Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-11

OuHrtertnhsteTs department., wal
sold on o credit at the end Of the
war, incurred a debt originally oil
S7,59l,408. The interest has In.
creased this amount TO 100000,
about one-half Of which has been
paid ; but some railroads being In
default and showing no disposition
to meet their obligations, suit has
been lately ordered to be brought
against them.
Breckenridge and Sherman had Q
social interview yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Doc. 4.-SeuatoT
Lewis, Of Virginia, visited the
President to-day.
WASHINGTON, dec. f. Revenue
to-day over three quarters Of q
million.
Durant positively declines Cir.
cult JudgesLip.
The contest is now between Frs.
kline, Of Ga, and Wood, Of Ala,
The chances favor Erskine.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Gentlemeu
interested in the full restoration oil
the Southern States report freely
that Congress is quite favorable.
They say that the South need fear
no further prescription by Legisla-
ton.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The fol.
lowing Is fuller accounts of the re-.
cent battle, information brought by
a negro, that the insurgents were
approaching San Jose which was
g%arrisOned by Californian volun.
teers.
A party Of twenty volunteers,
with an officer sent out to recon.
noitrc were cut of and captured.
On the next morning the insur.
gents attacked San Jose and after
fighting an hour raised u white
flag. The garrison responded and
sent out an officer and four men
who approached the rebel lines and
proposed capitulation. The sol.
diers without orders fred q volley
aud killed i've Of the Spaniards.
The fighting was renewed aud the
Cubans fought desperately aud en-
dcavOred to scale the entrench.
mcnts but reinforcements coming
to the garrison they finally with
drew.
Eleven CatalOniams killed in the
affair caused much excitement at
Puerto Principe. The Colonel COM
manding the Catalonians has been
sent to Havana to be tried By a
court martial.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-St. Mat
thew, Episcopal Church, the oldest
in Jersey City, was burned cause,
defective lue.
NEW YORK. Dec. 4.-Thc argu.
mcnt in the Spanish gunboat case
is postponed to Wednesday.
Thurlow Weed has retired from
journalistic and political life.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 4.-Thc bill re.
ducing taxes from four TO two mills
with no exemptions, passed.
The bill removing disrranchise.
mcnts Of the lith Amendment.
passed to a third reading.
MADRID, Dec. A.-The Constitu-
tional guarantees recently suspend.
ed has been restored.
PARIS, Dec. 4.-Guisot has W..
ten a letter TO a member of the
French Corps Legislalif ON tho po-
litical affairs Of France. lie nd.
vises the members to support a
Parliamentary Empire.
PARIS, Dec. 4.-Rochcfort crea-
ted an intense excitement in the
Corps by a demand that the nation
al guard be ordered to guard the
ball for the protection of the dcpu-
ties.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The Lancashire
mills have resumed full time.
HAVANA, Dec. 3.-The Spanish
Bank will issue six millions of cur.
rency as an additional loan 10 the
Government.
Authentic information received
here from Santiago dc Cuba Nov.
23d, reports the landing ofa .fllbus.
tering expedition from the Cuban
privateer Teaser, in Nipc Bay. and
that q great quantity of militia.
reached the interior in safety
on the 10Th ult.
d, The SpaniGrds attacked the insur-
who were intrenched at Ma.
geto. The attack commenced by
Smelling and ended by a bayonet
charge, IN which the Spaniards were
rcpulscd with great loss.
ToTEKA, Dec. A fire DESTROYED
the Record Land Office and Jour.
nails of the House of Representa-
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Loans in.
creased over Sl2,O00,OOO specie in-
creased nearly Sl,000,000; circula.
ton decreased q trife deposits de-
creased nearly $1,000, 600 legal ten
ders decreased over S2,OOOOOO.
money easy at at 6@7c. exceptions
Dc exports Of gold for the wook
S2Sl,Ol to S250,0O0.
The boy who plays child to
Norma In the Rrooklvn Ao.I-