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It 1s Btatsd OK the tot that dan. CFraAl ia not in ftdrar the immediate of the rohtf States. An American enterprise is foot to de- ftcetofT fititi irr means of torpedoes. The expedition sailed from New York several and news of its success or failure is expected soon. Secretary Stanton having positively declined to become the eulogist of Mr.

Lincoln, it is now thought George Bancroft, the historian, will selected. A locomotive on the Toledo, Wabash and Great Western Railroad exploded its boiler Deeatur, 111., the 6th, killing E.lward MiUs, the engineer, and James Bristow, the fireman. The house of a widow, residing at Normal, Bloomlngton, destroyed by fire on 4th, and her two children perished ia the flames. The mother was temporarily absent at the time. At afire in Leavcnwortb, on the 5th, a man, woman, and three c'Mldren were badly burned, and two other children were burned to death.

over 70 years, was muttered, at Gerajantown, the 6th--her throat being cat from ear to ear. There is ho elue to the assassin. A coal explosion in England, recently-killed 82 persons, and injured many others. A. M.

Sutherland, a leading merchant of McGregor, Iowa, committed suicide on the Sd, by placing a pistol in his mouth and firing upward. He breathed a short time after discovery, but soon expired. He in good but had been sick and despondent for some time, The belief ia expressed some quarters that Stephens is an English spy; that he was arrfated by mistake; and- the authorities' gave him every facility to escape. A.shooting affray took place in the hall of the Capitol Richmond, on the 5th, between tho editors the Examiner and Snynirer, resulting only in the mutilation of the statue of i Gen. Win.

Hickey, Chief, Clerk of the United States Senate, died on the 5th aged 66 years. Ketehum was taken to Sing Sing Prison on the 5th. ftaoft About Very good far Jack. One lieutenant receives aa his Share, $38,318. A delegation of Indians rom Nebraska have arrived in Washington, in reference to a Ireaty with ih Disbursing officers in Kansas, suspected of frauds on the Treasury, for their peculations before a re to answer military commission, i The Treasury 'statement December shows the total debt of the United States to be $2,807,310,357.99, and the amount of nfoney in the'Treasury (coin ind currency) 81.80: The in cress of the debt since the last statement is about $2,000,000.

Gen. Ru33y haying given permission, the people of Mobile caused at the theatre in that place, on Christmas night for the benefit of the widow of Stone-" wall Jackson. In the United States, daring 1865, the: losses by fire (including those conflagrations where property destroyed was valued at $20,000 and upward) were against in 1884. The number of serious steamboat accidents was personsbejingkilled and266wounded; against 26 in 1864, 358 persons killed and 148 wounded. The French Canadian organization in York has followed the example of the on the 2d.

Maj. (Kelly of Indiana chosen Chairman. Resolutions were indorsing Col. O'Mahony. Two Uaries from said brought letters from Stephens.

w.ife of Hon. 3,, fc a wealthy citizen of Chicago, sfhd former Chicago Tribune, died suddenly, oil New Day, whfte--recelving calls from her friends. The French are about evacuating Acapnl- road from the city of Mexico Vera Cruz is lined on each side with corpses. Every guerrilla is hung as soon as oaughi; wad the fact of a man's having a suspicious appearance is sufficient to cause his summary execution. The Rev.

Wm. Stout, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a the Arkansas Free' State Convention of two years ago, was assassinated December 4th; at Dover, Pope county, Arkansas. He was County; Clerk. This makes the third murder of county rials in Pope county within a few weeks, the sheriff and deputy sheriff having vioualy dispatched. In a town.

of. 6,000 inhabitants; in the land of Guadatoupe, 107 persons died- of oholera Dember 22d. I York, December 30, young urn was sentenced to State Prison for four years and six months. His pardon is report of the tfew 4ry g0ods house of H. B.

Claflin 1865, amottntat to $70,000,000, to A Sorghum Convention was held at Warren, 111., on the 5th, which resulted in the formation of a a Sorgho Society for the counties of Jo Daviess, and Stephenson, and Lafayette, with John D. Platt as President. The man arrested acme time ago at Memphis, and taken to Washington on suspicion of being yonng Surratt, has been released. It ia that Strrratt'escaped out of the country through Texas. The brigC.

