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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Waililuslon. 
President On a nt Issued the 13th inst. a proc- 
larnation ordering the elections In Texas and 
Mississippi to !><■ held on Tuesday, November 30. 
The Constitutions of the two States will be sub¬ 
mitted in the same rmirmer as was that of Vir¬ 
ginia. 
The presence of lion. John Rose, Minister of 
Finance of the Cutmdint! Government, at the 
Capital* caused the return of Mr. Thornton, the 
British Minister from Ncwhuryport, Mass., 
whore la; inn! taken his family. The visit of 
Mr. Rose was Induced by ti desire to consult with 
Hie Colled Stales authorities respecting a new 
Reciprocity Treaty, but more especially on 
business counecteil with the Hudson Ray Claims 
Board, of which lie is a representative on the 
part of (Ireat Britain. 
The President, on the 9th Inst., through the 
Scoretary of War, issued an order giving the 
iisi' of the laboratory building at, Mneon to the 
Georgia State Agricultural Society for all agri¬ 
cultural exposition. 
William Clallin, Cliairman of the National Re¬ 
publican executive Committee, has directed the 
recognition of the executive Committee of the 
Stale of Texas, chosen by the House In the Con¬ 
vention which nominated Ocn. 15. J. Davis for 
Governor. 
A War,liiny ton dispatch reports that Hon. Win. 
A. Howard, nominated and confirmed Minister 
10 China, will decline the appointment, Since 
his appointment as Minister to China lie has 
been olfored a lucrative position ns attorney or 
a prominent railroad and land company in 
Michigan, which lie will probably accept. M Is 
stated on good authority that .1. Rosa Browne, 
present Minister to China, will not lie removed. 
Chief Justice Chase returned to Washington 
on the evening of the 11th fast. Business will 
detain the Chief Justice there some days, after 
which lie will attend the Centennial Commence¬ 
ment ol' Dartmouth College, of which lie is an 
Alumnus. 
The great Decatur cotton case, involving the 
value of I,MX) hales of cotton, has just been de¬ 
cided against the Government ut Memphis, 
Tenn. Secretary Boutwell telegraphed, on the 
JJflli into., to the United States counsel at- that 
city, to eatr.s the ease up either to tfle United 
Slates Supreme or to Hie United Circuit Court, 
on appeal or writ of error. 
The representatives of Mr. MoGorralmn waited 
upon Secretary <’ox on the Kith into., and tender¬ 
ed $20,900 in payment of the amount, of $1.35 per 
acre on the Panoche Grande claim. Tlie District 
Court, some days before, ordered Mr. Cox to 
grant McGarruhiiu Die patent mi tender of liils 
money. Mr. Cox, however, refused to accept It, 
saying (bat all the proceedings in the District 
Court were irregular and ol no binding force. 
Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, guveu din¬ 
ner on the evening of tlui 10th Inst., In honor of 
Mr. Rose, Hie Canadian Finance Minister. 
Among the guests were Secretary Fish and a 
number of prominent officials. 
The Secretary of t he Treasury has directed the 
Assistant Treasurer at New York to purchase 
$11,000,090of United Slates bonds each Wednes¬ 
day during the present month, beginning with 
the 14th in»L, to be held subject to the future 
action of Congress. The currency balance In the 
Treasury on the 12th mst., the day the order 
was i-sued v Was about $30,000,000. 
Gilbert L, Giberson, Esq., one of the oldest 
residents of Washington, and the oldest. Justice 
of t he Pence in the District, died in that city on 
the 10th Instant, at the advanced age of ueveiity- 
t wo years. 1 le went lo t liut city many years ago 
from Philadelphia, where he had been n prac¬ 
ticing lawyer. He received his first commission 
from President Jackson In 1330, and has uninter¬ 
ruptedly held a commission up to the day of his 
drill h. 
Attorney-General Hoar has decided that, ac¬ 
cording to law, the main line Of the Puellle Rail¬ 
road commences at the one hundredth meridian 
longitude west, from Greenwich, anti termi¬ 
nates at the eastern boundary of the State of 
California. 
Secretary Boutwell has re-appointedT. J. Kin¬ 
sulin Special Agent of tho,Treasury Department. 
