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umber 1 O.641, ihe Latest New: ,°y ‘Telegraph tothe N. ¥. Sun. es r PRESIDENT JOBNSON'S TOUR, _ RE ROUTE TO BE TAKEN, VUBLIC RECEPTIONS BY THE WAY, "HE DOUGLAS MONUMENT. HORNER STONE CEREMONIES, ‘omplete Programme for the Occasion DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT, QUR CABLE DISPATCHES. PEACE IN EUROPE. TROOPS ALL TO RETURN HOME ADE BOGUS MEXICAN EMPIRE, 'TS DOWNFALL CONCEDED. Another Disaster on the Erie Railroad, COLLISION OF TWO OIL TRAINS. SEVERAL LIVES SACRIFICED, Buildings Burned---Loss $80,000. City, and Miscellaneous News. RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT. ° A Grand Ovation Preparing. &e., dic. Wasartnaros, Ane, 2 The recent order of the Secretary o1 the Tressury to the Second Audftor, directing the suspeusien of Whe payment of bounties to colored soldiers is to operate only aati! rules are prepared by the Ceu» mission of the War Department for the payment of theee and all other bounties, one of the oljects belng’ te protect all such Government cieimants. The ‘Treasury Department hag not beeu advised that the rules have been prepared. Some of the leading papere treat the call for thes Copvention at Cleveland. on the 17th of September Bethough it was addressed only tothe army, This. is a mistake, The o though originating with army’ officers invites to « Soldiers and Sailors Convention. all who have served either in the army or the navy of the Uniow during the late rebellion, and who eres favorable. w the reconstruction policy of the Pres ident ond the principles anucusced by the Philadel-¢ phia Coavention. There ls an influential delegation here from Illi- dois to-day, deputed to wait upon Major (ieveral Yawliags, Chiet of Sisffto General Grant, and ten- Jer to bim the somination at large for Congress from the State of Luinols, to oppose General Jon.A. Logan, A inase meeting of citizens favorable to the Presi- dem\'s policy of restoration, assew!ried in Weshing- tou Saturday night, It wasone off the largest and most enthusiastic assembiles ever/knownidn the Cap- ital, Bpeeches were made by General Rourseav, of Kentacky, General Durbin VWéard, of Ohio, and others. Resolutions were ad spied endorsing the Presideut's policy &e.. Mexico. Gen. Wallace and His ‘Carge ef Arms, Etc. (Correspendencesos The Sun.) Baownevitis, Avo. 13.—-Gen, Wallace is here ith Carvajal. The arom and manitions prought out by the J. W. Everionn are in Matamoras, but as they belong to American citizens’ Cannies bas pot interfered with them, He bas assured the parties owning them that cil contracts made by Carvajal will be carried out; sod be has made « foreed loan to pay for the ar ‘The American chizens secom pauying the arme wore arrested by Canales, but were subsequently released, A Battle—Defeat of the Liberals San Payorseo, Avo. 26,—The Mexiean Imperial Consuls dispateb from Uros, Honora, Aug, 6th, states that Morales, after bis defent at Hermosillo was pur- sued by the Imperialiets, under Geudara, and over. taken at a place calied Iutigito. A severe engsge ment ensued, resulting im the complete rout of the Liberals, who took refuge within the American lines, leaving 50 dead, 150 prisoners, all their baggage and ammunition ia the hands of the imperialists, Pes- queera was being vigorously pursued. The Ameri- can fillibusters under Vega, left /.0 Paz Au 6th, bo reinforce the defeated Juarists, who reece, od in exchange for 1,600 stolen animal s, the means o, »roe- ecutiog hostilities, AJl wasqu.et io Binalea, The story of Lozada's defection is p) onounced false, Surrender ef Tampico. te the Liberals. | Wastinxaton, Ave, °7,-Mn, Romero, the Mexican Minister, to-day r ved<iispe tches from Vera Cruz, dated on the 13th inetans, © ontaining information ston the ¥:b of thie montlithe French garrison vi Tampico arrived at V erm Cruz, baving sarren- dered to the Mexicans u ader conditions as liberal as those granted by them to. the garrieva at Matamoras lest fall, CH OLERA, Im Missouri. Sr. couts, Aug, 26 .