under the command of Captains Asa w estover 
and Peter Smith, of St. Armand, and afterwards 
of Col. Chamberlain of the British army. 
Donnelly took entire command of the Fenian 
force, after O'Neill’s arrest, nnd hold a cluster of 
houses in the hollow on the lines. Firing upon 
the Canadians was resumed at 4:30 o'clock on 
Wednesday afternoon. The Sixtieth Keglment 
Volunteers, under Col. Chamberlain, and the In¬ 
dependent Corps returned the lire. About 6 o'¬ 
clock In the evening Col. Smith, with the volun¬ 
teers, attacked them, drove them from their 
cover among the houses, and routed them com¬ 
pletely, the Fenians losing live or six killed and 
a good many wounded, Gen. Donnelly being 
among the latter. No volunteers were hurt. 
During the night the Fenians retreated in great 
disorder to the camp at Hubbard's Corners, four 
' miles distant, and afterwards fell back upon St. 
Albans. 
Great excitement prevails all along the lines. 
Fenians are concentrating in large numbers at 
Malone, and a movement upon Huntington, 
Trout Hirer, eleven miles north of Malone, and 
on the boundary line. Is the chief rendezvous, 
and General Gleason of Virginia la In command 
there. Many wagons, loaded with supplies, 
arms,*«..are moving in that direction; and a 
regiment of British troops was at lost accounts 
moving from Montreal to Huntington by forced 
marches. 
The Fenians have gained a foothold at Island 
Pond, Vl. They have torn up the Grand Trunk 
Railway there, and prohibit all communication. 
Various companies of United States Regulars 
have arrived on the frontier, to preserve the 
neutrality laws. They were sent from the forts 
in Boston Harbor, from Poughkeepsie, Trom 
Newport, from Oswego, and elsewhere. Gen¬ 
erals Meade and McDowell have also visited (he 
scene of action In person, and will take 
Col. Crosby, of Gen. Sheridan’s staff lately ar¬ 
rived at Fort Hayes from the Indian Territory, 
and reports that the Northern Indians had sent 
runners south to ask t he Cheyennes, Arapahoes, 
Kiowas and Camanches to join In a general war. 
The Indians are planting butllttleeorn thisyeax. 
The capital was captured on the 27th ult. by 
Gen. Guzman Blanco, after two days’ hard fight¬ 
ing. The city was badly damaged by artillery, 
and 300 men were slain. After the capitulation 
a new government, with Gen. Blanco at its head 
it dent, was installed, and mot 
i President 
Knightly times. They crowned a “ Queen of 
Love and Beauty " on the last day. 
On Hie 21st ult. the office of the Pleasant Val¬ 
ley Wine Company, at. Hammondsport, Steuben 
Co., was entered by burglars, who blew open the 
safe with gunpowder, and robbed it of the Paris 
Exposition and four other medals. The burglars 
obtained but a small amount of money. 
The town of Ellicottville has voted $000,000 
and the right of way to the Rochester and Pitts¬ 
burg Railroad. Maehias and Little Valley have 
each voted $300,000 and the right of way for the 
same purpose. 
About il o'clock on the night, of the 24th ult., 
a man, supposed to be George Livingston, was 
murdered on the Utica street bridge, in Oswego, 
and his body thrown into the river, Hts pocket- 
book was found on the bridge, and from papers 
therein contained, it appears that the murdered 
man had seduced a young woman in New York, 
and was the victim of her avenger. A dirk kn tfe 
used in the affray was also found on the bridge. 
The cries of the murdered man wore heard by 
several persons. The body has not been re¬ 
covered. 
The Spur (men's State Convention was in ses¬ 
sion at Rochester last week. S. P. Goulding 
took (lie first prize iu pistol shooting, and J. W. 
StobblnB the second. At the trap shot, William 
as Provisional Prcsi 
with no further opposition. Whet. . __ 
Monagus hoard or thofallof (he capital besought 
the agents of President Blanco, nnd surrendered 
with the remnant of his army. He was released 
on parole. His reign has lusted about two years. 
