Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-11

Secretary Boutwell, is expected at Washing
ton tomorrow. To-day he is expected at Long
Branch, TO have conference with the preSi-
dent in relation TO the differences between him
self and Commissioner Pleasanton.
The orders received at the u. s. internal reyc-
nue. department for lager beer STAMPS are now
averaging forty thousand per day-uearly four
times as great as that number ordered during
the corresponding period last year.
The New York communists held another gath
ering ON Sunday, and the speeches were OF
very blasphemous character. Greeley was Sc
yerely denounced for going back on the woman
suffragists, and other liberals.
The Virginia state treasurer has decided to
permit foreign bondholders to fund Fractional
parts of their bonds, in order TO facilitate eX-
change, The amount OF the state debt funded
to date Il nearly one million dollars.
Gen. Belknap, secretary of war, Is at his home
in Keoluk. After a few weeks recreation he
will make tour of inspection of government
forts and arsenals from St. Louis along the
frontier as far as Sioux City.
II is stated at the white house that the presi-
dent has determined to postpone his visit to
Washington for ten days or two weeks, if there
is nothing OF Importance there requiring his at
tentOn and but one member of the cabinet is in
town.
The New York Herald whose owner and man
aging editor are Catholics, calls on Mayor Hall
10 issue proclamation warming the Catholics,
and to afford every protection TO the 0rangemen
in exercising their Just and proper rights.
President Theirs has written Il letter TO the
pope. inviting him to take up his residence in
France. n. Theirs makes anIhumble apology to
the holy father fof the inability of France to in
teriere in behalf of the temporal power in the
Roman states, but declares it TO be his earnest
conviction that Italian unity is impossible.
Tie additional article i'll the postal convention
between the United States and New Zealand has
gone into effect, by wliish registered packages
and letters will be transported between the coun-
tries at a charge OF ten cents per ounce from the
United States to New Zealand, and twelve cents
from New Zealand to the United States.
The Orange society ignores politics. 1t has
lodges in New York averaging about one hun
dred members each. There are also, beside a
lodge in Newburg and one in Potsdam, N. T.,
four in Pennsylvania, five in New Jersey, three
in Massachusetts, and one in Illinois.
An uuauthefticated report prevails that
Richard II. Dana will be, ii he has not already
been, tedered the office of United States arb-
traitor to meet with the other arbitrators at
Geneva, under the treaty of Washington. 1t is
certain that his name has been iayorably men
toned in that connection, and that the presi-
dent will soon formally make q selection.
Preparations are being made for grand pub
lie dinner at the Guild hall, London, to be tend
cred to the emperor of Brazil and the crown
prince of Prussia. The members of the minis
try, the diplomatic corps and many other digui-
taries, will probably participate.
The health of Admiral Porter is now cOnsid-
cred IN precarious condition, and it is proba-
| bic that he may grow worse during this hot
weather. He has been suffering for a number
of years from an affection of the stomach,
which has lately developed into dangerous
| symptoms; and now bis trip to Narragansett is
being delayed by his condition.
AdviceS from Llguayra TO the 23d of June, re-
present that the revolutionists, in large force,
advanced and captured Barcelona, Campano
and Cumana. The government garrisons were
small, but the fighting was desperate. Guz-
mans fleet was still cruising on the coast;
Guzman was making prepare lions on large
scale for operations against the revolutionists
and it is believed he will succeed
The steamer from Australia brings accounts
of recent scare, caused there by the report
that piratical expedition was fitting out in
San Francisco to make decent on the island
| The colonists expended some millions of dol
lars, called out the volunteers, cree ted earth
works, and improvised fleet to repel the fill
busters, before they discovered that the story
was canard, originating in two joking boys.