current orders. The shipments last week 
amounted to 1,520 oases. 
Connecticut, 
The statues Of Jonathan Trumbull and Roger 
Sherman, ordered oy the State for the capitol at 
Washington, were transferred from Patterson's 
marble yard to the State House at. Hartford on 
the 23d ij 11 .. where they will be oponed and ex¬ 
hibited prior to their removal to Washington. 
The old 3u regiment, heavy artillery, will hold 
Its annual reunion at Woodbury on September 
26, Instead of uniting it with its excursion to its 
old baI tie llelds in Virginia, which is to leave 
New York on the 19th Inst, 
The Atwater Button and Metal Company o! 
Brooklyn, N, Y„ employing 300 men, are about 
to remove their works to Plainvllle. 
The new silk factory at Merjdeu will receive 
its machinery this week. 
The New Haven car company has contracted 
for the erection of a largo paint shop, 175 feet 
long, in Newhallville, in whicli will he eight 
tracks for the reception of ears to be painted 
and hnished. This company is building cars tor 
the Derby and Shepaug Valley roads, besides 
several roads in the West . 
New Hntnp*liirc. 
The lion. Nathan W. GoVO, Secretary of State, 
died at his residence In Concord, August 22, after 
an illness of some two months, at. the age of 
fifty-live years. lie was a native ol Chester, in 
this State, hut had resided in Concord about fif¬ 
teen years. At the outbreak of the rebellion 
he promptly enlisted in (lie military service, 
anil was connected with various regiments until 
the close of t he war. 
The houscof Sylvester Preston, North Branch, 
Antrim, was lately struck by lightning, fl de¬ 
molished a portion of the L, entered the main 
house, which was much damaged, breaking 44 
lights of glass. The inmates fortunately es¬ 
caped tvitb trifling injury, A horse in the s to hie 
was killed. 
Joseph P. Morse has been appointed Deputy 
United States Marshal at Portsmouth, vice Jo¬ 
seph B. Adams. 
Agreeably to the popular desire a new census 
of Portsmouth is to be taken by order of the 
City Council. The late census gave a small loss 
compared with ton years ago, but it is not ac¬ 
cepted as correct. 
Ohio, 
Bin crop stories are now becoming numerous. 
The Mt. Vernon Banner has the following: 
John P. Gotslmll of this township has shown us 
specimens ol wheat lie raised this summer, of 
the BlueStem, Mediterranean mid Early Boden 
varieties. He raised 1,308 bushels of wheat this 
year on fifty acres ol ground, which is over 
twenty-six bushels In the acre. 
R. N. Taj lor of Wyandot. Co. has one hundred 
and fifty acres of corn, which it is estimated will 
average fitly bushels per acre. Daniel Roose, 
two miles from Forest, in the same county, 
threshed a field of enormous oats lhat yielded 
seventy bushels per acre. 
During the Storm which reeeuily passed over 
Vernon township, Crawford Co., a bum belong¬ 
ing to Win. Holmes was completely demolished; 
Hie grain and hay were but little injured. Seven 
hor.-es were buried It* the ruins, but, strange to 
say, were rescued tjfc~A'*ilttld injury. Feuces, 
corn, Ac., wore Injured, and a considerable 
amount of timber was blown down. The losses 
are put, by good judges, at $15,000. 
Illinois. 
The Centralia Sentinel says:-" Many corn 
fields m e already gone up be.voud redemption, 
and the balance are rapidly following suit. 
Other crops are all burning up, and if we don’t 
get. min prelty soon, we don’t know wliat will 
become of us." 
A Johnson county paper says:—Many of our 
merchants are getting ready to commence the 
fruit trade. There will be at. least 25,000 bushels 
of dried fruit to ship from this county this sea¬ 
son, bringing to our depleted finances over $50,- 
000; and this is only a tiiho of what might be 
grown and sold at good prices. 
