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FROM WASHINGTON. 
CoiigwitNloiial. 
IN I,ho House a resolution instructing the 
Committee on Ways and Means to report at ilie 
earliest, practicable moment a bill abolishing the 
tarifi' on coal, so as to secure that important ar¬ 
ticle of fuel to the people free from all taxation, 
was agreed to by a vote of 113 to 7!). A motion 
was agreed to by a vote of 134 to 30, assigning an 
early day for the consideration of Cuban affairs; 
the Appropriation Committee reported the River 
and Harbor Appropriation HU 1, and the Sundry 
Civil Expenses Appropriation Hill, which were 
made special orders; the Committee of Ways 
and Means reported the bill to ant horize the re¬ 
funding and consolidation of the national debt, 
and for other purposes, among which was a 
large addition to the free list and other modifi¬ 
cations of the tariff; the bill was passed by a 
vote of yeas 150 and nays 35, 
The Committee on Naval Affairs reported back 
the Senate joint resolution for relief of Com¬ 
mander A. H. ltissoJI, with an amendment ex¬ 
tending its provisions also to Commander John 
(’. Carter, Passed. The Committee on Com¬ 
merce reported the bill to establish a port of de¬ 
livery at Kansas City, Mo. Passed. The Judi¬ 
ciary Committee reported the bill to provide for 
the care and custody of persons convicted in 
in United States courts, who have or may have 
become insane, authorizing their transfer In t he 
insane asylum of I he District of Columbia, 
Passed. The same Committee reported the bill 
authorizing terms of the United States courts to 
lie held at Helena, Ark. 
A trill was introduced to promote postal and 
commercial Intercourse between Cedar Keys, 
Florida, and Havana, Cuba, authorizing a eon- 
tract between John V. Patterson and associates 
fora weekly mail service, of a .cost not exceed¬ 
ing #70.000 a year. Referred. The Senate ainend- 
mrntiiut liorizitigan increase of compensation •<> 
census inkers was taken from t he Speaker's table 
and |Missed. The Curreney Ittll was still further 
debated and many amendments proposed, and 
the bill put upon its flual passage, when a mo¬ 
tion was made to adjourn, which the Speaker 
sjtld would plane the bill at the bottom of all the 
bills upon ills table. The question was taken 
and Die House agreed to adjourn, tints virtually 
killing lhe bill. The yens was 79 to nays 75. 
In I ho Senate, bills were reported granting 
lands to slid in the construction of canals for ir¬ 
rigating purposes in California; for the Improve¬ 
ment of water eoimntinloadon between the Mis¬ 
sissippi River and Rake Michigan, by way of the 
Missouri and Fox Rivera; a hill to prohibit con¬ 
tracts for servile labor. Intended to apply to Chi¬ 
nese immigration. 
Upon the Indian Appropriation bills a long 
debate ensued on the payment of interest on 
the Choctaw Honds, it being claimed all ohliga- 
i ion for their payment was cancelled by that na¬ 
tion having Joined the Con federates during the 
rebellion, and several amendments appropria¬ 
ting funds for its payment were voted down. 
The amendment# reported from t he Commit¬ 
tee on Indian Affair# were adopted, appropria¬ 
ting a hundred thousand dollars for industrial 
schools among 1ho various Indian tribes, and 
fl fly thousand dollars for I he Indian service in 
Alaska. Tho House joint resolution granting 
the right of way in Hie Memphis, El Faso and Pa- 
<•1 lie Railway Company from I'll l’aso to the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, was Indefinitely postponed. The 
Committee on Uinatioo reported the House hill 
providing for an Assistant Treasurer at Balti¬ 
more. 
Hills were Introduced to change the location of 
it certain railroad in the Stale of Minnesota; 
grunting condemned ordnance for soldiers' mon¬ 
uments at Providence, K. I„ and at HueUsport, 
Me.; to grant, right of way to the Arkansas and 
Delta Railroad, and to aid in t he construction of 
the same. The bill authorizing the Secretary of 
the Interior to change the boundaries of land 
district# without increasing their number, was 
passed. Tho bill for the removal of t he Osage 
Indians in Kansas, the sate of their reservation 
to actual settlers at $1.35 per acre, and I lie settle¬ 
ment of the tribe in the Indian country, was re¬ 
jected. An amendment appropriating $1*8,000, 
ami $48,1X10 interest, to pay tho Pottawattamie 
Indians, being balances due t horn under stipula¬ 
tions in eleven different treaties, from 1795 to 
1801, was adopted. 