One of tlic first acts of tbe new Government was 
to abolish the duties on exports, and reduce 
those on imports seventy percent. The death of 
an old Venezuelan chieftain is announced in the 
same dispatches that bring ua the news of Blan¬ 
co’s triumph. General Juan E. Falcon, who was 
President in 1S6S atid 1365, and who tuts been in 
exile since the accession of Monttgos, died at Mar¬ 
tinique, on his way home from Europe. 
Sir Charles Bright, has arrived at St. Thomas, to 
make arrangements for the landing there of the 
West India cable. Tho work of constructing the 
cable through Porto Rico is going on without in¬ 
terruption. 
The Captain-General of Cuba has proclaimed 
the freedom of all slaves belonging to the insur¬ 
gents, in the field or in foreign countries, who 
have taken up arms or served as guides to Span¬ 
ish 1 roops, or otherwise served t he Spanish cause. 
FROM WASHINGTON. 
FROM THE SOUTH, 
Congressional. 
Tm: Senate continued its session on tho night 
of the 20th ult. until 7 o’clock next morning, the 
bill to enforce tho Fifteenth Amendment being 
the exciting measure under discussion. It was 
finally passed, though very materially amended, 
by a vote of 43 to R. 
The House adjournment resolution has been 
amended and passed by tbe Senate, the date of 
adjournment, being fixed at July 15. 
In further debate upon f/egislnt.ive and Execu¬ 
tive Appropriation Bills, the Senate has adopted 
an amendment authorizing the heads of Depart¬ 
ments to appoint, women as clerks to any of the 
classes of clerkships In the Departments, by a 
vote of 29 to Jl. 
The Senate has given much attention to tho 
bill for the sale of t he Osago Indian Reservation; 
and the House has discussed Mr. Lynch’s bill to 
revive American navigation, the latter being 
amended in many particulars, but failing of 
votes enough to put it. on its passage. 
An animated debate was hud in the nouso on 
the 24!h ult., on the foreign policy of the Admin¬ 
istration, in which that policy was bitterly de¬ 
nounced by several mem tiers. Mr. Voorhees 
characterized ilio head of tlio State Department 
as a dead man, and Mr. Cox said the Administra¬ 
tion had run its foreign policy in the interests of 
land jobbers,,San Domingo jobbers, railroad Job¬ 
bers, steamboat jobbers, and jobbery in general. 
Mr. Banks said that the Committee on Foreign 
Relations were ready to bring to tho notice of 
the House the outrages committed by the Span¬ 
iards in Cuba on American citizens. 
Petitions have been introduced in the House 
asking OOngrcssto abolish the national banks; 
to pay off the bonds as deposited by them as se¬ 
curity ; and in issue $500,000,000 as treasury 
greenback notes. 
The House has decided the Louisiana contested 
election case of Newshaiu (Rep.) vs. Ilyau (Item.) 
in favor of the former. 
Among the amendments to one of the Appro¬ 
priation bills adopted by the Senate is one giv¬ 
ing the President authority to send an expedi¬ 
tion to the North Pole, and appropriating $l(K>,- 
(0) to meet the expenses. 
The House tigs passed a bill extending to tho 
navy the provisions of the act which confers tho 
right, of naturalization to aliens, honorably dis¬ 
charged from tho army. Bills to detect and 
punish election frauds, reducing the rates of 
duty on foreign Imports, and to incorporate all 
international society for the protection of im¬ 
migration have been introduced: also a resolu¬ 
tion appropriating $1,000,000 to reimburse New 
York city for war expenses in 180L 
The House has passed tho hill appropriating 
$190,000 from the Japanese indemnity fund for 
the compensation of tho officers and inen of tho 
Kearsago for the destruction of the Alabama. 
