side at Farmington, Me. Both are in custody, 
awaiting instructions from Maine. 
New Jersey. 
At Crawford, April 27, as one or the vans of 
nnrrium’s Menagerie and Circus was crossing the 
New Jersey Central Knliroad it was run into by 
a train, two of the mulesdruwingit were killed ; 
also Theodore Conklin/ - , late of Delcvun, Wig., 
and Edward Dyer, a m ?ro; John Joyce of Jer¬ 
sey City had his collar bone broken and back 
and chest hurt; Tommy Welsh. Racine. Wis., 
hail hi* skull fractured and cannot recover; 
George II. Sickles, colored, or Brooklyn, bud h.s 
ribs broken and is Injured internally; diaries 
Still, colored boy, N. Y. City, severely bruised. 
Nnlnc. 
Two Frenchmen were badly bitten by rats, 
one night, last week, at Blddoford. One had his 
heel so gnawed that he could not walk on it the 
next day, and the other was bitten through the 
no&C and nock. 
Sawdust is no longer wasted at the saw mills 
in the lumber region, but is sold at a cent a 
bushel to the Ice-packers. 
ITIn ns noli 11 »e tt*. 
In North Kehobot h, Saturday afternoon, April 
.'Si, Mrs. Mary E. Bullock was killed by lightning. 
As the thunder shower was passing over, about 
half-past, two o’clock. Mrs. ltuilock, attending 
her sister who is lit, rose from a louuge to place 
her water pail at. the door, when she was struck 
and instantly killed ; the fluid passed the entire 
length of her body and cut a piece from bar 
shoe. The lightning struck theebimuey, passed 
through the room where the sisters were sitting, 
and tore the lounge into shreds, and passed out, 
without much oilier damage. Mrs. Bullock was 
about sixty years of age. 
A four-ounce dog sold for $350, at Boston, re¬ 
cently. 
i^outh Shrewsbury has just had the sensation 
of a house on lire, for the first time in ninety- 
live yeans. 
The Worcester Gazette mentions that there 
arc now 115 suits for the dissolution of the mar¬ 
riage contract pending in the Supreme Court 
there. 
Another explosion of nitro-glycorineoccurred 
at the HoosaoTunnel, on Friday, April 31, killing 
four men—J. S. Mason, the Superintendent, Wm. 
Dunn, Thomu* Kyecroft and Robert Roberts. 
Another man, named William J. Churchill, es¬ 
caped with a broken leg. 
A member of the Cambridge Board of Alder¬ 
men suggests the propriety of introducing into 
the public schools of that city the flfo and drum 
as being less expensive than the piano, aud 
equally well adapted to “ marking time." 
playing cards in the carpenter shop, and drop¬ 
ping a candle among the shavings. About half 
of the town is destroyed. 
ITIIniieaota. 
Minneapolis, April 24.-A man named Wil¬ 
liam Dawson, employed in the North Star Wool¬ 
en Ml Us, deliberately Jumped off the suspension 
bridge here this morning, and was carried over 
the falls and drowned, he had an opportunity 
to save himself while in the stream, but avoid¬ 
ed it. 
l T tah. 
Chief-Justice James B. McKean will pre¬ 
side at the United States District Court at Salt 
Lake City on May 15. It is expected to be an 
exceedingly interesting term. 
HJInmou rl. 
A mine of antimony, used for making type, 
has been discovered In Cedar County. 
Tennessee. 
Memphis, April 34.—The Avalanche says:— 
About ten days since the office of David Schaef¬ 
fers, ex-Sheritl' of Weakley County, at Dresden, 
Tenn., was entered, and valuable papers ab¬ 
stracted from a desk and carried off, and other 
papers burned. Suspicion fell upon William and 
Edward Johnson, colored, and the latter was ur- 
rested and con lined in jail; but William made 
his escape, aud sent word back from Paducah, 
Ky., that he had found a hud list of Ku-Klux in 
Schaeffer s desk, and that he would send a col¬ 
ored regiment of troops to “ squelch” them. A 
few days since Schaeffers, accompanied t>y Sher¬ 
iff Vincent, proceeded to Paducah, and with a 
requisition arrested William and left for Dres¬ 
den with the prisoner. Tin's morning, about 2 
o’clock, when the tram carrying the mu-tv -tnn_ 
Forts Vanvres and Issy were fired upon, and it 
is presumed the latter will soou be silenced. 
