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ems f laindraltr. J. VAN SLYKE, PCBUSHKR. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE BAST. THE Congress Hotel, at Sharon fringe, N. I., a popular summer resort, has been de­ stroyed by fire. Loss, $100.000--There was », high-toned wedding at Newport, R. I., list week. Charles Joseph Bonaparte, grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, was married to Miss Day, of Boston. 8OOY, the defaulting State Treasurer of New Jersey, has had a preliminary trial. The ex­ act amount of his deficit is ascertained to be $44,116. The Justice held him in $75,000. No bail was offered, and he was fully com­ mitted There is now strong grounds for be­ lieving that little Charlie Boss is alive and may yet be restored to his parents. Mrs. Mosher, the wife of Bill Mosher» the abductor of the child, virtually acknowledges that the child is living, but does not know his present where­ abouts. THE Pennsylvania State Normal School, at Btoomeburg, has been destroyed by fire. Lose, $60,000 South Deerfield, Mass., was visited last week by a disastrous conflagration. Prop­ erty of the estimated value of $500,000 was destroyed. ̂ • » TEUTON'S woolen mill, at Cavendish, Va., was destroyed by fire lost week. Loss esti­ mated at $170,000; insurance $100,000 Three of the Schuylkill county (Pa.) Commis­ sioners have been convicted of malfeasance in office and sentenced each to two years' imprison­ ment and $1,000 fine It is announced that TUton has abandoned all hopes of a new trial in the Beecher case, because he (Tilton) can­ not raise the funds to conduct the prosecu­ tion The population of Massachusetts, ac­ cording to the census just completed, is 1,640,000....A disease similar to the old epizootic has broken out among the cattle near Avon, N. ¥. Forty died within two weeks. JUDGE GILBEBT, of Brooklyn, in the case of a colored man who applied for a mandamus to compel the Board of Education to admit his son to a school set apart for white children, de­ cided that Che system of common school educa­ tion was established for the public, and all personsliad access to it. The Board of Educa­ tion iiad no power to exclude any. CAPT. JOHN C. JONES, of New lork city, com­ mitted suicide by jumping over Niagara Falls, a few days ago... .Three men were killed and a number wounded by the explosion of a eel- luloid factory, at Newark, N. J., last week. THE WEST. THE wheat crop in Minnesota, Iowa and Western Wisconsin was badly damaged by the recent heavy rains....An excursion train of six cars on the Atchison and Nebraska railroad was thrown into the ditch a few days ago, near Brenner Station, Kan., and three persons killed and eight or ten badly wounded. The accident was caused by the spreading of the track. The train was conveying persons to Atchison to at­ tend the bridge celebration. GOBDOX, the Black Hills adventurer, has backed out of the suit which he commenced ' with so much flourish against the military au­ thorities, at Omaha for false imprisonment, and paid the costs of the litigation A fire at Virginia City, Nevada, last week, destroyed $125,000 worth of property.,. .The jury of in­ quest in the case of Ralston, the San Francisco Ipanker, returned * Verdict of peridental death. - • IT now transpires that the failure of the Bank of California was not caused so much by a con­ spiracy on the part of its enemies as by the ras­ cality of the late President. The directors of the institution authorize the statement that Balaton's defalcation will amount to between three and four millions of dollars, and that a large over-issue of stock has also been discov­ ered. The directors, for a mysterious reason, decline to-let the public know what particular use was made of this large sum of money.,.. John N. Edwards, of the St. Louis Times and Emory S. Foster, of the St. Louis Journal, fdught a bloodless duel last week in Winnebago county, HI. One round was fired at twenty paces with navy revolvers, the bullets whistling harmlessly in the air. Edwards demanded an­ other shot, but Foster declined. After consid­ erable parley the affair was amicably settled, the belligerents shook hands, the genial Borj- fcean rtr-s produced, nud . the agreeable termina­ tion of the trouble generously toasted. The difficulty grew out of the Jeff Davis Winnebago county controversy. Another aeronaut has met with a tragic death. A msn calling himeelf Prof. Ariel, traveling with a circus, made an ascension in a hot-air balloon at Jackson, Mich., last week. On de­ scending, the balloon seemed in danger of striking oil the railroad bridge, and the occu­ pant, to eavte himself, jumped into the water and was drowned.. ..The pesky grasshopper has turned up again. Millions of them have recently b*en seen traveling over Central and Southern Illinois in a southeasterly direction. Fortunately they can do but little hariQ to the crops this season, but damage is to be appre­ hended next year in localities where they may alight at this time. MB. FISHER, an Alderman of St Paul, was recently expelled from the City Council for ac­ cepting bribes and appropriating to his own me some property purchased bv the city--the property being seventy-five bushels of oats. THE Commissioners appointed to treat with the Sioux Indians for the purchase of the Black Hills arrived at Red Cloud Agency on the 6th of September. About 16,000 savages had collected at the Agency. The Commissioners were hopeful of being able to make a treatv A serious Iftdian outbreak is reported in East­ ern Nevada and Western Utah. Gen. Scho- field has sent troops to that region, and will himself go to the scene of the jjisturbances . Hie amount of grain in store in Chicago on the Sth inst. was 611,717 bushels of wheat; 1,517,. 