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ihe |Rt|enrg gtaimUattn J. VAN SLYQ, Pwiam. MoHESRT, muntom. TILE HEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. TETE efforts of Chief Washburn and Ms «B- sifltanta of the United States Secret-Service Borean, which have "been directed for BeveraJ months to breaking up an extensive counter­ feiting business in New York city, have met with complete success, and have resulted in the capture of the entire gang of counterfeiters, including some) of the most dangerous and ex­ perienced in the huameas. The gang haa been in existence for a longtime. Nearly 1100.000 •m+ti of thA nn««r tnir#yi»j wt»l» • Jjt ;J plates. dies, and"" other paraphernalia of the profession, were ceiled. The fang had facilities for issuing »t least 20,000 per month, or about $250,000 a year. The detectives expect that these arrests will lead to the capture of forty or fifty more coun­ terfeiters in different parts of the country. This is said to be the most extensive seizure of counterfeit money ever made in the United State*, with the exception eif the Griggs case ho Illinois last winter, Tat Aiiifej iam IiiHin Mill, at Fail Kiver, Mam., was damaged by fire, last week, to the amount of #200,00(1. The disaster will neces­ sitate the shutting dowm of the company's works for several months, and throws out of employment 1,100 people, A FEABFCL domestic tragedy is reported from Lawrence Station, a village located itr he suburbs of New York city. O. A. House, a noted divorce lawyer of New York, arrived home in the evening, and while waiting for his supper had some words with his step-son, a lad of 15 years, named William Ander­ son. House, who is of violent temper, beat the boy and knocked him down. The boy's mother interfered, when House turned upon her and struck her over the head. So caught her by the hair and kicked her in the abdo­ men. The boy then interfered, when House placed his hand upon his pistol pocket, in which he always carried a weapon, and swore he would shoot the boy and any one who inter­ fered. Mrs. House rah into the house, got a pistol from her bedroom, ran down stairs, and, seeing her husband about to dra w his pistol, fired, the ball taking effect in the right temple, killing her husband instantly. Some psrsons near seized the pistol from Mrs. House, and prevented her doing injury to herself.... Jones' Wood, a picnicking ground in the suburbs of New York, was the scene of a serious Sunday Liquor law riot last Sabbath. The police ar­ rested about twenty men who were engaged as bar-keepers and waiters, selling lager beer. A crowd of people assaulted the police and res­ cued the prisoners. The selling of beer was resumed. One hundred extra policemen were called from the reserve forces in the station- houses, and the rescued prisoners were rear­ rested and beer-selling stopped. Many men who engaged in the riot were aleo arrested. THE Centennial watch-night demonstration at Philadelphia on the evening of the 3a inst. are described as brilliant and grand beyond all comparison. A procession containing thirty thousand people, bearing torches, devices and transparencies, paraded the streets up to mid­ night, and when the stroke of 12 o'clock was heard, the advent of the one-hundredth anni­ versary of the nation's birth was greeted by a vast multitude with cheers and rejoicings.* The exercises on tho Fourth were carried out according to the proerr&mtrie; and sxb described: aa magnificent. ^The street pageant was one of the grandest ever witnessed. Hie Declaration of Independence was read from the original manuscript by a grandson of Richard Henry Lee, one of the signers of the document, Bayard Tayior recited from memory the poem which he had prepared for the occa­ sion. and Hon. William M. Evarta delivered an eloquent oration... .While Dr. Bucher, pro­ prietor of a drug-store in Philadelphia, was preparing colored fires for a pyrotechnic display on the 4th, there was a terrible explosion which shattered the building, and then set it on fire, completely destroying it. HieDoctor was instantly killed, ** were also his brother, John H. Bucher, and Bernard Kanse- man and William Young. J. C. Bucher. father of the Doctor, was badly burned Hie coal mining and transportation compa­ nies having recently suspended operations in the Pennsylvania mining region, for the al­ leged reason that the supply of coal greatly ex­ ceeds the demand, thousands of miners are idle, and the consequence is turbulence and crime. Great lawlessness is reported in Car­ bon, Schuylkill, Lehigh and other counties. Biota are of daily and nightly occurrence, a number of murders are reported. THE WKST. A BAD aaae of drowning la reported from La Crone, Wis. John M&gee, accompanied by his wife and two children, his father-in-law and brother-in-law, visited the city in a small skiff for the purpose of shopping. They loaded their bark and started to return home. When near Goose Island