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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
President Grant takes a vacation during tbo 
latter part of the present month and August. 
It is expected that he will leave Washington on 
the 15th, and that ho will visit Long Branch, the 
White Mountains, and he present at the Com¬ 
mencement of Dart mouth College, New Hamp¬ 
shire. 
Mrs. E. A. Pollard has returned to Washington 
from Balt I mo re, having succeeded In having her 
sentence commuted from imprisonment to a line 
Of £100. She asserts that her trial and persecu¬ 
tion were prompted by rebels of Hiebmond and 
Baltimore, on account of her Union sentiments 
during the war. 
The Evening Star says the Third Auditor of 
the Treasury, It. W, Clarke, consented to give 
Dr. Mary E. Walker a clerkship In his oflico, but 
the appoint ment being submitted to the Secre¬ 
tary for approval, that ofliclal declined to do 
SO; and for the present, the mutter Is held in 
abeyance. 
Deputy Commissioner Douglas confirms (lie 
action of certain revenue ofllccrs who nro re¬ 
quiring auct ioneers to pay the special tax on 
their sales of leaf tobacco, and also the tax Of 
two dollars per £1,000 on sales In excess of £10,000 
annually. He decides that the payment, of an¬ 
other special lax as eommi&don merchant,man¬ 
ufacturer, auct ioneer, Ac.. doo3 not relieve them 
from the liability to pay this special tax, if the 
merchant, manufacturer or auctioneer sells leaf 
tobacco. Ho says a uniform practice in this re¬ 
spect will be required in all purls or thecountry. 
The instructions to Minister Sickles were 
drawn at the Department of Stale with much 
caution, ami soon thereafter sent to him to New 
York under such circumstances ns to precludo 
the possibilit y of a premature disclosure of their 
contents: but from what has since transpired in 
Official circles, it is asserted that there Is no in¬ 
struct Ion relative to the purchase of Cuba. 
The Treasury Department has been advised of 
the re-open Wig of the Merchants’ National Bank 
at Little Hock, Aik., the special agent of the 
Government sent thllhcr being satisfied of Iho 
soundness of its condition. There is now money 
at command to pay all demands and extend the 
usual facilities. 
General Sherman arrived in Washington on 
the6th lost.,from St. Louisand the Indian coun¬ 
try. lie says the Indians are generally doing 
well under the new policy of I lie administration, 
adding, Jocularly, they don’t steal more than 
their share of cattle. 
Sonic time ago the hydraulic prosses used in 
the printing department of the Treasury wore 
sold to a Philadelphia firm for old Iron, at a cost 
of one hundred und fifty dollars each. Their 
original cost to the Government, was two thou¬ 
sand one hundred dollurs each. It, is said the 
Philadelphia firm turned round and sold the 
presses to lithographers for throo times what 
they paid for them. 
The second party fitted out from the Naval 
Observatory to observe the solar eclipse of Au¬ 
gust 7 left, this city, with their instruments, on 
Monday evening, for the vicinity of I)cs Mollies, 
lowu. Professors William Harkncss and J. It. 
Eastman, of the United States Navy, have 
charge of t he meteorological and astronomical 
work, und the party lias berm Joined by Dr. Ed¬ 
ward Curtis, of the United States Army, who is 
under orders from the Surgeon General’s De¬ 
partment to photograph in connection with the 
Observatory party the various phases of the 
eclipse. 
The latest advices from Minister Motley, show 
that, though be had several Interviews with the 
British Premier and Secretary of Foreign Af¬ 
fairs, not one word has j ot been said regarding 
the re-opening of the Alabama claims con¬ 
troversy. 
The currency balance in the Treasury has 
been reduced about £(1,000,000 since the 1st of 
July by the withdrawal of the necessary amount 
to purchase £3,000,000 of bonds and £2,500,000 for 
the use of the army. 
