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FROM WASHINGTON. 
CongreMlonal. 
Some progress has been made in the Senate 
upon the regular calendar ol' bills. In special 
orders little has been really accomplished, the 
Tariff Hill having been advanced only a few 
paragraphs, and the franking Hill having V>een 
staved off. Much discussion has taken place 
upon the House joint resolution to adjourn on 
tlio 4th of July, but without result. The House 
Joint resolution to pay the widow of General 
Rawlins one year’s salary ha* been passed. The 
bill providing for the sale of the reservation and 
trust lands of the Osage Indians has created con¬ 
siderable feeling, Messrs, Ross and Pomeroy 
favoring the sale ol t hose lands to certain rail¬ 
road companies for the nominal price ol twenty 
Cents per acre, and Mr. Morrill exposing tile 
scheme as unjust to the Indians and a breach of 
trust. The hill has been Indefinitely postponed. 
Railroad grants have also occupied sometime 
in the House—those of the Northern Pacific be¬ 
ing most prominent, and another giving 5)40,000 
acres of the public lands to uu Oregon railroad 
company, nearly equaling it. The latter haa 
been finally passed, by a vote of 07 to69. 
The Civil Service Bill has caused eonsdorahlo 
debate in the House, and has been variously 
amended, hut has come to no final action. A 
joint resolution introduced by Mr. Schenck, de¬ 
claring that as the 30IIi of May is the day ap¬ 
pointed and accustomed to be used for the dec¬ 
oration of the graves of soldiers who died in the 
war for the defense of the Union, that day ho 
forever observed as a public holiday by the peo¬ 
ple of the I' lilted States, has been passed without 
a division. 
The House has passed a bill granting Mrs.Lin¬ 
coln a pension of $3,(KK) per year, but the Senate 
Committee have reported adversely upon it, on 
the ground that Mrs. Lincoln Is the widow of a 
civil officer, who died ju civil service, and that 
she is really in no need. 
A bill has been introduced in the Senate pro¬ 
viding for the selection of cadets for the military 
and naval academics by competitive examina¬ 
tion. It passed It will open the cadetships to all 
the smart hoys in Hie oountry. 
A sub-committee of the House Pacific Rail¬ 
road Committee has agreed to recommend a 
Southern Pacific Railroad on I he thirty-second 
parallel, from Ban Diego to Marshal, Texas, and 
to grant the franchise to the Southern Trans¬ 
continental Railway Company. 
iraiNCcllnncouM* 
President Grant and family returned from 
their brief trip northward on Monday of last 
week. 
The reduction of t he public debt for the month 
of April is $11,01)7,793, with a coin balance in the 
'IVeasury, including coin certificates, of $115,- 
5 : 15 , 000 . 
The total expenditure of the Naval Depart¬ 
ment t or the past mouth was only $949,000. This 
includes salaries, repairs to vessels, &e. 
The public debt bus been decreased $17,500,000 
since the first, of March. 
Three hundred thousand amnesty oaths were 
taken under the proclamations of Presidents 
Lincoln and Johnson. They aro on record in 
the State Department, 
Secretary Boutwell has appointed Mr. Savillo 
chid clerk of the Treasury Department, vioe 
West, resigned. 
The President has pardoned John McHenry, 
who was convicted of perjury in the Hatiey- 
Biuckley-Rollins suit In New York, and sen¬ 
tenced to five years iu the penitentiary. 
The I rial of Commander Upshur is substan¬ 
tially concluded, am! it is generally expected 
that, he will be acquitted. 
Gen. Sherman has prohibited the use of violet 
and all the various “colored” inks in olliolal 
correspondence and records throughout the 
army, except carmine or red ink, as generally 
used in indorsement, ruling or in record books. 
The Secretary of flic Treasury has directed 
that the likenesses of the late General Thomas 
and Mr. Burlingame he engraved and inserted 
In the plates of the next new issue of bonds or 
circulating notes to be issued from the Treasury 
Department. 
Red Chief and about, twelve oilier principal 
men of the Sioux Indians, having applied for 
permission to come to Washington to See their 
Great Father, tDo President, iu relation to their 
present condition, a telegram has been sent from 
the War Department to their country granting 
the request and instructing the Indian Agent to 
make the necessary arrangements for bringing 
them hither. 
