having' absconded on the 22d with £65,000in their 
possession, the proceeds of a secret sale of 75,000 
bushels of oats which were placed in their stores 
in Brooklyn by different parties. 
Another extensive petroleum conflagration 
occurred at Hunter’s Point, b. I., at three o’clock 
on the morning of the 26th ult. The refineries 
of Messrs. Dovoe & Co. and Day & Co. wore both 
entirely consumed. The loss cannot be far from 
$ 609 , 000 , 
Two Irishmen, laborers on the Poughkeepsie 
and Eastern Kallroad, were pitted against each 
other a few days ago in a prize light, at Pleasant 
Valley, after which their comrades, to Intensify 
the enjoyments of the occasion, engaged in a 
general fight, which was not conducted accord¬ 
ing to the rules of the P. R- 
The steamboat Hendrick Hudson, minus her 
machinery and smoke-ducks, has been towed to 
Pollipoll's Island, near Newburgh, where she 
now lies anchored on the north side of the 
Island. A gang of men are at work on board of 
her repairing and refitting her for a floating 
summer hoarding house. She will he completed 
before the summer travel commences. 
The Dutchess and Columbia Railroad, having 
been leased for ninety-nine years by the Boston, 
Hartford and Erie Railroad Company, the trans¬ 
fer of the road Into the possession of the latter 
took place on the 19th ult, 
Stephen Boyle, the loader of t he butcher cart, 
thieves, who was sentenced to Sing Sing for 
forty years, has escaped. Ho is also the mur¬ 
derer that was wanted at Kalamazoo when ar¬ 
rested for robbery. 
Rebecca Pitch, a young lady twenty-one years 
old, whose counsel stated thill she was respecta¬ 
bly connected and that her father was wealt hy, 
was sentenced, in New York Oily, to State 
Prison for three years, recently, for grand lar¬ 
ceny. She had previously served two terms for 
similar offenses, and has shown such a remarka¬ 
ble propensity for stealing that her friends and 
datives can do nothing for her. 
The Collegiate North Reformed Dutch Church 
of New York City held its one hundredth anni¬ 
versary on the 25th ult. Exercises wore con¬ 
ducted in the morning and evening. Addresses 
been occasioned in consequence. There are ru¬ 
mors there of approaching difficulties with the 
Spanish authorities of Cuba. 
The New Orleans, Opelousas and Great. West¬ 
ern Railroad was sold by auction on the 25th ult., 
at New Orleans, by order of the United States 
Circuit Court, and purchased for £2,050,000 by 
the representative of Charles Morgan. It was 
announced at the conclusion of the Bale that the 
purchaser intonded to extend the road to Sabine 
at once. 
The New Orleans Commercial Convention 
opened on the 34th ult. A large number of 
delegates were present. The welcoming address 
in behalf of the city was delivered by Hon. 
Alexander Walker; and the permanent officers 
were chosen, with Chuuneey J. EiUoy of St. 
Louis, as President. Among the mottoes and 
inscriptions displayed about the hall in which 
the Convention was hold are these“ The South 
extends to the Northwest, a cordial greeting; ” 
“Immigration brings money and labor so the 
country, therefore we should encourage it.’’ 
Tennessee. 
Two or three important resolutions were 
adopted at the final session of the recent Com¬ 
mercial Convention at. Memphis. One of these 
requests Congress to put the telegraph system 
of the country under the control of the Post¬ 
master-General; and another requests Congress 
t<> prohibit the building of any bridge on the 
Mississippi above the mouth of the Missouri less 
than four hundred feet span, or on the Ohio 
below Pittsburgh less than three hundred feet 
span. 
The Supreme Court, of Tennessee is Investigat¬ 
ing a ease at Brownsville, which Involves the 
right of the Governor to set. aside registration 
under the old Franchise Law. 
