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A Singular Romance.

There is a romance-a "sensational" romance, if you will-underlying the appearance of Joseph A. Young, in San Francisco. It is said that he has come in pursuit of a young lady who not long ago made her escape from Salt Lake City. The lady is pretty, attractive, virtuous, accomplished, and possesses extraordinary talent as an actress, though that talent has never been illustrated anywhere except on the boards of Brigham’s theatre at Salt Lake. But though lovely and young she had strong objections to becoming Mrs. Young. When the Saints brought a powerful pressure upon her to induce her to be "sealed," and solemnly assured her that “she would be damned if she didn't,” she replied that she “would be d-d if she did.” Accordingly, as she wouldn't marry, she had to get out of Utah. She came to California, and Joseph came after her. Our financiers, bankers, merchants, and newspaper men have been led to believe that Joseph came here on business connected with the Union Central Railroad, and he has been extensively feted and dined and wined in consequence of that impression, our hospitable disinterested merchants being beguiled by the pleasing illusion that their attention to this scion of the Brigham dynasty might possibly result in the increase of trade between the City of the Saints at Salt Lake City, and the City of Sinners at San Francisco. But the fact is, Joseph is regarded at home as a lost sheep and a prodigal son. He does not stand high in the good graces of his august father, who would never dream of intrusting him with an important business mission. He has no influence or standing at home, where he is regarded simply as a fast young man, more addicted to pleasure than to business, and better qualified for distinguishing himself at billiards than at bargains. The very pleasant gentlemen, therefore, who have been paying particular attention to this branch of the Young family, under the idea that something was to be made out of it, will find that they have slipped up. Our readers will remember that Miss Alexander, reputed to be an actress of more than ordinary talent in soubrette parts, was to have made her appearance at the Metropolitan Theatre on last Saturday night. She did not appear according to announcement. Why not? Because of Joseph Young’s arrival here on Friday. This caused a change in her programme. She dares not appear while he is in the city. Why not? Because she has been warned that she cannot succeed and will not be permitted to succeed on the San Francisco stage. They want to compel berth return to Utah, and to accomplish this purpose she thinks they will resort to the most desperate measures. Young, however, has already discovered that San Francisco is no place for the accomplishment of any purpose he may have cherished of using force in securing Miss Alexander’s return to Salt Lake. He has discovered that she has a multitude oi friends here who would be prompt to avenge any outrage that might be attempted upon her. Consequently he has seen that any scheme of forcible abduction, or any, attempt to influence her by threats, would not only be futile, but dangerous. It is understood that he is already convinced of the impossibility of effecting the object of his mission, and left San Francisco on his return to Mormondon yesterday, so that Miss Alexander, will make her first appearance in this city at the Metropolitan Theatre, on Saturday evening, she having been so impressed with a conviction of the power and unscrupulousness of her saintly persecutors that she would not dare to appear in the public until Young and his companions had left the city. Though brought up from her childhood in the midst of Mormon society and under Mormon influences, Miss Alexander always entertained a strong repugnance to Mormon ideas. Having a decided talent for the stage and an early developed taste for acting, she was induced to appear at Brigham's theatre. She made her debut

in the character of Matilda Peppercorn, in the farce of “Marriage at Any Price,” in October, 1863. Her beauty, grace and vivacity, together with the talent she manifested, made her first attempt a complete success. Several of the Mormon magnates fell desperately in love with her and she immediately became the victim of “ attentions ” and persecutions, which she could not have resisted had she not possessed remarkable individuality and strength of character, and had not Brigham himself, who admired her talents and considered her an indispensable ornament of his pet theatre, extended to her a certain measure of protection. At length, however, the pressure brought to bear upon her became so strong that she was obliged to make her escape from the City of the Saints. -San Francisco Chronicle.

A Balloon Voyage.