Gen. Jordan, Into commander in chief of the 
array of the Cuban patriots, is on his way to 
Washington as an accredited agent of the insur¬ 
gents, accompanied by two secretaries. 
An opinion of Hie United states Naval Court, 
convened at Yokohama to investigate the cause 
of the collision he tweet i the Bombay and Oneida, 
has been received by the Navy Department and 
forwarded to Congress. From evidence adduced 
from inspection of known causes and positions 
on the chart, the Court fixes the entire fault of 
this dreadful collision, a total loss to the United 
States of the Oneida, with the destruction of the 
lives of one bund red mid fifteen of her officers 
and crew, on the officers and command of the 
English steamship Bombay. 
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LEGISLATIVE. 
Tnr. Legislature of Connecticut organized on 
the 5th Inst. Tito Senate elected Edward liar- 
land President pro tom., and passed a resolution 
taking from the Lieut.-Govemor the appoint¬ 
ment of the committees. Hon. Lafayette S. 
Foster, latel T . 8. Senator, was elected Speaker 
ol the House. 
The Georgia legislature has adjourned until 
July. Among its latest acts were the recon¬ 
sidering. by tlit House, of the resolution passed 
recently, seating members who were not elected 
under the reconstruction nets; and theadoption 
of resolutions appointing a Joint Committee to 
investigate the finances of the Stale, and order¬ 
ing the Stale Treasurer to pay the warrants 
drawn by the Governor and countersigned by 
the Cor i trol I er-G uncial. 
A lull lias been reported in the Massachusetts 
P 1 ' Assembly to incorporate ilieGruud Lodge of 
Knights of St. Crispin, for the promotion of the 
morals and material interests of its members, 
with leave to hold not over $100,000 iu real estate. 
The Louisiana Legislature repealed the old 
statutes for the punishment of crimes, and en¬ 
acted the laws tiow in force, but made no pro¬ 
vision for the prosecution of persons charged 
with crimes committed prior to April 1, 1870, 
leaving a hiatus through which 135 persons, in¬ 
dicted for various offenses will likely escape un¬ 
punished. 
During the last two hours of the Pennsylvania 
Legislature two hills were passed a minute. 
The Iowa Legislature has passed a bill allowing 
railway passengers $3 a day for unreasonable de¬ 
lay of baggage. 
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NEW YORK STATE. 
Tnn final examination of Ibe accounts of the 
defaulter Bailey has just been concluded by 
Government officers, and It is found that, tho 
defalcation will reach the large sum or $130,000. 
His sureties have already been notified to make 
good the amount. Meantime Bailey is reported 
quietly rusticating in a rural locality iu Ohio. 
The New York Bible Society held its forly- 
sixtli annual meeting in New York City last 
week. The usual report of the Society’s opera¬ 
tions during the post year showed tho number 
Of families visited by the Society’s agents, 48,310; 
number of families found destitute of Bibles, 
7,052; number of families refusing the Scrip- 
lures. 4,181: number of volumes distributed, 
9,3141; number furnished to hotels. 1,131. 
Several of the largest property owners in Now 
York City have organized in earnest opposition 
to the proposed Arcade Railway. On Tuesday 
of last week Gov, Hoffman gave the matter a 
hearing. In tho Senate chamber of the Capitol. 
A. T. Stuart, Judge Hilton and others spoke 
against Hie plan, and Judge J. K. Porter in fa¬ 
vor of it. 
Weston, the pedestrian, has undertaken to 
walk one hundred miles in twenty-two consecu¬ 
tive hours, at the Now York Skating Kink, in 
New York City, the manager of which prom¬ 
ises him $1,500 if he is successful. Tho trial will 
take place nil the 35th Inst. 
A large building in Centre street, New York 
City, occupied by tho Now York Printing Com¬ 
pany, was destroyed by lire last woelc. Loss, 
$ 100 ,wo. 
Tho colored poople of this State announce a 
celebration on the 18th inst., at Poughkeepsie, 
in honor ol tho ratification of the Fifteenth 
Amendment. 
