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range Advance. H. H. YOUNG, EDITOR PROPRIETOR. REDWING.

MINNESOTA RECORD OF THE NEWS. Political, Personal and Foreign Doings and Gossip. The Grasshopper Convention. The convention of the "Western governors, held at Omaha recently, to consult upon the problem and the means for their destruction, adopted the following resolutions: it will be wise and politic lor the legislatures ot the States and Territories most deeply interested to enact a law offering a bounty per bushel for the collection and destruction ot eggs and unfledged insects. the several legislatures authorize local taxation for the purpose ot oflorts in the way ot ditching, burning, etc.

also suggest the repeal ot the game laws, or a modification of them, so as to prevent the destruction of birds which feed on insects the prevention of prairie fires until a suitable time ior the destruction of young grasshoppers by firing the grass encouragement ot tree culture, promoting moisture and harboring birds. Third Recommending as far as possible a survey be made ot each State during the coming winter, to ascertain those portions of each county in which eggs are most thickly laid. they deem it the duty ot the national government to make some effort to destroy or counteract the great pest, and thus prevent its injuries. They recommend the attachment ot a special commission to one ot the government surveys sent annually to the west, and that $25,000 be appropriated tor the purpose ot paying the expense of the commission. It is ascertained that the grasshoppers haven't done the amount ofdamage imagined, and that they can be encountered and exterminated with much less labor and difficulty than heretofore supposed by united, concentrated effoits at the proper time, and he fears need be entertained as to serious results the coming spring.

The governors of the West requested to transmit to their respective delegations a record of the prodeedings of the convention, and request them to urge on Congress speedy action in this matter. The president of the convention was requested to draw up and present to the President of the United States a letter setting forth the urgent necessity ot action by the general government in behalf of the sections ravaged. The Cautnre of Red Cloud's Band. Gen. Crook has sent to General Sheridan the following account of his recent capture of Red Cloud's band of Sioux Indians: "Red Cloud's and Red Leaf's bands were surrounded last night, disarmed and their ponies taken from them this morning.

I have had difficulty in this matter, for the reason that since the hostiles commenced scattering these Indians have also scattered, locating their camps further from the agency, and evidently communicating with and receiving hostiles who came in. I am glad to report complete success, and that it was accomplished without filing a shot. Thanks are due to Colenel Mackenzie, under whose personal supervision the movement was conducted, and to Major Gordon, of the Fifth cavalry, and Captain Mauck, ot the Fourth cavalry, who commanded the battalions. I had a satisfactory council with Spotted Tail, and am satisfied that he is the only important leader who has the nerve to be our friend, and have therefore put him in charge as head chief of all. The line of the hostiles and the peacably disposed is now plainly drawn, and we shall have our enemies in the front only in the tnre.

Colonel Merrit made his scout, developing seveial tiails running into the agency, and is now near here. I could not wait for his command to go into position, as the Indians were about to leave. Colonel Merritt's command will be here to-morrow, when I shall organize the new expedition, and leave with it at once. I feci that this is the first gleam of daylight we Lave had in this business." The Methodist Church Xorth and South are United. A large number of Methodist ministers and laymen of both the Southern and Northern branches of the church, held three meetings in Louisville, on the 25th, looking towards the formation and establishment of feelings more fraternal between the sections of their denomination than have prevailed since 1844.

hi that year, during the session of the national conference at the Methodist Episcopal church in Louisville, differences that grew partly out of the slavery question caused a division of the Methodist church into two branches which, during the war, became known as the Northern and Southern. Two years ago the conference of the Southern branch, while in session at Louisville, took steps looking to church union. Nothing was definitely accomplished. This year at Baltimore the Northern branch also endeavored to bring about a positive understanding of feeling between the two divisions, and now so far as a union in sentiment of purpose and brotherly love are concerned, the two churches are in Union. At the meeting in Louisville, representatives lor the Northern and Southern divisions, including Bishop Foster, of Massachusetts, and Bishop Kavanagh, of Kentu ky, delivered addresses thanking God that the aforesaid union has been brought about after thirty-two years of separation of the largest ecclesiastical denomination in the United States.

Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. The President has issued the following proclamation lor the observance of a day ot thanksgiving throughout the United States: "From year to year we have been accustomed to pause in our daily pursuits and set apart a time to offer our thanks to Almighty God for the special blessings He has vouchsafed to us, with our prayers for a continuance thereof. We have at this time equal reason to be thankful tor this continued protection, and for the many material blessings which His bounty has bestowed. In addition to these favors accorded to us as individuals, we have especial occasion to express our hearty thanks to Almighty God that by His providence and guidance our government, established a century ago, has been enabled to fulfill the purposes of its founders, 1 in offering an asylum to people of every race, securing civil and religious liberty to all within its -borderland, to every individual alike justice and equality before the law. It is moreover especially our duty to offer our humble prayers to the Father of all mercies lor a continuance of His divine favor to us as a nation and as individuals.

"By reason of all these considerations Ulysses S. Grant, President ot the United States, do recommend to the people of the United States to devote the 30th day of November next to the expression of their thanks and prayers to Almighty God, and, laying aside their daily avocations and all secular occupations, to assemble in their respective places ot worship and observe such day as a day of thanksgiving and rest." The Military in South Carolina. Captain Lloyd, of the 15th Infantry, U. S. who was ordered to the scene of disturbance near Aiken, S.

makes report to the army headquarters regarding his investigations. On his arrival at Rouse's Bridge, Captain Lloyd states he found a body of 300 mounted men, under the command of A. P. Butler, who had thrown out skirmish lines surrounding the negroes, and adds: "There was undoubted evidence of a well-digested plan, which, if carried out, would have resulted in the slaughter of nearly all the negroes in the place. The presence of troops brought about an agreement by which both armed whites negroes disbanded.

On the march from Rouse's Bridge to Ellenton the bodies of negroes who had been killed were found, and information was received that five others had also been killed. The negroes were completely cowed, and afraid to leave then- hiding places in the woods and returu to work, from fear of being shot down in the cotton fields. A detatchment sent down the Barnwell road met a body ot twenty or thirty whites, who stated that they were a detatchment of General Hayward's command, under orders from Judge Wiggins to disarm and arrest the negroes, and also to protect a party of negroes while burying a colored member of the legislature who had been shot near Ellentown." Woman's Temperance Work. The Woman's National Christian Temperance Union has lately been in session at Newark, N. with about 200 delegates from the western and other States.

Miss Willard's report for the year sets forth that there are organizations of the Woman's Christian Temperance Association in 23 States Miss Wallace, of Indiana, made a speech, as did also Mrs. Lathrop, of Michigan, and Mrs. Leavitt, of Cincinnati. They generally favor arbitrary measures to suppress saloons. Resolutions were submitted on juvenile work, the lecture bureau and Bible wines.

A long discussion took place on a resolution pledging the members of the convention to abstain from partaking of fermented wine at the communion service. mlins: off in the European War Fcelimr. Since the publication of our, last European complications have assumed a different aspect. Russia has offered Turkey an ultimatum which Germany endorsed, and Turkey has signified a willingness to accept its terms. The first condition is a six week's armistice.

Meanwhile fighting continued between the opposing forces of Turkey and Servia, with results greatly in favor of the former. There is great suffering in Servia, threatening starvation. A financial crisis is impending in Russia and Austria. Altogether the prospects of an immediate war are greatly lessened, and it seems to be most generally regarded as probable that in case of war Russia and Turkey will do the fighting. A Sensation Promised in Georgia.

Governor Smith, of Georgia, lately submitted to the Attorney General of the State the question of the constitutionality ot Attorney General Tait's order and the enforcement act, which the State attorney believes unconstitutional and has so decided. It is now said that the Governor will instruct the Georgia militia to obey no orders except from its own commissioned officers, and will relieve any citizen ot Georgia from becoming part of a posse when called upon by a United States deputy marshal. To be Preserved. The main exhibition building, at the Centennial, is to be preserved. The commission held a meeting on the 23d, as to whether the main building should be permitted to remain permanently in its position.

After discussion a resolution was adopted authorizing an association of citizens to take possession of the main building and employ it for the purpose of a permanent exhibition. Much satisfaction is felt at this final decision to retain the building ground. The Last Chicago Murder Trial. The trial of Alexander Sullivan for the murd of Francis Hanford in Chicago, bids fair to take its place as one of the most interesting cases of the day. The first trial ended on the 25th and the jury was out nearly two days, they then came into court and informedgJudge McAllister that they were unable to agree and asked to be discharged.

