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* <Pticnti5 |lainiealfr, J. TAN SLYKFI, POBUSHUL l|fcHENEY, ILLINOIS. IIE NEWS CONDENSED. THB KAST. IM . ; , 6U. PXASSOX, who commanded th« militia the Pittsburgh riots, has been arrested and field to bail on a charge of murder John T. " * Morton and others, implicated ia the Philadel- »Bhia railway swindle, have been held to bail on || charge of conspiracv to defraud The city * Df Providence, B. L, haa been visited by a de- . ""fcrnctiw conflagration. Some of the moat val­ uable buildings in the business heart of the town were burned, involving a loss of over * *$600,000 The Barnstable (Mass.) Savings [.ufiaok has failed L. Prang Oo/sohromo ' establishment, Boston, has been burned ; loss, *« *§100,000. 1® I< PUTNAM, a thriving village In Connecticut, tias been swept over by a lire which burned #7r about $200,000 worth of property, and left ^ nothing of the business portion of the place Accept the National Bank and the new hotel. ' NEW YORK financial circles are agitated by ' the discovery of extensive forgeries by one C. Oilman, a broker hitherto enjoying •4** A high reputation. The forgeries amount to ji^Vftpward of 1200,000 By the explosion of a : fmall steamboat near Pittsburgh, Pa., three **'!i Jargons were killed and several injured. 3*1" THE centennial anniversary of the battle of »*< j|5ermantown (Pa.) was celebrated with great I { spirit Oct. 4, the military of Philadelphia arid #1i< the adjoining cities participating Louis Liberty, William Price and two Wis© brothers ,l' •' were drowned in Boston harbor, the other day, a ». \w the capsMng of their boat. , THB WKS*. . Tn Sheriff of Ellis county, Kansas, with a t|| ̂posse of soldiers, pursued and overtook two of the Union Pacific train robbers. The latter t turned upon their pursuers and were shot *><*Bown. They had f20,000 in gold coin in their Itf-} possession. . A DISPATCH from Cheyenne says " the weekly ^treasure-coach from Deadwood was stopped by ^ two masked men near Cheyenne river. Besist- •Jince was made, and Scott Davis, one of the ^messengers, was wounded in the leg, disabling m Jhim, when the robbers got possession of the arms in the coach, but were unable to force the "•Iron safe." The suit of the Government against. William McKee, of the St. Louis •whisky ring, to recover $500,000, has broken *"^down. the court holding that the President's par- „tr»idon canceled all claims of that character.... , ^Advices at military headquarters in Cuicago, lead to the belief that Chief Joseph and his »ttjj^ang have made a break for Sitting Bull's re- jtreat in the British Possessions. A STRIKE of laborers on the Kansas Central Narrow-Gauge railway culminated in a collision • ^ With the authorities, at Circleville, Kansas, in ^: ^ which several shots were fired, and the leader of the strikers, one William Hartman, was Ulled Clearings of the Chicago banks last week, $22,000,000 ; increase over corresponding " 'week last year, $3,500,000. *; . THE cattle-raisers in the region of Cleveland, b« Ohio, in convention assembled, have unani- jraonsly agreed that the plagne which is killing i ..off their stock is notlung less than the Texas cattle fever. The disease is said to be on the • wane. - •- • • Bi the explosion of the boiler of a new port- • u ^able engine at Studortown, O., four men were 4 filled and two seriously injured. The bodies # Of the killed were literally blown to piece*. |W THE SOUTH. ^ THE Grand Jury of Kemper county, Miss., has found six indictments for murder, and *^twenty-five indictment* for being accessory to w murder, against the participants in the Chis- IffMholm massacre A State force of Texans, .,^1,000 in number, is organizing at San Antonio _ for active service on the Bio Grande. main in the Treasury Department through the extra session of Congress, but to retire be­ fore the regular session begins The Post­ master General don't think he will ask Congress for any deficiency at the end of the extra ses­ sion.... The President and Secretary of the Interior have decided to dismiss the charges against Gov. Axtell. of New Mexioo, as vague aud unsupported by proof. IT has been decided that the President will oonfine his message, at the beginning of the special session, to the^subject of the appropri­ ations needed for the public service The Xctic.na! JiepvbliCGH has been purchased by Clapp, late Public Printer, and will in future oppose the national administration Fred­ erick A. Sawyer, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, ex-Commissioner Haines and Frauk W. Brooks have been tried in the Dis­ trict Court, on a charge of conspiracy to de­ fraud the Government, in passing through the Treasury Department a bogus claim of $58,000. