hurried down. Just a-s the landing was reached 
the building fell, a mass of ruins. 
Maryland. 
Three children, a girl and two boys, were 
wounded in Baltimore on the 17th ult. by ex¬ 
plosions, the cause of which is a mystery A 
policeman heard t he report of the tiro one, and 
hurrying into a house in the direction from 
which the noise eamc, found the girl lying on 
tiie floor wounded in her feet. While investi¬ 
gating the matter, he heard the second explosion 
ie ir by. and. looking around, soon found the 
two boys. No one could be found who know 
FOREIGN NEWS 
prietors of the paper. Continuing this conduct 
after he had been placed at the case, he was dis¬ 
charged. Declaring that nrakemiil.-r had caus¬ 
ed his discharge, lie assaulted him, and was shot 
Drakemiller claims, in seif defence. 
Illinois. 
General Logan has addressed a long letter 
to the Secretary of War, urging the complete 
carry ingout of the improvements in the Illinois 
River. 
A presentment has been served on Rev. Charles 
K. Cheney of Chicago, by the Council appointed 
by Bishop Whit"house of that city, to examine 
into his case. He is cited for trial on the 21st of 
July, in Die Mi.shop's Cathedral. The special 
charge against him is that he omits the words 
Regenerate” and “ Regeneration " in the Bap¬ 
tisms! service, and makes other variations from 
DOMESTIC NEWS, 
Washington. 
President Grant, on the 24th ult., appointed 
ten cadets of the West. Point Academy. All of 
of them aro the sons or killed or wounded offi¬ 
cers, or else Jads who .themselves rendered ser¬ 
vice during t ho war. One of the latter is Johnny 
Clem, a drummer boy, who captured a rebel 
general at Chattanooga, and who served as an 
orderly afterwards oa General Thomas' staff. 
Another is Nathaniel Pendleton, who tendered 
signal service to Sheridan in the Shenandoah 
^ alley. A son of Colonel Crane, who was re¬ 
cently killed by Yerger, in Jackson, Miss., is also 
appointed. 
lv v-..imister Webb held an interview on the 
2:M ult. with Secretary Pish on the Brazilian 
question, lie denounces the authorities there, 
and says they have no more respect for us than 
lor Hayti. He thinks (hat we ought to give 
thorn a good thrashing in consequence. I 
The Bricklayers' Union of Washington 1ms ex¬ 
pelled tho white members who are working In 
i he Navy Yard with the two negroes recently set 
to work the re. One of tho expelled men retorts 
on tho union with a sharp letter, in which lie 
says they constitute a political body, and he 1ms 
seen many of the members working side by side 
with negroes when they wore slaves. 
The election in Mississippi will take place on 
the 15th of September, and that In Texas during 
(lie last pai l of September or the early part of 
October. President Grant will issue Uic proper 
(Mass.) Normal School, and more recently of the 
Young Ladies' Academy at Albany, N. Y. 
Vermont, 
At the Democratic State Convention held at 
Montpelier on Wednesday, the 23d ult., the Hon. 
Homer \v. Heaton of Montpelier, was nominated 
for Governor and the Hon. Morillo Noyes of 
Burlington, for Lieutenant-Governor. 
Rlnssacli usol t*. 
The Legislature, which has been in session 
one hundred and seventy days, (the longest ses¬ 
sion ever known in the State,) adjourned on the 
24th ult. 
On the— Mh ult.., Williams College conferred 
the degree of LL. D. upon Judge Charles L. 
Benedict., of Now York; President Charles W. 
Klioi. of Harvard University; Gen. John E. 
Wool, of Troy, and Hon. H. L. Dawes of Pitts¬ 
field, Mass., and that of D. D. upon Rev. J. W. 
Bailey, ol' f'arUnvllle, 111., and Rev. L. E. Smith 
of New York. 
i he Boston “ National Peace Jubilee” opened 
on I uosd.iy, the 15th ult., and Closed on Satur¬ 
day, the 19th. It was successful in all respects 
has resigned. 
A large Orange demonstration was held at 
Enniskillen, Ireland, on the 18th. 
In the House of Commons it has been sug¬ 
gested to augment the military force in Ireland, 
to provide for the anniversary of July 12. 
A report is current that the Cnmbrhlge boat¬ 
men intend withdrawing from the international 
boat race. 
