deems his promises and overhauls the whole 
system of freight management at once. 
_ Ohio. 
Coi.ttmbtts claims to have been shaken by an 
earthquake about half-past one o’clock A. M. on 
the l“th ull. One citizen reports that the vibra¬ 
tions at his residence were sufficiently strong to 
shake ware from shelves, and to open doom and I 
shutters, and others say that doors in their 
houses were Jarred open. The undulations were 
from the northwest to the southeast. 
The “ Treaty " building and some oil ware¬ 
houses in Akron wore burned on the 18th ult., 
entailing a loss of $15,000. 
Indiana. 
Am, the arrangements have been made for the 
third annual rc-uniou of theSociety of the Army 
of the Cumberland, to be held in Indianapolis on 
Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 13 and 16. Gen. 
Thomas is expected to preside, and invitations 
have been extended to President Grant, Gen¬ 
erals Sherman, Sheridan, Roscerans, Schofield, 
Hooker, Howard. Meud, Halleck, Buell, McClel¬ 
lan, Blair and Hancock ; Admirals Farragut and 
Porter; Secretary Robeson anti Secretary Bel¬ 
knap. Commanders of all the Union armies are 
invited to come. 
Michigan. 
The students of the University of Michigan 
have established “University Day," to lie cele¬ 
brated annually hereafter in November. The 
first celebration occurred on the 17th ult. To the 
number of 1,000 the students marched through 
the principal streets of Ann Arbor to a church, 
where they listened to words of good cheer and 
friendly counsel from acting President Frieze, 
Judge Campbell of the Law Department, Pro¬ 
fessor Palmer of the Medical Department, and 
Professor W1 nohell of the Literary Department. 
Minnesota. 
A Yor.vfj man who died in St. Paul on the 112th 
itst. left $75,000 each to two of his college class¬ 
mates. 
A large block of stores in St. Anthony, known 
os AuohUeid’s blook, was destroyed by fire on 
the 19th inst. Loss $15,000. 
Wiaconaln. 
The new State Capitol at Madison is to be 
completed this mont h. I ts entire cost is $531,015. 
Illinois. 
The Wabash Avenue Skating Rink, Chicago, 
was crushed by the weight, of snow on the roof 
on the 10th ult. 
Iowa. 
A noted ruffian named Sain Murdock was 
lynched a few days ago in Fremont county for 
the murder of J-lonry Johnson. Since the lynch¬ 
ing Johnson has re-appeared in perfect health, [ 
and the authorities are looking for the lynchers. 
Missouri. 
Tub committee of steamboatmen in St. Louis | 
who have boon investigating tho conduct of 
Captain Washington, oi the steamer Sub-Marine, 
in passing the wreck of the Stonewall without 
rendering her passengers auy assistance, have 
decided that he committed a “grave error” 
which should not characterize Western boatmen. 
A young man named Barnett, who confessed 
that he abstracted about $1J1UG from the Sunday 
collections of a St. Louis Presbyterian church 
since February hist, was publicly excommuni¬ 
cated from the church on Sunday, tho 21st ult. 
A building in course of construction in St. 
Louis fell on the 19th ult. with a great crash, 
burying nine or thirteen men employed in tho 
cellar in shoring up sunken portions of the 
foundation. The loss is estimated at $40,000. 
The Supreme Court of Missouri, on the 22d 
ult., decided, in the case of the State against 
Farris. Involving directly the right to he direct¬ 
ors of the Limlenwood College at St. Charles, 
that the action of the General Assembly, being 
the highest Church Court, is conclusive iu civil 
courts onull ecclesiastical matters, andsustaiufcd 
the action of the Assembly of I860 and 1867. 
The Indians. 
Information has been received iu Washing¬ 
ton of a severe light with Indians on the Texan 
frontier. Two hundred cavalry met. four hun¬ 
dred Indians on the Upper Brazos and fought 
them for two days, when the Didians fled, leav¬ 
ing forty dead on the field, and their cam)) 
equipage, horses and provisions. None of the 
troops were killed, although nine of them were 
wounded. 
