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STREET CORNER temperance lectures are drawing largely at Fort "Wayne.

HUT few Democratic journals of influ ence fully approve of VAL'S new departure. Our morning Democratic cotem porary hasn't yet ppoken on that subject

MR. SHERMAN says the Senate Com mitlee on Finance will be called together at Washington about November 1, and will probably remain in Fession till the meeting of Congress. It is uncertain whether they will undertake lo revise and codify all the revenue laws, or merely suggest such changes as they think proper. .. r,

PHILADELPHIA'S debt—we are assured by one of the papers of that city—is about fifty millions. Instead of any sign of decrease, it grows larger at every meeting of the City Councils not slowly, either, but by millions weekly. Its means of extinguishing its vast indebtedness are extremely limited. It can tax real estate, but almost there its resources end.

ARTICLES of association of the following building and loan associations were filed with the Secretary of Slate on Friday. The Fifth Building Loan Fund and Savings Association, of IJichmond the Seventh Building Association,, of Richmond, and the White River Building Association, of Richmond. Capital of each, $100,000 term of existence, eight years.

Gov. BAKER offered lo respite BEN SAWYER, the Evansville wife-murderer, for thirty days, 4)tit BEN declined to tarry, remarking that he "would as lief be hung on the 2Cth of May as any other time." To a clergyman who asked him if he didn't want to go to heaven, he replied that he "guessed not, for Lize, (his wife,) had gone to the other place and he wanted to be with her to torment her as much as he could."

ARTICLES of association of the Chicago and Canada Southern Railway Company have been filed with the Secretary of State. The.eastern terminus in this State is Richland Township, Steubeli county the western Worth Township, Lake county. The road is designed to run through the Counties of DeKalb, Lagrange, Noble, Elkhart, Kosciusko, St. Joseph, Marshall, Laporte, Starke and Porter. In length it is 144 miles. The capital stock is $1,500,000.

TnE Philadelphia Inquirer notices the significant fact that on the very day that the miners' strike camc to an end, Mr JOHN SINEY, the champion of the strikers, was in a city hundreds of miles from the anthracite region, for the purpose of delivering an address on the origin of the coal troubles. SINEY, like all men of his class, is a born talker. Give him listeners and he can speak on forever. His harangues are of the TRAIN order, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. As SINEY'S occupation in the mining regions is now gone, he might strike hands with G. F. T., follow him through the country lecturing, and nominate himself for Vice President on the same ticket with the Liberator of Ireland and France.

THE Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Editorial Association will li-ie to explain why the female members were excluded from the banquet.—Sentinel.

The Chairman, shoul.1 he see fit to "rise to explain," can truthfully answer that they were not excluded. They were furnished with tickets to the banquet, but did not see fit to attend, much to the regret of many gentlemen present. Mr. PARINE, of the News, was so saddened by their absence that he scarcely tasted the choice viands so bountifully spread before him, while VATER, of the Lafayette Journal, absolutely wept as his gaze swept around the hall without encountering a chignon. He retired at an early hour, singing, "The heart bowed down," &c.

WE are informed that t"he German text books, used in the public schools of this city, do not contain a single allusion to Christ or divinity. Will the Express war upon the course of German instruction because it does not inculcate religious lessons?—Mail.

The EXPRESS has not warred upon any course of instruction adopted in any of the schools, public or private, and does not see occasion to engage in such a warfare. We made war upon an organized effort to destroy our public school system by diverting a portion of the school revenues from their proper channel to support a sectarian school. The Mail ssw in that effort, as illustrated in Father FALLER'S cunningly contrived petition, only a desire to increase our public school facilities by the addition of a school house and a teacher! And not satisfied with an arduous, but futile effort to explain away that document, or reverse its meaning, our cotemporary opened war, in vigorous style, to eliminate the Bible from the schools, knowing and admitting that if the movement should prove successful, the schools would still be just as objectionable to the only class of our citizens who have made and trouble about them.

We don't believe it is expedient to throw a tab to a whale after the whale has taken pains to notify you that he will have nothing to do with the tub. When we are duly informed that compromise is impossible that the free schools can not be made acceptable to the complaining party that they are and must be nurseries of vice unless the Roman Catholic religion is taught in them, we see no reason to disturb the present arrangement which seems te satisfy the great mass of the -people.

TWENTY-FIRST YEAR.

Seeing how Paris has misbehaved during the pa3t few weeks, one may wonder how Louis NATOLEON could have governed that city, as he certainly did, without much material opposition, for more than twenty years. It must have required a rigid rule in all that time to control the elements of disorder which have been so fearfully at work in that once noble city since the Germans ceased to invest it.

As might have been anticipated, the English press has taken occasion of late, to declare that "such are the fruits of republicanism in France." Whether knowingly or not, this taunt is not "founded on facts." It is not republicanism, but anarchy, which now reigns in Paris—anarchy, too, of the worst description. The Empire fell, overthown from its weak foundation by the folly of its chief, and France, as with one simultaneous thought, proclaimed a Republic, which would now have been in operation throughout that country if the Cdtnmunists had not come with their doctrine that property was robbery, and that the only way to establish the principle that one man is as good another was to share everything in common, so that one man should not possess more than another, which is a convenient doctrine for the lazy, the mischievous and the incapable. The present possessors of Paris, who may be described the poet's words as "madly free," apparently have not yet run their full course. France is not with them in feeling, and ere long order will be restored and proper republican rule be finally organized. These, however, But pant for licenso, while they spurn coiitrol, And shout for rights, with rapine in their soul.

