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fnrg $tamdcaler. JT. TAK8LTBE, P0BUMIMU MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. fHE NEWS CONDENSED. » * , , THE KA8T. # lk» ifflfci uAitement has bean oaowd in •astern sporting circles by the supposed poison- lug of one Courtenay, who was engaged to row a match with a Mr. liiley, at Greenwood lake, near New York city, Immense rams were on the rwult, and Just before the race Oourtenav went to the hotel and drank a glass of i<vxi tea. In % short time he was on t»ia faick and unable to row, and the question now Is whether his tea was poisoned by some backer tit the other side, or was itself too cold for his system Peter H. Penwell. an old man of 67 years, has paid the extreme penaltv of the law at Eimira. M. for the mnrder of his Wife in March last. He killed her by chopping her to pieoes with an ax, and then 'attempted to take his own life, lacerating his person m a frightful manner with a razor. Peawell to have been insane *t th« time of committing the deed, but, being poor a&d friendless, he was able to make out a feeble defense in the courts. A SERIOUS collision occurred on the Pennsyl- , Tama railroad, near Pittsburgh, between an express and mail train going in opposite direc­ tions. Four persons were killed outright and eleven wounded, some of them quite seriously. THIS WJ5ST. A DISPATCH of the 19th from San Francisco fays: "Advices from the Indian front state that thirty-five Indians surrendered to-day. They were made prisoners and were told that they would be tried and that murderers of white men and outragers of women must be punished. Joseph did not surrender, as he proposed to do, but instead started for the buffalo country with the other hostile chiefs. The prisoners had hut two guns and no ammunition or supplies. A general disintegration of the Indians is ex­ pected. Joseph is supposed to have gone to Montana." A POBTLAJO) (Ore.) dispatch of the 20th states that the regular cavalry and Lewiston volun­ teers oame in sight of Joseph's band near the Weiser Camas ground. The savages fired upon McConville's scouts, constituting the advance guardi killed two and wounded two, and came near surrounding the whole party. The whole force, regulars and volunteers, that had been engaged in the pursuit thereupon beat an in­ glorious retreat, leaving the Indians masters of the situation A gang of Mexican horse- thieves recently made a raid into San Diego county, Cal. They were pursued and two of the thieves killed. A number of citizens went across the line to see about the matter, and were arrested by the Mexicans. Great excite­ ment was caused among the Americans at the outrage. At last accounts they were arming, and it looked as if the affair wonld become a •erious one. CORN is beginning to arrive in Chicago in earnest. The reoeipts last week numbered 4,194 car-loads H. O. Stone, one of Chi­ cago's oldest and mOst prominent citizens, is dead. THK workiagmen of San Franciseo, CaL, numbering about 10,000, held a meeting a few •veilings ago, which was orderly enough, but some of the crowd attacked and set on fire a building occupied by Chinese tenants, and hindered the firemen from "extinguishing the •ames, and thus destroyed the premises. In their excitement, to the" number of 500 or €t»0, they attempted to raid the Chinese quarter of the city, but were repulsed and kept at bay by 'fee police. ADVICES from the Black Hills report that the Indians are becoming alarmingly numerous t about Spear fish. Crook City, and other points, Mid the citizens of Deadwood were even be- ' tdbming alarmed at the close proximity of the jfrhQMlfrimr. devils. Several vecvle hadfeta* mnrafered in Spearfiah valley. ^j-,- THE SOUTH. ̂ . A DASTARDLY crime was recently perpetrated * near Worthville, Ky. Some miscreants set fire to the house of William Anderson, at an early hour in, the morning, while the family were asleep. A daughter, 16 years old, awoke, came to the front door, opened it, and immediately teveral shots were fired, eleven shots taking "^fect upon the girl's person, inflicting woundd -- which she died. THE Georgia Constitutional Convention, in on at Atlanta, has adopted a " bill of rights," which, among other things conducive to the public weal, provides that there shall be no imprisonment for debt and no whipping for crime. All races are recognized as citizens, and are guaranteed protection in their rights. s WASHINGTON. * ' JFIIATABD TATTXDE has accepted the appoint- ' 'aacnt of Minister to Bussia....The Mexican Government having profrused to put a Btop to Kids across the Bio Grande, no further action will be taken by our Government for the pres- «u!t in tLb hope that the Mexie&u authorities . wEl be able to L:; res, ?. v.d t*1 us pro-- ii i -2J»t *uy invasion of Mexican iuiitory by the ' United States forces. s. **** PRESIDENT HAVES ivill attend the opening of tkfc ^ouiBville Industrial Exposition an dept. .'<1* •••••••>. POLITICAL. SJTHE Ohio Democracy met in convention at j w "^Columbus on the 25th of July, 735 delegates fU being in attendance. E. M. Bishop, a Cincin- '.*i* I?** merchant, was nominated for Governor on S?e B1X^ ballot. The remainder of the ticket fa as follows : Lieutenant Governor, Jabez J ,Fltch ? Supreme Judge, J. W. Okey; Clerk of the Supreme Court, B. J, Fanning; Attorney General, Josiah Hillars : fltate Treasurer, A. J. Howells ; School Com- mssioner, J. J. Burns ; member of the Board of Public Works, Martin Schiller. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the inauguration of nayes as a fraud upon the American people, demanding the repeal of the Regumption act ?? uie remoiietiz&tiou of silver, commending Uie President s Southern policy, favoring the •etentionof the greenback currency, and favor- v. .