dittos of ibt Silcrfe. 
eg d 0 0SD 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Wa*liingto n. 
Secretary Robeson has made the following 
changes in the names of vessels, to conform 
more fully with the lawArizona to Nevada, 
Hccla to Nebraska, Hercules to Oregon, Thun¬ 
derer to Massachusetts, Astoria to Omaha, Cam¬ 
bridge to < onffresS, Detroit to Canandaigua, 
Achilles to Mudro. .Etna to Nunsett, Argus to 
Koka, Atlas to Nahant, Castor to Mahpue, Spit- 
tire to Sunoook, Strom hoii to Wassue. Tartar to 
Yazoo, Tempest t*> Yuma, Nemesis to Wyan¬ 
dotte, Vixen to Osceola, Tornado to Winnebago, 
Tlie receipts front tho Internal revenue iliis 
Season arc much higher than tlio returns ex¬ 
hibited at this period last year. For Home time 
past they have averaged $1100,000 a day, and on 
the 9th just, they were within a fraction of 
$1,000,000. 
Several counterfeit coupons, paid by the As¬ 
sistant Treasurer in New York City, were re¬ 
ceived at the Treasurer’s oflioc in Washington a 
few days since. They arc lithographs, and poor¬ 
ly executed. 
Hear Admiral Hoff. who lias been in command 
of our squadron in Cuban waters for some time, 
has been ordered to Portsmouth, N\ 11., with ills 
flagship Albany, formerly the Contoocook. The 
squadron is to hr commanded by t he next settlor 
officer. 
The Spanish Claims Commission organized on 
the 10th Inst. After completing their prelimi¬ 
nary arrangements, the Commission will ad¬ 
journ, probably until December, in order to give 
parties interested time to prepare their claims 
for presentation. 
It is stated that the counterfeiting of the reve¬ 
nue stamps Is carried on to such an extent that 
the Department is thinking ol recalling the 
whole of Urn present issue, changing ihe designs 
and hay ing the work, now done by contract in 
various parts of the country, carried on solely 
under Government supervision. 
The Hritlsh Government 1ms refused to recog¬ 
nize Major .(antes Haggerty, the new Cnitcd 
States < 'onsul at Glasgow, because, it is asserted, 
lie lias been prominent in the Fenian move¬ 
ments. Our Government, however, will take no 
1nether steps in the i natter, asll considers Mint 
it has enough Fenian affairs oil hand already. 
It is understood that in the event of Empm.-vt 
Eugenie making tlie tour of tills country, the 
Navy Department will be advised by the com¬ 
manding officer "f the rutted .states Squadron 
in Europe In time to make preparations for her 
reception, The French licet to Convoy the Em¬ 
press across the Atlantic will, in that event, 
probably be escorted by Hear Admiral Had ford 
in his flagship, the Franklin, 
A letter was received at. the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment in which tlio writer says he had $3,3(10 
worth of Five-Twenty bonds, yvhleh he hid in 
the ash hole of his bacon house for safe keep¬ 
ing. Ills wife, not being aware of the fact, 
kindled a tire to smoko some bacon, and the 
bonds were reduced to a cinder. They yvero 
sent to the Redemption Bureau rob© exchanged, 
in so dilapidated a condition as to almost defy 
identification: but the experts of the Treasury 
have managed to paste tin- charred parts to¬ 
gether so as to make out the ainouttt without 
loss to the owner, who will in a feyv days receive 
equal value in bonds of more promising appear¬ 
ance. 
The subject of taxing manufacturers of shin¬ 
gles on sale, which lias been before the Revenue 
Bureau lately, has been decided iu favor of ex¬ 
empting tile same, in accordance wi'li 1lie ruling 
of Ex-<'nmmis-ioner Rollins. The point raised 
by the Assessors In Ihe ease was that when 
shingles are sayvod out they are completed, and 
ready for consumption, and therefore are nuin- 
ufactured lumber, but tlie Bureau exempts 
boards and laths from tax precisely in this con¬ 
dition, because they may yet pass through 
second hands before they are completed or man¬ 
ufactured. The Commissioner thought the dis¬ 
tinction too tine to tie justly made, and there¬ 
fore confirmed the previous ruling. 
