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FROM WASHINGTON. 
Congri^Nional- 
In the Senate the Array Appropriation Bill 
was reported with amendments; also, a bill for 
the relief of the National Homestead ut Gettys¬ 
burg. The following bills were pausedDe¬ 
claring the bridge between Philadelphia and 
Camden post route; authorizing the $40,000 ap¬ 
propriation in 1806, for the survey or the Isth¬ 
mus of Darien, to be expended under the direc¬ 
tion of the War or Navy Departments, At the 
discretion of the President; designating Decem¬ 
ber 25th, June 1st, July 4th and Thanksgiving 
Day legul holidays In the District of Columbia. 
Consideration of the Tax and Tariff Bill was re¬ 
sumed, and the sections to Continue the income 
tax were stricken out. by yeas, 34; nays, 23. The 
Dill wub then niiidi: a special order. 
The Naval Appropriation was referred to 
(lie Committee of the Whole. An additional 
appropriation was made for completing and 
placing In Franklin Bquare, Washington, a 
bronze statue of Gen. Scott. The bill to prevent 
the extermination of fnr-^earing animals in 
Alaska was passed. The Tariff Tax Bill was 
slill further debated and put over. 
The San Domingo Treaty was further debated 
in executive session and a vote taken, which, 
though not formal, amounts to ft rejection of 
the Treaty, for the ratification of which a two- 
third vote is necessary. 
The House amendments to the Alaska Bill 
were concurred in, and in the Tariff Bill the 
duty on steel railway bars was reduced from 1 y t 
to Hi cents per pound. 
In the House, the Senate bill to amend the act 
of August", 1848, authorizing the Secretary of 
the Treasury to license pleasure yachts, was 
passed. The Georgia hill gave riso to an ani¬ 
mated and somewhat personal debate, und was 
air. di d so ns to stand minus tho preamble, as 
follows: 
Suction 1. Be it enacted. That the State of 
Georgia, having complied with t he lteoonatruo- 
tion acts and the Fourteenth add Fitieenlh Ar¬ 
ticles of the amendment to tho Constitution of 
the. United States, having been ratified in good 
faith by a legal Legislature of said State. It is 
hereby declared that the Stale or Georgia is en¬ 
titled inn representation in the Congress of the 
United Stiitrs, but nothing contained in tills act 
shall lie construed to deprive the people of Geor¬ 
gia of tiie right to an election for members of 
the General Assembly of said State, as provided 
for in t he Constitution ot said State. 
Sec. 2. That so much of the net entitled an act 
making appropriations for the support of the 
army for the year ending June 30,1868, and for 
other purposes, approved March 2, 1867, ns pro¬ 
hibits t ie organization, arming, or calling into 
service of t lie militia forces In the States of Geor¬ 
gia and Mississippi, Texas and Virginia, be and 
t ho same Is hereby repealed. 
The Senate hill to reorganize the Murine Hos¬ 
pital sendee, and to provide for the relief ol' sick 
and disabled seamen, was amended and passed, 
as was also the hill authorizing the National Bo¬ 
livian Navigation Co. The civil service appro¬ 
priation bill was further considered, and items 
added as follows:— $10,000 for custom-house at 
Petersburg, Va.; $4,000 for custom-house at Wis- 
ensset, Me.; $10,000 for court house, Dcs Moines, 
Iowa. An effort was made to strike out the ap¬ 
propriation of $500,000 for post-office at New 
York, which failed, and an amendment was 
adopted by which authority was given the Sec¬ 
retary of the Treasury to enter into contracts 
for the completion of tho New York and Boston 
Post-Offices, in advance ol' the appropriation of 
funds to complete tho same. Further amend¬ 
ments were made, as $2,500 for lights In Provi¬ 
dence I liver, It. I.; $17,000 lor a light beacon at 
Long Bench Bar, L. L, and $6,000 for beacon 
light at Black Luke Harbor, Midi. The death of 
David Heaton, member from North Carolina, 
was announced. The House finally passed a 
large number of unimportant. Senate bills. The 
Currency Bill and amendments, as reported by 
the Conference Committee, after discussion, was 
rejected, 53 to 132. 