With this request the court complied. It is understood that the jury stood 11 for acquittal and one for conviction on the charge. There is much discussion in the city about the alleged partisan course of Judge McAllister during the entire trial and especially in his instructions to the jury. Prosecutiug Attorney Reed has openly intimated in court his opinion of the rulings, and the feeling is so stroug in town that several petitions are in circulation asking McAllister to resign. These petitions at the board of trade have been signed by a majority of the most prominent men here and embrace some 1,500 to names.

After arguments by counsel for defens and a protest by Mr. Reed, Judge McAllister admitted Sullivan to bail on $8,000. The court vigorously defended itself from the accusations of Mr. Reed. Berry, the clergyman who stood out for conviction, states that hef was assailed by jurymen during their de- I liberations in the vilest manner that threats were made against his life if he should persist, and that he dared not sleep in the jury room.

The excitement over the case is on the increase in the city. A Beautiful but Foolish Girl. Miss Fannie McKnight, of Jacksonvile, 111., a beautiful bloned of sweet 16, took the wild freak into her head the other day of runnig away from home. The object was to earn her own living and have some fun. Dressed in boy's clothes, she made her way to St.Louis in company with a younger brother, who jumped the train as it was crossing the bridge for fear the police would catch them, after vainly endeavoring to persuade her to follw him.

At the union depot she fell into the hands of a friendly policeman, who took her to the chiefs office after she had voluntarly told of her disgust. Her parents are highly respectable and well-to-do people, the freak originated purely in reading wild novels and romances, The Indian Problem Being Solved. A dispatch from Cheyenne says: arrival of General Merritt's command at Red Cloud yesterday signalized the closing up of the Big Horn and Yellowstone campaign, which will be succeeded by the Powder river expedition, consisting of fifteen companies of infantry of the 4th regiment with four companies of the 2d and 3d, which have not been in the summer campaign. All are fresh troops, and will be commanded by General Crook in person. The 3th cavalry will have its winter headquarters at Fort Russell, General Merritt in command the 3d goes to Fort Laramie ten companies wiU remain at Red Cloud.

"Spotted Tail was formally installed chief of the Sioux nation by virtue of the authority of the President, and was as such accepted by all the Indians at the agency. "The capture made by General Merritt consists of 500 Indians. 700 ponies and a large number of last two named to be disposed of at auction on the 2d of November at Fort Laramie. The moral effect of this decisive policy is wholsome, and peace promised to prevail at the agencies. An exchange gives the following direction concerning the best method of stopping bleeding of the nose "There are many remedies as putting a laige key down the patient's back, and so on, but ihe most effectual, based upon scientific principles, is so effectual as to be infallible.

The entire blood supply of the face comes irom two little arteries, each supplying one side of the face, and each passes over the outside of the jawbone, about two-thirds of the way back from the chin to the angle of the jaw under the ear. These arteries can be found by the linger, and in case of bleeding at the nose can be pressed against the jawbone, thus stopping the flow of blood from the nostrils. One of the arteries supplies the right nostril, and the other the left. It can therefore be easily determined on which side to apply the pressure, which should be continued long enough to allow of contraction in the finer arteries of the nose." A Rogue Who Would Not Haie His Picture Taken. From the Troy (X.

Times. Some further reminiscences have come out of the eminent house-thief, "Troy" Dennis, who lost his life at No. 00 West Fifth street, New York, Thursday night. Dennis would never, when arrested, permit the police photographer to take his carte de visite for the rogues' album. Several at tempts to this end were made, and Dennis always fought desperately.

The police on one occasion claimed a victory, as by dint of straps and cords and three men holding him by the limbs, ears, and hair, a very remarkable portrait of a man with his features drawn up and distorted, but bearing no resemblance, was obtained. Dennis frequently sat quite still until the photographer uncovered his lens, when he would contort his features in every possible way and distort the negative. He used to boast that no police force could obtain his portrait, and only a few months ago. when arrested on suspicion, bragged to Superintendent Walling that it was no use, they couldn't get his "mug." A hady-Freemason. There is a story current in regard to a lady, who, a number of years ago was made a Freemason in England, under very peculiar circumstances, she having overheard so mueh of the work that it was thought best by those who discovered her hidden near the lodge to obligate her in order to close her mouth.

