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t-r.-"- V -- . -.4;; -"<r J. TAN SLIMS, JfoHENRT, ILLIKOm ,n?4 . ili! Hill IK f>tr /. V' THE NEWS CONDENSED. TfiJE BASF. A WATCH from Whitehall, N. Y., says 4 .thai " on Sunday afternoon ten persona were .• drowned while crossing Putnam's pond. Thir- §£> teen persons were in a email row-boat, and. when about three rods from the shore, in eight feet of water, a squall struck the boat, oapsia- . ,i fng it, with the result stated. The- namea of (he drowned were Mr. Johnson and his wife, John McAulieter and his wife, John Burt and his daughter, Peter Oaur, Adolph Livineer's son, Holden, and Alias lliatcuer. The bodies of all but Holden were recovered." On the same day, Miss Cora A. Brown, of Green­ ville, Pa., and Mies Carrie Stutt, of Warren, O., were drowned while bathing, w toe lake at *topoint, N. Y. THS WK8T. ; COTTREIX & BABCOCK. the well-known New York printing-prees manufacturers, have failed. LiabiHiiss ov« $2,500,009 Wilkesbarre, Pa.. has been thrown into a fever of excitement by the discovery that a nrominent business man has forged notes to the amount df nearly a quarter of a million dollar*, about half of which is held by Wiikesbarra banks, the remainder being placed throughout the country. The forger ia Thomas D. Coningham, of a promi­ nent, highly-respected family, and the junior member of the firm of Brodrick & Co., co&J operators and iron workers in Pennsylvania, Mew Jersey and Virginia TERSE of the bandits who robbed the rail­ road train near Otterville, Mo., some three or four weeks ago, have been arrested and $ 6,500 of the stolen money recovered. The parties •Treated are Bruce Younger, Hobbs Carey. and Charles Pitts, all residents of Crawford county, Kan. ACCOUNTS of grasshopper ravages in Iowa have bean greatly exaggerated. Yast swarms have moved through the air, stopping at inter­ vals .to lunch off the growing crops, but nothing like wholesale devastation has taken place. Tlx wheat crop is said to be fully an average one, and the prospect for corn was never better. .....A. courier from Bed Cloud Agency, who •Hived at Laramie last week, brings the xollow- ing -interesting news from th« seat of war in the Indian country: Friday, a chief of a large force of friendly Arapahoes, camped near the agency, reported that n Indian from the hostiles in front of Crook and Terry had arrived and talked with ban. The Indian said that Sitting Bull had de­ cided to make a stand, and was going to have his big fight where he is now ; that he will either drive the troops back or die. and under no circumstances would he make peace until the whites are driven out or give up the country he is fighting for. He intends to fight to the death. The Indian also told Friday that Sitting Bull vrm receiving a great many reinforcements from the north, joining him in small parties (ram the Columbia river, from British America and Minnesota, and a good many Arickarees are among them. It ia now believed that Sit­ ting Bull has at least 12,000 well-armed war- (ions under his command. , ADVICES from THE EAST of war in the TMII»N country state that the " entire country between Powder and Rosebud rivers has been burned by Indian*, They are now engaged in 'burning timber and driftwood along the Yel­ lowstone with a view of depriving steamers of fneL The whole Yellowstone country is alive with Indians. The hoe tiles are estimated to •number 8,000 warriors. Rain-in-the-Face, the murderer who cut out Tom Caster's heart for a war-dance feast, is reported With '800 hostile warriors camped within sixteen n j ;• miles of Standing Bock, being supplied with #« t Pro^'ons by friendly relatives at the Agency, t Hen, Crook wrote that when the Fifth Cavalry (funived he would have about 1,600 fighting men, besides friendly Indi«.i»Bt and intended to move without further delay. Arrangements iu^been psKfMUd tattm fptoputtqom he- tween Crook and Terr?*....Chicago^ pa­ pers give the particulars of a fatal affray |f between two well-known citizens, Alex- Sder Sullivan, Secretary of the Board of iblic Works, and Francis H&nford, Principal l'!. the North Side High School, resulting in the _ death of the latter from a pistol-shot wound * inflicted by Sullivan. Hanford, it ap- T pears, made some serious charges damaging to Sullivan's wife, in connection with the management of the public schools. The latter sought out the author of the charges at his residence. An altercation ensued, which ended J* by Suliivan drawing a pistol and shooting Han­ ford through the bowels, causing death in a few minutes. Both were well-known and re- <t • snooted citizens. Sullivan's wife, nee Margaret < Buchanan, ia a lady of culture, add well-known in ^ literary circles. She has been for years a • 1 Jfflbminent magazine and newspaper writer. T ; . ' A DVICES from the Big Horn expedition to j , Aug. 4, state that Gen. Merritt, at the head of j the Fifth cavalry, had effected a junction with .Crook's division. The columns thus re­ inforced numbered 2,100 fighting men, and had V ' Commenced a movement in the direction of - • ros&"£ iiver• Gen. Terry had not been beard from for nearly a month. He has about 2,000 * > xoac in his command, This meJies aboii ̂ ' OW) V; aow in the field against Sitting Bull. THE Chicago Evening Telegraph (a twilight edition of Storey's Times) has suspended / after an inglorious career of eight weeks • K«*ry» one of the men concerned in the Otterville (Mo.) train robbery, has made a con- " fession. He says those engaged in the affair t- were Clel Miller, Frank and Jesse James, Cole r «id Bud Younger, Charles Pitts, William Chad- and himself. He also confesses to other Jobberies by this