The News Condensed

THEÍollowiBg is the public debt etatemcut for June 1 : Klx por cent, bonds $ 804. 008,000 Fivc per cent, bonito 708,566.660 Four and a half per cent, bondü 90,000,000 Total coin bonis .$1,fi9,964,050 Lvtita] money dobt $ 14,000,01 VUtUred debt'. H,h;i 4,: ljcgñl tendera 360,477,842 OefttficaU-a oí deposM 46,510,000 Kraetlonal csrrency 21,206 980 Coin certificaten 45,407,500 Total without interest .$ 478,002,072 Total dobt $3,199,461,022 Total interest 34,841,189 Cash in treasiiry- coin $ l"8,l:7,083 Cash in treíiRury - curreney 4,515,615 Curroney held for rederutíon f fractional curreney 7,762,271 Special depositn lwhl for rcdenipüon of ccrtiflcátcs ol deposit 40,510,000 Total in treasury f Debt le.88 ciwh in treasnry O,063,877,842 Ifcxreasc of dobt duriiiK Ma . 6,981,271 cercase since June 30, Jíffl'. 36,062,003 Bonds if r.u. .1 to latine Kudroad Companios, intoroet pagable in lawful money; principal outetanding 64,G21.512 Interest aocrutxl and not yet pnid 1.055,587 Interest paid by United States 34.018,923 [nterest repaid by transportaron oí mails, etc 8,45.-,.vj5 Balance of interest paid by United States 25,583,897 The largo reduotiou iu tho dobt duriiig May íh partly explainod by tlie faot that largo sums are due to the navv and for the noeessary expenses of other departmenta. but for which there is no appropriatiou. The ordiníiry decreaae of the dobt is Í5,ÜOO,000. The estiniatcd amouut of decrease on account of dencienev in tlie approprintion, inoluding the pay of the navy, is $1,981, 274. The totul doertase is (,- 981,274. THE EAST. Tue death of Floteher Harpcr, of the famous pnbhsliing house of Harpcr A BrotherH, occurred at bist home in New York last week. Ho had beon III for sonie limo. Mr. Híirper wa 72 ycarh uUl. . . .Cftpt. Thomas Crapo and his wife s;iiled frum New Bcdford for Londou last week in a veBnel twontvfoot long. Animmonse crowd niteeaeed the departere of the boat, which is the Kmallest that has ever attemptcd the foat EraKtus Brooks, tho veteran editor of tho New York Express, has retired, and in succeeded by Charles F. Wingata. Thb an'iual report of the New York Cottou Exchaiige shows a marked falling off in the cottou trado of thnt city dOTing the last two or tliree yearö. . . .Ex-Gov. Warmoth, of IjOiiisiana, was mariied at Newark, N. J., last week, to Miss Sallie Durand, daughter of a wellknown jeweler. A MoNSTEii 52-ton gun bas just been succeüsfnlly cast in Boston. It is to be mounted in New York haxbor. . . .Tht billiard oonteat for the chanipion1uip of America was playcd ;it New York last weck betamen Joseph Dioii and William Scxton. Score : Sextou, 600 ; Dion, 443. A skkiour disaster occurred, a few days ago, on the Lohigh Valley railroad, r.ear Laocyvillc, Pa., a passenger train buing precipitated down a canal embankniont a distiiuce of fifteen feet. The coaches, four in mimber, were smashed in pieces, aud many passougers werc piuned down m most excruciaüng pobitions. Two of them were killed outright, four fatallv wonnded, and thirteen others woriously injured. The notorious Counecticut Borgia, Mrs. Lydia Shemian, who somo live yoara ago was sentenced to a life term in the Connecticut State priHOu, haa escaped from that institution. For nomo time she had fcigned illnoss, and, hayiug disarmed suspioion and prepared an exit by ]ersuading a matron to loave open a prisoii door, shc escaped easily. This remarkable woman poisoued successively her ñrt husband, Edward Rtruck, New York policeman, her children, Martha, Eliza, Edward and George, and subseipiently her third husband, Horatio N. Sherman, of liirmingham, Ct., aud his baby son, to all of which she confessed, and it has been supposed that she jxjisoned her second husbaud, John Hurlbut, of Huntington, Ct. THE WEST. Gkx. Mii.ks lias again punished a band of hostile Indians infestiug the Tonguo river country. Tho engagement was a sharp little affair, resultiiig in the death of foxir privatcs and the wounding of several oñicere and men. The Indiaas left fou1 teen dead on the Held, and lost 450 ponies, with outfits, lodges, etc. The band belonged to the Minueconjous. Advices from the West confirm the reports of a battle between a portion