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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Tin* Fr«neo-Pni«*inn War. 
Outt record of the wur closed a week Blneo 
willi the prospect that the Crown Prince having 
Hanked MaeMalion so as to prevent Ills marching 
toward Pad* would uow with his army aug¬ 
mented by reinforcements from the corps near 
.Metz, march directly forward to the French 
capital. Subsequent events have not Justified 
the general expectation. Marshal MaoMahon 
continued his movement toward the northeast, 
of which the following account was forwarded 
to. and published at Paris. “ We loft Helms on 
Wednesday and arrived at Bethel Thursday 
morning. The town and surrounding country 
are one great camp. All MacMuhon's array Is 
here—tho First, Filth, Seventh, and Twelfth 
Corps, and the cavalry of Canroberi’s Sixth 
Corps. The Emperor and Prince Imperial arc 
hero. Wo shall move on Friday to Mozieres." 
Af this time the Crown Prince was at Chalons 
and issued a proclamation to the French people 
wherein he says“ Prussia makes war against 
the Emperor and not against the people of 
France. The people had nothing whatever to 
lear." Announcing also his purpose to open the 
lines of travel which had been interrupted or 
destroyed that labor and commerce might be 
resumed. All Frenoh officials were requested to 
remain at their posts and "their personal safety Is 
guammteod;" thui surplus food only would bo 
taken for the Gomum troop*. Instead of mov¬ 
ing towards Parts t he Germans turned also fol¬ 
lowing MaeMuhon who uow occupied a line from 
bethel to Steuay, leaning on Mojsleres, Sedan, 
and Moutniedy, with tho Belgian bouodry be¬ 
hind. 
The Prussian troops around Troyes marched 
in the direction of HouiiJJy, those around ('ha¬ 
loes in that of Suippes, and those which were 
bet ween Stonuy and Vnrennes, in the direction 
of Bethel by Gnmdpre and Vouzh-rs, while a 
strong force was at Dun observing MacMuhon's 
left wing at Steamy. Meanwhile, strong Prussian 
columns advanced from Luncville and Joihvlllo 
to St. Plzicr, whore the headquarters of the King 
were reporled to be. On the supposition that 
MucMuhun desired to ad. so us to relieve Ka/lno 
by either attacking the forces besieging that 
fortress or drawing away some portion thereof 
to assist the Crown Prince In an attack outlie 
French, the Prussians lost no time In forcing 
MaeMuhon as far from Metz as could be done 
without encroaching upon Belgian territory. 
Armed raeoimoisuneo and skirmishing was kept 
tip, <)n tho 28th cannonading occurred all day 
near Dun, while on the sumo day tho Saxon 
horse attacked a French force near Sezanne, 
dispersing i hem ami taking the French com¬ 
mander, who was wounded, a prisoner. 
Skirmishing continued oil the 2Hl.li, the Saxon 
troops took possession ol Sienayand Mouzon, 
and the French fell buck as far as Sedan. The 
railway station at Chau veuey, about live miles 
west of Mutitmcdy, was captured by the Prus¬ 
sian^ and burned. Railroad eoninninlcut ion be¬ 
tween Pare and Brussels was cut olf. The sur¬ 
render of Loitgwy was demanded, to which the 
French commandant replied, “Not while am¬ 
munition lasts." 
