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ouage therein used considered disrespectful to ‘ON ZTresa, General Ashburton assassinated by Ku Klux act Columbus, Georgia. Jindie Hope, of Selma, Alabama, arrested for refusing obedience to military orders. April, 1--The Republicans carry Rhode Island. »-Legislature of Oate passes the Cincinnati and Newport ——— Bill. 3——The rebel Grenfel escapes from Dry Tor- Tingas .—A Governor Pierrepont removed from office in iernia, by General Schofield, and General Wells appointed to the vacancy. ——Cincinnati goes Republican, largely. e—Connecticut goes Democratic by 2,000. Wisconsin goes Republican. Thomas D'Arcy McGee assassinated by Fe riaine. : 6—Gareis opened for the President at impeach ment trial. Steamer Sea Bird burned in Lake Morehigan;: 19 lives lost. : 10—The British troops are victorious over the Abyssinians. 11—Floors give way in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Chicago; 20 person injured. 14—@and# Carolina goes for the new constitu tion by 42,470 majority. 15—Anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincol. Great accident on Brig Railroad. 16—Butler threatened by Ku Klux. 17—Republicans carry Louisiana by 27,000, and the Constitution by 18,000. 18—Steamer St. Patrick burnt below Memphis; loss $55,000. 20—Georgia gives the Constitution 8,000 ma ority. 21—North Carolina gives 19,000 majority for the Constitution. 12--Great fire in Dayton; loss 250,000. . . 23—Great fire in St. Louis; José $1,000,000. Fe male College,at College Fill, Ohio, burned 25—Major General Schofield proposed aseere ary of War by the President. ‘Great boiler ex plosion in Philadelphia; twenty-nine killed and wounded. 2“—Weather remarkably cold. . . as owners of an independent Presidential ticket. Many. 5 Joe Cushman explodes at, Buffalo, New ark, stores an income of $978,450. 3—Creat fire at Pittsburg; loss $100,000. 4—American Medical Association convenes at Washington, D. C. are strike among workmen in New York City. . Terrific tornado in Illinois. Florida goes Republican by 5,000. 6—T. Brown and laty assassinated in New Hampshire. Bingham concludes the impeachment argu ment on behalf of the House. T—Rulers murder’ Dr. ‘Hall and wife, at Piqua, Ohio. Great rains in Dayton, Ohio. —House of Representatives admits Arkansas. 9—Henry Lord Brougham, the famous English statesman, dies, at Caunties, France. ~ 12—National Convention, of the Fenians, at Syracuse, New York. 14—Storms in Connecticut; $500,000 ‘worth of rooperty washed away. 1é—Johnson acquitted by the Senate, by a vote of 35 to 19. 18-Grant nominated by Soldiers’ and Sailors’ National Convention. : Republican National Convention nominates — and Colfax for President and Vice Presi dent, For Embassy arrives in the United Stes. 28—Accident on Erie Railroad, 25—Stephen Van Rensselaar, a descendant of the elf Patroon, dies at Albany, New York, weed eighty-four. —Adjournment of the Senate as a court of impeachment. General Burnside becomes ‘Governor of Rhode Island. Stanton gives up the War Office. 28—General Schofield confirmed by the Senate ‘no Secretary of War. 29—Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts, State Sen ator, died at Worcester, Massachusetts, aged Seventy-seven. 30—Soldiers’ graves, all over the Union, dec orated with great ceremony. June 1—Oregon election went Democratic by 1,200 majority. . . Ex-President Huehanan dies at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, aged seventy-six years. 3—Doueginas’ remains removed at Chicago with great ceremony. National Board of trade meets at Philadelphia. 4—The command of Arkansas and Mississippi assumed by Geeral McDowell. 5—Middle States troubled with locusts.* SB. Packard takes charge of the Louisiana Board of Registration. .. 6—McClellan not confirmed by the Senate as Minister to England. 10—Michael III, Mospodar of Servia, assass inated at Belgrade. Farragut is received with great honors by the Queen of Belgium. 12—Vastest steamboat time recorded, made by the Daniel Drew, on the Hudson River. 16—General McDowell removed Governor “lumprbries, and appointed General J Ames to the vacancy as Governor of Mississippi, W. T. 7. Morten, M. D., who first discovered the anes hee properties of sulphuric ether, dies at New York City, . 18—Emanuel Leutze, an eminent artist, dies at Washington,D.C. Great thunder storm wit pressed at Cincinnati, Ohio. Steam engine ex yilodes in Broadway, New York, by which fifty persons were injured. 