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r - ^ ^ ̂ | | , » ^ ^ t • y " t ? p . f - > A ^ < *"~ '• . i - %*1J ̂ . *n^x>T« |£-*rs^ .••; 'T~'*l ?C ^T^pw1; , dUtffmig |Iaiitdrakr. ' -.. u- J. VAN SLYKE, POTUSHM. [cHENBT, ILLINOIS. -w *iV P tr • * • j * mr |PHE SEWS CONDENSED. 3"; THE EAST. UKITSD STATES SENATOR SPKKCKB, of Ala- ^inrn. TU married in New York, the other day, to an actress named Nunez... The Boston and Albany railroad shops at Springfield, Mass., Save Wn bnrned. Low, flOO,(RM) During a tbonder-sfcorm at Georgetown, DeL, Gideon J, Hitchens, with four Rons and two daughters, took refuge under a tree in a field. The light­ ning struck, and three of the children, two tons and one daughter, were instantly killed. Tfhe father and remaining children were eeri- •ffcdy but not fetslly hurt, F R!' W IIXIAM M. TWEED hag given to the public, Hirougli an investigating committee of the Mew York Common Council, another chapter ' Of his history of municipal rings. Aocording %> his story, he disbursad about $600,000 to se­ cure the passage through the Legislature of tl>e celebrated charter by which he was enabled to plunder the city. This money was fur­ nished by various tradesmen and politicians, fiie Erie railway, through Jay Gould, contribut­ ing a considerable sum. He gives the names of a number of members of the Legislature who were bribed to vote for the charter, the nricefor votes ranging from $25,030 to $80,000. Tweed charges explicitly that Oakey Hall, the Mayor, was the most exacting of all the thieves In the ring. BOSTON dedicated her soldiers* monument on •he 17th inst. The occasion was a general hol­ iday. A large number of seats that, had been orected for the accommodation of the city au­ thorities and chosen guests gave way on the ground, tumbling about 2,000 people on the •pounds^ a number of whom suffered the frmo- nire of limbs, but luckily none were killed An extraordinary chapter of horrors occurred In Baltimore on Stutday last .* A man blew his brains out on the street, A boy was disem­ boweled by a street-car, and died in ten min­ utes. A blind convict attempted to murder a fellow-convict in the penitentiary, and then cut bis own throat. An unknown man was be­ headed by a railway train. A man fell from a third-story window and was found a corpse. A boy had his skull fractured by a kick from a borne, and will die. At midnight a man at- ri|lcked another violently, and, while handling Jps pistol, accidentally shot a child. .THE coal companies at Wilkesbarre, Pa., fcave offered the striking miners an advanoe of ID per cent, on their wages. The proposition ||as unanimously rejected. THE WEST. • PunDnrr HAYES last week paid aiding visit lb Senator Morton, at Richmond, Ind. The in­ terview between the President and the sick Senator was very brief, at the conclusion of Which the former took the train and returned to Fremont, Ohio, where he participated in the reunion of his old regiment Wade Hampton and Sam Cary delivered ad­ dresses before the Winnebago County (111.) Agricultural Fair at Bockford, on the 13th bust,, A big crowd turned out to hear the South Carolina Governor A cattle plague, - faid to be a species of the Texas cattle fever, ' mas broken out in sections of Ohio, Michigan, ttnd other Western States, and it proving, ^••••yijmte fatal. t xm Chicago Tribune report* that there are flight theaters now in good running order in city* not counting the many unmentfon- basements where fiddles are heard to s v^ Aqneak and improper persons are seen to ob- ' Irude their so-called attractions upon the vol­ 's ; "tour gaze. Out of the eight there is brat a very . Jew devoted to the production of' dramas, whether of the legitimate or illegitimate order. f*he most of the managers are engaged in fos- tering that kind of entertainment which can ""* . |»ever be described by ordinary adjectives, or in •ordinary type. McVicker's Theater feons an agreeable fflu»ption, At this house * Booth is playing one of thajoott BBO- ie has jnm tted4n the in a round «f his favorite a. amount The broken spans of the Union Pa­ cific railroad bridge at Omana have been re­ paired, and trains are again running across the Mknouri at that point THE SOUTH. Ax the late session of the Kemper ocnrnty (Miss.) CSronit Court, the presiding Judge, in his charge to the Grand Jury, called special at­ tention to the Chisholm assassination, and ex­ pressed the hope that, for the honor of the oounty, they would thoroughly investigate all the drcumst&noea of the affair. THE Texas coast has been visited by a de­ structive storm. Considerable damage was in­ flicted at Galveston, Houston and other ports. THE Great Republic, the finest steamer that ever plied the Mississippi, took fire while lying at her wharf in St. Louis, a few nights ago, and was totally oonsumed. She was valued at 9350,000. The steamer Carondelet, lying along­ side the Bepnblic, was also burned. GENERAL. ~7~ THE greatest achievement in the mailer of railroad speed on record in America was that of a train on the Canada Southern railroad, which accomplished a continuous ran of 111 milps in 109 minutes. SCORE another victory for the Yankee over the " blarsted Britisher." In the international contest betwoen the American and British rifle teams at, the Creedmoor range, New York, the immense superiority of the Xankees in the UP© of the long-range rifle was attested by a most creditable victory. The teams consisted of eight men on a side, aelected, after long and careful practice, as the crack marksmen of their respective countries. The shooting lasted two days, each man firing forty-five shots in each day's contest--fifteen shots at 800 yards' distance, fifteen at 900 yards, and fifteen at 1,000 yards. The follow­ ing is the score; Americans, W0 yards 1,148 Americans, 900 yards.... ...............3,101 Americans, 1,000 yards........................1^090 Total ......8,334 BritieU, 800 yards. ..1,117 British, 900 yards 1,073 British, 1,000 yards. 