The long expected collision commenced on the 
30th, near Beaumont, between Moutniedy and 
Sedan, the Prussians attacking McMahon, dev 
tenting and driving luiu back upon the Belgian 
frontier, Ills camp falling into Iheiv hands. King 
William, from Vurenuos, telegraphed to Berlin, 
Aug, 30thWe had yesterday a victorious en¬ 
gagement- 'I'lte Fourth, Twelfth and one Bava¬ 
rian Corps were engaged. McMahon was beaten 
and driven from Beaumont across the Meuse to 
Mouzon. Twelvegutis,several thousand prison¬ 
ers, and much material are in our hands. I re¬ 
pair to the battlefield to pursue the routes of 
victory. God help us further 
Enter news, on the evening of the 31st of Au¬ 
gust, uro more specillo. They report:—“A fear- i 
ful battle was fought yesterday and to-day by 1 
the Prussian armies of the Crown Prince and 1 
Pnuee Frederick Charles, with the forces of ] 
Marshal McMahon. Yesterday morning McMa¬ 
hon commenced a general movement toward 
Moutniedy. He was attacked near Beaumont 
trad driven buck, after an obstinate resistance, < 
toward the Belgian frontier. The Prussians oc- * 
eupiod tho line of ihu road, and captured a large i 
amount of camp stores. They drove the French t 
from position after position until night closed. I 
Early (his morning tho battle was renewed, and I 
continued all day. During the night a large i 
number of French reinforcements came up, but t 
they failed to turn the scale of the victory. The t 
Prussians, also reinforced largely, attacked in t 
overwhelming ntimbers. McMahon retreated to i 
Bedim with the remnant of his forces. The i 
slaughter Is Immense. It Is impossible to c&li- ] 
male the loss. The Prince Imperial is said to be ' 
In Belgium. The population are flying in great i 
terror." , 
in expectation of tho Imttlo, whole villages i 
near the line in Franco were deserted, the peas- 1 
an try flying Into Belgium, j 
The state of affairs at Metz continues un¬ 
changed. All chan (sis ol’ retreat by Buzaino are < 
cut olf, except Cutting Ids way through the c 
German cordon by which tho city is surrounded, i 
which is reported to be seven Prussian corps, of a 
at least 21 , 1)10 men each, with the Crown Prince s 
of Saxony pushing forward with 110,000 men. < 
Ihe siege oi Str.isburg is being vigorously t 
pushed, great damage having been done to the c 
nty. the principal streets being In ruins. One t 
hundred sixty pounders liavo been recently f 
placed in position by the besiegers. An armis- r 
t iee, offered through tho Bishop of the.city, was 
rejected by the Prussians, whose ting of truce h 
was tired upon while escorting the Bishop back u 
to the fortress. Tho latest reports are that the It 
Bufferings of tho Inhabitants are terrible. They t< 
arc starving, and are compelled to Jive in their ti 
cellars day and night, to avoid the unceasing lire v 
of the besiegers- Another fruitless sortie was c 
made by the garrison on lira 30th. Tho Prussian it 
sharpshooters are within live hundred yards of tl 
the glacis. Many houses have been burned, si 
The arsenal was at. one time ou lire. Tho ammu¬ 
nition wus safely removed. 
Not satisfied with the form of England’s nou- •* 
frailly, the Prussian Government has addressed it 
a note in Earl Granvi|loamounting to u protest li 
in which it remonstrates against England's dig- ti 
regard of her obligations as a neutral, declares r< 
that Prussia will not accept the legal quibbles at 
of the law officers of the Grown, and summons SI 
England to 1 ullill her neutral obligations or take ki 
the consequences. The question is a diplomatic 
one, flic note adds, and must be promptly solved 
as such. 
At Paris active preparations for a siege are 
continued, and the Committee of Defence ex¬ 
press itself prepared to withstand any attack, 
and punish the invaders. Provisions of nil 
kinds arc being garnered, including large num¬ 
ber's of live stock which are past u red in some of 
the parks. Parisians who can are leaving in 
large numbers while people of the environs 
are generally coming Into the city, ntit! turrip- 
ing in the streets. The correspondent of the 
Tribune says:—“We can no longer depend 
on the mails. The Northern railways arc 
blocked with all sort of luggage, goods, t rucks, 
of grain and provisions. The routes from Eng¬ 
land will soon, probably, bo either Interrupted 
by the Prussians or wholly occupied for military 
service. All the ordinary passenger and freight 
trains are stopped; the express mull still goes." 
The people of Paris know little of the actual 
state of affairs outside. While the movements 
ending In the defeat of MaeMalion were pro¬ 
gressing, Purls was informed that:—“ Marshal 
MaoMahon Is entirely free in his movements, 
lbs is in perfect, communication with Marshal 
* Dazaine. To-day both must be lighting the 
,J enemy. Tho forced marches or the Prussian 
Prince Royal have used up many of Ins men, 
1 who arc foot-sore, ami havo to be t nmsported in 
0 aorta. Thousands have been left behind." 
r Powder has been distributed among the fortl- 
e flcatlons. Tbo laboring classes still clamor 
0 vainly for arms. Of tbo whereabouts and movo- 
K montsof t he Emperor III,lie is known. He was 
0 hist reported ns being at. Mozieres, near the Bel¬ 
gian frontier, into which country the Prince 
I mperiul is reported to have been sent, while the 
’ Empress remains in Paris. 
