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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
BOOHESTER AND NEW YOEK: 
SATURDAY, u\TJ & . 29. 1868. 
NEWS 
THE WEEK. 
New York State. 
John Kennedy was executed at Canton on the 
30th inst, for the murder of Thomas Hand, in Feb¬ 
ruary 1867, He met death with apparent indiffer¬ 
ence. He was condemed to be hung in November 
last, but on the morning of the day a stay of 
proceedings was served upon the sheriff, and lie was 
further respited. 
A barn containing four horses, nine yokes of oxen 
with harnesses, hay and fanning tools, belonging to 
J. E. & E. L. Willis of WiliistOn, Erie county, was 
burned recently. The building and horseB were 
insured. 
At about nine o’clock Wednesday night, Mr. Cuff' 
was attacked while walking in Sixth avenue, New 
York city near the reservoir, by two ruffians who at¬ 
tempted to rob him. In the scuffle he wa6 shot at 
twice, one ball striking his head, which is cut badly; 
he was also stabbed in the side. The robbers escaped. 
About eight o'clock Wednesday evening, an un¬ 
known woman about forty years of age, wearing a 
long black silk mantilla, jumped in the river from 
the stern of the Houston street (New York) ferry¬ 
boat, and was not afterwards seen by the officers of 
the boat, although proper exertions were made to 
rescue her. 
One day last week the fires of the blast furnace in 
the lower part of Troy were carelessly permitted to 
go out. The starting of new fires necessitated the 
expenditure of thousands of dollars. 
The work of grading for the new Kondout and 
Oswego railroad iB being pushed with vigor, and it is 
expected that before many months the eastern 
division of the road will be in operation. 
A severe storm passed over Baidwinsville, Onon¬ 
daga county, lately, and a young man named Eugene 
Haswell, a lumber merchant, was stuck by lightning 
and instantly killed. 
A young man named Frank Hcbbard was killed in 
Rochester on Friday last by the fulling of a wall. 
An old hulk which has been submerged near Hurl 
Gate for many years, was recently blown up by the 
new explosive powder. Immediately after the ex¬ 
plosion, over two thousand fish, of all descriptions, 
floated to the surface, some of which weighed 
twelve pounds. 
Miss Blandina Oonant of Brooklyn, daughter of a 
well-known Biblical translator, has been appointed 
Professor of English Literature in Rutger College. 
Twenty-live persons, nearly equally divided as to 
sex, started for Kansas on the 18th inst, from New¬ 
ark. They intend to settle under the Homestead act. 
D. D. Townsend of Niagara Falls, had his house 
entered Wednesday night, and $1,000 worth of silver¬ 
ware taken from a bureau. 
The lady cutters in the Messrs. Churchill’s shoe 
manufacturing establishment, at Rochester, had a 
leap year pic-nic, “ all by themselves,” at Charlotte, 
Wednesday, and “paddled their own canoe.” 
Wm. W. Furman of Newburgh, dropped dead at 
hi6 shoe bench, Wednesday afternoon. 
William J. Crozlerof Elmira, a prominent witness 
in the trial of some Elmira incendiaries, was waylaid 
and nearly murdered on Wednesday evening. The 
man who committed the assault was a farmer by the 
name of Bruce. 
Three dashy young lawyers of Rochester went to 
Buffalo on a pleasure trip, and while mixing with a 
crowd at a circus, were arrested as pickpockets. 
Track laying on the Plattsburgh and Whitehall 
railroad has commenced at Plattsburgh, and is pro¬ 
gressing rapidly. 
Peter Wilson and James Colligan, two men em¬ 
ployed as divers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, were 
suffocated on Thursday of last week. They were in 
a very large diving bell, and the air valve became 
choked ap and failed to furnish air. 
Peter J. Williams, a youth of 16 years, in jumping 
from a train on the H. R. R. R., at the comer of 
54th street and Eleventh avenue, New York city, 
one evening last week, fell across the track, when 
the cars passed over his body, mangling him In a 
shocking manner. 
The trotting horse Dexter made a mile in two 
minutes and fourteen seconds one day last week, at 
a private trial. 
The State Sunday School Convention assembled 
at Elmira on the 18th inst. A large number of dele¬ 
gates were in attendance, The Secretary reported 
statistics received from forty-two counties, the fol¬ 
lowing being a summary :—Number of towns, 631; 
number of reports, 486; number of schools, 3,589; 
number of officers and teachers, 49,165; number of 
scholars, 343,540; number of conversions, S.3G1. The 
increase in Sunday School attendance for the year 
in the State is given at 58,349. 