the boat struck a snag and capsized, throwing the occupants and goods into the Mississippi. The father-in-law. brother-in-law, and one child managed to get hold of the overhangisg bushes, being near the shore, and were saved, bat Magee, who did all he could to save his wife and child, sank with them both dinging to him, and all were drowned. THE advices of the Prairie Farmer regard­ ing the wheat prapects in Minnesota are to the effect that many of the recent reports regard­ ing the ravages of the chinch bug, Hessian flv, etc., are the exaggerations of interested parties. COLORADO is now a full-fledged sister in the great family of States, the people of the Terri­ es* having aatifiad the new oonstitotkm by a large majority. A Tiuvwe performer named Collier met his death in a tragic manner at Chicago, a few days •ince. He had concluded an engagement at the Coliseum, and while engaged in taking down his ropes and trapeze apparatus fell from the roof of the building to the floor. The un­ fortunate man struck on his head, and, bis broias being dashed out, deatn ensued almost uistantaneouely. He left a wife and two chil- uren. THE city of Burlington, Iowa, waft visited by a terrific tornado on the night of July 4. Thirty- nine buildings were riddled to pieces, aiffi scarcely a house in the citv escaped injury. Hiree persons were killed and a large number of others more or leas injured. POLITICAL. THE Louisiana Republicans held their State Convention at New Orleans last week. S. B. Packard was nominated for Governor, and C. &£££*%££&. •*» general. A DISPATCH from Augusta, Me., says Mr. Blame s family physician considers his nervous prostration more severe than has been sup- nosed. He prescribes absolute rest, forbidding him even to write letters. He gives no en- couragement that he will be able to cake am» part in the coming campaign. THBEE men, named Forbes, McGee indHurl- but, customs officials on the Great Western rail­ way of Canada, were drowned at Montreal last week, by the upsetting of a boat. A FEATURE of the .Centennial July celebra­ tion in Philadelphia was the assemblage in the historic room of Independence Hall of 130 authors, there gathered to hand in their sketches of the lives of thesignera of the Dec­ laration and. other .Revolutionary patriots. Among the authors were Robert C. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams, Gen. John A. Dix, Thomas Went worth Higginson and John Esten Cooke. THE diamond necklace and earrings sent by the Khedive of Egypt to Mra. Minnie Sherman Fitch have been taken from the vaults of the United fifcate* sub-Treasury in New York, and sent to the acting Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, who will deliver them to Gen. Shennarnu accordance with the resolution of , WAMwatot. THE House Committee on'Tenwonefc tias postponed further consideration of the bill for the admission of New Mexico into the Union, until Dec. 18, which is considered as a defeat of the measure The President has removed H. T. Yarvan, Chief of the Revenue Agents... .James Gil fill an, of Connecticut, haa been appointed Assistant United States Treas­ urer. GEN. R. D. MPSSEY, a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Colum­ bia, has placed in the hands of Proctor Knott, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Commit­ tee, a memorial charging D. C. Humphreys, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme p/mrt D"trict with ™«»>- tally," for Judge ; that he is "ignorant of law* frequently intoxicated upon the bench, and has sat in at least one case where he had a direct pecuniary interest A Washington dispatch of the 1st inst. says: "The Judiciary Corosnitt.ee again postponed what is known as the Blaine investigation until July 10 next. This postponement was had upon representations that Blaine's health will not permit him to be present. The witnesses, Mulligan and Fisher, were granted leave ao- cordiagly.'" WASHINGTON advicee say that it is probable Congress will adjourn abont the 20th of July. THE last monthly statement uf the public debt is as follows: Six per cent bonde t 984,999,680 . rtve per cent bonds 711,685,900 Total coin bonds $1.006,^86,405 Lawful money debt... 14,000,000 Matured debt.. Legal tenders Certificates of deposit.... Fractional currency..... Coin certificates 3,902,420 369,839,901 32,84U,000 34,446,695 28,681,400 Total without interest. .. 