, 1876-03-17

managers of the Consolidated Nlr-
ginia and California mines to take
the product of these mines for the
year and apply it to the resumption
of specie payment.
A large crevase is reported in the
levee on Delta Island, in the Sacra-
mento River. tits feared that the
whole Island, 10000 acres in extent,
will be inundated. Thousands Of
acres of grain will be destroyed.
A wind storm struck the village of
Hazelgreen, Wis, on the 10th inst,
leveling to the ground 25 bulldogs
and killing s people outright, be-
sides seriously injuring II others.
The carnage is reported as terrible.
Hazlegreen has a population of 1000.
Sixteen hearses were driven on
the morning of the 8th to the Home
for the INDECENT of the Little Sisters
of the Poor in Brooklyn, N Y,
where the terrible calamity by fire
took place on the day before, and
into these were placed coffins con-
tanning IS bodies gathered from the
ruins. The scene was a sad and
sickening one.
j. NJ. Bent, a retired lawyer of
Mt. Sterling, KY, and a gentleman
well-known for his reliability, ar
rived in Louisville on the 10th with
specimens Of the flesh, resembling
mutton, which fell in a shower in
Bath County. The flesh covered
two acres of ground, and left traces
of blood on the trees and fences
which were touched by the falling
fakes. Chickens and hogs devoured
it with a relish. The heavens were
clear the sun shone and only float
ing clouds were visible at the time
2 p. NJ.
According to present advices, Win
slow, the forger, will return to Bos-
ton by steamer on the 21st instant.
There are twenty articles of i'm
peachment against Belknap, stating
various amounts of money received
by him at different times from Marsh,
but as the latter has fed the country
the committee will hare to wait for
further testimony.
The Secretary of the Interior has
issued an order for the immediate
removal of the Alsea Indians to the
Siletz reservation in accordance with
the act of Congress of last session,
and directed Special Agent Litch-
field, at Alsea, to turn over the pub
lie property in his possession to the
Agent at Siletz. This will open the
whole of the Alsea reservation to
settlement.
The Pacific Mail steamer City of
San Francisco has Just arrived at San
Francisco from Australia. The peo-
pie of Auckland were struck with
admiration and wonder. All the
hands in the printing Office there
quit work and celebrated the occa-
s,en- by getting gloriously tight, and
the paper being left to itself did not
appear.
A number of prominent citizens
have addressed a petition to James
Lick asking him to have the statue
to Francis Scott Key, author of the
81 Star Spaigled Banner" dedicated
at Golden Gate park next Fourth Of
July.
Rumors have been privately circu-
lated in Washington to the effect
that evidence has been discovered Of
corruption on the part Of three DEM
ocrats of national reputation, and
that the proofs viii soon be publicly
made known with all their startling
particulars.
The Independent party of Califor-
MIA ceased to exist as q political or
ganization on the 10th inst.
Gov. Antoine and 16 other promi-
nent colored Republicans of New
Orleans have addressed q card to
Senator Ferry, protesting against
his action in ordering the exclusion
of Senator Pinchback, an ex-govern-
or, from the floor of the Senate.
They say C this action seems a heavy,
unjust and painful reflection on our
race"
The order under which Pinchback,
the colored ex-senator, was exolud-
ed from the floor of the Senate
chamber was not issued to apply to
him exclusively. Several Senators
having complained lately of annoy
ance on account Of too many per-
sons being on the floor, the Presi-
dent of the Senate on the 10th inst,
gave an order to the doorkeeper to
strictly enforce the 47th rule. 1t so
happened that Pinchback was one Of
the first on whom the new order had
to be enforced. His case having
been decided the day before, the
doorkeeper could not allow him the
privilege of the floor as he was no
longer an applicant for seat.