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MOHENRT, mm tnrj flamtalff J. VAN SLYER, PCBUSHKB. ILLINOIS. --hi M i i '--•» '$h%> -L*':""7*? seek S, B,. wherever 1m m*y be foand, and ne­ gotiate »treaty of peace with the old sinner, THF, public debt was redooed #8,868,538 dur­ ing August, aooording to the «Oriai statement, herewith appended: Six per cent, bonds 814,941,060 Five per cent. bond*.. 703.368,00 Four and half per -rirt tionils 185,000,000 HE NEWS CONDENSED. THF EAST. A BAT'S chapter of accidents in Maamchu- «etto: At Salem. as a train was running down • crowded pier, it struck a group of five per­ sons, killing Wilbur F. Swazey, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Swasey, and Miss Rachel Gilford, raster if Mrs. Swazey, and injuring two others ; at ngfield, a conductor ana brakeman were ed and several others wounded by a collision two tnins : at Worcester. John Ma- oney and Thomas 'Winn were killed by the lowing down of a brick wall The miners of ie Wyoming ooal region, of Pennsylvania, are "idle. Acts of violence are of oommon oo- fcprrence. The military are still at Seranton, j JPa., and an excursion train composed of officers ̂̂ jlmd citizens was nearly wreokea reoentiy by a i ^ Jwrposely misplaced switch. z£,;0 AT Pittsburgh, Pa., last week, three strikers y-'We found guilty of contempt for interfering . f̂prith the running of trains on the Central rail- .... - fyoad of New Jersey, after the same had passed ' ?*§nto the hands of a reoeiver appointed oy the •J^boort. They were sentenced to pay the costs , i>f prosecution and a fine of 9100 and undergo '̂jpinety days' imprisonment. • < A UTTIJE boy supposed to be the missing '• y » |ioharIey Boss was taken by the Sheriff of Clarke ' l̂ ijonnty, Ohio, to German town, Pa. There was '• jknuch excitement in the town over the arrival of the child, and a great crowd gathered at the "tan mansion to get a view of him. Many of lie neighbors who remembered Charley were of the opinion that the lost boy had at •ov been recovered, but Mr. and Mrs. Ross, rhile admitting that the Ohio lad bore a strong resemblance of their child, were positive that lie was not Charley. A DESTmucmvE conflagration visited the city Of New York on the 3d inst The extent of the fire, the immediate danger in which it involved Smnj people, and the feverish excitement that prevailed, gave rise to many wild reports of a terrible loss of life, "which were not corrected for many hoars. Only two persons were killed, and come half a score injured. The fire began in J. P. Hale's piano factory, an old frame struct- 9, and, owing to the scarcity of the water apply, spread so rapidly that in a very short ae eighty buildings were destroyed. The tmrned structures were mostly factories and tenement-houses, and the occupants barely had time to escape with their lives. The total loss of property is estimated at $400,000. THE WEST. Ah investigation into the affairs of the col­ lapsed State Savings bank, of Chicago, shows it to have been one of the worst cases of fail­ ure on record. Of the $3,000,000 confidingly in­ trusted to its keeping by 15,000 of the city's poor, it is doubtful if they will ever recover so much as even a sixth. The bank, it appears, has been run solely in the interest of the ras- " • officers, nearly all of whom have fled to unknowu. Spenoer, the President, it is ... ̂ ponueved, has taken refuge in Canada... .Ex- .y.- ©ov, Wilson Shannon, of Kansas, is dead monument has been erected to the memory of John Brown by the citizens of Osawatomie. San. A SALT Tan dispatch says the government of the Mormon church has passed into the hands of the Twelve Apostles, ten of whom were present f t the funeral of Young. Two of them (Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt) are in England. It is not likely there will be an- ,. other Presides! of the church appointed for .^Inoi^etime. A BAD calamity occurred in Qjnrinnatt one ly last week. An excavation below the foundation of a dwelling-house caused it to tumble down. Three persons were killed, one |$P fatally wounded, and three or four others se- £^J!weeiy injured. I THE obsequies of Brigham Young, at Salt , ̂ jLake City, were remarkably common-place, ' *1 considering the eminence of the man in the ', ! " ̂ community where he lived and died. The body wae Iiidosefci in a plain redwood coffin, mod was borne to the grave by the employes of the late President. The oortege was preceded by a band and followed by the family, the dif­ ferent orders of the priesthood and the ad­ herents, all on foot. A RATIONAL reunion and encampment of vol­ unteer soldiers and sailors of the late war- people who fought on both sides--was held last week at Marietta, O., under the auspices of the irrepressible Private DalzelL There was a KM! attendance, and a good time generally, ndliatory speeches were made by ex-Federal and ex-Confederate officers. THE SOUTH. A Oanxmsu. (S. C.) telegram announces that "the Orand Jury hag found true bills against ex.-Gov. Moses, ex-Lieut. Gov. Glcavcs, ex- Treasurers Parker and Cardozo, ex-Comptroll­ ers Dunn and Hcge, ex-Speaker Lee, Clerks of the General Assembly Woodruff and Jones, ex- State Senator Ovcul, and others-, on various charges of fraud in eonneetioii with toe dis­ charge of their official duties, An indictment was also returned against Ui<«ted States Sen­ ator Patterson for attempting to bribe the Leg- Mature.