of Gen. Miles' commaud and a band of hostile Indians. The fijjht took place on Muddy creek, some eighty miles from the mouth of the Tongue river. The meager accounts we havo of the affair state that " af ter an obstinate battle, the hostiles, undor command of Lame Deer, wero defeatel and some iifty Indians killed and eighty wouuded. This number of dead bodies was found on the field, and a large number are known to have been taken off by the warriors. The surprise was perfect. Gen. MileB, with companies H( L, C, and V, Second Cavalry, and twenty-hvemounted soldiers of the Fifth Iiilantry charged upon the villano. finding the Indians in their lodgea, f rom whicli theyinstantly retreated and commenced a running tire ou the troopa while retreatíng. ïlio panoli lastcd si X houra, rosulting in tlie capture of livibundred and thirty popíes, and a large quantity of Governmeut supplies, a email portion bfting recoenized by Gen. Miles as belonging to the fated Custer's command. Tlie Government troops lost but four killed and ton wounded. Tlie fight was gallant ïn the extreme, the hostiles and troop beingmany Untes mixed man to man. The Indians ia this ftght showed more bravery on square fighting grouud than usual, whk.i accounts for their repulse and heavy loss. Two of the soldierswere scalped and Geu. Miles came noar being ambushed. (iov. Cüllom has vetoed the bill passed at the recent session of the Illinois Legislature, niaking silver coin a legal tender for tlie paynient of all debt.. . . . George Schneider, of Chicago, to whom the President rucenüy tendered the position of Ministor to Switzerland, has determmcd to decline the ame on account of a Sressure of private business. . .The two scounrels - Mullinu and Hnghea- who attempted last fall to steal the remains of Abraham Lincoln from hia tomb at Springneld, 111., have been tried, fouud guilty. and senteneed to oue yenr's Impriêonment in the ponitentiary. The eesoion of the Illinuis Legislaturo juut cloüed was the most cottly that ever met in tho Btato. Tlie following is a semi-official statement of its cost : , l'y of meuibcrs f 144.H40 UUage.gl mcinborB., 5.242 I'oslage, oio 10,200 Pftf of oilicers and employés 65.000 IiH-idcntal expcn.8 30.000 Total, $2S5,-JS2 Two iiNHUccEssFci. attenipts have been mailat Salt Lake to ausassinate Jerome B. BtilNon. a New York lln-ald correspondent, who ha:4 latel boen wriling some pretty hard tliings about the Mormons. . . .Arizona advices report the lïiurder of mail-carriers and miliUirv telegra])h repaireis ïKiar Camp llowie. Troóps ar; in pursuit. ttuch alarm exists aniong the citizenu. Gen. Mii.k.-s iiiin-owly esflftped assassiuatioii at the hauds of two treacherous Indianchiefs just beforo his recent battle on tho Hosebud. I appears Üiat just before the ftght commenced Gen. Miles told bis Interprater to hslloo out to the Indians in their language that if thisy surrendered and laid down thcir arma they would be sayed. As soon as he had done so the two chiofs, Lame Deer and I ron Star, carne toward Gen. Milus on foot. When they got within about iifteen naces of bim they laid thcir guns on the gronnd, and, walking up to him. shunk li:mds with him adhis Adjutant, Lieut. Baird. While they wen; doing this. dn. Miles ordered his ai:l to uismount and get thcir guns. Scarccly had the aid touched the gronnd when the Indians Btepped back, took up their gima, and one of them flred at Gen. Uileg. Fortnnat-ly, Gen. Miles just at that moment, seeing the intention oí the Iridian, partlv wheeled his horso nround so tlnit the bullct, instead of hitting bim, possed by killing a nifin in his reiir. The two hiera were instantly shot down in their track h. ... A diabólica! sttompt was rceently made to wreek and Blonder a train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, near Woodend Station. tifty milns west of St. Louis. Obstructions ware placed on the track and two of tlie railst displaced, throwing the ongino and baggage car down an embankment forty feet hiffh. The engineer and tireman and Dr. E. L. Atkin9OU, the physician of the road, were killed. The Intention was to throw the entire train from the track, tvidently with the object of robbery. Several shots were