The Vienna Artery says:—A glorious old 
“ground soaker and gulley washer ” visited this 
locality a few days ago, much to the relief of the 
corn growing fraternity. This is all Unit was 
needed to develop the wonderful crop that is 
nmv on Hie stalks. The "oldest inhabitant." 
cannot remember when the prospect was better. 
In parts of Elvira they are needing rain, and we 
hope the next shower. Good Samaritan like, will 
pass that way, and pour the healing balui upon 
the thirsty corn stalks. 
Indiana. 
Indiana pot,is, Aug. 22. A fatal railroad ac¬ 
cident occurred near this place yesterday. The 
up (rain on the Indianapolis and Louisville Rail¬ 
road, when crossing a country road, struck u 
wagon in which two men were seated. They 
had observed the approaching train, but had not 
time to escape. Both men were instantly killed, 
the head of one being entirely seveied from his 
body. The horses were also killed, aud the wagon 
demolished. 
Wisconsin. 
The Watertown Democrat says the damage 
done to tobacco, corn, fruit,grain and vegetable 
crops, by the Into rain and bail storms in Dane, 
Columbia, Jefferson and Rock Counties, is esti¬ 
mated at $300,IKK). 
The Vernon Co. Courier says:—"R. S. Mc- 
Michuel showed ua the other day a curiosity in 
the shape of a bunch of ears ci corn, numbering 
thirteen, all grown together, but preserving 
iheir identity as separate ears, though they were 
inclosed in one husk." 
The La Crosse Leader says:—“ We learn from 
farmers at West Salem that the bop crop, which 
looked very discouraging, now promises a lair 
yield, aud is improving daily. The late rains 
have been of great benefit. Some estimate the 
yield at uot half a crop." 
Kansas. 
The Kansas Times reports that cattle are be¬ 
coming suddenly blind in that Slate from a dis¬ 
ease which cannot hecurpd or accounted for. It 
says:—“Tn Independence there arc thirty or 
forty—Bomo of them the finest kind of animals 
—that have completely lost iheir Right, and are 
now wandering about in pitiful helplessness. In 
Westport the disease is spreading rapidly. Along 
down the line of the Memphis and Kansas City 
Railroad the epidemic is raging, and in Blue, 
Sni-n-bar and Lone Jack townships the reports 
come up very gloomily of the ravages of ihe 
strange affliction, in Kansas City there are not 
less than two hundred blind cows. Borne of Ibe 
dairies have had, in the last week, fifteen blind 
milkers at one time. The eyes begin to swell a 
little, lasting generally from five days to two 
weeks. As soon as the swelling commences the 
cj r es also begin to run clear water, just as though 
some hard aud foreign substance was beneath 
the lids. After the running ceases, a hard white 
film covers the eye-balls, completely destroying 
flic sight. This disease docs not seem to affect 
the general health of the cow. Her appc-iito la 
ns good as ever. There appears to be no change 
either in the quality or quantity of the milk; 
no pain, no uneasiness of any kind, no peculiar 
thirst indicating fever, and, indeed, no symptom 
iliat would indicate disease. The eyes alone 
suffer and are destroyed.” 
The citizens of Leavenworth have voted to 
appropriate $260,000 In uid of a narrow gauge 
railroad from that city to Denver, Col. All (he 
counties In Kansas along the lino of the road 
will vote aid, and the people ol' Colorado will 
appropriate $500,000 therefor. Roads of a nar¬ 
row gauge to connect with this line are project¬ 
ed in all parts of Kansas, and fifty miles will he 
built ibis fall. The North Pacific Railroad from 
Duluth westward to Crow Wing, a distance of 
125 miles, has been accepted from the contract¬ 
ors. It is a magnificent year's work. 
Virginia. 
A number of New Englanders have leased a 
farm in Powhatan Co., with the Intention of de¬ 
voting it exclusively to the raising of goats. 
They have made ft beginning with 2,000 goats, 
and expect to increase the number to20,000. 
Kentucky. 
