The News Condensed

New York financial cirolos are agitatcd by the discovery of extensivo forgerios by ono William C. Gilman, a broker hitherto eujoying a high roputation. The forgerics amount to upward of $'00,000 By tho explosión of a mail steamboat ncar Pittsburph, l'a., thrce persons were killed and several iujurod. The contennial anuiversary of the battle of Gennantown (Pa.) was celebrated ivith great spirit Oct. 4, the military of Philadelphia and the adjoining citics participating Louis Liberty, Willi mi Prico and two Wiso brothers were drowucd in Boston harbor. the other day, by tho cap8b,ing of thoir boat. A storm of unusual violenco 8wopt over portions of Peonsylvania, New York and Delanare on tho uigiit of tho 4th inst., causing many hciíous wash-outs on railroads. An excursión train was wrucked uoar Phnmixvillo, Pa., killing twclve persons and wounding about iifty. A passenger train was precipitatcd into tho Delawaro rivor, at Frenchtown, N. J., by which fivo persons lost their hves. Ten Bchdonert were sunk by tho fury of tlio storm in tho liarbor of Lowes, Del. The ■temer Massachusetts, from Providenco for New York, was bloun ashoro on Long Island Kound, and will pröbably prove a total wrook ; all thu passcngers fnrtuuately auaped. The Iosr by the gale in tho city of Brooklyn, N. Y., i cstimatcd at $100,000. Aujoeb Biiothers, prominent insnranco ngents of Now York city, havo defaulted to tho oitent of about $100,000. An English compny for whom thoy were acting are tho sufferers. Thk reecent disaster on the Bekering Valley railroadj ncar Phccnixville, was ono of tho worst of UieMnd have been called npon to chrmiicle for koiiic time. The train, consistfng of two passenger coaohes and a milk-car, dashed down a diteh ncarly 100 feet deep. In au mutant the work of dostruction was dono. The engiho plunged headlong down to thobottoni of iho ditch, nstantly kiUinjr the enginear and lireman. A passenger coach came next, shot acrosx the opening, broke tho foremost end, and feil npon tbe wrecked engine. The cara then piled in one npon another, and in the terrible darkness of the uight the scène tlmt followed was moro fearful than pen ean picture. Eleven persons were almost instant ly killed, and a largo nnmber wounded, fivo or six of whom have since dicd. Thk Penneylvania Coal Company's minéis have ncarly all rosumed work A monster devil-fisb, captured on the coas-t of Newfound laúd, has arrived at New York, and will find a home IQ the aquarium. It is forty fcet long, and is pröbably the largest soa monster ever captured. Col. Siblky, a prominent citizen of Boston, and late department cominander of the Grand Army of the Eepublic, bas been arrested for forgery. THE WEST. By tne explosión of the boiler of a now portable engiuo at Studortown, O., four men were killed and two seriously injured. The bodies of the killed were litcrally blown to pieces. A Deadwood (Black Hills) dispatch saya tho north-bound coach on the Sydney route was Btopped the other night in tho vicüiity of Buffalo gap by four well-known outlaw, who go bv the namea of Dunk Blaekburn, Wal!, Langhing Sam, and the Kid. There was but one passenger and the división agent, Cook, on the coach. who were rclieved of some dollars and their revolvers. The robbers were unmasked, and made no attempt to conceal their identity. The following night tho south-bound Deadwood etage was stopped twelve miles south of Laramie, and tho passengers reheved of eonio $400 The Apache Indians of New Mexico have brokon loóse, and aro killing, ucalping and committing all sorts of deviltries. Gen. Hatch, commanding the United States troops, at last accounts was preparing to attend to them. Isdictmbnts have been found by the Grand Jnry of the United States District Court at St. Paul against a large number of persons charged with stealing tnnber from Government lands. The United States District Court at St. Louis has decided that Gen. Grant's pardon relieved Gen. John McDonald, tho notorious whisky crook, from f urther prosecution Ex-Minister ashbunie has arrived at liis homo in Galena, 111 A battlo was fought on the 30th of