The London Freemason is authority for stating that another lady has been recently admitted to the mysteries. The following is the story Countess Hadich has been received as a Freemason in a Hungarian lodge under the grand Orient of Hungary. The Countess is a highly educated lady, and, having studied and become well versed in Masonic literature, she was regularly proposed and seconded in an" open lodge, ballotttd for, and in due course was duly initiated. The Grand Orient of Hungry however, declare that the initiation is null and void, on the ground that a woman is fied from being a Freemason: and the curious questionnow arises whether, as the Countess was actually initiated she can be refused admission to her lodge. iteSfc.

Niagara Falls in 1805. From the Boston Advertiser. There was not much time for pleasure in this country 75 or 100 years ago, and the new journals of pleasure trips that have come down to us have a permanent value for the light which they throw on the condition of the United States at the organization of the government. Two records of such journeys have recently been discovered in manuscript, and printed for the first time. The first is an account of a journey to the White mountains in July, 1784, by the Rev.

Dr. Jeremy Belknap and a small company of friends, which will form part of the Belknap papers now nearly ready for publication by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of which a few copies have been separately printed. Dr. Belknap's journal is marked by his characteristic keenness of observation and accuracy of statement, and will be found to be an interesting and valuable monograph. It has been carefully edited by the well-known and thoroughly equipped antiquary, Mr.

CharlesDeane, who has added all needful editorial illustration, and prefixed a short introduction. The other diary is a much more elab orate production, and contains a journal of a tour to the Niagara Falls in the summer of 1805. The writer was the Hon. Timothy Biglow, for several years speaker of the Massachusetts House of representatives, and his traveling companions were prominent merchants of Boston, Mr. Samuel P.

Gardner, Maj. John Williams, and Tim othy A fifth gentleman, also a merchant of Boston, Mr. Nathaniel C. Lee, started, but, for some reason which is not explained, left the at Albany, and returned home, the journey from Albany was performed partly in their own carriage, and partly in stages and wagons, and occupied 17 days. As Springfield was not on the direct route, they determined to go by way of Northampton, where they visited Gov.

Strong, and "were very politely received." The governor had forgiven a little breach of etiquette which had occurred the day before, the account of which is too characteristic of the feelings then entertained for persons in authority not to be quoted here. "Gov. Strong had set out from Leichester before us but we had passed him rather rudely in Spencer, owing to the thoughtlessness of our driver. Having slackened our pace till he again overtook us, we made the best apology for our incivility that the case admitted, by laying he blame where it properly belonged. Our apology was accepted." Mr.

Bigelow had never seen the Hudson, and our travelers found it "more respectable in magnitude than we had anticipated." The next day he viewed the place, and found many ob jcets to excite attention and gratify the curiosity of a mar. who had never before been out of New England. The old Dutch church and many other ancient Dutch buildings, in the Gothic style, are striking monuments of the taste of the age and nation of the first settlers heie. But Dutch fashions and language, and even Dutch inhabitants seem to be fast wearing out. All the new buildings are on an improved and one would now almost as soon think of employing a Dutch drawing-master here us a Dutch architect." Schenectady seemed "not to be a word fitted for common organs of speech," and Mr.

Bigelow recognized six different ways of pronouncing being much the most common. Utica is described as "a little city, and contains several elegant dwelling-houses, some of which are of brick and a few of stone, to gether with a great number of stores and manufactories of different Of the salt springs in the neighbor hood of Syracuse and at Cayuga there are interesting as there are also of the sulphur springs near Geneva. At Canandaigua the population was rapidly increasing, as many as a thou sand families having migrated to that region in the previous year, two-thirds of whom were from New England. At Batavia we read that the land has only been cleared three years, and "it is now a considerable village. Here is a large building, nearly finished, intended for a court-house, jail, and hotel, under the same roof." The tavern was poor, and our travelers were told that their "sheets were clean, for they had been slept in but a few times since they were washed." The next morning they bieakfasted at another tavern five miles off, a log house about 12 feet square, with only one room, scarcely any furniture, and not enough utensils to serve them comfortably.

"Taverns like Luke's," we are told, "are not uncommon in this vicinity almost every hut we saw had a sign hung out on a pole or stump, announcing that it was an At the mouth of Buffalo creek, where they learned that the inhabitants lived principally by trading with the Indians, they crossed the Niagara river, and all but one of the party found themselves for the first time in Biitish dominions. They did not spend much time at the falls, but the account of what they saw is interestihg and suggestive. then there was strong evidence that the falls had receded up the river, and that the work of destruction was sti 11 going on. The Horse-Shoe fall, however, was mueh more true to its name than it now is, though the toe had a sharp angle. Mr.