The statement of the public debt for June was 
Issued on the afternoon of the 1st inst. It shows 
a decrease In the debt of £10.110,132.51. This was 
a great surprise to Secretary Boutwell, for only 
twenty-four hours since he did not expect t he 
decrease to be over £10,000,000. When Secretary 
Boutwell read the statement to Gen. Grant ho 
expressed himself ns highly pleased, and re¬ 
marked that if the receipts of the Treasury con¬ 
tinued to Increase and the public debt decreases, 
ho was satisfied as to the success of his adminis¬ 
tration, and cared not for the croaking and 
sneering of the politicians and their representa¬ 
tives in the Press. 
The Postmaster at New Orleans reports to the 
Postmaster-General of the arrival of malls at 
that city from San Francisco in seven days. 
The Internal Revenue receipts Wednesday. 
Juue 30, amounted to £848,000, and the grand 
total of receipts for the fiscal year ending on 
that day, $158,287,176.81. 
On the 1st lust., the mails on two thousaud 
routes, directly under charge of the Contract 
Bureau of the Post Office Department, were 
startod on a new term of service. Postmaster- 
General Cresswell has introduced an entire new 
system of surveillance, which on the 1st inst. 
(the first day of the fiscal year) went into opera¬ 
tion over States by divisions and districts, em¬ 
bracing every post office aud every mail route 
in the land, and so connected that in a short 
space of time the efforts and energies of two or 
three divisions can be combined in the suppres¬ 
sion of wroug doing, or in promoting the inter¬ 
est* of the Department under any emergency. 
It may now bo stated, with more certainty 
than heretofore, that Minister Sickles has nor. 
been instructed to negotiate for the purchase of 
Cuba: and the additional assurance comes from 
one of the best sources of official information, 
that the Government is not looking to the pur¬ 
chase of territory in any other quarter. 
The following is a copy of the dispatch re¬ 
ceived at the office of the Secretary of the In¬ 
terior from two of the Government. Directors: 
San- Francisco. June 28, I860. 
We have be<-n over the two Pacific Railroads 
from Omaha to Sacramento, almost all by day¬ 
light, at the rate of thirty miles an hour and 
more, and we find them to be ns good as anv 
new roads ever made in this country. Where 
they are not perfect. as from Echo Canyon to 
Humboldt, hundreds of laborers are now per¬ 
fecting the work as fast us possible. We are 
satisfied that all has been done in good faith. 
B. F. Wade, 
■James Brooks. 
Letters have also been received from the Vice- 
President of the Central Pacific, and President 
Oliver Ames of the Union Pacific. The Union 
Facifle, since the report of the Commissioners, 
huve expended, for running stock and mate¬ 
rials, £4,465,000. According to Mr. Ames, an ex¬ 
penditure of less than £500,000 only is required 
to make the Union Pacific conform to Gen. 
Warren’s idea of a first-class road, and he states 
that he deposited £1,600,000 of their first mort¬ 
gage bonds with the Treasurer of the United 
States as security for the completion of the line 
in accordance with the law of last April, which 
sets at rest the story set alloat by Mr. Morris. 
New York. 
Attorney-General Champlain, of this 
State, lias just given an opinion that if a minis¬ 
ter or priest claiming exemption has wholly left 
the duties of his calling and engaged in secular 
pursuits, he Is liable to taxation ns other citi¬ 
zens, although ho holds a license to preach. 
The Assessors are the judges as to the rigid of 
exemption. 
Messrs. E. Remington & Sons have just made 
u contract with the Viceroy ol Egypt, at present 
In London, for the supply of 00,000 Remington 
rifles. The same house shipped, on the 1st Inst., 
1,090 rifles und about 100,000 cartridges for the 
Spanish Government iu Cuba. 
Small-pox prevails in Albany to a consider¬ 
able, though not. serious, extent. The matter 
lias been earnestly discussed in the City Board 
of Health, and general vaccination renom- 
mended. 
The mills of W. W. Cook & Rons, In Whitehall, 
and a large quantity of lumber were destroyed 
by fire on tho5lli insf. The loss is estimated at 
from £50,000 to £75,000. 
The Society of the Army of the Potomac met 
on the 5th inst, at. Steinway Hull and elected 
Lieutenant - General Sheridan as President. 
