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Tlio special correspondent of the Tribune at 
Berlin writes on the 8th inst..;—“An emissary 
from Buzulne has asked Bismarck to allow him 
to retain Metz and remain neutral during the 
hostilities. This wits declined, but the same 
a#ent was permitted to proceed to Wilhelra6hohe 
with a view to further negotiations. No other 
interview 1ms since occurred between him and 
Bismarck, but negotiations are continually go¬ 
ing on. The siege of Solssons is advancing 
favorably for the Prussians.” 
From Tours the French report that one hun¬ 
dred and fifty American volunteers arrived in 
Tours and marched through the streets carrying 
the American and French flags. They were 
warmly greeted by the population. An official 
decree defers the elections to tho Constituent 
Assembly until France In free from invasion. 
Tlio special correspondent of the Tribune at 
Berlin, writes on the 6th Inst.:— “ Gfttnbotta has 
sent jui intimate friend to Bismarck, authorized 
to muko certain statements, 
The new iron bridge across the river at Mount 
Upton, Otsego county, Is nearly completed. It. 
Is a single span of 136 feet, and has long been 
needed. 
James Burns, a milkman of Fordham, New 
York, was found on Friday morning dead in his 
barn. Bums kept seven cows in this barn, and 
bad his l»ed in one corner. Burns was seventy 
years of age, and had $2,000 in cash, besides 
seven cows and a horse. 
Columbia College in seven years lma passed 
from a debt-owing institution to one with asur- 
plus of $25,000 a year, received from its real es¬ 
tate income 
The fire in the Plymouth (Mass.) woods has at 
length been extinguished. It lias been one of 
the most destructive and extensive fires ever 
known in the State, having burned over an area 
variously estimated at from 30,000 to40,000acres. 
The Legislature of Vermont convened Oct. 4, 
and the following organization of the Houses 
lias been madeSenate—President pro tan., 
Hon. 6. IT. Heath, Washington Co.; Secretary, 
Henry Clark. Rutland; Chapluin, Rev. Mr. Fisk, 
Lyndon. House— Speaker, Col. C, H. Joyce, 
Rutland; Clerk, D. M. Camp, Newport; Chap¬ 
lain, Rev, Mr. Morgan, Nortiilietd. 
Wilson, llie murderer of Warden Willard of 
tho Connecticut State Prison, lias been convict¬ 
ed and sentenced to be hanged Oct. 13, 1871. 
By order of the War Department, a survey and 
ehort of ttie tides of Portsmouth harbor is to be 
made, under direction of Gen. J. G. Foster and 
assistants. 
Tho Vermont State Dairymen's Association 
will hold its annual meeting at Montpelier on 
the 26th inst. X. A. Willard of tho Kuitit New- 
Yohkek will address the meeting. 
A gold premium of $5 is offered for the best 
milker at the Knoxville (Tenn.) fair. 
Louisville, Ky., has contracted for a thousand 
English sparrows, at $1 each, to exterminate 
caterpillars, &o. 
The Kentucky Cheese Factory, near Lexing¬ 
ton. last year mnde 100,000 pounds of cheese. 
Up to August 1st, this year, commencing March 
29tb, 80,4100 pounds were made from the milk of 
about 500 cows. 
Tiie most, destructive flood ever known oc¬ 
curred in Western Virginia. Trains have stop¬ 
ped running in consequence on the Chesapeake 
and Ohio Railroad. A railroad bridge at Waynes¬ 
boro has been swept away. Several landslides 
have occurred. 
A Louisville, Ky., man paid $52 Tor express 
charges on a package which was supposed to 
contain $3,000 in notes, but. proved to be made 
up of pieces or wood and card-board. A victim 
to the sharpers who proposed to send him coun¬ 
terfeit money. 
II is estimated that over two bundled cows 
have died in the vicinity of Knoxville, Tenn., 
this season, from cattle disease, the value of 
which was $10,000.' 
M. S. Door of Lafayette, Tenn., while attempt¬ 
ing to kill his wife, was shot and mortally 
wounded by her brother. 
Tennessee has something to boast of in the 
fact of being demonstrated by tlio census to be 
the healthiest State of the Union, and perhaps 
in tlio world. Her peopledte lass than any <<I her. 
A Texas paper says that the German labor in 
Texas takes the precedence, and iu the Galves¬ 
ton market their cotton commands a cent per 
pound over others in consequence of careful 
handling. 
Gov. BrOwnlow of Tennessee, writes that ho 
has entirely recovered from the attack of 
paralysis for which he lias been under treatment 
during the summer. 