It is not republicanism, we repeat, which now overrides Paris—it is utter disorganization, such as made Madame ROLAND exclaim, on her way to execution, "O Liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!"

WILL the Express now pay heed direetly to our question of last week—Are you, or are you not, in favor of the authoritative reading of the Bible in the public schools?—Mail.

So long as we have the most positive assurance that the removal of the Bible from the schools will, not make them one whit more acceptable to the Roman Catholic portion of our population so long as we know that the children of Roman Catholics are forbidden by the Church—and with them, the voice of the Church is the voice of God—to attend schools in which the Roman Catholic religion is not taught, we shall regard their clamor about the Bible as a shallow pretext, and shall not be disposed to pay serious attention to it. When those who object to Bible reading in the schools will meet us with a proposal, sanctioned by the authorities of the Church, to use these schools for the education of their children in case the reading of the Bible is dispensed with —when that time comes, and we are not looking for its early arrival, we will try to meet the proposition in a spirit of Christian charity. We have no concessions to make so long as we are notified in advance that the concessions demanded will not have the slightest tendency to remove the cause of complaint.

COLUMBUS.

STOLEN BONDS.

COLUMBUS, May 20 —Among the bonds stolen from the Adams Express Company at the recent robbery in this city, were the following: Number twenty-six thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, U. S. five twenties of issue of July 1st, 1S65. Number sixty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-nine, of the same denomination and issue. Number eight thousand, nine hundred and eighty-three, of the same denomination, and issue of May 1st, 1S62. Number eight thousand, nine hundred and eight-four, of the same denomination, and issue of May 1st, 1S62. Each of these is a hundred dollar bond with coupons.

SCRAJVTOX.

MINERS GOING TO •WORK.

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SPEAKING of the destruction of the column of victory by the Paris Communists, the Mail says:

This movement of the Communists is the most admirable in their history.^ It is the most marked expression of their de* testation of the unhallowed, ambition which had its finest memorial in the de.slrcyed column. J|Their history is so full of abominations that it is not easy to tell which is the worst of their acts, but we think all fairminded readers will agree with a writer in the Philadelphia Press that the wanton "destruction of the residences of THIERS and JULES FAVRE, the sale of the furniture of the Elysees, Louvre, and Tuileries palaces, the destruction of the Column of Victory in the Place Vendome, the wanton mutilation of several historical monuments, the spoliation of several of the churches, and the requisition by the Commune upon the Bank of France for ten millions of franc?', are circumstances which, even regarded singly, would have been discreditable, but, taken en masse, exhibit an unprecedented amount of barbarism."

SCRANTON, PA., May 20.—The miners of the Delaware & Hudson Company have, this morning, followed ths example set bv those of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Companies yester-* day, and have decided to accept the offer of the companies. There-is to to be a re sumption of work in all the mines of both companies on Monday. The whole community is- rejoicing in the prospect of renewed industry and trade.

ROCHESTER.

INCORRECT.

ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 20.—The statement that the young lady who committed suicide at the Stevens House, New York, was a niece of Lieut. Goy. Seldon of this city, is wholly incorrect. Mr. Seldon never before heard of the person, and never had a niece bearing his name.

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BY TELEGRAPH.

No Foundation for the Report that Germans Inttnd to Attack Paris.

Gambetta Implicated In Movements Against The Insurgents.

Prussians Hare Evacuated Yvelot.

Versaillists Have Made Several Distinct Attempts To Storm the Kamparts of Paris.

But In No Case Was The Assault a Serious One.

ENGLAND. 4 4 UNFOUNDED.

LONDON, May 20.—The Daily News' special dispatch says, the report that Germans intend to attack Paris, is unfounded.

ENGAGEMENTS.

Several unimportant engagements have taken place at Neuilly. REPORT.

The Telegraph's dispatch gives a report that Favre and Simon are to leave the French Ministry.

OAMBETTA.

Letters have been intercepted implicating Gambetta in movements against the government.

FLAG OF TRUCE.

A flag of truce from Paris has arrived. BARRICADE. A Versailles dispatch frsm Paris says, the federalists have planted four mitrail leuses in barricade in Rue Peyrounet.

CORNER HOUSES.

The civil commissioners acting in conjunction with the military commander, have ordered inhabitants of Paris occu-

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ying corner houses, to leave, as all such will be used by troops as loopholes for musketry.

WAR POWER.

The Central Committee has assumed war power. THE OFFENSIVE.? I'Jr S.

The Communists have determined to take the offensive against Veraailits, and expect thereby to stop the approaches of government troops.

COMMUNISTS.

Another dispatch says wounded soldiers are constantly arriving at the hospitals, and that the Communists are dispirited and making preparations to explode the ramparts.

STORE SHIP.

The United States store ship cucf has arrived at Havre. EVACUATION.

