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B00KESTEB AND NEW YOBS: 
SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1868. 
NEWS 
THE WEEK. 
Hew York State Items. 
Gov. Fenton has issued a Proclamation ap¬ 
pointing Thursday the 26th inst., a day of thanks¬ 
giving and praise, and recommending that the 
people assemble in their respective places of worship, 
on that day, thus to recognize the bountiful good¬ 
ness of God. 
Four prisoners escaped from the jail in Utica, on 
the night of the 27th ult. 
Three storehouses were destroyed hy fire in Bing¬ 
hamton on the 29th ult. They were filled with grain, 
merchandise and wool, and over one of them, also, 
was the armory of the 44th Regt, N. G. S. N. Y. 
Loss to the State, in arms and accoutrements $LO,000. 
Total 1ob6 $ 75,000. 
The Spanish or Texas cattle fever is prevailing at 
Hamptonburgb, Orange county, said to he brought 
from Painesvillc, Ohio. Ten deaths have already 
occurred among the cattle of that vicinity from this 
disease. 
Another death from injuries received in coupling 
cars, occurred in Rochester last week. 
George Williamson effected a theft of $7,000 worth 
of silks, ribbons, Ac., iu New Fork last week, by 
hiring the basement under which the goods were 
kept, and boring up through the ceiling. 
A passenger train on the Hudson river railroad, 
Wednesday evening of lost week, ran into a freight 
train at Rhiuebeck. Several cars and a locomotive 
were badly smashed, bnt no one waB injured. 
A fire at Dresden, Kates county, a few days ago, 
destroyed the grist-mill of Btrkett & Co., and the 
distillery of E. H. Myudense & Co. The entire loss 
was nearly $20,000. 
The Greek Government has ordered of E. Reming¬ 
ton & Sons, of Dion, 15,000 breach-loading guns, 
and the Danish Government 10,000 in addition to 
another recent order. 
Miss Eliza A. Matteson of Hannibal, Oswego 
county, aged thirty-one years, drowned herself on 
the 28th nit, while laboring under a fit of insanity. 
One man was killed, and one or two others severely 
injured, at Charlotte, last week, by the falling in of 
an arch in the new blast furnace there, 
i Peekskili has been selected as the most advan¬ 
tageous locality for the proposed new bridge over 
the Hudson. 
A disastrous conflagration took place at Hunter’6 
! Point, L. L, on the night of the 25th nit, resulting 
in great loss of property, and the loss of several lives. 
An explosion of kerosene on a brig lying at the dock 
enveloped the vessel in flames, which spread rapidly 
to the dock and the oil works there. The crew of 
the brig, except the captain, all perished. Loss 
probably $ 1 , 000 , 000 . 
Madame Moor, the female pedestrian, succeeded 
in walking fifty miles in nine hours and fifty minutes, 
recently, at the rink in Syracuse. 
A tin box containing $100,000 in United States 
. bonds and other securities, was lately stolen from 
- C. W. Woolsey, in New York, who placed it on a 
• desk in a broker’6 office, and engaged in conver¬ 
sation. 
A large black bear was 6hot a short time since by 
1 E. Comstock, one mile north of Saulslmry, Herkimer 
Co. The animal dragged a trap six miles before he 
was overtaken and dispatched. He weighed 350 
poundB, 292 when dressed. 
The glass staining factory of Henry E. Sharp, in 
. East 22d 6treotNew York, was destroyed by lire last 
• week. Loss $25,000. 
Property to the value of nearly $40,000 was de¬ 
stroyed by fire in Yonkers, last week. 
A series of frauds for a long time carried on by 
the New York carmen have just been discovered. 
Three men have been arrested, one of whom con¬ 
fessed to being engaged in robberies to the amount 
of $10,000. 
The female type-setters and 6ewing machine op¬ 
erators in New York have formed a joint association, 
with Miss Susan B. Anthony as President. 
The managers of the Hudson River Railroad are 
making good progress on the grading of the third 
track, ivhich has now become a necessity, in order to 
move the immense number of trains over the road. 
