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GREAT BRITAIN. LoNnoN, July 20.—The steamer City of Paris, wtiose arrival . ueeustown was announced yesterdmi; b'roughtas passea gars the ffarvard.-Unirepity letvi who are to row an International witch with the Oxford meth They reached this city to•dax in excellent condition, and will:immediately go latli''tfraining fbr their work. The 81st of August has been agreed toes the day for the match. The l'imitd....day c in an, articleenitho 1. Irish Church bill, urge s , that the motives which have hithertoinspirecithe House of Lords to Secure the utmost for their friends in Ireland.. *Mitt influence them to adblit The present' bill,'rather than erg than ge,it for terms inevitably, worse. t SPAIN. , MADRID, July Lersundi, for merly Captain General of Cuba, hits re ceived overtures from partisans of Queen Isabella, but reftses to espouse their cause. - The threatening attitude of the Carlist'Party causes much uneasiness. MAR I INE NEW*. SouTmosprow, July 20.—The steamer Bavaria, from New "York, has arrived. FINANCIAL All) N COMMERCIAL., LONDON, 4:30, P. M., July 20.—Consnla for money-at 93g, on account. 933i@e3g.. American isecnnties are:tinker.' .Five. Twenty bonds at London, E2.3i, do., at Frankfort, 137%@87%. Eries at 19g, Illinois at 9113‘,,,Atlantic & Great West erne at 24. LivEaroor, july 20.—The Cotton mar. kens quiet; sales middling uplands at 123rd. do. New Orleans; at 13d; sales or 8,000 bales. California white wheat at 10s 4d, red western "No. 2 at 8s 11d. Western Flout°. at 235. Corn; No. 2 mixed at 29s- 6d for old, 28s 6d for new. Oats at 89,6 d. >Peaa at 38a 6d. Pork at 99a. Beef at 90s. Lard at 70s. Cheese at 625. 'Bacon at 625. Spirits Petroleum at 7d, refined do. at la 6d. Tallow 45s 3d. Turpentite at '27s. Linseed Oil at 32s 10d. Linseed Cakes at .£lO ss. Paws, July 20. Bourse strong. Rentes 70f 75e. PicArittronr, , July 20—Eveaing.—PivaR, Twent* closetirg 97X__ HAVRE,Iy '2o= Awning. —Cotton closed heavy on spot and to arrive. LCINDON, July -21:i—Tallow 458 6d. Sperin 011 81ac Sugar _ 385 , 9 d. Whale 011 408. Calcutta , Linseed 62a. Spirits Petroleum 1034 d. Linseed 3181 b& Pe 'troleum at Antwerp 493 T. Karim, Jttly 20.—Cotton 149Xf. CUBAN REVOLUTION. Hostilities Practically Suspended—Sue cessfat Landing of Arms Kea Ammons tiots--Suppuea etappea from Baltimore. OW Telegraph touts Phuntiran ttaskstc,) NEW Yoak, July 20.—Private letters from well informed sources in Cuba re• iterate the staterneilt that - hostilities are practically et an end for She present, ow ing to the nievalenee of cholera and yel low fever. A Havana letter in the 2 ribune, dated the 13th, says:' . A stOrybas reached here from SagnaLachia that some eight bun dred men, coming from Charleston, had landecilihere, well armed, and Villaniel had united, hie fbrods with them. is also stated that won after this the insur gent troops were a ttached by troops and badly beaten. 'she , ; losses of the latter were very large. - Recently a bark left Baltimore with twenty-four thousand stand of arms and one hundred and seventy thousand rounds of ammunition for Cuba. She got off without trouble, professing to be leaded with hay, and reached her deed nataon auccessfußv. It is understood - - another-vessel-is-11kely-to furshe same port similitighted. HAvass, July 20.—The-Spanish bank - by shoat to hew- Sofia fe a - second sicfv ernment loan. The journals are engaged in discussing the Arteriole situation. Captain General De Bodes, in view of the prompt action of the United States authorities in. arresting filibuster*, has issued a decipeartioulling article seseath of prookunation oftbepth 'wit.; vela tiyearnisere to search .1-aftklW ist„Niritters near 3.117` r egt, • Diugtootitry Coneys. Centennial. - Tokarate to-4 Pittanetat elesette. • Hilumen, FL.; JulyOlL—Dartmouth College etdebtatee Centeetnial tomier row, and this: usuallynalet village is id .. reatiy erowded;to Aver/lowing with the Alumni of the , lnstitatint: Anatag the distingulshen, men present,,gradnates ,of the College,' Chief Chase,-Sen ator Pasteriern. of 'IC._ H., Hon.' aim Went pf,11141.,' General • Edweird 2 ' 46. * 4' 11 004 Zan. Harvey • ell, Of Miley, .. - Judge Cutting of Maine,. Hon. Ira Pony, Chief Juitioe of N: H., Free. Breum. of Hamilton