boon thoroughly explored, and no additional 
bodies found, nor have any memoranda been 
discovered which can throw any light upon ‘he 
scenes which took place In the mine at the time 
of the calamity. The cause of the disaster must 
to a certain extent always remain a mystery. 
Efforts arc being made in various sections of 
the country for the relief of the sufferers, the 
widows and orphans of the victims. The suspi¬ 
cion of design in firing the mine seems to be 
gaining ground. The Scranton Republican, in 
nn editorial reviewing the testimony thus fur 
elicited, concludes by saying:—"In brief, is net 
the theory of incendiarism possible-, and nil 
others impossible ?“ The Wilkosbarre Miners' 
Union have, however, made a public statement 
to the effect that the Scranton dispatches are 
unfounded in Taot,and that no one believes that 
the Are was the work of an incendiary. 
The verdict of the coroner's jury says that, 
“the fire originated from ihe furnace in the 
mines taking effect on the wooden brattice in 
the up-cast air-course leading from the bottom 
of the shaft to the lead house.” The jury also 
goes through the form of recommending, “ in 
all cases where practicable, two places for In¬ 
gress and egress and a more perfect ventilat ion, 
thereby rendering greater security to the life of 
miners under any similar accident." 
A meeting of the Avondale Relief Association 
was held on the 15th inst., at Plymouth, to dis¬ 
cuss the best mode of distributing the funds 
contributed for the relief of the widows and 
orphans of those suffocated in the mine. An 
appropriation of $5,000 was made for immediate 
necessities, and a committee appointed to re¬ 
port a plan of further distribution. The Treas¬ 
urer reported the total receipts at that date to 
be $18,456.37. 
The Iron mills and factories at Pittsburgh, 
which have been idle for the past two months, 
have mostly resumed operations, and are now 
running fulltime. Stocks of all kinds of man¬ 
ufactured iron had become reduced, and it will 
require some weeks’ production to All the orders 
now on hand. 
Virginia, 
General (.'array luts appointed Charles 'Whit¬ 
tlesey, tin* defeated Wells Congressional candi¬ 
date in the Alexandria District, Attorney-Gen¬ 
eral of Virginia, in place of Rowden, resigned. 
General Can by Is reported to have said week 
before last that ho construed Attorney-General 
Iloar’sopinion to mean that the test, oath should 
not be exacted of the Virginia Legislature now 
nor al any i ime hereafter; that It would be en¬ 
tirely optional with the legislature to elect 
Senators at. their first meeting, as the Only pre¬ 
liminary' to admission was the adoption of the 
Fifteenth Amendment and the organization of 
the State Government; that tho Legislature 
might, elect temporary or permanent odicers, as 
they thought proper, and that ho saw no objec¬ 
tion to the appointment, of Standing Commit¬ 
tees. Should the Constitution not be acceptable 
to Congress, Ihe rat ideal loti of the Fifteenth 
Amendment will be of no elloct. 
A Republican State Convention has been 
called by the Central Committee, to meet In 
Richmond Nov. :.’4. 
South Carolina. 
It is proposed to cut a canal from the Avo 
lakes forming tho bend waters of the Ashley 
River to tlm navigable portlou of the river, in 
order to render transportation easy for the 
phosphates recently discovered there. The cost 
is estimated at about $8,500, and it is said ove’r 
$6,000,000 worth of the deposits can by its 
means be transported cheaply to Charleston. 
Georgia. , 
Duping the first week of this month there 
were received at Macon 1.470 bales of the new , 
cotton crop, and 1,120 bales wore sold on a basis 
of thirty cents for middling, tlie market being 
active with a good demand all the week. Dur¬ 
ing the corresponding week last year there were 
received at the same place two hundred and 
nineteen bales of cotton of the crop of that 
year, and of this amount only eighty-six bales 
were sold on a basis of twenty-fivo cents for 
middling, the market being dull nil the week. 