llred, and the passengere say they saw live men standing ner who evealod by the flashes from their pistols, but nnlwdy was lüt. M". Cabmil, Wabash county, 111., a thriving town of about 3,000 inhabiUnts, situatcdon the pairó and Vincennes railwuy, was visited la.t week by a tornado of unusual violence, and with appalling resulta. From the meager accouutn uefore ns at this writing we learn that tin torn do started nt the foot of Fourth street, and swet orery house or building on j tlial street for half -,i mil„ . thon ohaoged itH cour e, and veit np the river, sweeping everUhing in tn conrse. ver W) p op].' wfie killed aud opwmrd of 150 wanndod by the fall ng bniHings. Three cburones, 'wo school-honses. the Conrt HoQBe, tnenty biitj ie. shnuortaud nbout 1 S0 rrsidi-ucoy wir.e vholly or paittalll deatiüycd, and tliü trcakn(! ot of & lire stil) fiutberadded to tic (lirMtWi Tbc Ioík to iwpcrty i fltfmi not lesa than .Í50fl,000, probably imich more. I t the time of tho Btorm whole roofs of housea i sould be seen flying two or three hundred fetc In the air, and carried away. Ituagination, Baya an cye-wHiiess, could not picture such a i sight. It would havo to be seen to be bolieved . . . . ! We ('ciitiiiue to ïiear encouniging erop reporta from Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. oaliUea whuii hj this timo last ycar nnd two l yeara ago had Boffend terribly from grass"hopper ravages havo tlms far either esoftped altogetlivr or elsc iive received thfi visitation in a mild form. Everywhere the farmers, wbo generally tako a very practical and matter-oft;ict view of atfairs. are highly cncDiiraged at tlie excellent erop prospect, as well as at the prospect of realizing a better return upon their ïnTOstmeirt of toil and trouble than thcy have done for years. TH 8OCTB. A fike in naltimore last week destroyed a coal-oil refinery and tnenty-tivo other buildings. Loss, $75,000. The trial of the Ellenton (S. C.) riotore, before Judge Waito, lias resulted in a disagreoinrii! of the jury, wliicli ivas equally divided. The six whitefl on the jury. it is stated, wore for a verdict of acquittul, aml the six blacks agr.inst. The bliick jiirymcn, howevir, were willing to agroc on a verdict convicting two of the accused and acquittiug all the rust, but to thÏK the six whites wottld nol consent. WASHINGTON. PBMDBNT Hayes will visit Boston ahout June 17. .. .No more ofneers are to lie retained on duty at the White House The Postofliee Department has let tho contract for printing postal carda to tho American Photo-Type Company, of New York . . .Postmaster General Koy has roconsidered hls determination to do the department advertising throngh tho modium of adveytising agents. and will deal dircctly with tho pablisbers of newHpajKïrs The adminintration has concluded to take vigoroiiK stepu toward putting an end to the Moxican riüds aerOKS the ]{io Grande into Toxas. At a Cabiuct meeting, the othcr day, it was determined that a letter should be addressed to tho Mexican Government by the Secretary of State notifyinp: that Government that it must talie immediate fiteps to prevent any more niuis into Texas, otherwise our military conimander therc will be intracted to foílow marauder into M( xico aud puuish them upon that tetritory. Theasuber Wïmas will transfer the United States Treaimrer's office to Mr. Gilflllan on tlie lat of July, and will then asuume his old poitioii of Assistant Troaaixrer. IU-health m assigned as the motive for Mr. Wyman's retiring. The Cabinet, at a meeting last week, arrived at a very important decisión in regard to the Texas border troubles An order to Gen. Shor man wis drani up and adoptod, of which the following is the most important part : Tho President decires that the utmost rfgttUlM on the part of tho military forcee in Texas le exerciecd íor tho auppreeslon of these raids. It in vcry dofirable that the effortfl to thiu end, iu ao far at leutit as thcy neceasarüy involvo operations on both siden of the border, be made with the eo-operatiou of the Mexidin authoriticH, aud you will intttruct Gen. Ord, comuiauding iu Tosas, to invito such co-opcration on the part of local Mexloan authoritie, itnd iuform theui that, whilr