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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
'WaKlilngton. 
President Grant, with his family and staff, 
loft Washington in the United States steamer 
Tallapoosa, on Thursday the 1.1th Inst,, for I sing 
Branch rto Fortress Monroe and Cajie ivfay. Tho 
Tallapoosa reached tho latter point oft the 17th, 
and in the evening the President, reviewed the 
Gray Reserves a line Philadelphia regiment he 
found in camp at Capo May and he also re¬ 
viewed them on Sunday. The Presidential party 
reached Long Branch on the 19th, and took apart¬ 
ments at the Stetson House. 
The Columbia Typographical Union, in Wash¬ 
ington, has bconrae tired of its contest wit If the 
Government printer, and has decided to amend 
its constitution so that the Congressional printer 
may Increase tho number of his apprentices, and 
to postpone tho case of noughts, tho colored ap¬ 
plicant for membership, until tho next stated 
meeting in January. 
The President’s instructions concerning the 
rigid enforcement of tho neutrality laws is said 
to cause tho Cubans but. little concern. Cuban 
revolutionists need war material rather than 
men,and the stoppage of filibustering expedi¬ 
tions will really injure them but little, provided 
they can purchase arms and ammunition, which 
they have the right, to do unquestioned. 
Professor Geoigo 15. Vaslion, a colored lawyer 
of eminence, was on the 17th Inst-admit ted to 
practice in Judge Fisher’s Criminal Court, in 
Washington, without bis application being sub¬ 
mitted nt the General Term, the Judge holding 
that his court was a separate one according lo 
the decision of t lie Supreme Court in ilie Brad¬ 
ley case, and therefore he could admit the appli¬ 
cant without consultation with the other judges. 
Mayor Bowen, has recommended to his city 
Council that tin* public schools of that city be 
open to children of both races alike. He also 
nominates Professor Vashon to be a member of 
the present white Board of School Trustees. 
Arrangements have been made for printing 
internal revenue stamps In the same manner ns 
the postal currency Is printed. Tho stamps, 
with new designs, will lie printed In New York 
and Philadelphia and the seal be attached at the 
.Department in Washington. 
It la stated, on what is called good authority, 
that Attorney-General Hoar will resign his pres¬ 
ent position at an early day, probably Just be¬ 
fore the re-assembling of Congress. 
Information was received at the Treasury 
Department on the 17th, from New Orleans, to 
the olfoct that .Judge Unroll has ordered that 
bonds on a gold basis appraisement for the su¬ 
gar recently seized by the revenue officials in 
that city, bG taken from the parties Implicated 
In the alleged fraud. 
MeGarrithan’sclaim to the lands now occupied 
by Ihe Abandon Quicksilver Mining Company 
has assumed no new phase. Itis intention is to 
apply to the court for an enforcement of its 
decree, but there will bo no session before two 
or three months. 
The business and commercial reports from t he 
South are of the most, encouraging character. 
A gentleman who has traveled over nearly all of 
the. Southern States says that Ihe people gen¬ 
erally have not only recovered from the effects 
of the war and the general depression of a year 
ago, caused by political complications* hut that 
they are now on a 1’uir road to riches, and that 
that cut ire sect ion of country will shortly be as 
flourishing as it was before the war. 
Orders have been sent out from Die Internal 
Kevenuo Bureau to Assessors and Collectors to 
investigate the newspaper charges against cer¬ 
tain reported wealthy men of New York whose 
names arc not. to be found on the income return 
lists, and to take legal process against all those 
who aro supposed to have defrauded the Gov¬ 
ernment. 
The Government Is anxious to disposeof some 
of our surplus mm-elads, and will sell to Span¬ 
iards or Cubans or any others who choose to buy. 
The Presidents of some of the South American 
Republics are the only persons vv ho appear de¬ 
sirous to invest in these commodities at present, 
but they ami the Secretary of the Navy cannot 
agree exactly on the figures. 
It appears that Major James Haggerty’s con¬ 
nection with I'cnianism will lose, him his Consul¬ 
ship to Glasgow, for which position he was con¬ 
firmed during tlic spring. His exequatur has 
not yet been issued, and I here is some trouble Hi 
tho State Department In reference to his ease. 