The colored people of Shelby county have or¬ 
ganized an Agricultural and Mechanical Asso¬ 
ciation, which, it its objects be properly carried 
out, promises to exercise a very favorable in¬ 
fluence upon their brethren throughout the 
Southern Slates. 
Georgia. 
Savannah, Aug. 20.—A terrific gale accom¬ 
panied by heavy rain occurred here on Friday 
and Saturday. Portions of the railroads are 
washed away, and the mails are to be brought 
here by pole-cars. There is no communication 
south of Marion No. 7 nil the Atlantic and Gulf 
Railroad. On the Central Railroad there are 
two washes: one near the city and the other- 
six miles out. No regular trains have arrived 
since Lrldaj night. Many buildings have been 
damaged, and great harm has been done to the 
rice crop. 
.Sontli Carolina. 
CHARLESTON, Aug. 20. The heaviest rain fall 
known here for many years terminated this 
morning. During the forly-cight hours preced¬ 
ing, more than 8K iuchesof water fell. This was 
followed to-day by a severe gale. 
A number of colored men have formed a co¬ 
partnership for the manufacture of brooms In 
Columbia, under the name of Hie Carolina Broom 
Company, und are said to be prospering finely. 
Alabama. 
Monthomehy, Aug. 22.— Reports from Hie 
richest cotton fields in Alabama and Mississippi 
stale lhat the army worm lias appeared in great¬ 
er numbers than ever before. The boll worm is 
also reported in many counties. 
The prolongation of the power of M. Thiers 
President of the Republic is now assured, it is 
reported that M. Rivot, not Marc-Girardin, will 
be Ihe Reporter of the Committee on the pro¬ 
longation til M. Thiers’s power. M. Gambetla 
lias proposed to the Republican Union ot Depu¬ 
ties the dissolution of the Assembly on the first 
of May, 1872. 
Germany. 
Berlin, Aug. 19.—'The cholera has appeared 
in the neighborhood of Stettin. The disease 
continues its ravages In Kcenigsbcr, where on 
Tuesday there were 70 new cases and 23 deaths, 
and on Wednesday 80 new cases and 27 deaths! 
The disease has also appeared at Dantzig. 
A Postal Conference In session here suggests 
the conclusion of international treaties between 
tiic European and American Powers, establish¬ 
ing a uniform rain of postage on letters, regard¬ 
less of distance, of 20 centimes when prepaid, 
and 10 centimes when unpaid, with an addition¬ 
al charge on letters which go by sea. 
Berlin, Aug. S3.—There have been loyr cases 
of cholera iu this city, two of which resulted 
fatally. 
Englaad, 
The Emperor Napoleon has given a fete at 
Chiselhurst, at which telegrams were received 
from the Czar ot' Russia, the King of Sweden, 
the Emperor of Austria, Hie King of Portugal, 
the King of Holland, the Prince of Wales, and 
others. 
I/ONDON, Aug. 21.—Dispatches of yesterday 
state that the steamer Prince of Wales, bound 
from Hong Kong to Bangkok, Siam, bad found¬ 
ered at sea. Fifty persons lost their lives by the 
disaster. 
LONDON, Aug. 23.—A foreign ship 1ms arrived 
at Shields, wiili cholera on board. 
Ireland. 
DtrtiLtN. Aug. 32.—A band of music was pas¬ 
sing through the streets of Limerick, to-day, 
followed by n large crowd, at a given signal the 
mob began stoning the potlco who were watch¬ 
ing the procession. The latter Immediately 
rushed upon their assailunls, and after some 
hard fighting succeeded in dispersing them. 
Several persons were injured and taken to the 
hospital. 
The French deputation, headed by Count 
do Havigny, who recently landed in Ireland, 
have crossed into England, and will visit the 
City of York. Tbay are enthusiastically re¬ 
ceived everywhere. The object of tbe visit to 
the United Kingdom is personally to return the 
thanks oT the Frencli people Tor the aid so freely 
given by Englishmen and Irishmen for Hie 
wounded and suffering French during tbe war. 
Spain. 