PrussiansJiave Evacuated Yvelot., PERSONAL. LONDON, May 20.—Dollinger will shortly visit London.

THE TURF.

Eothwell, winner of two thonsand guineas at New Market, is the favorite for the Derby, which comes off on Wednesday next.

THE TURKISH LOAN. U. VV

LONDON, May 20.—The report that the new Turkish loan of $30,000,000 is to be introduced in the London market, is authoritatively contradicted.

FRANCE.

U. i'i ii ROCHEFROT. VERSILLES, May 20.—Rochefort has been arrested iu attempting to escape from the Commune, and was brought to Versailles to-day.

TBE ASSEMBLY. 'J..

The Assembly to-day adopted S motion daraanding a decision from the French and Prussian authorities, as to what towns shall be garrisoned ty German soldiers.

ENGAGEMENT.

PARIS, May 20—Evening.—An important engagement is reported to have occurred to-day near Antenil and Paris, result yet unknown.

FORT MONTROGUE. ...

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Fort Montrogue still holds out. ARRESTED. The Governor of Fort Bicetre has been arrested.

FAILURES.

Versaillists in Bois De Bvuwguc Lave made several distinct attempts lo storm the ramparts of Paris, but in no case was the assault a serious one. A great number of federal troops have been concentrated at the threatened points.

REPAIRED.

The bastions facing the German position are being actively repaired. REPLACED.

The minority party in the Commune and military commission have been replaced by Communists of the more radical tvpe.

SACKED.

The Church of Notre Dame Des Victories has been sacked, and is now occupied by federal troops-

SPIES

PARIS, May 20.—Two spies were, shot yesterday. CONDEMNED TO DEATH.

Four individuals have been condemned to death for alleged connection with the late powder magazine explosion near Champ Pe Mars.

THR CENTRAL COMMITTEE. The Central Committee is again the principal power in Paris and acting in concert with the Committee of Public Safety.

HOPEFUL.

The journals of the Commune declare that the federal partisans everywhere are again strong, their organization improved, and confidence in the future is greatly brightened.

1Al' GERMANY. 4^ RATIFICATIONS TO BE EXCHANGED. FRANKFORT, May 20.—Bismarck and M. Panyer Quertier and Favre arrived in this city to day for the purpose of exchanging ratifications of the treaty of peace. All the public buildings, and a great many private residences are decorated with ilags in honor of the occasion.

MADRID.

THE ASSASSIHATIOK OF GEN. PRIM. MADRID, May 20.—The Cortes held a secret session yesterday, at which a report was read covering the results of judicial

inquiry into the assassination of Gen. Prim. The report criminates Senor Roque Barcia, who has since the assassi nation been elected a deputy to the Cortes.^ xi

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, MONDAY MORNING. MAY 22,1871.

CONGRESSIONAL.

EXTRA SESSION OP THE SENATE.

,7 ..., WASHINGTON, May 20. The Senate met at 11:30. Among the few auditors in the galleries were delegations of Indians now in the city on business with the government.

Mr. Morton rising to a personal explanation, caused to be read a letter from Commissioner Williams, showing that an advance copy of the treaty was sent him (Morton) at Indianapolis'about the 1st of May, and the changes made therein about the 4th of May, in the twelfth and twentysecond articles.

Mr. Patterson inquired whether what the Tribune published was the same as the official copy of the treaty?

Mr. Morton replied that it was, with the exception of one article omitted by mistake.

Major McDonald, chief clerk of the Senate, made a statement through the Vice President, to the effect that on the day the treaty was communicated by the President, not wishing to send an official copy to the printer, he asked and received from Mr. Morton the last proof of the treaty for that purpose.

Mr. Morton remarked that from Wednesday at two o'clock, till Thursday, he had no copy of the treaty in his possession. He repeated that the first copy was sent to him at Indianapolis, and that afterward he received a revised_or corrected copy, and in this connection he' caused to be read a letter from Dr. Chas. S. Taft, stating that he was in the Senator's room before the treaty was sent to the Senate. The Senator took from a large envelop a printed paper, and asked him to put it into the fire, which he did, the Senator remarking to him that he had no use for it, as he had a complete copy of the treaty.

Mr. Sumner said he received a copy of the treaty from the State Department fifteen minutes after twelve o'clock, on Monday, the 7th inst. after the official signatures had been attached. It was on his desk yesterday, but was now at his home on file. It had been in his custody all the time. He knew no copy had been taken from it. He corrected the statement in the morning papers, which.was given with a good deal o. 'irmality. It was therein stated that lie esterday occupied a large part of the Senate'stime in discussing the merits and demerits of the treaty, and the writer undertook to .give what he said. He would not say whether he spoke or not, but he could say that the reference made to anything he may have said, was utterly erroneous. He never did make the speech attributed to him.

Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, said in remarks he heretofore had satd, he thought in the end that investigation might implicate some Senator. He supposed every Senator had his theory, and he had his, and that the treaty could not get out excepting through a Senator. He had supposed an agent or employe of the press may have procured it from a Senator's room during his absence.

On motion of Mr. Harlan, the Senate went into executive session on the treaty. The Senate adjourned till 11 o'clock, Monday. The prospect is that a vote will be arrived at by Tuesday or Wednesday.

