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laittdoaTer. J.VANSLYK1, FOKLMWNUJ Jfeffl&BT. ILLINOIS. fS® HEWS G0SSQ8E9. C- PUBLIC DKBT WAWEMMI*. |̂Tqpf»Hrtiring is the public debt statement far Jane 1: iSxperoettt.bondi ...J 894,«8,«» WwWWDt. boafe ....i. 703,266,650 Kitolf per cent, torts 95,000.000 H MI . Wee****. .T&wPalmmey ae®fc... ' Matured debt-- • lad tenders Certificates of deposit.... • » pactional currency.:. Sin cc 692,964,680 1«,UUU,WU 14,894,300 960,477,642 46,510,000 21,306,930 t certificates. 45,407,600 Tote! without intend..............$ 473,602,1172 JdM Itebii..,;. *btalintewsl. • *•* *2--- ...$ 34,841,189 108,137,063 4,515,515 .OMbin treasury--c»ta........ Cfesb in treasury--currency.. Currency held for redemption of ftio. tkmal currency... flbecial deposits held for redemption ,. i certificates of deposit............ fvttii. Total in treasury .| 7,762,271 46,510,000 >0ebt lew cash in treasury .. ...$ JlacresBe of debt during Miy.,.. fieaease since June 30,1876.... WrmAm issued to Pacific Railroad Com- ^panics, interest payable in lawful 4meney; principal outstanding....... Interest accrued and not yet pud t paid by United State* repaid by transportation of etc............. dance of interest paid by-United States...... 25,563,897 --The !««« rkdmBftn in tho rt*ht ifaring May is partly explained by the fact that large sums •re due to the navy and for the necessary ex­ penses of other departments, but for which there is no appropriation. The ordinary de- i of the debt is *5,000,000. The estimated !,063,377,842 P,981,274 36,082,003 H«33£M 1.655,587 34,018.923 8,455,525 twwAp biutDOM * " or „«($An ttilowtew îrty is to the Aft tb» time of ooaU he Men Mng two or ana outlet ®s& probably maoh nore. ag two < carried away. Imagination, inch a whole roofs of houses _ _ or fhrae handrad fete in tin itr, ^Stlttmdd haWtobo MOD to We eontinse to tests escooxmgt _ . £n«u Soliitew. S&otauOxi, imWOW MM. loWft. Aiu- oalitiea which by this time 1M* year and two yean ago had suffered terribly from grass­ hopper ravages have tims far either eseaped altogether or else hate received the visitation in a mild form. Everywhere the farmers, who generally take a very practical and matter-of- fact view of affairs, at the exoeUent crop -- , , jumint of decrease on account of deficiency in |be appropriation, including the pay of the »»' 5avy, w 91,981,274. The total decrease is $6,- m,m. , THB KA8T. A MONSTEB 52-ton gnn has just been sucoess- • ' 'ifclly cast in Boston. It is to be mounted in York harbor... .The billiard contest for the championship of America was played at , .Sew York last week between Joseph Dion and William Se&ton. Score: Sextou, 600; Dion, (*i'n A EEBioui disaster fwcorred, a few days ago, An the Lehigh Valley railroad, near Laceyville, fra., a passenger train being precipitated down it canal embankment a distance of fifteen feet. The coaches, four in number, were smashed in .pieces, and many passengers were pinned down ' most excruciating positions. Two of them X wtrekiUed outright, four fatally wounded, and ^Itytteea others seriously injured. THE notorious Connecticut Borgia, Mrs. Lydia gherman, who some five years ago was sen- *' aenced to a life term in the Connecticut State ""prison, has escaped from that institution. For siosoetime she had feigned illness, and, having suspicion , and prepared an exit by ig a matron to leave open a prison she escaped easily. This remarkable jromaa poisoned successively her first husband, jpidwara Struck, a New York policeman, her •hildren, Martha. Eliza, Edward and George, -;jad gubse^uenth her third husband, Horatio Tt Sherman, of Birmingham. Ct>, and Ms baby l%ofc,ltOall Of which she confessed, and it has ^,keea vspposed that she poisoned her second niosband, John Huslbut. of Huntington, Ct. • A LARGE five-story tenement' building, occu- 0 |bied by about twenty-five people, was burned ;v • 4n Boston last week. There being no fire- i and but one exit, the occupants escaped fgrftat difficulty. Mrs. Eliza Cam jumped i a third-story window and received fatal lies. Mr. Bissel jumped from the fourth ' «id was likewise fatally injured. Several l more or less burned ip their efforts to be A compromise has at last been effect- #)bd in the 8\*eenev case, whereby the estate of ^patnes AC. Sweeney, a deceased brother ̂ of the ,*%re»t ring robber of New York city, undertakes Ulto pa>v the sum of $400,000 to make good in gjuaxt the stealings of Tweed's chief partner. IT, THX WEST. . <Jov. Ccii/m has vetoed the bill passed at ^the recent session of the Illinois Legislature, Shaking silver coin & legal tender for the pay- JftfiBOt Ofall debts George Schneider, of Chi- ̂ to whom the President recently tendered dtidn of Minister to Switzerland, has 1 to decline the same on account of a ;4jnB*nre of private business Thetwoscoun- MPrels--Mtiwns and Hughes--who attempted gUtf fall to steal the remains of Abraham Lin- Ijeolnfrom his tomb at Springfield, 111., have tjhaen tried, found guilty, and sentenced to one ps imprisonment in the penitentiary. THE session of the Illinois Legislature jurt was &e moat costly thai ever met in the . Th« following la a semi-offlnin.) Sjfaent it#«est t prospect of realising . investment of toil and trouble than they