BtJVFAho, N. T'. July 5. t)Nf fli the main features in ftts city today, *a a balloon aacehsiori udder the dirention, of Mr. Samuel A. King, the well' known Boston aeronaut The bah loqn used on the occasion was the Hyperion, and Mr- King was acoompanled by Me»m Jsrap# AlbrOjOfthe Buffalo Com merged Admritier ; Walter T. Chester, of the Buffalo Courier; Henry K. Appleton, of Boston, and .Luther L. Holden, of the Boston Journal. The ascension was made "at 41t5, and a west wind prevailing at the time. . This is Mr. King’s one hundred and thirty-eighth ascension, and the fogy.

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t-eenth made by the representative of ihe Journal. Warren, Pa., July 6. Mr. King’s balloon “ Hyperion,” which ascended from Buffalo yesterday afteruoon,- descended last night upon tbe summit oi Rock Jtobble, ono of the Aileghany Mountains, in Hamilton, McKean County, near the line of Khizua, Warren County, Pa., about fifteen miles from this place. The trip was one of the most eventful balloon excursions ever made in this country. After leaving Buffalo the ** Hyperion ” went out over Lake Erie six or eight miles. And there attained a height of at leasts mile and a half. Ih running lower to take advantage of a more southern current, as the upper current led towaid tfib centre of the take, two dips were made iu the water, but without serious results. A wire drag rope, which Mr. King intended to use both upon water and land, was unfortunately lost, After being over tho water nearly two hours the land was regained and tho “ Hyperion ’’ took a southerly course, the greater part of the time quite high. Immense tracts of woods were passed over, and no iuviting places for a landing presentod themselves. In the balloon seemed to be passing backward and forward over a particular piece of woods, but in reality it was journeyiog south at the rate of thirty or forty miles an hour. Over Erie County, in the town of E len, Mr. King made a descent in answer to invitations from the citizens, and after a delay of fifteen minutes the trip was resumed. An altitude of two miles or more was soon reached, and the balloon continued to travel south for the greater part of the time quite high from the ground. At 11 o’clock preparations were made to land in a partially cleared spot The anchor struck the ground, but tore out and caught iu the very top of a tall tree. It was found impossible to reach the ground, as the balloon was suspended fifty feet. Here the aeronaut party was compelled to pass the night As there was an entire absence of wind near the surface, this was accomplished with safety, although the danger of being precipitated to the ground was at all limes imminent When it became light enough to see the surrounding* the anchor was cut away and left in the tree-top—the basket with its occupants descending rapidly, though safely, to the ground. The balloon was torn to shreds, and it will be necessary to cut the tree down to regain the auehoi and netting. It was found, very much to the surprise of the excursionists, that the balloon had descended upon the tof> of the tallest tree upon the summit of tbe highest mountain in either McKean or Warren counties. The balloon was in the air six hours and ihrce-quartes, and in the free-top six hours and a quarter.

An Interview with Brigham Young.

SALT LAKE, July 11. Yesterday morning, Gov. Oglesby, Judge Trumbull and several others of the commercial party, called on the Governor of the Territory, Mr. Durkee, and paid their respects. The other Territorial officers called on our party and placed their services at our disposal. At 11 o’clock we called on Brigham Young, at his residence, when the spokesman, Col. Bowen, made a brief address, saying in substance that we congratulated him upon the auspicious completion of the railway, which has relieved the Mormons of their profound isolation, brought them in contact with Gentiles, cheapened the cost of their goods and increased the purchasing power of their labor. He referred to the assistance they rendered in building the road, to the commercial objects of the visitors, and complimented tbe Mormons on their material prosperity. He acknowledged the important art of irrigation which they had taught the Gentiles, whereby the great American desert was made to blossom as the rose, and to yield rich fruits in their season. The Prophet, in behalf of himself and disciples, briefly welcomed the party. He spoke warmly of the aid the Mormons had given in building the railroad, and said their aim was to press on diligently to perform the part allotted to them in the drama of life, having ever in view the rights of man and social independence. Colonel Bowen then introduced the gentlemen of the party, and a general conversation ensued lasting an hour. As Judge Trumbull was bidding adieu to Mr. Young, the latter remarked that on returning to Congress, the Judge might hear of some persons being put out of the Territory, and if done, he might be sure it would be for just and good reasons. If such Federal officials have been sent here as sometimes have come, they would be quietly and orderly put out of Utah for good cause. Judge Trumbull—Before you take any step or that kind, allow me to request you to make known your grievances to President Grant He is a just man, intending to do Justice to all, but he will not permit a violation of law to go unpunished. It will not be safe to molest public officers in the discharge of duty. Brigham Young—What more will he do for us than Johnson did? General Grant has removed the only officer here who was a Mormon, and for no reason save that he was a Mormon. The United States Judges who were here some time ago acted badly. I told them what 1 thought of them, and they left. Judge Trumbull—You will promise obedience to the Constitution and laws of the Union.