This is the gentleman who recently investigated 
the New Orleans Customs frauds. 
The following are the Customs receipts at the 
ports named from July I lo July 10, inclusive: 
Boston, $141,683: New York, $3,941,490; Philadel¬ 
phia. $:U>3,370; Baltimore,$208,7IK; New Orleans, 
June 31 to July 3. $141,393; Sau Francisco, June 
11 to June 39, filllli,331—total, 4,253,898. 
The Internal Revenue Department has re¬ 
ceived in formation of tlie conviction, «l Wil¬ 
liamsport, Pa., of Martin Billinlreand Z. DU man, 
on a charge of violation of the revenue laws in 
relat Ion to distilling. They are l wo of Hie most, 
wealthy men in that, part of the State, ami the 
largest, distillers. Hitch was sentenced to two 
years in the Penitentiary, and both are now In 
confinement. The Supervisor of the Western 
District siiys these convicts hoped to escape ow¬ 
ing to their riches and Inlluencc, and Hint Iheir 
conviction will have good client on smaller dis¬ 
tillers who violate the Jaw. 
New York. 
GOVERNOR Hoffman has pardoned Edward 
Hndgdon, the murderer, oil the recommenda¬ 
tion of Judge GoUld, who sentenced him. Ilodg- 
don is convicted of murder in the second de¬ 
gree in 1800, and was sentenced to lmiH’isouiucut 
l'or life. 
owners of property on the pier at Albany de¬ 
stroyed by the freshet last winter have deter¬ 
mined to commence suits against the city for 
damages. Tim aggregate amount of claims Is 
between $175,000uurl $300,000. 
Mr. Alexander T. Stewart offers to purchase 
the Hempstead Plains, on Long Island, and to 
open them by construct I ng ex tensive roads, lay¬ 
ing them out in parcels for sale to act ual sei¬ 
ners, and building at various points nfirmdive 
buildings and residences. If the town votes to 
granl him the property, Mr. ,S. proposes to ex¬ 
pend several million dollars in carrying out this 
grand scheme. 
Much property was destroyed in Utica and 
vicinity by a heavy rain storm on the 8th just. 
The bridge at UliecktTville, on the Utica, Cheiian- 
gontid Susquehanna Val ley Railroad, was washed 
away by the rising of the water, and travel on 
the road is consequently temporarily suspended; 
the dam at Chadwick's wits destroyed; the 
promises ol' the Utica Mill Company at New 
Hartford were damaged to the extent of about 
$18,000; a couple of dwelling houses and several 
barns were demolished, and some other propert y 
was more or less damaged. 
Ex-President, Woodruff of the Cigar-Makers’ 
Union, Troy, who was recently expelled from 
the Union, announces that as the Union pre¬ 
vents him from retaining his position as a ctgur- 
muker in a Union shop, he will sue the members 
for conspiracy. 
A farewell reception was given to the Harvard 
international bout crew on the evening of the 
9th Inst, by the Nassau Boat Club of New York 
City, Gen. Aspinwall, President, at their club 
house, foot of Thirty-fourth street, North River. 
Considerable consternation prevails among 
sundry brokers and bankers in the vicinity of 
Wall street. New York, who are threatened with 
prosecution Tor having exacted usurious inter¬ 
est from their customers. The Grand Jury Is 
reported to have brought in Indictments against 
twenty-five of theso brokers. 
Thomas Hweonoy was arrested in Buffalo on 
the 10th Inst, for the alleged murder ol his 
brother John, while boating in the harbor on 
the ,Sunday previous. The I tody of the mur¬ 
dered man was found on Friday evening with 
the skull broken, the teeth knocked out and 
bearing other murks of violence. Sweeney had 
been reporting that his brother fell overboard 
from the boat and was drowned. 
A farmer named Alfred Hopson was killed at 
a. crossing a few miles east of Rochester, on the 
Central Railroad, on the 9th Inst. Ho was at¬ 
tempting to cross the track in a wagon, and was 
(struck by the locomotive of an express train. 
