business pending August 16th will stand over 
till September. 
It Is announced that the Right Rev. Bishop 
Ryan, Bishop of Buffalo, is lying dangerously ill 
at Horne, whither he went some months si nee to 
uttend the Ecumenical Council. 
Track-laying has commenced on the Ithaca 
and Cortland Railroad, at the Froovllle end. 
The rails are being shipped at New York via 
New York Central and Southern Central. 
Tire gas well at West Bloomtleld, which at¬ 
tracted much attentlou when discovered, is des¬ 
tined soon to be made practically available. 
The company are proceeding steadily with the 
work, ami expect lo begin the delivery of gas in 
Roch' ster tliis tall. The survey of the route 
shows that tbe distance is a mile leas than was 
supposed, and the fall also considerable less. 
The amount of gas flowing from the well Is 
found, on accurate measurement, to be vastly 
greater than estimated. The supply is so great 
that It becomes a question what the company 
will do with it all, ~ 
very scarce, and the sick are suffering for want 
of proper help. 
Five hundred men are to be employed at, the 
Kittery, Me., Navy Yard. It is reported that 
every available vessel tbere Is to be fitted for sea. 
On the 24th ult. a (Ire destroyed nearly the en¬ 
tire business port ion of the village of Cole brook, 
N. H., resulting In ft loss of over $60,000, and ren¬ 
dering sixteen families homeless. The amount 
of insurance Is not known. 
pelied two young girls to work in the street 
gang. 
In North Carolina a railroad along the Tar 
River is to he constructed on the Welsh narrow 
gauge plan of two and half feet. 
At the recent meeting of the Hoard of Super¬ 
visors of Pike county. Miss., it was ascertained 
that the’, former Sheriff, Young, had absconded 
with about. $12,000 of taxes, in money and war¬ 
rants. 
Denials come from North Carolina of the re¬ 
ported troubles with the militia. An unauthor¬ 
ized and irresponsible party semis the fallacious 
telegrams. 
A battle with the Camanche and Kiowa In¬ 
dians took plaoe in Northern Texas on the Ht.li 
ultimo, in which our fbrees, under Major 
McClellan, were whipped and forced to retreat. 
Our loss was two killed and eleven wounded. 
The Indians were armed with Spencer rifles and 
six shooters, and were all warriors. The fight 
lasted live hours. 
Austria, Denmark and Russia, as well as Eng¬ 
land, to preserve a neutral position, though it is 
charged t hat England’s neutrality will besimiiar 
to that toward the United States in the Alabama 
matter. France has declared its intention of 
withdrawing troops from Home, having taken 
the initiative step without the request bciDg 
made by the Italian Government. In view of 
withdrawal the revolutionary intrigues of the 
republicans have re-commenced. A secret de¬ 
posit of arms has been discovered at Genoa. 
Later It is announced that aconditlonal alliance 
has been concluded between France and Italy, 
and that the new treaty stipulates that iu case 
of certain eventualities, France is to pay Italy 
sixty millions of francs and leave her free to 
make Rome the capital of the kingdom. Advices 
from Rome represent that the Pope accepts as 
inevitable the evaeuution of Romo by the 
French troops. 
A dispatch from Berne says the Swiss Govern¬ 
ment has forbidden the exportation of cereals 
and horses. 
A Vienna despatch says that Austria will 
probably “prohibit" the proclamation of Pa¬ 
pal infallibility. This of course refers to the 
proclamation as affecting Austrian territory 
alone. 
The sessions of the Spanish Cortes are not to 
be resumed until November next. Prim does 
not care to bo bothered with meddlesome Dep¬ 
uties while the war lasts. 
The French government has appointed Vi- 
cointe de Treilhavd to be Envoy Extraordinary 
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United 
Slates fn place uf the late M. Prevost-Paradol. 
The now Minister was Secretary of Legation at 
Washington in 1865, and at tbe time of this ucav 
appointment was French Minister Resident iu 
Chill. 
The Government of Denmark has issued a 
proclamation of neutrality in the wav between 
Prussia and France. Sailors and pilots, subjects 
of Denmark, arc warned against rendering as¬ 
sistance to the belligerents. 
The armored ship Warrior has been commis¬ 
sioned to bring the Princess Royal, tbe wife of 
the Crown Prince of Prussia, to England. 
