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FROM WASHINGTON. 
The public will bo glad to know that the now 
tax bills relieves them prospect ivoly of many 
burdens, as all taxes imposed upon carriages, 
watches, plano-lortes, yachts, billiard tables, 
gold and silver plate, boats, barges, flats, lega¬ 
cies and successions, passports, and gross re¬ 
ceipts of railroad, insurance and other compa¬ 
nies, cease alter October 1st., next. At the 
same time the tax on sales, except that paid by 
stamps, together with the stamp duties on pro¬ 
missory notes for less amount than $100, now 
requiring 1 a five-pent stamp,—rhe two-eent 
stamp upon receipts for money is abolished 
from October 1st, and the Income lax of I.’.!*' 
per cent, on all over $2,000 shall bo collected 
only during the years 1870 and 1*72. Al ter the 
first of May, 1871, the special or license tax 
now imposed upon all kinds of dealers, physi¬ 
cians, lawyers, brokers, claim agents, »Ve., will 
be discontinued, except that paid by distillers, 
brewers, cigar and tobacco manufactories. 
Congress, at the late session, appropriated 
$30,000 for an examination and survey, under 
the direction of the President, of the routes of 
Nicaraugua and Tehuantepec, m order to ascer¬ 
tain the practicability of a ship cututl at those 
places bet ween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 
The engravers In the Bureau of Engraving 
and Print ingat the Treasury Depurttnont, Wash¬ 
ington, are preparing ten plates for the new 
bonds, which are to lie issued in denominations 
of $50, $ 100 . $500, $1,000.$5,000, and $10,000. Four 
plates from $30 to $1,000 will he coupons, ami six 
plates, the entire series, registered bonds. 'll 
will be impossible to have the various denomi¬ 
nations ready lor the market before October. 
Congress voted $5,000 to Mrs. Fanny Kelly for 
giving information of contemplated Indian hos¬ 
tilities, while In captivity among the Ogullula 
Sioux. Another act took from the fund of the 
Kiowa Indians $5,000for Helen and lleloisc bin- 
coin, whom they captured,and authorized the 
Secretary of the Interior to withhold from any 
tribe holding American captives any more 
money due thorn. 
The amount, of money paid during the Forty- 
til st Congress to contestants waa $53,000; the ex¬ 
pense attending llie contests three times as 
much. 
The Conunissioner-ftrneral of the bund Office 
has sent a circular letter to the Governors of all 
the Slates and Territories, requesting copies of 
public documents published by the different 
branches of the State Administrations. In ad¬ 
dition, the most reliable information Is solicited 
in regard to the population, personal and real 
estate, the extent of railway and other commu¬ 
nication, the amount, of capital invested in the 
production of raw materials and other manu¬ 
facturing, the capital Invested in trade and 
transportation, the aggregate values of raw 
material, the aggregate annual incomes of bus¬ 
iness and professional men, &c. The object of 
this communication Is to ascertain our rate of 
progress in the accumulation of wealth, and to 
test tlic development of our resources. He be¬ 
lieves that our annual productions amount, to 
10,000,000,000 bushels of wheat, and at least 10 
per cent, of which is clear profit, sufficient to 
pay off the national debt in three years. 
Congress recently appropriated $150,000 to re¬ 
move ohslntetiuns in the Missouri River, and 
fiv e snag boats arc to bo put at work immedi¬ 
ately to clear out the obstructions along the en¬ 
tire navigable course ot that stream. 
The new Indian appropriation act which lias 
Just passed Congress re-appoints the Hoard of 
Indian Pence Commissioners, with the following 
clearly-defined duties: 
jury, the penalty of which shall be imprisonment for 
live years or les«, ami a tine not exceeding tl.oox 
Hoc. 7. The fee of an agent or attorney ror the pros¬ 
ecution of a claim for bounty land rhuli not exceed 
$SS. Tile agent or attorney must tile (without oust to 
the claimant) with the Oomniisaicmer of j’ennious 
duplicate articles of agreement, duly attested, ret¬ 
ting f orth the fee agreed upon. When norue.h agree¬ 
ment I* tiled or approved by the commirstoner, the 
loo shall be fill, and no more. 
fine. 8. For cont ract, or demand, or receipt or reten¬ 
tion of any compensation greater than above stated, 
the penalty shall be a line of $500or less.or imprison¬ 
ment for five years or less, or both. 
