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„ K' \ • S ®HE JTTC|MRG JHAMDCALFR. J. VAN SLISS, PTOUSHML McHENRY, ILLINOIS. EICBWS COSDESSED. THE EAST* tPHK first battle over tfiei Otitis <3t 'tlie t ,c"i - :$0-. t have money to pay late A. T. Stewart has been won in the York courts by the executrix and executor, Xjre. Stewart and Judge Hilton, as against the alleged heirs-at-law, who have contested the validity of the probate of Mr. Stewart'* will A tragedy almost without a parallel, and resulting in the death of seven persons, occurred the Other day at Newark, N. J., the particulars of which, as furnished by telegraph, are about as follows: It appears that three Germans, toothers, named Thielhorn. who bave been known as desperate characters for years, were arrested by Police Officers Dickerson and Els den for disorderly conduct. As the officers attempted to march them off, the men drew revolvers and shot Eleden dead and fatally wounded Dickerson. Escaping, the despera­ does ran up street to T. W. Dawson's tannery On River street, where they formerly worked. Ifcere they called for Mr. Meyer, the foreman, trfco had discharged them, but not finding him they coinmencea an indiscriminate firing on the shop, which resulted in the killing of Jofcn Albens, assistant foreman, and the Wounding of two workmen. The employes * tamed oct en mass©, and aliased the murderers towards the river. In pursuit the workmen used stones and knives, striking the murderers .several timers before they reached the river. The latter leaped into the'water and attempted to escape across, but were stoned to death by the outraged workman. The deaths number •even--Policemen Elsden and Dickerson, the three Thielhorns, Albors and a workman. Most intense excitement prevailed in the city, Ud the nummary action of the workmen was rner&lly commended t During the excitement W. Dawson, proprietor of the factory Where the shooting occurred, was robbed of •2,230 in checks, which he was about to de- Posit- THE cottage of George M. Pullman, of Long Stanch, was robbed the other day of diamonds Kbd jewelry valued at $2,500 Another suc­ cessful experiment in the sale of heavy lots of .dry goods at auction was made in New York lut week. The sale was the largest of '.he kind ever held in Americn, comprising 13,000 pack- ares valued at from $2. (>00.000 to #3,000,000. The goods were sold for cash, and realized •bout 25 per cent, below prevailing rates.... She three events of rhe inter-collegiate re­ gatta came off at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 19th Of July, and the trophies all go to Ithaca to keep company with the flags won by Cornell last year. The University race was the .most closely contested, Harvard coming in a length and a half behind. Columbia was third, Union fourth, and Wesleyan and Princeton ftar in the rear. The single-scull race was won Francis, of Cornell (a son of John M. Ifcaacia, of the Troy Times'), Danforth. of Har- tWPd, alone, proving a respectable autagookt. The Freshman race was a walk-away for Cor­ nel ; the Harvard crew failing to make as good Hme as they had in private. THE WEST. A &ETTE&hM been received at Fort Lincoln, rfs ®. T*, trrwn Col. Poland, commanding the Sixth Infantry, reviving the rumor that Sitting Sail wm killed in the battle of June 25, when Ouster and hie command were slaughtered. ' The story was brought by » party of the hostile Sioox, who reported that 300 soldiers •ad 200 Indians were killed, among them fftting Bull and other chiefs It is believed that Sitting Bull's band mtist have obtained $15,000 or $20,000 in money and jewelry from Cluster and his men. as the corn- Bland Lad just been paid off, and bad had no Chance to spend it. This money will enable Hitting Boll to buy as much ammunition as be may need for summer. White traders along the Montana and Pembina line are well sup­ plied and always ready to sell ammunition to fbstiTe Indians, if they Ibr it. THE rumors What have been afloat, to the ef­ fect that Gen. Crook had met the fate of Cua- . tar and his mon, prove to have been without *•". foundation. At last accounts Crook was still aafe, though confronted by a large, savage force. He WM aw&itiug reinforcements, which have probably Reached by this time.... Advices have reached Omaha to the effect that the Indians are moving on Medicine Bow, a Station on the Union Paciiic almost due south Of Fort Fettena&ii, it is supposed, for the pur­ pose of capturing or destroying the supplies which have been stored there recently in great Quantities by the Government, there being •0,000 rounds of ammunition there, among Other things. A very small force of Indians could seize and destroy these stores, as Medi­ cine Bow is a small station, and the country round about is sparsely settled. Their destruction at this time would seriously filapede military operations against the Indians. .... A Cheyenne dispatch says that, in conse- Sence of a report that 800 Cheyennes where out to leave Red Cloud Agency for the north, Cteii. Merritt has delayed the proposed move­ ment of the Fifth Cavalry northward from Fort fctrtuiiie Uf join Oi uuk, out] Ima inuV'vd it to & position where it expects to intercept these In­ dians, and, if possible, give iiiciu a warm re­ ception A young man named Patrick O'Neil diei in Chicago, the other day, of hydrophobia, caused by tho bite of & dog inflicted about eight months ago. GEK. SHEBIDAN is in receipt of dispatches from Gen. Crook, dated "Camp on Goose Creek, Wyoming, July 13," in which he says: "The best information I can get from my front is that the Sioux have three lighting men to my one, although I have no doubt of my Ability to whip them with my present force, but the victory would likely be one barren of re­ sults, and so I have thought it better to defer an attack until I can get the Fifth here, and then end the campaign with one crushing blow. The hostile Indians