As showing the feeling, it is reported that 
France inquired through Russia on what condi¬ 
tions peace might be made. Prussia's reply to 
Russia was embodied in four words“ It is too 
late." 
Tbe Belgian camp at Beverloo 1ms broken up, 
and the troops have been distributed among the 
frontier fortresses. All work on tbe fortifica¬ 
tions is rapidly hurried forward to completion. 
Great excitement has been caused in the Dan- 
Ubian principalities by the breaking out of the 
war. The people are preparing to make use of 
the opportunity to obtain their independence. 
Turkey is consequently arming to prevent a 
revolt. 
Some weeks since there was a report of a mas¬ 
sacre of French) and other residents of China, 
which was afterward denied. It proves, how¬ 
ever, to have been untortunatcly true. The 
Governments insulted have sent armed vessels 
to Tien-Tlen, tho seaport of Pekin, to demand 
reparation. At the same time an Ambassador 
has been appointed from China, to settle, if pos¬ 
sible, the whole difficulty and avert the speck of 
war.' 
We have now a report from Japan, that tho 
Jnpaneso have ruthlessly slaughtered over one 
thousand foreign residents, but no detail of tho 
affair has been received. 
FROM WASHINGTON. 
Trig Navy Department has issued orders to 
have the United Stutcs steamers Narraganset 
and California fitted for sea with all possible 
dispatch. 
Commissioner Delano advises collectors that 
tbe dividends declared due on August 1st, 1870, 
are subject to the tax at t he rate of two and a- 
hall per cent. Dividends declared prior to that 
date, are subject to a tax of five per cent. 
Three companies of artillery left Fortress Mon¬ 
roe on the 36th ult„ for Raleigh, N. C., to aid 
Gov. Holden in enforcing the luws in that State. 
Secretary Belknap and Gen. Dyer, Chief of 
Ordnance, have left Washington for Spring- 
field and Watorvliet Arsenals, for inspection 
purposes. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a 
circular to collectors and others, announcing 
the repeal of the tonnage duty on vessels en¬ 
gaged in the coasting trade and fisheries, and of 
the speciul tux on bouts, barges and finals. This 
under tbe act ol July 14,1870, collectors are in¬ 
structed to abstain from the collection on t he 
receipt of the circular, and to report all applica¬ 
tions for refunding the money so paid, ou and 
after the 14th ult., to the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 
Four or five vessels have been added to our 
European Squadron, with a view of protection 
to American vessels during the war between 
Prussia and France. Although the Congression¬ 
al appropriation was strictly oonflned to the 
peace establishment, the Navy Department will 
fit out vessels for sea in behalf of our commer¬ 
cial marine. Neither Prussia nor France is per¬ 
mitted to purchase vessels or warlike supplies in 
tins country. 
The head of the English Post-Office Depart¬ 
ment bus telegraphed Postmaster-General Cross¬ 
walk ^pqui ring what arrangements have been 
made by our Government tor carrying its mail 
under the new order of tlilugs, und has been no¬ 
tified that it has bcon decided that the Inman 
line shall carry all the American mails. 
By permission of the Government on leave of 
absence, and after a lengthy interview with the 
President and Secretary of War, General Sheri¬ 
dan sailed for Europe on the Scotia on tho 87th 
ult. The object of the visit is to observe the 
military affairs of both France and Prussia with 
a view ol conferring benefit by useful sugges¬ 
tions upon the army of the United States. His 
stay iu Europe will be a lengthy one if circum¬ 
stances require It. His military duties will be 
temporarily assumed by General Sherman. 
Congress having provided by acts approved 
June 17, June 30, and July 11,1870, for the re¬ 
issue every five years of artificial limbs or tho 
valuo thereof iu money to officers, soldiers, sea¬ 
men and marines, who have lost limbs in tho 
service of the United States, instructions ure 
published Tor the benefit of those interested. 
Upon applications Tor limbs, orders will he 
given by the Surgeon-General upon any manu¬ 
facturer selected, who shall have first, tiled a 
bond in the sum of $5,000, with two securities, 
to furnish good and satisfactory limbs without 
extra charge to the soldier, aud make good all 
defects of material or workmanship without 
additional charge, subject in all cases to the in¬ 
spection of such persons as the Burgeon-Gen¬ 
eral may designate. Transportation to and 
from the plneo of fitting the limb will also be 
furnished upon a written request addressed to 
the Burgeon-General. 