SwJ. The Oiramlsrlnnnr of Pensions shall for¬ 
ward to the pension agents, with the eertltlcatcs of 
pension, one of the articles of agreement, tf ap¬ 
proved by biro, a ml direction* as to the payment of 
fees. 
SEC. 10. The pension agents shall deduct from the 
amount of pension due, the amount of fee. if any, 
and forward the same (less thirty cents) as directed 
by the commissioner. 
NEW YORK STATE. 
Section 38, And the commission of citizens, serv¬ 
ing without pay, appointed by the President under 
the provisions of the fourth section of the act of 
April 111. lSlffl, is hereby continued so long as the ap¬ 
propriation heretofore marie for their expenses shall 
And it shall be the duty of said CotmntsMcpiers to 
supervise alt expenditure.! of money appropriated 
for the benefit of Indians in *he United States, and 
to inspect all goods purchased for said Indians in 
connoetion with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 
whoso duty It. shall be to oonault aaid Commission in 
making purchases of such goods. And provided that 
raid Commissioners shall have power to appoint one 
ot their number as secretary, with such reasonable 
compensation as they may designate. 
The Commissioner of the General band Office 
is about to issue a circular of instructions under 
the act of .Inly 1,1870, allowing payment of pre¬ 
emption entries In Agricultural College scrip, in 
the same manner and to the sa me extent as is 
now authorized by law in the case of Military 
Bounty I,and Warrants. This will rnflko it easy 
for many settlers to pay l'or their homes, as the 
scrip may be bad in the market at a discount 
from the face value. This act. will, however, 
appreciate the same to about the price of 
warrants—say twenty per cent, discount. The 
scrip is already largely counterfeited,and set¬ 
tlers should be on their guard in purchasing, us 
il is almost impossible to tell the counterfeit 
from the gt nut no by any ope outside the General 
Land Office. Out of nine pieces returned in an 
abstract from one of the district offices lately, 
eight were counterfeit. 
In pursuance of the provision of the Funding 
bill, arrangements have been made to destroy 
the bonds purchased for special and sinking 
funds and Secretary Bom well has appointed a 
committee of clerks to superintend operations. 
The bonds accumulated amount to $129,000,000. 
The new pension act, which went nun effect 
July 8th, containing provisions of much interest 
to many of our readers, we give a very complete 
summary of the bill: 
Section t. Pension agents shall prepare ami trans¬ 
mit within fifteen duys preceding the 4th of March, 
•Inna, September and December m each year, vouch¬ 
er? for the quarterly payment to pensioners direct, 
who, on or utter said tth days named, may execute 
and return said vouchers, and none other, to said 
pension agents. 
SEC. 2. Upon the receipt of suoh vouchers, properly 
executed, and the establishment of the Identity of 
the person entitled to the pension, the pension agent 
shall immediately forward by mail, to tbs said pen¬ 
sioner direct, and to no other person, a chock paya¬ 
ble solely to the ol der of said pensioner, except when 
the pensioner Is required to nppeur personally nud 
receive the pension. 
SEC. 8, Nii pension shall, under any einnmiHi,anoes, 
be paid to any one tint the pensioner entitled thereto, 
except in ease of persons legally disabled, When pay¬ 
ment may he made to viiai'mims and in case r.f pur- 
sons resident abroad when payment may be made as 
provided in the previous act. 
Sec. 4. Pension agents shall receive for all services 
rendered to pensioners, including postage, thirty 
rents, payable by the United Stales, and not more 
shall be received by them, under penalty of $500. 
Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Interior shall provide 
blank vouchers, to he used us above stilted, nud regu¬ 
lations therefor. 
Sec. ti. Pension ugenta and their nulhurized clerks, 
shall take out and certify affidavits of all pensioners 
who shall appear before them for that purpose, and 
give the cheek for the pension to the pensioner per¬ 
sonally, and for tatting any such affidavit falsely and 
corruptly, the affiant shall be deemed guilty of por- 
On (he morning of the JWth ult. a horrible and 
mysterious murder was commit ted in the very 
heart of New York, twenty-third street, oppo¬ 
site the Filth Avenue Hotel. The victim was 
Mr. Benjamin Nathan, a gentleman of wealth 
and social position, mainly retired from business. 
