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Waxliiicton. 
Sept. 4.—Clerks at the Stiito Department are > 
busily engaged at present in preparing for the 
consideration of the Board of Arbitration papers i 
in the Alabama claims, iu accordance with the 
recent notice of the Secretary of State, a large 
number of new claimants tiling papers. These 
additional claims arc undergoing arrangement i 
and supervision. 1 
The first, span of the superstructure on the i 
now piers of the Long Bridge has Just boon suc¬ 
cessfully constructed on the north side of the 
Virginia shore channel, connecting the abut¬ 
ment wall with the first pier. The remaining 
spans will be erected over thisehunnel in a short 
time. The section to be laid first is for the car¬ 
riage way, which Is twenty feet wide. The rail¬ 
road section will bo laid afterward, and is to be 
thirteen reel wldo. 
The Smithsonian Institution recently for¬ 
warded a circular to scientific institutions all 
over the world, for the purpose Of securing a 
record of solentlflo and literary men in foreign 
countries, their residences, the institutions and 
societies with which they arc connected, and the 
branches of si lence in which they are especially 
interested. J. Rimes, Esq., who, during the ab¬ 
sence of I**nr. lfenry in California, has charge 
of the Institution, Is engaged n* the present time 
in receiving returns, and expects in about two 
months to have a complete list of scientific and 
literary men throughout, the world. 
Commissioner Drummond, having been in¬ 
formed that persons were settling upon « tract 
of land known as the Mllie Lac Indian Reserva¬ 
tion, in Minnesota, Inis mi dressed a letter to the 
Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Tay¬ 
lor’s Falls, informing them that those lands are 
still occupied by Indians, and are not open for 
disposal, and that all entries and settlements 
made thereon tiro Illegal, and will not ho recog¬ 
nized by the General Land Office. 
The report of the Dead Letter Office for A n- 
gust shows that there were returned to thut 
officetis undelivcrnble during that month 332,279 
letters. There were sent to offices from which 
let ters originated I to,779. and 25,300 wero de¬ 
stroyed as nou-dolirornblo and valueless, and 
l, 43 lt of which tins writers could not. be found 
wore filed for future Inquiry; 596 letters and 
packages containing property wore received, of 
which 470 were returned to the owners. The 
money division received 2,882 letters,containing 
$36,310; and "218, containing 81,510, were mailed 
to the owners, and 153, containing $672, were 
filed ; 280 lot lets, containing $1,111, were rein rued 
as umnullahlo from the offices in which they 
were deposited, and 1,019 receipts for an aggre¬ 
gate amount of $3,331 received from the same 
source. 
field. 6.—Information has boon received in 
this city by telegraph from Galveston, dated to¬ 
day, mentioning that the American bark Har¬ 
vest Home had been attacked by a torco of 
Mexicans, off the bar of Santa Anna, on tho 
night of the 87th of last month, and her master, 
E. 10. Dickey, obliged to put to sea wiUioutoom- 
plotlng her cargo. Another dispatch from Gal¬ 
veston mentions that tho American hark Broth¬ 
ers, owned by a firm In Norfolk, Vti., nnd of 
which J. B. Thurston was muster, was oaptured 
front him by an armed foroe of Mexicans, also, 
on the 37 th of August, off Santa Anna, and tho 
captain forced to abandon her, and that twenty- 
four hours afterwards he was picked up by the 
Harvest Homo and arrived at Galveston on 
Tuesday. 
TUE CENSUS OF 1870. 
In tho table No. 3, .just issued in advanced 
shoots by tho Census Bureau, u new classifica¬ 
tion of tho population is given, that of the 
Chinese in tho United States and Territories. 
Tlf figures undoubtedly show a mm it less num¬ 
ber of Mongolians in the country than most 
readers suppose nre here. The total number is 
hut 63,354. lit 1800 there were 34,933. The in¬ 
crease in ten years was 38,321 -about ninety per 
cent. 
The number of Chinese in the various States 
where any Chinese exist— twonty-ihreo of the 
thirty-seven—is as follows: Arkansas,93; Cali¬ 
fornia, 40,310; Connecticut, 2; Georgia, 1; Illi¬ 
nois,!; Iowu.3; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 71; 
Maine, I : Maryland,3; Massachusetts.97; Michi¬ 
gan 3; Mississippi, 16; Missoni 1,8;Nevada,3,153j 
Nmv Jersey, 15; New York, 39; Ohio, 1; Oregon, 
3,330; Pennsylvania, 14; South Carolina, 1; 
Texas, 35; Virginia. 1- In the Territories the 
ni 1 labors reported arc: Arizomt, 30: C<dorado, 7; 
District of Columbia, 3; Idaho, 4,37i; Montana, 
I, 949; Utah, 445; Washington, 334; Wyoming, 143. 
