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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Wuglilnglon. 
President Grant hits made inquiry into the 
reports of the abuse of the Indiana and natives 
of Alaska, and of alack of discipline among a 
portion of the troops, and hua decided to re¬ 
move the commanding officer, General Jeff. C. 
Davis, 
Attorney-General Hour has rendered a decision 
relative to the trial of citizens of Texas by mili¬ 
tary commissions. Ho holds that such trial is 
authorized by the Reconstruction Acts of Con¬ 
gress, which has power, not only to declare war, 
but to declare when war is ended. Texas is de¬ 
clared to be still in a state of war. and the trial, 
which resulted In the conviction of ft white man 
named Weaver of the murder of a freedmun, is 
in full accordance with rh>* law, and there exists 
no obstacle lo the execution of the sentence. 
Charles Langston, colored, has been appointed 
Minister to Liberia, bis brother, .1. M. Langston, 
having declined the appointment.. C. C. An¬ 
drews of Minnesota, a volunteer general during 
the war, has been appointed .Minister Kosldonr. 
at Stock hoi in. 
A case recently Came before the new Commis¬ 
sioner of Pensions tit Washington In which n 
claimant lor u widow's pension showed that, she 
had been charged an extortionate fee by ft claim 
agent. The Commissioner at once ordered t he 
agent's name to be stricken from the list of 
agents now practicing before the bureau, and 
that the papers be sent directly to the claimant. 
It Is expected that President Grant will attend 
t he opening ceremonies of t he National Peace 
Jubilee at Boston and bo the guest, of the city 
the first and second days. Governor Claliln has 
ordered a military escort for tho occasion. The 
city government will give the President a grand 
banquet during his stay. 
Tho report of the Deputy Commissioner of 
tho Revenue, just published, shows that during 
the months of October, November and Decern-’ 
her, 1808, Ilffcy-soVon per cut. of our imports, 
forty-one and a half per cent, of our domestic 
exports and ninety per cent, of our re-exports 
have been transported in foreign vessels. 
Two colored carpenters and Joiners, formerly 
Oaves, commended work in the Washington 
Navy Yard on the fith insl. This is the first time 
that colored mechanics of this class have over 
boon employed in the Washington Navy Yard 
upon an equal footing with white workmen. 
Commissioner Delano lias been called upon t,o , 
decide whether the authorities of the Western i 
Penitentiary of Pennsylvania can manufacture, j 
issue and use their own revenue stamps iu sent- t 
biancc of the genuine ones, to place upon cigars ; 
manufactured by the convicts. He very cm- J 
phatically decided t hat they could not. 
Secretary Boutwoll, on the Sih inst,, sold $2,- 
008,000 In gold for $..',778,717 iu currency, and has . 
remaining In the Treasury $8.2,000,000 in gold and . 
$25,000,000 in coin cert ideates. 
Seward's cable telegram bill of $00,000, it is J 
stated, lias not yet been paid, although money 
Avas appropriated by Congress lor the purpose. 
Tho Department of State nouttes applicants 
for office that it trill reply to their written ap- ! 
plications only when it grants them office. 
Efforts are being made to effect the release of 
the surgeon of the ship James Foster, who is 
noAv confined in the Richmond county jail, 
charged wit h having been an accomplice of the 
officers of the ship In their inhuman treatment 
of the crew. An application was made to Coro¬ 
ner Harcourt on the 7th Inst, for his discharge, 
but the Coroner refused to grant it without tin 
order from the United States Government au¬ 
thorities. 
The blast explosion in Dutchess county on the 
4th inst. shockingly wounded two young men 
and kiiled another. Tavo kegs of poAvder Avcre 
exploded right under them,and two of the men 
Avcrc blown thirty feet in the air. 
A man named Hugh Fisher died in Troy on 
the 5th inst. lrorn injuries received by being 
thrown by robbers off a railway bridge crossing 
Fifth street in that city. 
WOO- 
New York. 
Governor Hoffman having signed tho bill 
authorizing tlic construction of a blgiiAvay from 
Jamaica village, through Newtown, to Astoria, 
Long Island, tho Avork will be at once com¬ 
menced. This improvement will cost Jamaica 
and Newtown from $30,000 to $50,000 each. 