His head wins crushed with a heavy iron instru¬ 
ment, and other marks of violence were found 
about the head and nock. Appearances indicate 
that ihe doed was committed by some person 
who ent ered the house for burglarious purposes, 
and with whom the deceased had a severe st rug¬ 
gle In del ending his property and life. The safe 
was opened, the watch and jewelry, and, if 
Is said, sotno $60,000 la putney were taken. Thus 
tar the authorities have not succeeded in fasten¬ 
ing well grounded suspicions upon any one, and 
no arrests have been made. 
The Teachers’ Institute of Columbia Go. will 
be held in Hudson, commencing on Monday, Au¬ 
gust 29th, and continuing one week. 
The State is about, commencing operations to 
raise the reservoir dam at CuzeuovUt, from six 
to ton feet, which renders it necessary to flow 
several hundred acres ot farming huids. To do 
this It. is also contemplated to change the course 
ot i li<> south branch of the Tloughnioga Oreck 
from Vail's mill in llie basin, taking It around 
t he brow of the Sutton hill, between t hat and 
the village, and turning it Into the reservoir 
feeder ut the rake factory. This change of the 
river will spoil the water power of Hill’s flour- 
tug mill, .1. II. Crumb’s mill, and J. II. Delatna- 
ter’s tannery, and deprive l lie village of Horny tor 
of all waterpower facilities heretofore enjoyed. 
George G. Livermore, residing iu George¬ 
town, Madison Co., recently discharged a live 
lizard from his stomach three inches in length. 
He afterwards felt better. 
The cotton mills at Chlttenango are running 
88 looms and 3.000 spindles, turning out 20,000 
yards of shooting weekly. The annual consump¬ 
tion of raw cotton is about 160 bales, or 200,000 
pounds, making n production of nearly or quite 
1,000,000 yards. About fifty operatives are em¬ 
ployed. 
A cheese market day (Thursday) has been es¬ 
tablished at. Fulton. 
.Recently, In one night, 700 white fish were 
caught In a gang net at Port Ontario. This is 
the largest, haul in ten years. 
Samuel P. Broadwell of New York, has been 
sentenced seven years to the State Prison for 
abducting his wife with Intent to kill. 
TtitigyeHler portion of the extensive works ot 
Win. A. Sweet A Co , manufact urers of bar steel, 
Bteol springs and other articles of steel, was de¬ 
stroyed by fire on the 28th ult. Loss on building 
and machinery $50,000; insurance, $33,000. The 
tire originated from t he steam boiler rumtiee. 
The Lc Roy Courier says—Mr. P. G. Vary 
threshed six acres of Diehl wheat, which 
yielded the largo number of two hundred and 
fifteen bushels—nearly thirty-six bushels to the 
acre. 
The Ithaca Journal reports that. Mr. Hiram 
Sibley of Rochester, has approved the plans 
and proposes to erect a building of stone, two 
stories high nnd something over a hundred feel 
long, to be the home of the department of me¬ 
chanic arts of Cornell University. The building 
will be placed in the north end of the court, at 
right angles with the present north building, 
extendiug eastward and l'ueing to the south. It 
will be erected on a high terracing, so that the 
roof will be on a level, nearly, with the other 
buildings. The roof will be the same style as 
the other building's thus making it virtually a 
three story structure. 
The eastward movement of flour and grain 
from the West, through Buffalo, from January 
1st to July 31st, Hi is year ns compared with the 
corresponding period last year, shows a decrease 
of 75,500 barrels of Hour, find n decrease of 2,628,- 
253 bushels of grain, estimating flour as wheat. 
A daughter of Jared Green of Smitliville, was 
attacked by a vicious cow on the fid insfc., and so 
horribly mutilated tlial even death itself would 
have been preferable. Her recovery Is uncertain. 
Mr. Robert Bonner drove bis horse Dexter to 
the hull-mile pole on the Fleetwood Course, 
lately, in 1:06 ■„ to a road wagon. The time was 
taken by Mr. BhOpard Knapp, Jr., and other gen- 
tlemon. Mr. 1). Walton made it 1:07, while other 
watches called l;06,V. 