£ J*® a revenue only. |V .«*•# • GENERAL. A PITTBBTIBGH dispatch of' the IFFLI says: f, -m* »*' *A11 brakemen and conductors on outgoing £ #6 ; ; freight trains east on the Pennsylvania railroad : , ^"ick here this morning, and prevented others taking their places. A new order of the : 4*>mpanv doubling up trains and dispensing one-half of tne employes was the occasion TO of the strike. Congregating to the number of Several hundred at the outer depot, the strikers the First NattaMi Bank. N. Y., of tH,000 worth of the ooach from points in the region «t the Gbeywwe the night of July 18, and when the p« u r • ig&kii 3 % 0 -4Sr. •topped all freight trains and compelled en- flsxieers and firemen to ftToandon tlieir posts ill the freight employes of the Pan-Handle' Pittsburgh and ConnellsviUe branch of the Balti­ more and Ohio and Allegheny Vallev branch of the Pennsylvar.is railroad struck at 8 p. m. No freights are leaving the city except on the'Fort J7ayne and Chicago. The engineers of the ennsylvania railroad and branches held a itteeting and unanimously resolved to strike." e. , .... A telegram of the 19th from Martinsburg atates that the arrival of the military and the • arrest of the ringleaders of the stokers had produced a favorable effect, most of the strik­ er8 having retired to their homes. At Grafton ' amd other points along the Baltimore and Ohio ®>ad the sti'ikers were still holding out. ; ̂ V , • BURNED ; Almost the entire business portion ft Owensboro, Ky., loss $50,000,000 ; the shoe . ̂ manufactory of T. A. Coolidge, at West Marl noro, Mass., loss $100,000; a match factory and Bhoe-blacking factory, on Fourth itreet, Philadelphia, Pa., loss |s40,000.... Bobberies: The house of David Garves, at Brandywine Springs, DeL, of ^11,000in United States bonds, $100 in cash, and valuable jewel- «y; the People'# Bank, of Newport, Pa., of Vt̂ OOO in money and f1,600 in bonds; Oanandalgna, I and bonds; to Cheyenne at three different river, on tMM6Q£6TH ot tiTrough running the gantlet towfouttd themselves minus money, arms, blankets, in fact, everything hut their clothes. TH* atatns of the great atrlke of railway em- plDfM the ̂ th, toiedy stated, wss about as follows: The only trains that were being run on the Baltimore and Ohio road in West Vir­ ginia were under guard of United States soldiers. Therehaabeen no collision between the striken and troops, the blueooats being held in the highest esteem. Gen. French, at Mattinsburg. issued an order warning the strikers that the troops must not be ini- peded4 and that whoever undertook it would do so at their own peril. The strike bad extended as far West as Newark, Ohio, and the Sheriff of tbe county read the not act and made a demand upuu Gov. Young for mili­ tary assistance. The strike on the Pennsyl­ vania road had increased to formidable dimen­ sions, and there was the most intense excite­ ment at Pittsburgh. Between that city and East liberty the road was literally blockaded with freight trains, he&vilv laden with goods for all parts of the East and West. The Lieu­ tenant, Governor of Pennsylvania (Gov. Hart- ranft being out of the Stale) issued & v>rru»l»rrja.tion of warning to the strikers and ordered out the militia. The strike had ex­ tended to the Erie railway, the men quietly quitting the trains as fast as they reached HornellsviJle, N. Y. The Fifty-fourth regi­ ment of State militia was ordered to proceed from Rochester to Hornellsville. and the Seveatv-ffoiirth was ordered under arms at Buf­ falo. !fhe strike on the Baltimore and Ohio road extended into Maryland, and at Cumber­ land all the trains were stopped, and a complete embargo placed upon traffic. The police arrested a man named Reuch. A large crowd attempt­ ed his rescue, and several shots were fired oy the officers, but no one was hurt. Several buildings were set on fire in the town, and the depot telegraph office was gutted by the riot­ ers. A train bringing a detachment of militia to Cumberland was fired upon, and one of the train-men wounded. The violence and law­ lessness having been brought to the knowledge of the Governor of Maryland, he issued a proclamation warning the strikers to de­ sist from acts of lawlessness, and at once ordered the Fifth and Sixth regiments of the Maryland National Guard to proceed to the scene of the disturbances. As the Sixth regi­ ment was proceeding on its way to the depot, in Baltimore, it was stoned and fired into by a crowd of roughs in Baltimore street. Several of the militia were knocked senseless by stones, and a volley was fired into the rioters, killing one man. This only served to incense the riot­ ers still further and augment their numbers. The regiment continued its march to the depot amid a perfect storm of stones, brickbats, and ma occasional pistol-shot. Whenever the crowd pressed too close, they were fired into, and thus a kind of running tight was kept up all the way to Camden station. The net results of this battle, which caused an excitement in Baltimore almost equal to that of the 1861 riots, was ten rioters killed and a large num­ ber wounded: one Captain, two Lieutenants, two sergeants, and two pQvates of the military wounded, none of them, however, danger­ ously. Ax investigation into the allegations of cow­ ardice and neglect of CoL Perry, who was lately charged with refusing to rescue a band of citi­ zens attacked by Nez Perces Indians within a short uiotallCG Oi him, proves the whole yarn to have been a lie. It was originated by one Orriu Morrill, who siuisk behind the fortifica­ tions at Cottonwood and hid himself until