The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-02-10
GENERAL NEWS.

tsibnbed S1,167,S0 in January.
The City Fathers of Detreit an
deep in the duty OF amending the
charter.
Vigilance Committees are now or
g1iized in all the wards of New York.
Blacks Opera House was opened
y the people of Springfield, Ohio, on
Thursday night
Eight lives were lost recently BY
the wreck of the italian bark Oberau,
on the cost of Chill.
The store of J. B. Morand, at Col,
eshnrg, Iowa, was burned Thursday
uieht The loss is S15, 000.
Jonathan Burr, a wealthy citizen
and exbanker of Chicago, died or
Friday evening, aged rs years.
The Hiawatha House, owned By
W: McMullin, at McKeesport, nea,
Ritsburgh, was burned on Thursday
Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, has vetoed
the bill to regulate fares on railroad,
m Illinois. He Is likely to be sus.
tanned.
The Chicago post Office last year
handled nearly o-ns-seventh of the en-.
DIRE number Of letters mailed in the
United States.
A passenger train on the Lacka-
wanna and Bloomsbury Railroad ran
off the track at Beachhaven, Pennsyl-
wanna, Friday morning. Many per-
s0ns were injured, but not fatally.
Hon. Galusha a. Grow wa severely
burned.
VIM. Rice, who was stabbed in
Memphis on Wednesday night, is still
IN q critical condition. McGrath has
been released on bail.
The President has nominated to the
Senate, Henry S. Watts. of Pennsyl-
vaaia, as Secretary of Legation at
] Vienna, vice Mr. Hay, resigned.
The Rev. w. n. Bearne, the newly
appointed superintendent of the Mem
phis police, entered on his duties on
Friday.
The Joint canvassing committee has
reported that at the last election in
Illinois, a majority of 726 votes were
cast In favor of the Constitutional
Convention.
Fires occurred at Valparaizo, De-
7 eember 81, which occasioned q loss of
property to the amount of several
hundred thousand dollars. A num-
Der of persons perished in the flames.
l. "A serious row occurred at Aspin-
wall, January 22d, between some
United States sailors from the steamer
Tallapoosa and some two hundred
Jamaica negroes. One Of the sailors
was killed.
? At the session of the Mississippi
Press Convention, just closed at Hol-
ESprings, j. W. Augu4tin Signiniag,
editor of the Grenada Sentinel aud a
we'll known poet, was elected Pres
ident
Two ships arrived recently at Vala-
pariso in 10S days from Glasgow,
within a quarter of an hour of each
osAer. they sailed together, but
only sighted each other once during
the voyage.
The Bolivian government has given
out a contract to Robert r. Brown,
for the construction of a railway from
Cobayi to Potese. 1t is estimated that
it will cost twenty-five or thirty mil
lions.
A European letter says that the ex-
Empress Carlotta will make a journey
to England and America this year, in
care of her physician and several
friends, in the hope that travel may
restore her sanity.
The President has pardoned Carlo
Latrgia and Francis Martinetti, who
were sentenced in 1865 to serve fifteen
years in the ~peniteutiary at Frankfort,
Kentucky, for counterfeiting United
States currency.
a dispatch from Governor Clayton
says that Captain Rosseau, of the Ar
kansas militia, against whom charges
have been preferred by citizens of
Woodruff county, has been arrested
and logged in penitentiary at Little
Rock.
The Peruvian expedition under the
charge of ex-Admird Tucker, former
IL of the Confederate navy, has de-
monstrated that the Ucaragila River
if the true source of the Amazon, and
not the .Maoonan, Is formely sup
posed.
The Atlantic Mutual Insurance
Company of ST. Louis has brought
suit against John II. Brown and Sam
uel Jacoby, sureties for Chas. @. Fer
guson, formely secretary of that COM
pany, but now deceased, for money
said to have been converted by Fer
guson to his own use, and which his
estate cannot pay. Judgment is asked
against Bowen, and a writ of attach
ment against Jacoby, who has pro-
perry in ST. Louis but who resides in
New York.
0s-dt, at Washington, that Senator
Henderson's journey to Cuba is for
diplomatic purposes, since MI. John
son has charged him with q commiss-
ion, the details of which have not
transpired, but which is understood
to relate to the general movement for
West Indian annexation.
Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Lucy
Stone, olympia Brown, and Miss
Chaplin, are 10 address the Woman
Suffrage Convention to be held in
CHICAGO on the 18th and 18th insts.,
and Miss Dickinson the Sorosis Con-
vention that meets at the same time.
There seems an indisposition in the
Committee of Ways and Means to
prolong the time of whisky in bond