party, and savs Clel Miller assisted in the robbery of the Huntington (W. *a.) bank and the El Paso stage-coach, and ym present at the Gad's Hill (Mo.) train rob- /R, THE SOUTH. . ( 4 BEPOBT comes from Sweetwater, Texas, " that there are between 2,000 and 3,000 Indians •wnped on the north fork of the lied river, , .gout twenty-five miles from Fort Elliot, busily m " making medicine," as they call it. •' y*lc" ^nothing more nor leas than making ,., wepai auons for going on the war-path. It is .,, Pjheved the savages are preparing for a general j people on the frontier are alarmed in consequence. *#u POLITICAL. t,Ui (HUBLKB M. C BOBSWELL, whom the Bepubli- .dJW* °* Michigan have nominated for Gov- , Jfnor, has been Speakerof the Michigan Legis- - the State Senate, and was flpnof1867 Constitutional Conven­ or. BE»JAM» H ABBISOH has been nomi- • ?aated by the Republican State Committee for Td0*v«rnor of Indiana, vice G. S. Orth, declined # R;. T HE Committee on Expenditures in the De^ ; partment of Justice made majority and minori- 1y reports to the House. The majority report recommends the restriction of the Judiciary ' fund to $2,500,000; finds that Davenport Su- ; fMrvisor of Elections in New York, has not ac^ , counted for $34,000 given him from the Ka- Klux fund, and that the President and two Attorney Generals (Akerman and Williams) who supplied Davenport with the $34,000 diverted it from the proper purpose to one entirely foreign to the objects of the law. It is recommended, therefore, that Bapervisors of Elections be abolished, and that the election Jaws of Congress be repealed, or, if not repealed, that strict accounting shall be ttade of the Ku-Klnx fund, no part of it to be fppd in the machinery of elections ; that the Attorney General take the necessary steps to MCover the $34,000 unaccounted for; and that person be allowed to hold mora than one See under the United States Government, ie minority report savs that the majority re- 90tti»«Nlrft John I. Davenport, find claims that instead of censure, Akerman, Williams ami Davenport am entitled to oommendation. THE Alabama State election occurred on Monday, Aug. 7. The Democrats carried the State by an increased majority--George B. Houston being re-elected Governor--and se­ cured a large majority in the Legislature. The Kentucky election was held on the same dav, and reswted, as a matter of course, favorably to the Oemocracy. Henry Wattenon, of the Courier-Journal, was elected to Congress from the Louisville District, to fill the unexpired term of E. Y. Parsons, deceased. HORATIO SEYMOUR has written a letter de­ clining the use of his name in connection with the Governorship of New York, and announcing his positive withdrawal from public life. MR. BLAINE appeared at the Republican Convention of the Third Maine Congressional District Convention, the other day, and made a brief speech. He is rapidly regaining his ucoltu.... Tac Hopubhc>MM of Mtssciui have placed in nomination the following ticket: For Governor, George A. Finkelenburg, of St. Louis; Lieutenant Governor, C. C. Allen, of Jasper county ; Secretary of State, Eugene F. Weigel, of St. Louis ; Treasurer, Col. John Severance, of Buchanan county ; Auditor, Gen. George R. Smith, of Pettis county ; Attorney Genera], A. W. Mnllins, of Linn county; Register of Land, Richard Drane, of Marion county ; J udge of the Supreme Court, David Wagner ; Railroad Commissioners, J. K. Allen, of 8fc. Louis county; E. D. Harper, of Cass county ; Isaac Haver, of Macon county... .The Democrats of Tennessee, at their State Con­ vention in Nashville, last week, renominated James D. Porter for Governor by acclamation ... .The Independent Greeabackora have issued a call, and are making preparations for a grand mass ratification meeting, at the Exposition building, Chicago, on the 23d of August. WASHINGTON.. THE President has nominated Henry F. French, of Massachusetts, for Assistant Secre­ tary of the Treasury, vice Budnam, resigned. GEN. SHERMAN says the proposition from the agency Indians that a cessation of hostilities with Sitting Bull and his adherents shall be ar­ ranged in the interest of a permanent peace, is altogether out of the question, for several reasons. The Indian tribe with which the Government is at war is not such a nation as to allow us to establish any negotiation as this or any similar character. No confidence can be placed in their promises. GENERAL. THB Blaine constitutional amendment, which reoently passed the lower house of Congress by an almost unanimous vote, was as follows: Resolved, By the Senate and House of Represent­ ative s of the United States of America in^ Congress assembled, two-thirds of each House concurring therein, that the following be proposed to the sev­ eral states of the United states as an amendment to the constitution, namely: "ART.;16. No State SHALL make a law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting ttie free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of "the public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, nor any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under control of any religions gect oi denomination; nor shall any funds so raised, or landj so used, be di­ vided among any religious sects or denominations. This article shall not vest, enlarge, or the legislative power in Congress." A letter received in Washington from Speaker Kerr confirms the report as to his un­ favorable condition. He writes that he is com­ pelled to spend most of his time in bed. ADVICES from the Northwest territory deny the report that the British Indians will join the Sioux in war. A Government mounted police force is watching the