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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington. 
GENERAL PLEASONTON SUSPENDED AS C0MMI8- 
SIONEU Of INTERNAL REVENUE. 
Aug. 8.- The President, sent, (Jon. l'leasonton 
a request that he resign. He refused, and gave 
tiis reasons, whereupon, within two hours, he 
received the following: 
Executive Mansion, l 
Washington, t). < 3 ., Aujr. 8, 1871. f 
You are hereby suspended from the office of 
Commissioner of Intertial itevenue, in accord¬ 
ance with the terms of ail act approved April 
r>, A. I>. 1969, to amend an act regulating the 
tenure of certain civil offices, passed March 3, 
A. I). 1867, and subject, to all provisions ot law 
applicable thereto. IL »* Grant. 
To the Hon. A. Pleasonton. 
First Deputy Commissioner J. W. Douglass 
has been commissioned by the President to take 
Gen. Plensonton's place. 
BANK SECURITIES. 
The United States bonds reported by the 
National Banks as security for their circulating 
notes, are classified ns followB:-1881s, $66,990,- 
980 ; 5-20s of 1862, $39,434,400; other 6-20s. $97,572,- 
500; Paoltics, $15,339,000; 10-40.*, $102,308,(150; new 
lit tided loan, 5 per cents, $40,377,650- t otal, $301,- 
922,550. The new bonds 00 deposit as security 
for public deposit, are:- 1881s, $1,008,500; 5-20* 
of 1862, $1.675,100{ other 5-208, $0,197,700; now 
funded Ionn, #2,068,500: Pacifies, $9tt0,000. 
perfection or telegraph system. 
The Secretary of War made (Aug. 9) a thor¬ 
ough inspection of the telegraphic system con¬ 
necting the office of the Chief Signal Officer at 
the War Department with all portions of the 
United States. Messages were sent direct from, 
and weather reports received in Washington, in 
four minutes' time, from San Francisco, mak¬ 
ing a distance, going and returning, of 7,000 
miles, through six repeaters, without an error. 
Messages were also exchanged between Wash¬ 
ington and Chicago. Corlnno and New York. 
The system of wires concentrated tit the Chief 
Signal Office, comprising those of all the tele¬ 
graph companies, a (to ids a facility for tele¬ 
graphing unequaled by any other establishment 
now existing. 
BRITISH AVAR CLAIM. 
The first claim against the United Slates filed 
with the Itriiish agent in tins city, under the 
Treaty of Washington, is that of das. Crotchet t, 
a resident of t his district. Involving a large sum 
of money. His statement shows that ho is a 
British subject, and Hint our Government, ul 
tho commencement of Ihe late civil war, seized 
his Mount Vernon car factory, near the railroad 
depot, for military purposes, by which the 
machinery was rendered useless, and a profitable 
business destroyed, beside other injuries to his 
property. 
NKAV NATIONAL HANKS. 
John Jay Knox, Acting Comptroller of I lie 
Currency, has authorized the following National 
Banks during the monihs of July and August: 
First Naiioital Hank of Greenville, III., $loo,oon; 
Cook County Man It of Chicago, $300.0()fi; First, 
Mason City, 111., $50,000; Second,Charleston,III., 
$1(X),000: Second, Winona, Minn., $100,000; New¬ 
bury, S. C., $50,000: Spartonhurg, S. C., $60,000; 
First, Brownsville, Neb.,$100,000; Nebraska City, 
$100,000; German. Covington. Ky., $250,000; Cov¬ 
ington City, $300,000; First, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 
$50,000; Firs!, Grand Haven, Mich., $100,000; 
First, Frankfort. Did., $100,000; Idates County, 
Butler, Mo., $50,000; First, Warrensbiirgh, Mo., 
$50,000; Valley, $t. Louis, $280,000: Exchange, 
Augusta, Ga„ $250,000. 
POST-OFFICES OF UNITED STATES. 
The Post-Office Department has established 2,- 
407 new offices, and discontinued 854 offices, mak¬ 
ing a net Increase in number of offices created 
during tho year, 1,555. On the 80th of .Tune last 
there were 30,045 offices in the United States, 
The number of eases noted on by the Depart¬ 
ment, involving establishments,discontinuances, 
changes of name and site, resignations, remov¬ 
als and deaths, was 9,416, or about J40 per day. 
New York. 
Utica, Aug. 8. Ford G. Hall of Rochester, 
this afternoon,allot Paymaster Goverueur If. 
Kortlnnd of the United Slates Navy, near 
Bagg's Hotel. The hall lodged in tho shoulder, 
and Inflicted n painful hut not serious wound. 
