General News

The grand jury at St. Louis Wednesday indicted all the owners, vendors and attaches of the Missouri State lottery, some 60 in number. The proposition to impeach State Treasurer Gates which has been dragging along in the lower house of the Missouri Legislature for a month past, was finally defeated Wednesday on a formal ballot by a majority of seven. The ice in the River St. Lawrence, opposite Montreal, has commenced to move. It is expected that navigation wiU shortly open. If the tour per cents are disposcd of as rapid]y as expected upon the new tcrms Secretary Sherman. will save in the t,a'e of the $150.000,000 more than $1,000,000 to the Government, which will compénsate for the doublé interest which he is compelled to pay under the law during the three months which the calis run. Uuder the ncw arrangement the holders of uncalled 10-40s will receive in exchange for their bonds at par 4 per cent. bonds at 99%. The $10 certificates will still be sold at par in exchange for lawful money by the treasurer, assistant treasurers and postmasters who have been designated for that purpose, and a commission of one-eighth of one per cent. will be allowed, without respect to the amount sold in any given period. Capt. Brown, of the steamship Alaska, reports the Indians quiet at Alaska and does not anticípate any trouble. He attributes the exciteinent to a scare. His judgment is challenged by resident of Sitka and the collector of the port, who still profesa to entertain great alarm. A syndicate composed of 19 banks and banking tirms of New York and Boston on Thursday made a Bubscription of $150,000,000 four per cent, bonds and $40,000,000 funding certiücateB, making the largest single subscription ever made to a government funded loan in this or any country. The heavieat subscribers are the First National, Fisk & Hatch, Metro politan National Bank and J. & W. Seligman. The subscription is made through the First National Bank for itself and its associates. A Kansas City dispatch of Thursday saya: A large number ef colored southern refugees have been landed by steamboat at Wyandotte inanentirely destitute condition during the past t'ew days, and are oceupying the churche3 and public halls of that place. Many are sick from exposure and dying. Mayor Shelley, of Kansas City, telegraphed the Secretary of War for an order for the issue of rations f rom Fort Leavenworth to f eed them. Secretaxv McCreery replied that he had no authority to do so, that CongreRs was in session and application should be made to that body. A cominittee has been appointed at Wyandotte to look after the RuffererB. They have issued an appeal to the public for aid. The brig Gypsey, which was to have sailed from New York for Venezuela to recover $2,000,000 of treasure lost in a gale from a Spanish hip of war 50 years ago, ha been neized by the United States Marwbal at the Buit of creditors. A terrilit; tornado swept through the lower portion of South Carolina Wednesday night, causing great destruction of life and property. In the village of Walterboro more than 100 dwellings and all the churebes were Bwept away. Three-fourths of the ïnhabitanta nre homeless. Fifteen persons were killed and wounded. At Oakley, a station on the Northcastern li;iilroad, all the negro houBes were leveled and one net'ro killed, besides many hurt. Similar casualties are reported from various pointe in the track of the tornado. The Treasury Department Friday evemng issued its 98th cal! for the redemption of bond. The c 11 is for $160;0005000 10-40 bonds of 1864, of which 46,775,000 are coupon bonds and 113,225,000 registered bonds. The principie and accrued inter st will be paid at the Treasury on and after the lbth of next nnr.th, and in terest on saíd hom's will then c.aae. A number of prominent colored men of St. Louia have organized a society eallcd the Ooiored Kmigratwm Aid Assoeiatum and elacfced J. Mil ton Turner president and Alhcrt Burgess seeretary. The aaaociation has been iu corporated and it is deiugned to make it permanent, lts object is to raise f unds for the establishment of colored colonies, and to aid the cmigration of colored men froni 1he Southern statea to othcr sections of the Union. A canoe with eight men belonging to Etchemin, province ot' Quebec Friday afternoon, upaet, and bíx were drowned. Special agent John B. Furray arrested Peter B. Thompson, clerk in the poatoffice at Beward, Neb., for robbing the mails. The arrest was made upon decoy letters. Over $12,000 Was fomid in nis possession. Thompson pies da guilty. The Washington Evening Star says that Mr. Christianc}' ia lyingvery ill at the residencc of her parenta in that city. A serious accident occurred Saturday inorning on the Kansas City branch ot the Hannibal and St. Joe llailroad. As a freight train, bound west, was running