Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER 110.1 Put (life id Every TKwrt&ay fry HORACE E. JAMES, » - nrl#lnrtt JOSHUA HEALEY, f P opnHo ornci in BprnjfK’B botidino oppositb TUB COURT HOUSJt. •■bwrlMtea, CJ ■ Van, la Advance, JOB WORK “"•nrWfr* «*•«•* to order In coed style »»« ■» low raise. ‘

Selected MisCellarfy. REBUKE. Tn* world l» bid and the world Is cold, And never a day la fair, I nald. Out of tho hoavona the sunlight rolled. The Krcon loavea rustled above my head, And the aea was a Boa of gold. The world 18 cruel, I said again; , Her voice la harsh to my shrinking ess, / And the nights arc dreary and full Of pain. Out of the darkness, sweet and clear, . , There rlpplod a tender strain; Rippled the song of a blrf aaleep. . That sang In a dream of the budding wood, Of shining flelda whero the roapett roan, ' Of a wee brown mate and a nestling brood, And thu grass where tho berries peep. The world Is false, though the world bo fair, 'And never a heart is pure, I said. • Bnd 10l the clinging of white arms bare, The Innocont gold of my baby s head. And tho lisp of a childish prayer. • —Overland Monthly.

The Trial of Griffin—A Scathing Rebuke

No trial has been held in this' that has created as much excitement as the case of the Engineer Griffin, which has just resulted in a verdict (If acquittal. The law in the case is very plain, as “will lie seen by the charge of Judge Barrett to the jury, published in yesterday'a-Kms# ; but the good character of the accused, and the plea of his able counsel that a man in a sleeping or somnambulistic state was not , responsible for his acts, had sufficient . weight with the jury to • cause them to i render a verdict of “ not guilty," notwithstanding the Judge instructed them very pointedly to arrive at an opposite conclusion. Railroad men generally sympathize with Griffin, as do the citizens of this place. Judge Barrett is furious over tlib verdict, and considers it an outrage on the community. At the opening of the court yesterday morning Judge Barrett ordered the Clerk to call the names of the jury in the Griffin case, and directed that they be seated on his left. The Clerk then proceeded to can * the names, and the jurors responded as they were called until the whole panel had taken their seats. The jury knew they were under the ban of the Judge’s displeasure on account of their action, the previous evening, but they were not probably prepared for the pouring out 1 of in- \ dignation which was soon to bftaat r forth from his Honor. The court room was full, and the unusual proceeding had arrested and excited the-interest of every one present, and eager curiosity was aroused as to what was coming next. Judge Barrett, addressing' the jury, said: “ Gentlemen ; You last night returned into court, after a hearing or two days, with a verdict of not guilty in the case of the Commonwealth against James Griffin. This was not expected, and your verdict was against law, against justice, and pri outrage against humanity. You violated the obligations of your oath—a plain, simple obligation to render a verdlctaccording to the evidence. Instead of that you rendered a verdict against every particle of evidence. The cause of tlra defendant was abandoned by his counsel. 1 Drowning men will catch at straws. The theory or the defense is unknown to the law, and the counsel for the defendant did not believe it themselves. I was, and-still afn, astonished at' your verdict. I am astonished that you should in. this way set aside the law and violate your oaths; and I trust that the spirits of the dead, dying, 1 rleiding and burnt victims of Mast lldpe will rebuke you as long as you live. We have no power to cure the great wrong which you have inflicted on the community." The Judge continued at considerable length to recount the horrors of thtrdrckdful disaster at Mast Hope, and lb ask tho jury if thay had no sympathy for tlie sufferers there, but must waste it all bn the prisoner, who was the author of the great calamity. Ho concluded Ills rebuke! to the astonished jurymen, tvs follows:. t . “In future I hope that you will feel a proper regard for your oaths. You are now discharged from any further duty at this court. You are not fit to sit as jurymen. I will hot try causes -before such* j«ry." .... T T. Mr. Jessup, of counsel for prosecution, made a motion that Griffin bo; hfl<J ,jn recognizance to await proceedings against him on an .indictment for iuifslaugkijr under the common law. After, soup; discussion by counsel on either sido, the Judge denied the motion. Griffin was then released from custody, and immediately started for his home at Susquehanna depot. —MilforcL CVr. H. Y. Herald.

The Erie Railroad Fiend.

