THE ' DAILY GAZETTE : EIIMEMICI PENNIMAN, REED & CO. Confer Sixth Ave. and Smithfield St. B. PENNIMAN, JOSIAH KING. T. P. 11017STON, CEEME2I EDITORS AND PROPRIETOIIN =1 lid wwll, per year 1.1i...r0d by nrrler. per WHO THE DAILY GAZETTE. GENERALITIES Taunt: are base bull dubs in Perla GLADSTONE halt £l5 by.the late Derby. SCOTCH SALMON fishing ir a failure this year, THE Psinee of Wales loot £4,000 by the_ Derby. • CIN Wednesday two mad dogs were idiot in Philadelphia. Pim:CZ Narottina; is to start this week for Cochin China. JUDY thinks the way to "do" your duty is to cheat the Excise. • PULLMAN'S Income last year an returned In Chicago amounts to 14%507: TEN ACRES of 1 . 0603 are in bloom on one flower farm In New Jersey. Coms-ELL rxxv - Enstrr is to have a Pro'. tenor of Chinesi, and Japanese-. TOE Portsmouth, N. H, Chronieir halt come out lu favor of woman's suffmgt;. Lwtuox merchants doggedly insist up on their objections to the Chinese treaty. But Els members, of thu Eeutuenical Council hafe died since it began its sea. = WHEN women come to sit in the jury boa, - possibly infants may get to be criers in `courts. . TOE police of Cincinnati feeroutraged because they are forbidden to smoke while on duty. - Two months' 'miscellaneouß refreal. inertia" for the City Council have cost BOR. ton 32,859 75. Tae New York Erpras complains of the frequent and bewildering changes In our postage stamps. TUE combined incomes returned by four of the owners of the Chicitgo Tribune amounts to $83.077. WHY the neck•handketchief Lupine.; Is a good trade to follow—Beeause "ties payiho dealer" always,—[Fun. THE Matrimonial Xre., of Loinion, prints more than two hundred announce ments of candidates for marriage_ THE delegates from (treat Britain to the Evangelical Connell at New York will number between 300 and 400. T*ENTY-FIVE English noblemen have been driven into bankruptcy by gaming on the turf within the last twelve years. SPURGEON has some of his sermons printed in the Maori language. The Ma oris, however, prefer potted Englishmen. JANIES EC: CALLAHAN, a bachelor of 45 years, hung himself ton bed-post in his nephew's house in Cincinnati on Wednes day. A COMPLIMENTARY supper tiaa given to the Red Stockings at Cincinnati on Wed nesday and the mein.. were printed on Tat Russian Minister of Finance has sanctioned the employment of women as book-keepers and clerks in custom house offices. _ • Tau marshal of the fat teen's' New York procession has been discharged for light weight; he balanced only 250 pounds. . . . Midi. Join' 'Wain has received au anonymous present of $3.100 worth of diamonds. Lothair most be a friend of Mrs. Woods. • • $200,000 le the largest income returned this year in Chicago ; and John B. Tracey Is the unfortunate man who has to pay the tax on IL - ONE billion feet of lumber, six million shingles, one million and two hundred thousand lathes wern wad in Chicago ilia. mg the year 1808. - _ A TIGER near Madras attempted to cat a porcupine recently, but that beast objee. ted and lied his murderer by sticking a quill down his throat. . THE New York Trapani says: "It is one of the unaccountable manias of man . kind to get drunk whenever it is specially important to keep the-blood cool." OATH, the Chicago Tribune corres pondent, has taken to reviling the ad. ministration and the Senate in the La Crouse Democrat style, unfit for quotation. THE White Sulphur Springs in Vir ginia promises to have an unusually sue. cetsful season, and is pronounced fit to rank with the "nobbiest watering places." THE leading music stores of Fhlladel plats. hin-e . agreed to close at fire o'clock during the Bummer es-cry afternoon but Saturday when they will close at three o'clock. •.. s 2 . . . REy. THOMAft. PAISLEY (negro) 101. s been.sentericerl to six years in the pod ' tentiary of North Carolina for playing K. K. K. and whipping black and white right and left. .