The annexation of the Island of San Domingo 
to Die United States iaadmitted to be merely a 
question of time. Responsible persons repre¬ 
senting the Government of the Island have re¬ 
cently been in Washington for the purpose of 
securing Lite aid of t he Administrat ion in their 
efforts to negotiate its absorption. They say 
that. Iceir object can bo accomplished without 
expenditure, and argue that the value of tho 
coffee and similar products of the island will be 
far more valuable to us than the productaof 
Cuba. They will return when Congress meets 
t > urge their project before (hat body. 
A number of Germans from the Baltimore 
Sauugorfeat were at the Executive Mansion on 
the morning of tbclTlh, uiul after going through 
the parlors and Bust Room, they assembled in 
the last named apartment and sang a farewell 
6ong, which was received with great applause 
by a number of persons who had congregated 
there. 
A statement of the number of National Banks 
designated as Unltod States deposi tones has j ust 
been made to the Comptroller of the Currency. 
Tt shows that tho original number was four hun¬ 
dred and twenty-six. Four har e failed, with se¬ 
curities oti hand, the same number failed where 
the securities were withdrawn, and eighty-four 
ceased to be depositories with securities with¬ 
drawn, leaving three hundred and thirty-four 
actual depositories. 
Information has been received at the Revenue 
Bureau from Tennessee, of the capture of an ox 
wagon in the mountains of Rock county, loaded 
with whisky from some illicit distillery lu Geor¬ 
gia. The owner of the team was selling whisky, 
from the wagon to all who wanted to buy. 
When the Revenue officers overhauled this per¬ 
ambulating whisky mill, the proprietor aban¬ 
doned his team and took to tho woods, llis 
name is Alton. The team consisted of t wo head 
of oxen. It was taken possession of. but was 
subsequently recaptured from the officers, and 
the oxen seattetvd through the woods. Tho 
whisky in the wagon was poured out on the 
ground, and the wagon abandoned. 
The Revenue officers of Philadelphia, with the 
aid of the Marines, have been making “unot-licr 
raid on the Illicit distillers in the Richmond Dis¬ 
trict," this time completely cleaning them out.. 
The United States steamer Seminole, which 
left Norfolk recently on a secret expedition, is 
said to be cruising In Hnytien waters for the 
capture of tho llayticn privateer Hero, which 
has been long preying on American commerce 
in those waters. She is t*. tie captured and 
brought at once to Washington. This Hero Is 
not to be confounded with El Heroe, now at St. 
Johns, I’orto Rico. 
Colonel Warren, the Fenian, and Mr. J. D. 
O’Connell 'vailed upon Secretaries Boutwell and 
Robeson and Attorney-General Hoar on the 21st 
and told them of the wrongs inflicted upon Ihe 
Fenian prisoners in England. They intend to 
lay tho matter individually before every mem¬ 
ber of the Cabinet. 
The Treasury Department has information 
from New Orleans to the effect, that the alleged 
owners of the sugar recently seized there on ac¬ 
count of defrauding the revenue are unable to 
give the security demanded, which is $200,000, 
The Department will order the sugar to be con¬ 
fiscated and sold. It is valued at between two 
and three hundred thousand dollars. 
Secretary Boutwell decides that all manufac¬ 
tures of which copper is the chief component 
part, imported into the United States, shall pay 
a duty of forty-five per cent, ad valorem. 
Bronze powder and Dutch metal are included. 
New York. 
By the American flagship Guerierre, which 
reached New York Oily from Rio do Janeiro on 
the 19th in fit, arrived about sixty American im¬ 
migrants, who took advantage of the order 
given to receive them on board United Slates 
war vessels returning home, others arc expect¬ 
ed to follow In other vessels. 
General Walker, Governor elect of Virginia, 
is at Binghamton, his native place. On the 
evening Of his urrivul, Thursday', the 16th lust., 
he was serenaded, and received by the eityatt- 
thorities. Judge Ransom Bulcotn made a speech 
on the occasion, to which General Walker re¬ 
plied. 