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty. CLERK ADAMS, of the House, says that he has received the credentials of all Representa­ tives except from the Fourth California and First Missouri Districts. Without deciding as to these two, Adams will place on his roll twelve Democratic majority....The coinage at the mints of the United States for the month of September, 1877, was: Double eagles, $4,492,- 200; trade dollars, $1,677,000; half-dollars, 408,400 ; quarter-dollars, 849,600 ; dimes, 129,- 000. Xot&l, #7,056,200. THE final conference with the Indian dele­ gation took place at the Executive Mansion on Monday. Spotted Tail remarked that he would like a supply of short-horned oattle, Catholic priests, overcoats, saw and grist mills, agricult­ ural implements, seeds, and five or six stores, so his people could "buy cheaper at one than at another." Mr. Hayes referred them to the Interior Department for such things as the appropriations would warrant. He also in­ formed them that it was considered too late in the season to remove the agencies, and advised the chiefs to gather their people as near to the present supply points as possible. In the spring, he said, the agencies would be removed to the mouth of White river. THE public debt statement for September is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $ 790,293,600 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,850 FOOT and a half per cent, bonds. 300,000,000 Four per cent, bonds 10,000,000 Total coin debt... . .$1,712,560,2150 lawful money debt $ 14,000,000 Matured debt 19,334,320 Legal tenders 866,978,654 Certificates of deposit 43,110,000 Fractional currency 18,786.642 Coin certificates 37,997,500 Total without interest $ 456.872,796 frit THE yellow fever has broken out at Port Total debt $2,202,767,367 Total interest 27.123,816 Cash in treasury--coin $ 119,152 043 Cash in treasury--currency 14,206,41? Currency held for redemption of frac­ tional currency 8,835,468 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit 43,110,000 Total in treasury. $ 185,303,928 «ss estimated amount due military establishments for which no appro­ priations have been made 7,000,000 Total.. $ 178.303,928 *Jt*Hoy&l, 8. C A Deputy United States Mar- -fer^hal'B posse recently made a raid on the crooked »}<tdistillers of Sharp county, Ark., had a fight il with the crooks, killed one, wounded Be vera!. *** arrested four, and destroyed two stills and a •Of'large amount of whisky and mash Cassius Clay lately shot and killed a negro at his farm house in Kentucky. No one witnessed ft* the deed, which CJay claims was done in self „if)defeose. THE steamer Magnolia, bound from Savan- , nih to New York, was recently lost off Cape ' Hatteras. No lives lost. The steamer a cargo were valued at about $500,000. * GENERAL. As Indian woman while bathing at Victoria, ^"British Columbia, a few days ago, was seized •t1by an octopus, or devil-fish, and drowned. The liody was discovered by Indians the next day, lying at the bottom of the bay in the grasp of , ( the octopus. They cnt the tentacles and re­ covered u>»* body. . "* "ACCORDING to information received in Wash- ngton, from Brownsville, Texas, there is a ftSJ. Mexican force coming to the Bio Grande to _ -.fioBipc! t'u, authorities to execute the extradi­ tion treaty. Local opinion in Mexico :? against * surrendering the jail reiders. The local an thorites of Tamaulipaswiil refuse to surrender u another Mexican to the Americans. AT the World's Congress of the International * Society, held this summer in the city of Ghent, ' ' the city of New York was fixed upon as the "headquarters of the social revolutionists r' Commodore Frailey, of the United States navy, Is dead. TROUBLE with Mexioo is brewing, and grave " apprehensions are felt at Washington that it *r will hot be long delayed. Some days ago Iient. BU!!!P, with two companies, crossed the It: Bio Grande from Fort Clarke in pursuit of a g band of Mexican cattle-thieves. A dispatch of the 2d hist, announces that Col. Shatter had •% also crossed the river "with 600 men and two ^.JHtling guns to extricate Lieut Bullis from , "hla position." News received from the ft Bitting Bull commission from a point near Helena, Mont, confirms the report that Joseph is endervoriug to reach Canadian territory Dy the shortest route, and as soon as possible. ADVICES from Fort Clark announce the re- * i, torn of Sh&fter and Bullis' commands from the Mexican side of the Itio Grande. The expedi­ tion was unsuccessful, owing to the fact that the Indians had been warned of Bullis' pursuit t< mud escaped. Twelve horres and two mules jl, which had been stolen from the American side of the river were recaptured. A small bodv of » Mexican cavalry kept upon their trail and in sight of the command during their march from ' £an Diego I iver to ths Rio Grande, but M«/I» ' * no Offensive demonstration. BCENW) : The Pittsburgh ear and looomo- •~fcve wcrks and a large number of other build- jjings at M^Keesport, Pa., loss heavy; the $, stables and car-houses of the Dry Dock Bail- ' road Company, in New York, loss $500,000; a " square of business buildings in Franklin, Ind., .jloss §15,000 ; a block of houses in Joplin, Mo. % loss 850,000; a saw-mill at Frankfort, Mich., •'loss 630,000 Two more savings banks have fone by the board--one at Allegheny, a., liabilities about 4300,000, and another at Harwich, Mass., liabilities not stated... .Arcb- * bishop Bayley, of the Catholic diocese of Bal- n 4imore, is dead.... W. H. Vanderbilt, of the New \ork Central railroad, has ordered an ad- * vance of 5 per cent, upon the wages of all * employes of the road where the salaries * amount to less than $2,000 a year. 1 ^ WASHINGTON. Aanaxiirr SECBETABY M'CORMICK has con- (cl^ed to oomply with the earnest request of . the President and Secretary Sherman, and re- Debt less cash in treasury. . $2,061,587,254 Decrease of debt during September... 