The Evening Standard has the following spe¬ 
cial despatch from Paris:— 4 ‘The Commune suf¬ 
fers for want of union among its members, as 
well as for lack of money and men. The Nation¬ 
al Guards openly disobey the orders of the Com- 
muue. It Is believed the Commune will make 
its last stand iu the Rue do Rivoll and Rue de 
CaBtiglione, In the immediate vicinity of the 
Place Veudome. 
England. 
THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRATIC IDEAS. 
A late number of the Manchester Guardian 
—“The other day we directed attention to 
the remarkable change which has taken place 
In the character and methods of popular agita¬ 
tion. To illustrate our case wo cited the new 
movement which lias sprung up In favor of ttie 
substitution of a republic for the monarchy. 
Wo pointed out that whereas in former times 
the people would have boon summoned to de¬ 
stroy at once every institution within their 
reach, the position now is that physical force is 
not to be resorted to—that the school-master, 
and not the pike bearer, is the person whose 
services are required. The republic is held up 
as the noblest form of human government; but 
factories and farm houses have been burned, and 
instead of the elements of success being visible, 
as they ought, devastation nnd misery abound. 
Dr. Howe on San Domingo. 
The Boston Traveller is authority for the 
statement that Dr. S. G. Howe, of the San Do¬ 
mingo Commission, who renched homo yester¬ 
day, comes back a strong advocato of annexa¬ 
tion. On Itis return from San Domingo to 
Washington he wus for some days a guest of 
Senator Sumner, and it is understood that the 
question or annexation was discussed by 1 hem 
in ail its aspects, nnd that Mr. Sumner not only 
failed to convert his friend to his policy oE op¬ 
position, but was forced to admit that there were 
arguments in favor of annexation which were 
unanswerable. Dr. Howe is of the opinion that 
the annexation of San Domingo would be ad¬ 
vantageous, not only to that country and to the 
United States, but also to the people of Hayti. 
And he sa.vs that reports recently made publio 
concerning the opposition of the Hnytiens to the 
annexation of San Domlugoare untrustworthy. 
Norway. 
TnF. Norwegian Parliament has rejected the 
bill modifying theact of Union between Norway 
and Sweden. 
Newfoundland. 
The claim of the Newfoundland Customs offi¬ 
cers against the American steamer Monticeilo 
has been withdrawn. The Legislature repealed 
the law under which it was made. 
DOMESTIC NEWS, 
AVn*liing(on. 
April 24.—The decision of the Supreme Court 
on the cases involving the constitutionality of 
the Legal Tender net of 1862, concerning which 
there has been so much Interest, will be made 
known in open court on Monday next, in pres¬ 
ence of a full bench. It Is thought this decision 
will be final, ns the Court will probably hereaf¬ 
ter refuse to consider the points involved, inas¬ 
much as a full bench will now participate in tlie 
judgment. The Court will decide not only as to 
the liability of contracts made before the pas¬ 
sage of the act, but of those made since. It is 
positively ascertained that the decision will re¬ 
verse the decision of the Court In a previous 
case, by deciding that the Legal Tender act is 
constitutional, nod that contracts made before 
the war may be fulfilled by the payment of 
greenbacks. In this decision the Court will 
stand as follows: Affirming the constitutionali¬ 
ty of tho act. Justices Miller, Davis, Swaync, 
Bradley and Strong; against. Chief-Justice 
Chase, Justices Nelson, Clifford and Field. As 
to the constitutionality of the act, as applicable 
to contracts made since its passage, there Is some 
doubt how the Court will stand, although it is 
certain the legality of tho act will bo affirmed as 
in tho other case, and perhaps by a larger num¬ 
ber of Judges. 
Mr. A. G. Riddle, as counsel for the women 
who made application to register and vote at our 
recent election, will, jt is expected, enter suits 
on their behalf to-morrow, as follows:—Mrs. 