have done for years. GEN. CROOK, who is now in Salt Lake City, Utah, looking over the situation, has come to the conclusion, it is stated, that no more troops are needed in that Territory Averv Moore. bith«rtr» a rfisraw.teil citiwm of .Chicago, and until quite recently a Town Supervisor, has pocketed about $9,000 of the county's funds and absconded to parts unknown Advices from the West represent that the Shoshone In­ dians, in Wyoming, are in an almost starving condition, and fears are entertained that they will be driven to commit depredations upon the settlers A ̂ ease of insanity was developed in Chicago the other day. A widow lady, liv­ ing in a lonely condition in the northwestern section of the city, lost her only child about three months ago. She brooded over the bereavement to such an extent that it unsettled her mind. On the day in question she was ob­ served on the roof of her house, having in her possession a bundle, which w»s afterward dis­ covered to be the remains of her child. How the poor creature succeeded in gaining an en­ trance to the cemetery, or how she succeeded in exhuming the body without being discovered, is not known, but it is supposed sne visited the grave during the preceding nigbt, and with her own hands disinterred the remains of the dead babe. SEVERAL of the parties who recently made the dastardly attempt to wreck and rob the St. Louis and San Francisco express train, fifty miles west of St. Louis, Mo., have been ar­ rested, and one of their number, a youth of 20 years aud an ex-convict, has made a full con­ fession. The crime was concocted by eight men of the county, all farmers, whose inten­ tion it was to wreck the train by pitching it over the forty-foot embankment, and then pil­ lage the expres6-car and rob the dead passen­ gers. THB SOUTH. A rant in Baltimore last week destroyed a coal-oil refinery and twenty-five other build­ ings. Loss, $75,000. THE trial, of the EUenton (S. G.) rioters, be­ fore Judge Waite, has resulted in a disagree­ ment of the jury, which was equally divided. The six whites on the jury, it is stated, were for a verdict of acquittal, and the six blacks against. The Mack jurymen, however, were willing to agree on a verdict convicting two of 3 rest, reports to his ear of urn's of Charley Boss has in the case, and the ATAR;, tenary of Ua ttsM says that the only hitch. How thosewfeohaveIjpm in oharge pluuuse ui tuimuiuty niiKUt nut W j thai the Governor wiii" grant from punishment, they will give the matter nil probably soon hi 1 MILLIONS of caterpillars have : pe&rance in the region of London, are so thick as to seriously dehqr ̂ railroad trains... .The Canadian GorrerflwA has re­ ceived advices which lead to thtlfiiief that Sitting Bull is at Wood Mountain, MCanadi&n hat to the accused and acquitting all the this the six whites would not consent. WABHUtGTON. THKASUBXB WSMAK will transfer the United States Treasurer's office. to Mr. Gilfillan on the 1st of July, and will then assume his old posi­ tion of Assistant Treasurer. Ill-health is as­ signed as the motive for Mr. Wyman's retiring. THK Cabinet, at a meeting last week, arrived at a very important decision In regard to the Texas border troubles. An order to Gen. Sher* man WAS drawn up and adopted, of which the following is the most important part: The President deeires that the utmost vigilance on the part of the military forces in TSX&B be exercised for the Buppreaakm of these raids. It is very desir­ able that the efforts to this end, in so far at least ae they necessarily Involve operations on both sides of theborder.be made with the co-operation of the Mexican authorities, and you will instruct Gen. Ord, .tojnvtteroeli co-operation on of members... ISineagcm numbers...., idfco* in' the part of local Mei [can authorities, and inform 5,212 .J*MtMe,eto »i„' 10,200 • of officers and, employee..--..,. 65.000 pjtoitdental expeases.... .•&: 30,000 !!'• '"Total......:..- iU,'...; .1655,282 1. tPwo thiBBcciSBsiTOi attempts nave been made , Salt Lake to ntitrnmiimie Jerome B. Stillson, .a ^ew York Herald correspondent, who has lately been writing some pretty hard things Aabout the Mormons.... Arizona advioes report .tfcejnurdei of mail-carriers and military tele­ graph repairers near Camp Bowie. Troops are In pursuit. Much alarm exists M«WW the GEN. MILES narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of two treacherous Indian chiefs just before his recent battle ou the Rosebud. I Mipars that just- before the fight commenced Q«i. Miles told his interpreter to halloo out to the Indians in their language that if they surrendered and laid down their arms they would be saved. As soon as he had 4mm m the two chiefs, Lame Deer and Iron W*r, came toward Geu. Miles on foot. When tfcey got within about fifteen paces of him they lain their guns on the ground, and, walking up to him, shook hands with him and his Adjutant. Lieut. B&ird. While they were doing thus, Geu. Miles ordered his aid to dismount and get their ,, guns. Scarcely had the aid touched the grouud when the Indians stepped back, took up their jg&ns, and one of them fired at Gen. Miles. . Fortunately, Gen. Miles just at that moment, seeing the intention of the Indian, partly ttfeeefed his horse around so that