are, according to my ad­ vices, encamped on the Little Horn, near the •pase of the mountain, and will probably re- » > main there until my reinforcements come up." A SIXQULAB domestic tragedy was enacted in Chicago a few days ago. A married woman named Mre. Henry Wilncr, while laboring un- temP0l'ttI7 At of insanity, threw her two children into the river and then jumped in her­ self. All thrte were drowned before assist­ ance could reach them A fine corn crop is predicted in Minnesota... .Four fro™ Deadwood arrived at Sioux City, the other dav, with a large quantity of ' , ^em having sixty ounces. They ? in tliat locality are paying rom vl00 to VWD per day per man, Provisions axe now to be had at reasonable tig urea. On w y êt 300 16111118 loaded with supplies between Fort Pierre and the hills. HON. GEORGE E. PUGH died at Cincinnati last week of paralysis. He was 54 years old A Cheyenne dispatch of the 20th states that Gen. Merritt has successfully intercepted the Cheyenne Indians who had left tie agen- and driven thom back to that placa. WASHINGTON. THK testimony taken by the Special Commit, tee of the Benate who recently returned from Mississippi makes 1,700 pages. Senators Bout- well, McMillan, and Cameron, of Wisconsin, have begun the preparation of their report which will be to the effcct that gross outrages • have been committed upon blacks, and that . many have been causelessly slaughtered. The ' minority, Senators Bayard and McDonald, will igiv© their views, to the effect that tlie outrages .and other crimes are attributable to maladmin- 'istration of the Government of that State, Gov. Ames, when in authority, having armed the colored militia against the whites, thus pro­ voking collision. PRESIDENT GBANT states that the reason why he asked Postmaster General Jewell to resign •was that he interfered officiously with matters i outside of his own department.... Gen. T. W ' Bennett, recently nominated for Governor of Jdaiio by the President, declines the office. '• • WASBUOTON iistatoh of the 19th mys: Jv "Gov. Chamberlain, of Sooth Carolina, ar­ rived here to-day, and had a consultation with Secretary Cameron and Attorney General Taft regarding the recent trouble at Hamburg. The Governor was fully informed as t» what the views of the general Government are upon this affair, and they are substantially to the effect that the State of South Carolina should exe cute its laws and bring to prompt trial and punishment parties who are guilty of having fccited the riotous demonstrations and murders just reported." THK SOUTH. HAYWOOD GRAST, a crime-stained TfflWn who was hanged for arson at Rome, Ga., the other day, confessed to having committed four mur­ ders, one of them being the killing of Gen. Hindman, at Helena, Ark., in the summer of 1869. Gen. Hindman was fired upon through an open window by an unknown assassin, and the murder has remained a mystery up to this time. AIIRUUTT MORSE, a son of the late Prof. S. F. B. Morse, was recently killed by a railway acci­ dent near New Orleans. His head was severed from his body. THE cotton worm has appeared in great abundance in all the cotton fields in Middle and South Alabama. They seem to be gen­ eral, and fears are entertained, owing to their advanced state at this early date, of a total de­ struction of the crop. The oorn crop will l»e the best ever made. POLITIC AX.. TBE following letter has been aent to ex-Sec­ retary Briatow by the President ExKotmv* MANSION,) WASHINGTON, July 12,1876. / To the Bpn. B. H. Bristow: DEAR SIB--Through the prese, I learn that the committee of Congress investigating whisky frauds have summoned you as a witness, and that you, with great propriety, as I think, have declined to testify, claiming that what occurs in the Cabinet or between a member of the Cabinet and the Execu­ tive officially, is privileged, and that a committee of Congress have no right to demand an answer. I appreciate the position you have assumed on this question, but beg to relieve you from all obligation of secrecy on this subject, and desire not only that you may answer all questions asked relating to it, but wish that all members of my Cabinet and ex- members of the Cabinet since I have been President may also be called on to testify in regard to the came matters. With great respect, your obedient servant, (Signed) U. S. GRANT. THK Republican Convention of North Caro­ lina, in session at RaHeigh last week, nominated Judge Thomas Settle for Governor The Prohibitionists of Illinois have nominated Dr. James S. Simpson, of Green county, for Gov­ ernor. THE liberal Republicans of New York have called a State Convention, to meet at Saratoga, on the 23d of August. EX-SECBETARY BBISTOW ̂in a letter to the Pres­ ident, declines the latter's invitation to testify concerning Cabinet conversations. He says: "I respectfully suggest that the appearance of the several heads of departments before com­ mittees of Congress to testify to conversations between the President and themselves, running through a period of many months, would almost inevitably lead to disclos­ ures of differences of recollection, and present to the country an unseemly conflict to which I could not willingly be a party; besides it seems to me that such an inquiry by a commit­ tee of Congress tends to the absorption if not the complete destruction of executive power, and to the establishment of a purely-legisla- tive government. In any view I am able to take, it seems to me that duty requires me to adhere to my announced purpose not to answer the questions propounded to me by the committee. I beg to remind you that my ©pinion on this subject was repeatedly stated to you and members of the Cabinet,and as I understood met your and tlieir approval. My withdrawal from the Cabinet does not alter or modify my duty in this respect, nor have my views undergone any change. I hope I will not be recalled by the committee, but should they