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FOREIGN.

The United States steamer Marion re-
Gently arrived at Montevideo from Rio, with
several cases OF yellow fever on board.
Lieutenant Wallis and boy had died of the
disease; the others were conyalescent.
Tuesday, March 2, the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the Cars accession, was cele-
brated with great splendor at the Russian
Capital, the military display, however, be-
ing the principal feature of the occasion.
There was a reception Of the dignitaries
at the Winter Palace, and the Gar
appeared on the balcony and saluted the
multitude at safe distance. DEGREES were
published, granting pardons to prisoners
remittiBg arrears on taxes owed by the rural
population, and awarding orders Of distinc-
ton.
An attemYt to assassinate Gen. Melikoff
was made at St. Petersburg on the Sd. As
he was alighting from his carriage at his res
idence young man fired at him with a re-
volyer, the bullet passing through the back
folds of the Generals cloak. The man was
about to fire a second time, when he was
seized by Cossack. The would-be assas-
sin is said to be a student. He feigned in
sanity when arrested.
The report of the arrest of Vera Sassulitch
proves to be unfounded.
Gems. Grant and Sheridan, ON the I'd, re-
viewed the troops stationed in the City of
Mexico. 1t was \ gala day in the Mexican
capital.
The paper-makers of the Northwest are
said to have combined for the purpose of
making vigorous effort to prevent legisla-
ton by Congress abolishing the tariff on pa
per and articles used in its manufacture.
The Mont st. Gothard Tunnel, nine miles
in length, is practically completed. 1t con-
meets the railway systems of Germany,
Switzerland and Italy, and as an engineering
effort surpasses the Mont Gents Tunnel,
which has heretofore given to France the
practical monopoly Of trans-Alpine railway
traffic.
The London Times anticipates an unusual
ly large emigration to America the coming
season.
James Russell Lowell has left Madrid for
London to assume his duties as Minister to
the Court of St. James.
The would-be assassin of Gen. Melikoff
was tried on the 4th and executed by hang
ing on the 9Th. His real name was Melodet-
sky; he was a native of Minsk, thirty years
of age. He maintained a stolid demeanor
throughout his Incarceration, and would
only say in his own defense that he acted
from principle and not from personal mo-
tives. He further said, as reported, that
though he had failed in killing Gen. Nell
koff some of his comrades would succeed.
A Berlin dispatch says that, with view
to affording Bismarck further relief from his
arduous duties, Count Won Stolberg Werni-
gerode, Vice-President of the Council Of
Ministers, will be appointed Prussian Pre-
mier.
A boiler explosion at Glasgow, Scotland,
on the 9Th, resulted in the death Of sixteen
persons. On the same day Galbraith's spin
ming mill burned and two lives were lost.
The residence of Norman Mcleod, at
Scottstown, Quebec, burned on the 9Th, and
his two children persisted in the flames.
A Rio Janeiro dispatch of the 9Th gives
brief statement that the Gillian feet had
attacked africa, and that the commander of
the iron-clad Huascar was killed during the
engagement.
GENERAL.
The National Union Greenback- Labor Con-
vention was held in St. Louis on the