*'.... Admiral Semoiee, of Confederate navy fame, died recently at Point Clear, Ala. THIS town of Paris, Tex., was recently visited by a destructive conflagration. Ten blocks in the business part of the town were eonsumed, involving a lose of a million or more dollars.... L. Cass Carpenter, late Collector of Internal Beveune for South Carolina, has been indicted si Columbia for forgery. BOBEBT JAMES, Samuel Goodrich James Simmons were taken from the jail and hung by a mob at New Castle, Ky., a few nights ago. They were charged with murdering a number of persons in Owen and Henry counties.... Augusta, Ga., through its City Council, has in­ vited President Haves to extend MB Southern trip that far, promising him a cordial welcome. WASHINGTON. THE following is the programme of the Presi­ dent's Western and Southern trip: Sept. 8 and 9 he will attend the National Encampment of Yolnnteer Soldiers at Marietta, Ohio; thence he will visit his home at Fremont, remaining two days- Sept. 11 goes to Dayton to attend the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Sol­ diers Home: 12th, unveils a soldiers' monu­ ment at tue Home; 13th, returns to Fremont to participate in the reunion of his old regiment 23d Ohio; 16th leaves for the South; 17th will be present at the opening of the Industrial Ex­ position at Louisville, Ky.; 19th, will visit Nashville, Tenn.; 20th, Chattanooga: 21st, Knoxville; thence returning to Washington through Virginia, visiting Lynchburg" IUch- mond and other prominent cities. IT is stated in a Washington dispatch that the administration is considering the question of Canada's responsibility for any new depre­ dations that may be committed by Sitting Bull The savages obtained the protection of Canada by crossing the line, and if they now return to renew the war, it is insisted that the Dominion must pay the damages The Superintendent of the Government printing office has issued a circular to Senators and Representatives re­ questing them not to lend their influence in behalf of any person seeking appointment in the Government minting office, as he intends In future to run the office according to his own judgment. SJCCBETAB* or THE NAVT THOKFSOW has gone on a visit to his Indiana home, and will be ab­ sent several weeks Gen. McNeill, of St. Louis, having declined to serve with Gen. Terry on the commission to meet Sitting Bull, A. G Ltmence. of Rhode Island, has been substi- MUmir marimmm have been ordered to .....7$ S.ooo.oce 19.357,660 868,040,096 80,430,000 19,172,114 ...... 88,838,400 466,167,610 Total «oin bends...... Lawful money debt........ Itatared debt............. Unl tendon --- Certificatesof deposit.....' Fractional eorrency.. Ootn certificates.... Total without interest. Total debt Total InteMt Cash In treasury-- $ 108,904,936 Clash in treasury--currency • . 11,Has,537 Curreragr held for redemption of frao- Uoud curreucy 8,365,412 Special deposits held for redemptufe of certificate* of ri*>poslt #0,430,000 • 38.368,694 Total in treasury.:.... •> 172,928.886 .!>' f MM less cash In trmmny..... 3,058,469,779 Decrease of debt during August....... 8,869,638 Decrease since June 30 4,688,443 Bonds issued to PwifSc BmUroad Com­ panies, interest payable in lawful money; principal outstanding 64^628,518 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,236 Interest paid by the United States . 88,95*?, SW Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 8,676,880 Balance of interest paid by the United States....... W,381,878 III health, resulting from the arduous du­ ties of the office, and intense suffering from a defect in his eyes, are the reasons assigned for the retirement of Assistant Secretary MoCor- mick from the Treasury Department... .Will­ iam Henry Smith, General Agent of the West­ ern Associated Press, has been appointed Col­ lector of Customs at Chicago, vice J. Russell Jones, suspended. Mr. Jones had been twice requested to resign, and, as he did not see fit to oomply, Mis suspension was ordered Washington telegram : s# Hon. Kenneth Baynor, Solicitor of the Treasury, meeting Mr. Sotel- do, editor of the National Republican, on the treasury steps, ordered Mm to move out of his way, and then assaulted him with his fist. Soteldb struck back. Then followed a farther exchange of blows, when the parties were separated. The provocation was repeated pub­ lications in the Republican of satirical remarks reflecting on the Solicitor's age and efficiency." IT is stated from Washington that two points have been agreed upon in regard to the course to be pursued by the Sitting Bull Commission. An effort will first b© made to induce him to come over the line and surrender his arms and horses to the United States authorities, with the understanding that he is to go on the reservation and receive support there. Failing in this, there will be an attempt to complete arrangements for his remaining in the Bntish possessions, and passing formally under the oontrol of the authorities there Kenneth Baynor, Solicitor of the Treasury, paid $20 in the Washington Police Court for assaulting the editor of the Republican. GENERAL. THE Grand Encampment of Knights Tem­ plar of the United States, in conclave at Cleve­ land last week, elected Dr. Vincent N. Hulbert, of Chicago, Most