the President irf axudous to avoid giving oflensc to Mexico, Uo is nevcrthelese conviuccd t hut the invasión of our territory by annod and ürganized bodies of thievea and robberB to prey upon our citizeuB tibould not longcr be endared, Crcn. Ord will at once notify the Mexican authoritieH along the Texau border of the great desire of the Pretrident to unite with them in efforts to Biippress the iong-continued lawlefieness. At tho Bame time he witl inforni thoae atititoritiea that, jf the Government of Mexico uhall continue to neglect iU (hity of suppreesing these outracreB, that duty 111 tlovolvc tipou thiü Govornmc-nt, and will be I perfonned evon if it performance vhould ronder neecp-flary the occaHional croeaing of tbc border by our troopa. Yon will thereforc direct Gen. Ord that, in caeo the IuwIcsb incursions continue, he will be at liïwrty to ueo hifl ovra diweretion when in purBUit of a band of maraudera, and when his troops are pithfr in Kight of them or upon a fresh trail, to follow them across the Bio Grande, and to overtake and punish them, 8 well a retkc the stolen property taken frotti our citizen, and found in their poneHsion, on the Mxican side of the line. I have the honor to bi, very rospcctfully, Gko. W. McCkary, 8ecretary of War. To Gen. Vt'. T. Shernian. Two Louisiana Postmasters at Clinton, East Feliciana parish, and St. Francisville, West Feliciana parinh. who were recently cominisioned by Prenidont Hayes, represent to the authoriticá at Washington that thoy are prevented f rom taking posaesnion of their office and the PostoíHce Department has dispatched a special agent to Louieiaiia to investígate the matter. POLÏTICAL. A Washington dispatoh to the Chicago TrUmne says Sonator Conkling, (iin his convernation, in qiüte bitter in bis denunciation of the Prosident's policy, particularly &h regardt Louiaiana.'1 Tue Ohio Deinocrats have callod their Stato CoQventioö to meet at Columbns on the 25th of Jnly. ...Gen. Comly, of the Ohio State Journal, has been appointed Miniüter to the Sandwich isUnds. ÖI5H. Georoe A. Shebidan, of Loiiiöiana, wno lias Deen an applicant for a foreign mission, has accepted a position as Special Agent of the Postoflice Department. GKNERAL, The Statistician of the Department of Agricnlture at Washington reporte, as a result of the invesligation of loases from the diseases of awine during the past twelve months, the deHtrucüou of 4,000,008 animáis of all age, and the money loss more than .Í20,000,000. Onefifth of the reported loss occurrod in the Stato of Illinois. Next in prominenco are Missouri, lowa and Indiana, which togeUier loue $10,000,000 The losses ware very small in the country borderiiig on the great lakes and the l'aciiic coast. The apparont loss is equivalent to onii-third of the um of the exports of tho pork product last year. ThE perils and uncertaintios of ocean navigation are curionsly shown in the loss of the Pacific Mail steamor San Francisco. This vessel, sailiug over a course that luindredH bofore hor had safely taken, struck an unseen and nnsoapected rock in mid-ocean, and in one hour went to the bottoni, sliip umi cnrgo proving a total loss. Fortunately all on board wore safely landed in tlio lxjat.s on tlie Mexican coast.... The vessel was valued at between 4350,000 and $400,000 A fire at Moutreal, Canada, last week, destroyed over sixty honres in the qnarter known M Grillinlnwn. Losm, Í150.0O0 The Israclites of Anierica have just held their animal convention in New York. From the animal report of the Committce on Statistics we learn that thero are about 250,000 JoWa in the country. There are fourteon public institutions undor the control of the Jews, and iiftcen newspapers and magazines dovoted to Judaism. The Jewish secret orders or societies were four in number, comprising the Independent Order of B'nai Brith, with a membership of 20,000; the Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel, with 8,604 members ; the Order of Kesher Shem Barze), 10,000 members, and the Improved Order of Free Sons of Israol, 2,632 members. The value of the Israolitish clmrch property in America is placed at sjS - 897,400. The house of AlexandorSnyder, of Portland, Ontario, was destroyed