&..J: WARD. otareenville. S. C.. while resisting an ucelit by the United States authorities for violating revenue laws, was shot and dangerously wounded on Tues day. last. . THE latest fashion in funerals scam ex hibited In Troy recently, when a young girl was carried to the grave by eight other girls dressed in white Ind with. white veils. AT Fort Weehington, Md., is a soldier, now In the eighty:third year of his age. who has seen sixty-five years of service in the United States army; and proposes reettlirtlng. Ylexcat Ilmso is now. suffe.ring with a diftese - of the eye.. Ile is even unable to sympathize by letter, as usual, wits the reVOlntionists of Europe, and employs an Twe'Mayor of Indianapolis has offered a reward of . $l,OOO for the arrest and con viction of the person or • persona who muted the death of. Mary bleimarby and Catharine tlinber on of.. ' • ' Tug Lnublville . Courier.Journol Id one short article analhllates Nut, "an artist of as much talents.* venom," etc.,• praises Fields Osgood & Co., and throws in a faint word of praise for (ten. Grant. Tun Engtlnh admiralty have ordered the building of a new and powerful Itoa ship of War, to be called the Raleigh. She is to be upward of 4,000 tons burthen, and have a 1000 horse power engine, and is to be d with-wood. '' TUE =crate of Philadelphia have i i , nominal Wm. S. Price for Judge of the District Court, and Henry M. Dechart and Frederick Ileyer, for Judges of the Court of Common Pleas; also, Oeo. Proverd and Jos. Rlckette, to Assembly. . Words was emit to the City Marshal of Augusta, Me., that a fellow wu selling "lickers" from a wagon in Market Square. Ile went to arrest him and confiscate his stock, and found himself the victim of an atuot4oali pun. The man was peddling horse-whips.:. - TUE &Bowleg appeared in the New York TrOunc of yesterday : "The absurd person who sent a sum of- money to the editor of the Tribune, with a request that Le would give a kind notice of a lecture that was to be delivered lard night, Is re commended to call at our dishier's desk and get beck his investment." . Ari _lndiana Bergh lately caused the ar. vest of • drover, charged with maltreat. ing hie herds of cows. The Judge an nounced that the utmost penalty within his power to inflict for offences of this character wawa fine of $lO. The prose: cutor felt, however, that this would be letting the cruel drover off too easily, and. argued that the abase of each seiArate animal conatituted an offence, triumph. ently carried thin point, sod !Dewed the in human herdsmen to contribute for his drove of thirty cows $3OO for the benefit of the State. ; ' Tar fishermen of Grand Menu bare a patois of lieu' own. When one of .d iazi , „speaks of hle :brush," you'do not at first suspect that he refers to his hair., mi. boots are "stompers." while his knife Is a "throater," and his aprons "herrn,: ilia hook is a ...dragon," and his boats "pinkies." "Ogles, and "Jiggers" Ile counts time by the tide, and covenants with the parson in marry him to-Suke at about "slack water" The various preps mittens of flour and meal as the "fish irmotlutr,"4duff," and "Jo -daggers:" hard bread and apples are " grunt . ' lie applies "she" to everything from hie wile to * cart wheel or clock. A rim days ago, a house of ill-fame in , Detroit was entered by a man of middle \~ tte 1 ( itzt ft I'd k itt,4 1 ESTABLISHED IN 1786. iiiEl age and serious countenance, who in forined the *tonic% ,that he intended to tAfer up prayer for their spiritual welfare, and proceeded to do so, dropping on his knees. 'tin' inmates of the house,. not desiring his devotional exercises, took ad. vantage of his position and rolled him out of doors. lint there their triumph eoded. Rising to his feetlte rushed hack into the house. striking out vigorously with the carnal Weapons of nature in a style that would have done credit to the prizaring. listing by sucii knock-down arguments cleared a apace, he again knelt down and finished his prayer. The as. tonislued stifibrers by this development of muscular Christianity, subdued into si lence, hard themselves described and their caeca stated in prayer, with a plain. ness befittingitte otvasion. , AT the - DelllOCßtie Convention in Phila dolphin,. it wax proposed to nominate Judge Paxson, already the Republican candidate for Judge. Several prominent gentlemen spoke In favor of . this, among others, Mr. Geo. F. Boric, who said that if Judge Paxson has so much strength as Is stated, why should they hesitate to put hint on the ticket?, He is no politician ; ha has gained the love of his colleagues on the bench, the admiration of the bar, and the confidence of the community. No harmwould be done by putting bin name on their ticket. If credit won to be gained by his election, the Democratic party ought to gain part of that credit. They ought to sacrifice prejudice, and set n good ex ample. A few years ago the Republicans nominated a Democrat, Judge Shorewood, for the District Court, knowing his name would add strength to their ticket, and they profited by their policy: But finally, Mr. Boric withdrew the name of Mr. Pax son, amidst great applause. 