689 bushels of corn ; 311.125 bushels of oats; 58,855 bushels of ry<£ and 32.080 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 2,531,460 tmshek, against 2,983,958 bushels at the tame period last year. THE SOUTH. " DISPATCHES from Yazoo City. Mis*., give brief and imperfect accounts of a riot between ne­ groes, a* apolitical meeting in that place, on the 3d inst. One of the speakers denounced some one ae a thief, the lie was given and shooting com­ menced. Fifty shots were fired. Several were wounded, and Dick Mitchell, If ie Republican candidate for Mayor, was killed, and W. H. Foote. a prominent colored politician, was mortally wounded. The dispatches state that no whites were engaged in the aJIair, bat it is added that they were arming. AKOTKEE dishonest bank official has bieo de- tectod in his nefarious work--this time at LonumUe, A few mornings ago Louis Ehem, teller of the Plantem' National Bank, went to a police station in that city, and, pretending that he was unable to articulate, wrote on the elate that his wife had been chloroformed and he «iad been liken to the bank an1! forced to open the vaults by four men, who had robbed the bank. His clothes were bloody and he ex­ hibited several wounds. HiA nU«y was not be­ lieved, and after some ehkrp cross-questioning he confessed that he had stolen the money, and conducted the officers to the spot where he had it concealed, under the floor of a pri­ vate gymnasium, in tbe rear of his residence. Here the whole of the plunder, consisting of $100,000 in cash and $10,000 in bonds, was found wrapped in a sheet and buried under the sawdust He gave as a reason for the crime that he had been speculating and lost money. A DISPATCH from Sandersvillo, Ga., says the trial of Corday Harris, the negro accused of attempting to incite insurrection among the blacks in Washington and Burke counties, re­ sulted in a verdict of acquittal. It thus turns out that the alleged insurrection was only a big scarc Louis Rohm, the Louisville bank tel­ ler, confesses that he had been robbing the bank for some time, and covering the thefts by false entries... .On Friday, the 8th day of Sep­ tember, the good citizens of Fort Smith, Ark., we're regaled.by a eight that never before met the view of any other people within the United States in time of peace, namely, the simultaneous banging of six murderers on one gallows. The culprits were John Whittiugton, white, aged 31; Daniel Evans, white, aged 20; Smoker Man- killer, an Indian, aged 19; Samuel Fooy, a half- breed Indian, aged 26; James H. M001& white, aged 17; Edmund Campbell, a nogrb,Tiged 20. Two thousand people witnessed the ghastly spectacle. All of them died "game." MOKE race troubles are reported in Missis­ sippi. During the progress of a colored polit­ ical meeting at Clinton on the 4th of September, a white man in the audience called one of the speakers a liar, which led to an indiscrim­ inate fight. Over a hundred shots were fired, and three whites and four blacks were killed, and a large number wounded on both sides At the recommendation of the grand jury of Washington county, Ga., all the negroes in­ dicted for complicity in the alleged insurrection have been discharged from custody. TOUCHING the riot between whites and blacks at Clinton, Miss,, a press dispatch from Vicksburg gives the following version of the origin of the row: There is a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in Clinton. Young men from Raymond brought a bottle with them, and while speaking was going on, Martin Severly and somia of his friends went off & short- dis­ tance to take a drink. The negro Marshal for the occasion approached them and forbid their drinking. This order was not regarded, when the negro attempted to take the bottle out of Severly's hand. Severly finally struck the negro over the head with a bottle. Senator Caldwell (colored), started to settle the diffi­ culty, and was followed by some 20 negroes, whom he ordered back, but about 100 more came rushing up, when some one fired a shot, which was followed ^y a general firing and stampede. A DISPATCH from 'Vicksburg, Miss., dated September 7, says: "A white man named Hef- fer is reported lynched at Utica yesterday morning. Two negroes Are also reported killed at Raymond last night. One of the negroes who mutilated the body of Sively, at Clinton, is