A large fire at Atlanta, on the 12th Inst., de¬ 
stroyed a number of buildings, resulting in a 
loss of $100,000, upon which tho insurance was 
$80,000. 
Florida. 
The Fipridian says:—" We hear nothing more 
of the caterpillar in the cotton fields. They are 
there, but have done uo considerable damage in 
any locality. They are now webbed up, and 
many of our planters assure us that they still 
have fears of their ravages." 
Tennessee. 
Cotton picking has fully begun in this State, 
but it is feared that a large portion of the crop 
will bo lost through the Inability of the planters 
to obtain hands in some localities. They' are 
offering $3 per day, and cannot obtain them at 
that price. 
Jefferson county experienced an earthquake 
shock on Sunday evening, 5th inst. The shock 
lasted nearly a minute, and was accompanied by' 
a loud rumbling noise. 
Kentucky. 
The boiler of the steamer Phantom, running 
between Evansville, Ind., and Cairo, Ill., ex- 
pleded Wednesday morning, the 15th inst., at 
the foot of Cumberland Island, near Paducah, 
Seven persons were killed and a number of 
others injured. The boat and cargo are reported 
a total loss. 
Ohio. 
There are about five hundred orphans of de¬ 
ceased soldiers in Cincinnati, needing care and 
attention, and the G rand Army of the Republic 
has called a public meeting for the purpose of 
awakening an interest in their condition. 
On tho 10th inst., at Carthage, a portion of the 
elevated promenade which surrounds the race¬ 
track of the Hamilton County Fair Grounds gave 
way, precipitating twenty men and women to 
the ground, fifteen feet below, and seriously in¬ 
juring seventeen of the number. 
The celebration of the anniversary' of Perry's 
victory on rake Erie at Put-in-Bay, on the 10th 
inst., was very successful, and was participated 
in by large parties from Detroit, Sandusky, 
Cleveland, and other places. Among tho sur¬ 
vivors of the battle in attendance, were Dr. W. 
T. Taliaferro, one of Perry's surgeons, and John 
Nopris, a sailor. Col. C. 8. Todd, an aid-de-camp 
of Gen. Harrison, delivered the address, and a 
poem by Edwin 11. Campbell was read. 
Indiana. 
Hon. Samuel Hannah died in Indianapolis 
on the 8th inst., aged eighty years. He was a 
prominent politician for many years, and, at one 
principally occupied In disposing of Appletons’ 
publications. The prices were better than last 
year. 
IWalne. 
The annual State election was held on Mon¬ 
day, the 13th Inst., and resulted in tho re-election 
of Governor Chamberlain i for the third t ime) by 
nearly 8,000 majority in a total vote of about 
85 , 000 ; which is quite a redaction upon the vote 
of last year. Upon the local ticket the Republi¬ 
cans have carried every county except Knox 
and Aroostook. 
Hon. Hannibal TIamlin. Governor Chamber- 
lain. Hon. John Lynch, Israel Washburn, Jr., S. 
P. Morrell and other prominent citizens of 
Maine, held a meeting in Portland, on the 9th 
inst., to discuss the best method of promoting 
emigration to the State from Northern Europe. 
The Cathedral of tho Immuculate Conception 
in Portland, was dedicated on the Hth inst. The 
building is one hundred and ninety-six feet In 
length, by one hundred feet in width, and is of 
brick, with granite trimmings. Among those 
time. President of the Indiana Central Railroad 
Company. 
IlitUOift. 
A WAREHOUSE at Kenosha, Wis., and a plan- 
Ing-mill at Monmouth, were both destroyed by 
firo on the 10th inst., the first involving a loss of 
$10,000 and the last one of $15,000. 
The people of this 6tate are to vote at the gen¬ 
eral election, occurring on the 2d of November, 
upon a proposed amendment to the State Con¬ 
stitution, which forbids the Legislature from re¬ 
liering the Illinois Central Railroad Company 
from Ira obligation to pay into the State Treasury 
either the tax or the per centum of fls gross re¬ 
ceipts stipulated in Its charter. 