The amount already received for bounties is to 
bo deducted. A similar bill reported appropriut- 
^State Senator Stephens was murdered at 
V anceyville, N. C.« on the 21st ult., by some per¬ 
son or persons unknown. The citizens of Yan¬ 
cey ville, irrespective of party, held a meeting 
on the 32d ult., denouncing the outrage. 
The election in Richmond, Va., on the 26th 
ult., resulted in the success of EUy.son for Mayor, 
and the whole Conservative city ticket. The 
Conservatives also carried the city of Norfolk. 
The General Conference of the Methodist 
F.piscopal Church, at Memphis,after tmnsactihg 
a large amount of business of no general im¬ 
portance, adjourned Mac cite on the26th ult. 
After three days' ballottfng, the Tennessee 
Legislature, on the 21st ult., elected Thomas H. 
Butler Secretary of State. 
The General Assembly in season at Louisville 
last week, considered a seheme for a great Pres¬ 
byterian university. Rev. Dr. Lyon, of Missis¬ 
sippi, made a speech in favor of it, after which 
the subject was referred to a committee. 
at Puerto Principe, and meantime further Span¬ 
ish successes are reported from Havana. A large 
number or insurgents, including “two citizens 
or die United States,” have been killed. A 
nephew of the Regent Serrano is among the se¬ 
verely wounded on the Spanish side. 
Peace at last exists in lla.yt i. Tho Piquets arc 
dispersed, and no Insurgents remain in the field 
against Suget. 
Reports from the interior of San Domingo 
show the rapid progress of Cabral’s insurrection 
against. Baez, and consequently the dissolving 
prospects of Grant's scheme to get possession of 
the island. 
The Sublime Porte has authorized tho estab¬ 
lishment of a large Jewish model farm near 
Jaffa, and has made a grant of a large portion 
of the crown hind, permanently exempt from 
tithes, in favor of the enterprise, which will be 
under tho control of the*' Israelite Universal 
Alliance." 
An important discovery of an old stone is re¬ 
ported to have been lately made at Jerusalem. 
It la aaid to bear the figure of a god sitting on a 
ihrone with priests on both sides, and a Huny- 
aritrill Inscription two lines in length. It js said 
to have been brought from Yemen. 
The suburb ol St. Roche, Quebec, was again 
devastated by a terrible conflagration last week, 
which destroyed over b!.\ hundred houses, nnd 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Paris had a grand illumination on the even¬ 
ing of the 21st ult. The principal streets were 
t hrongod with people, but no disorders occurred. 
The publishers of the Sieck, J tevcU, Rappel, and 
Avenir National have been condemned to im¬ 
prisonment for one month and a fine of 1,000 
francs for the publication of a spurious procla¬ 
mation over tbe signature of Louts Napoleon. 
There was ft sudden and decisive revolution In 
Portugal on the 19th ult. The Duke of Haldan- 
ha. at tilt* head of a large body of troops iti Lis¬ 
bon, attacked tbe Castle of St. George and cap¬ 
tured It, nnd afterward marched on the Royal 
Palace, whore ho encountered troops and artil¬ 
lery in position. After tiring a few shots the 
soldiers broke ranks and fraternized. The sol¬ 
diers, volunteers and citizens then poured into 
the unguarded palace, waving the popular flag 
and shouting:—* 1 Long live the King!" “Long 
live the army and Saldanlui I” The Prime Min- 
vigorous 
measures to see t hat the President's Proclama- 
m a tie n is fully obeyed. 
An advance of the Fenians upon the North¬ 
western border is talked of, Winnipeg being the 
objective point. It Is reported that a l’orco is 
concentrating iu that vicinity, and that they 
will be aided by a band of Indians. 
FROM THE WEST, 
FrjitTitiiii particulars of the tire at Winona, 
III., on the 18th ult,, show that it was more de¬ 
structive t han at first reported. Almost the en¬ 
tire business portionof the town was burned. In¬ 
cluding a large block of wooden buildings occu¬ 
pied by dealers in dry goods, shoes, groceries, 
drugs, jewelry, Ac., the steam elevator owned 
by Buckingham Bros., of Chicago, Central rail¬ 
way freight depot house, telegraph and express 
offices. Loss $140,000. 