The contest of which we have given u brief 
’ account above continued to rage with great 
force up to the close of the day, Aug. 31. The 
, French troops left the wooded heights of Stotrae, 
and scarcely hud they departed when the posi- 
, l ion was occupied by a detachment of Prussians 
, who pushed on and attacked the French. At 
t first they were repulsed with heavy Joss, and 
^ forced to retreat. But they vigorously resumed 
, *he defensive, and as night set In the French ro- 
, passed the Mouse to reform their shattered 
, forces. Both sides lost heavily, but the slaughter 
of French troops was terribly great. On the 31st 
of August, the a Hack on the left hank of the 
Meuse, was resumed by the Prussians and a 
severe engagement, commenced bet ween tho lit- 
tlo villages of Danzy and Dauehery. 
The Prussians incautiously allowed themselves 
to be drawn by a skillful maneuver of MacMn- 
hoii'e into the angle formed by the ramparts of 
Sedan and i ho abrupt bights on tho left bank of 
the river. Thus entrapped, they suffered the 
most severe losses, and were forced about noon 
to withdraw towards Mouzon. MaeMalion made 
several inelTielent attempts to recross the Meuse, 
and ultimately »>(i#s the river. 
A special dospiFoh front Brussels on tho morn¬ 
ing of the 2d Sept, says that it decisive battle is 
now in progress between Mouzon and Sedan. 
The Prussians have already advanced and occu¬ 
pied the chapel at Giron tie. The villages of Bit- 
znllks ,'lall.m and Hnnollly, Wilier and Sorrray, 
are In liames. Tho river is illlod with dead 
bodies. * 
A largo detachment of MaeMuhons army, said 
to be 10,000, was forced into Belgian territory, 
whore they ultimately surrendered to the Prus¬ 
sians. A report reaches us this P. M., Sept. 2d, 
that Marshal Bozniriu laus made a sortie from 
Metz, indicting severe losses upon the Prussian 
forces Under Gen. Stelninotz, but we are entirely 
without pn rl.ioulu rs. We have also a report I hut. 
I he fortifications at Purls are mined trad charged 
ready to be blown up the moment victory leans 
toward ttio Prussians, though we deem the 
statement unworthy of credence. The Emperor, 1 
il is reported, has been visited at Meziercs by an 
eminent English physician, who pronounces ' 
him in a critical state, and astounding develop¬ 
ments are foreshadowed. 1 
By these late dispatches it, is announced that ! 
ihcro lias been active bomhnrdment ut Stras- , 
bourg, and suffering continues almost incredi¬ 
ble, still the valorous French refuse to capitu¬ 
late, deeming, doubtless, that they are aiding 
Parisians while holdiug the Prussian besiegers 
before t he walls of t he town. 
French affairs, os shown in tho doings of tho < 
Corps IiegIslatIT, exhibit great unanimity of i 
Sentiment, and all possible is doue by the differ- < 
cm sections to conic to a mutual understanding 
and sacrifice all persona! and party eonsideni- I 
tinns for tho sake ol France. Some remarks 1 
having been made unfavorable to the enthusi- 1 
asm of the Protestants in France in the conduct 1 
ol the war, Deputy Johnson of Bordeaux pro¬ 
tested against the accusation, lie affirmed t hat 1 
this was not patriotic, and said the Protcstapls I 
wore ready to sacrifice their lives and fortunes .i 
in defence or tho country. The Minister of the 1 
Interior said that such accusations were un¬ 
worthy of Franco. He know that all French- I 
men were moved with the same sentiment. He s 
would cause it. to be published in nil the Com¬ 
munes oi France that the first religion now is r 
Patriotism. This was greeted with grout, up- t 
plause. ji 
i hits far there has been no evidence that any a 
of the oilier European Powers were likely to be 
drawn into the contest. Italy prefers to renutiu c 
in kUi/u quo, not cortaln that the sending an f 
armed force to assist, the French would not re¬ 
sult in a general uprising of the Republicans or c 
Git riba Id huis at home. In Denmark, where, on d 
(he breaking out of hostilities there was report¬ 
ed a large French party, which has since disoon- h 
tinned any manifesto lions, and U is reported t he n 
fooling is settling strongly in the opposite dl- o 
ruction. 