A memorial was presented from Mr, Hatch, 
asking for compensation, its his rights as an 
American citizen had been violated in bis uujus- 
11 liable arrest, imprisonment, and sentence t o 
death by the Dominican authorities; and that 
his release was prevented by the interposit ion of 
General Habooelc, an officer of the United Status 
army, who was acting as ft commissioner for the 
annexation of San Domingo, upon which, al ter 
a very protracted and exoitiiig debate, I here was 
appointed as a special eouimittoo to investigate 
the imprisonment of Mr. Hatch by Hie Domini¬ 
can Government, and the circumstances there¬ 
with connected—Messrs. Nye, Perry, Howard, 
Williams, Warner, Schurz and \ lekers. 
miscellaneous. 
One of tho principal features of t ho week has 
been tho visit of Spotted Tall, Rod Cloud and 
other Indian chiefs at. the Presidential mansion, 
Navy and War Departments, and an official v isit 
to the Department of the Inlcrior. They have 
been accompanied by Gen. Parker. Indian Com¬ 
missioner, and every effort made to impress 
upon their minds tho great power and resources 
of Hie United States and the utter hopelessness 
Of suiy effort on the part of the savage tribes to 
wage successful warfare against such fearful 
odds. The wants of Red Gloml were briefly 
stated. He said ids people were start ing; they 
wanted bread. The Great Father (the President) 
says lie is good to us. " i can't see it." 
••1 am good to White people. I don't want 
while people traveling through iny country. I 
want to raise my children. We are melting 
away; wo were once strong. You are grown 
strong now, like early grass, 1 want Port Ket- 
terniau moved away, and then there .shall be no 
trouble. I want, no roads made through mv t wo 
great mountain#, the Hlack Hills and Rig iiorn. 
I dm ft. want the Missouri Reservation, uur 
children are dying like the sick sheep, and that 
Missouri Reservation don'tftuit them. I thought 
t he land on Hie Platte where I was horn belong¬ 
ed to me. They promised to give me trailers, 
but have not. The people you sent to me arc 
liars! Rook and see. I am poor. I am nuked. 
I don'i want any war. 1 have received no pay 
for the railroad coming through my lands. Hot 
a brass ring." 
In response, Secretary Cox said: 
"They shall have goods; but the whites on 
the border are afraid of Red Cloud, and they 
say lied Cloud and his braves have killed some 
of them. We desire Red Cloud to promise us he 
will keep peace with the white people. When 
this is promised wo will give him guns, powder 
and lend to built with. Whites have been killed 
lately." 
The Executive session of the Senate developed 
a great change of sentiment among I lie Senators 
in relation to San Domingo. It may be safely 
asserted that the treaty will be ratified at an 
early day. 
Tho majority for Emory, the reform candidate 
for Mayor, is 3,314. The total vote polled Is 10,- 
978, falling only 993 behind the regist ration. The 
Bowen Republican# elect two Aldermen and five 
Common Counclltnen, of whom two arc colored. 
Of the Emory Republicans elected 5 arc colored. 
The Emoryites tire largely in the majority in the 
Common Council, while in the Hoard of Aider- 
men, with those bolding over, there is a tie. 
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NEW YORK STATE. 
Tug new route to Sharon Springs and Cherry 
Valley, via Albany and Susquehanna, and Cherry 
Valley, Sharon Springs and Albany Railroads, is 
open for passengers and freight. 
A little boy of Noah Deslauriers, throe years 
old, of Ausablo Forks, was frightened to such 
an extent by a large dog, Hint it resulted in its 
death about four weeks after. The boy was in 
good health at the time, and the fright deprived 
him of the power of speech and sense of hear¬ 
ing, which facilities he only partially recovered, 
lie refused nourishment, remained stupid the 
greater part of the time, and finally died of 
inanition. 
James It. Whittaker of Pittsfnrd was drowned 
outliedth inst., a mile below the whirlpool, in 
Niagara River, while bathing. 