Planters are urged not to pack their cotton in 
guano sacks, ns they lose a good deal by it. 
The Southern Commercial Convention mot at 
Cincinnati, October 3. About one hundred and 
fifty delegates were present at the opening. 
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton delivered the address of 
welcome. 
Tho Vicksburg Times says that every steam¬ 
boat and railroad car is loaded with emigrants 
to Texas. 
The hemp house of the Kentucky Peniten¬ 
tiary was burned Oct. 1. Loss, $80,000. 
Gen. R. F,. Lee, President of Washington Col¬ 
lege and late com man tier of the Confederate ar¬ 
mies, died of paralysis at Lexington, Vo. Tlio 
first attack occurred Sept. 28, from which ho 
rallied, but died suddenly’ Monday morning, 
Ocl. 10. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
President Barnard urges the trus¬ 
tees to remove the college fifteen miles beyond 
the city limits, and a committee of five trustees 
have the subject In charge. 
Throe hundred and sixty-six thousand 
hundred and eigiity-threo bushels of salt 
inspected on the Onondaga Salt Reservation, for 
tlio week ending Sept. 24, 1870. 
Judge Gardiner, referee, has given hisdecislon 
in the mutter of one of the suits brought by the 
oounty of Monroe against the bondsmen of the 
lute defaulting treasurer, Jason Baker. He finds 
for the county and against certain bondsmen to 
the amount, of $33,109. There are other suits 
pending, involving a considerable amount. It 
is expected that a similar decision will be given 
lu t hese suits. 
A suit has recently been terminated in Herki¬ 
mer Co., involving the validity of the law of 
1807 “to prevent cattle running at large in the 
public highways." Several cattle were taken up 
as trespassers, the owner of wlioni demanded 
possession, and brought an action of replevin 
which was tried lu 1889, ami the plaintiff non¬ 
suited. From this decision an appeal was taken 
to the Genera) Term, and there unanimously de¬ 
cided in favor of the plaint Iff. Judge Morgan 
delivered a very elaborate and able opinion, pro¬ 
nouncing the law unconstitutional and void. 
A difficulty' recently occurred at Devcrcaux, 
Herkimer Co., between Alvab Avery of that 
place, aged about twenty-one years, aud Theo¬ 
dore Thompson of Stratford, Fulton Co., aged 
about thirty-live years, resulting in the death ol 
the fonnor. 
The Eric Railway extension from Buffalo to 
Suspension Bridge will be finished and in 
operation by the middle of November. The 
completion of lids link will form a direct con¬ 
nection for the Erie with tho Michigan Central 
to Chicago. 
At the recent term of the Supreme Court at 
Saratoga, a case was tried involving the respon¬ 
sibility of a bank for valuables left with it for 
safe keeping, in which the plaintiff was non¬ 
suited. as he failed to show auy special uegleot 
on the part of defendants. 
George Burr of Lawrence, St. Lawrence Coun¬ 
ty, was found dead in the river at Malone re¬ 
cently. 
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Notwithstanding 
Fuvre’s failure, Bismarck is personally desirous 
to enter Rails by negotiation, an event which be 
behoves mill possible, while the King and MolOtc 
have no faith lu diplomatic success.” 
The controversy between Prussia and England 
concerning the violation of neutrality by the ex¬ 
port of arms to France, is growing more and 
more serious, leading to an extended correspon¬ 
dence upon tho subject. The Tribune corre¬ 
spondent at Luxemburg reports that the French 
arc forming a camp at. Longuy, a very strong 
natural position on the spur of the Ardennes, 
where, with the regular garrison and fugitives 
from .Sedan, they til! all the villages bet ween 
there and MeUitothu number of 6,000. In the 
Vosges twelve battailous are in processor form¬ 
ation for co-operai ion. 
The French account of the sortie at Metz, on 
thoOth.saya:—"It resulted in driving back the 
Gormans to Mcziercw, occupying t heir earnp at 
Mu range, and enabling the French to fortify 
their old position at the Jaumont quarries." I 
give this statement, under reservation. 
A note from (lie Prussian Government informs 
Hie Powers that Paris t hreatens to holdout until 
it is starved. 
FROM THE WEST, 
A DISTEMPER is raging among tlie horses in 
California, and many cases have proved fatal. 
The amount of free transportation services 
rendered to the Government by the Illinois Cen¬ 
tral Railroad during the late war amounted to 
$30 for each .'tore of public land granted to it. 
The service was rendered under a provision in 
the grant. 
