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Show ! LIGHTNING FLASHES. The little ship Ragusa was seen , May 27th, sailing along gallantly, i The SUcle advocates the decentral-, decentral-, ization of the French administration. The Constitutional Convention of i Nebraska meets at Lincoln June 13. J The U. S. and Spanish Commission ; will soon commence business in Wash- ington. I President Grant had a lengthy interview inter-view with the Collector of Customs at New York on Friday, i Governor Butler, of Nebraska, has ;been removed from his office, and the , impeachment court adjourned. I The Journal Da Debate expresses i its astonishment at the persistency of I the Assembly in holding aloof from Paris. A riotous demonstration occurred at Washington on Friday among the colored laborers, who are on a strike there. An Imperial decree from Berlin orders the ISth of June to be observed throughout Germany as a day of thanksgiving. M. P. Harris, an old citizen of Chicago, Chi-cago, and many years chief of the fire department, died on Friday, from congestion con-gestion of the brain. Bishop Whitehouse has pronounced the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Episcopal Church against the Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, deposing him from the ministry. A i'aris journal considers the ap- j pointment of M. Lefranc to the minis- j try of the interior and M. Ferry ns-minister ns-minister of the Seine, as the reply of: Thiers to the intrigues of the Orlean- j ists. j H. W. Caldwell, a grocer of Indian-! apolis, descendant of John Casino, has received $1,000,000 as a compromise! j to his title for eight acres of land in! the vicinity of Trinity Church, New York. j The sub-governor of the Bank of i France states that he was forced to ad- vance various sums of money to thej Commune, but no armed force entered j the bank, and none of the securities were destroyed, Brunet, in the French Assembly, moved the abrogation of the laws of ! prosecution as incompatible with re-1 pubheanism; and another member I 1 moved the abrogation of laws specially i directed against the Bourbons. |