Ictus of the Meet;. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
Secretary Boutwell has a project in hand 
for collect !dr from ministers, consuls and com¬ 
mercial agents, who rebelled at the beginning of 
the war tor their bondsmen,) certain little bal¬ 
ances which he has discovered against them. 
With a view to exhibiting the exposed condi¬ 
tion of the people of the Territory, the United 
States Marshal at Helena, Montana, has sent to 
the Secretary of the Interior u report Of the 
business before the Grand Jury of the Third 
Judicial District, in which robberies and mur¬ 
ders by Indians are detailed, and the protection 
of the Government Is asked, Nine or ten citi¬ 
zens have been murdered and three hundred 
head of stock stolen. The removal of the women 
and children of the Black foot nation to the 
British Possessions, where the men have been 
supplied with improved arms and ammunition, 
is regarded as a declaration of war. 
Thomas Ewing, Sr., was taken suddenly ill in 
the Supreme Court Chamber at Washington on 
the 23d ult., while somewhat excitedly arguing 
a case in which he had been counsel for twenty- 
live years. lie fainted and was removed, the 
court adjourning on account of the untoward 
accident. IIo has since entirely recovered. 
In the Verger ease, the Supreme Court on the 
35th ult. decided the questions Involved only so 
far ns in express the opinion that that tribunal 
had jurisdiction in the matter of Ua))Cms corpus. 
The opinion, as delivered, does not touch upon 
tlm merits of the ease, or the constitutionality of 
the U(.'construction acts, 
A lady who wanted $400 to complete the pay¬ 
ment for a house recently purchased by her. 
called at the White House OW the 20th ult., aud 
asked the President to advance the amount. 
Commander J. G. Walker, in ills letter to tho 
Navy Department announcing the arrival of the 
Sabine at Gibraltar, says; — “Papers received 
from home are ill led with reports of a mutiny, 
&c., on board of this ship. It is scarcely neces¬ 
sary to say that there has been no trouble of any 
kind on board.” 
An order hits been issued, by tho direction of 
the President, that all communications on Ex¬ 
ecutive budtio'' shall be addressed to the Iload 
of the Department to which the business apper¬ 
tains, and t he Secret :; ry of Stat e has published a 
circular setting for' h that there; arc no vacancies 
now in the public offices, and giving instruc- 
tionsns to the manner of application when any 
shall occur. 
The Coast Survey lias received information 
from San Francisco of the indications of an 
earthquake In some part of tho Pacific Ocean. 
It is claimed Halt the earthquake at Simoda in 
1851, and Peru last year, were announced In the 
same manner -by an earthquake wave. 
Frederick P. Low, our new Minister to Chinn, 
has arrived in Washington. After receiving 
his instructions lie will go lo his post by way 
of Europe and Egypt, in order to consult Minis¬ 
ter Burlingame on the way. I t is understood 
that his orders are to enforce the Burlingame 
Treaty strictly. 
Musters iweuty-onc and twenty-three of tho 
Roll of Honor, just issued by tlie War Depart¬ 
ment, show that nearly 11,000 Union soldiers are 
interred in l he National Cemetery near Memphis, 
Tettn., of whom 4,200 are colored; 0,000 are In¬ 
terred at Cliulmatfo, La.; 10,875 at Marietta, Ga„ 
Fort Donaldson, Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, 
Stone River and Knoxville, Tent). 
Congressmen are already arriving in Washing¬ 
ton, and the coining winter bids fair to bcone of 
unusual gayety. 
The statement that Minister Washburne had 
asked $15,000 extra for Ills expenses In Paris, is 
denied bj Secretaries Fish mid Boutwell. 
Chief Justice Chase decided on the 27th ult., 
that tho Supreme Court would hear a motion for 
a writ of habeas corpus in tho Verger case when¬ 
ever counsel chose to make it. 
New York. 
