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FROM WASHINGTON. 
Con greufti on al. 
The closing labors of Congress were of the 
Usually confused character, and we blend the 
action of both Houses in one report. In the Sen¬ 
ate a bill directing the Secretary of the Interior 
to deliver to Mrs. Gen. Lee the property belong¬ 
ing to her taken from Mount Vernon, was re¬ 
ported adversely, as was the bill to encourage 
American shipbuilding. 
Both Houses accepted the conference report 
on the bill lo reduce the army, and also the re¬ 
ports on the Army and Navy Appropriation 
bills, the Deficiency bills, and the bill granting 
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln's pension, were passed, 
and sent to the President for approval. The re¬ 
port from the conlereneo committees on the 
Georgia bill passed both Houses. 
In the House the Senate's amendment to the 
Apportionment bill, the Washington and New 
York Air Line Railroad hill, and above twonty- 
flve land grant bills were killed for the session. 
The Indian Appropriation bill, from the con¬ 
ference committee, was adopted by both Houses. 
It gives the President $15,(101),000 to use; in the 
pacification of the Indians. 
President Grant sent it message to Congress 
Friday, calling attention to the fact that a for¬ 
eign war is Imminent, and that the Post-office 
Department Is almost entirely dependent on tko 
North German steamers for Ike carriage ol I lie 
European mails. If those vessels should be in¬ 
terrupted in their trips, the country would suf¬ 
fer severely. He took occasion also to recom¬ 
mend the passage of a shipping bill. 
The message was received lu both Houses and 
led to considerable discu >.don in the House of 
Representatives where it was resolved that it 
was inexpedient "to take further action lit this 
time on the President’s message." The bill to 
encourage the building of ships for the foreign 
trade was lost in the Senate, and the bill author¬ 
izing a limited time for the registration of for¬ 
eign built iron vessels was virtually tabled in 
the House, A resolution looking lo the recog¬ 
nition of Cii bnn Independence, if uuy of the 
European powers engaged lu the present war 
should attempt to seize the Island, was voted 
down by ft largo majority. 
The appropriations by the present Congress 
for the different branches of the Government 
according' to the Tribune report, are for Indian 
bills, $5,31(1,120. Sundry civil bills, $13,113,973, 
Deficiency, miscellaneous, and Navy bills, 
$19,100,DHL Army bill, $38,(131,3(57 in addition to 
$<5,000,000 placed at the disposal of the President 
as noted above, for the preservation of peace 
with the Indian tribes. These are but a portion 
of the money appropriations made during the 
session. 
ITllMecilHiieo tin. 
Toe President has accepted Gen. Kilpatrick's 
resignation as Minister to Chili, to take effect 
on the first of September next. Ho will appoint 
Joseph P. Root of Kansas, lo 1111 the vacancy. 
Secretary limit well expresses confidence in 
ills ability to dispose at once of the $3,(100,000 
live percents, authorized by the recent act of 
Congress, to capitalists in Hits country. 
Cm pi. C. F. Hall has had t wo or three inter¬ 
views with the President In relat ion Hi the Arc- 
tic expedition authorized by one of the appro¬ 
priation bills, and has boon assured by the Prosi- 
dont that, he never had any Idea of giving the 
command of the expedition to any one else. 
Tim Indian Bureau is active in its arrange¬ 
ments for forwarding supplies and taking meas¬ 
ures to fulfill Indian treaties. The Peace Com¬ 
missioners are to go ahead In their work of pre¬ 
serving the peace. They continue to write here 
that there are the best of reasons for believing 
that there will bo no general Indian war. It is 
noticeable that the military are sending no late 
reports forward of Indian outrages. 
The naval appropriation made by Congress is 
by no means adequate to the necessities of the 
service at present, and would be vastly in arrear 
of any requisitions which might be made should 
the pending European difficulties stretch across 
the Atlantic. The navy, consisting of eighty- 
two vessels, Is sadly disabled now, both by want, 
of men and of complete ships, the greater part 
ol' which need thorough repairs. 
The Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill, 
as it canto from the Committee of Conference 
mill passed both Houses, contains a provision 
that the public lands which have been with¬ 
drawn for any reason, and afterwards restored, 
shall thereafter be subject only to homestead 
and pre-ompHon entry. 
Supervisor Presbory, of Virginia, reports that 
the collect ions from manufactured tobacco in 
the State of Virginia for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1870, amounted to $1,140,077,153, being an 
excess or gain over the previous fiscal year ol 
$3,043,593.51. 
Hon. William Wiiidom has been appointed 
United States Senator iu place of t he late Mr. 
Norton, by the Governor of Minnesota. Mr. 
Whidoin was a member of the three last Con¬ 
gresses. 
Brevet Major-General John Newton has been 
relieved of the charge of the construction of 
fortifications upon Staton Island, uud Brevet 
Major-General S. Gilmore lias been assigned to 
the duty. 
Secretary Fish has received Information that 
both tlm French and Prussian Governments hud 
determined to Observe the treaty of Paris made 
in 1815(5, which forbids all privateering, and pro¬ 
vides that neutral goods found iu the vessel 
of an enemy shall be respected. 
The recently arrived French Minister, M. Pro¬ 
vost Puradol, committed suicide at Washington 
on the morning of the 20tli inst. by shooting 
himself through the heart, with a small pistol. 
On a table In the room was found a slip of pa¬ 
per, on which was writ ten in French “ I shall 
kill myself. Tell M. Bcrthcruy to conic back." 
The occurrence was at onee communicated to 
M. RerUiotay, who telegraphed to the French 
Government, and at once repaired to Washing¬ 
ton to lake charge of the body of Ills friend, 
and assume charge of the post which he had so 
recently surrendered. The body has been em¬ 
balmed, and a guard of honor has been detailed 
for the body by President Grant. II will be for¬ 
warded to Franco. 
Attorney-General Akermnn stales that the va¬ 
rious branches of the Department of Justice 
will be brought together as soon as possible, ex¬ 
cept the Solicitor of Claims at t he State Depart¬ 
ment, who will be allowed to remain in the 
State Department. No rooms in the Treasury 
Department have been assigned for the use of 
the Solicitor-General who, however, has not yet. 
been appointed, and probably will not be for 
several weeks. Assistant Attorney-General 
Fields retires on the first of August, Ills suc¬ 
cessor will be at onee appointed. Mr. Akermuu 
will leave here lor hts home in Georgia about 
the 5th of August, and expects lo be abseut till 
September. 
Prof. Welling of the old Intelligencer and Mr. 
Harvey, ex-minister to Portugal, will edit the 
new Democratic}organ at Washington. It will 
be called The Patriot, uud have u capital of 
$ 100 , 000 . 
M. Bertbcmy, the predecessor of M. Prevost- 
Paradol, has received a telegram from the 
French Foreign Olfioe directing him to remain 
in Washington until his successor is appointed, 
which will bealmost Immediately. M. Berth cm y 
accordingly returned to Washington yesterday. 
-- 
NEW YORK STATE. 
A produce dealer of Sinclairville, has paid 
$30,000 lor cheese during one week; having 
bought I ho Block Lon Factory make at 12?i'C.; 
Walnut Crock do. at 12?ic.; Casadaga do. at 
12'ic.; and the Sinclairville Factory at 13 and 
14 Vo. The weight of the last named cheese is 
sixty tons. 
A State Convention of the men drafted into 
the military service of the United Stat es on or 
about the 8th day of September, 1863, is called, 
to be held at Syracuse, Sept. 1st, at 10 A. M. The 
objoct of the Convention will be to take mea¬ 
sures to secure a refunding of the money paid 
in commutation to fill that quota. Each Assem¬ 
bly District of the counties Interested will bo 
ent itled to one delegate. It is proposed that a 
Slate organization be effected. 