~The official mortality report frow 17 cemeterivs for ptbe week wading Friday gives fo toral of 1,154 inte ements, 915 of which were by cholera, four ete cies having failed to report, Ae the :etarns from th ® city cemetery lociude only the deaths ip the clty* hospitals, it is estimated that abouts 1,50) death« from cholera actually occurred doriug the week. "No report has been received for faturiey. in Obie. CIscINNATL, .AUG. 26,—Only twelve deaths from cholera today . Among the victlins was the women Jenuie Steel’ », who recently abducted the litle gil Lilie Davic sen, of whom nothing has been heard. Total numb er of cholera ceashs to date, 1,000, Conacas. , 11, Avg, 26,—The number of desks Gom choien 7s mocday wes only Wairveee, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1866, a Bonore to the President. Brevet Brie (ien, Vogdes will be considered the commanding o r in New York city and harbor, and Mrevet iirly. Geo. G. A. Dr Rassey, the commanding officer at Philedelphia. The Firet City Troop will act as escort to the Presi dent, a duty they have performed on every oceasion of @ Presidential visit to this city. A meeting of merchants bas been called for to-morrow to take measures for the Presidential recepion, It will be held at the Exchange. the Board of Trade, as is al- leged, having re‘ured the are of their roome for the ket ls steady, and she closing quotations today are a6 follows: United States Five. Twenties. .......... Brie Railway Shares Illinois Central Shares eccesseveee Arrival Oat of the China. QuErverows, Saturday, August 96—Noon.—The steamship China, from Boson via Halitex, hae ar- rived. Her maile for Lirerpool and London were forwarded by train, and sho sailed again for In Leuisinan. 4 New On.eans, Avo, 95.-There wore sixteen Geaths from eboiers yesterday. In Alabama. Mowiie, Ave, 9% —The Board of Health report four cears of cholera during the past week, all fatal. The victims were all negroes, and their deaths were caused by megiect or imprudence, THE PRESIDENT'S WESTERN TOUR. Liverpool. ~ persis JF ‘ops co lk fe oeere purpore, It ia beleved that the city authorities ‘ : Ceremonies at the I the . | Will take no pert in the reception, no moeting of the ih ore 10nN N ews ner Stone—Description ef the Menument, | city councils having yet! called b] BY STEAMER, Dates te August 17th, Naw Yous, Aug, 26—The Inman steamehip City of Paris, from Queenstown the 16th inet, hes ar- rived, Fautier Port, C. E., Aug, 26—The stearner No va Scotian, from Londonderry the 17th, passed this point today eu route to Quebec, The news by those steamers bas been almost en- tirely anticipated by the Atlantic Cabo dispatches, The mission from the United States of America, | acoompanied by General Clay, American Minister, was received by the Emperor at the Palace of Peter- bef, in St. Petersburg, Auguet Sth. Captain 4. V. Fox, preventing the address voted by Congress, congratulating him upon his escape from the peril of serassination, made the follewing eveech: Sire: The resolution which IT have the honor of Ete., Ete. The corner-stone of the great Douglas monument Will be laid with imposing ceremonies in Chicego, on the 6th of September, on which Imtoresting ocetsion the President and Cabinet have promised to be pres. ent. The Presidential party will leave the National Capital on Tuceday, and arrive ta Philadelphia the afternoen, Here the party will be received by ral Meade and steff,and will remain over night. t<’clock mext morning, the entire party (in- clading General Meade and staff) will start for New York, where they will arrive wbout noon, [Sere City columme of this day's Sus.) The families of the Cab- {net Ministers.and other officials with their fam ities, will alse secompany the President. On Thursday morning the party will leave Ivew York by the Al dany steamer. They will stop at West Point to re view the Cadets, snd to partake of a collation and arrive in Aibeny in the evenin: There the party will be the guests of the otty. eonimedations for forty persous have been cagaged at the | Mass Mecting at Memphis, Tena, Mewrits, Tens, Atauet 26.