,, n ^ J Vi ?7 ny of EffyPt arrived in London on 
he ~-d. Ho was met at the railway station by 
the Prince of Wales and other distinguished 
persons. During his residence in England he 
will be the guest of the Queen, and will reside at 
Buckingham Palace. The London Star of tho 
ianu s House; but, being unsuccessful, they set 
tire to asaw-raiJI and lumber-yard near by. 
West Virginia. 
A little girl aged seven years, the daughter 
of Win. H. Davis or Jauolew, was shot and dan¬ 
gerously wounded a few dayB ago by a boy a 
jear older, son of a Mr. ShulHcsworth, of tho 
same place. The boy had got bold of a gun 
aboiii i ho house which happened to bo loaded. 
Hie girl received fourteen shots in the neighbor¬ 
hood of her right shoulder. 
North Carolina, 
IIox. JomnT. Dkwkksk, charged with criminal 
abuse of the I ranking privilege, has been hon¬ 
orably acquitted by the United States Court in 
Raleigh. 
South Carolina. 
The trial of Richardson and Gray, members 
of the South Carolina Legislature, (both ne¬ 
groes,) for i ho murder of Dallas Smith, in Co- 
lumbla, was recently concluded, and their 
prompt acquittal by a jury of twelve negroes 
declared. 
Oeorela. 
The Supremo Court of Georgia has decided 
tnat tho code of Georgia* adopted by the new 
Constitution, forever prohibits marriages be¬ 
tween whites and blacks, ami declares all such 
and having 
( by Mayor 
snunieir, made a brief speech. Though the 
Jubilee proper dosed on Friday, a concert of 
ten thousand children was given on Saturday, 
winding up the week's performances very pleas¬ 
antly. On Sunday, a supplementary' concert 
was given by five thousand choristers to an 
audience of fifteen thousand persons. 
Rhode Inland. 
The Newport Mercury newspaper celebrated 
its one hundred and eleventh anniversary on the 
Hth ult. it was established by James Franklin, 
brother of Benjamin Franklin, June 12 , 1758 , 
and is the oldest paper In i he United siutes. 
A third attempt was made oil Friday night, t he 
1MI) ult., to rob the bank at Hopkluton, About 
midnight a party of burglars attempted to open 
a window of the bank by means of a “jimmy,” 
but were frightened away by a shot from the 
Alabama claims. They intend to petition the 
House of Commons not to grant any compensa¬ 
tion for such Claims unless adjudicated by an 
impartial tribunal. An announcement, is made 
that the Bank of England will further reduco 
Its scale of discount one-half per cent, in the 
maximum rate. Another notice or an amend¬ 
ment to the Irish Church Bill was given in tho 
House of Lords on the 21th. TbeDukoof New¬ 
castle is up before the Bankruptcy Conn. 
Tho buildings on a farm in the vicinity of 
Cork. Ireland, were tired on tho 23d by a number 
ol men in disguise. 
France, 
Tiie funeral of those who worn killed in tho 
late election disturbances in Paris was largely 
attended. Eight hundred jicrsons arrested dur- 
ing tho elecl ion troubles were released from 
prison, but live hundred are still confined. 
'Ihe city of Paris is once more quid. Tho 
Chinese Embassy Is preparing to leave for St. 
to draw only the Minister's pay. He will leave 
for Madrid about tho middle of this mouth* 
Douglas, (he colored printer, is now receiving 
threatening left.assigned K. K. K„onoof which 
th h.m tons to Irill him unless ho leaves the office 
by a certain day. He intends to stick, however. 
The last monthly report of t he Bureau of ista- 
tistios shows that during the first three months 
of 1859 our Imports amounted to *115,481,711, our 
i xports to idO.),ii!».'i,79D, and our re-exports to 
$0,708,174. 
Tho Treasury detectives hnva recently cap¬ 
tured about a dozen members of a counterfeit¬ 
inggang which has boon operation throughout 
several Eastern and Western States. A large 
amount of counterfeit currency and engraving 
materials was also seized. 
New York. 
Attorney-General Champlain of this State 
has decided that those provisions of tho military 
code, which authorize the Imposition of fines by 
courts-martial and imprisonment of delinquents 
for their non-payment, are constitutional, 
A young lady named Eliza Leonard, who lived 
in Rochester, was drowned Ju the Genesee ltivor, 
near Rattlesnake Point, on tho 30th ult.. while” \ 
attempting to step from a boat to the landing, a 
couple of feet ofT. 