The Spanish Government have, at the ex¬ 
pressed desire ol the French Cabinet, consented 
to the extradition of the Communists found on 
Spunish soil. One of the lenders of the Com¬ 
mune has already been arrested and delivered 
over to the French authorities. 
Persia. 
The news from Persia is still contradictory. 
The Levant Herald declares Hint the famine and 
pestilence tire worse than ever; that there have 
been 27,000 victims at Ispahan alone; that the 
crops have been destroyed, and tbat one-third 
'of the population lias beeu utUiililluled. The 
details are said to be heart-sickening. 
H uugary. 
Reports from Southern Hungary tell of 
frightful inundations and distress. Vineyards, 
orchards and wheat fields constitute the chief 
wealth of the people wlio inhabit the regions 
which have been devastated. Taken altogether, 
this has been a most unfortunate year for the 
people of Europe; where war has not swept the 
fields, famine and blight have disappointed the 
hopes of the husbandman. 
Canada. 
Bush fires of unusual magnitude are reported 
to be ravaging north Perth, where there is little 
hope of extinguishing them. In this ns in other 
regions devastated by tbe fire, there has been 
no rain for several weeks, and it is feared that 
the consequences will be disastrous. The vil¬ 
lage ot Georgetown was only saved from de¬ 
struction by the wind fortunately blowing away 
from it a rapidly spreading conflagration, caused 
by a spark from a passing engine igniting the 
stubble. A gallant, resistance is being made to 
the ndvnnce of the flames. Yet, without rain, 
the chauces are against Hie fanners. The hush- 
fires In Hie county of Blmooo still continue, 
and now they have broken out in Ilie vicinity 
of Kingston, Fortunately, there has been more 
raid in the Ottawa Valley, nnd this 1ms saved 
that region from a repetition of the disasters of 
last summer, Railway coruiminicalion will 
soon be established between Bt. John, N. B„ and 
Bangor, Me., the construction of only nine 
miles of the line between those places being now 
required. The maritime provinces will thus be 
placed in connection with the railway system 
of our neighbors. 
The Montreal Telegraph Company have open¬ 
ed an office at Grand Greve, in the district of 
Gttspc. 
The Canada Central Railway Company expect 
to have their line open to Renfrew by the end 
of the year. 
Montreal has finally decided upon taking ac¬ 
tive measures to spend $200,000 in erecting a 
magnificent City Hall. 
The report of the Intended withdrawal of the 
few British troops from the old stronghold Que¬ 
bec has been confirmed, aud the fortress will 
soon be handed over to the Dominion. 
Montreal, Aug. 22.— The Mayor has ordered 
thestrongest measures regarding the cleansing 
of the city in view of the possible approach of 
cholera. Lime and other disinfectants are sup¬ 
plied gratuitously to the inhabitants. 
Foreign Item*. 
AN important link in the immense chain of 
cables nnd land lines that will soon encircle the 
world is now completed. Telegraphic commu¬ 
nication is established with Japan'. Messages 
have beeu sent from London to Japan and an¬ 
swers returned. 
It is unofficially reported that tbe President 
of the Swiss Confederation has appointed 
Jacques Staeinfli, Senior Federal Councillor and 
formerly President of the Republic, Arbitrator 
on the part of Switzerland, under the Treaty of 
I queathed $10,000 to the Utica Orphan Asylum, 
I $10,001) to the Board of Domestic Missions of tbe 
Reformed Church, $10,000 to ihe Home for the 
Friendless, in that city, and $10,000 to the Old 
Ladles’ Horne, also that city. His estate is val¬ 
ued at $5.5,000. 
Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the Staten 
Island (N. VJ Furry Company, Win. Unlisted, 
superintendent, and Henry Robinson, engineer, 
against whom the coroners’ Jury returned a ver¬ 
dict of criminal negligence in commotion with 
the Westfield disaster, were brought before Cor¬ 
oner Keenan, and on his warrant, committed to 
the tombs prison. The coroner refused to ac¬ 
cept bail. The action of the coroner has caused 
no little surprise, as bail to any amount was of¬ 
fered and could have been given, We learn, 
however, that bail has been accepted for the ap¬ 
pearance of the above parties, in the sutn of 
$46,000, Oeo. Law bccomiug the bondsman. 