The political campaign In Tennessee is be¬ 
coming exciting. Senator Brownlow has an¬ 
nounced himself In a newspaper card in favor 
of Renter for Governor, and his friends are 
who, some time last winter, fired three shots at a 
passing hackman, wounding him so severely in 
the aria that paralysis eventually followed,’be¬ 
cause he would not stop hts team and Mibrait to 
arrest for neglecting to show his carriage-lights, 
has just been tried and sentenced to one year in 
the county jail, and twenty-five dollars fine and 
costs. The Court ruled that n policeman is only 
Justified in firing a pistol when his execution of 
a warrant for felony is resisted, or In protecting 
his own life. 
The trial of William Robinson for the murder 
of General Murray McConnell, on the night of 
the 0th of February last, at Jacksonville, has be¬ 
gun Id that place, and is causing much excite¬ 
ment, It is alleged that the murder was ihe re¬ 
sult of a quarrel about 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington, 
President fin*, vr informed a committee of 
workmen from the Navy Yard, on the 17th ult., 
that the Eight-hour Law proclamation was not 
intended to have a retrospective effect, and that 
consequently the wages which have been de¬ 
ducted under the first interpretation ol the law 
will not be refunded. 
The Treasury Department has ordered In¬ 
spectors of Customs to desist from accompany¬ 
ing trains over tie Great Western Railway from 
Suspension Bridge along the Canada border to 
Detroit, tor the Inspection of hand baggage of 
passengers, and has requested local Customs 
officer.-! to attach certain stamps to such baggage 
prior to Ihe departure of any train from the 
United States. 11 at the point, of arrival of 
such train it shall appear that, a passenger has 
traveled continuously through on (hedesignated 
train and there is no suspicion of fraud intend¬ 
ed, the Customs officer will pass his baggage 
without further inspection; otherwise it shall 
undergo the same inspection .is if it. belonged to 
a person coining from a foreign territory. 
At a recent meeting of a Dost of the Grand 
Army or i In; Republic, in Washington, to con¬ 
sider the question of decorating ttie graves of 
the Confederate dead with flowers on the 30th 
ult, in common with those of the soldiers of 
the Union, it was resolved that, while they boro 
no malice to (lie dead, they would not divide the 
honors by decorating Confederate graves, and 
thereby taint the character of those who sacri¬ 
ficed their lives for their country. 
Tlio State ol Massachusetts, through iieragent, 
is contesting the charge to the State of some 
£55,000, which were disbursed by Comptroller 
Urodhead of I lie Treasury to pay the expenses 
of Burklnghamo Battalion to California, where 
they were mustered into the service. Mr. Brod- 
licad says that the money was paid under the 
authority of Mr. .Stanton, hut the State is In¬ 
formed that, the War Deparl inorit. lias no cogni¬ 
zance whatever of it. The subject lms been re¬ 
ferred to Attorney-General Hoar for an opinion. 
Among the valuable addit ions lately made to 
t he Congressional Library are the volumes 
known a - the Maximilian collection, which were 
recently sold at Leipsie, 
Immediately after the seizure of the Quaker 
City by the United States Marshal In New York. 
Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, made a for¬ 
mal demand on the State Department for her 
surrender, on theground that.she was the prop¬ 
erty of a British subject, offering at the same 
time to go security for her unt il gIio vouched .Ja¬ 
maica, for which a clearance was made out. 
Secretary Fish, on this state of facts, communi¬ 
cated with the .Secretary of the Treasury, asking 
that the necessary orders for her release be is* 
sued. As the vessel has been regularly libeled 
b,v a court on formal charges. Secretary llout- 
well was not entirely wiiislied lhat. lie had juris¬ 
diction in ih" premises, and determined to with¬ 
hold action with a view of making it a Subject 
of Cabinet consideration. Ho and Secretary 
Fish, however, hail an interview on the 2tith ult., 
when the whole subject was discussed. Mr. Fish 
was of the opinion that the libel qf the vessel 
by the Court fail the ease beyond lus control. 
The Meteor ease established Ihe right of Ameri¬ 
can citizens to clear a vessel with the intent, to 
sell her to any country that wanted her. Finally 
both Secretaries agreed not. to release the Quaker 
City, but allow her to be disposed of by the 
Courts. 