The attention of Government has been called 
to the condition of Indian affairs in Montana, as 
a general outbreak among the tribes in tho Ter¬ 
ritory is considered imminent. It is proposed to 
invest the Territorial authorities with power to 
try Indian offenders under formal indictment, 
and if found guilty, to deal with them as in the 
case of white citizens. 
lied Itiver. 
Lieut.-Goveunou McDougall has decided to 
build quarters for himself and family, and to 
await tho reaction in favor of Dominion au¬ 
thority, which Is anticipated. The Americans 
are represented as having no sympathy with the 
French insurgents. Tho Government of the 
Dominion, it is said, will leave tho matter en¬ 
tirely in Mr. McDougall’s bauds for settlement. 
The insurgents have adopted a syete m of passes 
and maintain rigid surveillance. They have 
taken possession of tho Hudson Bay Company's 
store, and serve out rations and supplies to 
themselves freely. They compelled the printers 
of the Nor*wester, at the muzzle of the musket, 
to print the rebel proclamation, which was 
posted throughout the insurgent section. A 
Fenian priest is said to bo inflaming the insur¬ 
gents in their resistance to the Governor. 
Simuitanoously with tho expulsion of Gov¬ 
ernor McDougall another band of French insur¬ 
gents took possession of Fort Garry, without 
obstruction. Tho fort is now occupied by the 
Provisional Governor, John Brouso. Governor 
MeTavish is dangerously ill, and the Hudson 
Bay Company do not, organize to support Gov¬ 
ernor McDougall. Six hundred men sworn to 
resist tho Canadian authorities and calling them¬ 
selves “ Liberators,’' m e iu arms. 
Letters from Fort Garry represent tho Insur¬ 
gents as having the support of the Scotch and 
English settlers in a greater degree than was ex¬ 
pected. Governor McDougall is still at Pembina. 
Mr. Provenoher is said to be in favor of return¬ 
ing to Canada, to which the Governor will not 
consent. 
Dominion of Canada, 
The Legislature of the Province of Quebec 
opened on the 24 th ult., In the city of Quebec. 
The Lieutenant-Governor, in his address, spoke 
of the beneficial results from the laws of the 
previous session relating to agriculture, coloni¬ 
zation and education. The expenditures of the 
past six months have been kept within the esti- 
mates. 
The vote in the Legislature of Ontario on the 
resolutions condemning the financial arrange, 
meat with Nova Scotia resulted iu a majority 
against the Government. 
The commanders of the Canadian voiuatcer 
corps have offered the services of their com. 
mauds to the Government to serve in any expe¬ 
dition that may organize to suppress the Rej 
River insurrection. 
IV e wfo n n dl an d. 
The Anti-Confederation party is said to have 
secured a good majority in the new Provincial 
Assembly. 
Cuba. 
Dispatches from Havana to the 19 th ult. show 
that, the work of burning the sugar crop in tbr 
fields is prosecuted by the insurgents with vigor. 
Four plantations uear Santiago, one at Trinidm), 
and tea near Cicnfucgos, have been burned sir: ^ 
the 1st ult. Among the latter, it is said, is that 
of Mr. Pouvert of New York. 
The Civil Governor of Santiago proclaims th- 
slaughter of 280 insurgents, and offers clemency 
to such as may submit, and threatens the chas¬ 
tisement. of all revolutionists captured. Tho 
Captain-General has pardoned 200 political pris¬ 
oners. A commission from tho insurgent <j ( ,\. 
enunent.it Is understood in Havana, has arrived 
in Caracas, to induce the Government, of Vene¬ 
zuela to recognize Cuban belligerency, and to 
permit recruiting for the Cuban army. The 
suffering and destitution iu consequence of tin 
oholera and small pox at Santiago is intense. 
A Havana dispatch says an attempt to incite 
the negroes about Sagua to rebellion has been 
frustrated, and tbo leaders have been arrested 
and " promptly executed.” 
were seized by United States Marshal Harlow, 
and the whole question regarding them will now 
be settled by the National courts. 
In Wall street, on the 22d ult. the bulls tried to 
run gold up under pretended fear of a "diffi¬ 
culty" with Spain, on account of the prospect¬ 
ive seizure ol' the Spanish gunboats. They only 
succeeded to the extent of ouc-fourth of one 
per cent,, and then gold fell back again to for¬ 
mer figures. 