436,807,196 Total debt $2,180*395,067 Total interest 38,514,004 Cash in Treasury: Coin. 173,625.584 Currency 13,004,141 Special deposits held for re­ demption of certificates of,deposit 32,840,000 Total in Treasury 119,469,726 Debt less cash in tke Treasury $3*099,430,349 Decrease of debt during Tune 3,881,377 Decrease since June 30, 1875 29,249,385 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money : Principal outs tan'ling 64,623.512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest pud bj the United States 30,141,513 Interest repaid oy transportation of mails, etc 4,852,491 Balanoe of interest paid by United StateB 23,289,021 THE Dutch steamer Lieutenant General Eroesen recently foundered In the straits of Stand a, in the East Indies. Two hundred and thirty lives were lost Our Centennial Fourth of July was celebrated by 30,000 people in Dublin, Ireland; it was also appropriately observed by the Americans in Berlin, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland, and other European centers The Khedive of Egypt will furnish the Porte 12,000 soldiers. No LESS than four murders were perpetrated in Washington on Independence Day, all re­ sulting from too much bad whisky. FOREIGN. A CABLE dispatch announces the death of Miss Harriet Martineau, the celebrated Eng­ lish authoress, in the 75th year of her age A Paris telegram says: " President MacMahon has pardoned or reduced the eentences of eighty-seven participants in the Communist insurrection. There will be no further prose­ cutions, except in cases involving attempts upon life or liberty, or in the cases of insur­ gent leaders, and such cases will be referred to a Council of Ministers before their prosecu­ tion." THE London Times' Constantinople corres­ pondent telegraphs that the new Sultan is over­ whelmed with the difficulties of his' position, and contemplates abdicating in favor of his younger brother. PRESIDENT MACMAHON has pardoned 125 more French Communists Robert Buchanan, the poet, in a libel suit against the proprietors of the London Examiner for $25,000 damages, haa been awarded $750 by the verdict of a jury. --Montenegro has declared war against Turkey. ACTIVE hostilities have begun between Servia and Turkey, and the fear is general that the contest will assume continental proportions. On the 2d inst. the Servians crossed the Turk­ ish frontier at three points, and simultaneously the Priuce of Montenegro led his army into Herzegovina.* Servia is a semi-independent principality, placed by the treaty of Paris under the protection of the contracting powers, but tributary to Turkey. Its ruler is Prince Milan, born in 1855. Its area is 12,600 square miles, or a little greater than the State of Maryland, and it is separated from the lower Adriatic by Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The population in 1861 was 1,098,281 .A battle was fought between the Turks and Servians on the 3d of ! uly, in which the latter were defeated with the loss of nearly 3,000 in killed, wounded and captured. The Turkish loss was -150 killed and 800 wounded Austria is rapidly placing her army on a war footing. FORTY-FOURTH COSGRKSS. resolution accepting the invitation of the Centennial Commission to attend the celebration of the 4th in Independence Square, Philadelphia.... Tho Senate amendments to the HfaVM bill making temporary provision for the ordinary expenses of the Government for the next ten days, were, on motion of Mr. Randall, oofavrrod ia.... Hurlbut from the Commit'ee on MUftWr Affairs, reported a bill to authorize the payment «| the three months' extra pay to the officers and aoldiera of the Mexi­ can war. Passed. is ' . . .. . SATURDAY, July SL--Senate.--Sherman, from the Committee on Finance, reported back the House joint resolution for the lame at silver coin, and recommended that the Senate non-concur in the House amendments to the Senate amend­ ments, and ask for a committee of con­ ference. So ordered, and Sherman, Boutwell and Bogy appoint* d aa confenees on the part of the Senate.... Wlndcm. from the conference committee on the Indian Appropriation trill, reported that the committee hid been unable to agree, and moved that a new committee be appointed. The ground of disagreement was the section tiMMferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department. The motion to ap­ point, a new committee was agreed to The Senate then took up the Sundry CivilAppropriation bill. A number of amendments were agreed to. including one jui priuuug iuii (UKtribuuhg the agricultural reports, when the bill was read a third time and passed.... The House bill authorizing the Commis­ sioner of Indian Affairs to purchase supplies for the Indian Bureau in open market was passed.... Wlndom, Logan, and Cnperton were appointed a new conference committee on the Indian Appro­ priation bill. House.--The Senate hill exempting vessels navi­ gating the Mississippi and tributaries above New Orleans from entries and clearances at its several points, was passed....The bill far the immediate purchase of the supplies iiee&sS to keep the In­ dians from starving, to the amount of $150,000, in order to prevent suffering in case there is no final agreement upon the general Indian bill, was also passed -- Randall reported that the conferreeson the Legislative Appropriation bill had been unable to agree, and asked for another conference. The dif­ ference was in regard to the s?coud section, which provides for salaries of employes of the Govern­ ment. The money difference between the two Houses?:* this bill was $3,700,000. After a long dis­ cussion of a political nature, the report was agreed to, and a new conference committee appointed-- Bandall, Singleton and Foster....The joint resolu­ tion for a meeting of Congress in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on the Fourth of July, was passed. MONDAY, July 8.