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i DOMESTIC NEWS. 
WrnIi I ■■ gton. 
Secretary Boutwkll’b monthly report was 
issued on the 2d Inst. It shows a reduction ol' 
the Government indebtedness during the rnoni h 
of July amounting to $7,485,744.20, and since 
March 1st of $43,890,523.72. The amount or coin 
in the Treasury on t he 1st Inst, was $90,405,770.92; 
coin certificates, $30,725,840; currency, $23,381,- 
051.29; Sinking Fund, $11,933,147.07; other bonds 
purchased, $15,110,590. The reduction la less than 
wus expected, lor the reason that there has been 
advanced to the Pacific liailroad Company In¬ 
terest on their bonds amounting to $1,636,861.37, 
making tho real reduction over $9,000,000. In 
addition to this, there was an excessive amount 
of warrants paid the tbt lilt., amounting in all 
to upward of $2,500,000. 
Dispatches have been received at tho Navy 
Department from Kcar-Admirul Rowan, com¬ 
manding the Asiatic Squadron, dated Yokoha¬ 
ma, June 26. II'' reports that tho Japanese 
have far outstripped the Chinese in progress 
toward Western civilization. The Government 
troops are uniformed and armed with the latest 
improved lm ocb-loadtngguns; the ships of war 
are well-armed; a hospital in charge of an 
American, and open to foreigners, has Just been 
established; light-houses have been built, and 
the cull mines aro successfully worked. The 
Parliament was still in session, und many im¬ 
portant measures, mostly relating to foreigners, 
foreign Intercourse und finance, were under 
consideration. A visit early In August was ex¬ 
pected from the Duke of F.dinburgh. 
President Grant returned to Washington on 
the 29th ult., accompanied by hia Private Secre¬ 
tary, General Porter and Secretary Fish. A 
special Cabinet meeting was held at the Execu¬ 
tive Mansion. All the members were present 
excepting Postmaster-General Creewell. The 
President returned to Long Branch the next day. 
Anew inane of all denominations ol' green¬ 
backs, from one to tho one thousand dollar uote, 
is to be made lu consequence of the spurious 
issue of the fen dollar greenback, or legal lender 
notes. The plates for these notes aro now being 
engraved at. the Bureau of Engraving and Prim¬ 
ing. The designs are entirely new, find, accord¬ 
ing io law, t he port rails Of no person living can 
be used. Tho new one dollar notea Will have a 
vignette of Washington and a representation of 
tho discovery of America by Columbus oil the 
face, instead of the vignette of Chief Justice 
Chase, as on those nowin use. 'The new two 
dollar notes will have a vignette of Jefferson 
and a view of the Capitol, instead of the vignette 
of Hancock on the present ones. The plates for 
these notes have already been engraved at the 
Treasury Department. The backs of the "ones’' 
will be printed by the National Bank Note’Com- 
pany of New York, and those ol the “twos" by 
the American Company of the same city. The 
designs for the new fives, lens, twenties, and 
other denominations, have not yet boon deter¬ 
mined upon. 
Attorney-General Hoar has rendered an opin¬ 
ion defining his construction ol' the sixth section 
ol' the Tenuro-Of-ofllco act. He advises the 
President to make new appointments to those 
consular positions to which nominations were 
made at the last session of the Senate, but wore 
not acted upon by that body. The appointment 
of Mr. William Spencer Vernntn to tho Consul¬ 
ate at Kiang, China, made on the SOtli ult., is the 
first appointment by the Prosidont under this 
decision. 
Secretary Boutwell has authorized theCollcel- 
or of Customs at Chicago to sell the gold in Hie 
United Stales depository in that city to import¬ 
ers at theeurrent New York rates on day of sale. 
Tho claims Commission for the settlement , 
of claims pending between citizens of Mexico 1 
and the United States, organized in Washington 
on the 31st ult. It is composed of Honor Palaoio , 
and W. H. Wadsworth. 
Secretary Rawlins took part in the Sebuctzen- 
fest. at Washington on tho 3d inst., and showed , 
his far-western training by hitting the bull'scyo . 
five times out of six. 
