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I DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
President Grant on Saturday, the 15th inst., 
issued his proclamation appointing the 6th of 
July as the time for submitt ing the Constitution 
passed by the Richmond Convention in Decem¬ 
ber, 1807, to the voters of Virgin in, registered at 
the date of such subrul^lon, for ratification or 
rejection; and submits to a separate vote the 
disqualification and test oath clause. The voter 
is to vote a balJot designated, “ For the Constitu¬ 
tion,” or " Against the Constitution,’'and is al¬ 
lowed to cast a separate ballot for or against, 
either or both of the excepted provisions. 
A letter from a Treasury officer at Beaufort, 
8. C., states that the schooner Grnpcshot, bound 
from New York for Falmouth, Jamaica, put in 
therefor repairs on the 27th of April. As she 
was laden with arms and munitions of war, and 
had thirty-six passenger* on board, the Collector 
at Beaufort telegraphed to Collector Grinnell at 
New York and received a reply that the Grape- 
shot was regularly cleared for Falmouth, conse¬ 
quently she was not detained. A few days after 
this event a new Collector was appointed at 
Beaufort, and he was urged by Captain Usher of 
the revenue service to Investigate the matter. 
He replied that it laid been thoroughly inquired 
into by his predecessor, amt therefore declined 
to act in the case. On the 12th of May the 
Grapcshol still lay in the harbor of Beaufort. 
Clarence M. Barton of Washington City has 
been appointed clerk of the pay rolls and mus¬ 
tering clerk—t lie first appointment at the Wash¬ 
ington Navy Yard under President Grunt 's Ad¬ 
ministration. 
it. is stated that General Stononian, recently 
commanding in Virginia, believing that by the 
1st. of July that State might bo organized, con¬ 
tinued the “stay law ” only until that time, and 
it is now probable that applications will be made 
to Gen. Can by to continue the same law in force 
unt il alter the meeting of a Legislature. 
It is stated in Washington that Admiral Hoff 
is dining and wining too much the Captain-Gen¬ 
eral Dulee, and that his reports of matters con¬ 
nected with the Cuban revolution have, in con¬ 
sequence, an unmistakable Spanish flavor. 
The application of Lewis Douglass, a colored 
printer, for membership in the Columbia Typo¬ 
graphical I'nion in Washington was received by 
that body on the 15th Inst., and referred to the 
Committee on Nominations. Resolutions de¬ 
claring him an unfit person to become a member 
and censuring the Financial Secretary for hav¬ 
ing permitted him to work while awaiting the 
result of his application were introduced, but 
were ruled out of order. The Union adjourned 
until June if), when the committee will report in 
the case. 
Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
Douglass has decided t hat the proprietors of the 
Pullman sleeping cars, If furnishing meals, Ji- | 
quors, wines, and cigars to travelers or others, 
are. liable, for each ear on which such onmmodi- 
] 
ties arc sold, to a special lax as keepers of eating 
houses under the provision of the act of June 1 
SO, J8(Vt, and are also liable as dealers in liquors, 
either wholesale or retail, as tlnita.se may be, as 
provided by section (hirty-ninO of the act of 
July 20, 1868, and further liable as dealers In to- 1 
bacco, provided their annual sales of tobacco, 
snuff, and cigars exceed $100, under the provls- 1 
ions in the last-named section. ‘ 
Senor Innoconeio Casanova, who was Impris- 1 
ruied by the Spanish authorities in Cuba, arrived 
in Washington on the I7th inst. lie Is suffering * 
very much from the effects of his harsh treat- | 
mcntwhilca prisoner. Hia two sons called upon : 
the Secretary of State, and represented to him ' 
that the Spanish authorities had confiscated 
some of their property in Cuba, and were about * 
to sequester the remainder of it. They asked ' 
t hat protection he extended them as American 
citizens, and requested the Secretary ot State to 1 
enter a protest .nan inst t lie action of the Spanish 
authorities to the Spanish Minister. Secretary 
Fish promised to look into the matter. \ 
About fifteen hundred pupils of the South f 
Washington Sabbath schools paraded on the s 
morning of the 17th inst., and proceeding to the t 
Executive Mansion, were received in the East ( 