Thirty acres of woodland on tho Fishkill 
Mountains caught fire last week and burned 
several days, illuminating the surrounding coun¬ 
try toy night. 
There was a terrific hall storm at Tarrytown, 
on tho 28th ult.. The hail stones measured five 
inches in circumference. Hundreds of dollars 
worth of glass were destroyed, and cx-Mayor 
Klug'sltuid’s grapery was ruined. 
Cnpt. Blandish of the steamer Ontario, Canan¬ 
daigua lake, has tendered the use of his boat to 
Ihe convention of publishers and editors, to 
meet at Canandaigua in June. 
Two burglars entered a man's house in Wal¬ 
worth, Wayne Co„ last, week, and, presenting 
pistols at tin- head of the proprietor, who was in 
bed, compelled him to point out where his val¬ 
uables were. He was some $3,000 poorer when 
they bad gone. 
Tim Albany and Susquehanna railroad stock¬ 
holders have unanimously ratified the lease of 
(lie road to the Delaware and Hudson Canal 
Company. 
The caisson for the foundation of ilie tower 
of the East River bridge, on tho Brooklyn side, 
was floated into place, near t lie Fulton ferry slip, 
on the 3d inst.., and is now being sunk. 
Charles Smith of Muehius, in u quarrel with 
Ills wife, struck her with an ax, killing her in¬ 
stantly. He made no attornpt hi escape, pleaded 
guilty and whs committed to the county jail. 
The prosecution in the McFarland trial con¬ 
tinued its side ol’ the ease throughout last week, 
many important witnesses being sworn. Most 
of the evidence was to show that McFarland was 
unable to support his wife, and that his personal 
habits were bad. A highly exciting scene took 
place on the adjournment of court one day, 
when Mr. Graham, counsel for the prisoner, 
threatened violence to Judge Davis, but was 
restrained by McFarland himself. 
Work is to be commenced at once on the Hud¬ 
son River State Hospital at Poughkeepsie. It 
will require live years to complete it. 
Lieutenant Commander Cushing, of the navy, 
attempted recently to cowhide C. E. Bishop, edi¬ 
tor of the Journal, at Jamestown, Chautauqua 
county, A Iter a short struggle Hie combatants 
were separated l»y the employes of the office, 
and Cushing whs arrested nod bound over. 
FROM THE WEST. 
A party of Sioux Indians recently appeared 
at the fort of the Hudson Bay Company, at 
While Horse Plains* and made most insolent de¬ 
mands, stating that they were going to kill all 
the Americans in the settlement. Upon being 
furnished supplies they were told that if they 
were going to light Ihe Americans they would 
also have to fight the half breeds. They con¬ 
sented in Retire for the present promising, how¬ 
ever, lo return and accomplish their threats. A 
general Indian war is apprehended bysettlersin 
that region. 
The Indians have iaken possession of several 
of the small forts near Fort Sully, and have made 
prisoners of the garrisons. Geu, Sheridan lias 
again started for the front, and this time will go 
as far as Fort Sully. 
The military authorities wifi conduct the 
threatened Rrule-Sioux war with the utmost 
vigor, and have nearly completed preparations 
for the expected t rouble. The number of avail¬ 
able troops in the Department of Dakota is 
about 4,000. This force is considered able to 
cope with 10,000 Brules, but will be augmented 
if necessary. 
One hundred and thirty-nine mules recently 
captured from a quartermaster’s train on Bluff 
Crock, Kansas, have been recovered by Lieut. 
Harman, of Fort Arbueklc. Ton of the thieves 
were captured. 
A party of three hundred Indians on the 4th 
inst. drove off a herd of stock from near Atlan¬ 
tic City, N. T. Tne hills about that place are 
thronged by Indians. 
Gen. Pope lias arrived at St. Louis and taken 
command of that district. 
Warlike rumors coine from Utah. A private 
circular has boon sent by the Mormon -uthori- 
ties through the Territory, ordering the breth¬ 
ren to assemble at the school-houses for drill. 
Danites are being enrolled, and arming is going 
ou rapidly. 
A fire at Princeton, Til., on the 2d instant, de¬ 
stroyed the National Hotel, and other buildings. 
Loss, $75,000. 