Martin Frank, John Shoonan, Archi J’otz and 
Paul Bernard, un engraver, have been arrested 
in New York UUy on a charge of counterfeiting 
United States Revenue stamps for tobacco. An 
extensive establishment at Snake Hill, N. J., for 
tho mmiufaeture of the spurious stamps, was 
also seized and broken up. 
An unsuccessful attempt wus made, a few 
nights since, to rob the vaults of the First Na¬ 
tional Bank of Bed Hook. The thieves entered 
t he bank but could not get into the vault. 
Coming’s Albany Iron Works closed on the 
17th instant, and will remain closed during the 
summer. 
I m in cnee quantities of stone are being shipped 
from Buffalo up the Jake to Toledo, Cleveland 
and Detroit. 
A parly of Iteehcsterians are camping out at 
Point Lookout, on Irondequoit Bay, where fish¬ 
ing is said to be very fine. 
The ruin storm of Thursday tin- 8th, raised the 
watess of Cayuga Lake nearly two feet . During 
Die storm one of the willow trees in Caseadilhi 
avenue. Ithaca, was blown down, and numerous 
limbs were broken off. 
A party of surveyors, wit.li Chief Engineer 
Kversltcd at their head, are now at ' barloiie, 
surveying the route for the new Lake Shore 
Railroad. 
A Buffalo gentleman was put under bonds on 
the filth to keep the peace, and a buxom widow 
signed his papers. He was so grateful for her 
kindness that he proposed to her, and she gra¬ 
ciously accepting, the two were married on the 
spot. 
D. it. Tabor of Meridian, Cayuga county, had 
a very narrow escape from a terrible death on 
the 16th. Ho was driving n mowing machine, 
and his horses starting suddenly, he wus thrown 
off in front of the horses, and the horses took 
fright and started on a run. dragging him with 
the knives in full motion, until in some unac¬ 
countable manner the machine bounded over 
him, merely shaving out a piece of flesh on his 
back, and grazing the back purtof his head, with 
other quite severe bruises. 
Efforts aro making to have tho Boston and 
Albany' Railroad run directly from Albany' 
through Lebanon, which can bo done by tunnel¬ 
ing about, three miles, tints making the distance 
from Albany to Boston twenty-live miles short or 
than it is now, and equal to that between Troy 
and Boston, by way of the Hoosue in unci, when 
completed. 
At Sing Sing Prison, on the J.lth, seven hun¬ 
dred men refused logo to work,and in conse¬ 
quence were locked up in their colls. Since then 
three hundred have returned to their duty. 
A special election was held on the 17fh in the 
town of Hempstead, Queens county to deter¬ 
mine whether the agreement made by'the Town 
Commissioners with C. T. Harvey, to sell him 
the lands known as Hempstead Plains at $tS per 
acre should be ratified or not. The resull was 
in favor of non-ratifieatiou, and of accepting 
tho offer of A. T. Stewart ($.16 per acre) by about 
three to one. 
The revenue cutter Mahonning and the tug¬ 
boat Rocket arrived at the Navy Yard on the 
morning of the 17th. with one hundred and 
twenty-five filibusters on board, in charge of a 
company of marines. The men were captured 
at a gamp on Gardiner’s Island, being the rem¬ 
nant of Colonel Ryan’s command. Marshal 
Barlow ordered their imprisonment in Fort La¬ 
fayette. 
The chime, altar bells and other property 
stolen from the Catholic church at Cohoes, some 
two weeks since, were found on the 16th at the 
bottom of the Mohawk River. 
The house of William Haynes, a farmer, in 
Brunswick, Rensselaer county, was robbed on 
the night of tho 14th, by burglars, of $800 in 
Government bonds and $200 in greenbacks. 