Room by t he President, who expressed Ins plea- f 
sure at meeting so many young people. The s 
children sang several of their li.v inns ns they filed o 
past the President. An unfortunato difference 
concerning t he colored children prevented the r 
parade of all the Protestant Sunday Schools, as j, 
was intended and as has been the course hereto- i 
fore. d 
A delegation from the Baltimore Association t 
of Friends has had an interview with (lie Prcsi- f 
dent in reference to the aiding and advising 
Friends in North Carolina in regard to Iho estab- > 
Hslnnent of schools. I 
The Secretary of the Treasury is constantly v 
receiving letters from persons who have lost $ 
bonds by sen, fire or other destructive elements, T 
asking that new ones lie issued to lake their e 
place. To all such he replies that the Depart- h 
ment has no authority to do so, and they must f 
seek for relief from Congress. It is also stated o 
that in eases heretofore where such claims have ti 
boon allowed and new bonds issued, the old tl 
ones have turned up, and the United States has 
been compelled to redeem them. v 
The Secretary of the Treasury is materially o 
reducing the llstof uational banks designated as <1 
Government depositories. He proposes one in v 
each Congressional District, with additional f 
ones in large cities. h 
Mr. Howard, our new Minister to Chinn, called 
upon the President on the 19th inst., accepted tl 
the mission and received his instructions. He tl 
will go by way of Europe to consult witli Mr. ri 
Burlingame. One Of President. Grant’s objee- tl 
tions to J. Ross Browue was the tone of his V 
official dispatches, wherein he expressed his u 
belief that the Chinese are opposed to progress, ti 
Although there is likely to be grpat competition u 
between the United States and England for the 
Chinese trade, the United Stales mission there Si 
consists of onlytwo persons—the Minister and si 
his Secretary of Legation, who is supposed to C 
act as interpreter. Mr. Howard urges, in view tl 
of the completion of the Pacific Railroad and gi 
increased facilities for trade, that the mission to tl 
China be raised to the grade of the British Em- tl 
hussy. The President agreed with his views, and 
1ms promised to give the subject iiis Oonsidera- R 
tion. in 
The engineer officer in charge of Fort Ontario Sc 
has been instructed to carry into execution the tl 
provisions of a law made by the last Congress 
granting to the New York and Oswego Midland 
Railroad Company a right of way through the i 
military reservation of that fort. 
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles has been appointed by 
the President as Minister to Spain. 
Chief Justice Chase recently ruled on a ease at | 
Baltimore, that Government could not collect t 
income tax from foreigners who hold our bonds, 
and that what has been collected must be re¬ 
funded. The Internal Revenue Bureau is pre¬ 
paring regulations to carry out this decision. 
Several hundred thousand dollars will betaken 
out of the Treasury for this purpose. 
The following dispatch was received at Pro¬ 
montory Point, Utah, on Friday, the 14th inst., 
and derives additional interest from the fact 
that Gonertti Sherman was so early identified 
with the movement which has resulted in the 
opening of the continent with the great national 
railway: 
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11. 
Grnfrnl (). Af. Dniloe: 
Vnur rllspnloh i>I the 10th ha* been received. In 
common with million.". 1 "at yesterday anil heard the 
myMie tans <>f the trlegruphie battery announce the 
palling of the laat cpikr in the great Pacific Hoad, 
indeed amt it' friend, yea., I claim yet to ho part of . 
it; for an early ns 18M I was Vlee.Pr«;M«lentr»f at.’oin- 
pariy Ih bao Francisco which made an effort to com¬ 
mence tiie work under the contract ot Robinson, ( 
Seymour A Co. An soon nr Gunerii I Thomas makes 
certain prclltiilimrv inspections n! In* new covnmiind 
on the raeltle, 1 will go out. and I need not say with | 
how different a feeling from that ol IStfi, when t he 
only war to California was by sail around Cape Horn. 1 
taking our side one hundred and ninety day*. All 
honor to you. Durant, .lurk and Dan Casement, Rend 
nod thousands of brave fellows who have fought. J 
out this glorious tiatlonni problem In "pile of desert.", j 
etorms, Indians and Iho doubts of the incredulous. . 