The Liverpool packet Win. Stover was burned 
at her pier in the East River, New York, on the 
6th inst. Dor cargo was totally destroyed, and 
the loss will probably exceed $309,000. 
A liitto child of William Oliver, of the busi¬ 
ness department of the Rochester Democrat, 
was drowned in u cistern on tho 2d inst. 
Tho surveyors on the Adirondack Railroad ure 
at work on that portion of the line running from 
DcKulb Junction through Hcnnouand Russell, 
and thence to Clifton, and are said to lie finding 
easy grades and an entirely practicable route. 
The Champlain Canal Hill, which provides for 
an expenditure of $435,000 In Improving and 
widening the canal, was signed by I lie Governor 
week before last. 
It has been estimated by the State Geologist 
that the flow of brine from the wells at Monte¬ 
zuma is sufficient for the production of ROOD 
bushels dally of salt. 
Tho water was expected to have been let into 
Hie southern section of Hio Genesee Valley 
canal June 3d. The rain on the 4th caused an¬ 
other accident at the slide of Portage, and navi¬ 
gation will be more or loss obstructed, it Is 
thought, until the whole bank slides into tho 
canal and is shoveled back again. 
Throe barns, several sheds and carriage houses 
belonging to John Sheldon of Moscow, were re¬ 
cently destroyed by tire. In the barns were 9,000 
pounds of wool, 475 bushels of wheat, 400 bush¬ 
els of corn, and other kinds of grain, and a largu 
quantity of lumber. Total loss $ 15,000; insur¬ 
ance $2,500. 
The Rake George steamer epnimctmod her re¬ 
gular (rips for the season, on Monday, May 30, 
and tho night boats on Rake Champlain, on the 
same day, so that through connections are com¬ 
plete, same as last year. 
Tho Canal Board has adopted plans for re¬ 
building (lie stale dam, crossing the Hudson at 
Troy, ft is to cost about $ 135,000, and is to be 
completed in Hio fall of 1871. Tim Canal Hoard 
lias also ordered the construction# of tho Glens 
Full# feeder dams a I a cost of about $75,000. The 
upper side-cut, West Troy, is also to be improv¬ 
ed to the extent of $10,000 or $15,000. 
Horn Horatio Seymour hits accepted an invi¬ 
tation to deliver an address at the commence¬ 
ment of Hie Cornell University. Hon. George 
B. Boring, of Mass., and Dr. Bridgman, of Al¬ 
bany, will also deliver addresses, 
A little girl in Brooklyn fell and broke a rum 
bottle which sin.’ was carrying, and was killed by 
a piece of the glass, which pierced almost to her 
heart. 
The Comptroller of New York will reimburse 
Hie principal of Hu? State canal loan of 1858, due 
the 1st of July, 1870, lu gold coin, at the Manhat¬ 
tan Company Hank, on t heist inst. The amount 
ts $700,900. The July interest on all other canal 
five and six per cents, will be paid at the same 
time and place in gold. 
ThGGrand Lodge of the Masonic Order held 
its session iu New York on the Kth inst., at which 
time tlio corner stone of a Masonic Temple, 
corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third st reet, 
was laid. It is estimated that between fifteen 
mul twenty thousand Masons marched in tire 
column, and fifteen bauds of music. Every 
window in the vicinity and house-tops were 
crowded with spectators, and jt was almost im¬ 
possible for Sixth avenue oars to pass Twenty- 
third street, and travel on that road was vir¬ 
tually suspended. 
The school-house al Broadalbin, Fulton Co., 
was struck by lightning on the 8th inst ., instant ly 
killing the teacher, Mr. Ripley, and injuring 
some of the scholars. 
W. II. Dunning’s foundry, at Geneva, was 
burned recently. Tho loss was $1S,UOO, and the 
insurance $13,000. 
The pay of all town offieers-was raised by the 
last Legislature, from $1.50 to $3 per day. Com¬ 
missioners ol Highways, Supervisors, (except 
when at lending the meetiug of the Board of Su¬ 
pervisors,) Town Clerks, Justices of the Peace, 
Overseers of t he Poor, and Inspectors and Clerks 
of Election, now receive $3 per day. 