Secretary Robeson, Genera I siierman. Admiral 
Porter. Commodore AUlon and Chlct Engineer 
King loft the capital on ihe afternoon of the 
loth inst. for Annapolis, to take an extended 
cruise -upward of u month on the Tallapoosa, 
on an official tour of inspect ion of navy yards 
and fortifications along the Atlantic coast. The 
trip yvill not extend further South than Norfolk, 
yvliieb yvill he first visited. Afterward they will 
go to New York, Newport, Boston, Portsmouth 
and Portland. The navy yards yvill he inspected 
by Secretary Kobo-on and Admiral Porter ; ami 
Newport and (he fortifications by Gen. Sher¬ 
man, it being understood that the trip is not for 
pleasure, but for official purposes exclusively. 
Treasurer Spinner continues to receive letters 
from all parts of theeouutry informing him of 
the circulat ion of the new counterfeit ten-dollar 
notes. A letter has been received in Washing¬ 
ton from North Carolina stating that the va¬ 
rious sections of that St ate are flooded with the 
new counterfeit notes. 
The Peace Conference, which wassoou to have 
been held in Washington between the represen¬ 
tatives of the South American Republics and 
Spain, yvill not, it is understood, take place lie- 
fore the early part of next January. 
Oliver Ames, President of the Union Pacific 
Railroad, publishes ft card in the Boston papers 
in reference to the report that the Pacific Rail¬ 
road Companies have issued bonds, under the 
law, for one hundred miles iu advance of the 
completed lino ot the road. He declares that the 
Uuion Pacific ltoad Company have not sold as 
many bonds as t hey are entitled to Issue, by over 
$1,000,000. 
Rear Admiral Daklgren formally entered upon 
his duties as commander of the Washington 
Navy Till'd on t he 10th inst. 
The Commissioner of the General Land Office 
has authorized the entry of forty acres as an ad¬ 
dition to the toyvn of Helena, Montana, under 
the Town Sire act of March 2,18(17- The proof 
iu the case allows that two hundred buildings 
have boon erected on this addition, valued ui 
$200,000, and that throe hundred persons reside 
thereon. Tile United Slates Land Office is situ- 
nted upon tills tract. The toyvn site yvill now 
embrace three hundred and forty-seven acres, 
an entry of three hundred and seven acres hay ¬ 
ing been authorized by the Commissioner’s de¬ 
cision of Feb. 23, i860. 
The following additional changes were made 
on the 11th inst., in the nay ul nomenclature by 
the Secretary of the Navy: Centaur to Saugus, 
Charybdis to Cohoes, Circe to Marietta, Cyclops 
to Kewaydin, Eolus to Shawnee, Erebus foAi- 
gomii, Fury to Catsklll, Gorgon to Mirmcttonku, 
Harpy to Klamath, Hecate to Etlah, Hydra to 
Otsego, Medusa to Nantucket, Minerva to San¬ 
dusky, Neumsis to Napa, Neptune to Manhattan, 
Orion to Piscataqua, Ramson to Chickasaw, Scyl- 
ln to Cununieus, Stromboli to Waasuc, Tartar to 
Yazoo, Tempest to Vunia, Vesuvius to Wyan¬ 
dotte. Vixen to Osceola, Tornado to Winnebago. 
Most of tin clmugiMon these two lists are resto¬ 
rations to the!i 1 former names; and where Sec¬ 
retary Robeson could not restore the former 
names on account of the law regulating the 
names of naval vessels, he has selected equally 
distinctive Amcrlran names. For instance, the 
Sliaekawaxon, yvhleh Secretary Boric changed 
to the Hecla, Is now the Nebraska, as a certain 
class of vessels must he named after .Stales. 
The new Mexican Minister, Honor Don Ignacio 
Marisettl, was pro.-< nted to the President on Ihe 
lltli lust., by Secretary 1'lsh. Jn addition to the 
usual expressions o! regard between the two re¬ 
publics, Honor Mnrlscal most happily alluded to 
the great moral aid given to his country in its 
darkest hour by the United States, and acknowl 
edged the obligations his country was under for 
our assistance when the Powers of Europe were 
combined to destroy her. Senor Palncio, the 
Mexican Claims Commissioner, accompanied 
.Minister Mnrisoul. 
