The News Condensed

The story of tho loss of tho steamer Bletropolia is thiis related by Jamca F. Alcorn, formerly an offieer in the navy, and temporarily attached to tho ill-starred vesel : On Wcdneiday night at 9 o'clock I was called by tho mate to asaist tho carpenter in Btopping a leak around tho rudder trunk. Found tho stern-post looao, and so reported. Remainod at the post, using all posHible cxertions to stop the loRk or prcvoat its increase, until about 5:30 a. m., when I waa called on deck, and found tho ship a partial wreek. Ono of the port boats was hanging over the sido by hor bow-tacklo to the davit, the smokestack gone, and tho sliip heading for tho beach. Reached tho foro enttor and, in obedionco to au order from the Captain, commenced to Btart tho water in the cuks storod forward to lighten tho ship ; was aasisted in so doing by tho carpenter and ono of the quartermasters, who was aftorwarda drowned. Tho mate suggosted that sail nhonld be made by Betting the foresail, and, on get-ting his consent, went aloft and, assisted by Charles Seaman, loosed the forefail and aucceedod in setting tho sail, whieh remained but a few minntes until carried away, and it waa neceasary to clow np tho port wing of Ihe sail. The ship Htruck hoavily amidship?, evidontly breaking her back, but ho contmucd to drive on the beach. Tho admirable management of tho helm, aasisted by tho foresail, maintained tho ehip's position head on until f airly beuehed. Soon after thi the main-maBt went, aud she brgau to break up rapiály. the firat soas that. boarded her having destroyed or cri)plod all tho romaining boats but tho dingy, which waa attached to the starboard forward davits. Upon that boat I placed my chief hope of safety, provided I could maiutain possession of the boat for Houding a line ashoro at low water. But while my attention was otherwiso. ongaged the boat waa lowered and my purpose defeat. cd, while Bho, without any management save the providence of God, was horno to tho beach- a perfect "ark of safety" for the r.ix or seven poor fellows who had tho courago to secure the opportuuity. Daring the ü-ying hours of the day several of the ill-fated passougerB, bravely iutnistiiig thcmsolves to the tide, ovidcntly lost heart with the passacre of the fiist breaker over heads and abandomr.g all hope, eank withoui a struggle. Others, either washed or leaping off tho wreek, would almost seeni to have comnuttod suicido, so deliberately did they bury their heal8 beueath the waves and meet theii doom. Ihe foremast falüng aft. and the foroeail beiug tlll partially spread, sovoral wero either killed by it fall or buried beuoath tho mass of the Fail iu suoh a way aa made death certain.. At sout, 4:30 or perhaps 5 p. m., the midship body of the hi.ll, tho fore bodv being already gone, bpgan to break np rapidly, wbilo I urged all who would listen to me tó trust thomeelves to l'rovidence, tho waves aud their life-preservors. Manydid so, aud the maioritv with succes. At length the cloaing scène was upon us The lower-deck boams glvewav and tho starboard breadle, giying a few more heavy shocks from the surf, sank slowlv beneath the waves. THE JEAST. The surplus of $80,000 of the Brandon (Vt.) National Bank has been wipod ont, and iU capital of $200,000 impairod 10 per cent by InintTOnpfTitbte,Iaf! CílShÍer' Basc3ra. lotting J. C. Batchelder have about 5100 000 part on ramed note s. Baaconi has left tow'n. The project to build a free pipe-line from the oil regionsto the seaboard has been defeatcd in üio Pennsylvania Legislatnre. after a flerco contest, The defeat was brought ü W1 combined influenco of the Standard OU Company, tbc Pennsylvania Eailroad Company aud Philadelphia interest. Philadelphia has jutt had tho most destructivefiro that has viaited the oity in three years. The loss is eatimatod at .$500,000. H ï!'