Kelichey’B planing mill, at Dos Moines, Iowa, 
was burned last week. Los*, $90,000. 
The formal opening of tho Southern Pacific 
Rail toad was celebrated on the 3d just,, at Spring- 
field, Mo. 
John n. Morton, aged nineteen years, son of 
II. C. Morton, banker, shot and killed Daniel 
Powers, gambler, at a house of ill-fume in Louis¬ 
ville, Ky., on the 3d inst. 
Cookie &■ Tweed’s planing mill and five dwel¬ 
lings, at Evansville, Ind., were burned last week, 
boss, $40,000. 
A few days ago Col. A. Payne and M. C. Staple- 
ton, t wo inllueutlal citizens of Monticello, Kun., 
after a quarrel over some trivial affair while 
drinking, repaired to a dark room lo settle their 
differences. Payne itHd a knife and Stapleton a 
revolver. The sound of a pistol shot led some 
citizens to burst open the door, when Stapleton 
was found with his throat cut and Payne shot 
through the lungs. Neither was killed, but there 
is Htllo chance of their recovery. 
Capt. W. R. Story, Deputy United States Mar¬ 
shal at Salt Lake City, was shot and instantly 
killed on the 2d Instant, by h desperado named 
Howes, whom he was about to arrest. An armed 
ptwv went in pursuit of the murderer, Overlook 
him near Grunt- villc, and there shot and killed 
lii m, after he had wounded t li roc of hi* ussai In tits. 
They had a remarkable ease of lynch law in 
Helena, Montana, on the 2d inst. A meeting Of 
citizens, called to decide what should be done 
with two prisoners, A. Lccompton mid James 
Wilson, who had been identified by Mr.Lenhart, 
the man they robbed and attempted to murder 
on ihe night Of the 37th of April, was first ad¬ 
dressed by District Judge Si mines, who strongly 
protested against any interference with the civil 
law. declaring that the time for the Vigilance 
Committees had passed, and advising the people 
to disperse, and then by several leading citizens, 
who insisted that it was necessary lo the public 
safety to strike terror lo (lie rest of the band of 
outlaws known to exist In tho community, and 
that immediate nml decisive action should be 
taken in tho present ease. A committee of 
twenty four persons wits I lien appointed lo try 
(heCase; the prisoners confessed teat the rob¬ 
bery and murder of Mr. Lon hurt was deliber¬ 
ately planned by them; and, in accordance of a 
verdict of “guilty," they were duly hanged in l lie 
presence of 3,000 persons. Tho whole affair was 
conducted in a quiet but determined manner. 
The Kansas Pacific Railroad Is completed to 
Kit Carson's, eighty-l’our miles west of Sheri¬ 
dan, and four hundred and eiglity-sovon miles 
from Kansas City, and will be pushed rapidly to 
Denver, which point it will reach early iu the 
fail. 
Gov. Campbell disapproves of the starting of 
an expedition to explore Hie hinds reserved by 
the Government, for tho use of the Indians, as 
opposed to the Indian policy of the Aduiiuistra- 
tiOTi and a violation of our obligations. 
Five thousand bushels of oat* were sold iu Chi¬ 
cago on the 33<! ult..*deliverable on receipt ol' in¬ 
telligence that the Fenian army had occupied 
Hie lied lliver Territory. 
The excitement about tho new silver mines in 
New Mexico i* spreading throughout IheTerri- 
tory ojyAi'l* ■mi. Ovo* three hundred men liad 
gone to the mines, 
A colored woman of Lawrence, Kansas, re¬ 
cently sulTocated her infant by holding a lighted 
match to its nostrils. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
Richmond lias of late worn a sad appearance, 
ihe whole city seeming in mourning on account 
of the direful calamity at the Capitol. Over 
sixty deaths have resulted thus far; and funeral 
followed upon funeral so rapidly for the first 
lew days after the accident that it was difficult 
to secure the necessary carriages. In accord¬ 
ance with a proclamation by Gov. Walker, Wed¬ 
nesday, the 4th Inst., was observed as a day of 
humiliation and prayer, 
A large building known ns Woodside Hall, at 
Woodside, near Louisville, was burned on the 
28th ult. Loss $30,000. 