01110 YousosTows claims 9.000 inhabitants. AIUlt. Inas had the oratorio ‘,l Esther full ~,st tune. • A VAS hp• the name of Bell, was drown ed In the Mohican river, near Gricraville, lima county, on List Sunday, while taking a bath in company with several other young men. A mum , . belonging to Jacob Bilekens derfer, of Trenton ; Tuscarawaii county, became frightened and ran away on Wed. nesday, when a little son of Mr. Blickena. derfer was leading it to water by a strap 'which he had tied about Asia waist. The result was the frightful mangling and death of the lad. ON Saturday, lStb inst., an itucommon incident occurred in Ashland county. ' Mr. Elinha Ballou, an aged and respectable citizen, who had been walking about the' place as usual, came in and stood by ;he ' '. bedside of his wife, who had been ill for some weeks. Ina few minutes he fell -heavily on the floor and almost instantly expired. Mrs. Ballou hearing her hus band fall, though weak, raised herself up and seeing her husband lying- dead upon the floor, sank down, and - within the apace of about one hour'. time,ahe too was dead: - WE had beard previous to our roarer- SABO]] With one of our County Infirmary Directors, that an inmate of the Infirma ry had a live reptile in her stomach, but regarded it as one of those "snake stories" u - e read about. lie, however, assures us that the facts ate as stated. The individual is a Miss Hattie Brown, (or- .merle . from -Lehigh county, Penreiylea. nia, aged nineteen years, in July pest. She has a longing appetite for milk, which, when freely supplied, somewhat eases her sufferings, but when withheld for sometime, the reptile raises itself In her throat, throws her into lipaNTLlft, and pro crudes its head from her mouth, In which condition he assures us, more titan fifty le•rTems have seen it. It has a flat eel like •ad: Lkack nkiu. nud dance it pi . wiftiy. an hitherto to !male the skill Or physicians and others who hare attempted to relieve the patient of the monster.. Ho assures US he was as incredulous RP we are until he personally witnessed the phenom enon. We confess that we feel unsatisfied with the evidence. notwithstanding , this testimony of an eye witness.—Shelby Ncsrs. PENNSYLVANIA WARREN COUNTY has nominated _Ron. W Schofield for Congress and Ifou. C. W. Stowe for Assembly. FRANK 06.80 RN, thirteen years old, and the driver of the Reed House baggage wagon at Erie, was sun-struck last Tues day. A I.IItLE ROY named Clark fell front the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad dock into the bay at Erie on Monday and was disowned. TIIE Republican primary election in Bedford county will be held on the '27th of August, and on the Crawford county yett7n, adopted haat year. A NEW WELL was struck on the Cold. rater' Oil Company's lease, Central Pet. ;ompany's farm, on Saturday last, which ei yielding 20 barrels per day. The work rig interest is owned by Mr. Prentice and he United Farms Petroleum Association A Oil City. • THE following was unanimously adopt. ed at a well attended meeting of oil pro , &Leers, held in Oil city, June 29th: "We, the undersigned, oil producer hereby pledge ourselves each to the other, that tween this date and the first , day of Oc tober next, 'we will not continence, tier be interested.ln the commencement onnew . 'wells which we are not now obligated to commence,,. the number of which and id terest .theretn, is: Oct opposite oar reePec. tire althea. Tide agreement to be nub ject to confirmation at a meeting of the subscriber. thereto, to be held at Oil eity,.on.Wedneeday,the 29th day of June neat." WASHINGTON • liot Weather« F;onae Seminary.. The Commencement.. Exantination —.Concert ...Essays.. Degrees Con• /cued... Address Repty..A Social Entertainment • 02irrespoudence of Pittsburgh o.ttte.l NVASIIINGTON, Ps., June 30, 1870. not. hot weather. .Panting and fan ning the employment of everybody. An uncomfortable time for the Commence. meat exercises of one Female Seminary. Still we have them. Yesterday, public examinntion. Last evening, concert. Music, both instru mental and vocal. Large audience. To. day; essays of graduating clans, degrees conferred toui no address. Class numbers eleven; fine young ladies; performances excellent. Mrs. llama, Principal of the Seminary, conferred degrees; did it gracefully. Rev. W. A. Davidson deliv ered an address. 