St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1893 — Page 6

WALKEBTOH INBEPENOEfii. WALKERTON, - . . INDIANA MOORS SHOW NO PITY. DESPERATE BATTLE WITH SPANISH SOLDIERS. Natives of Morocco Assail the Fort at Mellina, and Many Men Are Killed—PanAmerican Bimetallic Convention — Miraculous Escape from Death. Spanish Garrison Atta:k’d. The Spanish garrison at Me 1 ilia, on the northern crast of Morocco, is besieged by thousands of natives and the situation is critical. The Spanish authorities recently decided to add to the strength of their fortifications at Melilla. the state of the country and th acts of the natives, in their opinion warranting such a course. The work of constructing additional fortifications was begun and pushed forward as rapidly as possible. This incensed the Moors, and a force of more than (5,000 natives made an attack upon the Spanish garrison. that numbered all told mt more than four hundred scul e . During the I at tie eighteen of the Spaniards were killed and th it ty-five wounded, inclu ling three officers, where injuries are serious. The Spaiish arti’leiy did great execution. The gunners at one time directed their fire upon a m< sque and alm st completely destroyed it. Other buildings in the range of their tire were also destroyed. Bimetallic Ms n Meet. The pan-American bimetallic convention assembled at Armory Hall in St. Louis, Mo. Ex-Congressman Nathan Frank delivered the address of welcome on behalf of Hie city. Gov. W. J. Stone, of Missouri, performed a like service on behalf of the State. S. S. King, of Kan as, responded for the e nvention. expressing thanks for the welcome. Turning to the question of sectionalism and silver he declared, fir: t. that this country was able to get a’ong without the economic aid of any foreign nation: second, as regards silver, there was no sectionalism other than that that conceived by those endeavoring to debase it, citing, as he presented this, the solid votes of the Northeastern Atlantic States. As to commerce, he I qu >ted statistics showing that the in- ; ternal commerce from the Mississippi | Valley was greater than the combined । foreign commerce of all the world. He, in closing, called upon the Missis I sippi Valley, that great empire of the I West, to wake up and take its place in ' the economics of the country. Gov. G. i P. Tillman, of South Carolina, wa > : chosen temporary chairman. Many laves Lost. Out of a population of 300 at Bayou Cook, La., but thirty escaped the terrible Southern storm. M>inv 'ire? ?.’,v NEWS NUGGETS. SNOW fell at Denver. Colo., to the depth of an inch on Sunday. Carrole D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, will take charge of the census and hasten its completion. Secretary Carlisle has decided that the new public building at Omaha. Neb., shall be constructed of granite. John Hoffman, a wealthy farmer I living near Brazil. Ind., became cm- । barrassed financially and committed suicide. Joseph Lange, a glassbl >wer. claim- ■ ing to le from Chicago, was sentenced . to the penitentiary for one yea" at 1 Portland, Ind., for stealing an over- 1 coat. A CRAZY painter at Pittsburg. Pa., whose sweetheart had jilted him. was caught in the act of lighting aud burning S2O notes. He had destroyed most of his savings of $568. Eleven well-known citizens of Bartholomew County. Indiana, including Mrs. Martha Snyder and Mrs. Anne Vonstroe, have been indicted for white-capping Mrs. Andrew Scrader a month ago. The residence of H. W. Wells, the Chicago Board of Trade operator, at St. Joseph, Mich., was robbed of S7OO worth of jewelry and SSO in cash by two masked burglars. T.:e thieves held up Mrs. Wells and a servant at point of revolvers and compelled them to give up the valuables. Advices have been received from Parangarientero, State of Michoacan, Mexico, of a horrible accident at a church Sunday. The parish church was crowded with people attending a | religious festival when a rocket set lire j to the roof, and the fact being announced by the ringing of the church bell a panic seized upon the assembled multitude, who made a simultaneous break for the doors, with the r< s lit that ten persons were killed. While a train on the Missouri Pacific Railway was approaching Rich Hill. Mo., the engineer discovered a woman and two little children crossing a thirty-foot trestle He sounded the whistle and applied the brakes, but was unable to stop. The woman jumped and escaped with slight bruises. The children, two girls,' aged 5 and 6 years, respectively, were knocked down by the pilot and fell between the sleepers, lodging just under the rails. The entire train of thirty-eight cars passed over them, but they were found unhurt. Thirteen hundred coal miners have struck, at Springfield. 