The Indian Appropriation Bills were consid¬ 
ered, and several Senate amendments non-oon- 
eurred In. Bills from the Committee on Com¬ 
merce were reported, and several passed, among 
which was one creating Jersey City a port of 
entry; the Funding Bill was further debated, 
and an amendment to subject the new bonds to 
taxation was voted down, 25 to 07. 
miscellaneous. 
Tiie Secretary of the Treasury has directed 
the payment of tiie July interest on and after 
tho28th ult„ without rebate. 
The Fre-Hidout made nominations as follows: 
Joseph P. Boot, Kansas, envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary 1o Chili: Charles 
T. Gorham, Michigan, minister to the Hague. 
Commissioner Delano bos reported to tho 
President a gain in the Internal Itevcnuc re¬ 
ceipts for the year ending April, 1870, of $50,- 
013,017. The rate on increase being on spirits, 
seventy-two per cent., tobacco fifty-live per 
cent., and on sales thirty per cent. 
The President lias withdrawn tho nomination 
of A. B. Cornell, recently made as Assistant- 
Treasurer of New York, he positively declining 
the position. 
The bill equalizing bounties, which passed tiie 
House of Bepreseinalives a short, time since, 
will, if it becomes a law,require the payment of 
$101,047,825. according to an official statement of 
the Treasury Department. 
Much discussion has resulted on t he question 
of income tax exemptions by the Shakers and 
oilier religious societ ies, which has been adjust¬ 
ed by ttie signing by the President ol' tho bill re¬ 
cently passed, providing for an exemption of 
$1,000 for every live persons belonging to all 
joint interest societies. 
The lion. Win. A. lttchardaon, Assistant-Sec¬ 
retary of the Treasury, will relieve Secretary 
Boutwell for a few days, in order that he may 
have a summer vacation. 
The British Minister having announced to the 
Secretary or State the death of the Earl of Clar¬ 
endon, Die President directed a message of sym¬ 
pathy and regret to he transmitted through 
our Minister at London. 
The bills for the funerals of Secretaries Stan¬ 
ton and Eawlins having been paid by the dis¬ 
bursing officers of tho War Department, under 
Hie orders of tho Secretary, have been rejected 
by the Second Comptroller for the want of an 
appropriation. Application is therefore to be 
made to Congress to provide for their payment. 
Tho bill for the burial of Secretary Rawlins is 
about $4,000, and that of Mr. Stanton $1,200. 
NEW YORK STATE. 
FnoM a census ordered by Superintendent 
Jourdan it appears that there are in this city 
38,732 horses, 116 mules, 2,191 cows, 11 bulls and 
8 oxen. 
The trial of tiie officers arrested for com¬ 
plicity in the Fenian raid, which was to have 
taken place at Canandaigua, June 27th, was 
finally set down for July 12th, and the jury and 
witnesses wore discharged with that under¬ 
standing. 
Capitalists at Buffalo arc taking hold of the 
Buffalo and Washington Bailroad matter in 
good earnest. Five hundred thousand dollars 
are to be raised to insure tiie same amount of 
bonds voted by the city. Of this amount, all 
except some fifty thousand dollars, has been 
subscribed within a few days. The tilling up 
of the amount will insure tho completion of the 
road to Olean. 
On the afternoon of Juno 25th tho business 
portion of the village of Clifton Springs was 
almost, entirely destroyed by fire. Keveral 
dwelling houses and public buildings were 
burned to the ground. Loss over $75,000; In¬ 
surance not a fourth of tho loss. 
.Tamos K. Snowden, a printer in tho office of 
the Western New-Yorker, in Warsaw, dropped 
dead in tho office while distributing type at his 
case. 
The Troy and Greenfield Railroad, east of 
Hoosick Mountain, which lias been closed since 
last fall on account of the damage by the great 
freshet, was re-opened on the 41 It lost,, and the 
route via the Troy and Boston Bailroad over the 
mountain re-opened for pleasure travel. 
Bight canal boats are in process of building in 
Ph«mtx, which with those built during the win¬ 
ter, will make fifteen boats built there since the 
close of navigation, 1869, tit an aggregate cost of 
not less than $50,000. 
