Hot Weather in Russia. — Blazing Lot as our 
weather has been all over the country for weeks 
and almost months past, we have thus far been 
spared the troubles which the Russians are undel- 
goine from the same cause. So long continued ani 
excessive has their heated term been, that sponti- 
neous combustion has taken place in some of the 
large peat-beds around Tsarskoe-Selo audPeterhof, 
and vast subterranean fi res are in progress. And so 
dry are the woods and herbage, that in the Pargt- 
lara district the forests surrounding the lakes hate 
been on fire for weeks. In Belgium the grass his 
several times caught fire from engine sparks alotg 
the railroad, and spread with great rapidity, com 
and other cereals being largely damaged. 
noithern princes uf Japan have made a proposition 
to refer all difference for settlement to the arbitra¬ 
tion of Eutrland, Prance and the United States, and 
in case the latter powers accept the responsibility, 
they, the princes, will hind themselves for the faith¬ 
ful execution of the arbitration, both on their part 
and on the part of the Mikado. 
dent of the United States, and take the matter in 
his own hands. 
Mr. Bradley, the colored State 8enator from the 
First District of Georgia, has resigned, and his re¬ 
signation is accepted by the Governor, who has 
caused writ* to be issued for a new election to fill 
the vacancy. The Senate declared Mr. Bradley in¬ 
eligible. 
Gen. Buchanan has issued a circular informing 
the planters who have received supplies from the 
Freed men's Bureau that they must fulfill the letter 
of their bonds and ship their entire crops to the fac¬ 
tors in New Orleans, designated in a previous order. 
Any agent of the Bureau, be says, assisting or at¬ 
tempting to assist a planter to evade hie obligation 
in this matter, or who, suspecting that a planter is 
attempting to evade them, doeB not take all proper 
in bis power to prevent the same, will be 
by the Revenue Department will then De occupied 
by the Quartermaster General and liia clerks, and 
the Fine Art bulldiog, owned by Mr. Corcoran, and 
designed by him as a present to the city, will be 
surrendered to him, The Government took posses¬ 
sion of this Art building in the early part of the war, 
notwithstanding Mr. Corcoran’s earnest protest. 
The new Commissioner of Pensions has intimated 
his intention to reorganize the clerical force of his 
bureau, by discharging the incompetent clerks 
therein and divine their places to new men. The 
ROCHESTER AND NEW YORK: 
SATURDAY. AUG. 22, 1868 
An Abandoned Schooner.— On Thursday morn¬ 
ing the Captain of the schooner Maria Annette, 
picked up an abandoned schooner about 15 miles 
below Basque Isle on Lake Ontario. She had a full 
load of cord wood, and Bed Rover painted on her 
stem. No tidings of her crew or ownership can be 
ascertained. A crew from the Maria Annette was 
put on board and sailed her into Port Hope, where 
she now lies. 
New York State Items. 
At the recent Commencement of Madison Uni¬ 
versity nine young men were graduated, and the 
degree of D. D. was conferred upon Rev. James 
Cooper of London, Ont., Rev. Wm. R. Webb of 
Canton, Ill., and upon Rev. Joseph Freeman of Cav¬ 
endish, Vt. President Eaton retires from the office 
of President this year, and his successor is Dr. Eb- 
enezer Dodge, a graduate of Brown University, a 
student at the German Universities of Berlin and 
Halle, and for fifteen years a professor of the insti¬ 
tution of which he io now President. During Presi¬ 
dent Eat.on’6 administration, the endowment of the 
college has been increased from $00,001) to 8200,000. 
The ship Emerald Isle, from Liverpool via Queens¬ 
town, with 871 passengers, all Mormons, and a 
crew of 47 men, arrived at New York Tuesday week, 
at quarantine, with a number of cases of typhoid 
and typhus fever on board. Thirty-seven deaths and 
three births occurred on the passage. 
LeRoy Faxon of Greenwich, Washington Co., was 
drowned in Lake Cossayuna a few days since, while 
on a picnic excursion. His father, two sisters and 
the command of the Military Department of the 
East, with bis headquarters in New York city. The 
principal officers of the General's stall' are: Brevet 
Brig. Gen. James Totten, Inspector General; Brevet 
Major Gen. Rufus Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster; 
Brevet Brig. Gen. Kilburn, Commissary of Subsist¬ 
ence : Brevet Brig. Gen. Cuyler, Medical Director; 
Brevet Major Robt. C. Perry, Judge Advocate and 
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General; Brevet Captain 
Costa, Aid-de-Camp. 