They afterward listened to an oration by Gen¬ 
eral Chamberlain, and subsequently adjourned 
to Dcltnonico’s. The final business meeting was 
held on the (5th, the lessor officers of the Society 
choscn, and then il adjourned to meet in Phila¬ 
delphia. April 0, 1870. 
The first public meeting of the Woman’s Suf¬ 
frage Convention In Buffalo, was held Sunday 
evening, the 4 1 h lust., nl St. James Hall. Ad¬ 
dresses were made by Mrs. Stanton, Miss An¬ 
thony, Mrs. Bloomer, Mrs. Livermore, and others. 
Thompson’s Hotel, nl Lake Mahopac, was en¬ 
tirely destroyed by fire afternoon of the 6th inst. 
All the guests escaped, and the greuler portion 
of flic furniture and baggage was saved, though 
in a damaged condition. The loss is estimated 
at about £30,000. Ills thought that the fire orig¬ 
inated from u defective flue. There wore about 
two hundred guests in the house. 
Robert Do Garmo, residing In Prospect street 
Rochester, on entering his bouse lute on the 
nigh I of (he 5th iusl. was shot and probably mor¬ 
tally wounded by u burglar. 
An interesting ease came up before the Su¬ 
premo Court m New York on the 0th iusl. on Hie. 
application of Mrs. Caroline C. Allen, who lias 
been declared by a Jury ol’ Seneca county to be 
of unsound mind. She now asks a re-hearing 
for alleged informalities on the trial, and also 
for the reason that what certain divines regard 
as Insanity in the inode of worship in tbo Epis¬ 
copal Church is with her a sincere und pious 
Custom. The petitioner has asked fora rc-liear- 
tng in New York City. The Court has made no 
decision as yet. 
Maine. 
The managers of the National Military Asy¬ 
lums, at lliolr meeting in Augusta, on the 3d 
inst., appointed Colonel Nathan Cutler, of Au- 
gusln. General Superintendent of tbo asylums, 
and Col. E. A. Ludwiok, Governor of the Maine 
Asylum. 
II. H. Body-, of Now York, has recently paid 
his magnificent subscription of £50.000 and in¬ 
terest amounting to $02,000 —to Bowdoln Col¬ 
lege. 
Sad reports are received from Maine. The 
daughter of Rev. Henry Giles, the eminent 
Irish lecturer and scholar, n beautiful girl of 
eighteen, was drowned at Bucksport on Satur¬ 
day tlie 3d lust.; two young ladies, Misses Green¬ 
law and Caswell, were drowned at Booth Bay on 
Monday the 5th, and a boy seveu years old was 
shot und probably mortally wounded by a play¬ 
mate twelve years old, in Bangor, on the same 
day. 
New Hampshire. 
Rev. r. B. Day, D. D., of Hollis, died of par¬ 
alysis on the brain the 5th inst . He was a grad¬ 
uate of Amherst College, and, at the time of Ills 
death, a Trustee of Dartmouth College. Ho was 
sixty years of ngo. 
A young man named Crawford shot his father 
dead In Lee on the 6th inst. The two were quar¬ 
relling, and the son seized a gun and fired the 
fatal shot, after his fother had struck him with 
an ax. 
Mawach u setts. 
Tnr. State constabulary is attempting to en¬ 
force the new Prohibitory Liquor law through¬ 
out the State, and trouble is still feared in some 
of the larger places. The penalties under the 
law are heavy; for a single sale it is £10 flue and 
from twenty to thirty days’ imprisonment: for 
a second violation, $20 and from thirty to sixty 
days’ imprisonment; and for any subsequent 
violation, £50 and from three to six months’ im¬ 
prisonment, with an cxlra month in each ease 
when tbo fine is not pain. Tim keeping with in¬ 
tent to sell Is punished with £10 fine and twenty 
days’ imprisonment. The seller is liable for all 
damage done by the buyer and drinker, while 
drunk, and any person arrested for drunkenness 
can escape prosecution by appearing as a wit¬ 
ness against the man of whom lie purchased his 
liquor. These are only a few of the more im¬ 
portant provisions. 