1 A large flouring mill at Waterford was burned 
Wednesday night of last week. Loss $50,000. 
Sixty pupils of Bisbec’s military school at Pough¬ 
keepsie were taken sick with cramps and diarrhoea 
on Saturday afternoon, and a panic prevailed for 
some time. Prompt measures were taken, how¬ 
ever, and most of them are now well, ft is thought 
something was wrong with a dish of head cheese 
that was heartily patronized by the boys at dinner, 
and it is to undergo a minute analysis. 
Ou the 27th ult., three deputy collectors, while 
searching for illicit distilleries in Brooklyn, were 
set upon hy a crowd, and one of them badly beaten 
One of the collectors, named Fred. B. Lawrence, 
fired into the crowd with a revolver, and severely 
wounded Maria Kelly, who was just coming out of 
her house, 42 John street. 
From Washington. 
Secretary Brow ning has addressed aletter to the 
Secretary of War, calling attention to the destitute 
condition of the friendly Osage Indians, now on 
their reservation in the Indian territory, and asking 
if some means cannot be devised for their relief. 
The limited appropriations at the disposal of the 
Interior Agent are utterly inadequate to support 
these tribes, and thej r are in a starving condition. 
Both the Auditor of the Post Office Department 
and tho Post Master General deny the report ot a 
deficiency of receipts over expenditures in the De¬ 
partment amounting to over six million dollars. 
It will be less than one million dollars. 
The President has proclaimed a treaty with the 
Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, by which they 
cede to the United States all their lands, in return 
for which ample compensation is made and a tract 
of land set aside in the Indian country, south of 
Kansas, for their future homes. 
Certain Cabans have been in negotiation with our 
government for the purchase of ironclads, contra¬ 
dictions to the contrary notwithstanding, 
Commissioner Rollins decides that hotel aud res¬ 
taurant keepers, whose sales of liquors amount to 
$25,000 a year, arc wholesale dealers, and requires 
them to exhibit the sign of such dealers. 
The President lias pardoned Jonas AtkinEon, w ho 
served!fifteen months of his term of fifteen years 
imprisonment, for counterfeiting, on account of 
old age and infirmities. 
In accordance with the act of February 3d, 1868, 
all cotton imported from foreign countries from aud 
after the first proximo, will be exempt from im¬ 
port duty. 
The Postmaster General’s answer to statements 
recently made is, that he expended all the money 
at his command to extend the benefits of the De¬ 
partment as widely as possible, and his only regret 
is that the supply is too limited to meet the Na¬ 
tional demand. 
The Treasury Deportment has issued a circular 
dated October 29th, directing that a duty of two 
dollars and fifty cents per pound, and twenty-five I 
per cent ad valorem, shall be assessed for all cigars, < 
cigarettes and cheroots uuder the 83d and 87th 
sections of the Internal Revenue act approved Jniy ' 
20 th, 1868. ; 
stroyed the skating .rink, two wagon shops, and 
four dwellings. Loss $20,000. 
In compliance with a resolution adopted by Con¬ 
gress last Jniy, Gen. Sherman has instructed Gen. 
Getty to reclaim from peonage and slavery the 
women and children of the Navajoe Indians held in 
bondage in New Mexico and Colorado. 
The Republican members of the Oregon Assem¬ 
bly have all resigned, leaving the Assembly without 
a quorum, while no appropriation bill has been 
passed. There is great excitement in Salem in 
regard to it. 
Gen. Carr, with 6even companies of the Fifth cav¬ 
alry, and Forsyth’s scout-s, under Lieut. Pepson, 
struck the Indians on Shortness Creek, south of 
Beuver, on the 25th ult., and killed ten Indians and 
fire ponies, and captured three ponies. The next 
day he followed the Indians who disputed his ad¬ 
vance to protect their lodges and stock, and forced 
them to abandon their robes and camp and lodge 
equipage, captaring and killing seventy-two ponies. 