Ox the 87th ult. a fire broke out in a book- 
bindery in Fulton street, New York City, which 
destroyed, among other things, the whole edi¬ 
tion of the American reprint of the "West¬ 
minster Review. The sparks blew across the 
street and tired the steeple of the Old North 
Dutch Church—where the famous Fulton Street 
Prayer Mooting has been held .since September 
13th, 1857. The steeple was burned down, and 
the church so much injured by water and fire 
that it will probably be torn down, and nearly 
the hist old Uunlmurk removed. 
Sherrill, Strong & Flood, of Sandy llill, con¬ 
tractors for building the State Dam at Cohoes, 
are heavy sufferers by the freshets. Their losses 
arc estimated at 825,000. 
During the late freshet, the center abutment 
of the Greenwich and Joltnsonville railroad 
bridge was washed away, and on the 10th ult. 
the bridge fell into the stream 
Hiram L. Bronson, who keeps a hotel at Li¬ 
vonia Station, was arrested on the lfiilt ult. in 
Rochester, on u charge or buying good on false 
pretences. 
The amount of coal shipped at Binghamton, 
via Chenango,Canal, for tlte week ending Sep¬ 
tember IS.Ith, 1809, was 0,431,700 pounds, 090,000 
pounds mere t itan for the same time last year. 
The amount.shipped up to October Otli, 1800, was 
8.040,400 pounds, an increase of 1,557,000 pounds 
over same lime last year, and tlie receipts show 
an increase of #121.93. 
The railroad from .Tohnsonvillo to Greenwich 
received a severe blow by t lie recent freshet, and 
the completion of the road is delayed for at least, 
six mouths. 
Buffalo gives the State two hundred acres of 
land within the city limits, and a guarantee of 
the perpetual gratuitous use of water from the 
city works for the purposes of the asylum there. 
The site offered, located on Forest avenue, 
known as the Clinton Farm, was agreed upon. 
Nicholas Van Wort was stabbed in tho back 
by his sun at Preston kill, on the25th ult., during 
a family quarrel. The father will die and the 
son has fjed. 
The Treasurer of Erie county, in this State, C. 
W. Keller, is reported at thopoint of death from 
the effects of eating a portion of an apple poi¬ 
soned with strychnine, on the 18th, given to him 
by a si ranger, who remarked, “ When you out it 
you’ll never want any ot her kind.” 
Tho unvaUingol’t he stat ue of Abraham Lin¬ 
coln, on the Plaza at Prospect Park. Brooklyn, 
on ilte 21st ult., attracted an immense concourse 
of people. A. A. Low and Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs 
made addresses. 
The State Capitol narrowly escaped destruction 
by fire Wednesday afternoon the 27th ult. A 
fire was discovered in the ante-room to the Sen¬ 
ate Chamber, which was suppressed before seri¬ 
ous damage was done. 
Philo Johnson has recovered, in the Superior 
Court of New York City, #27,819.11 from tho 
Hudson River Railroad Company, for overcharg¬ 
ing him, while traveling as a passenger on tho 
road, to the amount of #15.01. The overcharge 
was but about three cents each trip, but the #.50 
line for eaclt violation of the law, together with 
tlio accrued interest, amounted to tho sum re¬ 
covered. 
Basket Valley, in Sullivan county, suffered 
greatly by tho late storm, and an appeal is made 
for help for the inhabitants who have had their 
homes so suddenly swept away. They are repre¬ 
sented to be in a deplorable condition, needing 
prompt pecuniary assistance to relieve their im¬ 
mediate neocssi t ics. A subscription list has been 
placed In the Mayor's office. 
Tho creditors of S. K. Elliott, proprietor of 
the dollar store in Binghamton, arc represented 
to be considerably excited over his disappear¬ 
ance from that city, which occurred a short time 
since. Claims fur collection have already been 
presented to tho amount of $30,000. 
The American Hotel at Charlotte, near Roch¬ 
ester, was burned during a fire which began 
Wednesday morning, the 271 it ult., in J. B. 
Morse’s shoe store. The building was occupied 
by different persons for business purposes. The 
total loss is $14,700, and the Insurance $19,900. 
Joseph P. Wood, a ship carpenter at Rondout, 
under the influence of rum and Jealousy, killed 
his wife, on the 23d ult., with an ax, and after¬ 
ward cut ids throat with a razor. 