Eighteen infected cattle reached New York on the 
30th in6t, by the Harlem road. Four of the same 
drove died at Milleston, N. Y., and twenty-three 
more are in quarantine there, while still others are 
at Copake. All came from Albany. Deaths of 
Western cattle have occurred at Sing Sing. 
On Friday morning two freight trains collided on 
the Hudson River Railroad. One locomotive was 
totally wrecked, and three cars demolished. 
There were 781 deaths in New York city last week, 
an increase of nearly 100 over the previous week, 
owing mainly to diseases brought about by eating 
diseased beef. 
Roork’s planing mill, together with a large amount 
of lumber, was burned at Albany on Saturday. Loss 
$50,000. 
The colored people of New York city and vicin¬ 
ity, and of all the towns along the Hudson, are 
going to have a joyous occasion on the 16th of Sep¬ 
tember. at Poughkeepsie, when the anniversary of 
tho promulgation of the Emancipation Proclama¬ 
tion will be duly celebrated. 
Gen. M. R. Patrick, J. Stanton Gould and Lewis 
F. Allen, Commissioners to inquire into the cattle 
disease, met in Buffalo on Saturday, and held consul¬ 
tation with the municipal and railroad authorities. 
Sub-Commissioners are to be appointed in various 
parts of the State. 
A bam belonging to Mr. Gascoign, in West Ken¬ 
dall, Orleans Co., was burned on Sunday, and a son 
of Mr. G. perished while attempting to get a horse 
out of the burning building. 
The Susquehanna Independent is informed that a 
panther inhabits the dense woods along the line of 
the Albany di Susqnehannah Ruilroad, between the 
village of 06bom Hollow and tunnel, in the town 
of Coles villt. It has been seen several times by the 
men employed on the railroad. One of the farmers 
residing in the neighborhood has lost several sheep 
recently, and the panther has been charged with the 
theft. The animal is described as being very large. 
From Washington. 
The Indian Bureau believe that the telegraphic 
reports from the West relative to Indian hostilities 
are either greatly exaggerated or wholly untrue, as 
the official information leads to a very different 
conclusion. There are certain speculative interests 
to be served by getting up and circulating reports 
of Indian outrages, and tbe Department has ceased 
to credit any reports of hostilities unless received 
officially. 
The work of removing the office of the Agricul¬ 
tural Department to the new building in South 
Washington is progressing quite rapidly. The 
library and laboratory have already been removed 
and by next week the commissions and most of tbe 
offices of the Department will have become located 
in their new quarters. 
Upon the legal advice of the Attorney General as 
to the power of the President in the premises, Jo¬ 
seph 8. 8. Rowland has been appointed United 
States Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas 
vice Luther C. White, suspended for misconduct in 
office. 
There is said to be no reasonable prospect what¬ 
ever of a session of Congress in September. Its 
only advocates are a few over-zeaiouB Southern 
men, who imagine it would tend to ameliorate the 
condition of that section. 
No appointments of Supervisors have yet been 
made under the new Internal Revenue law. Mr. 
Rollins has submitted tbe names of sundry appli¬ 
cants to the Secretary of the Treasury, but the 
latter ha6 disapproved of at least a portion of them, 
and there is a discord of views with these gentle- 
the 13th inst. a band of 360 red fiends visited Spell¬ 
man's Creek, Kaimas, beat several of the settlers 
unmercifully, outraged their wives and left them for 
dead, destroyed all the property within their reach, 
and left for the north. Detachments of soldiers 
have gone to the scene of the outrages. 
The town of La Porte, in California, was destroy¬ 
ed by fire on the 10th inst. The loss is estimated 
at $500,000. 
Bill Comstock, the distinguished scout, has been 
found murdered by the Iudians in Kansas, near 
Hayes City. A party of Cheyennes drove off 110 
mules on the 19th, from within a mile of Fort 
Hayes. Tbe Indians are retreating, with the mili¬ 
tary and volunteers in vigorous pursuit. Gen. Sher¬ 
idan is on hand with an ample force. 
Professor Watson of the observatory at Detroit, 
Mich., reports haviDg discovered an entirely new 
planet, never exhibited before. This is the second 
one discovered by Michigan astronomers within the 
past two months. 
An Omaha dispatch says that the chief of the de¬ 
partment of the Platte has received orders for the 
immediate construction of extensive military bar¬ 
racks upon tbe government reservation, three miles 
north of the city. 
The cattle plague has made its appearance in Cin¬ 
cinnati Seventeen cows belonging to one dairy 
have been stricken with the disease and are dying 
off rapidly. It is supposed the plague was brought 
thither by Texas cattle. 
