New Postage Stamps.— The contract for furnish¬ 
ing the Government with postage stirrups for the 
next four years, has been awarded to the National 
Bank Note Company of New York. New designs 
have been adopted for all stamps, as follows: — The 
two cent stamp represents a post boy on a horse run¬ 
ning at full speed, illustrating the fact that this 
stamp is mostly used for dispatch letters. On the 
three cent stamp there is a finely engraved locomo¬ 
tive. This is surrounded by lines of lightning, in¬ 
dicating the speed with which letters are carried on 
which this 6tamp is used. The five cent stamp ha6 
an excellent portrait of Washington. The ten cent 
stamp has an excellent microscopic copy of the 
painting of the Signing of the Declaration of In¬ 
dependence, hanging in the Rotunda at Washington. 
The twelve cent stamp, mostly used for foreign 
postage, has a picture of a steamer at sea. The 
thirty cent stamp has a copy of a painting of the 
surrender of Bnrgoyne, hanging in the Rotunda of 
the National Capitol. The ink to be used will pre¬ 
vent washing and using the stamp a second time. 
The fiber iB the center of the stamp is broken com¬ 
pletely, aud they adhere better, while the ink of 
cancelation sinks into the paper. 
Letter from Washington 
Bennett, Republican, and Judge Isaac A. Verplanck, 
Democrat, in theBaflalo District; Judge Noah Davis, 
Republican, iu the Twenty-eighth District. 
Among the prominent names before the people in 
other States, as candidates for Congressional honors, 
are B. F. Butler, N P. Ba’ ks and Gov. Boutwell of 
Massachusetts; C. C. Wa-:hburneof Wisconsin, and 
T, A. Jenekcs of Rhode Island. 
A large Democratic meeting was held at Albany 
on the night of the 14th inst. A torch-light pro¬ 
cession, containing from 8,000 to 10,000 people, was 
a feature of the evening. Hon. Jno. T. Hoflman 
was the principal speaker. 
An Immense Republican Demonstration took place 
in Buffalo on Thursday of last week. The Proces¬ 
sion, consisting of cavalry, Infantry, music, wagons, 
&c., was about four miles in length. There was a 
grand torch-light display in the evening. 
the Swiss Consul General, are now engaged in per¬ 
fecting arrangements for the establishment of the 
International money order system with Switzerland. 
The intention is to make the experiment with that 
country first, and, if successful, to extend it to 
other countries. 
Gov. Clayton of Arkansas has telegraphed to Gen. 
Schofield the fact of the piratical seizure of arms be¬ 
longing to that State, and adds“ From facts in 
rny possession, I am satisfied that armed resistance 
to the laws Is contemplated, in which event the Uni¬ 
ted 8tates forces here would be entirely inadequate 
to preserve order.” What action will be taken in 
regard to the matter remains to be seen. 
E00HESTEE AND NEW YOKE: 
SATURDAY, OCT. 24, 1868 
New York. State Items, 
At the late annual election for Directors of the 
Erie Railway the Gould and Fisk party were victo¬ 
rious, electing their ticket by a large majority, poll¬ 
ing a vote of over 430,000,000. Afterwards, at a 
meeting of the'Directors, Jay Gould was choeeD 
Controller of Cor- 
Frora tire South. 
The Commercial Convention, held at Norfolk 
last week, was largely attended. The city was en¬ 
thusiastic over it, and held a fine illumination, a 
torchlight procession, <fcc., in honor of the dele¬ 
gates. General Mahone presided. The Business 
Committee submitted a report relative to direct 
ocean communication between Europe, Norfolk, 
and the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. It stated that 
the recommendation of a former Convention, to 
raise 4300,000 by subscription to incorporate an In¬ 
ternational Commercial Company, had been consid¬ 
ered and adopted, The report was adopted, and 
$105,000 subscribed. The Convention adjourned 
subject to the call of the Board of Trade. 
A body of armed men, mounted, are committing 
depredations iu Bullitt county, Kentucky. They 
have burned a colored school-house, and are Baid to 
have destroyed a negTo church. A volley was lired 
into the train on the Nashville road lately, which is 
supposed to have been done by the same party. 
