Nebraska advertiser., 1869-11-11


has received Intelligent, that his
government is now readHo reduce
the rate of postage betsen Great
Britain and the United Stas to three
pence. .
Ex-Peesident Johnson ttertained
the members of the TennbeezLegis
ture to a banquet last nigh
The majority for Gov lafiin, in
Massachusetts,, over Dol Adams,
democrat and Chambeain, Labor
Reform candidate will bebout 1900.
The Senate stands 80 R~eublicans, 8
Democrats, and 10 Lab Reform.
The House, 153 Republics, 59Dem-
Ocrats, and q Labor RefOners.
Gen. Mcmahon, late Us. Minirter
to Paraguy, says the Paguyan war
was instituted by Brazil to extend
Monarchy and Slavery.
The Government corsll at Fort
Harker, Kansas, was strek by light
ming on the sd inst. al go mules
instantly killed.
A company has 'been frmed in st.
Louis to purchase the ldian Rock
Coal Mines, on Green Rier, KY.
Bonner has a five year Id colt, thBt
has made a mile 2:1S. &
Gov. Warmoth, of louisiana, con-
tradicts the report that tn and a half
million of State bonds hFe been issu-
ed without warrant of aw, or that
one single bond has beeIissued with
out proper authority dTing his adj
ministratiOn.
Secretary Boutwell, istbout to bOr-
row money to pay the 80 bonds due.
1t is said an agent is to b sent OF Eu-
rope to negotiate the LOAF The other
day the Secretary advertised that he
would sell a million gOldand sold two
million. This urged as another con-
conspiracy, and a new howl is raised
by those who did not profit by the ex-
cessive sale.
The Democrats aremaking a great
Jubilee over their victory in New York
and calculating on ''rdorms'' of Rad
ical ABUSES"
The expenses for theWar and Navy
Depart for the year enling Jund 3Oth,
have just been ascertdned to foot up
$S07, 6S4,220, including War, Navy,
Indians and Pensions. p
The safe of the Dorchester Insurance
Company at Neppontet, was blown
open on the night of the 4th, and rob
bed of between TWEEN and thirty thou
sand dollars.
From D~fspatchesOf Nov. =.
There was a genera mourning for
Mr.. Peabody in LOndn. The Press
of the United Kingdom write in I'M
qualified eulOgy of theillustriOus phi
lO%nthropist.
The telegraph tell aAorrible story OF
an eruption of volcano in the State
of Columbia, South America. The
river Conga, fifteen miles from the
volcano, rose quite high, and guam
titles of lava, thickly strewn with
dead bodies, fOated by" Next day
the river dried up.
An earthquake occurred at Quito,
the eighteenth, but in was harmless.
Gold closed at 1863.
In the Convention of the Jewish
Rabbis,- at Philadelphia yesterday, DI
Hirsch pronounced a eulOgy on the
late George Peabody.
!a Fourteen deserters confined at Oma-
ha, knocked down the guard Thursday
night and escaped.
A scouting party left Fort Saunders
on Thursday to scout for Indians that
have recently committed depredations
in that vicinity.
The st. Louis Republican gives the
following as the complexion of the
Illinois Constitutional Convention as
shown by the latest returns Repub.
licans, A; Democrats, 40; Conserva-
tives, 2.
1t is rumored the appointment Of
Assistant Treasurer, at New York,
has been rendered to General John A
Dix.
The McCOole-AIlen fight will come
off on Wednesday, next.
Free trade Leaguers are organizing
throughout the Country.
The EVangenicaI Lutheran Church
of North America are in Council al
Chicago. They have resolved on the
establishment of a Seminary in thai
City.
The women suffring for suffrage in
st. Louis, have started their milk.
and-water convention for the fall
course.
The remains of George Peabody will
be brought to his native town in
Massachusetts, for interment.
Mrs Clark, of Eden, Marshall Co.,
Iowa, murdered her three children on
Tuesday last. She is a maniac.
The Rochester, N. Y. Theatre burn.
ed yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
Mr.. A. +. Cox, publisher of the st,
Louis Presbyterian, died at. st. Louis,
yesterday. He had a presentment fol
3 years that he would die in 1869.
An order has been made by the
War Department ferbidding citizne;
from residing on lands of military
reservations in cases Ofthose resident
an investigation is to be had as to the
value of improvements and they are
to be put off by force.
There was a riot in a colored church
on Friday night, commenced by a lot
of ruffians, whether white or black, j:
not stated. Policemen were disarmed