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LOUISIANA. In pursuanoe of the PreBident's order, tbc United States troopa that had for Bevers Imonths boen tationcd inandaroundthe Louisiana Stato House, at New Orlcans, wore witlidrawn on Tuesdav. April 2t predsely at 12 o'clock, noon. In the anemoon 100 guns were limi, and thero was a liberal display of flags throughout the city in honor of the event The Louisiana Legislatare has elected Judge H. M. Spofford to tho United States Bénafe. Spofford i a Northern man by birtb, but lias lived in New Orlcansthirty years. . . .The Xiousiana Ooinmissioii arrividat Washington. April 24. Thcy at once proceeded to the White House aiid made tlieir report to the President. in the presence of the Oabim-t, of the reduit (tf their mission to New Orle&ns. The last acts in the final establishment of tho Nicholls Government in Louisiana took plac at New Orleans on the 25th of April, aud consisted in the oceupation of the capital by Gov. Nicholln and his officials, Pnekard having i'vaeuated the building at midnight of the nrevious day. Tho meinbers of the Legislature, headed by Gov. Xicholls and his State Officers, marehcd in procession to the State House. There was no noise or domonstration whatevrr. and wlien the prooession rcachedthe Capítol tho two branches of the Legislature met in thoir respective chainbors. and the State official quietly took possossion of their oftices. Gov. Nicholls received many telegrama trom pointn in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, offering congratnlations over tho withdrawal of the troops, indieating great rejoioing among tho people, the uring of salutcs. tbc ringing of bells, displays of flags, etc. Packard, in retiring, issued a long farewell address to his adherents. He says lie " waives none of his legal righta. but yields only to superior forcé." He comiséis peace, patience, fortitude, and a firm trust tliat eventually right and justico will prevail. THE KAST. Scit has been entered in tho New York oourt s by Cornelius J. Vanderbilt against bis brother WiUiam for 81,000,000, on alleged breaeh of contract, underwhicb itis asserted bc withdrew f rom the contest of the lato Commodore V 's will. Thk suit of the English ovroers of the famous Emma Mine against Trenor W. Park and others, who sold it, to recover the 5,000,000 paid for it, alloging thero was fraud, deceit and misrepresentatum on the part of Park in regard to the resources of the mine, has terminated in Now York, aftcr a four months' trial, in a verdict for the defeudanU. DuitiNd tlie temporary absence of James Hurd, of North Weare, N. EL, his insane vrife killed tlieir sou, aged lOyears, and hanged herself AtNashua, N. H., James 1'. Whitnoy, agcd 6 years, in a quarrel with a playmate, Louis Khattuek, was fatalJy stabbed bv the lattcr. THE WEST. Tbains on the Union Pacific railroad were delayed sevcral hours by a heavy snow-storm on the 25tb of April A Bftn Francisco dispateh says four of the Chico incendiaries have been sentcneed to the penitentiary, as follows : H. T. Jones, twenty years : James Fay, ten yearsPleasantSlaughter, ten years; A. Holderbaum,' fivo years. A motion for a new trial in the oases of Jones and Fay was made and denied The last erop reporta from the Pacific coaat are not as pronusing as previous reporte. AiutANuiíMKNTS for the removal of the old agency Sioux as well as their lately-surrondcred brethron to new quarters on the Missouri livor are to be pnshed forward rapidly. The bands to be removed number abont tenthousand persons, and the Nebraska peoplo are not vory obeerful over the prospect of the establishment of suchacolony of half-reformed hair-raisers on their borders. It is oxpeetcd thatthe agenoy will be established Bomewhere near tho soutlieastern corner of Dakota. Tuk people of Western Nebraska indulge the most sanguine hopea that the recent heavy xnow-storm and cold snap in the western part of the State will havo the effect to entirely destroytho grasshoppcra.. ..Judge Selmeffér. of Utah, luis rendered a decisión in tbc divorce case of Aun Eiiza vs. Brigham Young, to the effect that thero wan no marriage between the parties, and tbat Ann Eliza is íiot entltled to a doeree of divorce. The Coroner's jury in the inquest on the vid nis of the Southern Hotel fire, at St. T.onis. censure the proprietors of tho hotel for neglecting to provide for the extiuguishing of tires for keeping in