The wurehouse of Freeman & Crumb’s lubri¬ 
cating oil works in Cleveland was destroyed by 
fire mi ihe 19th ult. The lose Is estimated at 
$40,000; covered by insurance. 
The party of hostile Sioux, who were in large 
force, threatening the Government officials at 
the Cheyenne agency, opposite Fort Sully, Ims 
disappeared. Major Randall, who is in charge 
of the agency, is commended for his foriU ndo 
in the face of a large baud of savage warriors. 
Gon. Forsythe is In close pursuit of the In- 
diaus who recent ly attacked the working par¬ 
ties on the Kausr,.. Pacific Railroad. Advices re- 
oeived at Chfcagf^Woni the workmen at George¬ 
town, Colorado, ale to tin? effect that unless 
arms are furnished to them immediately for 
protection against the Indians, the Railroad 
Company becoming responsible for them, that 
t hey will quit work, seize a train, and come East. 
Tbe Northwestern Female Suffrage Conven¬ 
tion assembled in Chicago last week. The at¬ 
tendance was not large. Among those present 
were Miss Anihony, Miss Cousins, Miss Peek- 
ham, Mrs. Ballou, Mrs. Dr. Spaulding, Mrs. Case, 
Mrs. Fowler, and others. Dr. 8. C. Blake ot Chi¬ 
cago was made temporary chairman, end Mrs. 
Mott Invoked the Divine blessing. The session 
was devoted to speeches. 
The Missouri Republican of St. Louis has suf¬ 
fered by a disastrous fire to the extent of $160,- 
000. By the same lire several other papers and 
some warehouses were Injured, but not to the 
same extent. 
The French transport Euryale is overdue fifty 
days at 8au Francisco, from Tahiti, nnd it is 
feared she is lost. 
A late dispatch from La Crosse, Wis., says the 
total loss by the late fire there will amount to 
over half a million dollars, including tho bag¬ 
gage of passengers on the boat 
FROM NEW ENGLAND, 
luces, ana u is leared the trouble tenol yet over. 
it Is announced in Madrid that Espartero has 
reconsidered Ins resolution,nnd now consents to 
accept tho crown or Spain. The excitement at¬ 
tending the unsettled stale of the Government 
is meanwhile unabated. The British fleet has 
left Corunna for Lisbon. Tho successful mili¬ 
tary rising at Lisbon lias created ti profound sou- 
sution at the Spanish capital. 
■A* Uxbridge, a few miles from London, On tho 
night of the 23d ult., a whole family was butch¬ 
ered. The victims were the father, mother, sis¬ 
ter-in-law, nnd two children. The Blafer-tn-luw 
was l.o have been married next day, and it is sus¬ 
pected that the murder was prompted in some 
way by this circumstance. The police arc on 
the track of a rejected lover, who has suddenly 
disappeared. 
Notwithstanding the frequent announcements 
by the Dalian Government of tbe suppression of 
theEepubllcnn insurrection in Southern Naples, 
it is evident that the trouble is assuming grave 
proportions. Garibaldi’s sons are known to bo 
with the insurgents, and throe Italian frigates 
are cruising around tho island of Caprera to pre¬ 
vent the escape of Geu. Garibaldi to Naples. 
A national movement hits been begun iu Ice¬ 
land, having for its object the severance of po- 
At the business meetings tho reports 
ible, and arrangements made for a 
fair in aid of the object of t he Society. 
A fire in Northampton, Mass., a few days ago, 
destroyed property worth $50,000. 
A knitting mill In Bennington, Vt., was de¬ 
stroyed last week, causing a loss estimated at 
$25,000. 
Gardner Brown, a pupil in tho Dover, N. H., 
High School, aged fifteen years, was killed In 
that city on tho 30th ult., while playing base ball, 
by the ball striking him in the head. 