M. Carver, Captain Treat, from Georgetown, S. "with lumber for Searsport, was dismasted and filled with water in a gale on the 21st ult. On the 31st she was fallen jin with, seventy from Cape Ann, by -the schooner Emms, and crew taken off being nine on wreck without food or One mna killed by tbe falling of the mast, and the steward died on tbe 30th of starvation, and when rMctied tke on hi: body. survivors wore landed at Gloucester on Tuesday, the 2d.

By a peaceful revolution in StrDomingo, Otn. Baei haa been placed in the Presidential though Gen. Pedro Gillermow the practical head of the Government. The Rev. Dr.

Cummings, of St. Stephen's (Catholio) chtireh, Hew York, died suddenly 4th. A In Raolne, on 4th, destroyed over $80,000 ijrbrth of property; including Block, Racine House E. Gardner was burned on the 4th. Loss a loss on Tbe report ef the Stale Treasurer of Michigan gires the receipts for the last GM? osl $1,639,318, and the expenditures Fenians, and split in twain.

One faction' desires to establish a Canadian Republic, with a capital and departments at Elmira, N. and to invade Canada; while the othir is opposed to any hasty, action. The fire fiend held aj gala on the 3d at Yonkers, N. a business block was consumed, -including the Yonkers Statesman ofilce, the Post Oflice, and National Guard Armory, involving a loss of $50,000. At Lookport, N.

another block was burned, in which were the offices of Western Union Telegraph and Lake Shore Companies. At Hoboken, N. a brick was destroyed and two children burned to death. A wagon shop at Cincinnati, loss $20,000, and a tobacco establishment at Madison, loss complete the list. Ex-Secretary Mallory issues from Fort Lafayette an address to the people of Florida.

He declares that'slavery can never be re-established within the union, and advises that the south accept the'situation in good faith. A convention on the transit question met at Sterling, on the 8d. Dr. Abbott of DJtxon was chosen chairman. Speeches were made by several gentlemen, denouncing railroad monopolies, and some of them assailing tho Chicago Board of Trade; and' letters were read from the Hon.

E. B. Washburne and Mr. W. H.

Van Epps, Resolutions were adopted assailing the course of railroads in general, and of the Northwestern road in particular; declaring that the Legislature should impose restrictions upon tha powers of railway companies; and ad- Tocating the improvement of Rock river rfnd of the Rock Island and Des Alpines rapids of the Mississippi. An adjourned convention is to4je held at Morriaon on the 18th and another at Dixon; on the 2Qth of February; while a canal convention will meet at Geneseo Jan. 1C. In New Yorti bay, Jan. the tug Nep- lune exploded her.boiler, Eight persons ed to be urged by Chief Justice Chase, Hor-j ace Greeley, Opdyke, David Dudley; Field, and other gentlemen, of; prominence, Hon.

Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland; one of the most prominent statesmen of the country, and an ardent Union man throughout the war, died of pnemonia, Dec. 30. It is rumored that a bill will be passed by Congress giving prize money to the captors of New Orleans. -The amount required by such a bill would be $11,000,000. Congress will be asked to increase the salaries of members of the Cabinet to a year The Paris correspondent of, an English paper states that the object 'of Gen.

Scho- fleld's mission to Europe is to purchase th Grecian island of Spczzia, upon 'which to looate dock-yards and naval depots. Great alarm prevails Madrid, in consequence of apprehended revolutionary movements. Queen'Isabella--rwhof by the way, in declining health--has lodged large diamond pin, containing thirty monds and worth, several hundred doll; was found at Banger, the other day, in of rags imported from Smyrna. --The wear great with black bodies aad sleeves, or otherwise parti-colored. --There was a regular July thunder storm at New Bedford, on Thursday of last week.

--The consumptives who.go to Minnesota and-r-find 1 relief in the remarkably dry, healthy atmosphere of that State are iknm- btred by thousands. 'Tho "pulmoiary brigade" is ono of St. Paul's institutions. --A Mr. Safford was murdered ilome twenty-five years ago at Shelbnrne, and a man wholately died in Canada confessed on his death bed that he waf the murderer." He murdered him for mcney, but got only 25 cents.