With regard to the coming election in Missis¬ 
sippi, the President is reported to have expressed 
Ills wish to trust the Southerners, but does not 
feel that he can do so, and regards the rejection 
of the otters of compromise made b,y the Wells 
parly in Virginia ascertain proof that some of 
Walker’s party yvill oppose thendminis .-alien. 
It lam been decided to use all the leg: mate 
power of the Administration to save Mississippi 
ami Texas. 
The United Stales steamer Juniata went to sea 
from Philadelphia on Wednesday, the 4th, and 
the Dictator. Captain Calhoun, on the 8th inst. 
The Miimtouoniob, double - tunvted monitor, 
and the steamer Cambridge, are also fitting out 
for sea at the Brooklyn Navy-yard. 
It is stated that a National Convention of 
liquor dealers will beheld iu Washington during 
the fall or early winter. 
New \ or It. 
Du king the five days from Friday, the 6th, to 
Wednesday, the lltli inst., inclusive, there has 
been great excitement along Hie line of tlie Al¬ 
bany and Susquehanna Railroad. < >n Friday in 
junctions were served at Albany. On the sumo 
day, Judge Peckltam, on application of the 
Ramsey inti-rosi. appointed lion. It. H. Pruyn 
receiver of the road, and Superintendent Van 
Valkenburg was put iu charge of the office. 
Saturday morning, on going to the office, he 
found Mr. Herrick bad been there opening the 
doors of Ills private rooms, whereupon lie called 
in several men and stationed them ul the vari¬ 
ous doors, with orders to let no one pass in. 
Soon after James Fisk, Jr., of New York, ap¬ 
peared at the office in A Ihuny, and showed pa¬ 
pers from Judge Barnard, of New York, ap¬ 
pointing him receiver of the road, but admission 
was refused him. and, on Ids malting a noisy 
demonstration, lie was taken charge ol by a po¬ 
lice officer. He was relciiM-d. however, <>q Ids 
arrival at tlio station house. Tho Common 
Council of Albany have removed Mr. Herrick, 
one of the directors for tho city, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent of the road, and opposed to the Ramsey in- 
t crest. 
On Monday operations were transferred from 
Albany to Binghamton.and the Sheriff of Broome 
county seized the office and attached rolling 
stock of the Company m Binghamton on ihe 
authority of a writ of Judge Barnard, placing 
Mr. Vautyle of Binglmmpton, in charge of the 
office. Two engines were seized by the Sheriff, 
and the passenger train was sent, out under 
charge id'an Erie conductor and drawn by an 
Erie engine. And Mr. Fisk, as receiver, ap¬ 
pointed Superintendent Pratt of Ihe Erie road. 
Superintendent of the Susquehanna road. Alter 
this President Ramsey sent a force of 1,000 men 
doyvnthe road, which proceeded to tlie tunnel at 
1 hi itH) ridge, where they encountered alike num¬ 
ber <w Erie men, and a skirmish soon after oc¬ 
curred, the Erie men driving the Ramsey men 
through the tunnel. The latter then drove the 
former hack. Matters finally reached such u 
pass that Governor Hoffman interfered and took 
possession of the road on the 11th, and appoint¬ 
ed Gen. MeQuadeof bis stall' Superintendent to 
run the road until the matter is settled in tho 
courts. 
Governor Hoffman has pardoned Mary Dwyer, 
who was sentenced to the Penitentiary for six 
months, having been Informed that she was tlio 
mother of seven children, all too young to lake 
cure of themselves. 
Two sons of D. Riggs, one aged eighteen 
and the other eight. years, were drowned in the 
town of Chili on Wednesday, the 1th inst. They 
were in u bout on a mill pond. Charles, the 
younger, fell into the water, and Albert, the 
elder, yvent, to his rescue, and bot h were drowned 
together* 
The reception of President Grant at Vewlmrg 
<m Saturday, the itli inst,, rvas of the most cn- 
thusiast a: character. The ceremonies took place 
in Washington's headquarters, where he took 
farewell of his army and refused the offer of a 
crown. Graceful allusions yvere made in the 
speeches to these incidents. 