The Salt, Company of Onondaga, and the Kngj- 
naw Salt Companies have made an arrangement 
by which they divide the control of the Western 
markets, and do away with tlie ruinous compe¬ 
tition which lias existed bet ween them for sev¬ 
eral years. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
Gov. Stearns' message, delivered to the Lc- 
gislat ure of New Hampshire on J une 3, is a prac¬ 
tical, business document. The Governor re¬ 
port# the finances of the State in a sound and 
prosperous condition, Of tho State debt nearly 
$358,000 bit? been paid, leaving the balance of in¬ 
debtedness a fraction less than $2,800,000. Under 
these favorable circumstances a further reduc¬ 
tion of taxation is recommended. 
The house occupied by Moses H. Fnrnum, in 
West Concord, Vt., was burned by fin incendiary, 
recently, with all the outbuildings, four oxen 
three cows, two horses, and swine. Tho loss will 
be nearly $13,000, with an insurance of $3,000. 
A woman in Aroostook Co., Me., whose house 
caught fire the other day, during tho absence of 
all the "men folks," poured upon the tiames nil 
the water there was in the house, then used up 
her milk and cream, and finally resorted to her 
meat barrels for the pickle. She subdued the 
flames. 
A lire at Andover, Mass., on the 5th inst., de¬ 
stroyed Abbott’s furniture manufactory, toe 
livery stable of John Cornell, dwelling and barn 
Of Michael McLaughlin, and paint shop of Eben 
Higgins. Loss $15,000; partly insured. 
A propeller shall tor tho United States 
steamer Iroquois, has lately been east at the 
Nashua, N. IL, Iron Foundry, which weighed 8 
tons in the rough. 
Two men digging up an evergreen, in Nor¬ 
walk, Conn., the other day, came upon a com¬ 
plete service of family silver which mysterious¬ 
ly disappeared, last August, from the Norwalk 
Bank, where it had been stored. 
The New Haven, Conn., Orphan Asylum lias 
aided 105 children, Hie past year, and now has 
109 Inmates. Mrs. Edward E. Hnuisbury, lately 
its manager, mi her death left $5,000 toward a 
permanent fund. 
tv. A. Simmons, of Massachusetts, has been 
appointed Internal Revenue Supervisor for the 
States of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode 
Island. 
A son of Mr. R. 8. Robinson, of Wesley, Me., 
was lately poisoned. Ills father had been using 
superphosphate on his land, and the boy walked 
over it barefooted. The poison caused fearful 
swelling# at the joint#. 
A Free Will Baptist educational meeting, held 
at Great Falls, N. 11., has settled the question of 
locating the theological school, by providingjfor 
two such school# one at Lewiston, Mo., and one 
at Hillsdale, Midi. 
Coniieelienl spent, $1,111,817 for its public 
schools the last year; $095,539 for teachers' sala¬ 
ries $3(15,<133 for new school-houses. There are 
1,047 schools for 125,497 scholars, and 13,470 chil¬ 
dren do tint attend any school. There are only 
317 graded school# in Hie State, and there arc 383 
school-houses unfit for use. Tho usual dispro¬ 
portion exists in Hie wages of men mid women 
tanchors, the former averaging $58.74, tho latter 
$39.16. Secretary Northrop, in discussing edu¬ 
cated labor, laments the waning of the old sys¬ 
tem of apprenticeship, as a serious evil, and of 
the trades' union limitations ns another mis- 
ehlef. He devotes much time to proving that 
scholars live long, mid refer# to the records of 
Vale College professors and graduates to prove 
it, the average age at death of 2,088 graduates 
being sixty-one and two-thin! years. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
On the 5th inst. a German woman and live 
small children were burned to death in Dayton, 
< ffiio. They were suffocated in a burning house 
before help could reach them. 
The Kansas Pacific Railroad Company have 
entered upon a new and most important enter¬ 
prise. They have opened an Industrial Depart¬ 
ment, so-called, in connection with the Rand 
Office. The object is to put the alternate sec¬ 
tions ot' land granted by Congress to aid in the 
coi’HtruetjJm of the road at once under cultiva¬ 
tion. in orVr to render them more valuable and 
at C'" same (ium show that the plains cun be 
cultivated without irrigation. It is an experi¬ 
ment, it is true, but thus far it ini# proved suc¬ 
cessful. Trees planted in April are thus far 
doing well, as also other vegetation. 
