LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 891, 31 January 1868, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

New Yoke, Dec. 16th. A Negro delegation from the Southern States waited on Thaddeus Stevens and General Butler. Danish Commissioners, in charge of the cession of the Danish "West Indian Island to the United States, have arrived at Washington, and been handsomely received. Mr Secretary Stanton will not be restored to the head of the War Department. The Mexican news is bad. Organised bands of brigands are overrunning the country. In La Plata, Paraguay has taken the offensive in the war on the Parana, and carried the Braziilian camp by storm. The loss to the allies was 4000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Miscellaneous accounts from the Southern States are alarming. Great distress prevails amongst the whites, and a general rising of the black population is feared. A religious crusade is in progress in Canada, where volunteering for the Pope's army in Rome is the rage. A terrible affray occurred in the Broadway between rival minstrel bands. Angry words were followed by pistol shots. Two were sharply killed. Kelly received a ball in the head. General Grant's chance of being elected to the Presidency improves. Mrs Doone, the widow of the actor, poisoned herself and four children on the 15th. There have been some very severe storms. The heaviest storm ever known occurred in New York. Ferries, railways, and all forms of communication were stopped. Eubope, Dec. 15th. The Fenian excitement in England and Ireland is at fever heat. The greatest alarm prevails. On the 12th, Clerkenwell Gaol in London was blown up with gunpowder. Three persons were killed, and forty seriously injured. It is expected that Colonel Kelly, the rescued Fenian in Manchester, had some hand in the matter.

It was thought and hoped that the Fenians would cease all active attempts against law and order, in consequence _ of the, universal horror and indigation qjfused by the disastrous attempt on /Clerkenwell Goal. • Large rewards have been offered by the Government for the discovery and arrest of the guilty parties. Garibaldi is still held prisoner at Caprera. In the City of Liverpool precautions have been taken by the Government to check any demonstration on the part of Orangemen and Fenians.