the fight was over A building firm in Man­ chester, England, has authorized an agent in New York to send them 200 or 300 good car- Eenters. Steady employment at 8% pence an our is guaranteed. MORE recent estimates concerning the amount of railroad property destroyed by the rioters at Pittsburgh fix its value at abou •10,000,000. THE TURKO-RU8HAN WAR. DI6PATCHES from Bucharest of the 20th an­ nounce that the Russians had completely snr rounded Rustchuk, that a column of 50,000 was marching on Widdin, and that these two places, ' togdCh^r v£th ffhnBils, WotlTn bft besieged with infantry.... Abdnl Kerim, Generalissimo of the Turkish army, has been dismissed, and Me- hemet Ali appointed to succeed him. Mehemet Ali is a Prussian, whose real name is Schultz. He has shown himself capable as a division commander in Montenegro and elsewhere A Constantinople dispatch states tl.at a large sec­ tion there believes that Mahmoud, Redif and Abdul Kerim have sold the country to Russia, and that the transaction was negotiated by Abraham PaBna Tliere was very little news from the Russian force that had penetrated the Balkan pass from Drenova to Heinkoi. It was known that severe fighting had been going on between Gen. Gourka's cavalry and the Bashi-Bazouks. The main body of the Rus­ sians, it was believed, would advance by another route by way of Selimno.... Moukhtar Pasha telegraphs from Ears that the re victualing and reorganization of the Ears garrison is now complete. A DISPATCH of the 21st from the seat of war on the Danube Bays : "The formidable char­ acter of the Russian advance across the Balkans was realized to-day, when it was learned that 40,000 men had already gone through the Hainkai pass, and that artillery was on the way. Whethei t.r not the i jaition of +he Rus­ sians L critical in exposing themselves to at­ tack in front and rear, it certainly has produ^-d a '.striking moral effect The rapid and unexpected movement by1 which the invaders have forced the his­ toric line of defense and placed themselves within the strongest outfort of the Turk­ ish capital, has not failed to produce a dis­ turbing effect on the Turks, a& is shown by the changes in the minstry.".. .'.On account of the inefficiency of the work accomplished by the Turkish fleet in the Black sea, Hobart Pasha has been sent, with two additional iron-clads, to take ©ommand of it. His orders are to bom­ bard and destroy every available town on the Russian coast. AT no time since the commencement of hos­ tilities has the European situation appeared so threatening as now. The movement of English troops, ostensibly for the reinforcement of Gibraltar and Malta, but in reality with the purpose of occupying Gallipoli and obtaining the control of uie Dardanelles, is regarded abroad as certain to b© followed by an outright declaration of war against Russia. Austria is said to be greatly pleased at the proposed occupation of Gallipoli, and the prob­ ability of an alliance with England is enhanced. British interests are likely yet to play an im­ portant part in the Eastern war. THJS Russian necmmoisance upon Plevna dis­ covered between 30,000 and 40,000 Turks, who intended to threaten the Russian communica­ tions. Grand Duke Nicholas hastily concen­ trated a superior force and routed'them The Porte's circular charging the Bulgarians and Russians with massacreing Mussulman in­ habitants gives the names of various Mussul­ man villages in which the Russians massacred almost all the inhabitants. The ciroular claims that only one survivor is believed to have es­ caped of 1,200 inhabitants of the Mussulman village of Balovan. DISPATCHES of the 26th of July from the seat of war on the Danube say: "The Fourth Cerps wiil follow the Eighth across the Balkans The Russian army of Rustchuk had advanced to the line of the Lom river, touching the Danube at Pyrgos, and is slowly wheeling on that pivot to invest the fortress. Nearly forty thousand men are now jammed into the angle between the Danube and the Lom. The Turks have abandoned the line of the Lom without fighting. One part is believed to have retired on Rustchuk and another on Shumla." GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. In the British House of Commons, O'Connor Power's motion in favor of the release of the Fenian prisoners was rejected--280 to 77.... The Town Council of Glasgow has formally agreed to ask Gen. Grant to accept the free­ dom of the city. A JASSV telegram states that the rinderpest has appeared among the cattle of the Russian army, and has already made a great havoc. THE RAILROAD WAR Conflict Between the Militia find Strikers at Pitt®-! % * * Frijflitfftl Scenes, of Bloodshed. TMt Dertrftetion ofValnable Property--Wsarlj Fifty People Killed,. Thegteat railway strike had a mo* tragic culmination at Pittsburgh, Pa., on Saturday, July 21, an attack on the military sent from Philadelphia resulting in the killing and wound­ ing of * l*rg« number of/3perscns, many of them being innocent parties. From the volu­ minous accounts of the affair telegraphed to the daily press we glean the following particu­ lars : Eighteen oar-loads of military arrived in Pittsburgh at 1 p. m., and soon after wont to the crossing of the Pennsylvania rail­ road at Twenty-eighth street, where the round-bouse is located. The home militia was then on hand and there was not the slightest disorder. After the military had been placed in charge Sheriff Fife came on the scene with a posse of fifty men to arrest the ringleaders. The Black Hussars, of Philadel­ phia, were ordered to move the crowd from in front of the Sheriff, and the trouble then be­ gan. The Fourteenth regiment, of Pittsburgh, was guarding