Mr E. Swinton, nn estimable citizen of Port 
Jervis, wits shot dead by a drunken peddler 
named Warren Follows on Thursday, the 6th 
inst. The latter was badly wounded by tho son 
of Mr. Swinton, and his recovery is not expect¬ 
ed. This Fellows for the past ten or twelve 
years has made Port Jervis his headquarters, 
and has enjoyed tlm reputation of a rough, and 
when in liquor has always been given a wide 
berth by those who knew his brutal nature. 
Thursday afternoon he became intoxicated, and 
when iu front of Swinton & Sou's hardware 
store behaved in an indecent manner. Old Mr. 
Swinton, seeing him on the sidewalk, yvent out 
of his store and ordered him away, whereupon 
Fellows mad/} an at tack upon tho old gentleman, 
following him into his store, and then drew a re¬ 
volver and deliberately shot him, eatiriug instant 
death. Mr. Swinton, Jr,, sprang from behind 
the counter, and with a hatchet dealt Fellows 
two blows upon the head, which felled him upon 
the floor, where he lay until taken charge of by 
the authorities. Mr, Swinton had been a resi¬ 
dent of Port Jervis for many years, and was 
well known and universally respected. His 
death lias cast a gloom over the whole commu¬ 
nity; 
On the 10th. at the session of the Court of 
Oyer and Terminer in New York City, eight 
Wall strut brokers wore sentenced by Judge 
Cardozo fe usury. On all of them lie Imposed 
aline var> ng from $260 to $300, and two yvere 
sentenced in the City Prison for five and ten 
days, but sentence yvas suspended. 
Two skeletons were recently discovered by 
laborers who yvere digging a drain near Glen's 
Falls- The remains are supposed to be those of 
soldiers killed during the French war. The 
skull* still bore the marks of tomahawks. 
Mary Doyle, insane, escaped from St. Mary's 
Hospital, Rochester, on Thursday evening, the 
51h inst. She made her yvay four miles into flic 
country, wearing only a chemise, and yvas mis¬ 
taken for a ghost by a lady, who gave an alarm 
that resulted in the capture of the lunatic. 
A new building, forty by ninety foot and five 
[ stories high, Is to be added to tho Five Points 
House of Industry in New York City. The new 
and olu buildings together will accommodate 
about four hundred children. The number at 
present iu tho institution is two hundred and 
fifty. 
Early on the morning of the 11th inst. a gang 
of robbers entered Ihe ear of Hie Pacific Ex¬ 
press Company, on the New York Central Rail¬ 
road, between Albany and Fonda. o\ erpnvvered 
the express messenger and baggageman, broke 
open Ihe tales, appropriated tlie contents and 
escaped with their booty unnoticed. Tho 
amount stolen is unknown, but. il is believed to 
be very heavy. Themessenger and baggageman 
yvere seriously injured, having been beaten yvitb 
clubs and chloroformed; when released they 
yvere half dead. 
In the Surrogate's Court, during the first week 
in August, the will of Hie lute Mr, Rufus L. 
Lord, of “The Lord Bond Rubbery” notoriety, 
was admitted to probate. The deceased was a 
bachelor, and left property valued at $t.o0o,o;)(l. 
He left surviving four brothers, one sister and 
about seventy relatives in degrees more reunite. 
David X. and Thomas Lord received the larger 
portion of the property. 
The photograph of the person who committed 
•suicide at Crowe, England, a few weeks ago, and 
who was then supposed to be in some way con¬ 
nected with the Ocean Bank robbery, lias been 
recognized beyond doubt us that of Win. Leiss, 
formerly a Custom-houses broker at No. 66 
Broadway, unit al onetime a runner at Castle 
Garden. Li ir-s is said to have been involved in 
both domestic and pecuniary difficulties here, 
and to have borne a not very enviable character. 
The photograph isthat of a man of about fifty- 
live years of age, whose features have become 
emaciated by sickness or dissipation. 
A reduction In the charges for messages over 
the old Atlantic Cable went into effect on the 
lot li iusi. For ten words the ebargo will be 80s. 
sterling, or $7.50, gold, and for each additional 
word 3s. sterling, or seventy-five cents, gold. 