A kerosene him p explosion at Anderson, Texas, 
recently, killed a German woman outright and 
fatally burned two men who attempted to res¬ 
cue her. 
The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia has 
decided that Henry It. Ellison is the lawful 
Mayor of Richmond. 
Gen. Terry lies virtually suspended tho writ of 
habcm carpus in Georgia, and is trying citizens 
before u military commission. 
The General Conference of the Methodist, 
Church Souili was In session in Memphis last 
week. 
Tho Democracy or West Virginia have called 
a Slate Convention, to meet, at Charlestown, on 
the 8th day of June nexi, to nominate candidates 
for Governor and other State officers. 
Arrangements have been completed in Rich¬ 
mond for distributing all funds sent there in aid 
ol sufferers by the late disaster. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND 
Gov. Enoi.isu of Connecticut was inaugurated 
in New liaven on the 4th inst., with great dis¬ 
play. A procession of several miles in length 
paraded through the city, and the ceremonies 
wore said to have been the finest ever witnessed 
there. 
The vault of the Lime Rock Bank of Portland, 
Me., was robbed on the night of the Od inst., of 
$20,000. The burglars entered the next house, 
broke through a brick wall, and blew the door 
off Hie safe. Charles H. Brooks and John Ste¬ 
vens, “professionals" from New York wore the 
chief depredators, and were arrested twenty- 
four hours later in the woods nearby, with al¬ 
most all the stolen properly in their possession. 
They were betrayed by Keyser, tho ex-police¬ 
man and their accomplice in the robbery. 
Five wholesale liquor establishments were 
cleaned out by tDo State constables at Worees- 
ter a few days since. Over 3,000gallons of liquor 
and 1,200 gallons of ale were seized. 
The Third Army Corps Association held its an¬ 
nual re-union In Boston on the 5th inst. 
A severe conflagration occurred in Boston on 
the 301 Ii ult., originating on tho corner of Canal' 
and Traverse streets. Altogether about thirty 
buildings were destroyed, mostly of wood and of 
small value. Friend street court, and Harmony 
court, with the tenement houses therein, were 
completely burned out, rendering more than 
one hundred families homeless. 
The Republican State Convention of Maine is 
to be held in Augusta on Wednesday, the loth 
of June. No person is to represent any town in 
the Convention of which he is not a resident. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Riki., the Winnepeg leader, it is said, lias en¬ 
tered into arrangements with the Hudson Bay 
Company, by which lie agrees to allow ii to re¬ 
occupy so much of the Fort as is not needed for 
headquarters and garrison purposes, in which to 
resume its mercantile pursuits. The company, 
on ils part, is to recognize tho legality of the 
provisional government* advance the Riel gov¬ 
ernment thirty thousand pounds as a loan, and 
make other concessions. 
Military stores and volunteers nre arriving at. 
Toronto, preparatory to the advance of the ex¬ 
pedition to the Red River. The men are drilled 
vigorously, and the stores are pushed forward to 
Oollingwoud and Fort William. 
Tho now Minister from San Domingo, Mr. 
Fallen, ha* arrived at Washington with tho 
official return* of the recent vote ou the annex¬ 
ation quest ion. They show that 15,119 signatures 
were given for annexation to only DO against. 
Mr. l'niien .dates that the only material opposi¬ 
tion to annexation was on the Haytien frontier, 
where guerilla raids were instigated by the 
British and Spanish Consuls, who made desper¬ 
ate eff ort* to defeat the project. 
Recruiting for the Navy, which has been sus¬ 
pended for some time past at tho Brooklyn Navy 
Yard, is resumed, orders having been received 
from Washington tore-open the rendezvous on 
board the recruiting ship Vermont,. Several 
vessel* now in the yard aro being hurriedly fit¬ 
ted up for active service. 
The news of the defeat and death of ex-P res¬ 
ilient Lopez of Paraguay, is fully confirmed, 
flic Brazilian General Camara, who commanded 
in the final attack on Lopez, lias sent t hree dis¬ 
patches to Rio dc Janeiro with particulars of 
the action. Lopez was wounded, and, refusing to 
surrender, was at once dispatched. One of his 
sons was aiso killed. Notwithstanding the fall 
of Lopez, it does not appear that opposition to 
Brazilian domination is entirely crushed out. 