.v WASHINGTON.

I I W E W E A E OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, 1 WASHINGTON, May 20, 1A.M. [Synopsis for the past 24 hours.] No material change reported in the weather from the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain stations. Barometer has generally fallen east of the Mississippi, but less so in the Middle States, where the highest -ressure is now found lowest, being over ^ake Superior. Temperature has increased rapidly over the Lakes, especially Lake Superior. It has remained nearly stationary in Eastern Stales. Light and fresh winds have prevailed during the day, excepting in the northwest and on the upper Lakes, where brisk and high south winds have been reported. Stormy winds with heavy rain have prevailed this evening from Minnesota eastward. Elsewhere clear and partially cloudy weather have prevailed. Probabilities— Probable thafthe barometer will fall on Saturday, with warm weather south and east of Pennsylvania, and with increasing cloudiness in Eastern States. Fresh southwesterly winds are probable for the lower Lakes, increasing into brisk winds with threatening weather on the upper Lakes.

CONVENTION WITH MEXICO. Under instruction from Secretary Fish, Minister Nelson has concluded with Mexico a new convention, which was received at the Department of State yesterdav, and immediately communicated to the United States Senate. Thia_ convention continues the mixed Commission on Claims for one year from January next. The new convention was promptly ratified by the Mexican Congress, and it is expec:ed that it will be approved by the Senate without opposition.

SURVEYING EXPEDITION.

Captain Shufeldt, commanding the Tehauntepec Surveying Expedition, arriving in this city last evening from Savannah, where he left the Mayflower, which vessel will come to this port. The members of the party are arriving in the country by different steamers from Mexico and Havana. Capt. Shufeldt reports that a thorough survey has been made of this route, ana he is satisfied that an in-ter-oceanic surface canal can be made across that Isthmus with no more expense than the importance of the work will justify. The surveys are entirely original, depending on no previous explorations, and the supply of water is taken from a source never before thought of for that purpose.

DIED.

On the voyage from Havana, Mrs Shufeldt, wife of Capt. Shufeldt,died, and was buried at sea.

PARTING RESPECTS.

Members of the Joint High Commission called at the White House to-day, to pay their parting respects to the President and family.

THE NEW LOAN.

Subscription to the new loan to-day $59,200. PERSONAL.

Earl De Grey and Sir Stafford Northcole will leave here on Monday, and sail from New York on Wednesday in the same steamer with General Schenck. Profesfor Bernard and Sir John A MacDonald left here this evening, the latter for his home in Canada, and the former for Niagarr, where he will spend a few days"and then proceed to Quebec, to sail for England.

CORCORAN.

Mr. W. W. Carcoran is much better to-day, and his return to health is now confidently anticipated. ..

COMMISSIONERS. "v_

ThePresident has appointed J. Fletcher Williams and W. W. Caldwell, of Min nesota, Commissioners from that State to the Centennial celebration at Phila delphia, in 1876.

NEW YORK.

FROM SCRANTON.

NEW YORK, May 20.—A special from Scranton last night says, there has been no disturbance to-day. Laborers employed at Briggs' breaker, headed by their employer, M. W. Scranton, marched in a body armed with rifles and guarded by soldiers, to the shaft this morning, and after the day's work returned in the same imposing manner. No violence was offered them, nor were they insulted in any way by the thousands of miners who bad gathered along the line of march. The funerals of Davis and Jones, killed in the riot Wednesday, took place this afternoon. The entire population of Hyde Park turned out, and a large number of delegates from Bellvue, Providence, Dunmore and Shanty Hill were in attendance. The procession to the cemetery was one mile in length, the entire street being literally filled with people on foot. A line of carriages also approached the burial place by another street, and hundreds came flocking over the fields. Services were conducted in Welsh, and were very impressive, upward of a thousand joined in singing the closing hymn. Resumption is close at hand. Meetings were held to-day in Hyde Park by miners of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. It was voted to accept the proposition to resume at 93} cents per diamond car. A committee was appointed to wait on the representative of the Company and inform him of the action. After a conference of four hours, ending at 10 o'clock to-night, arrangements were made by which all the collieries of the D. L. & W. Co., will be started on Monday next. The news rapidly spread throughout the city, and cannon is now being fired in joyous anticipation of better times. There will be a meeting of the Delaware and Hudson Company's men at Providence to-mor-row, and it is almost certain that they too will accept the same terms, and then resumption will be general throughout the entire region. Miners are making extraordinary efforts to convict Kearns, who is alleged to have fired the shot that killed one or both the miners, Jones and Davis. Subscriptions are coming in from all points to defray the expenses of pushing the prosecution to the last extremity. Kearns, who is now in jail, will Imve a hearing to-morrow. No attem ras made by the authorities today 11 arrest any of the laborers of the W. B. A., although warrants are in the hands of officers.

THE MILEAGE QUESTION.

The Senate Judiciary Committee are investigating whether the laws and pre cedents will allow them to obtain mileage from the present executive session. Controller Broadheal refuses to allow any such account, on the ground that the law passed when Congress salaries were raised to five thousand dollars per annum, provides that mileage shall be at the rate of twenty cents a mile, payable twice a year. Senator Trumbull is busily occupied in hunting precedents to overthrow this proceeding. A law still unrepealed makes the Vice President's decision final, and it is claimed that this is not superceded by the latter law, which is designed only to apply to regular sessions. The last mileage account of the Senate was nearly $30,000. This includes payments made in the Georgia contested cases. The amount now required would be about $3,000.