B. Young—Adherence to the Union, certainly. One enactment of Congress, however, we shall not obey: that is the one forbidding polygamy. It is not right to interfere in that matter. It is much better for a man to have several wives, and support, honor and cherish them, than it is for a man to deceive one, and cast off, disown and refuse to support her. Judge Trumbull—That is a matter about which we must differ. We think the National Government and the States can rightfully pass laws against bigamy, and justly punish the offense. All the States make the plurality of wives a criminal

offense. B. Young—Yes, all the States have laws on the subject, and Utah, when a State, will have an equal right to make laws protecting polygamy. Until we came here the subject of polygamy was not broached. It was not until we had a convention on the subject. We think we ought not to be interfered with in this matter, as it is nobody’s business but our own. We have about 70,000 people. Congrew thinks we are unable to take care of ourselves as a State. When we number 300,000, as we soon shall, I think we shall be admitted into the Union. Mr. Trumbull concluded the dialogue, remarking that the law, at all events, must be obeyed and upheld, and that the Chicago party were here on a commercial and not a political errand.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA JULY 22, 1869.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

‘ FOREIGN. Cuban partisans in Washington, on the 12ih, had advices from Nuevitas and Puerto Principe, to the effect that the Spaniards had been reinforced at Nuevitas, and were thus enabled to retain possession of the railroad from that city to Puerto Principe, and give succor to the garrison of the latter city, which was threated by the Cubans under Quesada. In the District of Puerto del Padre there had been several skirmishes. The health of the Cuban army was good, and the soldiers were organized. There was great anxiety to learn the views of the United States Government, and the position it will occupy in the contest Young Bennett’s yacht Dauntless arrived at Queenstown on the 11th, in 12 days, 17 hours and G minutes from New York. A New York Herald special from Havana, July 10, has advices from Mexico to the 3d instant Oa Saturday, July 3, the Cabinet Ministers of President Juarez entertainod General Rosocrans at a breakfast. United States Minister Nelson had entered upon his duties. On the 25th instant Minister Marriscut and Commissioner Placias will sail from Vera Cruz for the United States. The elections in Mexico have resulted in favor of the Govern"ment

The members of the British Cabinet resolved on the 10th that they would not concur in any of the amendments to the Irish Church bill that will iu any way impair the principle of total disendowment. ■ It was officiallyannounced in Paris on tbe 13th that Senate would be convoked for August 2, that the session of the Corps Legislatlf would be immediately prorogued, and that the resignations of the Ministers had been accepted, Tort they would continue to hold office until their successors are appointed. The American steamer Hero has been detained by the authorities at Porto Rico on suspicion of being employed by the Cuban insurrectionists. The British House of Lords finally passed the Irish Church Bill on the 12th. The principle of concurrent endowment was carried as an amendment. Advices from Rio Janeiro to the lGth ult. state that the allied forces had fought a decisive battle with the Paraguayans, and achieved a complete victory. A new Ministry has been formed in Spain, with Gen. Prim as President of the Council and Minister of War. In the British House of Commons, on the 15th, the amendment of the Lords, respecting concurrent endowment was defeated by a vote of 346 against 222, making tbe Government majority 124. The amendment in regard to the surplus funds was also disagreed to by a vote of 346 against 164. The original date—Jan. 1,1871 —for the dissolution of the legists live union between the Church of England and Ireland was agreed to without a division. The London Times of the 16th states that Gen. Prim and other Spanish states m m are onvinced that tho separation of Cuba from the mother country is only a question of time. The Times advises Spain to sell the Island to the United States, and regard herself fortunate that dll: has, at present, anything left to sell. The now ocean cable was spliced to the shore end on the 14th, and a message was sent over it. to the Emperor Napoleon. The laying of the shore end began on the 16th. Tun Brest cable, by its satisfactory response to all tests, is thought to be the best cable yet 'aid. A. D. Bassett (colored), United States Minister to Htyti, has arrived at Port au Prince, The L indou Times of Ihe 16th asserts that if the House of Lords persist in their opposition to the Irish Church bill as passed by the Commons, a collision must ensue between the two bodies Intelligence from Santiago de Cuba, Bth inst , reports fighting going on thirty miles from that city. The patriots , were strongly reinforced. General Jordon had joined the Cabans under General Figucreilo, and commanded a large force. The Spanish Governor of Baracoa was actively burning property and killing all who fell into his hands.