—An immenee mage meeting was held here in the Ovurt Square this evening to ratify the proceedings of the National Union Convention at Philadelphia, presided and addressed the meetin wanted no more fighting, When erms he bore Lo tee in hie he ea, Forrest at one he et upoa the fle ' the men he! Those who shirvkedd bington could no me the sane thine dby Hon 1b eloq pores et Phi i acct « deiphie and indorsing Ir The weeting was oe of tt es eud most entha sinstic ever hela ia this city FROM EUROPE ", to your Im, inl Majesty ie the voice of @ Hor a. ane Burgeeses Corps whl act ee a8 wheve willtions eee Ay from 2 single pod A + Bhd Le gel pew a pet th elon BY THE peart, The wen, ti hich bave tong bound toge- My atagdh h Lege ae bik kane A cason taki : ther the great empire of eet and the great re- public ef the Went been multiplied end strengthened by the u ing fidelity of the tm- perial government to our th tite recent The words of sympethy and 1 ened to the gover um Sd Wasbtog on by command of yoor kmpe M are fixed im the eternal remenrbrance of country. As on the wide fainihy et ne yield our willing homage to thai nobke act of e erred to in th coful ediet of an se comsummated a trian ph o herited barbariem which our wens reached through long » fs, therefore, with p: Procession and grand banquet will wind op the re- ception in the State Capited. On Friday morning the party willleave Albany by the N. Y. Central Rail arrive at Auburo in the ere they will be metvy the secre 4 will remain over might at Mr. Se home. On Sa'urday, September 1, the party will leave Auburn for Niagara } alls, by way of Geneva, Canan daigua, Kocheser, Brockport. Albion and Lockport, arriving at their destination in the evening hey willetay over the Sabbath at the Faille, stort for Buffalo the next merniug, where they will step ihreo or four hoors, and theace to Cievelaad, Olio, br war of Dunkirk and Erie, arriving there in the evening On Tuseda, morulae: September 4th, they will leave Cleveland for Detroit, stopping a few hours at Toledo on the war. There the party will be the Geonte of the city, apartments having been engaged them at the Liadie licuse, The Committee of Arrangements of the Common Council will receive the Presidestiai cortege et the depot; the Mayer will deliver an address of welcome, and the party will then be conducted to the hovel. in the evenings reception aud formal address of we'come on belalf of eitizeus will be givea at some public ball, anda meral band shaking wili take place, Next morning sept. 6) the President and party will start (or Chicago, where they will arrive iu time to rceeive a grand public recep'i9n, Atlantic Cable. Freer cau BR btePATOU Conclasion of Veaces The Treaties OM)- cially Signed. Lonnos, Satrmpay Noon, Avo, ©5.—~Advices have beeu received today in offical circles here found offer to your imperial Majerty, to f° emoti announce ng that a treaty of peace between the con- sunsects, to all the peope of thie wut heartfelt congratulstiens upon the jrovi cape from danger which led to ther expression of ree for the attempt « eee for ite mercitul arr i from whieb k Tinpertel Me tending Powers of Prussia, Italy, and Austria and Bavaria, was concluded by the Plenipotentiaries in session at Prague on Thuradsy lass, The Treaty wae vd y brings with it the remem- sorrow which so Intely tiled tin ow: own laud at the sudden loss We thauk God this was pour friends and lo. May the rather of all protect, prolong and biess the pally preserved, for (he ser- vice of the people to which it bei opgs, for the good of wank ud, and the glory of Hie Poly Name, The Emperor replied at lees iength ia