the lmllet, instead of hitting him, passed bv, Wiling a man in his rear. The two chiefs were instantly shot down in their tracks A diabolical attempt was recently made* to ww# and plunder a train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, near Woodeud Htation fitly miles west of St. Louis. Obstructions were placed on the track and two of the railst displaced, throwing the engine and baggage car down an embankment forty feet high. The engineer and fireman and Dr. E. L. Atkin­ son, the physician of the road, were killed. The intention was to throw the entire train frern the track, evidently with the object of robbery. Several shots were fired, and the passengers say they saw five men Htundinr. n*ar who were revealed by the flashes from them pistols, but nobody was hit. MT. CAKMEL, Wabash county, HL, a thriving tfO fit about 3,000 inhabitants, situated on and Vincennefl railway, was visited last week by a tornado of unusual violence, and injjk "appalling results. From the meager ac- OOpnto before UK at this writing we leam that the tornado started at the foot of Fourth sfafet, ahd swept every house or building oa thfftstreet for half a mile; then changed its courses and went up the river, sweep­ ing everything in its course. Over 20 people were Killed and upward of 150 woopded by the falling buildings. Three dtttrches, two school-houses, the Court House, them that, while the President is anxious to avoid giving offense to Mexico, he is nevertheless con­ vinced that toe invasion of our territory by armed and organized bodies of thieves and robbers to prey upon our citizens should mot longer be en­ dured. (Sen. Ord will at once notify the Mexican authorities along the Texas border of the great desire of the President to unite with them in effort® to suppress the long-continued lawlessness. At the same time he will inform those authorities that, if the Government of Mexico «hall continue to neglect its duty of suppressing these outmsen, that duty will devolve upon this Government and will be performed even if its performance should render necessary the occasional crossing of the border by our troops. You will therefore direct Gen. Ord that, in case the lawless incursions continue, lie will he at liberty to use his own discretion when in pur­ suit of a band of marauders, and when Ms troops are either in Bight of them or upon a fresh trail, to follow them across the Bio Grande, and to overtake and punish them, as well as retake the stolen property taken from our citizens, and found in their posessloc, on the Mexican side of the line. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, GKO. W. MCCBABT, Secretary of War. To Gen. "W. T. Sherman. Two Lotrwiffififc Postmasters at Clinton, East Feliciana parish, and St. Francis-villa. West Feliciana parish, who vrcro recently commiB- sioned by PresMtent Haye.:, ^present to thee- aufesiitius at WfcahiRfctoa that Ihey aee pre­ vented from taking possession of their offices, and the Fostoffice lkparimen£ has dispatched a special agent to Louisiana to investigate the matter. THK President, has signed the commission of ex-Uov. Thomas A. Osborn, of Kansas, as United States Minister to Chilis.. .It is stated from Washington the pension consolidation order is to be modified in some particulars at least. The changes mentioned are: The Illi­ nois agency will be moved from Springfield to Chicago; the Ohio consolidated agency to be removed from Columbus to Cincinnati. POLITICAL. TH* Ohio Democrat® have called their State Convention to meet at Columbus on the 26th of July... .Gen. Comly, of the Ohio Stale Jour­ nal, has been appointed Minister to the Sand­ wich islands. Gs*. GEOBQK A. SHERIDAN, of Louisiana, who has been an applicant for a foreign mis­ sion, has accepted a position as Special Agent of the Postoffice Department. A DZLBOATK convention of representatives of the various medical oolleges of the United States assembled in Chicago, last wade, for the purpose of organizing the Ameckih Medical College Association, the object of wifeh is the advancement of medics! eduoationhiSe United States, and the establishment of Ji common policy in the more important matters of college management. Twenty-nine of till principal medical colleges of the country were repre­ sented. A constitution, by-laws and articles of confederation rvero adopted. THX annual report of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, for 1376, just submitted to the stockholders, shOWJi the re­ ceipts to have been $7,883,848, agaifMt #'7,863,- 664 in 1875; expenses, #4,787,ltL against $4,602,091 in 1875; net earnings, £§,066,687, against §8,261,572 in 1875. Our of reports of crops from 211 |>oints in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, published in the Cincinnati Commercial, 179 indicate good crops of wheat; 31, fair crops • 1. light crop, if any; 47,'good crops of fruit? 