11l . against a proposed reduction in wages. Charles Robertson, a young lawyer of New York, is reported to have been selected to succeed Josiah Quincy as Assistant Secretary of State. E. A. McDonald, ( anada’s apostle of annexation, swore out a warrant against W. F. McLean, member of Parliament. of the T ironto World, for criminal libel in the publication of an editorial headed, “A Mal Man at Large. ”

EASTERN. At Caton, N. Y., Pottsville, Pa., and Pittsfield, Mass., snow fell on Friday. Mrs. John Cox, of Port Perry, Pa., was burned to death by the explosion of a lamp. Frank Kendrick, a bank cashier at Syracu e, N. Y., has confessed that he is a defaulter for $30,060. Henry C. Whittier & Son, retail jewelers, Providence, R. 1., assigned. Liabilities, $50,C00; assets in excess. An attachment for $30,000 has been placed on the property of the New England Printing Telegraph, at Providence, R. I. Clifford M. Claverty, tight-rope perft rmer, fell ninety feet at the InterState Fair, Trenton, N. J., and was fatally hurt. During a quarrel near Tonawanda, N. Y., Charles Emerson, a milk peddler of Buffalo, was killed by William H. Griffith, a farmer. Connecticut's new anti-oleomarga-rine law is so strict that only two licenses to sell oleomargarine have been taken out in the entire State. The palatial residence of William A. Lawson, of the New York Exchange, near Port Chester, N. Y., was burned, entailing- a loss of S2OO 000. M. C. Percival, defaulting cashier of the National Shoe and Leather Bank of Lewiston, Me., died in the State's prison at Thomaston. Indictments for embezzlement were returned at Pittsburg. Pa., against Peter Lazarveitz, Isaac Schaffer, and G. P. Tilipinni. bankers, who recently failed. The first named is in jail, and Schaffer is missing. Judge Lacombe, of the United States Circuit Court at New York, has appointed Samuel M. Jarvis, of Kansas City, and Roland R. Conklin, of New York, receivers of the Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company. Three of the turbine water wheels, with their auxiliary mechanism, which were built in Philadelphia at a cost of s2oo.oD<> each, for the purpose of utilizing the stupendous power of Niagara Falls for industrial purposes, will shortly be placed in position. Each wheel is expected to develop 5.000 horse power. The turbine pro] er is but six inches in diameter with two faces, each eighteen inches. A feed pipe seven and a half feet in diameter will carry the water to the turbines, and the latter. in revolving, will transmit power to an electric dynamo at the surface through a shaft of tubular steel 34 feet in diameter and ten feet in depth. WESTERN. An incendiary fire cause I SIOO,OOO damage to the Santa Fe Hotel at Emporia. Kan. At Portland. Ore.. Carl Perham took hold < f a live wire and was instantly killed. Henry C. Young, doming factory, factory. Sioux City. la., gave a chattel mortgage fcr $14,250. recurrence of last year f nronTy' demic. A FIRE at the Stark County Fair grounds, Canton. Ohio, destroyed the stable and with it thirty prize cattle valued at $25,003. John Tußpie. brother of Senator ■ David Tin pie. ha- returne i to Indianapolis after having been mourned as dead for twenty-live years. Walter Harwood, a real estate and loan agent in Kansas City, Mo., died of pneumonia. He was an Englishman by birth and a widower. By a prairie tire in the western ] a t j of the Cher< kue Strip several hundred i settlers lost wagons, tents and horses, and a number lost their lives. The Cigar - Makers' International Union, insesdonat Milwaukee, passed resolutions indorsing Gov. AltgeH's action in pardoning the Chicago anarchists. La Liberty, under arrest at Hough-; ton. Mich., for the Mineral Rango train ' robbery, has made a full confession, in I which he implicates King, Butler, and Ed Hogan. The Stockton (Cal.) police believe that in the capture