Gen. Carr is still pursuing them. 
Five men attempted to rob the First National 
Bank at Allen, Ill., early on Sunday morning, but 
were interfered with in their operations by a private 
watchmaD. They attacked him, however, and killed 
him, then made their escape, leaving all their tools 
behind them. 
A freight locomotive, working in a gravel pit on 
the Ohio and Mississippi railroad eighteen miles 
from Cincinnati, exploded on the 30th ult, killing 
the conductor, fireman, and three boys standing 
near, and wounding the engineer and brakeman. 
The Propeller Congress, from Buffalo for Chicago, 
was lost off Thunder Bay on the 27th ult. 
A fire last week in Ottumwa, Ohio, destroyed 
seven buildings and damaged several others. The 
loss is not less than half a million dollars. The 
Iobs to the insurance companies is estimated at a 
quarter of a million of dollars. The origin of the 
tire is unknown. 
From the South. 
Affairs in some of the Southern States are far 
from encouragiug. In Louisiana, especially, they 
are alarming. The number of murders in St. Lan¬ 
dry parish alone during the recent troubles, amounts 
to one hundred. In New Orleans, last week, mob 
law’ was in the ascendancy. Many persons were 
killed in the city and in St. Bernard. On Wednes¬ 
day night armed bands of Democrats, a special dis¬ 
patch say6, patrolled the streets, sacking the Repub¬ 
lican club rooms and some private residences, and 
shooting down negroes. The newspapers next 
morning demanded the immediate resignation of 
State officers, the departure of carpeiSbaggers, and 
the ignoring of all obnoxious laws. At the insti- 
eation of General Rousseau the Police Board re¬ 
moved Superintendent Williamson, and appointed 
General Steadman iu his place, who proceeded to 
re-organize the police. Owing to objections to 
recognize the police law, on the part of some. Gen¬ 
eral S. resigned, and the Mayor appointed Thomas 
Adams, who demanded possession of the office, but 
was refused. The General then withdrew his resig¬ 
nation and took charge of the force. Intense ex¬ 
citement prevailed. 
Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, has issued a proc¬ 
lamation congratulating the citizens upon the 
beneficent results that have ensued from the issue 
of his late proclamation calling upon all good and 
true men, without respect of party, to unite and 
discountenance aud denounce lawlessness and vio¬ 
lence. He speaks in a complimentary maimer of 
the conciliatory address of Wade Hampton and the 
executive committee of the Democratic party, aHd 
their denunciations of the crimes which have re¬ 
cently been committed ju some portions of the 
State, and he earnestly invokes the co-operation of 
every member of the Republican party in recipro¬ 
cating to its fhllest extent the pence policy so ad¬ 
mirably inculcated by the Democratic leaders. 
The receipts for cotton at Savannah, Ga., for the 
week ending the 23d ult., were 10,587 bales of up¬ 
lands and 330 bales of Sea Island. The exports 
coastwise were 6,799 bales. The total stock is 18,- 
272 bales of uplands and 975 bales of Sea Island. 
From the West. 
A dispatch from Santa Fe, New Mexico, says: 
An important Indian expedition is now being or¬ 
ganized in this Territory, which will soon start from 
Fort Bascomb, on the Canadian River, to operate 
against the Indians who have been committme 
depredations in Kansas and Colorado during the 
past few months. The command consists of 6 ix 
companies of the third cavalry, one or two compa¬ 
nies of the second infantry, together with between 
20(1 and 300 U*.e& and Apache Indians, under the com¬ 
mand of Col. Evans, of the Third cavalry. 
The Governors of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, 
and Missouri, unite in a call for & convention at 
Prairie du Chien, November 10, to take measures 
to induce Congress to vote money for the improve¬ 
ment of the navigation of the Fox and Wisconsin 
Rivers. 
A Fire in Fon du Lac, Wis., on the 29th nit., de¬ 
Latest Foreign Intelligence. 