21—Cortland and Morning Star have a collision on Lake Erie; eighteen lives lost. , 22—Carvecus, Venezuela, taken by the rebels, t he Pope delivers an address to the people at home, denouncing the civil marriage law of A Austria, Milan TV becomes Hospodar of Servia. — ‘The hottest weather ever known in America. ‘Surratt, who was indicted for complication i 1% assassination of President Lincoln, “di scharged, Mississippi goes Republican. 24—President vetoss the “Omnibus, Bill,” and Congress immediately passes it over his veto by more than a two-thirds vote. 29—Pope calls a general Catholic Council for c December, 1869. 30--General McDowell relieved from the com mand of the Fourth Military Division, by the Tresident, who appoints General Gillem to the command. English Thanksgiving day. The English people, in public meetings, de nounce every species of Fenianism. Suly a~The Senate admits the Senator from Florida. Osborn Trish Church Bill defeated by English, House of Commons, 2—General Napier, the great hero of the Abys sinia war, is received by the Queen of England i: creat édat. 1—Democratic National Convention meets in New York City. de Schentzenfest convenes in New York. . National Soldiers’ Convention meets‘in New York. 5—Takugu was defeated at Yeddo, by a rebel daupanese party. . . 7—Thad, Stevens again attempts to have John son impeached. . 9—Allies and Paraguayans have a great battle on the Parana River Palace. Varieties at Cin cinnati burned. 11—President issned a proclamation,in sub stance stating that the fourteenth amendment had been ratified by the spurious Legislatures of orth Carolina and Florida. 15—Riot at Millican, Texas. 10—The Paraguayans defeat the Brazillian oorees. 11—A celebrated, Methodist minister, Allen Thompson, died in New York State, Philadel ia without gas-light. 18—Brazillians defeat Paraguayans at Humai ta, President recommends alterations in the Constitution. 19—A New York editor, Moses Y. Beach, died, at theat sixty-eight, in New York. 20—Electoral College” Bill vetoed ‘by Johnson, which was passed over his head. 21—Fourteenth Amendment declared ratified, by Congress 22—Territory of Wyoming formed by Con gress. 23—Harvard crew beat the Yale crew, at Wor cester, Mass. 24—Congress appropriates pay for Alaska. Great storm in Middle States; loss $5,000,000. 25—A_ recess In Congressional matters, till Reptender, wie murderers of Prince of Servia exe cuted. _31—Allies defeat the Paraguayans. Parlia ment prorogued by the Queen. The weather in tensely bot; hundreds drop dead from sun-stroke, Augst. —Johnson starts for England. Terrific fire at Oil City, Pennsylvania. 2—Died—Charles G. Harpiuc—Miles O'Reilly. 4+—Colored Men's Convention convenes at Bal timore. 6—Victoria pays France a visit. ‘The citizens of Liverpool receive Jeff. Davis in heat display. .. ¢ave Warmouth asked United States mili Ty aM. , pits tekas cattle platigue raging through the! orth. . . . Belgium coal mine exploded. Great destruc tion of life. 11—ITon. Thad. Stevens died at Washington. General Buchanah instructed to assist the authorities in Louisiana, if needed. 12—Ore miction of dollars lost by the great fire at Hisbean, Kings of Prussia and Russia confer at Baden ibe. 13—General Cautty appointed to the Washing ton Department. Napoleon reviews the French troops. South American visited by severe core cauakee. 16—An English zid Marshal, E. B. Blakeney, y.es while in comand at Chalsea Hospital, aged ninety-one—Earthquake in Equador— Great riot in Treland. 17—Indian war in Kansas. 18—Georgia was announced to have ratified the fourteenth amendment by the President. 20—Railroad accident in Wales. 24—The English receive Farragut in great colat. Chinese defeat the rebels. 25—Several rebel generals meet in conference at White Sulphur Springs, Alabama, with Major General Rosecrans. The Americans defeated in a national boat-race by the English. Steamer Melita destroyed by fire. 28—Sheridan makes war against the Indians. 31—French troops recalled from Rome. C., F. Schonbein, the discoverer of ozone and gun cotton, dies at Baden-Baden. September. 1—Great Republican victory in Vermont; ma jority 27,325. 8—Colored members expelled from Georgia House of Representatives. asectine Convention meets in Brus sels. 9—Steamer ippacwmains sunk in Lake Erie, with great loss of life. 14—Republicans carry Maine by 20,000 majority. Masonic Convention in St. Louis. 15—Whalen found guilty of the murder of ace D'Arcy McGee, and sentenced to the mung, Reverdy Johnson received by Queen Victoria. 