of Axel Sorenson ; they have the owner of the valise i i which figured so conspicuously in the । recent fatal explosion. A Chicago and Northwestern I passenger train and a work train col- I lided near Crescent City, lowa, and two workmen—Bert Jackson and Loren Peterson—were killed. By ord.r of Mayor Mosby the police ; have made a canva s of Cincinnati and i find that employment is being given to ■ nearly the full standard capacity of es- i tablishments in that city. Minneapolis ur mills made an-; other heavy run la t week, the output. ' 233,690 barrels, being next to that of ! the, previous week. 241,790 barrels. ; which was the largest on record. John Efren, a boarding-house ! keeper, who had shipped a number of • non-union sailors from San Francisco, । was severely beaten by union sailors at | San Pedro, Cal., and robbed of SSO. The Chemical National Bank, of Chicago, will soon pay its first dividend of 5o per cent, to the creditors and stockholders. and the Evanston National Bank will shortly pay 20 per cent. John H. Mcßride has begun suit in ■ the United States Court at Des M< ines. i lowa, to recover royalties aggregating I $500,000 cn an attachment to a sulky> plow, for which, he rays, he was granted a patent in 1875. Billy Deutsche, the sporting man who is known all over the world, is dying in St. Luke's Hospital, Denver. He believes he cannot live more than a few days and has destroyed all evidence of obligations of former friends to him. At Crystal Falls. Mich., the Michigamme River broke through the Mansfield iron orc mine Thursday night, drowning twenty-eight of the employes at work directly under the stream. Twenty others, who were in I the lower levels, escaped. S. Dryfus, who claims to be a Chi-1 cago liquor dealer, was arrested at |

Sioux City, lowa, charged with swindling people in towns in lowa and South Dakota. ,It is said he has procured in_ small loans on valuable rings SI,COO from people in the trade. The body of Herman Banners was found hanging to a tree a short distance out of Caldwell, Kas. He was a wealthy man ( f Denver, Col. He had taken up a good claim in the strip, but there were two other claimants for the same land and suspicion points to them as the murderers. Leading lumbermen of the Northwest have organized an insurance company at Eau Claire, Wis., patterned after the old English Lloyd's plan. Its operations will extend over several States. J A. Smith is the attorney for all subscribers. A. Lamb, of Clinton. lowa, is president. Dell Akin, on his way to Mexico to persuade his friend Banett Scott, the defaulting Treasurer of Holt Count ,-. Nebraska, to return and save the $2,(M10 reward, was arrested in El Paso at the instigation of others who are after the reward on their own account and under Texas laws he may remain in custody ninety days. , Martin E. Boland. President of the Grand Rapids Typographies^ JTMon, committed suicide at Grand Sapid'S Mich., by taking morphine, on e time he owned and edited a n«» in Kansas and was once a- of the Kansas Tx’gislature. Ho been cured of the drinking LabitSpit fell from grace, and shame caused I’im to commit the act. ' Big Antelope, with 300 braves, is now cam] o I I etween Pine Ridge Agency and Wounded Knee and the braves are beginning to indulge in ghost dancing. The friendly Indians at 1 ine Ridge are a good deal worried over the < utlook, fearing serious trouble, but the agency people say thei e is no danger of an outbreak. Still Big Antelope's band is being clo‘ely Watched and there may be exciting times in store for people in those parts. WASHINGTON. A crank invaded the basement of the White House Thursday. He said President Cleveland was his father and declared that he had come to get the I ‘resident's chair. He was promptly locked up. A W ashington pap t says that exRepresentative George 11. Durand, of Michigan, lias been selected by the Attoruey (h-neral to assist in the prosecution i f Federal officials and othets implicated in charges of opium and Chiui • c smuggling at I’uget Sound, Washington. and vicinity. IN GENERAL W'illiam c. Whitney has written a letter denying that any bargain was made with .1. J. Van Alen by which the latter was to lie made Ambassador to Italy in return for bis $50.000 e< ntributi< n to the Democratic campaign fund. West Point Cadets