The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-06-30

Oultcu StulcSs
Customs receipts from the 18th to the
10th, inclusive $2,6l7,000.
There is little doubt in New York that
an expedition of 500 men sailed last night.
Ryan supposed to be aboard.
WASHINGTON, June 25--.Goud commits
stoned revenue collector First Georgia
| District.
! Cubans have late favorable ,advices that
| they have been successful in two recent
| conflicts. Cuban army comparatively
healthy, confident and organization i'm
proving. Cholera. yellow fever and dis
sensions among Spaniards decmatiug and
demoralzng them
Borie has resigned. Geo. M. Robinson,
of New Jersey, succeeds him.
National lntelieencer euspended.--tem-
porarily it is hoped.
WASHINGTON, June 25.---.Full Cabinet
including Robinson. Secretary of Navy.
Revenue to-day $500, 900.
Admiral Hoff is instructed to resist
seizures of American vessels not actually
engaged in landing troops or munitions on
Cuban coast.
Gen. Howard appointed Rev. Jas.
Lynch Superintendent of Education for
Mississippi.
Delano decides lottery proprietors,
managers and agents must pay five per cent
on gross receipts whether tickets, certifi-
Gates or policies or any device representing
commissions or other expenses.
Turner, negro postmaster at Macon, Ga,
: departed yesterday with his commission.
, Lemus, Cuban representative, has an in
terview with Grant and Secretary Of War
> tonight.
MEMPHIS, June 25.-The Chairman
of the County Democratic Executive
t Committee has received letter from
g Hon. Daniel VOORHEES, which states that
t owing to important business matters Il
Q will be impossible for him to address
;. the Democracy of Memphis as he had
i previously consented to do.
A meeting of the soldiers of the Con
g federate army was held last night, the
n object of which was to form mutua
q relief association. Another meeting
will be held soon, when permanen
e organization will be effected.
1t Is rumored that five members o
g the Board of Aldermen are charged b.
5, $ the Mayor with corruption and NAL
l. feasance in Office. They were befor
= the Grand Jury to-day.
= A negro jury was impaneled in tn
Criminal Court yesterday in the case Q
n negro named Bedford, charged wit
i housebreaking. Contrary to all expec
sr tation they returned verdict of gull
.r ty, and Bedford was sentenced to te
is years in the Penitentiary.
Is The Supreme Court at Brownsville
N to-day affirmed the decision of tn
D. Criminal court of the city in the case {
Ii Calvin and the negro Moody, VIII
N about year since murdered policeme
8 Perry and Fenton, and sentenced thel
Re to be executed August Goth.
~ An unknown man, under the infiu
~ ~ ence of liquor, fell off the steamer IL
~ minary this evening and was drowned
" Nothing transpired in the q. S. Dis
y trict Court to-day. The Decatur CO
-, ~ ton case is still under consideration
~ Several Treasury officials have arrived
~ and will testify tomorrow.
~ The injunction served upon the ne
at registrar, Boughner, restraining hi
from performing the duties of his off
pd came up to-day in tho Chancery cour
or aud the case was taken under advis
of ment.
n. WASHINGTON, June 25.-A Hava1
no letter of the 10Th says, on the 10th tt
SO Acting Captain General received tt
"a. following dispatch from Lesca: II a
nd overpowered; send me three thousar
he men," From Valmaseda: "Send Il
two thousand" Letoria says, che nee
err. eight to ten thousand men quickly
er, open his way through with some pro
of poets of success, and that if the Cover
lat ment delays thirty days in reinforcil
ne him, twenty thousand will not suffice
in The folling statement is given of t
ed forces in the field. The Governme
has thirteen thousand veterans, t,
net thousand seven hundred voluntee
IS. from Spain, added to eighteen thousa
of volunteers garrisoning the princip
he cities, of which nine thousand are
,rk Havana. The Cuban forces are thir
- thousand white and twenty thousa
ter negroes, of which twenty-six thousa
len are we'll armed. If they keep on ]
ceiving arms and ammunition from
,ar- States the organized Cuban forces VI
the largely increase.
eri- NASHVILLE, June 25.-The financ
ing condition of the State turns out to
more precarious and alarming than 0
the ticipated. Letters from the Secreta
hit. and Controller of the State publish
ger show that the deciding crash has co
ere at last, and that six hundred thousa
hat dollars due as interest on the ST.
at bonds cannot be paid; also, that c
million one hundred thousand doll
en- in bonds deposited as security for
ice. interest may be sold at once.
,jor The railroads have so far failed
of pay anything into the Treasury,
consequence of which the price of tt
of nessee bonds has fallen ten cents on
NAL dallar, and soon will be reduced to
and than fifty cents.
ad- Controller Blackburn and Secret
Fletcher now denounce the expen
sue lures for the militia as wholly unnec
sary.
eral
au', A DISCUSSED DuKE.--The Duke
a e. Buccleugh, one of the richest mobiles
,u' Great Britain, has city residence adJt
un,- ing the House of Parliament. LondoT
pro- He had fine water front. The I'm
'as' ground railroad has chosen the eleg
a' terrace of the Duke beneath which to p
ere their road. Parliament, which there
rap law, constitution and everything else,
-. authorized the corporations to take
lsss needed lands wherever they can find 1T,
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