74, fair; 90, light crop, if any... .Burned: A higher mill at Jb&u Claire, wis., ioBS «oO,uuut msurance $25,000; eight buildings in Sank Cfty, Wis., loss $10,000, partly insured; several wildings at Indiantown. N. B., loss $30,000 ; a wool warehouse at GaUipolis, Ohio, loss MP,000; a large number of houses at Saxton's liver vil­ lage, Vt, loss heavy--Business failures: Walter 8. Babcook, lumber dealer, Chicago, liabilities $70,000 ; Bowen Brothers, Isage real- estate dealers, Chicago, liabilities heM7 • J*mes K. Doolittle, the leading dry-goods merchant of Denver, CoL; the Union Savings Bank of Bath, Pa. THE TURCO-BUSSIAN Am> now comes the Bussian venAMl«f the late action at Batoum, cdaiming ^Vietory, where, according to Turkish reports, .they were to badly worsted. " You pays your m«ny and tekee your choice.""**"Some Baafefefliaouka lately crossed the Danube between Xtfarack and Jalomitm. They captured f onrtMit Bou- manian militiftroen- ana cut off tiha calves of their legs. The Turkish Gftrifrttnent officially announces the recapture of A*W»an, in Asia... .The New York Herald's correspondent in Vienna telegraphs that it is annoonoed from Warsaw that me Czar is irritated at the slow­ ness manifested in the conduct of the fltlnpsign and the bad nourishment supplied to the troops. He has ordered the mobilization of throe more divisions for the Caucasus, where the CirSassian insurrection is a source of some anxiety, A SPECIAL from Vienna to the London Times has the following : "One thing seems pretty certain, that for one reason or another, possi­ bly for several, a delay has occurred in the Russian advance in Asia. Fortunately for Russia, the Turks seem scarcely in a position to take an advantage of this delay. AU ac­ counts from the spot agree that the condition of their forces is even worse than genttally be­ lieved. They are considerably fewer fiian has 1 been assumed, and, with the exception of arms, lack everything requisite for an army in I the field. It is impossible to expect that all | these shortcomings can be remedied before the Russians push forward to Erzeroum."-- A Constantinople dispatch announces that plans for the proposed fortificatiiUlLjah Oon- M*feaJeand *dLpatcl!f at^ff'the Turkish' ernment had made up their minds for the 1,000 Abkadans have been surprised and cut to pieces by Russians.... A Vienna dispatch says: "In military circles here the opinion gains ground that the Russians will not craw the Danube. They expect such decisive nanMtt in Asia that every oonditkm oi a durabl« M*» may secured from their effects. -~4-- OBNKRAL FORKIGN H1VB. A SETTLKHEHT Of the DISTURB*!*!® fe*4wM0» k. *i Kflnn rrooii A*1 »UU AVJMHUM* -o The anti-Tnrkish meetings in En­ gland are laxgelv attended. At Krming- hmn. (he other day. the ex-Premier addressed an enthusiastic audience of 30,000. A resolu­ tion was unanimously passed declar­ ing flat England ought to use her influence to exact from Tur­ key effectual guarantees against the oppression of Christians....The editor of a I----,.; v.«OQ tn (hum months' imprisonment and a fine of 4,000 francs for writing disrespectfully of Premdent MaeMahon The Catholic Church in Wies- shen, Grand Duchy of Posen, was lately struck by lightning during service. Six persons were killed and about seventy seriously injured. HBBEAFTEB all political gatherings number­ ing over twenty persons are to be interdicted by the French Government... .There was re­ cently an entente on board the British _ iron armor-plated ship Alexandra, the flagship of the Mediterranean squadron. It is stated that, in consequence of the stringency of discipline and the unusual severity of punishment, the whole of one watch refused to do duty, and threw the bights of the guns overboard. IT is stated that Austria recently demanded f.nA received from both Russia and Turkey written declarations that the obstruction to free navigation of the Danube shall be removed immediately upon the termination of the pres­ ent war, and shall form no precedent for any future restriction whatsoever Sophia Fred- erica Matilda, Queen of Holland, is dead, aged 59. FOTTHTOU, MacMahon's new Minister of the In­ terior. has imned a dnnlar to the Prefects of France, instructing them to revise all license ' for hawking and selling newspapers, books and, pamphlets, and only allow fit agents, offering proper guarantees to social order, to retain then licenses.....Hopes are entertained by the Govern­ ment of British India, that the crisis of the famine is nearly passed. THE cable reoords a shocking disaster at Bath, England. During the oelebration of the Bath and West of England Society's centenary, the Widicombe suspension bridge fell, and about 200 persons were precipitated thirty feet into the river Avon. About twenty perished, and many others were seriously injured. drier; E. 8. McEwen, Lisbon, eom •hellers; J. W. and E. Small, Aurora, hay loaders: A. Brown and A. G. Hn.ey, Bloomhigton, nut lock; P. Hem, Rook Island, oar coupling; E. Emmert, Frank­ lin Grove, seed sowers and cultivators; J. Badger, Belvidere, horse hay rake; T. J. Greenwood, Warren, boots Mid - hofeg; B» E. L-etton. Quincj. couplers I.AO t • A _ P."Seyl, faxe roister; H. Channon, methods of splicing wire rope; G. Bettig, coin wrapper; E. C. Law­ rence, lamp burner; H. S. Carter, fold­ ing lounges; H. L. Andrews, blackboard eraser; G. Kwetzer, bee hives. THE total amount appropriated by the Thirtieth General Assembly to ex­ pend unaer use supervision oi the j îute Boiurd of Public Charities is $1,550,- 342.35, which is distributed among the State charitable and correctional institu­ tions as follows: Northern Insane Hospital .