Eminent Grand Commander of the Knights Templar of the United States, and selected Chicago as the place tor the meet­ ing of the next triennial' ©enclave....The American Association for the Advancement of Science has just held an interesting session at Nashville. Tenn., Prof. Simon Newoomb, of Washington,, D. C., presiding. This is the first time the Association has met in the South since thewrr A movement is on foot in Cincin­ nati looking to a reunion of Union and Con­ federate soldiers in that city sometime this falL THE first advance has taken plaoe in the tele­ graph rates under the amalgamation of the Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific inter­ ests. The tariff between the principal points at the East and Chicago and Cincinnati has been increased from 25 cents to 40 cents for messages of ten words, and to GO cents to Louisville, St. Louis and Milwaukee. How. S. 8. BUBDETTE, Commissioner of the United States General Land Office, who mys­ teriously disappeared in May, 1876, and was supposed to have been murdered, turned up the other day in Sedalia, Mo. He is crazy, and has probably been wandering aimlessly about the world all these months, but is unable to give any account of Ms doings. It is certainly a most remarkable cage. BBIOHAX YOTJWG was the father of fifty-six children. He has left seventeen wives, sixteen sons and twenty-eight daughters, and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren would make quite a respectable village E. L. Davenport, the well-known tragedian, died last week at his summer residenoe, in Canton, Pa., aged 61. His disease was gout Alvin Adams, the founder of the Aoiuns Express Company, died reoentiy at his home in Water- town, Mass. L. B. WicKiiiJTB, of Mount Washington, Ky., writes to the Louisville Oourier-Journal that he knows all about Omnan Pasha, the hero of the late Turkish victory at Plevna According to this authority (whom, by the way, the Cou- rier-Journal has every reason t« credit), Osman Pashi is not Marshal Baz&ino, but IB a native Tencossoean; his real same is B. Clr»y Crawford, an ex-Federal Colonel; he served {in. Mexico under Juarez, and subsequently went to Egypt and enlisted in the . service ' of the Khedive, whence he was transferred to that of the Sul- fcaii . .Brigham Young, by his will, divides Ms ©state, valued at 92,000,000, between his seventeen wives, sixteen sons and. twenty-eight daughters... .The Illinois veterans of the Mexican war have been having a reunion in Chicago... .M. Thiers died of apoplexy.... The present summer has been the healthiest Chicago has experienced for many years. The deaths in August were nearly 400 less than for the corresponding month last year. ....The Chicago Common Council has voted to begin at once the erection of the new City Hall., .Gold in New York has reached the lowest figure it has touched since May 24,1862, viz.. 103>^ Business failures: The Perry Cotton Mill, Newport, II. I.; the Sand­ wich Savingi Bank, Boston, Mass.; Edward B. White, metal broker, New York, liabilities $120,000, assets $30,000: John King, lard and oil merchant, St. Louis, liabilities heavy; S. A. Beekm&n & Co., straw goods, New York, liabil­ ities h«avy; Coffin Ic Lyon, paper-dealers, New York, liabilities 9100,000; Newport Manufactur­ ing Company, Newport, B. L, liabilities $250,- 000; James G. Kennedy & Co., clothing, Mon­ treal, liabilities 975,000. INDIAN NEWS. A TKLSOBAM from Gen. Miles to the War De­ partment at Washington announces the return from British America of Sitting Bull and his band of savages. In consequence, all further proceedings in regard to the selection of a commission to visit British territory and treat with them have been suspended. THE following has been received at army headquarters in Chicago : " Howard, pursu­ ing Nez Perces, has crossed to east bank of Yellowstone, at head of Yellowstone canon, and is following trail toward east fork of Yellow­ stone. Lieut. Da&m, with one company and 100 Crows, at Borowell's bridge, below canon Sturges, has moved down from Crow agency to trail on Clark's fork. Hart is moving by way of Fort C. F. Smith, and will go up Stink­ ing Water trail toward Yellowstone park. Mer- ritt, moving out from Brown, will go up Jones trail on Wind river. Indians last reported to be on east fork, half way between canon and Clark's fork mine." CHIEF JOSEPH'S band are still roaming about Montana, confiscating stock and occasionally capturing a scalp. At last accounts they were in the vicinity of the Yellowstone, having burned the bridge over that stream. Gen. Howard's command was far in the roar, with every prospect of the relative positions being maintained ... Advices from Camp Itobinson report that Shedding Bear's band, who have been robbing and murdering in the tilack Hills, have surrendered and promised to be good In­ dians hereafter. ADVICES from Camp Bobinson, Neb., report that the chief Crazy Horse, who some months ago left the war path with his band and sur­ rendered everything, grew restless and at­ tempted to esoape. He was pursued and cap- tured. While being dlaannea in tip guard­ house he drew a knife and attempted to tnake his escape, cutting little Big JHan in the arm severely. Crasy Horse himself was stabbed in the side and dangerously wounded. There was great excitement among the gad an outbreak was