--A man 78 years old, in Murray county, N. recently sued hii father, who brought in his brothers as witnesses; --Goods are now so cheap in Texas that parties are buying 'them up at auction, and sending them to New Orleans and New York. --In the town of Murray, Orleans mty, New York, Lemuel Cook, aged one hundred and seven years, and one of the three surviving soldiers of the Revolution, recently sued by his son, a "youth" of seventy-eight years of age. There are sons, all of whom were witnesses at the the youngest of them being sixty-five a building whioh --The portraiUf Mrs. Lincoln, painted IjJow twfk- photographist, has gono to Europe, having been purchased by an Englishman ni-fififv $1,000, --An old lady of considerable property has just died near Sheffield, England, who never washed her face till the dirt peeled off in flakes--who never allowed her room to be swept and cleaned for seventeen ye wa --whose sole attendant was an idiot lad, and whose principal food w.aa, putrid meat.

--There are now in the District of Colombia least 30,000 negroes (6,000 more thans .1. AAA In Cambria, HHfcdale the 4th, himself, and "died instantly. A neighbor, Mrs. Frink, hearing of the started on a run for hpuse ot the de beaWd, a andfell dead dn Firea on the 4th of January were numerr ona" destroyed four large stores--loss, $100,000. The large engine house of the BeUefontaine.Railroad, at Gallion, Ohid, was destroyed on the 4th with twelve locomotives.

Loss between $300,000 and $600,000. The gas works ajt Feint Breeze, together with a' largB quantity of were burned. The las of ihe day's fires was the steamer Eleanor Carroll, at Louisville, which took fire ac- were wounded, comprising all on board with the exception cne person, and he subsequently injured by a break in the machinery of another tug Which was conveying him to the city. At Cairo, on the 3d, the steamer Minnie collided with a monitor, and sunk. She was valued at $1,000, insured for $30,000.

An Arctic expedition ia being organized in Prussia. Three will be fitted out, their to oonsisi of scientific men from the Prussian schools. ---The captain and some of the survivors of is sums of money in France and'England. The important intelligence is reoeiv-. from Mexico that Maximilian has been guar anteed security upon his throne by a treaty signed sixteen months ago by France, Austria, Italy, Spain and England.

Colorado has ratified the Constitutional amendment by a vote of 36 to 1. The trial of Semmes, the Alabama pirate, will commence January 17. Com, Sliubrick will be President of the Court Martial. An auctioneer in Washington haa been engaged in buying up fire-arms for the Fenianp, and had delivered a number of to the organization, when his proceedings were stopped by the municipal authorities. Of the sixteen Circles in Philadelphia, twelve were represented in the Congress of January 2d.

At Plymouth, Jan. 3d, a fire destroyed about half tho business The total loss will probably reach $100,000, on which there is an insurance of about $25,000. old. --Mr. Hubbell, the cashier of theiMjissis- quoi Bank, at Sheldon, who mysteriously disappeared some time ago, and was traced aa far as Chicago, where the clue was lost, proves- to ba a defaulter to the extent of $75,000.

A great, fish convention is to be hpld at Harrisburg, soon, of the peoplp residing along the upper Susquehanna, to devise means to enable them again to catch shad and other fish, which the construction of the canals prevents them from doing. thieves have discovered a new use for chloroform in stealing pigs. The porkers jin Adrian, most unaccountable manner, and what was regarded as strangest, they were' carried off without making A gentleman, however, discovered the depredators operating one night, when going to the pig pen he found two fat hogs lying helpless and unconscious, having been drugged with chloroform. --An artificial jsaw'has been discovered in Lookout mountain, and exploijed for a distance of 175 feet. Various Indian relics were discovered, and the place is tl ought to have been a Indians in former times.

--A few evenings since, 's was passing Sixth and Pine streets, Philadelphia, two men approached him and asked htm for money, and on being refused they utruck him a violent-blow, knocking him senseless. A valuable Newfoundland dog belonging to the gentleman, was on the opposite side of the stre et, but immediately came over and atta cited one of the thieves. When his master became conscious the faithful raitnal was licking his face, and early ths next morning a large piece of flesh and a portion of the pantaloons of the thief wert found on the pavement. The bite was a cltian one nearly a full pound of flesh being! taken from the rascal. --There will be but one that will be visible to us--a total eclipse in ail New England) against about 80,000 whites, --The Pope sentttie.Iast Spanish princess "a portion of the Savior's holy crib," and the Queen sent Taok a magnificent golden tiara valued at $80,000.