--Senate.--The Benate spent the day in the resolution to pay P. B. S. Pinchback the expenses of his Senatorial contest. The resolu­ tion waB made the text of some speeches of a polit­ ical nature, Bayard and Morton taking the lead for their respective sides in the debate. Adjourned to Wednesday. Bouse,--Th» Speaker called on the States for bills, and half a dozen of a private nature were introduced and referred. Several filibustering motions were made to consume the morn­ ing hour and prevent the introduc­ tion of Neal's bill for the repeal of the Resumption act. .. Oliver moved to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution appointing a select committee to in­ quire info the disposition made of 1,200,000 acres of land granted foi the improvement of the Des Moines rapids. On motion of Holman the Commit­ tee on Public Lands was substituted for Jthe select committee, and the motion, aB modified, was adopted.... Holman stated that the conference com­ mittee on the Postoffice Appropriation bill had agreed, and the bill was being printed. WEDNESDAY, July 5.--Senate.-- Sherman in­ troduced a joint resolution reciting that" We, the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled, in the name of the people of the United States, in this, the beginning of the second century of our national existence, direct and assume the completion of the Washington monument, in the city of Washington, and do direct the committees of both houses to institute the necessary pro­ visions of law to carry this resolution into effect," It was adopted by a unanimous vote.... 1 he bill to encourage and promote telegraphic communica­ tion between Asia and America was passed The conference report on the Postoffice Appropriation bill was agreed to The Senate devoted the entire afternoon to the consideration of the resolution giving pay and mileage to P. B. S. Pinchback, amounting to some $20,000. Attempts were made to amend by adding other unsuccessful claimants of seats, but only the claim of Mr. Sykes. of Alabama, waa accepted, and then the resolution was passed by a vote of 27 ayes to 11 nays. Home.--Seelye offered a resolution, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information re­ garding what portion of the Indian trust funds baa been invested in securities other than stocks of the United States since 1841. Adopted....The House agreed to the conference report on the Postoffice Appropriation bill. HORRIBLE 1.1DI1N THCBSDAY, June 29.--Senate.--Windom re­ ported, with amendments, the Sundry Civil Ap­ propriation bill.Sargent, from the conference committee on the Naval Appropriation bill, made a report that the committee had agreed upon the bUl, and, in explanation of the report, said the House conferrees had accepted the legislative amendments of the Senate in regard to the employment of force in navy-yards.... The Houte bill to authorize the construction ofa railway pontoon bridge across the Missouri river at Nebraska City, Neb., was passed Morrill (Me.) from the Committee on Appropriations, reported back the joint resolution recently submitted by the President to provide for defraying the ordin­ ary and necessary expenses of the public service by extending the appropriation bills for the present fiscal year into the next, with an amendment providing that in no case shall such appropriation be continued for a longer period than thirty days. The amendment was agreed to, and the resolution passed West, from the Conference Committee on the Postoffice Appro­ priation bill, reported that the committee had been unable to agree, and moved that a new conference, asked for by the House of Representatives, be granted. House.--A message was received from the Senate informing the House that the Senate had agreed to the report of the conference committee on the Naval Appropriation bill....Holman, from the committee of conference on the Postoffice Appropriation bill, submitted the report of that committee, in­ forming the House that the committee bad not been able to agree, and anted for another committee. The report was adopted, and the Speaker appointed Holman, Clark of Missouri, and Hale as the new committee of conference The Speaker pro tem. laid before the House a memorial of the National Board of Trade, in session at New York, that silver coin shall not be made legal-tender for any sum be­ yond $5. Referred. ..The House met in the even­ ing and debated the Geneva Award bill. FRIDAY, June 30.--Senate.