, 1875-06-19
LATEST NEWS
BY Telegraph and Mail

. '4 n A'l Hbll4t llIt. was. w lllc
18th. decided in Tweeds favor.
The decision was that the Court
below had only authority to inflict
one sentence, as one wear was the
extreme penalty for the offence.
/ The sentence Of twelve years was
illegal. ~
! A New York telegram Of the
18th gives a rumor that the Van
derbilt Railroad companies and
the Chicago and Northwestern,
lbeing dissatisfied with jay Gould's 5
course in the Union Pacific, are
proposing to take up and complete
the Northern Pacific Railroad.
! McGeehan, the notorious des-
lperadO, made more famous by the
tragic end of his counsel, Hon. c.
L. Nallandigham, who lost his life
in explaining some points in the
trial Of McGeehan for the murder
of a man named Myers, was assas-
siuated in his saloon at Hamilton,
Ohio, last Saturday night
The President has addressed
letter to the Gar of Russia, con-
graduating him on the birth Of a
| grand daughter. 1t is in reply to
one from the Gar informing the
President of the event. -
A quarantine of ten days has
been proclaimed at New Orleans
against the ports Of Havana and
Vera Cruz.
The sale of Daniel webster's
library began in Boston on the
l11th. The competition was not
brisk, but the books fetched fair
prees- ~ sie3ua5 5ff ms-l 4-
A telegram from New York Of
THE 18th says: The steamship
State of Germany, which ARRIVED
this forenoon, brought fiVA sea
men of the Dominion i 1he steam
shp aYieksbqrg, from Montreal
for Liverpool, which was sunk by
ice on Thursday, June 1st. The
men were up to June 18th nearly
dead from exposure. They tell a
fearful tale.fa Her boats we're
Launched with large number Of
persons, but the. greater number
we're seen to perish without get
ting into the boats. The Vicks-
lburgwent down In the midst of
the ice, and her bows were sur
irounded by ice, The rescued
were on field ice when picked up.
The other boats have not yet been
heard from. The Eve men res
cued had their feet and legs fro
zen so much that their boots had
to be cut from their feet. 1t is be-
ieved that forty people with the
captain went down with the Vicks-
burg. The steamer was IL miles
north of St. Johns when she sank.
A telegram from Montreal Of
the 14th states that nine Of the
crew and three passengers of the
Vicksburg were brought to st.
Johns by an American fisherman.
The Government has sent out a
steamer to look for the missing
boat. The steamship Quebec
spoke the Yieksburg Just as the
latter was about entering the ice,
land the captain of the Quebec
warned the captain of the iH-fated
vessel not TO risk the passage as it
WAS only with difficulty that the
tQpebec was enabled to get through
/ Ex-Mayor Selby, of San Fran
cisco, died in that city on the 9th,
lof pneumonia, aged 60.
A Panama dispatch says: At
tention is called IN the South Pa
cifc Times to the fact that the
American schooner Fanny Hare,
fof San Francisco, having drifted
and being obliged to come to an
chor at Mexillores, was fined IS, 900
by the authorities, that not being
Ia port Of entry. % .1sbfsI
| A dispatch from Prof Jenny,
efthe Black Hills expedition, says
the greater area of the Black Hills
lis in Dakota. The formation in
the vicinity Of the rcent geologi-
cal survey is not aariferous, and
he willrross through the Hills and
ilexamine the gold fields reported d
to exist near Harney's Peak.
The grand jury of New York
EAre still investigating the silk
Smuggling frauds, and it is proba-
Bile that BY the first of next week,
several more prominent merchants
and three or four custom house
ofhcers will be indicted. 70 e. s,.
I Capt. Brown arrived at Norfolk,
Va, on the 18th in charge of the
iron safe Of the U. S. man-of-war
Cumberland, which was run into
land sunk in Hampton Roads by
the Confederate ram Virginia in
1882. Divers had been at work
on the wreck ten years, having in
view the recovery Of the safe. The
lucky man had only been at the
wreck 4S hours, when he found
the safe. The water at that place
is IS feet deep -a.1',st ol .
] The Times Washington cores
lpondent says there is now a plan
for narrowing down the hunt for
the package stolen from the treas
Jury, 1t is proposed to call in the
entireissue Of $500 treasury notes.
/ This would not lead to the inevit-