$ Central Insane Hospital Southern Insane Hospital Institution for the Deaf and Dumb..... Institution for the Blind Institution for the Feeble-Minded. Soldiers* Orphans' Home.... Eye and Ear Inttnmary State Reform School... Eastern Insane Hospital, new.......... Total .$1,555,942.36 Of the above total, $1,060,000 is for the ordinary expenses of the institutions for two years from July 1, 1877. The estimated average number of inmates to be cared for during these two years is about 2,850, which would make the per capita cost by the year about $185 for each inmate, or a trifle over $3.50 a week. The balance of the appropriation is for specific purposes, as follows: Additional provision for the insane .$281,000.00 xvepairB ana improvements oG,5<>0.UU Land 4,000.00 Furniture 30,000.00 Outbuildings....... ...••• 58,897.85 Books, maps, etc.. for pupils 2,900.00 Deficiency on buildings for the Mind.... 2,887.60 Sundry other purposes 65,407.00 thi i in#f •1' 242,897.98 285,m00 194,760.00 178,000.00 02,337.50 154,940.00 94,475.00 35,925.00 81,867.60 200,000.00 street. In some cases the building» êre .only unroofed, but the de­ struction of dwelling-houses wa» complete. The Presbyterian Church, a substantial brick building, is now an undistinguishable mass of rub­ bish. The fire broke out immediiitely after H," ,7 ̂ j "•»> wind had -• iu »iore» and was subdued with difficulty. The loss of property is expected by careful conpdatioit to foot up to $600,000; Hie loss of life » greater than was at first supposed. Twenty to twenty-five per­ sons are now found to be killed, and a very large number are known to be in- jured, some of idiom are in a very critical wujuuiiiuu. I<*oi iess than seventy lies are rendered houseless and homeleis. and much distress is anticipated. A Russian army on the Danube is to be "increased to 400,000 men. Provision con­ tracts have been made for this number. Tim house of Alexander Snyder, of Portland, Ontario, was destroyed by fire one night last week, and two children perished in the flames. Later accounts of the Montreal fire place the loss at $500,000 From the Sandwich islands comes an explanation of the recent destructive submarine convulsion on the South American coast. The cause of this upheaval is now discovered to be the sudden eruption of the volcano Kilauea, on the island of Hawaii, the same which caused the great earthquakes of 1837, 1840, and 1868....Burned: The tobacco fac­ tory of Spaulding & Merrick, River street, Chicago, loss $75,000, insurance $85,000; the wholesale drug-store of W. H. Brown & Co., Baltimore, loss #96,000, fully insured ; a large quantity of lumber at Greenwood, Mich., loss *35.000', insurance f16,000; a coal-breaker at Witkesbarre, Pa., loss $85,000, insurance $25,000; two dry-goods stores at Monckton, N. B., loss §55,000, insurance $40,000. BUSINESS failures: Maschuetz, Mach&Co., wholesale liquors, Dey street, New York, liabil­ ities, $200,000; George H. Wolff & Co., dry goods jobbers, New York and Cincinnati, liabil­ ities $450,000; Yosburg & Baker, ship- chandlers, Buffalo, liabilities ®40,000... .Sun­ day, June 3, was the fiftieth anniversary of the episcopate of Pius IX., and the day was duly celebrated by the Catholics all over the country. If Gen. Grant crossed the sea with the in­ tention of making a quiet visit he is destined to be disappointed. In England he is booked for a series of banquets with distinguished personages that will keep him busy for several weeks to come. BASMCII'S reward of $10,099 for the return ILLINOIS ITEXSB GMNTON requires $600 per annum of the profits of each saloon-keeper. A DKITIKQ PARK ASSOCIATION has been formed at Millington, Kendall county. BiiOOMiNGTON has made a reduction of $1,620 in the salaries of its city officers. MRS. SHEETS, a German lady, died suddenly one day last week, from the re­ sult of a sunstroke. HON. S. M. ETTEB, Superintendent of Public Instruction in this State, has called a meeting of the State Board of Education at Normal on the 20th in­ stant. MOSBS L. MOBOAN, one of the oldest citizens of Macoupin county, * died at Carlinville, a few days since, after a long illness, at the ripe old age of 80. He had belonged to the Masonic fraternity for over half a century, and was a veteran of the war of 1812. THE jury in the, Ohrisman murder- trial, at Bloomington, rendered a verdict finding Chrisman guilty of manslaughter, and Axing the punishment at eight years in, He penitentiary. ^<4 PATRICK DWYER, a farmer living near Kappa, was instantly killed by light­ ning, the bolt striking him on the top of the head, making a small scalp wound. One horse of the team he was driving was also killed. THE Illinois Insurance Department is advised by the Insurance Department of Massachusetts that the Globe Fire In­ surance Company, of Boston, has closed business, and that its risks have been reinsured in the Sliawmut. BY the approval of Gov. Cullom, Sen­ ate bill No. 339, which recently paased the Illinois Legislature, has become a law. It'authorizes the State Auditor to revoke the license of any insurance com­ pany transacting business in this State which shall make a false report to the Insurance Department concerning its condition and affairs. THE new State lioard of Canal Oom- «. , » , T, - missioaei-A--Messrs. J. O. Glover, of from Eiaseroumsaye: "Two R Shaw,-of Dixon, and M. o 4,tow lareisSSiaa cavaay, aanaaaQ- . 