reported killed. John Neal, one of the whites' wounded at Clinton, is since dead. The total number of negroes killed in the fight at Clinton flfhowrestimated* at twenty-five. All is quiet now in the lately disturbed districts, and the negroes are suing for peace. No further trouble is apprehended 'in any quarter. Gov. Ames has issued a proclamation calling On all armed bodies of men, organized in defiance of law, to disperse. THE bank of F. B. Hancock & Co., at Green, 'ville, Ky., was recently entered by burglars and robbed or $34,460... .Jeff Davis delivered an address before the Agricultural Society at De Soto, Mo., on the 8th of September. WASHINGTON. THE Secretary of the Treasury is sanguine that the Syndicate will take all the remaining 5 per cents, by the 1st if next November. In case they do the negotiation of .the new 4% per cents, will be at once begun. 6ENEBAL< THERE is a prospect of a row between the United States and Great Britain. An American vessel wa3 recently sold in British waters in violation of American law regarding such A demand was made upon Great Britain for the return of the vessel to this country for seizure, but the British government refused to comply. The United States government has therefore given orders to seize the vessel if ever found in American waters. A BOLD robbery is reported from Huntington, West Virginia. Three men entered a bank at noon, and,' placing pistols at the head of the Cashier, compelled him to open tbe safe, from which they took$15,000 and decamped.... The New York and Erie Bank, of Buffalo, N. Y., has suspended. THE Philadelphia experiment of shipping peachee to England has proved a failure. The fruit all* rotted before reaching Liver­ pool. THE Governor of Mississippi, Adelbert Ames, telegraphed to President Grant, on tbe 7th inst, regarding the alleged domestic violence in Hinds and Yazoo counties, and inquiring if his proclamation of December last was still in force, and stating if it was not, he would at once make formal application for Federal aid in accord­ ance with the provisions of the Constitution. The President replied that the proclamation of December was not in force. Gov. Ames im­ mediately telegraphed back that domestic vio­ lence prevails in various parts of the State be­ yond the power of the State authorities to sup­ press, and made formal application for such aid from the Federal government as may be neces­ sary to restore peace to the State, and protect its citizens. . ,FOUTICAL. A DIBPATCH from San Francisco, dated Sept 3, says: " The election returns come in very slowly, but it is sure that the Democrats have carried the State by a plurality of nearly 20.0Q0, and a majority of about 10,000. tfhe city gov­ ernment is mainly Democratic." THE Democrats of California have elected their State ticket by about 30.000 plurality. THE New York Republican State Convention assembled at Saratoga on the 8th of September and nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, FredericksW. Seward ; Comptroller, Francis E. Spinner: Treasurer, Edwin A. Mer- ritt; Attorney-General, George S. Dan forth; Engineer and Snrveyor, Oliver II. P. Cornell; Canal Commissioner, Wm. L. Tinsley; Inspect­ or of State Prisons, Benjamin D.. Ives. The platform pronounces against an increase of the currency, favors a speedy return to specie payments, and opposes the election of a President for a third term.... The Democrats and Reformers of Wisconsin held their convention at Milwaukee, on the 6th inst The present State officers were nomi­ nated by acclamation, as follows: Governor, Win. II. Taylor; Lieutenant-Governor, Charles D. Parker; Secretary of State. Peter Doyle; State Treasurer, Ferdinand Kuhn; Attorney- General, A. Scott Sloan; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Edward Leasing. The platform favors a sound currency, in coin or equivalent, a tariff for revenue only, and the sovereignty of the State over corporations of its own creation. / "" t*f~ •' lv rOBElQM« PEACE once more roigns in the South Ameri­ can States of Colombia. The commanders of the government army and the army of the in­ surgents have signed a treaty The British iron-clad war steamer Vanguard--one of the strongest of the navy--has been sunk in the English Channel by coming in collision with another war vessel... .The anniversary of the surrender of SeSdan (Sept 2) was observed throughout Germany as a holiday and a day of general rejoicing. THE"London Times urges the interference of Great Britain in the Herzegovinian troubles--The Chinese government is pre­ paring to send diplomatic representatives to the leading Western nations. According to the report, they will be preoeded by a roving mis­ sion, similar to Burlingame's, under Mr. Hart, Inspector of Customs, LATE Efiropean advices state that the leaders of the Turkish insurrection have agreed upon a manifesto, demanding the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina under a Christian Prince, to be chosen from one of the European dynasties Advices from Spain state that an English steamer