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Washington. 
Misciii.i.ANKOrx. Postmaster-General Cro?- 
woil has umlei-oouUderaUun tin: establishment 
of u number of post-offices foe the convenience 
of visitors ul the principal watering pines 
which do not now enjoy postal facilities. 
The President has recognized Cliurles M. Hagan 
ns Con • a I of . he Turkish Empire in Philadelphia. 
It is the hr . lime the Hublfiiic Porte has been 
represented ltt that city 
‘Secretary BoulxvciJ has issued an order re'pjir¬ 
itis the collection of U*o customs tax upon till 
poods purchased in Canada mid brought to the 
United State*. ThU has ■' ' • ’ r nee to 
fancy articles purchased ill Aiugum . .... . 
The Odd Pillows throughout tbecountry ooio- 
bralisl the sctui-ceutomiiu) of Urn foundation of 
their Order on Monday. HieJWth till. The event 
teems lo have been frh'l generally In a very 
pleasant manner. 
The armorers employed in the United State: 
Armory, at Springfield, Mass., have published 
their views in re rard lothf* Rigid-hour Lnxv and 
the wages due under Its provisions. They speci¬ 
ally thunk Congress anti Senator Wilson for the 
position they have taken on the question. 
The Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco 
has itddrov.od an urgent appeal by telegraph lo 
the President against any changes in the pet'- 
mnnd of the Branch Mint until the preset)I 
'•( ringene.v in the money tap fleet idiall have 
passed away. 
The ;'!•.!i ifybig information conics to us that 
one of ihe principal ref Hie Fenian organizat ion 
i'< gone lo tin* Sntii it and West to look up locali¬ 
ties for Irish emigrants. 
Robert U. Randolph, who, in 1832, xvas dismissed 
from the Navy 1 >.v President; Jackson, and who 
pulled the General's nose in retaliation, recently 
di fl in Wn-kington, aged seventy-eight years. 
A Yv'ndiitigion eormspondont says that Gun. 
Fuller is about in publish a reply to Senator 
Sumner’s .-pooch r.n the A iabamu Treaty. t 
< '. iletnd Cron e, .viio wan innfirmed as I inventor 
of .'■few .Mexico, cannot take the test oath, and 
eonroquenHy will not lie able to assume the du¬ 
ties of his office .*i»:II Congrea:; has removed his 
political disability. Tlie President has asked for 
the opinion of the Attorney-General in refer¬ 
ence to rilling the position temporsirily. 
A Washington correspondent taya that, one ol' i 
the causes for the failure of the ,donate to take I 
action in the ease of Postmaster Kelly of New 
York City, who was renominated by the Presi¬ 
dent, was that the unanimous vote of both 
Houses of the Legislature of .New York was 
presented to the Senate, urging that Mr. Kelly 
should not bo confirmed. 
Hire.m Waihrldge of New York has been ap¬ 
pointed Government Commissioner to inspect 
t.lm Pacific Railroad in, place of Horace Greeley, 
who declined the appointment on account of 
literary engagements. i 
Walbridye A. Field, Assistant United States * 
District-Attorney of Massachusetts, has been i 
appointed by United States Attorney-General 
Hoar his first assistant in the Law Department I 
of the Govcrnment at Wft-shiijgton. I 
A young soldier who went to Washington some 
ti mo since as an applicant, fora Consulate, hav- i 
iug spent all bis money and pawned his watch, i 
has gone to driving 4 cart at. $1.50 per (limn for n„ < 
street contractor. 
The President intends to take a vacation of t 
five or six weeks some time in the summer I 
months. He will visit New England and the 1 
West, and there is n remote possibility that ho < 
may cross to California, where n very enthusi- 1 
astio reception is promised him. 
Commissioners appointed to ascertain tho i 
amount of damage done to property in tho bor- ? 
dor counties of Pennsylvania during the rebel •* 
invasion have completed their nWotmenl. The a 
total amount claimed is $1,821,031.44, and tho 1 
am t 
President Grant and his wife, with Secretary t: 
Boric, Attorney General Iloar. Wm. M. Evarts c 
and several other persons of distinction at the f 
capita!, visited Mount Vernon and the tomb of (. 