The Chicago <fc North Western Railroad bridge at 
Stirling, Illinois, which was three hundred feet in 
length, was destroyed by tire Saturday night. It 
will be re-built at once. 
The Postmaster General has, in conformity with 
the recent act of Congress, issued orders to his sub¬ 
ordinates to send to the dead letter office all letters, 
circulars, &c., concerning lotteries, gift concerts 
and similar swindles. 
The President bos officially announced by procla¬ 
mation the ratification of the fourteenth article of 
the Constitution of the United States by the State 
of Georgia. 
A General Order has been issued from the War De¬ 
partment, intended as an explanation of the refusal 
of Secretary Schofield to furnish arms to the militia 
of the Southern States on the application of the 
Governors, and for the information of the officers 
of the army now on duty in the South. It contains 
an extract from the 8rmy appropriation bill passed 
by the Thirty-ninth Congress, disbanding all militia 
organizations in Virginia, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi 
and Texas, and prohibiting new one6, under any 
circum6tanc.es whatever, to be formed till the same 
shall be authorized by Congress. 
Secretary Schofield has received a dispatch from 
Gen. Sherman, dated Omaha, Ang. 20th, in which 
he announces receipt of a dispatch from Gen. Sheri¬ 
dan confirming the press dispatches about the In¬ 
dian outrages. The outrages are declared too 
horrible for detail. Gen. Sherman ordered Gen. 
Sheridan to continue the pursuit and drive the 
savages from that part of the country, and when 
captured to give them punishment. The Secretary 
of War communicated the intelligence to the Presi¬ 
dent, who acquiesced in the measures being taken 
in the matter. 
It is said that Gen. McMahon, the new Minister 
to Paraguay, will be instructed to use his best efforts 
to restore peace between that Republic and the Allies 
cow waging war against her, the United States Gov¬ 
ernment hav/ug heretofore proffered its mediation 
to that end. 
The. decision of Secretary Schofield regarding the 
eight hour law passed at the last session of Congress 
that employes should receive but eight hours’ pay 
has been referred to the Attorney General for his 
opinion. A number of Government employes here 
have presented a petition to the President on the 
subject, in which they set forth in extracts from the 
Senate dehates when the law was pending in that 
body the fact that several propositions, particularly 
one offered by Senator Sherman, intending to re¬ 
strict the pay of workmen to eight hours were voted 
down. 
The suit brought by Geo. W. Alexander, late asses¬ 
sor of the eighth Pennsylvania district, against J. 
T. Lawrence Getz, M. C., E. A. Rollins, Commis¬ 
sioner of Internal Revenue, and others, charging 
them with conspiracy to defame his character and 
obtain his removal from office, is likely to prove 
important as a check to farther removals based on 
statements of parties interested in them for political 
purposes. 
Nothing is positively known of the instructions to 
Gen. Rosecrans relative to Mexican affairs, but there 
is very good reason to suppose that we are on the 
eve of important changes, so far as the policy of the 
United States toward Mexico is concerned. It is 
asserted by usually well informed diplomats and 
others, that Gen. Rosecrans is empowered by tbe 
Executive to tender all the naval aid possible to the 
Juarez Government, and that material support will 
not be withheld if it should he found necessary to 
enable the Mexican authorities to crush the various 
factions there, and to establish a stable- Government. 
Brevet. Lieutenant Col. E. F. Townsend, Major of 
the 25th U. S. Infantry, has been ordered to report 
to the commanding General of the Department of 
the Platte and relieve Brevet Col. Samuel Ross, 
Major of tbe 28t.h U. S. Infantry, relieved from re¬ 
cruiting service and ordered to report at New 
Orleans. 
The efforts to obtain a pardon for Dr. Mndd, the 
assassination? conspirator, have been revived. The 
Medical Society of Howard county, Maryland, have 
sent a petition to the President for his release, in 
which they will be joined by other associations of 
that State. All the petitions presented assert that 
Dr. Mudd has served three years’ imprisonment for 
alleged butunproved complicity in the assassination 
of President Lincoln. 
The list of registered bonds of the United States 
originally comprised about 1,500 names, and the ag¬ 
gregate amount of interest due on the various bonds 
owned by the parties was over $65,000 in gold. Re¬ 
cently several of the parties have been paid from the 
office of the Treasurer, but there is still owing nearly, 
if not quite, $60,000. 
From tlie West. 
Beds of coal have been discovered in Southern 
Illinois, Dear McLeansboro. A correspondent of the 
Chicago Tribune says:—“ Two new shafts are sink¬ 
ing, one oU which has just reached the deposit, and 
the mines>re{,bringing'up coal in abundance, and of 
excellent , quality. It is found at a depth of from 
twelve to” fifteen feet, and the bed of coal itself, 
where it waB’fiyet struck, was six feet thick, and it 
is thought to: be thicker in other places. The indi¬ 
cations ut;present are that this entire region is one 
vast bed) ofjeoal, as all the wells that have been 
sunk in the^vicinity have invariably stopped in the 
same kind of slate as that beneath which the coal 
is found. 