--House „bill au­ thorizing the Congressional Printer to continue the work required by law in advance of the regular ap­ propriation for printing for a period of ten days, was passed... .Hamlin called up the House bill to amend the Revised Statutes providing a penalty for mailing obscene books and other matters therein contained, and prohibiting lottery circulars from parsing through the mails. After discussion, the bill passed The Senate passed the House bill to continue the unexpended balances, to provide tem­ porarily for the expenses of the Government for a period not to exceed ten days.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was discussed and amended. House.--The bill providing for the use of the unexpended balances for ten days of the next fiscal year was passed.... Senate bill providing for the imprisonment and transfer of United States prisoners wag passed A bill ivas passed giving all employes of the Government a week's furlough to attend the Centennial....The House passed a HERY. Ow»Cut«vaB«l P1t« OA«Sp6nie* of* Cav­ alry Massacred by Sioux--Not a Soul Escapes to Tell the Terrible Story. SALT LAKE, July 5.--A special corre­ spondent of the Helena (Mont.) Herald writes from Stillwater, Mont., July 2 : " Muggins Taylor, scout for Gen. Gib­ bon, got here last night direct from Little Horn river. Gen. Custer found the Indian camp of about 2,000 lodges on the Little Horn, and immediately attacked the camp. Coster took five companies and charged the thickest portion of the camp. Nothing is known of the operations of this detachment, only as they trace it by the dead. Major Iteno commanded the other seven companies, and attacked the lower portion of the camp. The Indiana poured in a murderous fire from all di­ rections. Besides, the greater portion fought on horseback. Custer, his two brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law were all killed, and not one of his de­ tachment escaped. Two hundred and »3ven men were buried in one place, and the killed are estimated at 300, with only 31 wounded. The Indians surrounded Reno's command, and held them one day in the hills, cut oft from water, until Gibbon's command came in sight, when they broke camp in the night and left. "The Seventh fought like tigers, and were overcome by mere brute force. The Indian loss cannot be estimated, as they bore off and cached most their killed. The remnant of the Seventh Cavalry and Gibbon's command are re­ turning to the mouth of the Little Horn, where the steamboat lies. Tne Tnilinnw got all the arms of the killed soldiers There were seventeen commissioned officers killed. " The whole Custer,family died at the head of their column. The exact loss is not known, as both Adjutants and the Sergeant Major were killed. The Indian camp was three to four miles long and was twenty miles up the Little Horn from its mouth. The Indians actually pulled men off their horses in some instances. I give this as Taylor told me, as he was over the field after the battle. The above is confirmed by other letters, which say Custer met a fearful disaster." FURTHER HORRIBLE CONFIRMATION. SAM LAKE, Utah, July 5.--The Times' extra from Bozeman, Mont., July 3, 7 p. m., has the folllo wing: " Mr. Taylor, bearer of dispatches from tlie Little Horn to Fort Ellis, arrived this evening and reports the following : The battle was fought on the 25tli, 30 or 40 miles below the Little Horn. Custer attacked the Indian village of from 2,500 to 4,000 warriors on one side, and Col. Reno was to attack it on the other. Three companies were placed on a hill as a reserve. Gen. Custer and 15 officers, and every man belonging to the five companies was killed. Beno retreated under the protection of the re­ serve. The whole number killed was 315. Gen. Gibbon joined Beno. The Indians left the battle-ground like a slaughter pen, as it really was, being in a narrow ravine. The dead were much | mutilated. The situation now looks I serious. Gen. Terry arrived at. Gib- ! bon's camp on a steamboat, and crossed j the command over, and accompanied it to join Custer, who knew it was comirtg before the fight occurred. Lieut. Crit­ tenden, son of Gen. Crittenden, was among the killed." THIRTY-NINE PEOPLE BROWNED. Terrible Fate of the VilUge of Rock­ dale, Iowa--The Town Swept Away by a Flood, and Kvery Inhabitant Drowned. DUBUQUE, "4OWA, July 0.--On THO night of the Fourth the little hamlet of Rockdale, 3 miles southwest of the citv was swept away as with the besom of destruction. Every building in the little town save the Catfish Mill was washed from its foundation and torn into a wreck that defies description. The dozen buildings--all that were located on the bottom lands of the Cat­ fish save tb« mill--vtrpim oorriari off »« if they were so many cockleshells, and whirled adown the surging and boiling current, crushing them into fragments. Thirty-nine human beings were swept hurriedly from life into the great mael­ strom of death. Men, women and chil­ dren to that number, were drowned, and their stiff bodies--those of the thirty that have been rescued up to thi« hour--were ranged side by