A gymnast named Gillian, belonging to John¬ 
son's Circus, while performing at Freeport, on 
the 11 th inst,, fell, and received Injuries from 
which he died In a few hours. 
IHtnnesota. 
A Minneapolis dispatch of the 15th says that 
a remarkable rise in the Mississippi River has 
occurred, owing to long continued and unusu¬ 
al ly heavy rains. A boom above tho dams broke 
on the morning of tho 14th, and 1,500.000 feet of 
logs ran over the falls, sweeping off the light 
flush boards of tho temporary horse com which 
holds Hie volume of the Mississippi back from 
the improvement works. The dam is uninjured. 
The Minnesota River, emptying below there into 
the Mississippi, js reported up cip'.t feet, and 
15,000 tons of ha.y arc swamped out. The rain 
storm has continued for four days,and has done 
great damage to grain. The damage tn St. Croix 
county alone is estimated at $150,000. 
AIi%*onrl. 
Major -General. Schofield, commanding 
the Department of Missouri.arrived in St.Louis 
on the Hth inst., his object being to make ar¬ 
rangements for transferring his headquarters 
from Leavenworth. Kansas, to that, city. The 
removal will take place about the 1st of October. 
Chancellor William Ctmuvcnet of Washington 
University, St. Louis, has resigned on account 
of ill health. He has held Ihe position siuce the 
death of Chancellor Joseph G. Hoyt, in 1862. 
K a ii t«ns. 
A dispatch from Hays City says n large party, 
consisting of the Ohio excursionists, and Lord 
Wutlenpark and Lord Puget, English noblemen; 
Generals Sturgis and Custar, several officers of 
the Hovcnth Cavalry, mid several ladies, left 
Goueral Custer's camp recently on a buffalo 
hunt, rn five hours the party killed forty-two 
buffalo, the Englishmen each killing two. A 
largo wager had been made by tho gentlemen 
with friends at home that they would kill at 
least one buffalo. 
Arka 
A dispatch dated Memphis, Sept. 15, says that 
tho Republican members of the Arkansas Legis¬ 
lature have held a meeting,at which resolutions 
were adopted for the formation of a Liberal 
Republican party on the basts of universal suf¬ 
frage and universal amnesty. A committee was 
appointed to solicit subscriptions and take other 
measures for t he completion of the organization. 
The committee, on the 15th. published a call for 
a State convention, to meet on the 13th of Octo¬ 
ber, to carry' out the purpose of the meeting. 
California. 
Earthquake shocks are alarming the people 
of California. A heavy one is said to have been 
felt at San Luis Obispo on Sunday, t he 12th inst., 
and a light one at Sacramento on Monday. 
Tho Society of California Pioneers, numbering 
two hundred, were to leave Sacramento on the 
16th for New York, on an excursion. They 
bring with them two gray foxes lor the Central 
Park collection. Numerous stage robberies are 
still reported on the California roads. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Washington. 
President Grant has appointed Gen. Sher¬ 
man to be full Secretary of War, as a nctd inte¬ 
rim appointment can be held but for ten days. 
Gen. Sherman can hold his appointment ids Sec¬ 
retary of War until the end of the next Roasiou 
of Congress, but he inurt choose which he will 
receive, the salary of General or Hint Iwlonging 
to his present office, as ho cannot draw both 
salaries, although ho can temporarily perform 
the duties of both positions. 
Awards have been made by the Commission¬ 
ers under tho treaty' between the United States 
and Great Britain of July, 1863, for the settle¬ 
ment of the claims of the Hudson’s Ray and 
Puget Sound companies, wlifch companies sur¬ 
rendered to the United 8Kites their possessory 
rights in Oregon and Washington Territory. 
The claim of the Hudson’s Bay Company was 
for $4.308,702; n mount awarded, $450,000 gold. 
The Puget Sound Company el a i mod $1,168,000, 
and were awarded $200,000 by the Commissioners. 
