Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-12-28
EVENING STAR
LATE rELEeRAMs, ne.

A special to the Memphis A-alascAs, from
LATHE Rock, says Generals Babcock and
Porter. of General Grants stat, started O..
heir return Saturday evening: 1t appears
militia ouuages. All the militia except twenty
are 70 be Withdrawn from Lewisbure AID
the citizens are to be allowed to form q com.
pany."
Minister Rosecrans was recognized nv pr..i.
dent Juarsz on the 10th instant. Meetings have
been held IL Mexico in favor OF the On han in
surreetion. Petitions have been Presented &c
Con sress for the abolition Of the death penalty
Two thousand la5Orers are engaged in the con-
strIction Of the Vera Cruz railroad
President Sarmiento, of the Argentine Repuh-
Inc, having, 1t Is said, asked General McMahon.
L nlted States Minister, 70 attempt q med iation
win Lopez. the Emperor of Brazil threatens,
IN consequence. TO withdraw the Brazilian En-
NCy from the Argentine Republic.
desperate fight between negroes and Ger
rams occurred in a ballroom In Newark, on
christmas eve. At the commencement the
lghts were put out and the greater part Of the
hsnt took place in the DARK. Five persons
were injured and nine neg roes were arrested.
Gabriel Martin and two maiden SISTERS r.
SIDING an Columbia county, Georgia, were
rCbhsd and murdered last Thursday uIgnt
Their house was set on fire and their bodies
SoLs Umed Suspicion ~ said to rest on certain
nrgTCts who reside In Abe neignoCrhood.
The Mexican Congress has organized a Crane
Jury 20 Try MeJia and Romero, Secretary of the
Treasury and late Minister TO the United
States Mepa was found not guilty, and the
case OF Romero was still undecided.
Inspector General AyTes, OF General Rous-
seam staff left New Orleans on Friday for
The disturbed portions of Arkansas, under or =
ders 20 examine and report upon the sondition
Of affairs in such districts.
The family of John Mcdonald, in Philadel.
phia- was sufoeated by gas from coal fire IN
Their sleeping room on Christmas morning
one daughter IS dead and another is not ex-
pected to live.
The wife of Thomas O'Shea, who lives near
London, Ohio, forged a certificate of deposit in
her husbands name, on the Madison National
Bank, for $4,000, and absconoed with another
man 10 parts un known.
Captain b. Franklin, of Jonesboro' NO., pur-
sued three men who had stolen bis horse, when
ne was killed by pistol shot The m urderer
was arrested, but taken out at night by q mob,
and hanged.
There was a fight in Ivnchburg Va. ON
Christnas, between a negro and two white
men, which caused q rally of the negroes and a
very threatening state OF affairs for some min
utes.
MT. George Francis Train who arrived i'm
New York city on Thursday announces thai
James Stephens has been restored 20 supreme
control of the Fenian organization
The Peruvian monitors At New Orleans are
reported TO be unseaworthy, aud they 90 10
Pensseola this week for repairs.
Gen. Sheridan will return from his campaign
IN twenty or thirty days, when he will suspend
operations until March, to give his horses rest
The fire in Lynn, Mass. December Is. de
srOyed property TO the amount of &3O0OOO and
threw 60 people out of employment
The dry goods house Of Lathrop, Ludington
X Co, New York, suspended on SATURDAY.
Their liabilities are stated at si,OOO.OO0.
Collector Smythe has declined q testimonial
from the officers OF customs of the port of New
York.
hre in Richmond. Va, on Saturday, de
stroyed property 10 the amount of twenty
thousand dollars.
Advices from Hayti state that on the 9th inst
me garrison OF Jacmel repulsed the pickets OF
the assSilants, and both sides sustained LOSSES
General Splly has sent a body of cavalry
after hostile Indians, reported to be about the
valleys Of the Republican and Saline rivers, IN
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