feared. POUTIOAIn GKKXBAL elections are to.be held in fourteen States this-fall, as follows: Date. State. TattChoam, September S California. Legislature. September 10 Maine .Gov, and Lcgisu October 9 Ohio Gov. Legis. October 9. Iowa ..... ,©ov. Lcgls. Novembers. ....Connecticut Legislature. November 6..... Maryland Compter and Leg. November 8 Massachusetts. ..Gov. 8nd Jbegia. November 8. --Minnesota Gov. and Legis. November f> Missisaippi. Gov. and Legis. November ...... New Jersey Gov. and Legis. November G New York 8ec. Ste and Leg. November 6 Penn«y3v,«»ia Auditor Geaeriu. November 6 Virginia. Gov. and Legis. Govember €».....Wisconsin........Gov.aadLegis. THB people of Georgia will vote on the new constitution the second Wednesday in Decem­ ber, and also choose between Atlanta and Mil- legeville as a site for the State capital....The Prohibition party of Iowa have nominated Hon. Eliass Jessup, of Oskoloosa, for Gov­ ernor.... A Washington dispatch says the President has determined to remove Naval Officer A. B. Cornell, of New York, as soon as a satisfactory person can be found to fill the vacancy. THE Pennsylvania Republicans met in State Convention at Harrisburg, on the 5th inst., and nominated J. P. Sterritt for Supreme Judge, William B. Hart for State Treasurer, and J. A. M, Passmore for Auditor (General. The following resolutions were reported by a committee and adopted: Resolved, 1. That while we recognize and respect the difference of opinion existing among UB as to the course pursued by President Hayes toward the South, w© are heartily in accord in honoring the patriotic motives which have guided him and in hoping that the results of thia policy will be peace, good-will, and complete recognition of the equal rights of all men in every section of the country, and to efforts of Ms administration to carry into effect the principles of the platform upon which he was elected we pledge our hearty and cordial sup­ port. 3. The electoral commission having been created by the urgent solicitation of the Democratic party and after the oft-repeated declarations of its leaders in both houses of Cengress that no faction could cavil at its decision, we witness with profound as­ tonishment the assaults of that party upon'th; au­ gust tribunal of its own creation because its deci­ sions disappointed their expectations of official pa­ tronage, which assaults, so far as they seek to im­ pair the confidence of the people in the just title of the President to his high office, are equally childish and foolish, but may become extremely mischievous in assisting to diminish popular respect for the de­ cisions of lawful tribunals. The third resolution calls upon the members of the State and national Legislatures to assist in the return of prosperity to the country by adopting such measures as will conduce to that end. The fourth and fifth resolutions oppose any grant of more than 160 acres of land to any one person, and also oppose the reissue of pat­ ents by act of Congress. 6. The the long and successful existence under the laws of Congress of the double-ooin standard warrants us in demanding an early repeal of the legislation which demonetized silver and established an almost exclusive gold standard, and we therefore favor a return to the free use and unrestricted coin­ age of the dollar of 1798, and its restoration to the position it held as a legal tender during eighty years of our national existence, thus preserving the equal­ ity of the commercial value of the silver dollar with the gold dollar, keeping both in circulation The seventh resolution indorses the adminis­ tration of Gov. Hartranft. 8. We are in favor of law and against lawlessness and anarchy, with all their attendant horrors and crimes. Equal rights in making laws impose equal duties in obeying them when made, and we tender our hearty thanks to Gov. Hartranft and the officers and soldiers of his command for the propspL snd we hope effectual, suppression of the^jnese dis­ turbances which reoentiy occurred in this State. 9. That we hold in equal respect the rights of cap­ ital to oontrol Its investments and of labor to deter­ mine the value of its services; that we deprecate any assertion by violence of ii«.« rights of eithcr.und we assert it as the duty of all citizens to hold their respective rights in the just limitation of law, and that any attempt to coerce the other by unlawful means should be promptly repressed by such law­ ful authorities as she exigency demands. The remaining resolutions, except the elev­ enth, which favors a protectiqe tariff, relate entirely to Stale affairs. THE Massachusetts Independent Greenback party met in convention at Boston, on Sept. S, and nominated Wendell Phillips for Governor. The platform is loud in its denunciations of olass legislation, land grants and subsidies; protests against the further issue of gold bonds for sale in foreign markets; calls for retrench­ ment, and for the abolition of the taxation of mortgaged property, and demands the remon- etization of silver. THE TURKO-BUBSIAN WAR. A telegram from Pera, dated Aug. 31, s&ys : "The preliminary useless and bloody assaults on the front of the Bussian positions have been abandoned, and the investment of the Bussian right flank commenced. The natural obstacles encoitnterei by the Turks are of tremendous magnitude. Guns