Mrs. Nancy Lyman has been indicted by the 
Grand Jury of Herkimer county for tho murder 
of her husband, Ephraim Gardner, by poison, 
in March last. 
DyonisiusE. Cromer, an alleged participator in 
the groat Royal Insurance bond robbery, which 
oecurred in New York City on (he 10th of Do- 
comber, 1806, is on trial at Binghamton. The ef¬ 
fort of the prosecution is to connect Cromer 
with the operations of Griffin, Knapp, Tierney 
and Dan Noble. It is alleged that ho was con¬ 
nected in the robheriosasa receiver of the stolen 
property. The defendants expect to prove an 
alibi. 
_iai i fUfttjji.K ho.*- jflvojti between five and six 
thousand acres of land, now worth some * 00 , 000 . 
Washington. DcvS Moines county, was visited 
with a hail storm about the middle of .Tunc, 
which boat down the wheat, killed prairie chick¬ 
ens, Injured the cattle in the fields and destroyed 
nearly every pane of glass in the Central Dis¬ 
trict schoolhouse. 
OTlamonrl. 
About fifty prominent business firms of St. 
Louis have guaranteed the Merchants' Exchange 
or Grain Association of that city against loss in 
the experiment, of bringing an ocean steamer 
from New Vork and loading her with grain for 
the latter port. 
Freighted ears were transported across the 
river at St. Louis on the 17th ult,, for Ihe first 
time, loaded for all points in tho West. 
Kansas. 
Two men. known as “Monte Bill” and Paul 
Wilson, got into a fight in a gambling saloon in 
Sheridan, recently, over a games when Wilson 
drew a pistol andshot “Monte Bill" dead. In the 
confusion that followed the murderer escaped. 
i uof. ii. DtlssAUCE, an eminent chemist, 
I and editor of the Indus!rial Chemist, publisher 
in New York and Boston, died suddenly at hi.- 
i residence in New Loudon 
30th ult. 
The “Parallel Railroad 
.. .. xr -- project—to make a 
line from New Haven to New York City to com¬ 
pete with the present New York and Now Haven 
road was defeated in the Connecticut Senate 
on the 23d ult, by a vote of ton to eleven. 
Little Minnie Warren and her newly-married 
husband, Commodore Nutt, arc passing the 
honeymoon at the residence of Mrs. Stratton 
mother of General Tom Thumb, at West Haven.' 
New Jersey. 
nr the carelessness of thcongfneorof a freight 
train, named Byan. an immense destruction of 
property was caused on the Erie Railroad, on 
Saturday night, the 10th ult. The bridge over 
t he Passaic River was opened to admit the pass¬ 
age of a schooner; the engineer failed to notice 
this fact, and, as a consequence, an engine, ten¬ 
der and fourteen cars Were precipitated t hrough 
the opening into the river. Fortunately no lives 
wore lost. 
Mathew Armstrong of Greenville, N. J., tho 
son of a well-known resident of that piace, acci¬ 
dentally shot himself, on the 22d ult., from tho 
effect of which he died almost instantaneously, 
the ball penetrating the ltrain. 
Thomas Lnfon, a member of the Freshman 
Class ot Oborliil College, and a son of Dr. Lafon 
of Newark. PT.J., who was last winter found 
rmlty of manslaughter, and sentenced to ira- 
i rise n men ( for one year, has been released by 
:ho Court of Pardons after some six months' im- 
irisonment. His offence was striking a young 
nan who, it was proved, hud made an unpro- 
I’oked attack upon his younger brother, and 
was boating him without mercy. The blow was 
struck with a snow-shovel, and from its effects 
the young man died some weeks after. 
Pennsylvania. 
Gov. Geary was nominated for re-election at 
t he Republican State Convention In Philadelphia 
on Wednesday, tho 23d ult., on the first ballot; 
and Judge Williams was nominated Judge of 
the Supreme Court, also on the first ballot. 
A tanner named Jacob Settlomoyer, living 
near Wilmoro, Cambria county, was killed a few 
days ago by one of a party of drunken young 
fellows, nt a “bark-peeling" which his neigh¬ 
bors had gotten up for his benefit, lie having re¬ 
cently lost, a horse. 