The thunder storm of the 23d ult. was very 
demonst rative in Lewis county. The lightning 
struck and burned three burns and two sheds 
owned by H. McTicker, t wo miles from Turin 
tillage. They contained eighty Ions of hay. In 
the village of Gregg three dwellings and a barn 
were struck, and a woman was supposed to have 
received fatal injury. 
An hundred years will have elapsed ou the 
18th of Ibis month since the completion of the 
Palatine stone church, and the anniversary is 
to be celebrated on that day. Ex-Got ernnr Ho¬ 
ratio Seymour will deliver an address In the 
grove adjoining the church on llu- occasion, 
and Rev. Charles A. Smith of Philadelphia, will 
conduct the exercises at theolniich. Arrange¬ 
ments have been made to stop trains at Pala¬ 
tine Church on that day, and it is expected that 
the greatest crowd that has ever assembled in 
Montgomery county will be present. 
The sixth annual meeting of the surviving 
officers of the 8th New York Heavy Artilery 
will be held at the St. James Hotel, in Batavia, 
on the 22d instant. The surviving rank and tile 
are cordially invited to be present at this re¬ 
union. 
According to the Warsaw New-Yorker, Wy¬ 
oming county ranks next to Oneida in the 
cheese manufacture. It contains thirty-six 
factories, os follows:—Arcade 3, Attica 2, Ben¬ 
nington 3, Castile 1, Eagle 2, Gainesville 3, Java 
4, Midillebury 2, Orangeville 4, Perry l. Pike 3, 
Sheldon 3, Warsaw 1, Wethersfield 4. The aver¬ 
age make is fourteen cheese per day or 500 
per day for the county. 
The work of excavating the bars in the chan¬ 
nel of the river at the fish house between Troy 
and Albany, which the United States authori¬ 
ties and the State commissioners some time 
since undertook, is completed. The excavation 
gives about nine feet of water, with a channel 
through the bars ot about, thirty feet, in width. 
In 1865 the total population of the town of 
lslip was 4,213; in 1870,4,502- a gain of 310 iti five 
years, or iibout 8 per cent. gain. Number of 
foreigners, 833. Within the town there arc five 
fish oil and guano factories, which consumed 
during tlic year 22,000,000 fish, extracting 60,500 
gallons of oil and manufacturing 2,230 tons of 
guano; 575 cords of wood were used in the ope¬ 
ration. 
The Red Mills, in the village of Jordan, were 
entirely consumed by fire on the 2nd inst., to¬ 
gether with (lie machinery, a considerable quan¬ 
tity of grain, and adjoining buildings. The loss 
on the mills is estimated at $12,090, and on stock 
at $13,000. The building was insured for $4,000 
and the stock tor $3,000. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
Rim. and, Vt., has selected October 6th, as the 
day for its centennial celebration, and invited 
Dr. Todd of Pittsfield, Muss., a native of the 
town, to preach a sermon appropriate to the 
occasion, on the proceeding Sunday evening, 
and select ed Rev. James Butler of Madison, Wig., 
Gen, Uavis of Troy, N. Y.. and Gen. Benjamin 
AI void ol California as orators lor the celebra¬ 
tion. 
The descendants of Jonathan Edwards are to 
hold a family reunion next September ut Stock- 
bridge. Mass., where the great Now England 
metaphysician once lived in a house that Is still 
standing. 
The Portland, Me., rolling mills during the 
past year,made 13,030 tons of finished rails, being 
an increase of 1.806 tons over tin? previous year. 
There were used ut the mill (luring the year4,1100 
tons of pig iron, 11,000 tons of old rails, and 12,- 
000 tons ot coal. 
The amount paid by the cotton mills in Full 
River to mill operatives alone, prev ious to the 
strike, was about $250,000 per month. The pro¬ 
posed reduction of seven per cent, leaves the 
sum of $230,000 as the amount lost, to the city, 
from this source, during each month the mills 
remain idle. 
Fifty additional men have been employed in 
the Charlestown navy yard, and other additions 
to the working force are expected, In conse¬ 
quence of orders to fit the Worcester immedi¬ 
ately for sea. 