have been dragged by hand up lieiglits almost impusb&bleby unencumbered footmen. In the charges and counter-charges at the position, gsdned by the Turks on uio Bussian flank the results were murderous. On the slope in front of the Turkish guns de­ fending the line of the tifle-piis 210 Bussiaii bodies were left within a space seventy-five yards square. Quarter was rarely given or taken in this attack. From the beginning of the assault on Schipka, the fighting has Been often hand-to-hand, and the dead outnumber the wounded." IT is stated that the Roumanian army will preserve its individuality, although acting in ooncert with the Russians The Porte has ordered the concentration of 20,000 Turkish troops on the Servian frontier. ACCOUNTS are received by way of Constanti­ nople of a battle fought in Bulgaria on the 31st nit. between the Bussians and the Turks under Mehemefc Ali. The latter made the attack, and his report of tho fighting claims a victory for the Turks, with a loss of 3,000, while the Bussians lost 4,000. A Shumla dispatch, also Turkish, confirms the claim of a decisive success, and represents that tho Bussian positions were carried after repeated assaults. Some minor victories are also claimed.... A Bucharest dispatch says evenr detail of the preparations snows that the Bussians have made up their minds for a long war, unless, indeed, they are acting with the intention to deceive. In Asia Minor the Bussians continue their advance toward Sookgoom-Kaloh. There has been some sharp skirmishing, resulting, according to Bussian accounts, in the defeat of the Turks. CABLE dispatches state that Osman Pasha's attack on the Bussian positions at Pelisat and vicinity was one of the most hardly-fought battles of the war, and resulted in a substan­ tial victory for the Muscovites. The struggle was for the possession of a redoubt held by the Bussians. The Turks, with the most desperate valor, charged tho position time and again, only to be repulsed. They finally withdrew, leaving the valley in front of the enemy's bat­ teries filled with dead and dy- iiig. The Turkish loss was 2,500 killed and wounded, the Bussians losing about one-fifth that number....A dispatch from Bu­ charest states that the bulk of Suleiman Pasha's army has retired from active operations against the Russian garrison in Schipka pass... .Prince Charles, of Roumania, has issued a manifesto to his troop*, announcing that he has been ap­ pointed to tho supreme command of the Bus­ sian and Roumanian armies before Plevna.... The Turks acknowledge the loss of 7,000 men in Schipka pass. THE Grand Duke Nicholas1 long-expected at­ tack upon the forces under Osman Pasha, by which he expected to retrieve the Plevna dis­ aster. began at 10 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 4. The assault was made along the whole line, and was irresistible. The fight­ ing that ensued as soon as the entire move­ ment had been fairly unmasked by the Russians was of the most terrific character, both on the part of the Turks and their assailants. Al­ most every strategic point along the whole line of operations was the scene of desperate charges by the Russian;., In nearly every in­ stance where the Bussians reached the Turkish positions they sucoceded in carrying them, de­ spite all the irregularity of the ground. The defense of the Turks was determined and des­ perate, but they were unable to withstand the onslaught of their opponents, and were com­ pelled to retire sullenly from position after po­ sition. Tmc Turks have entirely evacuated Sookoom- Kale, a Bussian port on the eastern shore of the Black sea, which they captured several months ago and held as a base of supplies for the insurrectionary Circassians. The scat­ tered Turkish forces in thai region, as well as all that could be spared from Batoum, Tre- bizond. and Mukhtar's department, have been hurried forward to reinforce the Bulgarian armies. THB battle at Loftscha, says a Bucharest dis­ patch, was commenced by the Turks, who, dis­ quieted by the great increase of Russians be­ fore the town, attacked them fiercely. The Bussians repulsed nine successive attacks, and finally drove the Turks back into the town, which fchey entered with them. The struggle oontinned in the streets, until the Turks were driven out from the other side of the town in great disorder. They retreated, followed by Gen. Skobeloff's cavalry brigade, which had by its gallantry largely contributed to the Bussian success. The slaughter was great, especially among the Turks. OKNEEAI FOREIGN NEWS. A LONDON dispatch says that "harvest reports from all quarters are most desponding. Floods have caused great damage in Wales and Scot­ land, and the weather in the English midlands and elsewhere is very bad." EX-PRESIDENT G&ANT was in Edinburgh, Scot­ land, and the freedom of the city was present­ ed to him by Lord Provost Sir James Faulkner, in the Free Assembly Hall. Two thousand per­ sons were present A Paris dispatch says the editor of the Journal des Alpes is summoned before the Correctional Tribunal for publishing an insulting remark relative to Gen. Grant.... Edward Cunard, second son of the late Six Ed­ ward Cunard, of Stateu Island, N. X., was killed, the other day, in England, while play­ ing a game of polo. TEN THOUSAND cotton-spinners are on a strike at Bolton, England....Gov. Noyes