On the 10th Clark Mills, ihe sculp or, proceed¬ 
ed to the Congressional Cemetery and took a 
plaster oust of tin- face of Gen. Rawlins, The 
operation w r ae eminently successful. It Is unde- 
cided wliat will lie the final disposition of Gen. 
Rawlins' remains. His old comrades of the 
Army ot the Tennessee propose that they be re¬ 
moved to Illinois and interred in Oak Ridge 
Cemetery, Springfield, near Ihe tomb of Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln. 
Private letters from Minister Sickles expressa 
sanguine hope that the Spanish Government 
will accept the proposition of (lie United States 
relative to the purchase of Cuba. The Regent 
is personally In favor of it, hut his Cabinet are 
slow about accepting it. 
The system of deducting from the wages of 
the clerks in the Treasury tho rime lost by them 
from the regular hours of business is in lull 
operation in HieTreasury Department. It is es¬ 
timated that half a million dollars were lost to 
the Government last year by the absences that 
this system is proposed to remedy. 
Admiral Hoff's report, on the execution of 
Americans at Santiago de Cuba 1ms been re¬ 
ceived at the Navy Department, and shows that 
it was simply a massacre, the administration of 
Justice being impossible. 
The old war vessels now being refitted in the 
various navy yards are not intended for any Im¬ 
portant or preredng duty. It lias been found I 
necessary to take them out of ordinary to save 
them from injury. 
Supervisor Fulton of the Wilmington (Del., 
district has been In Washington, urging no com¬ 
promise in the proceedings against some large 
whisky dealers and distillers in his district, 
against whom he claims to have clear proof. Ho 
received instructions to press the matter in the 
courts. 
Minister Motley, It is now stat ed, was instruct¬ 
ed to neoept of any invitation from tho British 
authorities to reopen negot iations for the settle¬ 
ment of the Alabama claims, but not to reopen 
such negotiations himself during the excitement 
in England over our rejection of the former 
treaty. He law recently been engaged in the 
negot iation of a consular treaty. 
Senor Lomus and a member of the Cuban 
Junta had an interview with Secretary Fish on 
the 15th, and as a result of It, It is said, Important 
developments in Cuban affairs will be made in a 
few days. The rumors of a triple alliiuico among 
European Powers for tho protection of Spain 
against the United States creates considerable 
excitement ut the capital. 
It is said that General Sickles was not author* 
ized to make any demands upon the Spanish 
Government, but merely to urge discreetly the 
acceptance of the mediation of this Government 
between Spain and Cuba. 
General Sherman, acting Secretary of War, has 
ordered that the election in Texas, which was 
oi'iginally fixed for the 30th of November, be ex¬ 
tended through four days, on the suggestion of 
General Reynolds that a fair election could not 
be held iu one day. 
Consul Dudley, at Liverpool, informs the 
State Repnrl ment of a dangerous and infectious 
cattle disease that has made its appearance tn 
England, It attacks tho hoofs usually, and then 
breaks out. in the mouth, as the cattle lick the 
hoof. It can bo communicated from one animal 
to another ot a different species. 
Admiral Hoff had an interview with Secretary 
Robeson and Admiral Porter on the 16th on 
Cuban affairs. It is claimed that the Admiral's 
sympathies have always been with the Cubans, 
but that Ills instructions required him to remain 
strictly neutral, and it would have been obvi¬ 
ously unseemly for him to indulge in any 
demonstrations favorable to the insurgonls. He 
thinks the struggle ivili be a protracted one 
unless some outside interference takes place. 
Secretary Boutwell has botweou $80,000,000 and 
$90,000,000 in the Treasury, but will not probably 
be templed into selling at present, lie is better 
able to resist At'all street combinations if he 
holds enough gold in reserve. 
Commissioner Delano proposes to reassess in¬ 
comes, and has appointed a large number of as¬ 
sistant assessors, who arc to commence work in 
the large cities at once. 