Three colored men were hung in the yard of the 
city guard hou^e, Macon, Ga., on the 0th inst., for 
the murder of Jonathan Sheffield, near Vineville, 
on the 25th of August last. Each of the men as¬ 
serted his innocence to the last moment. 
on the morn- 
Bnt do not be startled, reader. I said if this 
should be done. There has not been a stone moved 
yet. The Treasury, Patent Office and Capitol are 
not completed, and the sound of the stone mason’s 
hammer may be beard every day upon them, com¬ 
pleting their unfinished work. May the city within 
sixteen miles of the home and tomb of Washing¬ 
ton, and that bears his name, never cease to be the 
capital of the nation which he and his noble com¬ 
patriots carried out with their Bwords from the Brit¬ 
ish dominions. Up to June 30th, 1868, the capitol, 
—meaning the public buildings, together with the 
expenses of repairs, lighting streets, &c., which the 
Government has paid,—aggregated about $41,500,- 
000. Who would be able and willing to pay even 
first cost! 1 
The once able, but eccentric preacher, Lorenzo 
Dow, was buried in a neglected place, planted with 
cedars, yclept Holmead Cemetery, in the suburbs 
of this city. A stone, which rests upon a sort of 
brick curbing, two feet high, covers the grave, and 
bears the following inscription “ The Repository 
or Lorenzo Dow, who was bora in Coventry, Con¬ 
necticut, Oct. I8t.h, 1777. Died February 3d, 1834,” 
with a poetic sentiment or two. Occasionally some 
stranger visiting the city makes this humble grave 
of Dow his Mecca. But there are none to 
“ Weep for the voiceless who has known 
The cross without the crown of glory,” 
in this world. 
Conscience money is a name given to money 
which the Government has been defrauded out of, 
and which has been returned to the Treasury, 
privily, by the relenting scoundrels. The sums 
usually are small. A proper entry is made of every 
cent so returned. The amonnt received since No- 
President, and James Fiek, Jr. 
poration. 
The Old School Presbyterian Synod of Albany 
held their annual session at Saratoga on the 15th 
inst. About eighty ministers and elders were pres¬ 
ent. Rev. Dr. Strong of Syracuse, was chosen Mod¬ 
erator. A resolution in favor of the New School 
was adopted unanimously. 
The ladies of Sherman, Chautauqua county, are 
raising a fond for a fire engine. The have already 
over $500. 
John Roberts, a well-known resident of Canas- 
tota, was found drowned in the canal, at Canastota, 
Thursday morning of last week. 
A great fire broke out in Warsaw, Wyoming Co., 
on the night of the 15th inst. Three brick stores 
were burned to the ground. 
The hemlock trees In Tioga county are dying. A 
miller, or winged bug, makes its appearance in 
swarms, and deposits its eggs by millions. The 
result is millions of borers are produced, which so 
destroy the vitality of the trees that the baik begins 
to adhere so closely that it cannot be stripped off. 
Recent beavy winds made bad work with the new 
break-water in Duukirk harbor. Half the structure 
from the beacon landward was moved out of its 
proper place some thirty feet, and the timbers were 
considerably broken. 
Warren Leland's farm in Westchester county, 
town of Rye, produces &ix thousand dollars’ worth 
of milk per annum, 
A squirrel hunt at Canaan, lately, resulted in the 
destruction of 4,650 of these little animals. 
The number of emigrants that arrived at New 
York city up to the 14th in&t., was 179,165, against 
209,319 to same date last year. The commutation 
of passengers amounted to $469,215.58, and the dis¬ 
bursements $410,113.3L 
An unknown mau was found dead in the woods 
about two miles from Candor, Tioga county, on the 
11th Inst. He had hanged himself with his suspend¬ 
ers, and they, having rotted off, let him to the 
ground. It was calculated by the Coroner who 
held the Inquest that the body had lain about eight 
weeks. The age of the Buicide appeared to be 
about eighty years. 
A destructive fire occurred in the village of Port 
Byron on Friday night of last week, destroying the 
finest store in the place. The tire is supposed tu be 
he work of an incendiary. Loss about $15,000. 