DOMESTIC. A dispatch from Houston, Texas, on the 10th, reports unprecedented floods in the Colorado Valley. The water was all over the country, in some places twenty feet deep, and was still rising. Lagrange had lieeu evacuated. Columbus was deserted. Aouses were seen floating past Lagrange. The water was in the tops of life trees on the bottom lands , The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to purchase $3,000,000 United States bouds each Wednesday during the present month. The currency balance in the Treasury on the 10th was about $30,000,000. There were three deaths from cholera in New York city during the week ending July 10th. Work on the Lincoln monument at Springfield, 111., has commenced. The brig A. Eldred, which left New York city for Cuba on the 28d ult, with arms, ammunition and 130 men, returned on the 10th, the men having refused to enlist on their arrival iu Cuba, because of the cholera. Two of the adventurers died of cholera on the return trip. On the Fashion Course, Long Island, on the 12 th, American Girl beat Lady Thorne, winning a purse $2,000. Tne State Department has issued a circular- advising citizens haying Claims against the Mexican Republic to forward them at once to Washington, to be plated

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before the Commission appointed to pass upon them. . A rumor was current and generally credited in New York city on the 13th, that Colonel Ryan and his men had succeeded in running the blockade off Gardiner’s Island, and were on the way to Cuba. The Chinese Labor Convention, composed of delegates from the Southwest assembled at Memphis, Tenn., on the 13th, and organized by choosing ex-Gov. Isham G. Harris, of Tennosse, permanent President, with a long list of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries. The great Decatur cotton case, involving the value of 1,500 bales of cotton, has been decided against the Government at Memphis. Secretary Boutwell will carry the case up to a higher court. Advices from General Carr’s Indian expedition state that on the 11th a large village of Dog Soldiers, Cheyennes, were taken by surprise, and fifty warriors, commanded by Tall Bull, killed. Seventeen women and children, among whom were Tall Bull’s wife and daughter, were taken prisoners, and three hundred and fifty horses and mules, eighty lodges, sixty rifles and pistols, a number of robes and camp equipage were captured. The Indians held two white women, captured on the Saline, as prisoners. Arrangements have been concluded between L. B. Boomer, of Chicago, and tbe directors of the Leavenworth (Kansas) Bridge Company, for the construction of a bridge over the Missouri river at Leavenworth.

Attorney Gen. Hoar has decided that the commencement of the main line of the Pacific Railroad is at the 100th meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, and terminates at the eastern boundary of California. A Washington telegram of the 14th says: “ Government authorities here seem quite determined not to permit the working of the French cable until some provisions for reciprocity are concluded by the French Government. Secretary Fish said, this morning, that the American end of the cable must be buoyed until the assembling of Congress, unless the company would agrees to favor reciprocity, and abide by such legislation as Congress may see proper to enact.” Several parties in New York city have begun an air-ship, something like the California one, and promise to finish it in two months. They propose to cross the Atlantic in fifteen hours. By an accident on the Missouri & Burlington Railroad, near Ottumwa, lowa, on the 14th, three children lost their lives and considerable rolling stock was destroyed. A Colored State Educational Convention met at Louisville, Ky., on the 14th. About 200 delegates wvere in attendance. A special train with an excursion party of Eastern railroad men on the Kansas Pacific Railroad broke through a bridge, on the 14th, abou. eighteen miles east of Leavenworth, iu consequence of the unprecedented high water. The engineer and fireman were instantly killed, the con ductor and, brakeman seriously, and several passengers slightly, injured. > A terrible tornado swept over Lexington, Mo., on the*lsth, doing considerable damage to property. The Caucasian newspaper office was destroyed.