8,882,524 Decrease since June 30, 1877 8,570,968 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Compa> Dies,interest pays,Me in lawful money; principal outstanding, 64,628,512 Interest accrncd and not yet x>aid 969,362 Interest paid by the United States 85,967,629 * iterest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 8,750,652 Balance of interest paid by United States 27,206,977 SENATOB JOHN PATTBBSOH says that he will ask, at the opening of the session of the Sen­ ate, for an investigating committee of fellow- Senators to vindicate him of -the charges made against his official character... .It is currently reported that Assistant Secretary of the Treas­ ury McCormick will succeed Mr. Arthur as Collector of the Port of New York. POLITICAL. THE Maryland Democratio State Convention was held at Baltimore last week. Thomas J. Keating was nominated for Comptroller. The resolutions approve the course of President Hayes, "whose title to office is not derived from an election according to constitutional methods, bnt exists by the adjudication of a tribunal unknown to the constitution, but whose award has been acquiesced in by a peace-loving peopledemands " the revision of our present tariff laws to the end that no more revenue shall be raised than is necessary to defray the ex­ penses of the Government frugally adminis­ tered, and the gradual but certain extinction of the public debtopposes subsidies of all kinds, and declares that "the wealth of the country is mainly derived from the product of its labor, and every just measure to improve the condition and promote the advancement of the laboring classes should receive sympathy, and will command our cordial support." THE Republicans of Minnesota met in con­ vention at St. Paul, Sept 27, and nominated Gov. Pillsbury and nearly all the State officers for re-election. The platform favors the early resumption of specie payments and the rcmon- etization of silver, aud contains the followirg unequivocal indoraci^ent of the national ad­ ministration : We believe that with the suppression of arxued re- s stance to national authority the object of onr late war was substantially achieved, and that, pursuant to the true theory of representative governments which tolerates no subject race among its people, the several States should now be left free to man­ age their iocal affairs in their own way, subject only upon national issues to the constitutional and para­ mount authority of the United States ; and we hail with gratification the efforts of the wise and patri-' otic President to promote sentiments of peace and fraternal concord among the people of all the States of the Union in recognition of the broad principles of national unity, local self-government, and equal rights of all citizen* of one common coun­ try. The sincere and persistent efforts of 1'retu- dent Hayes to redeem the promises made in his let- ter of acceptance and inaugural messxge, as well as the repeated pledges of the Republican party in behalf of civil-service reform, deserve the cordial support of the Republican party and commend themselves to the best sentiment of the country at large. THE Republican State Convention of Now York was held at Rochester Sept 26-7. The Chairman of the Convention, Thomas C. Piatt, bitterly attacked the na­ tional administration in his open­ ing speech. Senator Conkling also made a speech, in which he attacked the civil service and Southern policy of the President. A reso­ lution introduced by George William Curtis in­ dorsing the administration was voted down by 109 yeas to 295 nays. The following ticket was nominated: John C. Churchill for Secretary of State ; Francis Sylvester for Comptroller ; William L. Host wick for State Treasurer ; Gren- ville Tremaine for Attorney General; Howard Soule for State Engineer, The platform adopt­ ed is as follows: Firnt~-The Republicans of New York, true to the achievements of an unequaled history, and faithful to the demands of uncompleted mission, make the following declarations: 'Ihe office of the Govern­ ment is to conserve order, p< ace, and safety, and to protect every citizen in the enjoyment of every right implied by the constitution and laws. Unity and fraternal relations in all States and sections, and between all States and sections, is of the first ancl highest Importance, and the Republican party of New York will heartily support every measure authorized by law adapted to establishing and maintaining commercial aud industrial prosperity and tranquillity, justice and obedience to lawful authority. .Secorwf--The constitution ordains that the United StateH shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of Government. The only repub­ lican Government known to the constitution of any American State is a Government chosen by the peo- P'e- The question whether a case has arisen requir­ ing the President to employ the military forces to StJite authority ugaitixt domestic violence is y the constitution committed to his decision and to ins responsibility. Taking no issue with any de- 5rj101? "f tl>is kind which has been made by the Na- , Executive in respect to the employment of „ E®"d expressing no opinion in regard to the ,.tt nda.ut Proceedings employed in y -i.. ~nce, we cherish i.h« hope that the action Republicans of New York oondoclve to its good effect shall be withheld. Third--We insist on purity, frugality and effl- i ciency in every branch of the public SOMKB. nation­ al and State, To that end we hoMaBft require­ ments practical and jnst: JSP 1. No needless office, officer or putaUAMfhnt should exist. 