El to rob it would be attended with certain Bittouto ta)fttt. L death. • . GitoaGE R. LING h E, commenced suit an editor and printer of Sedalia, as 1 against the city of St. Louis, for alleged false imprisonment. He states that he was arrested, imprisoned and detained in a dark, filthy cell, MO with vermin, without bed or board, or any of the com forts of life, without any reasonable cause, for two days and nights. He says he is damaged to the amount of $lO,OOO, for which he asks judgment. SINCE the Western Pacific. Railroad, uniting Sacramento and San Francisco, was completed, attention has been turned to the other railroad projects which have been delayed until that important link should be opened. Laborers are already beginning to grade the California and Oregon Railroad, and another proposed line from Stockton to tap the Southern Pacific line when that shall be built, is also to be immediately entered upon. TUE German-American citizens of Springfield, Mass.,have under consider ation a plan for th formation of a perma nent union of Germans and Americans, to contain the following departments: Educational department with evening classes, for members and their children, in languages, drawing and natural sci ences; a literary scientific section, a sing- Ing society, a Turnverein, a reading room, chess club and theatricals, all free of admission to members of the society and their children. A mutual relief soci ty, for cases of sickness and death, a trades union and other institutions are also projected, and will be introduced as soon as the number of members will war rant such steps. Tux last surviving soldier, of the Revo lution pensioned under the general laws died in 1867, and of the two soldiers pen sioned by special acts of Congress, David F. Bakeman, of New York, survived at the date of last year's pension report. Nancy Serena, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is the only survivor of revolutionary widows married prior to the close of the war. Of those married to soldiers of the Revolu tion since January 1, 1793, 888 remained upon the rolls November 1, 1868, but as the decrease by death in the year pre ceding that date amounted to 109, the number will now probably not reach 800. The total amount of pensions paid tO revo lutionary soldiers is $46,082,173, and to their widows and orphans, $19,234,755. The revolutionary widows will disappear from the rolls with increasing ratio each year, and in a short time the revolution ary pension list will have ceased to exist. FSML INTELLIGENCE. IT is rumored that Mr. Peabody will return to . England. A TENNESSEE vigilance committee hung the wrong man. A PITY of sixty editors from northern Indian arrived at Niagara Falls, Thurs day of last week. THREE papers are about to be added to the seven now published in Washington • county, New York. THE New York barbers will "strike" if their demand for shorter hours of la bor is not acceded to. ONE firm in California is manufactur ing champagne, equal to the best, at the rate of 130,000 bottles a y ear. THERE are more than 500 men still living in Louisiana who fought under General Jackson at the battle of New Or haus. I THE Freemasons of Spain, since the revolution there, have for the first time, been able to conduct Masonic ceremonies at funerals. Tsp. judge , who divorced himself from his wife in his own court, is said to be "at the head of the legal profession in south west Missouri." Tux New York Daily News heads its account of the recent hurricane in Wall street:: "The Gold Wrecks—only one sui cide yet reported." TEE Boston Transcript wants the ring leaders of the "gold ring" to be hanged upon the sour apple tree originally in tended for Jeff Davis. A BRONZE statue of General Grant, representing him on the battlefield, on horseback, in full military costume, is being made in Washington. TEE Pittsburgh foundling sensation has gone the rounds of the press in all sorts of shapes, until finally St. Louis is credited with the production. THE Burden murder mystery is again revived in New York, owing to the al leged discovery of concealed clothing in the house where the tragedy was enacted. SLENDER party (who is not very com fortable)—"These street .cars ought to charge by weight." Stout party (sharply) —"All if they did, they would never stop to pick you up." A Mei:inns (Tenn.) paper contends that a cotton factory in that city will clear exactly $82.75 more on every bale of cotton woven into cloth than there can be made at Lowell, Mass. THE sale of liquor has been stopped in Calais, Me.,and as a result an omnibus has been paced on the route between that city and St. Stephen, N. B. • The line does a driving business. stated that there are now