The class of Freshmen just entered Harvard 
numbers 139 members. 
The will of Hon. Richard Fletcher of Boston, 
recently deceased, has in it a residuary legacy to 
Dartmouth College, of £100,000. It. is to be in¬ 
vested as a permanent fund, and the income 
used at the discretion of the trustees. Judge 
Fletcher was n graduate of the Class of 1806. 
Connecticut. 
Bids for twenty-year six per cent, bonds of 
Middletown, to the amount of £240,000, were 
opened in that place on the 5th instant, by the 
Treasurer of the Air-line Railroad Company. 
The bids amounted to £265.000. at par to 40-100 
premiu in. The Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Savings 
Bank of Middletown, took the lot. 
New Jersey. 
TnE case of Dr. William F. Fair, of Trenton, 
indicted for using a canceled United States 
stamu on a deed, lias closed in the United States 
District Court of that city, and the prisoner 
sentenced to pay ft tine of £1,000. 
Pennaylvanin. 
Gov. Gearv of Pennsylvania, has signed the 
bill passed at the last session of the Legislature, 
know’ll as tho Trust bill, by the provisions of 
which the administration of all the trusts now 
confided to the management of the City of 
Philadelphia devolves upon a Board of Trustees 
appointed by the Courts of Harrisburg. 
The Soldiers' Monument in the National Cem¬ 
etery at Gettysburg was dedicated on the 1st 
Inst., according to the previously arranged pro¬ 
gramme. A great number of people from the 
places round about wore present, mid many dis¬ 
tinguished officers and civilians. The features 
of the exercises of the day were the prayer by 
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, address of General 
Meade, oration of Senator Morton of Indiana, 
and the poem by Bayard Taylor. 
The steamer Firefly, while on her way, on 
Sunday, the 4th Inst., from Philadelphia to Capo 
May and the fishing banks, with an excursion 
party on board, was overhauled by a shot across 
her bows from I lie revenue cutter, whose officers 
suspected that Bhc was bound for Cuba with re¬ 
cruits for 1 he ((tiban army. She was taken buck 
to the city and detained at the Navy Yark till 
Monday morning, when, the authorities being 
satisfied that she was not destined for the island, 
und that her passengers were not fillibusters,shc 
was allowed to proceed on her peaceful mission. 
It is stated that nothing was found on board to 
warrant the suspicion that the Firefly was a fili¬ 
bustering steamer. 
Marietta Brandon, aged seventeen years, of 
Conesvillo, Schoharie eo„ N. Y„ w as drowned, 
on tho 7th inst., ut Nnyung Fulls, near Scranton. 
The Washington statue, the cost of which was 
defrayed by the school children of Philadelphia, 
was dedicated In that city, on the 5th Inst., with 
appropriate ceremonies. 'Hie statue is by an 
American sculptor, named Bailey, and is highly 
commended, both as u work of art and as a 
likeness of the Father of his Country. 
Maryland. 
Two young Baltimoreans, ex - Confederate 
officers, got into a dispute recently about tho 
behavior of certain Confederate troops during 
the war, and being tumble to agree, determined 
to tight each other. The duel they decided upon 
took place on the Isl inst. nt Cold Springs, on 
the York road. Two shots were exchanged, but 
neither was hurt, and the affair ended blood- 
lessly. 
Thomas Hoffman, Indicted for the robbery of 
(he Hamden Express messenger, in Baltimore, 
in May lust, was recently arrested at Lafayette, 
Did. He arrived in Baltimore on the 1st inst. 
All the parties engaged in this robbery are now 
in jail awaiting trial. 
Vlrclnin. 
The State election was lield on Tuesday, the 
6th inst. Tho Conservatives carried the State 
by about 40,000 majority. The officers elected 
are: Governor, Gilbert C. Walker; Lieutenant- 
Governor, John F. bewis; Al torncj'-Gcneral, 
•lamest’. Taylor. Tho Congressmen believed to 
be elected are: First District, Dr. D. M. Norton, 
colored, Independent; Second District, Colonel 
J, II. Platt; Third District, Charles H. Porter, 
Radical; Fourth District, Levi C-Thayer; Fifth 
District, Colonel Robert fbdgw.iy; Sixth Dis¬ 
trict, William Mllnes, Ji., Seventh District, 
Lewis McKenzie, Radical; Eighth District, 
James K. Gibson; Congressman n» Large, 
Joseph Segar, Conservative. 