Cheyenne is three years old, and for its 4,000 
inhabitants has a Methodist, a Congregational, 
a Episcopalian, a Presbyterian and a Roman 
Catholic church. 
Shawnee county, Kansas, bus 59 organized 
school districts and forty-nine school houses. 
A Indy in Missouri going to market was stop¬ 
ped by a highwayman who demanded her money 
or her life. File drew from her pocket a bundle 
of knitting-needles, ordered the thief to release 
his hold, or she would blow his brains out. The 
glistening nbedles in tho twilight induced him 
to suspect a revolver, when In? tied. 
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, yes¬ 
terday unanimously adopted a series of resolu¬ 
tions favoring the Ontario aud Eric ship canal 
project. 
Thomas P. Connor, a member of the Mississip¬ 
pi Legislature, was recently shot and killed by a 
man named Collins, at Winona, Miss. 
J. J. Ketchum of Jacksonville, HI., was acquit¬ 
ted of the murder of Angelo, in Carrollton, re¬ 
cently. This is the tenth homicide in Greene 
county within a year, in winch tho supposed 
guilty parties have been acquit ted. 
The Edinburg University of Chicago, with a 
capital stock of $1,000,1X10, tiled certificate of or¬ 
ganization in the office of the Secretary of State 
on tho 27tli ult. 
A largo proportion of the rock supporting the 
breakwater at the falls at Minneapolis, fell Sept. 
30th, currying with it a nail factory, which tell 
into the water. 
The production of peppermint oil In Cass and 
St. Joseph counties, Mich., will be about 15,000 
pounds this season, against twice that amount 
last year. 
Late Arizona advices state that a band of 
friendly Pinto Indians attacked a party of Apa¬ 
ches, near Arizona City, and killed thirteen of 
them. Gov. Salford, while scouting on Will te¬ 
st one Mountains, discovered the charred re¬ 
mains of two white men, who had perished at 
the stake. 
A tight between White men and some twenty 
Arrupaho Indians, about one hundred miles west 
of Denver, is reported to Imvcoccurred,wherein 
several Indians and two or three whites were 
killed. 
The crop of clover seed in some parts of Michi¬ 
gan is greater by far than in any previous year 
for n long time. 
Cheyenne is to have little streams of water 
carried through the streets, exactly on the Salt 
Lake plau. 
Chief Justice McKean decides that the Utah 
Legislature cannot elect a Prosecuting Attorney 
for its court. This turns the Mormon Attorney 
General out of court, and puts all criminal cases 
into the hands of the United States Attorney. 
The Osage Mission Journal of Kansas says: 
“The wealthiest people in the world are the 
Osages. The tribe numbers3,000, nud have,after 
all expenses are paid, 100 acres of choice land 
per capita, and $0,000,001) in money. 
The people of Alton, HI., are in great terror 
from the suspicion that a cave in the neighbor¬ 
hood is a rendezvous for thieves aud murderers. 
Several mysterious robberies have already been 
committed. 
Chnrles Amidon absconded recently from Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa, with $850 belonging to tho Locomo¬ 
tive Firemen's Union. 
At Briarwood, Hi., a few days since, a boiler in 
a soap manufactory blew up, instantly killing 
Mr. L. Teuaier, J. Higman, Win. Her taler and 
Fidel Hose. 
A trout company hns boon organized in Deco- 
ruh, Iowa, with a capital of $3,000. A trout pond 
is to be made of a stream which gushes from a 
bluff, and furnishes water enough to sustain 
80,000 trout. 
The largest tow ever seen on t he Upper Missis¬ 
sippi, recently left Winona, Minn., consisting of 
nine barges containing 70,455 bushels of wheat. 
The Trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer¬ 
sity, located at Bloomington, having voted to 
admit females to the privileges of the institu¬ 
tion, their action has been ratified by the Illinois 
Methodist Conference, now in session at Shelby- 
ville. 
In that event, 2,000,000of people 
would bo in the bunds of the Prussians, who 
would be unable to furnish supplies for u single 
day. as there is nothing edible within several 
days’ march of Paris, lienee tliu people cannot, 
abandon the city by the roads. The inevitable 
consequence will he, that hundreds of thousands 
must starve. Tho Gormans, nevertheless, must 
prosecute tho war, and those bolding power iu 
France will he answerable for the results. 
Tho following statement, is official: —" The 
Prussian Government, unable to recognize tho 
POLITICAL NEWS 
Tho cvideuco thus far obtained tends 
to establish I lie belief that he was murdered and 
thrown into the river. He was known to have 
a considerable gum of tuouey with him when 
last seen. 