French, which Pree Yortehakoff tranuiated jute Buglish to the fellowing effect ihe Emperor was rejoiced te-nee that the of sympathy existing beiweea Mussa and Btates are sppreciaied in Ag added that he was convineed 4! oMclaily aigued by the Plen potentiaries om bebalf of their respective Governments, on the same day, Among tl provisions of the Treaty, ie one thatthe troops now at different polute shall evacuate their positions and retire w their respective homes within three weeks. idfewhieh he bas so THE MONUMENT CEREMONIES, Next morning the cornerstone of the Douglas reouurn will be laid with Masonic ceremeuies in presence ef a vast multitude from all parts of the country, Bast, W rth and touts. Geo. Dix will make tLe oration om the occasion, and the Kile worth Zouaves will actas special escers on the occa sion The grounds surrounding the green, which are jasteouth aud eas! of the old Camp Dow will bs multably decorated for the occasion, and, the linesef horse-rai/road, the [illinois Ce: will ram a train every ieu minutes between the g-ounds and their depot at the foot of Lake street. All the different societies and organizitions in the city, re Kgwous, bemev aod industrial, will partictpa‘e im the ceremon end may soctetios Im the interi- or will also be p nt. The Rey, William Hi, Mil- burn, the blind preacher, hes beon appointed te con duct the religions portion of the ceremontes, Ar rap) been made with the ciffereut rail road companies tocarry paeremgers to the city and return at the reduced rate of ome end one filth the usual single fare, The epeakere’ etaad at the ineugnration ceremonies will be erecied iumme distely Leside the mouuinen’, aud will eccommod:te about TO or 500 peste, this will be reserve i ex- ctusively for Members of Congress and other dietia- guished individuals who come to take part in the eeromonks, In front of the stand will be acoomme SECOND CADLE DISPATCH Venetia Firmly in Vensession of Italy. Paauur, #arcrpay, Ato. 96—P M,—The cession Before the Treaty of Peace bewween Prussia, Austria, [Italy ations of Venetia to Ltaly ie fully accompliehed, t aud Bevaria was signed, Austria treely ead cure eervedly ceded Venetia to Victor Fuanuel, rece ved from the American Co The Emperor especially thanked these TUG CABLE Disrarou Hungary to Havo a Ceustitutional Gevern- ment Virwsa, Baturliny, Aug. 2). P M.—The Pmperor Francie Joseph has determined to strengthen bis comed them tothe soil by ying thet Le never coul forget the cordial ption which his fleet had received in the | olied States, He trusted that they would carry to America iberrme iropression of Kuesia aad the Kussians as lds own Ofticers brought back from the Cuiied ptates of (hat Country aud ive psople, which was very agree athe. ta relation to the visit of the Empress of Mexico to Paris, a correspondeut of the Paris Inpavenvasos Bevo eaye: ] belleve | am jnstified im stating that the mission of the Empress is .o obtain trom the Emperer Napo Jeon (be reca\lot Marshal Bazaine, aud a postpone ment of the evacuation of wexico by the Freach troops. This postp nement is an absolate necessity. ifthe Emperor of the French cannot agiee io it ell Empire es weil aebis hold upou the affections aud loyaity of his ewojects, by erapiiog @ mew constita- It ie announced offi- tion and ministry to Hungary clally that anew ministry will coon be formed for Hungary, uponrthe basle of the cousttiution granted the Magyvare is, 1545, ihe revocation of which wae the cause of the iiuogarian revolatwn im 1543 and ls, dations for okent 9 reporters. Pp ne sptee in trout of FOURTH CABLE DISPATOR je over with bis work ia Mexico. it te sara that atter {resent hs “in be’ preexnt fievening ghrye f The King of Puussia andthe Chamber ef paying one eae Teas basen. crineat nod i by dresses, aud the nature o: the ground will reader the Duputics, tion shat the Beigian peop © experience for she oif- volces of the epeskers perfectly