There are 53 Japanese in tho country, included 
for convenience in the above clasaSHetRSon, who 
live in California, Massachusetts and New Jersey. 
The Census Bureau deals with Indians only as 
they live among whites, severed from all trilail 
connection. Tho table now issued shows a re¬ 
duction of this class of Indians since I860. In the 
latter year the number in 36 States was30,733. 
In 1870 the number was21,138—a reduction of 9,- 
605. In the Territories tho reduction was much 
greater, the figures being as followsr—I860, 44,- 
017; 1870, 35,631; decrease. 18,386. Thu whole de¬ 
crease in the country from 1860 to 1870. is accord¬ 
ingly 37,991. 
There was an absolute increase of tho colored 
population during the sumo decade of 438,183. 
T)m only States in which any doorcase is shown 
are—Kentucky. 13,957; Nebraska, 433; Virginia, 
II, 933; West Virginia, 3,164. Among the Terri¬ 
tories there wnfcno losses. Thegjcutest increase 
was in Georgia—79.444. Texas shows an increase 
of 70,674, and North Carolina of 30,126. In New 
York the negro population in 1870 was 353,081; In 
1860, 49,005-increase, 3,076. 
New Vork, 
Txie damage done by t he violent rain storms 
01 last week in Ulster Co. was very grdat, ac¬ 
cording to reports that are now coining in. In 
the vicinity of Ellc tivillc there are several small 
streams which were higher than they had been 
before for thirty years. The village was only 
saved from being entirely flooded by an im¬ 
mense dike that waserected in 1869, after a dam¬ 
aging freshet. Turell'e tannery dam was carried 
n way, involving a loss of $3,000. Many valuable 
cattle and I togs were drowned and swept off. 
Several bridges over these streams are destroyed. 
The Midland Railroad was badly damaged about 
Ellonville. The Mountain Brook overflowed 
and swept along the new embankments of the 
railroad, washing them entirely away in several 
places, and leaving the ties and rails suspended 
in the air. At. other points thetrack was buried 
for considerable distances under nearly a foot 
of eaml. Sixty feet of Hie embankment, were 
washed away at Harp’s. The locomotive Ellen- 
villc was entirely shut- in by sand drifts above 
the cuts at. tiandburgh. The large and expensive 
reservoir of the new Ellcnville water-works, 
just completed, was tilled with large stones and 
sand that had been swept down the Shawungunk 
Mountain. The loss to the company i»great, 
and tbc work will be delayed many weeks. 
At Homowack the flood was very destructive. 
At 3 o’clock Wednesday morning the alarm 
was given for tho residents of tbc village to 
seek safety, as the creek along the canal hud 
begun overflowing the hanks, nnd was rapidly 
flooding the place. Tim people went to the 
mountains in the drenching rain, a few men 
only staying to look after property abandoned. 
Burns, fences, cattle, pigs and poultry wore 
swept, away and destroyed. The water over¬ 
flowed the tow-path, and rose to the second 
story window of a Mr. Marshall’s house, ruining 
everything in the building. Mrs. Lynch, an 
aged woman, living alone, was sick abed in the 
basement of her house. Finding the water ris¬ 
ing around her bed, she gave an alarm to men 
passing with a light, and they rescued her with 
great difficulty. Whole fields of buckwheatand 
corn were destroyed, and the ent ire valley was 
a scene of devastation. Tho Bundburgh road 
was blocked for several rods with an immense 
glide of sand from the mountain. 
In fit) 11 Ivan county bridges, roads, cattle, crops 
and buildings h i ve been destroyed or damaged 
by the effect of the same storm. 
The conference last week at Albany between 
a deputation ol Brooklyn officials and the Board 
of State Assessors it as resulted iu a reduction 
In tbc valuation for Slate purposes <>f Kings Co. 
real estate from $194,116,451 to $109,154438. This 
takes $34,962,013 from the total valuation of the 
county. The amount of State tax levied last 
year was $1,499,790; for the present year it will 
he, In round numbers, $990,000,the tax ol which 
the county Is relieved thus amounting to $410,760. 