A young lady of this city is involved in the af¬ 
fair, and the shooting is attributed to jealousy 
on t he part of Hall. 
The foregoing was telegraphed nil over the 
count ry ; tint later advices seem to Indicate that 
Mr. Hall was not in Utica at tho lime; and it is 
indeed doubted, in Uticn, if any such occurrence 
ever took place, ns we learn from late Utica 
papers. 
The records of the Internal Revenue Bureau 
and Fifth Auditor’s Office show that tDo follow¬ 
ing ex-Ool lectors ol Internal Revenue for the 
State of New York are Indebted to the Govern¬ 
ment in the amounts stated: 
Names of Cot- 
st. lectors. 
11-A. 51. Wood... 
IV— ( T IT I> , C/. „ 
...... Grant. 
. Grant. 
. Lincoln 
. Johnson 
.Johnson 
. Lincoln 
61,221 49 Lincoln 
...... Johnson 
. Lincoln 
...... Lincoln 
.. . Lincoln 
. John.-on 
. Lincoln 
18,679 35 Lincoln 
. Lincoln 
XXXII- ( J - F> Cail6 - V . 182,642 25 Lincoln 
V—J. C. MelMrg,. 41,092 76 . Grant. 
VI-W. B. White .. 2,43110 . Grant. 
VIII-G. P. Putnam.. 2.190 93 Lincoln 
VIII-A. Spalding. 1,000 02 Johnson 
IX—T. OVullagnnn. In0 00 Johnson 
XII—T. T. Waterman 6,491 93 .... Lincoln 
XIII—Win. Masten.. 64,221 49 Lincoln 
XIA r -S.T. Richards . 5,334 00 .Johns.;n 
XIX—G- W. Ernst ... 672 00 Lincoln 
XX—X- L. Merry... . 9 00 Lincoln 
XXI-T. R. Walker .. 1,0878* ... Lincoln 
XXV-P Hahel. t,5'.Xi lfi . John.-.. a 
XXVIII—8. P. Allen .. 3.961 72 . Line.-In 
XXIX-J. D. Halstead.. ... 18.679 35 Lincoln 
XXX—P, Dorshiejner. 5,029 35 . Lincoln 
Total.....$73,441 61 $215,743 09 
A few of these ox-officials are known default¬ 
ers, hut a majority lire entitled to credits for 
taxes collected by their successors on assess¬ 
ment lists turned OA-er to them, l.ttt which stand 
charged to the ex-Collectors until collected or 
abated. 
The season of canal naA T igntion is nearly half 
over,and tho exhibit of traffic at Buffalo to July 
31, makes a satisfactory showing. The receipts 
of grain by lake and railroad, estimating flour ns 
wheat, during the month ot' July, were nearly 
3,000,000 bii-liels mure than the receipts for the 
same month last year; and the receipts Trom the 
opening of navigation, up to and including July 
31, were 10,156,389 bushels m excess of rhe re- 
eeipts for the corresponding period in 1870. The 
receipts of flour this season Avere 639,220 barrels, 
Unad- Dofal-By wln.m 
justed. cation, ar.p’tcd 
Pres't. 
$6,322 12 .. Lincoln 
. 132.643 25 Line. .In 
against 537,423 harrels in 1870—an increase of 101,- I 
797 barrels. The receipts of grain only, this year, 
were 23,641,886 bushels, against 13,911.476 bushels . 
last, year—an increase of 9,737,404 bushels. Tho 
shipments by canal shown corresponding in¬ 
crease. The exports of grain this season were 
17,029,445 bushels, against 9,313,556 bushels last 
year, and 11,453,000 bushel* in 1869. The Slate’s 
revenue from toll* at Buffalo trora the opening 
of canal navigation, was $536,261.3L against $432,- 
947 77 last year, which Is a gain of $103,287-54. j 
The number of bouts cleared eastward by canal j 
11 „ pr< -mi. season, was3,450,against 2,700 in 1870, i 
an increase of 760 clearances. 
Francis 1). C. Ryder of Lmnberland, Sullivan 
Co., N. Y., committed suicide on Tuesday even¬ 
ing, Aug. 8, by cutting bis throat With a pocket- 
knife. 
James Ilrazeo of Phelps, N. Y„ was drawn into 
a threshing machine, near that place, and Imd 
his leg so horribly mangled and torn that he 
died almost instantly. 
JIaliie. 
Bangor. Aug. 9.—A frightful accident occur¬ 
red in-night on tho Maine Central Railroad, .just 
as a train was entering I Ills city, by the giving 
away of a bridge aernss the Hampden Road. 