1,052 P Ms. AXD MM. ODER and Mr. Sargent, living '"l 1Mar Boeklin, Planer county, Hal., were recently yaurdered and robbed by some Chinamen. The litizens were so incensed at the terrible deed fhat they drove all the Mongolians out of the wn and demolished their houses. Some of Chinese who had been arrested on n of committing the murders narrowly lynching....Lewis Myers, the.County er, from whose office at Wapakanetta, ihio, some $30,000 was claimed to have been ~ en on the night of Sept. 6, has been arrest- Ad, charged with complicity in the robbery, flyers claimed to have been waylaid in the fjtreet by a gang of highwaymen, gagged, and forced by torture to disclose the combination of she safe. ̂ NEWB comes by way of Ban Francisoo that the .itPfrann Spring Indians had left their reservation |n Arizona, killed fourteen men, wounded eight And captured a train of freight wagons, lulling • jhe teamsters and destroying the goods. Maj. ! 'Tapper. with ail the Arizona and New Mexico troops he could gather, pursued and attacked lnoians, hilling forty, and at last accounts mm in pursuit of the remainder... .SittingBoll, from the other side of the border, makes a pro- jjoaition. He and bis follower® will consent to occupy the Big Horn country provided plenty of ammunition is fnrniehed them and they are Allowed to roam at will. One thing 8. B. will »»fc do. He says he will not go on the reserva­ tion and buffer the indignity of living on wee- •viled beans and musty flour, Cox* BTUBOES, commanding the Seventh Cavalry, overtook the Nez Perces Indians near the Yellowstone river, in Montana, on the 13th of September, and had a severe fight, lasting nearly all day. A considerable portion of the encounter was band-to-hand battles, and the Indians only quitted the ground upon the ap­ proach of nignt, and after a great number of their band had been either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, and after their stock and •everal hundred ponies had been run off as plunder by the troops.... Gen. Crook, in explanation of the failure of Howard's campaign, says the country in which he is operating is the roughest in the whole Bocky mountain range, and offers inHurn.oant- ablc ba rriers to the progress of troops. Gen. Crook coincides with one or two other promi­ nent army officers in the belief that Joseph's intention has been to form an alliance with the Indians under Sitting Bull, and probably other bands. A PASSEKOKB train on the Union Pacific rail­ road was stopped and robbed by highwaymen <on the night of the 18th inst., at Big Springs, a, small way siauon in Nebraska, 102 miles east of Cheyenne. Thirteen masked men rode up to the station in the evening, took possession of the telegraph office, destroyed the instru­ ments and forced the agent to hang out a red light, as the express did not stop at the sta­ tion. The express arrived at 10:48 and came toa stop. The robbers seized the engineer and firemen and guarded the doors of the cars. The express car was broken into, the messenger overpowered and about $160,000 in coin and $40,000 in currency, secured, The passengers were then robbed of money and valuables, and after detaining the train an hour the robbers mounted and rode away to the northwest. Parties were ordered out on horse­ back from Jnlesburg, Ogallala, and North Platte. Superintendent Davis telegraphed the Sheriffs at Denver and Deadwood offering *5,000 for the capture of the thieves and f 5,000 for the recovery of the money. AXOTHEB savings bank failure is reported from Chicago. The Merchants' Fanners' and Mechanics' savings institution, of which Sid- dev Myers, the well-known Greenback advocate, is ^resident, has passed into the hands of a re­ ceiver. About half a million dollars is owing to 2,500 depositors. It is thought the assets, • prudently managed, will rally realize this Total ..3,342 The Americans winning by ninety-two points. PRESIDENT HAYES dropped into Cincinnati on Saturday evening, the 15th inst., and was ac­ corded a hearty reception. After tho formal reception and the delivery of the customary speeches he was driven to the residence of Dr. John Davis, where he remained until Monday, on which day he left for Louisville. In the latter city his reception partook of the nature of a grand ovation, nearly the whole popula­ tion turning out to greet him. He was met at the depot by an immense throng, and escorted to the Gait House. In the afternoon the President was escorted by the military and Iteception Committee to the Exposition building, •where he was received by the children of the public schools. In the evening the President and Mrs, Hayes gave a reception at the Gait House ; Tuesday they devoted to sight-seeing, and in the evening they gave another reception at the Exposition building. Tuesday night, the 18th, the President and his family accom­ panied by Secretaries Evarts, Schurz and Key, and Bcveral other dignitaries, left on a special train for Nashville. THE Cuban revolutionists received, very re­ cently, a cargo of arms and munitions of war, which were landed on an nnfrequented part of the coast by