Tho Secretary of tho Treasury has ordered , 
that in future no claim for refunding taxes will \ 
be considered unless filed wit hin t wo years from ( 
this time, or from tho date of the payment of , 
tlfe tax. 
Postmaster - General Creswell's forthcoming 
report will not show much reduction of the do- ; 
licit of the previous year as yet; but his csli- . 
mates indicate that he proposes to make the do- 
partment almost self-sustaining. 
£ 
New York. t 
TrtE Attorney-General has rendered un opin- 1 
ion that all the exemptions to members of (lie fc 
National Guard, lu the laws of 1807, still exist in 1 
full force, being unrepealod. 1 
Thoro Is authority tor stating that at a meet¬ 
ing of prominent New-Yorkers at Saratoga, Wil¬ 
liam B. Astor expressed his intention to com- j 
plete the Washington National Monument at his ^ 
own expense. 
Suit has been commenced against tho city of t 
Albany by the owners of tho property on tho ( 
piers damaged by the 1 reshet last winter. The , 
aggregate of tho claims amounts to $1.17,000. 
Unless settled the suit will be tried in November 
next. ( 
Tho residents ol Rivet-head, L. I., fearing a , 
repetition of t ho burglaries committed last week, , 
have appointed a night-watch. 
The prospects for tho building of the pro¬ 
jected Saratoga and Schuylei’vtUe or Upper 
Hudson River Railroad, are now excellent. r 
The corn crop in Livingston county, notwtlh- t 
standing its very backward appearance two or 1 
throe wooks ago, promlsos 0 good yield, r 
The work on the East Ilivor bridge is to bo f 
carried on under the superintendence of Wash- s 
ington A., son of the Into John A. ftoobling. 
Tho Jury in the case of Campbell, the police- S 
man, charged with the tnurdcrof Maurice Long, v 
whom lie shot during a riot on the night of tho 8 
3d ult., returned a verdict or not guilty on tho e 
30th ult. Tho announcement of the vcnllct was o 
received with cheers and applause by t he spec- t; 
tutors. f, 
Tho editor of the Buffalo Christian Advocate, si 
Rev. Sanford lfalbort, was flogged on Thursday, v 
the291 h ult., in Buffalo, by Norman Holley, son g 
of tho Collector ot tho Port, who felt aggrieved at u 
something the editor bad published ahout him. c 
Tho work of laying out. extending and widen- v 
Ing tho avenues and streets of Stapleton, Staten f< 
Island, Is being vigorously prosocuted by the 
trustees, and a marked Improvement in their 
appearance is the result. 
Jacob Cromwell of Glen Cove, wus badly cut 
by the knives of a mowing machine a few days 
. since. They struck his log Just below the ankle, 
lacerating the flesh and bone In a horrible man¬ 
ner. The wounds aro painful and dangerous. 
Two convicts in the Auburn prison fought a 
due) according to the regular code on the 30th 
"1 ult. The weapons were knives and the scene 
was t he ice-house. Bot h t he men were wounded, 
' but not dangerously. 
Frederick Hill lock, aged twelve years, was rid- 
1 ing a horse to plow in Hivcrhend, I,. I., on tho 
• 26th ult., when the horse became frightened, and 
‘ roaring, fell 'backward on (lie plow, Ilullock 
’ falling underneath, by which his arms were 
' broken and spine injured so that his recovery 
is doubtful. 
City Hall, Syracuse, was filled Thursday even¬ 
ing, the 29th ult., by those who are opposed to 
the bonding of tho city for t he construction of 
the Northern and the Chenango Valley Rail¬ 
roads. A committee was appointed to procure 
signatures of as many tax-payers of t he city as 
possible against bonding. 
A little boy, aged seven years,son of Patrick 
Carney, of Akron, Erie county, was found In a 
well about half u mile from (he futher's house, 
on tho 2»t h ult. fflic boy had been missing since 
Tuesday, the 27th. The opinion prevails that, 
tho child was murdered and thrown In tin well. 
Three men have been arrested on suspicion. A 
young woman named Carney, a cousin of the 
child, is also suspected. 