All obstacles you have now happily surmounted. 1 
W. T. Sherman, General. 
The Irish Republicans of Washington have 
published resolutions recommending the ap¬ 
pointment of colored men to office, and an¬ 
nouncing their intention to vote for colored men 
at the approaching charter election. 
The Nnvy Department has advertised the fol¬ 
lowing tron-clads for sale: —The Cohoes, Knka, 
Naueett, Sunoco Jr, Warsaw, Yuzoo and Casco, 
which are now at the Philadelphia yard; the 
Chimo, at the Washington yard; the Museoom, 
ill the Portsmouth yard; the Huron and Pcquot, 
at the Brooklyn yard, and the Winnepcc, at I he 
Norfolk yard. Those all did good service in the 
war, and arc now to be sold, not on account of 
any defects in them, but boon use or the adop¬ 
tion by the Department of the policy of re¬ 
duction. 
The Irish National Republican Association, 
through Its General Committee, consisting of 
gentlemen in every State and Territory of the 
Union, has issued a cull fora Convention, to be 
held In Chicago on the 4th of July next. The 
Executive Committee call upon Irish Republi¬ 
cans in every State and Territory to send one 
delegate, with an alternate, from every Congres¬ 
sional District. 
The President’s movements this summer have 
not been definitely settled, excepting that lie 
will toe absent from the capital for nearly two 
months. In Juno he will attend the examina¬ 
tion or t he mulcts at 'Vest Point, and from there 
will probably go to Boston, to remain two or 
throe days, and witness the Peace Jubilee. Ho 
has determined to spend some time in the West 
after his return from Boston, lmt where he does 
not exactly know, although he says if time will 
permit he may go to the Pacific coast. 
The acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
has decided that velocipede rinks are liable for 
the special tax on exhibitions, and on the gross 
receipts from such exhibitions the same as t hea¬ 
ters, but that tuition fees received from schol¬ 
ars, and receipts from strangers, and for the in¬ 
cidental use of velocipedes, are not liable lobe 
returned in such gross receipts. 
It is said that Senor Narvajo. Mexican Consul- 
General at New York City, will receive (he ap- 
pointment of Commissioner on the part of 
Mexico to settle claims against the latter Gov¬ 
ernment, according to the treaty recently rati 
fled hy the United States Senate. The Mexican 
Commission will not be organized until the first 
of July, when it will convene in Washington, 
Hon Caleb Cushing has been selected as counsel 
for the Mexican Government. 
New York. 
A Large fire occurred in the village of Eddy- 
ville, Ulster county, on the morning of Satur¬ 
day, the 15th inst., during a heavy thunder¬ 
storm, occasioned hy lightning. A building 
belonging to the Delaware and Hudson Canal 
Company, was struck and fired, and before the 
flames could be extinguished, five barns, two 
stores and a store-house, the building and ways 
of a ship-yard, and a boat, were all destroyed. 
On tlie morning of the 15th inst. Otto Law¬ 
rence, of Ellzabethpori. N. J., attempted to jump 
after a ferry-boat leaving the slip at the foot of 
Liberty street. New York City, having his little 
daughter in his arms at the time. Both fell into 
the water, and were with great difficulty rescued 
from their perilous situation. 
The jewelry establishment of R. Hills, on 
Main si reel , Canaridnlgua, adjoining the Webster 
House, was entered and robbed of diamonds, 
watches and other jewelry to tho value of about 
$5,000, early on the morning of the 15th inst. 
The robbers first went to the house of the jew¬ 
eler’s foreman, and while he was asleep rifled 
his pockets of the keys of the place. Just be¬ 
fore the robbery was committed the policemen 
of the town wore withdrawn, ii being the cus¬ 
tom in Canandaigua, to call these guardians of 
tho public peace off duty at about daylight. 
Thebrakcinan on a portion of the Erie Rail¬ 
way have struck, iu consequence of the issuing 
of an order by the managers directing each con¬ 
ductor of tho Eastern Division, from Port Jer¬ 
vis to Jersey City, to discharge one bmkeman 
from each train, and run with two brakemen 
instead of three. 