The train consisted of the engine, tender, mail 
and express car, smoking car, three passenger 
cars and one. Pullman sleeping car. The train 
was about half an hour behind time, and was 
running at a good rate of speed to make Up, 
William 1‘crcival ul' Watervllle was brakeman 
of the third passenger cur «ml stood at lii.s post 
on the front, platform, when the car plunged 
down through the bridge, and ho was instantly 
killed. Thirty persons were more or less Bever¬ 
ly injured, hut only one fatally. 
Bangor, Aug. 10.—Tho sufferers from the 
Maine Central disaster are all reported doing 
well and In a fair way of recovery. 
Pennsylvania. 
Philadelphia, Aug. 9, n. II. Krause, a 
jeAvcler of North Wales, Bucks county, "'as 
robbed, hist night, ol a box containing about 
oue hundred watches. It is supposed they were 
iiilcen from his hotel by a hostler named Rouko, 
who has fled. 
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has 
furnished iho following statement of crush bal¬ 
ances due from ex-Colleetors of Internal Rov- 
enue in Pennsylvania, June 26, 1871: 
Names of Unutl- Petal-By whom 
Dint. Collectors. justed, cation, upp'ted. 
I ’rest . 
II .LAV. Diehl..424.109 f4 f . Lincoln 
HI \V. ,1. Wainwright. 53,731 46 . Lincoln 
IV .1. M. Rilev. 142,999 33 Lincoln 
IA f A. Cummings. 702 25 hd)Jl(h>n 
V J, W. Unwell... 33.19201 Lincoln 
A'llI I). Luther. 6,605 09 . Lincoln 
XI k’ K Poster.... 5,11830 Lincoln 
XIII -AV. L„ Scott. 2,086 93 Lincoln 
xiv U. 11 Shriver. 3,139 .at . Lincoln 
xa in ,L R. Campbell. 4,972 57Johnson 
XA'III II. A. Guernsey... . 18,192 67Johnson 
XIX .1. AV. Douglass_ 5.187 76 Lincoln 
XX111 — AV. G. Me* 'andless. lol ls .Johnson 
XXIII It, L. Brown. 2,771 32 Grant 
XXIV—A Robertson . 13.195 22 Johnson 
The amount of internal revenue tax collected 
in Pennsylvania is about $ 160,(8X1,000. 
Illinois. 
The census of Chicago, just completed, shows 
tho population to bo 334,270, of which 170,276 are 
males. 
India mi. 
Terre IIaote, Aug. 6.—Lubricating oil Avns 
struck here, last night, at the depth of 1,636 feet, 
arid it. is thought that, it Avill prove to be a 
“Forty-barrel well,” Fifteen or t wenty barrels 
have already boon pumped out, although the 
water has nut yet been exhausted. 
Wisconsin. 
Chicago, III., Aug. 8,—A terrible tornado, 
mnving from east to west, passed over Wjnne- 
ennue, Wfg., last night. A boom on the Wolf 
River, five miles above Wjiinccnnne, containing 
50,(KH),U00 feet of logs, avos broken up. Tho 
steamer 8lur was capsized, and Cupt. George 
gin itli dfOAvncd. Oncol tho raftsmen was also 
drowned. All raft-houses were blown over and 
completely demolished, and thousands ol win¬ 
dow-panes broken; thirty chimneys were blown 
down. Grain in the shock av«s scattered over 
the fields, and all the corn is fiat. The lumber 
interest suffers a great loss. The Roman Catho¬ 
lic Uhmvh in Granville av«s destroyed by the 
storm. 
California. 
San Francisco, Ang. 4.—Col. von Soltmidt is 
negotiating on behalf of the Lake Talme Water 
Company with the Central Pacific Railroad Co. 
to construct a tunnel through iho Sierra Nevada 
of sufficient size to admit of the passage of 
i rains and a canal, ’fills work will save to the 
road a distance ol seven miles, and an ascent 
and descent of 1,000 feel, and make almost 
wholly unnecessary the use of snow-sheds. The 
negotiation IS likely to succeed. 
San Francisco, Ang. 9.—The press of tho 
Pacific Coast unaulmously condemns the order 
of the Wav Depart mot) t. countermanding tho 
orders of Gen. Stonemtm foran active campaign 
against the Apaches, for tho purpose of giving 
th. Quaker Commissioners an opportunity to 
Operate. The order is denounced us handing 
the helpless settlors of Arizona over to the ten¬ 
der morales of the Apaches. 
The ship John Bright sailed from San Francis- 
on for Liverpool Aug. 10, with the second cargo 
ot now wheat ol the season. 