A young Shako row named Emma Calvert com¬ 
mitted suicide on the 5th of Juno last at Shaker 
Village, by drowning herself. The body was 
buried after a very cursory investigation, but 
the citizens about the neighborhood have been 
much excited over the affair since, and have de¬ 
manded an inquest, which was accord i ugly com¬ 
menced on Wednesday, the 28th ult. 't he body 
was exhumed and examined, and tho inquest 
postponed until tho 34th Inst. 
One Thomas I>. Hopkins, foreman of u rolling- 
mill in Syracuse, has been arrested on a charge 
of having employed a man to fire the barn of a 
resident ol Camlllus, named Parsons, several 
years ago. The arrest wus mode on a warrant 
sworn out by J, 11. 81 rib. It is stated that a civil 
suit has also been commenced in behalf of the 
insurance company interested, against. Hopkins, 
to recover the value ol the property destroyed. 
Thomas Kelly, one or the boys injured by the 
explosion of fireworks in Printing-House 
square, New York City, on the 28th ult., died on 
the next day. Richard Mulcnhcy, who was binn¬ 
ed lias also died, mid it is a question whether 
Michael Barrett, whose eyes were destroyed, 
mid who received other severe injuries, will re¬ 
cover. The rest of the wounded are doing well. 
Two Eric Railway locomotives were seized by 
thoSherlff of Tioga County a few days ago, to 
satisfy un execution in favor of one Floyd, of 
Waveriy, for damages received at the fart's 
Rock disaster. The ease will be taken to the 
Court, of Appeals. 
Deputy Sheriff Griggs, who was wounded in 
the late anti-rent trouble at Fast Groonbush, 
died at his residence in Sand Luke on the. 2d inst. 
Fifteen vessels alleged In have been fitting out 
as gunboats, to be used by the Government of 
Spain against Pern, or, as is also claimed, lo pro¬ 
tect the coast, ol Cuba from fill i busters, were 
seized on tho 3d inst. at the foot of Thirteenth 
street, New York City, North ltlver, by order of 
tho Government authorities in that city. 
A land slide at Stockport, Columbia coonty, 
this State, carried away, on Monday eveningtho 
2d inst., about three acres of land a hundred feet 
deep, at a point not far from the Empire House. 
Much excitement, among the towns-pcoplo was 
caused, some thinking an earthquake had visited 
tin' place. 
A strong effort Isa-tnalcing in Buffalo inbreak 
down the coal combination now in existence. 
On tho evening of t he 3d inst. a largo meeting 
of citizens was hold, and an association formed. 
Those who are concerned in l he coal operations 
were termed “robbers and plunderers of the 
poor." 
Ttlnlnc. 
An English lt.dy has given $1,000 as t he nucleus 
of a fund for the erection of an Episcopal Church ' 
at Maebias. The lady Is over eighty years of ago, 1 
was a native at Maehins, though for the last fifty 
years she hud been living in England. She had ' 
seen In the newspaper the notice of the Bishop’s 1 
first service there, and she was anxious to do her ‘ 
share In helping on tho good work in her native 1 
place. ' 
The Watwrville Mail speaks in high terms of 
Memorial Hail, now building In that place. Jt 1 
says: TheCbapdl und tho Memorial Hallproper 1 
are very nearly completed, and a large force is ' 
at work upon the Library room, which will, no 
doubt, be in presentable condition at Commence- 1 
incut time. While it. Is one of the handsomest * 
Structures to be found in tho country, it has ’ 
boon built, wo think, wit h good economy—the 1 
whole expense coming inside of $10,000. 1 
Vermont. , 
Lieitt.-Gen. r. H. Siii HtDAN arrived at Bur- < 
Region on tho afternoon of the 30th ult., and 1 
was received by the Mayor, Common Council 
ami numerous Citizens. His reception was one 5 
of the most cordial ever extended to any person, j 
civil or military, in that place. On Monday eve- \ 
nlng ho hold a public reception at the City Hall, t 
and Senator Edmunds delivered the address of t 
welcome. In firing a salute iu honor of tho t 
General’s arrival, Pctor Lander, Jr., a member t 
of the First Vermont battery, had an arm blown j 
off below the elbow. . 
fflasKachUftcttn. 