The central provisional Junta of Spain has held 
its lost session. Resolutions were adopted urging 
the abolition of capital punishment, the removal of 
convict prisons from Spain to Africa and the Phili- 
pinc Islands, and the formation of volunteer rifle 
associations throughout the country. After advis¬ 
ing all the local provisional Juntas to follow their 
example, the central Junta was dissolved. The 
elections for members of the Constituent Cortes will 
take place on the 29th of November. Setor Agala, 
Colonial Minister, has issued a circular announcing 
that the Colonies will be placed on the same electoral 
basis as the rest of Spaiu, Scnor Eseolante has re¬ 
signed his office uuder the provisional government. 
Gen. Du Ice has finally accepted the appointment of 
captain general of Cuba, and will soon sail lor 
Havana. 
The health of the Queen of Portugal gives cause 
of uneasiness to her physicians. She is Buid to be 
afflicted with the incurable brain disease that proved 
fatal to her mother. 
The only French silver money of two francs and 
downwards that has now legal circulation is that 
which bears the date of 1864 or of some subsequent 
year. 
Serions riots took place in Rotterdam on the 31st 
ult. The troops were called oat and were obliged 
to fire upon the rioters. It is reported that several 
persons were killed and many wounded. A large 
number of arrests have been made. 
A special from Constantinople says that the Grand 
Turk has issued a circular in direct refusal of the 
wishes of the American Congress, for the opening 
of the strait of Dardanelles to all foreign vessels. 
Foreign residents think the opportunity is presented 
for the Americau Government to insist upon the 
opening of the strait. 
It is fully confirmed that Prussia, Italy, Portugal, 
France and Great Britain have renewed their rela¬ 
tions with the new government of Spain. The 
Papal Nuncio at Madrid has also put himself in 
communication with the Spanish Foreign Minister. 
The Austrian Diet has passed a bill giving authority 
to the Government to recruit forty thousand addi¬ 
tional soldiers, Baron Beust having given a formal 
assnrance that the men to be enlisted will merely 
fill up the deficiency in the standing army and not 
swell it above the number fixed by law. 
The great Murine Exposition at Havre closed on 
the 27th, and the day was observed as a holiday in 
thin- ciiy. 
Light shocks of an earthquake were experienced 
in Cork county, Ireland, on the 26th. Minister 
Political News. 
The series of Democratic meetings held in Al¬ 
bany, during the campaign, culminated on the night 
of the 30th ult., in a great gathering at Tweddle 
Hall, at which Hon. J. Q, Adams of Massachusetts 
made a lengthy address. Much enthusiasm was 
manifest. 
Gov. Clayton, of Arkansas, has issued a procla¬ 
mation in which lie declares the registration invalid 
in eleven counties of that State. 
Western Virginia gives a larger Republican ma¬ 
jority than was expected. It is thought that it will 
reach about 5,000. « 
The total registry in New York city is 16S.872; in 
Brooklyn, 64,307. 
Major Luther Caldwell of the Advertiser, gave a 
complimentary dinner to the Grant Invincibles of 
Elmira on Tuesday evening last. Among the guests 
and speakers were Gen. Cochrane, Gen. Hall of 
Maine, Gen. Lee of Connecticut, Gcd. Bruce, and 
others equally well known. 
Registration closed in New Orleans on Saturday. 
Forty-three thousand names were registered. The 
largest vote ever polled in that city was 29,000. 
E. Fenn Dickinson, Probate Judge of Sandusky, 
Ohio, and Democratic member of Congress elect 
from the Northern District, has been arresttd 
charged with issuing fraudulent naturalization pa¬ 
pers. 
Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, has made requisi¬ 
tion upon Gov. Fenton for several parties in New 
York charged with violating the Election laws of 
Pennsylvania, in October. 
The Democrats and Republicans in San Francisco 
made extensive demonstrations on Wednesday and 
Saturday evenings of last week respectively. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Katkoff, the editor of the Moscow Gazette, 
receives a salary of 10,000 silver rubles, and, next to 
the Emperor himself, is considered the most influ¬ 
ential man in Russia. 