natives strictly, to guard against their crossing the line. FOREIGN. A CABIA dispatch says 9,000 men and twelve Krnpp cannon have left Egypt for the Porte, and 11,000 more men and twenty-four Krupp guns will soon be dispatched, to complete the contingent which the Khedive is going to fur­ nish the Sultan. MORE battles are reported between the Turks and Servians, at places and under commanders with equally uncivilized names. The only definite result is}that one of the Turkish army corps seems to have been driven into a position from which the only escape is to cross the Austrian frontier. Should this be done, the force would be disarmed and interned by the Austrians. The Porte has paid to the families of the German and French Consuls, who were mur­ dered at Salonica, as indemnity, £40,000. ANOTHER disastrous railway accident is re- pDrted from England, by which twelve pfersons were killed and thirty injured. The affair hap­ pened on the Somerset and Dorset road, near Radatock. THE news from Europe is that the war in Servia is substantially over. The Turks have taken Gurgusovatz, an important position on the southeastern frontier of Servia, at the junction of the road from Paratchin with that from Nisch to Widdin. This opens up to them the valley of the Morava, and through that the way is tolerably straight to Semendria and Belgrade. Before the advance is made, however, there will be a junction of the two Turkish forces, which have penetrated Servia from t«»e south and Tvest, and the combined army will number, all the forces being esti­ mated, upward of 100,000 meu. The deter­ mination ^pressed at Constantinople, wben war was declared, WRS to overrun Servia, and reduce it to a province of the empire. This will bo done unless Austria or Russia interferes. And after Servia, Montenegro will be attended to. & FORTT-fQURTH COSGBliSS. THURSDAY, Aug. 3.--Senate.--Logan intro­ duced a bill for the issue of silver coin, and to make the silver dollar a legal-tender The bill to limit and fix the Signal Service wag amended and pasBed^ ... The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was taken up and passed, it appropriates, in the •W'f'-Kate, $5,000,000.... The 8enate ordered the printing of 10,000 extra copies of the President's message. Bouse.--The House was the scene of an exciting personal debate, growing out of a bitter attack upon Blaine by Proctor Knott. The Judiciary Com­ mittee had presented a unanimous report upon Blaine's resolution directing an investigation of his charge that Knott had suppressed the Caldwell dispatch. The committee were united in exonerating him, and so reported. To the surprise of everybody, Knott took the floor and reviewed the Blaine matter, indulging in remarks which the friends of the latter deemed highly un­ just and grossly objectionable. I'rye, Hale and Mc- Crary, of the committee, in turn reviewed hia re­ marks with a severity seldom reached in debate The majority of the Democratic side appeared to re­ gard the arraignment as entirely just, and, to give expression to this belief, Hurd stated that after the most remarkable speech of Knott' with the concurrence of seven other members of the committee, he asked to withdraw tfle report. The Republican members of the com­ mittee thereupon withdrew their names from the report, and it was recommitted Mr. Singleton, from the conference committee on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, reported that the committee failed to agree. The report was adopted and a new conference committee appointed. .... A resolution was adopted providing for an ad­ journment on Monday, Aug. 7. FRIDAY, Aug. 4.--Senate.--A bill was passed authorizing the employment of Indian scouts.... Senate bill to allow a pension of $37 per month to soldiers who have loBt both an arm and leg, in lieu of $24 per month now allowed, was passed....On motion of Allison, the Senate insisted upon its amendments to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill, and agreed to a conference asked for by-the House.... The Post-road bill was considered. Hovsfi, Hixrlbut, from the Committee on OM- Service Reform, submitted the report of the com­ mittee in regard to the Chicago Pension Age ncy evidence, which was ordered printed. The com­ mittee recommended the passage of resolutions declaring that ' the acceptance or demanding of moneyby any person as a consideration for real or pretended influence in procuring appointments to public offices is disgraceful to the individual and prejudicial to the public interest, and that such misconduct is good cause for removal," and direct­ ing the Judiciary Committee to report a bill for the 01.mu'b offenses.... lx>rd, from the JTu- SS&ff back (with anamend-msBt/ waat li known ii QH Blaine scho o 1 amend- ment to the constitution. After debate, the Hocae proceeded to vote on the resolution and It was adopted--yeas, 168; nays, K. . Oarfleld replied ia a set speech to Lamar on the political situation. He strakefor two hours, and was listened to with close SATURDAY, Aug. 5.--Senate.