Thu work of building the Southern Central 
Railroad was begun on the lfttli inst. atOwego 
with formal ceremonies. The first spike, a piece 
of solid silver, was driven into the first tie, a log 
of polished Oak, by the President of the road, 
and congratulatory speeches were made by sev¬ 
eral gentlemen. 
A man, in attempting to jump on n train on 
the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, as it was 
passing out. of the depot in Albany on the 12th 
inst., slipped and fell under the wheels, and Ids 
head and one foot were cut completely off ids 
body. 
Governor Hoffman has refused the application 
to commute the sentence of dentil |at*scd on 
Noah Bigelow, in Sullivan county, for murder¬ 
ing a child. ThcGovornor says that the sentence 
was Just, and ho has no right to set aside the pro¬ 
visions of the law, even if the culprit is of weak 
intellect, as is claimed in this case. 
The citizens of Poughkeepsie voted on the 
13th inst. to Immediately introduce water and 
sewerage Into the city, and rejoined over their 
action by firing salutes, displaying fireworks and 
promenading tlie streets in the evening. 
At tlie Woman's Suffrage Slate Convention in 
Saratoga, on the 13th inst., Miss Susan H. Ant ho¬ 
ny presided fora while an temporary President, 
and was succeeded in the chair by M. E. Joselyn 
Gage of Onondaga, who was chosen permanent 
presiding officer. Addresses were made by sev¬ 
eral female suffrage agitators, and u platform 
was adopted. 
One of Colonel Ryan’s Cuban command lias 
escaped from tlio encampment, on Gardiner's 
Island, (off the eastern end of Long Island,) and 
with two or three others who have become dis¬ 
contented with the way tilings were arranged, 
has come <o Now York. These men say they 
have been generally enjoying themselves on 
Gardiner’s Island, but that ill Feeling Iuls been 
engendered between Colonel courtier amt a 
portion of the recruits from Virginia, owing to 
the Colonel's political sentiments, Ryan and 
Courrier secrete themselves at night, and place 
guards around the Island to warn them of the 
approach of suspicious vessels. 
New Hampshire. 
THE United States steamer Nurmgansett ar¬ 
rived at Portsmouth on the 8th inst., with six 
cassos of yellow fever on board three officers 
and tho same number ol men. They were all 
doing well. Lieutenant 11. B. Doer, and one 
man whose name was not. ascertained, died on 
the passage from Key West. 
Tiie funeral of Mr. Crawford, who was shot by 
his son at Lee, on Tuesday, the flth, took place 
on Saturday at tlie old homestead fafm In Not¬ 
tingham, and was attended by a large concourse 
of people from that and the adjoining towns, 
where the deceased was well known. Tho ap¬ 
pearance of theaffilctod family of the deceased 
excited much sympathy. His widow and chil¬ 
dren were overwhelmed with grief, especially 
the son who shot his father. It is stated that his 
sorrow is acute, and that ho has tlie sympathy 
of tho entire community, who fully justify him 
in tho deed, claiming that it, was committed 
solely in self-defence. 
Vermont, 
A coNSTAnuKof Burlington, mimed Drew,and 
the Attorney of the State, Mr. Roberts, have 
just been sued in the Circuit Court of the United 
States by tlie National Express Company,claim¬ 
ing $1,000 damages, l'or seizing, upon search war¬ 
rants, certain intoxicating liquors found In (lie 
express office,and directed !o some of (lie liqnor 
sellers about, town. It is satd that tin agents of 
the express company are making a test of (Ids 
ease, to determine whether, under the Liquor 
l.aw of that State, intoxicating liquors designed 
for illegal sale can be taken from Hie possession 
of Hie express company without Hast paying tlie 
express charges. 
fflnasavlui Mctta- 
Tnr. Commencement, of Amherst College was 
held on the 8th inst. Tlie degree, of LL. D. was 
confetrod upon Judge Oils l 1 . Lord of Salem 
and Henry Morris of Springfield, and that of 
1). D. upon Rev. Edwin E. Bliss of Constantino¬ 
ple, Turkey, and Rev, E. I*. Goodwin nf Chicago. 
All four are graduates of Amherst. 