Spencer against the Bourd ol Registration, for 
refusingto outer her name as a voter; Mrs. Grlf- 
flng against the Superintendents of Election of 
the First Precinct, 30th District : and Mrs. Web¬ 
ster against the Superintendents of Election of 
the Fourth Precinct, 13th District, for refusing 
to receive their votes after having made appli¬ 
cation to register. The damages are laid tit $3.- 
500in each case. If the cases arc decided ad¬ 
versely in the Circuit Court, they will bo taken 
to the Supreme Court of tho United States. 
The War Department publishes the opinion of 
tlie Judge Advocate General that the sentence of 
an enlisted tunushould always specify “ Dishon¬ 
orable Discharge," whore such is the intent, or is 
called for by the uni ure of the offense; but a dis¬ 
charge from the army is in no case to be made to 
t ike effect until after the period of confinement 
fixed by the sentence. 
The Secretary of the Treasury orders that tho 
commissions of bankers and others employed in 
negotiating the new loan', be paid in coin. Those 
who have received their commissions already, 
arc notified to return the amounts of currency, 
and receive coin in lieu thereof. 
Tho Secretary of the Treasury has determined 
to adopt an improved plan for the payment of 
interest on the new registered bonds which will 
save much trouble and inconvenience to hold¬ 
ers, as welt as materially improve the prospects 
of the now funded loan, ro which class of the 
debt the new plan will bo confined. The plan 
above referred to consists in the payment or 
interest by a cluck payable to the order of the 
Treasurer oft lie United States, sent directly by 
mail to the address of the holder of the bond, 
and removes the serious inconvenience of com¬ 
pelling holders to attend the office of the Assis¬ 
tant Treasurer in order to obtain their money. , 
The Secretary bus given directions that, a cir¬ 
cular shall bo Issued, Inviting all parties sub¬ 
scribing for t he new loan to furnish their ad¬ 
dresses, iu order to enable this plun to bo car¬ 
ried out. 
April 33.—The receipts of fractional currency 
for t lie week ending April 22, a mount to $742,500. 
Shipments. 
Notes... *358,493 
Fractional Currency .. 732,000 
Treasurer Spinner holds in trust .as secu¬ 
rity for National Bonk circulation. 356,860.150 
And for puhlle deposits . 15.716,500 1 
National Bank Notes In actual circulation. 814,156.430 
National Gold Bank notes in circulation... 410,000 I 
Internal Revenue receipts to-day...,. 2S0.80I 1 
Grand Total foi year . 118,663,845 < 
Subscriptions to the new loan to-day . 50,000,000 
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington banker, is i 
dangerously ill. , 
Gen. Spinner continues very feeble. 
Mr. Mozcl, Minister resident for the Nether- , 
lands, lias boon transferred to Sweden and 
Norway. j 
It is officially reported that the Joint High s 
Commission have signed no convention. j 
Gov.Cooke sent to Treasurer Spinner, April t 
27,a letter of credit on the London house of Jay 
Cooke & Co. for $3,00fi, and asked Ills acceptance c 
of it as a personal favor. t 
District or Columbia. 
The Potomac fisheries are extensive and ' 
profitable. Last week 800,000 herring and 85.000 ' 
NEWS AND NOVELTIES. 
Seven girls in Cincinnati have associated them¬ 
selves Into a society, having for its object the 
investigation of thoantecedents of wife-hunters. 
Any girl having an ••offer" may apply to the 
society, and in less than a week she will receive 
a history of her lover, from his youth upward. 
Thf. recent exploration* in Jerusalem have 
excited the greatest interest among the Masonic 
fraternity on account of the discovery of what 
are believed to be “ Mason's marks" on a con¬ 
siderable number of the Immense foundation 
stones recently uncovered under tho (icluis of 
the Temple. 
Vankaxnock, Pa., has a young lady who re¬ 
cently did a large washing, swept the house from 
top to bottom, scrubbed down stairs, made by 
hand Iwenty-tive but ton-holes, sowed on twenty- 
five buttons, hemmed a. wrapper, run up live 
fucks on the wrapper, and made several calls be¬ 
fore supper, all in one day. In the evening she 
stayed at home with her mother like tt good girl. 
