The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-05-22
FOREIGN .LNTELLIGE,NCE.

-London.-A Vienna correspondent Of the
Daily Nc,os in q letter to that journal ridicules
the American department of tho exhibition,
and gives the following as u correct list Of the
articles to be seen in the section assigned to
the United States: Two cases of Colts fire.
arms, three binnacles, one staiTed eagle, two
salt cellars dentists chair, and six bottles
of water taken from the Mississippi river.
Tho explanation of the meagro display is
found in the former mismanagemcnt Of tho
American section, and it is confidently hoped,
now that the commissioners and exhibitors
have gone actively to work to repair the evil
effects that tho goods from America will be
speedily unpackod and exhibitions from that
country come up to the standard expected.
Mrs. Bourann Peter, from Russia has
gone to Southern Kansas and Texas, to select
locations for q colony of 10000 Menonities,
now in Russia, which country they desire to
leave in consequence of an edict of the Gov
ernment that they must pay tribute to the
Greek Church, and bear arms as other citizens
or leave the country.
lists in the North, Gen. Nouyilas will accept
the Ministry of War and remain in Madrid
Tho inhabitants of Canary Island have sent
an address to the Government renewing their
assurances of loyalty ann denying the exist
ence of feeling in favor of separation.
"A bitter war, increasing in violence, is be-
ing waged between the Liberal Catholics and
tho Ultramontanes Of Canada. The former
are under the lead of the Archbishop of Que
bee, and the latter Of the Jesuits and the
Bishop of Montreal.
Bismarck has consumated his movement
against the Roman Catholic clergy of Prussia,
the Upper House of the Diet having passed
the bill for the regulation and control of the
clergy by large majority.
There has been ministerial crisis at
Rome, the Chamber of Deputies having,
against the remOnstrance of the Minister of
Finance, voted $50, 900 livres for the establish
ment of an arsenal at Tarento. Tho King
thereupon consulted Ricasoli and Minghetti,
who both advised the return of the Ministers
to office, and their designations were not ac-
copied.
Tho Carlists in Spain continue to burn rail
way stations, tear up track, and destroy tele-
graph wires. Their military operations are
much restricted by tho activity of the troops,
and the Government is sanguine. There have
been some changes in the cabinet at Madrid.
Gen Sickles, on the 3d. presented the con-
gratulatory resolutions Of the American Con-
gress on the abolition of slavery in the Span
ish colonies.
The Postmaster-G General of New South
Wales has been authorized to proceed to
Washington and make arrangements for a
permanent mail service between California
and Australia .-
The greatest strike ever known has re-
contly terminated in South Wales. Sixty thou
sand men, women, boys and girls were en-
gagged in it, and AZ it lasted eleven weeks il is
estimated that tho WORKING people lost S4,-
100000 in wages, while the employers lost,
by the suspension Of their works, 10O0O,-
600.
The wreck of the Atlantic, on the Nova
Scotian coast, has been almost blown to pieces
with gmpowder. The talpumber of bodies
recovered il 3j9.