Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-23
Abbreviated Di.patcbcs.

Vice President Colfax continues to recover
rapidly, and will soon be as well as ever
subscriptions for the new French loan will be
opened on Monday next.
Some fifteen or twenty democratic papers in
Ohio take strong ground against the new de-
parture.
The flood in the Columbia river is at a stand
still, and the Cascade railroad is entirely sub
merged.
1t is supposed that two mails from Tuscon,
Arizona, Tor Fort Yuma, has been captured by
the Apache Indians.
The statement that several bishops had re-
monstrated with Bishop Whitehouse in favor of
Rev. Mr.. Cheney is denied by authority.
The president and Mrs. Grantreturned to Long
Branch from Elizabeth yesterday, witnessing the
return OF the New York yachts, as they came
down the harbor.
The barque Rass, from Newport, England,
bound to New York, has been abandoned at sea.
The crew were saved, and have been brought to
Liverpool.
The London Morning Post says there is an
understanding between the governments of
Germany, Austria and Russia, for the preserva-
ton OF the peace of Europe
Count de Paris will leave England to-day for
Paris, and with Duke dAumale and Prince de
Joinville pay visit to Count de Chambord.
A mineralogist in San Francisco claims the
discovery of a process for combining iron and
copper, which produces acompound harder than
iron, and company is forming to test the pro-
cess.
Senator Stewart Of Nevada, now at Salt Lake
as counsel in several lawsuits, recommends the
appointment of new judges for Utah, but the
Gentle lawyers and federal officials are opposed
to any change.
The New York World publishes long apollo
getcal letter from a confederate officer, endeav-
oring to account for jeff Davis's recent speeches
on the ground that he is out of health, splenetic
and peevish.
At Richfeld Springs, N. Y, Gen. VIM. P.
Robinson, for twenty years proprietor of the
American hotel in that place, died on Wednes-
day night.
Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania yesterday signed
the bill, requiring every vessel of over seventy
five tons, entering Philadelphia, to register at the
warden's office and pay fee of $50.
The steamship Nevada, from San Francisco,
reached Auckland, New Zealand, May 14th, four
hours ahead of the schedule time. Two thou
sand persons welcomed her at the wharf. Ban
quets were given at Auckland and Dundenin to
her officers.
New Zealand mining news is favorable. Vol
unteering is active throughout the colonies.
The merchants exchange will send to the San
Francisco mechanics fair pyramid made from
the gold of various mines.
The Maryland republican state central COM
mlttee met at Baltimore, on Wednesday, and
opened the campaign in that state by adopting
a series of resolutions foreshadowing its plat
form and the principles 10 be enunciated when
the state convention assemblies on the 18th of
next September.
Later dispatches from Bombay state that it is
the nutmeg and mace crops OF the Banda ISL
ands, in the Malay archipelago, which had been
destroyed by hurricane, instead of the cotton
crop of the district of Banda, in India. The
loss is estimated at 95O0,000, and the planters
will not recover from the blow for years.
Ulenware, the Jersey man condemned to death
for killing his father, was told, on Wednesday,
that a writ of error had been obtained for him.
He laughed heartily at the joke on the under
taker, who had prepared very elaborate fune-
raj for him, and at his comrades, who had rugged
themselves out in Sunday clothes to attend his
obsequies.
Late advices from San Domingo state that
both President Baez and Cabral are making
great military preparations, aud that Baez has
received an invoice Of Enfield rifles. General
Caceres of Baez's party has marched with 500
men to reinforce the army operating against Ca
bral, The country is much agitated. Two