A double wire land line is being built between 
Boston anrl Duxbury, to connect with New 
York via tho Franklin Telegraph linos. The 
Western Union Company has endeavored in vain 
to place an injunction upon the land communi¬ 
cations of Hie l , ’rcncli company. 
The United States frigate Sabine sailed on t lie 
lOtli Inst, from Hnstomto Portsmouth, England, 
with the graduating midshipmen ol' Hie Class of 
I860 on hoard, sixty in number, who are to lie 
practically educated in seamanship. 
At Hie dedication of a soldiers’ monument in 
Plymouth, on August 4th, Governor Chamber¬ 
lain of Maine will deliver (he oration, and Gov¬ 
ernor Clallin of Massachusetts will take some 
part in the exercises. 
Connecticut. 
CoMMKMCtcMF.NT at. Trinity College, Hartford, 
occurred on the 8th inst . Governor .Towell and 
Bishop Williams were present. The following 
honorary degress were conferred: A. M. J. M. 
Garcia of Rio Janeiro; Rev. John E, Smith of 
Westport, Conn.; Coley James, Salisbury, Conn.; 
D.D.—Rev. Francis 15. Lawrence of N. V.; Rev. 
Henry Dims tend of Great Barrington, Mass.; 
Rev. William Stevens Perry, Geneva, N. Y. 
LL. J>.—Edward M. Gailaudot, of Washington, 
I). C. 
The Connecticut, Senate have refused, by a 
vote of fourteen to seven, to release Jeremiah 
Townsend, tho New Haven bank robber, from 
prison. 
The Connect lent Legislature adjourned on the 
10th inst . Tlie gratifying statement, is made that 
t he session has cost the State $39,000 less than 
that of last year. 
New Jersey. 
Toe Association of Officers of the Army and 
Navy of the Gulf of which Admiral Farragritls 
President, on the 8th inst . went down from New 
York to Long Branch, where they celebrated 
the anniversary of the capture of Port Hudson. 
About three hundred officers participated in the 
excursion. 
The people of Hudson county wish to unite 
the several towns of II ndsoft City, Jersey City, 
Bergen, Hoboken,&e., in one corporate city. It 
is an old project, revived and agitated by the tax¬ 
payers or the count y. 
Mr. F. A. Smith, of tho firm of Smith & Pn.vne, 
bankers, in Newark, has been arrested on a com¬ 
plaint of Jay Cooke & Co, of New York, that he 
purchased of (hem $9,000 worth of Government 
bonds, for which lie gave a check on a bank 
whore it 1 r ailogoO he had no funds. Mr. Smith 
was too ill to lie removed, and a constabulary 
surveillance is kept over Ins person. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Democratic State Convention was held at 
Harrisburg on the 14th inst , and nominated Arii 
P acker for Governor. A letter was read from 
General Hancock, docliningthc nomination, but 
he was, never Hick-ss. voted for on all the ballots. 
The resolutions denounce tho reconstruction 
policy and tlu-system of taxation, and declare 
sympathy for nations struggling fur l'hcrty. 
Captain William Dyer of Now York, was acci¬ 
dentally killed at Reed street wharf, Philadel¬ 
phia, on the 9thinto. He was superintending a 
gang of laborers engaged in hoisting a boiler re¬ 
covered from the wreck of Hie steamer New 
Ironsides, which was burned at League Island 
several years since, when a rope broke, and the 
bans of the capstan Hying round struck and kill¬ 
ed Idm almost instantly. Several laborers were 
slightly injured. 
The directors of the Gettysburg Memorial 
Association now propose to indicate the more 
prominent events of the three days' struggle, 
with the positions of the different and contend¬ 
ing forces, by permanent memorials on I lie field; 
and they suggest a n union at Gett.vburg the 
first week in August of the Generals who com¬ 
manded on both sides during the battle, to dls- 
cuss tills plan and determine the points to be 
commemorated. 
An attempt, was made by t hree men early on 
the evening of the 3d Inst, to kill and rob Mr. 