Authority having been found in the Recon¬ 
struction Act, the time for voting in Texas has 
been cxl ended from one to four days, as wit hout 
it—the Constitution only providing one election 
precinct in a county—voters from a distance 
could not reach the polls. The privilege vHL 
tion of the bridge, and the work of construc- 
tion was intrusted to a committee of five, con¬ 
sisting of the following trustees:—Win. M. 
Tweed, Hugh .Smith, Henry W. Slocum. Jno. S. 
T. Stranahau and S. V. 1 haled. Washington 
Roebling, son of the late John A. Roebllng, was 
appointed Chief Engineer. 
At. a meeting of the Woman's Suffrage Asso¬ 
ciation, in New York, OU the 15th, resolutions 
complimentary to John Stuart Mill wereadopted. 
The members of the new Paid Fire Depart¬ 
ment. of Brooklyn were sworn in on ti e 15th, 
and the officers of the department were appoint¬ 
ed. John Cunningham is Chief Engineer. 
Charles It. Conklin, the messenger of the 
Merchants’ Union Express Company, who was 
some time sinoe found bound and gagged in a 
ear, from which $800,000, that was In his pos¬ 
sesion asagentof t he Company, had been stolen, 
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff l'eter McKnight 
of New York City, and was detained at the 
house of the latter. On the 11th, Conklin was 
taken from his confinement on u writ or hahnt* 
corpus, issued by Judge Clerke, and was (subse¬ 
quently discharged by Justice Mansfield. 
Messrs. Luring and Pay Of the Harvard crew 
arrived at New York on the 14th, on board of the 
City of Antwerp, accompanied by Mr. Jilalkie, 
tho well known ex-Harvard stroke oarsman, and 
several other friends. The Other members of the 
crew intended to sal 1 for this country on the 15th, 
excepting Mr. Simmons, the bow oarsman, who 
designs entering tho Medical College at Heidel¬ 
berg. Germany, as a. siudeni. On the evening of 
their arrival Messrs. Fay and Luring were enter¬ 
tained al dinner al Delmonloo's. Gen. Lloyd 
AsptnwaL) presided, nnd made nn address of wel¬ 
come. Speeches were also made by Mr. Luring, 
Gen, Parsons of St. Louis, Mr. Bloikicand others. 
The Harvard oarsmen departed for Boston tin 
next day. 
General C. H. Van Wyek. Representative in 
Congress from the Orange and Sullivan District, 
was married on the 15th at Milford, Penn., to 
Kate, daughter of Colonel John Brodhead, of 
that place, and left immediately on a bridal tour, 
overland, to California. 
Ju the ease of tho late Dr. Carlton Gates of 
Yonkers, who was supposed to have been poi- 
soned, a chemical analysis by Professor Doremus 
of New York failed to disclose any evidences 
that his death was thus caused. 
A very interesting meeting of Practical En¬ 
gineers was held on the 15th at Cooper Institute 
In New York City, at which tho merits of vari¬ 
ous styles of water meters were discussed. Four 
separate inventions i'or measuring water were 
exhibited and explained. 
A Board of Commissioners, appointed by the 
Supreme Court to Investigate the grounds of a 
remoustranee by W in.'Watson against tho pro¬ 
posed route of the Harlctn River and Porl.ches- 
ter Railroad, have confirmed tho original maps 
and profile of the road. 
The will of the late Henry Keep of New York 
City makes his wife sole execut rix, and leaves 
til liis property, worth about $4,1X10,000, to her 
and his daughter, his two sisters, and two sisters 
of his wife. 
The President, and Secretary of the Cuban 
Junta in New York City have addressed a letter 
to General Butterfield, Treasurer ol' the Rawlins 
fund, inclosing a letter of condolence to Mrs. 
Rawlins, and $20,000 in Cuban bonds. 
Two sepurate meetings ot the Fenian Brother¬ 
hood were held in New York City on the 12th 
inst. It. is stated that a plan lor another inva¬ 
sion of Canada and a proposition to abduct 
Prince Arthur were, decided upon. 