--There were" 682 murders, and only.9* executions in this country in 1864; since when crime haa rapidly increased without a.oorresnonding.increase in the hangings. -i-The census of New York shows that the population of that state had decreased 49,000. At the same population of Illinois had increased "Westward the course of empire takes its way." --The "section bosa Hautel and St. Louis railroad, near Stockton, pickup thirteen chickens, a few days since, all killed in a few i.while a flock were crossing the road, they, having struck the four wires of the telegraph line. Several were only stunned, and escaped before they could be secured, --Nine hundred, pounds in bank notes were found sewed up in the, waistcoat of Tom Sayers after his death.

cidentally A train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad was attacked at Lee's Summit, twenty-twcr miles east of Kansas city on the 27th ult bushwhackers; because the locomotive cai ried the national flags. Failing in this it stance, they-have suqseduently vended their spite-upon other trains, to the great anno; ance of passengers. 'Dr. John W. Hughes, the murderer Tamaen Earaoha fet Bedford, Ohio last At t- gust, was last'week sentenced to suffer'the penalty of death at Cleveland on the 9th of February.

The prisoner when called ttpou if anything to say why seatence of deaut-should not be passed upon him, real speech from manuscript, ac-' or A Ifjiam jfrilJrtlfrnl'tT "KB to greatneM froli ofcrefcmentof natural advantages, iti aggceWed can best be promoted by rival lines independent of each other leading into the interior conn- Because, a 80 1 good ground, can command busmesa to earn: interest and dividends moa- ey invested in'it: atid hence 'jotBpetUto ft for interior trade, distant from a termsnus of a line, -tends cost of transportation, and thereby up opportunities for enlargement and 6X tension of oommeroiai The interests of a city are not identified --solely its small, persentageJoT stockholders as such; but rather with its aalea and its manufactures, the profits on its sales, and- the labor on its manufactures jointly making up the bulk of its gains, cfP out of which the masses are subsisted and opulence acquired. The seven hundred thousand inhabitants of Philadelphia'need increase of carrying facilities by sea and land, eorres- ponding with scale of operations between the city and its markets. The carrying lines which sufficed' for a city of half a million of indwellers, are inadequate for a city, of three-quarters of a million of people, blest with the, elements of 'expansion and R. an'Mininff ---The, great American branches, of labor are as follows: Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Clerks; Farmers, Farm hands, Laborers, Miners; 147,7,50 Shoemakers, Servants, 559i908; Tailors, Teachers, 110,1469. --A paper was read at the last session of the Belgian Academy by M.

Plateau on the MMuscular force of The author, by means of very Jngenious experiments, attempts to show that the muscular force of insects, compared with that of the. vertebrates, is enormous. The common, cockchafer is capable of exerting a tractileforee equal to fourteen times the weight of its while the drawing power of the horse is only 67. the weight of ita'bbdy. As the result of 400 experiments on different in-' sects, he states that the power exerted is inversely in proportion to the weight of the body.

This interesting paper was ordered to be printed in the Bulletin. --From the experiments made by Prof. Thomson of Copenhagen, on light as a source of motion, he calculates that the light emitted by the sun, would lift "thirty-five billions of tons one billion, of-kilometers second, and that it. would raise the earth twenty feet in the same time. --It is said to be a fact that notwithstanding the difficulties in the Fenian at least $10,000 is yet received at the O'Mahoney palace, New York.

This is ample pay champagne and cigar bill of that establishment. --lA profile portrait of the President), in silver, haa been made for distribution among the Indian tribes. It is mentioned as a sig- nificant fact chief thus favored has ever broken a treaty obligation. eclipse.this yea --i-Mr. Clahay, a journeyman trunkmaker a total eclipse of in TM lost off In the Senate, on the 5th, a protest was presented from colored citizens of Colorado, protecting against its admission as a Stajte, on account of unjust discriminations in its Constitution.

Bills were introduced to i n- crea'se the powers of the Freedmen's Bureiu and to guarantee freedom to thd colored, citizens of rebel States. A resolution was adopted calling upon the President for information respecting the appointment of Provisional Governors. Resolutions introduced proposing to amend the Consli- Lookout, havo tution so aftltocggayanteia the national aad prevent the payment of the rebel debt, and to prohibit Congress from paying for the at The increase in the State bus boon $339,250, and there is $463,401 in the treaeury. It has been decided that the law prohibiting the importation of cattle docs not apply to stock, through Canada, the of Bhipmant and consignment are both within the United next Indiana State Fair will be held at Camp Morton, Indianapolis. Dr.