." P' 8l?.ithi dl7-e0dii commission merchants, were the heaviert losers. . . .Boston, oi the same day, had quite a costly blaze. Tho large furmture factory of F. W. Holmes & Co was burued , mvolving a loss of $200.000, and ai row,'"g50 People out of emplovment. . . Mr Thomas Lord, tho aged New York nullion aire, whoo marnage to the dashing widow 8s 'f .ch a rumpiis among the rela ties of the bndogroom. lina emerged from hi retirement, and Iwill hotly contest the legal pro ccedings broiight against hjm by his ïons 'l lio old genUeman ays it was ou account of bi children threats that he and his wife keisecjuded .... New Yc rk city reports 129 coromer ml fjilnres during January, the larget num oer of any one momh sinco tbo panic of 1873. Tiie galo that swept along tho North Atlantic coast on the night of the fit inst. exceedod in violenco auythmg of the kind experienced on tLLsfySTudopTAvrThere was wreek and ruin in the track of thé trale for hundrods of miles along the shore. Vessels were beaohod, housen demoiiehed, telcgraph polos proKtratcd, and houses, bridgos, and rail road tracks swept away by tho hoavy sea. A achooner was driven ashore on Plnm island and all on board lost. Throe sailors belongini, to a disablod brig were drowned in Cbeaea peake bay while atlempting to roaeh tho shoro m a small boat. On Coney Islaiid, N. Y , sev eral housos wero swept away by the ángry waveí, and two women and live children were drowned. Numerous disasters at other point aro reported. The wiud at timos assumtd tht velocity of a tropical hurricane, and was ac compamed by a furious fall of snow, which ii tome places reached a dopth of two f eet on the leveJ. THE WEST. Maj. Walsii, of tho Northwest (Canadian) Slountod Polico, commandant of Fort Walsh Canada, near whieh Sittmg Buil and other hos tile Indians are now locatod, arrived at Helena Monr last week, oight daya out from For rïlï r Vhen Maj' Walifh Sitting Buil LitUo Kmfo and fifty-flve lodges were at the ü-aet L,nd PohcO Poet, Cypresa mountaiaa whero thoy intended to remaiu during the wiur'a L 't aPf)oard tht the roported returi or . li. to Uncle Sam'a dominions was a falso alarm. . . .Reports from Colorado show that tho Ute iudians are in a dangerous state of discon tent, on account of tho Indian Bin-eau's neglec to furnish and distribute tho supplies duo tho tribe. Homo of tho more turbulent banda tnreaten to go uorth and join tho Sioux in a general war next summer. Chicago has had a criminal trial of nnusua interest. A constable, while in the act of levying upon the hoiwehold goods of Misa Alvina McKee to atisfy a judgment for rent, was shot and killed by tho wornan. An indictment for murdor followed, and, after a trial hwtinjr ix dys, tho jury rendored a verdict of not guiltv it was proved on the trial that the womin had been subject to unusual annoyanco and pereeution from constables, that the one who met his death at her hands gained admiasion to tho premiaos by faise represontations, thai he demeaned bimself in a rough and unseemlv mannor, and, flnally. tbat tbc warrant with which he was armcd was illegal in form, and therefore void. Popular feeling ran strongh in favor of the accused, and few criminal trials m that city havo excited such doop interest Oen. Miles reports that hiH forcea havo set out from tho post on Tonguo river to look after tho hostile Bioux, of whom bo manv rumora have lately boen beard. The Academy of Music, a theater hall located In the West División of Chicago, has boen destroyed by fire. THE SOÜTH. J. Madison Wells was arrestod, last week, by tho Shoriff of Orleans parish, at a station on tho New Orleans and Mobile railroad, whero he had been nojourning sinco his departuro from New Orleans. GENERA!. Mr. Minkie, the colored cadet atWestPoint, has left. He neglected to prepare for examination, and faüod, as ho says, on purpose, bccauae tho white cadets wero abusive in their troatmentof him Murphy, the temporáneo refonner, is condueüng a temperance revival in Washington ...Ueorge P. Gordon, tho inventor of the Gordon printing pross, diod last week at Norfolk, Va. The Bub-committeo of the Judieiary Committe of tho lowcr houso of Congross have agreed to favorably report tho bill for the Texas indemnity. Tliia is a bill granting $100,000 to the Stato of Texas. Afttr