0 * . ̂-' - - y • -s Kingman, of Peoria--met at Spring­ field and formally organised. Mr. Glo­ ver was elected President of the board, Mr. Kingman Treasure ̂and Mr. Shaw Secretary. THE session of the Illinois Legislature last held was the most expensive of the meetings of that body since the State was organized. The following is a semi­ official statement of its cost: Bay of members ...1144,840 Mileage of members 9,342 Postage, etc 10,2M) Payor officers and employes 65,000 Incidental expenses 80,000 Total $495,342.35 The amount asked for by the institu­ tions was $1,359,740. The amount rec­ ommended by the Commissioners of Public Charities was $1,225,290, but it will be noted that the Legislature ap­ propriated $330,052.35 in excess of that amount, most of which sum is included in the item of additional provision for the luBtlu6 of the State. These appro­ priations for new buildings were not submitted to the board for its opinion. THE MOUJiT CARMEJL CYCLONE. A SPECIAL dispatch from Constantinople to the Chicago Tribune gives a discouraging pict­ ure of the state of lawlessness and corruption now reigning there. " The corruption and brib­ ery which are everywhere rife," says the dis­ patch, 66 destroy all chances of Turkish suooees. There are no horses, no money, and no order in the management of affairs. All the carriage horses in the country have been seized by the Government for war purposes. The Sultan is a nonentity. With 300 women and 5,000 per­ sons of all classes in the palac© to feed daily, the strain on the treasury is intense. Contracts for army stores and equipments are awarded by means of bribery of the officials having the matter in charge. The advertisements in news­ papers of contracts open to general competition are mere shows, and we connived at by the Minister of War. The _ constitution of the country is disregarded la every possible man­ ner, The Parliamentary Deputies are return- I lug to ihriS: l";01Ti6S sH iisnguot, tllo !£"A'S ririiiCll | have been pr*&&ch?!9 naver ba putin fox- | A, speetfi cr * nights? ago ed by Mousha Pasha, were ordered to proceed toward Ears, entirely unsupported by infantry or artillery. They rested! for lbs night at Bekli-Ahmed. The Russians secretly organ­ ized a powerful force, and during the night surrounded and surprised the village in which the Circassians had halted. Only about 5 per cent, of the entire force of 4,000 Circassians escaped the carnage which followed. Mousha Patina himself is among the missing. The Cir- eassians fought desperately, and no quarter was given." THAT story about the massacre of 4,000 Cir­ cassians «y Russian " barbarians," heretofore mentioned in these columns, is shown by Rus­ sian accounts of the affair to have been a gross exaggeration. Instead of being massacred, the Circassians were Jsimply put to flight, the. modest number of eighty-three being killed ... Some severe fighting is reported between the Turks and Montenegrins. The brave moun­ taineers appear to be more than holding their own... .The temporary MI in the Bnsstan op­ erations in Asia Minor, occasioned in part by heavy rains and also by the necessity of attend­ ing to the insurrectionary Circassians in the rear, has given place to a general advance of the entire army, and the cable brings reports of a series of preliminary suc­ cesses which are evidently the prelude to a great and crushing victory over the forces commanded by Mukhtar Pasha. A Constanti­ nople dinpatcli says the latter has established his headquarters about thirty miles east of Erzeroum, for the purpose of barring the ad­ vance of the RiiKHian left wing. Ismail Hakki, commandant at Erzeroum, has taken a position near Kizil-Kilissa to meet the Russian center and right advancing via Soghanli and AltL IT is cabled that Count Schouvaloff is tha bearer of a note from Russia to the English Government, the purport of which declares that the Czar desires no increase of territory in Europe, but demands the cession of a por­ tion of Armenia, "from Bayazid to the coast, but not including Erzeroum.".... A severe bat­ tle is reported between Montenegrins and Turks near Maljat, in which the latter were defeated with the loss of 500 men England has no­ tified Russia and Turkey that any attempt 011 their part to blockade or otherwise to interfere with the Suez canal would be regarded as a menace to India., and incompatible •with the British attitude of passive neutrality.... The Czar has rejoined the army on the Dan­ ube. During the journey, in order to guard against any attempt on his life by wrecking the train, the imperial coaches were preceded and followed by safety trains. The numerous acci­ dents which have recently occurred on the Roumanian railways are behaved to be the work of conspiracies... .The London JHmes' war cor­ respondent estimates th<; strength of the Turks, of all arms, between the Danube and the Balk- aas, at about 200,000 men. A DISPATCH from Constantinople wsert* that Total $265,28 THE Springfield Journal has the fol­ lowing : "Prof. Cyrus Thomas, State Entomologist, is making a special study of the insects injuring the corn crop, and therefore desires that farmers shall send him specimens of all insects found injur­ ing corn in any of its stages. He would also be glad to receive notes of observa­ tions made in reference to them. Speci­ mens can be inclosed in a little tin box, with dirt, and sent by wail to Prof. Thomas, at Carbondale, HI." THE sales of land by the Illinois Cen­ tral railroad for the six months ending April 30,1877, are reported to the State Auditor's office as follows: CountieH. Ao. Acres. Pulaski .. 