has entered upon his duties as United States Min­ ister to France, and Mr. Waahburne has sailed for Home. Louis Asozm THIKBS, the great French statesman, died suddenly at his residenoe at St. Germain, near Paris, on the 3d inst. He was 80 years old. A CABLE dispatch says ho event short of a coup-detat or Communist rising could have created so profound an impression throughout France as the death of ex-President Thiers. Its effect on the present political crisis cannot yet be properly weighed. Gambetta is now without a rival in the Republican party, but his advanced views are so alarming to the Left Center that the Bepublioan party, as a whole, will probably seek to counteract the evil effects of Thiers' removal by putting forward M. Grevy, the ex-President ©f the Chamber of Deputies, as a candidate for the succession to the Presidency, in the event of President Mao- Mshon'a retirement A BERLIN dispatch states that Austria and Germany have declared that they do not deem Jthe present state of affairs one to induce them to offer their mediation to either belligerent, yet they would support vigorously an offer of mediation from any other power. A Lively Adventure with a Bear. On Thursday last a young man named McDonald, belonging to Gay's river, had a. narrow escape from being de­ voured bv a bear in the woods near his home. He was walking through the woods, when he heard a rustling sound behind him. Turning arouml lie saw a large-sized she-bear coming toward him. He had just time to spring for the near­ est tree and climb up it. The bear sprang at him, and, catching one of his feet with her paw, tore off the shoe and stocking and badly lacerated the flesh. McDonald managed to crawl out on a limb, whither the bear attempted to fol­ low, but the limb was too narrow. Foiled of its prey the bear tore savage­ ly at the bark on the limb, while McDon- ud, holding on by his hands, screamed lustily for help. A man near by, hear­ ing his cries, approached just as the bear dropped from the tree. McDonald called out to the new-comer to look out for the bear, and at that moment the savage animal rushed at the man, who nimbly climbed into the same tree, fol­ lowed by the bear. The new-comer's only safety was to get out on the same limb as McDonald, and the bear, too, crawled out. Under the weight the limb broke, nnd bear and men fell & diefaacc of some twenty feet.. Foitunafoly the bear was stunned "by the fall, and the men, though badl ̂shaken, were able to gel away. Obtaining arms, which they were entirely without, they returned to the place, but the bear could not be the place, round.--a 'harlottetown ( Va.) Herald, The Wonder of Texas* Living near Englewood, in this coun­ ty, is a family of father, mother and twelve children, and, remarkable to state, they count 328 fingers and toes as naturally belonging to them. Each of the twelve children has twenty-four, fully developed, but the parents have only forty between them. Prof. Hungleford, formerly of Calvert, but recently teaching at Englewood, had several of these children as scholars. One day, during recitation, one of thin family was told to count his fingers with the view of impressing g@m© number upon his mind. The child announced that the number was twelve. The teacher said the returning board was en­ deavoring to practico fraud, and bull­ dozed the little fellow into another count. The result was the same. " Come here," said the now-irate teach­ er, " and let me count your fingers." His numbering corresponded with the child's, for on each hand he found five fingers and a thumb.--Calvert Cen­ tral Texan. Rich Dairy Districts. The wealth of some dairying districts is enormous. Herkimer, N. Y., is said to ship annually irore than 17,000,000 pounds of cheese, and 300,000 pounds of butter, worth $4,500,000. Little Falls, N. Y., ships perhaps as much. St. Al­ bans, Vt., ships 1,000,000 pounds of cheese, and 2,750,000 pounds of butter, worth in the market $1,250,000. The village of Wellington, O., shipped 4,000,000 pounds of cheese in 1869, worth $500,000. The products of the dairy are sold for cash, and hence the returns are quick. This industry enables the manufacturer to reduce a large bulk of food into small compass, thVough the two processes of feeding cows and manu­ facturing the productions. -- Rural World. CURRENT AFFAIRS. GAVC. EADB is to leave a lasting mark of his hand in the East, as he has al­ ready done in the West. Having bridged the Mississippi at St. Louis and deepened its mouth at the gulf, he is now to bridge the Bosphorus and lead the tide of travel to India through the Valley of the Euphrates. AT the American Temperance Union, held recently at Cooper Institute, New York, not only were all intoxicating drinks denounced, but pepper, salt, mustard, vinegur, cakes, candies and other confectionery, as it was stated they were all calculated to breed intemperate habits in the young. ONE of the Pittsburgh mpers draws the line between a mob and an insurrec­ tion. The recent railroad strikes, it ar­ gues, had a common cause, and there was co-operation among the rioters eve*y- where; and the railroad property in that city was destroyed in the course of a do­ mestic rebellion or insurrection, and not by the outbreak of a local mob. and hence the nation, or at least the State, ought to pay the costs. . THB