by fire one uight last week, and two obildren perished in the flamea. Later accounts of the Monlreal fire placo the loss at S500,000 From the Sandwich islands comes an explanation of the recent destructive submarine convulsión on the South American eoast. The cause of this npheaval is now discovered to be the soddm oraption of the volcano Kilauoa, on the island of Hawaii, the samo which caused the great eaithquakes of 1837, 1840. and 1868 . . . . Burned : The tobáceo f actory of Spaulding & Morrick, Iliver street, Chicago, loss L75,000, insurance ?35,000 ; the Wholesale drug-store of W. II. Urown t Co., Ballimore, loss 1)5,000, fully iriHured ; a largo quantitv of lamber at öreenwood, Kuch., loss $35,000, insurance i?16,000 ; a coal-broakor at Wilkesbarre, Pa., loss $85,000, insuranee $25,000 : two dry-goods stores at Monckton, N B., loss Í65,OOO, insnrance.40,000. Buwness. faümes: Maschuetz, Mach t Co., wholesale üqnors, Dey sU-eet, New York, liabüities, 200,000; George H. Wolff & Co., dry goods jobbers, Now York and Ciiicinn.it i, liabilïties i?450,000; Vosburg & Baker, shipchandlers, BufTalo, liabilities Í40.000 8unday. June 3, was the ftfticth anniversary of the ; e isít)pate of Pius IX., and the day was duly celobrated by the Catholicsall over tle comitry. I If Gen. Orant crossed the sea with the i - tention of making a qniet visit lie is desfined to be disappointet'. In England he is booked for a series of banqueta witli distingnished personages that will keep him busv for soveral weeks to come. THE TUKCO-KUSSIAN WAR. TiiKnr, are serious apprehenoibna of a popular uprising in CoBBtantlnople against the authorities. The populaceare gi'eatly incensed at the military reverrics sustained in Asia A iiumber of prominent persons, including two editors, have been baushed for ]articipation in the recent softa denionstration in Constantinoplo. . . .The Scherif of Mecca has placed the treasures of tho holy sliriiif, the accunmlatod money-gifts from jilgrims, at the öultan'ö disposal. The treauures aggregate 200,000,000 piasters. A tahleokam anuounces another attack upon Batoum, with disastrous rcsults. It is stated that the UussiaiiK, with a large force, made a BdriOS of assaults on the Tui'kish positions, lut ;iflii-M'l:illiiurs'liglitingwith(ircv. TheirlOU WOB heavy. , . .Large iiumbernofdisaÖeotedCirpsaaian troop in tho Knssian service have beeu disarmed and ent to tho rear, . , ,If ConHtantloople riimoi'n are to he bolioved, tho Hultan'n (uvt'iiiuii'iit havo (li4nrn!iiKid, for tlio flrut time in thn history of tho empire, to enlist ChrifltiaiiR in Uio aniiy. Tlie report Bny tliat a levj halbeen male upou tho Cbristían populatton for 200,000 men. And now cornos tho KuHxinu versión of the lato aetion at Batoum, eclaimlng a victory, wherc, according to Turkish report, they wore to badly worsted. " You pays your money and taken your clioice."" 'Somo Bastl-ïiazouks lately crosBod tho Danube between Kalarack aud Jahinitzii. They captured foiu'teen lioumaniaii müitiamen, and out off the calves of tlieir lcgs. The Turkish Government officially ftmiouncetí the recapture of Ardahun, in Asia. . . .The New York HerdUtt correspondent in Vieiina telegrajihs that it is announcod from Wirwnv that the Czar is irritated at the nlmvnerts manlfested in thoconductof tho campaign and the bad DOnrlshment Hupplied to the troops. He bas ordered tlic mobilizatiou of threc more divibionB for tho Caucasun, whoro tho Cireasnian intiiirrection is a source of sorae anxiety. A speciai, from Vienna to the Iondon Times has tho following : "One thing seemn pretty eertain, that for ono reason or another, poHibly for sovoral, a delay lias oceurred in tho Kushian advance in Asia. Fortunatoly for Hnssia, the Turks seem scarcely in a pos;tion to take an advautage of this dolay. All aceounts from tho SDot airiee tliat the condition of their forces is oven worae than generally believed. They aro considcrably fewer than has boen aasumed, and, with tno exoeption of arma, lack overything requisite for au ariny in the field. It ia impoasible to expect that all Uk.'ho shortcominga can be remedied before the liuasians push forward to Erzuroum." A Constantiuoplo dispatch annonnces that