--The Senate de­ voted nearly the entire day to a political discussion of Southern affairs, the occasion being the calling up of Morton's resolution to print 10,000 copies of the President's message and accompanying documents on the Hamburg affair. Morton and Thurman took the lead for their respective sides in the debate--Patterson, Cam­ eron, McTuiiisui, and Gordon participating. Majority and minority reports of the Committee on ^Expenditures in the War Depart­ ment and in the Department of Justice were made by Messrs. Clymer and Cauifleld, and were ordered printed....Cox, the Chairman of the Com­ mittee on Banking and Currency, reported a bill to repeal sections of the resump­ tion act of July 15, 1875, which direct the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem in coin the legal-tender notes then outstanding. After an houfr and a half of debate a vote was taken on the bill, and it was passed by the following vote: Yeas-- Ainsworth, Anderson, Atkens, Banning, Bland, Boone, Bradford, Bright, Brown. N. Y„ Brown, Kan.. Cabell, Caldwell, Ala., Caldwell, Tenn., Campbell, Cannon, Cason, Cate, Cauifleld, Clarke, Ky., Clarke, Mo., Clymer, Cochrane, Collins, Cook, Oox, Dibrill, Douglass, Durham, Eden. Evans, Faulkner, Felton, Finley, Forney, Fort, Franklin, Oanse, Ooode, Goodin, Gunter. Harrison, Hartsell, Havmond, Hinkle, Herford, Holman, Hooker, Hop- kiw, House, Hubbell, Hunton, Hurd, Jones, Ky.. Lauderp, Ind., Lane, Lawrence, Lewis, Lynde, Mackey, Marsh, McFarland, McMahon, Milliken, Mills, Morgan, Mntchler, Neal, New, Payne, Phelps, Poppletoii, Randall, Bea, Reagan, Reilly, John, Rice, Riddle, Robinson, Savage, Sheakle, Singleton, Siemens, Smith, Ga., Southard, Springer, Slinger, Stevenson, Stone, Teese, Thomas, Throckmorton, Tucker, Turner, Van Vorhees, Vance, O., Waddell, Walker, Va., Walsh, Wells, Whit- thorne, Williams, Ind., Williams, Ala., Wil- shire, Wileon, W. Va., Yates, Young--106. Xayn--Abbott, Adams, Bagby, Bailey. Gk A., Bagley, J. H., Baker, Ballon, Bsnka, Bell, Blair, Burchard, 111., Caswell, Chittenden, Conner, Orounse, Cutler, Dan lord, Day, Durand, Eames, Ely, Freeman, Frye, Oilsen, Hate, Hancock, Hardenberg, Harris, Mass, Henderson, Hewitt, N. Y., Hoar, Hoag, Hayner, Joyce, Kasson, Kehr, Kimball, Lamar, Lapham, Levy, Lynch, Maf Dowell, McOrary, Mead, Metcalf, Milier, Monroe, Morrison, Nash, Norton, O'Brien, Odell, O'Neill, Packer, Page, Pierce, Piper, Piatt, Pot­ ter, Powell, Pratt, Rainey, Ross, Ruok, Sampson, Schleicher, Sinnickson, Small, Smith, Pa., Strait, Stowell, Thompson, 'lhornburg, Townsend. Pa., Tufts, Wait, Walker, N. H., Ward, Warren, Wells, Miss., White, Whiting, Williams, A., Mich., Willis, Wilson, Iowa, Woodburn--86 Cox then reported a bill, which was passed, creating a commission of three Senators, three Representatives, and thre9 experts, who shall report on or before the 15th of next January upon all matters relating to the cur­ rency. MONDAY, Aug. 7.--Senate.--The Hoise amendments to the Senate bill extending the time for the redemption of lands sold by the United States for direct taxes were agreed to. and the bill passed....Majority and minority reports of the special committee appointed "to inquire in­ to the late election !n Mississippi were presented ....The House bill to repeal the resumption-day clause of the Resumption act of 1875, was read and referred... .The House joint resolution, proposing a sixteenth amendment to the constitution,prohibiting the appropriation of any school fund for (he sup­ port of sectarian schools, etc., was, after discussion, referred to the Judiciary Committee The Senate resumed consideration of Morton's resolution to print 10,000 aopies of tne President's message and accompanying documents in regard to the Ham­ burg affair. A long and heated political debate fol­ lowed, the chief participants being Edmunds, Lo­ gan and Eaton. House.--A resolution was offered by Douglass (Va.) allowing committees of investigation to report at any time this session. This was resisted by the Republicans, who resorted to filibustering to pre­ vent the adoption of the resolution. A compromise was Anally reached, in the shape of a rule providing that the inves­ tigating committees shall be authorized to report at anv time during the present session, provided the majority give notice to the minority to submit their report forty-eight hours before the time of the pre­ sentation of the report to the House, so that both reports may go in together. T UESDAY, Aug. 8.--Senate.--The Senate passed the bill to establish the Territory of Pem­ bina out of a portion of Dakota Edmunds called up the reports of the majority and minority of the committee which' investigated the circum­ stances attending the late election in Mississippi, and it was ordered that they be printed in the Record, and lie upon the table. ..Logan, from the Committee on Military Affairs, re­ ported adversely on the House bill to par­ don deserters from the army, and it was indefinite­ ly postponed The Senate then resumed consid­ eration of the resolution of Morton to print 10,000 copies of the message of the President and aaoftm- panying documents in reference to xMfcfc P trouble at Hamburg, S. C., and Eaton spofe in position thereto. He was followed by Patterson, who spoke in favor of the resolution. Home.--Landers introduced a bill to secure the prompt resumption of specie payments.... A bill was passed to print 100,000 copies of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1874, and 200.0C0 copies of the report for 1875,and appropriating $130,- 000 therefor... An effort was made to reach a vote on Bland's Silver bill, but filibustering on the part of the opponents of the measure forced a post­ ponement. Lawrenoe introduced an amendment to the constitution for that known as the Blaine school amendment: " ART. 16, SEC. 1. No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibit­ ing the free exercise thereof. " SEC. 2. No public property or money raised by taxation or from any public fund or property in any State or place subject to the legislative power of Congress shall ever be given to or be under con­ trol of any religious sect or denomination. "BEC. 3. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." Referred to the Judiciary Committee The House was the scene of another lively political de­ bate, In which Hale and Cox were the chief partici­ pants. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 9.--Senate.--A number of bills were passed,' among them the House bill to allow homestead settlers to make proof of settle­ ment before the Courts, as well as before the Re­ ceiver. ... Windom, from the conference committee on th& LcyiiliiH-e, Executive, and Judicial Appro­ priation bill, reported that the committee had been unable to agree, and moved that a new conference be authorised There was a re­ newal of the debate on the resolution to print 10,000 copies of the President's message on the Hamburg affair. Speeches were made by Patterson and Wal­ lace. House.--The majority and minority reports of the Postofhco Committee on the invest.gation into straw" bids, etc., made by Clark, of Missouri (Chairman), and Cannon, were ordered printed, and laid on the table... Bagby, from the Committee on*Invalid Pension, reported a bill giving a pension of $30 a month to the widow of Capt. Yates, of the Seventh cavalry, killed at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Passed Lynde, from the Judiciary Committee, made a report in the case of Schumaker and King as connected with the Pacific Mail subsidy, and Lord, of New York, made a minority report. The majority report recommends that the House leave the charges against the members where they now are, in Court. The minority report is that the House has jurisdiction, and tbat the Com­ mittee on Civil-Service Reform should ascertain and report the facts. McCrary signs an additional paper expressing the opinion that the House may properly take jurisdiction of the charge.... The House then went into a discussion of po­ litical subjects, and George F. Hoar de­ livered a set speech in reply to Lamar. Hooker replied to Hoar Randall, from the con­ ference on the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Appropriation bill, reported that the committee had come to no conclusion, and explained the differ* ences. Lord offered a resolution, which was agreed to, that the conferees recede from their position re­ garding the salary of the President and Congress­ men, aud the same conference committee was re­ appointed. An Undertaker. A gentleman who has been traveling for a paint and oil house not far from Oliver street, in this city, was inter­ viewed by a friend in the country rela- *i7e i° ^U8"le88» when he was informed that he had " gone into the undertaker's business." The friend expressed much surprise, until the gentleman informed him he " had undertaken to find business but had failed." Pass the cigars.--Bos­ ton Globe. THE nerves of women, says the Austin (Nev.) Reveille, are something hard to understand. A woman who can throw a tea-cup at her husband's head with un­ erring aim will wake the echoes with her screams the next minute if a bug happens to light on the back of her neck; and the woman who could coolly horse­ whip^ the man who slandered her will jump on a chair and holier blue murder at the sight of a mouse on the carpet. •• CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE. New England Farmers' Home--Kitchen-- Austria and Hungary--Brazil--Canned Goods--The Erie Preserving Company. The personal history of some of the men and women who have helped to make tbla Inter­ national Exposition famous would De quite aa interesting to multitudes as the Exposition itself. And each characteristic exhibition here, which attracts special notice, haa a personality behind it, whose untiring efforts have made it a suoccss. Take the NEW ENGLAND KITCHEN, so crowded through the day that a policeman at the door stops the eager throng«every few minutes, to prevent crushing within. Its ex­ hibitor, Miss E. D. Southmck, of Boston, having spent some four or five months at the Vienna Exposition, in 1873, and noticing how many were attracted to the representation of the peasant homes of Austria there, conceived the idea that an exhibition of the farmers' homes in New England would prove onnslly m great an attraction liern. Sh« therefore applied to tbe Ladies' Centennial Commission, at Boston, to aid such an enter­ prise, but they declined. She then applied to the State Centennial Commission, and they en­ couraged her, and allowed her headquarters at their office. Her first design was to have the farmers of New England unite and build a NEW I NGTAND FABMEKS' HOME. For this purpose she wrote, under sanction of the commission, and of Dr, G. B. Loriag, Pres­ ident of the Now England Agricultural Society, to fifty-one agricultural societies in Massachu­ setts, »nd but one of theoi answered her, to the effect that it would do what the other societies did: and, as the others did nothing, no aid came from that quarter. She wrote to various societies in New England, but received no en­ couragement. Meantime she exhibited her model of a New England kitchen, and such antique articles of household furnishing as she could collect, at the State Agency in Bos­ ton. The State Agent of Connecticut, to whom she applied for help, encouraged her, with expectations and the interrogatory. "Why don't you build a bed-room?" but gave her never a cent. But one party gave $50. East Hampton and Mil ford men gave $150. The colored people of Boston $100, and furee individuals contributed enough to increase the whole sum to $1,000. She has built the bed­ room, a modern kitchen for practical use and by way of contrast to the New England kitchen, aud also a small bummer kitchen, at a coat of an additional $1,000, at her own risk, supports twenty attendants and servants, and serves up good, wholesome and toothsome New England dinners at 50 cents a meal. The dress of the attendants, and the furnishing of the kitchen and bed-room, sets back the sun in the dial of Ahaz 200 yean. To accomplish what she haB done, Miss Southwick has had to give her whole time, and her personal supervision, even to the building of the kitchen, and then, for lack of competent workmen and proper materials, has not been able to fully carry out her own idea. The chimney she wished built of sticks and clav, as in the olden time, but ha.