Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-27
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN
THE VICINITY.
NEW York, May ~.

a special cable despatch dated Lon
don, yesterday, states that news to the
LIST of May has been received from Tien-
tsin, China, by way of Kiackta, that
forty thousand insurgents were besieg-
ing Tien-tsn. They have surrounded
the city five days, and threatened to
storm 1T. The garrison was 20, 900 strong.
Three foreign gun boats were there to
protect Europeans.
Washington special dispatches to the
Morning Journals say that among the
first to call on the President were STAN
berry, Judge Nelson and Col. Cooper,
and after the adjournment of Congress
large number of Senators and Repre-
sentatives called upon him. All were
received by Mr.. johnson with cordial
greeting. Not u word of eXultation, or
an eXpressionof triumph escaped him.
Mr. Woolley is in close confinement
in the Committee room under charge of
the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Another despatch says that after vot-
ing yesterday, Mr.. Grimes left, probably
never to return. He will soon leave
Washington, and give up public life
The nomination of Gen. SchOfield as
Secretary of War will be confirmed to-
day by the Senate. The proposition for
an adjournment next month meets with
much favor, and it will be done after tho
reconstructed States are admitted.
Senator Ross has prepared speech
upon impeachment, and will deliver
the same to the Senate. Republicans
and Democrats both seem glad that the
impeachment affair is out of the way.
Several members of Congress endeavor-
ed to persuade Stanton not to resign,
but he said he was satisfied that he had
taken the only proper step that could
be taken in the matter. He proposes to
remain in the city only a short time at
present.
Mr.. johnson says that the result of the
trial is what he always expected it
would be--that his confidence in the
people is undiminished, and that he eX-
pected history to give him credit fF
high patriotism in the discharge of his
difficult duties at time of great excite
ment.
New YORK, May q.
The weather is fine and wind South
erly.
PLYMOUTH, Mass, May q.
Cornelius Holmes, a brother of Alex
ander Holmes, formerly President of the
Old Colony Railroad, was found muir
dered about O'clock this morning, in a
by-road near the back entrance to the
cemetery in the adjoining town of King
stOn, his brains having been beaten out.
1t is stated that at o'clock last evening
while he was at the house of Mr.. Sam
uel Andrews, boy came to the door,
and delivered a note, upon which Mr..
Holmes remarked that he must be going,
and accordingly started. Near the en-
trance to the Cemetery he was attacked.
1t is known that he had quite a sum of
money yesterday, which was found
upon his person this morning. 1t is
supposed that the murderer was fright
ened away before rObbing his victim.
The scene of the murder gave evidence
of violent struggle. No positive clue
has yet been obtained which may lead
to the detection of the murderer, and
the widest excitement prevails in the
usually quiet town of Kingston.
Gold, 40.
Special to tie Vermont TRANSCRIPT.
Just as we were going to press a spe-
cial despatch informed us that Coburn
failed to meet McCool at the appointed
place for the "miil,n and therefore that