Tiik public press hits spread the facts fur and wide concerning ajt old man named John Bowen, a resident of this locality, and his lncMM&tton in jail at Milford, Pa., charged with the double crime of perjury and tearinit.im the track of the Erie Railway, with, the intent of throwing trains off 'fltt track. He was arrested in May list, and soon after his Incarceration he made a partial confession, owning up to Jmvfiig, on (Hxasions, torn up rails by which two freight trains were thrown off. Subsequently, on the 10th of August fop sent for Division Superintendent Redington, and, in the presence of Mr. R. and others, made a formal confession, tt) the effect that on the night or trie. Wth of April, 1808, he dislodged a jail al .Carr’s' Rock, by which the was thrown off the track, and oyer 100 passengers wcre.UM .djr'.iqJiW. ‘.He made this confession, lie stataok-wiluntarl-ly, to easo his mind, is hid conscience troubled him so that ho.coulffnot, Mcfip nights, thought that ho’ should am before long, and felt that he could not dlo without revealing those things. The September term of the Pike county! courts convened at Milford on Monday last, Hon, Ooorge R. JJSMBett;-.president judge, prosiding. Bowen’s easo whs brought before the grand Jury by JMiirß. Biddfs, Esq., district attorney.' Timgrfenil jury found a true bill of Indictment against! night of the 15th of thereby the cars were thtownfrom the track, and 1 the death of passengers resulted, Ac. i: The Indictment was» on Tuesday, and at the opening of the session of court on Wednesday morning (22d), the prisoner was brought into Court iind formally upon the charge. By tko, advice of his counsel he plead ‘'guilty,” prdltuWy qi the hope thereby of securing leniency of punishment for his crimes. Bowen, lit oonrt, and under the trying ordeal, of arralgrtmetit.; appeared cool and unconcerned, and mani-i fested less concern in the proceedings than any one among the crowded audience, who

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were listening wltffi almost' breathless in-1 terest to the proceedings, Ills' : ptM uatfifcjf 'been entered by the clerk, he was remanded back to jail to >sWatt sentence, whioh Will be pronounced by the judge at the close of tho term. Our ye porter-had a brief interview with Bowen I 'after his return to jail. The miserable seemctl not to realize the ehormity of bis crimes, but spoke lightly of the matter, saving that he expected the judge would give hiiu.quly a sliprt term of imprisonment, and he would ebon be out Card'to bib 1 confessed Of guilt hi connection with tbja Carr’s Rock disaster, the story seems too improbable and horrible for, belief But- those who best know the circumstances of the case, and have the beet opportunity fbr forming l a correct judgment in'tfhe- premises, put entire ere* deuce in his statement —which, by theway, is strongly corroborated by outside evidence—and are ftilly satisfied of the abt hls horrible story, anil that he tfoe confession t 6 Obtain relief from the torment^or a guilty conscience.— l 'Port Jentk {lf. T.) Gazette, Sept. 25,

The Sir John Franklin Document in California.

Wo have recipvet] tjie below coramunicafionby express *o*ll a party in San Buenarcntura, Whq iiigns.lus name, and is vouched for by a respectable firm in this city as an honest, trustworthy man. The communication reads as follows: “NEWS QF, SIR JOHN FRAKLIN. “ Found op the neacli &t,Si»n Buppaventura, on the 80tli of August last, a document measuring 13 by 10 inches,;much mutilated, requesting the finder to forward it to the Secretary of tpe Admirality at Lon* don, or to tlie British Consul at the nearest port. Tljis; request is printed in six commercial languages. The margin and every vacant portion of it lias been filled up witli writing relating to Sir John Franklin and his party, and was evidently cast to the waves in latitude 09 i deg. 87 min. 42 sec., and longitude 83 deg. 4 min. 5. sec. It- gives an account of the desertion °f the slops Erebus and Terror. At the time of the desertion the party numbered 105 souls, under the command of F. R. M. Crozier, and succeeded in getting as far south as the latitude and longitude mentioned above. Here they found relics of the late Sir John Ross. The documcht states that Sir John Franklin and party wintered at Beecby Island in 1846-7, in dfeg. 43 min. 28 see., and long, 91 dcg.?s, nun, J 5 sec., having doauindcfl ‘WtilingtocL (3aianfaelitbJkiti77 John ‘Franklin died onuherWifh'Ait’ißOie, 1847. It contains accounts of many interesting incidents connected with the expedition, wlneh>wilhl)ejli>4k known hereafter. The document was found by Junes Daly, of tho firm ofDalyi* Rodgers^ttunb*r merchants, San Buenaventura' .;. " San Buenaventura; Sept. 8,1809. That the document referred to above may have been fniuidjßftlie beach at San Buenaventura, in J ooltfc or otherwise, is entirely probable-; the next question ,relate&!t6 Its! authenticity fife vAlw. So ‘far asils oqk*nts'.ls joiir .cpiMespondent, thpy tell us nothing bus wpat McClintock’s Voyage 'discovered 1 as 'Jong ago as in 1859, in- relation to the Abandonment of the Erebus andr jFerror, except that the recdufe twbitiiy Stt. McClintock put the date of the abandonment in April, 1848, itßdiflld hot iajr Btti'‘J¥lm - liatt filed. siate i' theWkishflCijimil ilfJttiiaUiity; aUtl'transcribe Ha iftHl^fttqnle.rfof, Meanwhile wc give nis staiemeJitior what it is worth. Possibly some iugcnidffthrag has taken a liint from Hugo’s IS Homme yui Bit, the plot of wlikbdtuns on the discovery of a a wonderful revelation, years after it had been thrown inti) tho sen My a ifripfeindicr^ti join Gotag Honw, ‘ifi(l tfie End or thie Journey. V i./i

