The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-10
Domestic Affairs.

Domestic Affairs.
Gold closed yesterday at 1876.
-Postmaster-General Creswell has returned
to. Washington.
j. b. Cessna has been nominated for the
Senate by the Republicans of Fulton county.
-Vice-President Colfax and his party were
at Virginia City, Nevada, yesterday afternoon.
Five hundred thousand pounds of wool
was yesterday shipped from San Francisco to
New York
John H. Pratt, accused of murder in
Texas, has been remanded by the civil courts
to the custody of the United States authori-
ties.
The first cotton of the season, two bales,
arrived at New York yesterday. One bale
sold for fifty cents pound, and the other
was shipped to Liverpool.
-Four prisoners escaped from the Balti-
more City Jail yesterday. Hoffman and
Dennis, the Harnden Express robbers, were
two of the fugitives.
-Mowry Irons, who murdered his wife in
June last at GAINESVILLE, II. l., was, on Sat
urday. found dead in the swamp near the
scene Of the murder He had committed
suicide.
Admiral Hof's dispatches from Cuba,
concerning the execution of Americans at
Santiago de Cuba, are withheld from publica-
ton, but they will be laid before the Cabinet
| to-day.
William Varley, better known in New
| York as 'Reddy the Blacksmith, notorious
| thief and desperate, has been captured in
| California 10y couple of New York detectives,
| and is now on his way eastward for trial
President Ames, of the Union Pacific
| Railroad, denies that any bonds were issued
| by that corporation in excess of the legal
amount and that the issue, in fact, falls short
of the amount allowed by law nearly one mil
| lion dollars.
| Judge McCunn, of New York, yesterday
| issued a writ of habeas corpus, directing
| Superintendent Kennedy to bring the English
| forgers, Harwood and Hatcher, into court.
| The forgers sailed for England on Saturday,
and were therefore not produced.
James II. Day, formerly private secretary
| to Colonel Ryan, arrived at the Clifton House,
| Niagara Falls, last Friday, with letters pur-
| porting to come from the Cuban Junta in
New York, asking the Colonel to return to
| New York Immediately with Day. Ryan, sus-
| pecting the letter was a forgery, accused Day
of treachery which the latter was finally COM
| PEELED to admit, whereupon Ryan gave him
an unmerciful horsewhipping Day, on his
| knees, begged for mercy, but none was shown
| him. The guests rushed in and took the whip
away from the Colonel, and thus saved the
fellow from further injury
Foreign Affairs.
! LONDON, Aug. "a Joint committee of the
| Atlantic and Anglo-American Companies. and
the Directors of the New York and Newfound-
| land and London Telegraph Company, have
made further reduction of the tariff between
| any part of the United Kingdom of Great
| Britain and Ireland and New York, cOmmen-
cling on Tuesday, August 10, 1869 Thirty
shillings sterling, or seven dollars and half
gold, for ten words, three shillings sterling,
or seventy-five cents, gold, for each extra
| word. Press messages half the above rates.
| PARIS, Aug. 9.-The ,jOUIH0J OHicid pub
fishes the agreement of July 1G, made by the
French Gable Company with the United States
authorities, under which the landing of the
cable at DuXbury was permitted.
| j. Meredith Read, Jr., has received from
the French government his exequatur as Con-
sui General of the United States at Paris
| in the Department Of the Loire, sixty-two
miners, who took part in the late riots in
Saint Etienne and vicinity have been SEN
| fenced to imprisonment.
| MADRID. Aug. 9.-Ihe recent decree issued
| by the Spanish Government, in regard to the
part taken by some of the clergy in the Car
| list conspiracy, calls upon the bishops to re-
port what steps they have taken to restrain
such disloyalty, and to furnish to the Govern.
ment the names Of the conspirators. Bishops
are required to issue their pastorals, requiring
obedience to the laws within eight days.
| MADRID, Aug. D.-lne decree concerning
the conduct of the clergy gives universal
satisfaction. Up to the present moment the
Bishops have maintained silence on the sub
iect. A large number of circulars, issued by
Don Carlos, and addressed to the bishops and
clergy, inviting their cooperation, have beer
seized
Balanzetuqua the Carlist chieftain, after
making desperate resistance, was captured
tried by a court-martial, and shot A band Of
Carlists were defeated last week at Mortiale
| gro. Nine we're taken prisoners and shO
on the spot by order of the officer command
ing the Government troops. The act causes
a great Sensation here. Several parties of Car
lists, led by priests, have been defeated anC
dispersed
HAVANA, Aug. 0.-General Lesca arrived
here last week in bad health, and has gone t,
San Diego for the baths.
Mr.. Waits, a relative of one of the United
States Consuls in Cuba, who was recent.
; arrested and sentenced to four months i'm
, | prisonment, has been released, at the inter
cession of Consul-General Plumb, and saile
c for New York in the steamer Columbia.
y Official reports state that there are now fey
= rebels in the jurisdiction of Las Tunas am
IS Holquin. A convoy of provisions reached tn
G town of Las Tunas and relieved the garrison
d who were suffering from scarcity. Th
& | troops recently surprised body Of insurgent
at De9uganOs and killed forty.