Much enthusiasm exists among the German 
population of New York and vicinity upon the 
war now being Inaugurated in Europe. Meet¬ 
ings are held, men proffer their services to the 
Fatherland, and large amounts of money arc be¬ 
ing raised to organize a sanitary commission 
alter the model of the United Sanitary Commis¬ 
sion. to care for the sick and wounded of the 
Prussian army. Germans here and elsewhere 
appear united in support ol King William and 
hts cause. Frenchmen, on the other hand are as 
enthusiastic in support of Napoleon, but being 
less iu number, their demonstrations attract 
less public attention. The most noted feature, 
however, is the unanimity with which our Irish 
citizens express their willingness to rally to the 
support, ol' the French Hug, thinking thereby 
possibly to be enabled to strike a telling blow 
upon England toward til© ultimate liberation of 
the land of their nativity. Already has tho prof¬ 
fer of a brigade been made, if permission eau be 
ubiiUucd l u raise it for that purpose. 
Tho Cuba True Patriot Buys:—"Borne time 
since a cow belonging to Mr. Erastus Webster of 
this town, rambled Into a swamp, and getting 
her fool bet ween t he roots of a stump, broke 
hor leg. One day tills week another of VV’s cows 
broke her leg in i lie same manner, getting her 
feet fast between the same roots.” 
It is raid that the hay crop of Washington 
county will prove about an average of the best 
quality. The rye crop ts almost a total failure; 
oats arc fine, and (lie oldest inhabitant being In¬ 
terviewed, says such a crop of corn as i» now on 
the ground wo* never before seen In Washing¬ 
ton county. 
We learn from tho Steuben Courier that the 
Hon. Robert, Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor of 
this State from 1859 to 1863, died at Bath, Steu¬ 
ben county, on the 16th inst. Gov. Campbell 
was a member of the Constitutional Con voli¬ 
tion of 1816, and was twice elected Lieutenant- 
Governor ol tho Statu by the Republicans on 
the tickets headed by Edwin D. Morgan for Gov¬ 
ernor. 
A barn belonging to the Troy and Lanaing- 
burg Horse Railroad Company, at Lansiugburg, 
was destroyed by lire on the loth. Seventy-four 
horses, ton oars, one hundred tons of liay and a 
quantity of other property were burned. Loss, 
$60,000; covered by insurance. 
The Fenian trials at Cauandaigua have ended, 
and all the prisoners have been found guilty. 
Gen. Stare and Col. Thompson get two years at 
Auburn prison, and Manmx gets one year. Si¬ 
lence prevailed when the doom of the raiders 
was pronounced, and at the close their friends 
crowded around them to say farewell. The 
prisoners have been assigned to the hospital de¬ 
partment of Auburn prison, and will Imve com¬ 
paratively comfortable positions. They are 
treated us political offenders, and not. as con¬ 
victed felons. 
Tim force in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has 
lately been Increased to 1,400 men, anil it is ex¬ 
pelled 1.0(H) more will be added duriug tho 
month. 
C. J. Lyon has beeu doing a tine thing for 
Lewis county. He purchased recently in the 
Mohawk Valley, in the central part of the State, 
1,100 tons of hay at $10 per ton, which he is to 
ship in this county and dispose of. The short¬ 
ness ol the hay crop will insure a ready market 
for It. 
The Board of Excise of the town of Little 
Fulls has been indicted by the Grand Jury at 
Herkimer for tualfoaaauce In office, In the issu¬ 
ing of licenses for the sale of liquors in quanti¬ 
ties less than live gallons, without any provision 
that ilie same should not be drank upon the 
premises. 
The American association for the advance¬ 
ment of science will bold its nineteenth meet¬ 
ing at TroJ, N. Y., August 17. The usual local 
and railroad courtesies will be extended. 
It is now estimated that the track of the 
Southern Central railroad, from Oswego to the 
Pennsylvania coal mines, will be completed this 
fall. 
The surviving officers and members off the 
eighth artillery regiment will hold their sixth 
annual meeting at St. James Hotel, In Batavia, 
bn the 23d day of August. 
The Corning Democrat states that water Was 
lei into the Chemung Canal on Wednesday, bin 
that it would be ten days before loaded boats 
could pass through to Beiiecu Luke, owing to 
low water jtj the Chemung liver. 
