dittos of fbt Cttlctk. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
Secretary BouTWf.u/s monthly debt state¬ 
ment was issued on Tuesday, the 5th inst., ami 
it shows a decrease of the total debt during the 
month of May of $1:1,384,778. Five million dol¬ 
lars In gold were sold during tho month for 
$7,000,000 currency, and $3/170,000 in bonds were 
redeemed at u premium ol about $*00,000 in cur¬ 
rency. 
A statement prepared tit the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment reveals tho fact that, since the year 1861 
there has been paid into the Treasury “Con¬ 
science Fund" $80,238.90. Tho amount paid in 
each year Is rapidly growing larger. In 1861 only 
$250 wore paid in, while during the five months 
of this year over $15,000 have been received. 
Tho Government authorities have noli tied tho 
Governor of Maryland that guns for arming tho 
militia of that State, better known as the Mary¬ 
land National Guard, will bo sent, for proper 
distribution. 
A statement has recently appeared that “in¬ 
formation til the State Department shows almost 
conclusively that, the Brazilian and Argentine 
authorities who control the La Plata below 
Asuncion, intercepted .Minister McMahon's dis¬ 
patches; that. Mr. McMahon was at Asuncion on 
the 1st of April, and after that he ascended the 
river and joined Lopez." There is good aut hori¬ 
ty for stating that the only information upon 
this subject possessed by the Department of 
State i-S that intelligence reached Rio Janeiro on 
the 7th of April of the; arrival at Asuncion of 
the United States Minister Keshlontat Paraguay. 
One account received there reads as follows: 
“Tho American Minister has escaped from 
Lopez and is now under the protection Of iho 
Brazilian authorities in Asuncion." 
The Navy Department has received a dispatch 
from Rear Admiral Radford, commanding (ho 
European squadron, dated ToulOn, Franco, May 
11, in which he states that the flag-ship Franklin 
arrived there that day. Tito Richmond had ar¬ 
rived at Pirams, Greece, on the 26th of April, 
from Curtliagena, Spain, having touched at Al¬ 
giers, Palmas Rav, Sardinia, Tunis and Malta, 
and would s. a Irom thermo on tho29th Tor Smyr¬ 
na. The Kenosha proceeded to Malaga, Spain, 
but, everything remaining quiet and no disturb¬ 
ance being anticipated at that place, she sailed 
for Gibraltar, where she arrived on tho 26th nit. 
The storeshlp Guard had arrived at Palermo, 
Sicily, on thoSlh of April, from Lisbon, having 
touched at Gibraltar. Site was to sail for Naples 
and Spezzla on tho 10th of May, and would arrive 
at the latter place about the 1st of June. At 
Algiers tho Franklin was visited by the Gover¬ 
nor of the province, Marshal McMahon, (Duke 
of Magenta,) who wan received wit h ail the hon¬ 
ors due his rank. 
A delegation of Georgians called on t he Presi¬ 
dent on the 31st nit., and insisted that one of the 
appointments of Mr. Delano to an Assessorship 
in Georgia had been a volunteer in t ho rebel ser¬ 
vice, and had boon discharged for drunkenness 
and gross immorality. The President, after an 
examination of the papers submitted in proof 
of tho sin,foments made, ‘immediately sent for 
Mr. Delano, and it is believed that tho removal 
of the Assessor was ordered. 
Tho petition of Sonor Casanova of Cuba to 
have the United States demand the return of 
his property, which has been sequest rated by tho 
Spanish Government, is a subject of much cau¬ 
tious consideration at tho Stale Department, as 
many other claims exactly like it arc being pre¬ 
sented. 
Tho removal of General Emory from tho po¬ 
sition of Commandant of the Soldiers' Homo,at 
Washington, was ordered because tho law says a 
retired officer unfit for active service alone shall 
hold it. Besides, General Sherman, it is said, ob¬ 
jected to an able-bodied officer and a lighting 
soldier like Emory remaining out. of the field, 
and he will probably bo restored to his regiment 
and active service on the plains. 
Lewis DOtigloss, the colored lype setter in the 
Printing Bureau at Washington, has been taken 
from the case and made a holder of copy. In 
tho latter position he is not required to be n 
member of tlio Union, but the question will 
probably b* finally decided anyhow in the meet¬ 
ing of t ho National 11 nion at Albany. 