The New York Battery boatmen have declined 
to accept the money given them for t heir ser¬ 
vices at the Westfield disaster, and it has been 
turned over to the relief of the suffers now at 
Bellevue Hospital. 
Thirty-nine horses of Hie Eighth avenue (N. 
Y.) railroad have been stricken by the new dis¬ 
ease, and are now under treatment in the veter¬ 
inary hospital at 93d street.. 
The Brooklyn assessors’ list has just been com¬ 
pleted. It shows that 2,214 dwellings, valued at 
$4,030,900, were erected in tbat city I lie present 
year. 
Twenty-four thousand dollars a tulle is said to 
be the price psid by the Geneva and Ithaca rall- 
voad company to the contractors who grade and 
iron Hie road. 
Eh rig, Buddy and Garreghty. who were ac¬ 
cused of the murder of Viola Carson at Falls 
Field, Rochester, recently, have been held to 
await the action of the Grand Jury of Monroe 
Co., on a charge of murder in t lie second degree; 
the extreme sentence of which is imprisonment 
for life. Pending the action of the Grand Jury, 
the accused Will he held in Jail unless released 
on bail by order of the Judge. 
The farmers of Mt. Morris, Liv. Co., arc realiz¬ 
ing from twenty-live to thirty-five bushels of 
wheat to the acre, and of a superior quality. 
The present Is said to be the tlnest crop raised In 
Hint vicinity in twenty years. 
A lire Is raging neat- the Prussian settlement, 
iu Croghati, Lewis Co. Crops, bark, wood and 
standing timber arc being destroyed, and people 
are out again fighting fire from Khcir dwellings. 
Water is so sen roe in the neighborhood of Beaver 
river Mini liirmers drive to t hat stream from a 
distance of three miles to water their stock. 
Chautauqua county is suffering from the 
drouth. Grazing lands, especially, show the et- 
l'cel. of the dry weather. The licit I has also been 
intense for the past, lew weeks, the mercury in¬ 
dicating from 90 to 95 degrees in the shade near¬ 
ly everyday. 
Ogdensbu no, Aug, 21.—Tho force ot special 
policemen, numbering nearly 100, was dismissed 
this morning; the city is again quiet. The 
Baron Dc Gamin issued a card stating that as the 
right of free speech had been vindicated, and 
ihe oily was incurring heavy expense in pro¬ 
tecting iu lie should not address an audience 
here again. The Roman Catholic clergymen ui 
service yesterday severely denounced nil riotous 
proceedings. 
Poughkeepsie, Aug. 22. A trunk filled with 
good clothing mid containing a lady's reticule 
aud two diamond studs, catne to the surface of 
the water near New Hamburgh drawbridge yes¬ 
terday, To-day it wus identified as having be. 
longed to Albert A. Gillett or Buffalo, who was 
killed at the New Hamburgh disaster. There 
are suspicions that the contents were tampered 
with after the trunk was found, as several valu¬ 
able pieces ol' jewelry are missing. 
Maine. 
The Lewiston Journal says: — The Lincoln 
and Continental Mills have done a very large 
business the past six months. The production 
of the Lincoln Mill has been increased by 2,000 
pounds of goods a week, and the production of 
the Continental Mills has been increased from 
3,000 to 4,000 pouuds. The Lincoln Mill is now 
turning off over 15,000 pounds of goods weekly; 
the Continental about 32,000 pounds a week. 
These mills are doing an excellent business. The 
Continental makes bvown cottons exclusively; 
the Lincoln, bleached cotton. 
