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CURRENT TOPICS. 
The New York Liberal Club Dinner. 
This Club was organized three yORrs ago on 
the Centennial Anniversary ol' the birth of 
Humboldt, Its sole object being the free discus¬ 
sion of social and scientific topics. Seven gen¬ 
tlemen were Included in its organization. It 
now numbers 200 members. Horace Greeley Is 
its President and presided at its third anniver¬ 
sary dinner at Dolmonico's, Oct. 5, at which 
near 200 members and guests were present. 
Among the guests Wore Dr. laid wig Buchner, 
the eminent German Philosopher; Edmund 
Yates, the English novelist, now on a lecture 
tour in l his conn I ry; Miss Susanna Evans, well- 
known as a lecturer; Prof. Henry Draper of the 
New York University Medical School; Dr. Min¬ 
nie Putnam of the N. Y. Woman's Medical 
College: WhlUdaw Held, managing editor of the 
N. Y. Tribune; Dr. J. V. C. Smith, ex-Mayor of 
Boston; Mrs. Elizabeth Dudiy, a rising story- 
writer: Miss Kate Hilliard, poetess, and others. 
Among the prominent members present were 
noticeable, after looking at the serene face of 
the venerable President of l ho Club, the 1st Vice- 
President, W. L. Onnsby, Jr., whoso bobby is 
enlightened self-ini crest, and who made the 
wittiest speech of the evening in response to a 
toast on AI truism ; D. T. Gardener, t he indus¬ 
trious and eloquent Secretary who bears the 
burdens and to whom is conceded the honor of 
the Club's great, prosperity and efficiency, and 
who bears both the honors and burdens modest¬ 
ly; I)r. P. JI. Vander Wcyde, an eminent 
scientist and theeditor of the Manufacturer & 
Builder of this city: David C. Croly, the indus¬ 
trious and efficient, managing editor of the N. 
Y. World; Mrs. Jennie Juno Croly, the well- 
known fashion writer and editress of Madame 
Demorost’s Pashlon Magazine; Dr. Louis JSl8- 
berg, Professor In the N. Y. University Medical 
School; Prof. C. A. Seeley, Die well-known 
chemist; J. Wilson McDonald, the sculptor; 
Thaddcus B. WafctMuun, the high priest of Posi¬ 
tivists in this country; John Elderkin a well- 
known litterateur; Stephen Pearl Andrews, Hie 
discoverer of the new science of Universology 
and the author of the now language known as 
Alwato; George P. Howell, the great advertis¬ 
ing agent; Prof. J. K. H. Wilcox, the eminent 
peace advocate; Dr. It. T. (Inllock, the earnest 
defender of Spiritualism; Charles Moran, a 
zealous political economist of the Free-trade 
school; Nicholas Muller,tboGorman poet; Dr. 
T. S. Lambert, the well-known lecturer upon 
the Laws of Longevity; .1. K. Ingalls, the earn¬ 
est advocate of Laud Reform, and others scarcely 
Jess prominent. Among the notable thinkers of 
the old world who have accepted honorary mem¬ 
berships in tilts Club, we may name John Stuart 
Mill, Emile Littre, Ernst Haeckoj, Thomas H. 
Huxley, John Tyndall, Charles Darwin, Bras- 
seur de Bourbourg, Victor Hugo, Herbert 
Spencer and Hermann Helmholtz. From sev¬ 
eral of these gentlemen last named, the Club 
has received eommunieations of public and 
scientific Interest which have been read, dis¬ 
cussed and depositedin Sts archives. 
named, in tbo daily papers, Messrs. Flying Ante¬ 
lope, Thunder Hawk, Afraid Of, Mad, Two 
Bears, etc. We do not vouch for the correct¬ 
ness of this nomenclature. 
Charles Sumner’s Health. 
A London correspondent of the New York 
Tribune appeals to Mr. Sumner’s friends on this 
side of the water to lor him alone for the next 
three months, stating that the spinal affection 
resulting from Die blows of Preston Brooks 
many years ago has resulted finally in an affec¬ 
tion of the heart, causing, in the language of 
bis physician, such suffering, that he — could 
compare ii to nothing but pain endured under 
the knife of a surgeon in operations of the 
graves! character. He was forced by his physi¬ 
cians and friends to lease America, much 
against his will and wishes, and secure the most 
complete rest, all mental work being inter¬ 
dicted. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
New York City and Vicinity. 