Some sixty thousand dollars, the balance of 
the appropriation made by < 'engross for improv¬ 
ing the channel of the Hudson River, will be 
expend' d this fall under the direction of Gen. 
Newton, U. S. A. Nearly a mile long of dyke, 
running from the west side of Barren island to 
Coe.vman’s Inis been contracted for, work on 
which has already commenced. 
Natural gas rdflf which the Buffaloniuns have 
been iso long boring has at last been discovered 
by accident. An Infernal perfume was detected 
issuing front a hole in a cellar floor. On the ap¬ 
plication of a torch the gas burned beautifully, 
and the fact wit* at obae demonstrated that nat¬ 
ural gas exist ed In the subterranean regions of 
Buffalo. It is believed that the supply is inex¬ 
haustible. Thu gas will at once be applied to 
some practical use. 
NEW YORK CITY. 
A monsler meeting was held at Cooper Insti¬ 
tute in this oily on tho 4th iust., by the tax pay¬ 
ers, irrespective of party, to take steps to inves¬ 
tigate the accounts of Uio city officials, at which 
cx-Mayor liavemeyor presided. Speeches were 
made condemning in strong terms the squan¬ 
dering of tho people’s money. A commitree 
was appointed on the part of the citizens, to act 
in conduction with n like committee from the 
Common Council, to take action in the matter. 
A meeting of tho joint oomintltee of Alder¬ 
men and citizens to examine tho nooountsof tho 
city and county, met. Sept. 6, in the chamber of 
the Board of Supervisors. A conference as to 
the best means of proceeding to business was 
held. Aldermen Jerome, Woltmnuand Plunkett, 
and Win. A. Booth participating. Tho citizens 
appointed Janies A. Roosevelt and Win. H. Os¬ 
born to till vacancies ill the committee. It is 
reported that Urn Comptroller will furnish the 
joint committee on Monday (Sept. 11) a full stiitc- 
inont of the city and county debt. The most 
rigid inveatigaiion has been invited and will bo 
made. 
The auction galoot Scranton coal last week, 
showed u small advance in the prices of most 
gizes, us compared with the previous sale, which 
took place July 26. The amount sold was 140,- 
(XK) tons; the largest lot ever offered by iho 
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company. 
The lot was divided as follows;—Lump, 16,000 
inns; t-teumboat, 12,000;grate,27.000 ; egg, 17,000; 
stove, 50,000, and chestnut, 18,900. 'I'll o highest 
price Obiained for grate was $5.07J<, os against 
$4.85 at the former sale. The Cove size brought 
;o* to $5.60, as against $5.43# to $5.55 on the 
t lie 261 h of July. All t lie sizes showed ft Similar 
increase except lump, which was some t wcitij- 
ilvo cents a ton lower. The prices realized at 
those sales arc important us indicating the state 
of the market. 
New Jersey. 
The Normal School at Trenton is full, and a 
number of qualified applications have been re¬ 
fused admission. * 
The Hudson County Board of Assessors have 
returned tho taxable valuation <>f properly in 
rhe county at £100,164,285. Of this amount 
$80,184,508 is real estate, and $11,864,777 personal 
property. The total amount of State and county 
tax to he raised in the county is$706,803 93. 
The managers of tho State Geological Survey 
have finished the survey of the meadow lands 
along iho Passaic from Little Falls to Chatham, 
and from the Rockaway to Whippany river. 
These lands will now ho immediately drained, 
and commissioners for thnl purpose will he ap¬ 
pointed by the Supremo Court at its November 
term. 
Connecticut. 
Grasshoppers have played the mischief with 
the tobacco crop in Connecticut. One of the 
finest tobacco fields on Colt's meadows was cov¬ 
ered with them; and to save it, boys were 
employed to travel over it with branches of wil¬ 
low and drive them oil. and even with tills pre¬ 
caution the plants had to be cut before they 
were fully matured in order that they might he 
of any use. 
The Directors of the Connecticut Valley Rail¬ 
road have decided to put $1,000,000 worth of tion- 
taxable bonds on the market. 
Pennsylvania. 
The large mine belonging to the Willcesbnrro 
Coal and Iron Company, and known as the Hol¬ 
lenbeck mine at Wilkesbnrre, lias oaved in, cre¬ 
ating great consternation in Hint place. The 
mine was abandoned on Saturday ns it had been 
considered unsafe for months. Ait area at five 
or six acres of ground sunk 300 feet when tho 
mine collapsed. Thousands of people have vis¬ 
ited the scene since caving. The mine was 
nearly worked out ami the greatest loss will be 
to the miners who are thrown out of employ- 
incut by (lie occurrence. 