40 Union . . . 153 Johnaon . . . 183 Jackson . . . 306 Williamson . . . 380 Franklin . . . 360 Perry . . . 80 Washington... . . . 330 Jefferson . . . 514 Clinton . . . 216 Marion 823 Clay . . . 280 Payette . . . 640 .Jasper . . . 220 E f f ingham. . . . . . . . Douglas . . . 511 . . . 40 So. Aeres. 40 Connties. Moistffomery, Sbelby Christian Macon Logau Piatt Lee Carroll .... Ogle •To DavieM HtcpbettMm Ford Kankakee. Iroquois..̂ Champaign.......... . r.2o .'60® . 40 . 40 . 80 . 240 . 83 . 80 . 479 S'20 40 120 680 660 Total 8,732 THE following is a list of patent* is­ sued during the week ending May 26 to citizens of Illinois : F. Simonson, Bound Grove, sawing machine; J. War­ rick, Medo, Minn., and W. S. Marshall, Batavia, wind mill; P. Hanersperger, Homer, stove legs; H. Opp, Belleville, plow; T. Gamble and J. Wagner, Mar­ tinsville, water elevator; G. Schott and G. P. Heberling, Warsaw, vent appar­ atus; J. R. Dodge, Jr., Normal, fruit Details of the Terrible Disaster--The Track, Frlghtfal Velocity, and Deadly Execution of the Grim Visitor. [Mount Carmel (111.) Cor. Chicago Times.] From out of the soft, showery sky of calm summer afternoon sprung a vast black wind-cone, pregnant with destruc­ tion, and within five minutes it laid this then happy and thriving little town in ruins. This place, with a population of about 3,500, well built, thriving, and in­ deed wealthy for its size and age, was, before the advent of this furious hurri­ cane visitor, one of the most prosperous and contented little communities in the State. But the wild hurricane came upon them like a thief in the night and left with them as its brand of remembrance the bitter­ ness of ashes and death. In reference to the appearance of this death-dealing hurricane, Mr. Charles Ridgeway, agent of the Cairo and Yincennes railroad, an eye-witoeMyOXpitMoeo his observations of the occurrence with much reason and undoubted accuracy. He says about thirty minutes before the fatal stroke was felt the weather indicator of the Christian church pointed east to a dark cloud. In perhaps twenty minutes this indicator turned due west to another black and swiftly-moving cloud, and he said to some persons with him: " If those clouds meet, we shall have a terri­ ble storm." In a few minutes they met. Mid he says they rose and then fell and dashed and twisted in various directions. He told the persons with him to come into a wheat field neatr his office, as the hurricane was coming direct to the office. Just as they reached the wheat field, the visible double-funnel-shaped whirling cone sheered to the southeast, and thence started directly east along Fourth street, carrying death and destruction in its rapid flight, house tops and trees be­ ing taken g00 ami 300 feot up in the air, bursting into atoms and falling- a scat­ tered rain. The scene which has resulted from the fury of the cyclone 1B most wretched and desolate. For the width of more than a square through the town on each side of Fourth street ruin is prevalent. Some of the brick buildings are, or rather were, three stories in height. All of the business blocks were of briek and the dwellings frame. The town was full of people when the evclone struck it. She came booming along like a great buzzing wind-saw of resistless power, and keen as a razor. She came from the southwest and trav­ eled due northeast for half a mile, and then the furious wind-current burst upon Fourth street with appalling violence, and the crash heard resembled some great timber crash. Immediately after­ ward the air was full of debris and thick clouds of dust, flying roofs, tottering walls, and split and rent ruins on every side. Many oi the chaotic heaps were the graves or living tombs of innocent but doomed people. As the blinding dust cleared away it was found that fully 100 business, public and dwelling struct­ ures had been lost. Some portions of the wreck were carried more than a mile from the town. The great force of the hurricane was spent on the line of Fourth street, running northeast to the wards west of the river where the wind was again, raised from the earth and pursued its course into White river, which empties into the Wabash a mile above town. A consid­ erable distance was traversed by the hur­ ricane before it entirely lost its fury, and for miles trees are torn up and woods broken and bent down. Nearly a square above Main street, on Fourth, the fu­ rious storm swept the lofty steeple of the Methodist Church, which is 100 feet high, and eddying around with its column finally carried it as though it had been toying with some little plaything a comfortable distance of 300 feet away, the bell dropping into the middle of the street. Some school-boys were taken off their feet and carried for blocks, and