2. Compensation for offloial service should be fair and just, but in no ease excessive. 3. Fit men, and no others, should hold public trusts. 4. Every official, high or low, should be required at all times faithfully to perform his duty, and the whole of it. 6. No official or officeholder should be subject to political or partisan assessments, or to interference in any way with his political rights or action, and plain laws should forbid and punish att attempts to make or enforce, such assessments, orfe eontrol or abridge in any respect absolute freedoms ja political action, which in this country belongs Jkp all voters aUke. fV In connection with this subject wtt1recur with satisfaction to that portion of the letlfeof accept­ ance of Mr. Hayes wherein he deolaxtWBbat found­ ers of our Government meant that the {Acer should be secure in his tenure as long as his plNonal char­ acter remained untarnished and the performance of his duties satisfactory. In furtherance of this view we Mp&mcnd as worthy of consideration legislation agSKg ot8e»se secure in a limited, fixed tenure, and SUOjcct to re­ moval only as officers under State laws an remova­ ble in this State, on charges, to be regularly and openly preferred and adjudged. Fourth--We hold honest service or labor the best and highest exertion for American cittxens, and those who labor for others, whether ffofr the Gov­ ernment or for private employers, irttn fully en­ titled as any citizen can be to abRolutsfreedom in al! political, civil and religious affairs. They owe the full service they agree to render, and to" their employers they owe nothing more. The consti­ tution of the United States and of the State of New York and the laws establish equal rights for all citizens and all voters, and w§ deprecate as unwarrantable and hurtful attempts by em­ ployers, whether representing capita# or political power, to encroach upon or coerce others in the enjoyment of any of the rights or the exercise of any duties of citizenship. In the State of New York the whole number of national office-holders, including clerks and subordinates of every degree, is 7,465. This is one national official .or subordi­ nate to 152 voters. Of State, county and town officials there are in this State 133,213. This is one State, county or town official to everyLfiight, and a half voters. When the potential functions of local officers are taken into account, their nearness to the citizen, and their power over his property, taxes and interest, their relative influence becomes even greater than numbers indicate. The exclusion of public servants from political action would disfran­ chise a great body of our fellow-citizens. The laws mean no such exclusion, and we deny as an imputa­ tion upon the people of New York that they are or have been dominated by the nation's subordinate officials, and we can conceive of no condition ot affairs short of the extinction of manhood and pa­ triotism in which a Postmaster or clerk could sub­ due to his partisan will 160 other electors, or exert any other influence beyond such as his character might give him. Fifths- Public faith, honest industry, and general prosperity demand a sound currency of coin and paper convertible into coin, and the already near approach to specie payments enforces the wisdom and duty of faithfully pursuing the necessary steps to full .resumption within the time now fixed by law. Sixth--We oppose any further land-grants or sub­ sidies to corporations or monopolists, and hold that the public domain should be reserved tor the free homes of industrious settlers. / Seventh--That we regard with alarm and disap­ prove the demands coming trom the promoters of various schemes that profuse appropriations and grants shall be made and the national credit used to carry on works of various kinds, local and sectional in character, and not of urgent national importance. We call upon the burdoned tax­ payers of this State to watch and defeat all at­ tempts, however specious, to Increase the public debt, or to obtain their money for remote or questionable purposes, which, if feasible, appeal to State action and private enterprise. Such at­ tempts are more indefensible when sustained by the votes of sectional minoritiea, adding to the burdens of the more heavily-taxed portions of our country. Eighth--We recognise equally the rights of prop­ erty, and manliness and dignity of labor, depre­ cating any resort to violence in the name of either. We insist at all times upon the supremacy of the law and maintenance of public order. The ad­ vancement of American industry and enterprise depends upon the harmonious co-operation of eapital and labor, and the adjustment of iheir ma­ terial relatione, whether left to the reason of parties or effected; by legislation, should be governed by a considerate regard for the rights of the one and for the just claims of the other. The remaining resolutions arraign the Dem- cratic party for false pretences ; for perpet­ uating existing abuses; and for slavish sub­ servience to most corrupt and dangerous