Forties iti MePhail Co., Minn., have made ap¬ 
plication to the Governor for seventy-five stand 
of arm#, in anticipation of trouble with the 
straggling bands of Indians who infest that 
region. 
The manager of the County Farm, Faribault, 
Minn., bus planted ten acres in broom corn, 
which is flourishing finely. Last year he raised 
eight acres, from which the product amounted 
to over $750. 
From the West Wc have a report that “ever¬ 
greens are dying everywhere. One Iowa nurs¬ 
eryman iirs burned 10,00(11roes which lie expect¬ 
ed to sell this spring. Iiis theory is that they 
were frozen past recovery in the lulestiow storm, 
which clad the trees in ice just when the sap had 
gone up and charged stems and t wigs." 
Twenty-One emigrant trainsr real prairie 
sohca.nors, loaded with goods and families, wont 
over to Minnesota at. Ra Crosse, in one day, lately. 
A flowing salt well has been found at Spring 
Rake, Mich., which gives brine of fifty per cent, 
at a depth of 290 foot. 
Heavy shipments of wool and furs, from Utah 
and other Western Territories, are being made 
to the East. A number of cars so loaded, passed 
through Omaha last week. 
During a late severe storm in Minncsota.it is 
stated that a farmer by Hie name of Rholcs, in 
Fairbuult county, lost one hundred and fifty 
head of sheep. 
The net of 1864, enabling towns to bond them¬ 
selves by a majority vote to aid in the const ruc¬ 
tion Of railroads, bus been declared unconstitu¬ 
tional by the Supreme Court of Michigan. Tim 
decision, relying upon no ceennicallties, strikes 
at the root of tho matter, nod if cures t fie right of 
the State to tax one citizen to give to another or 
to establish another in business, nothin business 
railroading, milling, printing or anything else. 
A station near Fort Dodge, Kansas, was re¬ 
cently attacked by Indians, two soldier# killed, 
nod sixty mules run oil'. Other outrages have 
been committed by the savages in different 
places. Cavalry is being concentrated at Fort 
Hays, and active measures are being taken 
against the Indians. Gov. Harvey of Kansas, 
reached Gen. Custer's campon the 4th inst., to 
confer regarding the campaign. 
An iron bridge is to lie built over the Missis¬ 
sippi at Anoka, Minn. It is to bo two hundred 
feel, long, will consist of two spans, and (lie iron 
work will cost $0,800. This will lie the first iron 
bridge in Hie State. 
On ihe 4th inst. a terrific tornado swept across 
Scott county, 111., over an area of four or five 
miles in length and three-quarters of a mile in 
width. Fences were demolished, and wheat, 
corn, oats, and garden vegetables totally de¬ 
stroyed, the largest forest t rees torn up by the 
roots and twisted off, and orchards and vine¬ 
yards ruined. 
A few days ago a little daughter of W. K. Car- 
son, living near Nashville, 'Washington county, 
Tenn., was accidentally shot and killed by the 
Sun of a neighbor, named Clark. 
On tho 4tli inst. lightning struck a barn at 
Chicago, Ill., killing three men instantly and se¬ 
riously injuring others. The bodies present no 
sign3 whatever of violence. The faces are all 
calm, placid, and undisturbed, and the dead 
rneu wear the appearance of sleepers. Their 
clothes were uninjured. 
The Trustees or the Ottorbein University have 
decided to rebuild at Westerville, Ohio. Work 
will be commenced at once On the new college 
building, which is to cost $30,000. 
There are three coal shafts in operation in Sul¬ 
livan Co., Ind. The one at. Curry viHe is in lull 
operation, bringing up coal from the depth of 
one hundred and eighty feet, at the rate of 
twenty-five boxes per hour. 
The State Normal School Of Indiana was to be 
located at such plane as should donate tho 
largest, sum to its establishment, not less than 
$50,000. Terra Huuto bid $75,(Ml, and has the lo¬ 
cation of it. in that city. 
Watertown, Wis., proposes to have a monster 
celebration on the 4th of July, combined with a 
re-union of all tho Wisconsin regiment.#. 