Washington on tho 20th ult. This was the first I 
time the President bad ever visited the place, ii 
and Iso appeared strongly impressed with tho sa¬ 
cred association* connected with it. Among tho n 
other visitors wlio went down In the regular p 
steamer was I metres.* Hasbrouok, dressed in \ 
Bloomer costume. u 
The National Dress Reform Association mot 
in Washington .-.n the 28th till-, and among the e 
speakers was Doctrcss Lydia Sayre Ilashrouck I 
of Syracuse, who made a sharp and spirited at- fi 
tack of considerable length upon President 
Grant because lie had refused to see Mrs. Dr. fit 
Walker until she were the usual costume of her 1 1 
sex. At the conclusion Mrs. Dr. Walker an- d 
uonneed that Miss I lashrouek had her premises o 
nil wrong. President Grant had never said it, xx 
but President Lincoln had remarked that, lie was 11 
afraid of women who wore pants. is 
The Delaware Indian tribe has become wholly 
extinct, a portion having been incorporated in d 
the Cherokee tribe and the remainder having bo u 
come citizens of Kansas as long ago ns April, et 
io.lT, but there is an Indian. Agent for (he tribe t 
who regularly draws his salary. It i= stated that oi 
this is not nn isolated case, and that, there are tl 
large quantities of supplies drawn every year a< 
for tho Indian t ribes wlm no longer exist. tt 
An order was issued on the 2Sth ult. by tho ti 
War Department directing the resumption of rc- ill 
cruiting, and as. iguing officers who are waiting C, 
orders to recruiting duty. pi 
New York. 
ai 
Thom the Central Park meteorological report +j 
for the week ending April 24, it appears that in J 
that timo the mean of the barometer was 30.993 t ’j 
ineboa; maximum nt 7 A. M., April 33, 30.374 
inches; minimum at 7 A. M., April 21, 29.404 pj 
Inches; range, .810 inches. The mean of the 
thermometer was 59°; maximum at 2 P. M„ ll( 
April 19, TiF; minimum at 5 A. M.. April 23, 45° ; f 
range, 31°. On tho 20th min fell from 9:15 P. M. ,p 
to 10:30 P. M., and on tho 121st from fl A. M. to 3 ^ 
A. M, Total of water for week, .20 inch. j 
A frightful accident, occurred at Willow Si a- J-. 
tion, near Jamaica, on the Long Island Railroad, js 
On Friday, the S.til ult.. causing tho death of six r[ 
persons and serious injury to eleven others. Tho 
breaking of n rail threw front the track the last \ 
car of the train which loft Hunter's Point at *,(- 
'.);30 A. Mand which was known as the North- p ( 
part train. The bottom of the car was tom out, 4 , 
and it then turned over on its side, and in this * 1 
position was dragged fifty yards before the train 
could be stopped. Tho bodies of the dead and 
dying, and those more or less seriously injured 
were strewn along the truck, presenting a heart¬ 
rending spectacle. The passengers on the other 
ears, who were uninjured, gave prompt assist¬ 
ance, and the sufferers wore promptly conveyed 
to Jnmnieuand the private residences in the vi¬ 
cinity of the catastrophe. 
’ c ' The funeral services over the remains of Mr. 
" Rushtnoiv and Dr. and Mrs. Pray, killed by the 
co accident on the Long Island Railroad, tool; place 
' ’ ut tho Washington Avenue Methodist Church, 
in Brooklyn, on Tuesday, the 27th ult. Remarks 
were made by Rev. 11. K Hunt and Rev. Henry 
Ward Beecher. The services were attended by 
tin immense crowd of people. 
We have another terrible Story of suffering nt 
' * ' t*ea. caused liy the brutality of the officers of the 
111 American ship Riehurd Robinson, which arrived 
nt Yew York City on the 17th ult. The crew 
tu how murks of ill-usage, and declare that they 
were beaten with belaying pins. l.irass-JcnuOkies 
1 and other implements of a similar ohimietr-r* , 
that some of tliem were bunged by the hands 
:l until they were paralyzed; and the: the lives of | 
• v some of them were only saved through the in¬ 
terposition of tho Captain’s wife. 
The St. George's .Society had Its anniversary 
•d dinner, at Dofinunlco's in New York, on tin: 23d 
d ult. Mr. Archibald, the British Consul, the Pres- 
f ' ident of (he Society, presided. Speeches were 
1 made bv dr. Archibald, Mr. De Cordova, Gen. 
McDowell and the representatives of the sister 
0 societies present. 