The Registration Board in Washington, before 
whom a female delegation appeared several 
times when the registration was going on and 
demanded to have their names enrolled, have 
dually decided on their case. They say women 
are debarred by law from the franchise. A Mr. 
J. K. 11. Wilcox, who headed the ladies’ delega¬ 
tion, has asked in have his name stricken from 
the list, ns ho considers himself a groat deal more 
unfit to vote t linn t he ladles referred to. 
The ceremony of decorating the soldiers’ 
graves at Arlington, Vn„ attracted an immense 
throng to the National Cemetery nt that, point 
on Saturday, the 29th ult. The public depart¬ 
ments in Washington and many of the places of 
business were closed for the occasion. Colonel 
Fisher delivered the oration. In Boston, Phila¬ 
delphia and other cities the day was also ob¬ 
served l\v the closing of many of the public of¬ 
fices, the half-masting of Mugs and the firing of 
minute guns. 
The ease of the United States against Erlan- 
ger, bankers, and Armnnd Brothers, ship build¬ 
ers, which involves $6,000,000, arising out of a 
Confederate ship contract and the deposit of 
money for carrying out the same, will be brought 
before tho French Court, of Appeals in a short 
time. Jules Favro lias been appointed principal 
counsel for the United Stales, in place of M. 
Berryer. lately deceased. The whole ease will 
be re-operlC'd, and additional testimony will be 
introduced to rebut certain affidavits;which were 
put in evidence at the lust trial. 
Secretary Fish has effected an arrangement 
with the Spanish Secretary for Foreign Affairs 
by which Senor Roberts, the Spanish Minister, 
lias full power to settle all ordinary questions 
arising between the two count ries in reference 
t o Cuba. This lias been done principally to save 
tho cost, delay and uncertainty of cable tele¬ 
graphing. 
Minister Curtin has appointed as his personal 
secretary and diplomat ic attache to the Legation, 
Robert Jl. Grata, of Pennsylvania. He will sail 
from New York accompanied by Mr. Coffee, 
Secretary of Legation, and Mr. G rate on thclTth. 
Governor Clirtin, as President of the East In¬ 
dies Telegraph Company, having requested the 
Navy Department to extend such aid to that 
enterprise as might seem proper. Secretary Borie 
has instructed Admiral Rowan, commanding - 
the United States Asiatic Squadron, to give full 
protection, and render all the assistance within 
his power to the work of laying the cable of the 
above named company, and to manifest, to tho 
Chinese authorities the docp interest which this 
Government feels in the success of the enter¬ 
prise. Post-Captain Alexander Murray is de¬ 
tailed to proceed to China, ami give the benefit 
of ids aid and experience In making the pre¬ 
liminary surveys and soundings. 
It lias already been stated that our Secretary 
of Legation in Spain was Informed by the Secre¬ 
tary of State that his resignation would be ac¬ 
cepted. Mr. Perry, in reply, informed Mr. Fish 
that, while resting under calumnious accusation 
from tho American Minister, he could not. re¬ 
sign, and lie trusted to the justlco of Die Presi¬ 
dent and Secretary not to be dismissed, lie 
would have been glad to escape from the incon¬ 
veniences utid discomforts of his position, if lie 
could have done so without leaving a shadow of 
doubt on the falsity of the charges made against 
him. 
New York. 
Rev. Geo hoe H. HbpWOBth of Boston, has 
accepted the call extended to him by Rev. Dr. 
Osgood’s church, in Now York City. 
The Annual Convention of the Editors’ and 
Publishers’ Association or the State of New 
York will bo held in Ithaca on the 24th and 25th 
lnsts. Tho Annual Address is to be delivered 
by it. L. Adams, editor Geneva Courier; and a 
second address will be delivered by Itcv. Dr. 
Bell of Lyons, and a poem by A. A. Hopkins, 
associate editor of the RURAL New- Yorker. 