Governor Clafi.tn has sent congratulatory 
messages over tho new French Cable, in behalf of 
tho people of the State, to tho directors of tho 
line, and to Robert Slater, Jr., “ Secretary of t he 
Board of French Atlantic Telegraph Company, 
London, England," acknowledging the friendly 
sentiments of tho Board. 
Professor Bonjnmin Pierce, of Cambridge, 
Superintendent of the United States Coast Sur¬ 
vey, wit h Ids party of fifteen gentlemen, went to 
Springfield, III., to take observations of the 
eelipsoon tho 7th inst. Tho party included some 
or tho ablest officers of the Coast Survey, de¬ 
tailed for that purpose, and J. W. Black, with 
four assistants, as photographers. The best, tele¬ 
scope and apparatus at. Washington were pro¬ 
vided for the use of the party, and tho photo¬ 
graphic apparatus was remarkably complete, 
much ol' ft has been made especially for its pe¬ 
culiar work, and it was expected that, u series of 
views would be secured better than have hereto¬ 
fore been possible. 
Tho caterpillars tiro doing considerable dam- 
ir age to the treason the Boston Common. On the 
30th ult. a steam fire-engine played a powerful 
it stream on several of the trees, and thousands of 
s the worms were destroyed. 
'• Connecticut. 
Ciiari.es Smith, while crossing the New York 
and New Haven Railroad with a team, about a 
mile from Bridgeport, was struck by the eugine 
„ of tho 3 F. M train from New York, on the 3d 
inst, and was instantly killed. He was warned 
nut to attempt, to cross the. track, as the train 
was seen approaching. Ilis body was caught on 
, tho pilot and carried until the train was stopped, 
. His horse was killed. Smith resided at Black 
Rock. 
Mrs. William Bradley of East Warren was 
r killed and her little boy fatally injured by tho 
Shore Line express train from Now London on 
Saturday morning, the 31st ult. They were 
> walking over the bridge that spans Sn Konst nil 
Lake, when the train came upon them. The en¬ 
gineer sounded the whistle, but before t hey could 
reach the embankment the engine struck Mrs. 
Bradley, killing her instantly, and at, the same 
time throwing her little boy into tho lake. She 
was thirty year* of uge and her son six.. 
Three Italian boys, strolling musicians, in New 
Haven, Conn., got into a fight with a party of 
“city" boys on the 30th ult., and oho of them, 
becoming enraged at tho smashing of Ills violin, 
stabbed tho first boy he got hold of with a small 
jack-kuilc,and indicted dangerous wounds. The 
musicians then lied, but. they were soon found 
by the police, and the boy who committed tho 
deed was locked up. lie gave his name ns An¬ 
geleno Peretto, and said he had been away from 
Italy but a year. 
New Jersey. 
President Grant, with a numerous party, 
made the little village of Brlcksburg perfectly 
gay with t heir presence on the 2d Instant. Their 
visit was paid to Robert Campbell. The villagers 
were fully prepared for the distinguished ar¬ 
rivals, and welcomed them with cannon, flowers, 
and a poem delivered by alittle girl of tlvo. Tho 
parly returned to Long Branch in the afternoon, 
and all, the Prcddcntespecially, expressed them¬ 
selves delighted with the day s enjoyment. 
A family of six porsons were thrown into the 
wafer opposite Bull's Ferry, New York City, oil 
t he 30th ult., by the careening of a small boat, in 
which they were sailing for pleasure. Tile man 
I and ins wife and two grown daughters wore 
drowned, and two babes, that could not lisp 
enough to tel) their names, wore saved. They 
were found alone iu the boat by two persons 
who saw the ueeidenf from the shore. The 
family is supposed to have resided in West Ho¬ 
boken. 
Hoboken and the lower part ot the city of 
New York ts said to lie flooded with smuggled 
cigars, which were brought hither by the steam¬ 
er City of Mexico. Pure Havanas, it Is Is said, 
to the number of 100,000, buvo been purchased 
by dealers at fifty cents the pound. 
I'cnnwyl vuiiiu. 