see proper to call me again I cannot con­ sent, as at present advised, to testify to conver­ sations held with the President on official bus­ iness." Mr. Mason Brayman has been ap­ pointed by the President Governor of Idaho. GENERAL. A DISPATCH from Augusta, Me., Bays: " Mr. Blaine, owing to the. very-excessive heat of the past few days, has not improved. The effect of the heat on his condition has fully confirmed his physicians in the beiief that the ble was of the nature of a sun-original troul stroke." THE report of mercantile failures by Messrs. Don, Barlow & Co., for the Bix months ending on the 30th of June last, is out. It is not an encouraging document. The number of fail­ ures for the six months is 4,600, against 3,563 for the corresponding six months of last year, and the amount of these failures is $108,000,- 000, against $76,000,000 for the corresponding six months a year ago... .The scarcity of small change will in alK probability be speedily rem­ edied. Congress has passed the Silver bill, which provides for the issue of $10,000,000 of subsidiary silver coin in exchange for legal ten­ ders. and provides for the additional coinage of 820,000,000, or so much as will take the place of all outstanding fractional currency.... Gen.- Custer had a life-insurance policv for •15,000; Capt. Yates, $5,000; Keogh, $10,000; Lieut. Calhoun. $5,000; Crittenden, $10,000; and Porter, $5,000 Sitting Bull and his braves are armed with Winchester rifles that are more effective than the arms of our own troops Another King has come to visit, not If rule over us. Belgium's monarch, under the title of Count d'Artois, rcachf d N«w York last Sunday, en route to the Centennial. FOREIGN. A PROPOSITION for the total abrogation of the laws restraining the freedom of the press has been defeated by the French Assembly by a large majority The British turret-ship Thnn- derer, while making a trial trip in Stokes' Bay, a few days ago, exploded one of her boilers, killing twenty-five of her crew and wounding some sixty others, numbers of whom will die. The bodies of the killed were shockingly mutilated, the flesh being stripped from the limbs by escaping steam. The for­ ward stokehole, where the explosion occurred, •was divided from the after stokehole by water­ tight bulkheads. The stokers in the latter were protected from the fragments caused by the explosion, but were literally boiled alive by the steam. THE sentences upon the persons tried in con­ nection with the recent outrage in Salonica have been increased. The Chief of Police has been degraded from his rank, and has fifteen vears' penal servitude. The commander of the Turkish frigate is degraded from, his rank, and lias ten years' imprisonment. The commander of the citadel has three years' confinement in the fortress. THK London Times' correspondent tele­ graphs from Perakin that the report of Gen. Olimpies, concerning Turkish cruelties, says " The Turks have killed several hundred women and children. In Bosnia they are cutting wo­ men and children to pieces, throwing them in the air, and catching them upon bayonets. They cut off heads or noses of the dt*d and wounded, whereas the wounded Turkish pris­ oners are treated like Servians." A Con­ stantinople dispatch says the health of the Sultan causes great anxiety. He has never re­ covered from the shock caused by the suicide of the Sulian Abdul Aziz and the murder of Hussein Avan Pasha, Minister of War. He is a mere wreck, and utterly unfit for business. Some have positively declared that symptoms of softening of the brain have appeared... Commercial interests in India are in a state of fearful stagnation. The London Times of July 18 savs: "Except the mutiny, this is the worst crisis in Anglo-Indian history, and there are few instances anywhere of a calamity so crushing and so general.".... Tlie city of Vienna ^TO^of'jujy^ a 8evere carthquake shock on the IT is estimated that 20,000 Bulgarian and Bosnian volunteers have taken up arms against Turkey A Vienna dispatch says an outbreak O..A FORTY-FOURTH COXBRKS8. THURSDAY, July 13.--Senate.--Nothing was done In the impeachment trial, owing to the ab- aenee of a witness, Evans, the post-trader at Fort Sill The Chair laid before the Senate a mes­ sage from the President transmitting reports from Gen. Sherman and Major General Terry, In re­ sponse to the resolution calling for information in regard to the trouble with the Sioux A new conference was appointed on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill The bill to provide for the construction of two military posts on t.h« Yellowstone river waa passed The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was discussed and amended. House.--The conference report on the Silver bill was adopted.... A resolution to adjourn July 25 was introdnced and referred Thompson, from the Committee on Elections.reported a resolution in the South Carolina contested-election case, declaring tliat neither Butts, the contestant, nor Mackey, the sitting member, were lawfully elected to Congress. Ordered printed.... Sparks, from the conference committee on the Indian Appropriation bill, reported that the com- Uiittcc hid tn AO«"AA Th«». cam A com- mittee was reappointed, the "Senate conferrees be­ ing also the saine Wait, from the select committee to investigate the charge* preferred by White (Ky.) against Adams, Clerk of the House, for interfering to influence legislation, reported that there was no foundation whatever for the charge Lynde, Lord, and Frye were appointed a committee of confer­ ence on the Bankrupt bill. FRIDAY, July 14.--Senate.--The conference reports on the Silver and Bankrupt bills were con­ curred in and the bills passed.... The River and Harbor bill was discussed The impeachment trial was postponed till Mon<^py, on account of the absence of the witness Evans. House.