A girl of tender sensibilities eloped with a 
man neat’ Knoxville, Tenn.. recently, aud when 
her father sought to detain her, she knockth i lie 
old gentleman down with u shovel. Her parent 
pursued the couple alter marriage, and the hus¬ 
band and father having exchanged shots, the 
blushing bride emptied a revolver at her liege 
lord, disabling him completely, and then return¬ 
ed homo with papa. 
The following programme for tho observance 
of wedding anniversaries seems to bo generally 
adopted throughout tho country:—First anni¬ 
versary, iron; flflli anniversary, wooden ; tenth 
anniversary, tin ; fifteenth anniversary, crystal; 
twentieth anniversary, china; twenty-fifth anni¬ 
versary, silver; fortieth anniversary, woolen; 
forty-fifth anniversary, silk; fiftieth anniversa¬ 
ry, golden ; seventy-fifth anniversary, diamond. 
Paper petticoats have come into fashion, tho 
following advertisement whereof appears in 
England:—“3Iadumc Percale begs leave to call 
the attention of ladles about to visit the seaside 
to her new mid richly embroidered paper petti¬ 
coats, at one shilling each. Each petticoat con¬ 
tains an installment of a new novel of great do¬ 
mestic interest, by Anthony Trollope, entltLed 
1 Tucks and Frills.' The story will be complete 
iu fifty weekly petticoats." 
A lady residing in a German city, which is 
heavily taxed by the war, writes to her friends 
that tho cost of living is so much increased in 
consequence that she has to pay sixty-five cents 
for a pair of white kid gloves "with two but¬ 
tons ; that a new silk bonnet costs nearly a dol¬ 
lar in gold; a cab for two persons to the opera 
and back, thirty-seven cent*, and washing is 
charged for at the extravagant rate of twelve 
cents a dozen pieces. 
A man in Peabody, Mass., had been treated for 
more than a year for paralysis of the throat, 
and was for some time unable to take any Other 
than liquid food. At. last, to the great astonish¬ 
ment of himself and friends, the cause of the 
trouble was revealed by Ids coughing up an up¬ 
per set of false teeth, which he had swallowed 
in Ida Bleep fifteen months before. Tho teeth 
were missed at the time, hunted for, but never 
found, and nobody had suspected the place of 
their concealment. 
The wilds of the State of Maine still supply a 
large trade in furs and skins, though It is small 
to what it formerly was. Muskrats are themost 
abundant of all the fur-bearing animals, and 
40,000 are caught, every year. Sable skins of a 
bright color to the amount, of about 1,600, and 
some 4,000 mink skins, are sent to market yearly. 
Moose and deer are becoming very scarce, but 
about 200 bears are captared yearly. The cari¬ 
bou, or reindeer, which had almost disappeared 
from the State, have become numerous of late. 
An Iowa girl, who read Cooper’s novels 'in til 
she becatno possessed with the idea that she 
could never bo happy unless as the bride of a 
“red man of the forest," found one last week, 
married him. and went to bis camp on the banks 
of the sylvan stream where he trapped for 
muskrats. She only stayed one night, and came 
homo with a black eye, and had io send out foi' 
a bottle of hair restorative. It seems the nobie 
savage got drunk and punched her in the eye, 
while his old squaw went among her hair. The 
girl don’t want any more Indian, if she knows 
her own heart. 
Seventv thousand letters, filling one hun¬ 
dred and fifty sucks,and weighing nearly eleven 
hundred pounds, were recently mailed from the 
city of New York to various foreign lands within 
the spnee of two days. This statement will give 
some idea of tho iminensitj' of the postal busi¬ 
ness in that city. It is also estimated that be¬ 
tween one hundred and twenty and one hun¬ 
dred nnd fifty tons of mail matter are, on the 
average, handled every day by the eight hun¬ 
dred post-office employees; and that not less 
than 300,000 letters, and often a much larger 
number of newspapers, are sorted out by them 
during each twenty-four hours. From two to 
five hundred unstamped, misdirected, unad, 
dressed, or unsealed letters and packages daily 
accumulate in the New York Post-oftico, 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
France, 
TnE SLAUGHTER AT NEtTILLV. 