A Don,rcu in the United States bonded ware¬ 
house, on Lombard si reel wharf, in Philadelphia, 
exploded on the evening of the 4th inst., and set 
fire to the building. Thirty thousand barrels of 
whisky were in the building at the time, and 
were probably destroyed. Tho engineer and 
watchman are sop wised to have perished. Tho 
loss will reach $3,r/w,000. 
A little girl, eight years of ago, died in Pitts¬ 
burgh on the29thult. from look-jaw, the result, 
it is alleged, of an ope ration performed at a den¬ 
tist's office, iu extracting a tooth. 
The motion fora now trial of tho Altoona in¬ 
cendiaries, Heali* and Duke, after an able ar¬ 
gument, lius been overruled, and tho prisoners 
were sentenced—Beales to ten years, and Duke 
to live years aud six months iu flic Western 
Penitentiary. 
Tho liov. 8. P. Lynn, who lias been on trial 
before tho Ohio Presbytery at. Pittsburgh, 
charged with unminislerial, indiscreet, and im¬ 
moral conduct which unfilled him for tho 
ministry, bus been acquitted upon every charge. 
Virginia. 
Gen. Butler has written a letter to a citizen 
of Virginia in which he assorts that, under 
tho laws of Congress members elect of the ■ 
Virginia Legislature who cannot take the test 
oat h must bo set aside, and their seats given to 
defeated candidate.' w bo can assume tho required ' 
obligation. Mr. Butler further says that Con¬ 
gress alone lias power to remove tho necessity 
of talcing the iron-dad oath. 
Mr. Jenkins, Chairman of the 8Lnlo Central 
Committee of tho Wells winged' tho Republican 
party in Virginia, recently proposed a fusion of 
the two parties to Dr. Gilmer, Chairman of tho 
Walker committee. The latter, in reply, says 
the Walker men were forced to leave the Wells 
party bceuusc it opposed the policy of the V res- ' 
idem,"but that the Walker party being the fimta 
fide National Republican parly of tho State, has ' 
no division* to heal. Wells men will lie warmly 1 
welcomed to the party, however, he says, if they 
are willing to enforcothoso ‘'national principles 
of which President Grant und Congress ure the ‘ 
head and front," ! 
At about one o'clock on the afternoon of tho 
Mat ult., while t he mail train of the Orange und 
Alexandria Railroad was approaching Charlotte- 1 
villa, tho brake attached to the front truck of f 
the hindmost oar fell in front of the wheel, and 1 
tho ear was thrown from the truck and upset, 
thereby wounding twelve or fifteen persons, 
two dangerously. The train wits moving at t he 1 
rate of fifteen or twenty miles nu hour. The cur 
was almost entirely oocupicd by women. 
(■corgla. 
Gov. Bullock has pardoned Robert F. Curry, , 
Walker P. Inman and Wm. H. Inman, President, ‘ 
Cashier and Director of the Northwestern Bank J 
of Georgia, who are prosecuted under the stat¬ 
ute of tho State for refusing to redoom the bills ! 
of the bank. The Governor alleges us grounds ’ 
for this proceeding that. “ tho failure was not c 
the fault ol these officers, but. the necessary re¬ 
sult of tlie notion of tho civil powers of the State ! 
during tho lute rebellion, and the destruction 
and loss of property occasioned by the late civil 1 
war;” and, secondly, because “the expenses, 
inconvenience and trouble of a defense will ! 
work groat damage and hardship to the said 
parties." 
Alabama. B 
Gov, Smith has Issued a vigorous proclama- 1 
tion against lawlessness in Madison county, on 8 
account of information that citizens are whip¬ 
ped, otherwise outraged, and even murdered, by 
disguised men, and that, neither citizens nor 1 
officers booth to take steps to have offenders a 
arrested. The Governor directs the Sheriff to t 
proceed immediately by posse carnitotux and by 
calling on the military to arrest the offenders 
and assure ample protection to citizens. 
Tho ret urns of the Alabama election, which 
was held on the 3d inst., so far are complicated. 
The vote ail through t he State is smaller than It 
was lust year. The Conservative ticket is prob¬ 
ably elected, but the raoe is very close. Mobile 
elects Mann, Conservative, to Congress by 4,108 
to 2,843 for Buck, his Republican competitor. 