seelfw Conrad and Bash have been severe^’ punished for absenting themselvcX^j^^^. auoived i. •' rm ig ii. 1 1 ip Bash' McKay, a missionary f< r twApy-five years, stationed in Formosa^Kal to pay a poll tax of $5 > on his. upon landing at Vancouver. B. C. Mrs. MeKay is a Chinese woman, conven’d by ' Mr. McKay, and has been of great aid I to h’m in his work: and the hatband urged that his wife by her marriage had become a Briti-h subject. bsit the Dominion law was inexorable. R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: A cempli-to statement of failures for the quarter which closed on FrViay Is not posi slblc, but the number thus far retorted ts about 4,000. at.d ihe aggregate of liabilities । about $150,000,000, greatly surpassing the ' reci r l of any previous quarter. For the I week the failures have been 320 In the United states, against 177 lust year, and in Canada 34. against 31 ast year. -Ho) e deferred," explains the week in part, and it Is doubtless true that many Indulged In reasonable hopes, tut business has not entirely answered ex peel nt ions. Many works which have resumed operations do not End oj-ders as large er the demand from custf**ers as vigorous as they anticipated, | ai‘d with some it is i> question whether they will not close again. While money on cull has been abundant and cheap, and about $4,500,000 clearing-house certificates have been retired, there is per- ’ ceptible greater caution in making commercial loans at New York and at some Western points. Confidence, proverbially of slow growth, has been somewhat diminished. in part because advancing exchange suggests the possibility of gold exports. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime.... $3 50 ® 6 oo Hogs— Shipping < irades 4 00 @ 7 oo | Sheep— Fair to Choice 2 25 ® 4 oo Wheat— No. 2 Spring 66 H 67 COBN—Ko. 2 33 ® 40 Oats— No. 2 28 i? 31 ! Rye— No. 2 47W® 48^ Butter— Choice Creamer;.’ 28ijl 291 U Eggs— Fresh 19 Ji 20 Potatoes— New, per bu 60 i. 70 INDIANAPOLIS. T 1 Cattle— Shipping 300 W a "0 I Hogs— Choice Light 4 ” Sheep —Common to Prime B~ui’ -g - Wheat No. 2 Red 60 ” 1 Cons Xo. 2 White 39 Oats —No. 2 White 31 TB ST. LOVIS. KA 1 Cattle 3 00 '• 5 00 . Hogs 5 00 5 6 75 ; Wheat— No. 2 Red 62 * 63 I Cohn - No. 2 37 « 37h Oats— No. 2 27 ® - 27'4 । Rye— No. 2 49 jr- 51 CINCINNATI. I Cattle 3 00 <@ 4 75 Hogs 3 00 ® 7 Sheep 3 00 @ 4 Oo Wheat— No. 2 Red 64 @ 04=4 Corn— No. 2 42 n. 43 Oats— No. 2 Mixed 31 @ qu Rye— No. 2 52 @ 54 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @475 | Hogs 3 10 @ 6 00 Sheep 30b « 3-o Wheat— No. 2 Red 66 @ c~ I Corn — No. 2 Yellow 42 @ 4314 Oats— No. 2 White 32 33 * TOLEDO. Wheat— No. 2 Red 66 ® 66^ Corn— No. 2 Yellow 41 @ 42 Oats- No. 2 White 29 @ 33 Rye— No. 2 43 @ y, lit FFALO. Wheat— No. 2 Red go @ 69V. Corn— No. 2 Yellow 44 @ 45* Oats— No. 2 White 34'j@ 35'., iiYE—No. 2 51 ® 53 MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring 62 @ 63 Corn— No. 3 40 @ 40’5 Oats— No. 2 White 29?4@ 30>X Rye —No. 1 47 @ 49 Bai L3Y—No. 2 54 @ 55 Pork— New Mess 16 75 @l7 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 00 5 25 Hogs 3 75 © 7 25 I Sheep 3 25 @4 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 72 @ 73 । Corn— No. 2 t 1 <<9 so I Oats— Mixed Western 17 @ 38 I Butter— Creamery @ 30 I Pork- New Mess 18 g ^»18 50

RIO AGAIN SHELLED. BRAZILIAN CAPITAL BOMBARDED BY THE REBELS. The Situation in Rio de Janeiro Is Evidently a Gloomy One—United States Supreme Court Far Behind with Its Work—Train Robbers Behind Bara. Great Loss of Life Reported. A cable message announces that the rebel fleet at Bio de Janeiro reopened fire upon the Brazilian capital Sunday morning and that Hie btmbardm nt was continued throughout the day. The same cable announces that though the foreign ministers at Rio, backed up by the commanders of foreign war vessels, have for a long time past done eveiything possible to avert further hostilities between the insurgent and government forces, and in spite of the fact that these friendly efforts have been directed continuously toward both sides in the dispute, a failure to induce the opposing factions to come to an agreement has 1 esulted in more damage to Rio from the rebel guns and in great loss of life. The message does not give an account of the damage done by the bombardment, nor does