. L Naos front-att Nations. —Judge Lake, .of Omaha, recently delivered an opinion that Itegiatere bare no right fo refuse - registration to Ei-Confede rate soldiers or °Meer', the State law =Can ding them front suffrage being wrwarienteil by the Constitution. t • • 1 —lt is reported that heav*,shooks. of earthquakes were felt at Hilo. and clime' places, early in Septembe e r. —Prof. Coleman, Professor of- Nat. nnd Sciedce, in the Female High School of Louisville, Ky., was nearly blinded by nit ric acid, while making experiments in the presence of his class, a few days since.— None of the class were injured.' ' —The:equestrian statue of Wash. ington by Mr. Thomas Ball, to be placed on' Boston Common, now casting at Chico pee, will be ready for dedication on the 4th of July next. —The grill) elevator of P. A. -Moore .!c i Sons, with abent two hundred thousand!bushels of grain of all kinds, was Templetely - destroyed by fire Thursday morning.' The loss is upward of $212,000. The fire is supposed to have been set by an incendiary. novel walking match 'took place at the'llenselaer Driving Park, Troy, on Tuesday. It was between ono-legged contestants. Henry Wheeler made two macs in 25 minutes 1 second ; Eugene L. Demers, in 29 minutes 51 seconds ; and John Quinn in 29 minutes 55 seconds. —Robert G. Lawrence, of the firm of Janice Robinson S Co„ died at Honolulu on Sept. 12. He had .been a resident of Honolulu sinew 1822. Perkins has assumed theidn ties of American Consulate at Honolulu. —A fire at Sheboygan, Wis., on Tuesday, burned six stores and the German Lutheran Church. Loss, $20,000. —The Y\ermont Legislature assem bled Friday. It will choose a United States Senator, Hon. George F. Edmunds' term cdin' with the present Congress. Mr. Edinunds will probably be reelected. —The body found on Lake Erie 'a w days since, and reported as being that of Miss Minnie Patchin, is that of Mrs. John H. Garret, lost on the Morning Star.' —The Kentucky Democrats aro circulating a report that Ex-Gov. Seymour has promised to make Pendleton Secietary of the Treasury if be is elected President. —Thus fur the sum of $13,000 has l,cen raiscd in San Francisco for the aid of tive sufferers iu Peru by the late earth quakes. —The House of Bishops of the Province of Caitada have appointed Thurs day, the 22d inst., as- a day of genera 'thanksgiving after harvest. —Mr. George L. Richardson, a prominent merchant of Boston, of the firm of Page, Richardson d CO., deliberately eat the throats of hiktwo sons, in a fit of insan ity, early Friday titorning - at his residence in Longwood. The eldest, thirteen years of age, died soon after the tragedy. but icts thought that the other may recover. Mr. Richardson has been placed in the McLean Asylum for the'lnsane at Somerville. —The schooner For far was sunk in Lake Michigan, off Muskegon, on Thnrs day, and four persons were drowned. —A collision occurred on the Mis souri Pacific Railroad, on Thursday, about twenty miles east of Kensas City, Mu., be. t ween the wcstesn bound express and the eastern bound mail trains. Both engines and the baggage and express cars were wrecked. Five or six passengers were slightly injnYed, and one of the firemen lost leg and was 'severely scalded. . —The execution of John Perkins, for the violation of the person of Sarah J. Ford, took place at Portsmouth, Va., Fri day, Perkins made . a speech from the scaf fold, in which he declared his innocence. tJclu Tyler, Jr, of Boston, has challenged Walter Brown to a rowing "match, for from $l,OOO to ;2,000, on the lludson liver, at Troy, N. Y. —An entire block of frame etores in Sirteelith-street, Cheyenne, and several other buildings, were destroyed by fire on Wodoesdar. —i