September, in the Bear Paw mountaini?, botween Gen. Miles' command and Chief Joseph's band of Nez Perces Indians, and resnlted in a victory for tho soldiere, but at a fearful cost, aB attested by the long lint of killed and woutided. Gen. Miles f urnishca the following brief roport of the engagement : " This command moved rapidly to Snake creek, striking tho fresb trail of the hostDo Nez Perces, commg out of Bear Pan1 mounUinR, at 7 o'clock on the 30th. Met and surprised the camp at 8 o'clock, capturing the larger part of their berd, about 600 horsen, mules and pomos. The engagement was quite Kevero,and tin incloKCd is a list of our killed and woumVd The Indians lost jventeon killed, inolnding Looking G'ans and Joheph's brother and three other chief, and forty wouuded. Joseph gave me his solemn pledgo on yesterday that lic would surrender, but did iiót, and they are evidently waitinjr for aid from other Indians. They say that the Sioux are coming to their aid. They are closely invested in some deep ravine, and kept under flre. To take them by assault would cost many lives. I may wear them out. and eventnally compel them to giv up. They flght with moro desporation than any Isdians . I havo ever met. I believo there aro manv eeoapoa villains in village, who expect t"o bc hung wuen caught. I beLe tbrtte is cennniuincatiuu hetweoii the camp and Sltting Huil. iiiul I havo nsccl oyery (.ffort lö prevent a junction." Gen. Miles' losses in lliis sanguinan' affair were: Killed- Capt. Hale, Licut. Joecph (V. Biddle, seven pcrgeants, ono corporal. and thirteeii iprivate, ora total of twe Dty-thre. Wounded- Cfets. Maylon and Godfrcv, Adjt. Baird, Liont. 'Eoinoyn, and thiity-nino noncomimssioued oflicers and privatoa. Total killed and wounded, sixty-auven. THE SOUTH. Timo rfeamer Magnolia, bound from Savannah to New Vork, was rccently lost off Cape riatteras. No livo.i lost. The steamer and cargo were vulued at about $500,006. CONQBESSMAa Smalik (colored), of SouUi Carolina, has been arrt-Htd at Ooliunbia on a charge of accopting bribes while a membor of thé Suuth Carolina Sunato John Carper, of Cli-v :lanil, Tcüii., while Uboring underantof insanity. killi'd hi.-i ' dauglitur and niece, and then coinmitteá suicido. GENERAL. AivicEK from Fort Clark annouuce tho return of Shafter and Bullis' commands from the Mexican tide of the Iïio Grande. The expodition was unsucccwf ui, owiug to tho fact that the Iudians had been warned of Bullis' porsum and esoiiped. Twelve horfes and two muien wliich had been stolen from the American nide of the rivtr were recaptured. A small bodv of Mexicai cavalrj' kept npon their trail and" in Higlit. of tlie command during their march from San Diego river to the Kio Grande, but made no offtnsive demonstration. Büened : Tho Pittsburgh oar and looomotive works and a largo number of other buildings, at McKecHfort, Pa., loss heavy; the atables and car-houses of tho Dry Deelt Eailroad Company, in Now York, loss $500,000; a nquaro of business buildings in Franklin, Ind , osb $15,000 ; a block of houses in Joplin, Mo. loss $50,000; a saw-mill at Frankfort, Mich., loss 30,000.... Two moro savings bankahave Ëfói tll!, bord-oue at Alleghcnv, P., habihheH abont 500,000, and another át Hanvich, Miss., liabilities not Btated Archbishop BayJey, of the Catholic diocese of Baltimore, is dead....W. H. Vanderbüt of the New York Central raüroad, ha ordored an advanco of 5 per cent. upon the wagen of all employés of the road where the eal&riee amonnt to lesR than $2,000 a year. Thk fight fer tho base-ball championship of tho United States, in which the five leading professional clubs, representing the cities of Boston, Brooklyn, Lonisvillo St. Louis and Chicago took part, has been brought to a close for 1877, and han resulted in an easy victorv for Boston. The following ia a rocapitulation of the games won and lost bv the respectivo contoxtantfl : ■ ■". Lost. Plaveit. Boston 31 17 4n '""■"Hls 28 20 48 Hartford 24 'M 48 '. Uwis 19 29 48 Chicago 18 30 4g A iiEcx.Ni dispatch from Mesilla, New Mexico, Bays : " An armed mob of 400 Mexieans- 100 froni tho Mexican Mde of