The operations of l he French maritime forces ( 
have not- liras far Infiicted any serious damage \ 
upon the towns on the Prussian coast, no regu- f) 
lur bombardment ut any point having been at- „| 
tempted. It Is claimed that the Prussian mura- e , 
time porta .ire so thoroughly fortified and pro- () 
vided with heavy guns as lo bo able to offer sue- „ 
ecsstiu residence to attacks by sea. That much p 
IS not expected from the licet is evidenced by t) 
the calling buck of i he sailors ami soldiers to as- , v 
Bist in tile defence of Paris. " 
<)l the events of the war and the hopes and 
prospects of the future, Victor Hugo says: n; 
I his war is two-edged; if it overturns Prussia ol 
it delivers us to Bonaparte; if France, it de¬ 
livers us to Bismarck, In tho latter case the si 
true result will not remain in expectancy. The tl 
revolution will rise above the fallen empire, « 
and revolution will become next day tho United 
Slates oi Europe. Let us rouse ourselves ugalust so 
kings and trust 111 the people." m 
ic NEW YORK STATE. 
d _ 
Tite destruction of the Havana flouring mills, 
'° by Are, on the 20th ult., inflicts a loss of £50,000 
r * on the owners. Insured for £23,000. 
c - On and al ter the 1st or October, the rare on all 
b tbe horse railroads ol‘ New York city, excepting 
'■ the Fourth avenue, will be reduced to live cents. 
The woods on the Helderberg Mountains, Al- 
n bany Co., have been on flro some days, and they 
* defy t he exertions of farmers in that vicinity, 
who havo turned ou ten meuste to fight the flames. 
e A heavy rain storm will furnish the only relief 
'1 that can be looked lor, us the woods extend for 
c miles. 
'• During the month of July, *1.5,325.59 wero re- 
- cotved for tolls ut the Canal Collector's office in 
J Geneva, a decrease of £4,030.46 from the amount 
Y reeei ved i n J uy, 1809. 
f The Hudson River Railroad Company contem¬ 
plate the erection of a freight house in Troy, 253 
1 feel, long by GO feet wide. Tho work will eorn- 
s menoe about the 1st of September. 
. Tbe New York Anti-Dramshop Convention 
1 nominated Hon. Myron II. Clark for Governor, 
. and Hon. C. C. Leigh lor Lieut. Governor. 
I The citizens of the village of Canton offer a 
, reward ol £4,000 for tho arrest and conviction of 
i the incendiary who caused tho recent fire. 
, Throughout tho Susquehanna Valley the np- 
t pie crop is good, while on tho Delaware there 
will not be more than half a yield. 
There are one hundred and fifty canal boats 
• between SchuylorviUo and Fort Miller bridge, 
bound north, that cannot navigate the canal lor 
, want of water. 
The gross receipts of tolls on the Black River 
. canal to the Jst of August, 1«69, Was £11,162.53; 
, to the 1st of August this year, £13,793.73. In¬ 
crease over last year. £2,631.30. 
A reward ol £500 luts been offered by tho Eric 
Railway Company for information regarding 
the person who turned (he switch near Attica, a 
Short, time since, causing an accident, to a pas¬ 
senger train. 
i Governor Horatio Seymour made an eloquent 
address and historical review to a largo au¬ 
dience Assembled to celebrate tho hundredth 
anniversary of the Palatine Stone Church, op¬ 
posite Fort Plain. 
The Ely flouring mills, at. Rochester, were de¬ 
stroyed by fire on the 25th nit., together with 
1,800 barrels of flour, 1,000 bushels of wheat, 7 
tons of mlllfeed, nmi 1,000 empty flour barrels. 
Loss on building and machinery, £50,000; on 
stock, $15,(KM). Insurance ou building, $20,000, 
and on stock £7,500. 
Chapter 24.2, of the Jaws 1870 gives to all town 
officers £2 per day for services, in place of £1.50 
per day. This applies to inspectors of election 
ut the late Judiciary election. 