side along the shady side of the wpill awaiting the last sad funeral rites. In one instance we saw an entire family of four all lying dead; in another every member of the family but one lay dead. The bodies of some were found in the debris of the crushed buildings near the scene of their death, while others, and the greater part of them all, were found along the banks from a few rods to a mile down the stream. Some were almost entirely hid from view by the floods of mud that had been swept along by the maddened waters, with perhaps a hand only ex­ posed to sight, or a foot or a portion of the face, or perhaps only a small portion of their clothing. A. large number of little children, boys and girls, ranging from 3 to 12 years old, were the victims of the dread avalanche, and altogether the scene was a most sickening one. Through the day the people of the vil­ lage had joined more or less in the fes­ tivities of the Centennial Foxlrth. In the evening the rain began to fall, and all took shelter in their homes or at the stores or saloons. At about half an hour after midnight the Catfish was discovered to have become so swollen that the streets were overflowing, and escape to the surrounding highlands cut off. Higher and higher rose the rush­ ing waters, while the storn* kept piti­ lessly on. Down rolled the surging water in great waves several feet high, and the smaller buildings were swept away. At about 1 o'clock a portion of the dam gave way. Now the stream had grown to 2,000 feet wide and fully twen­ ty feet deep. As the buildings were swept into wrecks, the inmates were hurled into the surging torrent, their voices crying*out for help amidst the roar of thunder and storm and crash, while lurid lightnings flashed every min­ ute, lighting up the dreadful scene for an instant, and leaving it blacker than before. THE DEAD. Joseph Becker, Ellen, his wife, and two children; James Pearce, Emma, his wife, and two children; Peter Becker and five children, also his housekeeper and two children; Mrs. Carey and two children; John Klassen, wife, and flvfe children ; Peter Kapp, wife ana four children; Mrs. Kingsley, Thomas BJenkiron, Oliver Blenkiron, William Bradbury, and Richard Burke--thirty- nine in all, of which thirty-two have been recovered. Altogether, the scene was one to touch a heart of stone. Thou­ sands of people have visited it during the day, and people are going and coming constantly. The neighbors, with kindly alacrity, opened their doors to such of the afflicted as remained, and afforded every comfort in their power. The bodies of the dead were washed by kind hands, and many of them taken into the dwellings near by. The members of the Board of Supervisors were early on the ground, working like Trojans to re­ cover the dead and give care to the living. J IiATEB* Thirty-one bodies of the drowned have been recovered. Further search will be continued until all are found. William Watters, William Coats, and the Board of County Supervisors, labored with un­ tiling industry to aid the sufferers and to recover the dead. Sultan Murad. The new Sultan of Turkey, Murad, it appears, is only a polygamist so far as politeness and propriety require him to be. He would rather be the husband of one wife than of fifty, and would have been glad to marry a princess of some European house, if such a princess could have been found to take him. His first wife is still his favorite. She is about twenty-six years old, not pretty exactly, but distinguished-looking and intelli­ gent, and lias great influence with her husband. She has had no children, and Murad has therefore been obliged to mairy two other wives, chosen for him by tier. She showed her intelligence by picking out two extremely beautiful but extremely stupid young women, one of whom is the mother now of Prince Paladin, a child of 10, and the other of a princess of the mature age of 4. The mother of Murad, we may add, was a Circassian, or more probably a Cossack girl, and a Christian, who was allowed to practise her faith in the harem by Abdul Medjid. It is even whispered that the new Sultan is more than half a Christian himself, which would indeed complicate the situation.--New York I imes. A Simple Barometer. At Lafayette Park Police Station, Mo., is a peculiar barometer which never tells a lie. There is a jar with a little water and a few stones at the bottom. On a little wooden ladder running into the water is perched a specimen of the genus hyla, or tree-toad. When it is going to be fair weather that toad roosts on the top round of the ladder, solemnly blinking the hours away. From twelve to fifteen hours before a change to bad weather, "the General," as they call him, begins to climb down, and hours before a storm sets in he squats himself on the stone with his head, just above the surface of the water. If the weather be changeable, the toad goes up and down that ladder like a scared middy. ILLINOIS ITEIS, THERE axe sixteen granges in