about four hundred subordinate lodges of the Hnights of Pythias, (of . which Pennsyl vania has one hundred and ninety), with a membership of over one hundred thou sand. IA Km:roost' Judge addressed John C. Breckinridge as General, last week, whereupon he suggested that hereafter all military titles be disregarded in the court room. The Judge acquiesced, saying he would adopt the suggestion in future with great pleasure. THE latest tombstone inscription, lo cated at San Diego, Cal., is given thus: "This year is sakred to the memory of William Henry Shaken, who came to his death being shot with Colt's revolvers— one of the old kind, brass mounted—and of such is the kingdom of Heaven." THE Chicago Republican of Tuesday jury says: "The called for the trial of criminal causes in this Court was dis charged yesterday morning by Judge McAllister appearently for the reason that their general appearanoe was scarce ; ly more creditable than the prisoners at , raigned.'.' THE St. Crispins, in Massachusetts, who have 110 lodges, with a membership of over 30,00(), have made arrangements to purchase coal in Philadelphia and flour in the West, and to transport them to that State for their use. They expect to ob tain these articles by this means at a very cheap rate. A FRENCH convict, after having served twenty-five years imprisonment for his crime at Cayenne, returned to France and attracted the attention of the police by his lavish expenditure of money. He was arrested, and stated that he ad found the money of the man whom h he had murdered in the place where he bad concealed it. A DOMESTIC romance comes from New York. Twenty-two years ago a couple were married, had one son, lived together ten years, and then, after losing all their property, procured a divorce. The - wo man married again, and got a fortune; the husband did'nt, , and remained poor. And now that the woman has become a rich widow, she has re-married her fire, husband. . AN enterprising colored man in Tren ton, N. J., -devised a petition to the com mon. council of that city, asking for ari enlargement of the school house for coil ored children. It occurred to him that the signatures of certain white folks 'might be serviceable, and he applied for and obtained a large number. The peti tion commences,"We, the parents of the colored children!" Sown excitement has been created at Columbus, Miss, by . the appearance there of four immense insects, supposed to be Bgyptian locusts. They were three times as large u the common locusts, with large black eyes t legs of great strength, feathera like a ohanghai chick :en, tails almilarly adorned, and a hard shell covering, The like of them was `never seen before by•the oldest inhabi tants. I 021 the first. Tuesday in October the qualified voters of Hudson county, N. J., . are to decide the moat important question ever submitted to them. :Under an act of the legislature of New Jersey at its last Session the voters of the five cities and townships in the county of Hudson, lying between the Hudson and j Passalc rivers, - are to decide whether these cities and township shall-be,conSo lidated Into one' municipal organization. • The vaults of the Bank of France, which, it is asserted, contain more treas ure than any other single spot on the face of the globe, are accessible through An iron door, which has three keys, kept by the principal officers. The iron stairway leading to the vault can be detached, and by chemical apparatus a supply of dead ly gas is made ti permeate every part, destroying human life in a few. seconds, -while the whole vault can be submerged test ten minutes notice, so that any attempt 1 PITTSBITRGII GAZETTEi THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1869, STATE ITEMS Buans county has a Historical ,Society, organized a short time since. PEOF. WISE, the aeronaut, will make an ascension at Reading this week. . THE fund in Philadelphia for the Avon dale disaster amounts to over $30,000. When will Pittsburgh be heard from ? AERAHAM. Dotrrrs, of Fiirfield, Craw- ford county, last week, in jumping from the- hay-mow to the main floor of his barn, strnck his side upon a pitch-fork standing upright. The prongs entered between the ribs and emerged near the collar bone, inflicting serious, though not necessarily dangerous, injuries. Sticir.ty morning last the hardware store of J. D. GM tt. Co., in Meadville, was entered by burglars, the safe blown open and valuables extracted therefrom, consisting of $3,300 in Gas stock, $5,000 in Bear Creek R. R. bonds, $lO,OOO in Shenango & Allegheny R. R. stock, $12,000 in Mercer Mining and Manufac- turing stock, and between $3OO and $5OO, in money. ANOTHER allocatur, applied for in the case: of Adam