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company is 
making preparations for sending out an explor¬ 
ing party to puss over the entire route from 
Lake Superior to Puget Hound. Thomas H. Can- 
field, General Agent of the Company, called on 
Gen. Shorman oil Mia 25th ult... to arrange fora 
military escort for a portion of the distance, 
which will insure a full ami nation, and enable 
the Company to determine upon the general 
character ol‘ the line, and place its engineers in 
the field for a final location ol the road. 
The question of the admission to the Typo¬ 
graphical Union of the colored printer, Douglass, 
lias not yet been sol tied. In a letter, dated May 
33th, to a delegate to the National Typographi¬ 
cal Union, he says l hut he could not bo admitted 
on account ol his color, and that his present 
application for admission is made in good foilh, 
because lie desires lo work at his trade in all 
places wherever It may be profitable. As one of 
the printers of the country, he wishes to have 
part and parcel in whatever legitimate societies 
they may organize for the benefit of the craft. 
The most, that cun he t rustwortlii Iy ascertained 
of the instructions to Minister Motley is Mint 
they are more of a general Ilian specific charac¬ 
ter. and do not contemplate any speedy action 
o’* ’ part with regard to the Alabama and ot her 
Claims, in view of 
ably higher Hum usual at this season of the year, 
it is Ktuted that the freshets jn all the New Eng¬ 
land rivers that rise in the mountain districts 
have been of longer duration this spring than 
for the past forty years. 
IVcav Jersey. 
Gmr. GEonc.E B. MoCi.km.an has written to 
the Committee of Arrangements for decorating 
the soldiers’graves at Elizabeth, regretting his 
inability to at tend the ceremony, hut assuring 
them of his sympathy in the rendering of all 
possible honor to the memory of the noble men 
who gave their lives for the country In the re¬ 
cent war. 
A locomotive on tho Burlington County Rail¬ 
road exploded on ihe 21st. ult., in Mount Holly, 
killing Cbaa. L. Platt, fireman; mortally wound¬ 
ing Mr. GobIcU, the engineer, and seriously 
wounding Mr. Saylor, the conductor, and Edward 
Joyce. The engine bounded from the track and 
fell into Rancooas Creek. The ears of the train, 
twenty-one in all, were much damaged. This 
railway is owned and operated by the notorious 
Camden and Amboy Com puny, and ft made such 
strenuous efforts to keep the matter from the 
Press thill, the explosion wa*not known in Trcn- 
ton, but twenty miles from the scene of tile ac¬ 
cident, until the afternoon of tho following day. 
Pennsylvania. 
Some of the Pennsylvania coal miners held a 
formal meeting at Scranton, on the 23d ult., to 
consider the question of suspension. After dis¬ 
cussion a vote was taken, and three hundred 
and sixty-nine voted for suspension and four 
hundred and eight against. This vote is consid¬ 
ered decisive. 
More trouble is announced among the Penn¬ 
sylvania coal miners. On Monday the 34th ult,. 
an anonymous notice, threatening death to any 
miner who descended the shaft to work, was 
found posted al, the Oxford Mine, and tho 
miners who read il. and hoard of it became so 
frightened that they refused to do any work 
whatever. 
Maryland. 
Tim eighty-sixth annual Convention of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese of Mary¬ 
land convened nr Grace Church, in Baltimore, 
on Wednesday, the «ttth ult., Bishop Whitting- 
hum presiding. The attendance of clerical and 
lay delegates was quite large. 
Virginia. 
Fifty-six army officers tir" ordered to report 
lo General Oanby, to be assigned as Registrars 
at the revision of registration, which is ordered 
for June 14, to continue ten days. Tho regula¬ 
tions issued by the CommiuidingGeneral for tho 
election are the same as heretofore, except, that 
not more than four hundred shall vole «t any 
one poll. No provision is made, ns heretofore, 
for will tea and blacks voting a t separate polls. 