11 was somewhat radi. cal In its views. To : this Major Ewing took exception In a nest and very happy speech. dome present. however, thought it a little untimely, and not in the best taste. The Major's heart is In the right place, but his head was made in the olden rime; it needs reconstruction to adapt it to the progress of the age. To-night Mrs. Hanna gives a grand re ception at the Seminary. A large num ber of invitations Issued. A good time anticipated. Oh I for a sudden fall of the thermometer! It In going down. We breathe easier. AMEIIICCA. New Brighton Ladles , Seminary. Correspondence of tho Pittsburgh Gazette NEW BRIGHTON, July 1, 1870 • Thin worthy laatitutlon has just closed Its first term. and Prid. Johnson and lady have proved their competency to conduct • first class Seminary. It has been my privilege to Nish them both in the parlor and in the recltatlon room, and I have alwayp found them agreeable companions, and competent In. 'tractors. Their examinations, come of which 1 witnessed, passed off'. creditably to both the teacher. and the taught. The musical department, presided over with decided ability by Miss Mary et Housekeeper, is an interesting and impor 'ant feature. They gave a very good literary and musical entertainment at Concert' flail last night. The/intend to open a normal session in • few days for the benefitof those deal: dttg to tooth. We recommend it to such with all confidence. c. FOREIGN Tilt ettttle plague itits uppetreil at As IN 'lndia petroleum springs have Lean discovered near Pegumin. Boring hi to be commenced at nary. hen:o to the erosion of tln banks of he clang.; the railroad station of Raja. a:x . llye to thrr4telled with total destrue Tim native Sumo Moye; of Caaitupore, subscribed t!Oft rupees n mont h for the maintenance , of tip Enttli4lvsch.l at Olipur. • : Ton eldest son of the Rajah of Blinw. nuggur has been placed on that. throne by the Political anent in sitect , ssion to his late father. THE members of the Coomb. near Dacca, subscribed 1,000 rupemi to a fund for the preservation of ancient Sans crit manuscripts and books. TIIE breed of antl.barking dogs, dis covered in Australia make sad mortality among- the sheep. One dog enriklll from thirty to forty sheep in one night.. A JEW at Monterey has bought for five thousand dollars in gold, one of the finest Jesuit churches in Monterey, and given it to the Protestants worshipping there. TUE managers of the eight. principal Lanka in Lido:tits hat's given notice that froth the let of July the brokerage al lowed on bills Will be reduced to one eighth per cent. - At , SEAM of coal one hundred feet in thic • ness of which fi ft y feet in said to be of a suppeerior quality, has been discovered at Kerlin, India, on the Jinni.) Itiver, in the Central Provinces. 14.051 E attempt is to be made for the pro. 4-113011 of fish in the canals in india . by imitiog the size of the meshes of the lets, mid forbidding tiahing within a err: ain distance of the weirs. lc PARIS a very atnmisins trade sIrSI./1, and whirls the police are sin the; truck of the latish-ids. Via: taking the photo graphs of celebreties, retaining the fea• UM'S, and placing the corps in •ridiculous aambinations, wherein the indecent plays a conspicuous part. A FIRE at Mandalay, Upper Burmah, consumed 10,000 houses, and cleared a square mile nod a half of the city. The EuropeanAuarter had ,;a narrow ramps. .The Kiniei, Custom House, with a large quantity of Eurspean goods was.burned. A. subscription is being raised at Magoon for the autli'rers. • WE hear from the liangra China, that the tea prospects are favor able. The out turn of the valley last month is stated at. 90.000 pounds. of which quantity the Holm and Nassau Companies' estates. between them, pro. duets] about :17.500 pounds. The antic paled yield of the season may be VS' timated fairly at four lakits of pounds. TOE London Atheneum says, that at the present moment it is difficult to speak with precision on the' question whether "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is com pleted. The Athol:m.on, however. in au thorized to state 'that 'Mr, Dickens has left his last novel in • very advanced state; but that, as if he had a presenti ment of his decease, he had at the outset arranged equitable terms of acemumoda. tion in case the book wail stopped before it was completed. 