Judge Marvin of Chautauqua has recently de¬ 
cided that, the County Boards of Excise aro still 
in authority with power to prosecute for tho 
violations of the Excise law, but not with power 
to grant llcepso- 
At, K ingston, N- Y., on the 25th nit., live persons 
were killed by a stroke of lightning, near a 
circus tent,. Fifty persons in the vicinity were 
knocked down. 
A person has been arrested who, it is generally 
believed, was tbe murderer of the clerk in Messrs. 
Halberts store at BinghamfoTT -a Mr. Edward H. 
Rulwff, who, it will be remembered, was tried 
some twenty-live years ago Jja- tla- murder of 
I Ids wife and child, who bnd”!iIsappeared and 
could not be traced. Tho circumstances leading 
to his arrest point very strongly to him as a per¬ 
son who might have been engaged in the murder 
of l be clerk Mori ok. 
A new and unknown variety of fish has boon 
found in the Oswogntehie river at. South Ed¬ 
wards, St. Lawrence county. I Is shape is round 
anil beautiful, resembling tbo Scotch herring 
and being free from bone. Its flesh is said to be 
superior to the common brook trout In delicacy 
of flavor. It, bus a digestive organ resembling 
the gizzard of a fowl, which is supposed to per¬ 
form about, the same function in the process of 
digestion. This is thought to be the gizzard or 
mud shad, spoken of by some recent piscatorial 
writer, as abounding in Seneca Lake and many 
of the rivers. 
average for several years past. The diminished 
quantity ig, however, compensated for by the 
fact that nearly t be whole crop of this year will 
go No. 1. 
A court in Michigan has decided that a physi¬ 
cian is not a warrantor or insurer of a case, and 
be is not to be tried by the result of his remedies. 
His only contract nud duly are lo treat the caso 
with reasonable diligence and skill. 
Rockford, III., has a manufactory which turns 
out three thousand dozen gloves and mittens 
| annually. 
An outlay of $150,000 is necessary to save St. 
Anthony's Falls from destruction. 
'Ihe Wisconsin Publishing Association, in 
which tho old proprietors of the Janesville Ga¬ 
zette are interested, has purchased the Milwau¬ 
kee Sentinel; price, £95,Out). • 
Minnesota farmers complain of almost daily 
showers, which prevent the harvesting of the 
grain crop. 
'I lie lingeries of J. W. 8. Robinson, t he far¬ 
mer at Clinton, Iowa, figure up about £100,000, 
trad now ones are constantly being found. 
Tho Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western 
railroad is now completed, and cars run through 
its entire length. 
A train of forty six-mule Government, teams 
arrived at St. Cloud on tho 11th from Fort 
Thomas for thirty thousand feet of lumber for 
Fort Totten. 
A cheese factory is being constructed at Wells, 
Faribault county, Minn., which will cost, it is 
said, £10,000, and will have a capacity for the 
rnllk of 2,000 cows. 
A Grand Rapids firm has Just contracted to 
furnish the Lake Shore and Michigan Sout hern 
Railroad Company 2,000,000 feet of fencing at 
£10 per 1.000 feet, to bo delivered on the cars at 
their mills. 
It is estimated that 120,000,000 shingles were 
manufactured last year in the Saginaw, Mich., 
valley. This year the number will be increased 
to about 150,000,000. 
The Elgin Gazette says that tho but tor factory 
has four churns in operat ion, t urning out, 120 
pounds of butter a day, which retails for live 
cents more per pound than uuv selling on the 
st reets, und finds u ready market. 
Further particulars or the destruction at Mun- 
fSloe, Mich., of C.ishtmm, Calkins & Co.’s dock 
and stonehouscs show that half a million dollars 
worth of property had a narrow escape. As It 
was. there were destroyed 150 tons of hay, 1,000 
bushels of oats, 500 of corn, and a vast supply of 
material for camp equipage of endless variety 
for the coming winter's consumption. On tho 
dock and along tho shore 1,000 cords of slabs and 
about 100,000 l'cet of common and clear lumber 
were burned and cast adrift. Less £20,000; in¬ 
sured £8,000. 