Arizona advices received on the 15th. say that a portion of the Eighth Cavalry attacked a band of Indians near Wickenburg. Nine savages were killed, and one soldier seriously injured. The sale of lager beer in Boston was generally resumed on the 15th, the State constabulary having evidently received instructions to be less rigid in regard to it. The deliberations of the Chinese Labor Convention at Memphis resulted in the organization of the Mississippi Valley Emigration Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, in $100 shares, and $40,000 of the stock were subscribed on the spot. A telegram from Green River, received in Omaha on the 10th, announces the receipt of intelligence from the Powell Expedition up to July 4. The party passed the rapids, losing but one boat. All were welL When last heard from they were at Henry’s Fork. A passenger train on the Union Pacific Railroad met with a serious accident near Antelope Station, on the 15th. In consequence of the washing away of an embankment, the engine, tender, two baggage and three passenger cars were thrown from the track and completely broken up. The fireman, Melvin Shears, of Michigan, and a passenger,John Dwyer, of Emmittsburg, Md., were killed, and the engineer and two passengers seriously injured.

Owing to the importance of questions involved in the Yerger case, AttorneyGeneral Hoar has entered into a written stipulation with Messrs. Phillips and Carlisle, counsel for Yerger, whereby these questions will be brought before the Supreme Court in October next. Ip the meantime the application to Chief justice Chase is suspended without prejudice to the petititioner, and the President agrees that no sentence of the military Commission will be carried into effect, save such as may relate to the safe custody of the prisoner. A terrible accident occurred on the Erie Railroad on the night of the 14th. The night expresa train from N«#w York city ran into a freight train which had been left partially on the track, instead of a side track, about thirty miles from Carr's Rock. The engine, tender, baggage car, express car, smoking car, one passenger car and a sleeping oar were thrown off the track and smashed out of all shape. The splintered cars and fragments of timbers came into Contact with scattered fire from the locomotive, and a conflagration en*

sued, in which the timbers, baggage and wounded passengers all went to feed tho flames. Seven cars were destroyed and a number of passengers lo3t their lives, many being burnt to death. The following is a New York telegram of the 10th : “ There are few additional particulars of the Erie Railroad accident. Mr. Gibson, a passenger, says of the burning of the smoking car, that iu it, wedged in his seat by the heap of broken timber, sat Rev. Mr. Halieck, of New York city, perfectly unhurt, but unablo to extricate him* self from the wreck. In ealm accents and perfectly collected tones, he told us to got an axe to try and cut an opening in the side of the car. We searched around, arid obtained one from a house by the roadside, but it was so dull we could do nothing with it. We worked and strove to liberate the unfortunate gentleman, who sat there, sound in limb, watching the approach of the hungry flames. Nearer and nearer they came, until his hair began to crisp and burn, and his skin to crack. Then, when we in like manner found the heat unbearable, we reluctantly retired, compelled to loave this poor gentleman, with his eight fellow sufferers, to their horrible fate. We moved off until all Was over. Nine persons were thus burned to death, and nine others injured more or less severely. “Another passenger says : ‘I heard the little children screaming for their mother, and the passengers who were in the ruins calling for help and groaning with pain. An axe was got, and one or two were actually chopped out of their imprisonment. Most of the passengers in this car were killed, and their bodies consumed or injured. I should think there were sixteen or seventeen persons in the front end of this car, and I think but two were taken out. Ido not think there was a person killed by the smash, but all the deaths were from burning.’ “ The Coroner’s jury exonerates everybody except the engineer of the freight train, who hafrbeen arrested on a charge of manslaughter. He made an unsuccessful attempt to escape.”

