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Show TELEGRAMS, Reported w'i;i!y for thp Pur Lake Hkhald by W eMul'ii Union Telegraph. LIGHTNING. FLASHES. The police and militia of Kervios, a town in Belgium, having been called out to suppress a riot, fought among themselves. The police were quickly disarmed and many of them wounded. The Cuban privateer. Hornet, at Wilmington, is allowed to go to New York. S. II. Wirsor is nominated register of the Wyoming territorial land office. The senate rejected the amendment limiting the franking privilege to the departments; and Ramsay's proposition propo-sition (o repeal it; and then the bill passed. On Tuesday a bill was reported to the House for the construction of a railroad oyer the Missouri river, at or near Council Bluffs. Whittemore's claim to a seat in congress con-gress was rejected by a vote of 131 to Bully for congress ! It took $298,315,8-12 to run the United Uni-ted States for the year ending June 30th; and 297,173,923 are asked for next year. Daniel Ryans has recovered $20,000 from the Erie railroad f r injuries sustained sus-tained by the Cam's Hock disaster. Many buildings were struck by light ning and a jJIG.U'JO five caused by it at Providence, iihode Island, on Monday night. ; ...... There was a terrible accident rn the Great e.-tern railroad, England, on Tuesday, by. a freight train running into an excursion train. Thirteen per sons were killed and from, thirty to forty wounded. ' " Castellar, the eloquent liberal Spanish Span-ish deputy, made a brilliant spe ch in the cortes on Tuesday, favoring the immediate abolition of slavery. The senate foreign committee will report the Belgium cable and the New Jersey and Bahama cable bills. France is expected to assume a passive pas-sive attitude on the St. Gothard railroad. rail-road. The French international society of workfngmen deny, in a manifesto, that theirs is a secret sojiety." This- is on account of the approaching trial of some members of the society for complicity com-plicity in the late conspiracy. 1 The adjourned debate on infallibility is postponed to July 0th. Immediately Immedi-ately after, fifteen of its warmest adherents adhe-rents will be made cardinals. England and the United States are talking of putting their respective embassies em-bassies to either country in the first rank. ' " Additional cables are to be laid between be-tween England and Ireland. The English commons keep debating the compulsory education bill. Whitelaw's extensive cotton factory, ,at Bolton, England,, was burned on Tuesday night. . . W. T. Smith, president of the in-', in-', ternational ocean telegraph company, for half a million a year, paid by the U.i S., for. twenty yeais, proposes j to establish anil maintain telegraph lines between San . Francisco, China and Japan' and between the United States and Europe; and will agree not to consolidate con-solidate with any other company, nor ever charge more than five dollars coin for tea words. ' Butler's "general" amnesty act, is far from beiiig general. It exempts persons educated . in the military or naval academy; ex-members of congress con-gress and members of the confederate congress, heads of the United States executive departments, ministers minis-ters abroad and judges of the U. S. courts, and persons holding the like offices under the confederate states, signers of the ordinances of secession, governors of seeeeded states, persons who having public money have not accounted therefor and who embez zeied or stole public property, de-erters from the navy and bounty jumpers. ' .' |