the river- havo ix'HKcasion of tbc county of El Paso, in Texas, iifty miles below this placo. The mob threaton to maseacre all the Americaus They havo arrestod and ijnprütoned t'to county officerd. Sevoral prominent citiuens have fled from the ronnly. A small dutachmrnl of tho Xinth United States Cavalry starled for tho scène of the trouble to-day, to protect tho United States Cuetom House and Government property. The Mexicans claim that El Paso county belongs to Mexico." The authoritien at Washington have infornriüon touching Bita allgel invasiou, to the effect that it is not u iuteruational quarrel, but a pnrely loctl affair. growing out of the digputed rights of the parÜ68 in reference to the pojscbnion Qf some aalt mines in that región, Ucn.xKp: Toa milllon fwt of Inmber ai Huntèr'u Point, L. I., Io3s $200.000 ; Lambort'i soap manitfactory at Youngstown, Ohio, lowi 550,000 ; Hamburger's furnitiiro factory, New ïork city, loss $80,000 ; a block of buildings in St. Albans, Vt., loss 640,000 ; a numbor of buildings at Oonvenour, N. Y., loss $60,000 ; a flouring mili at Charloo, Ohio, loss L16,000. WASHINGTON. HüSA tob Jonx Patterson says.that hc will aslv, at the opening of tho session of tho Senate, for an investigating committee of fellowSenatorR tii vindícate liim of tho charges made against Iiíh official character It is curreutly reportad that Assistant Seeretary of tho Treasury McConnick will sueceed Mr. Arthur as Collector of the Port of New York. A Washington dispatch state that Chief Justico Carttcr, of the Supremo Court of tho District of Columbia, has rccoivod a reqnisition from Gov. Hampton, of Soutk Carolina, for United States Benator J. J. Pattevson. An iuveatijjation of the Patent OIBco firo, made by a eommission under authority of tlio Socretary of tho Interior, has domonstratcd that the iïro was not cuscd by spontanoouH . combustión or incendiarism. A fire was kindlcd in a room in the basement aid fed with pine boards. Sparks from this feil upon the rouf and set lire to a piue gratiug, rtd "that'sthü way it Begon. I'OLITICAI.. Tiiií Demuorats of Minnesota met In convontion at St. P;uil last. week, and put up llio following ticket : Governor, William L. lïauning, who was before Rommatod by tho Grcenbock and Labor ('onventions ; liieutenaut Gnvcruor, Dv. A. A. Ames : Attorney (eneral, John lï. Jones ; Sccretary of State, P. T. Ijindhohn ; Treasurer, John F. Meagher j BaUroad Commissioner, II. W, Hill. Kcsolutions wcre adopted denoiincing tho "frauds tand oriincs by which the inanguration of Tilden was prwentod ;" rojoioiog that Hayes found it neeessary to adopt a Democratie policy of local self-governmcnt, and abandon the dcvioe for perpetnating the noclional divixUms ; iiccusiug tho Hopublican party of actiug in tho interest oi ca pit U against labor, in making the public debt payable in coin, in deinonetizing silver, in passing the Resumption act, in eollectiug enonnous unnecessary reveimes sinco 1H65, and in protective and prohibitivo tariff legislation ; declaring gold and silver the only conslitutional legal tender ; that resumption nrrould come as soon as the business interest of tho country will permit ; and demanding the resturation of the silver dollar of full commercial value. Tmk people of Cokrado havo voted upon and rcjected, by a majority of two to one, the proxsition to extend the right of suffrago to women. The New York Democratie Stato Convention was held at Albauy, Oct. 3-í. Tho following ticket was nominated : Secrotary of State, Allen O. Beach ; Comptioller, Frederick P. Olcott ; Treasurer, James Mackin ; Attoniey Oteueral, Augustus Schoonmaker ; Stato Engineer and Siuveyor, Horatio Seymour, Jr. Xhc platform adopted is as follows : Tho people ha vinji iu the last Presidcntial contest electeü bj an overwhehning popular aud ■ olftar electoral mojority theDeniocratic candidatos f orPresuh'iit and Vice President, and the wiü of the nation thus coustitutioually declared baving been wickedly aud boldly uulüucd by ineaus of the groaBeet usurpatious aud f rauds of the Returning Boards, protected aud adopted if not instigated by the