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cd the Ohio and Mississippi Rail

road.
Pesth, May 13.-Louis Kossuth
protests against the concentration
tendencies OF the present admins
tration.
Florence, May 13.-Further and
more serious outbreaks occurred
inCalabria. Troops moving thith-
erward in force. 81
Rome, May 13.-The Pope threat
ems extreme measures against
American Bishops who quit their
posts. e,rg 49,.
sia will forbid apostolic views
from entering Poland.
= Vienna, May 13.-Austria has
resolved to reset the proclamation
on infallibility by re-enacting the
pIacentium regiMm, which was
abolished In 1855.
London, May 13.-The House of
Commons postponded female sui,
frage by 126 majority, which is a
virtual defeat. The vote was
greeted with loud cheers.
Paris, May 13.-All the repre-
sentatives of foreign powers con
graduated the Emperor On plebisc-
itum.
Many arrests yesterday. Total
arrests 500. Fifty-seven tribunals
commenced trials. The sentences
are from two to three months.
The Marseilaise newspaper has
been again seized.
Washington, May 14.-It is
stated that the Senate Pacific
Railroad Committee had a prolong-
ged session last night and have
completed the bill known as KEEL
logg's, with some amendments,
which now reads; shall be built of
American iron; eastern initial
point to be at Marshall, Texas,
with branches to New Orleans,
Vicksburg and Little Rock, and
from some point west in Caiifor-
mia to San Francisco. e.
Columbia, May 14.-At a meet
ing of the iron masters, held here
yesterday, the unanimous feeling
was to stop the production of pig
iron, which cannot be made at
current rates without loss. The
probability is that within the next
sixty days nearly, ifnot at all, the
furnaces in this vicinity will be
idle.
Washington, May 15.-Quarter-
master General Meigs has issued
an order to officers in charge of
tho National Cemeteries instruct
ing them TO make all necessary
arrangements, and afford the
proper facilities, for the decoration
of the Union soldiers graves on
the 30th of May. He furnished a
copy of this order to the Grand
Army of the Republic, thus off
cially recognizing for the first
time, the existence of that organi.
-zation.
Washington, May16.-Congress-
men Pierce, from the Fifth Mis-
sissippi District, nominated a ne
gro to West Point.
New Orleans, May 16.-An un.
successful attempt was made this
morning to introduce negro chill
'dren in two of the public schools.
"A committee of eight, with three
colored boys, made the demand,
which was refused upon the ground
that instructions for the admission
of col0red children had not been
given by the Superintendent. Con
siderable excitementprevailed and
the police were called to dispense
the crowd. Trouble is anticipat-
ed.
A. r. Newton shot Pat Brady,
who will probably die.
Washington, May 17.--Hoase-
The house is considering the de-
cline Of American Commerce.
The Reconstruction Committee
have agreed to report bill read
mitting Georgia on the same terms
assigned to Louisiana, Mississippi
and Texas, with a clause authOri-
zing the The States named to organize
arm and call into service their re.
spective militia forces.
Saskatchewan, from the Com
mittee on Pacific Railroads, re-
ported substitute for the Mar
shall and San Diego Railroad
bill which explained to authorize
a railroad from Marshall, Texas,
to the Trinity river, thence to Ell
Paso, on the Rio Grande, and
thence through the territories
across the Colorado river to San
Diego, on the Pacific. In terrific
ries the bill granted twenty alter