Rev. Mr. Mitchell, a Methodist clergyman of 
Cliittenango, it is alleged recently'forged a dm ft 
on the Fourth National Bank in Now York for 
$1,000, payable t.o another clergyman named 
Green leaf. Mitchell looks so much like Green- 
leal' that Mr. Carloton. the publisher, identified 
him to the satisfaction of the bank officials as 
Greanleaf, and he drew the money. His resem¬ 
blance to Grcenlcaf, however, finally caused bis 
detection, and, after restoring $1,000 of the 
missing money’, he disappeared. 
The citizens of Waterford have formed a vigi¬ 
lance committee, in order to protect their prop¬ 
erty against a gang of burglars and incendiaries 
who infest that town. 
A burglary'was attempted in the clothing store 
of Hall, Palmer & Co., Syracuse, on the 20th. 
The burglar was struck by a hatchet thrown by 
a clerk who had been sleeping in the store and 
was awakened by his entrance. The man made 
liis escape, but left evidence behind that he was 
badly wounded. 
Quiet reigns at Sing Sing; but. another convict 
escaped on the 2!st„, and fears are entertained 
that an organized revolt will break out among 
Die prisoners. 
Daniel If. Fitzgerald, formerly Cashier of the 
Syracuse City Bank, is under arrest, charged 
with stealing about $8,000 from the hank. He 
has been held for examination by' tho Police 
Justice. 
Hobart College, at Geneva, has just received 
from a few gentlemen of Buffalo, a sum of 
money sufficient to purchase a. large telescope, 
and a pledge of enough additional to meet the 
expense of pulling it in place. 
A grand Saongcrfcst, held under the auspices 
of 1 he Mucimcrebor of Rorlioidcr, began on 
Monday morning, the 10th instant. The streets 
were gaily decorated and presented a holiday 
appearance, being thronged with strangers. The 
Post wus participated in by societies from Buf¬ 
falo, Erie, Syracuse and Hamilton. Tho concert 
on Monday evening, at the skating rink, was a 
great, success, and Was attended by 11,00(1 people. 
Tho orchestra was composed of fifty instru¬ 
ments, with a. chorus of two hundred voices. 
The reception of Mayor Smith at Corinthian Hall 
was a tine affair. The heavy rains of Tuesday 
prevented t he holding of the out door exercises, 
and Hie Fest closed in the evening with a heavy 
loss to t he Macnnerchor. 
The testimony in the Eric disaster inquiry' in¬ 
dicates clearly tha cause of tho disaster. No loss 
than three employes of the road, including the 
engineer, were asleep on the train which caused 
the disaster by moving out of its place ; the 
conductor was In his caboose or sleeping ear: 
the train was moved without a signal; and, 
according to the conductor's testimony, it is 
customary to sleep and to run trains on Die Erie 
road against positive orders. The verdict holds 
the sleepy' engineer guilty, and exonerates all 
other employes of the road. James Griffin, the 
engineer on the freight train was arrested tit 
Salamanca on the 16th, whither he had gone 
“ until the affair should blow over." He is now 
confined in the Jail at Milford, Fa., and says he 
was half asleep when he opened the throttle of 
his engine, and was hardly eousclous what he 
was doing. Seven of the victims of the disaster 
have been buried at Port Jervis. 
Maine. 
•Tay Cooke and the wealthy gentlemen of his 
party from New York and Philadelphia, have 
purchased Sund.v River pond and 2,000 acres ol 
land at I lie Ratigely Lakes, as a fish preserve, 
and anuses are to he erected on the purchase, 
and the land cleared and made attractive. 
E. I’. Weston, Principal of Little Blue School, 
at Farmington, has been offered tho Presidency 
of Die Indies’ department of the Lake Forest 
University, near Chicago. 
From 17,000,000 to 18,000,000 feet of logs have 
now accumulated at Kendall’s Mills. Tho rear 
of the drive, euiilainliig:about 1,000,000 feel, is 
at Patterson’s Bridge, iVi will not be likely to 
get. down, sim the water irrUdliug very fast. 
Thu importation of /ngur Into the port of 
Portland from January 1, 1099, to July 1, was 
7,807 boxes and 7,126 hogsheads, against 42,121 
boxes and 17,331 hogsheads for the correspond¬ 
ing period lust. year. The importations of mo¬ 
lasses were 1,770 hogsheads against 46,108 for the 
same time in 1868. 