a schooner which sailed from one of the Southern ports. The Spanish emis­ saries in Washington got wind of the matter, but too late to do any good. CAP*'. DOIXABD, of the schooner W. F. March, just arrived from the Arctic ocean, re­ ports that the crew of an American vessel, name not ascertained, had recently killed thir­ teen natives near Cape Prince of Wales. The trouble is understood to have arisen in the course of trade with the natives. EX-MIHISTEB WASHBUBNK has arrived home from Paris Senator Bogy, of Missouri, is reported seriously ill with a chronic affection of the liver. WASHINGTON. fljmttwi Tail, No-Watef, Kac- Afraid-of-hiB-Horses and other distinguished wielders of the scalping-knife are booked for a visit to Washington about the 1st of October. They go to have a talk with the " Great White Father." POLITICAL,. A STATE Convention of the Workingmen's party of Ohio was held at Columbus last week. The Greenback Executive Committee were pres­ ent. and consented to withdraw their State ticket and unite with the new movement if their ideas of currency reform were heartily acquiesced in, which wag agreed to in open convention. The following ticket was then nominated: For Governor, Stephen Johnson; Lieutenant Governor, Christopher Lewis; Supreme Judge, Milton >L. Clark Treasurer, James Jenkins; Clerk of the Su­ preme Court, E. P. Pitkin; Attorney General, George A. Duncan; School Commissioner, John C. Logan; Board of Public Works, C. C. Strong. THE Democrats of Massachusettsmet in con­ vention at Worcester last week, and nomi­ nated the following ticket: Governor, William Gaston; Lieutenant Governor, William B. Plunket; Secretary of State, Weston Howland; Treasurer and Receiver General, 'David N. ; Auditor, John E. Fizgerald; Attor­ ney General, Chu'ies P. Thompson. The fol­ lowing platform was adopted: We reaffirm and announce the National .Democrat­ ic platform of 1876 as the authoritative exposition ot principles of oar party, and we congratulate our political brethren of the whole country that those principles were indorsed in the national can vast* by the suffrages of a decided majority of the American people. We believe the people fairly elected a ma­ jority of the Electoral College in favor of the Demo­ cratic candidate®, and while, in the high interest of public tranquillity, we submit to the authority of the constituted Federal administration, we de­ nounce apon the guilty Republican party the stern retribution lor the great public crime by which the people were defrauded of their right to be gov­ erned by rulers of their own choice, and by which the elective principle was •wounded in its most vital part. We challenge ior it the opprobrium of history anil the indignant judgment of all honest men. We congratulate the country, and supporters of free government everywhere, upon the happy results of restored public order and r< viving in­ dustrial prosperity, the inauguration of a new reign of domestic peace and liberty, regulated by law, in the southern section of the Union that have ensued upon the adoption of Democratic principles and measures of administration by the Executive De­ partment of the Federal Government in reference to the Southern States. We recognize in these auxpi- cious results the signal vindication and practical triumph of the constitutional doctrines so faithfully contended for by the Democrats in the late political content, and the statesmanship of the wise fathers which peeks the welfare of the republic by the mip- port of the equal righto sod dignities of all the States in the Federal Union. We trust that here­ after there will be no Southern policy, no Northern policy, but one common poiicy for the whole Union, and equality of rights and duties of all men before the 1^7. Reunited, That we are opposed to the re-enactment of a Prohibitory law. Resolved, That the practice of borrowing money for other objects than those of a strict public neces­ sity has generated schemes of extravagant expendi­ tures until taxation has become well-nigh an intol­ erable burden. Honesty, economy, and " pay an we go " should be the rule in all appropriations of the people's money. The power of States, counties, cities and towns to borrow money ought to tof rig­ idly limited, BO that an end may be put to the system which " anticipates the labor of coming agee arid ap­ propriates the fruits of it in advance; which coins the industry of future generations into cash, and snatches the inheritance from children yet unborn." R&iolved, That we are in favor of the honest pay­ ment of the public debt, and of a currency on a gold baeis. Jlenolved, That the present depression of the in­ dustrial, commercial and financial interests of the country is largely due to our inability under pres­ ent laws to dispose of the surplus produdts which wh; other countries want, and which but for restric­ tions and injurious legislation of the United States would, to a great extent, produce aud aUi better aud cheaper than any ottier nation. THE Republican State Convention of chusetts met at Worcester last week and nom­ inated the following ticket: Governor, Alex­ ander H. Rice; Lieutenant Governor, Horatio G. Knight; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce: Attorney General, Charlec R. Train; Treasurer and Reoeiver General, Charles Endi- cott; Auditor, Julius L. Clarke. The following resolutions were adopted: netoltttd, that we reaffirm, first of all, oar un­ wavering allegiance to the tuftUMtal tratb and principles whtahhave Inaplredthe triumph ef the Republican party. We accept the reapaustbfitty of the national administration agate iwmmlttmr to Republican bands ss a trust tens extcoised ior the welfare of all the people, without distinction of raee, color, locality, orawed. The armed struggle for union and equal rights is at an end. The grand results are accepted facts in national history. Watchful, guarding, and finally maintaining all that has been achieved, we do not propose to abandon the helm or drift with the tide, bat to address our srl vc e with vigor and courage to the pending issues, and to insist upon their settlement in the Interest of good government, national progress and enduring union. 