The passengers oh theifjat-urHay 'night train of the reat Western Railroad for Cinclnnau were startled from thein slimheyff morning by the cry of ” Mothers dead!’ utterett’m an agonizing fih&krtfKnfcthe roar end of tlmcar, by a woman who afterward proved to be ia daughter of the deceased. The cirftdistMces attending the death were these !* The old lady, who was quite on tnvsllifo'lMtafeecn tftHSdn on'bAird she was met by her daughter, her aftnghtefVUUflbifaff k mweliant' id Ctticiofalti, !uM,gntpd-daughior f Wfel*,w|tom ffw, proposed to arena ine-winter Fir the beijviit of her hoallh. , ' ’*nte r \riillaidy, thoogb quite cheerful, was too feeble to sit up during the day, and one of the actions was arranged for l&tvt4Vdshgt£nj£m until bedtime; and.her children were unwearying irttflUir UtettltohSf Wlfcliing kd with sch tender, tlumglilihl cure, as to ptfraej. the atteiftionvhf rahsp 1 ffbqht thim. / Jn‘'the even lug. hotire thfy r retired, ■ tdi q i jioyng siltli WfJfii#.' Jant/ "dreamilyy fafcj-jttlm wbrlfij ‘WM'tt! WM ’soon toi be lter hone. ft ¥£!**■>»' Mi®' Si visited 4kotA‘ thneito thud bVf lief daughter, to whose tender inquiries sue replied that she thought that slid- should' pass the night aßTmmfbrttrtrty~ar though she were In her own roo»wafll(sb|b. The last time her daughter spflMrLr lfer was at 2 o’clock in tl* mqrping. When she .went oyer at iwflpcknjhbu Ini spirit or the rnwlier hail paasedjrwayto> Wi4fbafti*Jiu»fljiip- »»»«« taJklig crSvdifoflesfriyitraeM, wwtjng sfe£S with the other, where the eorpse was laid out in the cquter Section, wkh the children kneeling anddfeiplbglftfttA bedside and wirewi *h» cars by quite a nutnber of friends and adM&ffi to whdinkhdW'iiVidf ting: “-Tea them hUi*f Lriii>la^aori»n,MiiajaurOf lid VoilJ awMiu »n»U;;! -j rsrn u» i . f>m (i A‘ If ia a a;rent gift, to be lnirn, rich, lu. the, eyes ahlrdKMt flmnfc'lviQrt bn ye iUrrIWP-lwlure MWto t isi yirfllesa-, jMiodfspioft. qf, IbtWty. riicrc are Cnarms for them where others perceive barrenness. Tktito-4k ! A <*fhhert in the air all the time for those whose ears are tuned aright. Trees harp for them, winds roll their tones musically, and birds and insects fill np the orchestra."

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Weekly News Summary.

■■ FOREIftN. A London disnatch oftho 25th says that Information'received ffom pellablo sources In Madrid states that Gen, Sickles’ tot* to Scfrhno and the other Spanish Ministers amounted U> -a sihlplo declaration that the United States Government may withdraw its offer of friendly mediation between Spain and tlitf Cuban Insurgents, leaving the rcSjjotiWbilityi' as Welt as the consequanoes which may ensue, on Spain herself. Thpmas ad.vlpe? of September 18th say there were three shocks of earthquake' on tM- {hfiViosa day. Tho stora?-Were closecTand Dusfness was suspended. No lives were lost as far, as known, A Florence telegram of EepUmber 27th announces that Mount Astna was in a state of violent eruption. 6treams of lava were pouring flour tlie tratfirtp tile Valduc. A dispatch from St. John, N. F., September 27, contains intelligence of the return of the expedition of Dr. Hayes and Bradford, the artist, from the Arctic Regions. They penetrated the middle ice, in which tho British whaler Alexandria was crushed and lost. Her crew was saved. The expedition was successful in every object. A statement that Gen. Jordan had offered to surrender himself and troops to the Spanish authorities, on the payment to him of a certain sum of money, is reiterated in a dispatch from Havana on the 27th. Reinforcements for the Spanish army in Cuba sailed from Cadiz on the 28th. Tworthieda of the town of Port Dalhousic, Canada, was burned on the 28th. Total loss, $40,000. The King of Portugal has publicly contradicted the tumor of his candidature for the throne of Spain. A New York telegram of the 28th says that. Scnor Lemus, the Cuban Minister, states that there is not a single sentence in the Cuban Constitution which contemplates anything but absolute and unequivocal freedom to the slaves of the island.