More shocking Indian atrocities are reported. On 
From the South. 
Gen. Stoneman has issued an order directing 
the Auditor of Virginia to receive from railroads 
indebted to the State the whole or any part of then- 
dues, to be paid in current funds or in State bonds 
at par. The whole amount due from the roads is 
about $300,000. 
The rotunda of the University of Virginia took 
fire accidentally on Wednesday of last week, and 
the building and library were considerably damaged. 
The amount of loss is unknown. 
The office effects, cars, engines, dec,, of the Wash¬ 
ington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad Com¬ 
pany, at Alexandria, have been taken possession of, 
under an order of the Circuit Court of Alexandria, 
by William H. Harbury, appointed in the said order 
receiver of that part of the road lying in the State 
of Virginia. 
Gen. Reynolds, commanding the sub-military dis¬ 
trict of Texas, in view of the repeated outrages of 
the Kuklux organization on the loyal citizens of the 
State, has ordered a military commission, under the 
reconstruction laws, for the purpose if possible of 
preventing future acts of lawlessness and murder, 
and of punishing the offenders. 
A telegram from White Sulphur Springs, Va., say6 
Gen. Rosecrans was there, for the purpose of con¬ 
sulting with Gen. Lee and other Southern Generals 
in regard to a plan for a general reconciliation of the 
people of both sections of the country. In accord¬ 
ance with this programme, a private meeting was 
held, at which Gliterals Lee, Longstroet, Beaure¬ 
gard, Ewell, Echols, Anderson and Hunter, and 
A. H. Stephens, A. H. H. Stuart, John B. Baldwin, 
Govs. Stockdale of Texas, Pickens of South Caro¬ 
lina and Walker tof Alabama, were present with 
Gen. Rosecrans.long consultation took place, 
and a ,*lan of .ac'.Ji- was agreed upon, but nothing 
further has trans f red of the proposed movement. 
It is believed thatau address will be issued to the 
Southern people by their former leaders. 
It is feared that serious trouble impends in Ten¬ 
nessee and Kentucky. Gen. George H. Thomas, it 
is reported, has commenced to forward additional 
U. B. troops into the State, and Gov. Brownlow has 
prepared a call for 30,000 of the militia. 
Latest Foreign Intelligence. 
A tearful railroad calamity occurred in North 
Wales on Thursday of last week. At the little 
town of Abergele, in the county of Denbigh, a train 
loaded with passengers ran off a switch into a long 
train of loaded petroleum trucks. Seven persons, 
all passengers in the Irish mail train, were killed 
outright, and many others badly injured. The ears 
on both trains were reduced to a shapeless mass. 
The concussion produced an explosion of the petro¬ 
leum, which instantly enveloped both trams in 
liames. Before the fire could be subdued, eighteen 
persons had been literally burnt to ashes. 
It has transpired that a plot existed to assassinate 
Queen Victoria during her recent sojourn at Lu¬ 
cerne, Switzerland. A man has been arrested who 
iB supposed to have been at the head of it. 
The attention of the Austrian Government has 
been called to the threatening state of affairs in Bul¬ 
garia by an unusual demand for firearms from the 
other side of the Danube, and an order has been is¬ 
sued prohibiting the exportation of arms or ammu¬ 
nition from the Austrian territory into the Danu- 
bian principalities. 
Dispatches from Madrid state that a crisis has 
taken place in the Spanish Government. The Min¬ 
ister of War has withdrawn from the Cabinet, and 
tbe Captain-General of Madrid and Barcelona have 
resigned. 
Admiral Famgut, accompanied by Mr. Morris, 
the Minister of the United States, has had an inter¬ 
view with the Sultan. After the interchange of 
compliments and good wishes, the Sultan informed 
the Admiral that the flagship Franklin would be 
permitted to pass through the Dardanelles to Con¬ 
stantinople, should the Admiral so desire. 
ford, recently made a speech, in which he condemned 
Disraeli and his policy, but praised Lord Stanley’s 
course with regard to the Alabama claims and the 
naturalization question. 
The Fatrie, a French paper, advises that the dis¬ 
pute between the United States and Great Britain, 
concerning the Alabama claims, be referred to the 
arbitration of one of the great Powers, as the only 
means of arriving at a definite and final settlement. 
Admiral Farragut still remains in Constantinople. 