During tlie snow storm of the 26th and 87th 
ult. several disasters occurred to lake craft. 
The schooners Australia, Acorn and Iona went 
ashore in Lake Ontario. Tho storm extended to 
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. Know fell also in 
Poughkeepsie. 
By the explosion of a tank filled with carbolic 
acid in the wood-preserving factory of Messrs. 
Robbins &• Go., in South Brooklyn, on tin; 25th 
ult., two men were killed, and the building was 
destroyed. Tho total loss amounts to $10,009. 
A party of four men drove up to a rectifying 
establishment which was under seizure on Ke¬ 
vins street, Brooklyn, about eleven o'clock A. 
M. on the 27th ult., throttled ilte watchman and 
drove off with a load of whisky unnoticed, 
although a policeman was standing a few yards 
from tho door and the people were passing con¬ 
tinually. 
A laud slide oceurred at Rondout, on Sunday 
tho24th ult. carrying away three acres of ground. 
The damage caused Is reported as heavy. 
fflalne. 
Maine people are talking about raising money 
for a statue of William Pitt Fessenden, the late 
distinguished Senator. No statue of a public 
man has ever been erected in the State, and it 
has but a single monument, that to tlie memory 
of the late Governor King, in front of the Capi¬ 
tol at Augusta. 
A Portland dispatch of tbc84t.b ult, states that 
an attempt to poison a whole family in that oit.v 
had just been frustrated. A box of oranges sent 
by express to tlie intended victims from an east¬ 
ern city was received on the 82d ult., and the 
fruit looking suspicious, upon examination was 
found to bo impregnated with strychnine. 
A son of Marshal liblton <<f Bangor twelve 
years of age, has been confined to Ills bed eight 
weeks, and had five operations upon his leg on 
account, of an injury received by being struck 
with a bade bull. It is feared that he will lose the 
injured llntb. 
New Hampshire. 
TnE bridge over tlie Connecticut Riverat Wal¬ 
pole. was carried away on tho 201 it ult., on ac¬ 
count of the crumbling to pieces of an old pier. 
Loss, $10,000. 
Tho ConcOrd Patriot says the rare atmospheric 
display called the mirnge, was seen in Dunbarton 
n few days since. An old house, with its sur¬ 
roundings, which stands many feet below the 
surface of a Itill, about one and a half miles dis¬ 
tant, and usually entirely hidden from l he place 
of observation, was distinctly soon by several 
persons, apparently on a bill much higher than 
the intervening one, remaining some lime, then 
gradually disappearing behind the hill again. 
The occurrence is very rare in this State. 
Vermont. 
President Anoell of the University of Ver¬ 
mont, has declined the Presidency of the Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan, saying that ho finds it im¬ 
possible to guilder the ties that bind him to the 
Vermont institution. 
fflassaeliusetts. 
At tho Springfield Armory there are now 
about two hundred breech-loaders turned out 
daily, combining the best points of various in¬ 
ventions. The Enfield rifles arc being cleaned 
up for solo to whoever wants them; the Sublime 
Porte lately bought 125,000'. 
Leonard Choate, tho Nowburyport “ fire-bug,” 
Is on trial at Lawrence, in the Superior Court. 
Fifty witnesses have already been examined, 
and tlte case promised to continue several days 
at our latest advices. 
E. 11. I’n lac, the Now England temperance 
lecturer, was found dead in liis bed on the 221 
ult. in Boston, caused, it. is supposed, from an 
accidental overdose of opium. 
Connecticut. 
On the 21st inst. the house of Mr. Silverthau, 
a jewelry peddler in New Haven, Conn., was 
entered by burglars and jewelry to tlie amount 
of $10,000 stolen from a safe in which it was 
deposited. Among the art icles taken was $2,000 
worth of diamond rings and seventy gold 
watches. 
The Masons of Connecticut intend to erect in 
Hartford a monument to the memory of the 
late Ex-Governor Thomas II. Seymour. 
IV it ti vv I va nia. 