This is less Hum tlio rates of the French Com¬ 
pany. 
In tho Supremo Court, Special Term, hold in 
New York City, Judge Cardozo, on the 9th inst., 
rendered an opinion in the matter ol the Mer¬ 
chants" Union and American Express Compa¬ 
nies litigation, which has been so long before 
the Courts. The motion lor 1 ho removal of re¬ 
ceiver Wm.I’. Allou and tlie appointment of an¬ 
other in his stead is denied. 
The iron mhmr-fcf Essex county, who have 
struck, arc creating considerable disturbance, 
A dispatch from Albany states that they have 
forced all the men in tho small ore beds at Fort 
Henry to stop work, uud have unloaded trains, 
and are doing other mischief. In the town of 
Moriah, the Bay State Iron Company's furnucua 
are tho only ones at work, and the Sheriff of the 
county, with his deputies, arc endeavoring to 
prevent tlio strikers interfering with these. 
At the meeting of the Woman Suffrage Asso¬ 
ciation iu New York City, on the 10th inst-, Mrs. 
Wi)hour read an essay on tho rights and duties 
of her sex, which was well received. Tlie print¬ 
ed petitions for a sixteenth amendment to Hie 
United States Constitution arc now in circula¬ 
tion for signatures. 
New Hampshire- 
The store of Samuel C. Anderson, of Heed's 
Ferry, near Concord, was entered on Thursday 
night the 5th inst., the safe moved thirty feet 
and dumped into a cellar, then blown open and 
robbed of $1,200. Tbirty-livo hundred dollars in 
Government bonds were left in the safe. 
Vermont. 
A petition is in circulation in Rutland coun¬ 
ty praying tho General Assembly to commute 
the sentence of Horace R. Pluraley from death 
to imprisonment for life. Plutnley killed John 
Gilman, Jr., on Hie 1st of August, 1BG8, in the 
town of Shrewsbury, and at the March Term of 
the Rutland County Court, was convicted of ihe 
crime, and sentenced to be executed on the last 
Friday of September, 1870. 
AS assn eh u setts. 
The soldiers' monument iu Plymouth was 
dedicated on the 01 h inst. with appropriate-Oero- 
inonies. The town was thronged with visitors, 
and a general holiday was observed. There was 
a procession in the afternoon--composed of the 
military, secret and civil bodies, and at the con¬ 
clusion of the inarch the dedicatory exercises 
took place in a largo lent on ihe monument 
grounds. A large number of invited guests 
were present, including Governor Clutliu, of 
Massachusetts: Governor Stearns, of New 
Hampshire, and Colonel Russell, Collector of 
Boston. Wm. T. Davis presided, and the oration 
was delivered by Governor Chamberlain, of 
Mai no. At 4 o'clock a grand dinner was given 
at the Samoset House, and in the evening a re¬ 
ception at the residence of Mr. Davis. 
Rhode Island. 
Tut; dead body of Mowry Irons, who murdered 
his wife on the 21st of June last, at Burrillvillc, 
was found on the Ttb inst. in a swamp near tho 
scene of the murder. He bad evidently killed 
himself soon after killing bis wife. 
Coimeetleu c. 
Among till.: bequests of the late Philip Marot 
of New Haven, Js one amounting to one-fil'th of 
bis property, being about $110,000, to the Con¬ 
necticut Stale Hospital, the Income of which is 
to bo applied in providing free beds for tlio indi¬ 
gent patients, giving preference totlioso inoura- 
bly affected, if such are admissible. 
On Sunday evening, the Sth lust., an attempt 
was made to burn the boarding house connected 
with the Young Ladies’ Seminary at Windsor, 
but the d imes were extinguished before they 
had caused much damage. This is the fifth in¬ 
cendiary fire in Windsor since July 8, two of 
them having been set in broad daylight, and 
there is gie.it excitement in tlie town, no one 
feeling safe as long as the incendiary is undis¬ 
covered. 
On the 11th a State Temperance Convention 
was held in Hartford, at which resolutions were 
passed, denouncing the manufacture and sale of 
intoxicating liquors, and urging the formation 
of a temperance political party. The members 
of the Convention pledged themselves to vote 
I for no candidate for Governor or Legislature 
who was not in favor of a prohibitory law. 