The mills of the Pen field Paper Company at Pen- 
ield, Monroe Co., were totally destroyed by lire on 
Saturday evening last, together with all the ma¬ 
chinery and stock. The loss is estimated at $75,- 
i ') —about $15,000 more than is covered by the 
Insurance. The mill had been in operation less 
than a xnar 
The new ? espension bridge at Niagara Falls, com- 
tac m ed one year ago last June, will doubtless be 
.. • : ad ready for use In about a month, 
when itwji ne opened to the public. The bridge ex- 
fcrnds 'An m • point just below the American Fall to 
a L - t . i ne Canadian side near the Clifton House, 
i sp n or distance between the towers, is twelve 
huruli (i i 6ixty-four feet and twelve inches. The 
cables-, ■ : in number, are nineteen hundred feet 
long. In i acb of these cables there are seven wire 
rope each two and one-half inches in diameter, 
is . : longest span of any bridge in the world, 
v /e a carriage way for ordinary vehicles and 
.way cars, along side of which there is to 
a walk for pedestrians. 
JeTi .Uen’s dance house in New York city hav¬ 
ing been once more put to its vilest u&eB by its 
backslidden proprietor, has drawn upon it a police 
descent, aud Allen himself has had to give bail. 
The quarterly report of the National Banks of 
New York on the first Monday in October, shows 
the resources to be $432,516,000, including among 
other items, specie, $8,871,000; three per cent, cer¬ 
tificates, $34,795,000; compound interest notes, 
$904,000. 
The aggregate amonnt of exports, exclusive of 
specie, from the port of New York to foreign ports 
for the week ending Oct. 13,1868, was $2,753,889. 
Latest Foreign Intelligence. 
Lord Stanley aud Minister Johnson are now 
engaged in a consideration of the Alabama claims 
question, which, it it pretty certain, will be arrang¬ 
ed Boon, subject ai=.o to the ratification of the 
Legislative bodies and approval of the Government 
of the two countries. The basis which will probably 
be agreed upon will be a mixed convention which 
shall hold its session in London and pass upon all 
claims preferred by English aud Americans. 
The Parliamentary canvass throughout Great Brit¬ 
ain is becoming very lively. Several Tory members 
of the last House of Commons have withdrawn 
their names as candidates, and retired discouraged. 
The Liberals are confident that they will have a 
majority of thirty-five or more on a full vote in the 
next house. 
The report of the coronation of Gobazze as Em¬ 
peror of Abyssinia is confirmed. He is supported by 
Prince Kaesai, but opposed by the oldest son of the 
late King Theodoras. 
Dispatches to hand, from Naples, represent that 
the voleauie movement of Mount Vesuvius has be¬ 
come more intense and violent, an eruption sending 
forth copious streams of lava having occurred. 
A great lire recently occurred in the petroleum 
warehouse of Veubo’s ifc Co., in Antwerp. The 
bxilding, two thou6and barrelB of petroleum, and 
many millions of gallons of naptha were destroyed. 
The loss is very heavy. 
Affairs in Spain are still in a feverish, unsettled con¬ 
dition. A letter Is published from Gen. Prim, which 
earnestly favors the calling together of the Cortes 
and the formation of a kingdom at once. It is said 
that Prim himself aspires to be king. Espartero 
disapproves of his influence, and will thwart bis 
designs. Cuba, which is deeply interested in the 
movement of the new Government, is promised 
equal liberties with Spain. Abolition is commenced 
by a decree issued by the Provisional Junta, declar¬ 
ing that all children bora of slaves after the 17th 
inst., Bhall be free, it is thought that the Junta 
will be soon recognized by the European powers as 
the de facto government of the country. It has 
already been so recognized by the United States, 
through Minister Hale, and salutations have been 
exchanged. 
The coinage of Spain is to be radically changed, 
so as to conform to that of France. 
The magazine of a ’lurkish troop ship recently ex¬ 
ploded at Smyrna, St yen men were instantly killed, 
and seventy more injuiv.d, many of them fatally. 