Count Adklsvaerd, one of the wealthiest noble¬ 
men of Sweden, is said to have refused an offer of 
seventy million dollars, made to him hy an English 
company, for his copper mine of Atrudaberg. 
Two men went into a jewelry store in Cincinnati 
the other day, and, alter asking to see some rings, 
one of them called off the clerk and the other seized 
$1,200 worth of the rings and both ran off. un¬ 
detected. 
The North American steamship company has been 
merged into the Pacific Mail, and the vessels of the 
former, which have been running between New 
York and Panama and San Francisco, will be 
drawn off. 
Three children of Byron Foodell, at Peabody, 
Mass., all uuder six years, were burned to death on 
Tuesday of last week. They were playing in a small 
out building stored with hay and probably fired it 
with matches. 
A fire at Boston on Friday last destroyed a car- 
house, two drawing-room ears, one mail, one bag¬ 
gage aud several passenger cars, belonging to the 
Albany & Boston Railroad Company, inflicting a 
loss of $100,000. 
TnE steamer Grecian, of the Royal Mail line, 
struck a rock in ascending the Galop Rapids in the 
river St. Lawrence on Friday last. She was mu 
into the boy, where she sunk in twenty feet of water. 
No lives were lost. 
The number of children attending schools in the 
United .States, according to the estimate adopted 
by the Boston correspondent of the American Pub¬ 
lisher, is 5,000,000. For these there are each year 
manufactured 20,000,000 text hooks; cost $18,650,000. 
A. M. Wheeler of Halifax, Vt., has cut a hem¬ 
lock tree from which was made twelve thousand 
shingles, all clear, first rate shingles, leaving timber 
enough for live or sLx hundred feet of boards, and 
lots of good wood for fires, beside three-fourths of 
a cord of bark. 
Madame Traidon, who was bitten by a mad dog, 
which she immediately clasped and held until he 
was killed, thus preventing his biting others in the 
crowd which surrounded her, was cured of the bite, 
and bas been presented with a gold medal by the 
French Government. 
The Supreme King of Siam is a good astronomer, 
edits an almanac, and takes personal supervision of 
the astronomical observations made in the Kingdom. 
He went down to Wai-wan, in the Gulf of Siam, to 
take charge of the observations of the August total 
eclipse of the sun. 
The American Missionary Association held its 
Annual Meeting last week, in Springfield, Mass. 
The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer show 
that a year’s work had been done arnoDg the freed- 
men by more than five hundred teachers, at an 
expense Of about $350,000. 
The Scandinavian, from Chicago to Oswego, with 
12,000 bushels of wheat, went ashore off Port Rowan 
on Saturday and sank iu 12 feet of water. The crew 
and the wife of the captain took refuge in the rig¬ 
ging and remained until the next day, when they 
were rescued in an exhausted condition. 
The annual report of the agent of the Auburn 
State prison for the year ending on the last day of 
September, 1868, gives the average number of con¬ 
victs confined iu the institution at nine hundred and 
fifty-two for the year — the largest average ever 
known before. The number received during the 
year is three hundred and ten, with about the same 
number of dischargee. 
The proposed Hudson River suspension bridge is 
to be 1,665 feet long between the towers, with a 
total length, including approaches, of 2,499 feet; 
height above high water, 155 feet; height of towers 
above the water, 280 feet There w ill be 70,302 mi les 
Of steel wire in it, the number of cables being twenty, 
each 14 iuches in diameter. It will be the longest 
bridge on the continent. 
At Christiana, about midway between Philadelphia 
and Harrisburg, a train was lately thrown from the 
track hy running upon a misplaced switch. The 
engine and tender and the baggage car were badly 
wrecked. The engineer, and another man were 
instantly killed, and the baggage master so seriously 
injured that he died shortly after the accident. The 
switch had evidently been wilfully misplaced by 
some wretch. 