influ­ ences, and pledge the Republican party of the State to renewed and unyielding efforts for the correction of municipal abuses, and for economy and reform in every branch of the administration. COL. DAVID H. ARMSTRONG, of St^Louis, has been appointed by the Governor gf^Iissouri to fill the unexpired term of the In Louis Y. Bogy in the United States Senate... .The Chi­ cago Times says William R. Morrison will re­ ceive the support of the entire Democratio delegation from Illinois in the House for the Speakership. THE Workingmen's party of Massachusetts have placed in nomination a full State ticket, headed by Wendell Phillips (already nominated by the Greenbackers) for Governor The municipal election in Hartford resulted in the election of the Democratic ticket by majorities ranging from 250 to 500. THE Democrats of Minnesota met in conven­ tion at St. Paul last week, and put up the fol­ lowing ticket: Governor, William L. Banning, who was before nominated by the Greenback and Labor Conventions ; Lieutenant Governor, Dr. A. A. Ames: Attorney General, John R. Jones; Secretary of State, P. T. Lindholm; Treasurer, John F. Meagher; Railroad Com­ missioner, H. W. Hill. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the "frauds and crimes by which the inauguration of Tilden was preventedrejoicing that Hayes found it necessary to adopt a Democratic policy of local self-government, and abandon the do- vice for perpetuating the sectional divisions ; accusing the Republican party of acting in the interest of capit al against labor, in making the public debt payable in coin, in demonetizing silver, in passing the Resumption act, in collect­ ing enormous unnecessary revenues since 1865, and in protective and prohibitive tariff legisla­ tion ; declaring gold and silver the only consti­ tutional legal tender : that resumption should come as soon as the business interests of the country will permit; and demanding the restor­ ation of the silver dollar of full oommercial value. THE people of Colorado have voted upon and rejected, by a majority of two to one, the proposition to extend the right of suffrage to women. THB TURKO-KU8SIAN WAR. CABLE dispatches of the 28th say the position of the Russians south of the Danube has not been improved by the receipt of the reinforce­ ment from St. Petersburg, and the campaign, for this season at least, is considered to have come to an end. The Russians are represented as retreating toward the Danube, leaving the he­ roes in the Schipka pass to their fate. Another report represents the army of Mehemet Ali as falling back to its old position on the River Lom. Another unsuccessful attempt had been made by the Roumanians to capture the second Gri- vitza redoubt. Russian dispatches confirm the report of the reinforcement of Plevna by the Turks. There is much discontent and demor­ alization in the Russian armv, on account of a general belief in the incompetency of the Em- peror s sons. A battle between the armies in Asia Minor is represented as imminent The Montenegrins still carry everything before them ; they have " occupied Piva, captured Fort Cakvica, burned Biiek and the surrounding villages, and now hold the whole territory as far as Fatscha." FEVEB and dysentery are decimating the ranks of the Czarowitz's army The Rus­ sians are said to be busily preparing for a win­ ter campaign. TOUCHING ti e campaign in Bulgaria, a Lon­ don correspondent telegraphs on the 1st inst: 44 It is generally believed the campaign is sub­ stantially at an end. Both sides, however, are talking about strategic movements and immi­ nent events of great importance. The fact re­ mains that Mehemet Ali has retreated, and the Russians are willing to do the same, and wait for spring. Probably the most they will do will be to intrench themselves in their wedge- shaped position, with the edge at Scbipka pass, ana the base from SiBtova to Nikopolis, and hold that, position for new levies and another suffer much in the transit to Russia. The Rus­ sian Imperial Guard, 50,000 strong, is fairing up its position in front of Plevna." MOUKKTAB PASHA telegraphs from Asia Minor that he has defeated a Russian force at Neck-Jordan, killing 400, and capturing a large number of arms... .The Sultan has con­ ferred the title of Ghazi (conqueror) on Q®- man Pasha and Mouklitar Pasha. A TT?B*ISH force is concentrating at Mostar, Herzegovina, to recover the territory con­ quered bv the Montenegrins,.. .The Russian forces in Asia have jnst succeeded in suppress­ ing a formidable insurrection in Daghe- stan. The main body of the insurgents. 6,000 strong, was defeated and dis­ persed.. Mehemet Ali has been superseded as Commander-in-Chief of the Danubian army by Osman Pasha, and Raouf Pasha has assumed command of the Turks at Scbipka pass Dispatches from Karajal, in Asia, dated Oct. 8, announce that a great bat­ tle was then in progress between the Russian Gen. Melikoff's forces and the army of Monkh- tar Pasha. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. FROM the village of St. Gregoire, in the Province of Quebec, oomes intelligence of a shocking accident. The dwelling of a man named Gouzie was destroyed by fire, and his seven children and a servant woman perished in the flames. THE yellow fever raging at Vera Cruz, Mexi­ oo, is of a most deadly type. SATSUMA, the well-known Japanese states­ man, and Saigo, the great Japanese soldier, who some time since organized a rebellion against the young Mikado because he had introduced Governmental reforms in sympathy with Western civilization, have been defeated, and, in accordance with the cheerful practice of that country, have committed "hari-kari." THE famine reports from India are still highly favorable. It is estimated that 750,000 people have died from starvation since the be­ ginning of the famine Gen. Todleben, the defender of Sebastopol, has been appointed Chief-of-Staff of the army under the Prince of Ronmania, now investing Plevna. ROCHEFORT'S organ in Paris, the Mat tf Ordre, having been suppressed for the third time, has ceased to exist altogether Gambetta has formally lodged an appeal against the sen­ tence passed upon him by the Correctional Tribunal. SOMETHING of a sensation has been oaused in England by the discovery that the offioers of the Midland Railway Company have been appropriating the property and funds of the corporation to their own use. Some of the guilty parties have been arrested A London dispatch announces the death of Madame Teresa Titiens, the famous operatic prima donna. BUSINESS INTERESTS. 8ute* will result campaign. The wounded from Plevna over- peaoe» tr«iquiiiity, U4 justice, and no set ef the J crowd the Buanan hospitals, and the wounded CHARLESTON, S. C., is shipping wheat to England. THE Quebec Government is trying to promote beet-root sugar-making. THE papers of Atlanta, Savannah and Augusta, Ga., report trade at their re­ spective centers as more satisfactory than it has been at any season since the war. • LOUISIANA sugar lands capable of pro­ ducing 2,000 to 5,000 pounds of sugar and 12 to 320 gallons of molasses, valued at $200 co $500, can be purchased at from $15 to $40 per acre. CALIFORNIA'S wool growth is becoming one of her greatest industries, the ex­ ports last year having been over fifty millions of pounds, worth $8,000,000. There are several wool-growers who own from thirty to forty thousand sheep each. AT the bankers' convention in New York tlie prevailing opinion seemed to be in favor of resumption as proposed by the Sherman act, and also that no banks issue bills of less denomination than $5; thus favoring the use of silver for all less sums. WITH regard to the recent visit of members of the Syndicate to Washing­ ton, the New York W orld says it is un­ derstood it was to complete the accounts of the per cent, loan, of which they have taken $200,000,000. Of this, $15,- 000,000 is to be reserved for resumption purposes, and it is also stipulated that a similar amount, to be received from the sale of the 4 par cents., is to be used for the same object. ACCORDING to the New York Sun, the merchants of that citv say "there is a marked change for the better in the state of trade. The wholesale dealers are crowded with business, and orders are reaching them, thick and fast, from everywhere in the West and South. Men who, day after day, within the past few years, uttered the words, ' Business is very dull,' hnvo begun to say, * We have our hands full of business.'" FROM various portions of the North­ west there are evidences of a steady stream of immigration to the Southern and Southwestern States, and indications that this current will become stronger and wider during the present fall and winter season. The Chicago Journal reports that many families are leaving that city daily for Texas and Florida, and the number of inquirers and seek­ ers after information is steadily on the increase. AT the annual meeting of the stock­ holders of the Northern Pacific railroad, held in New York, the other day, the re­ port for the last year and up to Septem­ ber, 1877, showed gross earnings of the year $965,828; expenses, $573,124; leav­ ing a balance of $892,699, or an increase of nearly 25 per cent, over last year. The report urges that Congress be peti­ tioned to pass a bill extending the time for the construction and completion of the road to the Pacific, and sets forth ad­ vantages to accrue to the country by its construction. Charles B. Wright, of Pennsylvania, was elected President. THE exportation of cattle and beef to England, which started up so suddenly a few months ago and expanded so rap­ idly, is already on the 4ecline. The large firm of Samuels Bros., in New York, who mode the first shipments of live cat­ tle, failed the other day, and they de­ clare that the business is a losing one, owing to the inevitable losses of stock on the voyage. Fresh beef fares but little better than live stock, owing to the immense difficulty experienced in keep­ ing it fresh and sweet while on the water. Another firm in the same city, however, claims to have done fairly well •t the trade. FOR the first time in five years a cargo of coal has arrived in Boston from New­ castle and been spld at a profit, and more is on the way. The Gas Company is the only purchaser as yet, but there will soon be a large market for English coal in Massachusetts, unless the price of Pennsylvania coal is reduced. The reason of this trade-phenomenon is plainly set forth in th eA mertcan Ocu Light Journal, which lays the blame upon the railroad companies and their studious interfer­ ence with the coal companies. The freight-agents now dictate the price at which coal