Dr, Livingstone is w d to be within two weeks’ 
march of Zanzibar. * 
Mr. Gladstone has veiled an address to tho cloc- 
rlro, England, which is much 
iratmmfoL Markets 
HPKAh NEW-YORKER OFFICE, > 
Rochbsteb, Ootobsk 10,18(8. t 
Tux call for money in this city and in all the commercial 
towns in the interior and at the West is quite active. The 
paper offering at the city hacks is ranch larger than usual, 
and beyond the ability of the banks to take. The wheat aud 
flour dealers are using a good deal of money, not In a specu¬ 
lative wuy, but in the ordinary course of business. The ad¬ 
vancing rates of barley, with the Idea that the stock is light, 
have induced some Investments, though the quantity held by 
dealers in this Immediate locality is not supposed to he large, 
In New York money is easier than last week, and there is 
disposition to accept of lower rates of interest. The New 
York Bulletin of Monday says:—“The money market is 
abundantly supplied, and rates range from 5 to 6 per cent., 
with exceptional transactions at 7 per cent. The banks, 
finding they could not employ ihelr balances at the high 
rates, have very generally conceded one per cent. Dis¬ 
counts are fairly active at 7 per cent.” 
The Boston money market is active. Theofferings at bank 
are large, but. are generally taken at 7 per cent. 
There has been quite a change in regard to the demand 
for Government bonds in the last two weeks. For the last 
six days the market at the East has been excited. The In- 
vestment demand has been enormous, aud large sums of 
money are flowing Into Government channels. There has 
recently been an advance of about 1 per cent, on the whole 
list. Telegraph advices from Germany on Saturday show 
that the foreign demand for American securities is increas¬ 
ing, and there has been ft material advance in rates. State 
bonds have improved. North Carolina 8nd Tennessee bonds 
have advanced In the last few days. Tenncssees sold on 
Saturday for 73. 
Railroad shares have been very active for some days, and 
at decidedly higher prices. 
Gold sold yesterday at in?!tf. Government now advertises 
gold for sale, instead of throwing it upon tho market at un¬ 
certain limes. On Wednesday of last week It advertised in 
New York a sale of *300.000, gold, daily for ten days from the 
14th. The advertisement called for proposals in writing, to 
he left at the otticc of the Assistant Treasurer, and promised 
to award the coin to the highest bidder. The method prom¬ 
ises to be a success. 
Wool— The Boston Commercial Bulletin of Saturday says: 
*• The wool market Is less active lliau last reported; bnt 
prices remain firm, and some desirable grades arc higher. 
The falling off in trade is partly due to the poor assortment 
offering, aud the absolute deficiency of some styles of wool 
most wauled lor immediate consumption. But It is more 
particularly the result of the fact that wool prices have ad¬ 
vanced to a range at which manufacturers do not deem It 
pruflent to operate, aud which they say is not warranted by 
any con-responding advance in products." 
The sales last week were to a fair amount, footing np 90G,- 
OOU lbs., at a iu.... aissir for ii.-i.ro. and 45<^ifiSc. for thv 
various grades of pulled. Combing wool? are scarce, and 
native sells at 5K@00e.: Canada at 70cr«75c. The Eastern mar¬ 
ket la nearly bare of tho latter description. 
A Boston paper notices the woolen goods market as fol- 
ows:—“ The market for woolen goods continues active and 
firm for a few choice and seasonable articles, which just 
now tax the foil capacity of manufacturers, aud in some 
cases are sold ahead of production. Bnt aside from these 
specialties, the volume of general trade from first bauds is 
only moderate for the season. An immense amount of wool¬ 
en machinery lias been employed in the production of fall 
goods, and the market 1? well stocked with most descrip¬ 
tions of heavy domestic fabrics. Hence manrl’actnrers are 
beginning to slack up, ancl, and preparing to change their 
Afire at Wheeling, West Virginia, 
ing of the 10th inst., destroyed over $100,000 worth 
of property, the main part of which was one of 
the largest buildings in the city, the Atheneum. 