--The Massachusetts ocntested-electlon case of Frost (sitting member) versus Abbott was decided in favor of tho latter. . The conference report on the bill to amend the Bankrupt law vvas adopted A large number of bills of a private character were disposed of. SATURDAY, July 15.--Senate.--After the pass­ age of a few private bills, and the bill to extend the duration of the Court of Commissioners of the Alabama Claims to Jan. 1.1877, the Senate worked the entire day on the River ana Harbur Appropria­ tion bill. House.--k pension of $50 per month was voted to the widow of the late Gen. Ouster The House debated, in committee of the whole, the bill for the protection of the Texas frontier. Smalls of­ fered an amendment providing that "no troops shall be withdrawn from South Carolina so long as the militia of that State, peacefully assem­ bled, are assaulted, disarmed, taken prisoners, and then massacred in cold blood by lawless bands of men iuvading that State from the State of Georgia." An exceedingly lively debate followed, participated in by Smalls, Conger, Bright, Cox, Hartridge, Rainey, and Jones (Ky.) ; but without reaching a vote on the amendment the committee rose and the House adjourned MONDAY, July 11.--Senate.--The witness Evans not having arrived, the impeachment trial was adjourned until Wednesday, 13th....The Sen­ ate spent the entire day on the River and Haibor MB. Houae.--'The following bills were introduced: By Hopkins, appropriating $100,000 for the con­ tinuance of the Washington monument. By Phillips (Kansas), authorizing the President to accept the services of volunteers from Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado, Dakota and Utah, against the Sioux Indians. By Wade, for the erection of an equestrian statue of Gen. Custer, in Washington. By Landers, for the immediate utilization of gold and silver bullion, by certificates of a value to encourage the coining thereof, and to make the standard silver dollar a full legal tender. By Eames, an addition to the bill for resumption of specie payments, requiring 6 per cent, of the amount of the standing legal-tender notes to be set aside in coin every year until the legal tenders are of equal value with gold. By McDougall, a bill granting pensions to the heirs of the officers and men killed in Custer's recent battle with the Sioux at increased rates proportionate to that of $5 per month, the increase in the legal pension of a Lieutenant Colonel A resolution was adopted authorizing the ap­ pointment of a committee to proceed to California after the adjournment, to investigate, conjointly with the Senate committee, or otherwise, the extent and effect of the Chi­ nese immigration. Bills were passed to pay the States of California and Oregon for ex­ penses in suppressing Indian hostilities in 1872 and 1873, and removing the political disabilities of G. T. Beauregard....Two unsuccessful attempts were made during the day to instruct the Banking and Currency Committee to report a bill to repeal the Resumption act. TUESDAY, July 18.--Senate.--The Senate gave up a good portion of the day to a spirited dis­ cussion of political questions, Merrlmon and Mor­ ton being the principal spokesmen.... Bout well maae a personal explanation, stating that the Dem­ ocratic platform adopted at St. Louis charged that the late Secretary of the Treasury (alluding to him­ self) had forced balances in tlie public accounts. He denied that such was the case, and read from the report of the Finance Committee, recently made to the Senate, stating that they were fully w»tififled that not the slightest change had been made in the books. Davis said that If the books of the Treasury Department had not been changed, the official statements sent to Congress had. Hovse.--A fierce political debate raged in the House all day, the occasion being the amendment of Smalls to the bill for the protection of the Texas frontier, in connection with the Hamburg troubles, that no troops shall he withdrawn from South Carolina. Smalls advocated his amend­ ment, and was replied to by Cox, who said that the amendment had been offered for bad political purposes. Townsend followed Cox, and made a bitter attack upon the Democratic party. He spoke of William M. Tweed as the ruler of New York city for more than twelve years, and said that during tliat time, when Tammany Hall was in its power and glory, under Tweed, the gentleman from Ohio (Cox) brought his little carpet-bag into the city of New York, set it down in Xaminauy Hall, and looked up smiling for the approbation of William M. Tweed. Cox, in re­ ply, reminded Townsend that it was because of Gov. Tilden's eminent services in driving out Tweed that he was now the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. As to his (Cox's) taking his carpet-bag from Ohio, he had always maintained his right of locomotion, and he had the right to go back to New York in sight of his grandfather's old Congressional Dis­ trict. He did not care where a man was born, so long as he was good and juet. Lauiar got the floor and spoke of the Hamburg affair as disgraceful and terrible, but he denied that its circumstances were a legitimate topic in the House debate. There were one or two facts that gleamed out in­ disputably. One of these was that a body of white men had put to death without authority of law a number of colored citizens while prisoners, not prisoners in the legal sense, inasmuch as these white men had no right to deprive them of their personal liberty. He wished to say in this place that no excuse or palliation could possibly be found fur thatoutrage and barbarism. [Applause on the Re­ publican side of the House.) The South had its law­ less class, as the North had. He declared that there was not a community in the South which had not been struck with horrrr at such occurrences as the Hamburg affair. He deemed it a wonder that so­ ciety under the Governments which allowed such lawlessness to stalk abroad in the land did not