the battery, and as the Sheriff advanced a volley 01 stones fell into the ranks. The order to fire was now given, and the Black Hussars began firing into the crowd of people on the hillside instead of at the men In front of them. The shots were returnM from the hill­ side, and several volleys followed. Fourteen men were killed and sixteoik wound­ ed, many of them innocent parties. The home militia did not fire a gun, but dropped on their faces, and when they arose the crow<%had be­ come panic-stricken and were ileeing. Two volleys are said to have been fired after the re­ treating people by the Philadelphia soldiers, one of whom was Killed. Two members of the home military were killed, and one child was killed and two injured. It is claimed that the shooting was unjustifiable, and Uie members of the Fourteenth Pittsburgh regiment laid down their arms and returned to the city. There was intense excitement over what was regarded by the strikers and their sympathizers as a cruel and needless slaughter ofmnocent people,- and by 8 o'clock in the evening a fear­ ful mob, numbering from 8,000 to 10^000, had assembled in the vicinity of the round-house, in which the 400 Philadelphia militia had taken refuge. A portion of the mob returned to the central part of the city, raided several gun- shops, gutted them of their arms and ammuni­ tion, and returned to the round-house. They passed down Fifth avenue, headed by fife and drum, yeiiing, hooting anu firing off guns, and <?restmg the wildest excitement. At a later hour another mob vis­ ited the Great Western Gun Works and threat­ ened to clean it out. They wanted arms to re­ venge the death of the citizens of the city. The police offered resistance, but ifc was consid­ ered to be useless, and guns, pistols, etc., were furnished. The mob then broke into the arm­ ory and stole Enapp's battery. Galiinger's pawn-shop was next visited and gutted, and $800 worth of guns, etc., stolen. Brown's ex­ tensive establishment on Wood street was next visited by 3,000 of the mob, and every gun and shooting-iron available carried off. Two or three thousand of the mdb were by this time supplied with arms, and they began to lay siege to the round-house. A large num­ ber of shots were fired, the miUti^Mtarning the fire. An oil train near bv-wralVpd, fund the fiames raged with great fury. The fire was soon communicated to other trains, and the lurid glare caused by the destruction of rail­ way property lit up the entire city. A. constant fusilade was kept up all night between besieged and besiegers. The latter dared not venture out after food or drink. An effort was made to convey supper to the men, but it was destroyed in an instant by the rioters, and all communi­ cation, telegraph and otherwise, with the im­ provised fort was cut off. The imprisoned militia were surrounded by at least 10,000 desperate men crying aloud for their blood, and vowmg that not one should escape alive. The excitement was terrible to behold. No such scene was ever witnessed in this country before. To add to the horror of the scene, the rioters applied the torch to a large oil train, and the light from the flames lit up the entire city. The fire communicated to other cars, and soon 200 or 300 of them were reduced^ to ashes. Many of these trains were laden with valuable goods, and the loss from this source is estimated at $2,000,000. Many of the cars burned were loaded with grain and general merchandise. Thieves plied their vocation during the night with untiring ^ industry. Trunks co^taini^g fine clothing, silks, laces and other goods were burst open, and the'v contents appropriated. Flour, hams, fruit and other eatables wero car­ ried off in immense quantities. Scarcely a soul in tht> vvhoio [jvYn .-slept during the night. Such excitement has never been known in this part of the country, and old army officers say that the howling crowd and the peculiarities of the situation conspired to present an aspect never rivaled by the horrors of war. The streets were filled with women wringing their hands in despair and shrieking piteously for their hus­ bands, sons or fathers, who were in the riot. The crowd itself was largely composed of women who, in their frenzied fear for their relatives, made the horrible uight hideous with their lamentations and waitings. Among the killed outright by the militia were a number of women, over whose bloody bodies friends knelt in the very agony of despair, sometimes calling upon them for a word, and again urging the crowd to seek double venge­ ance for the outrage, as they term it. The mangled bodies of children shot down while clinging to the garments of their crazed moth­ ers marked, too, the terrors of the mght, and wrought the crowd to a pitch untamable and indescribable. It should not be inferred that the rioters were all railroad men or strikers. Iron-work­ ers, stevedores, miners, thieves, thugs from Baltimore, and tramps from the surrounding country, poured in to swell the mob, Renerallv leaving the fighting to railroad men and devot­ ing their own attention to plunder The hills overlooking the track and the now- famous round-house were jammed with peonle maddened by the excitement of the nicht and clamoring for vengeance for the friends they had lost under tbe murderous fire of the sol­ diery. Men with pallid, distorted faces r»HWl hither and thither, then- hands clenchod and their teeth set. The strike was not thought of A passionate hatred for the men who had oiv posed them, and a hellish desire to root out the soldiers, had taken possession of the original strikers, and, reckless of any and all conse- miences, they struggled only to work some ter­ rible