Colkee, N. Y. Gen. Gilmatillaraton, of this State; Hon. E. A. Solline. If.reContmisitioner of In • ternal , Revenue, and Walbridge Field. ssistaat mated 'sten Attorney. • General Sherman and Aianghter are'also hare. 7 0 ailte 'of • Senator Paterson. There is- ti Seam ,Ithpe that Psaakdeut G ran t lei Amor the oeession with"bis liYeastMe, Vat It hi uld he Us stated posh.! , • • lively he shalllicif,be here, pni s tait i t Oreit Len, Oranett, ), Teltkrlolllo PntibllrStt Ossetic) ~.. - Limn JulY x 0 t~tiast. • dent 011ibtthlit:1 40 PAIVYnk 'a stroll eking the besebillfter Senator Thomas Murphy sent Ids team for the • rteeldehtll illf2alt Whit. llo e9lited4 and • is long drive taken, gime the Sea shorik . Bitt ,vim fevr, perms 4900E424‘. the President, be- Amlng 111 0 0; law after. ,toou au, exeursipn party fora Newar k ipai t ftintpekt IlhehgliaPente. There are gaits a number of visitor. here Ill) Pratientjand „este:Alva_ prepara. bona a being Grant rece p . tion tO be given on Monday ereni .g . . , next, ' .1. : NEW Yortir. Fi[limiter PrisontrArri 1 of Harvard University Crew 1n don _The Fenian rands—Usury C s—, Ship Burned at Sea—Revenue amp ( -:'Counterfelters. ay Telegraph to the Plttstpurgh-Gazette. NEW Yong, July 20, 1869. After a consultation with Marihal Bar _low in relation to the Cuban prisoners, now in Ft. Lafayette, Diitrict Attorney Pierrepoint visited the F'ort, and will con sult with the Secretary of State, W o is nowhere,-as hero, as to what disposition s Ibe made •of- them. ; They _ will .probab y he 4 1 discharged upon giving assurance Of re training from future violation of the neu trality laws. , , , . A special dispatch from queefitslown announces the arrival of the Harvard crew in:the city railiOtterirpletuiant passage:.:. They are:4l The snit of Col. John O'llifahcind against A.;_tgust Belmont and others, forposses- Sion of $20,000 in gold, belonging to the Fenian- organization, came up again ' today in the Supreme Court, special Aermcbefore,Judge McGann., The - Court finally made an orde; dirdoting the Pay-' ment of the money Id . Thotnits J. Barr. who bad been appointed Receiver. and a 'Check was drawn fur the amount. Farther proceedings were adjourned until the 27th.. Emanuel Knight and Messrs. Watts & Mair, indicted for usury, plead guilty to day before Judge Cardoso. ' 'Mail advices from England give the de tails of the kias of the British ship Blue Jacket, burned at sea in Marcb last, while on her way from New . Zealind to Englanp: "Sent ofild-rty-nitie •persous on board -only eighV•ars known 'to ,be saved. Paul Bernath, Achille Patsy,_ _Martin Frank, -John:4. Mayan*); litid. - Xaolas P. Larson, charged with being concerned In making, , . selling and using counter feit revenue stamps, were brought before Commissioner Shields for an examina tion too-day. Bernon admitted making the platee,sind WU held in Ouo'baiNfbr the action of the grand jury. Patsy, Frank, and Chavane all waived an examination, and were held in default of 155,00 u bail for the action of the grand jury. Larson demanded an examination, which resulted in a similar dispositioia of his case. At an Wertiew to-day with the report-, er of the Times, at the Fifth Avenue ho tel, Boupmpsohap, Importer of Chi nese Coolies; stated that itwashiCin tention to import one hundred thousand of these men during the coming year and hire them out at-from eight to twelve dollArs . per month and their keeping. CINCINNATI. Dcattt of an Express CashterWite liarder• .on¢; Balaton-I%W Love Drownl4 Cases—The %Beadier. •, - [By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gaaette•l CINOINNAT,I. July 20.—John Owin, Cashier of the tfnilk . Sta(es Express Company here, 'died tide' morning at Florence, Ky. John Meagher, 'en. express wagon driver, this morning at daylight, with an axe, struck bis wits on the lead two or threetimes, onstieg oil' one ear addlrao- Writ* her ;skull. 'l3uPposing 4het dead, he rushed to the river and drowned him seif. Meagher flad beeri married fifteen years. Of /ate he was very intemperate and disagreed with -his with. She' will scarcely recover.Thery , ere several children fri tee Last night Antig Girroiski called on girl who bad disiippointed him in . s a lore atfldr; 'and bade her goOd-bve-foreser. This.morning.gent-Lo, itilitabangtun Park and shot himseif thrthikh thebead with a chstpl,lfrom whiebbe died.instant ly.