2. That we congratulate the country upon the rightful accession of the Republican President, whose conspicuous integrity, honesty of purpose, wisdom, moderation, and firmness command the confidence of the people, give assurance of pure, economical, and beneficent administration of pub­ lic affairs, and thus afford opportunity and encourage the prospect of the speedy restoration of confidence and revival of business activity. 3. That wc hail with unspeakable pleasure every sigEL of promise of !!»<. uu«! niiu peiuianeui pacifica­ tion of the Southern section of our country under local self-government, based upon the full recogni­ tion of the equal rights of all by all, and we cor­ dially app rove the spirit of the administration ?is wisely adapted to hasten this result, as directed by a just sense of constitutional fight and duty, as tend­ ing to promote the spirit Of peace and reconcilia­ tion between the citisens of all sections, and as al­ ready largely justified by the bettered feeling and condition of the country. 4. That the faith of the country is solemnly pledged to tho n»rlv rouuniritiriri of specie p»?!HeaiH_ Public honor and private interest alike demand the fulfillment of thin pledge. We approve the steps already taken, and rejoice at the progress already made. We insist upon the adoption of all measures necessary to secure resumption on a day not later than that now fixed by law, and it U the duty of the Government to maintain its coin and currency at all times at par with gold, the standard of the com­ mercial world. 5. That the work of reforming and improving the civil service which the Republican party has under­ taken, and to which It alone stands committed, ought to be persistently and resolutely carried for­ ward. 6. That the order recently promulgated by the President for the purpose of restraining executive officers of the Government from exercising an tin- due and improper influence upon the action of the people in the selection of candidates for office and in the management of political affairs is in accord­ ance with the principles and practices established by the foundern of the Government. 7. That the Congress of the United States has al­ ready passed a reasonable limit in grants of land and money awards to private enterprises; that the interests of the nation demand that no more grants shall be made, either from the public domain or public treasury, as subsidies to private corpora­ tions, and that appropriations for Government works shall henceforth be limited by the strict rule of necessity. THE Democrats of New Jersey met in State convention at Trenton last week, nominated Gen. George B. McClellan for Governor on the first ballot, and adopted the following plat­ form : Resolved, That the Democracy of the State of New Jersey, in convention assembled, reaffirm the prin­ ciples contained in the National Democratic plat­ form adopted at St. Louis in 1876. We denounce the frauds and crimes by which our candidates for President and Vice President are prevented from occupying the positions to which they were chosen by a decided majority of the popular electoral vote. a. We congratulate the supporters of free gov­ ernment throughout the United States that even the man who was placed in the Presidential chair by means of these frauds and crimes has found it nec­ essary, in order to receive the respect and support of any portion of the American people, to adopt the Democratic policy of local self-government, and abandon all further devices to perpetuate sec­ tional jealousies. 3. The Democratic party, embracing within its ranks all classes of our citizens, most of whom are workingmen, believes that all legislation should have for its object the greatest good to the greatest number. We, therefore, oppose all special legisla­ tion for corporate or individual interests at the expense of the people. We recognize their needs ft.n/1 Hvmr*>»thi7o with thn wnrVinfrmpn of tb^ Atafn in the prevalent distress. We advise the enactment of such legislation as will enable us to collect in­ formation relating to the interests of labor and cap­ ital, with a view to harmonize these interests and place our industries upon a more permanent and scientific basis. 