Thomas Grom ley, an old gentleman eighty-five 
years of ago, at liis home No. i l North Seventh 
street, Philadelphia, where ho lived alone. They 
called upon him ostensibly to engage a. house, 
lie being an extensive owner of real estate, and 
w Idle talking about the mu Her suddenly attacked 
him. He was not stunned by the blows, though 
considerably hurt, and managed to frighten 
them away by callicg' lyiHfiy for help. They 
carried off with them a gold watch which was 
lying on the table, and left, behind a “jimmy." 
Diary I a ml. 
Frederick Git ant, (lie President’s eldest son, 
jumped into the Pqluxent River, near Uuirel, 
on Wednesday, the 7(h Inst., and saved the fife 
of a young lad named Sharpe, a cousin of young 
Gi ant, who got beyond bis depth and found him¬ 
self sinking. 
Tlie t rain from New York to Washington on 
the night of the 11th inst. ran into a handcar 
near tho Susquehanna River, and a portion of 
the train was thrown down an embankment. 
No one was burl, although the ears were crowd¬ 
ed. The handcar was being used without au¬ 
thority by the Western Union Telegraph Com¬ 
pany for carrying telegraph cross-arms. 
The Saengerfest at Baltimore was formally in¬ 
augurated on tho 13lh inst. with nn imposing 
civic and military procession. The societies 
competed in the evening for prizes for singing. 
At the Baltimore Saengerbiiiid the first prize 
in the first.' class of “ prize singers" lias been 
awarded to the Doutelier Ltedcrkra.il/. of New 
York City, seventy-four singers, who sang “How 
Came Leva;" and Hie fii-t in the second class to 
the Quartet Club of Hoboken, N. J„ who sang 
“The Poet’s Grave on the Banks of tho Rhine." 
Virginia. 
Gen. Canby on Thursday the 8th inst. ex¬ 
pressed ids gratilieal ion at the manner in which 
the Virginia elect ion was conducted, and pro¬ 
nounced it the fairest Hint ev er occurred. He 
says tile whole country has cause of congratula¬ 
tion at the .success of the President’s policy in 
reconstructing Virginia. lTnd«r t he reeonstruc¬ 
tion acts, Governor Walker cannot be inaug¬ 
urated until the Stab' Constitution has been 
accepted by Congress. 
Tho Governor-elect of Virginia laid a magnifi¬ 
cent reception in Richmond on the H(h Inst., 
where ho arrived from Norfolk early in the 
morning. He was met at the railway station by 
a great crowd and cheered lustily, and before he 
could get off the ears several enthusiastic men 
seized him, and placing him on t heir shoulders, 
bore him triumphantly to a gaily-decorated 
coach in wailing. A procession of both white and 
black citizens escorted him through tlie princi¬ 
pal streets to the hotel, where ho made a brief 
speech. 
Tho Richmond papers report that tho Con¬ 
servative colored men of Unit city are continu¬ 
ally persecuted by the negroes that went with 
the so-called Radical parly nt Hie recent, elec¬ 
tion. They are hooted at and pelted in tho 
streets; they have •eon expelled from the 
benevolent sodolic and threatened with ox- 
comunicutioti from the churches. Some have 
been turned out of floors by their families, and 
others have been warned that they will not be 
allowed to live long enough to vote the Con¬ 
servative ticket again. On Sunday tlie 11th inst. 
a young colored tuun who held Hie State flagnt 
the reception of the Governor elect, was at¬ 
tacked by a crowd of men, and only saved from 
serious, perhaps fatal, injury by the interfer¬ 
ence of a number of white men; and in tho 
Second African Church several Walker colored 
men were hissed ut their entrance. 
The French man-of-war Semi ram is is at Fort¬ 
ress Monroe looking after Ihe Curieux, which 
has the yellow fever on board. 
Alabama. 
Tnr: State election takes place on the first 
Tuesday in August. Thu nominations lor Con¬ 
gress are as follows: 
Republican. 
1st Dist.—Alfred E. Buck, 
3d Hist, thus. W. I tuck Illy, 
3d Hist. I tuber I S, Hell in, 
4t h l nst. -Charles Hays, 
5th Dist.—Wm. J. Haralson, 
Dili Dist.—Jerome J. Hinds, 
Democratic. 