Bellows has printed a card to correct the atateawnl which ia now going the rounds on hii authority, on the ratio of our native troope to the whole number enlisted in the war. "According to the best sources of information at present to me, the ratio of native born soldiers ihe whole army was per cent, of the whole. Pencntra, percentage of disabled men demanding or requiring asylum, is according to the best ninety, per ojent of it of foreign birth." I Tke ooUon report Pee. SO of ill; Bro. A ef New the total cotton supply at 2,100,600 bales, of which 1,860,000 bales have already been forwarded A crop ia anticipated for 1886 ad '67 oL 1,600,000 io 1,800,000 bales.

Secretary JlcCnHoch estimated tho cotton to cose forward at 1,800,000 but it is stated he will probably revise the placing the ameUnt in the vilimty of 2,000,000. In Paris, HL, Jan. Alexander, the --aged widow of Gen. K. Alexander, one i of the early ptoneera of Edgar county, was dying herreeidenee.

An old friend and neighbor of hen, San ford, widow of Mr. Seaford, alao one of the early pioneers eoumtyj wae just entering ihe deer to virit Alexander, when fell down Mrs, Alexander expiring ateeat wunle inetant. The Cartiogtoa, who mur Polieeiaaa IHtl at Buffmlo last winter wet hnsg on the 6th insi. Jwper B. Waiworth, off Wayne, Ash tabula Okio, totihU Toiee.three yeaw affo, ta tbe army, rflcorwed it a few daye since, in a singular way.

When start- lag for Ue Probate office in Warren, to pro- a marriage HecnM, he WM attacked with a cough, which, Memed to clear up throat, and left hu articulation full and Ttukee Doodle "WM to One of the mojst elegant business blocks in occupied inj part by Harn- at Mo- then played, by that pW. amount of prto already Ud to and mm in navy, ad iU to aaosg it atat'td, den's Express, was destroyed by fire on the 2d, involving a loss of nearly quarter of a million dollars. The that the United States and France had an understanding on the Mexican question, ia pronounced to be erroneous. Maximilian, however, has failed to meet his pecuniary engagement with Napoleon, and, it ia asserted, will not maintain a military in Mexico at his own ex- I The receipt of- intetligen'oe that our Government will not permit any more cattle to enter the United States from Canada has caused much feeling in the latter country. A large amount of live stock, already purchased, ia shut off, by tho prohibition, from its intended mavkot.

The Strong divorce case was brought a termination on the ult The jury after being in session forty-eight hours, came into court, and expressed their opink unan- imttisly, that it was impossible for them to agree. At President's reception on New Years day, not a single member of the diplomatic corps recognized Senior Romero, tho Minister from Government; but the Senior met with a cordial reception from the President. During the oret $3,000,000 accumulated from sale of raliooa iseued to, but aot rebel more than half of which was expended for for sick rebala. I A conflict "of authority between the civil and military authorities has occurred at rldge, East Tennessee, A party of soldiers, under orders, killed the guerilla Thornhill some months ago. Theae men, under an act of Congress, were tried, acquitted; and discharged by Court-Martial They were indicted before Judge Swan, in Circuit Court of Jefferson county, for the offence, aad by' him remanded to prison.

Gen. Thomas ordered their releam. The disregarded, and the force tent to the prisoners captured, by Sheriff with a possf' comitatiu and imprisoned. Gen. Stoneain has two hundred men to release the prisoners all who resisted Gen.

Thomas's order. This will include tho Sheriff, anc citiiena. The military hare takea of Dandridge, aad will remain until all troabl? A bill is to introduetd In CongMM giving of -who in pnaons0MMtitaMon of rations at the of 26 per day for fall period of im in New York the emancipation of slaves. In the House, Jan. 6th, a resolution was adopted inquiring whether any farther islation is needed to suppress polygamy jin Utah.

The President was requested to furnish all the information in his possession relative to the condition of the rebel States. A bill was introduced to improve the navigation of Rack river, and the Upper ajad Lower Kapids of the Mississippi river. SEr. Spaulding, of Ohio, construction. made a speech on re- --A San Francisco correspondent of ijhe New-York writes that a dollar in gold in California goes about as far as a greenback dollar in New York, -The Illinois State Census is 2,260,01 many nstead of two.

and a half, millions, as rep had it, a' week or two since. A curious custom is atill in vogue in he more. northern districts of Scandinav ia. On the' occasion of a marriage, the motl er of the bridegroom approaches the ad ays, at her a plate of bread and flcg- root. The bride offers her future moth r- in-law part of it, but the latter decTir es partaking; thus intimating that she vtill never live on the substance of her relative.