Tnw distillery of J. B. Goods and the rectifying 
house of S. B. Hartman & Co., ' .ncastor, are re¬ 
ported to have been seized >r frauds on the 
revenue. Several other set .ires arc reported by 
the revenue authorities. 
The jury In the Brooks assassination ease in 
Philadelphia brought in a verdict of guilty. Sun¬ 
day morning, the .’.’tth ult., against Morrow and 
Dougherty. Neil McLaughlin lias been held to 
bail in tlie sum of $20,000 to answer tiie same 
charge on which they were convicted. 
The General Assemblies of the Old and New 
School Presbyterian Churches are to meet at 
Pittsburgh on the 10th iust. to count the votes 
and declare the result as to the union of the two 
bodies, action upon which has been taken in tho 
various Presbyteries throughout the country 
during the past year. More t han two-thirds, it 
is said, have already ratified the movement, 
which Insures its success. 
Jirn Haggerty, a convict, who was pardoned 
out of a Pennsylvania prison by tho Governor on 
condition of leaving the State, was brought into 
Court, at Philadelphia, on tho 23d ult-to await 
a decision as to whether ids pardon was not ren¬ 
dered inoperative by reason of hie return. "While 
being returned to Jail a party of his friends res¬ 
cued him, aud hurried him off beyond fear of 
capture. 
Virginia. 
It is reported that a vein of pure anthracite 
coal, about nine feet in thickness, has been dis¬ 
covered at Buffalo Gap, elevon miles west of 
Stanton. 
It is now stated that Judge Johnston, United 
States Senator elect from Virginia, and Mr. Gib¬ 
son, one of the Representatives elect, arc still 
disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment. 
Tho ex-officials of the revenue in Richmond, 
charged with counterfeiting tobacco stamps, 
wore arraigned on the22d ult., and held in $10,000 
each to app sar. The District Attorney urged a 
high bail, 0 i the ground that their accomplices 
wore wealthy men, who would get them out if 
they had to pay $20,000 to do it. 
Nortli Carolina. 
A SEIUOU8 riot occurred at Goldsboro on the 
night of tho 23d inst., between United States 
soldiers and negroes, in which a negro and a 
soldier wore wounded. Up to twenty-four hours 
after tin; affair no arrests bad been made. Tho 
rioters had three distinct conflicts, and in the 
third the negroes retreated. 
At tho trial of the officers ol’ the privateer 
Cuba on the 27th ult- In Wilmington, several 
witnesses were examined for the defense. Da¬ 
vis. one of t he marines of the vessel, testified 
that an attempt had been made to bi lbo him to 
give evidence against tho ship. 'I’iie impression 
is gaining strength that the officers will finally 
bo discharged. 
One of the seamen belonging to the Cuba is 
said to have committed suicide at Wilmington 
by leaping from the fourth-story window of the 
Seamen’s Home, in t hat city, on the 19th ult. 
Tile town of Plymouth suffered from a most 
disastrous conflagration ou tho 20th ult., which 
destroyed a number of buildings and property 
to Hit; value of $100,000. 
South Carolina. 
The Charleston News says that many of the 
most valuable coast and Sea Island plantations 
will, next season, be devoted to the growth id" 
tho finer kinds of upland cotton. The planters 
expect to make more money to the acre than by 
continuing the growth of Sea Island. 
Tiie Sea Island planters are talking of intro¬ 
ducing the English sparrows to kill the cotton 
worms. 
Florida* 
Jackson and Washington counties are report¬ 
ed to be under control of an armed mob which 
is said to be under the leadership of a wealthy 
and influential citizen, and which is organized to 
prevent tho execution of tho Revenue laws. 1 n 
tlie latter county seven murders have taken 
place since the 3d ult., and in the former the 
Tax Collector and Ids wife have been brutally 
killed. Troops aro called for by the Supervisor 
for that District . 
Alalia in ft. 
IS the ease of a Mobile merchant who pur¬ 
chased salt from vessels lying in Mobile Bay and 
claimed exemption from tux on his sales on the 
ground that he was an importer, the Supreme 
Court has decided adversely to him, bolding that 
he is nut an importer and that tho salt he pur¬ 
chases is not imported by him. 