'A PARIS correSpo n deut writes that the Duc firumont has reiddred an et rolls nt _ . . custom at the P 4111.41.1 oWce, which Its predecessor. Count Darn, who was a cam dle'a end economist. abolish&l. There are two waiting roma at the French For eign Affairs, one for ambassadors, the other for the public. to whom an lowr view has been accorded. Attached to both rooms is a hrufet where those Wait 111 Z will find every delienry ..1 the +ea.., and a Sai•itili to r•itto.lir in. with plenty choice cigars to while away the time till the turn of each arrives, If a' dinner lubricates busineaa, a stand op hinch can not i.e without its advantages. Tar:Bunn of Cod, 'is the name of a curious region in:lndia. It is a level plain, one hundmiand fifty miles long. and saturated with halt, and is,. firm that the hoofs of- homes and camels make scarcely any impression urn it. It is so flat that a heavy fall of rain makes a vast slop, which is blown about on the surface until it evaporates. At certain Reasons the wind blows the tide from the Indian Ocean in upon the plain and cover it to -the depth of one or two feet. There being absolutely no land marks, caravans and travelers frequently are loon; and to guard against ails peril,a beacon fire k regularly lighteffikke side of the hills of Cutch by aMo medan family who live there' and to whom has descended the religions duty of thus guiding the wanderers over this remarkable desert. A TRIAL his just taken place at I 'aleut trt. involving the right of a [limits) woman to choose , ' her own religion. A young woman, whose friends belong to the Drab. mo Somaj, foZsook the tenets of her fathers ands.was baptized. tier relatives got i writ of Aabeas corpus and secured intluen. tial council, but the judge decided against them, and gave the woman' her liberty. She at once, In open court. in the most un hesitating way, Intimated that she would not return to her relatives. However, be fore judgment was recorded she was again removed to a private room. In order that her mother might again try to 'shake ker msolatiou. No Chruitian friend. wag permitted to enter. Presently, wails and shrieks and howlings of grief were heard. After a painful interval, the young woman wan again called forth. evidently .tnueb agitated, but she had not been shaken in her resolve to be a Christian. • THERE Is only one prison for women in Paris, that of St.' Lazaiei, and which figures as the abomination of desolation in every Prenebtromanee. No nice atten tion in paid to the moral cbutalfieition of the Inmates; the mist` hardened 'feninrr publigne• or thlef—and they are about synonymous—are thrown poll niell with the poor girl or woman, whom a email, crime condemns to this bazar house for Kl. week, and, on being discharged, sinks at once into the depths, with a mind full a the seeds of pollution.. An old lady de r t sired to reform this prison; she wished to see it not in parade dress. She took up lodgings close by it, for some years hi gnitiated herself with the officers till she Was allowed to have the moot the wards n Site took notes, got herself up In the mat ter, demanded an audience of the Em. west threw herself on her knees, urged Fier Majesty to use her power to remedy what she—the petitioner—knew - The , result la, that an hastitution Is being form -1 ed where girls, otherwise virtuous ; will be taken in refuge on leaving the prison, and protected until a reintroduction can be obtained for them Into society. It Is no secret that there IS a class of wretches; who watch for the exit of .these poor fe males from prison, and matie tempting offers of money, dress and appointments, guarantee a veneer of the polish of the grand monde in exchange for their virtue. Is the courier d'Oran a frightful chine Is recorded, whio, even In the 'unhipp country of Algeria, has hardly been par. allele& On the With of May, at Mascara, about seven o'clock in the morning, an Arab, who had been known as a wander ing marabout. living upon alms, necretad from a butchees shop an