it state how many people were ki led ashore or afloat; but it is presumed, from the fact that the rebels shelled the. city all day Sunday, that the loss of life must have been considerable, and that both sides must have suffered. Storm at New Orleans. A terrific tornado struck New Orleans late the other night from the northeast. It raged all night and a portion of the day, sweeping to the south from along the line of the Mississippi River through the parish of Plaquemine to the Gulf. The storm was one of the xvorst which ever visited that part of the country. As far as can be learned it killed not less than twenty-four persons and wounded probably three times as many, some of them fatally, besides destroying a large amount of pioperty at New Orleans. Blaze at Omaha. At Omaha, the Farnam Street Theater Building, a brick structure. 77 feet I by 132, four stories high in front and five in the roar, erected in I^l by exGovernor Boyd anil s Id in to the American Building .Association, was completely destroyed by fire, with all its contents; on Monday, entailing a total loss of $252,0 0. BREVITIES. A HEAVY' downpour of rain fell at Dubuque. lowa, preparing the ground for tail sowing. Mrs. Jennie Kimball, manager of the Gorinne Opera Company, and Arling Schaeffer, of Denver, were married at Milwaukee. Tramps caused a fire in an oil shed at Louisville, Ky.. with loss of $30,000 to the StandnrC Oil Company and $lO,<lit. with iits lloutenunt, lung Sumloval. is said to have ]'ent thro-> w-. nl.--> at the World’s Fair. Chesapeake and Ohio trainmen have joined the striking switchmen and the read is tied up. only mail trains being allowed to run. Flooded streams in the Southwest have carried away important bridges in the Indian Territory and railroad service is thereby much impaired. The Michigan State Beard of Health has added eonsum]>tion to the list of dangerous diseases required by law to be reported "by physician- .nd health 1 ffieets. A. C. Baker, wholesale hardware deale. of Simix City. t owa. who assigned eight weeks ago with liabilities if $150.00'1, has settled with credit rs ai d will resume busim ss. W. W. Webb, a ticket broker at J'opeka. Kas., was arrested charged with extending the tin>= on Santa Fe Railroad tickets which had run out. and signing to them the name of G. T. Niehi Ison. Striking coal miners started a riot at Lens. Department i f Pas-de-Calais, France. The military were called out and were attacked by the miners. They fired into the mob and scattered it. About twenty-five were wounded. The United States Supreme Court meets at Washington thu month with a docket i f 1,02 > cases, and it is stat'd that at the rate of progress and relief made in the pa t year tae court mieht expect in sever.- years to be reduced to current business' Edison suggests a new solution of the silver quesik n. He proposes that the Government compress a bushel of wheat into a hard cuke the size of a silver dollar :nd stt mp it. This, he says, would io; re ent actual value and laiior. unci when the holder want 4 to use the wheat he could put the dollar to soak. Joseph S. Hardin, the leader of the Centralia train robbers, has been lodged in ja^l at Salem. 11!.. where his pals are also confined. Hardin's story of the crime is as follows: “There were three of us implicated in the holdup—Jones. O'Dwyer and myself. The robbery wai planned at 1313 Chouteau avenue. St. Louis, over three months ago. Jones was too drunk t> play his part well and our plans were thrown into confusion.” At Cincinnati a south-bound fast freight train on the ('leveland. Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis Railway ran into three heavily loaded flat cars, which had been carelessly left there by a local crew, causing an ugly wreck, killing two tramps, and injuring two others so they died shortly after. The trials of six men suppesed to have been implicated in the mob that hanged \\ illiam Jacks m. the negro. Sept. 16, on one of the main streets of Rich Hill, Mo., ended with their discharge. The steamship Remo, which sailed from Genoa. Aug. 15. with 1,433 emigrants for Rio Janeiro and Santos, has arrived at Santa < 'ruz de Teneriffe, in the Canaries, on the return voyage, having been turned back on account of cholera on board. There had been 123 cases and sixty-four deaths.

