The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-05-29

| sab asylum upon the petition Of he
SO Robert. She is incapable ofman
al hK her property, which is wortl
o z5, 600. After being adjudge.
in ane, Mrs. Lincoln attempted sui
(e schooner Mary Eliza, from
81 nnah to Damariscotta, capsized
al "a. All on board excepting tn.
cd sin and one seaman were lost
Tase two remained on the floating
css4 in Of the vessel ninety-one hourl
" hout food OF water, and were res
Cd by the schooner Agnes j. Grace
r. Bristow, Secretary of the Treas.
nj Mr.. Jewell, Postmaster General
a, Mr.. Potter, Supervising Archi-
tel were in Baltimore last week
mi ling inquiry and examination al
to| the necessity and propriety Of
err ting a new post Office building.
~ will report to the next Congress.
special train on the Piedmont
Al. Line, returning from the Neck
le11urg centennial with the Richmond
miIkary, was thrown from the track
nca South Boston, Virginia. Two
flats carrying the gun of the Rich
mond Howitzers and baggage car
were smashed, and five soldiers in
jured-none seriously.
A letter received from the light
house at Keyport, on the southwest
part of Anticosti island, says, that
on the 22nd November last the brig
atine Orient ran ashore seven miles
from that island. The captain and
seven men were frozen to death in
the rigging and six perished in at
tempting to reach the shore.
The relations between Mexico and
Guatemala are becoming delicate on
the question of the boundary line be-
tween the two countries. A rumor is
in circulation that General Uruga has
been appointed to the command of
the Guatamalian forces, and is en-,
gagged in organizing a corps of ten
men, intended to operate
against Mexico.
, The funeral of Jno. c. Breckenridge,
which took place at Lexington, KY,
May Goth, was attended by an i'm.
mense throng of people. AL the
State officers, Senators Stevenson and
Nc cCreerv, and a number Of other dis
men. were present. The
funeral was conducted by the Knights
Templar, Of which order Gen. Breck-
was member.
Indians have joined the Mexican
in depredations on the Texas
border. Several men and one woman
were killed by the outlaws last week.
A band Of rangers encountered and
whipped gang Of the scoundrels and
brought into Jacksboro the heads of
FIVE Indians and one white man. Mex
lean cavalry has been stationed at
various points between Camargo and
On Monday of last week w. D. AL
Bxander, a planter, residing near Ful-
ton, Tennessee, sixty miles above
Memphis, on the river, was shot and
killed by tenant named j. NJ.
Thompson. On the same day A. Lea,
l popular merchant OF Fulton, was
shot and fatally wounded by n. C.
Mems, whom Lea had had arrested
,n a charge Of horse stealing. Mems
made his escape.
The Mexican revolutionists in the
State of Michoacan have been de-
eated. At San Luis Potosi the in
repulsed the government
,roops. Gen. Escobedo will assume
Of the expeditionary corps
md institute vigorous campaign
lgainst the rebels. The Indians on
lie Northern frontier are making de-
incursions, and the country
8 generally unsettled.
A decree has been promulgated in
'pain declaring the electoral period
'pened. During the time prescribed
he press is free to discuss al consti-
questions except that of mon
,rchy, and public meetings of a po-
itical character may be held. The |
[ecree concludes by expressing the
lopes of the government for the re-
establishment of representative
egime, without which there can be
othing but anarchy.
A special dispatch to the London
Tines, from Vienna, says dreadful
ccident occurred on the river Muir,
t the town Of Idenburg, province of
'yrol. A ferryboat having on board
number Of Catholic pilgrims en-
QUITE to visit the slirines on the other
ide of the Muir from Idenburg, sunk
] the middle of the stream. Fifty
iHe pilgrims are known to have been
sved, but seventy-six are missing,
Il Of whom are supposed to be
rowned.
The Mexican Congress has appro-
rated a concession for the building
f a railroad from Gnaymas to Ari-
nna, and passed a law defining the
overs Of the Supreme Court in mat
srs relating to elections, and deprIv-
~ it Of the power to declare incligi-
le functionaries who had been pub-
ely elected. 1t il feared that the
assage of this latter act will intro
uce a serious element Of disorder in