The Soldier's Orphan Home, al Bath, has ro- 
cenlly received a bequest of $13,000, under tin 
will ot the late Horatio Ward of England, 
Mrs. Anderson Buily of New Gloucester re¬ 
cently lost, herself iu her husband's cornfield, 
where the stalks are between eight and nine feet 
in bight. 
The formal opening of the Portland and Og- 
deusbnrg Railroad to North Conway took place 
Inst week, by an excursion under Hie auspices of 
the Army nnd Navy Union. Nine passenger and 
I wo freight cars let t the Portland station, loaded 
with 700 pnssengors. 
Mrs. Caroline McGregor died at her home in 
Lubce last week, of hydrophobia, tlie result of a 
bite from a lap dog in June. The dog exhibited 
no signs of madness, and t he wound had entire¬ 
ly healed. 
The Spragues’ new cotton mill in Augusta is up 
to the sixth story. 
MaKsacIiiiKett*. 
During the thunder storm last week light¬ 
ning struck tho railroad track just outside of the 
east end of the Hoosuo Tunnel, and, entering 
the tunnel on the rail, exploded a charge ot 
nitro-glycerine, instantly killing two men and 
injuring another so that be died shortly alter. 
A charge was similarly exploded on the west cud 
of the tunnel during the same shower, but with¬ 
out damage. 
The valuation of real and personal estute iu 
Lowell ibis year is $27,868,395. Last year it was 
$25,972,488. The rate of taxation per $1,000 is 
$15.80. Lust year it was $13.90, and the year pre¬ 
vious $13.80. This year the city appropriation is 
$375,000. Last year it was $292,500. 
The thirty-eighth regiment will hold its an¬ 
nual re-tinimi at Plymouth oil October 10. Gen¬ 
erals Sheridan aud Emery arc expected to be 
presen t. 
A 300-pound sturgeon was captured at Law¬ 
rence on tlie 23d ult., as lie was trying to get up 
the fails. 
The second track of the Worcester and Nashua 
Railroad will be completed and ready for use 
between Worcester and Sterling Junction next 
week. 
The first schooner from the banks hits arrived 
at Plymouth with 850 quintals of codfish. She 
reports the fleet as doing well. 
The shoe business in Norl It Bridgewater is get¬ 
ting back to its former active condition, nearly 
every factory having all t hat it can do to fill the 
DOMESTIC HEWS. 
Washington. 
Washington, Aug. 2L—A Committee appoint¬ 
ed by the Quarantine Commissioners of New 
York, consisting of Messrs. A. N. Boll and C. H. 
Haswoll, had an interview with tho Secretary of 
the Navy this morn lug, to obtain the assistance 
of the Department, in view of the. probable ap¬ 
proach of cholera, nnd to secure two large ves¬ 
sels of Ihe navy, to beanebored at tho New York 
Quarantine, for the temporary detention of pas¬ 
sengers who have been exposed to the cholera. 
The Secretary of Hie Navy directed Holt the 
ships Delaware and Albany be loaned tempora¬ 
rily to tho Quarantine Commissioners for the 
purpose mentioned. 
Aug. 23.—Commissioner Douglass has revoked 
the order to print the revised regulations con¬ 
cerning the lax on tobacco, on the ground that 
it would bo inexpedient t.o enforce them in view 
of the near assembling of Congress and the prob¬ 
able important changes which will then bo made 
in all Hie revenue laws. 
During the week ending Aug. 19,1)81 pension 
certificates were issued, as follows: Invalids, 
363; widows, 171; navy, 13; war of 1812 , 134. 
The Secretary ot the Navy, in accordance with 
the late act ol Congress authorizing him to in¬ 
stitute suit to obtain lull damages for the de¬ 
struction and loss of Hit! sloop-of-wu r Oneida, iu 
the Bay of Yeddo, Japan, in January, 1870, has 
had a conference Willi Hu* Attorney-General, 
but no steps have been taken toward instituting 
the suit, which must be against the steamship 
company owning the Bombay. There tire several 
questions still unsettled — the question as to 
where the suit shall be brought, etc. 