4. Honest toil and legitimate business are the true basis of a nation's prosperity. Official salaries ought never to be so high as to be sought after for mere pecuniary gain. Salaries, fees and costs of litigation have, during the past years of Republican legislation been so largely increased as to become absolutely burdensome. The times demand and the necessities of the people require a radical re­ duction of all such salaries, fees and costs. The usury laws should be revised and reformed/aad 6 per cent.' should be restored as the untfttHMAaalf rate of interest in this State, without the obligations of contracts. THE Prohibitionists of New Jersey have nomi­ nated Itudolphus Bingham for Governor.... The Pennsylvania Grecnbackers met in conven­ tion at WiUiamsport, the other day, and placed the following State ticket in the field : Supreme Judge, Benjamin S. Bentley ; Auditor, Gen. J. E. Emerson; State Treasurer, JameaL. Wright. THE TURKO-RCS8IAN WAR, DISPATCHES from Yienna on the 13th inst. report the capture of Osman Pasha's strongest position in front of Plevna. The point was carried by assault, on the morning of Wednes­ day, the 12th. Six Russian batteries and one Roumanian battalion took part in the assault. Two standards and five guns were captured, and the Turks driven pell-mell out of the Grivica redoubt. This victory was achieved at heavy cost. The Russian official report admits a loss of over 5,000 wounded. The numbers engaged are estimated at about 57,000 on the Russian side, against from 50,000 to 70,000 Turks... .It is announced from itagusa that a majority of the Bosnia insurgents have sub­ mitted to the Turkish Government. THE Russian official bulletin, dated Poredin, 13th, says: " Yesterday (Wednesday) we made no further attacks, but bombarded tho Turkish fortifications and town of Plevna at short range. Toward 4 p. m. the town began to burn, and two explosions were observed within the for­ tifications. The Turks made little reply to our fire, and directed all their efforts against our left wing, which threatened their rear. At this point Gen. Skobeloff repulsed five furious attacks, but was com­ pelled in the evening, after the sixth attack, to evacuate the fortifications which he captured Tuesday. During Wednesday night our troops intrenched themselves in their positions. From the beginning of the battle up to 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon 6,000 wounded have been brought to the field hos­ pital.". .. .The armies in Asia Minor are report­ ed as being still inactive. According to Turk­ ish reports, the Russians have retreated from Ardahan and fallen back to a stronger position. There is little prospect that any event of sig­ nificance will transpire in that quarter for some time to come. ADVICES from the Russian position before Plevna, up to the 16th inst., report that the attack on Osman Pasha cannot be resumed un­ til reinforcements are received. The Grivitza redoubt, the capture of which cost the Rus­ sians thousands of men, was still held, but was heaped full of dead Russians and Rou­ manians, and likely to become wholly untena­ ble under the incessant fire of the Turks. In the lull of the Russian operations on his main lines, Osman had found time to fall upon a Russian force which had intrenched itself on the road to Sofia for the pur­ pose of cutting his communications. A Hhumla dispatch, reporting this affair, claims that the Russians were badly beaten, and lost some thousands of men....A dispatch from Bucharest on Sunday, the 7th, states that the Turks had made desperate efforts to recapture the Gravitza redoubt, making seven ineffectual assaults, and losing 10,000 men... A correspondent with the Turk­ ish army in Itoumelia telegraphs as fol lows : " There is a reign of terror from Adrian- ople to the Balkans. All respectable male Bul­ garians are hunted down by order or conniv­ ance of the authorities. Fever has broken out in Suleiman Pasha's camp. Every house in Kazanlik is a hospital. The place reeks with the fever-stench. All the country from Schipka to Yeni Saghra can only be ridden over with camphor in one's mouth. Dead bodies are lying on the roadsides and in fields and gardens. From 400 to 600 bodies are in Yeni Saghra, and have been there ever the battle some weeks ago." DISPATCHES from the Russian headquarters in front of Plevna, dated the 18th, state that "the military operations closed when the Turks recaptured the double redoubt talTen by Skobeleff. When the Russian Commander-in- Chief oould not or would not send reinforce­ ments to hold tlm redoubt, It was only too evident the attack was at an end. Gen. Skobeleff lost 2,000 men in attacking the re­ doubt ; he lost 3,000 more holding it; an im­ mense proportion of officer* were either killed or wounded. Only one commander of a regi­ ment is alive, and scarcely a head of a battalion it left. The Russians have not, however, abqnr doned their positions, and do not aeem di*» poeed to do so. On the contrary, they are fortifving them. The Russians are moving up siege guns and receiving reinforce­ ments of infantry. Maj. Gens. Skobeleff, Dragomiroff and Imeritinsky have been promoted to bo Lieutenant Generals.".... A Hhumla dispatch dated the 18th states that Suleiman Pasha had assaulted and captured Fort St, Nicholas, In Schipka pass. Tne loss of this position, it was claimed, would compel the Russians to evacuate the pass.... Russia has now settled down to the conviction that the war is not a three-months affair, and is making preparations to quarter her armies in Bulgaria during the winter. Gen. Todleben, of Sebas- topol fame, has been directed to furnish plans for the fortification of the winter camps, at Matchin, Hirsova, Sistova, and Nikopolis. the purpose being to render the latter place im­ pregnable and to hold it even though the Rus­ sians should be driven from every other posi- tien. THE reported captur e by the Turks of Fort St Nicholas, in the Schipka pass,' turns out, like nearly every report that comes from Constantinople, to be a canard. The Russian Gen. Radetzky's official ac­ count of the fighting titatoe that "after five days' bombardment the Turks made a sud­ den attack on