has succeeded in landing at Motrico a large cargo of war material for the Carliats, including four pieces of artillery, 5,000 rifles, and 100 cases of cartridges. THE London Mark Lane Express of Sept 7 says the bulk of the European wheat crop has been gathered in good order. The crop is short as a whole, and the qualtity inferior The German pilgrimage to Louides will not take place this year. THE Russians have gained a great victory over the Khokand rebels in Centra] Asia.. >. A dispatch from Constantinople says order has again been completely restored in Bosnia; and almost restored in Herzegovina. FINANCE ASP TRADE. ' Weekly Review ot the Chicago Market. FIN AN CXAI* Currency has been going into the interior quite freely during the past week, indicating the early marketing of crops. Money is Abun­ dant and borrowers with good collateral have ne difficulty in obtaining favors. Rates 7@10 per cent., according to time and security. Bonds firm and steady at former quotations. BBEAD8TUFF8. v The grain markets have attracted consider­ able attention from speculators - and operators generally, and quite an Pxteiisive business was transacted. Values have been somewhat ir­ regular on the whole range, but the closing quotations show some improvement on wheat and oats, although the fine weather for the growing crop prevents any material advance­ ment or permanent improvement in the corn market. The September shorts have been making provision for their contracts, and at the close of the trading had settled mainly in the October option. The receipts of all kinds of grain except corn are increasing, while the shipments were somewhat larger, especially of com. The bulk of shipments of the latter were of corn received on matured or maturing contracts of options and forwarded by the re­ ceiver. The demand from August E&joy&Jatfkl wheat up to *1.I7J^" early In" tne \veclr, nuW trie market closed easier under less activity in the demand. Oata were fairly active on specula­ tive account. Rye and barley, quiet. The following tablo shows*the prices current at the opening and close of the past week: No. 2 ap'g wheat, cash No.2,seller September No. 2, seller October.. No. 2 corn, cash No. 2 corn, seller Sept. No. 2 corn, B. October No. 2 oats, cash... No. 2 oats, seller Sept. No. 2 oats, s. October. No. 2 rye, cash ... No. 2 rye, 8. Sept No. 2 barley, cash.... No. 2 barley, ft. Sept.. No. 2 barley, B. Oct... No. 3 barley, cash. . , Opening. Q1.13X (31.13 V @ .62 . @ .62 <$ .63 .34 @ ,34V @ .34 « .37% @ .81 .78 @ .79 @1.10 (#1.08 @1.04 @ .94 Cloning. @1.14* <81.19.* <3 .62* @ .62# ® .(>2% .35* .34J8'<» .35 .78* ® .7«X @1.09 @1.08 @1.04 <» .85 .62 1.08 PBODCCE. Trade" in butter during the past week was again only moderate and transactions were confined mainly to the local trade. The arri­ vals during the week were rather meager, par­ ticularly of choice, of which the cupply at the present time ia very light. The advices re­ ceived from the , East continue unfavor­ able and the demand 011 shipping ac­ count consequently was limited. For the better qualities of butter the demand continues good, and prices ruled firm, but me­ dium grades were but little called for, and for these it was found difficult to make sales. There was no change of importance in prices. Beans under a light demand ruled dull and very quiet. Prices were unchanged and quota­ tions were at £1.75(a)1.80 per brl for good to prime Eastern mediums, and $1.00^1.75 for Western, according to quality. There was nothing of coiisequeucc done in beeswax; quot­ able at 2(ifa28c for prime yellow. The reports received from the country in regard to broom- corn were more encouraging, and holders were more disposed to realize. There was rather a weak feeling developed, though no particular alteration was exhibited in values. We quote hurl at 10>£(M)12C for No. 1 to extra, such as can be worked into a choice hurl broom lOJ^Yallc, and good do 9@10c ; crooked G@8J^c. The amvali of berries were fair, and they consisted mainly of blackberries, for which there was a fair demand when in prime order, but there were some received that were common lots on the market, which were slow sale. The market closed at $3.50@4.00 for choice Wil­ sons, in sixteen-quart cases, &3.00(«3.25 for Lawtons, and S?1.00(?j?1.06 for wild, according to quality. There has been some accumula­ tion m the stock of cheese, but there was 'no improvement in the demand, and the market was a shade easier. Quotable at 10c for prime factory m lots, and at 11c in a retail wav; com­ mon ranged at 5@9c. There were eorne new cranberries on the market, but thev were not desirable and could not be sold. Dried fruits were sternly and firm, thongh the amount of !Si F transacted was light. Eastern apples quotab e at about 10c when choice and re­ packed. Halves peaches firm at 11c, and black- h at &bout llc- There was no at * 2 * 0 0 / , ! 