the Stato came iuto tho Union it ownod considerable public land outside of tbo present limito of the Ktate, in what are now Arizona and New Mexico. The United States purebased this for $1,000,000, ond out of this tranfaction a claim remained due to tho Stato of $100.000, which the subomniitteo now awards to it. Wj: aro ealUd ujkju to chronicle another terrililo marino disaster on tho North Carolina coast, Tho atcamer Metropolis, bound from Philadelphia to Pera, Brasil, was wrecked at Carratuck inlot, not far from tho cono of tho fonnciering of the United States war stoamor Huron. ïhfire were 250 persona on board, about 100 of whom were lost. The VO8SOI had encountered heavy weather for twenty-four houra, and at the timo of goinc down afuuous hurricane was blowing from tho Hcmtheast. Nearly all the people lost were railroad laborera bouud forBrázil. Business embarrassmonta Althof, Bergman Co., toy importers, New York, liabilities 0,000; tho Topeka Bank and Ravings InstiTopeka, Kan., deposita $140,000, nominal ts $290,000; Eli Parsons, hats aud clothTolodo, Ohio: Cooley, Palmer t Co., goods jobbers, Dubuque, Iowa; Merts' National Bank. Fort Scott, Kansas; First National Bank. Kansas City, Mo.; the Commereial f(ttáonal Bank, JaisaH City, Mo. ; Jame Watson, coal dealer, Pittsburgh, Pa., iabilities $100,000 ; George l'ark, manufactïrer of edge tools, Buffalo, N. Y., liabilities (60,000, assets $11,000 : Peoría Furniture, Com:any, Peoria, UI., liabilities $22,000 ; Young, Smitli t Co., Rugar importers, New York, lialilities $200,000 ; Iloward. SuelHug fc Co., coal dealers, Boston, liabilities $130,0C0 ; tha "asement Savings lianl;. Union City, Pa., liatiütfei $40,000 ; James H. Batchelder. lumber lealer, Middlebury, Vt.. liabilities $60,000, assots $25,000 ; Heiiry McCulloeh, stock dealer, Wells couuty, Intl., liabilities $100,000 ; Douovan, Williams & Shaunon, boots and shocs, Montreal, liabüitios $200,000 ; G. F. Seebold, china and qiicensware, 8t. Louis; tho Providenco County Savings Bank, Pawtueket, It. I. Williaji Wiemeks was biingcd at St. Lom, on Friday, tho lst inst., for the nmrdor, in Jauuary last, of A. V. Lawrcnce, a barkotper in a ov theater. A tremeudous effort was mado to save the condomuod man from the gallows, but the Govcrnor of Missouri was inexorable. On tho same day Joseph Woods was haugcd at Ma'.one, N. Y., and Philip Watson (colored) was simüarly disponed of at Cincinnati. Tho crimes for which this trio. of cnlprit sufforcd death wero all of a peculiarly atrocioUB nature. Edjiund Juesskn, of Chicago, brother-inlaw of Cari Schurz, and attorney for the Chicago whisky crooks, has writton a letter in which he sharply attacks tho administration for refusing to pardon bis clieuts. The members of the Louisiana Beloning Board appcalod to Judge Bradley, of the United States Supremo Court, to ÍHSue a writof certiorari ordcriug a transfer of tho cases from the State to the United States Court. Judgo Bradlvy, in a decisión of gome length. refusod the applic&tion. The decisión sets forth that tho Returning Board mako application on tho ground of prejudice aud iaability to secure their rights and the fact that the Jury liw of 1S77 is horttile to colored citizens. Justice Bradley says the application raisen thrco questions : First, was the premmtatiou of the potition sufiicient to amcnd the jmisdiction of tho State conrt, or had that court the right to examine into that sufticiency V Sccond, if lbo State eourt had the right to examine, had the Circuit Court the right to re-examine aud issue A certiorari or othtr writs? Third, if the Circuit Court had suoh rights, did the petitiou show Bufficient ground to the fust two ciuestions? Justice Bradley answers that, in tho Jury law of 1877, there i nothing open to oonscitubonal objectionH, and also the prejudice is not such a causo as warrants a transfer. Neittu-r the Fourteenth amondment nor the Civil-Hights liill was vioiated. There Í8 no State legislation hostile to either. It is charged, and the facts appe.ir to prove, that the lost steamer Metropolis was