The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-01-07

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Z in the observatory are in motion and Prof.
Palinieri predicts long perid of eruption.
" II is not generally llnownithat there is
? alange and prosperous Irish settlement in
the Argentine Republic, in South America,
In enc Of. the provinces Buenos Ayres, there
is a Population of nearly 100000, Of which
nearly half is Irish. It is rich grazing
country, and the most ext ensive farmers in
the province are Hishmen, who hold i'm
tneitse. tracts of land and carry ON a wool
trade that rivals Australia. In 1869 they
clipped loo0o9,O 200 pOundsof Of wool. : -5f $.
! A dispatch from San Diego confirms
the reports Of anarchy in Sonora. A reyo-
luton is in progress in Yagin, the indians
being in revolt Gov. PesqGiera has LEVIED
\ a special tax to carry on the war. The revo-
lutionary party is reported about to invade
Sinaloa. Business is prostrated. No further
demonstrations have been made by the ban
ditti at Campo. The presence of a posse
from San Diego keeps them comparatively
quiet, but they threaten revenge fer the !
shooting and2 han sing of tTeircomfades fn
the recent row. y cruz LOPEZ is IN command
since the death of Chaevez.- Mexicans on
the border, with few exceptions are in league
] with the banditti. ..- g-, 80 ,,, ~ ...s-
1 That the French are determined to
have every available man under arms is
shown by Gen. Cisscy's last order, requiring
the registration, for military purposes, of all
males born between Jan. /, 1885, and Dec.
81, 1871. Defaulters will incur fine varying
in amount from 10 to 200 francs, besides inn
prisonment from 5 days to 3 months.
Great Britain has now five iron clads
under construction; the Infexible, to carry
| four guns of the heaviest caliber; the Shan
non, a nine-gun screw ship; the Nelson and |
Northampton, double screw ships of twelve |
\ guns each, and the Temeraire, an eight-gun |
| ship.
The khedive of Egypt, judging from
the dispatches, is finding his Abyssinian |
campaign more difficult piece of business
than he anticipated A detachment of his |
army has been massacred by the troops of |
King Johannes, including some American
officers. Notwithstanding a recent English
Interference with his operations, Ismail win |
now go into an expensive war with Abys-
sinia, which viii result in the annexation of |
that country with Egypt. There are difficult
ties in the way, because the Egyptian gov
ernment is not very well supplied with funds,
and the khedive has not yet succeeded in
entirely subjugating Darfur. The Abyssinian
difficulty commenced by ineursiOn of
those people in Egypt, which was readily
made preteXt of war by the khedive. Kill
lup Pasha was then. sent south, and has met
with success, ,bilt the present disaster must
lead to the concentration of the Egyptian
troops on the frontier. England, baving i'll
measure taken the khedive under her pro
lection, may yet have to assist her new ward,
as She did Turkey twenty years ago. /
The new line of fortifcations around
Paris is rapidly approaching completion. 1t
extends over one hundred miles, and in
eludes many detached forts as impregna-
ble as modern military science can make
them. But after the cats and the gorriIlas
aresall eaten up, what then2 -
OF the Suez canal shares, there were
100000 issued England having purchased
III 900 shares from the khedive, there re-
main 223,06O to be accounted for It has
been asserted that 20T111 of these are held
in France; button the other hand, it is said |
that Jhoy were mainly purchased by French
agents for foreign account.
Last summer Minister Foster stated to
the Mexican government tIat it was within
the powcr.of the United States government |
to providea a remedy, ,Ewitlf the approval of
Mexico for the depredations committed by
the Mexicans on the American side of the
Bio Grande. The remedy was for regular
troops to follow the raiders across the
border, or to temporarily occupy certain
points in Mexico where raiders cross the
river. The reply of the Mexican secretary
of foreign affairs was that the executive had
no authority to grant such permission with
out the consent of congress, and it would not
be prudent to ask for such CONSENT as the
sentiment of the.country would not approve
it. Mr.. Foster remarked to the secretary
that if the depredations- continued, and no
serious efforts-be made by the Mexican au-
thorities to punish the raiders, a repetition
of General NJ Kenzie's course might be am
tieipated, as protection to the citizens Of
Texas must be afforded; and il notgiven by
the Mexican government it would come by
the United States. In addition to the de-
NAL by Mr. Marescal sAIexicans minister at
Washington, of pending negotiations for the
acquisition of Mexican territory, it may be
state I that Minister Foster Informed the
Mexican government he vas authorized TO
say that our government had no desire to
acquire territory on their frontier, but the
press in the United States, in reporting the
frecuent. depreciation, was creating strong
public sentiment in favor of an aggressive
policy, and the acknowledgment by Mexico
of its inability to restrain the lawlessness
would afiord the strongest possible argument
to advocates of the acquisition of territory
MIsCELLANEOUs- gf2
At the services in the Catholic Church
at Mayonoy Plain, Pa, last week the Rev.
Daniel O'COnnor, the pastor, read a letter
from Archbishop aWood, of Philadelphia,
which was the formal excnmmunication of
the society known as the "Molly Maguires,"
otherwise the "Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans" sa--.'-- 81 - -
Inserder to. prevent.the recurrence Of
disasters Ike that which Happened to the
Steamship Waeoyneaf Galveston, the treasury
department has decided that vessels carrying
oil must unconditionalIy surrender their GER
tihcates. This will doubtless abate the busi-
ness Of running Heating powder magazines.
Ex- Congressrnan Rice, of Kentucky,
has been appointed Cor gressional Librarian,
in place of ]. ]. Piatt removed. as
Losr WoMEN. we commend the fol- /
lowing thoughts to the public; Has it
ever occurred TO you what commentary
upon our civilization are these lost
yyomen, and the attitude of society to-
wards theln2 A littlechild strays from
her home enclosure, and the whole com.