17—Colonel Forsyth, and Captain Barnitz wounded in an encounter between their troops and Indians. 18—Great accident in Metz, Germany. Over one hundred killed by a boiler explosion. General Hinman, Confederate States of Amer ica, murdered at Helena. 19—Rebels attack a Republican meeting at cagle Georgia, dispersed it and killed many CKs, — meets and adjourns. —Surratt tried in Washington. He is dis charged under the plea that the indictment had not been found within the time required by the statute of limitations. = 30—Popular troops seize Madrid, and drive out Queen Isabella, who escapes to France. Rumor of Napoleon interfering in Spanish affairs. October 1--Spanish Junta calls out the militia. Attempt on the life of the Viceroy of Egypt. Great rains in Arizona. =. governments proclaimed by the Spanish unta. 8—Spanish revolutionary army enters Madrid. 4—Queen Isabella protests against the pro visional government of Spain, and claims that its acts are void with the people. 6—Danish assembly postponed for one year the ratification of the treaty with the United States for the sale of St. Thomas. 7—Santa Anna ordered to leave Cuba. Pro visional government organized in Spain. Ex ne of the works in London, with great loss i. e. 9—Civil and religious liberty decreed by the provisional government of Spain. Thomas H. Stockton, an eminent Methodist minister, died at Philadelphia, aged sixty. 10—New government of Spain formally recog nized by Hale, United States Minister. 12—President Johnson, by proclamation, re commends November 26 for Thanksgiving Day. 13—Republican victory in Pennsylvania State election; majority 9,677. Similar victory in Ohio Republican majority 17,372. A like triumph in Indiana by 961 majority. Nebraska goes the same way.Government of Spain banishes the Jesuits and confiscates their property. 13—Great petroleum fire in Antwerp, Holland. Rumor of a change in Democratic Presidential nominees. Masked rebels seize the steamer Hesper below. Memphis, and destroy . 3,500 muskets and ammunition egg to the loyal government of Arkansas. Randolph, State Senator of South Carolina, murdered by rebels at Cokesboro. 16—Congress meets and adjourns without transacting any business. . 17—Rebels murder Sheriff Jones, of St. Marys Parish, Louisiana. ‘18—Great loss of life by expireion St pear magazine of a Turkish man-of-war,in Smyrna harbor. James Hinds, a Congressman, murdered in Arkansas. 19—Session of Austrian Reichsrath opens. Rochefort, editor of La Lanterne, wounded in a duel with Mariori, paramour of Isabella, ex- Queen of Spain 20—Revordy Johnson receives an address from merchants of Liverpool. 21—Great earthquake in California. 22—West Virginia carried by the Republicans. Banquet to Minister Johnson at Liverpool. Great riot at Carrolton, Louisiana. 23—Many persons killed and wounded by a railroad accident at Greenbush, New York. 24—New Government of Spain recognized by Great Britain, Italy and France. Great hurri cane and tidal wave in Chili. Negroes killed in political riot in New Orleans 26—Governor Yarmouth applies to General Rousseau to preserve order in New Orleans. General Schofield telegraphs Rousseau to take as necessary measures to maintain order. 28—Thomas C. Longley, Episcopal Bishop, dies at Canterbury, England, aged 74—General Rousseau appoints General Steadman Chief of ee in New Orleans, Duchess of Sutherland es. 29—Decisive victory by English troops in India. Five persons killed by explosion on Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,eighteen miles below Cincinnati. 30—Twenty miles trotted at Riverside Park, Massachusetts, in fifty-nine minutes and twenty three and a quarter seconds, by the horse of John Stewart. 31—Riot in Rotterdam, troops fire upon the people, killing many. Great crops throughout the North, November. 1—Onutrages by Ku Klux in Alabama. Train er by Indians on the Union Pacific Rail road. 2—Meeting of the College of Cardinals in Rome. Government of Paraguay imprisons two persons belonging to the American legation for alleged conspiracy. re 3—Great victory of the Republicans shute Lien tion of Grant and Colfax. 5—Queen Victoria receives the Queen of Hol land at Balmoral Castle. 6—Judge Thurlow, of Huntsville, Alabama, shot by unknown parties. 7—Rebels defeat Government troops in Cuba. Spain refuses to dispose of Cuba to the United States. Naturalization treaty between Bavaria and the United States signed at Mumich. Gov ernor Clayton calls out the militia in Arkansas to evach troubles. 8—Plot to kill the Turkish Sultan discovered. 