New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-02-07
LATEST GENERAL NEWS.
fDy Telegraph
Mississippi is still falling.


1.-THE Mississippi is still falling.
.--.Gen. Pope is to be the guest Of Detroit
=, 49,: The parishes of Quebec have contributed
'o'oo 70 the Canadian Papal Zouaves.
Charles Dickens has sent $1,000 4 ~
Ciemm, motherin-aw OF Edgar A. Poe
80. James Laws funeral in Montreal, yeSter-
Gay, was attended by all the leading tradesmeh'
The Hibernia from Liverpool Jan. @o'
and Derry the 2lth arrived at Portland yesterday
49,. The Vermont Supreme Court has ordered
MAT John Ward or Layisne be hanged on tile ZO'n u
One Morrill, with four aliases was arrested
every name.
go. The Selectmen of Natck. Mass, seized
liquors valued at $1,000 in Thomas F. simonss store, ON
Wednesday.
49,. The 18th Regiment at Toronto, are under
orders to return TO London. The 18th Hghlanders will
take their place.
The brig Jennie Cnshman, which was
ashore Cape Ann got OFF yesterday and Is anchoredn
Gloucester Harbor.
james Henry was buried alive in a coal
yard in Montreal yesterday morning. an excayated coal
heap falling on him.
AN unknown man, whose neck had been
broken was found dead on the Louisville Courthouse
steps on Wednesday morning
- Tenders for the Dominion stock have been
freely received Ottawa within day W0 but none
have been accepted under par.
Willard Welton, jr., a merchant, shot
himself dead lii his room IN the United states HOTEL Dos
Ton, yesterday Ills family afeln LIlcd, ~ l.
Several drunken soldiers were severely
stabbed by drunken negroes in dramshop fight at Camp
Hamilton, Fortress Monroe, on Monday night
Gen. ONeil, Vice President Gibbons, and
Col Walsh. after enthusiastic reception IN Toledo ad-
dressed the Fenians in Whites Hall on Wednesday eve
ming.
THE brig Alton, from Aux Cages with
logwOod, went ashore on Deer Island IN Boston HarDor
hold
THE Western Union Telegraph Company's
Executive Committee has not proposed To sell ITS lines and
property to the United States Government for sOOOOOO
nor for any other sum.
&C C.. Richardson, a delegate to the
Georgia Constitutional Convention, who was shot on
Monday by Caps TimInoDy, late OF the United states
army, died yesterday.
Owing to the strike on the Gainesville
Railroad arragemepts have been made 70 run through
trains from Memphis TO Louisville via the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad.
80. Marylands Attorney General says that the
Hon VIM 7. Hamilton has been legally elected 70 the
United states Senate, and the House has unanimously re-
quested the Governor to give him certificate.
Charles Gordon, aged 10, was found IN
Messrs. Adams. Blackwell Lyonss book warehouse IN
terry.
In Memphis. yesterday afternoon, Frank
Taft and Joseph Mg.so went to John G. Lamsrs room,
lar, and fired upon him. They then LEFT believing him
The strike on the Memphis GAINESVILLE
and Louisville Railroad which was temporarily adjusted
has been resumed. but will interfere with the trans
poraon OF passengers and freight between Louisville
and Memphis.
The Russian bark Windau, from Riga,
went ashore on Wednesday, the south breaker, of
Bakers Island, Boston, but got of with broken
keel and put in Gloucester HarbOr She Is to be towed
thence 20 Boston.
.. The excitement in regard to the suspen-
sion OF the Gayoso enn Savings Institution continues
On Wednesday night six men went 10 the house OF T. NJ
Avery the Cashier with q rope intending to hang him
It is believed; but they failed TO find him.
go. TOrO-Niskee, one of the troupe of Japan
acrobats while performing on the ghtrope at the
ing precipated TO the stage from hight OF about ii
feet, the rope parting the center lie fell heavily
and picked up, apparently unconscious. He revived
short time again appeared. and was enabled TO con
tinuc.