The out. of lumber on the Menomonee River 
this season will be about 90,000,000 feet, a defi¬ 
ciency from last year’s cut of 15,1100,000 to 30,000,- 
000. All the logs in the river got down in the 
drive. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
A Rome (Ga.) paper says:—“There has been 
sold in this city, in the last five months, 30,000 
bushels of corn, at say $1.45 per bushel, and 100 
tons of Northern bay, at $40 per ton, thus carry¬ 
ing from our#eotlonabout$00,000. Bacon, flour, 
and other natural products of this section would 
swell the figures to over $101*,(XX). 
Macon, Gu., is to have a cotton factory, with 
room for 50.000 spindles. The City Council do¬ 
nates all the armory buildings, yvil It twenty acres 
of land attached, at the valuation of $75,(Ml, as 
stock In the company. A company lias been 
formed in New York with a capital of $500,000, 
which will take all of tho slock, with tDo excep¬ 
tion of the $75,000 taken by Hie oily. The work 
is to bn begun at once, but owing to its magni¬ 
tude will riot be completed for some time. 
Tho Shelby Iron Works, on the Selma, (Ala.,) 
Rome and I )a I ton Railroad, tiiauufacl tires thirty- 
two tons of pig iron per day. 
The Grand Jury of Richmond, Va., indicted 
George Cuhoon, ex-Mnyor, for forgery, and John 
11. Sands and it. B. Sunxay, ex-Confederate offi¬ 
cers, l'or conspiracy to defraud the Stale of 
$7,000. Mr. Gaboon was bailed in tho sum of 
$ 1 , 000 . 
The forests are dying out in certain parts of 
Virginia. The chestnut trotas have already sub¬ 
mitted to sumo deleterious agency, and their 
growth is nearly exhausted, and this year the 
oak, and in fact all the trees of the forest, in 
certain section#, ure dying. No explanation of 
this disastrous visitation ha# yet been given. 
in Muscogee Superior Court, Monday last, 
Judge Johnson doubled that parties could legal¬ 
ly marry without Hocuses and without wit¬ 
nesses. Tlie only legal requirement# are ability 
to con tract and actually contracting. 
On the 4th inst. seven ships, loaded with re¬ 
fined and crude petroleum, cleared at Phila¬ 
delphia for Europe, their united cargoes 
amounting to 1,108,000 gallons. The total ship¬ 
ment# from that port since Jan. 1, are 5,(XXI,000 
gallons, in excess of the exports to the same 
lime last year. 
The examination of the midshipmen at the Na¬ 
val Academy, at Annapolis, Md,, and also the final 
aiuinalion of the graduating class ha#, after 
more Hum two week#’ him! labor, for tho Board 
and the middles, reached Its end. A more than 
usual number from the lower classes wUl be re¬ 
commended to bo dropped from tho list, on ac¬ 
count, of not having satisfactorily sustained Hie 
tost required for their promotion. The first five 
standing highest in class are George I,. Dyer of 
Maine, who was awarded the office of Adjutant 
to the Yard, lust year, in testimony of Ids being 
first in hi# class; Robert G. Peek, Massachusetts; 
Hawley O. Rlf.tenhousu, Now Jersey; Henry W. 
Schaefer, Illinois; and John Hubbard of Ari¬ 
zona. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
A skohet political movement has been discov¬ 
ered at Leghorn, Italy, The movements bavo 
been, that is to say, the troop#til Qfttauzu.ro have 
taken thirty prisoners, wounded and killed 
twenty, and compelled Lire remaining nine hun¬ 
dred to disperse among tho Calabrian Moun¬ 
tains. The leaders, Fogiier and Plccoli, were 
men of little or no personal inllueuoe, yet they 
were able (o gather together this band, to induce 
ltioclotti Garibaldi to join them, and also to 
count their partisans in tiie University of Naples. 
Mount H Garibaldi gave bis advice against, tho 
movement, bccuuse, he says:—“1 think tho mo¬ 
ment for such an occurrence has not yet ar¬ 
rived; but assuredly, r could not offer my sup¬ 
port to the most loathsome of all Governments 
the Italian Government." 