District-Attorney Mon ts of Brooklyn, is .-aid 
to be preparing Indictments against the breakers 
of the eight hour law. This action of the Dis¬ 
trict-Attorney is in compliance with a request 
made by several leading trades unionists, who 
were appointed to wait upon him. 
Mrs. Caroline Vreelntid, convicted of attempt¬ 
ing to stab Robert, Schroodcr in Die Tombs 
Police Court, Juno 10th, was sentenced to four 
years’ Imprisonment at Sing Sing. 
At the examination ut the West Point Military 
Academy, concluded June 28th, forty-eight of 
oiglity-six applicants failed, and will be sent 
home. It is said to have been tho most rigid ex¬ 
amination ever held on the post. 
Tiie trouble existing between Mayor Kalb- 
flelsch of Brooklyn and the Park Commission of 
that city seems to bo about at an end, the Mayor 
showing a disposition to recede from his posi¬ 
tion. It is stated that tho Commission intended 
to move for another mandamus, but the Mayor 
indicated n willingness to sign a sufficient num¬ 
ber of bonds to enable the work in the park to be 
proceeded with. 
At Albany, on the28th of June, an explosion 
occurred in Hyatt’s billiard-ball manufactory ott 
Beaver street, which blew out a portion of the 
rear wall of the building and set tho house on 
fire, causing $2,000 damage. The explosion was 
paused by mice nibbling matches lying among a 
quantity of gun-cotton, which was employed in 
tho manufacture of billiard bulls. 
Ott the 27th of .1 uiio, the steamer Drew collided 
with tho st earner Telegraph, near Cutskill, crush¬ 
ing in her sides, bursting her boilers and sinking 
iter Immediately. The Crew Jumped overboard 
and were rescued by boats from Die Drew and 
the canal boats in tow of tho Telegraph. Two 
canal boats were also sunk. No lives lost. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
GOVERNOR Baldwin, of Michigan, has issued 
his proclamation convening the legislature of 
that State ot> the 27th of July next. 
Reports from thegroat salt marsh in Republic 
county, Kansas, says that, hundreds of bushels 
of salt can bo gathered fr*m the surface of 
the ground. Before a rain tho ground is as 
white as snow. The mar6h is several miles in 
extent. 
Col. Robertson, Professor of ArgicnU lire and 
Horticulture in the Minnesota University, has 
inaugurated a system of exchange between him¬ 
self and t he managers of the Imperial Gardens 
of Russia, by which the products of that country 
and Minnesota will pass to and fro for experi¬ 
ment in culture. 
The slate quarries at tho Dalles, near Duluth, 
Minnesota, are said to ho very extensive, and to 
produce some Of tho finest specimens of slate in 
the world. 
The veterans of Die war of 1812 visited Toledo, 
Porrysburg, Maumee City, and old Fort Meigs, 
O., recently, on an excursion. They were 
everywhere cordially welcomed and royally en- 
tertaluod. 
'I’lie Toledo Blade says there is employment in 
that city this year for only one laboring man 
where ten were employed last year. 
The rapid progress of Duluth is causing great, 
excitement, and speculation in that rising young 
city is at fever heat, Lots which sold last year 
at $250, can not now lie had under $5,000. The 
Keweenaw reached there a lew days since, and 
it was estimated*that not less than 6,000 people 
were at the dock. One of the principal sources 
of revenue to Die various steamers consists in 
eurryjng those who are forsaking the other 
places on Lake Superior and taking up their 
residence in Duluth. 
The census of Jacksonville, III., lias just boon 
completed, and the enumeration returns 9,005 
Inhabitants. The census ot I860 returned 5,528, 
showing a gain in ten years of 3,477. 
The Rocky Mountain coal mines of Evanston, 
Wyoming Territory, are tints described 111 The 
vein is nearly horizontal, and extends along the 
face of the Bear River Mountain for a mile and 
a-ltalf, and v aries in thickness from twenty-six 
to forty-t wo feet. It Is very peculiar, being be¬ 
tween anthracite and bituminous. Cars are 
loaded at Die mines, and shipped to all pointsou 
the Union and Central Pacific Railroads,” 
From the Plains come accounts of isolated 
depredations upon Die lives and property of 
citizens at. many different points, and the move¬ 
ments ol' detached bodies of military in punish¬ 
ment, resulting In a number of deaths on both 
sides, it is evident that the Indians mean war, 
and prompt and efficient measures should be 
taken to meet and surmount t he difficulty. 