The mortal 
FROM THE WEST. 
A thousand lodges gathered to receive Red 
Cloud on his return, and the demonstration 
exceeded anything known among the oldest 
Aborigines. 
The East Saginaw Enterprise says ihc total 
shortage of logs in the State, as compared with 
1869, is 300,000,000 feet, and as a consequence the 
mills have closed for the summer. 
A man Ht Autan, Indiana, was taken up by the 
wind, on the 17th ult., and dashed with so much 
force on the ground as to cause his death in t wo 
hours. 
A man in Ohio recently killed thirteen thou¬ 
sand seven hundred and eighty-four snakes In 
twenty acres of woods, on his farm, and he says 
there are three times as many left . 
Yankees are buying up horses in California 
for the market of the Eastern Mtat.es. Good 
horses are purchased in California at twenty dol¬ 
lars a head. 
The Germans of Chicago have already raised 
$6,000, and are confident of raising $ 50,000 i 0 
aid the wounded and destitute of Fatherland. 
An alarming report has reached us from the 
West. Some speculative villains have been pur¬ 
chasing buffalo robes iufeeted with the small¬ 
pox and shipping them eastward, threatening 
thereby to scatter thediseuse in every direction, 
wherever the infected robes may be sold. Ef¬ 
forts are being made by t he Government au¬ 
thorities and the managers of the Pacific Rail¬ 
road to seize and destroy the death-dealing arti¬ 
cles, and the Government has succeed in captur¬ 
ing 1,300 Of t hem. 
The annual reunion of the 7th and 29th Ohio 
volunteers, will bo held at Faincsvillo, O., Aug. 
9th. It is desired that all parties attending the 
re-anion Ishould arrive by early trains, so as to 
give ample time for the rooeption ceremonies 
and the business meeting afterwards. 
Gen. Salomon, Governor of Washington Ter¬ 
ritory, lias sent two hundred emigrants to Puget. 
Sound, and two hundred more will be sent in 
August. The emigrants are mostly from Chi¬ 
cago. 
A ring of distillers at Pekin, Ill., paid the Gov¬ 
ernment $38,000 to settle certain suits for de¬ 
frauding the revenue. 
The Saginaw Courier gives an account of au 
ingenious contrivance invented by Mr. R. G. 
Hervey. late, of Buffalo. It Is for gates at rail¬ 
way crossings to be opened and closed by pass¬ 
ing trains, and as danger signals are also hoisted 
by the appreaching train when at a very con¬ 
siderable distance, na attendants at crossings 
are necessary. Tho thing is so Sirrtplo that 
it seems impossible Miat it should get out of 
order, nor cart ft. he etA-gcrt or impeded by snow. 
A patent has been apiWed for. 
The Ohio Farmer says the State t rial of reap¬ 
ers ami mowers, held at Mansfield, under the di¬ 
rection of the Executive Committee of the 
State Board of Agriculture, was the largest ex¬ 
hibition of the kind ever held In the world, ex¬ 
ceeding the great Auburn contest of 1866 by 
nearly double the number of entries. The trial 
commenced on the 5th, and closed on the 9th of 
July, consuming four und a-half days. No offi¬ 
cial report lias, thus far, been published. 
Advices received at Omaha from the vicinity 
of Milk River gives particulars of the terrible 
ravages of the small-pox among the Gres Ven¬ 
tres. Au Indian died with this disease, and the 
Indians dug him up to get bis blankets; the in¬ 
fection spread through their camps, and within 
a few days 750 out of 1,900 Indians died. A shirt 
infected was left on the trail of the Piegan In¬ 
dians, by a man imracd Delioche, which caused 
the ravages among that tribe. 
The tea traffic over the Pacific Railroad pro¬ 
mises to amount, during tbe first six months, to 
nearly 1,000,000 pounds. 
The fortunate stockholders 
of this concern are destined to an abundant 
harvest. 