• He weal° barkeeper., and. hhd been in the oity four years.-- Since love asap pointasent. haa.es,n moms& . - A man gm drowned opposite Neirport today. A, sail boat,, in which he was riding, capsized. ; • ' . Ben. Hasway, ecnifectionef; at Law renceburg„ Ind., was -drowned in the Ohio river, while bathkig;lith night. Weather pleasant, emi• breeze; =emu , ry Kid noon. • • latllf3trittik, - KY. , ,: .: Drowning Acilaent—ltallro . sul Ciril En. ginner Amanita! atd Beaten—Freight Ttriff--Atiray Between Brottions. Inv elegrapnto the Pittsburgh_Eietettefi" Lerma:4LE, ,Tnly2o.—James Krippen , •lit4lbaott-vf-ttia4ircipabetof„,of the Dad/ Vo - WNW, Ihne - ellgaging in fishing ,frint a ski ff scold entally fell over boatitinOtagidirliOt . r ../E9! h I SPY has not been recovers Gen. J. M. St., Aden. late engineer of the Cinclunati 'ME Biellroadi was, assmalted and badly. 'beaten by, a railroad contraCtor natiled,Rl3oCiOelZanor,o of some.disagreemesr. concerning a con = trace. A meeting of the leading wholesale mention", of,Ais _city was _held this eveiziag at the rddi .- Trade, th.ebnsid er the beat method of securing nni formitrallreight tarigs froth Me east. It was agreed to , eioltloy iSgents .as New York and Boston, w ose duty it shall be to superintend the stip' meat. of ell mer chandise this pchot ,`• John' and ThommYtankin, framer% bad an altercation on ILaritet ,street this evening, daring which John drew a pie., tol and heed at 'Thomas. indicting a slight moved upon him. A fend *,as es isted between them fordwome Niiiaa. Both :parties hese been arrested. Polities Iti Teathesiee. e l fg9! I w. the Pt tio lo 4o G agfik e-1 &yawn:4,l4'lW §enter, Re -publicaturnossinated, 110433 r.. dates to represent "thmolotaity-ftijita-i m lae. for Senator; R. H. Harrison: p. reseetailyesa,Vf.-1 1 ., Treasere ppd. ebts• lAndaley—all Itadical;-.tbat itr faxier .ratooyfxigAMpoptical disabilities of the Ti el newly aPPaintetf Registers are. inbrealdng thOppaber cPperstall admitted to the ballot boi. In Rata Ten aanlakthiP- givas,*aah offense to 80. publicans opposed to entruchtsemebt; l aud tomb's* are aPPrehended fit the polls on election day. at eitiationliiizooto , ,ralLLAlgypam., July t—Khe collier litgett i ef the 61.)Itikelkeet r rthti ,s .Tewleb Canitregatlop,', .fttod' Of:abe leni t V was laid 41;111, 0140,i0001, on. Breed street, 'rub appropriate ceremonies; 'The build ing..whhen aornPleteti will be one of the largest Jewish Temps in thie oonntry; TITTSALTAOH, :WE I NERD •Y; si'ULY 21, 1869. OM SECOltillTloll. "n 6.l ' , of. ati cortn. Alleged y Xrginia'EledlOutiriltdl4l/0* trine #l4l.4Enstlilery Seiznies in ti9rtit: Carollna--Deatn of an Editor—flen. Wade—New Fractional Currency. My Telegraph to the Pittsburgb Gazette.) WASHINGTON. July 20, 1869. VIRGINIA 11LECTION•.-ALLEOND FRAUDS. Colonel Whitt.lesey- and a' number of Virginia Radicals are now here getting Asp documents to prove that the election -41"Virkiinis was carried by fiend. ADl daviti are - tieing ;ROWS& Vier wilr,be placed=before the Itecodstriumilini Com; mittee at the meeting of Congress. It is_ hoped by this to have the 'election *set aside, or else have en investlgiitliin s hold, and thus delay the admission of the State. HOMICIDE CASE—NIXED JURY. - The trial , of Millie Gaines, colored, for the murder, of James C. Ingle c a man, Watchman' in the Interior Depart ment, in March last, terminated to-daY. According to her Own story;she hen been on terms of improper intimacy with the deceased, with , the %prospect of, be coming a mother. "She had threatened to kid Ingle and a lady whom be had Antoortea to the inauguration reception. Minnie was subsequently interrogated by him, when she repeated the threat, whereupon he drew a pistol and placed it to her head, but could not discharge it. The accused had asked him for. mo ney, in view of her anticipated offspring, when he repulsed her. A short time af ter this - loans she . : :took advantage of his lying on a lounge at the boarding house in which she was a servant, and killed him with a axe or hatchet. The counsel for the defense set up the plea of insan ity, and numerous witnesses were exam ined on this pOnt. The father, of the pritiOner showed that from the 'time of her great"gralici-parents to'-the