W. D. Mann. 
A. N. Worthy. 
J. C. Parkinson 
No nomination 
P. M. Dox. 
AY. C. Sherrod. 
Louisiana. 
Tub sugars seized at New Orleans have been 
appraised, and bonds to the amount, of $209,000 
in gold will be required from the owners before 
they will be released. A large lot of cigars have 
also been seized. 
Several arrests have been made among tho 
Custom House officials in New Orleans, and it is 
probable important disclosures wifi bo made 
public, Guutourle, the owner of the seized 
sugars, has also been arrested, but District At¬ 
torney Morgan and Judge Durel, whose assist¬ 
ance is needed in prosecuting the cases, are bot h 
absent. 
Mississippi. 
Judge Lewis Dent, a brother-in-law of Presi¬ 
dent. Grant, has been tendered the Republican 
nomination for Governor of Mississippi by the 
prominent Republicans of that State, and has 
notified them that he would accept. The con¬ 
vention met on the 15t h last.. 
Tlie Verger murder trial In .Jackson still con¬ 
tinues, but there has been an unusual reticence 
on t he part, of the telegraph relative to it. Ver¬ 
ger’s counsel have closed tho case, depending 
mainly on proofs of his insanity, but the prose¬ 
cution have commenced with strong testimony 
in rebuttal, 
Tennessee. 
On July 3 the Court-house of Decatur county, 
at Decat ursvllle, was entirely consumed by tire. 
Loss $100,000. The lawyers of the town had 
their offices in the Conrt-house, and their libra¬ 
rian worn all consumed, together with valuable 
papers which they had In their possession, in 
the County Court Clerk's office there was $39,099 
in currency. The County Court Clerk also bad 
many valuables in ids office, which he tried to 
save, with more important county papers. Ho 
wrapped himself In wet blankets and penet rated 
the. building, but the flames drove him back, 
and lie was slightly burned In tlie attempt. 
Tho Chinese Labor Convention nt. Memphis, 
Tenn., opened on the J3th inst. A permanent 
organization was effected with ex-Governor 
Harris of Tennessee, as President, and work 
laid out for them to do. 
Ohio, 
A yottng girl named Anna McFnddcn was ac¬ 
cidentally shot and killed by her sister, at their 
home in Pleasant township, near Ripley, a few 
days ago. 
A Convention of all Evangelical Churches In 
this State is to bo held in Columbus on Novem¬ 
ber 30tli and December 1st and 2d, to consider the 
most practical method of reaching the musses 
with the Gospel. This is one of a chain of Con¬ 
ventions to be held In the Middle and Western 
States this fall, in about the following order: 
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Minne¬ 
sota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas. 
Mrs. 11. A. Ornsbee, a widow, was shot dead by 
a burglar in broad daylight on the morning of 
the 14th Inst.,at her house, woto of Green Mount 
Cemetery, Spriugfiold. 
Indiana. 
A YOUNG woman named Orline Lybergor, died 
suddenly in her room in tho Kirtley House, 
Warsaw, on Tuesday afternoon, the 6th inst., 
from convulsions, aided by tight lacing. 
Illinois. 
The great Cairo land case of Thomas Beavers 
vs. Btaats, Taylor and others, at Springfield, was 
given lo tho jury on the 10th inst., who rendered 
a verdict for the defendants. A motion for a 
new trial was overruled, and it is understood 
that the ease, will be taken to the Supreme Court 
on a bill of exceptions, 
A young man named William Booty, residing 
with ids parents in Chicago, attempted to kill 
his mother with a knife on the 71 h Just. He was 
intoxicated at the time, and was enraged because 
she took some money from him to prevent ids 
spending it. (she succeeded in escaping from 
him with a few slight cuts, and, after fighting 
with a policeman for a while, the Infuriated 
youth was captured and lodged in a stal ion- 
house. 
The wife of Robert McCormick, living oppo¬ 
site Paducah, Ky., was murdered on the night of 
Hie 12th inst., by two men who came from Ken¬ 
tucky the day before. They asked for break¬ 
fast, which was refused by her, as she was sick. 