Last week he had an interview with Gen. Ignatiefl, 
the Russian Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, and 
subsequently the Admiral, in company with Gen. 
Ignatiefl; visited the Turkish Ministers Fand Pasha 
and Ali Pasha. 
The Messrs. Armands of Bordeaux, who con¬ 
structed certain iron-clads for the Confederate Gov¬ 
ernment, and against whom the U. 8. Government 
recently obtained judgment in the French Court of 
Appeal, have been adjudged bankrupts. 
Soon after the arrival of the American yacht Sap¬ 
pho at Cowes, Mr. P. P. Baldwin, the Captain, issued 
a general challenge to the yachtmen of England for 
a race. The challenge was immediately accepted by 
the yachts Aline, Cambria, Ournara and Condor, and 
details of a friendly contest agreed upon. 
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Porto Rico News.—A t. last accounts the Island 
was in such a state that a rebellion or a revolution 
against the Spanish Government was probable at 
any moment. The taxes were enormous and their 
collection was rigidly enforced. The Governor 
General, in the meantime, was alleviating the suffer¬ 
ing as much as possible by a series of amuse¬ 
ments and hull fights which had been introduced. 
Many atrocities, however, were committed by the 
authorities. 
Venezuelan News.— Mail advices from Vene¬ 
zuela state that a mission to Puerto Cabello to sum¬ 
mon Brusual to surrender was spoken of in Monaga’s 
command, The Faleonists numbur 800 men in that 
town, and the place has been 6trongly fortified. The 
Bolivar and the Marisari were blockading Loguayra, 
and the affairs of Falcon generally looked much more 
promising. 
Second Adventists in Council.— The National 
Convention of Second Adventists assembled in 
Springfield, Maes., on Monday. The grove where 
the services were held was dedicated with impres¬ 
sive services on Sunday, in the presence of a vast 
assemblage. 
-- 
Gas Explosion.— The gas works at Smith Bridge, 
Mass., were blown up last Saturday night and seven 
men are reported killed and four severely injured. 
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NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
An old lady, a native of the Isle of Skye, is living 
at Dunvegan at the age of one hundred and seven¬ 
teen years, as proved by the parish register. She 
does her share of the housework, 
A woman and five children were poisoned in 
Springfield, Ill., recently, by eating a pie baked in 
a new sheet-iron pan. Arsenic was supposed to 
have been used to give the pan its gloss. 
There are six refineries in Philadelphia, which 
refine about 190,000,000 pounds per year of raw 
sugar, costing at present prices 823,000,000 in gold. 
After being refined, It sells for 830,500,000. 
President Hopkinso! Williams College, Mass., is 
now the. oldest in the service of any College President 
in the country, and his elder pupils, numbering now 
more than 00“classes, ne sending their sons to sit at 
his* feet and listen to biB teachings. 
A Newport fisherman, a few days since, hooked 
a fine striped bass weighing about forty pounds, 
and was in the act of bringing it to land, when a 
shark seized it and severed it in the middle, carry¬ 
ing off' the largest part for his dinner. 
In the Cole-IIiseoek case lately argued before 
Judge Hogoboom, on a motion to admit the prisoner 
to bail, the Judge has rendered his decision denying 
the application, and the prisoner is remanded to the 
custody of the Sheriff of Albany county. 
The Chinese embassy arrived at Boston Ang. 30th, 
and had a magnificent reception by the citizens and 
city authorities. Mayor Shurtleff delivered an ap¬ 
propriate speech of welcome, to which Mr. Burlin¬ 
game responded in behalf of the embassy. 
Married in Salt Lake City, 16th inst., in the 
presence of the Saints, Brigham Young to Mrs. J. 
R. Martin, Miss Emily P. Martin, Miss L. M. Pen- 
dergast, Mrs. K. M. Jenickson, Miss Susie P. Cleve* 
laud, all of the County of Berks, England. No 
cards. 
An enterprising individual La Cincinnati has been 
selling old potatoes for new. Tbe old stock of 
potatoes left over was manipulated by a chemical 
process, and the tough jackets of the neshaunocks 
and peachblows were made to resemble the tender 
skin of the early potato. 
The Newark Courier reports a new cattle disease 
in Union Co., N. J., which terminates fatally in a 
short time. The disease is mainly confined to the 
head, and is pronounced by some to be brain fever. 
A large number of cattle are sick, and at least a 
dozen deaths have occurred. 
The roof of a new railway station in London— 
that of the Midland Railway at King’s Cross—is to 
ordinary roofs what the Great Eastern is to ordinary 
vessels. Its span is 340 feet, and it is 99 feet from 
the level of the rails to the center. It covers eleven 
lines of rails and four acres of cellars. 