Tho Italian Government has conclusive evi¬ 
dence that Mazzini is personally implicated in 
the rebel movements on the Swiss frontier; that 
the fact will be brought to tho notice of the 
Swiss Government, with a demand for the ex¬ 
pulsion or surrender of the agitator. Many Ital¬ 
ian refugees, with arms in tlieir hands, have 
been arrested on tho Swiss frontier, sent into 
i he interior, and made to give bonds not to quit 
the country. 
In France, the breach in the party of tho Left 
in the Corps Leglslutlt is complete. Differences 
of opinion as to tho attitude to be maintained 
toward the Dltlvier Ministry led to the separa¬ 
tion. Tho Paris Journal# are attacking M. Olll- 
vior for Ins course toward the party of the Reft. 
Continued dry weather has led l<> extensive 
tires in tho forests, one of which raged all day in 
the forests of Fontainebleau, near Paris, burn¬ 
ing over hundreds <d' acres. Small-pox is de¬ 
creasing in Paris. 
From England wc have little of importance in 
public affairs. Well-Informed authority asserts 
that the .ending Ministerial reform measures 
will be shelved for the year. Tim Rand bill, how¬ 
ever, is safe, and probably Hie Educational bill. 
At Hasting#, on the 7ill lust., a large number 
of people were out in n pleasure yacht, when a 
squall came up nnd capsized the vessel. It isnot. 
yet known how many lives were lost, but tho 
number will certainly exceed twelve. The ca¬ 
lamity lias east a gloom over the eily of Has¬ 
tings, where nil the unfortunate# resided. 
The conflagration iu Constantinople, men Hon¬ 
ed last week, has been finally quenched. The ag¬ 
gregate amount ol loss may be put down at five 
million pounds sterling. Several bodies of per¬ 
sons killed by falling houses have been recov¬ 
ered. It is estimated that over seven thousand 
buildings were burned, and that the loss of life 
is not less than three hundred. A hundred and 
fifty dead bodies have been already recovered. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Gov. Geary has issued an address to the free¬ 
men of Pennsylvania, declaring that the last 
Legislature had passed a Dill to take from the 
sinking fund of the Commonwealth securities 
amounting to $9*800,000, and to substitute ilirrr- 
for, very Inferior, if not utterly worthless obli¬ 
gation#, the securities so taken to be for the use 
of certain affiliated corporations. Including the 
railroad lino from Jersey Shore through Penn¬ 
sylvania to Buffalo, N. Y. He declares that the 
attempt was defeated only by the interposition 
of Executive veto, and ho calls upon the voters 
of Pennsylvania to so interest, their representa¬ 
tive# that the question of robbing tho Common¬ 
wealth in this manner will not be attempted 
hereafter, lie expresses fears as to the conse¬ 
quences of indifference in the choice of legisla¬ 
tors next fall, and urges that the assault upon 
the Treasury last winter may have the effect of 
the people refusing to re-elect. Hie members of 
both House# who formed the scheme. 
Henrietta Wood, a colored girl of Cincinnati, 
O., who Wits abducted in the year ls">3 by a man 
named Zeb Ward, and sold into slavery, has 
brought suit against him for $30,000 damages. 
Garfield, Republican, is elected Delegate to 
Congress from Washington Territory. 
At Nagy Bun, Transylvania, a few weeks ngo, 
there burst a water-spout, by which eighty 
houses we re destroyed. The corpses of two hun¬ 
dred persons were found strewn about the fields, 
and fourteen others have been got out of Hie 
river at Schatzburg. 
A violent earthquake has visited (lie state of 
Oaxaca, Mexico. One hundred and throe per¬ 
sons were killed, and lifty-tlireo wounded. A 
third of Hie city was rendered uninhabitable. 
The earthquake extended to tho mines, where 
eleven men were killed and many wounded. 
Buildings Ju ail purls of the State were destroyed, 
and reports of additional deaths are coming in. 
The International Typographical Union open¬ 
ed their annual session in Cincinnati, ()., on the 
6th inst., President IsaacD. George«»l' Nashville. 
Thomas Ogdon, President of tho Cincinnati 
Typographical Union, delivered an address of 
welcome, to which President George replied. 