New .1>r*cy. 
On the 7th inst. a jury was impaneled by Coro- 
j ner White of Hoboken, to hold an Inquest over 
the body of Mlnnio Rosenborg, the little child 
run over and killed while gathering flowers 
along the road near the northern confines of the 
City, by u Union Hill car. Tho man who drove 
the car has been arrested, and is held to await 
Hie result <d the Coroner's investigation. 
Tlio Common Council of Newark have adopt¬ 
ed a resolution to begin an action against the 
Newark and New York Railroad Company for a 
violation of the provisions of their charter and 
the City ordinance, by crossing Hamilton street 
at such an angle as to practically destroy its 
value for public travel. The indignation that Is 
generally felt by the people of Newark mi ac¬ 
count ot the adoption by the Company of a 
higher rate of faro than that originally agreed 
upon, is said to be the cause ol these sudden 
demonstrations against the Company. 
Pennsylvania. 
James Griffin, the Eric Railroad engineer 
charged with causing the Mast Hope disaster, 
was discharged on $6,000 bail on the 2d inst. 
Francis Wycolcoff, a German, was stubbed and 
killed on the 3th inst. in Philadelphia by Henry 
Carr, colored, during a dispute in a barber shop 
in the southern part of the city. Tho murderer 
lied, and hud not been arrested at lost, accounts. 
The truth ol the report that Juy Coolte Sc Co. 
had advanced money on whisky destroyed by 
the Philadelphia fire is denied by that firm. 
Charles Orme. convicted of participation in 
the murder of Theodore Broadhcad, in Septem¬ 
ber last, was hanged at. Stroudsburg on the lltli 
inst. He protested Ills innocence. 
Yirginhi. 
General Canby has issued an order revoking 
so much of an order issued by General Stone- 
man permitting eertain officers who could not 
take the test oath to hold offices to which they 
were elected. All persons holding office and 
who cannot take the test oath arc to be at once 
removed. 
Georgia. 
Three men, named Hargrove, Hand, and Lus¬ 
ter, were arrested at Augusta, on the 7th inst., 
charged with robbing t.lto Southern Express 
Company of $5,000 on the Central Railroad. 
A lit ha nan. 
A serious riot occurred In Mobile on Thurs¬ 
day evening, the 5th inst., during the progress 
of an out-door meeting of the Republicans to 
celebrate their victory in Hie Congressional Dis¬ 
trict. The lighting was between whites and 
blacks, and, from the accounts received, it is 
not clear which class tvas to blame. The result 
of the conflict anus: three negroes killed and 
five wounded, and seven white men injured. 
Ten iickscc. 
Governor Sentkr's majority Is, thus far. 62,- 
000, with nineteen counties yet to hear from. 
A party has sprung up in Tennessee which 
proposes to repudiate the twenty millions State 
debt contracted under Hie Ilrownlow adminis¬ 
tration, Emerson Etheridge is a warm supporter 
of this movement. 
Ex-lTcsidont Johnson's election to the United 
states Senate from Tennessee is considered cer¬ 
tain. Tho dispatches state that it is probable 
that twenty-five out of the thirty-five East 
Tennessee members of the Legislature will sup¬ 
port him. 
Kentucky. 
A fire in Elizabethtown on Friday night, the 
6th inst., destroyed thirty-two buildings. The 
lossis estimated at $125,000. 
The lower house of the Kentucky Legislature 
will consist of cighty-ouo Democrats and live 
Republicans. 
Ohio. 
General KOSBCRAKS telegraphed from San 
Francisco (where he had lately arrived from 
Mexico) on this 7tli inst., to Judge Thurman, 
Chairman of tho Democratic State Committee, 
declining the nomination for Governor. The 
telegram read“After tlie war 1 resigned a 
very desirable position in tlie army, and left my 
State to secure at the least, the possibility of ful¬ 
filling duties deemed sacred to my creditors and 
family. These duties iioav forbid me the honor 
of leading the Democracy of Ohio in the pending 
canaA’ss. 1 send letter by imul," 
On file 11th inst., the members of tho Demo¬ 
cratic Stale Central Cominitleemctat Columbus 
to doA’ise means to till the A'ueaney caused by the 
declination of General Rosocraus as a candidate 
for Governor and unanimously nominated Goo. 