A fire broke out among the shipping at Bordeaux, France, on the morning of the 28th, and before it was subdued fifteen vessels laden with petroleum were consumed. Advieei from Paraguay up to August 22 state that Lopoz had been defeated in two severe.engagements, and had fled with a remnant of his army. In the first engagement the Paraguayans loet 1,000 in killed, 300 prisoners and 12 cannon; in the second battle they were Utterly routed, losing 25 cannon, and being compelled to abandon all thoirateamers,.which fell into 'the hands of the Allies. The Provisional Government of Asuncion hail declared Lopez an outlaw. Nfiws from Rio Janeiro to September 7th ftilly confirms the flight of Lopez. The Princo and Princess of Wales arrived in Paris on the 29th ult., and were received by the Emperor. The mediation of the Great Powers of Europe in the differences between Turkey and Bggrpt has been Successful. It Was again Sported in official circles at Madrid on tlie 29th ult. that the recent note of Gert. Sickles had been withdrawn. The London Times’ Paris correspondent of the 29th ult- asserts thpt “there is but little hope of a coraweamtsq between Spain 'antT {life Cubank The sentiments' of bdth parties are heard here. The Spanish Government says, in so many words, Lay down yotW arms, and send Deputies to the Cortes. 1 If you will be as Canada, we are willing ;rif iyou desire independence, we don’t say np. The matter may be arranged. But disarm. Spain’s motio is notliJng'butHWmpulsion.’’'' j The great hippodrome Jar Paris was destroyed by fire on the night of the 29th Ult. The Empress of the French left Paris on the 30th ult,, on h6r Eastern tour. According to a late census, the population of Mexico is 8,567,000. The first Cafgd of the new crop of Chinese tea arrived in London on the Ist.

i DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 29th ult. at 180*|. • Receipts of fractional' Currency for the week ending September 25, $1,024,500; shipments, #937,441; redeemed, $204,700. Bqnk .currency issued. $241,580; actual Circulation, $290,768;410. It is stated that at the Cabinet meeting nb conclusion was rqaqhed on ‘the Cuban question, and. it was believed that settop on Uia-ppbjcct The Assistant Treasurer lit New York has been authorized to sell $1,000,000 of gold each Tuesday* and Friday till November 1; also to purchase $2,000,000 of bonds eacli Wednesday till November 1— those sales and purchases to bo in addition to those already ordered on account of the sinking fhnd. ' A sad accidelfti fXisurred at Niagara . TP#* °» **&'*'> carriage containing four ladles was upset over a bank and fell some fifty feet, killing one and dangerously wppndingthe others. Tliere was great excitement in Wall street, New Yank, on the* 84th, and gold went urn with eturtllim rapidity toIOP but 'fcUdß&fy declined to II%IM in the afternoon. ■ Bcvpral speculators had theu .fingers badly burned. On the night of September 20th Ice fSifmed cf an Inch thick Paul, Minnesota. '• ■' The destruction by firo of the Hope T?ott(Vrj kills; ftt Oltjr, Pa., of omployinent, i<. A heavy frost Is reported at Nashville mt the morning of tho «7Ui, but no serious dAmnigd was caused. " •j>‘ ’ . Iu pf thk m the property of the United States at Harper's Ferry and vicinity is to be sold on the 30th of November.

I ;.i \ >»M ft . * " • *!ti * ‘ u OUR OQUNTBV AND OUR UNION.

Tlie Ohio Reform and Industrial School for girls is to be opened on the 15th ol October. The official returns of the passengers arriving in tlie United States during the quartet endidg with June, show an extraordinary increase. The whole number is 177,582, of whom nearly 66,000 were females/ , The new building of the National Military Asylum, located at Milwaukee, was dedicated on the 27th. An address was delivered by Gen. B. F. Butler, who is one of tho Board of The accommodations of the building, are sufficient to contain comfortably five hundred Inmates. The nnffibep'-of soldiers now in the Asylum is 247. . . > One of the Miami powder mills, five mile? north of Xenia, Ohio, exploded o” the 27th, killing a colored employe named Thurston, prostrating five buildings and injuring some dwellings. The telegraph wires were torn down. .. The wheat crop of Montana is estimated at 55,000 bushels. The New York Commercial of the 29th ult. asserts that the steamship Alabama went to sea' on the 26th with 26J volunteers for Cuba. The New York Express of the 30th says it is estimated that the depreciation .in- the price of gold and securities dealt in offl the New York Stock Exchange since the previous Thursday would reach $100,000,000 in currency.. Many men had been reduced from affiftenoa'to poverty.