PERSONAL. Gen. G. H. Thomas and staff left Portland, Oregon, on the Bth instant, for Alaska. Chief-Justice Chase returned to Washington on the 10th. Governor-elect Walker, of Virginia, had a lengthy interview with President Grant, at the White House, on the 12th. James Hunter has been commissioned as postmaster of St. Joseph, Mo. Col. Tom. Moore, late of Gen. Sheridan’s staff, has betfn appointed Bank Examiner by the Secretary of the Treasury. L. T. Adams, of New York, has been appointed Consul of MaltaSecretary Boutwell has appointed Mr. T. J, Kinsella, of Chicago, Special Agent of the Treasury Department. Gen. Osborne has declined the appoint ment of Supervisor of Internal Revenue for Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. A banquet was given in St. Louis on the night of the 13th, to Hon. H. T. Blow, Minister to Braz'd, which is announced as having been a brilliant affair. Mr. Stedman, Consul of the United States at Santiago de Cuba, died in that city on the 6th instant. William Winthrop, United States Consul at Malta, died on the 13th inst. W. H. Seward and party sailed from San Francisco for Alaska, on the 13th. Hon. James F. Wilson, of lowa, has been appointed Government Director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, vice Hon. James Brooks, of New York. President* Grant and family, accompanied by Postmaster-General Creswell and ex-Sccretaty Borie, left Washington for Long Branch on the 15th. Edward Ferguson has been appointed Pension Agent at Milwaukee. The Chicago Commercial excursion party reached Sacramento on the 14ih, in good health and spirits.

POLITICAL. The Connecticut Legislature adjourned nine die on the 10th. The following are the State officers and Congressmen elect in Virginia: Governor—Gilbert C. Walker. Lieutenant Governor—John P. Lewie. Attorney General—James C. Taylor, Districts. coNOßßssaan. 1.. M. Norton (Independent Rep.), colored. 11.. James It. Platt. Jr , (Wells.) . 11l .Charles 11. Porter (Wells.) IV. .Levi C. Thayer (Walker.) V. .Robert Rtdsjway (Walker.) — -Vt..Wm Milner (Walker.) ~' VII. Lewis McKenzie (Walker.) VIII. James K. Gibson (Walker.) At Lartre. .Joseph It. Segar (Walker;) In a published letter, Judge Dent allows his name to be used as the candidate of the National Republican party of Mississippi, for Governor, and indorses the platform adopted in Jackson in June Ist. The New Yprk State Temperance Con ventiou met at Saratoga on the 13lh, and passed resolutions urging temperance men to vote for none but temperance men for office, and that they should demand of the next Legislature a law allowing a majority of the voters in any city t« prohibit the sales of intoxicating liquors.

A Woman’s Suffrage Convention assembled at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 13th. Mrs. M. E. J. Gage, of Onondaga, was made permanent President, with thirty-six VicePresidents. Speeches were made and a platform adopted, declaring that tho-ques-tion of woman’s suffrage is the great moral and political question of the day,'churning for woman the Inherent right of suffrage as a gladly recognizing the action of tliWriah Republican National Conventions at Washington and Chicago, and rejoicing at the pourse of the Methodist Episcopal Church, In the admission of women to vote on lay delegations. The President, on the 14th, issued a proclamation designating Tuesday, the 80th of November, as the time for holding the election in Mississippi. The disfranchising and disqualifying clauses of the Constitution are to be submitted separately. The Pennsylvania pemocratio State Convention met at Harrisburg on tjie 14th.