MURDERER ARRESTED. I

Capt. John B. Dixon, of the Chicago lice, arrived yesterday on the steamer ezer, from Germany, having in custody Alfred Zeegimeyer, whom he had arrested in the Ducny of Brunswick, near "Hartz Mountains, on charge of having murdered William Gumbleton, an acquaintance in Chicago in November last Collecting his proof of the guilt of Zeegimeyer, Capt. Dixon communicated with R. W. Hanson, of the American Consulate, and he applied to the German authorities. Zeegimeyer was arrested at his father's starch manufactory, in a little village in the Duchy of Brans wick. He had paid off a mortgage of six thousand dollars on his father's factory. Dixon procured the necessary extradition papers, proceeded to Germany and received the prisoner from the hands of German officials. Zeegimeyer has refused to answer any questions relative to his guilt. He was locked up at Police Headquarters, and on Sunday night Captain Dixon will start with him for Chicago. He claims to have most complete proof of the guilt of Zeegimeyer.

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THE BERLIN MISSION.

A Washington special says there is a report that Minister Bancroft has positively resigned, and that his successor will be appointed at once. The report is not well founded. It is well understood that it is Bancroft's desire to be relieved, but the reference of the San Juan boundary question to the Emperor of Germany as arbitrator, has put a new phase on the Berlin mission, and the President and Secretary Fish, is is now understood, desire Bancroft to remain until the matter is disposed of, so that the Government may avail itself of his very thorough knowledge of the subject.

SPECIAL TO THE WOKLD.

PARIS, May 20.—Prussians are at Bandy and Aubesvilliere, and strongly reinforced. The prisoners accused of causing the explosion of cartridges in the factory near Champs De Mars will be shot to night. At noon yesterday Versaillists a'tacked the gate of St. Cloud. At 1:30 the combat raged at Neuilly, and at 2 o'clock the line of battle extended from Bois De Boulogne to the gate of Chichy. Twenty thousand troops were engaged. There was no decisive result. The first hostages selected for execution are the Archbishop of Paris and Abbes De Gilerry andCrozee.

PERSONAL.

Mr. Victor Place, ex-French Consul, and C. Rosing, North German Consul General sailed to-day for Europe.

THE COAL BUSINESS.

The Lackawanna Railroad is now bringing an average of six hundred car loads, daily, of coal, or about the same as last year, and will run a thousand car loads by the middle of next week. The Jersey Central Railroad is now delivering five hundred car loads daily. It is expected that the price of coal will be down to five dollaie in a week.

SWINDLING.

The Sun says, a man giving the name of Roberts has been arrested for swindling railroad companies by means of counterfeit tickets. Over $300 000 worth of spurious tickets have already been discovered. It is estimated, that the Erie Road alone lost $30,000 in this manner.

BASE BALL.

Base ball tc-day between the Mutuals and Yales resulted in favor of the former by the tollowing score: Mutuals 28. Yales 3.

COMMITTED FOB TBIA]

Edward Nevins, arrested on charge of selling counterfeit tickets over the Erie .{and other roads, to a large ajnonnt, has

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been committed for trial in default of $5,000 bail. DISMI8SED.

The case of Mather, of Woodhnll & Claflin, .against Dr. James H. Blood, has been dismissed.

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MISSOURI KV KLUX

ST. LOUIS, May 20.—The Democrat this morning publishes a statement ^derived from a reliable source, that United States Deputy Marshal L. B. James and Valentine Prcwett arrested a few days ago, in Ballinger county, Missouri, John A. McCleary and Frank Rogers, charged with illicit distilling. When near Marble Hill with their prisoners, the party was confronted by some twenty masked men on horseback and on foot, who demanded the surrender of McCleary and Rogers, which was refused, whereupon they fired upon the officers, wounding Marshal James in the leg and arm. The officers returned the fire, and it is thought wounded some of their assailants. They then put spurs to their horses and escaped. The prisoners were brought here last night and lodged in jail, to await trial. RH 1

EXCUBTIONISTS.

The party of Eastern capitalists and railroad men, who have been excursing on the Central Iowa railroad, arrived here this morning, in forty hours from Duluth. They were introduced on 'Change at noon by George Bain, Vice President of the Chamber, and were welcomed in a brief speech by Lieutenant Governor Stannard. Short speeches were made by Horace Abbott and Thomas Elnsett of Baltimore, J. B. Grinnell of Iowa, Palmer V. Kelley of Chicago, and O. O. Gilman, President of the Central Iowa Railroad. The party will remain here unttil to morrow evening, when.they will return East via Chicago.

CLEVELAND.

EXPLOSION.

CLEVELAND, O., May 20.—Early this morning the receiving house of Hanna, Chapin & Co's oil refinery exploded, with great violence. The concussion was felt in all partB of the city. Afire broke out immediately, but the speedy arrival of the fire department averted serious disaster. Loss about $1,000. The explosion was caused by the accidental ignition of the gas that escaped from the receiving house. No person was injured.