The government coffer-dam at Moline gave way on the morning of the 30th ult. About IRO feet of the embankment washed out, causing a loss of at least $150,000, at the. same time putting the work back a year. Customs receipts for week ending September 25, $3,910,198. 'An official proclamation bas been issued of the convention between the United States and Hesse-Darmstadt, regulating citizenship on the basis of naturalization as with the North German Confederation The tobacco crop in the vicinity of Cincinnati, in Ohio and Kentucky, has been injured by frosts. A terrible boiler explosion occurred on the Indiana State Fair Grounds, at Indianapolis, on the afternoon of the Ist, by which nineteen persons lost Ihejr lives, and nearly onc.hupdred were more or less injured. The boiler was attached to a saw-mill of Messra Sinker & Co., of Indianapolis, and had just been fired up for a test of speed with another sawing machine.' The National Bank of Norwalk’ Conn., was robbed of $30,000 by burglars on the night of the 30th ult. The race for double teams, at Mystic Park, Boston, on the 30th ult, for a purse of SI,OOO, was won by Honest Allen and mate, in 2:31, 2:32, and 2:29% —said to be the fastest time on record for double team trotters.

The following is a synopsis of the public debt statement for October, as published on tlfclst inst.: Debt bearing Interest in coin $2,107,936,800 00 Interest 43,123,600 38 Debt bearing Inter-. estln law fultuouey 61.543,000 00 Interest.-. . ->.. 1,143,263 60 Debt on which Interest Uaseonseil since maturity..4,632,696-to ... Interest 630,774 63 Debt bearing uq interest....?. Total, debt, prfncrlfwd and intcrost... $1,631,008,©H OO Amount in tho Treasury: C0in......'. $193,864,668 81 - Currency 6,548,004 18 Sinking fund in U. 8. cpin-mterest bunds, and Interest collected and accrued thereon 16,125,138 55 Othor U. 8. coin-inter-est bonds purchased, and accrued interest V thereon 34,625,002 60 * Total •! *166,114,783 99 Debt, less amount in the Treaaury. 3,4G3,486,072 11 Debt, lesa amount in tbe Treasury on tho Ist ult. 2,475,902,501 50 Decrease of public debt daring the past month. __ '*7,467,429 30 Decrease since March I, 1869 *50,908,187 #0 PERSONAL. . The Oindnnati’Commercial party have arrived at Baa Francisco, and were warmly received. In the cAse of James Griffin, engineer, indicted for causing the railroad disaster At Mast Hope, on the Erie Railroad, the jury returned* verdict of not under the laws of Pennsylvania. The defendant Was refiuirod to pay the costs of the trial. The announcement of the verdict was received with applause by the friends, of Griffin. , Dr, C, F. Hall, the Arctic explorer, with two Esquimaux and their daughters, reached New Bedford, Mass., on the 26th. After five years’ residence in the Arctic regions ha brings homo interesting yet sad intelligence of the fete of Sir John Fn»nklin anj bis party, and conclusive proot tlmt none of them ever reached Montreal Island. lie was successful in finding the skeletons of many of Franklin’s men, as well as remains of his boats lie saw natives who were the last - to look upon Crozioc-and his party. Prince Arthur and the Governor General of Canada visited Buffalo on.the 27th, drove about .the city, nod lunched with ex-Presldent Fillmore, Wm. Whist has been appointed Register Of the Land Offloo at SooueviUc, Ma Jefferson Davis sailed from England for tho United States on the, 25th. Fred. K. Lowe, of California, has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China. ’ The National Grand Lodge df Odd Fellows, in session in San Francisco, adjourned on tho 27th, Grand Sire Farnsworth wajyircsented with a diamond ring set in gold* from filings from the Pacific railroad “ last spike,” and Grand Secretary Rigoloy was presented with a handsome cane. Geft, Peabody sailed for Europe on the 29th ult. Wm. A. Richardson has resigned the