There will bo a re-union of tho graduates of 
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute iu Troy, on 
the 22d and 23d of June next, during the occur¬ 
rence of the annual Commencement exercises of 
the insiirution. During the meeting. Prof. It. 
Waterhouse Hawkins will deliver an address 
upon the unity of plan andevideneoof design in 
the animal kingdom, and Hon. W. J. Me Alpine 
upon modern c iginoering. 
The American citizens lately seized by the 
Spanish authorities whiloon board tin-American 
ship Lizzie Major, have arrived in New York 
City and presented their ease to the. prope r au¬ 
thorities. They represent, in t heir statement re¬ 
garding their capture and imprisonment, that 
they were cruelly and barbarously treated, and 
they demand damages of I he Spanish authorities. 
Under an ordinance of the City Council of 
Rochester, strawberries must be offered for sale 
in boxes which have been sealed by tho City 
Sealer. This lias been adopted for the reason 
that the boxes and baskets which have lately 
ss corne into use, and which purport, to hold a 
id quart, contain scarcely more than a pint. 
ie 1 Mayor Hall of New York City has notified the 
[ Board of Health he is of opinion that under the 
>y Jaws of 1863 the Board of Health is empowered to 
take charge of all mutuals roaming the streets, 
it including rabid dogs, and that therefore the 
?t | usual proclamation (offering a reward of fifty 
s, cents for every dog brought alive to the dog- 
>- pound,) will not be issued this year from his 
office, 
, ITIalne. 
n TnE old Chadwick mansion on Congress street, 
Portland, was nearly blown to pieces on Satur- 
i- day night, t he 15th inst., and its occupant, Tsaac 
., Barnum, was dangerously burned. The explo¬ 
it si on was caused by opening a door from a I ighted 
rl hall into a room where the gas had been escap¬ 
es ing for about five hours. The noise sounded 
.1 like the explosion of a powder mill. 
Itlanviiili u sett*. 
THE legislature has passed a law to authorize 
any married woman to be an executrix, ad- 
® mini stmt rix, guardian or trustee. This places a 
married woman in Massachusetts on a legal 
r equality ns to property with her single sister. 
I At a special meeting of the Board of Over- 
• seers of Harvard University, on Wednesday, the 
i IDth inst., the nomination of Charles G. Eliot for 
' the Presidency was confirmed by a vote of six- 
’ teen to eight. 
i The new Town Hall of Gloucester, which had 
just been finished at an expense of $120,000, was 
totally destroyed by fire on the morning of the 
16t h host. The insurance was but $40,000. 
Tho safe of the East Douglas Ax Company, 
whose manufactory is at East Douglas, Mass., 
was opened by burglars on Friday evening the 
14th inst., and robbed of front $15,006 to $20,000. 
The rate was literally torn to pieces. Several 
parties, it is known, were in the job, but as yet 
none have been captured. 
The Boston School Committee are petitioned 
by a large number of prominent, citizens to 
establish two Industrial Schools, one for boys 
and one for girls, In some central situation, and 
at an early date, where such pupils as commend 
themselves by their diligence, and are also de¬ 
sirous or learning a trade, may be received and 
inst ructed. The petitioners say that, they believe 
“thill much of Mm crime and misery that pre¬ 
vail In our community is caused by want of 
knowledge mid skill in manuul labor." It is 
thought that the plan proposed will be promptly 
carried out. 
The young gentlemen of Cambridge Univcrsi- 
ty, England, allowing a woful ignorance, directed 
their answer to the challenge of tho Hawards: 
“Cambridge University, Harvard. Minis., U. S. 
A.; ” and the post-office officials on this side, ex¬ 
it i hi ting a greater Ignorance and less excusable, 
sent, it to the Massachusetts Shaker village. This 
accounts for the delay in Its reception by the 
challenging amateur ^arsmen. 
The City of Springfield, Mass., voted on the 
17th inst. to take $500,000 worth of stock in the 
Springfield aiul Farmington Valley Railroad, 
and $400,000 in the Springfield and Long Meadow 
Road. The former will open a new route to 
New York, and tho latter to New Ignition, Ct. 