Never before has Europe contained so many dis¬ 
carded or disinherited sovereigns. To say nothing 
of mere heirs to royalty, such as the Comte de 
Chambord, the Comte de Paris, the Coant de Mon- 
tenolin, and the father of the Emperor of Austria, 
there are the two ex-Queens of Spaio, the cx-Kings 
Domtn»n Matters. —Charbonuneau’s planing 
and sawmill, at Montreal, was burned on the 27th 
ult. Loss $50,000. A watchman perished in the 
flames. Whalen confidently expects a new trial. 
Extensive Post Office robberies have been discov¬ 
ered. Three packages of registered letters, sent 
from Toronto by the Grand Trunk Railway, are 
missing. No compromise has been effected between 
the Express Companies and the robbers, as re¬ 
ported. 
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The Cuban Insurrection. —It is intimated by 
parties who profess to know that the insurrection¬ 
ary movement in Cuba will assume a startling mag¬ 
nitude before long, and that the Captain-General 
will find it necessary to withdraw in haste. The 
object of the insurgents is an independent govern¬ 
ment for the island, and there are many prominent 
parties outside of Cuba deeply interested in the 
success of the movement. 
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South American News. — Valparaiso dates to 
October 3d, state that great damage has been done 
throughout Chili by heavy rains. Forty persons 
had been drowned in the swollen rivers, and the 
crops in the southern provinces are seriously dam¬ 
aged, entailing much suffering. SenorA. B. Me¬ 
dina, the Secretary of Legation of Pern, acknowl¬ 
edges the receipts of $20,938.30 in aid of the suffer¬ 
ers by the earthquakes in Peru and Ecuador. 
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Lectures.— Prof. A. A. Hopkins of the Rural 
New-Yorker, has prepared a prose lecture for de¬ 
livery to Lyceums and other associations during the 
ensuing winter. He has made his mark in the lit¬ 
erary world as a poet, and writes vigorously and 
felicitously in prose. He has delighted audiences 
in Western. New York heretofore, and we advise 
those making up lists of lectures in this part of the 
State to include him among those to be invited.— 
Rochester Daily Express. 
From Pabagcat. —The latest advices from Para¬ 
guay state that Gen. Lopez held Viletta with all his 
forces. The allied army was near at hand, and news 
of a battle was daily expected. The Portuguese 
Consul had been forcibly taken from the American 
legation at Aseunion, and shot. United States war 
steamers had gone up the Paraguay river, and a 
peremptory demand would he made hy the Ameri¬ 
can commander for redress. 
Inauguration at Princeton. — The inaugura¬ 
tion of Dr. McCosh, as President of the Princeton 
College, took place at Princeton, N. J., on the 27th 
nit., and was attended by a large concourse of 
ulurnni and friends. Gov. Ward presided. Many 
distinguished visitors were present, and the occa¬ 
sion was very greatly enjoyed. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE, i 
Rochestkb, November 3, 1368. > 
There is still an active call for money in this locality, bnt 
the requirements of borrowers are hardly as great as a week 
or ten days since. The barley purchased by dealers In this 
section is mostly sold, and (he decline in wheat rather re¬ 
stricts operations In that direction. 
Money is still in very active demand in New York and 
Boston, and the market la feverish. 
government bonds are steady. The speculative opera¬ 
tions have beon of considerable magnitude the past week, 
though a little cramped by the tightness of money. The 
demand for bonds from interior Inventors is visibly upou 
the increase. The low prices are bringing out a new supply 
Of buyers, many of whom are taking hold of them securities 
for the first time. It can still be said of t. S. bonds, not¬ 
withstanding the depression of gold, that they pay remark¬ 
ably well ns an investment. 
The general New York stock market is in a very excited 
condition. A great deal of Interest has centered In the New 
York Central, which has sold as low us 122. The panic re¬ 
garding the Erie bus not subsided. The financial condition 
of the tosd is a most exciting topic In Wall street. The Im¬ 
mense debt of the Company and the recent new issue of 
stock lend some to argue that the concern Is worthless. 