axe, and, hiding it under Ilia bourne., posted himself upon a bridge. This particular bridge, especially - on Friday , in crowded 'with people going to market—Arabs. Jews and Europeans being indiscriminately mixed. into this crowd the fanatie rtutited,strik leg from behind with his axe, and in lees than ten minutes felling fourteen prisons to the ground. A terrible consternation took possession of all present. The nelgh boring shopkeepers closed their shops, the wounded were carried away, but no one seemed to have attempted to eche the miscreant. At last two Finable,. after a desperate struggle, secured him, and he was conveyedlo the Bureau Arebe Mire, where, after some delay, the civil and 'military authorities arrived to in quire Into the matter. It in noteworthy that the victims were selected solely from the European population, the Arabs not; only being spared;but 'exhorted to help in the slaughter. An the Arabs were mus , tenid In large numbers at the time, from 1500 to 9300,and always carry long knives, any infection of fanatacism might have had fearful results. As It is, the lives of several of the wounded persons are de. paired of. =I PITTSBURGH, SAT URDA V, A Balloon Flue' Perhaps the most remarkabloduel ever fought took • 'dace in 1140$ It Was µ•cu liarly French in its tone, and could hardlk have occurred under any other than a French state of society. M. de ilmtidin'e and M. I.e Pique had a tuarrel, arising out of jealously concerning a lady en gaged at' the Imperial Opera, tine• :Made moiselle Trevit. They agreed to fight a. duel tr, nettle Weir respective claims; and in order that the heat of angry passion should not interfere with 'the polished elegance of th,• proceeding. they most owed tlm duel for a month—the Into •to bestow her smiles on Alio survivor- of the two, if the other woo killed: or, at all events, thit; was inferred lev the two meet. if not actually expressed. The duelistowere to tight lathe air. Two balloons were constructed, precisely alike. On the day decanted, De Orandpre rind his second entered the car of one balloon, Le Pique and his second that of the other; it was in the garden of the Tuileries amid an immense concourse of spectators. The gentlemen were to fire, not at each other, but: at each . . other's balloons, in - order to bring them down by the escape of gas, and as pistols might hardly have served for this par. IOPP, each ivrimaut took a blunderbuss . in is car. At a given signal the ropes that retained the airs oere cut, and .the bal loons ascended. The wind was moderate, and kept the balloons at about their orig. inal distance of eighty yards apart. When about half a mile above. the ,sur- face of the earth, a preconcerred signal for tiring was given. M. de Pique fired but missed. M. de Grandpre fired and out a ball through Le Pique's balloon. The balloon collapsed, the car descended with frightful rapidity, and Le Pique and and his second were dished to pietas. Do trrandpre confirmed his ascent. trinniph antly, and terminated his rerialroyage successfully at a distance of seven leagues from Paris. . A Wild Chicago Denary. A friend recently directed my nttentcon to what she was 'denser' to can iho "bop denish ways - of a young' lady whd Is no-. ted on our flioniughlaree for he r beauty and sprightliness, and at •home for her, In norence and pleasing good nature, allied ton fondness for all hinds of adventurous Iswyish. spurt. 1 watched her closely on thus being reminded of her preserai, and noticed that she was Over-dressed, a fault. doubtless. of some presiding power; that she were rings and bracelets on a shapely arm. that -her small feet were tightly be stowed in high-heeled boots, and out of a mass of drop ury and artificial restriction, nature was constantly bubbling over. For she dial the most unheard-of things In the few moments that I . iiatched her—went down on her knees to help a forlorn child find five cents with which she was re riulml to purchase you'd, posed herself before a halal of Beatrice. in a picture window, and never noticed the "nice young man' within oaring at her; mood on one foot on the corner and cheered two dogs engaged in mortal combat, gave a penny to an urchin who made fares at her tied up au unraveled old woman who had lost her way: looked back and laughed at the vagaries of a drunken man who im• agined himself partirularlT