All the cotton factories in Ncwburyport, with 
one exception, have been running at. a loss for 
the past year, and the market has been so dull 
that, with one exception, goods have been ac¬ 
cumulating. Tho Bartlet t Mills has voted to.step 
machinery and suspend work l'or this month. 
ConnerllcQt. 
The Connecticut House of Representatives, on 
Thursday, the 20th inst., unanimously re-elected 
Hon. Joel HInman Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of Errors, and Hon. Thomas B. Butler , 
Associate Justice, their terms of office for eight. ( 
years expiring this spring. 
A pet ition is to be presented to the Connect!- , 
cut Legislature by the New Haven West Asso- , 
eiiition (of Congregationa lists,) asking for a ] 
change In the divorce law of the State bystrlk- j 
ing out the clauses granting divorce on the 
ground of cruelty, intemperance and general 
misconduct. 
Pennsylvania. 
On Friday, (he 14th inst., a part of the walls of ; 
the bonded whisky warehouse of Joseph S. j 
Finch, at South Pittsburgh, fell in, burying three 
men—George Cavin, Government storekeeper; ] 
David Steele, carpenter, and John Robinson, j 
foreman —iu the ruins. Steele and Robinson , 
were taken out severely injured. About fifty 
barrels of whisky were destroyed. Cavin has ; 
since died of his injuries. 
John W. i’if lock, proprietor, and Joseph Mills, , 
editor of the Pittsburgh Leader; on the 4th inst,. ( 
were held to bail to answer a charge of libel pro- ( 
forred by Wm. M. Ford, a member of the Penn- | 
sylvan iu Legislature. The suit Is based on a i 
charge of the Leader that Mr. Ford’s vote was in f 
the market when too was In Harrisburg. J 
The Pennsylvania Reserve Corps Association 
will hold its annual meeting at West Chaster, 
Pa., on the first day of June next. The annual 
oration will lie delivered by Col. R. Biddle Rob- ' 
erts of Pittsburgh, late Colonel ol the First Re- 1 
serves. In the evening there will be the custom- 8 
my banquet. Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin c 
is President of the Association, and will proba- 1 
bly be-present, as be does not intend to sail for ^ 
Russia until after the meeting. 
The body of a young woman, about, twenty- i] 
five years old, was found floating In tin- Susque- 1 
linmia at Kirkwood on the Ifttb inst. It is sup- 11 
posed to be tbc body of the wife of Andrew .1. \ 
Hudson of Syracuse, N. Y„ and that she com- ? 
milted suicide at Great Bend by drowning some 
three weeks or more ago. a 
In the suit of the Session of the Walnut street 11 
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, against the (l 
Board of Trustees, to prevent the latter from v 
introducing into tho religious services of the ° 
Church a paid choir of vocalists. Judge Picreeof ° 
the Court of Common Pleas, on the 15th ult.. de- ;l 
cided that church music is connected with the a ' 
religious services, and not witli the temporal in- 11 
terests of tho Church, and hence must not be ,r 
under the control of the Board of Trustees, but 
under that of the minister and Session. rr 
Delaware, ri 
The new whipping post and pillory, recently 
erected in tho jail-yard at Now-Castle, to take 11 
t he place of the ancient and dilapidated one, was 1 ' 
inaugurated on Saturday, the 15th inst. by the 
pilloritig of throe mini convicted of petty offen¬ 
ces, and the flogging of ten convicted of like <1 
misdemeanors. A crowd of gaping men, women r< 
and children witnessed the disgusting spectacle, w 
The heavlest whipping was received by a colored n 
item, who received thirty lashes on the bare n 
back. Two other colored men, for petty larceny, 
received twenty lashes each. One dispatch says: T 
“The new structure is quite worthy- of the di 
a taste and enlightenment of a community that 
preserves this relic of barbarism in an age called, 
e enlightened." 
c Virginia. 
o CnrEF JUSTICE Chase has decided that tho 
?, small notes of the City of Richmond cannot be 
e redeemed, having been issued Jo aid thcrobel- 
y lion. The Legislature which authorized tlieir 1s- 
:- sne. be holds, had power to do so, and that had 
s the notes been issued for any legal purpose, and 
not for tho subversion of tho Government, they 
would be liable to redemption. 
Georgia. 