A chain bridge, crowded with people on their 
way to it barbecue, from Richmond to Vaux- 
hall’s Island, ad joining tho city, on tho 2d inst., 
fell with a crash, and sixty people wore carried 
down with it. Colonel Branch, a prominent 
Richmond broker, and Conservative candidate 
for the Semite, was instant ly killed; others were 
killed or fatally injured. 
Tho funeral of Colonel Branch occurred on 
the Hh inst. Another even more terrible acci¬ 
dent seemed likely to crown the ceremonies; 
for the floor of the vestibule of the eliureh 
where the religious services took place gave way 
as the crowd was passing In. But no injury re¬ 
sulted, as the floor sank but a short distance. 
It is reported that there is a deep and wide¬ 
spread feeling In Richmond that the breaking 
of the chain bridge between that city and Vaux- 
hall Island was not accidental, but the work of 
some political enemy. Subscription lists have 
been opened in Richmond for tho benefit, of the 
families of the two policemen killed by the 
fulling of the bridge. 
South Carolina. 
Richard Kkai.f,“ old John Brown's” right- 
hand man at Harper’s Ferry, and the youngest 
of his hand, was recently appointed an Assist¬ 
ant-Assessor of tho Internal Revenue in the 
District of Edgefield. 
Florida. 
The news lias been received at the Treasury 
Department iu Washington of (he seizure at 
Pensacola, of the schooner Volumpia, from 
Tampico, Mexico, with a heavy cargo of cigars, 
wines, brandies, uud dross patterns, which the 
captain attempted to land tit that, port without 
payment of duties. The value of tho seizure is 
not known. 
IiOttI*iana. 
II eavy orders for Nos. 1 and 2 wheat are being 
received at New Orleans from Fiance, more 
than can be filled there. Orders for one hun¬ 
dred thousand bushels of No. 1 have been re¬ 
ceived within a few days. 
Great, frauds in the weighing of sugars have 
been discovered nt New Orleans, and vessels 
containing the article have been seized. 
A large quant ty of seized sugars of Auguste 
Coutourie & Co., at New Orleans, have been 
claimed by the Havana firm of Plassan, Aviles 
& Co. Coutourie A Co. have suspended pay¬ 
ment. Besides the sugar belonging to the latter 
firm, under surveillance, is a largo quantity of 
molasses and liquors. 
Tennessee. 
The political sanvass in Tennessee is growing 
more mid more exciting daily. On the 30th ult., 
at a. discussion at Clinton, Stokes challenged 
Senter to a light on tho spot; Sen ter declined, 
but said he would hold him responsible for the 
oil allonge after the election. In the crowd of 
listeners to the discussion there was a fight, but 
how serious was not reported. 
Gov. Senter has removed thirty Registers in 
the counties of East Tennessee. New Commis¬ 
sioners were appointed on Hie 3d inst. Injunc¬ 
tions will probably be applied for in most of the 
counties. There is considerable political excite¬ 
ment all over the State. 
A large meeting of the Ex-Confederate sol¬ 
diers was held iu Memphis on the 1st inst.. aud a 
“Confederate Relief and Historical Associa 
tion ” was formed, with cx-Goveroor narris of 
Tennessee as President, and Geu. Patton Ander¬ 
son a« Vice-President. The main objects of the 
Association are “the relief ol the destitute sol¬ 
diers, their widows and orphans, and the collec¬ 
tion of records pertaining to the late war." 
Kentucky. 
A noted Ohio horse-thief, known as Bill 
Wheeler, who had served fifteen years in the 
Kentucky Penitentiary, and was a very desper¬ 
ate character, was shot, and killed by iv party of 
men, in the vicinity of Quincy, Ky., a few days 
ago, who had chased him from over the line in 
Ohio. Ho had been ordered to halt, but refused 
to do so, and fired on his pursuers. Hence his 
death. 
