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Show IVASIIIVGTOX. I Piifilic CoHot Affairs at the l itpital ..- INIhI ( ouvi'ii- I lion itilli AtiNiruHil - The .Uf Vicuu Kevolutioii. i Washington, o. In ihe case of the! survey of Raneho Los Hueeos r.. the! city of Sin Jus-, ontestants, onap-j peal before the interior th-partment, involving the legality of tho survey1 and title to 7,2oO acres of Pueblo ; lands, ihe secretary has just rendered1-a rendered1-a decision against the city and ap-j proving the survey ot the raneho. I The PuMilo hinds involved in this! contest and winch the city claim by! virtue of prior decree, have hereto"-foro hereto"-foro been convey ml and parcelled out to d llcrent purcnasers who have improved them. Under this decision the settlers holding their title from the city of San Jose lose their land. The biil respecting the terms of tho circuit court in California, Oregon and Nevada, is Still pending in con-1 gress, uwaiting tho senate's con-' currenco in the house amendment, substituting March 1st instead of l-Vbruary 1st, as the date of taking effect. It will not atlect the February term. Piper yesterday presented to the 1 house of representatives resolutions 1 of the California legislature asking a modification of the Burlingame treaty so as to discourage further Chinese emigration. Referred to tlie committee on foreign a flairs. A postal convention has been concluded con-cluded between the United States and Queensland, Australia, the mails to be transported in the direct line of colonial packets plying between San Francisco and the Australian colonies. colo-nies. It is now in operation. Full letter postage either way is twelve cents; newspapers, to and from Queensland, two cents each; other printed matter and samples of merchandise mer-chandise to Queensland, four cents for tour ounces; from Queensland, four cents for two ounces; registered letters are charged a fee of ten cents in this country and four pence in Queensland, in addition to the ordinary or-dinary postage. A Saa Antonio, Texas, dispatch reports, on information received to that effect, that the Mexican revolution revolu-tion is gaining ground. Great excitement prevails throughout the northern statesof that country. The whole western part of Cohahuila is up in arms, as are the Pacific states . and Mamalaupas, Nucva Leon and San Luis, and in fact all northern Mexico. Gen. Trevino is now marching march-ing on Monterey from the state of Tamaulipas. Another general is approaching Saltillo from the west. Durango has joined hands with her sister slates in the struggle. The movement is a stupendous one in the interest of Pcrfirio Dias lor president. I Gen. Ord, having been summoned to Washington lor consultation on -Indian aflairs, left yesterday morning. |