’’ Thr Migrant Reilly, wlio was supposed to know 
something of the Rogers murder, was. on the 
1 24th ult.. released from custody in Now York ; 
L ’ City, by permission of (he District Attorney. 
A Committee has been appointed by the Buf- 
1 ftdo Board of Trade to attend the Convention 
1 b> be held at Chicago for ascertaining Hie 
- methods or reducing (he cost, of transportation 
from the West io the seaboard. 
One day recently Mrs. Jlyman F. Styles of 
> Kingston left It nr residence and attempted suf- 
j eido by severing a number of arteries in her 
arm. .She was discovered by her friends lying 
• on the road; file in a dying condition, but she j* 
r "“‘id to lie recovering. Tn a note of explanation 
• which She left at home she said that she wits 
" lired nt life and wanted logo to heaven." 
i On the 21th ult. a youthful Gorman, named 
Bit'll Butts, dwelling at No. 15 New Chambers 
' street. New York City, quarreled with a resident 
of the same house, named Thomas Hughes, and 
e included Hie difficulty by shooting Ids oppo- 
1 uent dead on the spot. He was arrested soon 
I afterward by a police officer, who conveyed him 
■ l to tho Oak street station-house, where lie was 
locked up in a cell. He declares that Hughes, j 
who was ft man of superior strength, had threat- ] 
cued him with great violence, and that, lie killed 
him simply in edf-dcfence. 
The office of the Poughkeepsie Morning News ; 
war completely destroyed liy fire on the 35 th ult. 
During the late extraordinary freshet in the 
Hudson, the water in the State dam opposite 
Troy rose twenty-one foot above high-water 
mark, and by it.s enormous pressure carried 1 
r;wuy two hundred reef, of the top of tho datn. 
This injury will seriously affect navigation on 1 
the Champlain Canal. 
A Stats' Temperance Convention, to consist of 
two delegates from each Assembly District, is 
to be lieirl in Syracuse, on Tuesday, .Tune 1 . It j 
is expected, the cal) says, that the subject of 1 
polit ical action in favor of temperance will come ' 
up before this Convention for discussion and < 
decision. 1 
On Sunday, the 25th ult., one of a half-dozen 
ruffians, named John if. Malehor, assaulted and 1 
brutally beat Adolph Mason, a pilot, on the llo- < 
•"’ken Ferry. lit addition, Malehor nearly hit 
oil’ Mason’s finger. Tho ruffian was arrested and i 
locked up to await examination, I 
About one o'clock Sunday afternoon, tho 35th 1 
ult., a small sail boat, containing four men, cap- < 
sized in the East River, off the foot of Fulton < 
street Nv. York City. Tho wind was TU owing c 
a gale at the t ime, and a very rough sea was on, a 
lint the pilot- of the Fulton ferry boar Columbia, < 
then in the stream, managed Ids craft so ad¬ 
mirably that the men, who bad succeeded in 
clinging to their boat, were quickly rescued 
from their peril. The hands and passengers of ? 
the ferry boat are also greatly commended by 
the witnesses of tho occurrence, for their shares " 
in extending aid to the drowning men. 
Dr. Adelaide Grennan or St. Louis lias been , 
appointed Examining Physician of the Horneo- ,■ 
patliic Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
York—tho first appointment of the kind ever 11 
made. " 
During the frcsliot. the third week in April an [ 
emigrant train was delayed thirty hours on the 
Hudson River Railroad, and two infanta died ., 
from exposure and want of food. 
A( n meeting of tho Board of Health on the 
20th ult.. Dr. Harris sent in a report showing 
l hat in 1808 nine hundred slandered horses were ? 
destroyed in New York, or one and a half per V, 
cent, of the ent ire number in the city. A report 
was also received showing that the ordinance of 
tlte Board in relation to explosive burning fluids 
is constantly violated. 01 
The New York Union League Club on Mon- h: 
day. the 20 th ult., presented a farewell address R 
to John Jay, their retiring Presld nt. on the oe- 11 
casion of his anticipated departure as Minister at 
t ; the Court of Vienna. As the representative tr 
of the Club, Rev. Dr. J. P. Thompson, Pastor of 
the Broadway Tabernacle, then delivered n long Si 
address highly eulogistic of Mr. Jay's position tt 
throughout the struggle against slavery, his ae- 6 « 
live loyalty during the rebellion, nurl his digni- i" 
lied ajid efficient services as President of the se 
Club since its formation, and concluded by ex- at 
pressing the high esteem in which the retiring so 
President was held by the members of the Club, el 
and tbedr slucere regret for bis departure and w 
the severance of those tics between him and cl 
t hem, which must prove a loss to the Club and 
tho Club alone. tb 
The Corner's inquest iu the case of James in 
Haggerty, n wealthy resident of Brooklyn, who 
died in A cell in the Forty-third precinct station oi 
bouse, on the night, of the 12 th ult., waseonelud- sm 
od on the 29th. The jury find that death was in¬ 
directly caused by violence at the hands of at, 
Dennis M. Ragan, a liquor dealer, and officer hi 
John Ileuiieasy, They also severely censure m 
Captain Rhodes, and report that great brutality "'j 
is exercised towards prisoners by the officers and cv 
employes nt the station house. 