It is proposed to remove Columbia College 
aeoonnt. of the noise from the railways_A 
on 
_ays._ 
fire nt 473 Broadway, on the 1st, did damage to 
the amount of $50,000.. Avenue St. Nicholas 
has been opened , . The coach dri vers have been 
on a striko.,. .The eminent Dr. Francis Lleber 
died of heart disease nt his residence on 84th st.. 
on the 2d Inst.., aged 72 . Dr. .1. G. Holland has 
been appointed one of the Commissioners of 
Public bchool 8 —Father Gavnzzi has returned 
to Europe... Thirty-three Sioux chiefs have 
visited the city There were 94, fires in Sep¬ 
tember: loss, $148.470.... Rev, Dr. Vinton was 
burled from Trinity Church on the 2d_The 
buck drivers' strike has been successful. 
Home News. 
The New York Mayorship. 
The most agitating political topic in this city 
Is, “Who shall be Mayor?" Fifteen or twenty 
candidates are named, if not actually in the 
field, for nomination, of their own free will and 
desire. There is a strong “reform*' feeling 
among Die citizens, who know ami fool its ne¬ 
cessity, both for the good name and financial 
status of the city; lint politicians are active in 
their efforts to be considered “ reformers ’’ capa¬ 
ble of carrying out the wishes of the people. 
The result, looking over the field impartially, 
does not seem to promise union, irrespective of 
party, pro how> publico. We wish it did. 
Making Cerman Citizens, 
Alkack and Lorraioo were, by tbo fortunes 
of war, annexed to the German Empire. Its 
citizens had the privilege deciding whether they 
would remain in their old homes ns German 
citizens and forswear their allegiance to Die 
Government of Franco, or leave their homes 
and adhere to Franco. It Is estimated i hat 88,- 
OOO Alsatians will take up tln ir residence in 
Nancy alone, while multitudes settle in other 
parts of Franco, thus refusing the benign gov¬ 
ernment of the Gormans. War has not de¬ 
veloped love towards their conquerors in Die 
hearts of the French. 
A Diamond Sensation. 
The World gives us the latest diamond sensa¬ 
tion in the shape of a story signed by James H. 
Martin, purporting to tell how a friend discov¬ 
ered how to manufacture diamonds by tbo hun¬ 
dreds, and how lie has done it in detail and has 
made millions of dollars worth (hereof which 
have (a large portion of them) been put upon 
the markets of the world. The discovery, it is 
claimed, consists in suddenly chilling and thus 
crystallizing carbonic acid gas—by eliminating 
from it the oxygen by absorbing it with neu¬ 
trals. This is the brief of a two-column state¬ 
ment of the process and the material used. Mr. 
Martin asserts that on Wednesday, Sept. 25, he 
saw his friend make 000 diamonds, weighing, in 
the aggregate, eleven pounds and four ounces; 
and Tuesday night, Oct. 1, he saw him produce 
821 more weighing ton pounds eleven ounces. 
Mr. Martin asserts that the Inventor of this pro¬ 
cess has manufactured by it about 1,500 pounds 
of diamonds and has disposed of about 800 
pounds, having still unsold about 700 pounds. 
Those disposed of have brought him an average 
of about $30,000 per pound or $24,000,000 of dol¬ 
lars. Jle lias now about 700 pounds in the hands 
of agents from whom he is receiving advices 
daily. The inventor gave Mr. Martin the secret 
because lie did not cure to keep it longer; he is 
rich enough, and the care or his great wealth 
lie finds to be greater than tne cares of poverty. 
He paid Mr. Martin (800,000 for the two batches 
of diamonds made at the dates above named 
when revealing to lu'in liis secret. This story is 
a strange one and l’ew will believe it. 
The Escurlal of Spain. 