An order has been issued prohibiting all pro¬ 
cession? in Londonderry on the anniversary Of 
the raising of the siege of lhat city ill 1689. 
Utah. 
Salt Lake, Ang. 8.—In tlie Third District 
Court, to-day, a Mormon was held to bail in 
$5,009 op a charge of adultery, preferred by bis 
first wife. 
Salt Lake City. Aug. 9.—The Hawkins 
adultery ease, now before Judge McKean, has 
created great excitement among the Mormons. 
This is the first ease ot the kind ever begun by 
a Mormon woman, and it is generally believed 
that should she succeed, others will take similar 
action. 
Texas. 
New Orleans, Aug. 10.—A train on ilm Hous¬ 
ton and Great Northern Railroad, containing 
officers of the Company, was thrown from the 
truck by obstruct inns placed there by some ma¬ 
licious person, fifteen miles above Houston, 
Texas. Dr. G. Voting, President, and Wni. 
W. Wilson, Assistant Civil Engineer, Avere kill¬ 
ed ; Turner, n brakeman, probably fatally In¬ 
jured, and C. E. Noble, Chief Engineer, and 
Superintendent North, were severely injured. 
Several others were hurt. 
Virginia. 
Supervisor PresbreyoI' Virginia submits to 
the Commissioner of Internal ReA’enue the fol¬ 
lowing statement of revenue collections in that 
State:—Collections from March 1,1869, to June | 
30,1871,29 months, were, from tobacco, $9,270,- 
911; total collections for fiscal years 1866, 1867, 
and 1868, und eight months of I860, 44 months, 
$1,173,824; excess for 29 months, $7,797,117. In 
addition to the above there have been shipped 
since the 1st Of March, I860, 43,303,029 pounds of 
manufactured tobacco in bond, which tlie tax 
of $13,856,909 lifts in large part been collected on 
the withdrawal of the tobacco forconsiimption. 
Total collection for the fiscal year 1867, $174,577; 
ditto for 1868, $191,397. It will be seen the col¬ 
lections for tho mouth of July, this year, were 
more than the collections of either of the fiscal 
years mentioned. 
!?1 Imkoii rl, 
NATIONAL LABOR PARTY. 
AT St. Louts, during t he past week, a National 
Labor Convention has boon held. A National 
Labor Party has lie n organized, and ii call for 
a National Convention to nominate a President 
and Vice-President is to be issued. This is Ihe 
way this party “ proposes to restore the Gov¬ 
ernment.:” 
First —By eMinhlistiing a monetary system based on 
the (net* and tes.nirees, ot the nation in harmony 
with the gefliUBOf the Government, and ad anted to 
the exigencies of legitimate commerce. To this end 
the elrenluting notes of the Nut tonal and Si ate banks, 
hk well av nil currency Hint Is not a tub legal tender, 
should tie withdrawn Irntu rircubitlnn and a puper 
currency issued by the Government, which shall ho 
legal tender tn the payment of all debts. pnbHe and 
private,duos on Import* included, and declared the 
lawful motifv of the United Mates. This currency 
or money to he ifiteretiaiigeut'h- at the pleasure or 
tUeJudder* Of Government hand* bearing Him. por 
cent, inicro-l; the Government CTerilfcOr- m have 
tho privilege of Inking tho money or me. hoods nt 
their elect loll, reserving lo Uonisresf. the right io 
regulate the rale of inrarv-t on the houde and the. 
value ol the currency, so as to effect the input,a hie 
dislrlnutton of the product* ol labor between money 
or non-produeing capital and productive Indo-iry. 
Second—Bf paving tlm National debt In si riel, ac¬ 
cordance with tho laws under which it was oi iionali v 
Contracted gold \\ here specjllcallf promised, toil 11 
other formrof indebtedness, including the principal 
of tho five-twenty bonds,-shall lie discharged at the 
earliest optlnn of the Government In the legal tender 
currency or lawful money ol thuUnited States, with¬ 
out funding it tn long bonds, or Id any way increas¬ 
ing the gold-paying and uni axed obligation* ot t he 
Government 
Third— By preserving Inviolate tho public domain to 
actual seniors, Idlers of the soil. 
Fourth - By a tariff or revenue atone, believing ns 
we do that the reduction of interest to adjust the 
rate will do more to merease rewards of hitiorand to 
encourage the development oi agricultural, mtnoral, 
manitlacMirtrtg and no chanleal rasonrens than any 
system of tariff laws that can he. devised. 
.Fi.ffft-By restraining, or, it needs he, abolishing 
corporate monopolies under interdicting elass legis¬ 
lation. and confining national legislation »uoti oh 
.loots : subjecting the military Piihoolvtl aiiih .rllle.s, 
imd reducing the army to a peace standard, und rou¬ 
tining its oparatlduh to national purpose* ulnae. 