Owing to the continued presence of yellow 
fever upon Governor's Island, lour new cages 
daily being recorded since Oeiober 1st, it has 
I ice u decided by the Bureau of Sanitary Inspec¬ 
tion that the Island should be evacuated by the 
garrison, and others residing there, and the in¬ 
fected buildings be destroyed by fire. Some 
eases of this fever have occurred til Bellevue 
hospital, and only the lateness of the season 
and presence of tresis prevent an epidemic. 
New York city bus lost an efficient Superin¬ 
tendent of Police in the death of John Jourdan 
on the 10th inst. His funeral occurred on the 
13th, in which city officers, tho police, and a 
large number ol citizens united in rendering re¬ 
spect to the honored dead. 
FROM NEW ENGLAND 
Coe. Wii. 11 use of Enfield, Conn 
follows:—XIXth Congressional District Elizur 
H. Prlndle of Chenango. XXVtli Congressional 
District- Win. H. Lamport, of Ontario. Colum¬ 
bia Co., Sheriff, Stephen W. Ham ; County Clerk, 
Curtis H. Porter. Cortland Co., Sheriff, Nicho¬ 
las H. Haynes; County Clerk, Frank Place; Dis¬ 
trict Attorney, Lewis Bouton; Assembly, Ervlng 
Tain tor. 
The Democrats of Dutchess County have 
nominated William J. Tripp, Sheriff; Robert L. 
Garrelson, County Clerk; John Nelson, District 
Attorney, and Samuel McLean, Coroner. 
The Democrats of Suffolk County nominated 
R. W. Pearsall for Assembly. 
Republican nominations—Delaware County. 
—Clerk, Smith II. Wtiite; Sheriff, Edward A. 
Griffith;Assembly, 1st District, Atpheus Bolt; 
lid District, James IL Graham. Allegany Co. 
—Clerk, W. H. II. Russell; Sheriff, Joseph Gil¬ 
lies; Assembly. Charles N. FJenugin. 
Tho Democrats of Chenango Co. have nomi¬ 
nated the following ticket;—Assembly, John 
Shattuck; Sheriff, O. T. Cowles; Bupt. Poor, 
John C- Maxsou ; Coroner, Dr. B. F. Smith ; Ses¬ 
sions, Elicits Fenton. 
The Republicans of Madison Co. Imvo put tho 
following ticket in nominationCounty Clerk, 
Alfred I). Kennedy; Supt. Poor, Z. J. Moseley; 
Coroners, Merchant Blllington and Uriah N. 
Rhodes; Justice ol' Sessions, Nathan Brownell. 
The Democratic nominations are; -For Coun¬ 
ty Clerk, Samuel J. Anderson; David Norton 
for Supt. Poor; Alfred Medlmry for Justice 
of Sessions; Peter B. Haven and Lawrence 
Kenna, Coroners; Assembly, Ephriaw Finite, 
1st District, and Wm. H. Walralh, Uhl District; 
Edwin J. Brown, School Commissioner. 
William Buokwelt is the Republican nominee 
for Assembly In the 1st Saratoga District. 
The Democratic nominations of Herkimer 
Co. are: —For Sheriff, Daniel Hawn; County 
Clerk, Captain Burt; District Attorney, A. C. 
Pfater; Assembly. John W. Bi idenbeeker. 
J. M. Warren has been nominated by the 
Democrats for Congress from the XVtit District 
of New’ York. 
The Republicans of Queens Co. have nominat¬ 
ed the following ticket For Sheri If, Armstead 
C. Henry; Sup'ts Poor, Stephen Higbie (long 
term,) James M. Bnrtis, (short term;) Coroners 
W. D. Tewkesbury, James A, SpUlctt. Elijah P. 
De Mutt; Justice of Sessions, James M. Seaman. 
The Second Assembly District Convention nomi¬ 
nated Geo. A. Bverittof Newtown lor Member 
of Assembly. 
In the XXXLst Congressional District (Chau¬ 
tauqua and Cattaraugus) the Republicans have 
split, and made two nominations—Walter L. 
Sessions and N. M. Allen. 
James JL Pierce is tiie Republican noutiueee 
for Assembly iu FraukliuCo. 
James White, Democrat, aud Roderick It. But¬ 
ler, Rcpualican, arc tiie candidates for Congress 
iu the 1st Tennessee District. 
breaking of an unsound limb, and received 
such injuries as to cause bis deuth. He was 84 
years old. 