Tho following officers have been elected for the 
ensuing year:- President, Wm. J. IliinimoTid, 
New Orleans; Vlee-Presideiit#, Thomas Willard, 
Albany; John II. O'Donnell, Boston; Secretary 
and Tronsuror. John Collins, Cincinnati; Record¬ 
ing and ('errespoiuling Secretary, Miss Augusta 
Lewi# of New York. When Miss Re wis wn# 
placed in nomination she sought to decline tho 
honor offered her, hut the Union would not 
listen to her objections, and she was accordingly 
elected by acclamation. 
At Newark, N. ,R, on the fitii inst. a fire de¬ 
stroyed W, P. Vail & Co.’s hat factory. Loss 
about $100,000. Insurance mostly in Newark 
offices. About, three hundred workmen are 
thrown out Of Ctnplyiucnl. Dodd's liat framing 
and blowing nmol linos wore damaged to tho 
amount ol'$3,000. Insured. A fireman named 
George Warren was seriously injured by a fall¬ 
ing wail, and John Snyder, a private watchman, 
was seriously but not fatally burned. 
At Hie recent election for State officers, in 
Oregon, Hie democratic candidates were elec led 
by about 400 majority. The Legislature will be 
democratic, ensuring a democratic Senator in 
place of William#, The negroes voted unmo¬ 
lested. 
Squirrel shooting (it this season of tho year is 
unlawful, ami violators of the law are liable ton 
fine of from two to twenty dollars for each and 
every offense. 
A serious accident, occurred to tho Montreal 
train on the Fltchburgh and Rutland Railroad 
on the 8th inst., caused by tho washing away of 
the track, by which three lives were lost and 
nearly twenty persons more or less injured. 
The train on Harlem extension ran off the 
track at Clarendon, where u bridge hud been 
washed away, on the evening of the 7th lost., 
precipitating the engine and three cars into the 
river. The fireman was killed, the engineer lmd 
u leg broken, and others were injured. 
Work has almost entirely ceased upon Hio 
Hell Gate obstructions. Tho Congressional ap¬ 
propriation, it. is said, will be hugely taken up 
in paying claims for remuneration should they 
be allowed. 
Tlie Michigan Central, Great! Western, Michi¬ 
gan Southern and Lake Shore and Eric roads 
have reduced their fare to $30 between Chicago 
and Now York, and $21.25 to Boston. 
The news from tho Red River country is of a 
somewhat excit ing character. 1t seems that Ibo 
Manitoba act more than eonuodes Riel's de¬ 
mands, With the important omission of a general 
amnesty. It is understood at St. Paul that tho 
Red River delegates to Ottawa, when they paused 
such a provision, were told that no offenses had 
been committed against Canada, but that tha 
Queen’s proclamation would give immunity to 
ail tho actors in the insurrection. Sir Clinton 
Murdock, representing the Home Government, 
was present, and joined in this assurance. On 
its faith tlie Red River delegates consented to 
the organization of the Province, and tlie niOst 
unqualified represenuitiousoi' Hie peaceful char¬ 
acter of the Hod River expedition were commu¬ 
nicated to the American Government by Minis¬ 
ter Thornton. 
News from Fort Garry shows that Riel will 
raise 3,090 men and fight tho troops now -(nig¬ 
gling through tiie wilderness beyond Ruketffipe- 
rlor, unless a full and unqualified amnesty be 
proclaimed. Every day’s delay is said to make 
the situation more critical. It is alleged that 
Canada hoped to steal into I lie country without 
being forced to pledge the safety of Riel and fils 
associates, and if this matter shall remain in im 
present unsatisfactory state much longer, tho 
active interposition of the Government of the 
United States will become necessary to tlie se¬ 
curity of the frontiers of Minnesota, Dakotaund 
Montana. 
The account# from Cuba, as usual, are very 
conflicting, and it is doubtful if anything very 
decided has occurred since our last. The barbu- 
rous character of Captain-General Dc Uodas, in 
pul ling to an ignominious death not only all in¬ 
surgents captured by the army, but nil persons 
of prominence who are supposed to sympathize 
with the Cubans who fall into his baud#. 
Nick Thompson of Lulayotlef, ind., asked 
lit# fellow-workmen to hung him, the other day, 
but they refused, and thereupon he proceeded 
to climb a tree, where he attached one and ol a 
leather strap to a limb and the other to urs neck 
and jumped off. The strap broke, but the fail 
killed him, and he was satisfied. 