Rhode Island. 
Providence. Sept. 6.—The corporation of 
Brown University to-day accepted the resigna¬ 
tion of President Caswell, to take effect at the 
close of tho academic year. A committee was 
appointed to report a nomination for his succes¬ 
sor at tho January meeting. The question of 
admitting female students was referred to the 
Advisory and Executive Committee to report 
next June. 
Illinois*. 
An engine on the Toledo. Wabash and West¬ 
ern Railroad, attached to tho Cincinnati express 
train, exploded on the 3d instant, about hair 
way between Nlanticand Haincstown, killing 
the engineer, John Moore, the fireman, and 
Michael Connor, entirely demolishing the loco¬ 
motive and tearing up about one hundred feet 
of track. The train was running about fifteen 
miles an hour at t in; time. The explosion whb 
terrific. The fireman was blown hack over the 
tender and baggage car, and landed about the 
middle of tho second passenger ear, kilted out¬ 
right. Tht engineer was thrown forward about 
ono hundred mid ninety feet, and lived about 
two hours. He could give no explanation of tho 
explosion. The engine was one of the best on 
the road, ami had taken water at Decatur, nine 
miles hack. Connor lived at Logaimport, Indi¬ 
ana, ami Moore at Springfield, Illinois. 
Southern Illinois is suffering seriously from 
drouth; tho wells .and cisterns are fastdryiug 
up. 
Iona. 
The number of pre-emption and homestead 
Claims filed at I he Sioux City Land Office for the 
month of August and the past year was 4,263, 
covering 439,001) acres. Only about 12,000 acres 
remain unclaimed in that district, although 
there are believed to bout least 85,000 acres cov¬ 
ered by bogus papers, which in time will revert 
to the Government, 
Thirty miles oi the Iowa Pacific Railroad, 
from Fort Dodge to Clarion, Wright county, 
Imve been placed under contract. 
About 1,006 acres of flux were sown in the vi¬ 
cinity of Morning Sun, Louisa Co., this spring, 
and are now being harvested. It proves a val¬ 
uable crop. 
The grape crop In Lintt county is immense. 
Michigan. 
The proprietors of the Silver Islet mino it 
Lake Superior have been successful in finding 
upon the main land opposite the island the 
same vein of ore which has proved so nstotilsh- 
ly rich in their present mine. It was discovered, 
as wo are told,at a depth of sixty foot below the 
surface. From Silver Islet, oro to tho value of 
$800,000 lias boon taken in about, ten months, 
and the vein appears to grow richer the deeper 
it is worked. There is no telling what stores of 
mineral wealth arc laid up In the rocks and 
mountainsurottnd Lake Superior. 
California. 
San FRANCISCO, Sept. 2-Ad vices from Tucson, 
Arizona, of Aug. 36. say t he campaign against 
the Apaches, owing, as is alleged, to t he inter¬ 
ference of the Peuco Commissioners, is a total 
failure; hut the campaign of the Apaches 
against the white settlement* is prosecuted with 
successesenoounigitiv to t he savages. San Diego 
Co., is again excfleu iff fresVroports of attacks 
on tho settlement* hy tlu*combined tribes of 
Southern California, and the settlers are form¬ 
ing volunteer forces. 
The brig Hattie Jackson, which hns arrived 
here from the Arctic Ocean, reports saving 
Capt- Bniker, the first, second and fourth mutes, 
cooper, live boat steorers and fifteen sailors of 
the British bark Japan, which was wrecked on 
East Cape in October last. The third mate and 
eight men were lost. ('apt. Barker and the crew 
wintered at Plover Bay. 
RItnuesotn. 
St. Paul, Sept. 5.—A terrific 6torm of wind 
and rain swept over the town of NViudom yes¬ 
terday afternoon. A number of buildings were 
prostrated. Philip Jacobs was blown from a 
train of cars, and received fatal injuries. 
Wed Virginia. 
Wheeling, Sept. 3 .-Tbc Wheeling Iron and 
Nail Company’s Mill, situated at tl»o upper end 
of the city, was totally destroyed by lire this af¬ 
ternoon. The fire originated ill the 8011th olid 
of the works. The building being built entirely 
of wood, and very dry, burnt with great rapidi¬ 
ty. The mill was one of tho largest in the West, 
and contained ninety-six nail machines and all 
| necessary rolls ami furnaces for manuCueluring 
nail plates. In addition to the nail mill, tho 
Company operated a large bar iron department. 