M a. i. -Gen. Terrv is expected to reach Atlanta 
c at about the first of June, to take command of 
'* the Department of the South. 
Tho colored man who drove the carriage of 
“ Hon. Joseph Atkins when that gentieman was 
assassinated, is said to have left Warren count y 
early tho second week in May to escape death. 
When near Thompson's Station he was met and 
3 murdered by Ku-Klux. Trustworthy informa- 
- j tion received at Atlanta announces the murder 
i some weeks ago, in Jefferson county, of Hon. 
I Alexander Stone, one of the expelled members 
of the Legislature of the same county which 
the murdered Dr. Ayer represented. 
Iionlfcisi n a. 
Tneormatton has been received at New Or¬ 
leans of a break in the grand levee, in the parish 
of Pointo Coupee* half a mile above the repairs 
just completed at great, expense, of the crevasse 
which has floods! so largo a portion of West 
Louisiana I he last two years. Tbc present break 
dot* not threaten to do so much damage as the 
previous one, the levee being some distance 
from the rl vtsr's edge, and the water at the break 
being only six feet deep, t hough one hundred 
and fifty yards wide ; but from ( lie high stage of 
the water, it will be difficult, if not impossible, 
to close if for some time to come. The work on 
the Villiro crevasse, at St. Bernard parish, has 
been abandoned as hopeless. The break is now 
several hundred feet wide and of a great depth, 
t he water sweeping uninterruptedly back to tho 
lakes. 
The Metropolitan Police of New Orleans is en¬ 
titled by law to jurisdiction over Jefferson City, 
but the citizens of t bat suburb have refused to 
receive them. On Tuesday night, tho lRt.h Inst., 
about two hundred policemen marched to tho 
police buildings and attempted to take posses¬ 
sion, but they found armed citizens Inside, who 
fired upon and wounded twelve or fourteen of 
them. The Governor called on General Mower 
for troops, and a company went, without meet¬ 
ing any resistance, took possession of the build¬ 
ings and turned them over to the police. Tho 
citizens are still greatly excited, and the police 
ate avenging themselves by making arrests on 
small provocation and with much useless club¬ 
bing. 
It Is reported in Washington that several hun¬ 
dred men are In camp near New Orleans, drill- ! 
ing and perfecting themselves in the use of arms 
preparatory to going to Cuba to aid the revolu¬ 
tionists. The exact, position of the camp Is un¬ 
known to the United States authorities, and 
every precaution is used to prevent its becom¬ 
ing known. Tho men are mostly ex-rebel and j 
Union soldiers, and are well armed with Spencer 
rifles. Two vessels have been chartered to take 
these men to the Florida const, from which place 1 
a steamer will convey them to the eastern end * 
of the Island of Culm. The sum of $170,000 has 1 
been raised in New Orleans, it is further said, to 
equip and transport the men, and $10,000 has 1 
been received from Savannah. 
Tennessee. 
Governor Senter is considering t he proposi¬ 
tion to muster out. all the field and staff officers < 
of t he State Guards now in the service, except- < 
ing the Quartermaster. If this is done there £ 
will be loft five companies, numbering four liun- j 
dred and fifty men and sixteen officers. Already 
thirteen companies have been disbanded and £ 
paid off. , 
Kentucky. . 
A COSTLY monument, to bo erected in memory t 
of the Confederate dead, has been received at c 
Cynthiana, and will be dedicated on Thursday, ( 
May 26. The dedicatory address will bo delivered | 
by Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge; and Gen. J. C. , 
Breckinridge, Gen. William Preston, Gen. \ 
Hodge, Col. Phil. Lee and others have been r 
invited, and are expected to attend the ceremo- a 
nies. j 
Among the victims by the Ohio River steam- < 
boat disaster last December was Mr. Spiegol- 
lierg, a Deput y Sheriff of JefferRon County, nnd j 
what was supposed to be his body was found, q 
taken to Louisville, and Interred with imposing 5 
ceremonies by tin; Masons. On tho 14th Inst., 
however, the body of the real Spit-gel berg was 
found iu the river, u short distance from the I: 
scene of the disaster, and identified by various 
papers on his person. 
