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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
j WaHlilu«;loii, 
President Grant is said to have declared 
himself most positively against the movement 
to repeal the tariff on bituminous coal. 
A rumor was current in Washington on the 
Oth iti-if. that a proclamation recognizing Cuba 
will be Issued before the reassembling of Con¬ 
gress. Tins absurd report Is effectually squelched 
on high authority. Unless some very remaikn- 
ble successes attend the Cuban cause tbe ques¬ 
tion will remain in its present form until after 
the meeting of Congress in December. 
Secretary Houtwell warns l lie public to beware 
of the stories being put in circulation by sensa¬ 
tional newspapers regarding the Government 
finances, and his ideas, opinions and intentions 
concerning tlie- name. They arc the mere sur¬ 
mises of persons who know nothing of what 
they speak, if they protend to speak In any wise 
officially. 
On the Hih a general order from the Navy De¬ 
partment was issued formally announcing the 
death of Admiral Charles Stewart, and directing 
the usual tribute of respect to his memory 
throughout the Department. The order also 
recognizes the eminent services of the veteran, i 
and points to them ns bright examples to be fol¬ 
lowed by all Culled State* officers. 
Secretary Pish has called the attention of the 
Argentine Minister to the card recently pub¬ 
lished by his Secretary of Legation denouncing 
Gen. McMahon, and int i united diplomatically 
that the thing was discourteous and uncalled 
for, and that tbo Argentine Repubiio had not 
treated Gen. McMahon with the respect due his 
position when ho passed through there on his ; 
return home. The Secretary of Legation is in 
considerable trouble over the matter. 
A general order has just been issued from the 
War Department forbidding squatters or citizens 
from henceforth entering or residing upon mil¬ 
itary reservations unless in the employ of the- 
Government or with llio permission of Depart¬ 
ment Commanders, who are directed to enforce 
the order. 
Minister Thornton has been informed that the 
English Government Is prepared to reduce I be 
postage between this country and Great Britain 
to three pence for a single prepaid letter that 
is two cents for I lie inland postage of each coun¬ 
try and two cents l'or the ocean transportation. 
A free school is to be established in George- i 
town for the benefit of the children ol' the poor, 
K. M. Lfnthlcum, and old and highly esteemed j 
citizen, who dled a few days ago, liavitig lel’1%50,- , 
000 for that purpose. ( 
Postmaster-General Creswoll has summoned \ 
the postmasters of several principal cities to 
Washington in order to confer with him on tho < 
subject of postal improvement*, lie proposes , 
to reduce tho. charge on registered letters from I <■ 
twelve to six cents, u desirable reform, which I t 
will extend tho advantages of the regist ry sys- I 
tern to all classes in the community, and to sub¬ 
stitute free deliveries In all oi lies for tho present 
system of private boxes, another reform which F 
the Postmaster Gen oral thinks will save much 1 
time now dally lost in the distribution of letters. 8 
Our new Minister to China will probably re- j 
main in Washington some weeks after the meet¬ 
ing or Congress, it being Impossible for him to " 
reach Pekin before spring. Mr. Low t Links fur- , 
titer legislation is necessary in reference to 
coolies, In order to guard them from swindling {! 
contractors, into whoso hands they are most ■■ 
likely to fall upon their arrival in this country. 
Commissioner Delano has decided that dealers 
have no right to wiilulniw a portion of a ga uged 
package of spirits, and fill tho same with water, 11 
without having the same re-gauged and stamped, 11 
as t he act effects a change of package. All such 0 
watered spirits are subject to be seized aud con¬ 
fiscated. t* 
The bonds purchased by Secretary Boutwell c< 
have been counted, and tho result shows that up 1 ,: 
to Nov. 1, $17,S44,500 had been purchased on ac¬ 
count of the sinking fund, aud $45,000,00 as spe¬ 
cial purchases, subject to (lie future action of tc 
Congress. i n 
Minister Wnsliburne, in a letter to ft friend In m 
Washington, denies the story that ho has asked m 
for $15,000 for t he contingent expenses. 