Another attempt was made to escape from 
Bing Sing on the 28th ult. A convict in citizens 
clothes, which bo had procured in some myste¬ 
rious way, walked by the main guard-house, 
outside Die prison walls. A guard, recognizing 
him, ordered him to halt; but instead of so 
doing, Dm fellow ran. An alarm was then given 
und a numborof guards gave chase, and fired 
several shots at him. At length, wounded 
slightly, ho was overtaken and captured. 
Ail anniversary celebration of the Sunday 
School Missionary Union took place on tho 29th 
ult. at the New York Juvenile Asylum, on One 
Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, near Tenth 
avenue. Rev. B. \V. Chidlaw. Itcv. Drs. Ludlow 
and J. It. Davis, Mr. R. J. Mingins and Dr. Pierce 
delivered addresses. 
The famous Five Points House of Industry, in 
New York, is to be enlarged by the addition of a 
chapel, dormitories and play-ground. 
Thirteen seel ions in the Stafford wooden pave¬ 
ment, in Broad street. New York, opposite the 
Custom-House, three feet long and two feet 
wide, were on the 28th ult. Liken up and re¬ 
placed, and the street left in perfect order, in 
forty minutes. The work was witnessed by a 
largo number of Interested persons. 
Tlio franchise of a mil road in Twenty-third 
street, from the North to Dm East Itivor, Now 
York City, was sold by auction on the 2d inst. by 
the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. The 
price brought was $150,000. Sydney A. Yeornans 
was tlie purchaser, and is understood to bo the 
agent of George Law, whom ho gave as one of 
his sureties. James Fisk, Jr., bid hut $67,000 for 
the franchise. 
James E. Robbins was arrested on the 1st inst. 
by private detectives at Buffalo, charged with 
robbing the dead body of Frank Walker, a civil 
engineer, killed at the Angola disaster, eighteen 
months since, of a gold watch. The watch was 
recently brought to Walker’s father, a jeweler 
In Buffalo, for repairs, ami was recognized by 
him. Itcat once put tho case in the hands of 
detectives, who traced it through six holders to 
Robbins, the party now under arrest. 
A young girl, eleven years old. named Mary 
Shane, hies been arrested in Syracuse charged 
with poisoning n chi id and setting lire to a dwell¬ 
ing house. She had been token from the Poor 
house against her wishes and put to work in the 
family of Mr. F. B. Edgerton. Shothreatened to 
poison the children and set fire to the house, but 
no notice was taken of her t hreat. She, however, 
carried It out in part. The child poisoned has 
been saved, and tho fire set was extinguished 
before much damage was done. 
Henry Bergh, President of the American So¬ 
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 
U*s addressed a letter to the Board of Health, 
energetically protesting against, the bleeding ol 
calves preparatory to slaughtering them, as 
practiced by the butchers of Now York City. 
This practice, ho contends. Is not only a cruelty 
to animals, but is dangerous to the health of the 
community, by corrupting tho fiesli of the ani¬ 
mals so treated, and rendering it unfit for 
human food. 
Of tliirty-two fires which occurred in Brook¬ 
lyn during the past, month four were the result 
of Incendiarism, three of spontaneous Combus¬ 
tion and live of kerosene explosions. 
Mrs. Sally Fisk Granger, mother of tho late 
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas died on the 30th ult. 
at. her residence in OUfton Springs, N. Y., of 
heart disease, in the eighty-first year of her age. 
Monday, the 31st ult., W88 observed as “ Deco¬ 
ration Day” in Brooklyn. Jersey City, Albany, 
and other cities throughout Hie country. At. 
Brooklyn sen ices were held at all the cemeter¬ 
ies where soldiers are buried. A t Cypress Hills 
the most imposing ceremonies took place. E.v- 
I lieu t.-G ov. Woo* I lord was the Wat nr t here. A1 
Jersey City the address was delivered by Mr. A. 
\V. Tenney of New York City. Saturday, the 
29th, was observed in several cities, including 
Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and other 
New England cities, and Knoxville, Tenn. At 
the observances in Gloucester, Maas., Gon. But¬ 
ler delivered the oration. 
Gen. Sherman is to award tho diplomas at 
West Point on graduation day and possibly may 
deliver the address to the graduates. Henry 
Ward Beecher will deliver the valedictory ad¬ 
dress. 