A baker in Angelica. Allegany county, in an¬ 
ticipation of the County Fair, baked up a large 
quantity of pies, cakes, rolls, etc., but t he post¬ 
ponement of the Fair has left him out of pocket. 
James Lanning, who has resided in Manlius 
about uineteen years, died on the 28th of August, 
at the age of one hundred and sev en years and 
eleven months, 
William- of Boston; Very Rev. Father O’Don¬ 
nell of Portland, and an extensive list of priest* 
from the Now England State* and elsewhere. 
In the afternoon, one hundred and forty feet of 
the spire was blown off by the fearful storm 
which passed over th® New England coast. 
New Hampshire. 
The great storm of the 8th lust., drove on tho 
coast thousands of cords of seaweed, which the 
farmers along the shore are busily collecting for 
manure. 
No strychnine was found in the body of Mrs. 
Mahala Oilman of Albany, whose remains were 
exhumed on tho 14th of last month for exami¬ 
nation. it was charged that her eon poisoned 
his mother in April, 1868. 
A paper and saw mill belonging to different 
parties were dest royed by tiro on the night of tho 
Hth. at Warren. Loss, $ lit, (KK); insurance, $12,500. 
The coroner’s jury in the case of Mrs. Ade¬ 
line C. Sparhawk of Walpole, who was shot by 
her grandson, has returned a verdict that the 
shooting was accidental. 
Vermont. 
A giNOULAti malady lias lately made its ap¬ 
pearance among calves in East Wallingford, and 
as no remedy Ims yet been found, it is quite 
probable that many and perhaps the whole in 
that sect ion will die before the disease can be 
cheeked. One innn, after hating lost several 
calves, made au examination.and upon opening 
I he windpipe it was found to be filled with small 
white worms. So completely wasit packed with 
these vermin that respiration was Impossible . 
Uassai'li it setts. 
A number of men left Now Bedford Monday 
night, the 13th inst., in a schooner, after telling 
a wharf watchman that a Spanish steamer was 
in waiting to take them to sea. The authorities 
were notified nnd the crew of the revenue cut¬ 
ter Active transferred to the steamer Helen 
Augusta, which started in pursuit of the schoon¬ 
er. Site was overhauled about 9 o'clock Tuesday 
morning, southeast of No Man’s Land, and 
thirty men tound on board under command of 
a Cuban officer. No resistance was made and 
the vessel was towed buck to New Bedford. She 
was hired for a fishing excursion. 
The mackerel catchers of Welltleet have done 
remarkably well. Six te<m thousand barrels have 
been landed on the wharves, and three thousand 
five hundred hit now afloat. 
The fishermen who have arrived at Gloucester 
report that the recent gale did not extend to 
Georges Bank, the weather there being fine on 
Wednesday evening, the 8tli hist. The damage 
caused by this storm in the eastern portion of 
the state was very great, reaching $1,000,000 In 
Boston alone. Many vessels were sunk or 
wrecked on the coast and a great mauj' lives 
were lost—iu one instance but two men were 
saved out of a crew of eighteen. The fruit trees 
were stripped'of their fruit and otherwise dam¬ 
aged 
lihodc Island. 
All Newport is down on James Fisk, Jr„ for 
withdrawing his steamers from that port, and 
the wealthy citizens offer substantial aid to a 
rival line to New' York. 
Tho four hundred liquor sellers in Providence 
pay no attention to the mayor’s recent order to 
quit the business and threat of seizure. 
Mr. Beth D. Paul, of Woonsocket, who in¬ 
vented a self-acting woolen mule in 1863, lias 
recently perfected important improvements on 
this invention. 
It is stated that the vv hole coast of this State is 
lined with wrecks caused by tho great gale of 
the 8th inst. 
Connecticut. 