present period insanltyhag been a ruling sidle ,tion,,of—thEinkmll7;The Juiy, atter au absence of two mtrinftia, returned with a verdict of not guilty. Sixjurora were white and the other six colored. This is thetzstinurder trial in the District of volumbia in which the latter race served as jurors. DEATH OF AN EDITOR. Col. L. A. Whitely of Kentucky, died here this evening of consumption. Col. Whitely was associate editor of the Louisville Journal during the rise. Tri omphe' and fall of tbs. Knew-Nothing party of Kentucky, and for many years controlled the Baltimore Clipper. Sub sequently be had charge of the Wash ington bureau of the New York iterate, and during the past lbw years had tilled a prominent position on the National in tgencer, of this city. - DISTILLERY SEIZURES. The Intermit Revenue Bureau has re ceived Information of the seizure of eight tatilleries in Watt county, North Carotins. There are tWerity-five or tn.; ty more distilleries In that section. The Collector says the whisky is consumed buthe vicinity of the distilleries. IN THE CITY; Ben Wade is here. .He highly lands Secretary Boutwell's policy; is sore over thit result of the Virginiallection; thinks we ought to enter a wedge for the Sepa ration of• Cuba from - Spanish rule, and says be will probably stump Ohio for Governor-Hayes. srew cusiztricy The Treasurer has issued fifty thou sanditollars' worth of new ten-cent and sigkileezt.thoutiand dollars' worth of new fifteen-cent fractional currency. The new twenty-five and fifty-bent notes will not probably be issued before the Ist of August.. TO Bp PROSECIITED. The Conservative tiegroerfare 'raising a suorritition to defray the exienses of in dicting Cochran, a radical negro, for mot.. Add ttukn, and inciting to riot, at the recent election in this city. Captairt Bhirly, .who recently visited Sgitdge 3. S. Black,. at York, Pa., says the latter is rapidly recovering from his re ! • eerrtirlarkartry - a-railroad-acoideot mar Liouiev#lei- , , . MEMPSIB~ , .. EMI murderer Killed by Negroes—Wherf Mat" eisink—Cheertug Crap ACCQU nus— Sentenced. kes Telfsysekto tiisjiipssro _nyzette.) lifrimarts.k.Tily2W=Mheigiiel Ott:Ur sine Colßer is in thepossession of the . (sigmas *to arealbi Pursuit of the,ssur darer of Haynes. The .apposition that be had been ettptianikargi killed by tdiem. • , • 44 : 1 O 4 Wheerboge*PrrawDematianteesnk ac commehei-14404 - PqsittgerclAy• -. News from ecery quartidgives cheer ing tieecitroteof *hewn' eteicotton crop& Thoniteloo6eacd, 00110$Y Trusee. bag . beep sentedeeid to the penitentiary for five yektyrettill eltne.lnglteted of MOO. it tempo= Convent/Is. y:poi tow Pitt iiistotto.l ' Ainkolt, J'atit .110.—The Sate Probibt: laitsiquoallaawAicauxiittioiknottotlinh and alter a tree 4102 morion of opinion voted unininiotualy 'to hold S • Delegate, State Tempertill Spettr on tbe 17th of August, next: I'h Piet or obi todimittoniwiti e"upoi O a W il eY l 9 o .? 54 0 0 0 4 thl 4 4 1 Caln. * C. G. flalbaiondLapiolatadGen /rat esOeflUSObdontog t ie " la* "O M° ItallroadiAtecopaia ass pcialtlon oh:Condit ilonlhogsMdWinamairillstheVetstra -Pacific .11alkoad be compromised, so as to admit of &ow smarea to;thElf - P9b 1143 jtnd fair mt.& The Cornpanlea ave Wl'ewto eart' s freight to .New York as '49 goPtakiter PonfldryroB44ol. l lllo4 oo arranejorinitailnic teldnatatiarstirovb• New York or nit* dollars' and from Cid thfrar.sight dollars. ,TIP 7 4atizotoze. et the' colony of South end tabeillYntgathirwiato went to Bruen to mstSPysh themselve turned to New Yin* 'Ott %Biondi?. `,:-They, are theronthly disgusted with that ad-. vetiktrs,end s i very impecunious &mullion; ;/“' • • • - PEI:9O2 4 IAL. IMP TELEGRAMS. , —Tti; official ma . jority: for It'alker, ,Governor elect of Virginia, is now given AL -18,g02. ' " —The steamers Foisatia,, froth ; gam 'burg, Fniton, from Copenhagen Idaho and City of London, from Liver Pool, ar -ritted at New York yesterday. ' •• ; . . —A umber of leMing citi4nti of San Fianci co have organizpa a 'sberet,y' for l i e the p tection of Chinese fom abuse by lawles white men arid bo s. ' \ —P f. Morse. the disti griished tele. graphe ,Instained ircom and 'fracture' of th e by a fall, at - his esidenee near. Point! eepsfe, New:!brk, liaturday even ink .., _ --Mrs. Emily Fillton,, wife of C. C. Fulton, proprietor - of thez- Baltimore Anierieen, died at Philadelphit, yeater , day, after a short illnessovhileon a visit to a relatire. --- . ''' °-.. • • —A. train on the Union•Paciflo Railroad tau off the track, thirty •miles frPo2 Promontory, breaking thrOngba geet,le-. The engineer, fireman and bc.o e43lkB:lt ger were killed. • , arrested , —Several parties who. Were arres a St. Paul, Minn., for complleitY in the . Fourth of July riot. were yeatercley held to bail in two thousand dollars - each to answer the charge of emelt with in tent to kill. "—Near. Eaton, Ohio, two brothers by 'the name of Wysong got into a difficulty in the harvest field. One struck the -other with a stone and he tiled three hours afterward. Both have faMilies. The murderer Bed. . - , A large grindstone 'bursted at H. Green it Sons' spring works, in North Troy, N. Y. yesterday noon. One large piece went through the south wall of the building and another piece struck a 'nen named Michael Finn, fatally injuring him.; —Count Eugene - .de St. Clair. third 'Baron de they of France,. was married at Jefferson Market Police Court. New York, on Monday, to .Miss Fanny Alba. Sher. of Houston. After the cerimony the Count lied' from hie 'blushing brlde, who did not trouble herself much about ' —George Peabody, Esq., 'arrived at New York, on Monday, from Newport, R. 1., and left for White Sulphur Springs, Va., yesterday. While in New York be spent some time in selecting opt the various securities. composing the 81,000400 donation recently promised by him to the Trustees o; the Southern Educational Fund, consisting mostly `State and railroad coupon bonds. The package, when made upi . fdled a tin box of the size of a. small traveling trunk; and a carriage was called' in requisition to, carry it to its destination. • —A Leavenworth dispatch says the Evening Call, of last Saturday, has an sr , : tide in. which: it is stated the old Indian. Ring has transferred its . operations from the Indian 'Bureau to the • military. It claims that at the recent letting, at,the District Headquarters. at. Chicago, ef a contract to supply the Indians of Dakota with beef, Mr. Fenton, the partner of ex- GOvernor Carney was awarded the con tract at 54 45, when at; the Call claims, Mr. Mathew Ryan, of St. Louis, had a bid in at 52 75, and, D. H. Mitchell at 53 29 per hundred - Pounds. The Call also claims that littr'fßyan, as an inducement not to take the contract at 52 75, wan taken in as a partner by Carney, I). H. Mitchell& Co., and was paid eight thou sand dollars to secure the saute, object.. Fenton, Carisey's partner, of coarse. got the contract. The article excited consid erable comment. ' —A Quincy, Illinois, dispatch says: The late rains here so damaged the Han nibal and- St. Joseph Railroad, between Hannibal am) Palmyra, That toins have ceased running between tho se texts at Present. Between this place and Pal- myra a large part of the country is inun dated, and railroad trains run with • diffi culty. The Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad is much damaged. No trains left Monday morning, and no trains ar rived from Friday night till Sunday night. Ow thirty feet of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy _Railroad has been washed away pear Augusta. On Saturday night the passenger train nar rowly escaped running Into the break where the water poured through like 'a river. 'A large quantity of wheat in shock has been carried away by. high maks in Adams county. South Hanni bal is inundated, and over sixty thou sand feet of lumber haye been washed CCO/WING to observations snide by G. Davidson, Astronemer United States Coast Survey. on the night of the 28th of February, 1889, at. San Francisco, Cali fornia, on a loop of telegraphic wire ex tending thence to Cambridge, lfasitachu• setts, .an returning to ,San Francisco, the return signals being received on a chro nograph near that rezeiving the outgoing signal, it was found•that the total interval of time betweenthe two sigrult amounted _ to eight-tenths of one second, The entire wire was divided into_aleven portions, of about 650 miles each, and connected by repeaters, which sent front one - portionio the next *knew electric innent, having a /maw' gMed than the - oriene one would have haa •if continued `lxiimid the' first