sadly unieaworthy and as rotten as punk. An eyewitnesa describing tho wreek says: "In the imnicdiatu viciuity of the scène was a truo rcalization of tho terrible word ' wreek,' and, to the ehanie of Inimanity and eivilization, thero was vaudalisin, evidences of which were hardto believe. It rvas ghoulism alraost iucredible, couimitted niostly by negro residents of the beach close by, and aided by a number of whites. They took all the valüables and even the clothing from the dead that washed ashore. The sacred person of a fcmale was not a bar to the worst sort of barbaiism. There was a very large South American mail on board. The bagn were cut open aud rifled of their contnnts. The letters, after being opened, woro ütrewn along the beach." WASHINGTON. The Congruütional Silver and Groenback Associaüon, organized for tho purpose of securiug the remonetization of silvcr and repeal of the Kesumption act, held auother meeting last week. Resolutions woro actopted instructing the Finance Committee to solicit subscriptions to defray the expepses of printing and distributing documents, authorizing the Executivo Conimitteo to correspond with Senators and invito an indepeudont organization of that body, with an Exocutive Committee, in conjuuetion with that of the House Association. The Exocutive Committee was aleo instructed to investígate and report concerning tho old law which authorizcj the Sccretary of the Treasuvy to appear before the House of Itepresentatives in person and answtr inquirios, etc. This report is to be made Miíh a view of detormining thu advitjability of calling tho Seeretary of the Treavury bef ore the Houho on the silver question in the event of the Exocutive beiñg íirrayed against the views of the majority on euvel resumption It is reported with positiyeness, from Washington, that ''infonnation in due form has been lodged with the legal authorities of New Orleans oharging Secretary Sherman and several other prominent Bopublicans who visited Louisiaua to witness the eount with ftttempting to influence tho Koturning Board and control their count, and with participatiug in the general v.u u( !-.„, - :- -iiia_ . .i.-, - ..auuug utuers to do so, to ostablish intimidation, and with proc.iring falae evidence. It is claimcd that the iinderstanding iu New Orleans among those dircctiDg operations against the Returning Board is that Secretary Sherman and others there viih him will be indicted for pieseat trial." It is reported from Washiugton that Senator llatthews bas tho ausuranco that tho President will not, in the face of tho exprensed opinión of both branches of Congress, veto the Silver bil], but allow it to become a law without bis signature A Washington correspondent 8tates that Secrotary Sherman, jn an interviow, Hays that ba recognizeB the fiict that the Silver bill will becomo a law. He believes there is a olear two-thirds for it in each branch of Congress. He saw no reaeon for a belief or hope that it could be defeated. Mr. Sherman, tho correspondent says, affects no surprise at the courso of the gold market. He expresses the belief that remonetization of silver will not affect gold or greenbacks at once. All the silvor that can be coined for several months would be used for the payment of duties, and the people in general will not see much of it until somo time after the passago of the bill. He said that, as the supply of silver increaned, gold would entirely disappear. Mr. Sherrttan was of opinión that tho pilyet people will bo greatly disappoiutcd with the immediato effects of tho remonetization of siiver, and that the groonback men, who are at the bottom of the silver movement, will be the only ones strengthened Th President sent the i'ollowing nominatioiiH to the Senate : Charlea B. Costor, of New York, Pension Agent for New York city ; F. Öolomon, of Missouri, United States Siirvevor General for Utah ; Nathan C. Weeker, of Colorado, Indiau Agent at tbo White Eiver Agency. The Comptroller of the Currency roports the amount of additional circulation isaued during tho month of January, il, 011, 090; total amount issued niuee the passage of the act, July 14, 1875, $41,111,970. Tho total amount of legal-tender notes retired to dato under the act of Jan. 14, 1875, is 32.829.570 ; amouut retired the present montb, 8833.352, loa ing the amount of legal-tender notes outfltanding Feb. 1, $349,110,424. Amount of national-bank notes outstanding Feb. 1, $320,629,090, together with $1.432,120 national gold bank notes The animal report of the Conimifsioner of Patente has just been submitted to Congres.