William Rice, a negro, recently shol and killed 
a companion while at work in a field near Mor¬ 
gan field, Union Co., with whom he had quarreled, 
and tlicp shot and killed himself. 
Notice has been served by tho United States 
officers on the owners of whisky burned in the 
warehouse of Gaines, Berry & Co., in Frankfort, 
some time ago, f"r Hie payment of the taxon 
said whisky. The amount of taxes demanded is 
about $100,000. An extensive law suit will result. 
On the 3d Inst, the construction train going 
north on the new Cincinnati and Louisville short 
line railway met with an accident at the bridge 
over Blue Lick Creek, in which Joseph Lawson 
of Covington, and John Metinger of Cincinnati, 
were killed, and seventeen others wounded, most 
of them but slightly, however. 
* Ohio. 
The Ohio Democratic State Convention was 
held at Columbus on the 7th inst. Gen. W. S. 
Itosocrans was nominated for Governor, T. G. 
Godfrey Lieutenant-Governor, W. J. Gilmore 
Judge of tho Supreme Court, Stephen Burlier, 
State Treasurer, and Col. J. M. Connell, Attor¬ 
ney-General. 
Thomas I). Carr, convicted of the willful and 
premeditated murder of Louisa C. Fox or Kirk¬ 
wood Township, Ohio, in January Last, has been 
sentenced to be hanged on tho 20th of August. 
Carr tailed in ml attempt to commit suicide at 
the time of the murder. 
The united singing societies on this Continent, 
composed of music-loving Germans, and organ¬ 
ized as the North American Suerigcrbund, will 
hold a great, singing festival iri Cincinnati next 
summer, similar to the one held in Chicago hist 
year. The festival will occupy an entire week, 
und will consist of a series of ruiunraotb con¬ 
certs, oul-door amusement*, and excursions hy 
rail and river. There Is a fair prospect of having 
a( least two t housand well-irained voices united 
in the grand chorus. There will ho representa¬ 
tives in Attendance from nLI Hie .States, from 
British America, and from Fatherland. 
A heavy stone was discovered on the track of 
the Rocky River Railroad, near Cincinnati, on 
the 3d inst.., and removed just in time to prevent 
a serious accident to an approaching train 
crowded with children, on their way to a picnic. 
A boy, who was noticed running away from the 
track, was caught, and, being questioned, finally 
confessed that, he had placed the stone on tho 
truck, On attempting to arrest him, the railroad 
officers Were foifghl. by Iho falhcr and neigh¬ 
bors of the boy. Ho was finally taken off to the 
city ami locked tip. 
At a convention of the Cincinnati Pioneers, 
on the ot, a preamble aud resolution was drawn 
up for presentation to the Legislature of the 
State, declaring that Ohio should at once secure 
the now neglected ground in which the remains 
of cx-Protsident Harrison repose, and erect 
thereon a monument "worthy ol this great 
common wealth and the memory of the noble 
and worthy dead." 
Indiana. 
Two Terre Haute editors, C. W. Brown and 
Majbr O, T- Smith of the Saturday Evening Ga¬ 
zette, were shot by a policeman on ilie after¬ 
noon of the 6lh inst. The latter, It appears, 
made an unprovoked assault on Major Smith, in 
the outset, bur did not fire until Smith had fired 
at him. Mr. Brown came to his partner’s aid. 
He was wounded severely; Major Smith pain¬ 
fully but not dangerously. 
Illinois. 
The Irish Republican Convention opened in 
Chicago on Monday, the 5th inst. On the follow¬ 
ing day the platform was adopted, which de¬ 
clares for liberty, tho freedom of Ireland, (he 
settlement of tho Alabama claims on the Sum¬ 
ner basis, tho absorption of Canada, and against 
free trade. 
Iowa. 
