duce and a virtual closing of the Canadian 
markets to American dealers, in return for the 
failure of all efforts secure a reciprocal treaty. 
The Dominion Government has decided to 
abandon the new banking scheme, and to ex¬ 
tend the bank charters expiring in January to 
the following June. 
A duel occurred on Sunday morning 1 ho 13th 
Inst, at the famous Lundy's Lane buttle-field 
between Senor Ferrer do Couto, editor of the 
El Cronlsta, of New York City, and Senor Porto, 
a young and wealthy Cuban. Four shots were 
exchanged, and Senor Porto was shot though 
both legs. He was carried to the International 
Hotel at Niagara Falls. A few hours after, the 
principals and the party of Cubans, and others 
who were present, were arrested but were soon 
released. The two had had a newspaper discus¬ 
sion regarding the revolution in Cuba, and the 
editor had called the other a coward. Hence 
the duel. 
In the Dominion House of Commons on the 
night of the Utb inst., the resolution looking to 
an increased subsidy for Xovia Scotia was post¬ 
poned. Tho correspondence with Lord Gran¬ 
ville in regard to the Snu Juan treaty and tho 
claims for Fenian outrages aa’as submitted. Lord 
Granville, in regard to tho latter, aays if a mixed 
commission for the settlement of British Amer¬ 
ican claims is agreed upon, the claims against 
the Fonfans may ho presented. A heavy reduc¬ 
tion in tho land and naval forces has been 
ordered to take placo in tho fall. 
Brltl«li Columbia. 
Gov. Seymour of this colony died on board 
the British gunboat Sparrowhawk on the 10th 
Inst. He was on a tour of inspection to the 
northern coast. 
Illinois. 
Secretary Rawlins has given an order that 
private John Ford, of Company C, Twentieth 
Illinois Volunteers, sentenced by General Court- 
martial in 1504 to imprisonment for life and hard 
labor, for the murder of John Fitzgerald, a 
brother soldier, shall be released from confine¬ 
ment and furnished with transportation to his 
home. 
It is reported that the ladles of Jacksonville 
are collecting money to purchase a stock of 
goods for W. A. ItobinKhn, recently acquitted of 
tho murder of Gen. McConnell, with which he 
can begin business in the town. It is also assert¬ 
ed that the men of the placo generally arc very 
much opposed to this movement, and advise 
Robinson that it. will bo well for him to leave 
Jacksonville and not return. 
Michigan. 
The propeller Queen of the Lakes, of the 
Evans Buffalo Line, was burned to the water’s 
edge at her dock at Marquette, Mich., on Satur¬ 
day night, tho 13th inst. She was loaded with 
pig-iron. Tho vessel and cargo were insured. 
Iowa. 
The bodies of a Mrs. Hagerty and three chil¬ 
dren were recently found at McGregor with 
marks of violence upon them, and soon after a 
mail was arrested on suspicion of having mur¬ 
dered them, and placed In jail at Dubuque. It 
is alleged that the woman was killed for her 
money, which amounted to only about $800. 
Professors Simon Newcomb, William Dark¬ 
ness and Joint U. Eastman aro to proceed to Des 
Moines, or within one hundred miles of that 
city, for the purpose of making observations 
upon the great eclipse of the sun on tho 7th of 
August next. These gentlemen aro connected 
with the Government Observatory at Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 
feet, with a depth of hold nineteen feet three 
inches. Her frame is of live oak, and the plank¬ 
ing is of sea-coast white oak. The whole is cop¬ 
per fastened, and finished in the best possible 
manner. Her battery will include eight nine 
inch broadside guns, one eleven-inch pivot gun, 
mid one sixty-pounder rifle gun, mounted on the 
forecastle. 
- 1 in Pennsylvania and Dela- 
flnd difficulty in getting enough persons to 
It is so plentiful that the grow¬ 
th e door, but the space was too small, and when 
the wheels struck the sill, he was brought 
against the beam with such force as to break his 
back and destroy forever the use of his lower 
limbs. He received no internal injury, but there 
seems to be no hope for his life. 
The work of laying concrete for the founda¬ 
tion of the new Capitol at Albany haH been com¬ 
menced. It Is Intended that the entire ground 
to bo covered by the building shall be laid with 
concrete to the depth of three feet. No piling 
will be used. The dock at the foot of Malden 
lane will be used to receive tho stone from the 
canal boats, upon which It will be brought from 
Saratoga county. 
