Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VIII, Number 10, 6 Malaki 1869 — Page 2

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa

KE KILOHANA POOKELA NO KA LAHUI HAWAII.

English Colum

FOREIGN NEWS

The Bank "Cambridge" arrived from San

 Francisco on the 2@ inst.. bringing news to

 the 13th of February. We notice the follow-

ing item.

American.

Wilson's proposed constitutional amend-

ment regarding the rights of American citi-

@@@@ in all the States, passed February 9th

 It reads: " no discrimination shall be

 made among citizens of the United States in

 the exercise of the elective franchise or in

 the right to hold office in any State on ac-

count of color, race, nativity or creed." Cor-

@@@@@ amendment. proscribing Chinamen on

 amount of Paganism, was rejected.

The Senate yesterday passed the proposed

constitutional amendment as amended by

 W@@on by a vote of 40 to 16.

V@g@@ance Committees are organizing in

 the city of New York for the suppression of

 crime and the riddance of corruption, which

 have become so wide spread as to threaten

 even the Courts and defy all ordinary reme-

d@@@.

James T. Brady, and eminent lawyer of

 New York city, died yesterday morning of

 apoplexy.

Small pox has made its appearance in

 New York-over 100 deaths from the pestil-

ence in the weeks preceding the 29th inst.

The Maryland Congressmen petition the

 President for the pardon of Dr. Mudd, con-

evicted as accessory after the fact to the mur-

deer of Lincoln, and the President promises

 to pardon @@@ before March 4th.

Caleb Cushing's mission to Bogota for the

 right of way to build a ship canal over the

 @sthinus of Darien is a failure.

The Union Pacific Railway laid

down to the one thousandth mile-post on the

 23d of January.

The case of a girl in Wisconsin, fourteen

 years old, who has been for a number of days

 in a state of trance, showing neither signs of

 life nor decay, attracts curious attention.

President Baez, of the republic of San Do-

mango, has sold the Island of Alta Velt to a

 French company, ignoring the former sale to

 Americans. The American Consul has pro-

tested and sent for a war vessel to enforce

@@ authority.

The civil war in Cuba appears to be un-

checked, and in a worse muddle than ever.

 The insurgents will not yield, and are carry-

ing on hostilities in barbarous style.

The Paraguayans have lost Angostura,

 their last stronghold, and Lopez has fled the

 country.

European.

The French Parliament assembled on the

 15th, on which occasion Napoleon delived a

 speech from the throne full of professions of

 pence and earnest intentions in favor of greater

 liberty. He avows great confidence in the peo-

ple, but at the same time chiefly congratulates

 himself that the army is in a condition to en-

force respect if the people attempt to withhold

 it. he thinks the Conference has effectually

 patched up the quarrel between the Turks

 and Greeks.

Among the points of international law more

 clearly defined by the late Paris Conference

 was this: that to encourage privateering, insur-

rection or military expeditions against the

 territory of friendly State is a violation of

 international law. England, who committed

 these very offenses against the United States

 for four years, withouteverofferinganapology,

 consented to this new and more precise deli-

notion of the law of nations, because it hap-

pens to suit her present attitude on the

 Eastern question.

It is at last announced that the King of

Greece and all his Cabinet are agreed on

 peace and the Paris protocol.

A report reaches us from London yester-

day. that the Turks and Montenegrins have

 recently had a bloody battle. Particulars do

not accompany the report. Montengro

(Black Mountain) is a European provicine of

The Turkish Empire, containing a hardy po-

pulsation of 150,000-30,000 of whom bear

 arms and are ranked among the best soldier

of Europe.  they are all members of the

Christian Church and natural enemies of the

Turks.

Burlingame and his Chinese Embassy had

a personal interview with Napoleon on Satur-

day. It was satisfactory all round.

The former new r@ceived by was of Eu-

rope that the rebels have possession of Hako-

dadi is confirmed; as also the news that the

M@kado has taken up his residence at Yedo.

 According to the Shanghae News, Ross

Browne is held as a hostage iin Pekin for

the security of the Chinese Embassadors now

with Burlingame.

Russia.

(From The Nation Dec. 17, @@@)

The desire for grand changes which for

years has been agitating the thin upper layer

of Russia society, to layercontaining all its

more or less civilized and progressive ele-

ments, continues to manifest itself in its pe-

culler crude and eccentric manner. We hear

again of socialistic conspiracies emanating

from the "nihilistic" centers at Moscow and

Krev. Ladies of high rank are agitating for

The establishment of a Woman's University.

At the same time the favorite organs of both

@@@@@ and fashionable circles not only ap-

plaid the crusade wa@ed by the Government

against everything Polish or Catholic, as well

as the gradual restriction of the German-

Protestant and Jewish populations, but @ehe-

mentally condemn the "leniency" with which

the work of Russification is managed in the

empire; and this at a moment when the

 Polish priests transported to Siberia are being

removed to more remote regions of wilder-

ness; when the tens of thousands of Lithu-

anions carried there a few years ago are de-

cleared to be Siberian "settlers" for ever;

when the Polish students of Wi@@ are com-

peeled to exchange their praye-books for

 others in Russian in which prayers for the

 Czar are substituted for patriotic invocations;

when the Catholic villagers of Grondno and

Konvo are being escorted by military force

into the churches to listen to  a Russianized

ritual, and similar measures are daily decreed

and executed in every part of the western

provinces-measures the like of which have

not been attempted since Philip II., extirpated

the religion and nationality of the Moriscoes.

Dr. Vambery, the celebrated Hungarian

traveller, announced, some weeks ago, in a

letter to the London Times, that the arrival

at St. Petersburg of an envoy from the

Khan of Kohkand, a region of Eastern Tarke-

Altan, was due to the fact, not that this poten-

tate Joved Russia, but that he is threatened

with dethronement by an unpleasant person

named Yakoob Kooshbeghi, who holds sway

in Chinese Tartary on his eastern frontier,

and who is stirring up against him all the

 furious fanatics of his own dominions. The

envoy of the Khan has, of course, been re-

sieved rig royally, and the accusation of

Khokand as fief will brine the Russian troops

to the feet of the Karakorum Pass in the

 Eastern Himalayas. More recently has come

the news, which is now throwing British

India into a ferment. that the Eastern Him-

alayas, which were supposed to be impass-

able for an army, have been discovered by

Mr. T. D. Forsyth, a civil servant, to be

very passable indeed; that the grades by one

 pass at least--