TWO HUNDRED DIE. TERRIBLE RESULTS OF THE SOUTHERN STORM. Near Barataria Bay, a Colony. Including 150 Oyster Fishermen, Is Annihilated— Further Reports from Mobile Show the Havoc Wrought Is Not Half Told. Awful Loss 1 f I.: fa. Late reports frem the Gulf ccast as to the damage by the great sterm are of the mest alarming character. The worst news is from Bayou Cook.whence New Orleans gets its supply of oysters. This is midway between Barataria bay and the mouth of the Mississippi. Here a colony of oyster fishers numbering 150 is reported to have become totally annihilated, with nearly the entire population killed o • drowned. The following is a summary of the number of lives lost so far as is known up to the time this is written: Below Barataria bay KO At Pointe-a-la-Haci-e 4 Empire mill 3 Hindles 2 Daisy postoftice 5 Point I‘leasKnt 2 I-’ort St. Phillips 1 Gaspar Smith’s 1 Nichols postotilce 3 Fosterling 4 Grand Bayou and Bayou Shute 25 St. James 1 | I’iirnoola I ‘ Grand Prairie 4 Total 206 Most of these were by drowning. The remaining were from falling timbers. A number of refugees have reached New Orleans frem the lower portion of Plaquemine Parish. They are all more or less bruised and injured from the storm. The water from the Gulf was d’ iven up over the land to a depth of three to five feet, while the fury of the storm was teirible. At Grand Isle much damage is reported. The new Oct an Hotel was blown down and the island flooded. The jetties sustained considerable damage from the storm. Mississippi’^ Swolle : Torrent. The Mississippi rose nine feet, being forced up by the wind, while the water from the Gulf was driven over the land to a depth of from two to five feet. In i this water the ] eople stocd for hours, their houses lieing destroyed, until boats o.’ skiffs could come to their relief. For a distance of f< rty miles below P< inte a la Hache. on loth sides of the Mississippi, there is not a single house which does not show signs of the storm, and most of them are wholly destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. The crops are a complete loss. The country is devoted mainly to the raising of rice, oranges, and early vegetables. The i ice had been harvested and packed in stacks ready to be milled. These were swept away by ti e storm and the fl< od. and the loss is eom-plete. The oranges are stripped from the trees and have rolled in the water, in which they have laid for two days. The garden truck is almost completely destroyed. The damage by the storm in New Orleans will amount to $376,001, divided as fulluws; West End, $30,0p0: other 10-U); ■emhtiouses ana "vYcfitt! i'.uv, d7.L e >a sunk on river. $lB,age to forces, trees, yards. etc M si’>4,0()0: market and other buildings and railroads $10.1,000: miscellaneous, $30,000. Outside of New Orleans as far as can be estimated the damage will be s9l o.oi o. making the total losses someth ng over $1,250,000. The storm left Mobile. Ala., almost a perfect wreck. At this time the damage can only I e conjectured, but it is safe to estimate it at irly 81.0J0.000. Several deaths are reported. In the district across the river dwelt twentythree families. Only one of these homes can be seen sta> di ig. In the same region it isceitain that 300 or 400 head of cattle have been lost. Terril Io Fat ility in the Marshes. The damage to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad is 1 eyond computation at this time. There are 400 trees across the track between Bay Minette and Dyas Creek, a distance of abcut ten miles. No trains can get any farther south than Bay Minette. A rowboat trip of the marshes made by an Associated Press reporter reveals a state of desdaticn and death that will almost equal that of a month ago at Savannah and the Sea Islands. At every point touched houses were complete'y gene, while the upper eastern shore was swept as if by a western cyclone. From Blakely as far southeast as reports c mid be had- the natives report only death and destruction. It will be fully a week or more