Governor Smith, of Alabama, has issued a procla¬ 
mation for an election in that State, for President, 
on the 3d of November. The proclamation i6 issued 
in accordance with the election law pateed by the 
Legislature. 
George Tinsley, alias Wash Stewart of Walker 
county, Texas, has confessed that he murdered, on 
the night of the 3d ult., at Calhoun’s Ferry, Charles 
Hall, ferryman, his wife, a stranger named Murry, 
and a little girl, Bister of Hall’s wife. The murders 
were accomplished with blows on the head from a 
heavy stick. 
Murders are of common occurrence at the South. 
The Bheriff and parish judge of St. Mary’s parish 
were assassinated at Franklin, La., on the night of 
the 17th inst. The sheriff was killed in his hotel, 
and the body of the parish judge was found on the 
street by a patrol which was organized immediately 
on the discovery of the sheriffs assas&iuatlon. A 
deputy sheriff' of Rrews county, Ark., while out 
serving Bubpccnas on the Bame night, was tied to a 
negro by the Ku Klux, and both shot dead. And 
B. F. Randolph, a negro preacher and n-ember of 
the South Carolina State Senate, who had been on 
an electioneering tour, was murdered iu open day 
on the 16th inst., at Abbeville, S. C., while stand¬ 
ing on the platform of a railroad car, by three men 
who rode up and shot him in three places, then 
rode away unrecognized. 
A party of between fifty aud sixty men, who had 
pressed a steam tug into service, boarded the steam¬ 
er Uesper on the 16th inst., twenty-live miles below 
Memphis, fired upon the captain aud two others as 
they escaped to shore, placed the crew under guard, 
and then deliberately threw overboard 3,340 mus¬ 
kets consigned to Gov. Clayton of Arkansas for the 
use of the State militia. After destroying the arms 
the party left the boat in charge of the engineer, re¬ 
turned to a point near Memphis in the tng, and 
thence, took to the woods. 
Hon. John Quincy Adams visited Charleston last 
week, and made an address on the political issues of 
the day. He said he was opposed to universal suf¬ 
frage, but was satisfied that the people of the South 
were ready to concede impartial suffrage to white 
and black, as is the case in the Radical State of Mas¬ 
sachusetts. _ 
From tlie West. 
Colorado 6aw queer weather one day, recently. 
The morning was clear, warm and balmy, with no 
sign of storm. As the day wore on a strong breeze 
sprang up, and the air was filled with duet. In the 
afternoon the sky became suddenly overcast, the 
breeze grew to a perfect hurricane, darkening the 
air with dirt and litter, so that the buildings across 
the street were invisible; the temperature fell 
twenty to thirty degrees in an hour, and soon after 
dark it began to snow, ceasing only after depositing 
four or five inches, 
Wells, Fargo & Co., will not carry the mails on 
the Pacific railroad any iODger, and temporary 
arrangements have been made with other parties to 
do it. Several bids have been made for the job, 
among them one from Brigham Young. 
A Fort Hayes letter states that five columns of 
troops will 60 on move against the Indians, in dif¬ 
ferent directions, covering in their operations the 
territory between the Smoky Hill and Republican 
Forts on the north, aud the Cimarron and Canadian 
rivers on the south. 
The Wisconsin papers report that the cranberry 
crop has suffered severely by the frost. In the en¬ 
tire state the yield, it is said, will be ander a third of 
an average crop. 
tors of South Lane; 
praised by the Liberal organs, who contrast its frank 
aud positive tone vlik the vague utterances of 
Disraeli. 
Rumors of a large reduction in the French army, 
confidence in the maintenance of peace and expecta¬ 
tions of a declaration of liberal reforms by the Em¬ 
peror animate Paris, and have a cheerful influence 
upon public affairs iu England. 
The Provincial correspondence of Berlin, 6ays: 
The Prussian Government will not interfere in 
Spain, but awaits the development of afi'airs there 
a*d respects the decision of the Spanish people. 
There is no fear that the Spanish revolution will 
disturb the peace of Europe. 