A young girl who was found in her room at 
irin i,m .? notcl at ri,fsh '' 1 - O" Saturday, 
tli 10th ult., Insensible irom the effects of 
breathinggsjs, she having blown out the name 
when she rei n ed and neglected to turn the gas 
off, has since died, notwithstanding every effort 
was made to save her. She was registered in the : 
office book as “ M.ss Emma Lithe, Jnlieri. l'a." 
but telegrams to the station at Julien failed to 
reach her friends or discover who she was. 
Keai l 'm!) ! ‘n^ f '\ lr,;in ^ J0hn Oweos nn<1 Edward 
t-m > nfr ; me ' nhor *°£ tho PannsylvantaMiners' < 
l mon. have been found guilty in the Schuylkill ] 
County Qua rtor Sessions of consul raev to si or. the - 
vxm-usivo tonacco lactones arc now in full op¬ 
eration in the Cherokee and Choctaw Indian 
Territory, freo from tax. One of the factories 
is within throe miles of Fort Smith. 
Crop reports from Arkansas, North Mississippi 
and North Alabama aro favorable, despite the 
““Propitious Weather of some weeks past, 
Tennessee. 
Attorney-General Tcthell called at the 
office of Mr. Gresham, editor of the new Stokes 
oigan in Nashville, on the morning of the 22d 
uit., and asked him whether he was responsible 
for an article which appeared in the day before’s 
paper speaking of him in opprobrious terms 
Gresham replied he was. Tutholl then drew a 
repeater and fired at Gresham. The latter there¬ 
upon struck down the pistol, grappled Tutholl 
and beat him severely. 
A convention is to be held In Memphis on the 
13th of August, of citizens of West Tennessee, 
North Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, to 
take measures, if considered practicable, for the 
introduction of Chinese labor into the South. 
Kentucky. 
A detachment of mounted men has been sent 
by order of the General Commanding from Leb¬ 
anon to Stanford to assist the military au(hurl- 
ties in ridding Lincoln and adjoining counties 
of marauding bands that have been holding 
sway there for some time past. The troops are 
to be used only in enso the civil authorities are 
unable to suppress disorder. The General Com- 
ble, courteous, loyal and hospitable, and was 
beloved by all. even when opposed to mauv in 
politics.” 
In Lima, N. Y., the place of Mr. Raymond’s 
birth, the citizens on Saturday displayed the 
national flag, draped in mourning, across the 
main street, and caused the bell of the church 
at which tho deceased was formerly an attend- 
anl to be tolled in respect, to his memory. 
The funeral services of Mr. Raymond were 
held on Monday afternoon, at 6 o'clock, at tho 
Presbyterian Church, corner of University place 
and Tenth street, New York City. Tho ohurch 
was filled to overflowing. The opening service 
was conducted by Rev. Dr. Tyng, after which 
Rov. Henry tv ard Beecher delivered a most effec¬ 
tive funeral address. 
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the New 
York State Teachers’ Association will be held in 
Ithaca, in Library Hail of Cornell University, on 
July -7, 28 and 20. The Association of School 
Commissioners and Superintendents of City and 
Graded Schools will meet in the same place on 
the 28th of July. 
I Maine. 
Governor Chamberlain was renominated 
by ' ^publican Convention held at Bangor 
on Thursday, the 24th ult.. 
^ Nou r Hampshire. 
ZL P? ™"? sday ’ tho ** the lower branch 
tfA, of the New Hampshire Legislature appropriated 
A. without debate, the sum of $15,000 townivl 
The Secretary of State has received u letter 
from Attorney-General West on the subject of 
the marriage net passed by the Legislature last 
winter, in which Mr. West says: —"The proviso 
requiring female persons under the age of twen¬ 
ty-one years to first obtain the consent of their 
fathers respectively, was, as T am informed, a 
blunder of the Enrolling Clerk of the House. 
J he bill as it passed tho two houses road, 4 Fe- 
males under the age of eighteen years.' As the 
law now stands, it. is clearly inconsistent with 
othei pro\ isions, and in some cases acts as a re¬ 
straint upon marriage. It should be disregarded 
by the officers whose duty it is to execute it, and 
t reated ns i f it read eighteen instead of tweuty- 
one years.’" 
Indiana. 
Frank Drakemiller, foreman in the Demo¬ 
crat office at Fort Wayne, shot and serinneiv 