Finally McCormick and a boy cooked Hi Gin some 
breakfast, when (hey left. But; they returned 
at night, rushed into tho house, and tired. Mc¬ 
Cormick was shot in thoarirt, and Ills wife killed. 
The nmrderera fled, and were traced to two 
miles above Cairo, on the Kentucky side, where 
a general hunt, was joined in by all the residents. 
Dlicliign n. 
An old man named Joseph Jennings was shot 
and then beaten to dentil with the butt of a gun 
by bis son-in-law, in the town of Woodstock, 
Lenawee county, not long since, lie hud come 
home from a neighboring village intoxicated, 
nml was attempting to go up to liis granddaugh¬ 
ter's sloepiiig-rooiii to give her some enndlesiuid 
oranges that he had brought home with him, in 
spile of Ids son's demands to him to stay below. 
An insane man in White Pigeon recently 
burned $1,100 in greenbacks and ini tied the 
ashes. He had Just received the moneyfor four 
years' service on a farm, which he hail suddenly 
taken a notion to leave. He explained that he 
used the money in t ills singular and unprofitable 
way “to help him through purgatory.” He had 
given no Indication of insanity before. 
Wisconsin. 
The La Crosse artesian well lias gone .down 
I wo hundred feel and found rook a I lluil depth. 
A. B. Douglas of Brodhetid, has sold bis trot¬ 
ting mure Heroine to a Chicago man for $5,000, 
A very severe hail storm visited the Southern 
portion of Burr Oak Prairie on the 0th inst. 
Tho track of the storm was about half u mile 
wide, and within it soil reel y a green thing was 
left standing. Some of the grain fields wore 
literally pounded into the ground. One rye 
field of forty acres bad not a blade left standing. 
Hardly a pane of glass was left whole in any 
house in the track of thesiorm. The oak scrubs 
and saplings have their leaves and a great part 
ol the bark stripped off. 
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Iowa. 
The State Geological Survey will be entirely 
completed by January next. 
George Wells of Shiloh, Grundy county, has 
1,800acres of wheat and live hundred acres of 
corn, besides oats and other grains. He has 
thirty breaking plows at work, and intends to 
break from 1,500 to 3,000 acres of laud this sea¬ 
son. 
ItJIsxourl, 
Henry R. Whttm krp. Secretary of the St. 
Louis Grain Association, will leave for Europe 
in a few days on business connected with tlie 
t hrough grain movement. The main object of 
his trip is to secure a line of suitable steamers to 
run between New Orleans and Liverpool in con¬ 
nection with bargee and steamboats ou the Mis¬ 
sissippi River. 
Tho St. Louis County Court has sent its lh-esi- 
doiit and County Counsellor to New York to 
make arrangements concerning the protested 
county bonds. If a proper t ribunal decides that 
the interest upon the bonds must, be paid in 
gold, the bondholders will not be required to 
wait, but the coin will be paid at once. 
KaiiMiis. 
Tub work upon the bridge over the Missouri 
River, at Leavenworth, is to be. pushed forward 
at once. 
Nebraska. 
The steamer Bertha,from Ft. Benton, reached 
Sioux City on tlie Ht.h inst. with 50 bales of robes, 
1,950 pounds and 10 packages of gold dust and 
bars, valued nt $90,000, and 40 bars of silver, 
weighing 1,480 pounds. 
Texas. 
During the week ending July 10 the Colorado 
Valley of Texas was visited with a most disas- 
I roils Hood. The town of Columbus was desert ed, 
in the Court-house square of La Grange the 
water was ten feel deop, several other towns 
were submerged and one or two were washed 
away. Twenty-Uvo houses had been seen float¬ 
ing down stream. The water rose forty-seven 
feet, and tho fine growing crops were all de¬ 
stroyed. As yet. it is impossible to form any 
estimate of the damage suffered. The latest 
dispatches announce that the flood was subsid¬ 
ing and that boats had beam sent out to rescue 
people from tho tree tops, where koine had been 
for t wo days. 
Weaver, who was recently sentenced to be 
hanged for murder by military commission, and 
upon whose ease Attorney-General Hoar gave 
an opinion, not long ago, has escaped. One of 
his guards ran away with him. 
California. 