-. This report shows that. tho cat.)i received this year is $732,342.85, against $757,987.65 last yoar, whilo tho cash expended is $013,152.62, against $652,042.60 last ycar. Tho number of patent innued was 1,316 against 1,702 last year. An effort is beiug made in Congress to discontinue the isaue of the 20-cent silver coin. A eit,i, bas been agreed upon in the Honse committee oitendiug the time of the land grant on the main lino of the Northern Pacific for ton years, and on the branch from Seattle across the mountains for five years. If tho tern-s of this extensión aro not complied with, tbe lands will reven to the Government. The Third Assistant Postmaster Geueral bas telegraphed and written to tho Postmaeter at New York as follows : " Trade dollars not being a legal tender, you are not obliged to receive them. A joint resolution of Congress, approved July 22, 1876, 'm the authority upon which tho above Jecii-ion is baxed. The second section of the liw referred to contains the j lowing explicit provisión : ' The trado dollar shall not horeafter be a legal tender.' " Col. Bob Inoebsoli, is said to have the most extensive Congressional practice of any man in Washington It U rumored that the President will sliortly tender Gen. Bristow a higb office. . .The Chief of tho Bureau of Btatistioa has propared a utatement of imports into watt exports from each customs district of tho United States during the calendar juar 177. Tho aggrogate vaina uf merchandise exporte iras $620,000,000; imports, $480,000,000; txcis.H in value of exporte, 140,000,OC10 Tlierejectiou by the Houso of BepraaentatiTea of a joint resolnöon introduced by the Wa_vs and Meiraa Committeo exteuditïg the imo for the withdrawal of spirits from bond, and tho passago ii Is stoad, by an emphatic majority, of a rosilntion declaving it incx)odieut to change the ai on distilled spirits, ík in the nature of a permiptory instrnctian to tho Ways and Means Committee, and may bo regarded as eettling all attempts to raise tho tax on whisky for this Bession at least. It has been determiued by tho Sccretarv of ho Treasury tbat trade dollars shall not be coined at the Philadolphia mint. Vabious reports that havo reachod the ernment with reference to tho whereahouts of Sitting Buil and bis band havo not beou didregarded at the War Department. There is a ottled dotormination, tays a Washington Ssatch, to makc athorough war upon that party wherever and whenever found in onr doniinou Tho President sent thy foUowinR nomimtions to tho Senato : Joatiih W. Hustpo, Tnited States Attoruoy for tin; Territory ol daho ; Thomas AdSrnson, of Pennsylvania, !-'i! General for Kio de Janeiro ; Ernest L, Oppenheim, of New York, Unitod Statos Consul at Guttenburg ; Edward Wheeler, Collector of liiii rn;il Revemiü for Arkansas. l'O!. ITJUAJ,. The Comtnitteo on Elections in tbo lower house of Congress, by a party voto of 7 to 4, agreed that Wigginton (Demoorat) was entitlod to a aeat from California, and that Pacheco (Republicau), the sitting member was not. The following is the voto : For Wigginton. llarris, Springer, Candler, Tnrnay, Cobb, Williams and Ellis ; for Pacheco, Wait, Thornburgh, Price and Hiscock. " One thing," telographs a Washington correspondent, ''is uow Bottlod beyond a question - Uiat tho Senato committees aro set up to rcject all and evcry one of tho President's nominations againnt which a ghost of an excuse can bo made for rejection. Tho Senato Judieiary Committeo to-day rcjectcd the nomination of lteed, appointed United States Marshal for Alábanla, lipón the ground that