On the afternoon Of the 3d inst., while throe 
boys Avero swimming in a deep pool of water at. 
Cascadilla Glen, near Ithaca, some projecting 
rocks, Avclgliing fully two tons, I'd I doAvn, crush¬ 
ing one lit Mo follow named Ooorge Oberi, son of 
Lewis II. Obcrt. The other two boys Avere only 
slightly hurt. The pioco which loll upon little 
Obcrt Aveighod about five hundred pounds. 
When the heavy rock Avas removed from him a 
sight horrible to look at was presented. Ilis 
body lay face doAvmvard, crushed and cut to 
pioccs. 
Tho New York Central Railroad Co., by Us 
officers at Utica, has prohibited hotel runners 
from entering upon the grounds of the compa¬ 
ny for tho purpose ol' securing guests arriving 
by tho trains. Tho porter of the Butterfield 
House Avas sued, a few days since, by tho com¬ 
pany, the action being tried by a Justice of the 
pcaco. His defense was that he occupied an 
alley near Bagg's Hotel when crying the name 
of his house. TJjo company insisted that ns the 
ground avos not a highway tho defendant avus a 
trespasser. Tho jury could not agree, and an¬ 
other trial is to take place. 
The Ncav York Central Railroad Go. pays about 
$1,000,000 every month to its employes, $30,000 of 
which is paid in Rochester. 
Tho extensive shops of the Erie Railway Go., 
located at Owogo, fur t he construction of bridges, 
were burned on Sunday night, t he 0th insl. The 
engine house and pail of tho timber were saved. 
The lire originated in tho roof of the blacksmith 
shop. Two Avatch men were on duty at the time, 
but did not discover tho lire in time to extin¬ 
guish it. 
The Avife-murderer, Mossner, who Avas to have 
been lmng on the 4th at Rochester, but avus re- 
prlevod by the Governor, has written a let ter 
expressing hopes of soongottlng free,and thank¬ 
ing his friends and counsel for their efforts in his 
behalf. 
At a mooting of the Directors of the Southern 
Central Railroad Company, held at Auburn on 
the 4th inst.. It was unanimously resolved to is¬ 
sue $150,000 first mortgage bonds, and complete 
the entire road at once from the Pennsylvania 
State lino to Lake Ontario. 
The Attorney-General has given an opinion 
on the repeal by the Legislature of this State of 
tho law providing for five hundred dollars tax 
exemption to private soldiers, and $1,000 to 
mounted officers, called by the recent circular 
of Comptroller Allen to Assessors, directing 
them to make no exemptions to persons in t he 
military service, on account, of the repeal. The 
Attorney-General decides that the Legislature 
had no power to annul tho contract entered into 
by the State with the members of the National 
Guard, and that the exemption is v alid so far as 
It relates to all discharged militiamen and pres¬ 
cut members nf the Guard. 
Charles Springer, the bond robber, Avho broke 
jail at Schenectady on Wednesday, the 2d inst., 
returned on Thursday aud gave himself up. 
Maine. 
The Democratic State Convention, to nomi- 
m ’ n,ate a candidate for Governor, meets in Ilarigor 
j,. on Tuesday, the 29th inst. 
Cs ' The next meeting of the International Con¬ 
vention of Voung Men's Christian Associations 
d is to be held in Portland, beginning July 14. 
Among the graves decorated In Fort hind on 
“ Decoration Day ” were those of Burroughs a ml 
Blythe, the American and English naval com- 
lt manders, Avho loll In tho Enterprise ami Boxer 
combat off Portland harbor in 1812 , the tomb of 
Commodore Problo, tho cenotaph In memory 
of the American sailors who fell before the Avails 
y of Tripoli, and the graves of sc\cral victims of 
, the Mexican Avar. 
C New Ham pstilrc. 
f The Ncav Hampshire Railroad Commissioners 
1 report that the portion of the Atlantic ami Rt. 
LaAvrcnco Railroad, which is the legal name of 
I that part of the Grand Trunk Railway, In Unit. 