There were thirty-three sudden deaths, most¬ 
ly from excessive heat. In New York on the 19th 
inst.. and a large number of persons have been 
prostrated front the same cause. No such heat 
was ever known as that city has experienced 
ever since tho 8th, and we may add there lias 
been very little abatement to this date, the 33d. 
The report has reached us that General Sheri¬ 
dan, accompanied by h(s staff, and members of 
the various branches of the military service, is 
about to visit Europe and observe the conflict 
as a military man. No wiser selection could be 
made. 
The Buffalo Courier chronicles a sad occur¬ 
rence in that city on the 2Uth inst: - Frank B. 
Gallagher, Superintendent Western division of 
tho Erie Canal, was killed by accidentally 
falling from a wall of an Improvement in Buf¬ 
falo Creek. Gallagher was a leading Irish citi¬ 
zen of Buffalo, and belonged to the firm of 
Douglas & Gallagher, contractors. He was can¬ 
didate for State Prison Inspector on the Demo¬ 
cratic ticket in I860. lie was very generally 
known and highly esteemed. 
-- 
FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
The building of tho Tudor Manufacturing 
Company of Charlestown, Mass., used as a lin¬ 
seed oil manufactory, was destroyed by fire on 
the 10th Inst. Tho loss will aggregate $400,000, 
which is covered by insurance to the amount of 
$350,000, mostly in New York uml London com¬ 
panies. Two hundred persons are thrown onto! 
employment. 
A steam plow has been exhibited in South Bos¬ 
ton, that cuts a furrow ten feet wide, and from 
three to t wenty inches deep. It weighs eight 
tons, has an engine of thirty-horse power, and 
was moderately successful at. the trial. 
The main factory, building of the Meriden 
Britannia Company was almost totally destroyed 
by fire on the 16th inst. Tho Joas is $100,000, and 
the insurance $373,000, in seventy different in¬ 
surance companies. 
It Is expected that, the dedication of the Sol¬ 
diers' Monument at Providence, It. I., in Sep¬ 
tember, will bo the occasion of the largest mili¬ 
tary demonstration ever seen in New England. 
A man by the name of Babbit i, who has been 
for three years prospecting ut. Middletown. 
Conn., was rewarded the oilier day by tho dis. 
covery on the Connecticut of a vein of quartz, 
mica aud feldspar over one hundred feet In 
width, which contains sixteen per cent, of pot¬ 
ash, and when ground up is a valuable fertilizer. 
A mining company has been formed of New 
York gentlemen, with Oscar F. Washburn of 
Bridgewater, Vt», at thoir bead, lor the purpose 
of working a mine of gold which he has recently 
discovered in that town. It. is strangely re¬ 
ported that tho ore already blasted out proves 
highly promising. The Now York Mining Com¬ 
pany, with A. L. Allen of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
ns agent have, after sinking a shaft down Into a 
solid rock one hundred and seventy-live feet 
and twelve in width, abandoned work aud all 
hope of making it. pay. 
The Warner House at Northampton, with ten 
stores and khIooiib adjacent, were burned on tho 
18tb inst. The inmates of the hotel barely es¬ 
caped. Total loss about $135,000; insured for 
$85,000, mostly In Now York aud Hartford offices. 
The Ainuskcng Mitniifueluring Company, at 
Manchester, N. IL, pays a city tax of $50,831.25; 
the Manchester Print. Works, $364177.66; the 
Stark Mills, $20,810.82; t he Lnngdou Mi Us, 3,771.40; 
Man Chester Locomotive Works, $3,270; Man¬ 
chester Gas Light Company, 3,558.14; Ncwusku 
Mills, $1,509.60. 
As a boy named William Brown, thirteen 
years old, was shoot ing at a mark with a rille, in 
Lisbon, Conn., a little daughter of Charles 
Bromley, corning from school, ran across tho 
lino of sight, a few feet fir*i put. of tho gun, uud 
was shot through the neck, killing her almost 
Instantly. 
The captain of the brig William Mason, w hich 
arrived at Boston on the 10th Inst., from Suri¬ 
nam, reports having picked upon June30, lut. 