the store-room and iiueellar a large auiount of loflamm&ble material without adequate wvtehing : for removing from their oilice the gong necessary to alarm the inmatesof the hotel m case of lii-o; employing only one watchman, and he a very ineftieieiii man, and supplementing his duties as such with other niatters ; for Jack of rules and instruotions to their employés as to their conduct and duties in ' case of lire : and for their making no efficiënt efforts on the night of the fire to awaken their guests and employés. . . .The Chicago Tinus thinks the 05citement in tho grain market i about over. and says : "If anybody belioves in anotlier upward bound of prices ho will be doonied to disappointment. Farmers and speculators who have grain, pork, or anytbing marketable to geil are advised t') Bell now instcad of yielding to the tondeney to wait for still higher 'prices." A FiiEionT train on tho Danvillo and Vincennes railroad jimipcd the track in the subnrbs of Chicago, a few days ago, reauiting in the killing of two men and the wonnding of live othere. THE SOUTH. Tuk Legislatore of South Carolina lias met in extra tossion and reorganized iteelf. The Demócrata have a majority in the House, wliile the Senatcia équally divided. All the Stutc oflices in Louisiana are now in undisputed possession of the Nicholl adhcrents. The Lcgislatnr has atljoumed bine die, and evrything is ceported unusually quiet in New Orleans. Kx-Sbsatoe Wii.i,ia5i G. Bkow.vixw, of Tonnessee, died recenöy at bis lióme at Kno.xville, in tbat State, aged 72. A dïspatoh from Meridian, Miss., says : i(Au old fend culminatcd in a terrible tragedy on the 29tb uit. On the 26th John W.' Gull'v a prominent citizen, was waylaid and as' Bassinated, Upon the aflidavits of two negroos Beveral alleged conspiratora in tbc aaBossination were arrosted, On the 29th a large Party of men fired upon the prisoners, killiig J. P. Gilmer, A. McCiellan, John Chis!„,I,,i. av,'fl Jf')S!;1"' ft!ld mortally wouudiiiLVilliam W. Chisholm." h WASHINGTON. Alus. Sitan Davis, who bas shaken hands ith overy President, from Washington down, called at the Whito House last week. . . .Dr. W. . Pattorr, of Chicago, bah been elected President c.r Qoward üniversity. the colored college locatea at Washington. ..:. The Hon. Charles 11. Adams, late member of Coogresgfrom tbc Albany N'. V.) district, was marricd at Washington, last week, to Miss Judith Crittenden Oolenian. of Louiaville, Ky., grand-daughter of John J. Cnttcnden Ex-PrcBident Grant called apon President Hayes on Wednesday last. bewg las ftrst visit since the inaugvration. Hok. Edwabd McPheeson, f or many years Clerk of tho House of Bepresentatives, bas l)CC!i apjgomted Cbief of the Bureau of Printniíí and Kngraving....A delegalion of whites andblacksof the Labor Lcngno of the ÜJÚtfiá StatOB, headed by John Pope Hodnett, called upon the President one day last week, and read au address requesting l'iiin to embod.v in lus Mossage to Congress a recommendation for the appropriation of money for internal improTOjnonts, to give employmcnt to idle labor ; also to recomm.Mi.1 the restoration oí sutrrage in tbc District of Columbia, and the payment of 10.000 workragmen defranded by eo'ntractors under the Board of Public Worlcs. Tbcv were courteo.isly recoived, and went away with the improsKion that the President would do tho nght thmg . .It is propoBod to reward the mstingoished Indian ohief, Bpotted Tail for lus valnable services to the Government' by making him a Major or ('oionel in the regular army. Bberman and Sheridan both favor the Buggeation, Kx-Cov. N'ovr.s. of Ohio.it is saidhasbeen tendered and hl : the position of Minister to Franco. It is nlso reported that exQov. Pletoher, of Missouri, may be tendered the misüion to Vianna. Oor. Noyes will not sail for Franco unlil his uomination sball have been confirmed by the Hemite at the anproaohmg Bession A Washington dispateb says: ■ Ik re .re to bc no mare pardons for whisky thievea. II, President is understood to have said tliat the BOle survivor of tho whisky ring Joyce, must expect to sene ont his fnl'l term. Judge Devens thoroughly in Bympathy with the President in thia matter." The Attomey General bas issiied a circular setting forth his determination to reduce the expenses of the Department of Justico $10,000 annualry. Thlg will bc done in a great measiu-e by redneug tlie salaries of Assistent District Attoriieys, and in