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The Hon. Asa Pedpr was nominated, on the second ballot for Governor; Hon. Cyrus L. Pershing, of Cambria county, was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court. The Woman’s Suffrage Convention at Saratoga adjourned on the 14th, after adopting a constitution similar to that of the National Suffrage Association. The German Citizens’ Rights Society of Boston has petitioned the Governor to stay the enforcement of the Prohibitory Liquor law until the popular vote can be taken. The Temperance party of Ohio on the 14th made the following nominations for Slate officers: Governor, J. E. Ingcrsoll, of Cuyahoga oouuty; Lieutenant-Gover-nor, Dr. Wadsworth, of Cincinnati; Treasurer of Slate, Thomas Edmundson, Clarke county; Attorney-General, J. A. Sumner, of Summit county; Member of the Board of Public Works, B. L. Silver, of Columbiana county. Walker’s majority for Governor of Virginia is 17,500. The lowa Democratic State Convention met at Des Moines on the 14th. The nominees of the Convention are: For Governor, Hon. George Gillespie; Lieutenant Governor, A. P. Richardson; Supreme Judge, W- P. Brannan ; Superintendent of. Public Instruction, Edmond Yeager. The President on tie 15th issued a proclamation designating November 30 as the time for submitting the new constitution to the voters of Texas. These is no separate submission of any of the provisions ordered by the President.

CURRENT ITERS.

The Empress of Austria recently lay, for two days, in a trance. Tuk American colony in Dresden now numbers 400 families. Mrs. JoeJefvbrson recently presented her husband with a little “ Rip." Henrv Ward Beecher announces that he will not lecture during the coming season. Saxe is going to California with a new lecture, entitled “ French Folks at Home.” A women’s suffrage convention has been called to meet at St. Lonis, Mo., on the oth of October. M. M. Ballou and Moses A. Dow, both publishers of story papers, have built magnificent hotels out of the profits. The mother-in-law of General Rosecrans died in Mexico on the 17th ult., and was buried in the American cemetery, at the capital. A lady in St. Louis has promised a gentleman that if she does not marry some one else within nine months she will accept him. Bishop Lins has been sentenced, in an Austrian civil court, to three months’ imprisonment, for uttering doctrines subversive of public order. - A Western writer says if as much attention was paid to improving corn as is’ given to grapes, 100,000,000 bushels might be added to the annual crop. The Bail!/ Rappel and Reveil, the two Radical papers of Paris, have been merged into one, and are now called “ La Reforme Politique ft Boeiale. n There is a lady in Sutton, N. Y., who was married at 12 years of age, who is the mother of sixteen children, weighs 210 pounds, and is “ fair, fat and forty/’ The latest new State scheme is to separate the two western tiers of counties from Arkansas, join them to the Indian Territory and form a new Sflße with the capital at Fort Smith. The trial shipment of strawberries from Centraiia, 11l . this season was 497,875 pounds. About 3.000 bushels were retained by the producers for home use. Swamps containing much vegetable matter and lying generally level, with a good outlet for drainage, and-water above them for flowage, are usually selected for cranberry culture.

The principal gamblers at Monaco are Russians and Americans. Among the latter are several ladies, who may be seen, morning and evening, at the rouge et noir tables. At the Berlin Lunatic Asylum are four unfortunate men who believe themselves to be Andrew Johnson, ex President of the United States. None of them speak a word of English. Tiik leader of the rioters during the recent terrible outbreak at St. Etienne, in Prance, was a woman, the widow of a workingman who had been killed by the police a few weeks before. An abandoned city with fine buildings, evidences of high agricultural prosperity and extensive facilities for mining, has been found on the northern bordor of the State of Sonora. - The food given to the political prisoners arrested during the late riots In Paris, consisted of a small plate of thin broth and a thin slice of bread daily. Several of these prisoners were Americans. At Manitowoc, Wis., a few days ago, Mrs. Gilbert W. Burnett had been makiog soft soap, and left a cup of lye on the floor. Her little boy swallowed a mouthful of it, and died the next day. A correspondent of the Montgomery, Ala, Mail asserts that the cotton crop of 1869 will be one-third less than that of 1888. He gives reasons for this belief, discussing the question at length.