party in posseaBton of the Government, and rendered practicable by a thrcatening array of military foroe ; Resolved, ïliat at this the üret couvention of the Demócrata of this State held pince tho ooiisuiiima'.iim of this great crime, it is not ouiy juut aud tit. but it is the plain duty in the interest of consütulioual Rnveniment Mtd in vindication and preBervation of the eacred right of the ruajority to choose their rulers, to deuouuce with Ihe warmest indignation thiR Btupondous wrong, and we do hereby denouucc, condenm. an3 ho!d it xip to universal execration. Reêolvedj 'i'hat thia tuty of flettiiig the mark of infamy upon this transaction, and preventing any quick forgetfulness or condonafion of it froui raining the tempting prercilont for future outrageti, rests especially and pecnllarly upon the Democratie party of this State, one of whosc most illustrioUK leaders was the President actually chosen by tho nation. lievolved, That the late House of Representativos deservea the tbanks of all patriots and lovers of hberty for their just refusal in the exerciae of the most ancient and valuable privilege bclonging to the repreeentatives of the pcopte iu all constitutiona! govtrnments to appropriate money for tbe support of the soldiers to be ueed in the illegal anti despotic oppression of the citizens in any porlion ol the republic. Jiettolved, That the nresent national adniinistration, by its withdrawal of the troopa from the South, and lts eessation from miBchievous. unconMitutional, and oppreeaive intorference sth thc-intornal aftairh of the States, haa in that respect reversed tbe vieious i)recedents of tho Rcpnblic-an party, followed the course marked out by the Fetforft) eonstitution, aud to which the DenuxrratH stand i)ledged, and it is thcrofore ontitled in that particular t tho approval of aïl good eitizens. The Drmoerntie party of Xew York reaffin:i tb following principies, set forth in Uieir platlorm adopted in 1874, uow thrice indorscd by Iarg6 iu;tjorities of the voters of thïa State : Gold and silver the only legal tender; rio 'eurreney inconvertible with coin : steady steps toward specie paymeuts ; no step backward ; the honest paymeut of the public debt in coin ; the aacred preservatiou of the public faith ; reyenue reform : a tariff for revenue only, no Government partnership with protected monopolies ; home rule ; to limit and locahze moet jealptlsiy the powers iutrustcd to public servante, municipal, state, and Federal J no centialization; equal and exact justice to all men ; no partial legislatiou. AMotMd, That we are opposed to the granting of subsidies by tht; iioverniuent to corporations or individuáis for the construction of railroads or oitlicr iuternal improvcmcntb as unnccossary, beyond the scope of Federal power, and iuevitably proilucin;,' eorruption. iirxolcctt, That wc congratúlate the wholc people of thia State that, notwithstanding the suffering to wliich the laboring classes have heen subjected, in spite of their fallare to obtain remunerative eui-. iloyment and the bitter privations which have been impo8ed on them theieby, they have endured these calamitics for +he most part with patience, without disorder or violatiou of the puuiic peace, aud we declare that it is through the bcneöcent operatio of cqual and just laws favoring no class at the expense of another, :i stern : rcfueal on Ihe part of logMutive lioilk to yield to the scbemes of graspinji monopolies, and tlic decrease of public cxponditureH and taxatiim to the lowest practical pnlnt, that tlie laboring ciasticK of Uu country {with whor the Democratie mrty has always strongly and intelligently syinpathiaed) are mainly to find cfTectual and permanent relief. limolvfíl, That we demand more complete protection for the savings of the industrial l8fes by a Ktrictcr supervisión and control of savings banks, inuranco companics, aud other institutions in wtucji the poople's money may iuvestcd, tii'l tin' enactment of laws providing for the severc and ccrtain puninliuientof all official neglect, extravagance, .