A meeting of the prominent citizens of New 
York City was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel 
on the 20th ult., who organized themselves per¬ 
manently for the celebration of the I tee tho ven 
Centennial, next year. 
On the23d ult, « meeting of artists and promi¬ 
nent oitizens was held in the Theater of the 
Union League Club House, to take steps to es¬ 
tablish a Museum of Art in New York City. 
Speeches were made by 'V. C. Bryant, Professor 
Comfort of Princeton College, Rev. Dr. Thomp¬ 
son, Rev. Dr. Bellows, and others, and a com¬ 
mittee ot fifty citizens was appointed to carry 
out the objects of the meeting. 
The boiler of the locomotive of the morning 
express on the Home and Oswego Railroad, on 
the J30t,U ult., exploded near Pulaski, and the en- 
glncor was killed, the fireman and a passenger 
wounded, the locomotive tom to pieces, and the 
baggage ear thrown from the truck. 
The machine shop of t he Cornell line of steam¬ 
boats at Rondout was destroyed by fire on the 
night of the 20th ult- Loss, $15,000; no insurance. 
On the 23d ull. a verdict of $18,000 damages 
was gi ven for the plaint iff in t lie case of Norman 
T. Smith against the New Fork Central Railroad 
Company, in the Supremo Court at. Utioa. Smith 
was pilot engineer of a special train on tho Cen¬ 
tral I toad, which came in collision with a work¬ 
ing train about a year ago. 
On Sunday morning, tho 21st ult., a fire oc¬ 
curred lu Phcenlx, N. V., which destroyed a 
three-story block of stores, the Phoenix Bank, 
tho post-ofliee and telegraph office. Two young 
men who slept in the second-story escaped by 
jumping from the windows. 
The people of Mexico are in trouble about the 
bonding of tliclr town for ?3U,IKXI for the Syra¬ 
cuse Northern Railroad. The leading business 
men and citizens ol the village have signed and 
published a card, in which they say that unless 
certain .Syracuse capitalists ceaso their efforts 
to bond Lbe town for the required amount, they 
will no longer buy of or trade with any resident 
of said city of Syracuse, their agents or clerks. 
A ease has come to light in Brooklyn In which 
a number of German worthies forged the Will 
of one John Philip Born, giving all his property 
to the wife of one of the forgers, and bequeath¬ 
ing only one dollar to big only daughter. The 
property amounted to front $15,000 to $20,000. 
The will was contested when offered for probate 
in £he Surrogate’s Court, and one of the parties 
made a eon fee ,ion of tho transaction. 
On the evening ut the 25th nit., A. D. Richard¬ 
son, tho well-known correspondent (if the New 
York Tribuno, was shot In the abdomen by 
Daniel McFarland, a lawyer, while standing in 
the Tribune office. He is in a very critical con¬ 
dition, and his recovery is doubtful. McFarland 
was at large until a late hour the same night, 
when lie was arrested. Jealousy is said to have 
been tho cause of McFarland’s crime. 
Maine. 
Gen. J. M. BROWN, of the Governor’s staff, is 
soon to visit Baugor to see about raising one of 
the ten volunteer companies there that were 
aut horized by tho Act of the Legislat ure of last 
winter. 
At Augusta, on the 23d ult., James Ritohon 
pleaded guilty to the charge of burning tho 
Baptist Church at China in October a year ago. 
Among tin.' bequests under the will of the late 
Col. Alfred W. Johnson is one $3,000 forthe sup¬ 
port of three scholarships in Bowdoin College, 
to be called the Alfred Johnson Scholarship, iu 
memory of his lather ami grandfather, who 
were for many years trustees of that institution. 
Ho also left a perpetual annuity of $500 in aid 
of Hu- suffering poor of Belfast. 
At Thomaston the convicts in the Slate prison 
were furnished with a turkey dinner on Thanks¬ 
giving-day, and allowed three hours recreation 
in one of the large shops, which they seemed to 
enjoy very much in talking, singing, jumping 
and dancing without restraint. They all beha ved 
with perfect propriety, and everything passed 
Off lo the satisfaction of all parties. It took 
twenty-three turkeys to feed the one hundred 
and seventeen convicts now in prison, which is 
the largest number of convicts ever in tho 
prison at any one time. 