Gen. Schofield, Secretary of War, decides in regard 
to the eight-hour law, that till Congress explains its 
enactment, men who work the reduced number of 
houre shall receive reduced pay. Masons who were 
receiving $4.50 fora day of ten hours, will hereafter 
get. only $3.60, and carpenters and machinists’ pay 
will be $2.40 iustead of $3 a day. 
Mr. Evarts’ opinion in the Internal Revenue Cem- 
missionership matter has been sent to Secretary j 
McCulloch. He decides that inasmuch as Commis¬ 
sioner Rollins’ tender to resign was not a resigna¬ 
tion, but merely an intimation that be desired to 
have Borne one appointed to succeed him, no va¬ 
cancy has occurred through its acceptance by the 
President. Mr. Rollins therefore remains Commis¬ 
sioner of Internal Revenue, and his resignation 
amounts to nothing until his successor is confirmed 
by the Senate. 
The Times’ Washington special saysThe letter 
of instructions from Secretary Schofield to General 
Buchanan is intended to he applicable to all of the 
military eommauders in the recently admitted States, 
and settles at once and for all time the doubtregard- 
ing the course of the administration in recognizing 
the governments of these States. In fact, by this 
act, the President has virtually given the control of 
these States into the hands of Secretary Schofield, 
who is a pronounced supporter of the Congressional 
reconstruction policy of Grant and Colfax. The 
letter was written by Secretary Schofield, approved 
by the President and forwarded through army head¬ 
quarters without Cabinet consultation on it. 
A circular has been issued by Secretary McCul¬ 
loch to the heads of departments and divisions, etc., 
of the Treasury Department, requiring them to pre¬ 
pare for him complete lists of the clerical force, 
their capabilities, &c., preparatory to a general re- 
Australian Affairs— Advices from Australia lo 
July 2d have been received. Four shocks of earth¬ 
quake were experienced on the night of June 28th 
the eastern coast. The harvest is anticipated to le 
abundant owing to plentiful rains during the present 
wiuter. The Australian joint stock company fys 
made an arrangement with the King of the Fejka 
Islands involving a settlement of the claims of t^e 
American Government and the probable establish¬ 
ment of a British protectorate over the Fejee grou ■. 
The company’s agents have taken up 100,000 acres >f 
land. The political crisis in Victoria is increasing n 
importance and is likely to produce great distress n 
consequence of the Ministry refusing to resign. 
measure 
dismissed. 
The Freedmen's Bureaus for the States of Maryland 
and Delaware have been consolidated with the de¬ 
partments of the District of Columbia, with head¬ 
quarters at Washington, and Gen. Charles Howard 
in charge. 
Governor Scott of South Carolina, has received 
notice that 125,000 has been deposited to his credit 
in the office of the United States Treasurer at 
Charleston, as part of the educational fund. It will 
be expended in building school bouses, and will be 
that much saved in taxation to the people. 
The Militia bill of the Louisiana Legislature, giv¬ 
ing the Governor discretionary power to accept, arm 
and commission officers of the volunteer militia 
whose organization meets his approval, passed both 
The bill empowers the 
From South America.— The Rio Janeiro news¬ 
papers print an account of a Paraguayan expedition 
against a couple of Brazilian iron-ciads. The boats 
Fat ax, Railroad Accident.. —A collision occurr¬ 
ed recently on the Oil Creek & Allegany River 
Railroad, near Rouseville between a freight and a 
construction train, which resulted in the death of 
five men and in severely injuring some twelve or 
fifteen others. 
Nova Scotia and the°Dom:mon\ —The Legis \- 
tureof Nova Scotia has assembled. The Alton y 
General said the Government would announce is 
policy in a few days. In the meantime he mov ai 
resolutions protesting agaiDSt the union. Memb re 
in favor of seceding from the Dominion have agrerd 
to use every constitutional means which they (ta 
command, but constitutional means only, in orderi > 
remove Nova Scotia from the Canadian Confedej.* 
tion. They deprecate rebellion against the crova 
and annexation to the United StateB. 
excursion, 
affianced witnessed bis sad death from the shore un¬ 
able to render him the least assistance. 
Douglas Stickles of Taghkanic, Columbia Co., 
aged 20 years, son of John Sticklee, was on the 3d 
inst., while at work in the field, 6tung by a bee over 
his right eye, from the effects of which he died on 
the 10th inst. Before death took place he was com¬ 
pletely paralyzed. 