Captain J. D. Robinson, of the United States 
Navy, died a I Sun Francisco, June 26th.' Tho re¬ 
mains will be taken to New York for interment . 
Captain Uobiusou commanded the Pensacola 
during tho engagement, in Mobile Bay. 
At a recent (rial of farm implements by tho 
Missouri State Board of Agriculture, the fol¬ 
lowing machines took prizesRest combined 
reaper and mower, Climax; beat self-raking ma¬ 
chine, Kirby's, combined with Burdick's soif- 
rablng attachment; best harvester, Marsh har¬ 
vester: best mower. Acme; best reaper, with 
drop attachment, Climax. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
Tite Swedes who will go to Arostook, Mo., to 
settle, will take with them from $5,000 to $10,000, 
to pnrehaso provisions and farming utensils. 
They will also endeavor to persuade twenty-five 
young unmarried Swedes to accompany them, 
promising them simply tho one hundred acres, 
without clearing or house. 
The Dwight Manufacturing Company', at Chi¬ 
copee, has made during the last six months 
7,364,970 yards of cloth, an excess above any pre¬ 
vious six months of 209,320 yards. 
Tho Legislature of Rhode Island adjourned 
last week, to meet in Providence on the third 
day of January, 1871. 
The stockholders of the Horae Insurance Com¬ 
pany met at New Haven lately, and voted 
unanimously to reduce the capital from $1,000,- 
ooo to $500,000, the jiar value of each share to 
be $50. 
The Soldiers'Monument Association of West 
Watorvllle, Me., which tiasa fund to the amount 
of about $4,000, will Creel a Memorial Hall in¬ 
stead of a monument. The Monument Associa¬ 
tion tit Watorvllle has some $5<U or $600. 
The cranberry vines on Cape Cod were not 
materially injured by the into frost, after all. 
The amount of molasses imported ni Port¬ 
land, Me., since January was valued at $1,115,988, 
and Dial td' sugar for the None time at $684,000. 
The dam across the Connecticut River at Bel¬ 
lows Falls Is now being re-huiit, and wilt cost 
$80,000. 
There aro now fifty-nine boys and girls from 
Maine at the American Asylum for the Deaf 
and Dumb at Hartford, Conn. 
The Democrats of New Hampshire have nom¬ 
inated for Secretary of State, John M. Shirley; 
for Treasurer, Alphonzo H. Rust; for State 
Printer, Chester E. Carey. 
The Republicans and also the Prohibitionists 
of Maine have nominated lion. Sidney Pcrham 
for Governor. 
(). Ames & Sorts of North Boston, Mass., are 
erecting a new shop two hundred and fifty foot 
Jong, in connection with their already very largo 
shovel works. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
The route agent bet ween Balt imore and Phila¬ 
delphia, Andrew Stafford, has been arrested for 
purloining let ters In his charge, and committed 
to jail to await the action of tho Grand Jury of 
tho U. S. District Court. 
Arrangements have been made with Generals 
E. Kirby Smith and Bush rod Johnson to conduct 
the Nashville University. 
The Governor of Miss, vetoed the general rail¬ 
road Bill, giving Ids objections in a very forcible 
maimer. The veto will bo sustained. The 
tnillli.i bill passed. ides pay forouly two 
officers, Adjutant'General and Quartermaster- 
General, $D000 a year each. 
A lot of new wheat from Panola county, Miss., 
the firs* of the season, sold on Change tit St. 
Louis, Juno 2, for $5 per bushel. 
The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly 
voted, at Its late meet ing in Louisville, that Uni¬ 
tarian, “Popish," and “Campbollito’* baptisms 
are invalid. 
The mail rider from Austin, Texas, to Freder¬ 
icksburg, in (hat. State, reports that a party of 
Indians came on the line of Little Barrow creek 
to within fifteen miles of Austin, and stole 
horses from several parties, who pursued the 
Indians, and, as they have not yet returned, 
fears are entertained that they have been mur¬ 
dered by tho ravages. 