9 , a " d P r i c e s w e r e n o m i n a l 17^ i choice green and aU.G0(Vd I-'5 fur marrowfat. The supply of e-'trs was ample but there being* so -rnanr lots in bad order, buyers were rather re- f purcluwi,1S- The market closed fnv Ti ,r ;'uara,)teed cases ; lots in tubs and barrels M ere almost mutable. Prime live geese feathers were a shade firmer, but the 52rJ^ W U1K:hall^d; quotable at 52fe.o3c for the above-named kind 25o for turkey tai and 3c@5c for chiken ' The rl ceipte of all kinds of green fruit* were more %,;ii sufficient to supply the demand, and the market ruled dull. A good many consignment! were received in poor erder, and lh<So in a good many instances had to be thrown awav Apples ranged at a0c@2.00 for poor to f«.ir S2.25(«2.75 for good cooking, and •?3.00frf3 50 for choice eating. Peaches sold all tluT*av from lOc'to i?3.00 a box for Eastern, and the market closed at aoout $2.00(»2.50 for good to choice. The majority of the Dears offered were in poor order, and for this reason sales were exceedingly slow. Quotable at ^2.00(^2.50 for- Eastern in good order in ^-bu boxes, and 75c @$1.90 for X*1"1 boxes. Plums quiet at #1.00 @1.25 for baskets of damsons; wild were un­ salable. Grapes sold at 5(^10c per lb, accord- ng to quality. Tbe game received was in verv poor order, and but few lote sold at remunera­ tive prices. Choice of all descriptions was in fair demand. Prairie chickens in good order sold at $2.00@2.50 per doz. Hides were as active as tko offerings would admit and former prices were main­ tained. Quotable at 8Wc for green salted, 13c TT _ 1 auu *UA UIMUO^VU* UU11UV WHO unsalable. There was a fair demand tor choice nutmeg melons at •«,1.00@1.25 per crate, but the bulk of the offerings were green or else in poor order. Potatoes remain dull at 75c@ $1.00 per brl. Sweet potatoes sold slowlv at £3.50(0)3.75 per brl for yellow Jerseys, $3.00 •for yellow Illinois, and from 20@40c in one- third bushel boxes. Veal was dull and prices were rather weak, receivers generally being anxious to keep their stock well closed out, on account of the warm weather that prevailed. Sales ranged at 4(®8c for common to choice carcasses. Vegetables were also dull, and the offerings of all kinds were in excess of the de­ mand. Prices were weak, as follows: 50c per bu for tomatoes, 61.00@1.50perbrlforonions, 75c@1.00 per doz for egg plant, and $sl.00@ 2.00 per doz for cauliflower. COOFEBAGE, LUMBER AND WOOD. There was no business of consequence doing1 in the market for cooperage. Notwithstanding transactions were limited a steady feeling pre­ vailed, and there was no change to note in prices. Quotations range at $1 <12^(3)1.15 for pork barrels, $ 1.35@1.15 for lard tierces, i?1.90 @2.10 for whisky barrels, and 45@55c for Bour barrels. There was a good supply of lum­ ber on the market, and there the demand was also very good, ibices wero steady at the fol­ lowing quotations: Joist and scantling, $8.00(® 8.25 ; boards and strips, f8.00@16.00, according to quality; shingles, $2.00@2.70 ; and lath, $1.50. The movement was again vei-y light in wood, and there was no alteration to note in values. Quotable at $8.00 per cord for hickory, $7.00 for maple, $6.00 for Deech, and $5.00 for slabs at the yards. SEEDS AND HIGH WINES. There was quite a brisk movement in timothy during the week, but prices under largely in­ creased offerings were a shade easier. "The" arrivals consisted largely of common qualities, but the offerings of really prime were light. The market closed at $2.20@2.50 for poor to good, and $2.50@2.G0 for prime. Clover was very quiet, and light sales of prime medium were reported at $8.00. Flax was steady and in fair demand. Sales at $1.40@1.50 for fair to good crushing. The other kinds were en­ tirely nominal. Highwines were quiet, and the market closed a shade easier, sales being at $1.18%. \ PBoviBioNs. There was more- interest developed in this market during the week just past, and transac­ tions were generally made at a shade better -prices, excepting lard, which was a trifle weaker. The market was governed mainly by local speculative influences. The receipts of hogs during the week were only moderate and for these prices were generally maintained. Mess pork was in good demand and closed firm at $21.00 cash and seller September, and $20.85 seller October. Cash lard closed at $13.00@ 13.10, seller September at $12.95@13.00, and Beller October at 13.05. BASK OF CALIFORNIA. Telegraphic Market Reports. NEW YORK. BEEVES $8 00 @13 00 HOGS--Dressed 10 (G 103^ COTTON 14*@ 15»£ FLOUR--Superfine Western 4 10 ^ 5 20 WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 24 @ 1 25 COHN 69 @ 73 OATS 48 @ 55 RTE * CO @ 96 PORK--New Mess ..; 20 26 @20 76 LABD--Steam 13*@ 13* WHEAT--No. 2 Red 1 48 COBN--No. 2 68 OATS--No. 2 ; 34 RYE--No. 2 *71 POBK--Mees .21 25 LABD 12? HOGS 7 85 CATTLE 5 25 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 1 19 No. 2 1 13 COBN--No. 2 86 OATB--No.2 93 R*e 77 BAULK*-No. 3 . 1 08 CINCINNATI. WWUfcwJfclr., vS-i .