reach of 630 miles. be seen that the actual rate of transmission of each cutest over 650 miles tannet be deduced from these data by ikvid ll 4 . the whole time by 11,, but we are tour*, that practical sp eed of a aeries of currents Com: blued by relays* at, the rate of 7,200 miles ilitCOPfa second. ' • Mn. MIUGUT, at the Telliir Ronan din. Ear in London Abe other day, say* :the New, York Time, said in congratuMtion, that the-common* of,Engifuld waft before that of ,any other: nation*-esstal • to. that of all the world. - Strange. that.: With all , this -oommesoist..increase, the pauper population of ,the island should have doubledyithin the last „ten ,yeass—as waa hiteiahOgi* a London Poorlaw union meeting. retards I.olalld=tharOthVr _OM 4 the Xiii,gdOaillol7l. SKr emit; ins letter to. a ,Chicago de clar4thei the islindko gif, desolate beyond ,eopoepiton:P Tb4kmavriercial glory of Zughkad is evidently no test - of her c ivil izationi and some of th#greatest English l men have dedouneed dohoneree - as a de. moralization, muhtining merely the luxe ry. of the tipper • cisme& In\ this respect; we might pundy: the words of. Ciold. -ni Eves tbe to lmisib.Citlet p r ier; Where im fp, oucummatte luta nett der..... PERSONAL. MB. SEDLEY goes with the :Round Table to the, Citizen. I:imam POWERS has just sent home a new bust of Rev. Dr. W. Bellows. EAsTstArr JouNsTox, the artist, has married Miss Elizabeth W. Buckley of Troy. Adelaide Phillips have been visiting , Speaker Blaine, at Augusta. ir HORACE, GRERLET denies having sent a congratulatory. dispatch to Governor Walker. JUROR BLAcs has so far recovered as .tote able to be moved from Louisville to bis home at York, Pa. s' _ .A• Jana B. Govan is one of :the-Worces ter delegates.to the Young Men's, Chris Association Conve ntion. • ' flirts. Ei A. Por t uuto is, no in, New York, where, it is said i sh w' e is prosecute ing a suit for a divoreit froni her husband. ' Dn. HAVEN has resigned the Presidency , of:the University of Michigan, because the; institution did not give btu :sufficient • . • • ; GILMORE'S band serenaded the Execu-, titre Committee the other Eight in Boston, and afterwards 'serenaded their 'o W n P.. 8. G. - • - , Areatrw '.7613480N is announced to make a speech at Carthage,- where some body saystbe modem IttariuS can survey his own ,ruins. 47.103 Y R. Warms. widow of the late Geh. L. D. Watkins, and daughter of the late Gen. Lovell' H. 'Rousseau, died on the Bth inst. at St. Pahl, Minn. - REV. T. ilri.unt;pf thiPortsinonth H.,) Chronicle, waa connected - fifty years ago with a Boston paper, of which J. Q. Bennett was book-keeper. tbi dist,ingidsliea 'foreigners to whom rumor attributes a purPosP3 of vis iting the United States, are the tenor Wachte), and , tile,mpress,Rugenle. •• • • Pu'rutt Commies, of Tooswtkoda, N. Y., the oldest driver.on the Erie, canal, Was lately drowned ist :MI Waters sitPr forty-four years‘ of senriCe along ite banks. BAYARD TAILOR'S translation of "Fansf,'Fwhich will appear in another year, will contain one line—tnat the last —which hasnevOr betbretteen translated into Englipb, • " • ,: • • Tnoires ' E. nerd, late a county treasurer in lowa, sues ' the Davenport DemoCra; for libel, claiirdig $15,000 dam ages. The Defiocrat charged him with a deficit in thetreasu.ry. I • SoJounsiner, at Saratoga are Millard Fillmore and pile, ,Popellua.Nanderbilt ? Thurlow .37e4 Gmrge OptlYkeindreol. Provost. of Waibingtoh. chronicle the presence there, es at •,,Long Branch t of a large . Jewish element: • Mn. JAMES B. Deourrix, Ja., pub= Hebert a card denying that be was ever in the employ of the Custom house;" that he was-ever guilty of fraud or tried for - fraud, and that the Jarries,R. Doolittle ,referred to by the prints is a different breed of Doolittles. • • • •.. Mum MoxK, who drove Mr. , Greeley so *idly and jokingly down. the 11101231- tain - descent into Placerville as to coerce the'most . vigorons Salon out of the month of thephilosopher, and to make hh howl in sincerity "just once" for "protection," still lives to tell the story, which he does to every casual traveler. - Tirr: yOnngest child of the Emperor of Austria Is to be brought up an English PrincesS. Her mother has appointed an English ,unmarried "bidy 'to be head of her household (which is to be composed of