position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The following appointments wero made on tho 29fli ult.: Postmasters—W. H. Muerbers, St. Charles, Mo.; Jay J. Drake, St. Joseph, Mich.; Edward S. Jewett, Niles, Mich. Joseph M. Orr is appointed United States Marshal for Utah. Mr. John Bigelow bas resigned the editorship of the N. Y. Times, and.Frcdcrick Hudson, late of the Herald, Is to be managing editor. The Colfax party left San Francisco for the East on the 29th ult. They would remain at Balt Lake a few clays. The N. Y. Sun of the 30th ult. publishes a letter from Geo. Wm. Curtis, declining the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. Mr. Seward and party left San Francisco on the 80th, by steamer, en route for the City of Mexico. On the same day Gen. Geo. H. Thomas and Admiral Farragut left for the East. Hon. Isaac Jenkinson, of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gasette, has accepted the appointment of United States Consul at Glasgow, Scotland. F. M. Blair, editor of the Masonic Home Advocate, and formerly Grand Master of Illinois, died at Indianapolis on the night of the 29th ult. The President has recognized Casper Ritchie as Vice Consul of the Swiss Confederation for Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, to reside in Cincinnati; also Peter Staub as Consular Agent of the Swiss Confederation for Tennessee, to reside at Knoxville.

POLITICAL. A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch of the 25th says: “The municipal election to-day passed off quietly. Returns are complete. The majority of Morrill, the Conservative candidate for Mayor, will be about 2,500. The Conservative ticket for Aldermen and Councilmen is also elected by a decided majority.” The lowa Democratic State Central Committee have nominated H. O. Dayton, of Lansing, as their candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, vice Edmund Jaeger, declined. The Minnesota Democratic State Convention on the 23d nominated the following ticket: Governor, George L. Otis, of Ramsey County; Lieutenant Governor, J. A. Wiswell, of Blue Earth County; Secretary of State, T. G. Fladcland, of Fillmore County; Auditor, Louis A. Evans, of Stearns County; Attorney General, Seagrave Smith, of Dakota County; State Treasurer, Casper Babriech, of Brown County; Chief Justice, Chas. E. Flandreau, of Hennepin County; Clerk of the Supreme Court, W. T. Braneweil, of McLeod County. Mr. Johnson, Conservative, was, on the 28th, elected to the Virginia Legislature from Alexandria Co., by a majority of 69. The Mississippi Republican State Convention, in session at Jackson on the 29th ult, nominated Gen. Alcorn for Governor, R. C. Powers for LieutenantGovernor, and Bishop James Lynch (colored) for Secretary of State. Attorney-General Hoar has given his opinion upon the oower of the Virginia Legislature to elect United States Senators, and says they can do so after organizing, as such action is not regarded as Legislative business, and will therefore be legal, The Republican State Convention of New York, in session at Syracuse on the 29th ult., nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, George William Curtis; Comptroller, Thomas Hillhouse; State Engineer, Gen. John C. Robinson; Treasurer, Thomas S. Chatfleld; AttorneyGeneral, Martinl. Townsend ;‘State Prison Inspector, Daniel D. Conover; Judges of the Court of Appeals, Woodruff and Mason, the present incumbents.

This fall State elections will take place as follows : Indiana Oct. 12 Kannas Not. 2 lowa Oct. 1* Maryland Nov. 2 Nebraska Oct. 12 Massachusetts Nov. 2 Ohio Oct. lSiMlchigan Nov. 2 Pannsvlvania Oct. 12 Minnesota Nor. 2 West Virginia Oct. 12 Mlsaouri Nov. 2 Arkansas Nov. I.Nevada ,Nov. 2 Louisiana Nov .. 'New Jersey Nor. 2 Alabama Nov. 2 New York Nov. 2 Florida Nov. 2.Wisconsin .Nov. 2 Illinois Nov. 2|Soulh Carolina... Nov. 22 A special from Bronham, Texas, on the 39th nit., states that the editors of the Democratic newspapers in convention had nominated Hamilton Stuart, of Galveston, for Governor, and he had accepted. A full straight-out Democratic ticket would be put forward. The newspapers were pledged for their support. The election in Mississippi will be held on November 80 and December 1. A special dispatch from Houston, Texas, on the Ist, says the so-called Democratic Convention at Brenham consisted of five editors. The Democratic party, through its Executive Committed, refused to call a convention or make any nomination for Governor. Tho Democratic party ofj Texas has no sympathy or connection with this move. —A correspondent, writing of the Avondale disaster, speaks of one woman who, looking from her cottage door, beheld the awful doom to which that fire consigned the husband of her heart, her thfte sons, three brothers, and a father. Ho saw this horribly afflicted woman the day the dead bodies wore drawn from the mine, sitting by the wayside, removed from the throng of the other mourners. She had a fair, round face, and large, lustrous eyes. Her dress was decent, and In. her demeanor nothing unusual presented .itself to the passing observer; but on near approach, the deathlike pallor of the features, the unearthly glare of her dried-up eyes, and the fixed, statue-like position of tho body, told of a grief too deSp for team. ■. ■■ A Mr. Moojue recently received $1,300 from the city of Alton, HI., as damages received from falling through a defective sidewalk and breaking his leg. [y ■ > am ’* > ; ■ —There are no less than 300,000 white men throughout the South enraged in cultivating cotton with their own "hands.