Ok .the European sovereigns, King William, of Prussia, is the best marksman. King Victor Emanuel and Napoleon the Third are said never to have hit an animal while out on a hunting excursion. AT the Camp of Chalons, the Prince Imperial fell the other day from his horn, in the presence of the whole army. The Emperor, who was halting at his son’s side, seemed seriously annoyed at the accident. The value of Canadian cattle exported into the United States during the first three months of 1869, was $236,862 nearly double the value of those exported during the same period of 1868. The St. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch says: “ We will send to any address, without a stamp for return postage, the art of making money. To save trouble, we will state It right here—lt is advertising.” During the three months ending June 30, 7,542 arrests weremade in Chicago, of which 6,891 were males, and 1,151 females/ 1,974 married, and 5,568 «nfie The amount of lines collected reached $47,876. The convicts in the Connecticut State Prison, at Wethersfield, were furnished

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with a strawberry feast the other day by a Rhode Islander, who once had the misfortune to occupy a cell in that liwtiini': on. Tub gradnal disappearance of a strip of land about 20 by 100 feet, and covered with trees, etc., near Fort Wayne, Ind., is causiog considerable comment. There is supposed to be an underground river or l»ke, causing Its slow wasting away. A. Write, of Crafts bury, Vermont, while recently cutting a hemlock tree, found embedded In It a four-ounce bottle of French glass. The tree was nearlv all sound, and the bottle must have been there nearly half a century. - Tub towns of Wallingford and Shrewsbury 1 ; Vt., are much excited over the discovery of a valuable “ lead moontain ” within their territory. Some of the rock has been blasted out and specimens sent to New York, Boston ana Washington for examination. Some men were loading baled hay npon a Lake Superior propeller, at Detroit, a few days ago, when they were startled by a terrible hissing, which came from a bale partially burst open, and a badly pressed blacK snake, lour feet long, wriggled out. The temperance people of New Hampshire have decided to hold a State Convention the coming fall, and will advocate the putting up of separate city, town aud county tickets. It is quite probable that they will nominate an independent candidate for Governor. A colored woman, near Charleston, S. C., was bitten by a rattlesnake a few days ago, while picking berries, and the poison was so effective that death almost immediately ensued. Mortification spread so rapidly that it was necessary to bury her on the spot. General Jobl A Battle, of Tennessee, recently recovered a plain gold watch which had been taken from the dead body of his son on the battle-field of Shiloh. It was returned by a Federal officer who recognized the family name engraved thereon. There are one hundred and thirty compositors employed to set the types of the London lime*, sixty by day and seventy at night: while eleven foremen and assistants direct their movements. Twen-ty-four persons are required to read proofs, and three are employed merely to “pall” the proofs. The hack drivers of Springfield, Mass., are laughing at a bridegroom, at a recent fashionable wedding in that city, who drew from his plethoric pnrse the sum of ten cents as a bonus to the hackdriver that carried him and his and their trunks from the church a good half mile to the depot. About a month ago at Grand Rapids, a young man named Wicker, a carpenter, stepped on a nail, which ran through tile side of hislbot and made a painful wound; but this seemed in a fair way to get well, when he was taken with lock-jaw and died. A shocking case of destitution has recently been discovered on Staten Island. A German, named Jacob Ultrieh, with his family, consisting of a wife and six children, became located in a cellar in Clifton eight or ten days before, no one knows how. One child had died of starvation, and two others were in a dangerous Condition A young man who could not dance attended an excursion party to Glymont, below Washington, on the Potomac, and because his sweetheart could dance, and would, leaving him to his own poor amusement, he hang himself upon a tree, but was cut down. Then he tried the river, but, having been watched, he was saved again. A new alloy, forming a beautiful white metal, very hard and capable of taking a brilliant polish, is obtained by melting together about seventy parts of copper, twenty of nickel, five ana a half of zinc and four and a half of cadmium. This alloy has been recently made in Paris for the manufacture of spoons and forks, which resemble articles of silver. When the King of Prussia was, the other day, at Hanover, he lifted np a very pretty little girl, evidently the daughter of aristocratic parents. He asked the child, “What is your name?” “Myname is Annie,” said the little girl, who, after a moment’s hesitation, added: “ I like yon, big King; but father and mother don’t.” The King kissed her, and shrugged his shoulders, with a melancholy smile.

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