the Attorncy General gave no good reason for the dismissal of his predeceRsor, ono of Spencer's men. The nomination of Northrup fox District Attorney in South Carolina bas been hung up uutil l'atterson will be well enough to appear bef ore the committee." In the Western States the only members of tho Honso who votcd against tho Matthows resolution declaring tho bonds payable ík silver at tho optiou of tho Qovernnieut were: tflcbigan 1 Missouri 1 MiUllOBOtft 1 Obio 1 Total 5 At length Judge Clifford, of the Uuitcc States Supremo Court, has coueontod to revise ! Ma judgment on the Prosidentialfluestion anc recognize Mr. Hayos. At tho Iaat "State dinner _ tiiven by the President the Judge visiteo the White House for the first timo. Senator BUine was also among the guests. T 1 1 1 : Washington J'ost publighes an interview with Charles Foeter, of Ohio, on the subject o: the alleged bargaining whieh preceded the final dcelaration of the electoral count. Somo ui the points mado are these : The Wormley conference was not ealled to make a bargain The conferee were EUis, of Luuisiana, Henry Wattorsou, John Sherman, Stanley Mat thcwH, Gov. Donnison, Gen. Garfield Maj. Burke and some otlierg. Fos ter -did not represent anybody. He got there by acciJent. Tho letter from Hayes to Foster had been received long before. Tha letter rimply favored withdrawing tho troops from tho Sontb. It mado no contingent prom ises. Maj. Burko road a paper at that coufer encc. It was a document pledging the Nicholls Government, if it were sustained, to protec the Republicana of Louisiaua, and to insurt them peace and happiness in that State. I w;is not an agreement. Thcro was no bargain The paper eimply set forth what Nicholls to williug to do, and was not sigiicd by anybody The Republican Congressmen who visitec Louiniana pending tho electoral count auc were present at the cauvass of tho votes, gen erally known as the viaiting statesmen, held a conference one evening last week. The objoc of the meeting, says a Washington telegram, i uuder.itood to have beeu carefully to conside the present eituation in Louimana, and the (Inty which tlio visitiug statesmon owe to tbc lïcturning Board. The interchange of view was informal, and the defiuite plan has heei detennined upon. TheBe gentlemen, and mos of the Republicans in Congross, think tha nothing should be omitted that can bo done to sutstain the lieturning Board in their presen i trouble. THE TDKKO-RUSSIAN WAK. A CoNSTiNTiNOVLE dispatch says " the Turk ish Government is having difficulty to main I tain order in the capital. Among the tens o thousanísof refugces frorn Roumelia are many armed Circassians. These have already plun j dered Laleh, Bourgas, Charlu and Rodoeto anc other towns, and are now flocking into Constantinople, laden with booly." As Adrianople dispatch of tho lst inst. saya "The Itussian Grand Duke Nicholas arrivcc on the 26th by raihvay from Hermanli and tooi up bis quarters in the Governor's palace The Kussian vanguard has oceupied Boboslri Haekioi, Dematico and Kirk Kilissa. The Ozarowitch's army haa crossed 'tho Lom il force. The Turks are everywhere retreaticj upon the fortresses of the Quadrüateral. Tei thousand Russians are advancing on Radoata and Keshan." An anti-war meeting ii London was broken up and dispersed by a mob which took possession of the hall, "cheerec the Government and sang patriotio songs. Tuk war situat.ion on the 4th inst., as gleanec from the cable dispatches of that dato, was abou as follow8 : Russia had granted an armistice aucí Un ti i ■Vul n.j n.u.iJIUvuu o ,,„.