go to pieces. He declared that the use uf the army- had never produced a good effect in such cases. The troops always got there after the occurrence. In conclusion, he declared the occurrence at Ham­ burg was a mobific element, not sporadic, but un­ natural, and one that would disappear under good government. At tho close of the debate Hanuoca moved a substitute for Smalls' amendment, to tho effect that no troops shall be taken from any State or service where public interest requires their continuance. Smalls accepted the substitute, and It was agreed to--86 to 83. The discussion of the South Carolina matter was subsequently re­ opened by Hoge and continued by Cox, each sp'eak- ing of the other as the carpet-bagger from Ohio, t ut Hoge saying he hud carpet-bagged with a knapsack, to which Cox reiterated, with an intimation that Hoge needed a knapsack to carry all that he had picked up. Foster called upon Representatives from Georgia to {stop these infernal outrages, and to be active in hunting out the inhuman liends that crossed the bridge from Augusta to Ham Bttttg. Do this, and then sing to us a pane­ gyric In vindication of outraged law, instead of talking about your noble blood, aye, a nobility that murders in cold blood a captured negro. If you have not the ability to stop these outrages you are not fit to be representatives of tne people of Georgia. Do it, and we will say •' Well done," and we will fall on your necks and rejoice. [Mocking laughter oh the Democratic side and shouts of "No!" "No!"] Cook-"You have fallen on our property and everything else, and we don't want you to fall on our necks " Cox ridiculed Foster's expression about falling on the necks of Southern men, and asked him why he had not fallen on the necks of Pratt, Yaryan, Dyer, Jewell, and others, and sug­ gested that he would rather fall on the necks of McKee, McDonald, Joyce, Baboock, Delano, and Avery, and would even rather embrace a barrel of crooked whisky. [Loud laughter and much con­ fusion. j The Republican side of the House had defended Grant and his administration against all those men, and when the gentleman from New York (Townsend) talked so glibly of Tweed and others with whom he (Cox) had no association, he wanted to know how it was with Babcock, with Avery, with Williams, and the rest of these men. Townsend--" When did you dissolve association with them?" Cox--"I never bad any con­ nection with them to dissolve. It was the Republican Legislature, of which you were the great trumpeter, which helped Tweed to his frauds in New York. Everybody kaows that I never in my life gave voice or vote to help him.' Townsend--"'You never cast a vote against Tammany since God made you I [Loud shouts to order.) You are the most perfect tool of Tamma­ ny who has ever been in New York. [Laughter, uproar, and great confusion.] You had to leave that chair, thank God, at the call of Kelly and go to St. Louis. Thank God you are out of it and can't get back!" Mr. Cox--"You sit down--I have the floor. When you say that I left that chair at the beck of any one, it is untrue. I was elected as a delegate from my district, and, my alternate not being there, I had to go; but it was at no man's call." [Shouts of "Time!" "Time!" "Order!" "Order I" and great confusion.] WEDNESDAY, June 19.--Senate.--Considera­ tion of the articles of impeachment was resumed, and John S. Evans, the Fort Sill post-trader, was examined. He testified that Belknap was igno­ rant of the understanding between him and the deceased and the present Mrs. Belknap, but ad­ mitted that Belknap brought him and Marsh to­ gether when the arrangements were made, and the whole of the evidence of both Evans and Crosby, iiic chief clcri cf the department (who als® testified), was damaging to .Belknap Confer­ ence reports on the Army and Sundry Civil Appro­ priation bills were agreed to. House.--Jones, from the Committee on Rail­ roads, reported a bill incorporating the United 8tates Cfntral Railroad Company, for the construc­ tion of a passenger and freight railway from Chica- §o, through Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky,, Ashville, T. C., and Spartansburg, 8. C„ to Charleston, Port Royal, and Savannah, with another branch to St. Louis. Referred to the committee ef the whole.... The Senate bill, extending the duration of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama., Claims until the 1st of January next, was p&ese<L\. .The House then considered the South Carolina contested-elec­ tion case, the unanimous report of the committee being that neither the sitting meml>er, Mackey, nor the contestant. Butts, is entitled to a ssat. The re­ port was agreed to without a division.... The con­ ference report on the Army Appropriation bill was agreed to, and the bill goes to the President for signature....The bill for the protection of the Texas frontier was considered in committee of the whole. THE NEW WORLD'S FAIR. [From Our Own Correspondent.] ̂ SPAIN. Thia interesting country has entered with a large degree of sympathy into the enthusiasm and the practical idea of the exhibition. The ex­ hibits are not conlned in their ownership to any dace, but every circle haa sent its contribu­ tion. There are Borne beautiful embroidered shawls from Madrid. Fans are also in great variety of style and finish. Nowhere does the fan come into greater play than in the grace­ ful hands of a Castilian maiden. Barcelona sendB paper. Toledo is to Spain what Liege is to Belgium, Birmingham to England, and Springfield to the United States. The blades of this old city are famous the world over. I saw one that is put in a semi-circular case, and after being confined for a long period will spring to the full tension on release. The elasticity of these old Toledo blades is wonderful. SWISS WATCH-WORK. The Swiss l6«d the column in this branch. In Neuchatel 20,000 women are engaged at $3.75 a week, who make 