Every tiling was destroyed. Fully 300 men wero 
thrown out ol employment. Loss, $300,00-); in¬ 
surance, $120,000. 
Mississippi. 
Meridian, Sopt. 3. —A square, bounded hy 
Front, Johnson, Rhodes nnd Commerce streets, 
was burned this morning, except tho Savings 
Bank building. The loss is about $100,000; par¬ 
tially insured. The buildings destroyed were 
mostly of wood. 
Solicit Carolina. 
Charleston, Sept. 6.—Five deaths from yel¬ 
low lover have been reported in Charleston in 
the last twenty-four hours. The cool weather is 
having an unfavorable effect mi the sick, hut 
there are hardly any now cases. 
Alabama. 
MONTGOMERY. Sept. 5. -The great industrial 
exposition of the Alabama Agricultural and 
Mechanical Association will open October 31 and 
close November 4, instead of the lime hereto¬ 
fore announced. Twenty thousand dollars is 
offered in prizes for improvements in all depart¬ 
ments of agriculture, mechanic arts, manufac¬ 
tures, eta. Competition open to Alabama and 
tho world, and a cordial invitation is givc-n to 
all classes to participate. Preparations are go¬ 
ing on on a grand scale, and ample accommoda¬ 
tions will ho provided for all exhibitors and vis¬ 
itors. m 
Florida. 
GREAT GALE ALT, ALONG TTTE COAST. 
From the remote Florida papers coherent ac¬ 
counts are at length obtained of the continuous 
and destructive tempests that raged toward 
lho end of August.. The well built seaports like 
Jacksonville escaped with comparatively little 
damage, hut tho exposed coast villages, as well 
as some of the Inland towns, suffered severely. 
In the ('pen country the violence of tho wind 
prostrated corn, cotton and cane-damaged the 
cane irreparably by breaking the stalks or boat¬ 
ing them down to the ground. Cotton is injured 
to au extent that can almost bo called ruinous. 
The blooms and open bolls have been all whip¬ 
ped out, the forms and bolls shed off, the stalks 
ami branches twisted and split, off hy the force 
ol the gusts of wind. The homestead farms 
have also suffered severely from the large num¬ 
bers ot deadened trees left standing In the fields 
and which have been pretty generally laid luw. 
Wherever they fell they destroyed all that were 
in their reach. The Hying branches have swept 
over the rows and inude even greater havoc 
than the trees. It is impossible to estimate the 
damage to the cotton crop even approximately. 
It is estimated that it will range between 56 and 
25 per cent- The dan'age is different in differ¬ 
ent localities and according to the situation of 
llie fields or the maturity of the crops. Corn 
was so nearly made and in some places had ac¬ 
tually been gathered that very little or no dam¬ 
age will result to that. Fences were almost uni¬ 
versally destroyed. What tho wind did not blow 
down were crushed hy failing limbs and trees. 
Chimneys arc prostrated in many instances, 
sotno houses wore blown off from their blocks, 
and wells arc almost everywhere caved in and 
tilled up, and some of them beyond repair. The 
gale was move and more severe southward as 
far as hoard from, and at Tampa it prevailed 
with terrible force. 1 1 is sh id ihe coast lsstrewn 
with the wrecks of vessels, and it is feared that 
there has been also a large loss ot life. 
Severe Gale on Lake Frio. 
Cleveland, O., Bopt. 7.—The severest gnio of 
the season swept over Lake Erie last night. 
Tlic steamer Lady Franklin left here for Fort 
Stanley in the fore part of the night, hul was 
compelled to put hack- The sea was extraordi¬ 
narily high, arid it Is likely several vessels were 
driven ashore at various places. Schooner Rosa 
Stearns of Port Burwell, loaded with coal, was 
driven upon the stone pier about 1 o’clock, A. 
M., and soon went to pieces. As soon Its the 
vessel struck tho crow jumped upon the pier, 
and although the waves washed over lhem they 
saved themselves. The cargo was Shipped by 
Barret & Rhodes of Cleveland, ami was insured 
iu the Commercial Insurance Co. of Chicago. 
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POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. 
The Republican Convention of New York, to 
nominate State officers, is to be held at Syra- 
cubo, Sept. 27th. 