Admiral Mendez Nunez has been appointed by 
the Spanish Provisional Government, Captain-Gen¬ 
eral of the fleet. H is former flag officer, Capt. Lapo, 
has been appointed to the command of the Spanish 
squadron in the Pacific. The scarcity and conse¬ 
quent high prices of fo©d and wine in Spain are 
abating. 
Henry W. Grinnell, a son of Henry Grinnell of 
New York, and a late lieutenant in the American 
navy, has been appointed inspector-general of the 
Japanese navy, with a salary of $15,000 per annum. 
Not satisfied with the rate of speed attained by the 
velocipedes, the French have invented a locomotive 
with four wheels, which is said to be safer, swifter, 
and less fatiguing to the rider than any road vehicle 
known. 
There is a sect of Second Adventists in Rocking¬ 
ham county, Va., known as Thurmonites, who re- 
cetiily sat up a whole night waiting for the long de¬ 
ferred second glorious advent of the Lord from 
Heaven to set up his throne among men. 
Congress Hall, Saratoga, used from June 15th to 
Sept. 15th, 89,000 chickens, 59,000 pounds of beef, 
25,000 pounds of lamb, 15,000 pounds of mutton, 9, 
000 pounds of veal, 1,500 turkeys and 5,000 other 
fowls, and an average of 4,000 eggs per day. 
Santa Anna has been ordered to leave the Island 
of Cuba in consequence of his Mexican complica¬ 
tions, a Juarez epy having unraveled all his plots. 
Jie was given thirty day6 to leave, and is so poor 
that his friends will have to pay his passage. 
The Chicago Tribune states that a remarkable 
petrification was recently discovered at Sheridan, at 
the end of the Kansas Pacific railroad. It seems to 
have been the remains of a crocodile, and measures 
126 feet from the head to the end of the tail. 
Two brothers, Christian and Edward Byrnes, were 
6hot dead, and Charles Speckt and J. Folan were 
wounded in Philadelphia Tuesday night, the 13th 
inst., in a political row. Eleven other persons were 
shot in various disturbances during the day, 
The Milwaukee, one of the large passenger and 
freight steamers plying on Lake Michigan, between 
Milwaukee and Grand Haven, was lost by running 
aground off the latter port, on the 9th inst., and is 
believed to be a total loss. Fortunately all her 
passengers were saved. 
A physician in Concord, N. H., has a wonderful 
It is so arranged as to combine a walking 
The Haytien Revolution.— Refugees from Hayti 
report that the war is becoming bloodier daily,— 
that Saluave is too weak to quell the revolution, 
and that the revolutionists are unable to triumph 
over Salnave, owing to the want of unity among the 
different commanders. Salnave’s permission to the 
country people to sack and burn any place under 
the control of the insurrectionists has added to the 
bitterness and ferocity of the struggle. The revo¬ 
lutionists are very bitter against the United States, 
believing that, open assistance is rendered to Salnave 
by our Government. They are becoming much di¬ 
vided, and Generals Domingues, Saget and Kebrecca 
have each been proclaimed President by their re¬ 
spective troops. 
From Washington. 
One of the “ad interim” meetings of Con¬ 
gress was held on the 16th in6t. Both Houses were 
called to order by their respective presiding officers, 
and after the reading of the concurrent resolutions 
providing for the meeting adjourned till the 10th 
of November, Only three members were present 
in the Senate, and ten in the House of Representa¬ 
tives. 
Brevet Major-General Hooker, having, at his own 
request, been ordered before the Board of Examina¬ 
tion, and having been found incapacitated for ac¬ 
tive service by injuries received while, iu command 
of the Army of the Potomac in 1863, and from sick¬ 
ness, partially resulting therefrom, while command¬ 
ing the Department of the East in 1866, the Presi¬ 
dent directs his name to be placed on the retired 
list. General Hooker is retired with full Major- 
General’s rank. 
The President has issued general orders to Mili¬ 
tary Commanders in the South in reference to the 
holding of elections In the unreconstructed States. 