Reckless speculation is certainly mining this great Com¬ 
pany. The President of the Erie himself reports that the 
common stock or his road has been Increased $27,925,700 
since the annual report of 1867. 
"Wool.— The Eastern wool market is Very quiet. Sales 
moderate, and at former quotations. 
ROCHESTER. Nov. '.’.-Flour, wheat. ?10,rci<ai4,00; Buck¬ 
wheat, P nvt., $-\0Q@5,5l); Com. per bushel, f-l.i ticfl 25 ; Mill 
feed, $3>@36; Wheat, red, fl/iOfol.SO; DO. white, $2,41 (Ay,50; 
Bye, $l,4:i@1,45; Oats, iw&ttic: Barley. $1,730.1,90; Beaus. $2,- 
if* i"/V|VV t * vu»j tuvuvt ^wivvvy *»vv » v ii \ | y-qv mtv,vu . 
Dressed hogs. cwt.. $10,50@lt.50; Rains, l9@gnc; Shoulders. 
lOhti ir.; Chickens, 10;USe; Turkeys, 18@30c; Butter, IWo. 12c; 
(bit-ivtc,IS&lKctN; L:. vlUBC; Bn 
(•o-ac: Wool, toiJo.; Honey, box, F a,, 2(l@2oc; Bay, l> ton, 
-Maple Pugar.IWjiSvc; Hides, green, 8*diy.;i«c; Calf- 
skins. IV'i de; Potatoes, $0,7OiiO,75; Onions, $1,&0@1 ,iS: Hops 
nominal lit lOGJ'fOC; Clover seed, $9@10: Timothy, $3@3,25; 
Combing wool,.'<0@35r.: Apples.p bill., $3,tKWyK); lifted Ap¬ 
ples.? ui, 7@<c; do. Plums, 2tn»-iic: do. Cherries, 80@86c; 
do. Peaches. SOfiaSc : Quinces, V bn., *2,6C@8,0u-, Cranberries, 
* bu., $ 1,00@5,C0; Sheep pelts, 50c@$l. 
THE PROVISION MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Ashes, pots, $S,0(WtS,25, pearls, $10,- 
50; Cotton, 25K®25Xe; Flour, $5,&>@13,0U ; Wheat, $1,40@2,30; 
Rye. $1,061,43: Bariev. 2,05X6,2.11; Corn. $J,09@1,18: Oats, 
1 1 ®72c; Pork, old mess, $ 97 , 0 *Iw 7 l 2 fi ; mess, £36,95(3 77,00; $23,- 
00@34,00 prime; prime mess, $ 25 , 00326 ; Heel, plain mess, $11 
(5,19.00; extra, $19®23^5; Beef hams, $38r#jj8.W); Hams. 12® 
16c ; (shoulders, 1 l@ll)4ol6; Lard, 16&17Ka; Butter, ct@5flc . 
Cheese, 13®17Xc, 
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ALBANY, Oct. 31.-Flour, ((if, 0@13; Rye flour, r*@S,25: 
Corn meal, rc, 355 * 2 . 45 ; Wheat, f.vOcoMO; Corn, $1,12@1,12; 
Burley, $l,6O@2.30 ; live, $0,(0- Oats, Tints; Pork, mess. $M ; 
dear, $31; Hums, 20fe7lc; Shoulders, lie; Beef, dried, 16c : 
mess, $J talti; Card,Soxes 2 lu. 
BUFFALO, Oct. :t( - Floor, $7,50(512,00-, Kyo flour. $7,25; 
Wheat. $d,3064.60; Corn, »7'>o97C: Oats. 57 C& 57 C; Bye, $1,21® 
$1,25; Burley, fi.Oetoii.CO; Peas, $1.30; Beaus. $ 3 ( 318 ^ 60 ; Pota¬ 
toes, 80c; Apples, p bill, f Kui, Butter. SOhi.lOe; Cheese, 10@ 
ISC; Eggs,32c; Pork, men. JBO&XO; Lard, 19>;e. 