the fort. The attack subse­ quently extended along the whole line, and was repulsed with enormous loss to the Turks after a desperate fight, which lasted nine hours. The Rus­ sian loss was 500 killed and wounded.".... A correspondent at the headquarters of tho Czarowitch at Biela telegraphs under date of Monday, Sept. 17, that a desperate engagement was fought in the valley of the Lom on that day. Thirty-two battalions and eight batteries, comprising the whole of the troops under the command of the Czarowitch, attacked Assaf Pasha's division at SiraKeny. The Turks were strongly reinforced at once, and the Russians were driven back with great slaughter. The battle was in every respect a decisive one.... A telegram from Tifiis contradicts Mukhtar Pasha's report that Ardahan has been evacu­ ated by the Russians, and states, on the con­ trary, that the garrison has been increased to twelve battalions of infantry and six squadrons of cavalry GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. AFTEB nearly twelve months of suspense, during which the gravest fears were enter­ tained for the safety of the gallant African ex- Slorer, the welcome news has come that Henry [. Stanley has arrived on the west coast of Af­ rica. Stanley's last dispatch is dated from Emboma, Congo river, west coast of Africa, Aug. 10, and states that he arrived at that point on Aug. 8, from Zanzibar, with only 115 souls, the entire party in an awful condition after their long and terrible journey through the heart of the African continent. TUBKEY being unable to supply additional troops to act against Montenegro, orders have been sent to the General commanding the Tuikish forces to keep more on the defensive. It is announced that the Montenegrins intend to march on Trebinje and Spuz. ACCOBDING to the Mark Lane Express, the wheat harvest in England has been nearly com­ pleted, and much of the product threshed, but it is in bad condition and of exceedingly inferior quality. On this account, and in consequence of the* large supply of Russian wheat at present rv;. advEuciriir. Ths Scotch harvests are also inferior, grain and po­ tatoes being damaged by frost, and hay ruined by excessive rains. A liberal demand for the splendid American crop seems certain, there­ fore, as soon as the Russian and poor home supply are reduced by consumption... .Reports from the famine districts of India are more en­ couraging. MAWSHAT, MACMAHOK has issued an extraor­ dinary proclamation to the electors of France. He " awaits with full confidence the manifesta­ tion of the people's sentiments," he says ; but he takes care to notify the people in advance that their sentiments must be manifested in accordance with his own. He is entirely will­ ing that the form of an election shall proceed, but he wants it distinctly understood that it will be nothing more than a barren form. The manifesto has created an im­ mense sensation in France. It is loudly applauded by the Bonapartist and cleri­ cal organs, while the Republican papers mani­ fest serious alarm at the Marshal's threats. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Harvest Gleanings t COTTON worms are increasing in Mis­ sissippi to an alarming extent. THE grape crop of Florida is nnnsnal- ly heavy, and the orange groves are re­ ported ill fine condition. THE harvest in Spain in wheat, fruit, and wine has been so magnificent that it is estimated that half can be exported. THE yield of wheat in Canada this sea­ son i« stated to be about forty bushels to the store, and the quality is pronounced better than usual. THE Indianapolis Sentinel says: Farmers are evidently holding back their crops of wheat, and scarcely any is offered on the market." THE State Department of Agriculture of Illinois, on the basis ol returns of the corn crop received from the various coun­ ties of the State, estimates that 8,905,411 acred were planted with corn this year, and that the total yield of that staple will be at least 272,766,121 bushels, which, at 40 cents per bushel, is worth over $109,100,000. WmtiE we in the United States have reasqn to congratulate ourselves over our excellent crops, the Scottish farmers are down in the dumps. Their hay crop has been almost lost, and by reason of the weather their growth of grain is far from successful thia 3 ear. In South and Middle England the farmers though not badly unsuccessful, have no great reason to be proud of their harvests. In Ire­ land, though crops have not turned out so badly as in Scotland, yet in some dis­ tricts they have greatly suffered. Commercial and Trade Matters. PHUIADKLPHIA dry-goods dealers are in high spirit over the condition of the fall trade. MB. JAMES BYAHS, living ten miles from Gonzales, Tex., in boring a well struck coal oil at a depth of thirty-five feet. THE brandy production of North Car­ olina is immense. Over 300 distillers are registered in the internal revenue division about Statesville. A LEADING Eastern exchange "merchants and businessmen at the West and trade centers are either blow­ ing very hard, else there is some im­ provement in business." THE New York Tribune has "encour­ aging reports of a good fall trade, caused by the rettim of the jobbing business to that city. Orders are coming in in greater numbers than had been ex­ pected." THE <$8,000,000 loan of the Baltimore and Ohio raslroat. n-as taken by Morgan k Co., the American bankers in London, at 6 per cent, but at' what discount, if any, does not appear. It js secured by a first and only mortgage on the 250 miles of their Chicago