-* to content herself with better materials. Bat it is, after all, a marvelous succeiss. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY exhibit their goods together in Agricultural hall, and are worthy of mention, not so much on account of the extent, as the excellence of their display. Their Vienna beer, a milder and< pleasanter drink than the American lager, rep­ resents the largest brewery in the world. Their leading article of exhibit is wool from which the finest cloths are made. Next comes their wines, of which they have a very large display; chief among them their Styrian wines celebra­ ted all over the continent. Hops from Bohe­ mia. superior to any grown in the world, are also largely exported. Malt from Dalmatian barley, as fine as I ever saw. Brandy is made in most provinces. Dalmatia is especially noted for good brandy and other liquors. Beside these, honey, mostly from Bohemia and Hun­ gary. Flax and hemp chiefly from Bohemia, and Silicia noted for its fine linens; scythes from Styria ; lentils, a small, flat, circular grain, used by the peasantry as a vegetable food. They have also mines of iron, coal, copper and precious stones. Mr. Alfred C. H. Froemcke, one of the Com­ missioners from Vienna, is most obliging and efficient in giving full information respecting the producta and resources of Austria and Hungary, and his example might be imitated profitably by the Commissioners of some other couhtriee. BRAZIL, in the train bdiiSing, eiliibitli ftrHttle bf everything--blank-boobs, diaries, carving, fur­ niture, pottery, soap, candles, saddles, leather, dressed skins, hats, dress goods, minerals of all kinds, diamonds, ores, etc. A very fine desk, made in the Bio Janeiro House of Correction, of seventy-six different kinds of wood, attracts much attention. But the exhibit of feather-flowers next the main aisle, in a large octagonal show-case, in­ cluding tropical birds, and a large display of butterflies of exquisite beauty admirably ar­ ranged, is the cynosure for all ladies' eyes. CANNED GOODS. One is almost puzzled to know, in looking at the immense amount of canned goods on exhi­ bition in Agricultural hall, what becomes of it all. Yet it is said that the best and largest firms in this line find it difficult to supply their customers. One thing, at least, is patent to al I visitors, viz.: that there is a multitudinous display of canned fruit and vegetables here, from almost every State and country under heaven, all challenging admiration and claim­ ing superiority, BUT THE ERIE PRESERVING COMPANY, of Brant, Erie county, N. Y., have the best eaaneiirait and vep:ctafc!o8 exhibitH here. M. B. , i Caster < as a Logician. One day a trooper, whose joints were stiff and whose bones ached from riding an ugly horse, fell out of his seat of fours on drill, and declared he would be shot before he would drill another half hour. He was on his way to the guard house when Custer rode up, or­ dered his release, and requested his pres­ ence at headquarters. The sulky-tem­ pered trooper followed the General, won­ dering if he was not to be placed against the fence and shot. Custer had far differ­ ent intentions. Bidding the trooper sit down, the General calmly inquired : "Why did you refuse to dull?" " Because I am tired out and shaken up and I know all about every drill." "When I took this brigade," said the Genera], " I thought I knew just how to command it. I have learned something new every day ; I shall always be learn­ ing. If you refuse to drill all others will soon refuse. Then the discipline will relax, men and horses forget, and in our first action we shall be cut to pieces for wanf»of intelligent maneuvering. I want you to be a man, and yet you must be a machine to obey." The soldier was silent. "I ride five miles to your one," con­ tinued the General. " I sleep three or four hours ; you sleep seven or eight. I have 4,000 men to care for; you have only your horse. I have a thousand com- Elainis to listen to; you have none. I ave five times your work, fare no better and will be shot as soon as you are. If I take all this burden and trouble and hard work on my shoulders are you not willing to bear a trifle ?" The trooper returned to his saddle. One day, a year afterward, he died be­ fore Custer's eyes, died so bravely that the General* said of him : "An army like that man could conquer the world. Brigham's Tribe. The prospects of a Mormon revolution in the event of Brigham's being gathered to his fathers are exceedingly flattering. Brigliam, Jr., and Joseph F. Smith, a nephew of the first prophet, are both candidates for the succession, and,while the present head of the church undoubt­ edly favors the former, the claims of the latter will be supported by a very pow­ erful party. In tne event" ef a oonfliet, Smith's opposition to polygamy will give him a very considerable advantage over the lineal descendant of the present "prophet/' ^ ^ CHARLEY BOS& ? .. t J,iis The Philadelphia Mulatto Dfaappa^ra-- Mr. R OBS Convinced that He haa Seen His Lost Son. [From the Philadelphia Evening Chronicle.] Those who take an interest in the re­ covery of Charley Boss, and they are legion, will learn with regret that "George," the mulatto, who suddenly appeared