Mr. Cabot, connected with an iron establishment 
in Philadelphia, has proved a defaulter to the 
amount of §60,000. It appears that a statement of 
The Baytien Revolution.— Mail adviceB from 
Hayti state that Cape Haytien was surrendered by 
the revolutionists, and communication with the in¬ 
terior was cut off. The insurgents probably intend¬ 
ed to blockade Port au Prince with the captured 
corvette Sylvian. The town iB already closed in on 
the land side. Gen. John Lynch had taken supreme 
command of the revolutionary forces. Minister 
Hollister, on his cruise along the coast in the U. S. 
steamer Penobscot, had been received with unusual 
honors by Sal nave’s representatives. His conduct 
was much condemned. Salnave had imprisoned the 
Prussian Consul, and threatened the life of the Brit¬ 
ish Minister, for which insolence the British man- 
of-war Favorite waB preparing to bombard Port au 
Prince, Special dispatches state that the insurgents 
have captured one of Salnave’s war vessels, on board 
of which were his mother and minister of war. 
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South American News. —By latest advices from 
the Argentine Republic we are informed that Sar- 
miento had been elected President by S9 of the 156 
electoral votes. He is understood to favor peace 
with Paraguay, and a policy to that effect will prob¬ 
ably provoke a war with Brazil. Congress was still 
in session, and a bill to abolish all Argentine lega¬ 
tions abroad had been introduced and was likely to 
become a law. The financial troubles in Montevi¬ 
deo still prevailed. The proposed impeachment of 
President Mitre bad been given up. The women in 
Paraguay, it is reported, in addition to becoming 
soldiers, are also performing civil functions, such as 
Justices, Alcaldes, recruiting officers, <kc. 
The Paraguayan War.— The Allies made another 
attack on Humaita, July 16th, and were repulsed 
with a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded. The army 
and fleet cooperated. The fighting was desperate 
and prolonged, but unavailing. The Allied forces 
in the Grand Chaco also advanced to cut off Lopez 
from the forest and were repulsed. 
BUBAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE. J 
RocincsTKB, Avgust 25, 1868. J 
Gold.— Gold has been weak and tending downward for tbe 
last eight or ten days. The price would go still lower were 
it not for tlie operations of tbe " ring" In New York. A 
recent paper there denounces the speculators and the. gold 
room. It says :—" There is no reason why such an incubus 
should be permitted to exist here, and the sooner the dis¬ 
reputable den is broken up the better." Gold sold In New 
York yesterday at 144%. 
For the last week United States securities have been dull, 
and prices have been lower. The foreign market for the 
time being seems to be overstocked. Within the past few 
weeks some *20,000,000 of these securities have been sent 
abroad. 
Dullness still characterizes our local money market. Our 
banks are in good condition, and have a supply of currency 
Tor the legitimate wants of their customers. 
There is a little more active call for money in New York, 
but rates are. still low. Call loans are made at 4@5 per cent. 
Considerable money is going West to assist in moving the 
crops. It is supposed that about *3,000.000 have been sent in 
the last two weeks. 
The general trade of the country is dull. The New York 
Daily Bulletin of Saturday says“ Trade continues in an 
unsatisfactory state, although the jobbing demand Is on a 
slightly increased scale. Prices are so unsettled In some 
domestic goods that buyers are frightened to place an order, 
and restrict their purchases to the lowest point." 
Forged National Bank notes, of the denomination of $50, 
on tlie First National Bank of New Jersey, are in clrcula- 
tiun. The plate is said to be genuine, audit bears the Treas¬ 
ury stamp. The signatures Of the bank otllcers are forged. 
It is thought the plates were stolen. Tlie Comptroller of the 
Currency Vitus —" Tho fact is established that this Impres¬ 
sion of $50 was surreptitiously taken from this otbee. " 
Wool.— Prices of wool have slightly improved in Boston, 
tbongli not as high relatively as in the interior and at the 
West. Receipts are falling off; sales, however, by Eastern 
commission houses continue large. Sales in Boston last 
week foot up 1,750,000 lbs., ut a range of 12@52o. for fleece, 
and 30®50c, l'or the various grades of pulled. 
Lck al Maukkt.— Our local market shows some changes 
since last week, Wheat and flour remain at former quota¬ 
tions, but rye, barley and corn show a considerable advance, 
with an active demand. Oats are lower. 
Hops are more active, but prices rule low compered with 
those of a year or two ago. AVc notice a -ale of 10,000 lbs. 
strictly prime at 25c, The general range is from 20 to fine. 