damage to their opponents. This feeling was aided by the disaffection of the local militia, and the mauifent sympa­ thy on the part of citizens generally for the men who claim to have been interrupted by foreign intervention while fighting for then- rights. But to return to the siege of the round­ house. The mob, at about 8 o'clock in the evening, commenced firing into the building. The militiamen returned the fire with fatal effect. At each volley from the besieged build­ ing some of the rioters fell, and a scream of rage went up, and the anger of the crowd knew no bounds. A constant fusilade was kept up between the militia and a portion of the strikers until far into the small hours of the morning. The main efforts of the crowd, however, from midnight Saturday until 5 o'clock Sundav morning, were directed to firing the buildings and cars, but about half an hour later the mob which had been besieging the military left for some unexplained reason. This afforded the troops, who were in actual danger of being roasted alive, an opportunity to emerge from the building, and they succeeded in reaching Liberty street in a very few moments. They quietly formed in line and marched up to lhirty-third street, and thence to Pennsylvania avenue and Butler street. Their objective point was the United States arsenal on Butler street, where they expected to obtain shelter. While turning into Butler street, however, the leaders of the mob had discov­ ered their retreat, and fully 1,800 men, fully armed and supplied with ammunition, fol­ lowed in pursuit. Some of the troops fired at the citizens, either accidentally or intention­ ally, as they moved along, and this added fury to the cry for revenge. When they reached the arsenal the oommandant refused to W&dmit them. He said he had but ten men, and would be powerless to hold the place if the mob should attack it. He consented to take care of the wounded, and they were according­ ly carried into the hospitals. The main body of thfi fr.iops continued their march out Butler street, a fusilade being kept up on them by the mob as they moved forward. The shots fired killed one of the soldiers before they reached the arsenal, and nearly opposite the cemetery gate, fully a mile above the arsenal, two others were killed and were left lying on tne sidewalk. They continued their flight and crossed over to the north side of the Alleghany river, on the Sharpsbtirg bridge, the mob following them as rapidly as possible. After reaching the north side the troops scattered, and in this way the mob was divided into very small bodies. One man of the mob followed the Philadel- phians, took the gun of one of them, and, keeping up the trail, snot and killed seven men. It is said thirteen of the militiamen were killed during the retreat. In the meantime the city was in a state of anarchy. Thousands who had not joined in the pursuit of the fleeing troops gathered about the burning buildings and trains, and assisted in spreading the flames wherever they had not been applied. By 7 o'clock p. m. the fire had extended from Milevale station to Twentieth street, and enveloped hundreds of cars, 125 locomotives, the extensive machine shops, two round-houses, the depots and offices of the Union Transfer Company, blacksmith shops, store-houses, and numerous buildings making up the terminal facilities of this mammoth cor­ poration. The torch was applied to the large Union De­ pot, and the building reduced to ashes. All the Pan-Handle trains in the yard and depot buildings, together with the bridge over Wash­ ington street, and the immense eleva­ tor at the Union Depot, were next fired, and were soon a mass of ashes. There were no fire engines, no police, and no military to inter­ fere and prevent this terrible work of destruction. The mob was in undisputed possession of everything, no one daring to interpose even a lemonstrance, and (piickly and thoroughly was the work of desolation planned and executed. The total destruction of the property of the Pennsylvania railroad and freight left in its charge, and also that of the Pan-Handle rail­ road, including the 125 locomotives, <cannot be lesB than $8,000,000. A low estimate of the value of the locomotives at the present time would place them at $2,000,000, though they originally must have cost over $3,000,000. The Union Depot and hotel destroyed, owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, cost in the neighborhood of $600,000. The grain ele­ vator cost over $1,000,000, and was owned joint­ ly by the corporations of the Pennsylvania Com­ pany, though ostensibly it was run under the title of another corporation. The freight- sheds of the Pan-Handle railroad were very complete, and they were filled with valuable freight, all of which was either stolen by the mob or destroyed by the fire-demon. The dis­ patcher's office on Washington street was de­ stroyed, and in its wake followed several small dwellings located near the brick-yard. On Sutiaay evening the citizens of Pittsburgh took decision to protect the city from the total destruction which was threatened by the mob, and, organizing themselves in large numbers into a vigilance committee, proceeded to the scenes of arson and plunder, were they were successful in staying the hands of the thieves and incendiaries. A compromise was effected by the Fort Wayne Railroad Company, whereby the latter conceded to the strikers the wages paid previous to the last reduction; the strikers thereupon returned to their places and assisted in getting the rolling-stock in motion. The loss of life dining the thirty-six hours' retgn of lawlei&ness in Pittsburgh is unknown at this willing, but it will certainly