.South Carolina. 
CniKK Justice Chase arrived «( Charleston on 
Thursday, I he 30th ult,, and presided on tho 21st 
in the United Slates Circuit Court. He made a 
a note held by McConnell 
against Robinson for four hundred dollars. The 
prisoner is the son of a well-to-do farmer; was 
born in Lawrence. Ill.; has many friends, and has 
held positions of trust,. 
The second and third days of the Robinson 
trial were occupied with endeavors to obtain a 
jury. The ease excites the deepest interest, and 
crowds are in attendance. 
Minnesota. 
The trial of Louis Lessing, at St. Paul, for 
the murder of his infant step-st.on, has ended, 
and the prisoner was convicted of murder in the 
second degree. 
Wisconsin. 
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce have 
voted that hereafter freight on wheat, from all 
points or the river to Milwaukee or Chicago, 
shall be ten cents par bushel, and on flour forty 
cents per barrel. This arrangement, is the result 
of a meeting of railway and packet men 
recently held in Chicago. An arrangement has 
also been made by which wheat will hereafter 
be carried from Chicago to Liverpool, via New 
York, for thirty cents by mil and twenty-two 
cents by lake and canal, including all expenses 
of handling. 
MUsonrl. 
Tn St. Louis, on Thursday, tho soth ult., a 
heavy iron safe, weighing fully 1,K00 pounds, fell 
upon throe workmen who were engaged in 
hoisting il into a building, owing to the snapping 
of the rope, and killed two of them and badly 
wounded Hie third. 
One Michael Humes has commenced a singular 
suit in the Circuit Court at. St. Louis, It is 
against his giffu-dian, a man named James Gra¬ 
ham. He alleges that he was placed under Gra¬ 
ham’s care when he was only eight years of age. 
and Instead of being sent, to school was made to 
work on a farm. He continued this work for 
ten years, or from 1055 to 1805, when ho left. He 
is now, he says, unable to either read or write, 
and lie asks £3,000 for the work la* performed 
during the ten years, and £2,000 damages for the 
alleged neglect in not sending him to school. 
Ten thousand bushels of wheat In bulk, a part 
of n hundred thousand bushels shipment from 
Ht. Paul for Liverpool via New Orleans, arrived 
at, Ht. Louis on the 21st ult. 
’rile President of the Iron Mountain Railroad 
Company, at. St. Lotifa, has received a dispatch 
from the President of the recent Commercial 
Convention at Memphis, Informinu- him tb„< 
un fsatumji.y, the 1 ult.., an armed band of 
disguised men stopped a train from Louisville 
to Memphis and attempted to murder Internal 
Revenue Officer Hohn, who laid a prisoner on 
board arrested for running an illicil distillery. 
An assistant of Holm's, name unknown. Jumped 
from the train, was fired on, and wils seen to 
fall. Mr. Holm fired Into the gang, killing one 
of them. The others poured a volley into the 
train, but fortunately without injuring any 
one. The train was immediately put in motion. 
The band Is supposed to belong to a gang en¬ 
gaged in illicit distilleries, extending from East 
Tennessee to Mississippi. 
Kentucky. 
The remains of ex-Govemor Moorhead, of 
Kentucky, arrived at Louisville on the 27th ult., 
from Greenville, Miss., where he died, m route. 
to Frankfort for final interment, A military 
and civil procession escorted the remains to St. 
Paul's Church, where they were to lie in state 
until Monday morning, the 30th ult. 
Ohio. 
The books sent 1 o Cincinnati by the man Shaw, 
who was arrested some months ago, charged 
with having illegally and fraudulently imported 
n large quantity of books from Europe through 
Canada to several Western cities, have been de¬ 
clared unlawfully Introduced, and the sale of 
them by order of the Uni led States District 
Couri will stand good, and the proceeds, £19,500, 
go to the Government. Hhaw has not yet been 
tried. 