Louisiana. 
The police of New Orleans made nearly 40,000 
arrests during the year ending Sept. 30, and re¬ 
covered stolen property to the value of $297,346. 
Kentucky. 
Capt. H. T. Dexter of tli • steamer Phantom, 
which exploded a boiler at Louisville not long 
since, surrendered himself on the 22d ult- In 
that ciiy, to the United States Marshal, and gave 
bonds In tho sum of $5,000 to answer the charges 
in an Indictment iound against him for careless¬ 
ness and neglect of duty, which, it is said, caused 
the disaster. 
Alexander Roberts, a lawyer of Shelbyville, 
shot and killed Marion Bohannan,u merchant of 
Consolidation, on tlie 23d ult-, ou the cars be¬ 
tween Louisville and Lexington. Tho quarrel 
began during a lawsuit the day before at Louis¬ 
ville. Roberts surrendered himself, and was 
placed in custody at Eminence. 
Three men named Meador, Simmons and 
Blankenship were arrested at Louisville, on tho 
22d ult., for robbing the People’s Bank of Ken¬ 
tucky, in September last, of $7,000. A large 
portion of the money was found on their per¬ 
sons. 
Indiana. 
Four counterfeiters, two brothers and a sis¬ 
ter named Levi, and one John Clark, having 
been arrested at Osgood, were, on the 26th ult., 
taken to Cincinnati, Ohio. A large amount of 
counterfeit currency was found in their posses¬ 
sion. 
Frank Tuttle, a son of tho Postmaster at In¬ 
dianapolis, and a young lady named Molliu 
Knight, were arrested in that city of the 30th ult. 
for robbing the mails, and, on examination, were 
held to bail in the sum of $1,000 and $500 re¬ 
spectively. 
Illinois. 
Admiral Farr aget lias so far recovered that 
he expected to go out by tho first of this week. 
A fire at Rock Island on the 22d ult. destroyed 
the Rodman House. Loss $100,000; insurance 
$15,000. 
The Commissioners of the Southern Normal 
University and rho citizens of Cavbondale are 
very indignant at the opinion of tiie Attorney- 
General regarding tho defective title question. 
The freight house and depot of tho Illinois 
Central Railroad at Manteno were destroyed by 
fire on the 25th ult., together with a block of 
business houses. Loss $ 011 , 000 . 
The total assessed value of all the taxable 
property in the Stare is $488,195,932; total equal¬ 
ized value of same, as agreed upon by the Board 
of Equalization, $480,004,775; increase of equal¬ 
ized over assessed value, $808,843. 
fflicliigau, 
George A. Coe, Ex-Lieutenant-Governor ol 
Michigan, died at Coldwater. on the 21st. ult., of 
apoplexy, aged57 years. He was born in Rush, 
Monroe county, N. Y„ admitted to tho Bar in 
Rochester in 1838, and removed to Michigan the 
following year. 
Wisconsin. 
The River Improvement Convention at Por¬ 
tage City met on the 20th ult., and adjourned the 
same day, after adopting several important, reso¬ 
lutions looking to the opening of a water route 
from the Jakes to the Mississippi. Six hundred 
delegates were present. 
G. D. Norris, a prominent, citizen and business 
man of Milwaukee, was killed In a singular man¬ 
ner on the 19th ult. During a social gathering 
at his residence, having occasion to go into the 
cellar, he fell over a cat at tho head of the staii- 3 , 
and losing his balance, was precipitated to the 
bottom, breaking his neck. 
Iowa. 
In the case of contempt before tho Federal 
Court at Dos Moines, in which theSuporvisorsof 
Iowa county were arraigned for refusing to levy 
a tax to pay the railroad bonds, the Judge, on 
the 81st ult,, discharged the defendants on a 
promise to obey the orders of the Court. Tlie 
Judge declared that the decisions of the Court 
would be enforced, even if the military arm of 
the Government had to be called ou. This is 
important, as affecting many other counties in 
the State, 
Missouri. 
