The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-10-28

Two government defsu ters have been sent
enced at Baltimore. Ex-Deputy Collector
Bowerman is 10 imprisoned 'our years and
pay fine OF g. 40 and costs, and ex Deputy
Collector wilson gets three years -imrrison
mel aud pays q fire OF 81, ls) and costs.
Embt zz'tment was the oisnse in both cases.
-SsId storms from the Colorado and Mojave
deserts are prevailing in LIS Angeles and San
Bernard counties, Czl. Fifty thousand sheep
were scattered and lost in the mountains by
these storms.-Rev. Cbarlts J. Hinsdale, for
p years pastor OF the Blsr o-d, Mass, Con-
gregational church, was thrown from a csr-
rage in that town, on TUESDAY, and in family
killed.-George Bolts wss tired snd con-
victed last week at Newark. n. j., for the
murder OF "Pe;" Halstead. A mail carriers
party was STACKED between Tu,csrora and
Camp Crittenden, Ar IONA, on the 9 inst,
by the Apaches.-Prtvate sdvices have been
received from Capt. Hall which report him
under date OF Sept. 5th, sailing northward
ffsm Upernovick. All we're welI.-An exten-
siye robbery was committed in the town OF
Woodbury., Conn, Thursday night. A safe
was opened which contained SIT 600 belong
ing TO the town. which was taken. Other
stores were robbed. The thieves secured in
all about 81, O00.-The Ludlow street jail in
NeE York has been for some time past IN a
horrible condition, aud Sheriff Brennan's at
tention has been directed to 1t. He found there
prisoner who had been laid up IL days with
a parslytic stroke and had been unattended.
The number Of revenue offices in the
country has been reduced since December,
1855. from 5, $50 to 26O-The effect of the
Presidents proclamation relative 10 the Ku
klux Of south Carolina las been to cause
number OF prominent rebels Of the section
Affected 70 leave the couutry.-F. Z. Liter
wss appointed Postmaster of Charlotte,
Mich, on Monday lsst.-The civil service
commission mas been engaged in considering
! special cases OF exemption from the proposed
system Of examination patent OF John
P. Nanny, OF Rockford, ILL.,, for a moving
machine has been extended for five years
The applics ton OF Nicholas Whitehall, Of
Ohio, for the extension Of his patent for q
cultivator has been refused.-The Postofice
Department is in receipt OF information
that the government OF Ecuador has
signed postal convention for an inteIna-
tional mail across the Isthpus OF Darien.
Ths new Franco-G German treaty providos
that the six departments to be evacuated by
the Germans shall be neutral territory in a
military point Of view. They are to be occu-
pied Oy neither French Bor German troops
until the indemnity Is paic, but in the event
OF faiIurein the ful6lment OF the terms OF the
treaty thay may be reoceupled BY the Ger
mans. The departments will not be com
PietelJ evacuated by the Germans until the
9th December.-The French government is
taking fresh precautions against Bonspartist
agitation. Il is feared that a Bonspartist
descent may be undertaken.-Ths Persians
are still suffering from famine and pestilence,
internal disturbances, and the incursions of
Wariike troopS.-A Gsrman expedition which
has just returned from the extreme North,
reports having discovered an open polar sea
sWarming with Whales.-A letter from Egypt