in this city on Wednesday of last week, claiming to be able to restore the missing boy to his parents, has as suddenly disappeared. "George" was last seen on Market street, below third, on last Tuesday, on which occasion he was in conversation with Mr. Ross, and promised to again meet the latter next day. At that time Mr. Boss, either in his indignant belief that the mulatto was trying to deceive him, or else through his excitement and desire to get at the full possession of what information the man had. said: "If I but made the effort I could have you hungi" "George" shortly afterwards left, and has been seen no more since. It was rumored that orders had been given to the police to pick him up wherever found, but Lieut. Grout, who was asked about the matter yesterdayr states that no such order has been given that he has heard of. Mr. BOBS, it is said, is convinced that the mulatto has seen Charley since the latter's abduction, and this fact alone made the bereaved father anxious to fully test the man's statements. These were never verv definite, except in the one par­ ticular that he (the mulatto) had had charge of Charley Boss for about nine months, and knows where he is now, and could get him if proper measures were taken. He did not seem very anxious to get money from Mr. Boss, whom he never asked for any, but sim­ ply said it would take about forty dollars for himself and those who were to ac­ company him to make the trip to where the child is. The general impression is that "George" should not have been left to come and go at his own will and pleas­ ure. If he was a "beat" and his object was to make money, he deserved im­ prisonment for attempting to extort money, and if he really knew anything important of the whereabouts of Charley Ross, he could have been convicted on his own statements of concealment of the child and imprisoned, as Westervelt has been. In either event imprisonment would probably soon have revealed his true character, and if guilty of duplicity and attempted swindling he would well merit his punishment, while, if his state­ ments were honest he would be com­ pelled to divulge his full information on the subject. Strength of the Sioux and Their Allies. To understand the extent of the Indian war we now have upon our hands, it is necessary to have a correct knowledge of the position and power of the hostile Sioux and their allies. In one of the late reports of the Commissioner of In­ dian AJFairs the location of the different agencies is given, with the number and condition of the Indian^ on each reser­ vation. The entire Indian population of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, is estimated at 295,084. In Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming there are nearly 70,000, divided as follows: DAKOTA AQKX0IES. Men and women Slseeton Agency (Sioux) 1,684 Devil's Lake (Sioux) 1,020 Grand River (Sionx) 6,269 Cheyenne River (Sioux) 6,000 Upper Missouri (Sioux). 1,096 Fort Berthold (Gros Ventres, Mandan, and Arickarees) .. 2,103 Yankton (Sioux) 1,947 Ponca 788 Whetstone (Sioux) i 6,000 Flandreau, special (Sioux). 100 MONTANA. Blackfeet Agency (Blackfeet, Bloods, and Pie- ris), 7,600 River Agency (Sioux) 10,626 At other agencies and wandering ...14,000 WYOMING. Bed Cloud Agency (Sioux and Cheyennes) 9,177 Total number in hostile country 68,008 According to the estimates given in the same report, about 60 per cent, are women; this gives 27,000 Indian war­ riors within this territory, which, con-, sidering the number of bands that have never settled at any of the reservations, is a low estimate of their strength. Ac­ cording to the same calculation, the Sioux and Cheyennes, now openly at war, would be able to bring nearly 22,000 men into the field.--New York Sun. A Romance in Africa. A recent French paper relates the fol­ lowing : " In the oasis of Feiiana, in the regency of Tunis, dwells a wealthy Cadi, who possessed a lovely daughter, Miriam, or, as the Arabs call it, Meryem, by name. Her a brave young Arab Sheik, Ahmed-Bou-Merzan, belonging to one of the best families of the Aga-liJt of Fez, desperately loved and asked in marriage. The Cadi consented, and the day was ixed. At the appointed hour the ardent bridegroom made his appear­ ance, accompanied by a brilliant retinue of his friends and followers. To his utter astonishment and indignation the Cadi coolly told him that he had changed his mind about the marriage. What the Cadi's reasons were, whether he had merely heard something to^ Ahmed's dis­ advantage, or whether, as in the case of Lochinvar, another suitor tad bid higher for the damsel's hand, does not appear. At all events, Ahmed-Bou-Merzan was no more disposed than young Lochinvar to take no for an answer in such a case. He drew his trusty cimeter, called upon his retinue to follow him to the death, charged upon the people of the Cadi, and the defenders of the ' dauor,' cut his way through to the tents of the women, seized the lovely Meryem (nothing loth per­ chance), placed her before him on his faithful steed and went off like a whirl­ wind to the land of Djebel-Mandra, leav­ ing thirty-two dead warriors of Feriana behind him to testify to his piowess and that of his friends. The whole region is up in arms, and a * goum' of (KM) fierce cavaliers, at the last advices, was in hot pursuit of the eloping pair." FOX-CHASING at night has become a standard amusement in Clark county, Ky. Ladies participate in tbe sport. A company of six ladies and six gentle­ men, most of them married people and related to each other, were out after a fox on one occasion until 2 o'clock in the morning. ILLINOIS* ITEMS. A OORONWOOD tree in Pulaski, whielt was