Montgomery elects Buck ley, Republican, to ('on- 
gross by about 2,000 majority over Worthoy, 
Conservative. 
Louisiana. 
The Louisiana Supreme Court has deckled 
that Governor Wurmouth has no power under 
the State Constitution to remove judges, and a 
judge who was removed for ineligibility under 
the Fourteenth Amendment has, consequently, 
been retained In his scat. 
A young girl named Caroline Kctehum, seven¬ 
teen years old. was stabbed three times in the 
City Park, New Orleans, on tho 31st ult., by her 
false lover, one Salvador Carlo He, because she 
threatened to prevent him from marrying 
another, lie consented to spare her further 
wounds when she had sworn never to toll who 
had stubbed her; and leaving her to die, lie hur¬ 
ried away. The girl managed to drag herself to 
a police station, where her wounds wore pro¬ 
nounced mortal. She was removed tea hospital; 
there, to repeated solicitations, she ret used to 
reveal tho name of her assassin, and thus break 
her oath, but in her delirium disclosed it. 
Search was made, but at lust accounts the mur¬ 
derer had not been captured, though his blood- 
spriukled clothes were found at his residence. 
The delegation from the Now Orleans Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce iu the Chinese Labor Conven¬ 
tion, recently held in Memphis, Tenn., have 
made their report t o tlm Chamber. They decline 
io endorse tho out ire proceedings and tho action 
finally taken in the Convention, and simply say 
that they are Unanimous iu the opinion that 
much good must, result from this gathering. 
They commend the subject of immigration and 
Chinese labor to tho Chamber and tho citizens 
of Louisiana, and suggest. Hint, public meetings 
for information and discussion be held, and that 
organizations be formed similar to the “Com¬ 
missioners of Immigration ’’ in other States. 
The Mississippi National Republican State 
Convention for the nomination of State officer i 
is to be held in Jackson on Friday, 1 he 20th inst. 
Tennessee. 
The State election was held on Thursday the 
5th instant. The Conservatives lmvocarriod the 
Slate ami elected Sen ter Governor by some thir¬ 
ty thousand majority. 
The Northern and Eastern through mails that 
left Now Orleans on Monday, the 20tb ult.. to 
gather with oilier through mails from points 
between New Orleans und Clarksville, wore 
burned in Hie Memphis Railroad disaster on the 
28th ult. It was at first suspocteij that tho tralu 
on the Memphis and Louisville Railroad was 
thrown off tho track with u view to conceal the 
robbery of the Adams Express sale, which was 
known to contain $100,000, The sufo was re¬ 
covered, however, on the 29th. and was found 
unopened. The heat of the tire lmd destroyed 
its contents. It is reported that all the wound¬ 
ed passengers left at Clarksville aro in a com¬ 
fortable condition and out of danger. The same 
is true of those brought to Louisville, with the 
exception of Mrs. Moduli. Louisville papers 
award high praise to three discharged Soldiers, 
Sergeants It. H. Michael and It. 1*. Gill, of Rock¬ 
ford, Ill., and Private A. F. Long of Nashua, N. 
II., for their gallantry in endeavor! rig to rescue 
and care for the wounded. Mr. Gill rescued 
Mrs. McCall, and Mr. Long extricated the life¬ 
less body of Mr. McCall after the train had 
caught fire. 
Kentucky. 
The State election was held on the 2d inst. In 
Louisville there were several political rows 
wherein firearms were used, but no life was 
.‘Ueritlccd. The majority for Janies IV. Tate, the 
Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, over 
his Republican opponent, E. Itumscy Wing, 
will probably reach 43,000. All the Democratic 
candidates for the legislature from the city of 
Louisville and Joffumou county arc clouted by 
large majorities. Returns from various sections 
of the Slate indicate HieelecHonof a large num¬ 
ber of Democratic legislative candidates. There 
will brobubly be but about fifteen lotwonty Re¬ 
publicans elected to the Legislature. 
Ohio. 