In this State folks began the celebration of the 
Fourth Upon Saturday the 3d. At. Prairie City, 
where a number of men were engaged firing sa¬ 
lutes from tin anvil, as a substitute for cannon, 
the novel piece of artillery burst and destroyed 
the lives of two men, as well as a team of horses. 
A fearful storm passed over Clinton county re¬ 
cently. doing damage to the amount of several 
thousand dollars, and killing ono woman. 
Missouri. 
Gen. J. C. II. McIlvaine, formerly a some- 
what prominent politician of Missouri, and State 
Senator, died very suddenly at the residence of 
his brother, in St. Louis, on the 2d Inst. In the 
State Senate he represented the counties of 
Washington, Jefferson and St. Francois. lie was 
sixty-nine years of age. 
A physician of Platin, one Dr. A. Hill, reports 
that the notorious desperado and outlaw, Sain 
Hildebrand, for whose head a reward of $10,000 
has been offered, is dead. He declares that the 
follow died from the effects of a wound iu tho 
thigh, and that lie attended him at the request of 
some person to himself unknown. 
An Associated Press dispatch says that the St. 
Louis county bonds were protested in Now York 
on the 2d Inst, for non-payment in gold, the cur¬ 
rency to take them up having been tendered. 
Kansas. 
Tint extent *f the recent (loads in this State is 
greater than at first reported. Many bridges 
and houses have been washed away, and many 
lives lost. A steamboat captain reports having 
seen twenty-seven dead bodies, of both sexes 
oudall ages, taken from the lowlands after the 
water had receded. At Chapman's Creek, thir¬ 
teen miles west of Junction City, the greatest 
damage was done. A number of houses were 
entirely destroyed, and their occupants placed 
in extreme peril. Thirteen persons are known 
to be drowned, and it is believed that many 
more have perished. A company of Swedes en¬ 
camped on Hie lvaw River in temporary shan¬ 
ties, en route for the further settlements, were 
suddenly engulfed, aud about twenty persons 
were drowned and carried away by tho floods. 
Two thousand head of Texas cattle reached 
Ellsworth on the 1st inst., and 50,000 head are on 
the way, and are now north of the Arkansas 
River. It. is expected that full 70,000 will reach 
tills point before the season is over. They are 
to be sold and shipped therefrom East 
A duel was fought at Sheridan, a few days 
ago, by two men who had a quarrel on the 
train which brought them to the place just pre¬ 
viously. and had concluded to settle the diffi¬ 
culty between them by shooting at each other. 
Ono was killed and tho other was unhurt. No 
names are given. 
Montana. 
Jas. Tofts of Madison is the Republican can¬ 
didate for Delegate to Congress in Montana. 
James M. Oavanagh, Jatc Delegate, is tbe Demo¬ 
cratic candidate. 
Colorado. 
The story of the loss of the Powell Expedition 
in the Colorado Rapids is very generally discred¬ 
ited. A letter is published from Mrs. Powell, 
wife of Major Powell, the leader of Hie expedi¬ 
tion, in which it is stated that no such man as 
Risdon, who report s himself as the sole survivor, 
belonged to the party, and that all the names 
given are fictitious. Mrs. Powell h is received a 
letter from her husband, dated May 22, while 
Jlisdon states that the party were lost on tho 18tb. 
Prof. W. B. Powell of Peru, 111., brother of the 
explorer, states his belief that the Springfield 
(111.) dispatch, purporting to bo u confirmation Of 
the reputed disaster, is a canard. 
Washington Territory. 
Serious fires are raging in this Territory, be¬ 
tween Martinez and Humphreys, and also in the 
neighborhood of St. Helena. In the region be¬ 
tween Martinez and Humphreys, several miles 
of telegraph line, bridges, houses aud other prop¬ 
erty hat e been destroyed. 
-- 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The Fourth in Europe. 
The Fourth of July was celebrated in tho 
principal cities of Europe. At Vienna a banquet 
was given at (he United States Legation. Secre¬ 
tary Hay presided, and on toasting the health of 
Hie Emperor of Asulria, called to mind the dis¬ 
patch scut by Secretary Seward to Mr. Motley, 
in 1862, in which a tribute was paid to the digni¬ 
ty, moderation and justice which marked tho 
policy or Austria at tho beginning of the rebel¬ 
lion m America; and, added Mr. liny, iheso 
qualities continued to characterize tho conduct 
of tho Austrian Government throughout tho 
war. Minister .lay gave a toast to the health of 
Baron Boust. 