A Florida man says he will have about 3,000 
dozen pine-apples for market this year, and t hat 
he expects to realize from $2.50 to $3 per dozen 
for them. Ho further says that lie and Ids three 
lit tle sons do all the labor necessary in their cul¬ 
tivation. 
Gold Is reported ns having been discovered at 
Appomattox, and the Lynchburg Virginian, 
after giving accounts of the ••extraordinary 
richness," expresses tite hope that tiie locality 
may become famous for something beside the 
surrender of U-o. 
Quite a revolution is in progress In Mexico on 
the Rio Grande border, the Insurgents number¬ 
ing two thousand. This, in connection with the 
severe drougth, causes much suffering. 
Capt. (S. Beil, tho renowned “Union scout 
and spy," was attacked by live men in the Guad¬ 
eloupe bottom, about two miles below Clinton, 
Texas, nt a late hour on Die 6th ult., and is sup¬ 
posed to have beep brutally murdered by thou, 
and thrown into the river. 
The Wilmington, N. C., Journal says:—Wo 
have fine rains now, mid as the wheat is made 
and the corn crop in Die very best condition, no 
fears are now had for the result, this year. Never, 
in the history of tho country for one hundred 
years, has there been such an abundant harvest 
of wheat, uor so good a prospect for corn. 
The Polish colony recently established under 
the ausplecs or the Virginia Lund Agency in the 
Upper part of Amherst , and in Bedford county. 
Is prospering well. The colonists have already 
planted out 50,000 grape vines, and speak confi¬ 
dently of the prospects of a large return. They 
are expecting an accession to their numbers in 
a few weeks. 
Porcelain cloy, or kouliti- has been found ut 
Whitings, Ga., on the Millodgeville and Eatou- 
lon Railroad, and a pottery has been established 
there. 
A bill to construct a continuous line of rail¬ 
road and telegraph from Marshall, Texas, to Ban 
Diego, Cal., with a five feet gauge, to be called 
the Texas Pacific Railroad, has just passed Die 
Texas Senate. Among the names of the cor¬ 
porators are John C. Fremont, James L. Alcorn, 
G, M. I lodge, Marshall O. Roberts, W. Orton, II. 
I). Cooke, I*. W. Stall ton, Win. S. Roseerana, 
with a number of Others. Tito capital stock is 
to be $100,1 100 ,000. 
Tho Virginia Senate has adopted Die House 
resolution to adjourn on July 11th, and meet 
agaiu on Get. 1st. 
The office of the Maryland Fire Insurance 
Company of Baltimore was robbed on the 28th 
ult. of United States bonds and other valuable 
securities, to Dio amount of $150,090. Among 
the lost bonds are $25,000 of United States cou¬ 
pons of 1804, $11,000 of Northern Central Rail¬ 
road coupon bonds of 1885, $13,000 Of Cincinnati 
and Marietta Railroad Second Mortgage bonds, 
$5,000 of United States Registered Certificates; 
Die remainder consisting principally of Balti¬ 
more and Ohio Railroad and George’s Creek 
stock. All the bonds were of the denomination 
of $1,000. 
in the Virginia House of Delegates an amend¬ 
ment to the School bill, striking out the section 
requiring separate schools for the two races, has 
been defeated by a vote of 80 to 19. Two white 
members voted for, and two colored against it; 
otherwise the vote was one of color. 
A disease called meningitis has been prevailing 
in some sections of the South, proving fatal la 
most cases. The negroes suffer most from it. 
Gov. Reed, in his message to the Florida leg¬ 
islature. puts the entire Indebtedness of that 
State at $750,000. An issue of 7 per cent, gold 
bearing bonds will fund the outstanding debt 
of the State, and leave cash enough to pay Die 
expenses of the government for the current 
year. 
An unusually large wheat crop has just been 
harvested in Talladega Co., Fla. Oats look 
splendidly, and corn is growing out ot reason. 
The cotton is rather grassy, but bard work will 
yet bring it all right. 