Tlte Legislature on the 29th ult. elected John 
A. Griswold Regent of the University, in place a 
of Dr. Parks, deceased, and Henry Smith for st> 
rolice Commissioner, in place of ’ Thomas c. in 
Acton, resigned. th 
The 29th ult. xvas “ Founder’s Day ’’ at Vassal- lo 
1 College, at Poughkeepsie, but the exercises took 
1 ' place in the daytime, and were very private, in 
I | consequence of this being the first anniversary 
since the death of Matthew Vassal - . Quite it 
• | number of persons wore present from abroad. 
1 The members of the Press wore not invited. 
JImSuc. 
Tub trunk containing the bonds, ndtes, &e., 
which were stolen li'oia t. E. Leighton of Ban- 
goru few weeks since, was returned on Tuesday 
morning the 201 . 11 nit., and left upon flic* door¬ 
step. it v as returned strictly in accordance 
wiih the terms of the advertisement, all tho 
money, some $250, being Jaket), and Hie remain¬ 
ing contents of the inink being undisturbed. 
Hon. Charles \Y. AValton was reappointed As¬ 
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
b'lnto of Maine* on the 29th uli. He lias already 
Served seven years. 
A meeting of the yacht owners of Portland 
was hold on the Stub ult for Hr* organization of 
I a Club. James Jl. Church ill v. - as ohn.vni Com- 
J modore, Alfiel Smith Vlce-Cummodoro, and 
Jclm A. Einer.v Hocr'etitry and Treasurer. II was 
' ' "hid fiuit the Club should make iC first, annual 
cruise on Wednesday, tin* Kith nf June next. 
New CEicnpsLSre. 
Goveii.vor W \ i/na: Hakiiimax does not pro- 
pose resigning Hie office of Governor until his 
successor is inaugurated in June. He will then, if 
there is no objection by tbc Government, enter 
upon the duties of Navy Agent ut Boston. 
JIussueliUH Mis, 
Covr-itNon Coai'i.i.v has appointed William A. 
Ricliardsoii, now Acting Assistant Secretary of 
Fie 'i'reasurv, tt Justice of the Superior Court iu 
place of J udge Morton, promoted to the Supreme 
Court. Ii is said Unit Judge Richardson does not 
intend to remain tti the Treasury Department 
longer than til! next autumn at. tho most, and 
that if lie can lie allowed to absent himself from 
Boston til! that Htuohowill accept Hie Judge- 
ship to which Governor Cinflin has appointed 
him. 
The body of Mis;* Sophia Howe, who so myste- 
riously disappeared front Springfield, last winter, 
xvas found on Friday, the 33d ult., in a pond 
about two miles from that city, where she is 
ropposed to have wandered in a lit of temporary 
im-anity, and perished by drowning. 
The employes of the Boston Navy-yard held a 
meeting on Saturday night flic 21th ult.., to sus¬ 
tain that interpretation of Hie eight-hour law 
which does not invol vo a reduction in 1 be wages. 
Rev. .1. c. Lovejoy has been removed from the 
Boston Custom House, and his place lias been 
given to Charles L. Mitchell, a member of the 
Ma siiehusctt* Fifty-fourth Regiment, who lost 
!’■ login the service of hi* country, and was one 
< T (he fir d two colored men ever elected to the 
Legislature. 
in Ireland for the purpose of paying her passage 
to thi 3 country. 
The oldest railroad depot in thecountry, that 
of the Germantown and 'Philadelphia Railroad, 
which was erected in 1832, was destroyed on the 
night of the .'toll ult. by tire. The loss was 
very heavy, as the building was full of cam and 
freight. 