10—General Grant declines a public reception by the City of Washington. Congress meets and adjourns. Reverdy Johnson and the British Premier agree to submit the Alabama and other Claims to arbitration 12—Czar of Russia orders a general conscrip tion for the army. January 1. 13—Burlingame visits Queen Victoria. Acci dent on the Erie Railroad. Death at Youngs town, of David Tod, ex-Governor of Ohio, and at Toledo, of Hon. James C. Hall, State Senator. 14—Great meteoric shower. Serious panic in New York about the over-issue of Erie Railroad stock. Forepaugh’s Menagerie burned in Phila delphia. Steamer Matanzas burned at sea. 15—Baron Rothschild dies at Paris. 16—General Grant visits West Point Earth quake in Central America. David Wilmot, of Wilmot-Proviso fame, dies at Towanda, Penn sylvania. 17—In the English elections the Liberals are successful. 18—The Lunatic Asylum at Columbus, Ohio, burned; several of the inmates perish. Jay Gould appointed Trustee of the Erie Railroad. 19—Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. 92—Murder of Mrs. Mary E. Hill in Phila delphia; arrest of her daughter and son-in-law on suspicion. 23—Bismark joins the Liberal party of Ger many. General Howard orders Freedmen’s Bureau discontinued after January 1. © . 24—Great explosion in Arley: coal mines, Eng land; over 100 killed and wounded, Pollard, rebel editor at Richmond, Virginia, shot by a gentleman named Grant. 25—The steamer Hibernia lost in a storm off the Irish coast. More than 100 perish. 27—Natuonal Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Cheter defeats the Indians in the Indian coun try, killing the chief Black Kettle and almost his entire band. Lee of Berryer, great Liberal statesman of France. December. 1—Large fire at a Vermont stone works. 2—National Board of Trade meets in Cincinnati. Great storm in California. 4—Great catastrophe on the Ohio River; steam ers United States and America collide and then burn, sixty-four miles below Cincinnati; axty eight lives lost. . 5—Attempt to decorate the grave of Baudin, a republican member of Assembly, killed in the coup d'etat by which Napoleon III won his throne. Many arrests and prosecutions for it. Gladstone appointed Premier of England. 6—Great storm on the English coast, destroy ing much shipping, Colonel Henry Lowther, oldest member of the House of Commons, died in England. Royal troops defeated by the insurgents in Cunha. Outrages by the Ku Klex in Giles County, Tennessee. . 7—Joseph 8. Palmer, Admiral Uni States Navy, dies at Schenectady, New York, aged seventy-two. 9—Much excitement in Congress, caused the President’s Message, which was but half read in the Senate, and then postponed. Dis turbance in Augusta, Arkansas, and loyal militia take possession of the town. ~ New revolution discovered in Spain. 10—Intense cold weather in Arkansas. Re publican revolt in Cadiz, Spain. Austrian Gov ernment issues a circular declaring peaceful in tentions, provided other nations act on the same principle. 11—Seymour Regulators lynch Anderson, and Bill, Frank, and Simeon Reno, at New Albany, wounding Sheriff Fallenlove. Armistice declared between contending par ties in Spain, for peace. 14—The Spanish revolution accomplished The Cuban insurrection extends all over the island. 15—Great army reunion at Chicago 18—All Europe excited with rumors of war be tween Turkey and Greece. Earthquake in Spain. Another revolution dis covered and quelled in that country. 20—Admiral Davis takes an American fleet up the Parana River, to bring Lopez to account for an alleged insult to the United States flag. 22—Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, arrested at night in New York, for libel, at the instigation of Fisk, direc tor of Erie Railroad. 25—King of Greece granted dictatorial power in case of war with Turkey. General amnesty proclamation issued by Johnson. 26—Lathrop, Luddington Co., New York dry goods house, fail for $6,000,000. Mrs. Dickens, mistress of a brother of the novelist, commits suicide in Chicago. 27—Money very scarce in New York, and great fear of panic. 28—Napoleon proposes a general conference at Paris on the Turkey and Greece question. eee troops in Cuba again defeat the rebels. 29—Great excitement at Savannah about negro outrages 30—A man sixty-seven years old kills his wife and then commits suicide in Cincinnati. Terrible accident at Jackson, Pennsylvania, by ice breaking through, and thirty-two persons drowned.
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