many cases dispensing with thein altogother. . . .The President has appointedJudgo John E King; -Collector of tho Port or New Orleans. in pa0l; ,,f jameH }, Casey. Thebe are Indications that the Treasury Department is contemplating nother whiskyring war. The Uwa as to gaugicg, it is said, are to bc tnore stricUy observed, and the miboi'dinate revonuo ofBcera are to be ved about from station to station more than they have been since tbc last whisky raid The revenue from internal taxatiou in the year ending 3Iay i gweeded by nearl.v $2,50"0.000 thfi minuut colloctod In the pttccding twolvo iinnths. The authorities ronlidinlly exxxt Unit Öte reccipta fr the as■ai year enctlng Juno 80 will como fully in to the estímate cf (120,000,000 rho Comptroller of the Oomnoy fttiorts the mount of United St&tofl boodfl on deposit as security for the circulation of national banks mi tho'lat of May, $340,732,000, au increase of 18,000.000 Biooe the publioation of bia ro?ort Stór. 1. 1876. Tlie net inerease of nationalbank circulation for tlic month of April was 12l.il0(i. Amount of adtliüon.-il cimilntum eeneá, 91. 452,250. The amount of nationaljank ciivuiatioii ontstanding May I, was$818,361,067 Juhul). Defrocs has 1 D appointed PublicPrinter in place of A. M. Olapp, resigned. FOUIIOAL. A Wabhiboto eorreepbndent saya Mr. Baadall is not so coufident of his election to the Soeakership as he was-two or threo weeks ago. i'wo thiugs have disoouraged him - the knowlcdge that Mr. MorrUon's candidacy is an earnest one, and tho convietion that the Southern Democratie members are generally oppoaed to liim Col. Keyes has been roappeinted Post master ut Madisou, Wis. Gov. Packaru, it is said, is an applicant for tho Collectorship of the port of New Orleans. It is reported that John D. Defrees will succeed A. M. Clapp as Govenmiont Printer. A WASHINGTON dispatch says : "Gen Bankfl can hardly be considerad a compromiso candi date for the Speakersnip. He has intimated to liis friends that it is by no mearas certain that tte oan support Eayes" éouthern policy." GENERAL. The eighth animal report of the Board of Indian Connnissioners ír made public Tho 'cport reviews whnt han been done uudcr tho poace system nnd deprecates Ijkte want of rood faith of the Government in its treatment oí the Indians. It eoncludes with the foljowing recommcndïtions : Immediate oompliance on the part of the Government with the tornis of existió trentie wlth all Indians ; appropr'atíou for consolidating Bgenoiu 5 generous appropriation for eduoational pnrposes ; discoutinnanco of tribal relations ; extensión of the law for the protection. of Ufe and property; a-llotments of land ; establishment of industv!! and agrieultnral boarcUng schools Oompelling the attendance of 11 betwoen 7 and 18 years of age; issue of supplies to be made to heads of families : iucrease of salaries to Indian Agente. The Queboc (Canada) City Connoiï ptawd sume measures obnoxions to certalu citizens, whèreat the Citvv Ha!! Was besieged by a mob while tlic Councilwas in session. The mob torced their way into the Council Chamber, breaking every picco of (nrnitare in tiio room, dfstniyed papers, and made a general wreek. Tho polico wcro powfcrless to preserve order, and the military were called out. Beforo diapersing tlie mob hurled a volley of stonesfttthc City Hall, smashing every window in the building.... The celebrated Stevens battory, wliirh cost about ÍS, 000,000 has been sold to an agwrt of the Kussiun Uovnriinivnt for 1,000,000. The battovv was begun before the war of the rebellion by the late Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., and was designed by liim to be the most formidable ironehul atloat. It wa 1 in tended by its builder as a present to thè Stilte of New Jersey. A FEAitKux catastrophe occurred at Montreal, Canada, a few niornings since. The dismanüed walls of a iarge factorv building which had taken lire a short time Lefore, and upou whlch the firemen were working, suddonly tottered and feil ontward with an awful crasíi, burying lower buildings adjoioing in the rnins, 'and ovorwholming a Iarge numbor of people in Uk; appalling shofer of red-hot brioke. Nini were killed outright, and ton were woimded in vaiious dogroos of cvel'lty. Business faüures : 1L. Stcdman & Co., crockery and glassvare. Boston liabihties f100,000 ; Dïme Savings Bank, Bethlehem, Pa.. S285,000 Chester, Morgan t Arend, dry goods, Buffalo $260,000 ; Thomas Kitchin, "Sons & Co., hops London, England, ij2,OW),000 ; 1(. A. IIopluus A Co., coinmission mcrchant, Toronto. (185,000; May & Co., metáis nul hardware, Boston Í600,ÜOO; Shryock & liowland, commiseion merchants, St. Louis, liabilities not stated. TUK TURCO-KUSSIAN WAR. The Emreror's address to the army and pcople of Russia, promulgated 011 the 24th of April, is as f ollows : Our fuithfnl and beloved subjects knowthc elrong interest wc have mptaiitly toll in tlio drsünics of tho oppreasod Ohrfetiaii population of Turkry. oxir desire to nuiclioratc aHd assuage thcir lot has been shared by tho whole liussian nation, which now Bhowa itsolf ready to bear frosh Baciiflcefi to alleviate the poBition of the Christians in tho Bulkan península. Tho bldod and property of our fattbful sub.iccts have alwavB boen dear to s, and our whole roign attoHt our constant solicitudO to preserve 1" .' the benctlts of peacc. Thia solicitmlc ncver failed to actúate ua during tlie deplorable events whlch occurred in Hoizegovina, Bosnia uní linlRaria. Our object, heforo all, ;i, to effect an aluolioration in tho positiou of OttrlsfcUuuj in the Kant by uieans of patiflc ncgotlationp, and in concert wlth the great European powers, our allioa and friends. For two ycar we have made incesxant elïorts to induce the Porte to effect such reforma as wonld protect Christians in Bopnia, Herzegovina and Bulgaria from any arbitrary moasure of the loial anthorities. The aocranpliilmicnt of these rcforms was abnolutely stipulatod by anterior engagemente contracted by the forte toward the whole of Eorope. Our efforts, supportcd by the diplomatic repreaentations made in common with other governmenta, have not, howovor, attained thcir object. ïhe Porte has remaincd unehaken in its formal rcfusal of any eft'ective guarantee for the sccui-ity of its Christiau Bubjccts, and has rejected the conclusión of the v!i.-Ututiuople conference. Wishing to essay every rossiblc means of conciliation in order to persuade the Porto, wo proposed to the other Cabinets to draw lip a special protocol comprising the moet essential conditions of the Constautinoplc conference, and to invite the Turkish Government to adhore to thia international art, which stated the extreme limito of our peaceful ilemand?, but our expectation was nt fuliilkd. The Porte did not defer to this unanimous wish of christian Kurope, and dld not adhere to the eonclusious of tho protocol. HaYing exhanstod pacific efforts, wc nre compelled, by the haughty obstinacy of the Porte, to prooeed to more dedslve acts, feellng that our equity and our own dignlty enjoin It. By her rcfusal, ïnrkcy places na nndor necessity of haviug recourse to arm. Proloundly convinr.:il ..f the justice of our cause, and humbly coinmitting oursolves to tho grace and help of the Mout High, wc malse, known to our iaithf 11! subiectB tbat the moment, foresoen when wo pronounced tho wordsto which all Itnssia responded wiüi complete unanimity, ha now arrivoil. We exprossed the iniontion to act iudepondontly when wc deemed itneeexsary, aud when Uusnia's honor should demand it. In now invokiug the blessings of Goa upon our valiant armtas, wc ivo thom the order to croBB tho Tnrklah frontier. (Öigued) Alexanukh. A OOMJKN of 17,000 Hnssian troops crossed the Koumanian frontier at Bestinck on the 2ltli of April, lioumania, having recoived no prelhninary notilicaüon, declavod it yiolded to foroe, and directed its troops to fall back to avoid a conm'ct, The Mouteuegrin forces are advancing toward tho frontier of Albania Austria will shortly ocoupy Bosnia with two army divisious. The Turks oroased tlie Danube on the 26th of April, ai several points, nul sent out living corps to destroy rauwaya before the advanee of the KuHBians. . ..A oolumja of Bnssians has invadod Asiatic Turkey. Turfcey has sint te tin: European powers a leas oireular, inreplyto the Czar's manifestó II protoBta against thci deolaration of war, póiutmg out the efforts of Tnrkeyto hnprove'the posifion of the Christians ftiid satisfv the demand of []iv x.wers. In tho absence, therefore, "f any provocation on the part of Turkey. the circular deolarea the Porte is at a iossto under. t. ■■! linssia's attaok, and dortifeqnently appeala to the treaty of Paria and mediiition of the guarantoting power. KouMASiA has decided to cast her lot with liussia, and has issriod a deolaration of war against Turkey Throughout tlie