T. M. C. ASSOCIATION.

At a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cleveland, delegates were elected to attend the 10th international convention, to be held at Washington next week.

BASE BALL.

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The game of base ball to-day between the Olympics of Washington, and the Forrest City Club of Cleveland, resulted in favor of the former. Forrest City 9, Olympics 18.

EXPLOSION. S

A sad accident occurred last evening at the residence of Mr. Hendenrich, number 545, Columbus street. Emma, 14 years old, daughter of Mr. H., was carrying a lamp through the house, when the chimney to it toppled over. She turned the wick down in order to replace the chimnoy, when the oil caught fire, and explosion ensued, and she itas almost instantly enveloped in flames, and so frightfully burned that she died in a few hours. A Mr. Schroeder was also severely burned while assisting the girl. The house took fire, but was soon extinguished.^

COUNCIL BLUFFS.

.'""I.'' SUICIDE.

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COUNCIL BLUFFS, May 20.—The body of James Ohlman, living in the eastern part of the city, was found last evening with a bullet half through hia head. He had been missing since Sunday last. He is a laboring man, family in destitute circumstances, out of work, and" expressed his determination to kill himself if he could not provide for his family.

LIGHTNING.

Alfred Samuelson, a farmer living near Red Oak Junction, was killed by lightning on Thursday, while ploughing in his field

THE TURF.

Robert Bonner has accepted a challenge from the owner of a San Francisco horse, to train in this city June next for a purse of $50,000. A great many of the fastest horses ef the country are expected to be here.

JAPANESE.

Sixty-five prominent Japanese arrived here this morning, direct from Japan, and left this afternoon for Washington and Eastern cities, then to Europe, and continuing their trip around the world.

STORM.

A heavy thunder and rain storm prevailed here all the afternoon. -tt, THE CROPS.

The crops are looking finely, and the farmers feel buoyant over the prospects.

CINCINNATI.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

CINCINNATI, May 26.—A boy named John Crawbad, while aiding in hauling logs near Warren, Ohio, yesterday, was instantly killed by a log rolling over him.

BROKE JAIL.

Eight prisoners escaped from the Crawford county jail, in Bucyrus, Thursday night. They effected their purpose by seizing the deputy by the throat, and knocking down the Sheriff. Two were recaptured.

FREIGHT BUSINESS.

It is stated here that the Great Western Telegraph Company have entered into an agreement with the Erie Railroad, by which, after June first, all through freight business will be done by the former company.

TRENTON.

RAILROAD LEASE.

TRENTON, N. J., May 20.—At the meeting to day of the joint beard of directors of the united companies of New Jersey, the lease was approved and recommended to the stockholders for their adoption by a vote of 16 to 9, two directors absent. The following committee was appointed to present it to the stockholders, and procure the signature of those who ratify the decision of the joint board in making the leve: Samuel Welsh, R. F. Stockton, John G. Stevens, A. L. Dennis, Cambridge Livingston and Ashbel Welsh.

BOSTON.

ESTABLISHED MAT 12,1851

CHICAGO.

PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. CHICAGO, May 20.—The most important report made to the General Assembly is that of the Committee of Twenty-one. The full text is as follows: The Committee respectfully say to the Assembly that they held one session on the 20th and 21st of September, and another on the 8th and 9th or March, and the third on the 13th and 14th ot April, when all the members were present excepting three, and after most careful consideration of the first branch of the subject, arrived with almost entire unanimity at the following conclusions: Our church having dispensed in a great degree with the paid agency system, the responsibility of developing and systemizing and fostering the interests of the church, must necessarily devolve under our denominational organization, on members themaelves Deaconate sessions, Presbyterian synods, and such general superintending agencies as the Assembly may establish. The difficulty in the way of successfully accomplishing this work, lies in the failure to bring the principles of our Presbyterian system into full operation through these agencies. To obviate this, we will in order to simply .consolidate and nullify the various benevolent operations of the church, that there shall be a general commission, which shall have the supervision of the benevolent work of the church, subject to the General Assembly, to be composed of five delegates from each of the boards of the church, together with delegates from each of the synods, to be elected annually by ballot, which periodical delegates shall not only be the medium of communication between the boards also and churches, but shall be of right corresponding members ot the several boards, entitled to attend and deliberate with them as they see fit, and find convenient. This general commission shall meet twiceevery year, when they shall consider the general conditions and necessities of the church's benevolent work, determine questions that may come before them, and seek to awaken the interest and develop the benevolence of the church, and to learn the wants of various objects of benevolence, mature plans for the ecclesiastical year, and to receive reports of the several boards and their estimates of their necessities for the coming year. It shall then make report to the General Assembly, which condensed report is to be printed in the appendix of the Assembly's minutes, the usual pamphlet form being dispensed with. The General Commission, at their meeting in May, shall also estimate as near as possible, from reports then received from the boards and from those of Presbyterian and synodical committees, what proportion of the whole amount is proposed to be expended through' the boards. Each synod should be requested to contribute in order to meet these wants.