At a meeting lHd iu Phil-*dolphin, dn the 2!)lli 
nit., which was called by the Pennsylvania In¬ 
dustrial League. Morton MeM irhiicl presided. A 
t ories of resolutions were adopted, whii Ii are to 
be presented to tho Congn ssioniiI Conimlttoo of 
'Yaya and Mmuis. The resolutions m-ommeud 
that the policy of firm nud steady protection to 
American industry being dii lined,v announced, 
a general tariff law should be framed embracing 
Ha- entire range of imported goods, and super¬ 
seding all former lurid' laws, lh(* ditlies li -ing 
made specific*. ,-.o far r.s conveniently possible, 
and iiigli enough to afford fair wages and rea¬ 
sonable profits to sueli American workingmen 
ai d employers its apply themselves with assi¬ 
duity, skill and intelligence to industries suited 
to our condition and resources. 
The Massachusetts Senate bus, by a vote of 
rove;;toon to six, decided to exempt lager-becr 
from the provisions of the Liquor Law. 
A prosecution of a very serious character was 
begun on the 251 h ult. in the United States Com¬ 
missioner's Court at Boston against Cttpt. War¬ 
ren Gardner and Henry Brown, on the charge of 
feloniously costing away n schooner upon the 
high seas. The offence is punishable with death. 
Both prisoners were fully committed for trial. 
A young lady, an adopted daughter of Mr. 
Edward Hilton of North Oxford. Mass., eatnn fo 
ft melancholy and remnrkrmle end on Saturday 
night, the 24th ult.. Her clothing caught fire as 
she xvas proceeding to her bedroom, tho flames 
communicated to tho house, nnd both it and the 
barn adjoining wore destroyed. 
Tho receipts for season tickets to the National 
Peace Jubilee amounted to upwards of $10,000 
oil the fli rt day of the sale. 
in Hie State Senate, on the 291 h ult., a bill was 
reported authorizing t he Warden of the State 
Prison to permit, when ho deems it expedient, 
under the consent of the Inspector, the convicts 
to assemble in tho yard for recreation and exer¬ 
cise. The amendment to tho Liquor Bill, to in¬ 
clude other fermented liquors than lager boo*- 
and older, was rejected in the Senate by a x ot*> 
of t wenty-four to twelve. 
New Jersey, 
The National Sunday School Convention be¬ 
gan i is third session ou Wednesday the 28th ult. 
in the First Baptist church, Newark. A large 
number of delegates from Sunday School organ¬ 
izations throughout die Union wore present. 
The Convention organized by the selection of 
George 5\. Stuart ol Philadelphia as permanent 
President, and a Vice-President from each State 
in the Union. The afternoon session was opened 
with singing by Hie children from the Home for 
Little Wanderers at Philadelphia, a delegation 
from the Brilisli provinces was introduced, and 
Hie Convention exchanged greetings with the 
Convention of Sunday School Workers of Lon¬ 
don. At the session of the 20 th. Mrs. Jeannette I’. 
Heath of Kansas made 1 speech and was elected 
one nf the 5 ieo-Presidenrs bv acclimation. Ad¬ 
dresses were delivered by Rev. Henry Ward 
Bocohcr, Stephen II. Ty ng. Jr., and others. 
Pennsylvania. 
Bn. George w. HcJwell committed suicide 
on Saturday morning, the 24th ult., by shooting 
himself in tho bath-room of his residence in 
Brown street, Philadelphia. He xvas laboring 
under a d<- - -' of spirits caused by pecuni¬ 
ary ditfieulties, anti ienx-es a wife and daughter 
to bewail his folly. 
The officers of the Be.neficia! Saxriners Fund 
Society of Philadelphia received by express, on 
the 22*1 ult., between four and fi\ - e hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars, recently stolen from them, chiefly 
in railroad, city and Government, registered 
securities. Tho package xvas sent from Boston, 
and it xvas marked thirty dollars in value, con¬ 
sequently it did not attract the attention of the 
clerk at the ex press office, and the bearer of it 
xvas not noticed so particularly as to enable the 
clerk to identify him. 
Rev. George A. Durborow, twenfy-fix-o years 
the rector of the Church of the Redemption 
in Philadelphia, died on the 27th ult. 
The 3*1,000 miners in the anthracite coal fields 
of rennsyh ania have determined on a general 
suspension of work. 