Considerable destitution, it is stated, exists in 
Caroline, King aud Queen, Appomattox, Prince 
Edward and Nottingham counties, Va. Many 
persons are said to bo in want of tbo actual nec¬ 
essaries of life. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
The marked event in England lias been the 
death of the Earl of Clarendon, Minister ol' For¬ 
eign Affairs, which occurred on the 20th ult. Ho 
has been subjec t to attacks of gout, but Die im¬ 
mediate cause of bis death was dturrlRcu. 
Cork has been t he theatre of very serious trade 
riots. It originated from the introduction of 
some German tailors in place of the Irish work¬ 
men who laid struck, The demonstration of the 
striking tailors received co-operation of the dif¬ 
ferent trades, and a general strike ensued. Tite 
mayor of Cork refused to order the military to 
put down Die riots, tail Die Government inter¬ 
fered aud at lust advices order hud been res¬ 
tored. 
The Mark Line Express reviews the prospects 
of the wheat crop in England, and comes to tho 
conclusion that Ihecrop issafo, notwithstanding 
which, great uneasiness and anxiety prevails and 
prices advance. The crop advices from the con¬ 
tinent are not favorable. 
Tho Board of Trade refuses to re-open tiie case 
of Capt. Eyre of the Bombay, which the Captain 
lias labored Incessantly to effect. 
From Franco there islittloof Importance. The 
Emperor refuses permission for tlio Orleans 
Princes to return from exile. Tbo matter is to 
be considered by the Corps LogislaUf. The Min¬ 
ister of Agriculture states that crop prospects 
aro satisfactory and no precaution has been neg¬ 
lected to guard against famine. 
Affairs in Spain are unsettled still. The Cortes 
has adjourned, leaving the Government author¬ 
ity to proclaim a general amnesty when they 
deem it- expedient. Spain is to Join England and 
Holland in an expedition to exterminate the 
plratesof Ocean lea. A desire to revive the Inqui¬ 
sition is indignantly denied by the Car list Junta. 
Queen Isabella lias signed her abdication of the 
throne of Spain, in favor of her son, Die Prince 
of Asturias. The Spanish Cortes, before Its 
final adjournment, passed a bill for the gradual 
emancipation of slaves in the Spanish Colonies, 
It is said that the Km purer Napoleon and Gens. 
Prim and Serrano acquiesced in the abdication 
of Isabella, on the condition that no Prince of 
the House of Orleans should succeed to the 
throne of Spain. The law authorizing civil mar¬ 
riages goes into operation on the 1st of Sept. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Sandusky Register says of wool“25,000 
pounds of the new clip has boon 6old so far; .30 
to 40cents is the price. Most everything sold to¬ 
day nt 40, 40>4 and 41 cents. Buyers are a little 
excited." 
Last year the Territory of Montana yielded 
over $10,000,000 in gold and silver; this year the 
est imate is $30,000,000. Tiie population is esti¬ 
mated at 45,000. 
Farmers in Berks county, Pa., are considera¬ 
bly excited over the appearance of a st range dis¬ 
ease among their cattle, which they tear Is Dio 
rinderpest. The cattle suO'er Tor two or three 
weeks, and finally die. Cow doctors in that vi¬ 
cinity are unable to combat, the disease, which 
they do not appear to understand, it being some¬ 
thing new in tiie country’. 
A most disastrous fire occurred at Pittsburgh, 
Pa., Juno 28th. An oil tank containing 20,000 
barrels was struck by lightning, which commu¬ 
nicated to two other large tanks, both of which 
exploded. Thu buruingoil run toward the river, 
burning all the dwellings, and setting Ore to 
Shiirpsimrg bridge, which was totally destroyed. 
The Citizen's Refinery, with one tank ol crude 
oil, and a warehouse were burned. Forsyth 
Bros, lose one tank ot candle oil. The Astral 
Works of John It. Bell & Sons, lose buildings, &e, 
'I’ho Anchor Works of Dil worth Bros, lose one 
tank of crude oil. The National Refinery and 
Storing Company’s bleaching house was de¬ 
stroyed. The Alleghany Valley Railroad Com¬ 
pany hud ten tanks of crude oil burned, and lose 
on oil, $6,000, and on cats, $8,000. 