II. Pendleton, who 1ms accepted. 
In Cleveland, the proprietor of the Lake View 
House, Mr. Philip Gihnuriin, shot and instantly 
killed his son, Thomas Gilmmlin, early ou the 
morning of the 0th inst., while the latter was at¬ 
tempting to enter the house, he being mistaken 
for a burglar. Mr. Gilmartm is under arrest, 
awaiting the result of an investigation. 
On the morning of the 10th inst., at the coal 
bunk near Massillon, an iron cage, containing 
eight men, fell forty feet to the bottom of the 
shaft, severely injuring nil of them, breaking 
their legs, arms and ribs. Medical assistance was 
immediately called, and all arc uoav doing tvell. 
Illinois. 
The business men, laboring men, property 
holders, and all others of Quincy, met at that 
place on Friday night the Ctii inst. and declared 
In fa\or of the Quincy, Missouri and Pacific 
Railroad. The city proposes to subscribe $500,000 
to the enterprise. 
Early on tlie morning of tho lltli inst. the six 
mammoth ice houses belonging to the Chicago 
lee Company, and located at Crystal Luke, 
forty miles north of Chicago, were entirely 
destroyed by fire. A large quantity of ice was 
stored in the buildings. Tlie loss is heavy, and 
the origin of Hu* (ire is a mystery. 
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, inode a speech 
in a Republican Convention, on the 10th inst. 
which wasstroilgly State rigbtsin sentiment. He 
is uot in favor of the Fifteenth Amendment for 
the reason that he opposes tlm surrender of the 
State's control of suffrage to the general Gov¬ 
ernment. 
own. 
Ten of the steamer Dubuque rioters, xvhoae 
examination has been iu progress at Rock Island, 
Til., for several days, have been held on the 
charge of murder. 
Still another case of poisoning through a drug¬ 
gist's ' ignorance. Mrs. Dr. Schrader and her 
mother, of Red Hook, Marion county, were both 
poisoned on tbc 10th inst. by taking belladonna, 
given to them by a blundering druggist. Both 
died in a l'ew hours, 
TIRsouri. 
It is believed that upon Completion of the 
Kansas Pacific Railroad, St. Louis will become 
the chief point of smelting the silver ores of 
Colorado, and in anticipation of this cvgiit par¬ 
ties iu that city arc already making arrange¬ 
ments for the erection of smelting works. 
An enthusiastic meeting of citizens of St. 
Louis generally was held in tho City Council 
Chamber on the night of tho lQlh Inst., to con¬ 
sider and take action upon the question of re¬ 
moving llie Nat ional Capital to the Mississippi 
Valley. Some ot tho most prominent citizens 
were present. Speeches were made and resolu- 
tionsudopted, one of which Avas: 
limtlvcd, That this meeting favors the calling 
of a National Convention at St. Louis for tlio 
purpose of mutual consideration of the subject 
of the removal of the National Capital to the 
Mississippi Valle:, liy chosen delegates from 
the States, mid by thus doing hasten tile final 
settlement of the question. 
A committee of five was appointed to Avhioh 
the Avholo subject should be referred, with au- 
I bority to make all the proper arrangements for 
tbc holding of the Convention. 
A train of seventeen freight cars Avas com¬ 
pletely smashed tip on the Northern Missouri 
Railroad, ten miles west of Moberly,on Sunday, 
the 8th. The loss is estimated at from $25,000 to 
$30,000. 
Edtvanl It. Hoyt, foiinorly of Ncav York, and 
recently from California, v r as found dead in his 
room on the 9th. He had committed suicide by 
taking laudanum. 
Nebraska. 
The earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad 
since tho time ol' its completion to August 1, 
amount to $1,773,153. The heavy increase of tho 
freight trallic induced by tho lower rates, will 
largely increase the receipts during tbc present 
month. 