Among the curious bequests of t he late Jabez 
C. Woodman of Portluud was his half of a pic¬ 
ture to his wife, which was originally presented 
to them both by a friend. 
Mas«a eh u setts. 
The citizens ot Peabody held a meeting in tho 
Town Hall on Monday night, the 2jd ult., and 
appointed a committee to co-operate with Trus¬ 
tees of the Peabody Institute in making ar¬ 
rangements for t he ceremonies on the arrival of 
the remains of the late Mr. Peabody. 
The Iloylston Bank, Boston, was entered be¬ 
tween Saturday and Monday, the 20th and 22d 
ult., ljy burglars, who carried off between $400,- 
000 and $500,000 of the property of persons who 
sent their dash-boxes to the bank for safe keep¬ 
ing. The entrance was effected through a brick 
wall two l’eet thick, from the business plnee of 
a person who had hired the adjoining store os¬ 
tensibly to sell California wine bitters. A closet 
was constructed iu this store against the bank 
wall, opposite the bank vault, and the burglars 
were thus concealed from view while making 
their way through the wall. 
The losers by the Boylston Bank robbery in 
Boston held a meeting on Tuesday, the 23d ult., 
ut which half their number were present, repre¬ 
senting $256,0CKf The absent were mainly small 
depositors, from which it. is concluded that the 
whole loss is about $350,000. 
Rhode Island. 
Hiram A. Briggs, a well-known merchant of 
Pawtucket, was arrested iu that place on the 
19th ult. on the charge of attempting to poison 
his entire family, consisting of his a ife, his son, 
(who was in partnership with him,) two daughters 
and a little grandchild, bj r putting arsenic in the 
flour for the bread of the family, ol’ which lie did 
not partake himself. The family were made 
sick, but no one died. 
New Jersey. 
An attempt was made on Monday morning, the 
22d ult., to blow up a portion of the Hudson 
county jail, with a view to giving 6ome of the 
prisoners an opportunity to escape. It was un¬ 
successful. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Washington. 
President Grant has promoted Robert M. 
Douglas to be full Private Secretary to the 
President. 
Letters received in Washington from England 
indicate a growing disposition on the part of l lie 
English Government to settle tho Alabama 
claims question lu a manner satisfactory to the 
United Suites. 
The French Government having discontinued 
levying discriminating duties upon goods intro¬ 
duced into that country in American vessels, 
President Grant, hits issued a proclamation abol¬ 
ishing similar restrictions upon Froneh com¬ 
merce with the United States. 
Tho. steamer Nipsie has been detailed to go to 
Panama for the purpose of assisting in the sur¬ 
vey of tho Panama Ship Canal. Tho Govern¬ 
ment, having secured the treaty giving it sole 
control over tho cuuul, Ifciletcrmined to push the 
work, and will make rapid progress during the 
coming winter In surveying for the route. 
It appears from t he testimony before the Com¬ 
mittee 1 uvestIgiitiiig tbo Paraguayan imbroglio 
that there are long standing differences on l lie 
subject of their respective privileges and au¬ 
thority between our naval officers and ourrtlplo- 
uittlie representatives abroad. To llnd out the 
cause of this and present u remedy therefor the 
Committee have resolved to examino Vice-Ad¬ 
miral Porter and Assistant Secretary of Stale 
Hunter. 
Senator Ruiuscy, who was sent over to France 
some time ago to negotiate a new postal treaty 
between the two countries, lift* returned to 
Washington unsuccessful. The present treaty 
expires Juuunry 1, and, although the busis of 
it is as high us thirty cents per half ounce, the 
Minister of Finance would not agree to the re¬ 
duction proposed by Mr. Ramsey. Therefore, 
after tho 1st. of January tho postage to France 
will he flvo times as much as to Great Britain. 
The other European Power* say that France ha* 
never been willing to make reasonable postal 
treaties, but if the United States will join them 
in breaking otf postal communication with 
France, they think she can bo compelled to con¬ 
sent, to liberal rates of postage. 