CURRENT ITEMS.

A man in Portland, Me., has made a fortune with a handcart. Five cities in Franco will erect monuments to Lamartine. Amono Humboldt’s papers there were found, after hie death, over four thousand begging letters. Tns Roman Catholics are proparing to erect one or more free chapels in New York city for Ihe colored residents. Bonner says that Dexter shall not race, but that lie will give SIOO,OOO for a horse who can do better than he has done. Sixty persons hare committed suicide at Homburg in the last fire years on account of ruinous losses at the gambling hell 3. A letter addressed “E 8, lowhel Neir Boston, lmnited Stabs merricay medel sex 70,” has reached it destination. Mr. Lorrii.i.ard, of tho yacht Meteor, has issued a challenge for an ocean race, to take place this autumn or next spring—the stake's to be $4,000. A Boston chemist advertises thus: “ The gentleman who left 1U» stomach for axalysis will please call and get it, together with the results.” The population of the city of Rochester, N. Y., is 08,308, according to a recent census taken by order of Hie Common Council. Once around your clinched fist over the knuckle joints is just the length of your loot. So says a female clerk who sells stockings. The English papers express themselves much gratified at the manner in which the defeat of the Harvard crew was received in this country. Chief Justice Chase, it is reported, lias recently invested $33,000 in a tract of land of forty acres and a handsome residence just outside of Washington. The annual reports of the National Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows show that 44,000 persons were initiated last year, making a total membership of 200,(100.

A little girl in Laporte, Ind., recently purchased a copy of Webster’s unabridged pictorial dictionary, costing sl3, with 340 five cent nicklea which she had hoarded up for the purpose. Champion, of Wolfeborough, Me., bet on the Harvards His champions lost, so their Champion had to wheel a barrow load of potatoes to Farmington. He may be called the Champion wheelbarrowist. The rising generation of Pigville, a suburb of Hartford, have lately been discovered fastening cats together with fishhooks, and allowing them to fight till one or the other was literally torn to pieces. A TELEGRAM from Portland, Oregon, to the San Francisco papers, a short time since, reported that the Chinese there were loading a bark for Hong Kong “with a miscellaneous cargo of old scrap iron, boxes of dead Celestials, broken glass, flour, and other produce.” * .Thomas Fillebrown has been a clerk in the Navy Department In Washington for the last fifty-one years; and a strange fact it is, that for the last thirty years he has never been to the Capitol except once, when he accompanied hi* brother to wit ness the last inauguration of President Lincoln. A letter to a Canadian paper says: “An amusing incident at London last night, after the balL While Prince Arthur was going to his carriage, a Yankee abstracted a handkerchief from the Prince’B pocket, and thrust his own into the' Prince’s hand. The Prince struggled for possession for a minute, hut our American cousin carried off the royal handkerchief as a prize.” A convict was recently released at Cayenne, that had passed there twenty-five years. When he returned to France he spent a great deal of money, which- attracted the .attention of the police. He was arrested, and It was found that he had found the money of tho hian whom he had murdered a quarter of a century ago, in the same place where he had buried it at that time.

An old man, in Crawford county, Pa., called “ Crazy, Odell,” has fpr twenty years, with necessary intervals for sleeping and eating, walked In Milne and storm, from MeadvilTe to Penn Line, a distance of twenty miles. No matter how hard It rains, snows or blows, he continues Hs in' cessant tramp. The okl man Imagines himself to be the Duke of Wellington, and is always marching to the battle held of Waterloo. . .1: At Philadelphia, on July 13, Georgiana McCready, aged 13 years, was bitten by a rabid doe, which was owhed by a man named Helmth. >A few weeks ago she showed symptoms of hydrophobia. A physician was called in, but she grew gradually worse, until the night of the 33a ult., when the paroxysms were so violent that her parents administered poison in order to end her sufferings. Helhnrth was arrested. TV | . , I The Rev. Wm,Jl.Mjburn* the “blind preacher," has recently returned to New York, after sixteen months’ residence abroad, whither he wept ior the purpose of submitting to an operation for sight, by the eminent Gracffe, of Berlin. . Tho experiment was pot a success. Mr. MRburn, during his absence, has prepared two new lectures—” What a Blmd‘ Man Saw in Paris,” and a .“ Blind Man’s Experience id Search of Sight*’—which he proposes to deliver dnring the coming lecture season. The Trustees of the Avondale relief fund have adopted a plan for the distribution of the funds that reach them. *The plan of distribution for the first year Isas follows: Each widow to lie paid the sum of S3OO in equal monthly payments. Each male orphan child under 14 years, and each femalp orphan child under 16 years, shall be paid for the same period SIOO, in the same manner. Children over the ages mentioned will be jfeid in fullA sum not exceeding SBOO. Five thousand dollars was voted to meet special cases not embraced in the foregoing. These provisions are made for aid and relief till the Jst day of October, 1870, and will absorb all but $4,000. The remainder of the fund is to be carefully invested in good securities, that can be converted into cash when required, and to Constitute a permanent fund, divisible upo# the following cases: One-third to constitute a Widow’s Fund, and the remaining fWo-thirds an Orphans Fund. Prom these fends widows and or- ■ phans are to receive quarterly payments uutH the whole is exhausted In Parts, lately, a gentleman living in the Faubouqr ftfcwmera Committed suieido by stabbing hhnaelf with , His wife, hearing lnm fell; Jumped out of bed, and on discovering what had happened, culled for help.' A. servant appeared, but when he saw the ! dagger planted in thebody he refused to remove it or to try to staunch the blood: but fied