Louis Lana (colored) xvas hung in the jail-yard 
nt Pittsburgh on the 89th ult. for the murder of 
Ids xvife by poisoning last May. He xvas for¬ 
merly n slave in Virginia, and has had four 
xvix'cs, three of whom died suddenly, xvith. strong 
evidences of poison. 
A destructive fire occurred nt- Wilkesbarro, 
on Sarunlay night. t ho 24th ult. Thomas Kelley, 
a native of Ireland, while attempting to save 
some property, was knocked doxvn by the fall¬ 
ing debris, and his legs becoming fastened iu 
the timbers, he xvas burned to death. The un¬ 
fortunate man had just sent a draft to his wife 
JTOu ry J ii ml. 
The peach crop of this State, except in a fexv 
i- locations, is said to Imre not boon seriously in¬ 
is .hired by Hie Into frosts. 
f The appointment of William Tu.vlor, colored, 
r to a position in the Baltimore custom house is 
Hie first of the kind ex er made In the State of 
Maryland. 
Virginia. 
f The Conserx-ative Convention of Virginia met 
a in Richmond Wednesday, the 28th ult. It is un- 
0 deretood that, they xviil folloxv the tactics which 
t 4he t'onservatix-e* throughout the South seem 
t disposed to adopt, of recommending no candi- 
1 dutes of their own, but giving their support t > 
moderate Republican nominees, Tho majority 
_ report recommends that strenuous exertioua be 
1 made to defeat the obnoxious clauses of the 
Constitution. 
The Virginia Conservative Convention nd- 
, joiirned on the 29t h. a ft cr adopting Hie majority 
1 report expressing jn general term? the desir 
* ability ,of supporting the Walker Republicans, 
and appointing a Committee to wait on Tresi- 
d-'-nfc Grant, in reference to the submission of tiic 
i Const itution to t'ne voters of the State. 
Brex'et Brigadier-General VVUIinm Hays, Fifth 
I nlted States Artillery, left Fortress Monroe on 
. Monday, the SOtli ult., to take command of Fort 
. I ndependence :n Boston Harbor. 
Wontli Carolina. 
A roixiREp man, his wife, his wife’s sister, 
and a baby fourteen months old, xvere burned lo 
dcntli at Ncxv Road Station, recently. Their chai¬ 
red remain?xvere found next day tn tbcsmoldcr- 
. ing ruins of Hie house in which they had lived. Ii 
is supposed that the fire broke out in tho night, 
and that, the smoke suffocated the unfortuiiate 
people xvliilc they xvere sleeping. 
Georgia. 
In the t rial of u case in the United States Dis- 
1 riot Court at Savannah, Ga.. Wednesday, the 
28th ult,, the defendant's counsel having pro¬ 
posed that the “iron-clad” test oath should be 
administered to the Jury, all those gentlemen 
immediately arose and left the jury-box, being 
cither unable or unwilling to take the ontli re¬ 
quired. 
Enormous whisky frauds Iiax - e boon detected 
in Savannah, and A. S. Bigeloxv of Ncxv York, 
and J. Adler of Savannah, xvere arrested for 
complicity therein. 
Alabama. 
The boilers of tho steamer St. Elo burst in 
Mobile Bay ou Monday morning, the 2 mh ult. 
The stexvnrd xvas bloxvn overboard and drowned, 
and six others of her officers injured. None of 
the passengers xvere hurt. 
Louisiana. * 
The grain movement mooting in Now Orleans 
on Wednesday the 28th ult. was largely attend¬ 
ed. The State laws ol Louisiana present certain 
obstacles in Hie xvay of the Association: a com¬ 
mittee xvas appointed to ascertain what arrange¬ 
ments can be made xvith the New Orleans Eleva¬ 
tor Company to advance the interest of tho 
grain movement and to corn*:pond xvith the St. 
Louis Grain Association and ascertain if its 
charter xviil permit the establishment of a 
branch at Now Orleans, and if it xvould accord 
xvith the viexvsof the directors of said Associa¬ 
tion to establish a hrnneh to carry out the object 
under consideration. A communication was 
read urging the assemblage of the mercantile 
convention at New Orleans late iu May. 