is sold, the market# to which it is sent, and other matters which have heretofore been considered solely at the discretion of the coal operators. The price has thus been fixed above the cost of ooal in England, with freight added ; and the shrewd Boston men are seeking the cheapest market. KJLLUMI INTERVIEWED* He UnttardeneA His Mind Concerafilg til# ttamner and Motley DnpleaaantneM. A New York Herald correspondent, who lately interviewed ex-Freeident Grant in Scotland, reports the following conversation : The correspondent said: "I see re­ ference in the newspaper eulogies of Mr. Motley to your position toward that offi­ cer, and the intimation that your action was one of the remote causes of his death?" " Yes, I have read it, and it does me great injustice. Motley was certainly a very able, very honest gentleman--fit to hold any official position. But he knew long before he went out that he would have to go. When I was making these appointments Sumner came to me and asked me to appoint Motley as Minister to the Court of St. James. I told him I would, and I did. Soon after Sumner made that violent speech about the Ala­ bama claims, and the British Govern­ ment was greatly offended. Sumner was at the time Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Motley had to be instructed. The instructions were pre­ pared very carefully, and, after Gov. Fish and Ihad gone over them for the last time, I wrote an addendum charging him that above all things he should handle the subject of Alabama claims with the greatest delicacy. Mr. Motley, instead of obeying his explicit instruc­ tions, deliberately fell into line with Sumner, and thus added insult to previ­ ous injury. As soon as I heard of it I sent to the State Department and told Mr. Fish to dismiss Motley at once. I was very angry, indeed, and I have been sorry many a time since that I did not stick to my first determination. Fish advised delay because of Sumner's posi­ tion in the Senate and his attitude on the treaty question. We did not want to stir him up then. We dispatched a note of severe censue to Motley at once, and ordered him to abstain from any fur­ ther connection with that question. We thereupon commenced negotiations with the British Minister at Washington, and the result was a joint high commission and the Geneva award. I supposed Motley would be manly enough to resign after that snub, but he kept OH till he was removed. Mr. Sumner promised me he would vote for the treaty, but when it was first before the Senate he did all he oould to beat it. 1 must tell you an in­ cident about Sumner. The first time I ever saw George William Curtis he called upon me to request on behalf of a num­ ber of influential Bepublicans the rein­ statement of Sumner as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. I told him that if I should go to the Sen­ ate and dictate the organization of com­ mittees I would be apt to hear something about the fellow who made a fortune by minding his own business. 1 said certainly should suggest the idea to any part of the legislative branch that should undertake to construct my Cabinet. I gave him distinctly to understand that I did not propose to interfere in the mat­ ter at all, even by advice to personal friends among the Senators, and that I thought Sumner had not done his duty as Chairman of the committee because he had hampered the business of the State Department by pigeonholing treaties for months. Mr. Curtis said that was impossible, for Sumner had only a eliort time before told him that his suc­ cessor would find a clean docket, and made special claims for the execution of the work of the committee. Knowing; as J. did, the adroit arguments usea among Sumner's friends, I determined to test the matter of a clean docket. I told Curtis that I had proposed to prove to him that his friend Sumner had not told him the facts, and lhat he made state­ ments knowing them to be falsehoods. Curtis was amazed at my offer, but I as­ sured him that he had been frequently caught in similar misrepresentations. I told Curtis that there were ten or eleven treaties before the Senate from the State Department that had been there several months, and had been in Sumner's hands, but had never been laid before the committee. I wrote from the spot-- Long Branch--to the State Department, and, to my own surprise, there proved to be more treaties than I said there had been, and in Sumner's own hands, for a longer time than I expected. That was the "clean docket." When I told Cur­ tis about it and gave him the record he was rather disappointed. He said it was remarkable. I told him my object in having the record searched up was to show him that Sumner was not a truth­ ful man, as others had found out before me, and as I had discovered on frequent occasions. The work of that committee when Cameron took charge was in a most deplorable state, due entirely to Sum­ ner's persistent obstructiveness and dila- toriness. I had nothing to do with his dismissal from the Chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, but I was glad when I heard that he was put off, because he stood in the way of even routine business, like ordinary treaties with small countries. I may be blamed for my opposition to Sumner's tactics, but I was not guided so much by reason of his personal hatred of myself