General Sully, the Superintendent of Indian 
Affairs for Montana, writes to Commissioner 
Barker concerning the recent attack on tho 
Crow Indians by hostile Sioux, their strength 
being variously estimated at «4.H» In 2,000 war¬ 
riors. The Crows are terribly frightened and 
demoralized. They State they are out. of ammu¬ 
nition, which, together with being so poorly 
armed, was the cause oft heir being dri ven in by 
the Sioux. General Bully Ihinks the Govern¬ 
ment will have constant trouble with these 
Bioux. Those west of tho Black Hills and the 
Powder River country are severely punished. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
FROM THE SOUTH. 
FROM THE WEST. 
A new sail lake, twcuty or thirty miles long 
and half as many broad, Is reported to have been 
recently discovered iu tho mountains of Lower 
California. 
The Iowa Central railroad has sunk a well one 
hundred and seventy live feet ft! EJdora. At. tho 
distance of ninety-eight feet large pieces of 
wood were found, showing the existence ol' tim¬ 
bered country ages ago. 
In Arizona the tbeinomerter has ranged from 
112to 116 in the shade for a long timo; yet the 
health of the country does not, seem to bo in¬ 
juriously affected by the great and continued 
heat. 
The Elgin Packing Company employ about 200 
hands and are putting up from six to ten thou¬ 
sand cans of fruit daily. 
Fairfield county has been tbe greatest sheep 
raising district m Ohio. Now, however, farmers 
there arc said to bo losing I heir interest in sheep 
and are turning their attention to horses, cattle 
and hogs. 
M Ibfiourl offers u prize of £500 for t lie best herd 
of five cows to be exhibited ut tbo forth-coming 
fair at Columbia. 
The Texas fever has broken out. among the 
cattle in the Kuw bottoms. A large number are 
dying in tho neighborhood of Kansas City, daily. 
A great lire raged last, week on some meadow 
laud ill Portage county, Wjs, A bout 4,000 ant es 
of meadow were burned over, destroying three 
or four hundred tons of hay. 
A company of ubout thirty farmers, mostly 
Germans, living near Bluck Hawk, Sauk Co., 
W is., havo organized a company for tho purpose 
ol raising beets and manufacturing Sugar. A 
share of stock in tho company costs £250, and 
each man owning a share must plant four acres 
ol beets. About 160 acres are growing now, from 
Which about 1,000 Ions of beets will be gathered 
before frost comes. The factory Just built by 
the company, at Black Hawk, on Honey Creek, 
will cost, whan filled with machinery, already 
ordered, £40,000. 
The California Farmer, after a careful sum¬ 
ming uj), says the harvest of 1870 is t he best crop 
oi cereals ever raised in California. 
The artesian well at Joliet, III., is a perfect 
success. It is now over four hundred feet down, 
the supply of water Is abundant, and is clear as 
crystal, and excellent for drinking. 
It Is ascertained that the wheat crop of Minne¬ 
sota will only average fourteen to fifteen bush¬ 
els to the ucrc, be:tig twelve per cent, below the 
Cotton picking is in full blast on the Rio 
Grande. Tho crop, it Is said, will bo large. 
There have been refreshing rains throughout 
Virginia for the last ten days, and the crops of 
com will be tlio most extensive since tho war. 
The Virginians are making a good business of 
gathering and drying sumac for drug houses. 
Petersburg received in one day recently, one 
hundred thousand pounds ready to lie sent off. 
The corn and fruit crops in Tennessee, this 
season, will largely exceed those of tiny former 
year. 
The Georgia newspapers nre making a very 
earnest appeal for more independent emigrants. 
They want no more convicts and paupers, t hey 
say, and can manage to get along well enough 
without any further iu crease of the African 
settlers. 
A duel was fought on t he I9l.h, near Savannah, 
Ga., between Richard Aiken and Ludlow Cohn, 
two well-known citizens. They ex changed five 
rounds. Cohn was mortally wounded and 
Aiken unhurt. 
Splendid corn crops are reported all over Al¬ 
abama ; cotton, however, seems to bo below tho 
average. 
The East Alabama Female College atTuske* 
ltc was recently destroyed by lire. 
The Isle of Wight (Vu.) county court has sen • 
tenoed four negroes to be bung September 16tb, 
for the murder of Joel Gray last December. 
It is said that tlie schools of Virginia, now 
closed, are lo be re-established under the (own- 
ship plan of Now Eugland. There is a prophecy 
of ful.uro greatness In this fact. 