A vat. of benzine exploded in Reed’s glove 
establishment, Charlestown, on the 20th ult., 
destroying the building and adjoining dwelling. 
Loss, $15,000. 
John Hopkins, of Granltevllle, in gettlug 
aboard of the northern train at Chelmsford, 
Mass., the other day, fell under the cars. Both 
of his legs were crushed, and it was found neces¬ 
sary to amputate one of them. 
Tho bill to annex Brighton to Boston has passed 
to a third reading in tho Massachusetts Senate. 
A fire in Chelsea a few nights since, destroyed 
two wooden buildings, occupied by Jas, L. Cross 
Tor manufacturing ammonia, and J. W. Stick- 
ney, for oil nnd varnishes. Loss, $12,000. 
A forty-four pound codfish was caught In Nttr- 
raganseli Bay last week. 
Thu Massachusetts Bible Society held its sixty- 
first annual business meeting in Boston last 
week, and re-elected its former officers. Forty- 
one thousand copies of the Bible were distribut¬ 
ed during the year by this organization. 
At last accounts a serious conflagration was 
devastating the timber lands between Calais, Mo., 
nnd HI. Joints River, causing a great destruction 
of property. 
The Edwards church and the Hants building 
at Northampton, Mass., were totally destroyed 
by flro on the 19th ult. Loss, about $50,000. 
The mi in her of 
lives lost, as the truth Is known, will exceed fifty 
men, women and children. 'Thu three persons 
reported ns lost were only those known In iat 
Crosse, The boat was crowded with first, and 
second-class passengers. A large number of 
emigrants were burned on the lower deck, and a 
large number woredrownod. Names unknown. 
Not an article of baggage on the steamer was 
saved. A newly-married couple, going to St. 
Paul on a wedding trip, were burned to death 
in their state-room. Of the crowd of emigrants 
on hoard the Ill-luted steamer, but fe 
w were 
saved. 
The elegant residence of ex-Sena tor Sander¬ 
son, near Madison, Wis., was struck by lightning 
on the 21st ult., and, with its contents, burned 
to the ground 
FROM THE CANADIAN BORDER, 
I,oss, $20,000. 
A horrible murder was committed at Brazil, 
sixteen miles from Terra Iluutc, Ind„ last week. 
Two men, named Hawk and Miller, got into a 
dispute near the depot in regard to the settle¬ 
ment of a claim of seventy-five cents, alien 
Miller stabbed Hawk in the neck with a large 
butcher knife, severing the jugular vein and 
causing instant death. The murdered man 
leaves a wife and six children in destitute cir¬ 
cumstances. The murderer is under close ar¬ 
rest, and great excitement prevails. Hawk was 
a nnm of good character, and much esteemed 
by his neighbors. 
During a storm at Cairo, Ill., on the 23d ult., 
the lightning struck a group of seven men at 
work on the railroad, instantly killing John 
Stafford, the foreman, and injuring B. Cushman 
fatally. Only one of the seven escaped without 
injury. 
The Republicans of Nebraska are to hold their 
State Convention iu Lincoln on the 10th of Au¬ 
gust. 
Tho New State Constitution of Illinois, recent¬ 
ly completed by tho Constitutional Convention, 
seems to give geueral satisfaction. It will he 
submitted to a vote of the people on tbe first 
Saturday of July. 
On account of increased passenger travel over 
the Pacific Railroads, two hotel trains instead of 
one will hereafter be run between Omaha and 
San Francisco every week—on Tuesdays and 
Thursdays. 
NEW YORK STATE, 
At the recent annual meeting of tho New 
York State Press Association, tho following offi¬ 
cers were elected: President—Joseph Warren of 
Buffalo, Secretary and Treasurer—Ellis 11. Rob¬ 
erts of Utica. Tho following constitute, with 
the President and Secretary', the Executive Com¬ 
mittee:—,!. M. Francis of Troy, J. C, Cuyler of 
Albany, Carroll E. Smith of Syracuse, George G. 
Cooper of Rochester, Jas. S. Thurston ol' Elmira. 