. State, is In a wretched condition, the ties m 
,* many places being dilapidated und the rails worn 
<. out. The road is run by the Grand Trunk Rail- 
j road Company, who have a lease of it for nine 
I hundred and ninety-nine years. 
Vermont. 
The Vermont State Council of Censors, which 
has just closed its lirst session at Montpelier, 
1ms appointed p special committee to consider 
’ tho expediency of abolishing the Ccnsora alto¬ 
gether, and finding some more democratic inan- 
‘ ner of amending the Constitution, and then to 
consider female suffrage; to talk up the inode 
of electing Supreme Court Judges, and to decide 
us to the constitutionality of the acts for bond¬ 
ing towns In aid of railroad corporations. A call 
for a Constitutional Convention tvfll probably 
be Issued early in October. 
On Sunday morning the fith inst. a lire oc¬ 
curred at St. Albans which Avas tho most. se\ r cro 
that has ever occurcd in the place, destroy¬ 
ing property to the value of from fifty to 
sixty thousand dollars. A large block, known 
as the Union Block, occupied by stores, Masonic 
lodges, Iuav offices, &e., Avas completely destroyed. 
Jluxsueh Uftollft. 
JtrnoE L. F. Bhjoham, on Tuesday, the 3d 
lust., dismissed a ease from the Superior Court, 
in session at Boston, because the defendant had 
published a card in the daily [tapers addressed to 
tho Judge and jury. Tho validity of certain 
work upon a pilot boat coming into tho case, J. 
K. Limt, the defendant, offered In the newspa¬ 
per advertising columns to sIioav the work to tho 
Court, that It might. Judge “ Avho tolls the truth.” 
Judge Brigham Avas very severe upon t he papers 
for admitting such mat ter to their columns, and 
ordered Mr. Lunt to pay all the costs of both 
pin tles lo the suit. 
Tho Chief of Police of Boston lias gt\ r cn or¬ 
ders to the police of the city to arrest and make 
complaints against, during Jubilee week, all 
Avell-knoAvn thieves at once, Avhon seen, whether 
In the act of robbery or not, linger the authority 
of a Stale law Avhicli provides for such cases. 
Richard H. Dana, Jr., has witbdraAvn his suit 
against the City of Cambridge, Mass., for omit¬ 
ting his name on the voting list last August, bc- 
causo be Avas a candidate for election to Con¬ 
gress in another district, the Essex District, in 
opposition to Gen. But.ler. Mr. Dana says, iu 
speaking of the reasons for the bringing on tins 
suit*—“l felt Itmyduty, and perhaps it is still, 
to represent in my person an invaluable right 
trilled Avith ; but I doubt If, under the circum¬ 
stances, the case Avillboof much public value in 
tho shape it may present. Itself, and I avail my¬ 
self of the doubt to secure peace and relief from 
what AA'ould bo an anxious and distasteful con¬ 
test,” 
Connection t. 
IIon. Norris Wilcox, Avho died at his resi¬ 
dence in Ncav Haven on Wednesday evening, the 
3d Inst., Avas Sheriff of Ncav Ibiven county In 
former years, United Stxitos Marshal of ilie State 
under Jackson's Administration, and Colled, or 
of < u stems in New HhA r en under President Polk. ! 
It Is proposed to so amend tho Constitution of 
Connecticut that the election of Governor, Con- , 
gressmen mid members Of the General Assembly 
ahall be changed to the first Tuesday after the , 
first Monday In November. It Is proposed to , 
elect the Governor for two years, and the mem¬ 
bers of the Assembly for one year, and to com- ( 
menco t he sessions of the Legislature on i lie first , 
Monday of January. 
New Jersey. j 
During the month of August: three different c 
National Educational Correentions will meet, in 
Trenton the Conventions of the State Super¬ 
intendent*, the Normal School principals and 
teachers, and the teachers of all schools. These * 
Avill all occur In one week, and it is expected 11 
t hat some of the most prominent educators in . 
the country aviU be present. ; 
During a thunder shower a few days since, the 
Delaware Bridge at Belviderc Avas struck by 1 
lightning about midAvay between the first pier r 
arid tlic Jersey shore. The timbers were very s 
much shattered, and it is supposed it will cost 
$1,000 to repair the bridge. r 
The roar ear of a passenger train on the Erie a 
Railway ran off the track near Hokokus on the ! ‘ 
5th Inst., and was dragged three-quarters of a 11 
mile, crossing two bridges, before the train was *' 
stopped. Pour passengers who were in the ear ° 
loft and went into tho preceding one. No per- 
son avus injured. 
