Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-06-26
The News In Brief.

The Boston peace jubilee was opened on the
18th, at three P. N.
McCoole challenges Allen for another prize
fight in three months for 5000.
Six hundred more flibusters recently landed
in Cuba and Joined General Jordan
A recruiting Office for Cuban soldiers has been
opened in Richmond They offer $50 per month
and bounty.
Another ilibustering steamer, with threA hun
dred men, slipped out Of New York harbor on the
Goth, for Cuba.
Major-General Harvey has been placed upon
the retired list of the army, after completing
fifty years of active service.
A dispatch from Brest, France saws the Great
Eastern put to sea on the goth instant, to lay
down the French American Atlantic cable.
Indictments have been found BY New York
grand jury against some Cuban ilibusters for
violating the neutrality laws of this country.
Two hundred and fifty more Cuban flibusters
left Philadelphia the 18th and put to sea-
Flibusters have also cleared from Boston for
Hayti.
In the McGuire- -Donnelly prize fight, at Ca
yuga lake, New York, on Saturday, the former
was killed on the ninth round by blow from
Donnelly, who escaped to Canada.
Fifty of the merchants of St. Louis have guar
anteed the cost of an experiment to bring sailing
vessels up to that city to load with grain, and
clear direct for New York and Liverpool
The quarrel between Stokes and Senter wakes
hot in Tennessee, and Stokes is bitterly denounc
ing Brownlow for supporting Senter. He de-
clares that President Grant is for him (Stokes.) J
Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York
Times, was struck by apoplexy on the morning
of the 18th instant, in his own house, and died
therefrom. He was forty-nine years of age.
Thursday was the ninety-fourth anniversary
of the battle of Bunker Hill, and was observed in
San Francisco by the display of flags from pub
lie and private buildings and from vessels in the
harbor.
The Maoris in New Zealand have been COM
mitting fresh massacres on the whites, and the
rural districts are in consequence pouring their
population into the villages in fear of the saw
ages.
Moriarty President of the Irish Republic AS
sociation of PENNSYLVANIA, declares that the Irish
convention TO be held in Chicago will adopt a
platform in favor of protection, universal suffrage
and war with England.
President Grant was received with much en-.
thusiasm at the Boston peace jubilee, and made
a short speech in reply to one of welcome from
the Governor of Massachusetts. The President
spoke in the highest terms of that State.
A war party of fifty Cheyennes had fight on
the 10Th instant, between Sheridan and Denver,
on the line of the Kansas Pacific railroad, with
party of surveyors, in which four Indians were
killed, several wounded and the rest whipped.
The surveyors had two men wounded.
British Minister Thornton made speech at
the Boston peace jubilee banquet on the 18th in
stant, in which he declared most emphatically
in favor of pesceful and cordial relations between
England and the United States, for the common
good of free government and civilization all over
the world
Napoleon has written a letter to member of
the Corps Legslatif, from which it is inferred
that, while he is willing to make personal sacr-
fees and liberal concessions to the opposition
he will not move in that direction under exter-
nal pressure, " such manifested by the
Montmartre rioters.