88 N., long. 5515, a boat containing eight men in 
u starving condition, without food or water. As 
they could not speak English, they could not 
give an account of themselves Or where they be¬ 
longed. They are supposed to be French seamen. 
Thomas Baton of South Adams, Mass., wits 
fined $5 and costs by Judge Rockwell, on .the 
charge of nol paying his railroad fare to Nort h 
Adams. Mr. Eaton Is a poor man, and it was 
testified that he tried to procure a ticket at the 
South Adams station, which would have cost 
him twenty-five cents; he tendered the conduc¬ 
tor thirty cents, all the money be had, which was 
refused, aud this action commenced and thus 
strangely concluded. The ease was appealed. 
At a recent auction sale in Keene, N. H., two 
historic tents were disposed of, one for $33, the 
other for $21. These were two of eight English 
tents taken from tv Briteh transport iu the war 
of 1813. and afterwards presented to the old 
Keene Light Infantry. The late Colonel Robert 
Wilson, Of tI ks 13tli New Hampshire regiment, 
used t!u«e tents in the war of the rebellion. 
A man in Norwich, Conn., has whittled with a 
penknife a perplexing bottle puzzle, lie 1ms 
taken an eight-ounce vial and setup in its inte¬ 
rior a perfect keg about two inches long, with 
four hoops on it. aud bot h heads in; and lie has 
Stopped the bottle with a wooden plug, which 
fits perfectly tight and is keyed inside, the key 
pinuctl and the pin toggled. The workmanship 
is excellent, and the way It was done is a mys¬ 
tery. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
While digging a well in DcKalb county Ill., a 
few days ago, Joseph Atwater dug up $950 
worth of old silver ware, fifteen feet below the 
surface. 
Pontiac, Illinois, was visited by a fire recently 
which destroyed thirteen buildings, involving 
a loss of $54,000. 
At the recent commencement at the Universi¬ 
ty of Chicago, the degree of bachelor of laws 
was conferred upon u woman, for the first lime 
iu the history of tho State. 
A railroad convention held at Bentonville, 
Ark., was largely attended by delegations from 
all parts of tho Suite. The object was to provide 
for a general system of railroads throughout 
the State, and with especial reference to North- 
Western Arkansas and South-Western Missouri. 
The immediate construction of a road from 
Bentonville to Forthwith, to be known as the 
Arkansas Western Railroad xvas favorably con¬ 
sidered, and measures taken accordingly. 
There is no better wav of obtaining a Correct 
idea of California than by citing some few par¬ 
ticulars from the statistics recently published 
by the Sun Francisco papers. With a population 
of 600,000, of ivbotn 70,000 arc Chinese, Indians 
and negroes, we are told there were produced 
last year' 30,000,000 bushels of wheat, 8,000,000 
bushels of barley, 1,200,000 bushels of oats. 1,000,- 
000 bushels of corn, 4,000,000 gallons of wine, 
800,000 gallons ol' brandy, 230,000,000 feet of sawed 
lumber, 5,000,000 pounds of butter, and 18,000,000 
pounds of wool. Of metals there were produced 
3,000,000 pounds of quicksilver, all the rest of the 
world producing but 3,500,000 pouuds, $1,000,000 
of silver, and $21,473,851 of gold. Manufactures 
yielded Inst year $75,000,000. and the total value 
of industrial products was $182,000,000. 
The main portion of the Dcpau House, at New 
{ Albany, Ind„ was destroyed by fire lately. The 
building wan owned by W. E. Dcpau: loss $6,000; 
not insured. The furnit ure was owned by J. C. 
Bent!)', who loses $10,000; no insurance. 
The colored people of Indianapolis hail a pic¬ 
nic excursion toGreencastlc.on the Terre Haute 
road, and two men mimed Oh as. Brown aud Win. 
Burr were killed while riding on the top of the 
car to avoid the ticket conductor. 
A fire iu Keokuk, Iowa, recently, destroyed 
property to the amount of $100,000 to $200,000, 
ca used by fire crackers. 