as I was by a desire to protect our national inter­ ests in diplomatic affairs. It was a sad sight to find a Senate with a large ma­ jority of its members in sympathy with the administration, and with its Chair­ man of the Foreign Committee in direct opposition to the foreign policy of the administration in theory and detail. So I was glad when I heard of his suc­ cessor's nomination as Chairman of the committee. Horse-Shoeing in Russia and Turkey. According to the reports of travelers in Turkey and Russia, they seem to have very awkward ways of shoeing horses those countries, compared with the sun- pie method prevalent in Amerioa. In Turkey the horse's head is held by one man, another holds the leg, while a third operates on the foot In Russia the horse is placed in a rough wooden cage and firmly strapped to cross-bars of the frame-work; his head is also tied, and the foot is fastened to a stake in the ground, and held by an attendant while the smith puts on tne shoe. Owl of Transportation Befori the Sail- ,v road. • That there was need for new methods of intOTOommunication, the increasing population made every day more appar- fnt £,183?VTssostof transportation from Philadelphia to Erie is stated to nhave been $249 a ton, the method being >y pack-horses principally, which were jin lines of ten or twelve, each horse be­ ing tied to the tail of the one preceding so that the train was under the manage­ ment of a single driver. Each horsesa*- ried a pack weighing about 200 pounds. In 1789 the first saw-mill in Ohio was built by the New England Ohio Compa­ ny, about sixteen miles from Marietta, on Wolf creek, about one mile above its junction with the Muskingum. The crank for this mill was made in New Ha­ ven, Ot., and weighed 180 pounds. It was carried by pack-horses over the mountains to the Youghioglieny riverft at SimreFs ferry, and thence shipped by water to Marietta. This same year the first wagon-load of goods is said to have been transported by the southern route through Virginia from Hagerstown, Md., to Brownsville, Pa., whence, by theMo- nongahela, water communication was had with the Ohio river. A train of four horses could take a ton from Hagers- tovm and return in a little less than a month, the distance being 140 miles, at a charge of $3 a 100-weight, or $60 a ton. * * * , , The, operations On the lakes during the war of 1812 called attention again to the cost of transportation, and in 1818 the House directed the Secretaries of War and of the Treasury to report at the ne*t session a list of the internal improve ments in progress, and plans for aiding them by appropriations. In the discus­ sion upon this motion, it was stated that, the expense for the transportation of each barrel of flour to Detroit was net less than $60, while for every pound of ammunition and other material it was' not less than 50 cents.--Harper's Mag­ azine for September. Anecdotes of GOT. T. M. Randolph. Th Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle re­ lates the brief stories of one of the Gov­ ernors of the Old Dominion: "An elderly gentleman of this county, who well recollects Gov. Thomas Mann Ran­ dolph, represents him to have been a. man of remarkable activity and great physical power, although his weight was. but 130 pounds. It is related that a mad dog once came to Monticello and en- soonsed himself under the portico. Col. Randolph ran for his pistol, but found to bis dismay that there was no powder on the premises with which to load it. In this dilemma Col. Randolph rosorted to a curious expedient, and accomplished a. daring feat. Incasing his left arm heav­ ily with woolen cloths, he took his dirk, in the right, and boldly attacked the rabid brute. Presenting his left arm,, the dog immediately seized it, when he- was dispatched with the dirk with & single thrust. It is said that Col. Ran­ dolph would frequently swim rivers when out of their banks rather than go out of his way to a bridge. Upon one occasion^ having sold a horse to a friend, he told the purchaser some weeks afterward that he had forgotten to inform him that the animal would sometimes shy at logs when swimming. Meriwether Lewis. Randolph, a son of Gov. Thomas Mann, was also a man of great physical strength.r It is related that he once carried 1,000 pounds' weight across a room in Shad- well mills. GEN. MCCLELLAN says, in Harper'* Magazine, that our army loses a larger proportion of officers killed in time of peace than the British army loses in peace and war together. Taking the number killed in the half century from 1804 to 1854, and deducting the wars of 1812, of Mexico, of Florida, and the Black Hawk, and consider the interven­ ing peaceful periods, the percentage oi' killed is greater to the whole force than that of tue British army in the same period, though Great Britain was at war nearly the whole time. THE negotiations for the marriage of Prince Arthur to the daughter of the ex-King of Hanover are broken oil. She is of a literary turn, and thinks hr does not know enough. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BEEVES .$7 35 HOGS FF 35 COTTON •••• 11 FLOUR--Superfine * 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 31 CORN--Western Mixea 67 OATS--Mixed 33 RYE--Western 71 PORK--New Mess : 14 40 LARD G CHICAGO. 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