Titus, convicted - of the murder of Henry Strahm, in Cumberland county, has been refnsedby the supreme Court at Philadelphiaj, The only ground upon which the writ was asked was th the Judges of the Court of Oyer and Ter mine in determining the degree of mur der by the prisoner and his plea of "guilty," separated or adjourned from time to time during the examination. The Supreme Court says that "no law, prac tice, usage or reason required the Court to remain without .adjournment during such examinations." • , AT a meeting of citizens, in Beaver, last week, the chairman, John Caughey, Esq., stated that it was in contemplation to build a railroad from Baltimore to Chicago, via Pittsburgh, and when built the new road would be Mich shorter than the one now running from Phila delphia to Chicago. The new road, it was supposed, would pass through Beaver i county. Three routes have been spoken of. The upper or Brady's Run route, is the one the people of Beaver and vicinity are most interested in, and the purpose of the meeting was to raise funds sufficient to make a preliminary survey of that route. This survey, it was understood, would be made within a short time. Funds for making it • were con tributed. A PERSON was tried before Judge Brewster, in. Philadelphia, charged with obtaining money fraudulently. It seems that he presented a check for fifty dollars, and asked to have it paid in fives and tens;_ but the teller taking his cheek to call for five hundred dollars instead of fifty, offered him a made-up batch of notes composed of tens and twenties and amounting to that sum, as the teller I declared, and asked if they would do. I, He said yes ' and carried the package off. '.,When the mistake was discovered the defendant was notified of it, but he deniera receiving more than fifty! Thus the mat ter stood. Judge Brewster said that the charge of false representation could not be sustained, as the defendant obtained the money without any. solicitation on his part,• bat as to the question of larceny he would give no opinion. The defendant was therefore discharged, probably only to be indicted on the other charge. The Sousse Tunnel. The excavations in the Hoosac Tunnel have recently been seriously interfered with by the occurrence of a soft place, but the workmen have at last overcome the difficulties, and have reached a point one hundred feet beyond. The soft place was about twelve feet in width, composed of soft and rotten stone filled with waters which kept slowly falling •• in _until tim bered up. The tunnel fell for the whole width, leaving a cavity above about forty feet high, all of which had to be filled up and made firm with wood and timber, and will have to be arched with brick. The materie beyond this place, it is .tated, is the best hitherto met with, be inj mica slate, and blasts off in large flakes, suitable for building purposes. The iate of the progress now is about forty feet pervgeek on the east end of the tunnel, it re ported. IRE CROPS. Monthly Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture fur nishes a summary'of the crop reports. A summary is given showing , the mean temperature and rain fall of several States for - July and August, as contrasted with those months last year. The region most subject to droneht, that west of the Mississippi and Missouri, has had the most regular supply of rain, and the valley , of the former has had an abundant rain fall to its mouth; while Alabama and Georgia have suffered from drought, and the' Atlantic States in a still higher degree, not only throughout the tide water region, but in a large portion of the Eastern States. On the Southern Atlantic sea board the heat has been greater than in 1865, and the rain fall less. North and east of New York the heat has been less, as also the rain fall. In the one case it was too hot and in the other too cold for t corn and other summer crops, which suffered accord ingly,; While the drought has prevailed east of , the Alleghenies, the great Missis sippi basin has had an unusual amount of rain. West Virginia and Ohio alone, .of the central area, had less rain fall in Au gust than in 1868. The excessive moist ure of the summer is sustained to its close, especially in Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. Both the early and the later rains haire been [somewhat extraordinary west of the Missouri, yet the high temperature and deep, thirsty soils of that region have converted the visitation into a blessing. The drought of, the seaboard has not been. equalled in many years. The compari son between this year and last shows that New England has had but one-third as much rain in August of the present year, New York a little more than one-half, New 'J