The annual meet ing of the contributors of the 
New York State Inebriate Asylum at Bingham¬ 
ton was held at the institution there on Wednes¬ 
day, the 2d inst. A board ol forty trustees, 
headed by Dr. Willard Parker of New York City, 
was ffleoted. A meeting of the trustees was 
subsequently held, and Dr. Parker chosen Presi¬ 
dent, and Hon. Ausburn Birdsall, First Vice- 
President. 
Two young men of Rochester, named Gurney 
ami Connolly, while bathing near Mt. Morris in 
Canaseraga Creek, on Wednesday evening, tho 
2d inst,, were drowned. 
Miss Sarah Hunt, housekeeper of Mr. William 
Hawkins, residing near the State line in the 
town of Canaan, fired a charge of buckshot into 
tho person of Joseph Warren on Saturday eve¬ 
ning, tho 29th. ult., severely but not dangerously 
woundlnghim, Warren invaded the house while 
Miss Hunt was alone and used insulting lan¬ 
guage. Not heeding a warning to leave, the girl 
took a loaded gun und fired the contents at him, 
which had the desired result. She was arrested 
and committed to jail to await the action of tho 
Grand Jury. 
In Rochester, on the morning of the 3d inst., a 
large double frame house on Gibb street, owned 
and occupied by Mayor E. M. Smith and G. W. 
Stehbins, was partially destroyed by fire. Tho 
loss is about $<s,iX*0; insured. 
New Ifampslitre. 
TnE new Legislature was duly organized on 
Wednesday Die 2d Inst, by tho choice of John Y. 
Mugrldgc of Concord as President of the Senate, 
and Samuel M. Whfeler of Dover as Speaker of 
the House. The speeches of both presiding 
officers are raid to have been “ models of 
brevity.” 
Gov. Onslow Stearns was inaugurated on the 
3d inst. und 'his inaugural address exhibits a 
reduction of the State debt during the year of 
$350,OUU, leaving the present $3,137,006. The 
Governor recommends a uniform rate of taxa¬ 
tion on nil foreign insurance companies doing 
business in Die State. The firomotlon of agri¬ 
cultural interests 1 b urged upon Die Legislature 
as a duty. The cost, of construction of the rail¬ 
roads in t ho State has been about $21,500,000. 
The estimated value of the same Is now about 
$12,000,000, Showing n loss of $0,500,000 on the 
original cost, and tho tax paid by them during 
the year has been $215,615. The manufacturing 
and other material interests are represented as 
in a satisfactory condition. In conclusion, tho 
Governor expressed the belief that the adoption 
of the suffrage amendment to tho Constitution 
must be productive of great good.—Previous to 
l he inauguration tho outgoing Governor, Ilarri- 
man, delivered tt valedictory address to the 
Legislature and then introduced his successor. 
A certain T. L. Foster has been arrested at La¬ 
conia, charged with an attempt to kill George 
T. Farrar on tho 9th of December last, by pois¬ 
oning him with cyanide or potassium. Tt is the 
same case for which Mrs. Farrar was tried last 
January and committed to jail. 
A clerk In the Post. Office at Portsmouth, named 
William N. lfanscom, and seventeen years old, 
lias been arrested by a Uni tod Stales detective 
for robbing the malls. Hanscom has been em¬ 
ployed at the Post Office Tor a year. He con¬ 
fesses Ids guilt. Ho is of respectable family. 
Vermont, 
The Annual Convention of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church of Vermont assembled at Rut¬ 
land oft Wednesday, the 2d inst., at Trinity 
Church, Right Rev. Bishop Rlssoll presiding, and 
Thomas Jl. Canfield, Esq., Secretary. The Con¬ 
vention sermon was preached by Rev. Daniel C. 
Roberta, of Montpelier. There was a large at¬ 
tendance of clergymen and laity, among whom 
are some of t he most prominent men of the State. 
.Tlassaeli n sens. 
The let ter of Rev. Dr. Stores of Brooklyn, N. 
Y., declining the call to Dio Central Congrega¬ 
tional Church at Boston, was read from the pul¬ 
pit of that church on Sunday morning, the 30th 
ult. Jn this he admitted that no other call that 
was over extended to him made so deep an im¬ 
pression dn Ills mind ns Unit, of Die Central 
Churoh, or caused him to hesitate so long before 
deciding. At the same time he feltthat tho sen¬ 
timent of his own church nnd of the sister 
churches of Brooklyn, as well as of his brother 
ministers, was so strong that it was his duty to 
remain: that he could not disregard It. 