planted in 1826, now measures 16 feet in circumference at the base of ty trunk and 100 feet around the branches* GEOBGK T. BROWN, ex~Sergeont-st~ Arms United States Senate, has com­ menced suit for the recovery of the AJU ton gas works, of which he was formerly owner. THERE is a woman named Allen, 7ft years of age, who has lived fifty yearn within five miles of Oarrollton but haa never seen a railroad train. She never goes to town, giving as a reason that every time her Jons go they come hnroo. drunk, and she thinks it is not a goodl place to go. A MAN named Williamson arrived at Qoincy, from Galesburg, one night last week, with a warrant for the arrest of J. M. Birce, alias J. M. Birch, of the former city, on a charge of forgery. Ifc is alleged that he signed the name of J. Williamson, of Galesburg, to a note for $1,000, and negotiated it some months since. Williamson left for Galesburg with his prisoner next morning. Birce is reputed to be quite wealthy. He to Qoincy from Edina. Mo., ten or twelve years ago, where he had been keeping a small grocery store. THE Governor has pardoned a younflt man named Thomas A. Tate, sentenced to the penitentiary in 1871 for life, for murder, from Wayne county. The crime- was committed under peculiar circum­ stances, and a very large number of leading citizens, with the- county officers,, asked his pardon. Assurances were given him at the time of trial that if he would plead guilty he would receive the recommendation of the prosecutor for' pardon at the end of five years. The five years having elapsed, ana 'his record be­ ing good, with strong evidence of hi® reformation, the pardon was issued. A SPECIAL telegram from Milwaukee states that a warrant for the arrest of Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Times, has been issued for the alleged libel of Chief of Police Beck, of that city, and an officer immediately pro­ ceeded to Madison for the requisition from the Governor. This action is based on an article recently pub­ lished in the Times to the effect that - Beck was in collusion with swindlers, that Allan Pinker ton was aware of the fact, and that Beck on bended knee begged him not to expose him. THE following are the receipts and dis­ bursements at tide State treasury during, the month of July : RECEIPTS. Revenue fund $206,135.78' School fund 288,571.81 Unknown minor heirs' fund 117.64 Illinois Central railroad fund 176,861.01 Local bond fund 252,638.61 Total $923,824.70* DIBBCTUEMXKT8. Revenue fund $224,641.80 Illinois river improvement fund 2,831.6% School fund 1,697.40^ Total $'229,130.28- This statement does not include the amount paid for interest on the State or local indebtedness. PATENTS have recently been is^&ed to> citizens of this State as follows : Gate- closing apparatus, R. S. Higginbother, Charleston; heating stoves, P. O. Jen­ kins, Gilman ; leather cutting gauge, J. Potter, Chicago ; books and covers, S. P. Robinson, Chicago; corn planters,, J. D. Smith, Rockford ; harrows, Wm. S. Weir, Monmouth; pumps, P. Wine- man, Rock Island ; grain separators, W. W. In graham, Chicago ; beading stove pipes, A. Lyverson, Chicago; gang plows, M. S. Curtiss and E. W. Curtiss, Brackford ; pump governors, J. S. Leas, Rock Island; rollers for barn doors, E. H. and G. Moon, Chicago. A RECENT letter from Waukegan tells- how a careless woman made a serious ̂ mistake and got a worthy young man into trouble: "A young man named George Daugherty, formerly a resident of this city, but now living in Evanston, came to this city to attend the funeral of his mother, which occurred yesterday, and had boarded the evening train to re­ turn home, when he was arrested by Sheriff Buell, at the instance of a woman who claimed that Daugherty had stolen her pocket-book. The prisoner was taken before J. L. Williams, when the woman found her pocket-book in the pocket of her cloak, and the prisoner was discharged. Mr. Daugherty is well- known as an honest and industrious man, and has the sympathy of the commu­ nity, which from the first refused to be­ lieve that he was the thief. He was obliged to remain in this city all night, as the train that he was taken on was the last one until this morning." THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BXEVXS 6 00 ®10 60 Boas 6 0 0 @ 6 W COTTON 12^Q 13J£ FLOVB--Superfine Western 3 76 <§ 4 40 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 86 Q 98 CORN--Mixed Western 53 @ 57 OATS--No. 2 Chicago 36 9 37^£ BT®--Western 66 % 70 PORK--New Mess 19 60 Q19 76 LASD--Steam 10^9 11)6 CHICAGO BZXVES--Choice Graded Steers 6 00 Q 6 IB Choice Natives. 4 60 <& 4 8B Cow* and Heifers 2 2 6 @ 3 6 0 Good Second-class Steers. 4 35 O 4 4f . Medium to Fair. 4 00 <& 4 30 HOGS--Live 6 76 0 6 60 FLOUK--Fancy White Winter...... 6 76 O 7 60 Good to choice spring ex . 6 26 0 6 60 WHKAT--No. 2 86 & 86J£ No. 3 Spring 77 & 80 CORN--No. 2 « £ OATS--No. 2..... § 80 RYK--No. 2 60 ® 61 BARLEY--No. 2 66 0 68 BUTTER--Creamery ...... 25 9 28 EGGS--Fresh 10 9 12 PORK--Mess 18 60 &18 76 LARD 11*« ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Winter 1 16 % 1 16 CORN--Western Mixed 42^'# 11)4 OATS--No. 2 SO^tH 3 Ere--No. 2 48 ® 50 FORK--Mess 1 19 00 (§19 23 LARD 11 llj^ HOGS 6 00 9 6 50 CATTLE 2 26 A 5 00 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 & 1 06J|f No. 2..... 0 92X CORN--No. 2.. § 41 OATS--No. 2 31 RYE 66 BARUEX--No. 3 70 A 75 CINCINNATI. • WHEAT 1 08 O 1 14 CORN 49 d 50 OATS 90 O 42 RYE 67 Q 68 PORK--Mess 19 00 £19 25 LARD 11 ® 11 W; TOLEDO. WHKAT--Extra. G 1 19 Amber 1 04 A l ibk CORN 48 ® 49 OATS--No. 2 32 a n EAST LIBERTY, PA. Hoas--Yorkers 6 60 @ 6 80 Philadelphia 6 90 @ 7 00 CATTLE--Best 5 00 <$ 5 20 Medium 4 60 £ 5 00