-.t ;Y. 13 COBN OATS ... lint POBK--Mess.. 20 75 T.ian TOLEDO, WHEAT--Extra Amber COBN 68 OATS 39 PETROIT. WHEAT--Extra 136 No. 1 White 125 No. 2White... ...119 Amber : t i 1 20 1 38 1 28 CORN OATS BARLEY--No. 3 POBK--Mess.. CLEVELAND. WHEAT--No. 1 Red No. 2 Red CORN OA*S 01 49 & 69 @ §5 @ 72 @21 13 @ 8 10 @ C 25 <3 1 20 @ 1 16 @ 68 @ 36 ® 79 0 1 10 « I SO @ 73 @ 60 & 82 @21 00 O 14 @ 140 @ 1 30 @ 62 ® 42 @ 1 39 @ 1 27 @ 1 21 1 21 @ 66 & 42 (A 1 25 (£22 00 @ 1 2 $ @ r 35 @ 70 @ 44 Love and a Mule. The Newark Evening Courier', a news­ paper remarkable for its veracity, says of one of itti citizens : "He roae early and gulped down his morning cup of coffee, as if hifflife depended upon his haste. Then he rushed to the grand- delivery window of the postoffice, and inquired for a letter. The clerk handed him a per­ fumed missive, directed in a fair round hand. He ripped open one end of the envelope with his lead-pencil sharpener, and commenced to read as he crossed Broad street toward Center Market. What to him were the country wagons, with their loads of beets and cabbages ? He read : * As I sit by the open window and hear the waves thunder upon the shore ' There he stopped suddenly and tumbled into a basket of squashes, as if a thunderbolt had been launched at the seat of his thirty-inch pataloons. That was where it struck. ' Hello, mis­ ter. Say, can't you keep away from that mewl?' sang out a bronzed agriculturist from Caldwell. ' Help yourself to squash,' yelled one of Lew Francis' students from the tonsorial chambers of the market building. He gathered up his girl's Jet- ter dripping with black mud, surveyed the* photograph of the mule's foot upon the base of his pantaloons, and limped disconsolately away. The course of true love never did run smooth." Extraordinary Chess Pl&jring. Mr. William H. Mundy, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., recently played at that place twenty-four games of chess at one time, against twenty-four different players, without sight of men or boards. The games were played at the residence of Judge Josiah 1. Miller, the player meanwhile sitting on the stoop, chatting and answering questions about the games. This is eleven more games titan were ever attempted at one time before. A dispute arose about the position of the pieces in two of the games, and Mr. Mundy stood up before the guests and called off all the moves that bfnl been made in the games and the position of the pieces on the boards. He had pre­ viously played six games at once in Hudson, N. Y., and again in Geneva, N. Y. When 14 years old he beat some of the best players then living, but has played little since. ^THE Adams Express Company employs 8,000 men, 1,900 horses, and 1,200 rail­ way cars, and tlieif special messengers travel over 100,000 miles a day. Reaction ot Popular Feeling--The Con. •Piracy That Drove the Bank to the Wall and Italston to His Death --Re­ sumption of Business. raaa Francisco (Sept. 2) Cor. Chicago Times.] The public seem to have lost all inter­ est in politics, and to think and talk only of Ralston and his bank. There wa» u time in the history of California that the men who hastened this great ca­ tastrophe, and hounded to his death the most enterprising citizen in California, would have been seized and hanged to the first Jamp-post. But the old days of vigilance committees and unre­ strained passions have passed. San Francisco to-day is a city of civilized and law-abiding citizens, and the ven­ geance which individuals deal out to the authors of calamities like these is the vengeance of social ostracism. The two newspapers which have aided the main conspirators in this hellish work are los­ ing their subscriptions by hundreds. Their managers are repudiated by the public, and there is but one sentiment expressed for the dead financier--that with all his faults he was a man among men, and nil his troubles, which ended in his tragic death, have been caused by the successful scheming of his enemies, and not from any fault, much less crime, of his own. This is the situation in the financial world of San Francisco to-day. Our people are divided into two classes-- the men who swear by Ralston and are determined to vindicate his honor at all sacrifices, and those who depend on Flood & O'Brien, the men who aspire to take Ralston's place, and who, of course, hurl epithet on epithet at the dead man, the latchet of whose shoe they are not worthy to unloose. It is capital pitted against capital, and the only ques­ tion is, which of the parties--the Bank of California or the new Bank of Nevada, Flood & O'Brien--can swing at once the most brains. The Bank of California, when it begins anew, will represent an aggregation of capitalists, while the Bank of Nevada will represent simply Messrs. Flood & O'Brien, who control the Big Bonanza. The sympathy of the public at large is decidedly with the bank which has long represented the State abroad, and its credit, in spite of the unfortunate events of the past week, is in no way impaired. All its large creditors have agreed to give it an elab­ orate extension of time, and the Oriental Bank extends all the credit it desires un­ til the present difficulty is tided over. While Mr. Ralston was living, and the first shock of the awful