He claims that they have no right to interfere with 
such elections. The order is intended as a rebuke 
to General Reynolds, who has issued an order for¬ 
bidding the citizens of Texas from holding an elec¬ 
tion for Presidential elector?. It will be recollected 
that that State and the States of Virginia at.d Mis¬ 
sissippi have not yet been recognized by Congress 
in the admission of their Senators and Representa¬ 
tives, and that. Congress in July last passed an act 
in effect precluding the counting of their electoral 
YUICb. 
The third Supervisor of Internal Revenue yet ap¬ 
pointed is in the person ui Tuomas R. Laird, for the 
district composed of Virginia and Wto,. Virginia. • 
Consular appointments by the Turkish Govern¬ 
ment, at San Francisco, New Orleans and Baltimore, 
have been recognized by the President. 
General Sibley has forwarded several additional 
affidavits confirmatory of the first report of Major 
Howard, of the Camilla disturbances. The affida¬ 
vits are those of freed people, excepting one from 
an ex-volunteer of the U. 8. army. 
The Post Office Department and Mr. John Hitz, 
South American News. — Latest advices from 
South America state that the Paraguayan position 
at the mouth of the Tebicuary river had been taken 
by the allies. President Lopez of Paraguay had 
gone to Villa Rica, a town in the interior, unattend¬ 
ed, abandoning the capital to the allies. Two for¬ 
eign corvettes were about to ascend the river to 
Aseuneion. Fears were entertained at Valparaiso 
that another disastrous earthquake was about to 
visit Chili, as the same circumstances that preceded 
the terrible calamity of August last had been ob¬ 
servable. The people or Valparaiso had, in conse¬ 
quence of this appreheu&ion, voted according to 
custom, for a patron saint, and had elected the Sa¬ 
viour. 
-». i »i <» - 
The U. S. Consul at Cape Town, Africa, reports 
to the authorities at Washington the discovery of 
rich gold fields in the. interior, about 100 miles 
northeast of Cape Town. Specimens exhibited are 
very rich, and the colony is in a great state of ex¬ 
citement. The British and Dutch have taken pos¬ 
session, although a German mineralogist, who first 
penetrated the colony in 1804, made the discovery. 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Oct.ll—Beef Cattle range at from 10@17c; 
Milch Cows, Veal Calves, lOy 13c; Sheep, 3ts>G>£C; 
Lambs,Sc:; Hogs, SC<i93fc. 
ALBANY. Oct.. in.-Beeves range at from,$-V5.25; Milch 
Coivs. Sl. r ><".l00; Veal Calves, Uq l'Mc.; Stiuep, Lambs, 
5H<k .e 1 Hogs, M4046C- 
BRIGHTON AN l> CAMBRIDGE. Oct. lB.-Beef Oftttle, G@ 
lie- Working oxeu, ?!•'. Ql'hu ; Steers, ftfKt'iOQ.; Milch cows, 
ilOO'100; Uuffets, $356550; Yearlings, ; I wo-ycar-oids, 
>■ iOo l'> ; Three-yours old, * gfe<«i Sheep anti Lambs, ta-njjo; 
by »hehcg(l, Stoles.y<t-biC; Eat hffgs,IOR i&'JW c. 
CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Bcel' Cattle, $8,75@4,25; Hogs, $7,UO@0. 
CINCINNATI, Oct. II— Beeves, sell at *3,50<s:G; Sheep, $2 
@3,06; Lambs. $1,25 ; Hogs, §G,75®9,50. 
PHILADELPHIA, Oet. 15.-Beef Cattle, $T@‘JXc ; Sheep, 
5©; Hogs, LAmu toxc. 
BALTIMORE, Oct. Hi—Beef Cattle. IJ*3SC; Milch CoWP, 
$50(§,l(i0; Veal Calves, 5K&7J4C; Sheep, 3@4J4; Hogs,12@loc. 
TORONTO, Oct. 1C.—Beef Cattle, 50(2,0,50; Sheep, $2®4; 
Lambs, $1,50@2,25; Hogs, *5,75. 
Political News. 
The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana 
and Nebraska, last week, attracted universal atten¬ 
tion throughout the country. Their results can 
now be given with tolerable certainty. Pennsylva¬ 
nia was carried by the Republicans by a majority of 
10,000. A United States Senator in place of Charles 
R. Buebalew, will be gained by the. Republicans. 
The Democrats gain one or two Congressmen, elect 
a Mayor in Philadelphia, and some other city officer?. 