ocher. Mid. tled three harm of "Shoo Hy" under her breath in remixinee to a boyish alleygittor, laughed In the face of an inaipid young man with blonde feature., And then ig Oared him with a glance' of contempt: thee suddenly changed Into a very proper lackadaimieal young lady as her nun's carriage came in sight. Do you know it. seamed to DIP that glrl felt al RPPfgg cup that too much civilization was a cu&vi— Haw r.,rre v ehtlenee of the rhiragn Tri atray. More About the Dettrnetion Pero... Horrible acenea—Er tent 01 the Conflagration. Some shocking details of the late tire at Pent are published' in a letter in the l,on.lnn lfieraing P,..ca June 15. Incl. dents of the most painful description (the writer sap.) have not been, wanting, Whole families, have been found, the membent joshed Ititutch otheeit death em. brace.' Some few have been removed from the cellars Of their house, still groaning In life, lint only toexplre on ex.' prism,. to the air: I hear that the sum tier cif houses burnt down is computed generallytit 15,000, 1 undenrtand that the total amount falling due from London in. gaminr companies is estimated at aome what over /1100,000. On the evening of the fire the Sultan rode up front aria pal. ace to the Keene of disaster, but his Maj.". ty's approach was cut °fret the Tarim by theshovreni of sparks and the heat. In the morning his Majesty in person super Intended the turning nut of the troop,. Irmo son, large artillery barrack. just beyond the Tarim, to make room for din creased families, and also ordered some it-000 tents to be immediately pitched In the parade grounds adjoining: Hare are now located some thousands of burntout _poor pisiple, who receive their daily rn tions of rice, bread, oil and Meat at his Majesty's expense. 'lle Sultan ham also issued strict orders t,, the Intaum., or priests of Mussulinau qUarters,..to in no way hinder the letting of booties to di... tressed Christians. • A May Executioner. • A letter fmtn Athens, apeilking of the execution of the brigand, concerned In the l murder of the Englials travelers. nays their decapitation wan delayed In , cornisottence of the ahsence of the oublie executinner on priifesalonal tour. The following list of the performances , is given : last Friday week he beheaded three brigands-at fitylips,' on Saturday terseat ramie, on Monday two at Hypath J e WWI theu at Levadeis,*kere-bn was to exe cute a notorious; criminal. He was then to go to (Maki% and to Athens to behead, afterward, the, neves, under sentence of depth. His next deatination• Is Corinth, where he is to exeinte five brigands who have been for mono time waiting the axe. onion of their sentence. Outset thebrig gands beheaded at fityliaa had been con. shunned to death five tlrna. These exe cutions', it might be imagined, would be a heavy blow and great discourairetnent to brigandage, In.4_ it in not 110. - hither the system or sympathy with it seems rooted among the marmot the Greek people, and by no means the people of the lower or. der exclnaively. • Pennsylvania Postailice', The following postal changes iu dos State have just been math:: Sherman Well, Venaugo county—James T. King, vice W. H. Jessup, resigned. Espyville, Crawford county —.l B. Espy, vice J. Espy, resigned: Handy Creek, Crawford county—H. New. hold, vice W.' Thatcher, resigned. Beallsville,,Washington county—H. U. Young, vice A. 0. Hobert, resigned. Erie •county--J. McManus, vice Joseph Vance, resigned. . Hurtville, Potter County—B. Burt, vice L. Babcock, resigned. . • Oilpin, Indiana, connty}.-J. hinter, 'vice J. T. Hinter, resignedl Harrison City, Westmoreland county— Mrs. S. Johns, viceE. Wilty, resigned. Wexford, Allegheny \ -J. Brooker, vice J. Plankington, resigned. Change and site of Houston, Allegheny county, to Claremont, and appoint Henry Corbier. M. ()MINTER. a member of the French Cambodian . eximdition, asserts that in China the taste for opium is by no means continTii to the human race. Piste and horneemthrive upon peppy Jlowers , and when deprived of their favorite food lan. guieli and die. At a town in Imum rats usOC TA 'resort .in large number. to an opium msnufactotv in order to inhale the fumes from the coppers, and after the town had been sacked the P(pitiviy . P. the ruins of the 'factory were visited by Ito old habitues, woo. were content to die on the scene of their