HU th By regain ng ) tint in all future wars tho 
metina necessary for thotr prosecution shall, ■ re¬ 
quired. he collected from thu wealth of the eomiti y, 
and not entailed on the future earnings ot labor. 
Seventh—By adapting tin Indian policy, founded on 
national justice, by which many valuable lives and 
many millions iff money will be annually saved. 
Eighth By holding legislator* lo a more rigid ac¬ 
countability; but manning Ihe submission • l the 
annexation of territory and other fundamental laws 
affecting the general interest of society ton vole of 
liui whole people. 
Ninth—By prohibiting the Importation of coolies 
07 other servile labor, and protecting labor from all 
unnecessary burden-. 
Truth By encouraging co-operative eff, irts. and the 
building up ot man nf Helming Industries through out 
the country. 
Eltvt>ith —By granting Genera) Amne«|y. and re¬ 
storing the Union at (>nCO on the basis of the c<|uah- 
ty tif right* and privilege* to all classes and mlor- 
e-ts. the impartial administration <d justire being 
the only true bom) of union to bind the Hi.it,-, in- 
gciher amt engage the utloction- 01 Die people.cd the 
Government. 
Tivrtfth—Hy the creation of n board of manage¬ 
ment of lira currency and reven no, to consist of such 
a number of Intelligent Inialnesu men as may be ne¬ 
cessary to transact the lineal affairs iff the Govern¬ 
ment, which board shall ho charged with tho execu¬ 
tion of nil laws relating to the not (get Ion ot and dis¬ 
bursement of the revenue, nod thn regulation of me 
currency, and empowwrprt to binploj- and have tlia 
oversight ot tile del 01)1 l -neeand ollie' officer* and 
agents rtKiUlred In Mu discharge ot all the duties 
, pertaining to till* Department ; tie; same rule to bo 
applied to tho Pom-Office and Interior Department, 
as Liras may be practicable; the Secretaries of the 
Departments to he L’rcsideuts ol such Boards. 
Tlx- Sioux ImlliiiiN. 
■ Washington, Aug. 2.—J. A. Vlall. Superin¬ 
tendent of Indians for Montana, transmits to 
the Indian Bureau a copy of a letter of Special 
Agent Simmons, giving particulars of the death 
of Standing Buffalo, chief of the band of San¬ 
tee Sioux on Milk liver. He Aveni totvai court¬ 
ing death because Ira was resolved to maintain 
peace with the whites and abide faithfully by 
the terms lie had made with the Agent. HeAviis 
unable to control theSantoes and some of his 
own warriors, and to prevent them violating the 
compact. 
The Sioux Indians will net leave the Milk 
river country. They profer It not only on ac¬ 
count of its game, but also on account, of its be¬ 
ing so remote from a white settlement. They 
express their sincere desire lo remain at peace, 
and to befell and treated lira satneasothers avcU 
disposed are treated. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
France. 
Paris, Aug, 8.—The Assembly to-day passed 
the Indemnification bill. It compensates in¬ 
habitants in the departments for loss and dam¬ 
age suffered during the Avar, either from the 
enemy or Ihe French troops, after due investi¬ 
gation of (he claim and settlement of the 
amount. It also authorises the Minister of 
Finance to distribute immediately the sum of 
ICKMWO.OOO francs among the most needy of 
claimants. 
The court-martial, to-day. for the trial of the 
Communists, began the examination of wit¬ 
nesses. M. Ferre, one of the accused, ntLeinjited 
to make a speech in defense of the Commune, 
but rlie President of the court would not permit 
him to proceed, Tic denied that he had or¬ 
dered the burning Of the Palace ot the Ministry 
of Finance. Several ivi I nesses swore that Ferre 
personally forbade thu release of the prisoners 
in the prefecture while it was burning. Both 
Ferre and Assi were insolent in speech and man¬ 
ner, und were frequently reprimanded by the 
court. 
The French Minister of Finance has paid to 
the Swiss Government 5,000,000 francs for the 
maintenance of ihe army of Gen. Bourbaki 
while it was interned in Switzerland. Payments 
will be continued by the French Treasury at the 
rate of 1,000,000 francs fortnightly until the en¬ 
tire indebtedness is liquidated. 
London, Aug. 7.—'Troubles continue in the 
portions of France occupied by the Germans. 
