The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-21
DOInPHIic AnnirA.


An earthquake shock was telt at Memphis
yesterday.
The Internal Revenue receipts yesterday
amounted to S643, 46l.
Everything is quiet in Alaska All the Alas
kans want is civil government.
One per cent. on the coupon and registered
bonds of Virginia is to be paid on January 1.
An attempt to indict some lynchers in Por-
tage City, Wisconsin, has proved complete
failure.
--latest returns from Texas give Davis ma.
jority of 620 with only seven counties to hear
from.
The Constitutional Convention is carried in
Tennessee, and will meet in January. No in
terest was manifested in the election.
1t is expected that the holiday recess OF the
House will really commence tomorrow, q
quorum of members not being looked for on
that day.
The bodies of four of the victims of the
Stockton catastrophe had been recovered up to
last evening". They were horribly crushed. The
search is being continued.
While laboring under fit of insanity, q
man in Henderson county, Tennessee, threw
two of his children into a well, and jumped in
after them. They were drowned, and he is so
injured that it is not probable he will survive.
"A number of the officers and crew of the ill
fated Cuban privateer Lillian arrived at Savan-
nah in the United States war steamer Severn,
yesterday. The City Councils made an appro-
priation for the purpose OF sending them to their
homes. '-t '- %.
General Hancock has been asked to send
United States troops to Pembina to quiet the
frontier settlements should the Red river diff
culties lead to an Indian outbreak. None will
be sent unless an actual collision occurs or is
more imminent than at present.
The following were the proceedings of Con-
gress yesterday after the close of our report
In the Senate Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judi
ciary Committee, reported joint resolution de-
claring Virginia entitled to representation in
Congress. On motion of Mr. Sumner, the Pre-.
sident was requested to communicate copies of
correspondence between the United States and
Great Britain concerning pending questions
since the rejection of the Alabama claims treaty,
After an executive session the Senate ad-
journed.
In the House the Georgia bill, as passed by
the Senate, was taken up and discussed, the de-
bate being continued at night session, until
1870 P. NJ, when the House adjourned
Foreign Affairs.
"A plan for checking the growth of inf
deity is to be drafted by committee OF bishops
of the Hcumenical Council.
France is said to be again urging general
disarmament upon the great European powers,
and to express willingness to set the example.
Six hundred Frenchmen waited yesterday
on the Pope, who delivered a short address
and bestowed upon them his solemn benediction.
General Banks had an interview with Napo-
leon yesterday, in which the Emperor expressed
his regret that a satisfactory under landing with
this country in postal matters had not been
arrived at.
-Dmpress Eugene is credited by some with
causing the PRONUNCIATION of the order to Spanish
refugees to quit France. Others assert that their
tamperng with the Teyolutionists in France led
to their expulsion. The case of one of them was
taken up in the Corps Legislatif by Rochefort