JXiSSl»Mi|>pI, 
Tire following dispatch xvas dated at Jackson, 
April 2lll)i: 
General Ames lms issued an order to assessors 
to proceed to enroll the names of nil persons 
eligible for jury duty, without regard to race, 
color or previous condition. The continuous 
rains of (he past eight days have swollen all the 
streams and stopped Hie trains running on the 
Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad. The damage 
cannot be repaired within ten days, and the 
superintendent of thoroad advises the mails for 
Vicksburg to be sent by xvay of Memphis or 
New Orleans. The Big Black River is a mile 
and a half wide at the railroad bridge. The 
crops are seriously damaged and will have to be 
replanted. 
Indiana. 
A dispatch from Indianapolis to a Cincinnati 
paper says that the nexv Postmaster at the former 
place has just discovered, in the basement of the 
post-office building, fifty-five bags of undistri¬ 
buted mail matter xvhioh had arrived during the 
xvinter. 
Ohio. 
The distillery of John Seaman, at Seamanvi lie, 
was seized on Friday, the 23d ult., by the U. S. 
officers. 
The fresh xvater sailors at Cleveland are on a 
strike for higher xvages, and declare that no ves¬ 
sel shall leave tha port till their terms are ac¬ 
ceded to- A crew xvhie had shipped on board a : 
schooner for Chicago xvas dri ved off by the strik- * 
ors, and the departure of the vessel prevented. 
Both House? ol’ the Legislature have passed a 
bill giving the City of Cincinnati authority to 
raise $ 10 , 000,000 for the purpose of building a 1 
short line of railroad through Kentucky to con- ; 
neet with the Sout hern System Railroad at Chat- 1 
tanooga. The work will be undertaken at. once 
and pushed forward vigorously. j 
The United States Grand Jury has found fifty- r 
txvo indict merits, mainly against xvhisky dealers 
for defrauding 1 be revenue. The parties mostly 1 
li\ - e at Cincinnati and Dayton. There are some i 
big fish in the net. One of the xvhisky ring made s 
a confession, but uo names are published as yet. x 
to Walker’s station, on the Marietta and Cincin¬ 
nati Railroad, xvas X isited by a dest ructix'o tor- 
a t undo at six o'clock ou tho ex-ening of the 28th 
d, ult. The depot xvas demolished and several 
10 houses were blown doxvn and unroofed. The 
tornado lasted about tw enty minutes. 
I( 1 EliinolN. 
M. < . Kimkhie, residing nt Washington, Iowa, 
Jumped from n 1 mu-th story xvindoxvof thr* Mas- 
sasoit House. Chicago, on Satimlav, the24th ult., 
and died hall' an hour nfterxvnrd. 
Bex . James Marshall, a Catholic priest Of Chi- 
, cage, wlio xx-a* arrested n short t fine since charged 
(( wilh forging an express receipt, xvas discharged 
on th© 21 th ult., the charge against him looking 
‘ like Conspiracy. 
5 Two remarkable <-'liild suicides occurred in 
' Vermont, Fulton county, on tin* Kith nil. A 
f ■ s ' ,n of -y r - Harris, aged thirteen, and a son of 
’ Colonel Tenney, both hung themselves near the 
premise.-, ot their parents. The cireuinstances 
naturally caused considerable excitement in tho 
l_ locality. 
Serious charges of malversation have been 
made against, tho Commissioners of the nexv 
vtale House of Illinois. Tho accuser is the late 
v Secretary of the Board. 
Hydrophobia carried off a victim in Chicago 
on the 27th in -t.« a young man named William 
! <ioodwillle. lie xvas l.iiten three or four xveeks 
’ previously. He leaves a xvife and children. 
C I lie ( liiengo Coiiihh rciai Convention as- 
sembled on t lie 29th ult.. representaHvos from 
uli the loading Chambers of (Viinmeree and the 
t West beingpr«*?ent. The questions of national 
ni-1 to the Erin Cana), reduction of canai toils on 
, grain. Ac., were fully dfitciissed. The Convcn- 
, lion xviil doubtless yield advantageous results to 
commerce. 
Jlicidga n. 
Navigation isopen in the Straits of Mackinaw, 
mid boats hux e passed through xvitli freight for 
Chicago. 
Jlissou ri. 
riie -steamer Useidu struck on a snag in the 
Mii-soui i J'ix'er, on Saturday morning, the 24t.h 
ult., and sunk in twelve feet of xvater, everybody 
on board reaching land in safety. 
fl'obraska. 
> Tmk 1 revel overland is increasing daily. A 
heavy Canadian emigration is steadily setting 
toward Nebraska. 
