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Show GENERAL TELEGRAPH NEWS WASHINTON, Sept. 4 - Rear Admiral Olitz, commanding the Asiatic squadron, wrote the department on eastern affairs under date of Yokohama, Aug. 19?. He states on the 1st of August news was received at Yokohama of an outbreak of the anti-foreign ??? in ???. Several Chinese had been murdered and a number of Japanese escaped. Great excitement prevailed at Yokohama, and it is thought Japan will declare war, but later news, while confirming the outrage on the Japanese minister, showed the movement not to be ??? and the Queen and many prominent members of the progressive party were killed during the attack on the palace, which occurred about the same time (about July 23d) Admiral Olitz said the Japanese government has been prompt in making reparations for guarding the interest of its people, several men-of-war having been sent to ??? with troops and policemen on board. He learned through the American minister there was no intention of declaring war but simply reestablish ministers with proper dignity and guard the legation and afford a place of refuge for them and subjects in case of further trouble. The Japanese do not regard the outrage a national one. On August 1st, Admiral Olitz received a department telegram from Minister Young informing him of this outbreak, and suggesting that he send a vessel to Corea to protect American interests. Before acting on this dispatch Admiral Olitz received a department telegram, August 2d, informing him that the treaty with Corea had not been ratified, and directing him to send a vessel to Corea, and also directing him to communicate with Minister Young. This was accordingly done, August 3, by placing the M?? at Minister Young's disposal. On August 5th Admiral Olitz received a telegram from Mr. Young, as follows. In obedience to the President's order will send the M?? to Corea. (Signed) Young Admiral Olitz, says he learns through the ?? of ??? that 1500 troops crossed the frontier and entered the Corean teritory, also a like number was approaching he frontier. Ten gunboats and ??? will rendezvous off the southern ?? coast. He says it is impossible for him to say what bearing it may hae on future action. In Japan he repeats cholera still exists in Yokahama and vicinity, but decreasing and not so fatal in ill effects, and the health of the squadron continues excellent. WASHINGTON, Sept 5 - Public printer Rounds has locked horns with Senator Mahone regarding the assessment of employees of the government printing office of Virginia. Several cases were brought by the ??? of Rounds, in which employees who had cheerfully paid the National Congressional ??? the amount assessed were ??? by collectors representing the Mahone faction. In consequence those employees were informed by the public printer that any assessment made on them by Senator Mahone's committee should be paid voluntarily, and no one should lose his position in the government printing office for refusing to ???. This decision incensed Senator Malone and his strikers, and a vigorous assault will be made to effect a reconsideration, but from the general reputation of Rounds it is understood he has put his foot down in earnest in this matter and will not be bulldozed by the ???. The examle set in this department will it is said, be followed by the ??? of others who are opposed to the wholesale system of levying assessments, not made by National, but by local committees, hence the dismay of the Mahoneites, who are in a desperate situation, and demand rather than ask funds from employes in the various departments. PANAMA, Sept. 4.-- All heavy work on the inter??? canal is stopped. The rainy season so far was a very light one, yet it is found that even a slight rain impedes all work, and in the low ground entirely prevents it. The men who attempted to work fell sick and the men in charge of gangs of laborers ??? none of them can work more than three days in the week, the balance being passed in bed with the fever[?]. The drouth continues to be severely felt in several Central American republics. Corn and all edibles are rising in value. The governments of ???, Honduras and Salvador have ordered corn from the United States. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4-- J. P. Molliere recently resigned his clerkship in the Sixth Auditor's office, on the order of the National Republican Congressional Committee in collecting 2 per cent political assessments from employees of the Executive Department. Molliere was to be allowed a percentage on collections made by him as his compensation. He applied to Secretary Folger for permission to canvas the Treasury Department, but was informed that the Secretary did not sanction such a proceeding. He made a similar application to the chief of the division of the Treasury and was again refused the desired permission. He was not disheartened, however, and went through the building on his mission without the countenance of the secretary. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 4-- At the conclusion of army maneuvers at ???, the bridge constructed by the military across a ravine, fell directly after the emperor and empress had passed over it. The minister of war was slightly injured. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 4.-- A duel is imminent between General Chalmers and Van H. Manning, candidates for Congress. Both spoke at Holly Springs joint debate. Manning spoke last and made a scathing review of Chalmers' record. Both re?? at Holly Springs on Sunday, with messengers passing back and forth, Chalmers demanding full retraction. Thomas Harris represented Chalmers, and Edward Watson was Manning's friend. The rumor of a duel gains credit from the fact that both failed to appear at the place appointed for today's debate. PARIS, Sept. 4.-- Mlle. Berthe Marie ?? Rothschild, daughter of the head of the Frankfort branch of the family, will be married on Thursday to Prince Alexander De Wagram. As a necessary preliminary to the ceremony Mlle. Berthe yesterday received a Christian baptism. Prior to the ceremony, she formally signed her abjuration of the Jewish faith. MADRID, Sept. 4.-- Senor Camacho, minister of finance, received a large packet, on Sunday, from Barcelona. On proceeding to open it personally his suspicions were aroused regarding the contents. The packet was subsequently cautiously examined and found to contain dynamite. PHILADEPHIA, Sept. 4.-- At the result of the search of the dwelling occupied by Major Phipps, the nursing superintendent of the Alms House, about $10,000 worth of all kinds of goods were found. Including groceries, cotton and linen goods, household utensils, and all sorts of supplies furnished the institution. FORT MILLS, Vt., Sept. ??.-- Dr. A. O. Inckey , of Worcester, Mass, and D. John Marshall of ??, N.H., drowned in Wanice Lake, yesterday afternoon. ELIZABETH, N.J. Sept. 4.-- The Singer Rule and Literary Association had an excursion yesterday, and on returning a row took place between the deck hands of the barges, and the toughs on the deck. The deck hands fired fifteeen or twenty shots, instantly killing Thomas M. Keon, a bystander and Richard B??, and excursionist. HELENA, Mont., Sept. 6.-- Indians fired the prairie in the Sand Coulee and Freeman Creek region in northern Montana, and the whole country is ablaze. It is a great tock region and cattle are being driven before the conflagration in immense herds. The winter range for a scope of many miles is in danger of being destroyed, which is a severe blow to stock interests of northern Montana. The Piegans are supposed to have set the fire, as fifteen hundred are away from their agency. They refuse to return unless the Government increases their rations. |