.Yew HamjiMltlrc. 
Gen. Sylvanus Thayer, graduate of ,Dart¬ 
mouth College, Class of 1807, founder of the 
Thayer School, lias just given Ihe Academical 
Department,of 1 lie College $1,000, for the founda¬ 
tion of two prizes to be conferred annually on 
members of the Sophomore Class. The.first is 
$40 and tho second $20, bol.lt In be given for pro¬ 
ficiency in Analytical Geometry and Gale ulus. 
John M. Crawford, of Loo. who recently killed 
Win. II. II. Crawford, his father, in self-defence, 
has been examined and acquitted. 
The following gentlemen have been elected 
officers ol tho New Hampshire Mechanic Art 
Association, for tlte year 1809-70:—JI on. Walter 
Harriman, President; W. A. Currier, Exeter, 
Secretary ; W. F. Danieli, Franklin, Treasurer. 
The American Institute of Instruction will 
meet nt Portsmouth on t he 3d, 4th and Itli of 
next month. Addresses will be delivered by 
President Champlin of Colby University', Prof. 
S. S. Woodman of Dartmouth College, and 
Joseph White, Secretary of the Massachusetts 
Board of Education. 
Vermont. 
Hon. II. B. pTArv of Burlington, died oil tho 
lltli of last month at Revel, Russia. Mr. Stacy 
was formerly a consul at some Russian port, but 
at the time of his death he was in Russia on pri¬ 
vate business. 
The Norton Mill Company aro loading daily 
from twelve to fifteen ears with lumber which 
is sent to Portland, Maine. 
There have been three slides, or falls of rock, 
from the Willoughby' Lake Mountains, within 
otto week, v isible from the Willoughby Lake 
House. 
lUaieiavli u setts. 
The Peabody Institute, established mainly by 
Die bounty of George Peabody, and named in 
lug honor, in the town of Peabody, (formerly 
South Danvers, but which took tlte name of its 
benefactor.) was dedicated on Wednesday the 
14th inst. Tlte dedicatory address was by Rev. 
J. W. Fletcher. Di briefly' responding, Mr. Pea¬ 
body said he would now add $11,(KK) to his origi¬ 
nal bequest to the Institute, making the total of 
his gilt JlUO.QdD. and thus put it on a sure and 
lasting basis. 
The University courses of instruction at Har¬ 
vard College for the current year will be given 
to competent persons, “men and women," ac¬ 
cording to the official announcement. Tin 1 les¬ 
sons of the course are to be given by Professors 
Bowen. Hedge mid Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emer¬ 
son, Mr. Howells ami others, it, is said that this 
is one of tho reforms of the new President 
Charles W. Eliot. 
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine hits been 
in New Bedford for the purpose of negotiating 
bonds of Die city' of Rutigor in aid ol’ the Eu¬ 
ropean and North American Railroad. He has 
disposed of about $100,OW worth to capitalists of 
that city. 
Con liocticut. 
r. St. M. Andrews for many years Superin- 
tomlimt of the Norwich and Worcester Railway 
has been appointed Superintendent of the New 
London Northern Railroad, in place of George 
W. Bentley, resigned. 
The board of relief of the Hartford Grand 
Army' of the Republic expended $937 last year in 
the care of disabled soldiers and soldiers’ widows 
and orphans. 
New Jersey. 
On the morning of the 11th inst., about three 
o’clock, a man named Charles Van Orden of Ho¬ 
boken, was drowned while engaged on board the 
tug Dean Richmond, at the canal dock, at the 
Morris and Essex Railroad, It appears that Van 
Orden turned on the water in order to supply 
the propeller, and having dono so, returned to 
the cabin and fell asleep. The tank overflowed 
tlte dock and sank the boat. Van Orden was 
drowned. The bout was raised the same af¬ 
ternoon. 
I'cmixylvaniH. 