General Caballero is still in the field, and may 
give the Brazilians as much trouble, before lie 
is caught, as his plucky master. 
Mexico, up to last advices, was enjoying ils 
Usual disquiet. Angel San (a Anna, son of the 
ox Dictator, was at Puebla, and will be tried 
there with other political prisoners. A detach¬ 
ment of troops convoying $5,000 from San Luis 
Potosl for Gen. Rocha’s command, hud revolted 
on the road, killed their officer and decamped 
with the treasure. President Juarez ha* sent a 
Commissioner to Tepee to induce Gen. Lozada 
to give up the $000,000 belonging to the national 
treasury and seized by him. The rebel chiefs 
Dominguez and Franco had boon executed at 
Pneliucti. 
The stockholders of the Mercantile Library 
Association of Philadelphia have determined, 
by a majority of 301 votes, that tho library shall 
be opened on Sunday. 
Dundee vessels returning from tho far North, 
report Halt an unknown steamer is fast in the 
ice off tho coast of Greenland. Vessels have 
been dispatched to its relief. 
Caracas is surrounded by tho Venezuelan in¬ 
surgents, and au attack was expected at the last 
dates. 
A largo fire in Jersey City recently destroyed 
car works and machine shops in Steuben street, 
to the amount of $150,000. 
The raid on Canada by tho Fenians has been 
postponed for the present iu consequence of in¬ 
formation received by the leaders that our Gov¬ 
ernment is taking measures to prevent, their 
crossing Hie border. 
The steamship Germany ran into the steam¬ 
ship City of Quebec, off Green Island, near Que¬ 
bec, last week. Tile latter steamer sunk in deep 
water half au hour afterwards. The third en¬ 
gineer and a passenger were lost. 
Pappalepon, tho Italian Consul at Buenos 
Ayres, has been assassinated there. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
The excitement In France increases, iptensi- 
fled by developments of a conspiracy against the 
life Of the Emperor. An exposure of the plot 
of assassination has been made by Minister Olli- 
vier, which shows the existence of a revolu¬ 
tionary party having for its object, the establish¬ 
ment of-a democratic and social republic. Its 
weapons are misrepresentation, systematic out¬ 
rage, calumny, eineut.es, and assassinations. 
Gustave Flourciis, now in Loudon, Valin, Presi¬ 
dent of the International Association of Work¬ 
ingmen, and several radical Leaders, are Implica¬ 
ted. The plot was concocted in February, and 
the original design was to kill tho Emperor with 
nitroglycerine. The attempt was to have boon 
made following the arrest of Rochefort, but 
failed from various Onuses. Some of tho details 
ol the conspiracy are from the confession of 
Beamy, and Hie rest from tho capture of im¬ 
portant documents ami discovery ol' bomba and 
infernal machines. Letters from FJourens, 
proving iris guilt, were found on the person of 
M. Ballot, one of the conspirator*. Orders have 
been issued to the police to arrest all public 
speakers who insult the Imperial family. 'The 
political agitation throughout tho empire is at 
its height* and at nearly allot the public meet¬ 
ings cries of “ W« la IteinibUque” arc beard. 
A lust, address to tho electors of Franco has 
been issued by the committee in favor of the 
PklmcUuin. They appeal to the people to ex¬ 
tinguish the irreconcilable minority which lias 
rozoiLcd to “conspiracy, bombs, and infernal 
machines." 
It Is reported that the Spanish Government, 
deferring lo the petitions received from tin- An¬ 
tilles, lias suspended action on the new Consti¬ 
tution for Porto Rico, and will nut consider any 
proposition for the sale of Cuba. Serrauo lias 
resigned th® Spanish Regency. The Cuban v ic¬ 
tory reported from Washington is denied in 
Madrid. 
A rebellion lias broken out among the Khir- 
gese tribes on the shores of the Caspian Sea. 
The arch of flic new Metropolitan Railway, 
under the northern end of Bioekfriars Bridge, 
London, gave way last week, and twelve men 
were buried in Hie ruins. All were taken out 
alive, but seven were badly, if not fatally, in¬ 
jured. 