At tho lust session of Congress a resolution 
was passed, empowering the President to confer 
with the Canadian Government for the purpose fll 
of securing a new Reciprocity Treaty. The <d 
President authorized Secretary Pish to meet tho 
representatives of the Canadian Government 1,1 
and not for the Uni ted States Government. Mr. dc 
.Rose was delegated by (lie Canadians, and be 
and Mr. Pish have completed a treaty, which ’! 
will be ready for submission to Congress on tho 11 
nssouibling of that, hotly. 
The Committee interested in tho erection In l lL 
this city of an equestrian statue of General 
Grant have obtained sufficient encouragement < 
to warrant the beginning of the work. The to 
statue is to be of bronze cast from cannon cap- w , 
lured by General Grant, and will be colossal in f,. ( 
size. Tho pedestal is to be of granite, and the 05( 
statue will lie erected on the terrace on the 
terrace on tho south front of the Treasury , 
building. The cost will be about $35,1)00. r 
On the 0th the President notified General But- , 
terfield of tbo acceptance of his resignation as { ‘ 
Assistant Treasurer of the UnitedStatesalNew- 
York, and appointed ox-Stuta Senator Charles ‘ 
J. Folger to the position. Mr. Folgcrwas ten- ' 
dored the appointment several days previously, 
and a telegram accepting the position was re- 1 
ecived from him on the oth. tb< 
ltear-Admiral Win. B. Shubrick is now the in t 
oldest officer in either the Army or Navy, hav- at 
lng entered the service in ISOtJ. The oldest com- a ff< 
mission in the Army is that of General Sylvanus J 
Thayer, who entered the army in 1808. we 
Madame Garcia, wife of the Argentine Minis- 
ter, gave her first reception on the evening of wi 
the 8th, which was a very brilliant affair. Gen- Hi 
oral Sherman and several moniker* of the for- scc 
oign legation attended, but the gas went out •>"' 
suddenly about 11 o'clock, which prematurely oas 
broke up the party. Fix 
Robert .7. Walker died in Washington on the 
Uth from general debility, resulting from undue C 
application to business. Jei 
New York. tio 
Major - Generai. John E. Wool died on ™ 
Wednesday morning, the 10th Inst., at liis resi- ‘ 
deuce in Troy, in the presence of his family, ! ‘ 
John A. Griswold, and an old colored servant 
who laid been in bis service for forty years. He 
was eighty-six yearn of age. 
► | The failure of the old importing wholesale 
liquor house of A. Rinlngcr & Co., of New York, 
- established over a century ago, was announced 
on the 8th inst., and created much excitement in 
business circles. 
The New York Chamber of Commerce on the 
5th inst., recommended to Congress the estab- 
red Jiabment of a semi-monthly mail between San 
Lint Francisco and China aud Japan. The report of 
tho Committee on frauds and corruption in tho 
dlc management of the State canals, rocoinmend- 
iba Rig the collection of testimony to enable the 
,u * t’i* izeus’ Association to prosecute the guilty par- 
l °d ties was adopted. 
oi- On (lie 5th, Michael Conners, employed on the 
es- elevated railroad track at thoSlng Sing quarries, 
ter. fell from the trestle work, a distance of sixty 
feet, and did not break a bone. 
R'c A boy iiiitiiccl Dundon was standing on the 
Susquehanna track. In Elmira, engaged in snow- 
nt balling some men on a work train, on the 5th, 
ns when an engine, which he did not observe, came 
n- up behind him, and ran over him, killing him hi¬ 
nt stantiy. 
90 A meeting of the Board of Directors of the 
New York City Central Underground Railway 
was held «n tho 5th, and several interesting re- 
m ports of engineers who have surveyed the pro- 
ig posed route, and of Mr. Whitbock, who lias been 
T examining the London roads, were read. The 
W Board expressed itself confident of finishing the 
"> I road and making it successful. 