reach forty, and perhaps fifty, killed outright. A large number were wounded, some of whom cannot recover. Pittsburgh dispatches of the 24th report everything quieting down. The military or­ dered from Washington was arriving; the citi­ zens had organized for defense, under the com­ mand of Gen. Negley ; a committee of safety had been appointed; armed bodies of order- loving citizens were patrolling the streets, and the crisis was regarded as passed. The mana­ gers of the Pennsylvania road sternly refused any compromise with the strikers, declaring that such should not take place, though not a wheel turned on their entire road. The Phila­ delphia military were at Freeport, where the train was lying, awaiting orders. A telegram was sent to them requesting them to return to Pittsburgh, and guaranteeing them protection. THE STRIKE IK OTHER PLACES. From the dispatches of the 22d of July we glean ttie following: At Cumberland, Md., the Baltimore and Ohio road was still blockaded, the rtrfkers having everything their own way. Freight cars were broken open l)y the mob, and a large quantity of provisions i>nd other things '.vere earned away. Women and children, with bags and baskets, rwisted in the depredations. The authorities were unable to guard the prop­ erty. At Baltimore there were several collisione between the policc and the rioters, resulting in a few broken heads. The Governor of Mary­ land called on the President for military assist­ ance, and the latter issued the customary proc­ lamation commanding " all persons engaged in or connected with said domestic violence and obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes." Nearly all the troops and marines at Fortress Monroe and Norfolk were ordered to proceed at once to Baltimore, and Gen. W. S. Hancock was di­ rected to go from New York and assume com­ mand of the forces. The strike on the Erie was spreading, and serious trouble was anticipated at Buffalo and other places. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago train men inaugurated a strike at Fort Wayne, and resolutely declared that they would allow no trains to move from that point. At Vincennes freight trains were stopped 011 the Ohio and Mississippi road, and a general strike was thought to be imminent all along the line. At Indianapolis hand-bills were posted, calling a public meeting of all "in favor of crushing tne railroad monopoly." ' The strikers began operations at Reading, Pa. They-tore up the tracks, burned the Leba­ non Valley bridge and a number of freight cars. At Buffalo and other points in New York the firemen and brakemen 011 the Lake Shore road strrck, and all freight traffic was stopped. The Governor of New York issued a proclamation warning strikers against acts of violence, and calling upon all good citizens to aid in suppress­ ing disorder. Several regiments of New York militia were called out and dispatched to Buf­ falo, Homellsville, and other threatened points. Incendi&rv strikers burned a train of thirty-five oil cars near Baltimore. The dispatches on the morning of the 24th give the following in regard to the great rail­ way war: The strike had extended to St. Louis, involving the freight trains of the Ohio and Mississippi, the Vandaiia, the Chicago and Alton and other lines centering at East St. Louis. The Union Pacific was saved from a threatened strike by a reconsideration of the order reducing wages. At Baltimore everything was quiet, and no more trouble anticipated: 2,000 soldiers were under arms, and 1,000 police­ men were patrolling the streets. There was some disorder at Philadelphia ; the strikers burned an oil train on the Pennsylvania road, near South street bridge. A party of strikers stopped a train containing a bodv of militia near Buffalo, eDtered the cars and succeeded in forcing from gome of the soldiers their mu8ke.s, when a general fight ensued. One of the strikers was killed, and several wounded on .r. . S1des, including the commander of the mihtia. The soldiers finally abandoned their arms to the mob and fled. A second collision oocurred between atfout 2,000 strikers and 200 soldiers who wet* guarding the Lake Shore round-house. The militia were forced to abandon the building and beat a hasty retreat, amid a pelting shower of atones. The brakemen and firemen on the Northern Central railroad of Mew York, and on the Susquehanna division of the Erie road, had joined in the strike. The employes of the New *ork Central road had demanded a general in­ crease of 35 per cent, on their wages. The striker* ©n the Lebanon Valley road, between Beaaing and Harrisburg, 1'a., were burning bridges and ears and wtuiiig up the rail". The fine bridge across the Schuylkill, costing $150,000, was destroyed. The Fourth regiment of Pennsylvania militia fired npon a mob that was tearing up the track at Reading, wiling four and wounding several others. At Harrwburg, an armed mob took possession of the Western Union Telegraph office, and drove out the operators. Subsequently the Sheriff, at the head of 1,100 citizens, reinstated the operators, promised them protection, and communication was restored. The strikers at Columbus, Ohio, visited many of the large factories and compelled the employes to sus­ pend work and join them. The entire mob. numbering about 2,000, then marched to the Union Depot and placed an embargo upon traffic on all through lines. At Zanesville, large crowds of strikers and idle workmen marched to the different manufacturing places in the city, compelling the men to cease work. About fifty factories were thus rendered idle. The mob also compelled mo owu6r» of tils street railway to haul off the street cars. At Indianapolis