It is charged that the murderer of Mrs. Orms- 
by, the widow who was shot dead while standing 
at her chamber window at Springfield, Ohio, on 
the night of the llili of July, is one Frank 
Ormsby, ber step-son, a young man about 
twenty-two yean* of ago. A fierce wrangle had 
occurred between tho two over tho division of 
the property of Mr. Ormsby, Sr., after his death, 
which took place about eighteen months ago. 
By some means Mis. Ormsby gained some slight 
advantage over her step-son, and lie left homo, 
swearing that he would avenge tho wrongs 
which lie fell, ho had suffered at luw hands. Ho 
was not seen in that part of the State again 
until the day of the murder, and has not been 
seen since. It la supposed that lie is in the 
vicinity aud sheltered by some of liis relatives. 
And in contradiction of tiffs it is asserted that 
lie was in Cynthinna, Ky., where he resides, the 
day and tho night of the murder. 
Infffuiin. 
Attorney - Genera i, Williamson of this 
State, has decided that colored children in that 
State are, In virtue of a law passed by the last 
Legislature, entitled to be organized at once into 
soparato schools, having all the rights and privi¬ 
leges of other schools. It. has been contended 
that their organizat ion into such schools roust 
be postponed unlil their proportion uST'ie tax 
can be assessed und collected. 
Oliver A. Morgan bus been found guilty of 
murder in the first degree, in the Criminal Court 
in Terra Haute, and was on the 29th ult. sen¬ 
tenced to bo hanged on tho 1st of September 
next. To the question of the Judge, after he 
had announced the verdict by the jury, If ho 
had anything to say, tho prisoner replied : “ May 
It please the Court, I have nothing further to 
say, except t hat the case Inis been hurried from 
the first, and that, too, amid great excitement, 
so that a fair trial was hardly possible.” 
min oiw. 
A deputy sheriff in Pokin, Ill., was recently 
killed while trying to arrest two horse thieves, 
and On Sunday, the Ini Inst., u crowd broke into 
tho Jail where Hie horse t hieves were confined. 
r took out one of them and hung him. He re- 
i resisted stoutly and wounded several of tho 
lynchers, one of them perhaps fatally. It is 
i believed that most of the gang lo which the 
horse thiel belonged will no lyueneu wneu 
, caught. 
It is stated on the authority of the attorney of 
Miss Amanda Craig, of the Sprague-Cmigbreach 
t of promise caso fame, that the statement re¬ 
cently made to the effect that Mr. Hpnugue had 
taken out an appeal to the Supremo Court, is 
wrong. Mr. Sprague has taken out a writ of 
error on question of law; it is now too late to 
make an appeal. Tho execution is now in the 
hands of the sheriff, and tho parties are at lib¬ 
erty to proceed to collect tho Judgment of 
$40,000 and costs, as if no writ of error had been 
used. 
The Peoria Fire and Murine Insurance Com¬ 
pany has failed, not being able to comply with 
the new State insurance laws. Tho dispatch an¬ 
nouncing tho failure says the liabilities are 
heavy, and the assets nothing. 
On the 29th ult., at Rock island, a number of 
raftsmen took dock passage on the steamer Du¬ 
buque. About tea miles up the Mississippi 
River they insisted upon occupying tho cabin, 
but, being refused, they commenced a row with 
tho officers, which soon became general, and 
before the disturbance was quelled eight men 
were killed. 
The Chicago City Government has ordered the 
building of a second tunnel under tho river, 
similar to that at Washington street. Tho new 
tunnel is to lie made at. Lu Salle street. 
A young man named George Doming, residing 
at South Bend, Did., was fatally poisoned in 
Chicago, a few days ago, by the carelessness of a 
druggist, who gave him aconite, for brandy, to 
relieve him of a sudden attack of summer com¬ 
plaint. He died at the Briggs House an hour 
afler taking the aconite. 
Judge Jameson rendered a decision the 3d inst. 
against the dissolution of the injunction against, 
the Ecclesiastical Court. Tho attorneys on both 
sides of (licensehad n consultation immediately 
after the opinion had been rendered, und the 
counsel for the Bishop requested to leave on 
file uu amended bill before the Supreme Court 
at the September term. The Supreme Court will 
not reach a decision before January next. 