Ole Bull 1ms accepted tho invitation of the 
Executive Committee of the Boston Peace Ju¬ 
bilee to take part in the groat musical festival. 
A dispatch says that he has tried his violin in 
Die “ Colosseum,” and pronounces its acoustic 
qualities excellent. He is to play ids own ar¬ 
rangement of “Auld Lang Fyne," aecompanied 
by t he orchestra of one thousand pieces. 
The four oarsmen who ore to represent Har¬ 
vard College in tho races with the Oxford and 
cam bridge fours of England, pull down Charles 
River, at Boston, every evening between six and 
seven o’clock, stripped to t he waist, in it six- 
oared shell, In which one or two other oarsmen 
assist them. The day of departure is fixed for 
July 10th, so that the Harvard four will be en¬ 
abled ro practice on the current of the Thames, 
where tho tide rises and falls eighteen feet . 
Petitions for the annexation to Die City of 
Boston of Somerville and all Die territory lying 
within six miles of the Boston City Hall, south 
of Charles River, have been reported by a com¬ 
mittee of the Legislature, with a recommenda¬ 
tion that tho matter ho referred to tho next 
General Court, as the Legislature is technically 
termed. 
Choate, the alleged “Fire-bug" of Ncxvbury- 
port, has signed an affidavit denying all knowl¬ 
edge of Du- letters confessing the crime and tho 
way in which the “bug" operated, alleged to 
have been written by him, and which have been 
regarded ns bearing directly on tho ease. On 
each of tho indictments pending against him for 
burning and attempting to bum buildings in 
Nrwburyport, in which ho is charged with of¬ 
fences punishable by imprisonment for life, the 
bail required lias been fixed at $5,000, and on the 
others at $3,000 each, making the total $02,000. 
Rhode Island. 
The Rhode Island Legislature, among its last 
acts, ostablirhed a Board of State Charities, con¬ 
sisting of Messrs. Henry W. Lothrop, Thos. A. 
Doyle, Jonathan Brayton, James M. Pendleton, 
Samuel W. Church and Henry H. Fay. An addi¬ 
tional appropriation of $10,500 was also made for 
tho purchase of more hind upon which to place 
tlie proposed institutions. 
.Adisustroiis conflagration occurred nt Woon¬ 
socket. on Tuesday night, rhe 1st inst. Elliott’s 
mills, comuining a large amount of stock and 
machinery, employed in various trades, wero de¬ 
stroyed. The loss is estimated at $100,000. The 
buildings were hives of industry, and gave em¬ 
ployment to iwo hundred persons. The fire is a 
sad blow to tho enterprise of the place, and is the 
largest fire that, ever occurred there. Insurance 
$27,000. 
On the 27th ult. the Rhode Island Senate adopts 
ed the Fifteenth Amendment by a vote Of twen¬ 
ty-two to eleven. On the following day the 
House of Representatives postponed its consid¬ 
eration until the session of January next. 
Pennsylvania. 
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is.to 
receive the citizens of Philadelphia, and to 
accept a banquet they have tendered him, on 
the 12t.h, before departing for St. Petersburg. 
The Schuylkill miners, it is reported, will soon 
resume work. Information has been received 
at Scranton anil Pittston that the Schuylkill 
operators have declared their readiness to con¬ 
cede whatever the men demand. The Berlin ton 
papers state that the chances arc that by the 
time resumption occurs in the other regions the 
prices will bo down to the old figure. 
The rebel Iron-clad Atlanta, which was sold at 
private sale by the Governt. mit authorities nt. 
League Island, has been thoroughly overhauled 
at Philadelphia, and, it is said, is nearly ready 
for sea. A Philadelphia paper reports that sho 
is to receive a formidable battery of English 
guns and n good supply of stores and ammuni¬ 
tion, and then is to be rent, to Luba for use by 
the insurgents. Rumor has it that Bbc will sail 
ostensibly for a short sea-test, when ready; but 
once outside, will raise the Mexican Rug, and, 
when two days at sea, will fly Cuban colors. 