1- On the 6th several railroad employes in Albany 
and Troy were arrested on Charge of committing 
10 the gieat express robbery on the Central Rail- 
J - road, between Fonda and Albany,some months 
since. A portion or t he stolen money has been 
y recovered. One of the prisoners, C'has. B. Oouk- 
I in, baggageman, was ouce before arrested in 
,t; New York City, but released upon a writ of ha- 
is heat corpus. 
18 Timothy Dakin of Syracuse, while present at a 
11 Republican meeting in that city on the night of 
election day, suddenly fell dead from heart dis- 
e case. He served during the war in tboOne Huu- 
3 <1 red and Twenty-second New York Volunteers, 
- and III the Ninth Artillery. , 
« Tho Rochester Theater, in that city, was to- 
- tally destroyed by tire on the Cth inst., together , 
a with several adjacent buildings. Loss, $50,000. , 
The fire was discovered in tbo green room at 5 f 
n A. M„ and spread with great rapidity, K. L, 
Davenport, the actor, lost a portion of ids ward- , 
1 robe. 
i The magnificent Vanderbilt bronzes on tho , 
• western front of tho new freight depot of the t 
New York Central and Hudson River Ruilroad, e 
■ on the site of St. John's Park, in New York City, t 
’ were unvullcd Wednesday afternoon, the 10th 
I Inst., with uppi'Oprlato ceremonies. Bishop Junes 
- of the Methodist Episcopal Church, opened the 
exercises with prayer, mid Mayor Hall delivered t 
t the address on the occasion. 1 
M r. Thomas Brown, Agent and Superintendent « 
of (lie Palmor Palls Woolen Factory at Corinth, ! 
< , was shot, and killed by the watchman of his mill, 1 
, Sunday night, the 7th inst., under the supposi¬ 
tion that he was a burglar. 
Maine. _ 
The special commission appointed some time e 
since by Governor Chamberlain to examine S 
lauds in Aroostook county, for the purpose of g 
selecting sites for Swedish and Norwegian set¬ 
tlements, will make a favorable report to tho t 
Legislature, and it is probable that it will be h 
adopted. $ 
The new gymnasium at Colby University, a 
Wtttervllle, is about completed, and nlss> the new ti 
observatory. Tliclibrary room, in the memorial p 
building, lias been built large enough to contain T 
30,000 volumes. w 
New Ilnmpslilre. P 
The employes of the Portsmouth Navy Yard p 
have given $1,000 to the widow of one of their 11 
number, who was recent ly killed by the explosion j." 
of a gasometer. ^ 
The Lake National Bank at Wojfboro was en- 
tered on tho 5th Inst-, and robbed of its entire 
contents, consisting of money, notes, bonds and 
private deposits. The Joss Is heavy. <j ( 
Vermont, at 
Tnn Lake House and Noyes' Block, Burling- 
ton, were burned oil Monday morning, tho 8th 
inst., and one man fatally and nine others badly ni 
i njured by the falling of a wall. The loss is esti- fo 
mated at $75,000. Si 
Massachusetts, ll! | 
The church bells at Newburyport were tolled aI] 
an hour on t he 5tli out of respect to t he memory u , 
of George Peabody. Tho Peabody Institute at pt . 
Peabody (formerly South Danvers, but changed ];,* 
in honor of the illustrious banker’s munificent ta 
donation to the t«wn,) has boon draped with , 
mourning, and will remain closed until after the j 3 
remains arc interred in this country. It is in fP , 
this institution that tho enamel portrait of ] 
Queen Victoria and the other presents to Mr jn , 
Peabody arc deposited. 
Rhode Island. 
Qodnick will soon have one of the finest cot- ca ' 
ton mills in the country. The building, whose f,., 
walls will be built of heavy masonry, will be 430 
feet, long and 80 feet wide; 25,000 spindles and f , 
650 looms will bo used. 