I he establishment of Miller & Co., maltsters, 
at Cleveland, was destroyed by fire 
night., tin* 34t h ult. The loss is £25,000 
£5,1X10. The loss was mostly by mal 
and damaged. The fire is suppose 
”” WI I, om riuponu to Holden, Mo. Tins will pot 
Southern Katisns in connection with St. Louis 
by a route a hundred and fifty miles shorter 
than the line connecting the same region with 
Chicago. From Euporla southwest, the contem¬ 
plated road will pass through the Osage Indian 
lands to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This line 
it is said, will traverse some of the finest agricul¬ 
tural and grazing lands on the Continent. 
Nebraska. 
Three barrels of choice California wine were 
received at Omaha on Wednesday, the 2ttth ult. 
hyihe first through freight train over the Pa¬ 
cific Road, one of which Is directed to President 
Grant,another to an ox-Reriator of California 
and the third to Vice-President Huntington of 
the Central Pacific Road. Tho wine Is a present 
from fho owner of the National Vineyard, lo¬ 
cated ou the Pueific Railroad lands. 
A rkansas. 
Tnu steamer Cora ,S., from Cincinnati to Ar¬ 
kansas River, with a valuable cargo, sunk on 
luesday morning, the 25th ult., at Fie teller’s 
Landing, fifty miles above the mouth of the 
Arkansas River. The boat is a total loss. A 
portion of the cargo will probably be saved. 
Both are insu red in Ci ncin nut i offices. As fur as 
known no lives were lost. 
The Indians. 
Gen ERA I. Sherman has received a letter from 
General Sheridan, informing him that Arrnpa 
hoes, under their Chief, Little Raven, are quietly 
moving to their reservations, but that the Chey¬ 
ennes have refused to go to their reservations 
and marched to the north of the Ark mrae, for 
the purpose of joining their brethren on the Re¬ 
publican River. General Sheridan asks for in¬ 
structions relative to the Indians who refuse to 
go on their reservations, and General Sherman 
has forwarded a communication to the Interior 
Department, recommending the issuing of a 
proclamation that all Indians who shall take that 
course will be treated kindly and liberally and 
that all who refuse to comply will be regarded 
as enemies. 
A Helena, Montana, dispatch reports a despe¬ 
rate seven-hours’ fight between the men of the 
settlement or Muscle Shell and about I wo hun¬ 
dred Santee Hioux, who made an attack on the 
rntreTul’ m 1 * 1 t '"‘ f ' nal r, -'Pulso of the attacking 
' V iL h „ tll,Pt 7.. ll . i,Tt -* d > '"dldtaff u “ renegade 
Tiie “fastest time on record,” between Cali¬ 
fornia and Massachusetts, has been made by a 
gentleman who arrived in Boston on the 23d ult. 
from San Francisco, having accomplishi d the 
Journey in seven days and eleven hours, includ¬ 
ing seventeen hours' detention on the way. 
A stock train arrived at Worcester, on the 25th 
ult. from Albany, at route to Providence, loaded 
with Texas cattle, which were found to be in a 
most horrible condition; twenty-nine large bo- 
vines were found jammed into one ear, two of 
which had apparently been dead for some time; 
two ot hers were dying ; others were down and 
unable to rise; while nil were evidently starving, 
and bad apparently been without food or water 
for days. Tho cattle were unloaded, fed and ex¬ 
ercised, and then put into fresh cars and set off 
on their way. 
The Now England Labor Reform League met 
in Convention in Boston on Tuesduy, the 25th 
ult. It was largely attended by prominent re¬ 
formers. The President, in opening the busi¬ 
ness, defined the labor reform creed as free 
trade, free money, free travel, free transporta¬ 
tion and f ree land; and the resolut ions presented 
and discussed, denounced, among other things, 
the taking of interest and tho National Banking 
system, ami urged the substitution of Treasury 
certificates of service for the present Govern¬ 
ment currency. 
At a meeting of the Union Pacific Railroad 
Company, hold in Boston on the 25th uR„ Messrs. 