An Omaha dispatch of tlie 0th says:—Sc\-en- 
tcen car loads of butter were sent to California 
to-day. The attachment suit of lia vis and asso¬ 
ciates against the contractor of Hio Union Pa¬ 
cific Railroad lias been dissolved by Judge Lake, 
and the property attached by tho Sheriff ordered 
to be released. Tho suit trill be continued in 
the District Court. 
California. 
The Western Pacific Railroad is completed be¬ 
tween Sacramento and Stockton City. Trains 
began running regularly over It on the Ilth inst. 
On his return to San Francisco from Alaska, 
ex-Seerotary Sew ard is to bo presented with a 
cane valued at $1,000, by the Society of Califor¬ 
nia Pioneers. The head of the cane la composed 
of forty-one triangular pieces of gold-bearing 
quartz from the leading mines of California, set. 
iu gold. 
Tho California Pioneers’ Association of San 
Francisco, composed of persons who settled in 
California prior to I860, purpose taking an ex¬ 
cursion by rail to New York the ensuing fall. 
Most of tho Pioneers have not visited the East¬ 
ern Slates for a period of twenty years. 
Nevada. 
Vice-President Colfax is In Virginia City. 
On his arrival there on Tuesday, the 10th inst., 
he Avas met by a largo crotvd of citizens, who 
gave him an enthusiastic welcome to the place. 
In the evening ha made u speech to the people. 
On tile afternoon of tho ilth lie and tlie party 
who accompany him were entertained by Gov. 
lilaisdcll. 
At. a laboring men's convention recently held 
in Virginia City resolutions were passed declar¬ 
ing that “ the importation ol Asiatics and their 
employment in the mines, or other fields of la¬ 
bor, must bo discontinued, or it will bring on an 
‘irrepressible confiict* likely to bring on blood¬ 
shed and ruin. ” 
Washington Territory. 
Tue fires continue to rage in the Avoods of 
this Territory, doing immense damage to tho 
timber, and owing to Hie dense smoke the navi¬ 
gation of I’uict Sound is delayed. 
?f otitana. 
James M. Cavanaugh, Democrat, has been 
re-elected Delegate to Congress from Montana 
by 2,000 majority. 
Alaska. 
The Fourth of July was enthusiastically cele¬ 
brated in Sitka, Alaska. St. John's Day avus also 
duly observed by the Masons, who gave a picnic, 
which was attended by Hie school children, la¬ 
dles, clergy and municipal authorities. 
Tlie Indian©. 
Sidney Clarice, Chairman of the Congres¬ 
sional Committee on Indian Affairs, held a coun¬ 
cil on Sunday Hie 1st lust, with the chiefs and 
counselors of the Osage Indians, iu Kansas, to 
find out their opinion of the "Sturges treaty " 
of May, 1805, Avlicrcby they had agreed to sell 
tlioir lauds to Sturges, or lbc Leavenworth, 
Lawrence and Galveston Railroad, for nineteen 
cents an acre. They denounced the treaty as a 
fraud and a swindle, and assorted that they were 
driven to sign it by threats. Mr. Clarke prom¬ 
ised to lay their grievances before the authori¬ 
ties at Washington. 
Reports of Indian outrages in Arizona arc 
continually received. A dispatch states that in 
one county alone, since the 1st of Jauuary the 
Indians have stolen 1,690 head of cattle, and 
have murdered fifty two citizens, Avoundod 
eighteen, and taken two into captivity. 
A Santo Fe dispatch says a party of miners 
were attacked by Indians at Sulphur Springs, 
and their Avagons and supplies fell into the bauds 
of the savages. A party of miners on a pros¬ 
pecting tour to San Juan were allowed to pass 
through the country by the Utah Indians, but 
they Avere positively prohibited from locating 
claims. Large numbers of cattle und sheep 
ha\’o been driven off by the Indians in Arribo 
county. 
[Karine Disasters. 
A St. Johns (Newfoundland) dispatch of the 
10th says that the Hamburg and American 
Packet Company's steamer Germania, which 
sailed from New' York on the 5th lust., went 
ashore Saturday morning, the 7th inst., at fivo 
o’clock, on the- rocks in Seal’s Cove, Trepussy 
Bay. A dense log prevailed at the time, w hich 
broke atvay almost immediately after liie vessel 
struck. The passengers had barely time to save 
