p. 68 | News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1867

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times ? Matt. xvi, 3.

—Advices from Madrid say, that the Queen of Spain has been warned against placing implicit confidence in her army, for a rumor is current that disaffection prevails to a very large extent among all ranks of the Spanish soldiery, and that many officers of the highest rank are suspected of insurrectionary tendencies. The possibility of her Majesty abdicating is again whispered about.

—It is proposed by some of the Paris journals, that the Pope shall abandon a considerable portion of his temporal possessions; indeed, that he shall only retain the Vatican, with the adjacent gardens and a portion of the city on that bank of the Tiber. If His Holiness can be brought to consent to this arrangement, the Roman Catholic Powers are to subscribe together to provide him with the revenues which will suffice for the maintenance of his dignity as becomes the heads of the Roman Catholic Church, and for the support of a Pontifical guard.

—Preliminary steps have been taken in Congress toward the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. A resolution has passed the House, and gone to the Judiciary Committee for evidence.

—The bill granting the right of suffrage to the colored citizens of the District of Columbia, has been passed over the President’s veto.

—Information comes from North Carolina that a new crusade against the freedmen in that state has been inaugurated. All manner of charges are brought against them, and whipping and selling them into slavery is quite general; one planter near Wilmington having boasted that he has purchased hands enough to restock his plantation. By an existing State law, a man convicted of crime and punished at the whipping-post, is forever disfranchised; and it is hoped that by this means they will be able in the future to thwart any action of Congress giving suffrage to the freedmen. The turnpike roads of Western North Carolina are thronged with emigrants, both white and black, fleeing to find new homes, and escape vindictive cruelty and oppression.

—The Eastern question begins to look again more ominous. Candia is not conquered, but, according to the latest dispatch from Athens, the Turks have been defeated by the insurgents with heavy loss. An intervention of the European Powers in the affairs of the Greek subjects of Turkey, is again spoken of. Austria is charged by a semi-official paper of Berlin with an intention of invading Turkey—a charge which, we need hardly say, deserves no credit. Austria will for many years to come, think more of preventing than of attempting invasions.—Det. Trib.

—The (London) Times expresses new fears of the cattle plague, which has re-appeared in three shires of England, and is increasing in Eastern Europe. It will now have occasion to repent its advice as to “stamping out”—not the Fenians, but the cattle.

—At the pew-renting in Beecher’s church, the best pew was secured by H. B. Chaffin, the dry-goods prince, for an aggregate annual rent of $670. The total receipts for pew letting will be over $50,000.

Cholera at the Isthmus. LATE advices say Cholera had broken out among the U. S. troops detained at Nicaragua, en route for California.

“Earthquakes in Divers Places.” Ten or eleven distinct shocks of earthquakes were recently experienced at Sorel, C. E., occupying a period of 30 or 40 seconds altogether.

Frequent earthquake shocks in Sacramento and other points along the Pacific coast, remind the inhabitants that many things are passing away.

Paris, 5th. Despatches received this morning announce the occurrence of a terrible earthquake in Algeria. Many villages were destroyed and a large number of lives lost.