An explosion occurred on the 12th Inst, in the 
gas works of the Inebriate Asylum at Bing- 
hampton. John G. Chase, the engineer, was 
severely burned. 
The youTiflr livlio* of tho Klraira College and a 
few invited friends, begin a trip to the Lake 
Superior rejefon on tho 23d Inst. A Kteamei han 
been chartered at. Buffalo for the occasion, at. 
DOMESTIC NEWS, 
Strawberry growers 
ware t- 
pick the fruit, 
era will sell for what they can get. 
Tho monument at Gettysburg Is to be deco¬ 
rated on the 1st of July. All the soldiers en¬ 
gaged iti tte battle and numerous civic societies 
uro invited to be pro cut. Senator Morton will 
deliver an addict, Henry Ward Beecher the 
prayer, and Bayard Taylor will read a poem. 
Maryland* 
James Starkweather of Michigan, whose 
Avife Avas killed by a train of cars at the Relay 
House, in November last, has entered suit against 
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for fc>0,0<)0 
damages. Mrs. Starkweather was killed while 
attempting to cross the track, and, it is alleged, 
she was following the direction of an agent of 
the road in so doing, Ignorant, of tho approach 
of a train. 
A workman in a hair factory on the road from 
Baltimore to Frederick, whllostirringa quantity 
of hair in one of the largo vats which was filled 
with boiling water, on I he 12th inst,, slipped and 
fell into the vat. He was rescued from his ter¬ 
rible position as quickly as possible, but Avas so 
badly scalded that he died soon after. 
Virginia. 
COL. Upward Fountain, a prominent Vir¬ 
ginian, and the projector of tho Chesapeake and 
Ohio Railroad, is lying dangerously ill at his 
His physicians 
Washington. 
President Grant, during the week ending 
June 13, was aAvuy from the Capital attending I 
the exercises at West Point and tho Boston | 
Peace Jubilee. 
The Commissioner of Patents, S. S. Fisher, has 
sustained the decision of tho Chief Examiner of 
Patents, refusing to issue a patent to John W. 
Cochran Tor improvement in breach - loading 
guns, chiefly on the ground that. Coohran’sorigt- 
nal application In i860 Avas withdrawn by him 
and was not again renewed until 1868, after his 
improvement had been largely used In various 
ways. The Comm banner virtually decides in 
this ease that an application once withdrawn is 
an abandonment of the claim. 
Under tho rulings of Secretary Bout well, the 
business of tho sample office must l>e confined 
exclusively to the examination of sample pack¬ 
ages, AvlilOh aro of no commercial value. All 
packages must be subject, to regular entry; If 
not so entered they will bo sent to the bonded 
Avarehouse until the proper entry Is made. 1 he 
Secretary also rules that, abatement of duty 
may be made in allowance for damages to goods 
caused by tire and water from tho burning of a 
lion i ing elevator at tho dock on which they were 
landed, such goods being considered as con¬ 
structively Jn warehouse. 
Commissioner Delano, In reply to a deputa¬ 
tion of cotton brokers, who sought relief from 
the ta >: of one-twentieth or one per cent upon 
sales affected by them, upon the ground that 
they wore not brokers in the proper sense of the 
word, decides that, the tax is justly levied, and 
that cotton brokers are liable to a tax at tho 
rate of fifty cents por $1,000 upon tho business 
transacted by them. 
Tho Spanish Minister jn Washington recently 
called Upon Secretary Fish in regard to tho 
recognition or Cuba by Peru. He said it atos an 
act of hostility toAvards Spain, and, considering 
that the United States was acting as arbitrator 
and mediator in the Avar between Peru and 
Spain, it was one of the grossest insults to the 
United States. It appears that the Peruvian and 
Spanish Ministers at Washington, pending the 
arbitration, have been carrying on their diplo¬ 
matic business with one another entirely 
through our State Department. The Spanish 
Minister has, therefore, Informed the Secretary 
of State that, in his opinion, Spain is no longer 
hound by the arrangement entered into for ar¬ 
ia conversation Ihe Spanish Minister 
FOREIGN NEWS 
country sent, near Staunton 
believe lie cannot recover. 
Judge Oleott, formerly Judge of the Supremo 
Court of Louisiana, has boon appointed by Gen. 
Canby Judge or Ihe Hustings Court of Rich- ( 
mond. _ „ 
Nor tit Carolina. 