A new York thief attempted to rob the teller 
Of t he First National Bank of Fishklll by throw¬ 
ing red pepper in his eyes. Ho seized a satchel 
from the teller’s hand and ran. One Elijah 
Jones pursued and caught tho rascal, but in the 
scuffle was fired upon and mortally wounded by 
him. The murderer F in Jail. 
Senator Fenton rescued from drowning a lit¬ 
tle girl who was knocked into a pond at Baby¬ 
lon by a largo water-dog. 
Newman’s wheelbarrow factory at Milton 
Landing was destroyed by fire the 24th ult. The 
loss is $30,000; Insurance, $10,000. 
Charles F. De Loosey, the Austrian Consul- 
General at New York since 1852, fell to the side¬ 
walk on tbe 31st ult., and died boou afterwards. 
The body was removed to the New York hotel, 
and examined by Deputy Coroner Beach, and 
the vessels around the heart were found gorged 
with blood. One of these hud burst, causing 
Immediate suspension of life. 
The Battle Island flour mill, near Fulton was 
destroyed by fire on the 87th ult. The loss is 
$35,000; Insured for $80,000. 
The following are the leading articles cleared 
for tidewater on the Champlain canal for tho 
month of Juno: 37,000,000 feet of dumber, 6,000 
bushels ol barley, 206,597 bushels of oats, 5,000,000 
pounds of pig iron and bloom iron, 236,000 
pouuds of nails and spikes, 14,000,000 pounds of 
stone and lime, and 76,345,000 pounds of iron 
oro. 
On t he morning of the 85th ult., a tiro ot James¬ 
town, originating in a clothing store, destroyed 
property to the amount of $50,000 in consequence 
of the fire department being short of hose and 
water. 
The long looked Tor yacht race between the 
clubs of England and America, as championed 
by the Cambria and Dauntless, respectively, lias 
resulted in a victory for the English, the Cam¬ 
bria having arrivod at Saudy Hook, July 27th, at 
3.45 P. M. The Dauntless came to hand one 
hour, forty two minutes and forty-five seconds 
later. The Dauntless had ttie misfortune to 
loose overboard two men on the third day out. 
An entry in their log, says:—“Charles Scot* and 
Albert Demur, were washed off the boom; hove 
to the yacht for t wo hours, lowered a foresail 
and got out bout, but fulled to see anything of 
the missing men." The whole race lias been 
very close, and the two hours lost as noted 
above, more than covers tho difference in the 
time of arrival. The exact official time made by 
the yachts is as follows; From Haunt's Head to 
Sandy iiook Lightship, Cumbria, twenty-three 
days, five hours, seventeen minutes, and fifteen 
seconds. Dauntless, twenty-three days and 
seven hours. 
A very destructive fire, involving the loss of 
property amounting to nearly three-quarters of 
a million of dollars, broke out on the 35th ult., in 
the five-story brown stone building at the cor¬ 
ner of Broadway and Rector st. The American 
Bank Note Company lost a large number of val¬ 
uable plates for the printing of greenbacks. 
About $80,000 worth of unfinished currency was 
burned up. Major & Knapp, engravers and 
lithographers, the Union Trust Company, rhe 
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and oth¬ 
ers, are heavy losers. 
FOREIGN NEWS 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
The following named States and Territories 
will be entitled to the $54,000,000 additional cir¬ 
culation, under the new currency act, in the 
proportion below named:—Virginia, $4,915,985■ 
West Virginia, $457,770; Illinois, $1,079,578; Mich¬ 
igan, $766,770; Wisconsin, $3,117,939; Iowa, $681,- 
303; Kansas, *174,713; Missouri, $3,000,412; Ken¬ 
tucky, $4,651,349; Tennessee, $1,331,759; Louisi¬ 
ana, $5,435,193; Mississippi, $2,980,470; Nebraska, 
$6,576; Georgia, $4,681,738; North Carolina, $4,- 
098,628; South Carolina. $4,316,836; Alabama, $4,- 
081,812; Oregon, $161,273; Texas, $2,0)42,191; Ar¬ 
kansas, $1,455,519; Utah, $58,332; California, $1,- 
717,388; Florida, $540,143; Dukota, *15,441; New 
Mexico, *277,939: Washington Territory, $47,180; 
total, $54,000,000. 