calamity was thrilling the public, the friends whose fortunes he had made, and stockholders and Directors of the banks, whom honor should have made to stand with him, de­ serted him in a body. This was the crowning blow which broke the great banker's heart. He was a man of honor, and the moment the crash came, he turned every cent of his personal prop­ erty, to be applied to the payment of its debts. The Directors repudiated him, and forced him to resign his posi­ tion as President. Then ho^ went forth to his death, and Ralston dead is appre­ ciated by those who deserted him living. " I am worth," said Mr. Sharon, at the Directors' meeting yesterday, "fifteen millions in solid wealth and permanent real estate. Mr. Ralston was my friend. Through him 1 made it, and I shall de­ vote the full half before there shall come a stain on his honor." D. O. Mills, so cold and impassive as we had, thought him, responded to the generous senti­ ment. Michael Reese gave his adherence to the determination to banisli; all idea of liquidation through bankruptcy, and the board, with entire unanimity, re­ solved that California's great financial institution should not go down in shame and dishonor. The Chronicle this morning pub­ lishes a positive statement to the effect that the bank has reliable assets of 814,000,000, and nominal assets of $20,000,000. and an indebtedness of $13,000,000; the coin in its vaults is $850,000; a guaranty fund of ^5,000,000 to #10,000,000 is nearly all pledged, and resumption . is assured immediately. Similar statements are being spread abroad. Biography of Ralston. William Chapman Ralston, late Presi­ dent of the Par.k of California, who so strangely lost his life, was born in the village of Wellsville, 45 miles from Pittsburgh, and was at one time clerk on a steamboat plying between that city and Cincinnati. He is very well known in Pittsburgh, and Mr. J. N. McCul- lough, General Manager of the Pennsyl­ vania company's railroad lines, hnd Gen. F. R. Myers, General Passenger Agent of tliis institution, were boyhood compan­ ions of Ralston. The latter's father was owner of a saw and planing mill at Wellsville, and conducted boat-building, and in the years 1847 and 1848, he suc­ ceeded in placing his son as second clerk 011 a steamboat. In this position, and more responsible ones subsequently, he became acquainted with quite a large number of our merchants and business men. He became engaged to a lady in New York, about 1848, who, through death's intervention, was not destined to become his companion. Shortly after the breaking out of the excitement at­ tending the discovery of gold in Califor­ nia, Mr. Ralston also caught the gold fever, and left the river trade to seek his fortunes in Eldorado, via Panama. Very early in his career lie jumped into all sorts of speculations, and soon amassed a handsome competency. Stock opera­ tions and mining enterprises were his favorite fields. He entered the ill-fated Bank of California when it was quite a small institution. Ralston, in course of time, roso to be its cashier, and after­ ward President; and its capital stock tjeing increased from $2,000,000 to $5,- 000,000, the bank, under his manage­ ment, soon became a very influential inr stitution. Cause of Floods. The frequent and protracted droughts that have afflicted the earth during some years past have been ascribed to the in­ creasing destruction of forests, and now the excessive rains and floods of the present season are in a measure referred to the same cause. Forests have a great effect in equalizing the distribution of ice and snow under the influence of the summer heat. The existence of lumber on hillsides also tempers the flow of sur­ face water and restrains the accumula­ tion of torrents. It is a notable fact thft^ the violence of spring and summer floods is increasing in proportion to the; denudation of foriest and woodlands!/ When will men learn the unwisdom of/~ disturbing the equilibrium of natures and take care not. to set desolating fori* * ces at work by a selfish disregard of , aught but their immediate persoj^l ia- A Strange Tragedy. heading was on Tnnsdfitr the scene of oae of the most terrible tragedies that has occurred in thij State for a number- of years. At about 6:30 o'clock on the evening 111 question a woman of medium, height and full figure was observedipass- mg over the Harrisburg bridge, a short distance from the city proper. She was- accompanied by three children, two of them girls, aged 9 and 5 years, and th© other a boy of 3. Upon reaching the far side of the river the little party de­ scended to the tow-path of the tnion Canal, and proceeded in the direction of the Tulpeliocken Creek. The children skipped along merrily, delighted wit& their ramble in the country, whilst the. mother walked moodily with them. Ai a point about two and a half mile3 from the city of Reading she was seen by ft- young lady to stop and fill a largp. basket she had with her with atones. This done, she strapped it tightly to- her waist, and picking up the Utile boy she