Connecticut. tq a 
W.M. B. Brhtsmadb, Superintendent of the the 
Connecticut River Railroad, in Massachusetts, am 
has been taken to the Rotrcat in Hartford, he an 
having become insane through great anxiety of fi r( 
mind, caused by tho damage to that road by the j 
recent flood. It is thought ho will recover. Cir 
New Jersey. scr 
Bear-Admiral Charles Stjbwabt, who was 
the oldest officer iu the American service, hav- 
ing sort ed the flag over seventy-one years, died j 
at Borden town on the 6th inst., at the advanced ^ 
age of ninety-one years. 6e ^ 
Nino frame dwelling houses, valued at $12,000, u" 
were burned at Camden on t he oth inst., and Mr, [ a *' 
Elliott, in whose house the fire originated, was, 
with his wife and live children,soverely burned, p 
His mother, an aged woman, was thrown from a 
second story window and probably fatally in- 
jiired. Great apprehension exists at Camden in , [ 
ease of fire, owing to the disorganization of the !-'* 
Fire Department. 1 . 
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Pennsylvania. rj 
On the 4th inst. the Reform Convention of Sen 
Jewish Rabbis, in Philadelphia, adopted rcsolu- pro 
tioos favoring a change in the marriage laws, Clu 
acknowledging the woman as the equal of the fro 
man, and providing for an exchange of rings as sell 
part of tho ceremony; and also abolishing dc- par 
vorcos by the church,and leaving the power of hot 
divorce entirely to the judiciary of the States. D 
> The total subscription in aid of the families of 
the Avoiuhilo sufferers, available, is $89,000. The 
j total reported subscriptions in the various parts 
, of the country wore about $150,000, but nearly 
I half yet remains uncollected, nor la there a euii- 
i guine bellcl that any considerable portion of 
tliia sum will ever find Jta way to the sufferer*, 
i The money at present is disbursed at the rate of 
$500 a year to each widow, and $100 per annum 
to each male child under fourteen, and each 
female under sixteen. Thera are no expenses 
ulteuding the management of the fund, sive a 
small salary to the treasurer and secretary. 
The remains of Admiral Stew art were interred 
on tho 10th just, at Philadelphia with imposing 
ceremonies. The precession which formed t he 
funeral escort was nearly a mile in length, 
A lady died in Curry on the 29th ult. from tho 
effects of chloroform administered by a dentist. 
She had been subject to heart disease. 
The two hundred and fifty medical students in 
Philadelphia taunt, hiss and jeer at tlic twenty- 
five young ladies from tho Women’s Medical 
< 'oilego who attend tlie clinical lectures at the 
Pennsylvania Hospital. And ihcre isn’t one 
among the two hundred and fifty who lias the 
manliness re protest against it. 
Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia, an in¬ 
stitution built by tho Hicksite Friends, and 
capable of accommodating throe hundred and 
fifty pupils, was formally opened, on the loth, 
with one hundred and eighty pupils «jf both 
sexes, in equal numbers. Addresses were made 
by Samuel Wiilct is of New York,Edward Parish, 
President of the College, Lueretlft Mutt, and 
others- The buildings arc said to bo tho most 
expensive college buildings in the State. 
Maryland. 
The City Council <-r Baltimore has authorized 
the City Register to Issue $300,000 of city six per 
cent, bonds, wherewith to pay the remainder of 
tho flouting debt of tlx© city existing at tho time 
of the adoption of the new constitution. Of tin's 
debt, $1,700,000 were funded some time ago. 
Virginia. 
Tm? corner stone of the Normal School at 
Hampton was laid on the 6th inst, by Gen. How¬ 
ard, with appropriate ceremonies. 
A Mrs. Salmon and her son, living about eight 
miles from Charlotteville, were brutally mur¬ 
dered on the 5th inst. Her elder son John lias 
since been arrested on suspicion of being tho 
porpetraior, and has been held Tor preliminary 
examination. 
The Norfolk Virginian reports that the Meth¬ 
odist Church North offered, on condition that 
tho Virginia Conference would re-unite them¬ 
selves with the Church North, to give to Ran¬ 
dolph Macon College an endowment of $200,000. 
