition.
A dispatch from Havana says: The report
published IN the American newspaper. thar
The home Government proposed 70 sell Cuoa
and Porto Rico 10 the United StAfes IL NOS
supported by ad vices from Spain, ana 10 un-
doubtedly pure invention.
The Louisiana Convention Christmas eve
almost unanimously adopted Oooley's resoiu-
tion repeating the bond ordinances, and sdop-
ted instead an ordinance reported by the
finance committee, with some amepdments.
As adopted, the ordinance provides q direct
tax Of one mill per ceot. on all real ana per-
sonAl property, TO be collected by sheriff.. An
ordinance was also adopted sppstn ting COM
mittee 10 negotiate q loan for the i'm ediate
necessities of the Convention.
Dispatches from China say that, owing %
the urgent remonstrance and formidable de-
monstratiops made by the foreign powers, the
Formosians have promised to treat ship wreck
ed sailors with humanity hereafter. and the
Chinese Government has guaran teed that the
prom ises shall be kept.
Galveston advicee state that the Kickapeo
Indians, who had committed murders ana
outrases on the RIO 0rande, crossed into Mex
leo, aRd Judge Noonan had applied 10 9ene-
raj Reynolds for permission TO indict and claim
them from MEXICO under the extraditioa
treaty.
Hon. Robert Smith, formerly a member OF
Congress from the Alton district OF Illinois.
died at his residence, near Alton, last week.
Mr.. Smith was u native Of Peterboro', New
Hampshire.
Advicee from the north western part OF Ar
kansas notice the discovery of rich gold bear
ing quartz In the Red river mountains, sixty
five miles west OF Fort Smith.
- The American Artisan SAYS that IL pees :
Cd boots are occasionally dressed with petro-
leum between the soles and the upper leather
they will rot rip. IL the soles are dressed
with petroleum they will resist Vet and wear
we'll. The pegs are not affected by dryness
after being well oiled.
menu are on foot by which the whole power
OF the German press in the Atlantic States will
be brought 70 bear In favor Of immigration TO
the Southern States, ana Virginia especially.
-. Ii appears there Are n We well organized
IRE companies in Charleston, =. @. aud that
last week, dressed in fancy uniforms. with
handsomely- decorated engines, they had a.
imposing parade.
- Peat sells in Madison, Wisconsin. At sir
dollars q cord, and IL generally and satisfnc-
torily used in that place rs substitute for coal
and wood.