McKinui.f, the boy murderer, who shot his 
uncle two years ago, has been sentenced in St. 
Louis to be hanged on tiie Ifiili of December. 
The leading officers of tho Toledo, Wabash ar.d 
Western Railroad were at Si, Louis on the 27th 
ult., on busihess connected with the consolida¬ 
tion of the road with the Lake Shore line. 
Arkansas. 
Parties in Arkansas have for some time man¬ 
aged to defraud the revenue by having tobacco 
manufactured by Indians, just outside the State 
border, in Indian Territory. The Indians being 
exempt from taxation, no revenue has hereto¬ 
fore been collected for this tobacco, und it is 
supposed that new legislation will be required 
in the matter. 
California. 
San Francisco papers say that the first arti¬ 
cle of tinware manufactured from tin mined in 
the United States lias Just been completed in 
that city. It is a case to contain tho Pioneers’ 
certificate of honorary membership presented 
to ex-Socretary Seward. 
The Meaiiohip Sierra Nevada was lost off 
Monterey on the 17th ult. Ail on hoard were 
saved, hut the vessel will prove a total loss. Tiie 
passengers and crew of the wrecked steamer ar¬ 
rived at San Francisco on tho 21st ult., on the 
steamer Senator. They lost, ail iheir effects. 
( ’. B. i’olliemus of San Francisco waa shot by a 
drunken man In that city on the 33d ult., and u 
dangerous wound Inflicted. 
Thirteen Japanese arrived in San Francisco 
week before last on the steamer America, and 
are lo Join a colony in Eldorado county. Others 
arc expected soon. 
One of tho centrifugal drying pans of the 
Golden Gate Sugar Refinery at San Francisco 
burst on the 20tb ult., and several persons were 
seriously injured, among them J. O. Rawlins, a 
brother of the late Secretary of War. 
The Lis Angelos stage coach was robbed re¬ 
cently by highwaymen, who took everything in 
it. except the mail bags, which contained several 
hundred thousand dollars. 
At the recent election in California for Judges 
of tho Supremo Court tho Democratic candidates 
were successful by a large majority. 
Washington Territory. 
Twelve sailors of the British gunboat Charyb- 
dis, deserted at Victoria, V. I- recently, and es¬ 
caped into this Territory. 
Terrible DisauRrs. 
A dreadful steamboat disaster is reported 
upon the Upper Mississippi River. The steam¬ 
boat Stonewall, plying between St. Louis and 
Now Orleans, caught fire about ono hundred und 
twenty-five miles below St, Louis, southward 
bound, ou Wednesday evening, the 27th ult., and 
over two hundred persons are supposed to have 
perished. Tho boat was set on fire by the care¬ 
lessness of some deck passengers who were play¬ 
ing cards near some hay, which caught lire from 
their candle. As the boat was loaded with hay, 
she burned like Ruder. Tiie pilot ran heron a 
bar, but the water was too deep on all sides for 
Hie passengers to wade ashore, and thus all who 
were lost were drowned, none being turned. 
Strong efforts were made by the people on shore 
to help the sufferers, some of whom died after 
reaching shore. Others were rescued by the 
steamer Belle Memphis (which opportunely 
came up) and carried to St. Louis. 
Tlie ferry boats Morristown and Delaware col¬ 
lided in the Hudson River, near New York, on 
28th ult., and afff or six pontons were danger¬ 
ously injured, and it is believed that some were 
knocked overboard aud drowned. 
Dominion ol" Canada. 
Canada, as usual, had its scare for nothing. 
One of its papers says there is no sign of a Feni¬ 
an raid at Goderich, or anywhere else. The 
troops can go home. 
The Canadians are ej ecting at Quebec a monu¬ 
ment to bear tlie inscription“ Canada erected 
lids monument as a memorial of her brave sons, 
tho volunteers who foil at Limcridge, aud died 
from wounds received in action while defending 
her frontier - , in June, 1860.” 
