The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-20
Domestic Affairs.


% st. Louis was visited by terrific hail-storm
yesterday afternoon.
General DemisOn yesterday took possess
sion of the Baltimore Post Ollice.
-G17200 sterliRg in specie arrived at New
York. Sunday, per the steamer Weser.
Riders machine shop, at South New Market,
N. H., was burned yesterday. Loss, $4,000
Charles A. Dana has declined the New
York Appraisership, in a letter TO Secretary
Boutwell,.
Three thousand dollars worth of iewelry was
stolen from st. Louis store last Sunday morn
ing
Two convicts, while attempting to escape
from prison at Louisville last Saturday, were
shot by the guards.
Joseph Messaer, for numbering his wife, has
been sentenced to be hung at Rochester N Y,
june q, next
Eliza Dearden drowned herself yesterday in
tub of water at Leicester, Mass. while labor
ing under fit of insanity.
David H. White yesterday broke an arm and
received other injuries by jumping from rail
road train at Port Chester, n. Y.
The trial of Josephine Brown for numbering
Angie Stewart, at Canaan, N. Y, in 1867, com
menced at Hudson yesterday.
William s. ThOme, President of the New
York National Fire Insurance Company, died
yesterday morning, in the sXtieth year of his
age.
Rev. John j. Owen, D. D., LID, Vice
President of the College of the City of New
York, died last Sabbath, in the siXty-siXth year
of his age
Hon. Samuel s. Fisher Commissioner of
Patents will leave Cincinnati on Friday next or
the Monday following, to assume his duties ut
Washington.
Thomas Keeran stabbed Richard Laffiin ut
Westboro, Mass, on Sunday, while drinking and
quarrelling, intlicting wound that proved fatal
almost instantly.
William H. Stratford a Canadian has been
arrested ut Buffalo, charged with smuggling
morphine. He is under bail to answer before
the United States Court.
,tt,h bale n,1Nill ion. hATn hnn M
received at the Treasury thus far account OF
the payment of the May and July interest under
Secretary Boutwells late order.
Caleb Cushing, one of General Buffers coun-
sell not being present yesterday. when the Kim
berly-Butler case was called, Chief Justice Chase
postponed it until this morning.
The schooner Ireland, from this port for
Galveston, Texas with an assorted cargo went
ashore, Sunday on Pelican Spit, and is now full
of water. The cargo will prove a total loss to
the consignees.
Senator Chandler, yesterday, in the Senate,
advocated the transfer OF the British North
American Provinces to the United States by
Great Britain, the solution of all controversies
now existing between the two governments
The United States steamer Galena, which
has been fitting out at the Portsmouth Navy
Yard, is reported ready for sea- 1t is probable
that she will leave that place tomorrow for
Hampton Roads where she will receive orders
from the Navy Department The Saratoga, ap-
prentice ship, will soon leave for a cruise in
CuDan waters.
New ORLEANS April 19.-Captain Giles, OF
the schooner Lizzie Major, publishes in this
evenings PicdpuIle an account of the boarding
of his vessel by the Spanish frigate Fernando
Cattolica. He states that the passengers takeI
from his vessel had passports in due form, regu
larly signed by General Dulce, which were re
copnized by the authorities at Caibarien, where
the schooner touched. Captain Giles also pub
fishes extracts from his log, giving an accoun
of the affair, with the protest made to the officer
boarding his vessel, as follows
Being on the high seas out of their Jurlsdlc
ton, protest against the officer, or any OF hi
men touching or removing any passenger ol
cargo from his vessel, and should he insist, thu
act will be reported officially, and the Spanisl
Government be held responsible Tor all damages
that may arise through illegal detention"
The protest, however, was OF no erect. Ht
\ also gives an account of the murder OF the pri
soners by the volunteers at Caibarien.
a A Three affidavits were made against the parties
implicated in the brig G. Colson fraud, but all o
them have absconded. The cargo has been dis
charged by the United States Marshal, and only
two hundred bales Of trashy cotton found to re
present eight hundred and eighty-nine bales, fo
which bills of lading had been signed.
The steamer Nina SHINES, from Bayou Sar;
Cor New Orleans struck snag above Batol
Rouge. on Saturday night, and sunk in ifteei
minntes. All hands were saved. The boat
cargo and books and papers are q total loss
The boat was valued at $4,000, and was insure
for $1,000