A correspondent of the London Times 
writesTho side streets present a heartrending 
spectacle, and give ns a foretaste of what wc are 
to expect should the Versailles army force an en¬ 
trance into Paris, 
Piles of bodies, Vcrsatlleaand 
Fedcrals, Uttered the doorsteps, and lay in beat's 
upon the stairs, while long thin Hues of blood 
marked the progress of some victims, wounded 
unto death, who had crawled into a cupboard or 
beneath the shadow m a fireplace, nnd lay there 
still* with oalm, white faces, fixed in ghastly re- 
lier in the light that penetrated down the chim¬ 
ney. In some instances there had evidently 
been n severe contest, hand-to-hand. Men lay in 
twos and threes, ono upon another, and I felt 
like a ghost in some ft?iand|c tale of horror, the 
only living creatine among so many dead. The 
distant fusillade and crash of shells served but 
to increase the still ness nnd impress me with the 
general hush. I was astonished to remark that 
several women hud fallen, in one instance 
pierced by many balls. All of them were in the 
cantlnwrc uniform, some with gally.painted lit¬ 
tle casks strapped round the waist, others with 
pistols undischarged still in their bells. There 
was one lying alone within a court-yard, a hand¬ 
some young womun, with black hair braided 
about her temples, a smile upon her lips, and the 
fragment of a saber in her hand. She belonged 
to the 68th battalion, and bad been struck down 
by the explosion of a shell. 
WHAT PARISIANS THINK. 
A correspondent writesThese Parisians 
have the idea that they are able to conquer 
Prussia; that they are able to conquer the army; 
that the army is with them ; that they have but 
to declare and all the world will follow them ; 
that they have an army waiting to rise in Italy, 
one in London, and one in Germany; Dint proves 
that they have something in tho head. These 
poor devils marchod out to Versailles past Mount 
Valerlen, and then Valeri mi cut their column in 
half and spared them." “Citizen,” said a blouse, 
" the Line are for us, but do you know how they 
are treated? They are forced to march first,nnd 
tho gendarme* march after them with their re\ ol- 
vers, and make them fire upon us, the canaille /" 
HOW GUSTAVE FLOURENS DIED. 
A Versailles correspondent, of the London 
Times says:—Many of the insurgents changed 
their clothes when they foil ml that their retreat, 
had been cut off. Among tho rest, the aide-de- 
camp of Gustave Flourens, one of their chiefs, 
did so. In the afternoon, about 4 o'clock, the 
gendarmes were searching the village of Cltatou, 
when a shot came from tho window of nn au- 
berge kept by a inun named Ducoq. The gen¬ 
darmes entered the house, and when they reach¬ 
ed the first floor one of thorn received a bullet 
io Die shoulder at the moment when he was en¬ 
tering one of tho rooms. His captain, M. Des- 
raaret, rushed into the room, found the man who 
had fired the shot with a revolver in liia hand, 
and instantly cut him down with his saber. This 
man was no other than Flourens, 
perfectly, and a commercial message was sent, 
to Bombay direct by London at 1:58 P. M., and 
was instantaneously acknowledged. This Is the 
first occasion on which the telegraph lias work¬ 
ed direct, without any retransmission, between 
England and India. Tho distance from London 
to Bombay by the Indo-European line is 6,000 
miles. 
Secretary Seward In London. 
Under date of Calcutta, March 15, a corre¬ 
spondent of the London Times writes; —Mr. 