A duel was fought in t his State on Saturday, . 
the 12th Inst., between Captain W. C. Cameron 
of Peterburg, Vn., and Mr. It. W. Hughes of 
Richmond, Va. The affair followed tho public*- J 
tton by Cameron, a professional journalist, of , 
an article denouncing his adversary. Cameron 
was wounded in the breast severely, but not . 
dangerously. 
A terrific ruin storm visited Western North 
Carolina on Sunday night, tho loth lost., which 
caused destructive freshets throughout Iredell 
and Davie counties. The damage is estimated at 
$ 500 , 000 . No lives were lost. 
South Carolina. 
A LETTER from Chief Justice Chase, received 
in Washington, gives ft flattering account of the 
improved condition of South Carolina. He says 
the people are fast recuperating from ihe effects 
of the Avar, and, if permitted, would soon bo 
thriving and prosperous. He and his daughter 
have been treated everywhere with the greatest 
respeot and kindness, 
Georgia. 
The prevalence of yellow fever at St. Mary s 
is officially denied. 
The Supremo Court of Georgia has decided 
that the negro Is eligible to office. 
Florida. 
Houses of the Flortdrf Legislature have 
Missouri. 
An attempt was made two weeks ago, tAveh’e 
mllea south of Irondalo, In St. Francis county, 
to arrest Hildebrand, a notorious bushwhacker, 
who was one of Quantrail's men during the 
war. Although Hildebrand aviis wounded, and a 
force of sixteen men surrounded the house In 
which ho was, ho succeeded In making his es¬ 
cape, after killing one man and wounding two 
Others. 
Kniisas, 
A man named Craff Houston, living near the 
town of ShuAvnce, Johnson county, was taken 
from his house by a mob of disguised men, a Tew 
days ago, and hanged to a tree. He was accused 
of bdng a horse thief, but was not under arrest, 
aud had never been tried for auy such crime. 
Nebraska. 
Troopr havo arrived at Omaha from Califor¬ 
nia, and are to be distributed along the line of 
the Union Pacific Railroad to protect it from the 
hostile Indians. 
Texan. 
Inspector of Customs at, 
Great. Britain. 
A rumor prevailed in London on Sunday, the 
14th inst., that Minister Motley had communi¬ 
cated the views of the American administration 
to the British Government regarding the Ala¬ 
bama dispute. 
The Great Eastern hns started on herAvay to 
begin laying tho French transatlantic cable. 
A great public demonstration was made in 
Dublin on the 38th inst. against the passage of 
the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill. 
A shot was fired from the street into the office 
of the Cork Constitution on the Htli inst. No 
one avos injured. No clue to the perpetrator of 
tho act has been obtained. 
A collision occurred in Shandon on the 14th 
inst. between the police and the people. Three 
of the former Avere injured. Several of the riot¬ 
ers were arrested. 
The London Times of Ihe 15th inst. ngniti takes 
up the Alabama claims and states that England 
is ready to submit her offense to the decision ol’ 
any tribunal. Several London Journals com¬ 
ment favorably on the passage of the Irish 
Church Bill, and Mr. Bright gives some sound 
The Times also 
bitration. - . 
lias stated that the Cuban revolution was about 
suppressed, that tho troubles among the volun¬ 
teers will not amount to much, and that Captain 
General De RodasAvill be installed iu his office 
Without difficulty. 
The Philadelphia Quakers have presented nn 
additional list of their brethren to tho Secretary 
of the Interior for appointments as Indian 
agents in the Central Suprrlt(tendency. 
Ne»v York. 
Henry ,T. Raymond, Editor-In-Chief of tho 
New-York Timesaiul ex-Licut .-Governor of this 
State, died of apoplexy Jn New York City on the 
■morning of Friday the 18th inst., at the ago of 
forty-nine years and five months, leaving a 
Avife, son and two daughters. 
Thu Rev. Henry Ward Ilceeher preached the 
sermon to the graduating class at West Point on 
Sunday, the 13th Inst. Ho painted tho “ perfect 
gentleman." and pointed his moral by declaring 
that a true soldier ought, to be the highest type 
of the “perfect gentleman," but arguing that 
there could be no perfection except through the 
teachings of Christianity. Only the latter por¬ 
tion ol’ the sermon alluded in any way to politics. 
He spoke of the friendship and united action, 
during the closing hours of tho war, of Grant, 
Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas and Meade, as a 
most remarkable evidence of the superiority of 
American soldiers. General Grant Avas among 
the auditors. 