threw him on her breast, and then. , . taking one of the girls under,each of her arms, deliberately threw herself into the- canal. But a lew' moments intervened between the filling of the basket and the , fatal act, and before the aid, which came in the person of Mr. Forney and several fann-hands, who rushed to the water'® . edge upon hearing the cries of the chil­ dren, could effect a rescue, the mother ' and children had disappeared. There . was a moment of struggling and battling with the waters, and then the woman, borne down by the weight of the basket of stones and the children, sank to the bottom. The rescuing party began grappling for the bodies, and in a short time recovered two of the children; presently the third was obtained, and finally the body of the mother was- found. The mother and children were- well dressed. The bodies of the four- were laid upon the bank of the stream. Notice was at once sent to the Coroner* and a jury was impaneled, none of whose members were able to recognize the dead woman or her children. Their verdict- was that the woman came to her death, by suicidal drowning, whilst the children came to theirs by the willful act of the person (supposed to be the mother) who was with them. The dead bodies were taken to the city, and were about to be buried, when a Mrs. Bockmuehl, who- had viewed them at the undertaker's of­ fice, recognized the woman as the wife and the children as the offspring of Philip Bessinger, a German saloon-keep­ er. He was at once summoned, and made acquainted with the sad event which had deprived him of a wife and a family of children.--Pitts&ur# Chrvn-- tele. A SEQUEL TO THE ABOVE. A dispatch from Reading says: "There- was great excitement here at the funeral of Mrs. Bessinger and her three children, drowned Tuesday last. It seems from the stories of people that the woman had lived unhappily with her husband, owing to the introduction by him of another woman into the house, and that this tin- happiness resulted in a quarrel Monday, when the husband ordered his wife to leave the house and take the two gir& with her, while he would retain the boy. Next day she went to leave with the chil­ dren, and after filling a basket with stones, in which operation the children assisted, she bound the basket securely to her body, and taking the three chil­ dren in her arms leaped into the canal and all were drowned. As soon as the bodies were recovered and taken to their former home, the police had to guard the house to save the husband from as­ sault, and at the funeral procession to­ day, which included about one thousand people on foot, surrounded his carriage. When tbe bodies were lowered 'into the graves the people hooted Bessinger and made a rush for him. In the contusion one shot was fired, when the police hur­ riedly placed him in a carriage and drove off, receiving on passing the cemetery gates another shot, which it is thought wounded him, as he was carried into the house. The police are still on guard, and the people, including, many women, continue their threats. A Religious Yievr. "You see, when you done shuffle off dis mortuary coil, and de spenitt per- sente itself at the Golden Gates," argued a colored revivalist, on the levee, yester­ day, " Gabr'el gwine to ask you what church you 'longed to in de flesli." v " Yaas, I speck so," said the listener. "If you 'longed to the Missiumary Baptist; he gwine tole you walk right in and set by de foot-stool. "Ef you 'long to de Metliomdist Church he say stay on de outside whar your shoutin' won't 'sturb de angels. " Ef you's 'Piscumpalion--" " Hole on, Mr. Middleton, de aiu'fc no niggers 'Piscumpalions. Dem's all white folks," interrupted the listener. " Dat don't make no difference," con­ tinued the expounder of religion; "de principle's de same, ain't it ? Ef you're a 'Pit-cumpalioil, de angel say to you, • go over dar 'mong de white folks.' "Ef you's Caffolick, de angel pint you to de Virgin Mary, and tell you--" "But look lieah, Mr. Middleton, sposen he didn't 'long to 110 church in de flesh ?" queried the listener. "Well, what he be doin' dar den?'" asked the colored divine, scornfully. "Well," replied the unconverted sin­ ner, "I thought in dat case, li<? could do's he dam please."--Vicksbura Herald. What Illinois Lost During the War, A correspondent writes, •wishing to know how many soldiers Illinois lost during the war of the rebellion. The** following are the statistics as learned from the Adjutant General: " Officers killed, 307 ; enlisted men killed, 5,453 ; officers died of wounds, 125; enlisted men died of wounds, 2,890 ; officers who died of disease, 372 ; enlisted men died of disease, 19,035 ; officers lost at sea on steamer General Lyon, 11; enlisted men at sea on the General Lyon, 189: total officers, 905 ; total enlisted men, 27,576. In addition to these there weivs 867 deaths of Illinois officers and men in the Andersonville prison pen--making the grand total of deaths of Illinois soldiers during the war, 28,348."--Pekin (Hl.> Times. mailto:f8.00@16.00 mailto:12.95@13.00