Wayne ootinty. v UPPBK ALTON and vicinity is infested with a gang of horse-thieves. PEORIA has female burglar*, at least a couple were arrested on Tuesday last. AT Peoria they are demanding an in­ crease of the police force or a vigilanoe committee. THE corner-stone of the Vermilion County County Court Hduse was laid at Danville recently. THE crop now being harvested in Greene and Jersey counties is said to be the best ever grown. THE Old Settlers' Society of Morgan county have selected August 24 for their eighth nnniml picnic, FOUB great-grandfathers and two neat-grandchildren had a reunioh at Bryant, Fulton county, a few days ago. MBS. ROBERT CARTER, a widow, re­ siding near Liberty, died last week from the effect s of a dose of strychnine ad­ ministered by her own hands, It is not known whether she intended suicide or the poison was taken accidentally. TUESDAY night, of last week, the "watchman" of the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, Jacksonville Divis­ ion, at the bridge which spans Salt Creek, nerth of Jacksonville, was killed by a passing train while asleep on the nidge. A MTTiiE son of John F. BurriH, of Springfield, while carelessly handling a pistol, a few nights since, accidentally shot himself, the ball entering the right eve, passing through the orbit and through the brain. AT Cairo, last Saturday night, an old colored man named Cotton was run over by a train on the Cairo and St. Louis road, and instantly killed. It is thought that he had been drinking, and, as it was dark and raining, the engineer did not see him on the track in time to stop the train. A DEAD body was found floating in the river at Rockford one morning last week. On its being recovered and an inquest held it proved to be the body of a man named Thomas Malloney, who escaped from the police station at Rockford some months ago. It is not known whether he committed suicide or was accidentally drowned. AN exchange says: "In a journey through Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, we noticed that the whole face of the earth, wherever there is pasturage, has come up to white clover. It is a very remarkable feature in the vegetable world of this Centennial year. We passed through all the above States by both east and west and north and south lines, and nowhere did we see any pas­ turage but white clover. We know of nothing else to attribute it to but the mildness of the last winter. On account of this abundance of clover it ought to be a productive season for honey. A WELL-TO-DO farmer, named Charles Ray, committed suicide last Wednesday at Winnebago by cutting of his right arm, or, rather, cutting all round it to the bone with a razor. Medical assist­ ance was procured, and the arm was amputated higher up, but Ray died in fearful agony at 8 o'clock next morning. It is said Ray committed suicide be­ cause he spent so much money at the turned. „ / A SPECIAL from Springfield gives the particulars of a most outrageous attempt to destroy a train of passengers at Nil- wood, a station on the Chicago and Alton railroad, thirty miles south of the State capital, on th& night of the 1st inst. The despatch says : " Just before the arrival of the lightning express train from St. Louis, the tool house near the station was broken open, and tools taken therefrom, with which the switch rail was forced out of place. This train, which does not stop at Nilwood, ap­ proached at a speed of over thirty miles an hour, and of course was thrown from the track. The momentum carried it some distance, demolishing the engine and tender, and breaking up the bag­ gage and express cars badly. The en­ gine was almost literally smashed ,to pieces. The passenger coaches being connected with the BlaekstOne patent coupling, were but little injured, and none of the passengers hurt, and, strange as it may seem, the engineer and fireman were thrown out of the top of the cab and landed at some distance without being seriously hurt. The engineer, Mr. Robert Hawks, of Bloomington, is one of the oldest and best engineers on the road. None on «the train were injured beyond a few slight scratches and bruises. The general opinion is that the dastardly attempt was made by tramps, who are just now swarming oyer this section, hundreds of them traveling northward upon the track. Several have been put off from freight trains during the last few days, and it is thought this? was an act of revenge." Taking- The Bead Home. The Comte de Paris left Southampton yesterday in charge of a burden which painfully recalls the changing fortunes of his family. He has been to this coun­ try, not on tne political mission which some quidnunos of the continental press imagined, but in obedience to the wishes of the dead and the feeling of the living. He came here to collect the ashes of his relatives, and convey them to the family resting-place. He has taken with him the bodies of his grand­ father and grandmother--King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie Amelie ; of his mother, the Duchesse d'Orleacs, who, though a Protestant, was interred with her husband's family ; and of the young Prince de Conde. They all died in this country, in exile, and the Comte de Paris lias received permission to re­ move their remains from the vault of the Roman Catholio Church at Wey- bridge to tho mausoleum at the family residence at Dreux, in Normandy. The removal has been accomplished without any display, and it is understood that the long-delayed funeral obsequies at Dreux will be of the simplest and most private character. For some thirty years the vaults there have been waiting for their occupants, who thus return from exile to their lsist home on French soil. France has no motive for grudg­ ing her last King a grave. It is under­ stood to have been the wish of King Louis Philippe and of Queen Mario Amelie to be buried among their own j kindred ; and there seems to be no reft- ( son whatever that the wish should an* longer remain unfulfilled. King Louis Philippe died at Claremont in August. 1850. The Queen Marie Amelie suit vived him nearly sixteen years, having lived till 1866, and dying then within about a month of the completion of Kjf 84th year.--London News. BagRilR ~ A flood of counterfeit money appeals to have burst upon New York and Brooklyn, and it is well for those receiv­ ing bills to be on their guard. From an exchange we quote a list of counterfeits, which may be of use for reference': $20 bills on the National Bank of Uti- ca, New York. • $10 bills on the Farmers' and Mann, faefcrers' Ba~ik of Poughkeepsi^ $5 bills on the First National *w>v of Chicago, HI. $5 bills on the First National Tft»ir of Pax ton»IJ1,. ,m i » $5 bills on the First National of Canton, HI. $5 bills on the First National Bank of Feoria, 111. $5 bills on the First National 0f Aurora, HL $5 bills on the First National of Galena, HI. . $5 bills on the First National Bony of Northampton, Mass. $5 bills on the Hampden "Ronir of Westfield, Mass. $5 bills on the Mechanics' National Bank of New Bedford, Mass. $5 bills on the Traders' National Bank of Chicago, 111. $5 bills on the First National Bank of Louisville, Ky* V e are informed that there is no such bank in existence as the First National Bank of Galena, HL The Corse of France. Ex-Secretary McCulloch, formerly of the Treasury Department, and now banker in London, has written several letters to the New York Tribune on the French financial affairs. They have, and worthily, attracted much attention. The present debt of the French nation is, ^he says, twice that of the United States, and what is remarkable is that this debt has grown more rapidly, not when the country was engaged in war, but when it was preparing for war. The standing army has been at the bottom of all the financial troubles in Franoe. And, he adds, it is her standing army and the standing armies of other coun­ tries that menace the peace of Europe. These armies, he rightly asserts, are not created for the preservation of peace, they are the preparation of war. They mean war and nothing else. It would be a measureless blessing to France "if she would forget her triumphs under the great Corsican, and get over the delusion which she indulges that she must become again the great power of Europe." What a Messing it would bo to France and to civilization everywhere, if she would say " the Republic is peace," and verify the saying by following the exam­ ple set by the United States at the close of the late civil war, by disbanding her army. If she should do so she would shame every European nation into doing the same.--Advance. The Philosophy of " The Fourth." By the way, it is a singular trait of human nature that it celebrates great events by great noise. The philosophy of the fact must lie in the social nature of man-- that nature which makes it es­ sential that his neighbor perceives that he is celebrating. An average human being could not go into a dark room and celebrate the battle of the Nile or of Waterloo, or the emancipation of the negroes all by himself. In the hours of his supreme jubilation man must be con­ spicuous. The world must perceive him, and be amazed. Out of this peculiarity of man comes the Chinese cracker and the gun and the old hoise- pistol as a part of the Fourth. They say to the world: "Here I am with my pa­ triotism. Don't you hear me--don t you see me?" The July powder is the patriotic soul expressing itself so that a stupid world shall hear and know its in­ most devotion to " '76."--Prof. Swing's Alliance. THAT Norwich mail who courted his wife fifty years before he married her was a prudent fellow. Fifty years takes the strength out of most any arm, and makes it inconvenient for a woman to get down on her knees to urge the head of the house to come out from under the bed and talk the matter over.--Bridge­ port Standard. THE MARKETS. M NEW YORK. 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