before the story of the storm with all its at- , tendant tales of death and desolation > can be told in detail. RAINS DO MUCH GOOD. Western Section of the Country Benefited by Shower . The weekly < rop report of the Weather Bureau says tha' over the we tern portions of the (’arolinas. Scuthorn Virg-inia. the Lower Ohio N alley, and gere -ally to th ■ westward of the Mississippi, the rainfall of the week has been heavy, and the Western and Northwestern States, over which severe drouth has prevai ed for several weeks, have received abundant rains which were greatly needed. Abundant rams also fell over the central and Northern plateau regie ns. and generous showers fell cn t’:e North Pac fie coast. In the Middle Atlantic States the last week has been favorable Io maturing crops and for the work of securing the same, and the absence of heavy rains, with generally fair weather over the greater portion of the cotton regi< n, has been favorable for cot-ton-picking. which is row being rapidly pushed. The abundant rains over the Cential and Western S ates have put the ground in good condition for plowing, and will greatly improve pa sturage. Missouri—Plow ing and seeding behind, but being rushed; light acreage assured; pastures revived: water plentiful. Illinois —Ground generally in excellent condition: fall plowing and seeding retarded: corn being cut; bulk will be ready to crib l.’th. Indiana —Wheat nearly all sown and coming up nicely: coin nearly all in shock: tobacco housed. Ohio —Wbeat seeding nearly completed, early sown up and looks fine; corn' all shocked and t usking commenced; potatoes about all dug, light yield; killing frosts; ice on four days, destroying corn, tobacco and other vegetation then standing. Michigan—Corn, potatoes, buckwheat and beans reported light yield, except in scattered localities; all crops about secured: fruit crop immense; frosts damaged latest potatoes and garden truck.

IS REPEAL BEATEN? APPARENTLY AUTHENTIC RUMORS SO DECLARE. Ominous Quiet Reigns in the Senate—Deg. tails of the Alleged Program—Getting Ready to Tackle the Tariff—Vote Coming Soon. A Masterly Inactivity. Washington correspondent e:

tONGRESS has been dull as a garz den hoe fcr several days. Nobody has been Anting, no warwhoops have alarmed the shivering air, no blood has flown and no scalps have been taken. Senator , Stewart is resting i from his labors, ' while others in _ the Senate appear " willing to be at • peace. But while the Senate is inactive there are a Al sorts of opinions expressed

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and many rumorj are aflat as to what ■ will ba the final outcome. One of these is that the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law is beaten, and this, according’ to the opinion of many, beyond a doubh It is likely that a vote will be taken scon, within a week or so at least, but it will be on the passage of a compromise measure. Strong denials are advanced in some quarters that a compromise ha ; teen agreed on. but in she face of these it is generally understood that the mo t powerful influences are now arrayed in favor of compromise legislate n. The program, as your correspondent sees it, contemplate - the ya-sage of a bill through the Senate. The concurrence of the House in that bill s to be had. and then a recess taken for the period of three weeks in order that tariff legislation may b ■ formulated. The Ways and Means Committee has its bill much further under way than is publicly admitted. If a three weeks’ recess be given it is believed the House itself can be at work on the tariff bill early in December. On reassembling in November some other legislation, probably the bankruptcy bill, is to be taken up until the tai iff is ready. If the compromise financial measure be passed by common consent Federal elections will be permitted to lie over till the regular session. Senate and Hors?. In the Senate. Friday, Mr. C ameron, of Pennsylvania, presented a petition signed, he said, by 144 manufacturers of Philadelphia, in favor of legislation :o uieservo the protective character of the tariff and the 'ntegrity ot silver as a money metal. The petition favors the admission of American, silver bullion to coinage upon the pavment by the owner ot a seign orage absorbing three-fourths of the difference between the London price of bullion and its value when coined. It xva* printed as a document. The repeal bill was then taken up. and Mr. He rAvorYTfnPW^e.