Prof. Young of Dartmouth College is to go to 
Malaga, in Spain, in the expedition of theIJnitcd 
States Coast Survey, for the purpose of observ¬ 
ing the total eclipse of the sun on the 22d of De¬ 
cember next. Ho is to have charge of the spec¬ 
troscopic observations. 
The Cheshire Railroad Company of Now Hamp¬ 
shire have recently built and put upon their 
road a couple of very nice stock ears. They 
have stalls aud conveniences for feeding and 
watering cattle of horses, by which stock can be 
transported as comfortably as if in their own 
barn. 
Two watches which were stolen from the store 
of Enoch H. Nutter, Dover, N. H 
about a year 
and a-bolr ago, were returned by express the 
other day, In good condition. 
On the evening of Oct. 2, Jesse L. Savage was 
assaulted by three man at New Haven, Conn., 
stabbed several times in the abdomen, neuk and 
arms, and robbed of $1,500 and a gold watch aud 
chain. He has since died. 
The National Rubber Company, at Bristol, R. 
I., have about eight hundred hands at work, aud 
could profitably entply two hundred more. 
Although New Hampshire has decreased near¬ 
ly ten thousand iu population within the last 
ten years, there has been a gain in the agricul¬ 
tural wealth of the State of nearly twenty mil¬ 
lions. 
Burdott Loomis, whose fine farm in Suffield, 
Conu., is for sale, does not intend to give up the 
breeding ol pure Cotswold sheep, which he has 
brought to great perfection. He retains one of 
his farms—the “old homestead " — where his 
fiock will be kept In future. 
The shutting down of the mills at Lawrence, 
Mass., from tiie noon of the 17th until the 20th 
ult., was the first time In their history that they 
have been compelled to suspend operations on 
account of the lowness of the Merrimack. 
The rails are all laid on the Belfast, Me., and 
Moosehead Lake Railroad, and trains are en¬ 
gaged uight aud day in gravelling up tiie road¬ 
bed. * 
Two millions of ball cartridges were sent to 
New York a few days since from tho United 
States arsenal at Augusta, Me. 
Mr. 1. G. Kiutball, at Bethel, Me., raised this 
season, on three acres or land, 25,000 pounds of 
hops. 
Two hundred sail of roaekerelmen were har¬ 
bored in Provtncetown. Mass., during a recent 
storm, and 2,000 barrels of mackerel were piled 
on the wharf the day previous. Fish are very 
plenty near the Cape. 
A cheese factory is about to be established by 
the fanners of West Sutton, Mass. It is to be a 
joint stock company. Cheese factories arc be- 
which the funner were successful, and on the 
nth at Mcsangero the Prussians were victors. 
They also drove 4,000 Mobiles across tlio Eure 
near Chersoy, inflicting severe loss upon them. 
They had also burned the town of Ablis in re¬ 
venge for then defeat by the Francs-Tireurs. 
Itis expected that Prussia, In view of tho del¬ 
icate relations with England, in cooseqnence of 
the latter’s alleged violation of neutrality, 
will give Count Von Bemstoff, the North Ger¬ 
man Embassador, an indefinite leave of absence, 
leaving only a Charge d’Affoiros at Loudon. 
FROM THE SOUTH, 
The drouth in Louisiana ended two weeks 
ago, since which time it has continued to rain 
iu torrents. A swell in the Mississippi is causing 
a good deal ol uneasiness. The levees are in 
danger. 
Faye l te County, Tenn., has contributed 
through her various lodges the sum of $5,300 
toward the Masonic Orphans' Home. 
The American Unionization Society will send 
the Golconda to Liberia on Nov. 1, wit h 200 emi¬ 
grants from the Southern Suites, principally 
from North Carolina. 
Tennessee is becoming u great potato-growing 
State, and has a very large crop t his yuar, which 
is also of fine quality. The potatoes In some 
fields are averaging a pound apiece. 
The council of the Cherokee Nation has passed 
resolutions authorizing the principal chiefs to 
inform tlio Commissioner or Indian Affairs of 
their willingness to receive the North Caroiioa 
Cherokees into then- nation. 
NEW YORK STATE, 
university at Canton, is stated as follows:— 
Total assets, $153,150; value of library, building 
and chapel, $280,000. 
George Cary has been convicted of murder In 
the first degree for killing George Johnson, ueur 
Syracuse in April last. 
Cattle in the vicinity of Margaretville, Dela¬ 
ware county, nr« being affected with disease 
which Inis proved fatal in some cases. The dis¬ 
ease terminates with bloody ijysentory. \V. W, 
Grant, Esq., has lost seven cows within the past 
month with the epidemic. Others ba\ T e died iu 
the saute neighborhood. 
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