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terror-stricken and aroused the ooaderge. Tlie latter took fright too, and declared that the body must not be touched until tho arrival of the polios, otherwise they would all be accused of murder together. The unfortunate wife meanwhile had fainted. After a time two sergents-de-ville arrived, and without stopping to see whether there was any remnant or lift In the lifeless body, declared that not a finger mast be laid upon it, bat that it mpst remain exactly wheTe it lay, with tbi? Bagger in it, until the commissalre arrived. At length this, representative of authority made his appearance, just one hoar and a half after the catastropheso that; even had the unhappy man been still alive when his wife first called for help, which is not at all improbable, he had time to die fifty times over in the interval-

On Saturday last—the day of the great rain in Watkins—the most extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon ever experienced in Schuyler County took place near the residence of Issac Fero, In the town of Orange. It was of tho description usually denominated whirlwinds, and yet quite different from any which have hitherto been developed in this section or the country, being very different from ordinary hurricanes. The rain fellin torrents during its continuance, and in its effect very much resembled a water-spout. It had a forward and rotary motion, and devoloped its greatest violence in the immediate vicinity of Ml Fero's residence. Barely escaping his house and taking off two poplars near his front gate, it swept onward, as if winged with destruction, through a pathway some thirty or forty rods wide, devastating everything in its course; until its fury was exhausted. Strikinga schoolhouse, it lifted it bodily into the air, tore it in pieces, and scattered the fragmentbof the wreck—some of them—miles away, hurling the brick of which the chimney was built backward in tho direction from which it came, while most of the materials, including the roof, were swept forward and hnrlea in every direction from Its centre. On reaching a piece of woodland, it twisted off the largest pines, or tore them up - by the roots, as ir they were but w)n>s of straw, and left nothing but a chaotic desolation in its track.

Stump fences, composed of those of the largest size, were throWn over the fields from whence they came almost as promiscuously as if just “ pulled.” The scene presented after the work Was done beggared all description, and on Sunday attracted the people for miles around. We have not learned the extent of this strange visitant’s fantastic and terrible -ffaeks, nor that any washiUed or inSred, but understand that it swept onward a southeaßternly direction over a portion of the town of Gatlin. lit is reported that a man aod boy had taken refuge in the school-house, but escaped the instant it started on its aerial night.. —Rochester (JST. Y.) Etpra*.

A Brief Account of Mr. Hall's Arctic Experience.

New Yobk, September 30. Mu. Hall’s detailed report bf his Arctic expedition is published. It appears that there is no longer even a shadow of hope that any one survives front Franklin's company. It is thought that pone of them reached eyen as far as Montreal Island, and their bones lie scattered along the coast of King William’s Land, some in isolates! graves, others in camping places where they died in companies. Tqe melancholy history had its crowing terror in the knowledge that they died by starvation, through the base behftvor or the. Esquimaux, and that learning their fete Captain Hall was reduced to toe awful necessity of taking the life of one-of his o#n mhtinous men. Mr. Hall states that the Erebus and Terror were abandoned. Qpe of them copsqmmatedthogfnal. northwest passage, having five tnep aboard. The evidence or the exact, number is circumstahthkl! Everything; 'about this northwest/passage ship ofSi»JohnFftrankliu’s expedition was in complete /Rdcr. ■Four boats were hanging high,up at the ship's sides, apd .one was on the quartordeex. The’Vessel Vnfs ih the winter housing of sail doth. This ▼essef whs-found by natives near G’lteilly Isiand,3atitude ,BBdegre» E. 3d degrees N., kmipfjjde 99 degrees E. >3B degrees W., euf{y m the Spring of 1849, it being frozen In the midst of a smooth and unbroken floe of ice of only one winter’s formation, v -

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