Texas, 
Thu Ran Antonio Herald says the people of 
Texas are ready for tin- election. On tlie part, of 
tiie Democracy, il adds, no canvassxviJl be made, 
but 1 he members of the party xviil not. fail to’ 
exercise the rigid to pick out the best men that 
are eligible, xvitliout regard to politics. 
California. 
Tire. Alta Californian has “positive and au- 
tliontic” information that President Grant will 
“certainly” visit California during Hie coining 
summer. It says Hint his advent xviil bean “ 0 cZ 
elision for the greatest enthusiasm ever xvitness- 
cd in the State.” 
A Han Fran cisco telegram of the 29 th nil says 
that dispatches from the end of tho track of the 
( enunl Pacific Railroad state that OVerten miles 
of track were laid on the 28th. The track layers 
wi re compelled to desist on account of the un¬ 
finished grading. The iron xvas laid at. the rate 
Of a mile an Itmir. Work on tha Union Pacific 
Road progresses sJoxvly. Tho rails ate down to 
xvithin eight mllos of thesummit of Promontory 
Point. Governor Stanford, <m the 28th, visited 
the end of the Eastern Road for the purpose of 
inducing the Union Pacific Company to aban¬ 
don their rock cutting and take the Central 
Road, but found uoone with authority to make 
the change. On the morning of Hie 29th only 
nine and a half miles remained to complete the 
road through from ocean to ocean, three and a 
half miles of which is tho Central Pacific line. 
Nevada. 
Up to tho 29th ult. Hie fires in the Yellow 
Jacket Mine xvere still burning, and preparations 
xv ere being made to inject steam again into them 
in hopes of extinguishing the conflagration, 
which has been burning since the 7th of April. 
Wyoming, 
On Wednesday, the 21st ult., the troops on the 
Plains near 1-ort Laramie, in pursuit of maraud¬ 
ing Indians, xvere delayed by snow storms. 
Indian Territory. 
Tire St. Louis Republican recently published 
a letter from Camp Wftflhtta. Medicine Bluff 
Creek, Indian Territory, dated on the fid, u i t 
which says that one hundred lodges of Ara- 
pahocs, under Roman Nose and Little Big Mouth 
arrix ed on Hie fid of April, ami were only xvaite 
mg the arrival of the Cheyennes to move in a 
body to the reservation North of the Red Fork 
of the Arkansas. The Sixth Infantry constitute 
a permanent garrison at this post. The Tenth 
Cavalry camp around 1 lie border of the Reser- 
x ation, ready* to pounce upon any body of Indi¬ 
ans who stand outside the limits proscribed Tho 
Indians that have refused to come In on any 
terms are committing depredations on Hie bor- 
‘lor, and have killed three men within three 
weeks past. Those there, while they appear to 
uosire peace and are profuse in promises of fu¬ 
ture good conduct, are only waiting for tho 
grass to grow to fat ten their horses, and for the 
issue of their goods, xvhen tbc Western frontier 
of Kansas and the Northern counties of Texas 
xviil bo again the scenes of their butcheries. 
Dominion vf Canada. 
During the recent floods a bridge at Granby, 
Out., x\as swept away and eleven perrons 
drowned. Eight of the bodies have been re¬ 
covered, and were buried on Saturday and Sun¬ 
day. Nearly every building in the toxvn was 
draped in mourning, and the funerals xvere at¬ 
tended by nearly all the inhabitants of the place. 
A Montreal telegram of tho 29th ult. says that 
the river is clear of ice between that city and 
Quebec, and the steamers have commenced their 
regular trips. Tbc xvater in the river fell three 
feet xvithin twenty-four hours. The command¬ 
ing officers of the troops in Canada have been 
ordered to furnish rolls showing the number of 
passages required for troops ordered home. 
The bark Fanny Campbell was toxx-c-d iuto Col- 
borne on the morning of tho 29th ult. She had 
been in tfie ice six days. The wind is northeast 
ami the ic-e is moving. Yeasels expect to get out 
to-day. 
A tailor named McArthur foil off the schooner 
Flying Cloud into the canal last night and was 
drowned. 
An auxiliary hoiler in the rolling mills at, 
Hamilton, Ont., burst on the night of the 281 h 
ult., carrying axvay the roof and the side of tin- 
shed in xvhieh it xvas situated. One man, xvho 
xvas attending the boiler, named Burns, xvas ^ 