Prof. Veazio of Michigan has made a report 
relative to the alleged magnetic wells, in which 
He asserts that water is “ not capable of receiv¬ 
ing and retaining that peculiar state of polarity 
called magnetic," but that the magnetic prop¬ 
erly is developed in the iron tubing of the wells; 
and that iron tubes of the same dimensions, sus¬ 
pended in a vertical position in earth, air or 
water, would exhibit the same magnetic phe¬ 
nomena. 
Large consignments of wool—from two hun¬ 
dred to three hundred tuns—Tor New York and 
Boston, passed through Omaha, Neb., recently. 
The Indians that crossed the Union Pacific 
Ballroad and murdered tho miners in North 
Fork, Cob, arc reported iis having rccrosscd 
northward, but no news lius been received from 
the soldiers who went there. 
A letter from Smith Pass City, of the 12th 
inst., says the. Rig Horn expedition has not been 
heard from since they left the Wind River Val¬ 
ley, and were hearting to cross Owl Creek Moun¬ 
tains. Considerable anxiety is felt for their 
safety at Atlantic City, Wyoming. 
Ten miles of the Kansas Pacific Railway are 
completed eastward from Denver. There is a gap 
of less than seventy-five miles, and track-laying 
Is going forward from both ways. It will proba¬ 
bly be completed In from four to six weeks. 
Owing to the crowded condition of the Illinois 
i Hospital for the Insane, tho trustees of that In¬ 
stitution, at their lust meeting, directed that nil 
patients confined therein, who were incurable, 
should be removed and returned to their friends. 
A farmer named Dosen, residing near Hum- 
bolt, Kansas, whipped an apprentice boy, aged 
thirteen, to death recently. Ho was arrested 
and lodged in Jail, from which lynchers took uud 
hung him. 
The recent census gives Detroit 14,698 families, 
718 stores. 381 groceries, 4-fil offices, 63 hotels, 196 
boarding bouses, 54 churches, 13 public halls, 108 
public schools, 893 machlno shops. Tho number 
of families in i860 was 8,903. 
Writing from California, July 2, Mr. Ingala of 
tho Watertown Reformer Bays:—It is now three 
o'clock, and Ihe mercury stands UP iu flio 
shade—I say one hundred aud fourteen! Tho 
Hottest day l over saw or felt. The air is like a 
gust from a heated ovetl. The gilt and wood¬ 
work iu the cars feel hot as if they stood near a 
stove. In t he suit the thermometer must bo up 
to 130° or above. It seems as though the surface 
of the earth would take lire aud become envel¬ 
oped in fiatne. 
-- 
FROM THE SOUTH. 
In Florida,cranes, pelicans, herons and other 
water-fowl are numerous. The plumage of the 
heron is very beautiful, and much sought after. 
That ol tho white heron sells at $3 to $3, while 
tho pink heron, which is much more rare, com¬ 
mands $8 to $10. 
A band of outlaws was recently broken up in 
Texas, widen has flourished within a day's rido 
of a county seat, for over a year, during which 
time It has committed several murders, and 
stolen into- lfl.000 head of cattle. 
Within twenty-live miles around the White 
Sulphur Springs of West Virginia, there is more 
Iron ore than in t he whole of Great Britain. 
Now Orleans is greatly agitated over the loss 
of a beautiful child, seventeen months old, which 
is supposed to have been stolen from its home. 
The Governor of the State has offered a reward 
Of $1,000 for Its recovery. 
Prof, ltoossler, of the General Land Office, 
who was sent to make a geographical survey of 
Texas, reports on his return that the copper de¬ 
posits in Texas are very rich, showing sixly-two_ 
per cent, of pure copper. 
Magi unis’cull on seed oil manufactory, at New 
Orleans, was destroyed by Ore the 17th inst. 
The loss was $100,000, on which there is $55,000 
insurance in home companies. 
Tennessee is to have n valuable addition to 
her population of several thousand Menonites 
from Eastern Prussia. The Menonites are a 
sect of the early Baptists, and are scattered iu 
largo numbers throughout Eastern Europe. 
The Legislature of Georgia convened on tho 
121 It at Atlanta. The Senate continued the ap¬ 
propriation Act of I860 until further ordered. 