An innumerable swarm of grasshoppers has 
consumed nearly half the produce of Colonel 
Thompson’s garden, Springfield, Mass. His car¬ 
rots, which have for the last three seasons yield¬ 
ed at the rate or twenty tons per acre, have been 
almost wholly devoured, ami the veteran gar¬ 
dener, Mr. Barrett, 1ms in vain tried every means 
to punish the dospoilers. Home of the oldest 
residents on the hill declare t his the most, unique 
visitation they have ever witnessed in that lo¬ 
cality. 
The central shaft of the lloosae tunnel has 
been sunk ten foot into the tunnel; ten [more 
reaches the grade. The rock is softer, and two 
faces will soon be worked. Work has been com¬ 
menced at the Rule well by HJ^bicook & ilaw¬ 
men t, Land Agency of Richmond, and a man of 
some prominence and large means, was shot 
dead on the 20th lilt, in a difficulty with Lewis 
Wymbisob and John WymhtBch, Jr., t he latter 
receiving a slight wound in the bead. 
The army worm has made its appearance in 
the vicinity of Mobile,and is destroying all the 
grass and green stuffs in the gardens and fields. 
The steamboat Silver Spray from New Orleans 
for Cincinnati, when thirty miles above Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn., with a barge in tow, exploded her 
boiler and took fire at onco, when nothing was 
left for the survivors but to piling*! into the 
water and swim three hundred yards to the 
nearest shore. Owing to the darkness of the 
night it was impossible to assist the wounded. 
As the books and the principal officers are 
missing it is impossible to obtain a full list of 
t he killed and injured. The boat had near t.hroo 
hundred crates of queens ware, with a number 
ol cabin and deck passengers. There wore also 
nineteen deck hands on board. It is believed 
that twenty-six lives were lost. 
Steps a re being taken to organize a national 
bank in Selma, Ala. Congress having provided 
for the necessary amount of currency, the Selma 
Bank will apply for a charter as a National 
Bank. One great need of the South, as is well 
understood, is more banking capital, and t his is 
a move in the right direction. 
The steamer Dan Able was destroyed by lire 
at Columbus, Miss., on the 30th inst., resulting 
in a. loss of $40,000. No lives were lost. 
Judge Guigon lias given a decision ordering a 
new election for city officers nf Richmond. Va., 
In November, and deciding that they are now 
vaoaot, and will be filled by appointments made 
by the court. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
Ottawa, Ill., which not long ago had to bor¬ 
row $20,000 to pay off her indebtedness, now 
finds herself $15,000 short, of school funds. They 
talk of closing the schools for awhile. 
An order was received at, Bi. I.uuisby a promi¬ 
nent mercantile firm, from the French authori¬ 
ties, to purchase 60,000 toneof hay for the French 
army. 
Extensive agricultural works are to be estab¬ 
lished at Aurora, III., with a capital of $100,000. 
One man takes $70,000 worth of the stock. 
Dr. Newbury, State Geologist, reports t.hoNel¬ 
son ville and Stmitsville coal fields the richest he 
lias seen in Ohio, the veins being six to t welve 
feet thick. 
The Warren. O., flax mill, owned by Messrs. 
Camp St Randall, employs one hundred hands, 
and turns out 10,000 yards of cloth per week. 
The School Board of Battle Creek have pur¬ 
chased a tine telescope, t he third largest in the 
State, which is to bo mounted iu their new 
School building. 
One hundred thousand pounds of cheese are 
sometimes shipped from the little depot at Wel¬ 
lington, Lorain county, Ohio, In one day. 
The Mississippi above Cairo is in very bad 
condition, and boni s arc having much trouble. 
Boals have recently grounded at Bainbrldge; 
but the worst, place is Liberty Island, where 
there is not. over seven feet or water. 
A peat mill is in full blast near Cftlmus Sta- 
kins, and will! r t’Mst i*Jh>i tt flv«' hunured I *** (liofou county, Iowa. It condenses 
feet wit h brick arching, to the solid rock. 
The Vermont Central have just completed the 
loading of seventy-two cars, (800 ions) of worn- 
out track iron, which has boon sent to Rome, 
New York, to be re-rot led. A few ear loads have 
returned, which is as good or better than that 
rolled from new stock. 