In wool there is a better feeling, though, nothing is doing 
] je j. e _the sales being mainly made at outside points. Quo¬ 
tations arc 80®3Sc. for clothing wools and 41012 c. for comb¬ 
ing. An occasional blanket full of wool is Offered here, but 
it is the refuse of lots sold ill tlie country, and declined by 
purchasers there. 
oo@d,uo; Pork, mese. *w.00a3i,00i Beef, owt., $ 10 , 00014,00 ; 
Bremen hoes, cwt., $00,00®$,00; Hams, 18@80ct6- Shoulders, 
Chickens,18ta30c; Tm ' ■ 
Cheese. 15017c; Lard. l&ffliiOc; TaUow, OX0ff)C; Eggs, lfgtfOC; 
Wool 35®36cta; Honey, box. ft ft.,. Ufeanc. Hay. * ton, 
$10020. Maple Sugar. Maggots- Hides, green. AMmfbr- 
Calfskin*, life 10c. Potatoes, $o,-'Offlt,uo; Onions. *,,59.a&op; 
Hops nominal at lO&Wlo; Clover .reed, $i’,jOC 40 Timothy, ;3. 
THE PROVISION MARKETS, 
NEW YORK, AUG. 24-Ashes, pots, fS,75@S.57X t pearls 
1401SC. 
ALBANY, Aro. 2 ,*-Flour, f7b0@14.u0: Rye flour. fw,25; 
Corn meal, $*4003.50 ¥ lOOlbs; Wheat, $2.6002.85: Kye, $1.70; 
Corn, $1.20@1.22; Barley, $2.35; Oats, 7S@?0c; Fork, mess, $29- 
50030; clear, $3<!@33; boneless, $34^0. Bams,2 5.31c; Shoul¬ 
ders, 16c; Smoked beer. 22c: Lard. 2Uq@22c ; Bur r, 3ft:’ 40c. 
Cheese. 10@17c; Beaus. $5,5C@?i Dried apples, s®!UC. 
Wheat, $l,NXa2.25; Com,$1,1001.13; Out*,I kS 0O7C{ Kye, *1,60; 
Barley, I0.00&1,75; Peas, $1.5001,50; Beans, $5.0005, (JO; Pork 
mess, $29,00(980.00; Lard, 1&319c; Shoulders. 1 !@'.ic; Hams, 21 
@21c; Dried beer, 20>£c; Butter, SOauHc . Cheese, Vi@l6c. 
CHICAGO, Art.. 28- Flour, $309,00 : Wheat, $1.60® 1,03 ; 
Corn, 96®99>iC; Oats. 58a,®;,3c ; Itye, *1,23, !,3u ; Barley, *1,58 
jil.GO Pork, men, $29,00; I .aid, o'. 1 , a'- 
TORONTO, Aro. 20—Flour, $0.7507,25; Wheat, fall, *L- 
48511.50 ; Spring, $1.5001.50; Oats. c,0&55c: Barley, $1,05@1,<)7; 
Pork, mess, $2S@23,50: prime, $17 : Bacon, 10M@13>sc; Hams, 
12*18X0? Shoulders, lOyffOX 1 ; Beef hums, 13c: Lard, 1SX@ 
14c; Eggs, 10012c; Butter, l«@20c; Cheese, 10@10>4C; HopB, 
I0@30o i Hay. $12015; Straw, $B@12; Wool,25@2«C- 
It is offlciKlly announced that the Government ol the working of the company had been ordered to be 
Switzerland will summarily reject any propossl of made st a meeting for tint purpose, hot owtog to 
_ . ... ... ... tli.-c aheenoeof Oabot. it, was urevented. ifie books 
France looking to an alliance with that power. 
Ricasoli, who wanted to permanently succeed 
Count Cavonr in Italian politics, and now a mem¬ 
ber of the Italian Parliament, is said to be a bon 
vivant , with tbe finest cellar of wines in the king¬ 
dom. He lives in a castle, (relic of the feudal times,) 
with tower, loop-holes, dikes, draw-bridges, prisons, 
cells, dec., complete, and bas, in one of the apart¬ 
ments, as a subject for pleasant contemplation, the 
skeleton of one of his ancestors. 
Stockholm has had more fires recently than were 
ever before known there. It is thought that an or¬ 
ganized band of incendiaries are in the city. 
Cholera is raging fiercely on the Barbary coast. 
In the little town of Oasabianca more than one-fifth 
of the population have died from it. 
An attempt to resume the publication of the Lan¬ 
terns, tbe Paris paper whose editor was recently 
fined 10,000 francs for too great freedom of express¬ 
ion, was recently stopped by the police, who confis¬ 
cated the whole edition. 