Ohio. L 
A disastrous incendiary fire occurred in Day- 
ton on Sunday morning,tho 17th inst. The Tur¬ 
ner Opera House, with the stores in the building 0 
and several fine residences, were destroyed, * 
causing a loss of from $()0U,000 to $800,000. Mr. *' 
Herman Satulmier, one of tho firm of Sandmicr ^ 
& Brother, whose place was among those burned 1 
out, was killed by a falling wall while endeavor- *' 
ing to save some of his goods. The insuruncoon v 
the entire property destroyed is given as only 
about $100,000. Tho Opera House was one of a 
the finest in the West, and was valued at about fl 
$250,000. 11 
Tho trial of Rev. C. Tate of Columbus, for an ^ 
alleged violation of his engagement to couform n 
to the doctrines and worship of his denomina- “ 
tirm, will soon take place. The question <n- * 
volvod is whether it is lawful to make the singing 
of proeessi< mill hymns by a surplicod choir a part * 1 
of the regular order of worship. Mr. Tate has ^ 
applied to the American Church Union for their 1 
advice, and they have determined to furnish ^ 
him with the necessary peeuniary means for try- ' 
ing the question on its merits. ^ 
The Clevelanders claim that the best time ever U 
made on a velocipede was accomplished at a jn 
riding rink in tlieir city on the afternoon of the o| 
15th inst., a Mr. Frederick Hawley making fifty j 
miles in three hours, fourteen minutes and thir¬ 
ty-nine seconds, actual running time. j. 
Illinois. 
The Supreme Court of this State has recently cc 
decided, iu the ease of tho Illinois Central Rail- Cl 
road vs. Wtiit temoro, that a passenger on a rail- ai 
way train must not be expelled from a car for M 
non-payment of fare at any other place than a Ii 
regular station. d 
A fierce hurricane prevailed in Chicago on gi 
Thursday, the 13th inst., which did considerable tb 
damage to the shipping on the lake. No serious w 
disaster is reported, however. The damage on 
land was considerable. 
Professor Austin, of Washington City, with a 
number of assistants, has been in Springfield by 
order of the authorities of the United Stares, for 
the purpose of establishing a new meridian line, 
to be called flic "Springfield Meridian Line." 
The Professor has found, by observation of the 
sun and polar star, that the line is exactly one 
hundred nnd fifty feet west of the center of the 
new State-House dome. One object of the es¬ 
tablishment of this line is for the purpose of 
tak i ng observe t ions du ring the great solar ec) ipse 
which oecura Aug. 7,1862, and which will be total 
in Springfield. Preparations are nowbeingmade 
by flic proper authorities at Washington to send 
out. a complete party of observation, as this will 
bo the most complete and interesting eclipse 
which will occur In this country during this cen¬ 
tury. 
The Methodist, clergymen of Chicago, at a 
mooting in that city, passed resolutions solemnly 
protesting against the ceremony of decorating 
the graves of the soldiers of the Union on Sun¬ 
day. 
The full amount and equalized value of taxa¬ 
ble property In this State, as appears from the 
returns in the office of the State Auditor, is 
$471,550,996. The amount of tux to be raised from 
this assessment ia about $3,000,000, exclusive of 
school and two-mlli tax, and is about one-fourth 
of one per cent, of tho wholo amount assessed. 
Ullelilgun. 
The Supreme Court, of Michigan has decided 
that under the State law. colored children must 
bo admitted to the public schools of the State on 
equal terms witli white children. 
George Johnson, who is charged with attempt¬ 
ing to shoot Detective Pinkerton last autumn, 
and who escaped from custody, has been re¬ 
arrested and taken back to Det roit for trial. 
fllliincMotn. 
Ma.i.-Gen. Hancock, now in command of the 
Department of Dakota, Jias reached St. Paul, 
and established his headquarters in that city. 
Lessing, who murdered his step-child t wo years 
ago, and was arrested at. Burlington, Iowa, has 
had his trial, and been convicted of murder in 
the first degree. The evidence against him was 
circumstantial. The trial took place at St. Peter, 
in this State. 
Wisconsin. 