A Prussian subject having been banged a day 
or two since, at Pnligny, in the Department 
of the Jura, a riot followed, in which the Ger¬ 
man soldiers wounded about twenty of the citi¬ 
zens, and threatened to burn the place. Quiet 
Avas restored by the authorities promising to ar¬ 
rest tho offenders. 
Ireland. 
Dublin, Aug.6.—In spite of the prohibition 
of the autboi'iUes, the friends of the Fenian 
prisonersnttempted to hold a meeting this after¬ 
noon in Phoenix Park, to demand their uncon¬ 
ditional release. 
Mr. Smyth, a Member of Parliament, Mr. Sul¬ 
livan, editor of the Nation, and Mr. J. Sullivan 
Byrne of the Irishman entered the Park with a 
large crowd. Police Superintendent Haw, stand- 
ingon Ihe base or the Wellington monument, or- 
I dered Smyth and bis followers to desist, Avhen 
ho was hurled to the bottom of the monument 
and barbarously maltreated. A fearful riot en¬ 
sued. The police charged on the mob, beating 
men and women indiscriminately. The fight 
lasted hall an hour, when tiie police hating 
been reinforced, succeeded in dispersing the 
rioters. Smyth, Sullivan and a man named No¬ 
lan Avere badly wounded. Over a hundred in¬ 
jured have been taken to Die hospitals. Later 
dispatches state that the house which contained 
the members of the Royal family of England 
was stoned by the crowd, but no personal injury 
done. The following day lira Prince ot Wales, 
Prince Arthur, Princess Louise and Marquis 
Lome lett Ireland, strongly guarded by cavalry 
and police. 
Germany. 
Berlin. Aug. .3. The Prussian Gross Gazette 
says] the interviews between the Emperors of 
j Germany and Austria will take place at Ischl, 
i notGastcin, as previously announced. 
Mexico, 
City of Mexico, July 30. — The Permanent 
Deputation of Congress finished counting the 
electoral Antes for President on the 27th inst. 
The following is tho resultDiaz, 1,982 ; J uarez, 
1,963; Lerdo, 1,366. There being no choice, ac¬ 
cording to thoConBtUuUon, the election goes to 
Congress, where, if Dm coalition of 1 he oppo¬ 
nents of Juarez is effected, the majority will bo 
against him. An attempt will bo made lo unite 
Ihe votes of the opposition on Diaz. The Per¬ 
manent Deputation is known to be hostile to 
Juarez. O 11 the other hand, the Diarlo, the 
official organ of Ihe Government, declares that 
Juarez has a majority over all competitors. Tn 
this cmifilet of authority and direct contradic¬ 
tion of statement* it is impossible, as yet, to de¬ 
cide who Is actually elected, The States ot 
Puebla, Oaxaca, and Sail Luis Pol.osi threaten 
revolt, and the prospects of the country are 
gloomy. A revolution has begun at Tabasco. 
C 11 l*n. 
Havana, Aug. 10.—The insurgent Generals 
Quesadanud Figueredo have been executed at 
Santiago de Culm. 
The New York Tribune, Aug. 11, says:—*' The 
above dispatch, announcing the execution ol 
tho insurgent Gens. Quesada and Figuercdo, is 
discredited by Die Cubans in this city,” 
Prince HilM'nrd* Island. 
It is stated that the Prince Edward Island 
Government, though proposing to accept the 
treaty, will demand from tho Brilish Govern¬ 
ment a money indemnity for the fisheries. 
1 mlla. 
A LAnOKE paper reports a shocking outbreak 
of fanaticism at Umrltsur, In the Punjafih: 
“Forsome time the Hindoos have been agitat¬ 
ing against Dm butchers of Uniritsur to obtain 
a decree forbidding the slaughter of entile and 
ttie sale of beef tn the city. Their efforts failed 
chiefly through t lie ti mines* of t be Commission¬ 
er and the strength of Iho English and Mussul¬ 
man party in tho Commit tee. Early one morn¬ 
ing, about 1 or S o'clock, a body of armed Hin¬ 
doos assembled nod made rt descent upon Utu- 
t-iisur slnnghicr-hoiiflc and attacked tin; butch¬ 
ers sleeping outside. The murderers were armed 
wiili swords and broad-axes, and the butellers, 
being unarmed and asleep, were uniilde to save 
themselves. Four butchers were literally hack¬ 
ed to pieces, and two others were so fearfully 
cut up that one has since died and the other's 
life Is despaired of. The nig ht was a very dark 
one, and It aviII be difficult to recognize tho mur¬ 
derers. Accounts vary ns to the sect they be¬ 
longed to. From some indications found on tlie 
scene or Die massacre, it. Is suspected that the 
murderers belong to the Nilning sect. But an¬ 
other account states that the Aka lies are sus¬ 
pected. The Akalies are a sort, of fanaticSikhs, 
a semi-sftCcrdoinl class attached to the temples. 