Ai. Stuttgart two hundred Americans and 
their friends sal. down lo dinner. Mr. Hermann 
presided. Toasts were drank to Hie independ¬ 
ence of America, to President Grant, to Con¬ 
gress and to the army and navy of tho United 
States, and to the King of Wurtemberg. At 
night a hall was given at which over a thousand 
guests were present. 
Banquets were also given in Paris and Berlin 
on the Fourth of July. At the Berlin cele¬ 
bration the healths of President Grant and 
King William of Prussia, Minister Bancroft and 
Count Bismarck were toasted, and tho speakers 
compared Hie American anniversary with that 
of the battle of Koenigsgratz. 
France. 
Dispatches of the 8th show that the political 
atmosphere of Franco is cloudy. The Emperor, 
however, has decided to give way to tiie desires 
of tho people in calling for changes iu the ad¬ 
ministration of affairs of Government. Tho 
Paris Paj/s of the 8th published an extract from 
a letter of Napoleon. No date is given, and the 
communication is received with some degree of 
doubt as to its authenticity. 
Tlie Franoo-American Cable. 
A Brest dispatch of the 2d inst. says that 
communication with the steamship Great East¬ 
ern, through tbe cable, was restored at noon to¬ 
day. Dispatches received from her explain tlie 
suspension of communication as follows: “A 
fault was discovered in the cable on Wednesday, 
and the Great Eastern was obliged to stop to lo¬ 
cate and remove it. A heavy gal© prevailed, 
and in order to avoid probability of a serious 
accident to the cable, it was decided to cut and 
buoy it, which was successfully done. The 
weather to-day having become fine, tbe cable 
wits recovered, tlie fault removed, and the work 
of paying out recommenced. Alt well on 
board. At noon to-day tlie Great Eastern was 
in latitude 47.55, longitude 30.” Dispatches of 
the 6th from the Great Eastern announce her 
arrival "in American waters." Up to Wednes¬ 
day noon, the 7th inst., the Great Eastern had 
run 1,639 knots from Brest, and paid out 
1,840 knots of the cable. Tho heavy sea was go¬ 
ing down. All well. Signals good. 
Russia. 
A London dispatch of the 6th snys that the 
appointment of Kutukazi as Envoy of Russia to 
Washington is regarded as an important step 
towards a more active policy on the Eastern 
Question. Katakazi is charged with the duty of 
conveying tbe congratulations of the Czar to 
General Grant in lieu of a special mission, tor 
which he was first intended. 
Great Britain. 
The London Times of the 6th inst. has an edi 
orial article on the subject of the anniversary 
of American independence. The writer says; 
“ The Americans now l'eel that they can speak 
of themselves and of their neighbors in a calm 
and dignified tone. With the boasting of the 
old time wo may expect most of the old acri¬ 
mony to vanish. The American people ought 
to beiu a friendly spirit after their monster 
peace festival. Such a demonstration in favor 
of peace—such a prodigious condemnation of 
strife—ought to have a softening effeot upon 
the most strenuous asserter of the Alabama 
claims." 
Dispatches from Cork state that outrages on 
the part of the Fenian organization continue to 
be perpetrated. The police near that city were 
attacked on the night of Ilie 4th inst. by con¬ 
cealed ruffians, and several of them badly hurt. 
Some arrests were made on the 5th on suspicion 
of complicity. 
Spain. 
Madrid dispatches of the 2d inst. state that 
several Carlist risings have taken place in Spain. 
In Vittoria tlie streets were tilled with a revo¬ 
lutionary mob, armed with scythes and re¬ 
volvers, shouting “ Viva Don Carlos." Troubles 
have also occurred iu Cartagena and Valencia. 
The Republicans of New Castile have issued a 
manifesto against the reactionary policy of tho 
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