Bigelow was quite sure that it would be impossible to pass behind the sheet of water which forms the Horse-Shoe fall. "Indeed, were there a firm foundation to travel on behind the water, and could one with safety be placed there, it would require a miracle to prevent his being mwrimm immediately After a day at the falls, the party pursued their journey down the Canadian bank, and, embarking at Niagara, went to Montreal by water, which they reached in six days, having experienced on the way many discomforts and some perils. "To have accomplished so arduous an undertaking afforded us no small satisfaction." Mr. Bigelow writes, "but it would not be easy to persuade any of us to repeat this part of our excursion." Montreal, they were told by a gentleman who had traveled in France, was "the exact representation of a French Its appearance was novel to most of us on account of its antiquity. The houses are generally small and few in number.

The windows are small and few in number. The entrance is sometimes through a court, which is walled against the street, sothat you cannot see the house door as you pass. The general appearance of the town, therefore, at first is gloomy. Many of the roofs here are covered with tinned plates. They look very well, and are said to be proof against the weather.

A stranger is much at a loss in Montreal to know where stores and shops of any kind are kept. There are but few signs to be seen, and there is no display of wares in the windows, nor is it easy to dis cover any difference in the form or exterior appearances between stores and dwelling houses." The party spent four or five days in Montreal, very much to their satisfaction and on leaving were "surprised to find that our bill for five days' entertainment, including calash hire, washing, amounted to but about $8 "each." American travelers in Canada in our time are not surprised in that way. There was little familiar social intercourse between the English and French inhabitants of Montreal and the French had "an antipathy to the English, but a still greater one to the people of the United States, ail of whom they call by the general name of Bostonians." From Montreal our travelers returned home by way of Rouse's Point, Lake Champlain, and Burington, after an absence of just six weeks. "Thus terminated," says Mr. Bigelow.

"an excursion which has afforded us much diversified entertainment, and had been attended with some These consisted principally in the various deprivations and exposures incident to traveling by water. For the encouragement ot future travelers, however, we may, with propriety, affirm that the tour was interesting throughout that it produced much more pleasure than pain in the performance, and that it still yields considerable amusement in retrospect." Co-Operation in Great Britain. Co-operation, in its more particular sence, refers to the combination or union of a number of people, either to supply themselves with certain staple articles of consumption, or to manuicture some article that may be sold their mutual benefit. AVhen it hato do with selling coals, provisions, and other goods, it is called "distributive co-operation." The other kind of co-operation, the union for work, is called "productive The aim of both distributive and productive co-operation is primarily to benfit fie co-operation in a financial sense bat it must be noticed that the original aim of distributive co-operation was not so much to buy and sell teas and sugars at a profit as to get good teas and pure sugars. If the British" shopman resents the advent and progress of the co-operative movement if he complains that it is stealing his trade, and bringing ruin to his door, he has himself much to blame.

Distributive co-operation began as a natural protest against his sanded sugars and painted teas, his demoralizing "gratuities," and his ruinous system of credits' He had sought to win two profits and the poor buyers, the flannel-weaver of Rochdale, the London post-office clerk, rose in rebellion, and bought their own teas. The city man tucked his single chest under the back stairs of the general post-office and doled out the tea "after hours." The poor weavers of Toad Lane made the place famous with their wheel-barrow load of groceries. To-day the carriage of my lord of the army or navy drives up to a palace, and his lordship actually buys his own wines and cigars at the army and navy or civil service stores and every mechanic, miner, and laborer in the kingdom know the way to the nearest co-operative store in his town or village. The British shopman declaims loudly and bitterly against the co operative store, and, at the same time he adopfe its healthy cash payments and sensible methods of doing business. Distributive co-operation began that the house-mother might have pure tea, that the father might wear good shoes and that the children might have sweet milk and bread.

To-day, it accomplishes this and more. It seeks to elevate and. educate it opens and libraries, gives lectures in the arts and sciences it organizes excursions for children it has its social conferences and its congresses, and, withal, it makes money. Norwich Bulletin: Trials never come singly. It was only last week that we learned that the coal-supply would be exhausted in a little over 9,000,000 years, and now news comes that the planet Vulcan is lost.