E'.ST' 1 ’"* 1 “ “ iCW> °" “ n " 13 * to sevon Wcn , r -ono hour, 
tho wreck of th® 
little child. Among those present was a young X tb© ^° nt 
man who bad come down to look for a little sis- without discussion. ° P ° 
ter only two years old, and who, mounting the T . 
ruins, measured the tiny skull, weighed aud ex- who negotiated the Mexican loan with 
ainlned the bones, and then shook his head , 0 Empire, claims an indemnity of 17,000,000 
, mourn fully amid an unbroken silcnco, and said franc3 from the French Government. 
Sadly, “I don't know, I cannot tell."’ ua known man was arrested at Compiegne, 
The political complexion of the Illinois Con- Hl,nf J u - v * ”th inst., who was found to be 
stitutional Convention, according to the latest at ‘ n *ed, aud who declared that it was his inten- 
returns is:-Republicans, 47; Democrats, 37; assassinate the Emperor. 
Conservative, 2; Independent, 1, and one dis- 8everal tdeotoral meetings were held and a 
trict to hoar from. demonstration made In favor of Rochefort in 
tllelil«an Paris on 1he 8,11 list.,but no disturbance was 
_ — — ” , ’ created. The city is reported “quiet” in nearlv 
Charles Nolan or Carrollton county, called everyday’s telegrams. Several electoral meet-, 
on ids wile on Sunday the , th inst., having lived tags have been broken up by the police, notwith- 
eeparate from her for s«mc time, shot her dead, standing, 
and then fatally shot himself. Bol'-dum. 
fflinucMota. T HE conoeasions asked for from tho Belgian 
Minister Motley 1ms obtained for the Minne- Government, by the new Belgo-Amerieim Cable 
8ota Historical Hocictv a complete-set of the pub- Company to facilitate the- laying of another 
lications or ilie “Record Commission " of Great ocean cable between Belgium and America, 
Britain. Tho volumes, two hundred and seven- were agreed to on the 5th inst., and signed by 
teen in number, have already been shipped from Belgian Minister ul Paris. 
Liverpool. 
Kansax, Rome. 
The Government corral, located at Fort Har- Fate advices received in Paris from Rome are 
kor, was struck by lighting on the 3d lust., and *° tho e ® ect ’ H»at tho Pope will not Introduce 
the building partially destroyed. Sixty mules f fi° dogma of liis infallibity into the Ecumenical 
were killed. Council unless he Is assured of an imposing ma- 
Ncl»ra*ka. jority in its favor, as lie docs not wisli to pro- 
GnouNDwns broken on tho 5th Inst., at Fro- v ’°ko a discussion on tho subject. The Jesuits, 
mont, for tho Fremont and Elkhom Valley Rail- ' , ,s !<u,<p arc striving to secure a majority of tho 
road, and its construction is to bo pushed forward bishops In his favor, 
rapidly. Spain. 
An Indian murder trial, before the United Madrid dispatches report that the opposition 
States Court nl Omaha, was concluded on Tues- ,!l ° Duke of Genoa for tin* throne of Spain is 
day night the 9th, and all four of the prisoners dally gaining strength. The Democrats and Pro- 
wero found guilty. After the verdict, two of ffrassioulsta had a meeting cm the 5th inst. to dis- 
thom made their escape, and at last accounts but cuss the situation, which is regarded a* critical, 
one bud been re-captured. The resignation of Admiral Topeto has been rc- 
Tc x n s luctantly uoccptod. Sen or Orenso luus been lib- 
a , „ t’tateil, and a battalion of volunteers sailed from 
TitE Conservative Republicans of the Fourth Cadiz ou the 5th for Havana 
District have nominated General Horace Bough- . r < , _ 
ton, formerly of New York State, for Congress, ’" ! C , \1 '* >ra<h '| ,1 °" tbe Oth Deputy Ma- 
Hte ancestors were among the earliest settlers “ i ' . tu © Cubans had headquarters 
of the valley Of tho Genesee. IIo distlnguisl.ed and f 1 business of dis- 
bimself early in the war as an officer of the ZS ^ C $,m ,,J "u h ' m,n ' Hc 
Rochester regiment, which went to the first Bull , ' i 1 n M1 " l ’- ,< >r Becerra replied 
Run one thousand strong and came out reduced J.nd.iS? ti"'. I , p, ' oUM , t h - cr ho ' ,or a, *.vwhcre, 
to two hundred. His promotion was rapid, and SS ? latercportsfioin havanashowed 
always secured by hard servioo in actual battle. T .... ' dmdn fi |) Jn 8 - ' Admiral 
1 apeto s resignation was officially' announced, 
California. and Gen. Prlrn is to assume the duties until a 
Contain nu. 
