Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-03-08
EVENING STAR.
LATE TELEGRAMS. &c.

Later news has been received from Hayu
President Salnaye IN tde his long-expected at
tsck on Aux Caves by sea and land. bat met
Ritb no success After bombsrdng the city for
twenty four honrs without effect, he suddenly
sailed away 10 Port an Prince. His land forces
simultaneously assaulted the town, but were
Tepul>ed.
The snow blockade on the Pacific Railroad,
San Francisco dispatches say, extends for two
hundred miles along the crossings of he Rocky
sEd Wssatcb mountains, east of Salt Lake. st.
louis dIspai6hes. no Srver, say that the en-.
largo has been overcome, and that trains have
gJB- through each way.
AIVisss from =; Thomas state it has been SET
tied tina; the island n 10 remain coaiing station
for the Brush West Indies mail steamers The
reneval Of efforts To roDsumate tue sale Of the
sSaDd 10 the United States causes intense dis
gust among the inhabitants.
There is not a hostile Indian in the limits of
the Missouri Department.. The refractory
trIh-s have D-en entirely subdued. Those fe
nat nave not yet come in, but have made
promises, Rave been driven far out of the de.
VSTtmsut
Wendell Phillips, in a lecture st Jersey City
saturday evening, commenced on Grant in
sugGTal rather favorsoly- He urged a vigo--
Gus, anu II necessary. sanguinary policy
towards the South, as tue only means to secure
IssiIDg peace.
Some of the Leading journals Of Bogota op
pose the DaIien canal treaty, ana IL is said
LOugress Will reject ~, but the arguments
against the treaty We're very weak and IL Is
s-SIdrbt the main obIeettis to get all the money
possible from the United States.
1t is rumcrei that President Basz of ST. DO
ningo. has sent Mr.. Fabeus to Washington TO
treaf for annexation 10 the United States. Tn
project Is extremely unpopular IN 81. Do
mIngO-
The Missouri Legislature has passed q bill
requiring life insurance companies doing busi-
nsss IN that State TO deposit SlOO,OOO in the
hands of the State Treasurer as security
The ports Of Yeddo and Negato, Japan, have
been opened 10 foreigners. Yeddo is 10 be the
ttficIal residences of the Mikado, and the per.
manent capital Of the Japanese Empire.
The Georgia Senate laid the n fteenth amend.
ment on the table. Both Houses have adopted
resolution to adjourn sine die on the 18th.
Governor Hoffman has resigned the Grand
Sacnrmy OF Tamnsny. VIM. NJ. Tweed has
been elected bis successor.
Several boxes of guineas are said to have
been recovered from the wreck of the British
fngate Hasson, sunk In East river, n. Y, In
ia.
A droyer named James Ames. from Ohio
was robbed of $500 in = hotel in Philadelphia
SATURDAY night.
The ku-kIux bill passed the Arkansas Senate
on Thursday. Ii goes 10 the Governor, and
will undoubtedly become a law.
The steamship Pantheon, from New Orleans
Tor Liverpool, sunk Friday night just outside
tee Southwest pass.
United States bonds closed in L sndon on Sat.
nrday NJ e3is, the highest price they have yet
reached.
Seven Fenians, imprisoned in various parts
4 Great Britain, have been released.
san Francisco Is dissatisfied with President
Grant Cabinet.
Ire Prussian Diet or Saturday adjourned
ne M