1,500,000 watches yearly, besides movements for the American market. Berthoud says, "To become a good watchmaker, it is necessary to be an arithme­ tician, geometrician, a mechanician and an artist, to know how fluids resist bodies in mo­ tion, the effect of heat and cold on metals, and a happy genius to apply all." It is said there are 102 distinct branches of this art, to each of which a ooy may be put apprentice tbe watah-finisher being the only one who can work out of hie department. Watch-making was introduced into Switzer­ land in 1769 by Daniel John Richard La Lange. It is to this liberal Swiss that woman is indebt­ ed for a recognition of her valuable services in this mechanical art. One factory, American, represented at the Exhibition employ 700 women, whose earnings are $10 per week. The exhibition of Swiss watches is handsome, and with other novelties in delicate work enable the Swiss to sustain their reputation Or wfciil and enterprise. CAPE OF GOO© HOPE. The Cape of Good Hope is represented at the Exhibition in Beede, woods, diamonds, in their crude state, which from their size would stand much cutting off from the hands of the lapidary, and then they would be of large size and of im­ mense value. A large assortment of wines are on exhibiton from the Cape, skins, 6tc. The)col- lection is valuable and very interesting, and is additional proof of the interest taken by the people of the geographical extremes of the world in America, and the creations of her ener­ gy and genius. GERMAN EXHIBITS. Germany has an extensive line of exhibits in every department--horse hair spun by the Ger­ man, English and French processes, mathe­ matical instruments. This is a marked specialty with the Germans, their work in these articles dating back to the fifteenth century, until now. The annual production of single establishments maybe said to aggregate 4,000 sets of instruments. There are sixty shops for mathematical instruments at Kuremburg. Large quantities are shipped to the United States. GEBMAN BOOK TBADE. This was initiated by the invention of book- printing in 1440, and in 1875 there were 4,616 publishers and booksellers in communication with the agency at Leipsic. At present there are published in the domain of the German tongue 12,000 volumes of new works, continua­ tions and new editions a year. This is against not more than 5,000 published in Francs or Eng­ land. The sale of Gorman books annually amounts to $17,500,000. There are elegant specimens of German literature on exhibi­ tion. Jewelry is another of the specialties that the German defies competition in. One town, Hanau, has 280 manufactories of gold and gilt jewelry; 150 smaller tsliops, 178 assist­ ant shops, altogether working 8,000 people. These exhibits are generally of a cheap grade. WIKB. * If beer is a German specialty, and there are aome hopping specimens in the Exhibition--so they say who skip round with a score or so of swei lager under their vest--yet the Touton is not indifferent to the charming influence of the juice of the grape. There are 310,000 acres of land in Germany devoted solely to the culture of the vine. There are 80,000 acres in the newly-acquired provinces of Alsace and Lor­ raine*. No wonder Germany fought oo hard for this favored spot. Next Bavaria, the Palati­ nate; then Prussia. Wurtemberg, Baden, aud Hesse : making together -53,000,000 gallons, specimens of wnich visitors to the Exhibition pronounce good. BEER. Bavaria devotes 44,000 square acres to hops. In Nuremburg there are 120 hop houses,'and thiB venerable city is the scientific center for Germany. Query--Is malt good for science ? In Bavaria there are 5,000 breweries, the great­ est part of the production being consumed at home. The annual product of the breweries amounts to 336,887,000 gallons. Looking at these figures, and then taking the population of Bavaria, which is 4,700,000, what a happy family Bavaria presents to the world. Bavarian beer is famous at the Exhibition, and with Vienna beer bears off the palm from lew-sig­ nificant nationalities. WOOLEN CLOTHS. Germany is making wonderful progress in cloths, the Bioli and Simoni ranging with the best Fiench in finish and texture, in fact, a large proportion are sold as French manufac­ ture. Their imitations of Smyrna carpets are nearly as beautiful as the Oriental. In cotton foods the Germans are not far behind the 'ranch and English. MISCELLANY. Twenty-seven mowiug machines contested for the championship of the world; they made their fight on 40 acres of ground. Each ma­ chine cut about a half acre of grass. , South of Machinery Hall is a building con­ taining an interesting* exhibit. It is called the Nevada Quartz Mill, and was established with a part of the $211,000 appropriated by Nevada toward her Centennial display. The remainder of the money was devoted to the State build- in In this" quartz mill is performed the en tire process of extracting gold and silver from quartz. The rock is finely pulverized in a pounding machine, from which the powder runs into a tank of water and Bettles to the bot­ tom. The water is then allowed to run off, and the sediment is put into a cylindrical vessel, called an amalgamating pan or grinder; here more water is put on, and mercury, in the proportion of 175 pounds to two tons of mixture. Tlie mercury begins to collect tho gold and sil­ ver as soon aa the grinder gives the mixture a circular motion. While grinding, the mixture is also kept heated to the boiling point, the better to infuse the mercury. The latter is then allowed to run into another cylindrical vessel, called a settler, where it is stirred and cooled, the compound of mercury, gold and sil­ ver meanwhile settling at the bottom. The metallic compound flows out at tho bottom through an inverted siphon, from the widened mouth of which it is dipped and put in a filter. Through the latter nearly all the quicksilver es­ capes and is