The Democratic State Convention is called to 
meet at Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 4th, to nominate 
candidates for State officers. 
Washburn and Doolittle, the Republican nod 
Democratic candidates for Governor of Wis¬ 
consin, have agreed to have a joint discussion 
of ilie polit ical issues of the day in each Con¬ 
gressional District, 
The Hon. Preston II. Leslie, Governor elect 
ol Kentucky, was inaugurated at Frankfort, 
Sept.stli, with (lie usual ceremonies. 
C. C. Bowen of South Carolina, announces his 
determination to run for the Governorship of 
that. State. He is confident that he will get the 
nomination. 
The Massachusetts Republican State Conven¬ 
tion will meet at Worcester, Sept. 27- 
The Republican Judicial Convention of the 
Seventh District of New York will beheld at 
Canandaigua, Sept. 30. 
The city election in Wilmington, Dei., Sept. 6, 
resulted iu a Republican success. 
Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 6.—The State Conven¬ 
tion of the Anil-Dram-shop party was hold here 
to-day. The following ticket was nominated for 
State officers to he supported hy the Temperance 
men of the State: Sec. of State- C. C. Leigh, 
New York; Controller — Qintbner Howland, 
Reuseedaer; StateTrea.— Simeon Brownell,Wash¬ 
ington ; Attorney-Gen.— Edward Crumuoy, Dut¬ 
chess; Canal Com.- John B. Edwards, Oswego; 
State Eng. and Sur.—C. J. Mills, Fulton; Insp. of 
Stair Printouts —W - Marks, Ontario. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
England. 
London, Sept. 6. -A terrible explosion oc¬ 
curred this morning in a coal-mine near tho 
town of Wigan, in Lancashire. Some fifty per¬ 
sons who were in a seam of i he mine at the lime 
of the catastrophe wore cut off from communi¬ 
cation with the outer world.mid.it is feared, 
have till been suffocated hy foul mr. A party 
sent down to ascertain the condition of the men 
who hud been hurled alive are still in the 
mine, and Imve, it is thought, perished. The 
neighborhood of the disaster is thronged with 
llie relatives and acqiiHinliiiioes ol the supposed 
victims,uml iho scenes aro of tho most heart¬ 
rending description. The details of the Imrrow- 
ing event are a waited with anxiety. The number 
ol the killed L>y the explosion at Wigan issixty- 
ninc. The scenes around the mouth of the mine 
me heartrending. Queen Victoria is still ill, 
and is unable even to attend dtvino service. 
One case of cholera has appeared al Liverpool. 
Eighteen thousand emigrants left (lie Mersey 
for i he United States during the mouth of 
August. 
Ireland. 
Dublin, Sept. 6 .— A monster demonstration in 
favor of Amnesty was held on the 3d. There 
was a vast procession and 100,000 people were 
present at llie meeting in Phoul.v Park. Messrs. 
Smyth, Bull and Nolan spoko. Resolutions de¬ 
manding the release of the Fenians were adopt¬ 
ed. As tlm people were returning several ool- 
lirions took place. Tho police-officers drew their 
staves and tho people used sticks and stones. 
Eventually the mobs dispersed. Many arrests 
were made. One polioo officer was killed. 
France. 
Paris, Sept. 3—The court-martial has pro¬ 
nounced tlie following sentences on tho mem¬ 
bers of the commune brought before it for 
trial; Ferry, Brissy and Lullior are condemned 
to suffer death; Urbuin and Triuquet to im¬ 
prisonment for life at hard labor; Assi, Billio- 
ray. Chmiipy, Bogere, Grousset, Yerdure and 
Ferrat to deportation and confinement in a 
fortress; Jourde and Itastoul to simple deporta¬ 
tion; Courbet to six months’ imprisonment and 
a fine of 500 francs; Clement to three mouths' 
imprisonment; Descamps and Parent nre ac¬ 
quitted. The court-martial of Versailles will 
suspend its sitting for three days, utter which it 
will take up the cases of Cavaliers, Rochefort, 
Rosso! and Maroteau. 
Sept. 5. The trial of the female incendiaries 
was concluded to-day. Four nre sentenced to 
suffer death, one to imprisonment in a fortress, 
and one to ten years’ solitary imprisonment. 
The condemned Communists, with the excep¬ 
tion of Lullier, have appealed from the decision 
of the court-martial to the civil courts. 
Germany. 