The Sharpsburgh bridge was insured for $10,- 
000. It is estimated tiie losses of the Citizens’ re¬ 
finery are $20,000; fully insured. Tite Eclipse 
building was insured $15,000; oil $8,000; machi¬ 
nery, Are., $00,000; insured in Eastern computiics. 
Swearingen & MeCaadless* agency for Forsyth 
Bros., .$15,000; no insurance. Astral works, 
$40,0000; but little insurance: the works are not 
tu operation. Anchor works$1,200, aud Nation¬ 
al works $15,000; partially insured. Total loss 
probably $35,000. II. B Foster, brother of the 
late Stephen C. Foster, and agent at Die Eclipse 
refinery, was burned to death. Valentine Hol¬ 
ley injured, but not fatally. 
A few days since a large frame building erect¬ 
ing at Doylcstown, Pa., as a summer resort was 
burned. The loss la variously estimated at from 
$120,000 to $150,000 which is supposed lo be nearly 
if not quite covered by insurance. The fire is 
supposed to have been the work of an incen¬ 
diary. 
A most disastrous fire occurred at Reading, 
Pa., June 26, destroying tho new and extensive 
ear shops of the Reading Railroad Co., on North 
Sixth street. Tho shops were erected in 1865, 
aud were the finest in the country, being 710 by 
168 feet, wtills of stone spanned by three roofs of 
slate, and cost about $116,000. They contained 
wood-planing, cutting and dressing machinery 
of the newest and most Improved pattern, which 
were totally destroyed, together with 100,000 
feet of finished lumber, four passenger cars, 
eighteen wooden coal cars, and six freight 
cars. Three hundred workmen were em¬ 
ployed, nearly all of whom lose their tools. Tiie 
boiler house Is uninjured, and the engines but. 
slightly. 3,000,000 feet of lumber In plies adjoin¬ 
ing the stiop escaped destruction. The loss is 
estimated at $110,000 to $115,000: insured for 
$25,000. The orlglu of Die fire ts not positively 
known, but some facts warrant a strong sus¬ 
picion of incendiarism. 
The Darien expedition has. according to last 
advices, given up active operations, it having 
been decided by the topographical engineers 
that the cutting a canal across the Isthmus was 
not at present practicable. 
News from Valparaiso, Chili, are to the effect 
Dial 3.000 Indians arc in arms and marching to 
attack the Malleco forts. The Araneanians, al¬ 
though savages, are a people of considerable 
military prowess. Their population Is estimated 
at 70,1)00. They were not subdued by Die Span¬ 
iards. They preserved their liberty by closing 
their mines, as they regard the pursuit of the 
precious metals degrading to manly virtue. 
Since then a detachment of Indians has passed 
the line of the Malleco to within a mile of Die 
city of Angel. Gen. Pinto has issued a procla¬ 
mation declaring the departments of Nacitni- 
onto, Angol. Lotni, and Imperial, under martial 
law. Tho Nadmionto battalion of the National 
Guard lias been called into active service, and 
ordered to tiie frontier. 
The news from Cuba continues of the same 
tenor, very linlo being definite or Btitisllfctory. 
Itcoeni dispatches from l)e Kodas announce Die 
capture of a tlllibustoring party near Puerto 
Principe. De !Indus telegraphs that he lias cap¬ 
tured the second cargo landed by the steamer 
Upton on her return from Aspinwall. It ismore 
valuable than the first. Montaner’s column bad 
killed twelvo of Sanguill’s band, including an 
American colonel. The insurgents recent ly sur¬ 
prised and captured a party of marines who 
went tail. Troni Puerto Principe on a foraging 
excursion. The prisoners were all killed soon 
after their capture. The Captain-General lias 
commuted seventeen death sentences to Impris¬ 
onment or exile. The patriots have taunt a 
sloop and lighter In Vljarcr River. The volun¬ 
teers surprised, near Santiago, a hand of twelvo 
rebels, and shot them all. The return of tho 
Captain-General to Havana In a few days is ex¬ 
pected. The sanitary condition of Havana is 
improving. 
The New York and Charleston packet steam¬ 
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She had a large freight nnd fifty passengers. 
Tiie captain ran tho steamer on shore, and scut¬ 
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of Cape Fear River. The passengers and crew 
were landed In safety. 
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