^i^d^^enate. lean product of silver, at any ratm to^be iIOTnW dml J 8 to ’ Tucker bill being resumed ,n tno Mr. Lacey of lowa took the floor tn opposition to the repeal of election laws, and laid great stress on ihe arguments in favor of the constitutionality of these laws. Mr. De Armond of Missouri followed in support of the repeal. Saturday closed the eighth week of fruitless debate in the Senate, and as before, the repeal of the Sherman law was the subject cf attention. But little other business. and that unimportant, came up. 'the session of the House lasted only .three hours. Mr. Sayer of Texas. Chairman of the Committee cn Appropriations, presented for immediate consideration a bill to extend the time for the completion of the work of the eleventh census until June 30, 1864 The bill was passed without objection. Debate on the bill to repeal the national election laws was then resumed. The feature of ’ the debate was the speech of Representative Patterson of Ti nnessee. He admitted that violence and even fraud might have been used in the South, but asserted that the Anrlo-Saxon race was in the nature of things certain to dominate eventually in a race contest. He maintained that President Lincoln went to his grave never dreaming of universal negro suffrage; that not a soldier who followed the flag of the Union and fought its battles dreamed of it during the war or immediately after. “The greatest calamity,” said he, “that ever happened to a free people was the assassination of Lincoln. Had he lived and been permitted to carry out his policy there would have been peace and prosperity in the South twenty-five years aga ” The repeal bill was taken up in the Senate on Monday, and Senator Dubois complained of a remark by Senator Gorman criticising the resolution to postpone legislation on the tariff and finance. Senator Dubois denied that the le olution was introduce! to obstruct the repeal bill. Senator Washburn announced that he had been informed by Senator Squires that he would vote for unconditional repeal. 'lbis, it is understood, is a vote gained for the repeal side. Senator Kyle then spoke arafnst repeal. Mr. Johnson. Democrat, I ot Ohio, introduced a bill in the House appropriating $50,000 for the purchase of a site aud an additi .n to th-> public building at Cleveland The Federal elections repeal bill was taken up. and Mr. Dinsmore. Democrat, of Arkansas, argued in its favor. The Vice President on Tuesday laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury giving a dej tailed statement of the exports of silver I for the months of July and August. Mr. ; Dubois, of Idaho, introduced a bill en- ; ab’.ingthe States of California. Colorado, Montana, and Idaho tc support State I schools of mines. Mr. Morgan, of ‘ Alabama. < ffered an amendment to the Wilson rcreal Lill. declaring the act of Jan. IS. 1537. to be in force. Mr. Dolph, of Oregon, then took the floor and continued his speech, be un Monday, in support of the silver repeal bill. The ID use without transacting any morning business resumed the consideration of the Federal election repeal bill and was addressed by Mr. Northway ißep.), of Ohio, in opposition to the measure, French Events. 1608. Quebec, in Canada, founded, and the North American colonies liegun. 1799. Bonaparte returned from Egypt, deposed the Council and declared himself First Consul. 1800. Passage of the Alps by Bonaparte and astonishing victory at Marengo. 1802. The Peace of Amiens between Fiance. England. Spain and Holland concluded. 1803. The Bank of France established as a Government institution.