A serious break in the Erie Canal occurred a 
few days since, at the dry dock, one mile above 
Wliitesboro. One boat was carried through the 
tow-path. About one hundred feet of i lie track 
of the Now York Central Railroad was carried 
away. 
Saturday, the 21st ult., was a day fraught with 
accident and misfortunes to the good people ot 
Rochester. During that day and evening, a wo¬ 
man was burned to death, two men were nearly 
killed by runaway horses, a house was robbed of 
nearly $300, ami a little boy fell from a second- 
floor window and sustained fatal injuries. 
Thethird meeting of the “National Pedestrian 
Congress” was held on the CapitoHne Grounds, 
Brooklyn, on the 24th ult.., when running, walk¬ 
ing, and velocipede and jumping matches were 
contested and prizes awarded to the victors. 
A “grand tournament” of Southern Knights 
was indulged in at the Prospect Park Fair 
Grounds. Brooklyn, on the 21st and 23d ult., in 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
The one hundred and twentieth anniversary 
of the birthday of Stephen Girard occurred on 
the22*1 ult., and the seventeenth re-union of Gi¬ 
rard College took place at the Cc .ege Buildings 
in honor of the event. The occasion drew to¬ 
gether a large and brilliant assemblage of inter¬ 
ested spectators. William H. Allen, LL. D., 
President of til© College, made the opening ad¬ 
dress. 
The managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 
Philadelphia, have adopted a plan by which fe¬ 
male medical students may receive clinicaJlin- 
struction once a week from October to March, 
and surgical instruction at the option of the sur¬ 
geons on duty iu the female wards. 
it is stated that for some months there has ex¬ 
isted a pneumatic telegraph betwoeu Glasgow 
aud London, aud between Loudon and the other 
principal cities of the United Kingdom, which 
consists of an iron tube, into which the messages 
aro thrown and sent to their destination. 
Perot’s malt house, in Philadelphia, was burned 
on the 20th ult. Loss, $75,000. 
By a railroad collision ucar Lancaster, Pa., on 
the 24th ult., in consequence of an open switch, 
a brakeinan was killed, and two Gorman emi¬ 
grants were injured. 
The revolution in Venezuela is successful. 
nelly of 1 lieu. Gen. O’Neill was also present. 
The invasion from this point was attempted on 
Wednesday, the purpose being to cross the line 
near Franklin, but resulted disastrously. A 
small force of Canadian militia was intrenched 
on the other side, and opened a sharp tire on the 
invaders, killiug three men and wounding sev¬ 
eral. and compelling a retreat. 
United States Marshal Foster was a witness of 
tin- engagement, and as the Fenians began firing 
while yet on United States soil, he boldly arrest¬ 
ed Gen. O'Neill, notwithstanding his earnest pro¬ 
test, in accordance with the President's Procla¬ 
mation. forced him into a close carriage in plain 
sight of Ills men, and drove with him rapidly to 
St. Albans, where the Fenian leader, in default 
of $30,000 hall, was at once committed to the 
Burlington jail. 
The Humber of Fenians really engaged in the 
tight was about 275, led by Gen. O’Neill, Major 
Murphy, and Capt. Crouan. The British num¬ 
bered at tho outset only about sixty-five, but 
they were afterwards reinforced to the number 
of 1,800, and iu t heir strong, naturally entrenched 
position, the entire Fenian army could not have 
effected their dislodgement. They were at first 
Facts for the Ladies.— Ten years ago I pur¬ 
chased a Wheeler & Wilson Sowing Machine, 
and have had it in constant, use in uiy family 
since. We used it during the war to make 
clothing for our volunteers in the service and 
for the hospitals, ami this icorh was very heavy, 
being coarse woolen and cotton fabrics. It is 
still in good working order, nothing having 
been broken but a few needles. You arc wel¬ 
come to use my name In your recommendations. 
—Mas. Hugu McCuLLocn, Wife of Secretary 
U. S. Treasury. 
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