audible vw those whe mez be torced t take their oesitions «consid erebie distauce ‘rom the stand. At each corner of ave will be erec'ed @ pillar shout %) feet in hel t. Frow these uprights will spring tour arches, which wil be draped with black aud white, and tos tooned with roses, Rouud the bases of the piliare will Le arrce a number of fings, aud all the way spring of their firet rovereign, her majesty will re sturh to Mexico in the month of Uctober ‘Lhe Paris correspondent of the Tim preve is endeavoring to obtain a r obligation of paying what je due France out of the proceeds of the Mexican castows; and should the Beniis, Saaday, Avg J6.—Tbe King of Prussia hue received a deputation from the Chamber of De putes, who prcseated the address voted by thas body. The King made seperch in ly, im which he protessed to fee! great joy at the honorable atti- ihe they wilt with bisck and white, and | tule ofthe lactslative body. He sald, however, thet | (6, prove tueffectual, sLe will anmounce as her with wreache of roses sod ». The grave will be | if other voattict arowe with the Deputies, on the ; i > i jum ber Lusbeud's sbdication of the Mexican cornren Vins porate poker {ieee ce tue Arave | duestions of the budget aud the army, or other eub- vee her busben ? bie Seeley Dourtens anda model of the monument, | Jecte whieurare vital bo the iuteresteof the Btate, he : The correspondent of the London Times, in giving further details of the maval fight between the [tall aud Austrian fleets off Lissa, saya: Every one appears to have been astonished at the ’ h which the Keo'ltelia weut dows, and hip mast pot be too long, rioate i, #0 (hat con- die vogether lice two with their ant jocked. And potouly eo, ste.cken ship toile over from the blow (even 1ng loose ber guns, which then rush across her and uge back agai0 wilh euormous force suflicieut to break ram, A wiost destructive fire broke out om Friday, Aug, 10th, ia Autwerp. The property im bulldinge and merebandise consumed wee roughly ca culated from £200,000 to £500,000, The fire broke out about 7 orning iu some iwerchente’ houses, filed with merchan while in the basewens strewched filled with some thousand barrels of petroleum oil, ali ot which was cousumed, A bottle bad Leen picked up at Devonport, con- containing the following ; “ Monarch of the Seas left Liverpool on the 19th of March. May %, bo wind, shores of provisions and no waer, Dismasted ina gus $4 of Apiil, iat, 46 deg, #0 uaa. N,, lon, 47 deg 5 mia. W. "Wa. Jounson, Passeng: A letter from the Admiralty to Lioyd's Agent states that Mrs, Joboson, the mother of im. Joba There will be ne the ground, In corner swee, a0 er decorations of any kind on evenin jer the laying of the ateur concert will iven a the opera bouse, to which the Prusident and other distinguished vis.tore wil be fovited. The Piesident will rewalp in Chicag® a day er two, and will probe bly atiend the laying stone of the nol- diere’ Monument, sow din Peoria, Lil., he beving conditionally accept imvitation to be present. He has rece ® large number @ in- vitations to visit various places aud objects of inter- est in the West, which time und the pul ie duties will not permit him to Phe magnificent oar besit tor the hate Presi: conveving the President and his party on the roand trip, Returning te Wasbvingtou, it is undersioced the President will come vie lodianspolis, Clucunuuti, Columbus and Pittsburg. would act precisely as he did before, The King edded that be thought auother coutliet was liupos sible, FIFTH CAMLE DISPATCH, The Fmpreses Carlotta Not te Retura to Mexice--Fall of Une Mexican Empire. ‘Panis, Sarovar, Avg. 25, P. M.The Empress Cariotte will vot return to Mexieo, and it is couced edon all hands that thaempire in thet country ap proaches ite end, It ia authoritatively anoounced that if additional Freoch troops are sent to Mexico it will be only in sufficlent nomlere to protect the fatereste of