ersey scarcly one-eighth, Pennsyl vania one-sixth, Maryland one-ninth. Extracts from correspondence will show the injurious effects of this excessive drought on corn, cotton and garden veg etables. Corn—The corn crop has beep the prey of numerous ills in every section of the country. The only States that now show an average condition are Nebraska, Kan sas, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Ar kansas. Excessive rains retarding plant ing and necessitated replanting in the spring throughout the West and South. Cold, wet weather, prevented a healthy, vigorous growth in almost every State, and in the season of earing and maturing a serious draught affected it on the At lantic coast, with injurious heat in the South, and unfaiorable reduction of tem perature in the North. In deep, soils, naturally drained, the _extreme moisture of the West did no in jury. In heavy or fiat lands, with clay subsoil, the damage was great, in some cases resulting in total failure. The loss as shown in the table is forty-nine per cent. in Virginia; form thirty to forty in Maine, Vermont, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin; from twenty to thirty in New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, lowa, andi Minnesota; from ten to twenty in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and from one to ten percent. in Rhode Island, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Cali fornia. Unless the close of the season is very favorable there must be 150,000,000 bushels less than a full crop. Wheat. —This crop, as a whole is larger. . The only States showing a decrease are Illinois, Michigan, lowa and California. Some of it is inferior in quality, but a considerable portion has been injured by rains after harvest. A considerable por tion of the Western wheat is of good quality, and that of the South is decided ly Superior, Fruits—Ai a rule, have yielded abun dantly, apples in Riess degree than other species. New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan and Illinois, all apple regions, have nearly a full supply. New England a material reduction. Stock Hogs—There is not only a reduc tion in the number of stock hogs, but also in condition. Missouri, Kansas, Nebras ka and Minnesota, rapidly growing States, have made quite an increase in numbers, as have some of the Southern States. There is apparantly a decrease as compared with last year, of five to ten per cent. Th e Extravagance of American Women. Every month or so newspapers contain accounts of some bride's onifit for mar ried life—her jewels, her silks, her satins, her various finery—all which looks and reads very much like extravagance, and leads often to grave moralizing upon the wastefulness of American women. No doubt •there are extravagant wo men; but, alter all, look at this : The value of silk and the manufactures of silk imported into the United States for the year ending June 30, 1869,, was $22,334,654. Now, in this State of New York, in 1865, there were 1,467,636 1 mr0 men men and girls over ten years of age. !fie sum of $22,334,654, the total value of im ported silks, divided among these women and girls, of our State alone, would give only fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents worth of all the goods imported into`4lie United States to each. This is the value of two gallons of fine brandy "imported from France," but in fact oftenest made at home. , This simple fact seems to show that, as a class. American womere not extrav agant; as a whole, they are in fact the best of economists; for they make small means go farther in their own expenses.' and in their households, than any women in the world. That there are extrava gant women, as there are men, no one of course denies. That there are some who live only to snake a show and glitter is true; but in comparistm with the Whole number of wives and mothers,•and sisters and daughters, these axe but very few indeed. They will make,more cheer fully and without complaint, more de voted sacrifices for their husbands and children, than any other Women. They bow with more dignity and grace to the loss of property. and bear up with more resolution and fortitude under adverse circumstances, than any others of their sex. There never has been exhibited in the world's history more and nobler heroism or greater self sacrifice, than by the women of the United states during the late rebellion. Go up and down Broadway, through all the stree, into all tlie citis and large towns, and ts where you find e one place fitted up for women to trade and buy in you will find ten' saloons, restaurants. grog-shops. cigar stores, sample rooms, concert halls and other places, where men pay large sums In the