end. Sox* remarkable prices were paid for Canadian cattle at a recent stock sale in England. Forty-two head of short- fhoau, bred near Quebec, Canada, real­ ized 16,280 guineas, or an average of about $2,000 per head. This average has never before been reached in En­ gland or on this continent, and haa only been exceeded once in Australia. IN Delaware and Eastern Maryland there are upward of CO,000 acres of land under peach trees. This land is the best on the peninsula, estimated to be worth $50 per acre, or $8,000,000. To ship this fruit requires 2,000,000 baskets, or near­ ly that many, which cost $250,000. The money invested in necessary implements for cultivating and shipping the peaches to market- m estimated at $10 for 100 trees, or $600,000. The cultivation of peach orchards and the picking of the fruit gives employment to upward of 25,000 laborers. THE New York Evening Post says: " It is doubtful whether at any time in the past fifteen years there has been so great an amount of various kinds of s t o c k s a f l o a t i n . W a l l s t r e e t -- i s , i n the hands of people who hold stocks on margins and who are dependent on money lenders for the means with which to carry their holdings--as there is to­ day. At the same time, we never re­ member when there was so much capital engaged in a speculative way ii f bull­ ing' stocks as now." .. Hill, Shop and X-afoor Notes. THE lead interests of Galena, 111., have been seriously injured by the super­ abundance of lead production in the reduction of Nevada and Colorado silver ores. THE building has been completed and the machinery placed for a new cotton- mill at Savannah, Ga. It will have 7,800 spindles and 123 looms, and will be ex­ empt from taxation. SOME Massachusetts capitalists are about to establish a manufactory of cot­ ton hosiery at Paducah, Ky. It is stated that this will be the only estab­ lishment of the kind south of Philadel­ phia. THE emigration of carpenters from this country to England is managed un­ der the auspices of an employers' union at Manchester, who ana endeavoring to break down a strike carried on by the English carpenters, and the demand for workmen from this country is therefore not a natural one. THE great need in the South at pres­ ent is cotton-pickers. It is said that 30,000 laborers could find employment at this work during the present season, which extends over four months. In 1867 over one-fourth of the cotton crop was plowed under, because it was impos­ sible to get it picked. Cotton-picking is a simple operation, easily learned. The Chinese in Louisiana had never seen a cotton stalk before they went there, but were soon able to pick 200 pounds a day. The price paid is 50 to 60 cents a hundred with board. ' LILIAN BRADLEY, of Naugatuok, Conn., the first American cutler, is dead. He made the first pocket cutlery ever made in America. He was born in 1798. At the| outset of his career in Waterbury he advertised in a Sheffield newspaper for soxie cutlers, paid their fare to this coijntry and set them at work. The en­ terprise was successful from the begin­ ning, though friends of Mr. Bradley's ad­ vised him against going into the enter­ prise, arguing that he could not sell a •knife in the United States that had not the Sheffield stamp on it. Iir the Lehigh region the workingmen have won a substantial victory, having succeeded in obtaining an increase of wages. The situation is quiet in the Susquehanna valley, but the miners have not been so successful as elsewhere. The miners charge Frank B. Gowen, Presi­ dent of the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad Company, with bad faith in cool operations, and openly accuse him of instigating the strikes in the Lehigh region and northern coal fields, through the agency of paid emissaries, to over­ reach them in the business. WASHINGTON NOTES. SAM Cox expissses himself as confi­ dent of his election to the Speakership. THUKB is evidently no foundation for the numerous stories relative to Secre­ tary Schurz's probable retirement from the Cabinet, or hi(s appointment to a for-, eign mission. THE Mexican frar veterans will re­ new their attempts to secure a law grant­ ing pensions to 1,000 veterans at the next session. The Pension Bureau is said to favor th« project. So FAB as it now expected in the de­ partments, says a Washington dispatch, there will be no appropriations asked at the extra session aside from the Army bill, except the deficiency to meet the re­ quirements of navy pay and the neces­ sities of the courts." Friends of Repre­ sentative Atkins, who has an Army bill prepared, say that, from such an inter change of views as have been had by letter during the recess, he thinks the Democrats will go no farther in their opposition *0 the Army bill than to insist upon a reduction from 25,000 to 20,000. THE present is the second year since the establishment of the money-order system t.hnt there has been any decrease in the amount issued by the Postoffice Department. Last year, however, tiie decrease was comparatively slight, being little less than »400;000. During the fiscal year ending in June the decrease was largely in excess of $4,000,000. OUR Mexican relations are now under­ stood to be far more amicable than re­ cent dispatches would have one to be­ lieve. Instead of the bitter hostility said to have been lately animating the administration of Mexican affairs, the State Department and the Mexican Minister at Washington respectively recognize and proclaim only tbe most pacific endeavors to break