The Secretary of the Treasury directs lhat, 
hereafter all imported merchandise shipped or 
sent for export to the Dominion of Canada, 
either lor lienelll of drawback or without pay¬ 
ment of duties, shall, in addition to the certified 
copy of the entry transmitted to the frontier 
port of exportation in the United States, be ac¬ 
companied with a proper manifest containing 
the particulars by way of description, required 
iu eases ol transportation of merchandise iu 
bond by sect ion IS of warehouse tnid transpor¬ 
tation regulations of May 9, !8?L The manifest 
must show that the exportation Is for Ihe bene¬ 
fit of drawback or otherwise. 
Aug. 28.—In reply to applications from distil¬ 
lers who are indebted to the Government tor 
unpaid taxes, asking an extension of time for 
payment, with the consent ol their bondsmen, 
Commissioner Douglass decides that no author¬ 
ity exists for granting such extension, and that 
payments must be made in accordance with law* 
New York. 
\Ye learn I tom Hie Ontario Messenger that an 
agent from Wnierville. Oneida Co., canvassed 
the western part of Ontario county last week, 
for this .season's crop of hops. lie reports the 
yield as being good, and he purchased over4,000 
pounds, we believe, at twenty-five cents. The 
crop iu soun*. places iu I lie eastern part of the 
State is not very good, and many report large 
numbers ot vines almost entirely covered with 
lice. The yield this year is larger in that section 
than the average. 
Clifton Springs is said to be overflowing with 
strangers, invalids aud tourists. Over 11 fty have 
been obliged to secure accommodations outside 
of the village, and are waiting for vacancies. 
The Trustees of the State Normal School at 
Geneseo, Livingston Co., have elected Prof. Wm. 
J. Milne of Brockport, Principal of that institu- 
tlon, and Prof. Samuel I>. Burr, Vice-Principal. 
The liquor sellers of Oswego county are being 
taught a lesson of diseret ion. In Cleveland M rs. 
H. N. Marriott recently sued three dealers under 
the law allowing damages tor sclliug liquor lo 
customers, after having been notified by their 
wives not to do so, and recovered $2,500 damages 
from one of them. The other soils are pending. 
The new military code of i his State, complete¬ 
ly indexed, with Hie new forms relative to Hie 
government of tho National Guard, is now ready 
for distribution. It may bo had by applying to 
Adjt. Gon. Townsend, Albany. 
The tunnel on tho Hudson River Railroad at 
Now Hamburg, Dutchess county, Is to be widen¬ 
ed three l’cet. It is too narrow to admit the 
passage of the new drawing room ears. 
Tho new branch of the Rensselaer and Sara¬ 
toga railroad, from the old road in Glcnville to 
Schenectady, by way oT llie new bridge across 
the Mohawk, is nearly completed. 
The half century celebration and fair at Low- 
ville. Sept. 12,13 and 14. of the Lewis County 
Agricultural Society, will be of more than usual 
interest, it being its fiftieth anniversary. Fifty 
years ago, Silas Stow of Lowville, delivered the 
first address before it. 
The cheese box shop and saw mill owned by 
H. Bills, at Gruvosville, Herkimer Co., was to¬ 
tally destroyed l.y tire last week. A large num¬ 
ber of boxes and considerable lumber were de¬ 
stroyed. Some of the lighter parte of the ma¬ 
chinery and Ilie bells were saved. Loss about 
$4,000, with no insurance. 
Counterfeit $5 bills on the Ninth National 
Bank, of New York, lmve just been put in cir¬ 
culation. They are very good imitations, and 
are very liable to deceive. They can he* readily 
detected b.v a careful examination of the en¬ 
graving on ilie face of the female figure upon 
the left, which is scratchy and ill-proportioned. 
The Syracuse Courier says" Over one hun¬ 
dred and twenty-five trains arrive and depart 
from this city every day. This indicates the 
amount of travel and business done by Hie rail¬ 
roads in this vicinity." 