Philadelphia is to have a bigger musical 
jubilee than Boston has had. It is proposed to 
celebrate the centennial anniversary of the 
signiugof the Declarat ion of Independence, on 
tlte Fourth oT July, 1876, by a gigantic musical 
festival, in a building especially erected In Fair- 
mount Park, capable of accommodating 100,000 
spectators and 12,000 performers. A letter has 
boon sent, lo President Grant giving him the 
particulars of this enterprise, and asking “an 
expression of his kind approval, and for its suc¬ 
cess tho best wishes of his patriotic heart." 
Mr. T. Sanford, the oldest passenger conduc¬ 
tor on the Erie anil Pittsburgh Railroad, was 
struck on the head by a switch target while 
looking out from Die platform of the rear ear 
of his train as it was nearing Greenville, on the 
14th inst. and thrown to the ground. He was 
seriously and perhaps fatally injured, 
Delaware. 
A number of peach-growers, about Milford 
and Dover, have sold their peach crops for this 
year at from thirty to forty cents per basket 
delivered at the railroad station. 
Virginia. 
Gen. Can by, so it is said in Richmond, has 
written to the members elect of the new Legis¬ 
lature, individually,to find out how many are 
competent to take the test oath. In ease lliere 
is a quorum able to qualify, he will call the 
Legislntme together, excluding those unable lo 
take the oath, and have United Slides Senators 
elected and the l’fteenth Amendment ratified. 
The Incompetent members may then come in 
under the Slate Constitution. If there is not a 
quorum, he will order new elections to be held 
in districts represented by those who cannot 
take the oath. 
AimDier 1ms boon added to the list of those 
who perished by I he falling of Die VauxhaJl 
chain bridge, near Richmond, on Friday, the 
2d inst. Peter Campbell, (colored,) wounded 
at Dad time, lingered until the 11th inst., at the 
Medical College Infirmary, in Richmond, when 
lie died. At Ids own request, ho was carried to 
tho polls on election day, and deposited his 
ballot. 
Tho old “Temple Farm," near Yorktown, upon 
which Lord Cornwallis surrendered Ids forces 
and signed t he article* of capitulation, Iiiih Jiisi 
been sold by public auction. It contains from 
four to five hundred acres, and is said to be one 
of the best cultivated farms in that portion of 
the State. It. brought $s,ikki. 
North UuroIInu. 
The Supremo Court of North Carolina has 
just decided that intermarriage bet ween a mem¬ 
ber of the colored race and a member of the 
white race is unlawful, and therefore void, ac¬ 
cording to the laws of Die State. 
Tennessee. 
There are at present only two companies of 
the Tennessee State Militia remaining in service. 
They will be mustered out in a lew days. 
A Nashville negro, supposed to be dead, hav¬ 
ing received a sun-stroke and fallen apparently 
lifeless, a few days ago, was placed in a coffin 
and made ready for burial, when signs of life 
were shown, and ho slowly revived. A Coroner 
and jury had held an inquest and rendered a ver¬ 
dict of ''death from sun-stroke." 
A meeting was recently held In Memphis, of 
tho friends of Galvin and Mood.v, the condemned 
murderers, at which it was resolved to give a 
ball, and use Die proceeds in securing a commu¬ 
tation Of the sentence passed upon the criminals. 
Kent ticky. 
An attempt is making in Bourbon county to 
raise a fund for the purchase of a hortlQ for Jef¬ 
ferson Davis in that, his native State. A gentle¬ 
man of Louisville has offered, if $50,000 or more 
shall be subscribed to the fund, togive a splendid 
building site for a house, with ten acres attached, 
within lour miles of Louisville. 
Ohio, 
The failure of Die dry goods house oT A. 0. 
Headley & ..if Columbus, causes considerable 
excitement, there- 11 end ley is also the County 
Treasurer; lie has surrendered tho keys of Ids 
Office to his bondsmen, and an examination of 
his books and moneys is making. It is staled 
that John G. Thompson, Chairman of the State 
Democrat ie Executive Committee, is a member 
of the insolvent firm. 
In Gallipolis, a boy named Van Yleick stabbed 
his grandfather, a Mr. Lavin.on the 14th ult., 
because betook him to task for lighting in the 
street with another hoy. The old man died in 
ten minutes after the wound was inflicted, and 
the boy was arrested and lodged in jail. 
