The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-04-24
NEWS on TIE WEEK.

bers s.0oo poets, ana nsmbefshir exceed
ing 100000.
THz New York Senate ratified The Eff
teenth Constitutional Amendment BY vote
Of IL to Is.
EDwAaD CUSARD. he manager OF the Gu
nard line Of steamers, died on Monday at
New York.
90 to Cuba rs Dalce's successor, acaoI J.
danied By large reinforcements 70 suppress
the instruction.
THE Hudson Bay Company has agreed TO
10 cede its rights 10 British North America
to the British Government.
tbs annual budget submitted 70 the Bri-
tish Permanent estimates the reduction in
expeU sat some e., 100000.
A TELEGRAM from New York announces
that the Imperiaiist, q journal recently
started in that city, advocating q monarch
for this country, is about to collapse. Yer
dict, served it right.
LATEST adyices from Paraguay state that
the allies are about to send an army Of L.
600 men into the interior OF the country, to
discover the whereabouts Of Lopez.
THR public debt statementfor April shows
decrease Of about $2,5J0,000. The debt
less cash in the treasury is s.. 525. 1915, 46l.
DURING March l42 vessels carving &C.
600 passengers, arrived at New York. A
large proportion Of those arriving were i'm
migrants, and most of them came to the
Western States.
The population Of Great Britain in 1868
was 0,369 S4S, distribured az follows
England, p 500, 900; Scotland, 1928 900 !;
Ireland, 5,500,0O0.
SHARPsBURG, suburb Of Pittsburg, was
visited with a terrible Ere Wednesday !;
1880 barrels refined, 1900 barrels distilled
aud 10000 barrels crude petroleum we're
burned, inficting loss Of about $4,000
The Mormons are turning their attention
to the manufacture Of porcelain, and have
already produced some specimens which
rival those Of France or Prussia.
LATER news from Japan state that the
civil var is again furiously raging. The in
surgents have feet commanded by the for.
mer Admiral Of the Tycoon. EARTHQUAKES
had taken plsce, but no lives we're lost.
PRESIDENT Grant on WEDNESDAY nomina-
ted to the Senate three colored men for
foreign appointments, namely: s. A. Hut
son, OF Iowa, Minister to Guatemala J. j.
CLAW, Of Louisiana, for Minister to Lip-ra.
and f. d. Bassett, Of Pa, Minister to Haytl.
1T Is rumored that n late Prussian mail
from Bremen to New YMk has been robbed
Of over 81 600 600. The Postoffice d tee
tive Department, however. profess to have
no knowledge thereof.
The trtnhlaS hDtuaAu fha r~o
of the Pacific Railroad-the UaIon ami tn.
Central-are said TO have been settled by an
agreement to consolidate the two lines. The
Junction between them is to BE- at Promon.
cory Point
EvPREsIDKNT johnson is still ia Nash
vile, and is about to leave for Memphis.
liz has abandoned his trip TO Europe, pre-
ierrng, be says, TO devote his Ii ne and en-
ergies 40 behalf OF the disfranchised Of the
South. He will speak In all the Southern
States.
Tbs town Of Hancock, Lake Superior, was
on Sunday morning tue scene Of terrible
conhagration, BY which the greater part Of
the place was reduc d TO a pile OF shoulder
ing ashes. One hundred and ten stores and
dwellings we're burned, rendering two hum
dred families homeless, and destroying prop
erty to the value Of half million, On which
the Insurance was about 500 900.
IHE Odd Fellows Of S.. LoGis are making
e extensive preparations for the semi cent 90
NAL anniversary Of the order, and reu 1ion
On the 70 b ot April. EfJrts will De malo
70 make the celebration there second ia
point o. numbers 70 that at Philadeiphia
which city has been eelectei be the Grand
Lodge tor tue major celebration. Reduced
fare on several railroads has been secured,
and thousands Of persons are expected there
liza CANADIAN authorities are going to g.
tablish a Territorial Government Tor the
country, with toe capital at
Red River. Il will have representation ia
the Dominion House Of Commons Il II
expected that 800, 600 will 1e voted u cJrn
picEe The road from Fort Williams TO Red
River. IL is asserted, 10 well informed cir
c es, that Canadian a0tablcs will be elegar-
90 70 the peerage, The tide 60 become ex-
tinct at the decease Of its wearers.
ATELEGRAs from Havana says dissensions
nave arisen IN the Insurgent ranks. Yapo-
.eOn Arraogi and others are heading a party
against Qaesada, who, however, mas the
most adherents. cousin OF Cespedes was
allied near Manzili0. Inc volunteers are
erganlzing IN The interior. A skrmsh &C.
CURED on the road between Havana and
Santa Cruz, II which the insurgents were
q defeated. skIrmish took place on the
9Th en- the Isabel estate. severe ight
took place Gear SAgua With heavy loss 90
both sides-nO particulars Some thirty
prominent citizens at trinidad had been
All ested.
lbs telegraph announces two more steam
boat horrors. Tue steru- wheeler, q. A.
thompson, IRON CIucInnau for Fort S,nitu,
vas ouraId On Saturday mOrnIng uear PIne
Bud, anu seventeen lives we're lost. Tue
steamer QuIekstep collIded with the Ollie
SULLIVAN On Saturday night, az Diauonu
Island, cutting ner down. Oue woman ana
Two children were drowned.
"A BRUSSELS letter announces that an In
.ernatioGais Universal ExnibltIon will be
leid 10 that city 1870. Ine site select
a IS the plsin Of Maueuurvs. about mile
'oOVe The Leopold quarter, Tue ground beng
'ven more sxseasIve than the Champ dc
Mars, OF Paris.
1aE United States Supreme Court, on
" sdnesday, among other decisions, render
d Que III ihe lOng- delayed McArdle case. Ii
VA be REMEMBERED tuat McAIdis was a
icAsourg editor, arrested and Imprisonel
" Gen. OrJ, for alleged obstruction 70 the
,rconsuuctlon law. fne case comes no sr
'Grte on habeas corpus, and tue Courl
vOlds a decision on the consutuuonaltLy Oh
Le reconstruction laws, by awaiting ilseil Of
he province OF the rece-t Legislation by
congress, which deprives tie court cf ju-
IsdictIon in this aud similar cases. TINS
hds the first snd only attempt to test
he constitp.lonality of reconstruction IN
he South.
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