Messrs. Keen A: Bingham's saw aud grist mill 
at Camden was tired by an incendiary on Sun- in 
day morning, thefith inst., and totally consumed, m 
together with u large quantity of grain, Hour n< 
and lumber. Loss, $50,000. tt 
In Lodi, on the 8lh inst., five men employed in al 
the print works, who had been in the habit of tc 
drinking a beverage composed partly of oil of 
vitriol and alcohol, Avere poisoned by taking lr 
arsenic in their mixture through mistake for la 
f vitriol. Four of the rnen died ■within a few hours 
s and the fifth is apparently dying. 
Pcnnuylva uia. 
( The Chester County Republican Convention, 
. held at Westchester, on Tuesday the 8th in.st., 
unanimously instructed its delegates to vote for 
j t he re-election of Governor Geary. 
Two policemen of Philadelphia, named Noonan 
and MeLaughlan, have been arrested and held to 
. bail, each iu $100, for trial, on a charge of enter- 
' Sag two houses, the 4th inst., and beating the 
inmates almost to death, and breaking tho fur- 
[ allure, &c. Tho sufferers wore colored persons. 
Tin: uxsiilunt* were newly-appointed officers, 
! The newly-organized Society for the Preven¬ 
tion of Cruelty to Animals, in Philadelphia, 
began operations on tho 9th inst, by arresting a 
number of city car drivers for overloading their 
ears. One driver arrested had seventy people in 
a ear built to accommodate twenty. 
The Odd FMIows of Harrisburg, have determ¬ 
ined to purchase a lot on Market Square, in that 
city, on which to erect a hxi.ll to cost $100,000. 
Maryland. 
Ex-MxWRITER Reverdy Johnson arrived at 
Baltimore on Friday, the 4th inst .. in the steam¬ 
ship Ohio, Horn Southampton, England. 
In flic United States District Court of Balti¬ 
more, on t he 3d inst., Daniel Gersehild was tried 
and convicted of dealing In lottery tickets with¬ 
out paying the special tax required by the Inter¬ 
nal Revenue laws, and was fined $510, and re¬ 
quired topuytho special tax of $100, mid stand 
committed to jail until the sums are paid. 
'the most complete arrangements ha as; been 
made on the railroads for the transportation of 
peaches to the Northern market*, and at much 
lower rates than formerly. It. Is expected that 
tho Maryland and Delaware Railroad will bo 
completed to Elusion by the time peaches are 
ripe, and then two Gains daily will bo run to the 
Delaware Railroad. With those trains all the 
fruit along the road can bo shipped and lundod 
iu New York in afow hour-; al ter shipment. 
Virginia. 
The Richmond Republican City and County 
Convention nominated, on tho 9th inst., one 
negro and two white men for tho State Senate, 
and seven negroes and one Avhlte man for the 
House. 
Georgia. 
The Elbcrton Gazette states that an insurrec¬ 
tionary plot has been disclosed by a negro, hav¬ 
ing for its object the burning of the toAvn of 
Lexington, the county sent, of Oglethorpe coun¬ 
ty, and the massacre of the inhabitant*. The 
Sheriff andpos.se, Avhilo arresting negroes said to 
bo implicated in the plot, wore resisted by one, 
whom they shot and killed. 
Several citizens of Warren county Avere arrest- 
ed on the 8th inst. at the Instance of t he Sheriff, 1 
who avus backed by two companies of Infantry. 1 
The citizens Avere committed t o prison and guard- 1 
ed by u strong force or militia. Tho arrests grew 1 
out of political difficulties. 1 
Florida, 
The cotton caterpillar has made its appear¬ 
ance in this State and in Georgia. Col. J. J. . 