They are the truculent-looking fellows avIio 
wear conical hats about a .yard high covered with 
small conical weapons, and those Steel ehuckers 
or sharp rings which they can hurl with terrible 
precision and effect. They arc respected and 
considerably feared. The Nihung* again are 
associated with all that is reckless and Bohe¬ 
mian, Their name, indeed, D a common expres¬ 
sion in thoPunjaub to ropfesenl those qualities. 
The affair, as may be anticipated, has caused 
some excitement, as it is expected Dial the mat¬ 
ter will not end here. Bad passions on both 
sides have been aroused, and natives arc already 
whispering that other members of the butcher 
fraternity havo been marked out for destruc¬ 
tion.” 
Foreign Paragraphs, 
The harvest turns out not nearly so good in 
Hungary as was expected, but as there seems 
little demand from abroad, it is expected that 
prices will continue low. 
Ba* an agreement between the Governments 
of Germany and Austria, the examination of 
passengers' baggage is henceforth abolished 
along tljcentire frontier. 
In consequence of the return ot more Prus¬ 
sian troops, some of Die railway lines have an¬ 
nounced that they will be again compelled par¬ 
tially to suspend tlic goods traffic. 
The Fraooo-Oerinaii negot iations on postal re¬ 
forms ItftA'e been broken off on account of the 
persistent refusal of the French negotiators to 
consent to a reduction in Die rate of postage. 
It is romorod that the Duke of Sutherland, 
Mr. John Pender, and Mr. Fowler, the eminent 
engineer, are about to purchase the Suez Canal 
tor £6,000,000. The undertaking cost, the French 
company £22,000.000. 
The first anti-infullibilist service has been 
celebrated in the church at fvatiowitz, nssigned 
to Mgr. Kaminsky, and was very numerously at¬ 
tended. A permanent congregation will attach 
itself to the church, which is expootod to form 
the nucleus of a new church system in Catholic 
Silesia. 
AUSTRALIA, Wishing to impress California, is 
to send to the next Fair a pyramid of gold, imi¬ 
tation-representing the yenrly product of one 
mine. This mass will be three and a-hitlf feet at 
the base and nine feet high. I ncited by this the 
California press calls fora pyramid representing 
the $260,000,000 in gold annually dug from the 
mines ot lhat State. 
A new style of stock speculation has come into 
vogue in England. Men take our polices of life 
insurance and then put them up at public mic¬ 
tion. A man in Liverpool lately realized $15,000 
upon the policy of a tradesman, which lie had 
bought for $750. The tradesman avas so obliging 
as to die two days after the policy came into the 
possession of the speculator. 
A letter from Berlin says:-“Tiie entire ma¬ 
terial of the German army is to be renewed with 
all speed—perhaps in two years. The mitrail¬ 
leuse is to be introduced, though no model has 
yet been chosen, and Die needle gun, being too 
heavy, is to be superseded by a lighter weapon, 
Avith a longer range. Fortifications, too, are to 
he established around Die coast.*' 
Natives of the Sandwich Islands are much 
pleased With pretty postage stamps of one, six 
and eighteen cents denomination, which have 
recently been introduced into the islands. These 
stamps are violet, green and pink in lute, and 
lire stamped with the heads of native Hawaiian 
dignitaries. There is nn immense trade in them, 
ns the natives buy them for talismans. 
With reference to a rumor that the Italian 
Cardinals are roeoh'cd in the event of the Pope's 
death to nominate a successor, as a matter of 
urgency, without waiting tho arrival of their 
German colleagues, Die Bunk mid Hinidelszei- 
tiing states that the German Government has 
taken steps to guard against such a roup ffVfof, 
and to see Die rights of German Cardinal* re¬ 
spected. 
It Is stated that the practice of brewing i,ocr 
from rice is rapidly comlngintouse in Germany. 
Tills boor is smd to he of a very clear, pale color, 
of an extremely pleasant, mild tnslo, 1'onining 
strongly, .and yet rri'flining avcII its carbonic 
acid. The Chinese prepare a drink from rice, 
called “Sam-shu,” which is not only intoxicat¬ 
ing, but, like absinthe, peculiarly mischievous in 
its permanent effects. 
The official Strasbourg Gazette publishes a 
law introducing Ihe German rate of duty on 
sugar and salt into Alsace and Lorraine. Tho 
duty for this change i* not jet. fixed, bill will 
bn proclaimed shortly. The duly on salt is 
higher according to the German rato than the 
French, viz:—fifteen francs instead of ton francs 
for one hundred kilogrammes, but lira duty on 
sugar Is more moderate. 