■ li:u](l by whicJi the pcople's earninga may Be eudanyered or lost THE TUKKO-KUSSIAN WAK. MoüKirrAii Pasha tclegraphs from Asia Minor that lio has dsfMted a ltussimi force at Ncck-Jordan, killiug 400, aud cáp'trtriúg a large nuniber of amis Tho Sultan has . ferrcd the title of Ghazi (oonqneror) on Osman Pasha and Moiikklor Pasha. ATuRKisuforcoiHconentratiiiK at Mostar, Herzegovina, to recover tho territory conquered bv tlie Montenegi ins Tho Itussiai: forces in Asia have just succecdcd in suppressing a formidable iuHurrectiou in Daght;KÜin. Tlie main body of tho insurgenta. (,d(X) stroug, was defoafced and di;;persed Mehemot Ali has beeu superseded fts Commander-in-Chief of the Dannbian army by Osman Pasha, and Kaouf Pasha has aBsumed commaiid of tho Turks at Schipka pass Dispatches from Karajal, in Asia, datêd Oct. 3, announco that a great tle was then in progress between tho Bmsi&n Gen. Helikoff's forces and the army of Monkhtar Paaha. Kepobts of the battlc fought on the 2d and 81 of October between tbe Turks aud Kust-iaiis, near the Armeiu&n frontier, show that it was the most destructivo engagoineut of tho war in that [iiarter. The forces of the Grand Duke Michael gui-prised and captm-ed an important fortifica work on the righl llauk of MukhUr'n position, and endoavored to puh forward ftnd cstablish themselves on the road beiweeo Mukhtar's army and Kars. Tho obstinacy of the resistanco at tho point first assailed gave the Turks timo to get under arms, and a despcrato strngglo followed, la.iting all day, and resulting in the repulse of tho Kussians át all points excopt that of the flrst attack. At the close of tho engagement the Kussians held the post they had captured, but appear to have found it untonable, for their owii rexrts adniit that it was abanófbned, They also confoss a loss of 3,000 in killed aud wounded, claimiug that tho Tnrkish loss was equally heavy. From all accounts at this writing it must be set down as a drawn battle A Berlín dispatch sajs : "Tho Kussians ot'ricially admowledge tbe loss of 52,000 men up to Sept. 27." Tiie charackr of the recent fighüng uear Kars begins to be botter understood. The Eussians Kuffcred a check, but the Turks gainc.d ud decisivo result. The result seems to be somethinp like Plevua or Schipka- desperate fighting, enonnous losaes, and no gam to either of the combatants. Moukhtar Pasha, in a dispatch dated tho 7th hut., rcpurU the retiicmeiit of the Hussians to the position they occupied before tho recent advance on his linos. He claims that bis losaos in tho late battles werc about 2,000, whilu he inflictod a loss of 10,000 ou tho cnemy A dispatch from Bucharest says " ulereare already two feet of euqvr in Hcipka pass. Troops are obliged to sit in frozen tronchen, anklo doop in mud." OEHEKAL FOKE1GN NKWS. KocHKFoitT'sorgan in Paris, the Mat U' Ordre, hnving been suppresscd for the third time, has ceaBed to exist altogether GambctUi has formally lodged an appcal against the sent'nco passed apon hnb by the Correctimnil 1'ribunal. Somktuijío of a tonsation bas boen causcd in EoglAnfl by tho discoveiy that the ofticera of tha Midland lUihvay Company liava lieen appropriatliiL' the proporty and funda of tho oorporfttidi) o thfir uwn tmo. finnio pi T7T ATT! guilty partita have been arrostcd, . . . A Tjondon JBp:iti'h aimounccs the dc&tli oL. .Jladame Teresa Titiens, tho famous operatic prima donna. Owino to scarcity of latorors, the result of the ononnons drafts of tho military service, and heavy ralns dwing the latter part of tho suinmor, the Kussian wlieat harvest has been " disappointing, botli in ([uality and in quantity." A man in Wales lias accomplished the nnparalleled feat of walking 1,5(10 miles in 1,000 hours England is going to fit out another Arctic expechtion Tho last fimiino report from India ia favarablo. DiAz'has autliorized bis Collector of CustoniB at Vora Cruz to remit .25,f)0O a month to the United States, to ho applióa iu pajjuent of American claims allowed by tho Mixed (,'oinmission. . . .Tho ]Luxican Congresn has appropriated 9300,000 for a mamifao.tory of bretchloadii'g arm, and autliorized the parchase of $300,000 worth of rillö from American manufacturero.