The Directors of tho Pennsylvania Central, 
and of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago 
Railroad Companies, have signed a contract by 
which the road of the. latter Company is leased 
in perpetuity to the former. Philadelphia is now 
in direct railroad communication with Chicago. 
The boiler of the paper mill of W. B. Mullln & 
Sons, at. Mount. Holly Springs six miles sout h of 
Carlisle, burst on Friday night, t he 28th ult. Two 
men were injured, probably fatally. The dam¬ 
age to the mill Is estimated at $5,01)0. 
The will of Dr. Rush of Philadelphia has been 
admitted to probate. The hulk of the property, 
as has before been slated, goes to tho Philadel¬ 
phia Library Company to purchase a lot. ami 
erect a building to be called the “Ridgeway 
Branch of the Philadelphia Library." This is 
designed to be a monument to his father in-law 
and his wife, from whom he derived most, of his 
fortune. The will giv es directions In regard to 
the management, of t he library and the choice 
of books, nnd, among other matters, advises tho 
managers to give but little space to t hose “teach¬ 
ers of disjointed thinking, the daily papers.” 
.11 ary la ml. 
Thomas Borch Orison, aged 73 years, one of 
the brave men in the garrison at Fort McHenry 
while bombarded by the British forces in 1814, 
died on Friday the 28th ult. 
A store situated on tho line of the Baltimore 
and Potomac Railroad, at a point about five 
miles from the Annapolis Junction, caught fire 
and was burned to tho ground, on the 29th ult., 
and Mr. Bolmier. the proprietor, who Was sleep¬ 
ing in tho store at the time, perished in tho 
flames, nothing tint, fits bones being jeffc to indi¬ 
cate his sad fate. The store was for tho accom¬ 
modation of the laborers on the road. 
The new Richmond Flour Mill, two miles 
sout h of Frederick, was destroyed by an incen¬ 
diary five* at3 O’clock on the morning of the 3d 
inst. The engine bouse and contents were saved. 
The mill is owned byMeasrs. Fangrneyer, Doll 
& Castle of Baltimore. The loss is estimated at 
$10,OtX); insured $5,000 in the National Firo In¬ 
surance Company of Baltimore. 
Virginia. 
Ruht has appeared in Die wheat about Rich¬ 
mond, audit is reported that the crop in Dial 
vicinity will therefore be reduced one half. 
The Committee appointed by the Colored State 
Con veil Don waited on General Canby on the 3d 
inst. with n petition that lie should Issue an order 
giving colored people equal rights in Die cars 
and steamboats. Gen. Canby declined to Inter¬ 
fere in the matter, and referred them to the 
courts as the proper place for tho redress of any 
grievance rlmt may exist. 
General Loe has expressed himself in favor of 
the adoption of the expurgated Constitution 
nnd t he election of Mr. Walker, the candidate of 
tho Conservative Republicans, for Governor. 
Herndon, tho man tried at Oruuge Court- 
House for the murder of Miss Lumsdon, by a 
jury composed of citizens of Alexandria, has 
been convicted and sentenced to the Peniten¬ 
tiary. 
West Virginia. 
This State was visited with a terrific hail¬ 
storm on Friday, the 28th ulL, and hailstones 
fell which weighed singly three-quarters of a 
pound, and striking men and animals in the 
streets seriously injured many of them, knock¬ 
ing men down in some instances and goading 
the horses to run away or to seek shelter in the 
halls ef houses. The injuries to vineyards was 
immense. In the majority of eases they have 
been utterly ruined. Up Wheeling Creek Val¬ 
ley the destruction was enormous. Many sheep 
nnd lambs were killed in the field. Wheat and 
corn were cut close to the ground. A number 
of accidents to individuals are reported, some 
of which arc likely to prove serious. The. town 
of West Liberty is reported badly damaged. 
South Carolina. 
J edge Carpenter ol' Charleston, in a decision 
recently rendered, sustained the validity of ne¬ 
gro bonds, on the ground that Die law invulidat- 
ing them is in contravention t o the clause of the 
Constitution prohibiting the passage by any 
State of laws impairing tho obligation of con¬ 
tracts. 