former happiness. —The New York Afrthodirt earn We learn by a cable diepateh, received Janenith, fmm Dv. Hunt. that the Oermgn and .dn'leel Sion gereeero, which met at • ristalie Jdoe Tad, has 'cart all Ito rotes—thirty-nine—for lay delegam Don. The total affirmative Tote of thamlela try by this addithin reaches 4,0311. The total negative rema1t 0 1,..1431. and. tba mod Torao-rs , Nilts or IMM Bout Tbtrut. , l. result Dermal all contln- . , , SALOON Kg • ,• if your ale, is bad and your =Morn grumble about lt,go to Pier, Deana, C o. C They Mk always give you cream a er, and every one likes it. lil FIRST EDITION. MIDNIGHT ' . .l' LIST CONGRESS ...; ,SECOAD ESSION.) SENATE: Progres pith the Tariff VIII—The Tax lions Restored.- OUSE: The. Ing Bill Furth r Consider. 1" y the IPlttsiturgli Ita MEE WA4IIIN . OTON, Jnly . . -4 E f K ATE. Mr. ANTHONY w s elected l'res In In consequence o the absence o =I The Newel bill to hhtinge the the ag tbalerma of Din! . let and Circuit • • . . . ... - . . . , the Northern District of Ohio was m seed. The . llouse amendments to the b I for the improienient of. water, communic' lon be tween the Mississippi river and Lake Michi gan, by the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, was concurred in. The Atlantic and Noble Railroad bill was briefly discussed, and en Ineffectual effort was made by Mr. WILSON to get the conference report ' nt the army. hill." The t x hill was inked up, the question be ing upo the amendment to tnx Interest on United, fates bonds tire Per cent. It was supported.bv Messrs. Bayard.Thurman,Davis, Stockton, Queerly and opposed by Messrs. Etimundit, Sherman, Corbett, Rice, Morton and Penton, and was rejected by 12 to Si. A 'discilesion ensued upon nn amendment be Mt. THU lIMAN to tax the Income derived Dine bonds of five per cent. Mr. WARNER moved as a substitute a three Per cent. tax on Incomes derived from all in vested capital. - Moth amendment were Sr:meted. Amendments offered by Mr. Harmed were adopted, allowing free iloPortation of ani mals Intended for exhibition at agricultural shows, but not to remain over six amid h.,. and if cold within the United Ekatea they were to ho liable to duty: also to repeal the taxes on bequeata and devises to literary, institutions, to take plate after the death of the testator. The Finance Committee amendment an to the titne.at which the free fat goes Intoopera- Oon. hoeing withdrawn the paragraph, It re ntalna as passed by the House. axing the time for December 31',. - • the bin was reported from Committee of ;he Whole to the Senate when the amend ments went Collellireli In, ettept those upon Which hop:trate cotes wemestill. which were re...treed. The tlr,t of thee. iu which concurrence Wee asked wal: then mendment ntriktug not the income tax tettlo.: Mr. WILSON moved an amendment c tinning the Income-tax for two !'ears longer at two and a halt per cent. 'Rejected. • oMr. DIU moved to made the exemption ne thomeind dollars. Rehet led, • . . • The Senate then voted upon the amendment of the Committee of the %Thole striking out the income tax , lirhich aaa con curred in. the vote tieing recorded finally am yeas Cti.gayr 21. • The next amend.nent upostarhich a generate rote was demanded was the sezt lon inserted tn. the Committee of 'the Irhoir continuing aa tax on Federica and dirlgend• tot UM. The keel on- "a' ale e t 4 eenatt Autrust IThe limendsztent IVPI4 I. 140:endeAln _provide tint . Ittril &incurred in. t Mr HEIMAS mOved nfi autend,ent to coatln e the tax 011 pins stuelpts no et peer o,..rking the Sennte date hot d vtlen`e Holtverth t a te es ntee nenvnr). for the ettoort of the u !dr• PI MI:NIV gave notice that In ennee quence c f the vote Just taken he would move to reco rider the vote Ntrlldne . out the in comet.sections. =11:EgIr!!!IM I Err Mr. E 1311:?;,11S nolved to reconsider the Vote sty klerout the Income lax, remarking that by he showing of the' !batman of. the Finance . o[lllllitt, time country mutt have either t• e 1001111.1111. or tax WI receipts to make ufo, the replitedlllilollllt of revenue. Mr. ANTIIoN I took similar grOund, that the Senate was bound to choose between the.e taxes. M, : 4 1.*.MX}:11 th . ought there wag en twee n tax. and that the aNdrattut et the noun.: I `umudttee mute tattlltte6ty foliate too ter the Mee ot the P4ereetsfy of the Teen.- urr nt the