Tho Superintendent of Public Instruction in 
Tennessee, In apportioning the school fund 
proper for the present year, which commenced 
on July J, 1870, anil ends Juno 30, 1871, finds two 
dollars to be the pro rota to each white child of 
pupil ago iu the State. 
Eighty acres of com near Powclton, Ga., it is 
thought, will yield Iwcnty-Hvo bushels to the 
acre, and the crop be worth £u,0uo, with fod¬ 
der, tec. 
About £10,000 have been raised toward the 
Stonewall Jackson fund. 
The Columbia (S. C.) Phoenix is informed by a 
planter from the lower part of Richland dis- 
driet that the caterpillar has taken entire pog- 
session of tho cotton fields in several localities, 
and scarcely half a crop will be made. 
Tbo Lynchburg Virginian says the premium 
saddle at the Texas State Fair lias boon presented 
to Gun. R. E. Lee by the mnnul'ueturer, Major 
Dunnoway, a Confederate cavalryman. 
Tho crops in Texas are reported in splendid 
condition. Emigration is pouring in in a steady 
stream. 11 is estimated that 300,000 persons have 
settled in Texas during the last year, and the 
present population will not fall abort of 1,200,000. 
Business of all kinds Js active, and but for Die 
bitterness of political feeling its prospects now 
would be unclouded. 
A meeting of Hie Southern Commercial Con¬ 
vention, of which ex-Bn sident Fillmore is 
President, bus been appointed to be held at Cin¬ 
cinnati next October, at which commercial 
bodies, municipal and other corporations, and 
all other interests entitled to representation in 
tho convention, are requested to appoint del¬ 
egates in accordance with the basis ol represen¬ 
tation adopted at tin- session of the convention 
held at Memphis, Touu., May 18th, 1869. 
In the last ten years there havo been erected 
in Philadelphia, 30,007 buildings, of which 23,969 
- were dwelling-houses, 545 stores, 524 factories, 
1 and 51 foundries. 
Property not insured, to the value of £157,232, 
15 was destroyed the last great fire in St. Kochs, 
Quebec. Only £4,000 were collected to relievo 
s the sufferers. 
s Greenwald’s cotton mill, in West. Philadelphia, 
was damaged by lire recently. Loss, £25,000; ln- 
• suranee, £10,000. 
Tin! British Colonist, of Vancouver’s Isfand, 
1 says the crops look splendidly. Uud will yield a 
Jong way over Hie average. Tho hop growers 
expect i Ids year's yield will be double that of 
last year. 
’ A fire at Rahway, N. .7., on tho 24th ult.., de¬ 
stroyed a three story brick building, occupied 
by Mr. Calhoun, a liutunaker. The building was 
valued at. £8,000, and the entire loss amounts to 
£30,000. It la supposed that tbo building was set 
on fire. 
The Meadvillc, Pa., Agricultural Society lias 
1 dissolvod, and tho assets of tho Association have 
been sold to apply on its Indebtedness. Conse¬ 
quently no lair will bo held there this year* 
Specimens of the new silver coinage of tho 
denominations of ten, twenty-flvo and fifty 
cents have just been struck at Ihe United Slates 
mint. In Philadelphia. The standard value of 
the new coins Is reduced to correspond touctuul 
value with view to Its immediate use instead of 
the ten, twenty-five uud fifty cent notes. The 
public generally will rejoice to learn thut we 
are to bo released in a measure of the filthy 
lucre known as “ fractional currency." 
Jay Cooke * Co, are to establish, on the 1st. of 
January, tin American hanking house iu Lon- 
don, with Hon. Hugh McCullough as the Presi¬ 
dent.. 
Tho handsomest railroad bridge in the West is 
said to too ouo Just erected at Janesville, Wis¬ 
consin, on the Chicago and Northwestern rail¬ 
road. It consists of lour arches of sixty feet 
spun, with keystone eighty feel, above the wa¬ 
ter, and is built of solid masonry, the stono 
being brought from Fort Howard. 
The English Government are busy removing 
all the cannon and shot from the fortifications 
ut Quebec, and shipping thorn to England, One 
Ship load has already been despatched. 
Tbo World’s Ottawa, New Dominion corre¬ 
spondent estimates the loss by tires near there at 
£ 2 , 000 , 000 . 