people were badly injured by being thrown down with great violence into the street and against houses, and struck with fragments of the falling ruins. The great fury of the storm was spent in the center or business portion of the COMMEBCUL KOTE&, Tfcfirst week of the season oh lt€> Erie canal under a system of low tolls shws a great stimulus to business. IT is said that the English colonies gained an increased trade by the die* plays they made at {he Centennial Exhi­ bition. SINCE the first of the year New York has exported over 70,000,000 gallons of petroleum, against 25,000,000 by all other ports. THE record of the last four months shows a steady deeline in the imports of all woven stuffs from England except silk. In silk there is a slight increase. WAB helps A great many trades. A paper concern in Ohio has an order for 250 tons of nopAr for cartridges for Tur­ key, and a Pennsylvania town is shipping about> 600 tons of spelter to Europe as fast as it can be made, also for cartridges. IT appears that the war in Europe is already aiding American shipmasters. The Liverpool Freight Circular says in long-voyage chartering merchants give a decided preference to American, Nor­ wegian, Swedish, Italian, and other flags, which are not likely to be imbroiled in the present war. AT Leipsic they have blown a bugle from the ramparts to awaken all the world. They want a practical way of telling how to detect butter which is not pure butter, and offer a $75 prize to who­ ever will discover one. Germany htm tried to tell some grades of American oleomargarine from butter and gives it up. THE chief engineer of the Govern­ ment railways in Australia recently re­ ported that the locomotives made in Australia were not only poor ones but an injury to the roads. He recommends that hereafter all engines be bought in the United States. He is right. The American invention rens smoother, polls stronger, lasts longer, and costs less to run than any in the world. THE New York Tribune says Europe is now taking a surprising quantity of American fruit. The purchases have amounted to over $2,500,000 worth since last June, compared with $600,000 in the same period the year before. Dried ap­ ples figure largely in this movement. This country has exported over 12,000,- 000 pounds of them since last June, as compared with 522,000 the previous year. FOB the nine months that ended Mitieh 91, Ate receipts of the Government were $201,282,115, and the expenditures $199,473,990. Up to May 23 the cus­ toms receipts of this fiscal year had been $117,610,622, against $134,771,093 for the same period in the preceding fiscal year ; and in internal revenue the figures for the same periods were $105,496,735 and $103,949,881. It will be noticed that, while the customs have fallen away, the internal revenue has increased slightly. The expenditures, on the other hand, have decreased so much that it is possi­ ble to expect that at the end of the fis­ cal year the sinking fund will have been paid $33,705,806, and that besides that there will be a surplus of $3,000,- 000 to $5,000,000. There was a deficit in the sinking fund last year of more than $3,000,000. .BIRDS killed on the Western prairies, packed closely with paper in barrels, and without any freezing or other artificial process of presercatioii, now go-regularly to Leiideiihiill, and are bold and eaten in the dining-rooms of London and the West side by side with the much more expensive partridges and fowls which 81© reared in England. THE MARKETS. at« 00 (ti, 5 65 4 50 t« 4 85 («' & 35 (A 4 90 (?10 50 «£ 8 00 NEW YORK. BEEVES 10 00 (S12 35 HOGS 6 60 @ 6 00 COTTON 11^® 13 FLOUJI--Superfine Weetem 8 75 @ 6 95 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1,67 (* 1 68 COBN--Western Mixed 62 @ 58 OATB--WeBtcrn Mixed 45 (< ̂ 64 BYE--Western 78 @ 80 POBK--New Mess 14 85 ®>14 50 LAJU> 9% CHICAGO. BSBVW--Choice Grartert Steers 5 75 Choice Native* 6 40 COWB and Heifers 8 00 Oood Second-claw Steers. 4 25 Meuium to Fair 6 00 Hoes--Live. 4 60 FLOUB--Faucy White Winter 9 60 Oood to Choice Spring Ex. 1 50 WHEAT--No. 3 Spring 1 44>;<N 1 45» ̂ No. 3 Spring. 1 82 (<$ 1 33 CORK--No. 2 44 ® 45 OATS--NO. 8 87 @ 88 RYK--No. 3 «8v<$ 10 BARLEY--No. 3 * - 60 BUTTKK--Choico Creamery " 18 <5? 23 fioas--Fresh 10^® 11 POBK--Mew U 0® 85 LABD • <& 9)i MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 1 ®3 No. 8 ,1 62 COBN--No. 3 44 OATS--No. 3 F Bra--No. 1 BABLEY--NO. 3... W ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 3 Bed Fall 1 69 OoiiN--No. 3 Mixed... 43 OATS--No. 3 88 ryk . . 65 PoitK--Mage.. IS 50 LABD.....; Hoos. CATTLE.... CINCINNATI. WHEAT COBN OATS--White BYE--No. 9 ! POBK--Meee LABD TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 1 Bed Winter No. 3 Bed Winter COBN ... OATS--No. 3. DETROIT. FLOOB--Medium WHEAT--White CORN--No. 3 OATS--Mixed BYE POBK--Mess EAST LIBERTY, PA. Hooa--Yorkers 4 75 Philadelphia* 6 00 CATTL.S--Best 5 50 Medium. 5 00 SUSP 8 00 1 «8 <® 1 53 (rt 45 <S 38 <3 71 <e, 73 <$ 1 70 (rf 43 <g 39 w M (4,14 00 4 85 <« 4 60 6 00 4 00 .. 1 74 .. 45 .. 43 75 ..14 00 9 .. 1 97 .. 1 70 .. 47 40 .. 8 00 .. 1 70 4» 44 .. 75 .14 75 0 1 76 47 (A 43 (£, 77 <*14 35 « 9* « 1 98 <«, 1 71 (# SO <w 41 @ 8 50 1 88 60 & 45 « 80 <$1500 <a 4 90 <« 5 30 («' 6 00 « 5 35 5 10