The new City Directory of Hartford contains 
12,000 names, an increase of 1,318 during the last 
year, from which the population is estimated at 
45,000. 
The bark Hat tie G. Hall of Boston has just 
been chattered to convey a cargo of flour and 
other produce to London—the first instance tn 
which an American vessel has been engaged at 
Boston for London in four years. 
Robert C. Wintlirop will deliver an oration at 
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 
lauding of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, an office 
which Daniel Webster discharged fitly years 
ago. 
The Connectieut. Legislature adjourned alter 
a session of nearly three months. It has ef¬ 
fected very little that will make It remembered, 
while if has refused to do many tilings of much 
importance, both for good and for evil. It, 
failed to settle the capital question, to call a 
constitutional convention, to reform the di¬ 
vorce laws, to give married women rights over 
their own property, or to recognize in any way 
the growing demand for woman's rights, and to 
consolidate the railroad line from Springfield to 
New York. On the other hand it killed the 
loose and unsatisfactory consolidation bills t hat 
were proposed, and the iniquitous bill to abol¬ 
ish the board ot education, while most local 
projects, stigmat ized as jobs by those acquainted 
with their merits, were given the cold shoulder. 
A bill was passed making important changes in 
the educational system, but, the temperance law 
was not changed. Oncol the last acts was the 
elect ion of James J. McCord of Norwich as ma¬ 
jor-general of the State militia, vice Russell, 
resigned. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
A terrific storm passed over Mobile, Ala., 
July Irit.li. Houses were unroofed, trees up¬ 
rooted, goods in the stores damaged by water, 
and steamboats sunk or driven ashore. The 
dry dock was forced from its moorings, and 
driven about eight miles up the river. No lives 
were lost, so tar as heard from. The total 
damage is about $200,000. 
The frontiers of Texas arc harassed by Indians. 
Hundreds of families are abandoning their 
homes. 
The Vicksburg Herald tells of the diabolical 
attempt of a colored woman to poison twenty- 
six negroes by mixing poison in their soup. 
Another terrible tragedy in the Bolioii-Diek- 
ons vendetta, has been enacted sit Memphis. A* 
Col. Thomas Dickons was on his way home, ou 
Big Creek, ho was shot from the bushes and 
killed. Detective officers are working up the 
case, which creates great excitement. Col. Dick¬ 
ens was an old man. lie killed Wade Bolton 
last fall. Dickens is the tenth person killed in 
this feud. 
Moses H. Bently, a colored messenger of the 
Georgia House of Representatives, shot and 
killed Malcoin Claiborn, a colored representa¬ 
tive from Burke county lately. Beutly is in 
jail. 
Col. E. E. C. Randolph, proprietor of the Pied- 
fifty tons of peat per day, the price for buyers 
being $4 per ton. The bog is 200 acres in extent, 
the turf ranging from five to fifteen l'ect, in 
thickness. 
Col. Grierson, commanding Fort Hill, ini' <■ 
Indian Territory, says the Camauchos, Nortl 
Kiowa? and Apaches, with a few oxcep 
are coming into the agency with their u ■ 
They will bring all their stolen stock with ti , 
and give assurance that they w ill cease fro 
depredations. Little Heart, of the Klowas, 
Tabonopicu of the Camauehes, have gone off- 
They are reported to have been the leaders of 
parties who committed the recent depredations 
in that vicinity. Little Heart bad five lodges 
and Tabononica about twenty. The Gulhadas 
bave lately had a fight with the Navajoes and 
lost twenty killed. 
At Peoria, Ill., on the 38th ult., a fire broke 
out in the Peoria paper mill, from a hot jour¬ 
nal, and burned it to the ground. Loss $30,000. 
It then caught in Shunk & Co.’s distillery, with 
750 barrels of whisky; loss $80,000. From there 
the (lamesspread to Hughes’ cooper shop; loss 
$10,000. From i here they extended to D. C. Far- 
rol’6 distillery, which, with two thousand bar¬ 
rels of whisky in store, was totally destroyed; 
loss, about $250,000, on which there was $100,000 
insurance. Besides this, the fire burned cattle 
sheds, malt houses, pig pens, bonded warehouses, 
and property making in the aggregate a loss of 
$500,000; insured about $200,000. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. —THE WAR. 