There shall be four executive boards appointed by the General Assembly, in three annual classes, with power to fill their vacancies, one for home work and one for publication, each to consist ot 21 members, and one for foreign work, and one on benevolence and finance, each to consist oi 21 members, and one for foreign work, and one for benevolence and finance, each to consist of 15 members. The present board of foreign missions shall discharge the duties of foreign work, as contemplated by this arrangement. The board for home work shall discharge the duties now assigned to the present boards of home missions, education and church erection, and to committees on freedmen and ministerial relief. The board of publication shall ^attend to the management of its appropriate works. It shall be conducted as a strictly business operation, sustaining itself in this with the presentcapital, such buildings as may be provided for it from profits of its sales, ana from donations ana bequests. The board of benevolence and finance shall be composed largely of business men of acknowledged skill, in the management of financial affairs, with one treasurer. It shall have charge of the funds for home and foreign work. The church shall meet the drafts of each of the boards^ as far as funds have been received for it, or has been directed by the general commission. It shall also be its duty to use all proper meanB to promote throughout the church a regular and systematic consecration of property to the Lord. The treasurer shall be appointed by the general commission, to be under the supervision and direction of the board of benevolence and finance, when the general commissioner is not in session. He shall be ex officio member and officer of this board. The board of foreign and homejwork, together with that of benevolence and finance, shall be located in the city of New York, and the board of publication shall be located in Philadelphia, and these boards shall be allowed to have such officers and assistants as may be necessary for efficient and economical administration of their work, and shall submit a report of their work and its needs to each spring meeting of the General Commission. In order to carry out this plan, let the General Assembly enjoin upon every presbytery to appoint a standing committee on the benevolent work of the church, of which the staled clerk Bhall be secretary. Let it be the duty of this committee to use all the means in its power to have brought before all congregations in the presbytery, plans that may be recommended for securing contributions, and to give each pastor and session information of the wants of the various objects, and- what is expected of each congregation. Let every presbytery be required to question each pastor and elder present at every stated meeting in the spring and fall, whether the directions and recommendations on this subject have been complied with, recording the answer on the minutes. No church not complying with the directions of the Assembly to make collections for forforeign missions, home missions, education for ministry and church erection, or such other objects as shall

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time to time be laid upon them by the General Assembly shall receive any aid from the funds of the church, at least as often as once in every six months. These standing committees shall report to the board of-benevolence and finance, so far as they can, in relation to the different objects for which contributions have been made by churches within the limits of their respective presbyteries, with the amount contributed for each, together with such other information as to the general benevolent work of their churches and presbyteries, as shall seem necessary to them, or shall be called for by the general commission or board of benevo lence and finance. These committee# shall also ascertain and report to the boards, as well as to the synodical com mission provided for in this place, what vacant churches and destitute neighborhoods within the bounds of the presbvtery need aid to support the

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unemployed ministers,liceptiales and candidates are willing to Become pastors,

supplies etc., what amount of salary can be raised by the churches and neighborhoods respectively, and what additional amount will be needed to sup

port the goroel in each .also what church buildings and monies are necessary, how much can be raised at each glace, and what amount will be needed mat the church erection fund andfurll»*r, nhat candidates for the ministry otigM ?q be received under the care of the prwbWefjtoui recommended for aid and inrriHrly^t amount of contributions can probably /n*»aecured from each and all of the the care of the presbytery, for A* Wflerent benevolent objects which are pftrtiM by direction of the General Aasem!^} slao «ach synod shall appoint a committee otf4i«aevoIent work or the church. Theae ijaodical committees shall be subject to instructions from the general commission, cise supervision over Presbyterian. com-V mittees in their work, receive reports as above directed to be made to them, ascertain whether unemployed ministers, licentiates and candidates who reside within the bounds of the synod, can find work in other presbyteries than their own, and making a complete digest of all information gathered on these subjects, and shall report the same to the general commission, foreign presbyteries and synods, as also more distant ones. The home field may report in writing when it is found impracticable or inconvenient to send delegates. Let the Assembly enjoin upon all churches, the practice of periodical giving to all causes recommended by the General Assembly, according to the principles commended in the word of God,' and more particularly in the specific di-v rection of the Apostle in 1 Corinthians xvi, two upon the first day of the week, every one of the committees to lay by him in store as God hath prospered him. All the provisions of the General Assem-, bly for the regulation of part of church work here included, not inconsistent with the above, shall continue in operation, and all provisions that conflict^ with or are rendered unnecessary by the foregoing, shall be and are hereby an nulled. Recent arrangements for this church work shall continue until the above board and general commission are. in operation. The General Assembly i^ to recommend to appoint delegates from each synod to be members of the general'^ commission, and to hold office until such"* time as their places may be supplied by regular election in their respective synods, and the Assembly is also requested to fix the time and place of the first meeting of th* general commission, and abo instruct the churches that from and after such meeting, all contributions for the benevolent work of the church are to be sent immediately to the treasurer. It is also recommended that the Assembly in appointing a commission to nominate members of the respective boards, see to it that the several synods are represented on such commission. It was resolved that the Assembly be recommended at once to incorporate the work now carried on in behalf of freedmen with the work of home missions, under its respective departments.