„ km been Bigned by the representatives of the belligerent powers; the lines of demarcatioi had been fixed, the Russians provisionally to occupy Erzeroum and Silistria; Russia ha aecepted Austria' proposal for a conference for Bettling the questions resulting from th war; there were rumors of an alliance botweei England, Franco, Austria and Italy for the purpose of opposing Russian aggraiidizement Gambetta, the French itatesman, givii'g coloi to these rumors by publicly declaring that the Russian conditions were a flagrant violation o the treaty of 1S5G, and intimaüng that a psaco based upon thope conditions will not bo toler atcd by the French nation. The preliminary peace conditions signed a Adrianop!e are as follows. They differ verj litt.le from those propoeed by the couquering power, and hcretofore priuted in this column 1. Tho f-rectiou of Bulgaria into a principality 2. A war indomnity or torritory in eompensi tion. 3. The incl( pendence of Uoumania, Servia and Montenegro, with an increase of territory foreach. i. Iteforms in Bosnia and Herze gorlna. 5 An ulterior underetanding bétweei the Sultan and Czar rogarding tho Dardanelles li. The evaouation of the Danubiau forLresses I and Erzeroum Tho closing action of the war touk place ou the lst of February, th( Servians having stoimed and taken Vraui; jiass wilh about 1,900 priüoners, and grea quantiiies of stores. The Czar, in an address to the troops the other day, npoke as follows : " I congratilato you upou tho armistice, the satisfactory con ditioriB of which are duo to our brave troopp who provod that for them nothing is impossible of iiccomplisbnient. We are still, however, far from the end, and must continuo to hold our ielves prepared nntilwe obtain adurablopeace worthy of Busals." GENERAL rOKKIGN NEWS. The Cuban Captain General Jovellar liber, atcd forty-sevcn prisoners from the Havana fortress on tho day of tho mamage of King Alphonso ...The Pope is said to be preparing an allocution against llussia on account of the persecution of Catholics in i'oland, and also againüt King Humbert becanse of his assumptiun of the tillo of Kiug of Ilaly. JosEi-H Hildebrand, tho Germán philosophor, is dead. The rush of tho panic-stricken people of Roumelia to Oonstantinoplo continúes without abatoment. Eight thousand rofugees arrived at the capital in a singlo day, and the suffering among the dense swarms now congregated there ii horrible. Ömall-pox and typhua are raging, i aud the local relief committees report that thcro is no possibility of finding food or hülter for tho siok or the woll. Urgent appeals havo been tolegraphed to London for relief. Italy is reported to be ready to join England aud Austria in opposing the aggrandizement of Russia Groece has concluded to strike for frecdom from Ottoman subjectiou, aud orders have been giveu by tlio Heïlenic Government for the occupation of Thessaly, Epirus and Macedonia by an ariny of 12,000 men. AubTiiiA bas taken the initiativo in calling a Enropeoo conference to tako cognizauce of points in the pending treaty between Russia and Turltey which trench upon the rights or intereiits of other powers. Her recent intimation to the Czar that, whilo Rnssia and Tnrkey might freely enter into stipulationsaffectingtheii-own Interests, no contracta for the modification of European treaties could be reoognized without the concurrenco of the signatorios, haa beeu luimvircd in a frieudly spint. Kussia in effect admite all that Austria (iemands, and no objectiou Hoorns to bo made in any quartor to tho proponed congreso. The cble brings the iutelligencc of the death of Georgo Cruikshank, the English caricturist of world-wide fame. He was bom in Loudou in 1792, aud was consequently in his 86th year. Tut: Grcekw havo entered Thessaly, and capturod Domoco at the point of tho bajonet. Thirteen hundnd Turkish prisoners ïrere takon Niue milliona of peoplo are reported deatitute in Northern China. Tho Foreign Relief Committee appeal to England aud Amcrioa for aid At Calais, Franco, during the perfornianco at the circus, thure was a false alarm of lire, wbich cauued a great rush of the iiudience. Ton persons were miff.icated or Irampled to doath, and soveral others were burt. . ... Advices from Shanghai, China, state that an asylnm for women aud childreu at Tien-Tsin hu been burned, and over 2,000 persons perished in the firo. .. .It is reported from Paris that Marshal MacMahon meditates resigning tho Presidcncy of the French republic. Horbks are faRt taking the placo of oxon, even in the roughest liortioii of New England.