aggregate for things whio profit neither "body, mind nor estate," tait weaken' the one, enerve the other and WNite the last. E E LABELING FRUIT-CAN TOP. COLLINS B.c. WRIGHT, PITTSRIMGEI,PA. We _Are now prepared to supply Tamers and Potters. It is I>erfeet, simple. and the h eap as the plain top, having the names of v h arious Brtlita stamped upon the cover, radiating from the center. and an Index or pointer stamped upon the top of the can. It Is Clearly, Distinctly and Permanently T.4413370M.M.D. by merely placing the name of the fruit the can contains opposite the pointer and sealing In the customary manner. No preserver of fruit or good housekeeper will use any other after oh2snce seeing t. IPES. CHIMNEY TOPS. &c, WATER. PIPES, ORIBINEIT TOPS A large assortment, HENRY H. COLLIN'S, apl4:ha7 Sd Avenaeonsr !imitateld In DRY GOODS . -4-44 Plaid and Stripe Arabs, Balmoral and Hoop Skirts, Corsets and Kid Cloves, Black Thibet Shawls, long and Square Paiseley Shawls, Poplin Plaid—new styles, lir. Brown Alpacas—an extra bargain 11c. Empress Repps and Corded Poplin 47 1.2 e, Diagonal Corded Dress Goods, 17 1-2 c. Silk . Mixed Epingle for Suits 37 1-2 c, Bonjou Repps—cheap Goods, inc. 4-i English Nerinoes, 50e. Tam Poplin Cloth, 62 1.2 e, Angola Corded Repps 4-1 62 1...1e. Velour Diagonal Repps; lic. to 6! 1-2 e, Black Alpacas, the bes goods ever shown at these prices. 50c. limy loom Table Linens, WHOLESALE IND RETAIL. E. R. GARDNER, N 0.69 M_arket Street, IWe►t Corner Market and Fourt et:..S.TTUS I let 3 0 r z n P4'44PI riV/ ;14 Z co E. 4 Z . 12 1114 tt l H 1:34 as tic aA, I °l2 rig w ;14 ,?-4 4 Ut ;4 •S• 4 0 OE4 = 0 km cn 7 :4 1 pl 5 vi .8 ;1 z PICP c ; z NIcCANDLESS & vajantiAte Wilson. Cur 00..) WHOLZBALZ DWaBa IR Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No. 9* WOOD STIMILT. Mad &POT sbo►s Diamond Mai m, H. TI. WALL PAPERS. LEGisr!r E PIPER HANGINGS. EriaMeled Wall Papers in plain tint* impel , " vions to soot sod smoke. Vermillion grounds wilo_gold and Inlaid Snores. EMBOSSED VAL INDIACAPESTRY, tiliElra PANELS stamped and printed gold. Newly imported and not to be found elsewhere in the ecototr7. For sale at W. P. MARSHALL'S NV( WALL PAPER STORE, 191 Liberty Street. men DECORATIONS -1n Wood, Marble and Fresco imitations for Walls ana Cetnal' of Dining Rooms, Halls, &c.. at lio. 107 M JOSEPH arkt street. 027 R. HUGHES & BEG. QTARIPED GOLD PAPERS for adieqrs. 11 No.lol Market street. .192; .IOIsEPR HUGH , E BABB, & MOSER, 11\114:71:1EMMC e r S t TRIM ROD= AIISOCIATION BUILDINESSI Nos sad 4 St. OW Street, Pittsburgb. PA. Special attention given to the deabilillig and • nibling of COURT SOUSES and ruurA ,-'I;;LADEROS. MI FALL OPENING. ARAB SHAWLS, in Piaid and Boman Striped. Ruffled Collars and Cuffs, The ISew Sailor Collat j , Silk Fringes, Satin Trimmings, Silk Glass Buttons, In all the Newest Patterns. MISSES FINE WOOL CIPS AND SIMES An elegant assortment Just received FOR FALL AND WINTER WEAR A Full Supply cf All Kin& HEAVY PLAID FLANNELS, MACRUM, GLYDE & CO 78 & 80 Market Street. &PIS SIIMMER 600DS 1 AT . MACRIII &CARLISLE'S Dress Trimmings and Buttons. Embroideries and Laces. Ribbons and Flowers. Hats and Bonnets. • glove fitting and French Corsets. New Styles tiraa ley's Skirts. Parasols — all the new styles. Bun and Rain Umbrellas. Hosiery—the best English makes. Agents for 'Harris' Seamless Kids." Spring and Summer underwear, Sole Agents tor the Bemis Patent Shape lore.Col "Lockwood's "Irritidr," "West End," "Elite," Ic; "Dickens," "Derby," and other styles. Dealers supplied with the above at MAORI:IM & CARLISLE, ARCHITECTS. , NOTIONS, &C. FINE ASSOETIIENT OF Hair and Jute Switehes, Balmoral and Plaid Hosiery, Wool Half Hose, Shirts and Drawers, YARN, No. 27 Fifth 'Avenue, MANUFACTURERS' PRICES NO. 27 FIFTH AVENUE my 4 WINES. LIQUORS, &o. SCHMIDT & FRIDAY, IMPOSTERS OF. WINES, BRANIIES, EIN, WHOLZSA.LE DEALERS ES PURE RYE :WHISKIES, 409 PENN STREET, Rave Removed to NOS. 864• AND 356 PENN, Cor. Eleventh St., (formerly Canal-) JOSEPH S. FINCH & CO., Nos. 185, 187. IS9, 191. 193 and ISNS, MOT BTSEET, PITTSBITE , S. IIiCIATTACTITTLIM or Copper Distilled Pure Eye Whiskey. dealers In 70111.143.14 WINKS tad Li. QIJOBB. HOPS. &c. 1012,5.n53 MERCHANT TAILORS. FALL STOCK OF MEN & BOYS' CLOTHING Now Receiving by GRAY & LO GAYS, No. 47 SIXTH STREET, LATEST. CL AIR• 31L'AJELTIPL , FASELIONABLII MERCHANT TAILOR, Keeps constantly on hand Cloths, Cassimeres and Vesting& Also, GENTLEMEN'S FUENISHING GOODS No. 93 1-2 Smithfield Street, WlRent's Otothlngimideto'order in tbelatest tylee. ise3;uB3 NEW FALL GoODS. A splendid new stock of CLOTRA GASSIMERES, &eel Just, received by 1111:XILY MICYIIIII. sea: Merchant Tailor. Ti Smithfield street. BTIEGEL, .