lU1ssia.11 empire the deolaration of war was received with wild demonstrations ot enthnsiasm The tirst engagement betwoon the Kussians umi Tnrka t = ! -: place at Batoum, in Asiatic Turkey. Torkish reporte claim that the enemy was dëfeated with the loss of 800. Tuf. Porte has issucd another manifestó, which declares that the Bosnian, Bnlgarianand Heazegovinian insurrections, and Servían and Montenogrin declarationa of ar. were insbgatod by linssia. The manifestó concludes witli the declaration that Turkoy is ready to flghl to the death for independence. . . .All Boestan subjects havo been ordered to qüii Tark -y imiui ■(liiiteiy A report oomee by cftblo that Austria has called upon England tö fullill her engagement under the tripaiite treaty of 1856 for nrotecting the integrity of ihe üttoman empire. . . ,Tne fprtifled Ruseian towns of 8t. Nichohv and Poti, on the Black soa, have been bombarded and partiallv destroyed by tlie rorkish Heet. Thk Khedlve of Egrypt bas übtifled Tnrkey that he cannot fnrnish the coDÜngont-of soldiers asked for. ...The ItassiaB oommandora give Douoe to the popnlatton of the Turkisli proviucos that Cuere will be 110 inteifercnce with non-oombatants who remain ;( home. None of tbc Turks in Bulgaria will bo molestod on account of the massaott Uiose whose nnirdcrous exoesies made them eonspionous. lf any of these are caught, they will bo lumged. Ou"iTilI:iH wül not be tolerateq, but Christians may join the Kilssiai] army and 1);: citrnllcd in a special corps organi.od fir the purpose. The Turks are assurod that if any more massacres are attempted thore will be swift rotj'ibution. . . .Tho (:vh Government, while aotivolyarming, botends for the present to maintain an attitude of reserved neutrality. . . .The Italian (ovornment bas issued a declaration of neutrality. . . .TheTnrk[sh Beet bas been ordered to blockadc the liussian ports. . . .Ilusaia bas 800,000 mepon the D.iimljo and 125,000 men in tin; Cancasus, while tho opposing torees of the Turks aro 100,000 atong Danube and 511,(100 or lc-ss n Minor. A Disi'.Mi ii from Vil-una saya the. Saltan han declared that ho will not unftu-1 thé Standard ftftheProphet to aronse the. Qttomjkn ffejing until all othcr nioans of defenso havo failcd A column f lïussians Ii.ih invndvrl Oeorgia, in Asiatio TurkOTi The Inhabitanta are rccoiving Ihciii ns frionus; and surrendering tbcir arms to il'.mi. . . .TIn: Roumanian Cabinct declare that the treaty of Paria has boen destroyod by Kmope. in allowing the entrancc of ïiussiaii armies mto Turkey. OENKRAL FOREIGN NEWS. A Calcutta dispatch says it is appareut that the familie In India Is approMhiOg iti wol'st poiut, but thcro is good rcason to hope that the maximum distsresa niay be less suvere than anücipated Tho great , Oerman Gtni'al, yon Jloltkc, In n Stlttwh dcllvurcd in tho Prusslan I'arliaincnt the othcr dav, expressed bis tirm conviction tlxat evory EoTOpoan nation wouHl bc involved in war withiQ a year. . . .Mr. Sandford'a Amoriean stable In ËiiL'land ha Bcored two notable vietoriea in tho Newmarket races. IUssia'k war manifestó is sovercly criticisRd by the Londou prP8s on apcoi'nt of wtit the Engllsh juUrtuils are quite unauimous iu characterizing as the spirit of arrogance and solfishnes which marks the eoursc of lluxsia toward Turkey. Great stress is alao laid apon the fact that the manifestó is signilii'imlly silcnt on the subject of territorial aggrandifement, ...Tho dreadfHl plagvc han WftppxaWd ïiï Bagdad. A aüLk dispatoh significanüy menüons that thero is unusual activity in tlie British navyyaids A Constantinoplo dispatch says war with Persia is expected in Turkey. Spain cstiinatos her rtivenues and pxpenditöiea thp coming fisPnl yeil' at TjSnO,000;OOt) piasterl Tile ljritish i'arliiiiiU'nt, by a voto of 211 to 111, bas killed a Tariff bill tmpoaing compeusatory import dutics on iron and iron gooda A Pahis dispatch says the rate of eschange on Ilussia is now noarly an luw fts tho lowost polnt tottched durlng the Crimean war The Turkish budget shows a deficit of L12,00();000. ....A firc in Conitanünopi?1-, !alít weck, destroyed GOO buld!ngB. i .xtHjAND will iinmediately send 50,000 troops to Egypt Tlie English Government has issued a proclamation of nenhality on theEastern question, and declares that it üitendt for ( he 1 n sint to stand back Riid bt lUlssin anti Ttirfeey ritrht t 'Miti

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