The annual report of the Secretary of the 
Navy, which is finished, is about halt the length 
of the last report of Secretary Welles. Secretary 
Robeson shows that, notwithstanding tho large 
sums recently expended in fitting out and fin¬ 
ishing vessels, the department tias bean run the 
last year at a less expense than it was the year 
previous. 
Within two months the country has lost by 
death one ex-Prosldent, two ex-Soorelaries of 
the Treasury, t he Secretary of War mid an ox- 
Seoretary of War, two ox-Senators, one cx- 
Postinasler-General, a Rear-Admiral and a 
Major-General of the regular army. 
On the23d ult,. the Navy Department instruct¬ 
ed Admiral Poor to dispatch a vessel to Nassau 
for the purpose of bringing to Key West the 
men from the steamer Lillian, provided they 
pledge themselves not again to involve them¬ 
selves lu a violation of the neutrality laws. 
The Question of establishing a telegraph cable 
between New' York ami the Hague, recently 
submitted to the Government, has. already re¬ 
ceived consideration,and at the proper i inieduc 
acknowledgment will bo made to tho Nether¬ 
lands Government fur Hie friendly motives 
which prompted the concession to an American 
citizen. Reciprocity, especially as to termini, 
is doubtless the principle which will govern fu¬ 
ture official proceedings, and it is said the Presi¬ 
dent will at an early day call the particular 
nttculion of Congress to the subject. The Gov¬ 
ernment favors an American company, based 
on sustaining American rights. 
Mrs. Gaines, reported to he the richest woman 
in the United States, is here preparing surveys 
of tho property in New Orleans, of which the 
United Stales Supreme Court decided her to he 
the owner. Mrs. Gaines complains of constant 
annoyances from the squatters on her property, 
and threatens to sue many of them for damages. 
The Board to rake into consideration the 
question of rank between the staff and the line 
in the navy consists of ten officers, live of the 
line and live of the stall, as follows: Commo¬ 
dores M. Smith, Janies Alden and A. H. Case; 
Captain Ammon; Chief-Engineer J. W. King; 
Surgeon Pinckney; Paymaster Dunn; Captain 
William Reynolds; Surgeon W. M. Wood and 
John Lonthall, Chief of the Bureau of Con¬ 
struction and Repairs. 
The Secretary of tiie Navy, in his forthcoming 
report, vrili recommend to Congress a plan for 
the settlement of rank between (lie lino and 
staff, and may submit a bill drafted with a view 
to meet tho existing difficulties. The proposi¬ 
tion is lu give the members ot thestaff an assim¬ 
ilated rank as high ns that of Commodore, 
which is an advancement of one grade beyond 
that which any staff officer has ever, hitherto, 
been able to achieve, even after a lifetime 
service. 
New York. 
The official returns of the recent election give 
Nelson, for Secretary of State, 20,500 majority in 
a vote of 041,190. 
At the special term of the Supreme Court, 
held at Delhi, an order was granted by the Court 
on Tuesday the 23d ult.. suspending Jay Gould, 
James Fisk, Jr., Fred’k A. lane, Abram Gould, 
M. Simons, George C. Hall, Ileury N. Smith and 
Charles G. Sisson us directors of the Erie Rail¬ 
way Company. A referee will be immediately 
apointed in New York City to tako evidence 
iu regard to the conduct of the affairs of the 
Company. 
The Emaucipalarc Cat Mica of Naples, publishes 
iu full a long letter from Rev. Dr. Art bur Cleve¬ 
land Coxe, Episcopal Bishop of Western New 
Fork, in which he enters an able and earnest 
protest against Pupal supremacy. 
On tho morning of tho 20th ult. two buildings 
in Brooklyn caught fire, and a man named Wal¬ 
lace, a watchman, living in lbe building, jumped 
from the window of the fourth floor, with his 
child iu his arms, and they were both instantly 
killed. His wife jumped immediately after him, 
and was so frightfully mangled that death will 
ulmost. certainly ensue. It is said tho family 
could have escaped to the adjoining building, but 
the fright entirely destroyed their presenoe of 
mind. 
On the 24th alt. the thirty Spanish gunboats 
now in process of completion at New York City 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Great Britain. 
