Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-09-27
FROM EUROPE TO-DAY.
TslegrapAsd Ezeissiveiy b The Erentse Star.
Cur Specie Coming Home I'm Larg,

Cur Specie Coming Home I'm LARGE
Amounts.
LONDON, Sept a.-Shipments Of specie upon
an enormous scale continue 30 be made BY every
steamer leaving English ports for the United
States.
warlike Proceedings I'm the Peace
Congress.
LAUSANNE, Sept. H.-The session of the
Peace League Congress was tumnltuoas. MANY
OF the speakers defended the acts OF the Paris
Commune.
Quarantine I'm Spanish Ports.
MADRID. Sept. H.-It is officially announced
that all vessels from infected ports in the north
OF Europe and America, bound @ Malaga and
other ports on the Mediterranean, must perform
quarantine at Vigo, on the Atlantic.
English Notes.
Mean insiHEafion-fORey Tdlae # FsRidR-
The Queen Better.
LONDON, Sept. 2.-The DAILY Necs expresses
the hope that Ashbury's yacht livonia will meet
fair play in american waters and not he iOckeved
out of any triumphs which belong to her.
he relations of the Fenian informer Talbot
who was shot and killed several months ago by
man named Kelly, have preferred q claim of
$500 against the city of Dublin as conpcnSa-
uon Tor his death at the hands of an assassin
The health of Queen Victoria is not improved.
Gladstone Is paying her visit at Balmoral.
A subscription of t1.o00 has been raised in
London for the sufferers by ihe hurricane and
and earthquake in the Island OF Antigua.
ne Princess Of Whales returned to England
to-day fro N the continent.
Bismarck.
BBRL'E, Sept. N:-Prince Bismarck will re-
main at Perrin until the opening OF the German
heichstas on the 18th Of October.
The National Commercial Copxeutsa,
BALTIMORE, Sept 1.-THE N....iasal Com
mercih Convention as enc, III M a,cIocL.
president Bishop in ne hair Pyaver va
o h oy me Kew pr. Leeds, OF the Episcopal
snalon. oose ~ q. Rowland, of Quincy Ills,
Az rra took seat, being the first and
onG .eiesate from that State.
she roll Of the States was called for resolu-
tons, and among those offered WIRE the follow
ing: Relative TO abuses in the internal Reye-
nue. Department by the seizure OF goods by fire.
sponsible agents for alleged violations OF law;
relative to change in the law taxing wlisk by
abolshing all special taxes, and fixing general
tax to be paid at the distillery, and also that
Congress pass an act establishing an export tax
on whisky; to uniform the tax on raw tobacco;
TO State legislation in regard TO insurance COM
panles; recommending the removal Of all dis
ordinations by State laws against companies in
other States; memoralizing Congress to CONSOLE
date the per diem and barrel tax on distilled
whisky; asking an appropriation by Congress
for aid In constructing and repairing levees on
legislation TO provide for the inspection of sta
honery steam boilers on land; relative 10 appro-
priations by Congress for improving Charleston
harbor, the Ohio river, and other waters; re-
commencing all the States to enact a free gene
raj railroad law; relative to the removal of the
duty on Canada white pine lumber, in order TO
CHECK tne RAPID OBSTRUCTION OF our own
pine forests; acknowledging the authority of
Congress over the territory of the United States,
and its right to grant charters for the construc-
lion OF roads through the several States, Offered
oylMr. Rhodes, of OhioD relative to the neces-
$ OF discrimination in Observation-Disclosures
between Eastern steamboats, andocean steamers
carrying passengers and Western steamboats, and
steam tugs carrying freight only; requesting
Congress to compel all ocean steamships to pro-
vide more efficient means TO prevent accident
and loss Of life, and ais 20 compel said steam
ships TO burn lime or other light at the mast
head instead of the oil lamps now in use; all of
which were appropriately referred.