The successful laying of tho new French cable 
was celebrated In Chicago on Wednesday eve¬ 
ning llie 28th ult. by a largo meeting in Library 
Hall, at which speeches in English, German. 
French and Italian were made. 
Tho treasurer of Illinois has just received 
$10,280 from the bankrupt estate of Buddolph 
Wright & Co., a London bunking firm, winch 
failed many years ago, owing the State ol Illi¬ 
nois $100,000 which they had received for bonds 
sold for Ilia State. This Is the third dividend 
received, the throe agrogating about $10,000. . 
HI I <-lil gun. 
The French citizens of Detroit propose to 
celebrate the centennial anniversary of tho birth 
of Napoleon i. on the 15th of August. Tho 
President of the day will be an aged soldier who 
fought under Napoleon, and is now a resident of 
Hi it city. The entire net. proceeds of tho cele¬ 
bration will be given to the Hotel desi luvalidea 
of Paris, where something over fifty soldiers who 
tone fit under Napoleon I. are still eared for. It 
iH expected that there will bca large ntUuduueu 
of Frenchmen from the Interior of the State, 
and from the adjoining Province of Ontario. 
Annin named William B. Smith,a watchmaker 
in Whitehall, whilo inu temporary 111 «jI insani¬ 
ty, recently look up a double-barreled shot-gun 
and walked out into tlio street and shot the first 
two men ho met, and threatened to shoot one or 
t wo others. lie was finally captured and lodged 
m Juil. One. of the men shot was killed outright, 
and tho other badly wounded. 
Wisconsin. 
The Germans of Milwaukee propose to cel¬ 
ebrate the Humboldt Anniversary in common 
with their brethren throughout the country. 
Hezekiah Braughton, who, while agent of (lie 
United States Expri-s Company tit Pacific City, 
Iowa, on a connecting line of tlie Pacific ltad- 
road, robbed the office ot *10,IK.*) In greenbacks 
on the 16th of last J uly, and disappeared, has just 
been arrested in the town of Waukesha, in tins 
State whore lie was living in line stylo, under the 
assumed name of Henry Brayton. He confessed 
when talcou, and gave up about $9,000 of iho 
money. The properl y belonged to merchants of 
Pacific City. 
Iowa. 
It has been decided to hold tlie Mississippi 
Valley Commercial Convention at Keokuk, on 
tho 7th of September. 
lllwourl. 
A passenger train bound west over the Han¬ 
nibal and St. Joseph Railroad, ran off tho track, 
owing to a misplaced switch, on the morning of 
the 20th ult., and two of tho rear ears were 
thrown dowu an embankment and smashed. 
Two passengers were seriously injured ntul a 
number slightly, und two railroad hands were 
badly burned. 
Four hundred and fifty Mormons, principally 
Danes, arrived at Hi.. Louis on tho 3d inst., on 
route to Salt Lake. 
Iv a nsas. 
The Kansas Land League, which is composed 
of settlers who find their land claims invalidated 
by tho surreptitious sales of neutral lands made 
under Secretary Harlan's administration of tho 
Interior Department, held a mooting in Leaven¬ 
worth recently and denounced Senators Ross 
and Pomcro.v, burned the latter m effigy, de¬ 
manded tho resignation of both of them and cut 
loose from the Republican putty. 
Nebraska. 
The laborers on the Missouri River bridge at 
Omaha having struck Chinese laborers have been 
sent for from San Francisco. 
An Omaha dispatch says that the new freight 
tariff wont into operation on the Union Pacific 
Railroad on tlie 3d inst. The rates are from 
I hirty to forty per cent, lower than the previous 
tariff. 
Texas. 
Governor Pease, of Texas, has been assured 
by President Grant that he would not interfere 
in the Texas election which comes off m Novem¬ 
ber. Tiiere are two Republican parties in that 
State, as iu Virginia und Mississippi. 
U is stated that the damage done by tho floods 
in Fayette county lias been over-estimated. 
One-fifth only of the entire crop of the county 
has been destroyed, and no contributions of 
money or supplies are needed. The cases of real 
suffering are among the negroes, and for them 
it la assorted, there is plenty reJief in the shape 
of work, for which they are offered good shelter 
and pay. 
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