Georgia. 
Miss Penelope Adkins of Atlanta, publishes 
a stirring appeal to Die peogle of that State and 
the nation, l’or justice and retribution upon the 
clan that murdered her father, the State Senator 
Adkins. Sho says no one had any personal en¬ 
mity against him, and ho xvas murdered because 
he xvas a Republican, The murderers are well 
known and can be named, but no step has been 
taken to bring them to justice. 
The corner stone of the Atlantic University, 
an institution on the plan of thoOberlhi and 
Howard Universities, was laid on thelst instant. 
Tho attendance was large, and included General 
Leroy and staff. Gov. Bullock, J udge Krskinc, 
Judge McCoy, and many other prominent citi¬ 
zens. The institution is being established under 
t he auspices of the Freed men’s Bureau and the 
Educational Aid Societies. Remarks were made 
by Gov. Bullock, Judge McCoy, and others, and 
a long address was delivered by J. M. Langston. 
Alabama. 
In the Emigration Convention at Montgomery 
on the 2d inst., an able address, by Mr. Do Leon, 
the chairman, to the people of the North and 
Europe was adopted. An organization was per¬ 
fected, which will go to work at once. A Presi¬ 
dent and Board of Directors from among tho 
best business men of the State were selected, 
and the plan of Col. Crandall of New Orleans, 
for a stock company of money and land was 
agreed to. Many interesting speeches, by gentle¬ 
men of native and foreign birth, were made, 
and the Convention then adjourned. 
Louisiana. 
The Ncxv Orleans Picayune of the 29th ult. 
says that in the Second District Court of that 
city, before Judge Duvigneaud, Messrs. Miles 
Taylor and James McConnell, of counsel f 0r 
Joseph Filtrates and numerous other petitioners, 
of Dint city, have brought suit recontesting the 
validity of the title of Mrs. Gaines to large prop, 
erties in that city and State, held by petitioners 
and claimed by Mrs. Gaines under the dispute*! 
will of Daniel Clark, of July 13,1S13- The prayer 
of the petitioners, after citing the facts, con¬ 
cludes as follows“ Wherefore your petitioners 
pray that (he raid Myra Clark Gaines may bo 
Cited according to law to answer this petition, 
and after legal process had, judgment may ly 
rendered revoking the said pretended will 0 f 
July 13,1813, and recalling the said deerecof pro¬ 
bate thereof as absolutely void and of no effect 
in law. And your petitioners pray for all other 
relief and remedy the nature of the cose may re¬ 
quire and that may pertain to law and equity, 
Tennessee. 
In the Judicial elections, on Thursday, tho 
27th ult., the Kadieul candidates for Supreme 
Judges were elected. On that day the Supreme 
Court at Brownsville decided that all persons 
holding certificates under the first franchise law 
of 1865 are legal voters, and that their names 
cannot be stricken from tho register by the Gov¬ 
ernor. This gives tho Democrats several thou¬ 
sand more votes. 
Kentucky. 
The Kentucky Republican State Convention, 
held at Lexington on the 27th ult., adopted roso- 
lutions pledging the support of the party to 
President Grant, recommending the speedy rati¬ 
fication of the Fifteenth Amendment, advo¬ 
cating the payment of the national debt, and 
favoring the recognition of the right of tho 
colored people to testify in all cases on the same 
footing xvith the white. E. Rumsey Wing was 
nominated for State Treasurer. 
Ohio. 
The Grand Jury of Cleveland report that tho 
Metropolitan Police of that city arc in the habit 
of employing poi-sons as irregular or secret de¬ 
tectives xvho have the reputation of being 
“ notorious thieves:" and that frequent arrests 
have been made of persons charged with crime 
when the parties were not prosecuted, being 
released on the payment of money; nnd they 
declare their belief that, there would have been 
fewer criminal indictments but for the looso 
manner in which police matters are conducted 
in the city. 
A lire occurred on the morning of the 3d inst., 
in the shops of Mill, Greenwood & Co., manufac¬ 
turers of hardware, malleable gray iron and 
brass castings, at Cincinnati. The loss is $50,000, 
fully insured in home companies. 