the strike had assumed formidable proportions, but no vio­ lence was being conmiitted. The trackmen employed at the Michigan Central depot, in Chicago, quit work, and there were fears of a general strike. _ As a precautionary measure all the gun stores in the city were emptied of their oontents and the arms storod in places of safety. The dispatches of the 25th note no material change in the general situation of the great railroad strike, except that it continued to spread in every direction. The striking fever broke out in Chicago in a most virulent form, the employes of nearly all the roads ceasing work simultaneously. The strikers formed in procession and marched through the city, in­ ducing workmen generally to join them. They visited many of the lumber-yards, brick-yards, planing-mills, shoe-factories, and other industri­ al establishments, compelling the operatives to quit work and join the procession. A party of strikers also visited the stock-yards and com­ pelled the workmen in all the packing-houses to shut down. Every railroad centering in the city was involved in the strike, and no trains, except those carrying the mails, were allowed to depart. There was no violence of any kind The city authorities had taken unnc>ual precau­ tions to meet any disorderly demonstration on the part of the mob, and, being aware of this, the latter proceeded very carefully at whatever they did. The dispatches reported everything was quiet in Baltimore, and no mon trouble was apprehended. At Philadelphia, the Grand Army of the Itepublc tendered their services to the authorities in suppressing any outbreak that might occur, The Philadel­ phia and Erie train men at Sunbury, Pa., struck and compelled the shopmen and ma­ chinists to join tliem. The strikers at Colum­ bus, Ohio, disclaim any responsibility for the action of the mob in closing up the factories there, and all the operatives resumed work after being out one day. One thousand workmen in the West Albany, N. Y., railroad shops joined the strikers at that point. The employes of the Wabash road at Toledo made a demand for an increase of wages. At Indianapolis the situation was growing more serious. The strikers took pos­ session of the Union Depot, and allowed only postal cars to leave the city. Over 200 special police were sworn in. A Detroit dispatch says the strike became general all along the Chica­ go and Canada Southern main line and the Toledo and Detroit branch. The strikers took Eossession of the Union Depot, at East St. louis, and placed an embargo on all freight and passenger traffic. The strikers de­ clared there was no middle ground; it was either absolute victory or defeat with them. At Buffalo the excitement was quieting down, although the blockade of traffic contin­ ued ; the citizens organized a formidable spe­ cial police for the protection of the city. At Homellsville and Oswego, N. Y., the strikers tore up the tracks in order to delay the trains carrying the militia. The employes of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, Delaware and Hudson, sind Lehigh and pusquehanna roads struck ail along the line, and no trains were being run. The Morris and Essex and New Jersey Central roads were also closed in consequence of the strike. Trains en the In­ dianapolis, Bloomington and Western road were being run under the escort of United States Marshals. At Indianapolis, Jerre Haute, Lafayette and Evansville, Ind., the strikers were in possession of the depots, and allowed no trains to leave. The strike extended into Canada, aud all the employes of the Canada Southern railroad joined the movement. Not­ withstanding the fact that the strike thus con tinued to spread in all directions, there was a noticeable absenoe of violence and disorder, the strikers and their sympathizers showing a disposition to avoid a repetition of the scenes enacted in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. From tbe copious accounts of the great labor revolt furnished by the daily papers of the 26th, we glean as follows : At Chicago, armed mobs appeared in different sections of the city, visiting the railway-yards, lumber-yards, and many of the mills and factories, and compelling the workmen to shut down. These mobs were not composed of railroad strikers, but consisted principally of loafers, thieves and tramps, many of them boys of 16 to 20 years old. TLvir efforts wfeie directed to stopping all hon­ est labor, no matter whether ihe woikmen were satisfied with their wages or not. f quads of pHcc stacked and dispeioed thceo moos in several cases, but they would quickly gather and appear in other parts of the city. In one or two instances the police forces were too itmall to compcte with the rioters and were forced to retreat. The most severe conflict was on the C., B. & Q. road, at Halsted and Six­ teenth streets, where the rioters numbered sev­ eral hundred. The police fired into them sev­ eral times before they could be made to move, the mob defeuding themselves with pistols, stones and brickbats. Two of the rioters were killed, and one fatally and several slightly wound­ ed, while three or four of the police were wound­ ed by stones. With the exception of the slight disturbances occasioned by these vagrant bands, everything was unusually quiet in the city. No freight trains were run 011 any of the roads, and on only one or two were any pas­ senger trains allowed to depart. Nearly evenr department of business was demoralized. Merchants were unable to forward goods to the interior, and kept their stores open as a mere matter of form. The express companies were unable to receive currency for shipment, and business at the banks was at a