The Escuriai, the famous monastery of New 
Oustile, thirty miles northwest from Madrid, 
a solid pile of granite which has been called the 
eighth wonder of the world, commenced In 
1503 and finished in 1531, designed to serve as a 
palace, mausoleum and monastery, the recep¬ 
tacle of books and tlie works of urt, and the 
Pride and boast of Spain, has been burning 
since our last issue. Few of Die valuable objects 
which it contained are destroyed, but the 
amount of damage sustained by the building is 
estimated at $375,000. Two of the towers and a 
part of the roof have been destroyed. 
It is asserted that large numbers of negroes 
were imported into Pennsylvania to vote 
James Kdox of Knoxville. Ill., has given $10,000 
to Hamilton College... All the wells in the oil 
regions have been closed for 30 days... The 
I ’resl den t wi 11 ask that a deli -gut ion of wo rk ing- 
mi-n be sent, to Vienna to report on the Exposi¬ 
tion. Christ Church. Charleston, S.C., asks for 
aid . The American Board or Foreign Missions 
has held ils anniversary at New Hav en The 
Liberals elected their ticket In Georgia by a 
large majority. 
Fire**. 
mrrr.nrstcs on Court Square, Springfield, 
Muss., on the 2d ; loss, $27,000_A large fire on 
Craig street. Montreal, on the 2d; loss, $160,000. 
Woolen mill in North Uxbridge. H. I., on 
the 28th wit.; loss, '$75.000_Nickerson's lum¬ 
ber yard In Bridgeport, Conn.; loss, $50,000 . .In 
Jefferson, Texas, n fire to the extent, of $,3(i.noo. 
.On ihe 3d, stores In Orange, N. J.; loss. $30,- 
000....On the 4th. a great fire took place In Pat¬ 
erson. N. J., destroying a machine shop and 
silk factory; loss, $350,000 .. Tbo loss by fire at 
the Escurlal Palace, in Sjiaiu, is estimated at 
three millions of reals. 
Crimea. 
The Cincinnati express was thrown from 
the track 35 miles west of Philadelphia, on the 
1 st, and two men killed; a rail had been re¬ 
moved John Barclay of Columbus. O., was 
hung on the 4th, for murdering Chas. F. Gamer 
last November. 
Accident*, Disasters, Etc. 
A BOILER exploded nt Morristown, Pa., on 
the 1st, injuring a large number of persons_A 
passenger train fell through a trestle 71 miles 
east or Knoxville, Teiin., on the 4th; twenty- 
seven persons were injured. 
Obltu uric*. 
Wm. Prescott Smith, a railroad man, and 
politician of Baltimore, on the 1 st; b 
..Dr. Thomas Childs of Hath, Me., 
born in 1 & 22 . 
on the 2 d. 
A Chlc.igo Jubilee 
is proposed in October, 1873-a festival week 
celebrating the rebuilding of that city, and in¬ 
cluding a series of entertainments, in which ail 
nations that ooniributod to the Chicago relief 
fund are to be Invited to participate —a Ux Bos¬ 
ton, except on a bigger scale. The project in¬ 
cludes making arrangements with railways, 
steamships, hotels,andprivatecitizens, whereby 
ail the world having n ticket can come and go 
and partake of the entertainment without 
trouble, and at a uniform price. 
Death of Dr. Francis Lleber. 
I’kancir Li eiikk, L.L. I)., Professor of Consti¬ 
tutional History and Political Science, inColum- 
bia College, and an eminent writer on Govern¬ 
ment and civil law, died of heart-disease in 
this city, Oct. 2, aged seventy-thi-ee years. Dr. 
Lleber has been a voluminous worker, held high 
position in educational institutions, been re¬ 
garded the peer of the best minds in this coun¬ 
try as a thinker, and has exerted a wide inllu- 
cnee upon the analysis and interpretation of 
civil law in this country. 
Pauline Lucca and the Indians. 
Pauline Lucca, the new and charming prima 
donna , called upon the Indian chiefs at then- 
hotel in this city the other day and gained their 
consent to return her call, which they did the 
5th inst. After the greetings were over and the 
Los had quenched t heir throats with chainpogne, 
they were induced to sing an Indian chorus; 
of coarse Lucca was delighted. They then in¬ 
sisted. through their interpretor, that the petite 
Pauline should siug for them, which she did and 
at which they grunlod groat satisfaction. The 
eminent chiefs who thus honored Lucca are 
The Oil Strike. 