Efforts are tiring made among tho friends of 
Williams College to raise, in addition to scholar¬ 
ships for undergraduates, $10,000 to establish a 
fellowship and also to establish a “ university 
course" of post-graduate study. 
A true bill has been found against General 
O'Neill, the late Fenian leader, by tho grand 
jury of Windsor, Vt. I Ms trial for a violation 
of the neutrality laws will soon take plaoe, and 
doubtless, lie will share the fate of Starr and his 
compatriots. 
South American news by tho way of Lisbon is 
unimportant. The treaty of peace beLween 
Brazil and tho new government of Paraguay has 
not yet been signed. The report of the death of 
General Lopez Jordan, the Argentine insurrec¬ 
tionist is incorrect. He is still in Bntro Rios. 
The enterprise or laying the submarine cable 
between Cuba, Jamaica, and the Isthmus of 
Panama, has been commenced. The shore end 
was successfully landed at Batabano, which is 
on the south side of the Island of Cuba, about 
twenty-eight miles from Havana. 
To show how completely tho insurrection is 
crushed in Cuba, the Spanish authorities in Ha¬ 
vana cause the report to be telegraphed that 
Captain-General de Rodas has declined rein¬ 
forcements of troops offered to him by the 
Spanish Colonial Minister. 
The Havana correspondent of the World writes 
of several fresh engagements between the Cu¬ 
bans and Spaniards, which go to prove that ttie 
Captain-General’s bulletins about the complete 
suppression of the insurrection are false. In the 
recent battles over 400 fighting men have been 
killed. Both sides claim the victory, of course. 
The insurrection appeals to be as much alive as 
ever in the mountain districts of the southeast. 
Cholera, small-pox, and yellow-fever are de eas¬ 
ting the island wherever foreigners ure sojour¬ 
ning. 
The attempt to get up an eight hour strike 
through all the mining region of Pennsylvania, 
has been au ignominious failure. 
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Mon¬ 
treal, on the 17th nit., passed a resolution recom¬ 
mending tho city to give $1,000,000 to the Canada 
Central and Northern Colonization Railway. 
The Hon- Washington Townsend, of the West 
Chester, Pa., District, succeeded in getting 
through Congress, before it adjourned, an ap¬ 
propriation of $12,500 for the Lincoln University 
at Oxford, for the education of colored youths. 
This was attached to the miscellaneous appro¬ 
priation WU in conference. 
•eumiiis of the late M. Prevost 
Paradol were sont to France in the steamship 
Lafayette, which sailed ou the 23d ult. for Brest 
and Havre. The coffin was enclosed in a strong 
box, around which was wrapped tho French tri¬ 
color. The daughter and son of deceased ac¬ 
companied the remains home. 
The expedition to Nicaragua and Tehuante¬ 
pec, which was authorized by Congress, will be 
fitted out this month and depart iu September, 
Rear Admiral Sbufeldt is to command it. 
By the new law, just received by the Secretary 
of War, for reorganizing the army, the number 
of men now in service, about 34,500, is to bo re¬ 
duced to 30,000. There will he a largo number 
of officers, about 400, who will be mustered out 
with one year’s leave of absence with pay, and 
some officers will be placed on the retired list. 
A Board, of which Mnjor-Gcn. Schofield is to he 
President, will examine the cases of all officers 
aud report thereon. There is considerable ex¬ 
citement among army officers in reference to 
the matter. 
The Navy Department has half a dozen vessels 
ready for sea, including the steamer Brooklyn, 
but none of them can be manned, owing to the 
law of Congress restricting tbe number of sea¬ 
men to 8,50(1, the whole of tliis number being al¬ 
ready in tho service. 
The actual receipts of the Government for the 
year ending June 30, 1870, were $408,000,000; the 
expenses were $292,000,000, showing an actual 
saving, in round numbers, of $116,000,000. The 
expenses of l he Government for 1803 were $1,- 
250,0000,000, and for I 860 more than $500,000,000. 
FROM THE SOUTH, 
FROM NEW ENGLAND 
At the late Texas State Fair there were on ex¬ 
hibition cucumbers twenty-one inches long and 
eight inches in circumference, and beets weigh¬ 
ing fifteen pounds each ; also a bale of hay eut 
front the natural meadow of Texas, put up 
twelve months ago, aud having yet about it all 
the freshness of tbe harvest field. 