Williams has a field of four hundred acres near ' 
Tallahassee, In Avhich the number of acres is said 
to be greater than that of the cotton stalks 
Avliieh have not been Avliolly or partially stripped 
by this scourge. j 
Alabama. , 
The steamer Mary Swan, bound up the Ala- 1 
banm River, sunk on Thursday, the 3d just , 11 
seventy miles above Mobile. She had on board r 
nine hundred barrels of freight, Avhich went v 
down with her, and was a totn I loss. t 
Louisiana. _ 
Ji 
The largest income returns in Ncav Orleans t 
are made by Win. M. Mercer ($38,000.) Charles t, 
Ivoek ($30,350,) A. W. Smith ($31,070.) August t] 
Bohn ($27,728,) and A. E. Bader ($24,754.) 
IVIlsNlftftippi. ji 
A young planter named Marr was found dead c 
on his plantation near Natchez recently, Avith r 
over a hundred buckshot, tn his body. It is 8 
assorted that ho bad boon attacked and mur- 11 
derod by a gang of negroes AVhilc he was pro¬ 
ceeding to arrest one of their friends. s 
The Conservative Republicans of Mississippi a 
Avho claim to be tho true exponents of President 
Grant’s policy, have called a convention for the ^ 
23d inst. ai 
Lieut.-Col. Joseph G. Crane, commanding the ^ 
Fourth Military District, Avas killed at Jackson, 
on tho 8th inst,, by E. M. Merger, on whose prop¬ 
erty he had ordered a levy in default of oorpor- N 
ation taxes. The affair, it is said, had no refer- j, 
once to politics. Merger ha* been arrested by r 
the military, and is under guard. . 
i third of tho members elect, were in accordance 
a\ itli the constitution, and arc therefore consti¬ 
tutional laws, Tho Fifteenth Amendment was 
passed by the same Legislature uuder the same 
circumstances. 
Illinois. 
Tavo hundred boxes and barrels of sugar were 
seized in Chicago on Saturday, the 5th inst., by 
t he Collector of the Port, for the non-payment 
of duties. 
According to the report of the Superintendent 
of the carriers' department of the Chicago Post 
Office, just made, the number of letters, news¬ 
paper &c., delivered in that city in May was 
985,592: collected, f. 18,899; letters received for 
distribution, 4,243,854; sent from tho office, 
5.757,802, and registered letters for distribu¬ 
tion, 10,482. 
A life prisoner in the Joliet Penitentiary was 
stabbed and killed by fellow convict on tho 5th 
inst. The two had been enemies for n long time, 
and happening to meet in (lie kitchen of the 
prison on Saturday, apart from tho rest of tho 
prisoners, tmight with knives, Avhich they had 
concealed about their persons. 
William A. Robinson, who has been on trial 
at Jacksonville) for the murder of General 
McConnell, on the 9tli of February last, has 
been acquitted. 
At the trial of a breach of promise ease at, 
Wheaton, on the 8th Inst., Miss Amanda Craig, 
of Cincinnati, obtained a verdict of $100,000 
damages against E. I*. Sprague of Chicago. 
IfUcliignn. 
Wm. L. Donor, ass of Pittsburg, Pa., arrested 
recently for robbing the Post Offiee of Ann Ar¬ 
bor, is a student who lias been pursuing selected 
studies at. the University of Michigan at that 
place. A report, was recently published in the 
College paper that he had become heir to $4,000,- 
000, and since that time he has been quite free in 
the use of money. 
A man living in a small toAvn in Monroe coun¬ 
ty, Avho had been saved from punishment for 
smuggling, through the payment of several hun¬ 
dred dollars by a friendly farmer of the same 
town, recently ran off with the Avlfo of his bene- 
1 act or, and a little money and some value tiles. 
Three colored children, nged respectively five, 
eight and eleven yeans were drowned in me 
Kalamazoo River, at Allegan, .Mich., by their 
8toi)-mother. Who was jealous Of them. The 
woman had been married to the father of tho 
children but a Tew weeks. At the point In the 
river AVhere the children were drowned, the avu- 
tcr is only about two feet deep, and, as the moth¬ 
er confessed, the children were held under the 
Avatcr until life avus extinct. 