CHICAGO, Oct. HI. f lour,$6,26<3«.30; Wheat, $1,13@1,23; 
Com. 1 s5)77c; Oats,44<«BlWe; Rye, 1.I0(.«1,16; Barley, l,71@l,- 
73 ; Pork, mesa, f26,5Q®29; Lard.lSKfcMc. 
CINCINNATI, Oct.28,—Beeves,sell at $3,50®6; Sheep, $2 
@3,50; Lambs, $1.2,; Hogs, $6,75@9,50. 
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 19.-Beef Cattle, $7@9Xc; Sheep, 
4,X@5e: Hogs, 13Xiitl5X'c. 
BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.—Beef Cattle, 4X@8c; Milch Cows, 
$50@100; Veal Calves, 5X@7i*'c; Sheep, 3t|4X ; Hugs, I2@l5c. 
TORONTO, Oct. 23.—Beef Cattle, $3,50@6,50; Sheep, $2@4 • 
Lambs, $l,50@2,35; Hogs, $5,75. 
(adTXc; Eggs, 13@i6c; Potatoes, 75@80c ; Lard, f4@ltic. 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK. Oct, 23.—Beef Cattle range at from 8@16XC- 
Milch Cows, $30<«ill0 ; Veal Calves, I0@16c ; Sheep, o@0XC; 
Lambs, 7(u8c; Hogs, 10@l!Xc. 
ALBANY. Oct. 27.—Boeves range ut from $3@9,25; Milch 
Cows, $15(5100; Veal Calves, 9fe9Xe.; Sheep, 3®exc; iambs, 
5@6SiC ; nogs, 8X@10C- 
BRIGHTON AND CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 2S.—Beef Cattle, 6a 
He; Working oxen. $15 (.V275; Steers, $-s7@‘20U; Milch cows 
*t0<@100; Heifers. $35^50; Yi iirllugs, $16®30; Two-year-olds! 
$20®«: Three-years-old. SitV.OT,; Sheep nml Lambs, «@0Vc 
by the head, $«|4A0; Shotce, ‘katSc; Fat hugs, )0><rjio&c. 
CHICAGO, Oct. 31.—Beef Cattle, f2.75@ll.25; Hogs, $ 9 @ 7 , 56 . 
TORONTO, Oct. 28.—Beeves ranee from $4,50@6,50; SheeD. 
$2@3; Lambs, $B@5; Hogs, $5,12)4@5,60. V 
THE WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Oct. 31. —Wool market is without change- 
sales are 800.000 ttr.. at !8®02)4c tor domestic fleece.31@S'Cfor 
Texas,McctOOr. for tubbed, 8C@3ftc lor California, 42V:@4Sc for 
Cape, 88@ooc for unwastiod, aud 58c for combing. ' 
Johnson was entertained at another banquet in of Holland, of Naples, of Greece, and till recently 
Liverpool on the night of the 36th. John Bright of Bavaria also, the ex-King of Hanover, the banished 
opened the Parliamentary canvass at Bi mingham Grand Duke of Tuscany, besides a host of minor 
the same evening by addressing an immense meet- dukes and electors, once regnant in Italy and Ger- 
ing. Mr. Johnson is invited to visit Birmingham, many. In fact, the whole continent is filled with 
and to accept the hospitality of the Chamber of living warnings to unworthy royalty, and roaming 
Commerce. memorials of the instability of human greatness. 
CHICAGO. Oct. 30.—The following are the quotations 
Common tub-washed, 40j£»J3c: flue wool, 33@43c; medium 
and coarse, ; unwashed, 24^28c. 
CINCINNATI, Oct. 28.-Wool, palled, 37@50c; tub-washed, 
4S@32c: unw ashed |28@30c; fleece, 40@45c. 
BALTIMORE, Oct,30-Wool, unwashed, 93@33e; burry,22 
@2oC: lub-waahed, 43@46c ; fleece, 42@45c : pulled, 30@33u, 