Illinois. 
A large tent, capable of accommodating 1,500 
people, to be used for religious work in Kansas, 
was dedicated lu Chicago on the evening of tho 
15th inst. Two energetic Kansas clergymen. 
Rev. H. K.Stinisonof Ottawa,and Rev. Winfield 
Scott of Leavenworth, propose to travel wiLh 
this tent through the now towns and cities of 
that great State, where there are no mcetiug- 
liousos, and hold a series of religious meetings. 
Much damage has been done to tho crops b.y 
tho lute heavy rains. A heavy storm of wind 
and rain visited Peoria on the 17th, and not only 
injured the crops, butblcwdown fences, houses, 
ttud other buildings. On portions of Die Toledo, 
Wabash and Western, and the Chicago, Burling¬ 
ton and Quincy Railroads, trains ceased running 
for a time. Between Quincy and Palmyra the 
country is badly flooded. Large quantities of 
wheat in the slack have been carried away by- 
high creeks In Adams county, and over 60,000 
feet of lumber have been washed away. 
Tlte trial of Rev. C. R. Cheney, rector of Christ 
Episcopal Church, Chicago, for alleged un¬ 
authorized omissions in the baptismal rites for 
children, began in tho Cathedral of St. Peter and 
St. Paul, in t lint city. On the 14th. Hon. L. B. 
Otis acts as counsel for the presenters, and Hon. 
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M. W, Fuller, assisted by Messrs. A. B. Rich and 
G. W. Thompson, defends Mr. Cheuey. It has 
before been stated that the issue against Mr. 
Cheuey' is that he omits in the baptismal rites 
the word “ regenerate." Very great interest is 
shown in tho proceedings. 
Itllelilgnn. 
Tite French societies of Detroit, are preparing 
to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Na¬ 
poleon Bonaparte. As the anniversary' occurs 
this year on Sunday—rlio 11th of August—their 
celebration will be on tho Monday following. 
Tho exercises will include a procession in the 
morning and a picnic in the afternoon. 
A Mrs. Houghton, wifeor a farmer livingnear 
Brooklyn, attempted to murder her two chil¬ 
dren und commit suicide recently by the use of 
laudanum. The discovery was made in season 
to save tlic lives of oneof tho children and tho 
mother. The latter was arrested, but gave no 
reason for her act only’ “ that she wanted to die, 
and to have her children, dio with her." 
The tornado which passed over Flint on tho 
15th inst. demolished about twenty-five build¬ 
ings, and more or less injured seventy others, 
tore off the cupola from the court-house, and 
took off numberless roofs. Several people were 
hurt, but none fatally. Tho total loss was about 
$50,000. Neighboring towns also suffered some¬ 
what from the same storm. 
By' moans of private subscript Ions sc ve ml resi¬ 
dents of Adrian have succeeded in enforcing to 
an almost unprecedented extent the Prohibitory 
Liquor Law. Nineteen convictions had been se¬ 
cured up to the 21st, and arrangements were 
being made to open a t emperance ball at once. 
Iowa. 
The Iowa Democratic State Convention was 
held in Des Moines on the I4th inst., and nomi¬ 
nated Hon. # Gcorge Gillespie for Governor, and 
W. F. Brannon for Supreme Judge. 
JTIiMKoitrl. 
One of the dozen or more St. Louis horse rail¬ 
way conductors recently arrested for embezzle¬ 
ment, or for “ knocking down," has been con¬ 
victed and fined $100. 
The Missouri railways have also suffered from 
tho recent storms, and the Hannibal and St. Jos¬ 
eph Railroad was compelled to suspend running 
its trains for a time. 
Kansan. 
Rv the fall of the great, railroad bridge over 
the Marias des Cygoes, nine miles below l’uola, 
on Die 18th j usttwelve men were thrown into 
the water, live of whom were killed instantly, 
and six were severely hurt. Only one of the 
twelve escaped without, injury. 
Ncbrnaka. 
