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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. The president has ordered all the iron clads lo be prepared for eervico. Tne iron nmulders at Bridgeport, Conn.,' struck for their back pay on Tuesday. P. RolliuB, of North Carolina, ha been tendered the situation of commissioner com-missioner of Indian athurs. By an accident on the Philadelphia i. Atlantic City narrow gauge road a brakesman was killed and ten passengers passen-gers wounded. A report from the front at Idaho that Captain Bancroft, wounded in the Indian engagement on tho 12lh is dead, ia not confirmed. Captain Wand ell, of the wrecked steamship San Francisco, whoso certificate cer-tificate had been suspended, has been reinstated by Inspector Bemis. News from Gen. Howard, Idaho, is to the eficct that he will follow up Joseph's band to Bittir Root aa soon hb his reinforcements reach him. The Idaho hostileB made a descent, on Kamia on the 22d, stealing 400 horses from tho Kamias, and left for Litllc Camas and the Buffalo country. Woods, Weeks &. Co., Baltimore sugar refiners have made an assignment; assign-ment; liabilities $755,000, of which S4G0.O00 is secured by private mort guges. At Atlanta, Ga. , an accident overturned over-turned an cxprtss and baggage car and burned two coaches on tiie iGeor-gia iGeor-gia railroad and burned an engineer to death. Several wouuded, f By the falling of a bridge oil a narrow gauge railroad over the Little Miama river, ten milcB (rem Cin-cinnalti, Cin-cinnalti, four laborers were killed, one fatally injured aud eight wounded. Tho fact that deep and general feeling feel-ing againat the Chinese population exists both among the laborers and hoodlums of San Francisco was made evident by the demonstration of Monday Mon-day night. The Georgia constitutional convention con-vention has adopted a bill of rights which recognizes all races of citizens aud pledges all proteclion in their rights of citizenship, prohibiting imprisonment im-prisonment for debt ind whipping for crime. Tho Philadelphia commercial- ox-changes ox-changes and board of trade havo requested re-quested the president to increase the military force of tho nation not only to reprtss all unlawful violence but to Bccure protection a.viiiit any recurrence re-currence of the samo, Tbo secretary of state has telegraphed tele-graphed fo Minister Pierrepont at London to give notice to tlio Direct i cable company, that its amalgamation with other lians Atlantic cable com panies is a just enue lor terminating the absent ot the government to the laving and wurkiug of the company's cable and for severing its connection wiih this country. |