Lastly, in regard to the important subject of ministerial relief, the committee after careful inquiry, have concluded to recommend that this Assembly appoint a special committee for further investigation, who shall put in requisition the services of experts in this very difficult matter of life insurance, and having due regard to valuable existing plans and preferences of our people, shall consider and report to tne next Assembly, as to practicability and desirableness of a plan by which each congregation may in addition to the salary of its pastor, pay an annual premium for assurance of his life, per centage upon salary so arranged that part of it shall inure to the benefit of ministers who cannot be thus provided for.

Second, that insurances shall be so arranged as not to revitiated by transfers from one charge to another, and so as to benefit the djsabled, as well as for families of deceased.

Third, so as to include the advantages of a mutual plan of life insurance, and also to consider if relief to ministers and their families should not in all cases be in the form of annuities.

These suggestions implying modes and principles which are the subject of general inquiry, the committee deem it to be of importance, in order to adoption by our church of a satisfactory plan of ministerial relief, all of which is respectfully submitted to this General Assembly.

The report was accepted and made the second order for Wednesday.

The Dlarkets.

CINUMATI MAUKE'l.

Br Telearaph.J CIRCISHATI, May20. COTTON.—Demand fair and market firm. Middling 15M* 15%.

FLOUR—Demand fair and market firm. Family 6 80a7 00. WHEAT—Scarce and firm. No. 1, Red winter 1 50.

CORN—Doll and prices drooping 54a55. RYE—Steady with moderate dcmund I 10, OATS.—Steady with moderate demand 52a55,

BARLEY—Steady with moderato demand Choice 1 lOal 12. GROCERIES—Steady, excepting refined sugar,which is dnll and prices declined white 13K. hard 14%..

LINSEED OIL—Quiet and unchanged, LARD OIL—Quiet and unchanged 80a

ISUGS— Steady, with moderate demand 16. BUTTER—Dull and prices drooping 18a

PROVISIONS—Quiet and weak, though le?a pressure to sell. PORK—Held at 16 50.

LARD—Held at 10Y,. BULK MEATS—S«la at 9% for shoulders 7}4 for sides 7%a8K for clear rib snd clear.

BACON—Sola to fair extent at 6%, S%, 9 3-8 HOGS.—Scarce and firm 4 50a4 75-

WHISKY—Demand active and prices advanced 89, now asking 90.

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Hylelegraph.) Raw YoBK.May20. COTTON Demand fair and prices advanced- Middling 16 00.

FLOUR—Dull, and prices declined. Receipts 15,000 barrels. Superfine Western and State' 5.65a5 90 common to medium rxtra 6 10a6 25 good to choice 6 25a6 80 white Western extra 6 85a7 20. Ohio extras 6 25n 6 90 St Louis 6 25a9 00.

WHISKY-Firm 9%. WHEAT Dnll and pKces dcc'incd. Receipts 26,000 bushels. New Bpring 1 23al 55 red and amber 1 65nl f6. White

CORN—Dull and prices declined. Receipts 7 2.000 bushels. Mixed Western 73a83. Yellow 7Sa77.

OATS —Dull, bnt unchanged. Western and Ohio 68a72 LEATHER—Steady 25e29 Orinoco 24

liet pulled 47a52 unwashed

^OOL-Qu 47H COFFEE—Demand fair and market firm. Rio lSKa'GV4. bUGAR— Demand fair and market firm, Cuba 9%al0

MOLASSES—Demand fair and market firm Cuba and Muscovado 40a43, PETROL&U&F—Crude 14Mal4% refined 24%,

PORK Steady, with moderate demand. New mess 16 00rl6 12 prime 13 00a 13 .'0 prime mess new 13 C0al4 OU,

CUT MB ATS—Heavy hamsllal2% shoul6 a 7 id 5 LARD.—Firmer steam 9%all kettle 11 July and August llMall%.

BUTTER—Dull. Western 4al3%.

X13W YORK MONEY MARKET. By Telegraph.] Nsw Yoax. May 20. GOLD—Lull and firm U%al2.

LOANS-From 1 to 5 per cent. CLEARANCES—67,000,000. GOVERNMENTS-Steady. MONEY-Easy at 3 and 4 per cent.

1KW YOKK !KY HUOUS JIAKKKJ. By Telegraph.] N«» To". May 20. The

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quiet. Priees steady.

We quote Stark and brown sheeting at 11% Wacbusetts 11% Lyman and Pacific E 11% Augusta 11 Cabot A 11 Broadway 9% AEOwanF9% Appletcn N 10: Continental 12% Great FallsB0%, 11. E 11% Uranitevilfe E E 11% Golden Ridge 8% Utica 40 inch 17 Standard brown drills 12%al2%: Peppereil corset jeans 12% bleached do 13%: Inaian Orchard 0 Bates 9 Kearsarge sat teen 14 Hill's semper idem muslin, bleached, 15 Great Falls IK Blackstone A A 13% Maxwell 18 Manville?0 Namsutta 20, do 9x8 25. do 9i4 29: Waltham 42 inch 15%. do 6x4 22%. do 9x4 32%. do 10-4 .87% Peppereil 10x4 37%. do 11x4 42. do 6x4 22% paper cambrics lu%all. Printed calicoes 10aH and pi in ted cloths 7a7%.

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