away all bar­ riers to a cordial understanding. IK the spring of last year Congress passed a joint resolution requesting the people of the counties of the several States to assemble on the centennial an­ niversary of independence at the county seats, and have there read a succinct nar­ rative of their county history, and to have one copy of such narrative depos­ ited at the oonnty Court House and an­ other sent to the Congressional Library. The limited extent to which this oenten- niai observance was carried out may now be judged by the fact that, although mere are several thousand counties in *heU»ion, yet only some twenty-five or thirty county narratives have been re­ ceived at the Library of Congress. THE question with regard to the Presi­ dent s sending the usual annual message and reports of the Executive Depart­ ments to the extra session was not long ago considered m the Cabinet, when it wap agreed that the message and accom­ panying documents should relate only to- the business for which Congress is to be especially convened, and not general subjects of legislation. It is thought, therefore, that the message wjl| b^briofe SEVERAI. numerously-signed faiemo- rials will be presented to Congress2 next month, proposing amendments to the constitution abolishing the ^resid|ncy. An Executive Council, Council ot otate or Cabinet is to be substituted therefor^ composed of seven Secretaries, without any superior officer, all to have 6qual authority--that is, simply to strike out the President and authorize the Secre­ taries to have the execution of the lawa and the general supervision of the Gov­ ernment. Four of the Council are to be elected by the House and three by the Senate, from members of their respect­ ive houses, for two years, one or all to be removed at any time by tne House elect-* ing them, and all to have the rights of members in both houses. r* THE Postoffice money-order eysteyy it- must be admitted, is one of the niost convenient, safest and cheapest methods of making transfers of small sums of money from place to place yet devised. Yet, with all its advantages, within toe past two years the business has con­ siderably diminished. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, the amount of money transferred W about $400,000 less than during the pre­ vious year, and the falling off during the year ending the 30th of June list was $4,000,000, It is not to be supposed for 11 moment that the money-order sys­ tem is responsible for this decline im its business, the cause of which must be looked for in the competition of the ex­ press companies and the hard tinies/, (Jiving Him a New Skin. A boy named Frank Hanafin, who- had been injured in a saw-mill the c4$er day, was supplied with a new skin by taking pieces from the arms of eight or nine other boys. In the accident a y$ry large wound was made on his back, fee surface being one mass of red, quiver­ ing flesh, though healthy in appearance. The wound, of course, was very srasi- tive, and the operation must have been quite painful to him. The Advertiser says that Drs. Picot and Maynard and an assistant performed the operation. Around the bed were gathered sii ?or eight Irish boys, from 8 to 15 yeart of age, from whose arms had been t.a,k^nt or was to be taken the skin needed te re­ place that which was lost. As each was called on by the doctor, he came forward, and' baring his arm, a small piece of skin was skillfully cut out with the lan- eet and gently placed upon the raw flesh. About thirty pieces in all were so put on. Several of the boys gave Up more than one piece, and Folger Picot, the doctor's son, contributed eight pieces. A younger brother of Hanafin'a gave nearly as many. While the opera­ tion was going on the boys joked among* themselves on helping to made up Han­ afin, and bantered each other on the number of times they had submitted to* be cut for the benefit of their playmate. --Auburn (N. Y.) Advertiser. < T Harried, Despite Objections. < After service in a church in Houston county, Ga., Gus Riley, of Houston county, and Miss Mattie Calloway,'if' Macon, walked up the aisle, showed the minister a license, and asked him tip marry them. He proceeded to do but the woman with whom Miss Mattie had been visiting for some weeks ob­ jected, saying that Miss Calloway was"a guest at her house, under age, and her father knew nothing about it. The preacher said that that was nota legfJ objection, but put it to a vote of the congregation whether he should marry the couple or not. The congregation voted solid, "Marry them," and they were married.--Savannah News. | f THE rice crop of Louisiana increased from 20,000 barrels in 1866 to over 175,- 000 barrels in 1876. The yield for this year is estimated at nearly 175,000ibftr- rels on a decreased acreage. 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LUOIS. , ' ' WHKAT--No. 2 Bed IU1 1 » 0181 CORN--No. 2 Mixed 42 0 43 ^ OATS--No. 2.... 25)^0 i-Mfc* RYE. 66 0 67 PORK--Mess. 18 00 © LARD 8)tf0 '9 Hoos 5 00 0 5 M. 14 CATTLE 4 00 0 5 78 | CINCINNATI. • • WHKAT--Bed 1 20 0 1 * CORN 49^0 50,• OATS 27 0 81 RYE 60 0 PORK--Mess .12 75 013 1 ^ LARD 8^0 10 TOLEDO. WHKAT--Amber Michigan.. 1 83 0 1 35- No.2 Bed Winter 132 ®1» CORK 48 0 49 OATS--No. 2 36 0 W:, DETROIT. FIMVK--Choice White S7S 0 7 0» WHEAT--No. 1 1 » 0 CORN--Mixed 48 0 W> OATS--Mixed 28 0 29 . BARLEY (per oental) 1 00 |1 80 t PORK--Mess 14 00 014 75 EAST LIBERTY. PA. CATTUI--Best.......... 5 75 0 6 00 Filr 6 60 0 5 W .. Common 4 25 0 4 75- Hoos . »00 0 6 0* SHKRT,.... .... 4 35 0 5 0ft