A lire broke out on tho third inst., In Fnrnum 
& Searl’s oil refinery in Cleveland, and very near¬ 
ly destroyed the establishment before it was 
extinguished. Tho loss is from $6,000 to $8,000, 
on which there is no insurance. 
India na. 
Another important poisoning case has just 
been concluded at Warsaw, that ol’ Mrs. Dr. 
Shatter for tho poisoning of ono Isaac Jackson, 
about n year ago, by giving him pie to eat con¬ 
taining strychnine. The woman was arrested 
soon after tho death of Jackson, together with 
her husband. He, however, died soon after his 
arrest. Mrs. Shaffer was found guilty and sen¬ 
tenced to Imprisonment for life. On his death 
bed the doctor strongly asserted the innocence 
of himself und wife. 
Illinois. 
A vote on the introduction of lay delegations 
xvith the Methodist Episcopal Church, which xvas 
Submitted to the membership by the last Gen¬ 
eral Conference, xvas taken in a portion of the 
ehnrelies of Chicago on Tuesday, the 1st -inst. 
There was but one vote against the proposition. 
Tho total vote thus far is 295 for the proposition 
nnd 13 against It. 
The toxvn of .Shipman, In Macoupin county, 
xvas almost completely bloxvu down on Friday 
night,the28th ult. All the buildings belonging 
to tho Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company 
were nearly or completely leveled to the ground, 
besides, as report rays, nearly half of tho busi¬ 
ness and private dwelling houses in the place. 
Tho storm xvas of unusual violence. The tele¬ 
graph lines bet.xveen Brighton and Shipton, lor 
a distance of seven miles, xvore all prostrated. 
Michigan. 
Six prisoners escaped from the Jail at Detroit 
on Sunday, the 30th ult., and among them was 
Johnson, the man who attempted to assassinato 
Allan Pinkerton, the famous detective. Tho 
jail, at tho time of Die escape, xvas left in charge 
ot a boy seventeen years old. Tho prisoners 
have proceeded to Canada. A rexvard of $700 
xvas offered for the return of Johnson, and ho 
has since been captured. 
JJiHKotiri. 
TnE original great seal of the State of Mis¬ 
souri has been returned to Gov. McClurg by ex- 
Lieut.-Gov. Reynolds, in xx’hose custody it has 
been since the dissolution of tho rebel State 
Government. 
The income returns list of last year in Sr. 
Louis is published, and shoxvs only two hundred 
nnd one Incomes over fiv r e hundred dollars. Of 
the largo incomes the folloxvlng are the most 
prominent: — John G. Roe, $211,000; Francis 
Whittaker, $130,000; John White, $530,000; Jo¬ 
seph Whittaker, $30,000; L. L.Ashbrook, $40,000; 
all these gentlemen are pork packers; Jas. H. 
Lucas, $102,000; John G. Copelin, $79,000; An- 
drexv Christy, $57,000; Charles H. Buck, $320,000; 
D. K. Colton, $47,000; J. O. Day, $48,000; Robert 
Campbell, $70,000; James Flake, 851,000; Alex¬ 
ander Kelsey, $50,000, and A. Knight, $53,000. 
Texas. 
A dispatch from Jefferson, Texas, says tho 
proceedings of the Military Commission engaged 
in the trial of (he citizens charged xvith the mur¬ 
der of G eorge W. SmiD:, so far has been confined 
to tho examination of Major Curtis, who was in 
command of the post at the time of the killing, 
and Lieutenant Dubois and the two freedmeri 
who escaped. Tho evidence of the officers and 
freedmen conflict. The officers both swear that 
all tho parties engaged were disguised, and the 
negroes swear to the reverse. Over a hundred 
xv it nesses had been summoned to appear on tlie 
7th of June. 
In the military trial at Jefferson ontho2d inst-, 
Richard FigUCres, who had turned State evi¬ 
dence, and is tlie strongest witness for tlie prose¬ 
cution, xvus placed on the stand. At first he 
stated that lie did not wish to gix r o evidence, as 
General Buell expected more of him than h> 
could tell, and had that morning threatened hit" 
with prosecution und punishment for perjury d 
ho did not tell all lie had stated privately. Also, 
that ho xvould be tried for the crime xvith the 
balance. He only recognized a fexv persons- 
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