English people); her nurse has been English: and the' first tongue she learns is to be English. It is . quite likely the child is to be trained up to bethe wife of an English Prince. , - WHF.,aq Marshal Serrano was inducted into office as Regent. of. Spain, four maces preceded him, arrayed m all , the glory of robes of crimson velvet. artistically dec orated with crowns and dthefinsignia of royalty in gold, with red velvet ca s, sur mounted by enormous ostrich feathe.rs of snowy white. These marched solemnly in front, and it the stem of the platform dividea, froatmg the. Regent. , THE New 'York. Sun learns that- the important office of editor of. the, New York Times has been offered to the Hon. John Bigelow, and that heholds theoffer under consideration: The attractions are said to consist of aiudaty of $lO,OOO a year,•witha large interest in the proprie. lorshipcf •the paper on ., very favorable terns. As Mr. Bigelow had just com pleted his arrangements .fora protracted residence in Europe, he niturally, heal. tatee to change his plane. Postal Changes la Pennsylvania. Barehaville.. Beaver county-4. R. Wil son.vice-B. F." Reed, resigned: E4u Clalre,'Butier county—ino. Blair, vicel. - Hamilton, resigned. Crawford county-M. Merchant, vice T. A- Gale,. resigned. Oil Creek, Crawford:county—D. W. HarfOlin, vice Peter Ross,' resigned. f'• Moon', Allegheny county-11Q' Johns- Acim , vice T. Adana. iedgried- 1, • - West Finley. • Watidluitcnr; county,— _ lamnel (kiln, vice:John Burae,.resigned. Farnassnsi Westmoreland , county—:J. 'F. Bider, vice W. B. Logan; resigned. • , Tut consumption-.of beat. Id: m an ia d throughout all .Thurarialszomeglioir wonderful; • It is 'emphatically :the us tionsl • beverage, 4unploying something. like sin thousand - - eltainishnseats;.lwhich e over , an - rtundred gtdlens : every -yea; f Sudi !though. ; lightly taxed', the moons tram aditsourcepaid into the Treasury' in more t thatt_one.balt of the entire mellesi-of 'this' prosperous King. -dour::. Thebankts z of the Main , produce good wines, but beer is the universal' gins to, the; %mew and to Wit dreslusn,theirmarliest infang almost, and druniannesa consequently Is _of rare vemailmce. ~ i ,:+immannearn yon Eltnceetzerin imam. niout papele, which are said to -contalnt mattrezeeedluglv. valuables and intereat lug essays, will be vubltabed next year, by Cott*, of Stuttgart.. , =lll NUMBER 164 The Mast Hope Disaster—The Engineer of the Freight Train In Jalb—What-He has to Say—Funeral of the Vyfttotir. • James Griffin, the engineer who;.lt. averred,:. by his own carelessness sent eight or more souls into eternity by the horrible dliaster, at Mast HOpe, Penns.,: was arrested, aslennounced in the city papers, at Salanianca. A detective. at that place took him to Great Bered,Perma.,- - ' where a warrant from the autherities was issued, and he , wa s s arrested and placed in ffi charge of ocers until the arrlyakOf pp lice from Fort Jervis and .constable from Pike county,Avho put him on : board 'the first train east, arriving , in. Port Jervis Friday at noo n.. Upon.. the "arrival of the. ' train carriages -were. in waiting.' •• - end he *as. quietly condi:lite& to - one of - them, and immediately started -for Mil ford, the county seat Of PtlM'cotffity . ,, A. ' crawd had congregated at the depOtto a glimpse of the prisoner; but- e railway ffieials manaied,the affair , so suledy that he was on his way Jail,ere his`filends or the curious could „catch a glimpse of, -him.. At Milford lie 'wail given hid:mite— of .Sheriff Cornelin son, IMO - Planed him s in- jail. We understand an effort be made to secure his release:. on, bail. The prisoner states that he was asleep at. - the , time of the accident,: and pulled the throttle' of his en-- line' while in a dreamy and half unconscious state., .He says is • extremely sorry, but •that he ought not . • to be punished severely. He confesies . that he was to blame in allowing himielf to go to sleep, but thinks his fireman - was asleep also, .and stye that he depended on -- his fireman.' He adds that he means to - tell the whole truth,, and that no man ever worked herder for 'promotion and the interests of the - ibitd than he. - ;He', - states that after the-accident he went to i- Lackawaxen, by.the ,advice_..oWoodst and then to his. home. IrtifioaqttAlMinoa._ . Having a sister • near &laments. . his wife and friends •viied anditrned • him to' fid - stay with his elate until theieffair -- had blown over,: and he .could return Irk safety - , He did not mean to . run, away. The prisoner is . small in ilater‘.and seems reconciled to his - arreskinit seems j semeivhat fearful that he will be rigoroult ly dealt' The bodies of the victims of the disas- ter, ytho have not been identified, were placed in neat cot:tits, and on Friday were' . interred in Laurel - Grove Cemetery, in :I one grave, side by side. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Messrs. Mansfield, Botsford, arid Vaticleve: A large concourse of citizens' followed the funeral cortege to the cemetery. Monday afternoon.the .ftineral` of David Baer, the. Germawwho watailled tutdburned, took place from the German LuttuirariPhtu Ms rema i ths were iptenedlitlii att*tilt. The Cornier Wending le New park. • The wedding of the Baron Lenime and, l Miss Ellen 'W. Throckmort.ori t ,,of. X,ew York, recently referred to is the Howie Journa/;_will be 'mien:ultra& titr Wedneti-:' day, the 21st inst., at noon, - at: Abe Mai- '1 deuce of Mitts Thnickmorton's uncle, Mr. Conklin& =Fifth ayetute. Tt,was orig ' inally intended that the wedding • should be celebrated in grand' style, at Christ - church, and arrangements /were made accordingly, portions of the bride's. troa. scan having been , imported,from Paris; bnt a recent bereavement in the young lady's family neces sitates a private anoPrather nidet mar.: riage. Miss Throckmor..an will be mar, ried in a • simple silk traveling suit,. and will be attended by. MisaCheever, of' Boston, as ,bridesmaid. A Youtag Ger man gentleti:tin 'of wealth and title will officiate as the baron's "beat man" tingle occasion. - At the •COBO.O the ceremony the groom will give a &I:fennel% and at ita conclusion will start with his' .brideler. Saratoga, where aparttiteiats have teen secured at a leading hotel. -The couple will visit" =my of the watering Pieces this summer, and in Augnst , they con template , sailing for, Europe. Miss Threekniorton has already been the re of many handsope wedding gifts, Some of which, sent from abroad, are par ticularly elegant. Although, .114 q in the season tor weddings, this apnitaching hymenial event' is exciting 'the' fihation-. able world, and *lll - most undoubtedly create a great social sensatianit) . -- ......... THE Treasury Department Yeateidey issued the Apt bistalment, of the 'new fractional criirency, - 01 1- thnderieinination 'of - ten' ants. Other .'denominitdonamill be out by the ist of.A.ugust c: ,Tw4P. nettes of the new Currency aieliot to contain the liteneis of any livingperion. On the-left of the ten cent note ts e-vig nette of a girl, while on the right is - sear of the Treasury, and the back. is en dorsed the same as the notes of the'old issue, . Ttie fifteen Cent notes Will bear a iepreientation of 'the dome of Shecapitol s 'sad the head of-Washington is ntilnititu ted for that of ;.kft.z.Fessenden on, the twenty•five cent notes, while.)lx. *Lin coln's face' will replace thatl' :Clare gpin riernn lie fifty cent ' notes.' - 'The paper for theta totes is •nrperior torttiatiof _the r murency nowiD.prie t andalto _ their execution is an improvement bron zing on the old .notes is" repl ay` the red' seal on tht near ones. • Orta of tha „am%*oo6tra, brigands Who infest Southirn Italy was fortnetly a Capuchin - friar; = Re tint Whist *Ater in Rome under-the-pintettion of the Pa le - illovernateret, and; _on the Muni of 1 114 112 g) !be . 11 ePeared once„ -.Pen 131 .. the .eleetitelne Calithrii, where ' lie a wn. gaished' himself by iheidarizii in told 'blood four peasanta and , a. youth only ,twelve t years old. eThis- religious , brig and_ promises tp,sannes is cruelty the famotm . czarrwait, Alma; of is ..Adirst.class” coneervealsxlll l :. Wb*ltt <f a" • !•<beer • ,jer,kers" do abound; t ile Bilit • hryrs are asOpeillv Violated iflarf :a athrtg, especial •y in the Act ty isf the - mit after nightfall, are the resort of :seamen of questionable reputatiot a ; and 10111011, the city seems to be toward a de gree (if degeneracy misting - to con- NOT only is the tg o t in Adair in receipt of an income of 111,000 a day, but - his bridelis'a tea' minims' heiress. •