Tho branch railroad connecting Cooperstown 
with the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad 
Is nearly completed. The locomotive was to he 
ready by tho 15th of this month, and it is expect¬ 
ed that trains Avill begin running on the 1st of 
July- , , 
Henry Townsend jumped into the canal at 
Buffalo, on the 12th inst., to rescue two little 
girls Avho hud fallen in and were in imminent 
danger of drowning. Tho bntA r e fellow could 
not swim, and nil three Avould havo been droAvned 
but for the assistance of others, Avho finally 
rescued them. 
Solomon Mattdson, one of tho oldest settlers of 
OsAvego, and of the soldiers ol the War of 1813, 
died in the town of Sc riba On Sunday night, the 
13th inst. . „ 
Frank Dupont, 
Brownsville, tvas recently found murdered in 
the Rio Grande. It is believed that, he was killed 
by Mexican smugglers, and if ao he is t heir third 
victim Avithtnsix months. 
James Weaver, civilian, lias boon found guilty 
of the murder of Anthony Knowles, also a civil¬ 
ian, by the Military Commission at Austin, and 
sentenced to be hung. The President, having 
approved the findings, has directed that the sen¬ 
tence be carried into effect on the 24th of Sep¬ 
tember next. The President has also ordered 
that Private Smith, of the United States Caval¬ 
ry, found guilty of the murder of Private Gray, 
of the Twenty-sixth Infant ry, by courtraartial, 
at Brownsville, behungon the same day. 
California. 
The Iron-elads Monadnock and Comanche are 
being put, In readiness at Mare Island, to sail at a 
moment's notice for some point yet unknown. 
San Francisco has just opened what. Itclalms to 
be the finest Stock Exchange room in the United 
States, 
The United States steamer Newborn sailed 
from San Francisco for Sitka on Hie 16th inst., 
Avltha largo amount of Government stores and 
Company E, Twenty-third United States in- 
advico to the House of Lords, 
comments on the late elections in Franco in 
favor of the Emperor. 
Prince Arthur will visit, Canada in the fall and 
perhaps also the United States. 
The ex-con federate cruiser Alexandra has 
been ordered to bo sold by the Admiralty Court 
and llie money deposited with the Court- until 
the settlement of thoclaims of the United States 
in the suit now pending against that vessel. 
The London Times of the 16lh, commenting 
on the proceedings in the House of Lords on 
the Irish Church Bill, sayB the debate exhibits 
moderation and pat riot ism. The Times believes 
that the vote of the peers will be given on tho 
judicial consideration of arguments based on 
the provisions of the bill and the judgment of 
the nation. 
France. 
TnE Emperor and Empress of the French 
drove out publicly in Paris on Friday, the 11th 
inst- They Averts loudly cheered in the Mont¬ 
martre district. The excitement, however, con¬ 
tinues among the people. In the Montmartre 
district that evening the crowd broke through a 
line of police and formed a barricade. The peo¬ 
ple Avero shortly after dispersed. The editors of 
the JteveU and Slcde wore arrested iu the even¬ 
ing. The latest election returns show one hun¬ 
dred and ninety-nine official to ninety-three 
opposition members. A banquet, has been given 
on board ihe Great Eastern to celebrate the suc¬ 
cessful loading of the new French cable. 
The disturbances ta Paris have not been yet 
effectually stilled. Large numbers of people 
throng the streets. The military forces aro pre¬ 
pared for any emergency. During his drive 
Both_ 
ratified tho Fifteenth Amendment. In the Sen¬ 
ate the vote stood thirteen to eight, and in the 
A ssembly twonty-aix to thirteen. 
Alabama. 
Gov. Smith officially indorses the action of 
the Commissioners in agreeing to a contract for 
the transfer of West, Florida to Alabama, sub¬ 
ject, to tho approval of the Legislatures and of 
Congress, although, lie states, “ the price agreed 
to be paid" by Alabama‘Ms more than the State, 
under all ihe circumstances, ought to give.” 
Louisiana* 
Four members ol tho Metropolitan Police 
Board, including Lieutenant-Governor Dunn, 
Avho is President of the Board, were imprisoned 
in the New Orleans Parish Prison, on the 15th 
inst., six hours, and fined $100 each, by the Sixth 
District Court, for contempt In disobeying an 
injunction of that Court. The trouble grows 
out of 1 he Jefferson City police affairs. 