We can hardly think any one would be mean enough to steal Vulcan, but the nights have been dark lately, and there are a good many tramps about. The One-Mile Bore Beneath the Hudson. The work of tunneling the Hudson, says the New York Express, betwen Jersey City and New York is proceeding company not caring to put on a full force of men until the right of way question has been settled. All difficulties of legal character will be adjusted within a few weeks, and then it is the intention of the company to begin work on the New York side, bore under the river and meet the workmen from Jersey. The work on this side will be begun at the foot of Morton tunnel running nearly straight across the river to the foot of Fifteenth street, Jersey City.

The entire length of the tunnel and its approaches will be 12,000 feet depot track to be about one mile under the river and nearly three-fourths of a mile on each side. The engineer of the road, W. H. Paine, says the company purposess to employ as many men as can be successfully engaged in excavating and laying brick, changing the men each stretch of eight hours. Thus, by constant work, it is believed the tunnel can be advanced five feet from each and every day, and the whole work completed in two years.

The work was comenced in November, 1874, after extensive experimental borings down to the depth to be occupied by the tunnel. The depth of the shaft is a little over seventy feet, and the greatest depth of water under which the tunnel" will pass is sixty feet. The extreme grade is two in a hundred feet descending from Jersey Citj, and then, ascending on the New York side, three in a hundred fur fifteen hundred feet, then two in a hundred to the New York end. The borings already made show that the soil through which the tun-nel will pass is for the mobt part of a tenacious silt, underlaid by sandstone. Near the New York shore rocks are encountered and gravel, which is considered favorable for tunnel construction, not offering any seiions difficulties to the builder, as would bare sand and mud.

The tunnel wails will be constructed ot brick and cement feet in thickness and circular in form. The height of the tunnel will be twenty-fou and the width twenty-six feet. A double track will run through it, esting upon a stone ballast five feet fiom the bottom. The walls will be painted white and lighted with gas. Heavy steel rails will be used, which the company has all prepared.

Penumatic tubes, gas and water mains can run through the tunnel beneath the track if desired, so that New York gas and water may bo sent to Jersey. When the tunnel is compleated passengers can be carried, without change of cars, from the South and' West, as well as from Newaik, Paterson and Elizabeth. Freight trains will have transit at night and milk trains in the early morning. The company proposes to use its own locomonves to convey the cars through the tunnel. Those will be very powerful, and will be run without bells or whisties, but by signals, aud will consume their own steam and smoke.

All the connecting railroads are to have an equal right to have their passengers and freight transported on equitable terms. The company contemplated a tunnel beneath tha East River, which will make the link complete and do away with the ferryboats as conveyers of freight, and obviate all the difficulties of fog and ice which now trouble the companies with railroad depots in this city. e-O-o Audible Speech Conveyed Two 31iles by Telegraph. The Boston Advertiser of Oct. 19 it prints an interesting account of an experiment in carrying on a conversation by word of mouth over a telegraph-wire, made on the evening of 9th inst.

by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson. Telephones were placed at either end of telegraphline owned by the Walworth Manufacturing Compauy, extending from their office in Boston to their factory in Cambridgeport, a distance of about two miles. The Company's battery, consisting of nine Daniels cells, were removed from the circuit, and another of ten carbon elements substituted. Articulate conversation then took place through the wire. The sounds, first faint and indistinct, became suddenly quite loud and intelligible.

Mr. Bell in Boston and Mr. Watson in Cambridgeport took notes of what was said and heard, and the comparison of the two records show that the transmission was almost perfectly accurate. Conversation was carried on for about half an hour, generally in ordinary tone of voice, but often in a whisper. The credit of this important discovery is due to Mr.

Bell. The Cincinnati Comercial has discovered and published Gen. Phil. Kerney's last letter. It was written on the second day of the second battle of Bull Run, during a lull in the battle, and was adressed to the Baron von Steinwher.

Its purpose was to explain and apologize for certain expressions which Kt arney had uttered, and which he feared might be misconstrued. The letter shows a frankness and sincerity of spirit which are in every way credible to the author, while the solicitude manifested by him at such a time on such a subject is a curious revelation of his fine sense of honor. The Continental Life Insurance of N. has suspended, and is in the of a receiver nanda.