collected, and the amalgam of gold, silver and mercury is left behind ready for the mint. All the machinery is operated by steam. The quaitz came from the Consolidated Vir­ ginia mine in Nevada. Much of the silver ob­ tained from it is converted into Nevada Centen­ nial medals in the mint. J. B. Growth of the United Statts. The American nation began its first century of existence with a population of 2,750,000. It has now, by the best estimates, 44,675,000. Tlie area has been extended from 800,000 to 3,603,844 square miles. The development of ag­ riculture, under the pressure of immi­ gration and the stimulus of mechanical invention, has been utterly without Erecedent. The value of manufactures as advanced from $20,000,000 to $4,- 200,000,000. Foreign and domestic commerce has taken gigantic strides. The development of mineral resources has not been the work of a century, but of fifty years. There were few banks in the colonies in 1776 ; there are more than 6,000 now. Internal improvements and the common-school system have kept pace with immigration. While annexation has quadrupled our area since the Revolution, it has con­ tributed very little, to the population, The purchase of Louisiana, Florida, California and New Mexico brought in fewer than 150,000 inhabitants, and the acquisition of Texas and Oregon merely .restored to citizenship those who had •migrated from the United States. The aggregate area covered by popu­ lation in 1790 was 239,935 square miles. The main line of settlements* ran 1,000 miles along the coast from the mouth of the Penobscot to the Altamaha, with an average extent inland of from 100 to 250 miles. A few pioneers had made their homes in the Ohio valley; there were tw6 or three patches of settlement in Kentucky; there was a village in In­ diana and another in Michigan; and there were bands of adventurous spirits as far west as Illinois. The Louisiana purchase in 1803, supplemented by the Oregon treaty of 1846, added 1,171,931 square miles to the national domain ; the Spanish cession in 1819 embraced 59,268 square miles; the annexation of Texas in 1845, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the Gadsden purchase in 1853, brought in 967,451 square miles; and, finally, Mr. Seward's Alaska invest­ ment involved the acquisition of 500,000 square miles. The total area is now 3,603,844 square miles, or 1,042,000,000 acres, one-half of which are public lands. In surface extent three nations surpass the United States--the British, Chinese and Bussian empires. The ara­ ble land under cultivation is less than one-tenth of the total area. The New Postal Law. The Postmaster General has sent the following circular to the postmasters throughout the country : The following section of a law has been passed by Congress and approved by the President: "SEC. 15. That transient newspapers and magazines, regular publications designed pri­ marily for advertising purposes, or for free circulation at nominal rates, and all printed matter of the third class, except unsealed cir­ culars, shall be admitted to and transmitted in tlie mails, at the rate of 1 cent for every two ounces, or fractional part thereof ; and 1 cent for each additional two ounces or fractional part thereof ; and the sender of any article of the third class of mail matter may write his or her name or address therein, or on the outside thereof, with the word 'From' above or preceding the same? or may write, briefly, or print on any package, the number and names of any articles inclosed. Publishers of news­ papers and periodicals may print on the wrap­ pers of newspapers or magazines sent from the office of publication to regular subscribers the time to which subscription therefor has been paid ; and addresses upon unsealed circulars may be either written, printed, or affixed there­ to, at the option of the sender. . "SEC. 16. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are here­ by repealed." On unsealed circrrbrs, and all mailable mat- tor of the third class, other than that designated in the foregoing section, postage will be charged as heretofore -- 1 cent for each ounce or frac­ tion thereof. > JAKES N. TTOKB, Postmaster General. Vengeance Eaten Cold. In 1850 a poacher named Rambouillet, was airested by the gamekeeper of a forest in the Haute Marne, France, and punished according to law. After his release he by good behavior won the re­ spect of his neighbors, but he was only waiting for* revenge. Four years ago, when the streets of the village were filled with German troops, he got in the crowd and fired through the window of the gamekeeper's cottage, killing his wife. On the next day it was said that the Ger­ mans ljad killed the woman, and she had a large funeral. The ex-poacher became morose, and not long ago in a quarrel used words which led to his arrest, trial andsentence to death. THE Texas Legislature recently passed a bill which makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $100, for a per­ son to use profane language within the hearing of any private dwelling. The Morristown Herald says that a man's mule got balky in a Texas town the other day, and the man got angry. The beast would start off suddenly, run about twenty yards, and then stop fifteen minutes to survey the neighborhood, and before the man got out of town he owed the authorities $80,000. ALBANY (N. Y.,) papers find fault about the prominence given to the great Corliss engines at the Centennial. After exam­ ining the power of several manufactories in that city, the scribes conclude: " The engine of the steamer Drew, of the People's Line, running at 20revolutions per minute, would exert a force equal to overcoming and turning backward about three pairs of the Centennial engines." A GEORGIA musical critic says : " At the concert in Griflin the other night, a solo sang by Mrs. Clara R. Johnson re­ ceived rapturous applause. Her voice is rich, clear and