plana for the proposed fortification of Constantinoplo are being prepared with all posiible care and diapatch, as if the 1'urkixh Government hiul made np their minds for the niege A Baratan army on the Danube ík to bo increased to 400,000 men. Provisión contracta have boon made for this number. A special diapatch from Constant iuople to the Chicago Tribune gives a diacouraging picture of tho atate of ltiwlossness and corruption now reigning there. "The corrnptiou and bribery which are everywhere rife," says the disp;Ltch. " destioy all chanocsof Turkish success. There are no horBea, no money, and no order in the management of affairfl. All the carriage horsen in tho country havo been seized ly the Government for war purposes. The Sultan is a nonentity. With 3Ü0 women and 5,000 persona of all classea in the palace to foed diüly, the train on the troasnry is intenso. (!ontrac"ts for army store and equipments aro awanled by meaos oí bribery of the officials haying the matter in charge. The advertisoments in newspapera of contracta open to general comietition are mere showa, and are connived at by tho Minister of War. The constitution Sf the country is disregarded iu every postúble manner. The Parliamentary Deputies are returning to their homes in diagust, and the laws which have been pasHcd will never be put in f orco. " A spocial dispatch from Erzeroum says : "Two nigbts ago -S,00O Circassian cavaifcy, comniouded by Mousha Pasha, wore orderod to proceod toward Kara, entirely onsupported by iufantry or artillory. Thoy rested for the night at lSekli-Ahmod. The Ituasians secretly organized a powerful forcé, and during the night surrounded and surprined tho villnge in which the Circaasiaus had haltcd. Onlv about 5 per cent. of the entire forep of 4,000 Circasaians escaped tho carnage which followed. Mounha l'asha hiniHelf i iinong the miasing. The Circassians fought desperately, and no quartcr was given." That story about tho niassacre of 4,000 Ciro.irtsi.uis by Kussian " barbarían," herêtoforc montioned ia these columns, is shown by Kussian accounts of tbe aïTair to havo been a gross exaggoraüon. Instead of being massacred, the Circas-iians wero jsimply put to tlight. the modest numbeiof eighty-tliree being killed . . . Homo severe nghting is reported between the Turk and Montenegrius. The brave nioiiutaineers appear to be more thau holding their own The temporary lull in the Kussian op-" erations in Asia Minor, occasioned in part by heavy rains and also by the necessity of attending to the insurroctionary Circassians in the rear, ha?, given place to a general advance of the entire army, and the cable brings reporta of a series of preliminar)' successes which are ovidently tho prelude to a great and crushing vietory over the forcea commanded by Mukhtar Pasha. A Constantinoplc dispatch says the latter has establishéd his headiMiarters about thh-ty miles east of Erzeroum, for the purpose of banring the advance of the Kussian left wing. Inmail Hakki, commandant at Erzeroum, bas taken a position mar Kizil-Kilissa to meet the Russiin center and right advancing via Soghanli and Alti. GENERAL FOIU5IGN NEWS. Advices from Shanghai state that the sufferings from the famine ui the northern provinces of China are unabated. Thousands are dying of starvation. The wheat trade in England continúes dull. Millers have been buying very sparingly at re ■ duced pricos. Agricultural prospects there and on the continent are promising. The growing crops, in France and Italy especially, give general satihfaction. Germany appoarn to possess a large surplus for oxport. "Largn Bhlpments will lj made from Eevel. liustiia. It ík probable that the large quantities usually shipped from Odessa will be ent for shipment from Baltic ports. . . . The Cretans propose to avail themselveK of the opportonity fumished by Turkey's extremity. and, if certain guarantees are not conceded, will make a bold st oke for f reedom from the galling yoke of Tnrkish mie The City of Brussels, the steamer in which the Canadian pilgrims to Ilomc took jiassage frum New York, for whose safety there was for a time a feeling of painful iuixiety, lias arrived safely at Liverjiool In France, President