Freuck e@ubjects during the fall of the empire, and to secure a quiet evacuation of Mexico They will uot be used to « iu the dynasty of Maximilian. Tunin, Buxvay, Avg. °6,-Tho Empress of Mexico is bere on her way-to Miramar. DESORIPTION OF THE DOUGLAS MONUMENT, The firet section of the monament is mow about half completed, The foumdstions are entirely fin ished, and the tomb w partially complete. The structure bas been carried up to the height of 1T feet, When completed it will be 100 fect in heighs. ‘The diameter of the circular platform base is 62 ieet, ‘¢ (eet high. Another base, with step ihe ibe sides concave or turned inward, a.eo vig ig id upon the circular base. ‘The sepul- with four project.og pe tanding out the corners and counected hways, nw feet square and 11 feet high, with It bas an arched ceilin SIXTH GAULLE DIePATCH Civil War ia Japaa, Lonpon,Sartupay, ALU. 20, P. M.—Advices have been received to-diy trom Boint de Galle, Island of Coyion, via the Porsian (iulf and Mediteramean cables, that acivil war hed broken out in Japap, within, 10 fee square, In the cen + OF recep. FINANGEAL DIsPA OHSS BY OABLE, eon, who wae eu board the Monarch of the Beas, bad tacle, jor the rem whieh wil vs . ideotfied the handwriting ou the paper as being be ble through « bronze door U4 high aud 3 Demand for Five-Twenties in France that of Ler son fe de. Kesting upon ihe sepuichie isa pedestal An immense de Panis, Saturday’ Noou, Any, 20 The Monirece contalus intelligence from Tiflls 91 feet Ligh, with @ Lease 15 iees square, lapping aud supported by the walle of the mb. A compete | Mand has sprung: up io thiecty for United Staves | that part of Russian Daglestan has risen in insurrec ecu, $3. feat o eth, 6 foes, 04 ‘he Five-twenties, aud heavy orders for supplies have | tion, Belaforcements of Ro a treope hed been ano & e P, Js plac on the p bee \ phed to American egents of various | seat to the vario ewheee rings place, A cap and ep-ar 6 feet bigh ferme on teregrap 0 am ; “ base or? @ colossal bronze statue | banking houses imthiscy ghd Me «eh hide high vise panied feet bh. Surrounding th to Parliament on the 1O.h the aane on con ON ey ap ie ho dS Sgutes, ieMten ie Export of ™pecie to New Verk quered Northern States, but iotiuenee of illustrious pelsous VUR CHOLERA The return of the Kegistiar General for the week ending Aug. 11th, shows the deaths from cholera aod diarrbues combined, during the week, were 1udi—a decrease of S0¢ deathecomparcd with the previous week. Withia five weeks / 1/0 persone died in Lon don trom chovera, aud |.ioo9 fom diarrhaes, tu the Kestoru portion of tue city she disesee le the ious volent. Out of about 1.260 men employed et ile t Kastero Kaiiway works at Stratiord New lowu # bad been ap average 0. 5 cases of cholera and rrb@a, 13 of which had terminated fatally, aud as prevented by the bgbt marbie, one representing Lilinois buiding a § evurt, medaliion likensso!t i: sas, By the side is a soeat of wheat andthe Siste arms, The others are Amer- ica, with the shied ; Mistory, reciiping op @ tabiet, sud Fame, with the symbolic wieath and trumpet Over the entrance to the sepulchie stands an eagle, and on the base of the pedestal above are tour bas- reliefs, representing (be piogress of ¢ivilizetion in the West. First le seen the Wilderness, with luodi- eve bunting, and their wigwame in the distance; then Agricuiture—pioneers, with toeir log cabins, men plowing, and cutiiag dows trees; then Com- merce, represenied by « obip, bales aud boxes and Belence, represented by the lecowotive, the raiiroed end the telogiapa, Education is represented br a greup of eliidren and @ schoolmaster, with the ¢ L, Swturday Noon, Aug, 25,--The Canard sieauship Scotia, Captam Judkius esiled this noon *for New York by way of Queeasiown, Bhe hase Jarre number of passengers, aud takes £110,U0y in specie ou Americaa tweouat Liverpos) Cotton Market, Lrvgxpoo!. Maturiay Evening. Age ket rules stoady to<lay, end yuvis tered, The salce today loot uv Uplands closiug at 123Xu. per! Livesro 2o.