Several disasters have recently occurred on 
the Union Pacific Rail road in consequence of the 
isle heavy rains. The train which left St. Louis 
on the ]4tli inst., was wrecked at a point 500 miles 
west of Omaha, by the caving in of an embank¬ 
ment. One passenger was killed, John Duyrr, of 
Maryland, and another, name unknown, badly 
injured. 
Two performers in a circus at Salt Lake, 
named Martini Lowanda and Henri Stcinart, 
were shot some two week* since while on tho 
way to their hotel, ni ter a performance, liysomo 
unknown person. It is said that the shots were 
inteuded for Martini, he having in some way in¬ 
jured or Insulted a lady. 
Colorado. 
The Congressional Pacific Railroad Committee 
were at Georgetown on tho 17th, viewing tho 
mining operations. Congressman Roots, ac¬ 
companied by a guide went up to the summit of 
Gray’s Peak and enjoyed the novel sensation of 
witnessinga mid-July severe snow-storm. 
New “Mexico. 
A Santa Fe dispatch states (hat the Demo¬ 
cratic Convention, al ter a stormy session, nomi¬ 
nated Recente Romero for Delegate' to Congress. 
A rtzona. 
The Powell expedition is heard from. A St. 
Louis dispatch states that letter* dated July lib, 
have been received at Green River, announcing 
that all the party were well, and that tho rapids 
had been passed through with the Joss of lint 
one boat. 
Another Jotter from Colonel Powell, of tho 
Colorado expedition, under duto of Juno 21th, is 
published, 'Jins is directed to President. Ed¬ 
wards of the Normal University, Bloomington, 
ill., and in it Colonel Powell states Unit hound 
bis party hav e reached the mouth of tho Niutah 
in safety, having run four canyons of about 
twenty-five mile* in length each, the walls of 
which were from 2,000 to 2,500 feet high. He is 
going to Greeeit River in time to make observa¬ 
tions of the eclipse on the 7th of August. 
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COMMENCEMENTS ANNIVERSARIES. 
The Commencement exercises of Rochester 
University', at Rochester, began on tho evening 
of Die lltli inst., with the anniversary of Die 
Young Men’s Christian Association, when a scr- 
m.ui was preached in the First Bapt ist Church 
by ltov. Lemuel Moss, 1). D., of Philadelphia. 
On Monday evening, the 12th inst., tlte Sopho¬ 
more Prize Declamation exorcise* took place in 
Corinthian Hull, there being eleven contestants 
for honors. Charles M. Williams of Rochester 
was awarded tlte first prize. 'I he anniversary of 
the Alumni occurred on Tuesday. An oration 
was delivered by Rev. E. J. Goodspecd of Chi¬ 
cago, and a poem by Mr. Joseph A. Ely' of 
Rochester. On Wednesday, tho 14th, the gradu¬ 
ating exercises took place in Corinthian Hall, 
the class graduated numbering twenty-five, 
each of whom received the degree of A. B. in 
course. The degree of A. M. In course was con¬ 
ferred upon Artetnus Wctherbee, William H. 
Allen, William Marvin Jones, Augustus Winters 
and Ilcrve D. Wilkins. Honorary degrees were 
conferred as followsRev. E. J. Goodspeed of 
Chicago, D. D.; Dr. Wm. Ely of Rochester, and 
Prof Henry L. Kendrick of West Point Military 
Academy. LL. D.; Emil Keuchflng, Civil En¬ 
gineer. Following these exercises was the 
Alumni Dinner, at which speeches were made 
by President Anderson, Dr. Bright, Prof. Ken¬ 
drick und others. The usual levee at the resi¬ 
dence of President Anderson closed the anni¬ 
versaries. 
Tnu Commencement of Bowdoin College at 
Brunswick, Me., occurred on the 14lb. Tho 
weather was delightful and the attendance large. 
The Graduating Class numbered thirty-one; 
Tho associated Alumni voted to complete the 
memorial hall at once, and raised over $5,000 for 
that purpose on t he spot. The degree of D. D. 
was conferred on Rev. Geo. AY. Field of Bang'll - . ' 