Iowa. 
Dubuque's street railway is paying well. Dur- ! 
ing May the smallest dally amount taken iu by 
any one car Avns four dollars and scA’onty-three ! 
cents, and tho greatest nineteen dollars and 1 
twelve cents. Tho total earnings for tho month 
cently the owners of the ship at Boston haA e 
recelA’ed a letter from the Captain, in which he 
states that he had had trouble with his moii; 
that one, in a fit of delirium tremens, attempted 
to commit suicide, and that this Induced the 
other men to mukc charges against three officers 
and thus cause their arrest, and as he believed 
the affair avus got up to extort money from him, 
he had shipped ucav men and started for sea. 
'flic small-pox bus left San Francisco. In the 
early part of June of last year the first cases 
Avere reported in that city, and, as the last ease 
noted was tn tho first week of the present 
month, the epidemic has been just about a year 
running its courso there. 
Tennessee. 
On Saturday, the 5th inst., Messrs. Stokes and 
Sonter addrosfed a public meeting iu Nashville, 
’leap., Mr. Stokes opposed enfranchisement, 
except empoAvcring tho Legislature to remove 
disabilities. Renter replied and said the Repub¬ 
lican Press of the North opposed continued 
disfranchisement., and, if elected Governor, he 
would recommend immediate} enfranchisement. 
A Memphis dispatch says that on the morning 
of the 3d inst. II. J. Barnes, a notorious horse 
thief, avus found hanging to a tree near that 
city. His body Avas riddled Avith bullets. From 
papers on his person, ii is supposed he avus 
originally from Newark, N. J. 
Ohio. 
Suits have been begun in the United States 
Court, at Cincinnati, against Hamilton 1. Miller 
and his sureties lor various violations of the 
Revenue Law, in Avhich the amount sought to 
be recovered for luxes and penulty is $820,000, 
The investigation AviU bring up for settlement 
tho question Avhethcr tax and penalty can be 
collected on Illicit whisky aftor it has been de¬ 
stroyed by Are. 
James H. Brown, who shot his wife at Berea, 
recently, from the effects of which she soon 
after died, has been indicted for murder in tho 
first degree by a special Grand Jury, and has en¬ 
tered a plea of not guilty. Before the death of 
his AVife he was committed to jail upon tho 
charge of shooting with intent to kill, to which 
he pleaded guilty. 
Indiana. 
The J udges of the Supreme Court of Indiana 
have written a letter stating that, over-worked 
and inadequately paid, they feel keenly the 
neglect of tho Legislature at its reoent session 
to relieve them in either particular, and that, 
although none have resigned, all feel at liberty 
to do so at any time solely for this reason. 
The Attorney-General of this State has de¬ 
livered an opinion that acts passed by the Legis¬ 
lature after the resignation of more than one- 
The At'ork Upon the Blind Asylum at Council 
Bluffs is progressing very rapidly and satisfac¬ 
torily. Tiie foundations—four and a half feet 
• thick—are completed, and the basement story, 
| sixteen feet high, Is nearly up. 
3 ffllwftourl. 
1 At a meeting of the Board of Trade of St. 
Louis, on Monday evening, tho 7th inst., papers 
Avere read showing the practicability of direct 
. trade between Si . Louis and foreign ports during 
a large portion of the year by light-draught pro¬ 
pellers. Figures sboAV, it is asserted, that such 
vessels could navigate the river more cheaply 
than barges. 
A dispatch from St. Joseph says that one Fred. 
K. Foreman is about to undertolco a lecturing 
tour through the Southern States, with avioAv 
to the extensive introduction of coolie serfdom 
throughout tho South. 
The suit Which lias been for a long time pend¬ 
ing between 1 he Suite of Missouri and the pur¬ 
chasers of tho Iron Mountain aud Cairo and 
Fulton Railroads, has boon compromised. The 
State receives $25,000 in Shite bonds, and $100,000 
in stock of the Iron Mountain Road. 