complete standstill. Near Oswego, N. Y., the strikers tore up a rail and threw a passenger train from the track ; no one injured. The Buffalo police made an attack upon a large band of strikers and dispersed them; everything was quiet at the depots, but no trains moving. On the Erie road 110 trains were running. Ow­ ing to the stoppage of freight ti aftic a coal and oil famine was threatened in Baltimore. At Cumberland, Frostburg and other towns in Maryland there was a distressing scarcity of provisions as a consequence of the blockade. Tliere was great excitement at Louisville, Ky. ; business was suspended, and the citizens or­ ganized for defense; armed mobs marched through the streets, throwing stones, smashing windows, and creating the wildest alarm an unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the Louisville and Nashville railroad offices. St. Louis was the scene of numerous riotous demonstrations; mobs marched tlnough the streets, forcing the workmen in the rnufls and factories to stop work; the manufacturing suburb of Carondelet was taken possession of by the mob, and large iron foundries closed up; the citizens were organizing in formidable force for defense. San !• rancibco was also the scene of much turbnlence, the mob* assum­ ing a moet threatening attitude; the citizens organized a vigilance committee 3,000 strong : incendiaries were busy with the torch, Kid the greatest excitement prevailed in the city. The strike spread westward into Iowa, involving newly all the prominent rail­ way lines in the State. The labor revolution was the subject of a Cabinet meeting at Wash­ ington, the result of which was Ui&t orders were immediately issued for the speedy move­ ment of all the" troops in the South, except those 011 the Rio Grande, to points in tne North where they might be available. COMMERCIAL HOTES. THE exportation of American ingot copper to England is gradually increas­ ing. SioP of strawberries and the v vegetables, with good prices, has relieved the stringency of th* times in New Jersey. took out from xork for Liverpool more than 10,- 000 packages of butter, tlie largest ship* ment ever made from the United States. nTin5^Btlri?ngton £lagB works, at Ham- ilton. Can., have been closed on account of the competition from the United States, and there is now a free field for American glassware in Canada. THE foreign arrivals of steamers at Boston this year so far are eighty-eight, against sixty-seven last year, and the imports are nearly $25,000,009, against $18,750,000 last year, an increase of one- third. NONE of the twenty-one mutual insur­ ance companies in New Hampshire paid expenses last year. All the profit of the insurance business was carried off by the sixty-six outside companies, who re­ ceived $544,548 gross pzesniums and paid $381,351 losses. THE yearly review of trade issued by the British Customs Commissioners shows that the United States has re­ sumed its position of being the chief source of the cotton supply, much to ft** detriment of India, which sent 965,000 cwt less in 1876 than in 1875. THE San Francisco mint has reopened and is engaged in coining trade dollars, a large amount of bunion having been deposited for that purpose. The supply of trade dollars has been exhausted by the export to China, and the demand for them remains active. A CABEFUL statistician, Mr. W. E. 8. Baker, declares in the Iron Age that the present production of iron is in excess of the demand, and that the prices obtained are below cost. The decrease in produc­ tion that would remedy this state of affairs cannot be br&ught about by any concert between the manufacturers. The Iron Age thinks the Sheriff will be one upon whom the application of the remedy will fall. J THE following statement shows the shipments from the iron-producing dis­ tricts of Lake Superior for the season, together with those of a corresponding period last yew: 1876. 1877. From Esc&naba. 102,144 154,444 From Marquette 122,002 182,38& From L'Anse 15,964 24,885 Total.. .......240,110 861,665 There is an increase this year over last of 121,555 gross tons. THUS far in 1877, $5,585,675 worth of fresh meat has been exported from this country to Europe, including 5,000 head of live sheep and 6,210 head of cattle. This branch of our export trade, which a year ago commenced as an experiment, is rapidly growing. The total fresh meat and cattle exports last year amounted to $1,855,191; this year they will probably reach $10,000,000. England and Scot­ land are the most liberal purchasers. IN the three months just passed the increase in the aggregate liabilities over those of the corresponding quarter ot 1876 was $1,300,000. This is directly attributable to the collapse in the mining- stock market at San Francisco. The failures there in the last quarter were $4,825,816, or $3,006,000 more than all the failures of the first half of 1876. New England makes a showing that in­ dicates the beginning for it of better days. Taking the semi-annual periods, its failures have decreased from $24,- 255,902 in 1876 to $12,657,680 in 1877. The South shows an equal percentage of gain, its failures having decreased from $10,870,162 to $5,725,500. The Western and Northwestern States have reached a stationary point, while the Pacific States and Territories have nearly quadrupled their losses, the figures being $2,462,030 in 1876 and $8,386,724 in 1877. Tennessee Romance. Husband leaves home in 1864 to find work. While at Atlanta hears that his wife and children are dead. They axe not. He marries and acquires property. She hears of his whereabouts and enters an action for divorce and alimony. 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