Seward and his two daughters tndopted daugh¬ 
ters, I believe,) left Calcutta on the J8tb for Bo¬ 
na res. They will ulso \lsit Allahabad, Agra, 
Delhi, and several other places on Dieir way to 
Bombay, nnd will tn all cases be met by the 
heads, or representatives-of the heads, of Gov¬ 
ernments. At Allahabad they will be tbeguest* 
of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest¬ 
ern Provinces; at Bombay, of the Governor of 
that Province. During tho main part of hi* stay 
here, Mr. Seward was the guest of the Governor- 
General, and I believe that every means was 
taken to add U> his comfort, and, apart from 
public displays, to do him honor. There was no 
display of any kind, but Mr. Seward was not any 
the less an honored guest of the Viceroy. He left 
Calcutta in a special carriage, placed by the Gov¬ 
ernor-General at his disposal for the journey, to 
be cut off from the train when or where he 
pleases. Everything was quietly done, but I be¬ 
lieve that Mr. Seward was much gratified with 
his kindly, unostentatious welcome. 
Russia. 
The Czar has issued a decree ordering t lie Jews 
henceforth neither to pray iu Hebrew nor in 
Polish, but in Russian. Anything more calcu¬ 
lated to exasperate the orthodox Jews in his do¬ 
minions and more difficult to enforce cannot be 
imagined. 
Germany. 
The Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia, is 
selling tickets for all her own paintings, which 
are to be disposed of in a lottery for tho benefit 
of the invalid fund. The drawing will take place 
on the first of June. 
Italy. 
Florence, April 26.-Tlie Minister of Justice 
has announced in the Chamber of Deputies the 
approaching introduction of a bill for the separ¬ 
ation of Church and State. 
The Princess Louise nnd Marquis of borne have 
arrived in Florence from London. 
China. 
Shanghai, April 12, via London, A pril 26.—Ad¬ 
vices from Pokm state that the Imperial Gov¬ 
ernment has made a demand upon the foreign 
Ambassadors that schools for the education of 
females be abolished; flint the teaching to male 
subjects of the Empire of all doctrines opposed 
to those of Confucius, be forbidden ; that mis¬ 
sionaries shall be considered Chinese subjects; 
and that women shall not be permitted access to 
the Empire in that capacity. The Ambassadors 
are also notified tbnt the attendance of women 
upon religious service is one of the occasions tor 
tho recent massacres of foreigners, and that 
though those events cannot be but deplored by 
tho Imperial Government, compensation for 
their commission is absolutely refused. 
Hayti. 
The United States Consul at Port An Prince, 
talking of the feeling concerning annexation to 
the United Slates, says of the Hnytiens;—The 
entire public voice is directed against annexa¬ 
tion, from the President down. The Hnytiens 
are not a commercial, energetic or enterprising 
people, and will fight against anything that may 
interfere with their views. They ore nearly 
ruined by revolutions and anarchy. Their com¬ 
merce—what they did have—has been almost de¬ 
stroyed. Their merchants are despondent, and 
care little for any investments. Tho island lias 
been overrun, and ruin ami destruction appear 
in the place of progress aud prosperity. Manu¬ 
His aide-de- 
camp, an Italian named Cyprian!, was wounded 
by a saber cut and made prisoner. He bad as¬ 
sumed civil attire, but Flourens himself was in 
military uniform. His dead body now liesat the 
Amphitheater Hospital jn this town. 
The latest dispatches from France indicate 
that the situation is unchanged in and about 
Paris. The Government lines arc being gradu¬ 
ally drawn closer about the city, and it seems to 
be the purpose to starve the Communists into 
submission. 
Versailles, April 37.—M. Thiers has instruct¬ 
ed the official authorities to guard against the 
escape of the Communal leaders from Paris by 
balloon. This course will most probably be at¬ 
tempted bv numbers of those who have made 
themselves peculiarly obnoxious to the Govern¬ 
ment; and every precaution is being taken by 
the authorities to prevent it. 
London, April 27. — The Daily News special 
despatch from Versailles says a force of 6,000 
troops from tho Versailles army has executed 
some important movements north of Paris. The 
situation of the insurgents south of Paris issatd 
to be good. M. Thiers announces in n circular 
that active operations commenced yesterday. 
was an Invalid under his charge. Cobb, on being 
arrested, denied bailing from Wilton. He is 
about fifty-three years or age. His victim is 
eighteen years old,good looking, and intelligent. 
She acknowledged all, and says her parents re- 