A motion to adjourn sine die was tabled, as was 
one to adjourn to Mi Hedge ville. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
The new School Board of Cincinnati has been 
organized. The officers elected are all in favor 
of the Bible in public schools. The majority 
was small, but it was equal to the expectations 
of the friends of the Bible. 
The Ashtabula (OhioJ Sentinel says a fatal dis¬ 
ease, which is called black leg by6ome, has oc¬ 
curred in the north part of Jefferson. Two cows 
died within twenty-four hours after being at¬ 
tacked. 
Miss V. E. Dyer, daughter of the late Captain 
John N. Dyer, has been appointed to a position 
in the post-office at Painesville, O. Capt, Dyer 
was among tho first to volunteer duriug the late 
war. and was the first to soul bis devotion to his 
flag with his life. 
Accounts from all parts of New Brunswick 
and from Nova Scotia speak of injury to the 
crops from the long continued drouth. The 
upland hay crop will not exceed half the usual 
average. 
Bishop Taclto of Rod River arrived in St. Paul, 
July 8th, having been nine days coming from 
Winnipeg. The day before lie started the Legis¬ 
lative Assembly of Red River met in council, 
and unanimously accepted the terms of the 
Manitoba "bill of the Canadian Parliament, Riel 
himself urging the action. Thu bill, with the 
assurances of Imperial amnesty, which were 
sent to Riel and his cabinet by the Red River 
Commissioner to Canada, is regarded as very 
favorable, and as granting more than the Red 
River people expected or ought to ask for. 
Bishop Tacho asserts that the British troops will 
be welcomed, and that the people are greatly 
pleased with what has been accomplished, and 
with their future prospects. This action proba¬ 
bly ended the celebrated Red River revolution, 
and it is believed that on the arrival of Bishop 
Tacbeai Ottawa, a considerable portion of tho 
military expedition now floundering in tho 
swamps near Fort William, on Lake Superior, 
will be recalled. 
The oakum factory of W. O. Davies, in Hud¬ 
son City, caught fire on the 18th, in the picking 
room, supposed from the friction of the ma¬ 
chinery, and the entire eastern portion of Hie 
main building consumed. The loss is estimated 
at $100,000, on which there is an insurance of 
$75,000. 
They are making puddled steel at Allentown, 
Pa., which stood a tonsil strain of 127,430 pounds 
to the square inch. A piece of the steel-capped 
rati made by this process was lately tested, and 
stood 5,000 blows, and the weld still remained 
perfect. 
Geauga county, Ohio, during 18(59, manufac¬ 
tured 4,543.980 pounds of cheese, which is an in¬ 
crease of 1,114,378 pounds over tho year 1868. 
Tho chocsc product of the county for the past 
seven years amounts to 33,174,052 pounds, a 
yearly average of 4,730,150 pounds. The largest 
amount manufactured was in 1866, being 6,358,- 
577, and tho smallest amount was that of 1868, 
being only 3,429,703. 
On the first of this month three Important 
postal arrangements went Into effect, viz.:— The 
new Postal Treaty with the North German 
Union, reducing t he letter rate ol postage from 
ten to seven cents by the direct mute, and from 
fifteen to ten cents via Great Britain, to all the 
States composing the North .German postal ju¬ 
risdiction, including Austria, Luxembourg, Ac. 
The second is with the Sandwich Islands, and t he 
third with British Columbia, which fix the pre¬ 
paid postage on letters to each at six cents per 
single rate. 