The experiments on the elevated railway in Green¬ 
wich street, New York city, having proved satisfac¬ 
tory to the engineers appointed to test it, the direc¬ 
tors have issued 8750,000 on the first mortgage of 
convertible bonds of $500 each. The bonds were 
Houses of the Legislature, 
Governor to call out and disperse the militia at his 
pleasure. 
An informal meeting between prominent, mem¬ 
bers of both political parties in Louisiana has been 
held. The danger of a collision was acknowledged 
imminent. Both parties manifested a willingness 
to concede anything in reason to avert the impend¬ 
ing trouble. 
A riot occurred in Richmond on the night of the 
10th inst. A Democratic mass meeting in progress 
was interrupted several times by a negro seated in a 
window mear at hand. The crowd at last made a 
rush for him, resul^ng in a general panic, in which 
several persons were injured by brick bats, 
On Saturday, at 12 o’clock, a party of about fifteen 
masked persons rode into Franklin, Williamson Co., 
Tenn., and broke open tbe store of a Jew named 
Bierfield. The latter attempted flight, but was fired 
nnon. when he fell, nierced bv five bullets. A col- 
Mbxican News. — By the latest advices from 
Mexico we are informed that the whole State of 
Vera Cruz was in rebellion and tbe leaders being men 
of influence, the rebellion was rapidly extending, and 
it was thought the castle of San Juan d’Ulloa would 
be attacked. Alatorre had been defeated by Negrote. 
A man in Massachusetts has invented a combina¬ 
tion lock which is, he says, remarkable for its 
simplicity. We should think so. It has only 1,000,- 
000 combinations. 
The great crater of Kilauea, Sandwich Islands, for 
many years inactive, has again become a thing of 
life. The glare of its fires can be distinctly seen 
from Hilo, a distance of forty miles. No damage is 
yet reported. 
During the month #f July twenty-five hundred 
cases of cholera and nearly fourteen hundred deaths 
occurred in Havana. The yellow fever ha6 not in¬ 
creased in violence, but the cases, though few in 
number, are unusually fatal. 
One of the largest and finest boot and shoe facto¬ 
ries outside of New England is at Rochester. About 
five years ago the proprietor began business with a 
force of ten hands; he now employs 300, and will 
soon increase the number to 400. 
A novel “ golden” celebration took place a few 
days ago at Mansfield Center, Conn. Betsey Hunt¬ 
ington, who bad been a servant in one family for 
fifty years, was the subject of a “golden” and con¬ 
gratulatory visit by the numerous friends of the 
family. 
At Cornish Flat, N. F., recently, a streak of 
ommmfal, fttartats 
RURAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE, j 
Rocoestkb. Avgust IS, I8b8. j 
The latest New York reports assign slightly increased r,- 
tivity to the money market. Call loans 3 to 5 per cent. Ster¬ 
ling exchange dull at 10!l@109R. American Gold is more so 
tied since the excited spasm of ten days ago. The latest qut- 
t at ions are 146L@146N. Stocks generally are reported som»- 
what weaker. 
At the West an Increased demand for money is noticeaba, 
at the more prominent points, hot the supply is in excess >f 
the demand, and rates show no quotable appreciation. Mo-e 
activity may be expected as the new wneat crop is thro- n 
upon the market. 
Wool.,—Tbe Boston wool market during the last week ex¬ 
hibited no marked features. The demand at current prlceB 
was good, and some manufacturers were supplying them¬ 
selves liberally beyond Immediate wants, encouraged by tbe 
more active demand for goods for the fall trade. The re¬ 
ceipts of wool the pj^sent season have been largely in excess 
of those of the same period last year, showing that the bulk 
of the clip has not been held back as formerly, but lias bem 
tUi-own upon the market for what It would bring, If fr<m 
any cause there should be any considerable increase tn the 
demand for woolen goods the present year over the last, It 
is safe to infer that wool has touched bottom, and that what¬ 
ever change occurs must be in favor of those who have the 
article for sale. The transactions of last week aggregate 
1,225,COO pounds, tnaluly in the low and medium grades, at 
40@13e.; extra Michigan and Ohio, 43®45c.; double extra, 
47(350a. Combing wool Is In good demand at ds@53c. lor 
good washed native deeces. 
In Western New York the wool business is not very active, 
especially in this city—not over 1,000 pounds liavlngbeen i e- 
ccived here during the past week. In tbe country mow ‘s 
doing, and prices range from S5 to 38c. 
WuuT and Flock.—' The advance in New York a : w 
days ?;nce does not seem to have been sustained. The latest 
news shows a decline. In our local market llouv,best grade, 
advancedo0e. per barrel and red wheat 13c. per bushel. Bur¬ 
ley is again quotable at $I,12<gi$1.25. Corn and Oats withait 
change. Little of either ottering. 