A shocking accident occurred at a sinv-miil In 
St. Joseph, a feAv days ago. A young man, Avliilc 
at work in the mill, Avas thrown upon the circu¬ 
lar saws and instantly killed. The saws struck 
him in the left side, and, passing transversely 
across the body to the upper part of the right 
shoulder, cm it completely in (wo. 
Kansas. 
In consequence of recent lawlessness on the 
Neutral Lands in the counties of Cherokee and 
Crawford, and the unsettled state of affairs, 
Governor Harvey has issued a proclamation en¬ 
joining the people therein to “yield due obedi¬ 
ence to the officers of tho law, to cease all acts 
of violence aud lawlessness, and to look to the 
properly constituted authorities for tho redress 
of grievances and the determination of legal 
rights.” 
Texan, 
A FEAV days since all the prisoners confined in 
the jail at BellviHe, except one, made their es¬ 
cape. One of them, xi C. S. soldier, afterwards 
returned and delivered himself up to the jailor, 
lb* stated that a crow-bar and some files were 
furnished them by some one outside, with Avhich 
t hey released Ihcmselves. 
The planters of this State report favorable 
prospects. The cotton crop has recovered from 
the effectsof the recent cold weather, and is now 
growing rapidly, especially Avhcre it has been 
properly cultivated. Vegetables of every de¬ 
scription are remarkably plentiful. 
California. 
Gen. Geo. TT. Thomas and staff arrived at San 
Francisco on Tuesday, the 1st inst,, after having 
been seven days and ten hours on the journey 
from Ncav York. 
Gen. Ilalleck, on the 3d inst., issued an order 
transferring the command of the Division of 
t he Pacific to Gen. Thomas. Gen. Halleck will 
soon proceed East, overland, to assume com¬ 
mand of the Division of the South, Avith his 
headquarters at Louisville. 
A sharp earthquake and tidal waves are re¬ 
corded as having occurred at Fort Point, be¬ 
tween half-past six aud nine o’clock on the 
morning of the 1st inst. 
Tho San Francisco Journals have published 
a report t hat a seaman on board the ship Archer i 
of Bostou, lying in the harbor of that city, laid J 
boon terribly beaten and abused by some of l 
the officers of tlic Ship, for some trivial misde- i 
nieurior, and found not long after in the bold 1 
Avith Ills throat cut. Three officers Avere arrested > 
at the time, on the strength of a statement of i 
the steward, which was to the effect that the t 
man had been brutally pounded, beaten and 1 
kicked by them, and otherwise maltreated. Re- s 
m _ Colorado. 
The work of building (he Denver Pacific Rail- 
ms r0iU ' 18 to be carried through without delay. 
>th General Evans is coming Exist to complete a 
contract with the Union Pacific Railroad Com- 
ho P an Y for laying out and equipping tho road to 
l 10 Omaha. 
art New Mexico. 
The United States Depository safe at Santa 
Ixil Fe, wxis robbed of one hundred thousand dollars 
■ul an Saturday night, the 5th inst. I. L. Collins, a 
as depositor, was found lying in the room by the 
safe dead, shot through the heart. Tt is sup- 
at posed that he avus killed by t he robbers Avhile at- 
g, tempting to save the 1 rensure. General Spinner 
00 States that the money stolen was in note? of large 
denomination, the numbers, dates and descrip¬ 
tions of Avhich are on record at tho Department, 
^ and that by the aid of these points tho robbers 
' may be traced, and perhaps captured. 
•d Washington Territory. 
ul The Territorial election, Just held, has resulted 
10 In the election of Garfield (the Republican can- 
*>- didate) by a majority of five hundred. 
Tho Indian*. 
l- A St. Louis dispatch of the 5th inst. says that 
„• Colonel Weir had returned to Fort Mays from a 
l- pursuit of the Indiana who committed the out- 
1 ,. rages at Fossil Creek. He reports that he did not 
overtake them. Another scouting party AA’as 
Kent out by General Custer Friday morning, tho 
3 , 4th. About one hundred Indians wore seen on 
c tho 6th within a mile of Sheridan, with a red 
lr Hag hoisted. 
c Tho settlers ia NorthAvestorn Kansas have bc- 
c eome panic stricken and fleeing their homes to 
0 escape murder by tho Indians. The savages are 
:- devastating the settlements on the Solomon and 
- Republican Rivers, and are assembling in large 
o numbers in tho vicinity of White Rock and 
Luke Sibley, killing the whites and destroying 
everything. Four hundred Cheyenne* and a 
large number of Arapahoes are ut Camp Supply 
" hungry and out of ammunition, waiting the dis- 
, Pf'sal of the goods which n superintendent has 
' at that post for t heir benefit. 