Berlin, Sept. 5.—The Prussian Cross Gazette 
says it was decided at Gastein to leave the Ro¬ 
man Question entirely to Italy. 
Large numbers of workingmen of various 
trades have struck work this week in Belgium. 
Their principal demand is for the reduction of 
their hours of labor. 
Strasburo, Sept. 6.-The Emperor of Ger¬ 
many, accompanied by Prince Bismarck, ar¬ 
rived to-night. He was received by i tie Emper¬ 
or of Austria, who was attended by a brilliant 
suite. The sovereigns conversed together for a 
quarter of an hour. A grand banquet was given 
to-night, at which their imperial majesties and 
tho distinguished statesmen of both empires 
were present. 
Amsterdam, Sept. 7.— The steamer Lender, 
from Dantzic for this port, has been lost at sea, 
and so far it is not ascertained that, a single per¬ 
son has survived. Portions ol the wreck Imve 
been picked up. The Leader was u freight and 
passenger =tentner ply ing between tins port and 
Dantzic. The r.umber of persons on hoard is not 
accurately known, hut it is feared tho lossof life 
Is heavy. The officers and crew, nil of whom 
must have perished, numbered about twenty- 
live men. 
The cholera epidemic in Hie Baltic provinces 
of Prussia begins to abate. At. Konigsborg, 
Whore the disease was most virulent, there were 
forty new cases mid twenty-eight deaths nu tho 
4th Inst., and on the 5th only seventeen new 
oases and fifteen deaths. There lias been hut 
one fatal ease at Stettin, and at Dantzig llie 
disease has been pronounced sporadic. The 
anxiety which was felt at Berlin and through¬ 
out Germany is decreasing, and it isconlideully 
hoped Hint the precautions taken, aided by tho 
approach of cold weather, will stay the progress 
ol tho epidemic. 
fill I ii a. 
In the City of Canton rumors liad been indus¬ 
triously circulated that the Europeans intended 
poisoning tho Chinese, causing much exaspera¬ 
tion among the natives; hut measures had been 
taken to promptly crush any uprising of the 
people. Great damage had been done by floods 
in the vicinity of Canton. 
Hong Kong, Sept. 6.—A disastrous typhoon 
visited (his vicinity yesterday. Twelve vessels 
were driven ashore, and much damage done on 
the land. 
Italy. 
Rome, Sept. 6.— Tim following changes in tho 
Italian ministry are officially announced to-day: 
Signor Vineeuy.i enters 11>e Cabinet as Minister 
of Public Works, In place of Signor Gadda, who 
is appointed Prefect of Rome, and will he en¬ 
trusted wilh the details of the transfer of tho 
capital to this city; Signor Rib'Rti is appointed 
tn tlio Ministry of Marino as suooessr to Roar- 
Admiral Acton. 
Cuba. 
Havana, Sept. 6.—Advicos from St. Thomas 
report the following disasters to shipping by the 
hurricane: -The French steamer Iouora and 
American steamer Florida were damaged; also, 
the French hark Hayti, the Danish bark Axics- 
ter, the Gorman bark Heliosu, the English hark 
Jane Lamb, and Hie Danish brigs Grosnury, Das 
Amigos and Lizzie. The tow boat Gov. Perry 
went ashore. The American brig Julia 15 Car¬ 
ney was lost, hut (lie crew wore saved. Tho 
bark Duke of Wellington was losL; crew saved. 
Reports from Antigua state that the English 
vessels the Harriet Douglas and Westward and 
the Italian ship Hero wero lost. 
liny’ll. 
Havana, Sept. 7.—Advices from Hayti to Sep¬ 
tember I say that an English moi'cluiut Vessel 
having been blockaded at Port au Prince hy a 
Spanish man-of-war, tie British Cnnsul-Gonc'rnl 
bus demanded explanations from tho Haytien 
government and damages in $5JKJ0 for I he de¬ 
tention of the ship. Tho Spanish government 
is involved. The Minister bf Foreign Relations 
replied to the English Consul in a diplomatic 
note, in which he was Joined by tho Minister of 
Education, mid at tins point llie matter rested 
at the date of the advices. 
Sunto Domingo. 
The steamer Tyhec, from Santo Domingo, 
brings news Uml almost tho entire business por¬ 
tion of Puerto Plata was destroyed by cunii i- 
gration on the 21st of August. Tim loss is esti¬ 
mated at $800,900, on which there is little or no 
insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. 
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