It is rumored thal the New York Central and 
Hudson Hlver Railroad Company propose at 
once to construct a new double track road from 
New York to Buffalo. The increase of business 
under its present thorough and business-like 
management 1ms made Increased facilities a 
necessity. Tin* freight business is so enormous 
that a separate roadway must soon be devoted 
to it, and the business of transporting travelers 
is increasing in like ratio and must, ere long 
monopolize Hie tracks already laid. In laying a 
new track we presume tho company would im¬ 
prove and shorten the route where practicable. 
The contract for stone for the new capital at. 
Albany has been awarded to Messrs. John It. 
Briggs & Co., and the stone will come from the 
quarry at Yarmouth. Me. Their bid aggregated 
$337,000, and the highest bid was $787,500. 
Jonathan R. Warner, an old and well known 
resident ol 1 oughkeepsic, who died recently, be- 
P0LITI0AL INTELLIGENCE, 
Time. State. Officers to he Chosen. 
Sept. 5.California....Kinto officers. 
Sept. 8.Wyoming.Legislature. 
Kept. B.Maine . .Governor. 
Hejit. u.New .Mexico.Congress-, 
ucr. 8.Texas . rongress. 
Oct, 10_ ..Pennsylvania . AudVand S. G. 
Oct. la.Ohio. Stale officers. 
Oct.. 10.Iowa.State officers. 
Nov. 7.Maryland.Stale officers. 
Nov. 7. .Massachusetts. Slate officers. 
Nov. 7.. .. Minnesota.state officers. 
Nov. 7.M Isstssl ppi.I .eg i slut u re. 
Nov. 7.New Jersey.Governor. 
Nov. 7. Illinois -rang, at large. 
Nov. 7.New York...State officers. 
Nov. 7.Wisconsin.Slate officers. 
SENATORIAL. 
Twenty-four senators are to be chosen before 
the expiration of Hie term of tbe present ad¬ 
ministration. There are at present two vacan¬ 
cies, one in Alabama by deulh, and one in 
Georgia by non-admission of claimant. The 
term of ihe other twenty-two expires with that 
of President Grant, on tin* 4th of March, 1873. 
Following is a list of tin- States and of the pres¬ 
ent occupants, whose terms are to bo filled ns 
above: 
State. incumbent. 
Alabama.. Claimant dead. 
Alabama.Spencer. 
Arkansas .Rice. 
California*.Cole. 
Connecticut.Ferry. 
Florida.Osborn. 
Georgia....Hill. 
Georgia. IUoodgetfc, claimant. 
Illinois.Trumbull. 
Indiana.Morton. 
Iowa*..Harlan. 
Kansas.Pomeroy. 
Kentucky*. Uavis- 
Loitlsnna*. ... Kellogg. 
Maryland*.Vickers. 
Nevada .Nye. 
New Hampshire.Patterson. 
New York*.Cockling. 
North Carolina.. Pool 
Ohio*.. .Sherman. 
Oregon.Corbett. 
Pennsylvania. Cameron. 
South Carolina. ..Huwycr. 
Wisconsin... .Howe. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
France. 
Versailles. Aug. 20. —It is reported that 
Rouhcr, the Imperialist agitator, is here, and has 
conferred with Couti and other imperiallste’ dep¬ 
uties, concerning the proposition of a Corsican 
deputy to resign the representation for Corsica 
toRouher; also flint the Prince Napoleon will 
contest the seat in tin* event of a vacancy. 
The Patrlr says Russia is making great mili¬ 
tary preparations. The Czar, accompanied by 
Gcu. Lefle, the French ambassador, visited Iho 
camp of the Twelfth Army Corps at Tsarsko- 
Selo. Prussia is also filling up her eadrai, per¬ 
fecting her armament, and collecting enormous 
quantities of stores. The Patrir believes that 
the preparations of the last named power are 
aimed at Russia. 
Paris, Aug. 23.—The Government here is act¬ 
ing in concert with that of Italy to prevent the 
introduction of cholera in either country. 
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