Oliver Amos, Benjamin E. Bates, both of Massa¬ 
chusetts; Sidney Dillon of New York; John Duff 
of Massachusetts; C. If. McCormick of New 
In the General Assembly of the Southern 
Presbyterian Church, m session at Mobile, on 
the 20tli ult., the greater part of the morning 
was spent in dicuasing a plan for (he evangeliza¬ 
tion ot the blacks. Dr. Girardeau made an able 
speech In favor of the plan, which was recom¬ 
mended. It provides that, where practicable, 
the Presbyters may organize separate colored 
churches, to bo supplied for the present with 
white, pastors and ruling elders or their own 
color. Tiie pastors of the white churches are to 
supply these pulpits as far as possible. Suitable 
colored exhortera may be employed under di¬ 
rect ion of the pastors. When colored candidates 
for the ministry show themselves Utted for or¬ 
dination, they may lie ordained, with rite under¬ 
standing that they .shall henceforth ho ecclesi¬ 
astically separated from the whites. The 
ministers ami people are urged to efficient. 
the present sentiment in 
England upon the subject, if for no other rea¬ 
son. Mr. Motley will in form Her Majesty's Gov¬ 
ernment of the desire of our own to adjust all 
pending questions on a basis that will strengthen 
the friendly relations between the two coun¬ 
tries. 
New York. 
The Hudson River Rowing Association had its 
opening on Thursday, the 20th ult. A single 
scull race between Withers, Farron, Smith and 
Truax was the feature of the day’s sport. With¬ 
ers was first in, in 24:55, and Farron won second 
place. 
The Hicksite Branch of the Society of Friends 
began their yearly meeting on Sunday morning 
and afternoon, t he 23d ult,., at the meeting houses 
in Rutherford place and Twenty-seventh street, 
New York Cily. 
As tiie CUnard steamer Russia, from Liver¬ 
pool, was coming up tho Bay on Tuesday morn¬ 
ing, the 25th viIf., sho ran into the Austrian ship 
Figlia Maggiore, from Marseilles, which arrived 
on tho 24th, and was lying at anchor off Bedloe's 
Island. The ship was struck on the port side, 
and sank in a few minutes. The steamer was in 
charge of a pilot at the time. No lives were 
lost. 
The corner stone id" the Collegiate Dutch Re¬ 
formed Church, at the junction of Fifth avenue 
and Forth-eighth street. New York City, was 
laid on Tuesday, ihe 25th ult., by Rev. Dr. 
Thomas Dewitt, with tiie usual addresses, hymns 
and prayer. Re/. Drs. Chambers, Ludlow and 
McNair were present, together with a numerous 
assemblage of both sexes. 
The firm of Scott & Munson, storage mer¬ 
chants, of No. 91 Wall street, New York City, 
were represented on Tuesday, the 25th ult., as 
| me «ocu uu„ oy which the following were losers: 
Childress & Davis, grocery dealers; Foster fc 
Gardner, mid F. E. Stollnnwerek & Co., commis¬ 
sion merchants; Obor & Anderson, feed store, 
an ?, ^ u * c, r ^ Go., forwarding merchants. Col. 
L. T. Woodruff, a prominent business man and 
President of the Board of Trade, lost, his life. 
Two other men wore seriously Injured by the 
falling of the Avails. Tho loss is estimated at 
between #40,000 and £50,000. Tho funeral of Col, 
Woodruff, bold on the 20th ult., was the largest 
ever witnessed in Mobile. His body laid in state 
in the Board of Trade rooms until 4 o'cloelc, 
when it was removed to the Methodist Church’ 
followed by tlio Board of the Presbyterian As-’ 
setnbly in a body. Ail tho stores wore closed at 
3 o clock, out of respect to the deceased. 
Louisiana. 
Orders have been received at the New Or¬ 
leans Navy Yard directing Hint all theiron-clads 
be put in condition for immediate active service, 
and that the requisite number of men for that 
purpose be kept employed night and day. Great 
excitement regarding tho order, and specula¬ 
tion as to tho destination of the iron-clads, has 