Mississippi- 
TnE murder of Colonel Crane, by Edward 
Verger, at Jackson, on the 8th inst., resulted 
from the seizure of the latter's piano by the 
former for non-payment of taxes. Verger had 
demanded personal explanation, and Col. Crane 
soou utter meeting him in the street, quietly 
gave an explanation. Verger, it is suid, would 
not accept it, and furiously and grossly insulted 
Crane, who resented by striking him Avith asmall 
rattan Avalking cane. Then Yerger, Avild with 
anger, drew ft thug-knife, and stubbed Crane 
three times, severing his heart. Tho verdict of 
the Coroner Avas “ willful murder." 
A Commission has been appointed by the Sec¬ 
retary of War to consider the proposed location 
of the Hudson River West Shore Railroad upon 
the public lands at. West Point. The Commission 
will meet at West Point on the 21st. 
In the Buffalo whisky fraud ease, tho trial of 
which, in Boston, Mass., oc cupied all of last. Aveek, 
the Jury found in favor of K. S. Johnson and 
Thomas Fell, and disagreed as to A. J. Houghton 
and Wm. L. Brink. Johnson and Fell were dis¬ 
charged, and the case as to the others stands over 
until October next. 
The New York Board of Fire Underwriters on 
the 11th inst. decided to sustain the Insurance 
Patrol for two years longer, and appropriated 
$i;0,0il0 for i hat purpose. 
Tho anniversary celebration of the Home for 
Incurables, at West Farms, took place on t he 
llih inst., and was well attended. Mr. Benja¬ 
min H. Field, the President, introduced Rev. 
Drs. Hull, Gallaudet and Twing, who each deliv¬ 
ered addresses. 
United States Judge Blatchford on Saturday, 
the 12th inst., decided in the case of Moses Du- 
puy that President Johnson's pardon, revoked 
by President Grant, was never a completed par¬ 
don, because never delivered to the Avardon of 
the prison In which Dupuy avus confined, and 
that his successor had a right to recall the par¬ 
don at any time before its delivery. The prison¬ 
er is therefore to be held in custody until bo has 
served out. his time. 
On the 11th Inst, the New YorkCommon Coun¬ 
cil appropriated $30,000 with Whioh to celebrate 
the Fourth of July. 
A few days ago, a young man named Martin 
Armstrong, at Coxsaekie, Rensselaer county, 
drove a load of loose hay into his father’s burn, 
riding upon the load. As he entered he fell for¬ 
ward upon his face to clear the timbers above 
three tons, In the Collins Company s wonts in 
Collinsville, AVtoile revolving with great speed, 
burst, and a piece of it Avcighing a ton was 
hurled through the roof to the height of thirty 
feet. No one was injured. 
Pennsylvania. 
At the dinner given to ex-Govcrnor Curtin In 
Philadelphia on Saturday, the 12th inst., prior to 
his departure for Russia, Count Badiscn, Charge 
d’Affaires of the Russian Legation, said that the 
sympathies ol‘ his government during our late 
rebellion were Avith the Federal Government, and 
road a letter from the Czar expressing his grati¬ 
fication at i he success of the Union arms and 
the elect ion of General Grant to the Presidency. 
Tho letter was os follows: 
To Mu* Co« of B odisco, Chargt d'Afairti : 
Sill; Tho sympathies Of our august sovereign to¬ 
ward tile American people and for their destinies 
are too active and ton sincere to permit His Majesty 
not once again m experience a desire to express them 
on the udvoni of General Grant to thy Presidency ot 
the Federal Union. By order of the Emperor you are 
Instructed to benomn the. interpreter of these senti¬ 
ments near the President. Tlie services which Gen¬ 
eral Grunt lis* rendered to Ms country under such 
circumstances, warrant auspicious auguries ot tne 
future, and of the great work to which he had the 
glory to contribute in a manner so nutrient, this 
work of piit-IOciitmn and Of nation.,I prosperity hns 
not met with, and will not anywhere meet with, more 
cordial aud more steadfast sympathy than in Russia. 
Alexander, Czar of Russia. 
“In conclusion," said Count Bodisco, “I can 
assure you that, although tho climate ol' Russia 
is cold, her houses are forever Avarm for Ameri¬ 
cans.” Tliis kindly remark called forth great 
applause from the company present. 
Tbo steam sloop-of-war Astoria was launched 
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on the 10th inst. 
Sho is 1,740 tons burden, according to old, and 
1,120 tons new measurement. Her length be¬ 
tween perpendiculars is iavo hundred and fifty 
feet six inches; extreme breadth, thirty-eight 