Clover Seed—Is again moving slowly at $0.00 for large 
and $7.50for small. Timothy Is in fair demand at $3.00. 
Vegetables are lower-. Potatoes in good supply at 3-r.@ 
$1.00, and Onions at $1.'25®?L50. 
ROCHESTER, Arc. 10-Flour, wheat, $U,50<5ilJ,00; Burk- 
Wheat, * cwi.. $4, 50®5,50; Corn, per bushel, $1,10@1,15; >111 
feed. $25035. Wheat, red. $2,1002,25; Do. white, $2,4C'@2,iO; 
Rye, $1,5001,30: Oats, 750780; Barley, $1,1201,25; Beans, $0,- 
00(2,0.00; Pork, mess, f80jOO@Sl.OOr Beef, cwt., $10,00014,00; 
Dressed hogs, cwt., $00,00000,00; Hams, 18®20cts Shoulders, 
15@!5cts; Chickens. 18®20c; Turkeys,22@25c; Bulter, 30&55c; 
providing for the protection and proper treatment 
of emigrants on the high seas. The Federal Gov¬ 
ernment proposes to appoint an agent whose duties 
gbAll he to watch over the embarkation of emigrants 
from German ports, and report all abuses. 
A battle took place between the Cretans and the 
Tuikish troops on the 27th of July, in which the 
Turks were badly beaten. 
Another dreadful colliery explosion lately occurred 
at Jemmapes, in the Province of Ilaynault, Belgium. 
Fifty-one persons were killed, and a great number 
injured. 
Thomas Carlyle has been elected President of the 
Edinburgh Philosophical Association in the place of 
Lord Brougham. 
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is to be made 
Duke of Ulster. 
The London cabmen are on a strike. 
The insurrectionary movement in Bulgaria has 
been entirely suppressed by the Turkish troops, and 
the proclamation establishing a state of siege in the 
province has been revoked. 
The first private execution which has taken place 
under the new law concerning capital punishment 
in England, took place one day last week, in Lon¬ 
don, the criminal being a young man charged with 
the murder of a station master. 
There was a magnificent military display in Paris 
on the 14th inst. The national and imperial guard 
were received by the Emperor. The Empress, the 
drove near a lot of bee hives. The bees swarmed 
out and covered the horses, and on Mr. Frosytbe 
attempting to brush them off, they attacked and 
stung him severely. He lay down and soon after 
was discovered to he dead. 
Mrs. Frances J. Morton was married to Col. H. 
D. Merritt, at Hudson city, New Jersey, on the 4th 
of July. On the 9th her brother Edward L. Price 
went to her home, and she leaving her husband in 
an upper room, met her brother, who prevailed up¬ 
on her to take a ride with him. She was conveyed 
to the Bergen County poor-houEe, and locked up as 
an insane woman. Her husband had been unable to 
ascertain her whereabouts until the 17th, when he 
applied for a writ of kabeasyorpus , and the matter is 
now being investigated. 
On the 9th day of last April the beautiful and 
favorite steamer Sea Bird was burned and sunk in 
Lake Michigan, near Waukegan. It is believed that 
nearly one hundred lives were lost by the fearful 
calamity, and the painful uncertainty as to the exact 
number, will never be dispelled, for it is now ascer 
tained that the passenger list was destroyed in the 
iron safe. This safe was recovered on Sunday last, 
but no bodies were found. The safe was empty, all 
its contents having been consumed by the terrible 
heat of the burning boat. 
Six of the robbers who 6tole $225,000 from old Mr. 
Benninghoff’s house in Venango county, Pa., some 
months ago, have been arrested. George Miller was 
nabbed at Saegertown, Pa., Louis Welde and Jake 
Shopbitt at Akron, O., two others in Philadelphia, 
and one quite recently in Montreal. Ihe principal 
one—Jim Saeger-—has not yet been captured, and it 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Arc,. 12 -Beeves—Receipts 6,430 bead ; quota¬ 
tions at 9<§»lt)XC. Cows—Receipts 112 head; quotations at 
83ft r 115. Veal Calves—Receipts 1,570head; quotations l@ 
12c. Sheep and Lambs —Receipts 30,056 bead, quotations 
3®se. Swine— Receipts 11,851 head; quotations 10@iSKc, 
ALBANY, Arc;. 13 — Beef Cattle sell at 3K@»)fc; M ich 
Cows. $40@lOO; Veal Calves, ?<«8c; Sheep- J ; 5Rc: Lambs, 
OL&i'-.C; Hogs, 9A'@llc. 