I Gov. Warmocth contradicts the report that 
ton and a half millions Louisiana State bonds 
bad been issued without bciug recorded. Ho 
adds that, all bonds issued by him were author¬ 
ized by Jaw aud have been properly recorded and 
the interest promptly paid. 
T’ennessec. 
Ex-President Johnson gave « banquette the 
members of the Trnne- M^i Legislature on the 
evening of the 5th inst. at Nashville. Governor 
Scntcr, Senator Fowler, and other distinguished 
guests, were present. 
Memphis friends of Captain Washington, of 
the steamer Submarine, No. 13, claim that when 
lie passed the wreck s f t he burning steamer 
Stonewall, be gave direction to Ills officers to stop 
and round to tho boat on the least sign of dis¬ 
tress ; that the officers of the Submarine suw no 
persons on shore, and heard mmc in the water. 
They say that all that was left of the Stonewall 
When they passed down was the jackstaff and a 
portion of the wheel arms- The clerks and 
pilots of the Submarine, while at Memphis, cer¬ 
tified to such a statement, which was sent to St. 
Louis to the officers or Ihe Memphis Packet 
Company, requesting a suspension of public 
opinion until a full investigation cun be had. 
Kentucky. 
A noY in Covington, who was bitten by a mad 
dog a day or two before last Christmas, was 
attacked with hydrophobia on the 3d Inst., and 
died in a few hours. 
On Sunday evening, the 7th inst,, a party, 
numbering about one hundred men, took by 
force from tho Richmond Jail, a man named 
Suarey, who was guilty- of five murders, aud 
hanged him in the court-house yard. 
Tilton Cochran, a brakeman on the Louisville 
and Nashville Railroad, was shot by some one 
unknown, concealed in a wood pile, and in¬ 
stantly killed, as the express train was leaving 
Bacon Creek Station, on the 81 li. The cause of 
the homicide is a mystery. 
One-fourth of the tobacco crop of Barren Co. 
is thought to ba\ c been destroyed by tbo late 
frost, 
Ex-Governor Wickllffo was buried on the 5th 
inst., at Bardstown, with Masonic honors. 
Ohio. 
A cattle disease litis broken out among tlio 
cattle of Pfeifer's distillery, in Storrs Township, 
from which forty head have already died. Tho 
cause is uuknown, but it is thought to arise from 
feeding the cattle on still slops. 
On tho 7lh a freight train ou tho Sandusky, 
Mansfield and Newark Ruilroad was thrown from 
the track near Mount Vernon, and the engine 
and two cars demolished. The conductor died in 
an hour from his injuries, and the engineer and 
fireman were badly injured. 
A new Exchange building is to be erected in 
Cincinnati, and $150,000 has been already sub¬ 
scribed for that purpose. 
Illinois. 
The Third Annual Council of the Evangelical 
Lutheran Church of North America began its 
session in Chicago on the 5th inst. Seventy-five 
dc-legates wore present. The busiuoss of the 
day was confined to hearing the annual address 
and the report of the Executive Committee. 
Rev. G. F. Krottel was chosen President. The 
Council continued Be session on tho 6th inst. 
The most important business transacted was the 
decision to establish a denominational theologi¬ 
cal seminary at Chicago, and a large amount, of 
funds and property was reported to have been 
already secured in that city. 