A serious outbreak lias occurred among the 
native tribe of Thackoorg, ut Nowar, two hun¬ 
dred miles southwest of Delhi. Two thousand 
of the tribe rebelled against the chief and his 
followers, and terrible massacres have taken 
place. Troops have been ordered to the scene. 
Tho Pacha’s palace at Ramleli, near Alexan¬ 
dria, was burned to the ground on the 29th ult. 
The loss is very heavy. 
A fire at Hull on the 3d inst. destroyed much 
lumber and shipping. Loss, $100,000. 
There is a project on foot for an international 
exhibition to be held at Vienna in 1872. 
The Sultan of Turkey promises important to- 
’forms—changes in the educational, civil, com¬ 
mercial, military and naval systems of the Em¬ 
pire. 
A committee of the House of Commons 1ms 
sanctioned a project for throwing a railway 
bridge over the Firth of Tay, at an estimated 
cost of £350,000. Tho bridgo will he two tuile 3 
long. 
The Pope has urged that the discussion on the 
infallibility question be closed before Ascension 
Day. Tho committoo on that subject in Hie 
Ecumenical Council has promised to present a 
revised xchrtna immediately. 
Dispatches from Washington to the Danish 
Government, explaining tin* reason of the delay 
in Hie ratification of the treaty for the purchase 
of St. Thomas, are short ly to lie submitted to 
the Lower House or the Danish Parliament. 
The British Government offers a free passage 
in transports, which are about lo sail for Cana¬ 
da, to all dock-yard laborers who have recently 
been dise.hurged. add who may wish to emigrate. 
Woman suffrage lm* made progress in the 
British House of Commons. Mr. Jacob Bright, 
In presenting a petition with 100,090 signatures 
favoring suffrage for women, moved Hie second 
reading of tin* bill removing t lm disabilities of 
the sex in regard to voting. An animated de¬ 
bate ensued, followed by a division of the House 
on the previous question, and amid Intense en¬ 
thusiasm the hill passed its second reading, Mr. 
Gladstone declares the important principle* of 
Hie Irish Land Bill already set tied. The bill per¬ 
mitting marriages wit h a deceased wife’s sister, 
which passed ill committee several nights ago, 
has passed the House by tho same vote. 
Ireland coni 'nines to be insurrectionary, and. 
in accordance with the provisions of the Force 
law, several districts have been proclaimed. 
Among tho recent deaths in Franco is (hat of 
M. Alexandre Thomas Mario, Minister of Public 
Works and President of the Assembly under the 
French provisional government of 18.18. 
Tho Pope, after allowing the custom to lapse 
for two years, hu* awarded the Golden Rose to 
the. Empress of Austria. 
Serious riots are reported at Ovnr in Portugal, 
at which several persons wore killed. 
-- 
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a washing day than provide her a Doty Washer 
and a Universal Wringer. It will keep aches 
from her back and arm*, wrinkles from her 
forehead and roughness from her hands. It will 
do the Work of a hired woman and save your 
linen from being scrubbed out and her temper 
from being eiiafeil out. — New York WaUln 
Tribune , March 22d, 1870. 
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best improved minds throughout the Union. Toitny 
funner the HI uai. must prove Invaluable, a- ■> 
source of information regarding hi* pursuit. At ihe 
same time. It n< .» mo*L welcome visitor to the family, 
as its MlBcelhinoon* and Domestic Department* • - 
brace tho choicest original .out solecbed articles. Iu 
a word, wo know of no paper combining ratin’, of tho 
qualities of ii ilrst-etass Family nnd Agricultural 
Journal than tho Nr.w-YonKEtt. Jf I* printed In ml- 
mirable style pn first-class paper, and contains six¬ 
teen largo pages weekly.— CiuchiiUit l Postal DalhUu. 
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PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, May C, 1*70. 
The receipts of Hicprinoiptil kinds of produce since 
our last embrace 14.U..S boles cotton. 17,2111 bills, it >ur. 
499 bids, corn meal. 3,125 bags do,, 207,113 bush, wheat. 