The spire of the Congregational Church in 
Fair Haven has long been a landmark to seamen 
making the port of New Hav en. Being in need 
of extensive repairs, the parish had decided to 
take it down, but thegreatstorm of the 8th inst. 
relieved them of the necessity of removing it. 
The Spanish gunboats built at Mystic hav e all 
been launched, and on the 13th a Spanish official 
was around making a final inspection of the 
hulls, all of which were approved. What will bo 
done with them has not yet transpired. 
The new earth dams of the Kohanste water¬ 
works, to replace those carried away lust spring, 
at Danbury, are being carefully constructed. 
Pure water w'ill be secured by an arrangement 
for taking the supply from the surface of the 
pond. This is a tower, built of stone outside 
and of brick inside, The water will pass into 
this at the surface and then into the supply 
pipe. It has been demonstrated that the im¬ 
purity existing in the Kohansie water during 
the summer months is confined to the bottom of 
the pond, and water obtained from the surface 
is free from it. 
New Jersey. 
Engine No. 238, of the Erie Railroad, exploded 
her boiler at Port Jervis, on the night of the 9th 
inst., and four employes of the road were report¬ 
ed killed. 
-An organ grinder was run over and killed on 
the Hth inst., near Howell’s Depot, on the Erie 
Railway. His wife who was with him, narrowly 
escaped a similar fate. 
Pennsylvania. 
Prof. Henry Morton of Philadelphia, has 
been elected to the newly created Professorship 
of Mechanics in the University of Pennsylvania. 
Tt is now known almost to a certainty that the 
number killed in the Avondale Mine was one 
hundred and eight, which, added to the two who 
sacrificed their lives to rescue their comrades, 
make one hundred and ten in all, The mine has 
lie was born on the 28th of 
September, 1792, in Kilkenny, Ireland. 
A little son of John 0. Buiitli of Canajoharie, 
while rummaging iu a bureau druwor, tho other 
day, found a loaded pistol, ami while handling 
it with childish curiosity it was tn some way dis- 
charged, the ball lodging in ihe little fellow’s 
side, causing his death. 
A few days since, while a man was plowing on 
the farm of Joseph Moore, which adjoins the 
southern boundary of the village of Weedsport, 
Cayuga county, the earth beneath ins horses’ 
feet suddenly sunk to the dept h of fifteen feet, 
making a hole about five feet in diameter. There 
is nothing which indicates that an excavation of 
this kind ever existed there before, and, upon 
the whole, it is considered rather a singular oc¬ 
currence. It, is thought, however, that it may 
have been caused by the disappearance of quick¬ 
sand. 
The carillon of bells manufactured in Franco 
for St. Joseph’s Cathedral, at Buffalo, and lately 
mounted, was rung ou Sunday, the 12th instant, 
for the first time. The performance of the bells, 
forty-three in number, was listened to by a large 
crowd. Attached to t he carillon, nnd independ¬ 
ent of the key-board, is a clock which, by a deli¬ 
cate complication of machinery, is made to play 
any requisite tune on the bells, by moans of one 
hundred and twenty-three hammers, arranged 
on the outside of the bells. Tho clock also strikes 
the hour, and half nnd quarter hours. This is 
the third largest chime in the world. 
The post-office at Cato, Cayuga county, was 
recently broken into and robbed. An entrance 
was effected by boring through ihe back door. 
Twenty-one dollars were taken, and fourteen of 
those were in pennies. 
Two of the heaviest tows that ever left Albany, 
started for New' York on the Hth. They con¬ 
sisted of seventy-five boats, carrying 410,000 
bushels of grain. Thirty-five more boats were 
awaiting towing steamers at that date. 
Three hundred and twenty students have been 
admitted to the new class at Cornell University. 
The number of applicants for admission to the 
class -was four hundred. Six additional profes¬ 
sors have been appointed, among "whom arc 
Bayard Taylor and Charles A, Schaffer, late of 
Gottingen University. 
Tho annual book trade sale at Clinton Halt, 
New York, began oa the 16th, The day was 