Active preparations for the forthcoming Parlia¬ 
mentary elections are in progress throughout Great 
Britain. The test question is the disestablishment 
of the Irish Church, and Liberals and Tories are 
obliged to declare for or against that measure before 
their constituents. W. E. Forster, M. P. for Brad- 
the absence of Cabot, it was prevented. The books 
of the establishment were then examined, when the 
deficit w T ae discovered. 
The Hartford, Conn., Live Stock Insurance Com¬ 
pany has been suspended, having lost $410,000 with¬ 
in the last twenty-two months. The Treasurer of 
Connecticut holds ¥100,000 of the capital of the 
company, which will be used in paying losses, &c. 
The Superintendent of the Insurance Department at 
Albany has notified the agents of the company in 
this State to take no more policies. 
Lancaster, Pa., was draped in mourning on the 
occasion of the last obsequies to the memory of 
Thaddens Stevens. The flags on the newspaper 
offices, the post-office, the Shiffler Fire Company, 
of which the deceased had long been a member and 
officer, were all at half-mast. The event seems to 
have made a deeper impression upon th c com¬ 
munity than any other for years. 
The Toronto Board of Agriculture has held a 
meeting and appointed a committee to examine 
into the cattle disease. The committee will pro¬ 
ceed to Illinois and make the necessary inquiries. 
The disease has appeared at Paris and London, and 
is supposed to have been communicated through 
diseased cattle being conveyed over the Great West¬ 
ern Railroad from Western States to New Y T ork. 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Aug. 19—Beeves—Receipts 6,695 bead; quo¬ 
tations 10@17ctK. Milch Cows— Receipts 110 head; $300115 ; 
Veal calves—Receipts 2,079head ; quotations, 4012c, Sheep 
and Lambs— Receipts 35,790 bead ; quotations, iheep, 8@0c; 
by lot, $1,6004 Ir head. Lambs, G@9c. Swine — Receipts IS,- 
345 head; quotations, 9® 13RC. 
ALBANY. Aug. 20.- B.'ijres, $8,0009,50. -Milch Cowb, $S0@ 
70. Veal Halves, S '9c. Sheep and Lambs — State 105>iC.; 
Western 4@6o.; Lambfi,5H@7>ic; Hogs, 901014c, 
CAMBRIDGE AND BRIGHTON. Aug. 19— Beeves range 
lrom BXffi-UXc. Working Oxen, $2250335 & pair; Steers, $125 
? 200. Milch Cows, $450100; Heifers and farrow. $35050; 
ear lings, $20@80; two-year-olds, $80045: three-year-olds. 45 
@60. Sheep and Lambs, per head, in lots, i 1 ,-A<g,4.50; Fat 
hogs, ?> th., ll@llc ; young pigs. UiTiUc; Hides, OK® 10 c. $ 
tt.; Calf Skins, 18@20c. * ft.; Tallow, 7X@9C.; Pelts, 25@50c. 
CHICAGO, Aug. 23,— Beef Cattle, sales range at 2v@7c; 
Sheep range at $2,0Q@5,0D; Hogs. $8,5008,75. 
CINCINNATI, Aug. 19-Beeves, $3,00 5,50: Sheep, $2,00® 
3,59; Lambs, $1 50@2,50 ; Hogs, $8,CO@10,50 gross. 
PHILADELPHIA. Aro. lit—Cattle steady; sales at 5@9XC; 
Cows and Calves, $45@75: Sheep, 4@5;_c. Hogs, 14X®15c. 
$3,00@5,00; Lambs, $i,50@3,00; Calves, $305 each. 
THE WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW TOPIC, Aug. 22.—Wool market is firm; sales 112,800 
lbs., at 40055c. lor domestic fleece, 23ks35c for shearings, 54 
®S7c, for combings, 2S<333c for Texas,2ffe42c.for California. 
BOSTON, Arc,. 20.—The following are the quotations taken 
from the Boston Journal:—Fleece •I0@57c for common to 
choice Western; Combing fleece 50@55c; Canada, 66@i.Wc- 
CINCINNATI, Ate,. 19—The following are the Gazette’s 
quotationsPulled, 33@33c.: Tub Washed, 3S@4Qc.; Un¬ 
washed, 25027c.: Fleece, 35042c. 
CHICAGO, ArG.22.—The followiug are the quotations:— 
Fleece, 37® 10c; Medium, 33@o6c; Coarse, 33087c; Heavy Cn- 
washed, 24&27C. 
BALTIMORE, Aug. 21—Unwashed wool, 28030c; bury, 19 
@24c; tub-washed, 38040c; Fleece, S9@43c; Pulled, 30036c. 