The price of oil has not been compensating. 
The result has been that there has been a grand 
combined movement in the oil regions of 
Pennsylvania to stop production until the juice 
appreciates to paying figures. This “ strike" is 
of great magnitude, embracing a whole com- 
munitity of producers. The cessation of labor 
throughout the oil region is general, and oil is 
to be forced up in price while it remains quiet 
in its subteiTuenan reservoirs. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
ffliwcellancon* Foreign New*. 
Loan Rkdksdalr condemns the Geneva 
Board of Arbitration. .Baron Hastings of En¬ 
gland is dead.. Sir Charles Diiks has lectured 
in Glasgow . .Fully 1,200 people Jell Brrnsburg 
Sopt. Stftb. lor French territory. ...Tin-• Turks 
have had a fight with the Montogrins_On the 
2d mi accident occurred near Ktrke Bridge, 
England, on the railway. Eleven portions were 
killed and many injured... .During the past 
throe months 54,000emigrants left Liverpool for 
America . The overland telegraph line in Au¬ 
stralia has been completed.. The Escurlal, 30 
miles from Madrid, was struck by lightning on 
tin- 2 d, and nearly destroyed.... Eighteen thou¬ 
sand persons left Metz In two Weeks only 10,000 
remain. Some gs.iKK) Alsatians will go to Nancy 
alone .The insurgents in Mexico have assault¬ 
ed Mazatlari and dispersed Hie garrison... By 
the burning of the America in Yukolminu 02 
people were lost. She is supposed in have been 
set on tire.. The potato crop lias failed in Ire¬ 
land and many parts or England....The library 
ot the Esobrial was saved in a damaged condi¬ 
tion.. Ji is proposed in England to make those 
who lilted out the Confederate privateers pay 
the damages. Spain will send 11.000 more men 
to Cuba . Agrarian outrages are reported from 
Ireland. 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
Two Hundred and Fifty Pages. 
Sir Alexander Cockbubs has, it is tele¬ 
graphed, written and published a pamphlet of 
230 pages, explaining his disagreement with hi 
colleagues, the Geneva Arbitrators. It will, 
probably, be interesting reading l'or his col¬ 
leagues and students of international law mid the 
Washington Treaty; but what do the people 
cure about them since there is no appeal from 
the decision of the majority? 
The Crops of Europe and America. 
A writer in the Inclcpcndance Beige, at Paris, 
classifies this year's harvest as follows:—En¬ 
gland, below the average; Germany, tolerable; 
Austria, Russia, Scotland, and the Danubian 
Principalities, middling: Belgium and Turkey, 
average; Spain, very good; United States, 
somewhat above the average; France, exceed¬ 
ingly good; Ireland, middling good; Italy, above 
uverage; Switzerland, good. 
The History of n Great Eriterprlwe.—Tn eight¬ 
een hundred and fifty-four, the original incor¬ 
porators of the Wilson Sewing Machine Com¬ 
pany embarked in the manufacture of Sewing 
Machines, ami from that time to the present, 
their time, talent, energy and capital have been 
employed in making First-GassSewing Machines, 
with varied success attending their efforts. It 
being their constant aim to produce a Shuttle 
or Look-Stitch Machine that should be simple 
to handle, durable as stool and iron could make 
it, with unlimited capacity, unexcelled by any 
olHer machine, regardless of name or price, and 
withal to confine the price within the reach ot 
all classes of people: and success has crowned 
their efforts in the production of the celebrated 
Wilson Under-Feed Shuttle Sewing Ma¬ 
chines, which combine ail the Elegance, Sim¬ 
plicity , DurcUjilUy and Strength possible for any 
sewing machine to attain, and they are the First 
and On!}/ First-lias* moderate-price machines 
put in the market. Salesroom at 707 Broadway, 
New York, and in all other cities in the United 
States. The Company waul agents in country 
towns. 