In the British Parliament the principal topics 
arc the pending war and complication* con¬ 
nected there with. In the House of Lords a bill 
giving the Government power to call out the 
militia was introduced under a suspension of 
the rules, and the Enlistment bill was passed. 
Later,in the Housed Lords,Bur) Russell moved 
the second reading of tho loll amending the 
Militia aotsatid spoke at length on the condition 
of foreign affairs affirming that the perils on the 
continent are due to uncertainty as to the course 
to be pursued by England, closing with the 
declaration that we need only to declare for the 
enforcement of the treaties, whereupon half tlic 
danger would vanish, l'or neither of the warring 
Powers courts t he hostility of England. Only in 
this manner could Antwerp be saved. Earl 
Granville lamented the noble Lord’s palpable 
lack of confidence in the Government, and while 
t’ullv sensible ol tbftjr obligations to Belgum, 
he deemed it injudicious to discuss them with 
such publicity. In the House of Commons the 
Government proposed to add 20,000 men to the 
army, and submitted estimates requiring£2,000,- 
000 for this purpose. Mr. Disraeli made some 
very searching inquiries of the Government, 
especially as to what extent England, at the 
Congress of Vienna, guaranteed to Prussia her 
Saxon acquisition. Such guarantee, it it still 
held good, would iuvolveEngland in the present 
quarrel. Ho urged lliat the army be kept at its 
greatest strength. Mr. Gladstone in reply said 
the policy of the Government was not one of 
armed neutrality, but of friendship to both com¬ 
batants. He declared that tho obligations of the 
Vienna Treaty ended with the German Empire. 
The Government was now doing everything to 
enforce the observance of neutrality, but British 
power was restricted to British waters. All legal 
restraints liad been imposed on the sale of 
coal, the Prussian Government having made a 
spirited protest against the furnishing of coal 
to the French war vessel. In reply to « ques¬ 
tion upon l his subject, In the House of Com¬ 
mons, Mr. Gladstone said that “if colliers are 
chartered to attend the Ueet of a belligerent, to 
supply coal, they will to all practical intents and 
purposes become store-ships attached to that, 
licet.” Which probably means that Englishmen 
are to he allowed to make all the money out of 
the war possible, their position beingrather that 
of n commercial and mercantile t han a warlike 
people, though it is loudly asserted that England 
will take action to defend Belgium. The king¬ 
dom ol Belgium, which France is supposed to 
covet, and which figures ro prominently in this 
contest, contains a little more than eleven thou¬ 
sand square miles, upon each one of which 
dwell an average of four hundred and thirty- 
three persons, making it the most densely pop¬ 
ulated country in Europe. Its army numbers 
about seventy-four thousand men, mid half a 
dozen vessels comprise its navy. The prevail¬ 
ing religion is the Roman Catholic, and the 
French language is generally spoken. After a 
long subjection to Spain and Austria, and a 
forced submission to France under the first Na¬ 
poleon, Belgium was united to Holland in 1815. 
Three years later their independence was guar¬ 
anteed, .and a king furnished them in the per¬ 
son of Leopold, of Suxe-Coburg. He married a 
daughter of Imuis Phillippe of France, and 
died about five years ago, leaving his eldest son 
King instead. The late King Leopold wns tho 
favorite uncle of Queen Victoria, and hence 
family sympathies combine with political ne¬ 
cessities in making great Britain exceedingly 
solicitous for the welfare of Belgium. .Should 
Napoleon pounce on the kingdom, either he or 
Prussia would swallnw up Holland, and the 
freedom of England In the northern seas be se¬ 
riously menaced by both France and Prussia. 
This brief statement, will enable the render to 
better understand the animus of the different, 
parties. No material change lias occurred in 
the position of the nations surrounding the bel¬ 
ligerents, further than the* supposed notion of 
Austria and Italy tn expressing a determination 
to favor France. 
Russia disclaims any intention of attacking tho 
Danubian provinces, and thus far Denmark and 
Norway have maintained neutral positions. 
Denmark still desires so to Btand, though a 
very strong party exists in favor of joining 
Franco, upon the success ol' which it is said the 
present ministry will retire. 