A San Francisco dispatch states that the 
Committee of Ways and Means, after Investigat¬ 
ing the affairs of the Custom House, Mint, and 
Sub - Treasury, and also certain alleged im¬ 
proper transactions of the sub-Treasuror with 
tlie Bank of California, report the former all 
fight, aud that the charges against tho latte)* are 
groundless. The Committee are about to leave 
for Oregon and perhaps Vancouver's Island. 
Ex-Secretary Seward and party reached Sacra¬ 
mento on Wednesday, the 30th ult., and were 
welcomed by a salute of fifty guns and the at¬ 
tentions of n crowd of citizens of all parties. 
During tho day many prominent Democrats 
called upon hi in. A complimentary dinner was 
given to tlie ex-Socretary and his traveling com¬ 
panions in the evening at the Orleans Hotel. 
Ex-Secretary Seward had an enthusiastic re¬ 
ception in San Francisco on Friday, the 3d 
inst. On Ills arrival a salute of one hundred 
guns wits fired, and he, with liis party, was es¬ 
corted by a military procession to the Occidental 
Hotel, where rooms wore provided by l.lie city. 
In the evening a brilliant recept ion took place 
in the parlors of the hotel. 
Dispatches from Sun Francisco report that n 
disease has appeared among the silkworms In the 
Sacramento Valley, and is reducing their num¬ 
ber rapidly. Two of the largest dealers have 
already lost their lirsi broods of French worms 
numbering nearly a million. 
The wheat crop in Santa Barbnra county is 
generally a failure. The grasshoppers have ap¬ 
peared in great, numbers in several enmities in 
this State. They have done but little damage as 
yet. 
Nevada. 
A San Francisco dispatch of the 12th into, 
says a portion of the 'Yellow Jacket Mine, at 
Gold Hill, has been re-closed, on account of tlie 
prevalence of smoke and gas. 11 is believed the 
fire is still burning In the Crown Point Mine. 
A ri/.ottn. 
Another story of tho loss of the Powell ex¬ 
pedition is received from a new source. Mr. 
William Ripley, a trapper and Indian lighter of 
several years’ experience, arrived at Omaha a 
few days ago from tho mountains, and staled 
that lie met there Mr. John Sumner, the only 
survivor of tlie party, who gave him the particu¬ 
lars of the lops of his comrades In tlie whirling 
rapids. Mr. Sum tier, Mrs. Powell states, was ac¬ 
tually one of tho expedition. He is said to have 
given the date of tlie catastrophe one month 
inter than that of Iiisdon.and its place one imu- 
dreii and fifty miles further north, anil only 
seventy-five juilcs from the point of embarka¬ 
tion of the expedition about the first of June. 
It is stated that Samuel Adams, with eleven 
men, are about starting from Breekftnrldgo, 
Colorado, to descend the Blue, Grand and Colo¬ 
rado Rivers, through the Great Canyon, liis ob¬ 
jective point being the same ns Major Powell's. 
Mon tu tin. 
The town of Helena, Montana, almost entirely 
destroyed by lire about two months ago, lias 
been rebuilt. Now the principal bn si ness streets 
show scarcely u 1 race of the great, fire. Within 
sixty days one hundred and twentjM’onr new 
buildings have been put up, worth not Jess than 
?300,<]00. Fully half of this amount has been 
expended upon substantial stone structures, 
which take the places of light frames, and still 
more are in process of construction. And this 
is in a town of 8,009 inhabitants, sit uated among 
the spurs of the Rocky Mountains, far away 
from ail tlie facilities for rapid construction 
which abound in Hie East. 
A lashn. 
Major-Generau Thomas and staff left Port¬ 
land, Oregon, on I lie 8tli of .1 uly for Alaska. 
Hod, William H. Seward and party galled from 
San Francisco on the 14Hi into., for Sitka, in the 
Steamer Active. 
An arrival at San Francisco from Alaska re¬ 
ports the total loss of Hie schooner Luella, off 
Cape Eliz.aboth, ami the sloop Jabez llowes, on 
Fox Island. 
Colorado 
A dispatch from Puebla, dated July 9, says 
that the Congressional Committee on the Pacific 