The sailing of tho Monarch, conveying tho 
remains of George Peabody to America, was 
postponed to Dec. 2. 
France. 
The elections were held on Sunday, tho 2Lt 
ult. and the following day. Tbo city was 
“quiet” both days. M. Rochefort has been re¬ 
turned from the First District of Paris, M. Cre- 
influx from tho Third, and M. Arago from the 
Eighth. 
Another reprimand has been administered by 
the Bishop of Orleans to the ultramontane edi- 
tors, who persist in urging the dogmatic deten¬ 
tion of the infallibility of the Pope. 
Thu London Times, iu ut) article on tho politi¬ 
cal situation iu France, says the hopo of a ne« 
Ministry under OUivJcr is dissipated, and the 
present advisers are to be retained until tlx 
mooting of tho Chambers, when new mou may 
he required to init iate tho now r relations betweer 
the Government and the Legislature. 
Two members of the French Ministry, MM 
Bourbeau and Leroux, have been re-eleclc 
members of the Chambers. The Emperor Is tc 
remain in Paris for the present . 
The Empress Eugenie is to return to Fraud 
about tho 8th Inst. 
Spain. 
The Duke of Genoa, according to a Madric 
dispatch, has now the support of ono huudrec 
and sixty-one Deputies in the Cortes for tlx 
throne. 
The Government is considering a propositloi 
to establish uponul colony in ono of its LLui 
in the Pacific. 
A constit ution for Porto Rico, declaring the 
island a Spanish Province, permitting publii 
meetings iu tho presence of the authorities, bul 
forbidding tho discussion of the slavery qui- 
tion, has been submitted to tho Cortes. 
The Republican Deputies iu the Cortes, at i 
session of that body on the 20th ult., denied tlx 
reports that they were implicated in theCubai 
insurrection. 
The Government, according to u Madrid dis 
patch, will take rigorous measures against the¬ 
re without per 
Spanish Bishops who left for r. 
mission and without passport.. 
A resolution of the Spanish Cortes, askiitj 
information, has, it is said, compelled the Gov 
eminent- to lay before that body documents im 
plieutlng Spanish Republicans la a eonspirac; 
with the Cuban IuMirgciUs. 
General Dulce, recently tho predecessor o 
General do Hodas as Captain-General of Cub. 
died on the 23d ult. In Madrid. 
Tho Spanish Government la about to lay be 
fore tho Cortes a number of documents relatlx, 
to the Cubun question, lu three weeks 21,00 
Jutionary movement. The intention to rctur 
to the Cortes to defend the rights of tho pcopj 
and endeavor to establish a federal republic 
also expressed. 
The London Times suggests interrogatively 1 
the Spaniards the establishment of an upeuff 
dynasty, like that of France or Sweden, or, if 
royul Prince Is needed, the recall of the I'rlnc 
of Asturias and his removal from Ilia mother 
influence, to be qualified for the station, tt 
right to which ho has not forfeited by any fad 
or crime of his own. 
Suez. 
Advices from Paris, dated at six o’clock o 
the evening of the 20th ult., report the Sir 
Canal a complete success. The French imperi; 
yacht L’Aiglc, with the Empress Eugenio 0 
board, arrived at Suez, through the canal, wit 
out accident. The fleet accomplished t he pu£- y 
with no other inconvenience than was erp 
rienced from the crowding of so many vesta 
together. This, however, only amounted iu 
few “footings,” and some of the vessels bem 
forced to the banks, whore they grounded i 
sand, and were removed without damage. 
In Loudon the Suez Canal is not regarded as 
success, as improvements will be necessWJ 1 
meet the demands uf commerce. 
A telegraph cable is to be laid the entn 
length of the canal by the steamer Hawk, whic 
Is now at Suez. 
A Loudon dispatch says the Sultan pt'Ot' - 
of the neutrality • 
against the proclamation 
the Suez Canal by tho Viceroy us an encroi.t 
rnent on hts sovreignity. 
The imperial yacht L’Aigle. with tho Emi« - 
on hoard, and tiie entire fleet left Suez on tin 
ult. and reached the Mediterranean on the nc. 
day. The success of the inauguration L c - 
plete. The Emperor of Austria wus to k.t 