Wntch No. 31061, Stem Winder — bearing 
Trade Mark “ United States Wateh Co.. Marion, 
N. J."—manufactured by the United States 
Wateh Co. (Giles, Wales & Co.), lias been carried 
by me three months; its total variation from 
mean time being one second.—N oaii D. Payne. 
Publisher Providence (ICI.) Herald. 
Fuels for the Ladies. — Mrs. O. Pierce, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass,, has used her Wheeler & Wilson 
Lock-Stitch Machine since 1859. without re¬ 
pairs, earning from $12 to $15 a week, making 
men's clothing. See the new Iinjirovemeuts 
an<l Woods’ Lock-Stitch Ripper. 
Advice —.Send for free Price List. 
Scale Works, Binghamton, N. Y. 
Jones 
Westport, Conn., Sept. 38.—The weather for 
the past, month has been very favorable for the 
growing crops, such as corn, buckwheat, tur¬ 
nips, pasture, etc. We have bad no frost yet of 
any account. Melons have been plenty and 
cheap. Corn is a fair crop; not all cut yet; 
buckwheat damaged—not much sowed ; onions 
about all pulled—about two-thirds of a crop; 
potatoes not a largo crop, and most of them run 
pm iill size; they are rotting some in the ground 
and after they are dug; turnips are looking 
well, and bid fair for a good crop; cabbages are 
badly eaten by the cabbage worm, which spoils 
the looks of thorn’even if they head. Sowed 
com has done well, but. the weather is bad to 
cure it. The apple crop is very large, and hun¬ 
dreds of bushels have rotted under the trees. 
The prospect for fruit to keep through the 
Winter is what I call slim, considering Die 
quantity that grow. I do not believe there will 
be an average crop put up for winter; the 
trouble is, the weather lias been wet and warm 
and the fruit Is ripe on the tree, therefore it 
will not keep after it is gathered. Two years 
ago they ripened up the same way; there was 
a very large crop, bui in the Spring they were 
worth $2 a bushel. Peaches were a fair crop. 
Grapes little more than half a crop.— a. a, n. 
Oregon, Mo,, Sept. 25. Quite oo 1; had frost 
on the morning of Sept. 19; not much damage 
done; corn about all past'danger; il is one of 
the best crops we have had for some years; 
most farmers arcIdonc with Fall seeding; the 
acreage or Winter wheat sown is small. The 
most of tile lruit is eared tor. Poaches were a 
little in excess of the demand, and many went 
to waste, at 25c. a bushed. Fall apples aro worth 
4G@8Qo. per bushel, with but few in market; 
peareare very scarce, $2 per bushel; wild grapes 
and plums are very plenty and very cheap. 
Grape growers are having a busy time earing 
for the abundant crop of grapes, which are sell¬ 
ing at 2 ri tie. per lb. Wheat (Winter), $1.75; oafs, 
15®18c.; barley, 25@35e.; rye, 20@fl0c.; corn, 18® 
20c. Plenty of Texas cattle coming to feed in 
this comity during the Winter. Stock hogs, $3 
@3.50 per ewt. Money tolerably close at 15@30 
perccntum.— j. w. m. 
Hamilton, 111 ., Sept 23.-Extremely dry just 
now; crops good; corn extremely good; fruits 
of all kinds very abundant.—a. w. p. 
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THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Monday, Oct. 7, 1872. 
Receipt*. —The receipts of the principal kinds of 
produce since our last are as follows: 
Corn, bush.1,502.000 Meal, bbls. 4.350 
Oats, . 301,240 Flour, “ . C 5 .r ,20 
Wheat, “ . 921,500 Kp«s, ** . 7.605 
IJy e > „ . •'itjO|Coaoii, bales. 18,780 
h'u ey. . 60,(JUU Hops, « . Y ;4 
M»>t, . :0..V0 ,W.m,I •> . 7.,; 
^yvd, . 1.1 tin Butter, pkgs. J8.2UU 
Beans, ■ . 2,Ki8 Cheese “ . 30,740 
Meal, bags. 400 Lard. » . 2,200 
Peanuts . 0251 Dried fruits, pkus.. 2,258 
Pork, bbls. l,M4ICut Meats "... 021 
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