A. J. Bowen, of Mandarin, Florida, reports 
that lie raised three hundred and fifty bushels 
of sweet potatoes on one acre of new pine land 
without any manure, aud sold them for $1 per 
bushel. 
Ttie drouth In Texas, says Flake’s Bulletin, has 
ceased to be an inconvenience—its long contin¬ 
uance lias become a public calamity. While the 
neighboring country has had an abundance of 
rain so that our general crops will not suffer, 
the vegetation in the City of Galveston is 
parched and dry as tinder. Cisterns are empty, 
and those wliose business it is to deal in water, 
have noue to sell. 
The Presbyterians of New Orleans have com¬ 
menced to establish District]and High Schools 
for white children- Those who have no fond¬ 
ness for mingling the children ol the two races, 
will thus avoid that unpleasant alternative. 
In Yadkin county, N. C., hist week, seven per¬ 
sons went to the stable ol a gentleman, und cut 
the throat of one mule and cut the tongue out or 
another. 
Ttie Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, from Cov¬ 
ington to its western terminus, is to be laid with 
steel rails. At Buffalo Gap, on the line ot road 
east of the White Sulphur, a Baltimore company 
have erected a superior furnancc for the pur¬ 
pose of testing Siebert'9 patent for making steel. 
Considerable complaint is heard of sickness 
among field hands in Louisiana. On some plan¬ 
tations, one-quarter of the force is absent, from 
the fields. Dysentery and influenza are the lead¬ 
ing complaints. 
Judge Guigou of Richmond, Va., has decided 
that the violation of the election law in one 
ward of the city, vitiated tbe late municipal 
election, aud another election must be held. 
A telegram from Danube, Va.. says a large 
number of citizensof Caswell county, N.C., have 
tied to that place for safety from Col. Kirk and 
the North Carolina State troops. 
A Georgia newspaper reproaches the authori¬ 
ties at Americas with the shame of having cow- 
Thb copper works at Vershire, Vt., are now 
employing from two hundred and fifty to three 
hundred workmen; yield about oue hundred 
and l wenly-live tons of ore per week, and claim 
to be the only copper mines in tho country 
which pay expenses- 
The Peabody Museum of Arclneology has se¬ 
cured the services ol' Porter C. Bliss, lately ap¬ 
pointed secretary of legation to Mexico, who 
will devote all his spare time to the work of de¬ 
ciphering the hieroglyphics in that country, and 
to other antiquarian studies. 
Recently a drover placed one hundred and ton 
fat aheap in a box car in Northern Vermont to 
ho carried to Boston, lie closed the door, and 
when reaching Bellows Falls he found one hun¬ 
dred and five ot them dead from suffocation. 
Mr. A. I*. Welcome of Newport, N. H„ has 
sheared the champion fleece of the season, from 
a half-blood Merino. It weighed seventeen and 
three-quarter pounds. 
Tho Connecticut House of Representatives 
lias voted down a resolution incorporating the 
Fat Men's Association. 
The annual reunion of the Fourteenth Con¬ 
necticut Volunteers will be held in New Britain 
ou tho anniversary of the battle of Autietam, 
September 17th. 
The aut horities and citizens of Milford, Conn., 
and vicinity, have offered a reward of $8,500 for 
the capture ol the murderer of Mr. Fonu of Mil¬ 
ford. This will he a great temptation to the ac¬ 
complice, and may lead to his turning State’s 
evidence. 
A fire occurred in East Boston, recently, in 
which tho principal portion of the Island Ward 
was destroyed. Loss $500,000. 
Some railroad contractors, of Springfield, 
Mass., are discussing the introduction of Asiatic 
labor on the railroad they are building from 
Framingham to Lowell. Tho people along t he 
line of the Athol and Enfield road, are said to 
he anxious for the Chinese, as a peaceable and 
industrious contrast to other foreign elements. 
A fire occurred at South Berwick, Me., on the 
36th ult., destroying stores, offices,and dwellings 
to the amount of over $ 10 , 000 . loss than one-half 
of which was covered by insurance. 
Sickness prevails to an alarming extent in 
Barton, Vt., us well as adjoining towns. Help is 
NEW YORK STATE, 