Tho difficulty in the Presbyterian Theological 
Seminary at Chicago lias been settled by a com¬ 
promise by which Dr. Lord continues in the ' 
Chair of Divinity, Mr. McCormick is released ' 
from paying $25,000 claimed to be due to the 1 
school, and the three directors of Dr. Lord’s I 
party resign to give place to three agreeable to i 
both parties. i 
Daniel Walsh, on trial for the murder of his 1 
California. 
O akland, aoroas the harbor from Ban Fran¬ 
cisco, hud a general jubilee on the evening of 
i lie 8th inst., to celebrate the arrival of the first 
railway train from the East. Tho town was 
illuminated, guns tired, arches erected, &c. 
Among the mottoes displayed was, “ Minimum 
fares, and maximum travel.” 
A ChlriatiiuiJ was recently bitten by a dog be¬ 
longing to a white man in San Francisco, mid 
brought the owner before the Police Court. 
A Her several witnesses had been heard, t he 
counsel of the plaintiff offered tho testimony of 
the Chinaman, and stated that lie was compelled 
to prove by him that lie was engaged in selling 
fish, and (hat lie was tho only ono who ould 
positively identify the color of the dog. The 
Court, however, refused to hear the testimony 
of tho Chinaman on these vital points at that 
time, and took the case under advisement until 
that day week, to which date the case was post¬ 
poned. 
Tliu Indians. 
The recent attack on the mail and the mur¬ 
der of Colonel Stone by tho Indians at Apache 
Pass, Arizona, is officially reported to have been 
a complete surprise. Tho Indians were led by 
white meu, and plunder was tho object. After 
killing the party, two hundred and fifty cattle 
belonging to Texas emigrants were stampeded 
and one man killed. A Government train, on 
Its way to Fort Bowie, was also twice attacked. 
Troops are pursuing the Indians, who are making 
for Sonora. 
Small-pox has become epidemic urnong the 
Gros Ventres Indians, and five hundred huvo 
died. The roads are strewn Willi bodies, aud 
some of the affected blow their brains out with 
revolvers. They demand, it is said, that the In¬ 
dian Agent shall act as mediator for them with 
the Great Spirit. 
Washington Territory, 
Governor Moore, in bis message to the Leg¬ 
islature, expresses the decided opinion that har¬ 
bor defences are demanded on its coast. 
*** - 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
successor is chosen. 
A letter received by the Spunfsh Government 
at Madrid, from General Duloc, implicates, it is 
said, prominent parties in intrigues with the 
Duke df Mmitpensfor. and warns the Govern¬ 
ment, unless lie is chosen King, that tlio Union¬ 
ists will resort to arms. It is reported that ono 
hundred and sixty-four Deputies of the Cortes 
are pledged to the Duke of Genoa, and twenty- 
four additional have agreed in uniting to sup¬ 
port him. A rising is threatened in Lisbon. The 
Spanish merchants are to send 10,000 troops to 
Cuba next month. 
Tho Unionists and Progressionists nroin a state 
of inlmriuony on more questions than tho selec- 
Gon of a Sovereign—the oath to support tho 
Constitution, and tbo matter of electing Depu¬ 
ties to fill the vacancies in the Cortes, being 
among the elements of disagreement. 
The expected publication of a munifestoof the 
ox-Queon Isabella of Spain, abdicating in favor 
of her son, the Prince ol Asturias, u Madrid dis¬ 
patch says, was countermanded at the last mo¬ 
ment by a telegram from the ex-Queen in Paris. 
At the funoral of Ki.-go, in Madrid, on Liic 8th, 
cries of “Vivo la Republica” were instantly 
suppressed by the bystanders.” 
Great Britain. 
By direction of Queen Victoria, the funeral 
obsequies of the late George Peabody were held 
in Westminster Abbey on the 12th inst. The 
British Government has also directed n man-of- 
war to be prepared to bring the remains to this 
country. On the Oth the flags were hung at half- 
mast in Loudon in respect to his memory. 
Queen Victoria opened the new bridge and 
viaduct in London on the Oth inst., with State 
ceremonies, in the presence of agreat concourse 
of people. The houses were decorated, aud t he 
day' observed as a general holiday. 