An officer direct from the plains says that tho 
Immediate clause of the late Indian troubles in 
1 Kansas avos the firing upon a squaw by some set¬ 
tlers. Eleven white persons arc known to have 
t been killed In retaliation lor this outrage. 
, Dominion ol Canada. 
It is stated that nothing more will be done 
toward the construction of the proposed bridgo 
across tho Niagara at Black Rook until a ucav 
' grant is obtained from the Parliament of Onta¬ 
rio. When this Is secured Avork will be begun 
; without delay. 
The people living in the valley of the OttaAva 
are in need of seed, and agents have been ap¬ 
pointed to go through the Dominion to pur¬ 
chase, especially oat s. Hay there is forty dollars 
a ton, and stniAv twenty dollars. Grain for 
freight is so scarce that ships have left to com¬ 
plete their cargoes at Quebec with timber. 
An official statement shows that there has 
been t his year a depart nre from Canada of about 
Iavo or throe hundred families by the Grand 
Trunk for this country, who have no intention 
to return j and that iu addition there has been 
an excess of usual emigration to the factories 
und brick yards of about three thousand beyond 
those who usually go every spring, returning in 
tho fall with the product* of tbeir industry. 
At Halifax K. G. Haliburton publishes a letter 
addressed to Hon. John Ross, headed “Annexa¬ 
tion or Starvation." This he believes to be tho 
United States policy, and it should be met by the 
imposition of a duty on coal. 
The NewTounrlland delegates have come to 
terms Avith the Dominion Government as to the 
considerations to be received by Newfoundland 
on entering the Union. The terms will be sub¬ 
mitted to the people of Newfoundland at the 
timeof the general election next fall, and on the 
assembling of the Legislature in .January the 
question will havo to be confirmed. 
The resolutions lor the admission of New¬ 
foundland into the Union passed through the 
Committee of the Dominion House of Com¬ 
mons on the 8th lust. The Detroit River Bridgo 
or Tunnel bill avus rejected on representations 
by the Great Western KxiilAvay Company that it 
Avould undertake the construction of the Avork 
AVitkin twelve months. 
On the 3d inst., in the Nova Scotia House of 
Assembly, Mr. Murray of l'iotou, said that he 
was unavoidably absent on the 1st inst., and 
would ask another day to be appointed for tho 
discussion of the annexation resolution. Hon. 
Mi 1 . Wilkins, the Attorney-General, said that 
owing to the late* period of the session it would 
prevent the resolution from receiving proper 
attention. It should be postponed until the 
next session. He intended to propose further 
constitutional measures to get out of the Con¬ 
federation, and until they Avere tried it would 
be wrong lo take revolutionary steps. Ho hoped 
there would never be occasion for Nova Scotia 
to change its allegiance. Ho did not expect the 
Government or tho Parliament of England to 
grant a repeal, but he expected the higher 
Courts in the realm to release Nova Scotia from 
the Confederation by declaring the Union act 
illegal. 
In the same body on the Sth inst. the Attorney 
General alluded to the subject of the repeal of 
the Union act, and said the British Legislature 
has not power to tax Nova Seolia, and, there¬ 
fore, has not power to alter her Constitution. 
The Province must be liberated from I lie Union. 
Mild measures had already been taken tor the r 
attainment of the object, and iioav they were k 
about to try stronger measures. He moved that p 
the Attorney-General of Nova Scotia be author- ft* 
ized to obtain in the higher English Courts of r 
Iuav, a judicial opinion as (o her forced union c* 
with Canada; and stated that if, after all, the Y 
freedom of the Province could not be secured, L 
they would have recourse to extreme steps. Jt 
He did not, however, ultimate Avhat the steps 
should be. id 