down a heavy grade a trestle bridge was discovered to be on fire. and, in spite of all efforte to check the train, it ran on the trestle. The engine passed nearly over, 14 cars breaking through, one after another and piling in au immense wreek in the creek below All the cars were soon enveloped in flamee, and, with their con ten ts. eutirely consumed. The engineer stood at lus pust until the last, only saving himRelf bv jumping as the engine turned over. The fireman jumped liefore reaching the trestle. Conductor Murray had his leg broken. Two men were sleeping in a car of honsehold goods, and were buried in the wreek. Mr. Bailey, badly injured, was rescued. The other, a young man, could not be saved, the fire spreading so rapidly that all efforts had to be abandoned. Ten million 4 per cents were shipped Saturday for Ëurope. Eonis pailed for London Saturday tO engage in a pedestrian contest with Iiowell. The National Board of Health will meet in Atlanta, May 5. The sailors' strike, at Chicago, has assumed a Berious feature. They demand $2 a day, while vessel owners offer only $1.50. Both parties decided to stand by their reapective terms. The vessel owners have secured from the consignees an extensión of time on contracta and fiay they intend to send to New York for sailors. The sailors say they will use their funds to send them back again. A fire at Eureka, Nev., Saturday night burned half the town. including the heav'est business houses, hotels, newspaper offices, Masonic building and a great number of dwellings. Three hundred families are destitute, and 2,000 people without shelter. A relief committee has been organized. The loss is roughly estimated at $51,1)00,000. A Victoria dispatch says that on Tuesday morning a fire was discovered in No. 10 level. Wellington coal mine. It was supposed to have been extïnguished on the following day, and on Thursday morning when 25 or 30 miners entered the ievel to resume work an explosión occurred blowing the workingof the level iuto ruins, killing 11 men and injuring others seriously. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued tbc 99th cali for the redemption of bonds. The cali is for f 23,266,300 of 10-40 bonds of 1864. Principal and interest will be paid at the Treasury on and after the 21st of July next, and interest will cease that day. The bonds outstanding constitute the residue of those issued under the act of March 3, 18G4. The Hon. J. J. Woodman, of Michigan, has submitted to Commissioner General McCormick his report on agricultura as represented at the recent Paris Exposition. The paper contains many facts of importance, and gives an interesting account of Paris. It says that the iinest exhibit of agricnltural products l'rom the United States was that of Oregon. Gen. John A. Dix died at his residence in New York city IVoaday night, aged 81 years. The General biche his collar bone a week ago rising suddenly ! - his bed, and had been sinking since. He was conscious until Friday, when he sent a dispatch to his daughter in Chicago summoning her to his bedside, as he feit that hiw last hours were approaching. In constant attendance around him were Mis. i)ix, his son, liev Morgan Dix, and daughter. Mrs. Black. A special from Kinsley, Ks., says a fire there Monday morning destroyed about one-half of the business part of the town, inéluding the postoffice and all the county offices. Loss about $75,000. A special from Anna, 111., says that about 12 buildings burned there early Tuesday morning entailing i loss of $50,000; insured S20,000. C Millard, banker and dry goods merchant, is the heaviest loser, His loss is $20,000. August Bolmont was badly but not dangerously hurt by being thrown from his carriage while leaving Central Park. having come in collision with a heavy road wagon. liev. Samuel Ivés Curtís has been installed in the chair left vacant by the resignation of Dr. Bartlett as professor in Union Park Theological Seminary, Chicago. A telegram received at military headquarters, states that Lieut. Lodger, with 14 men of the Third and Seventh Infantry, had a brush with some Kioux Indians in Musselshell Caaon ín which eight Indians were killed and several wounded. He lost one friendly Indian who was killed. The lirst treasury warrant for the payment of arreas of pensions was signed Tuesday. It is believed that back pensions can ba paid as rapidly as accounts are maid up, or at the rate of $1,50,000 a month, unless unexpected appropriations should be hereafter made by Congress. After the first of July the saving created by the process of ref unding and the increased revenue will teil favorably upon the nuances. The annual saving by refunding is $16,000,000, and two years saving on interest will go far towards payinc these arrears of pensions, without increasing the burden of the public debt.