CAMBRIDGE AND BRIGHTON, AuG. 12— Beeves range 
Iroro0®l3VC; Working Oxen, $2250535 pain Handy Steers 
and sum oxen. $1250200; Milch cows, $45@100; Hellers and 
farrow. $85(350; Sheep and Lambs. $l,i>2@4,o0 # bead; I at 
Hogs—11011c i Young Pies, It'toiac; Hides, 9010c. * ft.; Tal¬ 
low, liima ; Call skins. Is©20c. V ft.; Pelts, 25082c, 
CINCINNATI, Ann. 12-Beer Cattle. * 4 , 50 ®i,00; Sheep, 
@4e; Lambs, $1.50(^2,75; Hogs, lOjqc. 
CHICAGO, ADO. 15—Beef cattle range at from $'2,50(§f,UO. 
Slice;., axar,B;c. Hogs, live. $8,W(i!W,15. 
PHILADELPHIA. Are. 11.-Beef Cattle. 5@9§fc: Cowb 
and Calves, MRH35; Sheep. 4>4@6AC. gross; Hogs, 14<314>.C. 
BALTIMORE, Auo. 12—Beet Cattle, 4@SVc; Milch Ccvs, 
$4 C>: l i 15; Veal Calves,5<3,7c; Sheep,4®5Rc-, Hogs,13K@14S;e. 
TORONTO, A VO- 14—Beeves range at $1,50® 6,50; Shoep, 
$2,o6<oi),tl0; Lambs, $l,50®2,50; Calves, $2,0006. 
of the militia in the District, The order was given 
to Gen. Grant last November, but he has not obeyed 
it, and the President haB notified the Secretary of 
War of the fact. Instructions will accordingly be 
given immediately to Gen. Canby. Several of the 
Zouaves were arrested on Saturday and required to 
give hail in ?200 to answer. 
From the South. 
Gov. Smith of Alabama, has sent to the State 
Senate a veto of the bill authorizing the Legislature 
to ca6t the electoral vote of the State. Gov. S. says: 
“ After tbe most mature reflection, I am forced to the 
conclusion that the bill is wrong in principle, and 
that it would be a dangerous precedent in a Repub¬ 
lican Government. As my judgment does not ap¬ 
prove the hill, it iB my constitutional duty to return 
it to the Senate with my objections. It cannot but 
be regarded as remarkable that the first Republican 
Legislature convened in Alabama, shall, in the face 
of the principles of its organization, which every 
Republican professes to hold dear, deny not only to 
the colored, but the white man, the right by his vote 
to indicate his choice for President and Yice-Piesi- 
From Washlngtoii. 
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Representative in 
Congress from the Lancaster District of Pennsylva¬ 
nia for a long term of years, died at his residence on 
Capitol Hill on the night of tbe 11th inst., aged 
seventy-six years. His body was laid in state in the 
Rotunda of the Capitol, after being embalmed, and 
thence taken to Lancaster by special train, escorted 
by a company of colored Zouaves. 
The north wing of the Treasury building is rapid¬ 
ly approaching completion. Nearly the whole of 
that addition will be occupied by the Internal Rev¬ 
enue Department, which will be removed thither in 
the early part of September. Tbe building occupied 
THE WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW YORK. Arc. 15.— Market 1 b tirm. Sales are 1,7'00,- 
000 IDb. at 4l@52e. for Domestic Fleece, 48(5 life for tUbbea. 40@ 
43c for pulled, 62©6Sc for picklocks, 50@58c for Lai&da (femb- 
Incs. 28@81c. for Texas, 2S@31c for Mexican, and 24@3p;for 
California. 
BOSTON, Aug, 13—The following arc the quotkt'.OTiatiken 
from the Boston Journal:—Fleece, 40050c; pulled, 
medium and extra Western,44^(5.50c; new combing Hpeee, 5C 
0u53c, and Canada do, 62@52c. 
CINCINNATI, Auo. 12—The following are the Oflzeite'e 
a not utious: — Fulled, 33®35c; Tub Washed, 38@40c; Un- 
bis generals to return borne and remain neutraL 
Satsuma’s party had issued a proclamation in the 
name of the Mikado, condemning all native Chris¬ 
tians to death. Several executions had taken place 
at Nagasaki and Sendai, within sixteen miles of 
Yeddo It is stated that 150 Christian Japan na- 
tives had been taken ont from Nagusaki in a steamer 
and drowned, notwithstanding the remonstrance of 
the consuls at that port. It is stated that the 