.Spain expressed alarm nt the formation of 
French camps near her border; hut on the as¬ 
surance that they were merely campsof rendez¬ 
vous and inst ruction, made no formal protest. 
The negotiations between Italy and France for 
the withdrawal of the French troops from Ital¬ 
ian soil have been brought to a .sat isfactory con¬ 
clusion. The Italian Government baa guaran¬ 
teed the preservation of order in Rome, and the 
French troops have evacuated the city. 
The armies of the belligerents are still mass¬ 
ing on tbe Prussian frontier. The French head¬ 
quarters an- still ai Metz, where the Emperor 
remains. The well-informed correspondent of 
the New York Tribune says that the idea of Na¬ 
poleon’s leading the army to bat tle provokes a 
smile even from the French soldiers, as his phy¬ 
sician lias interdicted his riding on horsobackat 
all, and no active campaign cun be made in a 
carriage, nnd the apparent delay is mainly 
awaiting tho arrival of Marshall McMahon from 
Algeria, to assume command iu fact of the 
French army. 
The headquarters of the Prussians is at Mny- 
cnco, wl'crcf King William has Ills quarters, and 
,',-ho .‘s rep. f . sented ns able to take t he saddle and 
j rtioipate actively in the campaign. Since our 
kirn ishing has been continued, and an at- 
i u " been made on the fortress at Saar- 
Saarbruck, which, according to 
1 iv. •: v- ;ounts, was gallantly assaulted, re¬ 
el "ng ut a victory for the French, with small 
l ..ther side. A portion of the town was 
dt yed by fire, Tho Prussian account repre¬ 
sen ts the affair to have been or little importance, 
they not deeming the point one of strategic im¬ 
portance, offered but slight resistance, and fell 
back upon their reserves, the French not fol¬ 
lowing. A reference to the map heretofore 
published, will enable the reader to understand 
the positions and watch movements. This move 
gives the French command of the valley of the 
Sarr and a foothold in the enemy’s connl ry. 
At the latest dates we have advices of an 
advance ol' the Prussians, and a contest of arms 
at Weisseubcrg, on French territory, which re¬ 
sulted in destroying miles of the railroad by 
which the French advance was expected. The 
telegraphic report is Hun the Prussian victory 
at Woissenbnrg was decisive. The troops en¬ 
gaged wore regiments of the Fifth and Eleventh 
Prussian Army Corps and tho Second Army 
Corps of Bavaria, led by the Crown Prince in 
person. Tbe French force consisted of General 
Douay’s Division of Marshal MacMalion’s Corps. 
Weissenburg and Gcisbill, in the rear of that 
town, were carried by storm at tlic point of the 
bayonet after an obstinate resistance. The 
General who commanded the French, in the ab¬ 
sence of General Doimy, was killed, with two 
officers of his si. iff. The French encampment, 
oue piece of artillery, live hundred wounded 
prisoners, including many Turcos, fell into the 
hands of the Prussians. On the German side, 
General Kirollback was wounded. The Grena¬ 
dier Guards and Fiftieth Regiment suffered 
severely. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
There was a great fire at Fredericton, Nova 
Scotia, on the 26lh ult. A great many houses 
wore burned, freight sheds and wharves caught 
fire and the heat was most intense for many 
hours, neatly the whole population, headed by 
the Lieutcdant-Govemor, were engaged in com¬ 
batting the fire, which was finally controlled 
about night-fall. The loss was very heavy. 
The banking-house of John Handley & Co., at 
Scranton, Pa., wns robbed of $ 30,000 in currency, 
the 1st inst., by persons entering the vault from 
the rear of the batik while accomplices engaged 
the attention of the cashier nt the counter, The 
plan was boldly and adroitly accomplished. 
There is no clue to the robbers. 
Capl. John J. Monahan was arraigned before 
t he United States Circuit Court for violating the 
Neutrality laws, and pleaded guilty. General 
O’Neill waa then placed in the dock, and asked 
by the Court if in* had anything to say why the 
sentence of the Court snould not be passed upon 
liim. The prisoner pleaded his services in be¬ 
half of his adopted country as a reason why his 
sentence should be light. He was then sen¬ 
tenced to the State Prison in Windsor for two 
years, and to pay a flue of $10. Col. John II. 