Tiie Fanners' Hotel at La Crosse was burned 
to the ground on Monday, the 17th instant. One 
Anson Olcson was burned to death while H’ying 
to rescue property from (tie burning building. 
Reports from various parts of Minnesota are 
that the wheat Crop never looked more pro rais¬ 
ing. A much greater breadth of land has been 
sown than ever lief ore. 
Tim: Baptiste of this State are endeavoring to 
secure funds for the purchase of property atDcs 
. Moines for tho location of the Iowa Baptist Uni¬ 
versity. 
A bed of iron ore, elev en feet in thickness, has 
l been discovered In Warren county. 1 1 is of tho 
variety known as the Kidney ore, and near it a 
I five-foot vein of coal lias been found, which has 
. been pronounced fit for smelting tho ore. 
, Work upon t he Iowa Falls and Sioux City Rail- 
. road bus been begun at Storm Lake, Buena Vista 
county, and homesteads are sol i ing rapidly in the 
. vicinity. 
, The temperance men of this State have called 
. a State Convention, to meet at tho capital on the 
10th of J uue, for political action and prohibitory 
movements. 
Missouri. 
JOHN Webster, formerly Postmaster at Lin- 
1 coin, has been found guilty in tho United States 
Court of robbing the malls. An application for 
a new trial ha." been made, but it is not probable 
it will be granted. 
In Howard county a negro boy recently shot 
and killed the little daughter of hi." employer, a 
wealthy farmer named Reynolds, and when 
interrogated said the pistol went off accident¬ 
ally. During the excitement occasioned by the 
event he ran awav, and hid in the woods. But 
he was soon captured and locked up in a school- 
house. A day or two after, a party of disguised 
men took him from his prison, and hung him 
until be was dead; and they also took the 
mother of the boy, and gave her a hundred 
and fifty lashes for ex pressing sympathy lor the 
little fellow, and declaring t hat he. was innocent 
of any intention to murder tho child. 
A grocer In St. Louis received an invoice of 
Japan tea, via tbc Union Pacific Railroad, on 
Tuesday, the IS 1 I 1 inst., only thirty days from 
Y Okohama. 
JVebrasItu. 
The first through passenger train from Sacra¬ 
mento, with about five hundred passengers, ar¬ 
rived at Omaha on Sunday, the 16th inst. The 
travel west from Omaha is represented as very 
large. 
The Indiana, 
A telegram from South Pass City says that 
on Sunday, the 9th inst., a band of about thirty 
Indians appeared suddenly in Wind River Val¬ 
ley and killed Frank Morehouse, William Kno- 
der and two others whose names are unknown. 
They drove off about one hundred cattle and 
horses. It is nor known whether the Indians 
were Sioux or Bannocks. 
Late Arizona advices received atSan Franeisco 
aro to the effect that, the Indian depredations 
are numerous. The savages murdered Milton S. 
Hadley, a pioneer citizen of the Territory, on 
the 18th of April, near Prescott, and also cap¬ 
tured and destroyed the mail from California, 
near Tucson, the mail-rider barely escaping. 
The mining intelligence is encouraging. 
A special dispatch from Omaha says the wagon 
train of the Fifth Cavalry arrived at. Fort 
McPherson on the 17th Inst., under command of 
Lieutenant Forbush. It. was reported that seven 
companies of the Fifth Cavalry, under General 
Carr, while moving from Kansas toward Fort 
McPherson, struck noamp of about five hundred 
Cheyennes, on the 13th inst, and a fight ensued, 
in which the Indians were badly defeated, leav¬ 
ing twenty-five dead on the field, and carrying 
off a largo numtga- of wounded. General Carr 
lost, three men Killed and one officer and two 
privates wounded. General Carr Is still iu pur¬ 
suit, near Medici ue Lake Creek. 
The following military intelligence was re¬ 
ceived at General Sheridan's headquarters, at 
Chicago, 011 rho I'.iili inst. Lieutenants Mason 
and Carter, writing from Fort Hayes, Kansas, 
May 10, give an account of the killing of some 
Indians who were confined at that point. Tho 
chiefs were ordered to remove, in charge of a 
guard, from the corral to the guard-room, when 
they gathered in their tents, began the death 
whoop, and taking out their knives, went for tbc 
