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opened near Tcrsigua to-day. Every
fresh opening decreases the violence of the
eruption. The stream of lava near San
Sebastian is now sixteen feet deep, and the
village still in danger. The King has gone
there to direct measures for the relief of
its inhabitants. The devastation has been
terrible. Thousands of acres of farms and
vineyards were overwhelmed with ashes
and lava, and buried out of sight. The
loss of life must have been great but it is
impossible to ascertain the extent The
view of Vesuvius is now the grandest wit.
messed since in 1851.
April 29.-Evening showers of sand
succeeded this morning's rain of ashes; the
eruption is now accompanied with fearful
electric phenomena-lightning is inccssant
from the summit of the volcano and the
quakiDg Of the mountain is more violent
and frequent. Thunder is continuous. and
burning cndcrs, stones and scoriae are
falling fast and thick.
ST. Louis, April 27-An agent just
from the tcrminous of the Missouri Kan.
sas and Texas Railroad, in the Indian
Territory, says the Railroad Company
moved their depot from Muskogee to OIL
skscholsko on Monday and found the place
in possession of white despcradoes under
the leadership of a man called Tiger Bill,
who refused to leave. General Pope was
tclcgraphed to for assistance and Lieut..
Quimby with fifteen men was ordered from
the front. When the agent left, Quimby
had arrived and notified the outlaws to
leave the Territory or suffer the consc-
quences, but they still refused, and COL
lision between them and the military was
imminent.
OTTAWA. April 27.-In the House of
Commons last night Sir George Carter
introduced a bill providing for the con-
struction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad
according to the terms by which British
Columbia came into the Union. The road
is to be commenced not later than July
1878, aud completed within ten years.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-The Senate
confirmed Elisha p. Ferry as Governor of
Washington Territory.
ST.. LOUIS, April 29.-The region of
terror in Cass county continues; the mob
of murdercrs having full sway and the
civil authorities are powerless. The mob
has murdered II Of the most respectable
citizens of Harrisonvile, including the
bondsmen Of Cline. The Governor has
ordered one company of State militia to
l!arrisonvile, and several St. Louis com.
panies have been ordered to hold them.
selves in readiness to 60 there. Full dc.
tails of the massacre of Stevenson, Cline
and Dubro show it to have been the most
brutal and horrible outrage that ever oc-
CURED in the State. The Governor an.
nounccs his intention to restore order and
bring the murderers to punishment
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Scnators
Trumbull, Fenton and Upton, it is report
ed go to Cincinnati today.
Private dispatches from New Orleans
says Governor Yarmouth with about sixty.
five partsans white and colored have
started for Cincinnati 1t is further stated
that with the exception of Yarmouth Office
helders, the colorcd voters of Louisiana
are for Grant
AUGUSTA, April 7-Nearly the entire
village Of south China was destroyed by
fire last night, only four houses remain
ing.
1t is understood that the Democratic
National Convention will be held at ST.
Louis, on the Fourth of July, although
neither the time nor place arc formally
| fixed.
HOLDEN, No., April PA mob of
sevnty-Gve or one hundred armed men.
some masked, stopped an Eastern hound
train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad, at Gum City, Cass county, this.
evening" aud murdered j. r. Give, J. G.
Stevenson and S. Il. Dutro. Stevenson
was presiding Judge of the County Court
when the recent bond excitement was
raised. Give was an attorney implicated
in the case. Dutro was killed simply be-
cause no was in company with the Others
The mob threatened to kill any who here.
| after identified them in Court or elsewhere
They said they had just commenced their
work of murder.
MCPHERSON, Neb., April 24.-Six In.
dams made raid here this evening and
ran off seven head of horses. Buffalo
Bill, with twenty picked men Of the Third
Cavalry, start on the trail to morrow morn
ing with ten days raticns.
New YORK, April PA French trader
who has just arrived at New Foundland,
says that vessel from Greenland, the St.
Pierre, reported that Capt Hall had ar,
rived in Greenland with the Po,aris. As
the trader understood it, the Polaris was
not homeward bound, but returned through
stress of weather or want of coal or pro-
visions. All we'll.
The chair in which John Adams sat
when he signed the Declaration of Indc-
pendence, will be sent to Cincinnati for
the use Of the presiding officer of the Lib.
eral Convention.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Postal
Appropriation bill, reported by Window
from the Senate Committee on Appro-
priatons, has been before the House for
doubling tho China mail service and sub-