The boiler of the British gunboat Thistle, 
while in a trial trip off Shoerness, on tho 4th 
inst., exploded, killing two men and severely in¬ 
juring eight others. 
The inaugural banquet of the Lord Mayor of 
London was held on the night of the 9th inst. at 
Guild Hail, in that city, and the members of the 
Ministry, Foreign Ambassadors and many dis¬ 
tinguished guests were present. Mr. Gladstone, 
in reply to the toast to “Her Majesty's Minis¬ 
ters,” made quite an extended speech, in which 
he alluded particularly to Irish affairs. 
Ireland is still considerably excited on the 
Fenian amnesty question. At a meeting of the 
Dublin Association and theAninestyCommitt.ee, 
held on the evening of the 9l h, a number of men 
broke into the rooms of the latter and com¬ 
mitted outrages, destroying furniture, &c. No 
arrests were made. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO 
WITHOUT CHANGE. 
WE lmve received a notice from Cliurlcs K. Noble, 
Esq., General Agent of the Michigan Central Rail¬ 
road, Now York, staling that the magnificent Special 
Drawing-Room and Palace Bleeping Cars of the Pull¬ 
man Line leave Hudson River HR. Depot, Now York, 
every Monday,at 6:39 I', m., commencing November 
8,1SC9, connecting at Chicago, on Wednesday, 10 A. m., 
with the Special Past Pacific Kxpress, leaving Omaha 
at*9:15 A. M., Thursday, by the Special Past h’xpress 
Train, composed entirely uf Pullman Palace uraw- 
ing-Room, Dining and Sleeping Cars, which run 
through to Sad Francisco in eighty-one hours, with¬ 
out change, arriving there Sunday utternoon. This 
train is specially designed for through passengers 
and for tlie convenience of families, parties or ladies 
traveling alone. Ono of the celebrated Pullman 
Dining Cars will run lu connection with this train 
rrorn Rochester to San Franciaoo, affording passen¬ 
ger* all the comfort* of a tirst-class hole). This is 
the only route running the Pullman Paiace Hotel 
Drawing-Utaini and Sleeping Cars. Returning, tills 
special train will leave Ban KranoLsco every Wednes¬ 
day. at 7:90 A. M., arriving at New Vox k the following 
Tuesday morning. Through tickets, drawing-rooms, 
time-tablet sections and berths can be secured at 
the office o. the Michigan Central Railroad, 8 Astor 
House, New York. 
■-»♦» 
A HOME AND SCHOOL. 
A iadt livlni in the suburbs of one of the most 
beauti-ul and healthy cities of Western Now York, 
would re two enildren Into her family, where they 
could lif.ve a Mother’s love and care, and the advan¬ 
tages of a School in the house, taught by her daugh¬ 
ters. Terms- 'tc’uitag tuition, board, room, fuel, 
lights, washir. Sc,,—$599 per annum. Refers to Mr. 
Moore of the a uk.AL New-Yorker, and the Rev. 
Dr. Bright of tho Examiner and Chronicle. 
Address M s. R. E. c. crjre of Rural New-York¬ 
er, 41 Park Row, New . ^_ 
CLOTHES WRiNGERS 
Of al) kinds r ta'.cv. or taken :n part pay for the 
“ Universal,” wi .th a warranted durable. 
R. t BROWNING. Agent, 
?.l Cortlanclt St., New York. 
France. 
The steamer Pen ire lias just made the quick¬ 
est trip on record between New York and Brest. 
The Perrire left Sandy n #ok on the 30th ult., at 
twenty-five minutespasttinee P. M.,and arrived 
at Brest Nov. 8, at eight A. M„ thus making the 
run in eight days, sixteen hours and thirty-five 
minutes apparent time, or t ight days, eleven 
hours and thirty-five minutes actual time. This 
itrltete, 
MONEY AND STOCK MARKET. 
New York, Nov. 12.1369. 
There is nothing essentially new in the money 
market. Gold is about- a per cent, lower than last 
week. Neither Government bonds nor railway 
stocks have materially changed. 
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