death of the great Mormon leader and despot will open an entirely new chapter in the history of our relations with Utah, and with its curious " chosen jjeople.1' No living personage in the civilized world could repeat with so much truth as Brigham Young the ar­ rogant saying of Louis XIV., "The state--is myself ! " The United States down to this time have been dealing not with Mormonism but with the monarch of the Mormons. No successor can tak& his place; for even were a successor to come forward capable of filling it the conditions under which Brigham Young created the place and administered it will not exist for any man who oomes after him. • MB. E. B. BOUTWBMI, late a Command­ er in the United States navy, suggests a remedy for strikes and strikers. He thinks that the plan adopted by the British Government, of establishing free lines of transportation for emigrants unable to pay their own passage,, and otherwise encouraging them, should be adopted by us. In the great West and South, he truly remarks, there are thou­ sands of acres awaiting cultivation, and innumerable industries undeveloped. With a little assistance from the Gov­ ernment, private enterprise could very soon relieve large cities, mining and manufacturing districts, from an op­ pressive weight of unemployed, un- nappy, and worse than useless popula­ tion. THURLOW WEBD is the last and most powerful recruit of the silver dollar par­ ty. He goes the whole thing, including the payment of the national debt m sil­ ver as well a4 gold. If thip affects our credit abroad, and sends our bonds home, so muoh the better. He thinks that we have money enough to carry our own debts. And he closes his discussion with, for him, quite a rhetorical tribute to the virtues of paper money. We can only indulge our readers in a brief spec­ imen: "Gold is passive, paper active. Gold works out its mission in vaults and coffers. Paper courses like blood through the veins and arteries of busi­ ness, from the extremities to the heart of the nation, imparting strength, vigor and health to the whole body. GBN. LBW WALLACE, of Indiana, pro­ poses to raise a regiment or battalion of frontiersmen for permanent service in the United States army, specially to fight Indians. He contends that the army, as now constituted, is not competent for such service. He wants to raise a regi­ ment of men to be mounted on Indian ponies, who can ride, and shoot, and subfist as the Indians do. He wants every man in the regiment to be familiar with the Indian mode of warfare, so they can cope with them on even terms. The Secretary of War thinks, and so replied to Gen. Wallaoe, that suoh a regiment as he describes would be very servicea­ ble but he does not consider himself possessed of the authority to order its enlistment. GEN. N. Po BANKS, Congressman-elect from Massachusetts, is preparing to urge upon Congress at the next session the need of increasing the inducements to settlement on the free lands of the Gov­ ernment in the West. Already 160 acres of the best fanning lands in tho world are given to every settler--any Ameri­ can oifaaesi being eligible--at a cost of only about $20 in land-office fees, but Gen. Banks proposes to offer still fur­ ther encouragement to homesteaders by providing one year's Government ra­ tions to each family, a few farming uten- ^rils, a horse, a cow and & pig, besides doing away with the fees which at pres­ ent go to the land-office agents. To meet the expense of the increased bonus to the settler, he proposes that 4 per oent. bonds be issued for that purpose. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Commercial and Trade Matters. THB silk crop of France for the pres­ ent year, it is estimated, will be more than three times as great as that of last year. THX straw and millinery trades of New York have suffered severely by deprecia­ tion in values, and several neavy failures are announced. TEXAS will make this year 700,000 bales of cotton. From these will be obtained 840,000,000 pounds of seed; this converted into oil would bring over $14,000,000. THK wheat crop in Great Britain is much below the average this year, and potatoes are generally threatened with disease; oats and winter beans are better, and the hay crop is abundant. The crops in France and Germany are below rather than above the average, and, without much regard to the Eastern war, there must be a certain and large market in Europe for our American productions this year. THE New York Times has been inter­ viewing business men of the metropolis as to the prospects of fall trade, and re­ ports the outlook, on the whole, encour­ aging. Nobody looks for large business or great profits, but there is a general expectation of healthy activity and rea­ sonable gains, which find justification in the improvement already shown by a comparison with a year ago. The long- continued hard times have fostered more conservative and healtliy business habits, and there is a general preparedness to build up again on a sounder basis. IT is stated from Washington that the ff̂ i stratum is îndisposed to take any - __ °̂king to the representation of the United States at the Paris Exposi- Ly®ftr» earoept in response to a «om Congress. In explana- * "lis. apparent want of official in- terest in this great international under- may be said that neither the ^*®»ch