02.500 do. corn, **.*►, do. oats, 2,0(10 do. rye, 9.9.7 nl*. 
barley, 532 do. gra.--. seed, 852 do. beans. 7.V- Mill. 
pork, 528 pkg*. beef, 1.210 do. cut meats, li.Yi tea. laid, 
ft,HIM pligs. butter, 15 4.2 i boxes ehee.se. 12,097 bills, eggs. 
5,391 bids, whisky, 1,(511 bales hups. 
ItcmiM mid - Marrow* show the only 
change in favor of -sellers, nnd Hits Blight improve¬ 
ment Is only occasioned by a small speculative led 
lug in itiem. Medium and other grade- are nt 
changed, with only best description* moving. 'I 
planting season being over, there I* no cull forgrpri 
or marrowfat, and holder- are willing to sell bee" 
cost. There has heenun attempt to center Hie Uteri 
ol Southern U. K. in a few hands, and Bale* are it- 
ported at $4. 
Beans-Kidney. V hush.. *2.40®2.5U : pen, l*« I"" 
$1.80.<■ 2.'HI; inOdiuui. hand picked. $1.00* !.b>: g. 
to prime. * 1.50 " I .ID: common 10 fair, if he1.40:. mnf- 
row»,hand picked, r'-Mo<.',2.50; good to prime,82,35'‘ tut 
common to fair, * I dala.2.25; l.ium, if*i.50i*7. I’c.a* 
Canada, bund, 950 ft; free, In bids.. 41.10&1.15: K'vc'i 
frl.C'id.I.'O ; marrowfat, $ 1.25>>1.50; black-eye, Soutie 
urn. 2 bushel bug, t te 1.25. 
liCbHWii x —Very quiet at 35*370. 
Bi'nnin Coi n. -Unsalable, with u lower r:n: • 
We quote common, lie.: mixed, !2*He.; green. 
16e.. t he latter extreme for best. Krooms are mi; '• : 
at $2.26*3for common. $3.50*460 for good, and 8' 1 
for prime hurl. Shaker brooms. $3.75", 1.50. 
Butter.—As the grocery and retail markets arc 
our only outlet* for this item, " moving week '’ut- 
tails the distribution to a noticeable, extent, am- 
dealers are compelled to quote easy price* W 
an accumuinlion. The receipt'., .lowevor, o’oma 
abundant am not excessive, being largely below 
time last veto and old butte* i- now of no miter 
tance in quantity. It Is bent fur inUglor parte - ’• 
not hold early make at rtslrn live prices, as 
will soon bein vQguhiesiippIy. and white and 
lots will then have to take a buck -.cut.. Good K-* 
butler is already arriving from the West, some c - 
ing from be vend Ohio. The following i- tke redu" 
rouge -81 ale, new. line half tubs. W«3#C.; Vi c i. 
go :fic.;coram >n. 2-,; country pad*,<*> 
Orange Uo. pails, ,'lV 'iile.; Ohio, new, 2a 'J0e., ow, 
good.j listen.: common to fair, Mw ltie. 
Cheese. —Since our 
vance i f : 1 lie quuu.„■*■,. ,,.. - ■ 
creates some excitement among shipper*, ami m - 
has been il sort, of a race between them as to'' 1 ; 
should send om, what muld be obtained of old t- 
torv. aud in the contest 17c. ha* been paid tor fctra ; 
lots of choice, and 16 ,c. for good round parcels. I n‘_ 
advance abroad is not of U»e to dealers he' 1 • 1 
eepting those who have sent stock, abroad on t 
own account. some invoice* of winch have *•• • 
tho improved market. New factory imi’ f be cm 
U Vactory?Stato. fancy, V n..,p;\v?l7e.; cood t «: 
17lottocoujiin.ui ti» fui!% id’d'lbu.i I’anu 
mi//., u*.‘ on. noiniiion to medium, lll;«cl5c.« 
pu<'i 
ir lost t he cable reports an ml- 
inllon now being Ws. 
factory, good,IlSiaiCe.; skim, medium, 8wl3c.; P 1 ’ 1 
5&7c ; Connecticut English Dairy,good, 10". 17c.; emu 
mon to medium, 10(k-15o.; l'meappie, 2fy25c. 
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