~The mar us remain upal- Av bales, Middling d Department PullLapeLruia, Aug, 2.—Preparations are being made for the reception of the President on Tucsday Mayor, personally, recelved Lavedton Woney Market, Low pon, Bao rday Bveniag, Aue. 2).—The money market is firm, and the closing juctations of \oduy 1 = Major General Meade yesterday issued an order wo | is at 89% for;imemer, dy, a Zanesville, U, Were destroyed by tre oo the mullitery commanders in his Military Depart AMeRWwan asouerTiR Saturday wyht Lose BH,0W0; insured for meat, diveviios thom to my suuautiete wiliiucr! Lompom. de tmvay Kresiue. Aur Wim The mam} £15,000, Tug extensive machine works of H, & I’, F! » Liverpoe} Ureadstutls Market vory many of the wives eud childsven bad periahed build, puure| t c Tne es * Arye yetiing stemuian te tbe Cone Livearoot, Patiirday Eveaing, Auguat 26.—The idoe, mere ne dwiee y wis tae eat ait stitution aad the Laon, tue /asces or Luion by Lis Breadsjuffe maarked-ie dull, owiog to more favorable | poe kaa one child were taken away, and eiht righ, sod the Constitution im his left baad weather for the crops, and prives of foreign eerwals | other ehuidren left belpiew and (oepeuaous. Ln | . P, i ag Lougon costiilut.ous lor the reef of tbe uestiture | Miltary Arrangements in Gen. Meade’s | have o decliaiug tendency were rupidiy pouring iu. Iu twenty-iour boure the G Thirty-Third Year ANOTHER OLL DISATER, Of Explosion and Confiagration Fric Railway A Man and Two ( Fatally Rarned ~Kalldings Destroyed by Fire—The Explosion Caused by Twe Trains ( olliding—i.oss probabiy S80, 000. Another fearful conflagration occurred on the Erie Railwar yesterday morning at Narroweburg, on the Dei ‘@ division, caused by an explosion of am oil train in cowrequence of @ collision, resulting in the lows of life and the de-tructioa of considerable amount of property, including dwellings end other buildings The fac en tho hildren #0 far as con)! be rath ered fom reriouw eources, are as (ollows:—At ball part two o'clock em be ofl traio tirday morning cea gnat porto. AS handing on (he maint tgetation, Following on the same track @ feo ght train, which came up and collided with oll train with gre breaking and cr ing the care, and jamming th into « of rune, Imm & tremencove @ fire, the | quid direction and the entire train and several buildings in the imu- re surrounded by the burning aleo set on fire, A family censisti Cy liame, wife andtwo children resided in the of the buildings, the first story edasawagon shop. Mr. W ‘at- '* Aya idren, = dust aa bine Pp e@rcape e way. Io ihe child It three were fatally i through the flames, he a cay one in stopping to rescue it, @ rned Sie rs rday mora- ering lolenee agony ing ifr “ Oue of the child ing, and the other, pired at 8 o'clock last Williams wee stilalive, bat no hopes are eutertained of bis re- covery. Mre, Williams escaped by jumping trom the second story rear window where there was no ré, aod ao hour alter was delivered of achild. She considered in a critics! condition, @ conductor of the on tram. James Fredenburgh, was badly, ++) genqerously burued about the head, face a ands. No other persons are reported injured. The following pr rt wes burned: A dwelling house belonging ve Mr oseph Bevine, merchaut, A dweil- tug house owned by Mr. Heniricks. A on 6! er dwelling overhead. A iarge r y kkie Louse, and 60,.00 feet of lumb longing to the railway company ibe tratucars were cecal de- stroyed. it is estimated that the entire lose will mot fail short of $81,000, ibe Ciociumat! train due at dermey City at S40 P.M, wae two houre late, and the Duskirk train arrived four hours bebind him, ows items Ry Telesraph to the New York feng Davin G, Burnett bas Leon elected United States Benator from Texas. ‘Tuomas Kinsella bas been appointed Postmaster for Brooklyn by the