The scene was a fearful one. A sheet of flamo 
ten miles broad, swept Gloucester, illuminating 
Otbiwn. In the t ownships or Gloucester, Nepcc- 
suu and I'ltzroy, tho fin* waved on before a tre¬ 
mendous gale, destroying reuecs, stables, houses 
trad woods. At Fltxroy u iiuo seven miles broad 
was ablaze, and at Belle's Corners only t wo build¬ 
ings are left or two hundred, Great numbers of 
fugitives havo arrived at Ottawa. Many per¬ 
sons have been buruou. 
A destructive conflagration is raging at St. 
Lambert, confined at present to the woods. Can- 
ton’s ax Oratory, atChuttcguny, is burned down. 
Loss $15,000 
Vice Admiral Porter has been appointed Ad¬ 
miral. Tho ditto of the Admiral's new commis¬ 
sion is tbo 15th Inst. 
Business? on uli Government cotton cases has 
been brought lo a stand-still by tho changes 
deemed hoc xs.iry to com ply with the now law 
organizing the Department Of Justice. There 
are 737 of these cases,and the sultsJuvolveaboui 
$15,000, (KW. 
The United States steamers Shenandoah, Gu- 
errlere ami Brooklyn are till trader orders lor 
the Mediterranean Squadron, uud are expected 
to leave iu a week or ten dayB. 
Forty printers were discharged from t he print¬ 
ing bureau ot the Treasury Department the 
other day, uud mi equal number of louialc count¬ 
ers will be discharged. 
It appears that, nearly all tho clover which 
was sown in the county of Hastings, Out., last 
spring, and represented as Alsike clover, turns 
on’, to he white clover. The dealers in I hat seed 
havo evidently been humbugged by their for¬ 
eign agents. 
A heavy hurricane, accompanied by rain, re¬ 
cently occurred at Quebec, which proved very 
destruct ive to property throughout the country. 
Some shipping iu the harbor was damaged. 
Before its adjournment on Saturday, tbo 
Labor Congress at Cincinnati elected a new 
board of officers, with Mr. R. F. Travel lick of 
Michigan us President. Resolutions wore adopt¬ 
ed urging all industries to unite to elect men to 
office to represent ihe in tercets of tho country; 
favoring a reduction of the army to the lowest 
standard; asking protection for our merchant 
shipping and our ship builders; insisting that 
women shall have equal wages with men, and 
that women and children ahull be protected 
against over work; and that houses of refuge 
aii‘1 Correction shall be abolished, uud schools of 
reform be substituted. 
Rev. Dr. Hedgn, for many years professor in 
Cambridge University, and one of the most oin- 
iiifiii of American scholars, at the recent Har¬ 
vard comtnenccmont dinner advocated tho ad¬ 
mission of women to the college course, and was 
heart ily cheered by the alumni of that venera¬ 
ble institution, both old and young. 
An implement maker in France* has construct¬ 
ed a Species ol plow, by means of which tho 
beet bulbs are lifted from thogroundand thrown 
aside by a swinging mold-board, trad t hen topped 
by women and children who follow tho machine. 
Ono of these, worked by a man und u pair of 
horses, will dig about two and one-half acres per 
day. 
The workmen of lira Central Pacific Railroad 
Compauy, while boring a well at Oakland Point, 
California, at the depth of two hundred feet, 
bored through a redwood tree seven feet in 
diameter. Bulb the wood and bark were fresh 
and sound. 
The Clark County (Va.) Courier says:— A 
spring colt belonging to Dr. Wm. M. Pago, one 
day last week fell down a well forty feet, deep, 
and was rescued with only a few scratches. Tho 
well was walled up and had a rocky bottom, 
with very lit lie water in it, 
A countryman, walking lira streets of New 
York, found his progress slopped by a close 
barricade of lumber. “ What is that for'/" said 
lio to a person in the street. “That's to stop tho 
cholera." “ Ah! I have often heard of the board 
of heath, but I never saw one before.” 
The London City Mission has in Us employ 375 
missionaries, who mudo over 2,000,000 visits last 
year, reclaimed 905drunkards, restored 676 fallen 
women to their homes or put them in asylums, 
uud induced lbl shopkeepers to give tip Sunday 1 
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