Government nor toe character of the French exhibit at was 8Uoh to® <Twfn ̂* F^ht to expect from a nation with which it had so long been on friendly terms. THK great German capital, BeHin. is going through a terrible real-estate collapse. For the three or four years before 1873 it seemed impossible to build houses fast nnnngli to supply the increasing population,0 or to advance prices beyond the takers. But the sup­ ply was pushed beyond the prices have been so high that people went away, and now there are 20,000 vacant apartments in the city. There is a great deal of real estate that does not yield income enough to pay taxes, and a wide> spread distress and ruin among real- estate men who have done business on borrowed capital. MBl, Shop and lAbor NatM. THERE are now in Philadelphia 450 co­ operative and building loan associations, in which workingmen have nearly 870.- Q00s000 invested. AKRON, Ohio, is a city of about 14,600 inhabitants, ana has twenty-six manu­ facturing establishments, which turnout an annual aggregate viduo of $9,160,000. This is a product of over $600 for every man, woman and child in the city. COL. SCOTT says positively that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will re­ build as few of their buildings as possi­ ble in Pittsburgh, but will remove all their shops and machine works to some other point, as remote as possible from that neighborhood, or, in fact, from-large cities, where the property of the company will not be under the influence and at the mercy of mobs. DURING the past three months over 300 carpenters have left this country for England. They are under contract for three years each with building firms in Manchester at wages equal to $1.50 per day, eight hours to constitute a day's work, with a half-holiday on Saturdays. Their passage was paid by their employ­ ers, but it is to be deducted from their wages in small installments. THE United States Consul at Liverpool warns all persons contemplating return­ ing to England for work that neither skilled nor unskilled workmen who have come from abroad can expect to find em­ ployment in England. The reason is very evident. Depression is felt in every branch of industry, from the manufact­ ure of silk to the building of ships, and this winter is looked forward to as likely to prove one of unusual suffering and want. GKOBGB C. BENHAII, of Louisiana, writes to the Cincinnati Gazette that there is land in the South suffering for the want of labor, and urges working- men to seek employment there. To reach the spot, he suggests that laboiers get on planks and paddle their way down the Mississippi, stoppi|ig off at cornfields for supplies. Better men than rioters have done it, and he guarantees that a good living will be found by any ynnn who takes his advice. Harvest Gleanings. THB cotton crop is reported as panning out splendidly all over the South. THE sweet-potato crop will be a fine one throughout the State of Texas. THE Seinia Argus says the growing crop in Alabama is the most promising since the war. THE pecan crop, which is a very im­ portant crop for Western Texas, promises to be enormous this year. THE reports from all parts of Tmfiawa. is that the crops are immense. From present appearances, the State will raise her greatest corn crop this year. IT is estimated that Louisiana this year will make about 40,000 bales of cotton, 200,000 iiogghesds of sugar, 300,000 barrels of molasses, and 150,000 pounds ©f rice. FARMERS la Forth western Kansas re­ port a very heavy corn crop. Soma ex­ pect ae high as eighty to one hundred bushels per acre; general avenge net- less than fifty. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. - BEEVBS S8 SO ' QiiNs Hooe 6 60 Q s 85 OOTTON. 11 @ ilk" Floor--Srcperflne Western 4 40 @ S Sflfi WHEAT--No. 2.. 1 36 @ i 40 CORK--Western Mixed 63 @ OS OATS--Mixed.. 39 (a 43 Bn--Western 68 @ 69 POBX--New Iteea. U 90 @13 00 » CHICAGO. Bum-Choice Graded Steers 6 90 @ 6 25 Choice Natives 6 25 (A 6 75 Cows and Heifers a 60 0 3 75 Good Second-clasB Steers. 3 75 @ 4 25 Medium to Fair. 4 50 <a 5 10 Ho««--Live 4 75 @ 5 60 XXOUB--Fancy White Winter...... 6 75 @ 7 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 00 (A 6 25 WHXAT--NO. 2 Spring l 14 @ 1 1A No. 3 Spring l 07 9 1 OS COBS--No. 2 44 @ 45 OATS--No. 3 23 Qt QI RYE--No. 2 64 ® 65 BARLEY--No. 2 66 @ 67 BUTTER--Choice Creamery 24 @ 26 Eoo»--ftreeh 12 <& 12 POBK--Meaa 12 25 ^12 85 Law» 8* MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 1 20 9 1 21 No. 2. 1 16 0 1 17 COBN--No. 2 43 (3 44 OATS--NO. 2. 23 @ 24 Rtk--No. 1 56 A 50 BABLBT--NO. 2 66 A 67 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Ftdl 1 28 <§ 1 80 CORN--No. 2 Mixed 41 @ 42 OATS--No. 3 26 ® 27 • RVE 63 @ 64 POBK--Meaa 19 70 @12 80 LABD 8 <& 9« HOOB 4 75 ̂5 20 CATTLE 4 00 A 5 75 CINCINNATI. WHXAT--Bed. 1 12 A 1 22 COBS 47 ̂ 48 OATS 27 9 82 Rtk. 66 @ 68 POBK--Mess 12 50 @12 75 8 9)4 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Winter JU27 @ 1 29 No. 1 White Michigan.'.... 1 1 381£ COBN 48 @ 49 OATS--No. 2 27 A 28 DETROIT. , FLOUB--Cfcoioe White Winter (60 @ .... WHEAT--No. 1 1 88 @140 CORN--No. 1 48 @ 50 OATS--Mixed 28 @ 29 BARLEY (percental)..... 90 @ 1 40 PORK--Mess 14 60 @ .. EAST LIBEBTY, PA. " CATTLB--Best 6 00 @ 6 25 Medium to Good 5 00 @ 6 75 Common to Fair..... 4 00 @ 4 75 Hooa 400 @5*) SBXBT 8 00 Q 5 00-