President. A moral decree has been tesued at Macirid sum Pending for six months the export duties upon goods shipped under flag to any port in Oubs, Paorresor Joun A. Porvsr, of New Haven, Cty died on Sacurday, in that city, aged 48 years, He was from 1852 to 1564 Professor ot Chemistry at Yale College, Tax following gentiomen are appointed dolegated from Western Virginia to atiend the Philadelphia Convention of Southern Unioniste on the 8d of September. Gov, Boreman, Beuatora Willey and Van Winkle, and Gene: Kelly, Harris, Duvall, L'ghtoure and Strother (* Porte Crayon.) Unsirep States Attorney General Stanbury bad issued directions the District Attorney of the Eastern District of Missouri to enter a» uolle Prosequi in all cases of Fenians arrested in Bt, Louis, M st spring, obarged with complicity in the invasion of Canada. Tux officers of the United States squadron now in Russia are having, wherever thoy go, # most enthusiastio Sception, They arrived im the oty of Moscow on Friday last, and an immense crowd Were in attendance to greet them. They held a grand reception, and aterwards dined with Prince Dolganwank), the Governor General. Mz. W.A. Beacn, Jr., son of Mr. W. A, Beach, a lawyer of Troy, N. Y., accidentally shot himself Saturday morning while guuning at Saratoga Springs, aod died « few hours afterwards. Mr. Beach was riding in a wagon, and be was shotin the face, hie gun baving fallen irom the wago! through the wheel. He was tweuty-five years age. ‘Tae prospects of the cotton crop in al) parts of Gevrgie States are gloomy om accouat of the com tinued drought. Accounts from Florida represend the late drought as followed by heavy rains which have seriously injured the cotton The cottom prospects in Missemppl and Alabame are also represented to be very bed on account cf the drought sud ravages of the boll worm. Tar races at Cleveland, O., on Saturday drew aw imroense crowd, the most famous horses in the country Dexter, Patohen end Nutler—bemg up for a $2,000 slake, The trot was won by Dexter in three strright hese, Times respectively 2:33 1-6, 2:32 2-5, 2:84.15, The races will close to-day. K. Kcxo CUTLsR, representing the Radicals of ~ New Urieans, applied to Gen, Sheridan on Satur- dey for the return of @ neglected affidavit present. ed to him when martial law was proclaimed, charging the Mayor and hispolice with murder at the Convention riot, The Radicals design to take it to General Grant and President Jolnoson, and fogist upon compelling the ariests by military au, thority. Tue German Schutzen Boviety, of Baltimore, hold their grand anoual fe#tval to-day, at thete park, The festivities will be initiated with a pro cession of the Schutzen soeletios, escorting the King of the Sehuizeefest of lust year in his chariot. At the park various elegant prizes will be contended for, Delegations from the New York, Pulladelphia and Washington soci ties are ex: pected to attend. At a political meeting st Gloucester, Maas., om Saturday evening, General Butler wae one of the speakers, Referring to the Philadelplia Conveo ton, be sald It was composed of a set of wea whe proposed to settle a war which they opposed in all possible ways, “It is the wea who did the fights ing," be said, “who sre to do the weiling.” Iu speaking of the New Orleans riots, Geueral Butler | ewid: ‘* If this stele of things cannot Le altered, we will march vuce wore, sud woe to him wha Opposes us|'' AN attempt was mace on Saturday, in Memphis, Tens., by U. W. Wood, United states Tax Col+ lector, tok I! Col. M. ©. Galloway, editer of the Avatascus,. Wood called him out of the room and fed upon him, the bal! passing through (Gul- loway'sh {oflicting a painful wound. Wood was captured, Au excited crowd soun gathered, + | and be would have Leen bung to » lauip poss bas | for General Furrest, wo, taktog hold of tim, told “Coutiaued on Fourth Pees...

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