From Cuba we receive the same conflicting 
reports from cither parly in turn. Theanne.xed 
resume of Cuban affairs from the official Span¬ 
ish journal at. Madrid in probably nearer the 
actual state of affairs than has been published 
else where. It says:—There is something singu¬ 
lar in this Cul/uii question. The Government 
and the newspapers are convinced of the falsity 
of notices forwarded by the cable from Ha vana, 
and yet all hasten to publish them and to make 
comments thereon. Is it because we do not 
dare to give the true position ol affairs, and 
that the loss of Cuba torments us so much that 
we resist the belief that the thing is possible, 
notwithstanding the facta? This must be the 
reason. At this moment tho Spanish public are 
given to understand, through Do Rodus, that 
t he Insurgents havo come forward and surren¬ 
dered, and the same public accepts, through 
their ministers, these surrenders us if actually 
made. When a belligerent proposes peace and 
tho other accepts it, in all epochs and among all 
parties, the war is to be understood as having 
terminated. Have we pence in Cuba? The tel¬ 
egraph, after giving us this Important news, an¬ 
nounces execution after execution, surrenders 
upon surrenders, in such a way that we come 
to one of t bo three following conclusions: First, 
the talk of peace Is a mere pretense; second, if 
these talcs of peace are telegraphed In the hope 
of bringing about a sell lenient of existing diffi¬ 
culties, then those who heed them are deceived ; 
third, the surrenders have existod only in (ho 
fruitful imaginations of those who, ever since 
the beginning of the war, have deceived us us 
to tho actual situation. 
Yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow they keep 
on repeating their deceitful story in varied 
form. What story remains yet to be invented? 
There Is silence fur a few days, then we have tho 
same statement as before. In fact, we are ac¬ 
tually Ipsing, though all the while claiming to 
be gaining. This is a very old game, and wo un¬ 
derstand it perfectly. 
“The successive emancipation of the colo¬ 
nies," says Mr. Facieu, "is almost an infallible 
law or history, which the statesmen should 
foresee and prepare for." For I his reason, Gen. 
Prim has raid repeatedly to Mr. Sickles, “Tho 
independence of Cuba is only a question of 
time." The march ol colonies onward to Inde¬ 
pendence is determined by different circum¬ 
stances. into which enters emigration, and the 
Character of the race resulting from tills emi¬ 
gration play!* also an important role . In no part 
more than in our own Spain 1ms tho truth of 
this idea been fob. 
From Mexico it. is currently reported that 
President Juarez declines to be a candidate for 
re-election to the Presidency or Mexico. It is 
also stated that he will use his influence in favor 
of Lerdo do Tejada. 
Tho people of the Northern States refuse to 
support ihe nomination of Gen. Escobedo for 
President. The most prominent opposition can¬ 
didate is Porilrio Diaz. 
The reported destruction and flight of Gen. 
Martinez’s army to untrue. Martinez 1ms a re¬ 
spectable force, operating in the State of Sun 
Luis Potosi. 
Gen. lliva Palacio, a prominent politician, 
left to-day for Europe. 
A number of Petroleum wells have been sunk 
in tho State of Minatitlau. 
The Protestant Church has been inaugurated 
iu tbe village of Co solo. 
Upon the vexed fishery question the Canadian 
Government have issued the following instruc¬ 
tions to their gunboat si—“The limits within 
which you will In the necessary exercise of your 
power exclude United States fishermen, or de¬ 
tain American fishing vessels or boats, are for 
tho present to be exceptional. Difficulties have 
arisen in former Limes in respect to the ques¬ 
tion whether the exclusive limits should be 
measured op lines drawn parallel everywhere to 
the coast, and describing its sinuosities, or on 
lines produced from headland to headland across 
the entranoe of bays, creeks and harbors. Her 
Majesty’s Government is clearly of the opinion 
that by the Convention of 1818, the Uni ted States 
have renounced the right of fishing, not only 
wit hin three miles of the colonial shores, but 
within three miles of a lino drawn across any 
bay or creek. IL Is, however, the wish of Her 
Majesty’s Government neither to concede nor, 
for the present, enforce any tights iu this re¬ 
spect which are Iu their nature open to any se¬ 
rious quusi ion, until furlher instructions. There¬ 
fore. you will not Interfere with any American 
fishermen, unless found within three miles of 
the shore, or within three miles of a line drawn 
across the mouth of a bay or creek which is less 
than ten geographical miles in width. In case 
of any other bay, as Bay Disehaleurs, for exam¬ 
ple, you will uot admit any United States fishing 
vessel or boat, or any American fishermen inside 
of a line drawn across at that part of such bay 
where the width does not exceed ten miles." 