A number of fires, supposed to be the work of 
an incendiary, Occurred at Montreal on the 23d 
ult. St. Andrew's Church was destroyed, tlie 
Unitarian Church badly damaged, and a Baptist 
Church injured. Aggregate losses, $150,000. 
At Montreal on Saturday, tiie 23d ult., Prince 
Arthur, Lieutenant of D < uiripntiy, First Batta¬ 
lion Prince Consort’s Own Rifles, paraded as 
officer of tlie day, and mustered for the relief 
detachment for guard duty at nine o’clock. 
Cuba. 
Tiie action of the United States authorities 
in regard to the Cuba, at Wilmington, N. C., 
causes, it is said, great satisfaction at Havana. 
The Spanish troops recently arrived in Cuba are 
to leave immediately for the seat of war. Con¬ 
siderable sickness is reported on the eastern end 
of the Island. 
Havana dispatches state that the decree of tlie 
Spanish dories establishing unrestricted religious 
liberty in Cubawnspronnilgaled on the85thult., 
und was received with general satisfaction. One 
clause provides that a religious belief shall not 
prevent any onebeiieiTortli from lidding office, 
A Protestant Church, it is expected, will soon be 
established in the city. 
Captain-General De Rodasis reported to be re- 
duclng the official force in tlie Government em¬ 
ploy, ami lias already effected a considerable 
saving to the Treasury. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. 
The London Times, in an editorial on the 
Fenian amnesty meetings, thinks that, the spirit 
In which the Crown is asked to pardon the 
offenders is too demanding, not. allowing suffi¬ 
cient penitence, and says:—“There can bo no 
injustice or impolicy greater than such an act if 
Ireland is still Fenian at heart or hostile to the 
union.” 
Daniel O'Donoghue, member of Parliament 
lor Kerry, Tralee, lias written to tiie Dublin 
Amnesty Committee that, while the Crown 
sympathizes with- tho Imprisoned Fenians, it 
cannot “yield anything to the faintest sem¬ 
blance of unconstitutional pressure.” 
The discoverer and author, Austin Henry 
Bayard, has been appointed Minister to Spain. 
The trade between Sheffield and America is 
said to be improving, owing to a partial settle¬ 
ment of tlie tariff question. 
At an amnesty meeting held recently in Ire¬ 
land Mr. Gladstone, it is reported, was de¬ 
nounced for his refusal to pardon the Fenians, 
and resolutions wei - e adopted that the country 
would accept no legislation until their release 
was effected. 
France. 
The insurrection which was to have occurred 
on tho 26th ult., in Paris, did not occur. Mar¬ 
shall Baziue had made preparations to sweep tlie 
streets with cannon, but the day passed off 
; quietly. 
Spain. 
TnE Republican insurrection inis been put 
down after a battle at Valencia, in which the loss 
was surprisingly small, but two of the troops 
being killed while tho loss of the Insurgents is 
unknown. No taxpayers or householders in iko 
city, ft is said, were engaged in the revolt. Tho 
capture of tho city is reported to have had a 
quieting effect throughout the country. 
Tho Committee appointed by tho Cortes to in¬ 
quire into tho conduct ot the Republican depu¬ 
ties in the present insurrection, has reported. It 
rcoom mends that a vote of censure be passed 
against the Republican minority for leaving 
their scats in the House, und that legal proceed¬ 
ings be begun against those deputies who have 
taken an active part in the rebellion. 
The Spanish Cortes is said to be as much di¬ 
vided on the King question as in the L'abiuet, 
and Unless a compromise cun be made, the cause 
of monarchy in Spain is considered hopeless. Tho 
throe leading parties in the Cortes have each ap¬ 
pointed seven deputies, who, in a conference, 
aro to try mid select a candidate for the throne. 
Tho I’orto Rico Deputies have petitioned the 
Government to relieve the Colony for the pres¬ 
ent from special legislation. 
Largo sales of turpentine aud other combusti¬ 
bles are reported to have been made recently in 
Madrid, and it is supposed for the purpose of 
firing the city m case of revolt. 