In Ohio the Republican majority is about 18.000, 
but the victorious party loses fonr Congressmen and 
gains one. The contest was very close in Indiana, 
and both sides claimed the victoiy for several days. 
A majority of 1,500 is now conceded to the Republi¬ 
cans. As they carry the Legislature a Republican 
United States Senator is assured in place of Mr. 
Hendricks. Charges of frauds in the frontier coun¬ 
ties, by tho Democrats, are made by the winning 
par 1 j- In Nebraska the Republican ticket was 
elected throngno \ by a majority of between two 
and three thousand 
Among the notable nominations for Congress, in 
this State, are Horace Greeley, Republican, in the 
Fifth District; Hon. E. P. Ross, Democratic, in the 
Twenty fourth District; Hon. Joseph n. Ramsey, 
Republican, President of Albany end Susquehanna 
Railroad, in the Fourteenth District; Hon. D. S. 
cane, 
stick, a thirty-inch telescope, and a nice opera glass, 
and all perfectly secure from dust. It is easily and 
readily adjusted for either purpose, and was patent¬ 
ed on the 28th of last July. 
Prof. Watson of the Michigan University, an¬ 
nounces the discovery by himself of a new minor 
planet, iu the constellation of Cetus. He 6ays it 
resembles a star of the 10th magnitude, and was 
situated in right ascension 15 degrees and 20 minutes, 
and in declination zero degrees and 33 minutes north. 
The seventy-ninth anniversary of the birth of 
Father Matthew, the illustrious apostle of temper¬ 
ance, tvas celebrated on the 10th inst., by a number 
of the New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City temper¬ 
ance societies, in Brooklyn, which marched in 
procession, accompanied by bands, and carrying 
banners, with the insignia of their respective orders. 
A silver bell, weighing twenty-eight ounces, sup¬ 
posed to be one of the lost chimes of St. Mary’s 
Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland, has been accidentally 
discovered by a diver in one of the deepest pools of 
the Abbey river iu that city. The bells were flung 
into the liver in the old days of persecution to save 
them, aud it is expected that the rest of the chime 
will now be recovered. 
THE WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW YORK. Oct. IT.—Wool market is quiet and sternly; 
Bales are 350.W0 at 47igfiUtfC for domestic ae«pe,33tii3^clor 
Texas ji<.. r,ec lor tublieU, Ywric lor California, llVc^Wcior 
Cape, SVglidc l'or unwashed, ami 5Sc for combing. 
BOSTON. Oct. lfl.—Wool, fleece. :-w®40c; picklock, 0O$p3c; 
flue .Utei’Oc; coarse, 50052c; pulled, STj^giBc: mb-ivaslicd, 
55@«iKc; combing fleece, MidUAic; Canada do, 70(&72c. 
CHICAGO, Oot, 10.—Tfie following are tbe quotation* 
Common tun-washed, lOqjkSc; fine wool, 33@l3c; medium 
and coarse, S8©lle; unwashed, 2 -Ka2Hc. 
CINCINNATI, Oct. I t.-Wool, pulled. 37(2i50c; tub-washed, 
4S@520; unwashed, a&aSOe; fleece, 1110 . 150 . 
BALTIMORE. Oet, 10—Wool, tmnashed, 3P®33c: burry, yo 
(&25c; tub-washed, iSSelCc: fleece, 42<0cWH?; pulled,30(2-'i3c. 
Gale on Lake Huron. —The storm on Lake Hu¬ 
ron last Friday uigkt was the worst known in many 
years. Several vessels were dismasted and other¬ 
wise injured, and two women, a man and a child 
were drowned from the bark Paragon, which was 
towed to Sarnia, water-logged. 
The As tor House pay? $22,000 per year for butter, 
$8,000 for flour, §150,000 for meat, $12,000 for eggs, 
$14,000 for milk and cream, and $500 for friction 
matches, $14,000 for gas, $14,000 for coal. 