full of melody. It falls upon the hearers like silver spray upon a sea of molten gold dotted with floating diamonds and precious pearls." •BOLD HHJHWAT1 F&rtictilara of the Missouri Tral The most connected account cent robbery of a train neat Mo., is furnished by J. B. Busl express messenger who eceomj train: "The first intimation I had1 matter, I was standing in the < when the tram stosTisd fellow on the bank hallooed, ' She nm? ^ ^Un»' and blazed away «. The bullet lodged in the side ol door. Then two or three more were fired, and I jumped baclL " The brakeman was standing ii door of the smoking-car. He teayt have got a revolver. Do you want I told him I did, and he gave nvs 1 yolver. I took out the safe key alL. j it to him, and told-him to go to of the train, as I didn't want to gft the safe key unless forced to do s^, started to go back in the baggage-- and had just got on the platform, wl they commenced shooting again, said, ' Get off, you son of a ---,' and -- stepped inside the door of the smoking? car. Five men jumped into the foaggage- cai'j and told the baggageman to give up the key, thinking he was the express messenger. He told them he was not the messenger, but they, not placing any confidence in bis statement, went through him, of course without finding the key. They wanted to know where the messen­ ger was, and told the baggageman he didn't tell them damned quick, they'd teach him a lesson he wouldn't sooa for­ get. He told them I was back in the rear end of the train, upon which they told him he must find me or they'd kill him. They then took hold of him and marched him back to the rear end' of the train, where I was standing. One of them spoke to me, and said, ' You're the man I want. Come forward and unlock that safe without any nonsense I' I told him I hadn't the key. He said, ' you want to find it damned quick or I'll kill you!' Three of them then marched me through the coach into the sleeper where the brakeman was, and made him give up the key. Next they marched me into the baggage-car, and, pointing their pis­ tols at my head, demanded I should un­ lock the safe, which, under the pressure, I did. Then they took the money out of the United States safe and put it in a sack. Then they wanted me to go through the other safe. I assured them I had - no key for that, as it was a through safe. One man then went into the engine cab, procured a coal pick and came back with it. They first pounded away at the hinges, but finding they would not give way, broke open one of the panels, a singla thickness of iron. When through, they wanted to know if that was all I had. I told them it was. *1 They looked through the packing trunks, but found nothing they cared for. They broke the lock off the train-boy's chest, helped themselves to apples and suoh things, and topped off with taking all the cigars he had. "One, the ring-leader, wanted to know where they kept the water. Some one pointed out the water-cooler, and he in­ quired if it was good. If thev had put anything in it lately. They said, * no !' He said he'd rather have somebody try it first, and, pointing to Conkling, said : • Here, you s-- of a b---, take a drinb of tiiat, I don't propose to run any chances in any of this water business,' After the party had drank some one suggested, 'Better go through the passengers,* but £ the leader was against it, saying, 'We have been an hour here already, and can't waste any more time, as trains are coming up. Must get away.' Just as they left the leader said, • Well, if you see any of Allan Pinkerton's men, tell them they had better come and find us.'" Speaking of the leader, Bushnell says he was a very tall man, wearing a striped coat, dark pants, and hat, with a hand­ kerchief tied over his iaoe. He had. light, straw-colored hair, and was sun­ burnt. The other members of the crew were, with one exception, all tall men, and had. white and red handkerchiefs over their faces, some with eye holes and some with nose holes. Stome were only masked over the mouth V and nose, leav­ ing the eyes and forehead exposed. One man wore long gray whiskers. The small man of the party were no mask, and had short stubby whiskers and beard. So far as can be learned, the Adams Express Company loses some $4,000, and the United States Company about $12,000. FLORIDA wants a historian to write up the Seminole war. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. JBEKVK8 8 00 ®10 60 Hooa 6 76 0 7 06 COTTON 12 FLOUR--Huperline Western 3 00 ($ 3 90 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 100 (§102 CORK--Mixed Western.............. 61 52 t)ATS--No. 2 Chicago. 36 37 BTK--Western 60 ® 67 PORK--New Mess 20 10 16 LABI>--Steam UVA 11 CHICAGO. BEEVKS--Choice Graded Steers 6 10 9 8 35 Choice Natives 4 76 Q 6 00 COWB and Heif*ra 2 25 & 3 70 Good Becond-clau Steers. 4 60 ® 4 W Medium to Fair 4 20 ( $4 BO Hooa--Live 6 20 ($ 6 85 FLOUR--Fancy White Winter 6 76 A710 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 25 § 6 62)£ WHEAT--No. 2 89 91 No. 3 Spring 74 & 76}$ CORN--No. 2 44 <& 46 OATB--No. 2 27^<J| 28 KYE--No. 2 66 A » BARLEY--No. 2.... .. 16 ^ W BUTTER--Creamery 2A 9 26 Eoos--Fresh 12 & 14 PORK--Mess 19 26 @19 90 LARD 11 Q HW ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red Winter % 37 0 1 40 CORN--Western Mixed 38 @ 40 OATS--No. 2 30 & 82 RYE--No. 2 66 (4 58 PORK--Mess 20 25 @20 6A L ARD .T.. . . . 10^® 11 HOGS 6 10 6 60 CATTLE 2 60 @ 4 25 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 1 04 ® 1 06 No. 2 88 @ 90 CORN--No. 2 46 <# 48 OATB-No. 2 27 & 28 RYE 68 9 60 BAHLKY--No. 2 60 9 62 CINCINNATI. WHEAT 1 05 ® 1 12 CORN...... 47 9 47Jtf OATS 25 Q 28 RYE 60 Q 68 POUK--Mess 20 00 @20 25 LARD...... 11 0 13 TOLEDO. WHEAT--Extra 128 Q130 Amber 1 03 & 1 04 CORN 48 ® II OATS--No. 2 32 % S9jf EAST LIBERTY, PA. Hoes--Yorkers 6 60 9 6 80 Philadelphia* 7 to e 7 15 CATTLE--Beet 6 60 9 6 00 Medium 4 75 9 5 00 SHEEP 4 60 1 ». -t'-. A