A Madrid telegnim again announces that Spain 
is now tranquil. In Grenada, the Bishop of Al- 
hama and a number of Protestants have been 
arrested. Albaidu lias also been arrested, on 
suspicion of being connected with the insurrec¬ 
tion, and taken to Valencia, for trial. The Cabi¬ 
net Is divided on the King question. 
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A COMuan v has been formed with a capital of 
$125.000, (one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol- 
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deposited In tile Insurance Department of tlie State 
of New York, for t he protection of t he policy holders. 
This Company proposes to provide a cheap insurance 
for the great mass of people, who. from lack of 
means, cannot Insure their lives in the older—so 
much per year—plan. This plan Is simple; tlie mem¬ 
bers are distributed into classes. Example—Class A 
includes all persons between the ages of 15 and 35: 
Class B, between 35 and 45: f lags C, between 45 and 
GO. Each person Joining is put Into a class of ubout 
his own ago. These classes are limited to 5.UOO peo¬ 
ple. When a class U full, no new members are ad¬ 
mitted until a vacancy occurs; then the vacancy is 
immediately tilled by a new member, so that when a 
class Is full it will Continue so. The Company guar¬ 
antees in Us policies that each class shall reach 1,60) 
members, so that the heirs of any member dying be¬ 
fore bis class lias 1,000 members, would recolve $1,000, 
and, if the class were lull, $5,«-o. Each person in¬ 
juring on this plan pays as a policy tee $15 only. Tills 
$13 is paid once—ho also pays $1.10 whenever one of 
the insured in his particular class dies. The heirs 
of a deceased member will aoeelve as many dollars 
us there are members at too tune of his death. This 
cannot bo less than $1,000, as the Company guaran¬ 
tees so many members. The Company is the respon¬ 
sible agent, und the members are the Insurers. They 
iusoro one another in the sum Of $1 each ; If they do 
not pay, the Company pays tor them. To-do this, 
the Company must receive a compensation—that is 
tho <14. Tins insurance is wlLhni the reach of all. 
The Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Clergy of some 
States, ibu Post-Office Clerks aud many Societies 
huve adopted this fo'iu of making provision for 
those dependent on them. But the Farmers' and 
Mechanics' J.ue Insurance CO. of 200 Broadway, 
New York, is the only regularly organized Life In¬ 
surance Company with u cash capital and u deposit 
of OiusIIuudred Thousand Dollars with the State, that 
purposes to issue polli-i 03 Of this kind. Tins Com¬ 
pany must set aside the legal reserve (the same as 
other Companies,) and must make an annual report 
to the State; consequently, It IS as safe as any other 
Insurance Company. The Directors and Officers are 
among the most prominent and wealthy men of the 
country, and without au exception are stockholders 
and personally interested in the success of the Com¬ 
pany, that its air., irs are managed with strict economy, 
In addition to an insurance upon your hie. by be¬ 
coming a member, you ate placed in a Tontine Cluss 
for the year you Insure, and if you live a jew years, 
aud remain insured, you will receive, it may be, a 
large sum of money. 
This Tontine Fund Is made by setting aside one 
dollar from each $15 received by the Company, and 
when those who are insured in one year are reduced 
to twenty, the whole sum is equally divided between 
them. Each Insurer must puss a medical examina¬ 
tion, otherwise ail the lame, halt and blind would 
creep 111, Huts making tlie deaths frequent and in¬ 
creasing tlie assessments. The insured may go out 
of the Company ut any time by failing t«* pay his 
assessment of $1,10, and cun bo reinsured by pay lug 
tlie policy fee anew. 'L'ho insured Joses nothing by 
retiring, for tiie reason that they have been insured 
all the time at tho actual or net cost of insurance, 
thus receiving the full value of his money, which 
renders this form of insurance of itself really non- 
forfeiting. 
The insured are notified when a death has oceur¬ 
red ; they have also thirty days to pay their $1.10 in, 
or, if they prefer, they can pay for five or ten deaths 
inadvance. RB8UME 
You pay $15, and agree to pay $1.10 wlieu a death 
occurs and 8'.' on the first of January in each year; 
and tor this the Company gives you u policy which 