MacMahbn has removed Ule liepublican profecía in noarly evory dopartment of the republic, and apixiinted in thoir placeR persons known to be süongly in favor of the return of tho Bonapartists to power. Gen. Ghaxt's reception npon landing at Live) pool was an extromely flattering one. In honor of hi i arrival, the cable tolla us, " all the shiimmir in Livenx)ol docks axhtbUad n. mi. fuse display of bunting, llags of all nations waving along teven milos of water-front, presenting a magnifiocnt coup d'oeU. As the Indiana neared the docks, Gen. Orant was Been standing on the bridge with the Captain, ackuowledging the cheerR of the immense crowds which lined the wator-front and every pior and vessel along the river. As the General and his party, in a tug, ran alongside the wharf, a tremeudou.i, dcafening oheer went up f rom tho immense throng of poople that congregnted to see the great Yankee General. Thousands of hats were raised as the Mayor fllowly advanced to meet the ex-Presideiit, ronding as he maved forward, accordiug to the old Knglish custom when greoting notod guests, au addrest of formal welcome. After tho oheering had subsided, Gen. Grant quietly replied to the address of the Mayor in a few well-chosen words.".. . .The report of another destructivo earthquake on the South American coast, received some time ago by telegraph, is fullyconfirmed bymail advices, which furnihh some details of the terrible disaster. A tidal wave, varying in hcight from thirty to sixty feet, swept shoreward with fiightful velocity, along the coast of Peru and Bolivia, partially or wholly destroying tlie cities of Antof agasUi, Iquiquo, Arica, Tambo d Maro, Pabollon de Pica and Ilo. Althongh severe shooks of earthquako were feit, thfsv caused but littlo damage. The destruction óf life and property was owing entirely to the frightfnl upheaval and ingress of the sea. The loss of lifo, it is ca.culated, will reach 700 or 800, while the destraction of property is counted by the millions A Londou dispatch announcen the death, inthatcity, of John Lothisop Motley, the well-known American historian. Mr. Motli'y was 63 vears old.... The longthreatened orders for tlie reinforcciuent of the garrisonn in Alnace and Lorraine have at length leen issued in lïerlin. A sETTi-iï.MF.NT of the disturbaiice between Egypt and Abyssima bas beeu agreed on. . . . The Gladstoue auti-Tiu-kish meetings in Kngland are heing largely attended. At Bkminghftm, the othor day, the ex-Promier addi'eHsed an enthuniastic andience of 30,000. A resolution was unanimously pasned declaring that England ought to use her iufluence t exact from Ttirkey effectual gnarantces against the oppression of CliristiaiiH The editor of a Harseüles journal has been scntencwl to three months' imrisonment and fine of 4000 francs for writing disrospeotfnlly of Piesident MacMahon. . . .The Catholie Churol) in Wiesshen, Grand Duchy of Posen, was litïely siruck h lightning during service. Six jx-rs ps were killed and abont seventy seriously Injnred. HF.iiKAKriiit all ]olitical gatherings nimibering over twenty persons are to be interdictid by the Freneh Government .... There was recently an emeutê n board tlie l.ritish [ron annor-plated ship Alexandra, the flagship of the .Mkük iranciin squndron. It is stiitüil Unit, in oonseqaenoe of ihe Btringenoyof discipline and the umirtual seventy of punichment, the whole of one waleh refiiKOd to do duty, and i threw tlie ights of tho gun overboard. It is stated that Austria recontly demanded and reeeived from both liusia and TnrkeV written declarations that tho obstruction to freo navigationof the Danube hall be renxntxl iminediateJy opon the termluation ol Ihe ent war, and shall fonn no procedent for auy I future reütriction whatsoever. . . .Nophi Fret!-1 erica Matilda, Queen of Holland, is dcad, aged 5'J. A French machinist has discovered that ,by keoping his turuiug-tools constuutly wetted with petroleum, he ws I ftblo to out niPtal and alloys with tliem, iiltliougli wheo the tools were wn without the oil theil' edgps were turned and culied. The hurdest stee] cim be tumed easily jf the tools be thus wetted with a mixture of two jmrts of petroleurrj with ilie part of tiirjHMitinc