According to intelligence from Alsace the 
cukos of small-pox have so far decreased that a 
total extinction of ihe epidemic may be expect¬ 
ed Bhortlj r with confidence. Tn consequence of 
the appearance of rinderpest in Die neighbor¬ 
hood, the importation of cattle and meat inlo 
Strasbourg is prohibited by the police, unless 
when intended for slaughter and accompanied 
by a pass from an authorized veterinary sur¬ 
geon. 
The Cross Gazette censures the nbnlhinn of 
purchase in the English army ns tho work of tho 
destructive genius of iiiOdCin time,and predicts 
a terrible revenge by the threatening spread of 
socialism and ujtra inontanism. The North 
German Gazette, <>n tho other hand, adduces it 
nsnproot Dim the royal prerogative must re¬ 
main the safeguard of political institutions ca'ch 
in England, “the model Stuleof oonstitiilionnl- 
Ism.*’ It would not do to uIIoav parliamentarism 
to absorb nil poAvor. 
India seems to surpass even tho Southwest for 
peculiar titles to newspapers. Among some of 
the latest are The Ambrosia Leaf of the Market, 
The Fragrant Dew of the Valley, The Hays of 
the Morning. The I’linjaub Bird of Good Omen, 
and The Inner Gate of Paradise. Poetically 
speaking, such names are inflnilelj’ preferable 
to The Cow-Skin Thunderer, The Broad Axe of 
Freedom, The Scorpion of the South, and Tho 
Bayou Alligator, of our own native clime. 
A duel with sabers boa just taken place near 
Amiens, between 11 young man of that town, 
aged 20 , and a Prussian officer. The latter, in 
walking through the streets, laid puffed tho 
smoke or his cigar in the face ol the other, who 
replied to tins insult by slapping the German in 
the face. The officer did not demand the Inter- 
A’enlionof Die m ined forces, but. 11 meeting took 
place the next morning, when the Frenchman, 
who hud been u corporal of hussars in Tuid- 
herbe’s arrny, killed his adversary. 
A Savedish paper claims that, there are more 
novelists of exceptional power in Scandinavia 
titan in any other country. Lust year, in Swe- 
dui 1 alone, seven hundred und ten books were 
published, and in little Denmark, four hundred 
and thirteen. In this connection, it may bo 
stated that the new King of Spain is an eager 
reader, and Is patronizing Spanish publishers 
with great liberality- Ii is said that four times 
as many books are now published in Spain ns 
during the late reign of Isabella IT. 
The Geneva Correspondence, the authentic 
organ of Papalisui, adds a supplement to its 
latest number threatening lira princes who re¬ 
fuse to interfere in behalf of the Pope, that 
“like Saul (hoy w’ill come to a shameful end, 
while the Pope will bo the only BOvereign tri¬ 
umphantly to enter once more his capital. The 
Pope has always acted in the true Interest of the 
princes, hut Dray havo denied him. The peoples, 
and with them tlm putter, will remain with the 
Pope, and the unworthy princes will be either 
reduced to A’ltssulagc or will be crushed inlo 
nothing.” 
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NEWS AND NOVELTIES. 
In Boston, they call foundling hospitals asj- 
luins for anonymous infants; in Chicago they 
style them institutions for babies born on the 
European plan. 
Thb annual report of an educntionnl institu¬ 
tion 111 art Eastern State mentions the resigna¬ 
tion of one of tho teachers, a young Jadj r , to 
“ engage iu domestic relations." 
Eight miles 60 uth of Albion, and ten miles 
north of Batavia, N. V., a new mineral spring 
has been discovered, which bubbles up from a 
depth of several hundred feet, like an inverted 
cataract. 
The Auburn State Prison now has over 1,000 
inmates, nearly 150 more, it is said, than it has 
had at this season for several years. The fash¬ 
ionable season there for Incarceration is stated 
|,t> bo the winter. 
The Chicago Common Council arc going to Salt 
Lake city,and an exchange says it Is understood 
that their purpose is to strike a decisive blow at 
polygamy by distributing Chicago divorces 
among the Mormons. 
lx illustrating the fruits of advertising, an 
exchange says:-" A family lu Florida lost their 
little boy, and advertised for him in a dai j 
paper. That very afternoon an alligator craw lea 
up out ol a swamp and died on the front ‘ ’"J, 
step. In his stomach was found a handru ” 
red hair, some bone button, a pair nf boot heel., 
a glass alley, a pair of check pants and a paper 
collar. The advertisement did it.” 
