Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-08
Miscellaneous Dispatches.
Domestic Notes.
ITEMS FROM NEW YORK


NEW YORK, May 6.-Solicitor Banfield of the
treasury, and Col. Whitley of the secret service
department, leave this city tomorrow for Cali
fornia on important public business.
A gallery in Sing Sing prison, across which
the men were marching to dinner Yesterday.
gave way, preeipitating over eighty cOnvictS,
some to the next gallery below, and others to
the stone pavement, FORTY feet beneath. 1t is
feared that two of the prisoners are fatally in
jured.
A dispatch from the great break in the Erie
canal says that navigation will be resumed
within ten days, should the weather favor, and
no further trouble with the laborers occur.
The New York yacht club last night unani-
mously resolved to adhere to the previously ac-
cepted Interpretation of the leIters of trust by
which it holds the queens cup, and TO sail one
or more represent ative vessels against the same
number of foreign vessels instead of a single
vessel from each country, as Mr.. Ashbury in his
recent speech declared that it must be done in
future races. The club also appointed a COM
mittee to open negotiations to secure fair and
impartial measurement of all yachts in interna-
tiOnal races.
Letters to United States Senator Osborne.
now in Brooklyn, state that Mr.. Mahony, re-
publican member of the Florida legislature
was murdered at Lake City, April Goth.
The ship William S. Storer arrived from Liv-
erpOol few days ago with sickness on board,
and now lies off quarantine. Last night the
Il
from the William +. Storer, to the effect that
the crew were in mutiny. Sergeant O'Brien
was at once sent on board the vessel with a
squad of men. He arrested VIM. Ryan, Barney
ODonahue and James Doyle seamen, whom he
found armed and in possession O! the ship,
These men had attacked Capt. Bryant in his
cabin, and attempted to murder him, but he for
tunately escaped. The cook, VIM. Poole, was
also attacked, but succeeded in locking himself
up in the galley and holding his ground until
the police rescued him. The prisoners were
taken before United States commissioner.
OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBoRs.
f OTTAWA, May 6.-rbe parliament has been
busy till ten O'Clock every night. A bill regu-
lating the police force and making many
changes for the better will be introduced. Next
week the government will bring down their
homestead bill. 1t will be one of the most lib.
eral measures on the continent; land houses,
cattle, will be protected from creditors.
Adyices from Winnipeg to the 18th ult. state
that the lieutenant governor is about sending
twenty persons around the boundaries of the
province to parley with the Indians and assure
them that treaty will be made with them for
their lands as soon as their lands are needed.
and urge them not to come in the spring ex-
pecting treaty. Some difficulty will be expert.
enced in freighting to and from Manitoba, owing
to the prevailing cattle disease, which attacks
mouth and feet. Neither horses nor cattle are
allowed 10 pass through the states from Ontario
to Winnipeg, and all freighting is done by Min
nesota lines. Representations have been made
to the authorities which may result in the ex-
emption of the horses and cattle from this regu.
lation.