Middletown transcript., 1868-04-04
Item. OF News.

men were concerned in the plot, and they
had secured as accomplices the very body
guard of the President and officers of the
palace. In one respect the conspiracy was
modled after that of the rebel Booth.
Juraez was to be shot in his box at the
theatre, and his ministers were to be dis
posed of by other assassins The discovery
OF the plot was made only short time
before the hour fixed for its execution,
and thus it was frustrated.
A New York letter says In the event
of the removal of the President, Mr..
Seward writes to his friends here, so am
informed, that he will at once leave the
Cabinet. In Wall street Mr.. McCulloch's s
friends are in doubt as to his course in the
same contingency, but those of them who
sustain the closest business relations with
him appear to be pretty confident that he
likewise will resign his position. Horace
Grcely is confidently spoken of as Mr..
RandalPs successor in the Postofice De-
partment.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr. an Epis-
copalian, recently reprimanded for preach
ing in a Methodist church, preached SER
mon on Sunday evening in DR.. j. H.
Weston's Baptist church, Madison avenue,
New York, to congregation of over 20O0
persons, while half as many more failed to
get into the buihing. The discourse was
delivered before the Young Mems Chris
tian Association.
The telegraph brings intelligence ofdis.
turbances in France. Emutes are said to
have taken place at Bordeaux, and sedi-
tious placards have made thei rappearance
at Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, and Rheims.
In other portions of the kingdom indica-
tions of discomfort have been observed, and
the people are moody and ill-tempered to-
warde the authorities. The conscription
is the chief cause of it.
The Alabama claims came up for discus
sion in the British House of Lords on the
9th ult. Earl Russell defended the
course pursued by him in the case. Mr..
Cairns sustained the policy of Lord STAN
ley, and Lord Westbury formerly Lord
Chancellor, defincd.the law of England in
the matter and denied the justice of the
claims set up by Secretary Seward.
In the British House of Commons April
LIST. Mr.. Hunt, Chancellor of the Exche.
quer, asked leave to bring in bill for the
purchase by the Government of all the
lines of telegraph in the Kingdom. The
bill provides for the appointment of arb-
ters, who shall decide what prices are to
be paid to the several telegraph companies
for their property and interests.
The Spirituaists of st Louis celebrated,
Tuesday night, the twentieth anniversary
of the advent of Spiritualism. The cerc-
mony consisted of an address by Miss Elvi-
ra Wheelock, one of their popular lecturers,
giving the history of the Rochester knock
ings and similar phenomena, briefly sketch
ing the growth and progress of the relig-
ion, (O and claiming that it had gained
the country over four million dollars
The United States Artillery School, es-
tablished at Fortress Monroe, some time
since by order of General Grant was for
mally opened on Wednesday. There will
be regular course of studies prescribed
for the officers composing this school, and
the most strict discipline will be enforced.
General Barry has just issued an impor-
tant order prohibiting the sale of liquor on
the point.
The Mississippi Immigration Conven-
tion has submitted a plan of immigration
which provides for forming stock COM
pany, whose object will be to purchase,
lease, and improve lands, and have power
to borrow money on mortgages.
Bradley, the Boston nogro lawyer who
was expelled from the Radical Convention
in Georgia, is now circulating incendiary
notices in the city of Savannah and the
surrounding country tending to excite the
negroes to murder and arson.
The Italian Government is taking steps
to reprcss the spirit of brigand. &c now
prevalent in various parts of the kingdom.
A large body of troops is to be Immediate
ly put in readiness to operate against the
province of Naples.
The State Senate of Pennsylvania last
week passed a joint resolution requesting
the President to protect American citizens
in the guano trade and to compel San
Domingo to restore at once the Island of
Alta Vela.
Cable advices state that negotiations are
still going on between Denmark and Prus-
sia in regard to disputed territory in Schles-
wig -Holstein. The demand Of Denmark
it is said has been rejected by Prussia.
Mr.. Dickens's farewell readings in Amer
lea are announced in New York Profess
sional engagements will, in all probability,
prevent him from making third visit to
our shores.
The House Committee on Elections
have resolved to reject the Mormon dele
gate to Congress from Utah, on the ground
that the Mormons are community hostile {
to the Government.
The two hundred coolies lately brought
to Havana came over in the Portuguese
vessel Maria Louisa, formerly American, [
guarded by 30 Portuguese soldiers, to pre- i
vent mutiny.
General Grant has gained suit in Mis-
souri, instituted to recover possession of a I
farm belonging to Mrs. Grant, near ST. |
Louis.
Nicholas Smith, who was arrested in
Buffalo few days since confessas ,ot.;n. I