A gentleman connected with the rican Express Company in Chicago, 1 Ot as y- aeen made the victim of a huge sell" an Express Agent at or near Green The latter wrote to the former' that he had captured a pair of white woodcocks, and thinking they might be considered a curiosity, would send them to him aa a present, uponjhe receipt of a suitable cage in which to'triasmit them. Chicago nibblwd at the bait and aent an elegant and costly cage, purchased expressly for the occasion. In due tima the cage arrived back and was found to contain two common beer'faucets or cocks, made of white vood. Green Bay it slightly ahead. --A year or more ago, it was announced that a jprocaas had been discovered for extracting eugar from Indian corn.

The matter WM diseaaeed quite extensively and high expectations were raised at to the results of the experiment. The process haa been eawfully tested but thus far without any aucoeaaful result. The syrup made front the corn stalk Tery handsome, but tains less Htecharine matter than ordinary ayrup, and it ia to become sour soon after production. If the last named difficulty cnn be overcome, discovery may still be rcnqered.quUe valuable, although it should not add to the supply of sugar. A wag at Dubuque itopped the-lown clock at hatf-paft 11 -on Sunday night, so that attendants at watch meeting did not know when the old year died and the young was born.

the moon, SOth. --A brutal negro living near Trappe, out bin triff'a ATOM off, thn nf.l»Af dsjy, and Hh.e soon bled to death. 'Her intimacy with another man aggravated him, --George W. Day, of Chelsea. the inventor of a machine for making shoes which drives the shoe thread pegs, making a good imitation of pegged -work, has sold his interest for $200,000, and is to receive a per oentage on every pair boots by this process.

--In the little town of Wegleben, in West- fifty-four persons have suffered death from triohines, derived from eating tbe flesh of a diseased swine. The iisease is uncontrollable, and the death a dreadful one. --The owner of a tenement house In New" York, who had some undesirable tenants' that he oould not get rid off, eonoehed' the idea of smoking them out." Cutting a hole in the chimney above the rooms occupied by the family, he placed fiat stone across the flue. The result was page of the vent, and the suffocation of all the the obnoxious family, two of whom died from inhaling the coaltsmoke. --A monstrous wild bear, weighing 880 pounds, was lately killed in France.

The friends of the Suez canal are encouraged to be more hopeful for the success of the project.einoe the death of Lord Pal- mers'ton, who bitterly opposed it. --One who is man, half dg, will bow to the rich and bow-wow to the poor. --What a host of sawbones will be turned upon the-world next spring. Harvard Medical School alone wu) spawn two hundred and fifty of them. --A miser recently died in Ohi from grief at his heavy income tax.

--The most profitable crop in Moxico is coffee. You plant about six or SCY hundred trees to the acre it begins to bear at two, and produces a full crop at four years old. T-A man named John Jones, living at Atlanta, sends to the (Kansas) Gazette the small sum of $60,000, Confederate money, and asks the editor to send the paper a month. --A man has been convicted in Njsw York of keeping a gambling house for children. --Parepa's compauiy, which has raveled oonsiderablyxthe lasib few months, is called "Prepa-tetic." --They have got a female contortionist" at the Pithole Atheneum." What next? --Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, ia such an admirable 1'renoh scholar 'that he CM eevertil works of Dickons into that language.

--The commerce of the world estimated to require able-bodied man to be constantly traversing the ocean. '--Cain has found in apologist in r. Cnm- mingn, of London, who, in his "jJives of the Patriarchs," says thai Cain can, never have a dead-human sing, or learned anything about death, or Tcno-fro that a heavy blow, would destroy the vitality, of again, he can his guilt wfi, at the outaide, manslaughter. --There is a couple in New Hampshire, aged respectively 82 and 81 yeara, irholive in the honae where they commenced their marritd life 60 yeara ago. --General John IB.

Hood, was recently married to a very lovely and accomplished lady of South Carolina, the daughter of Gen. John S. Preatom of Colombia. population principal cities of England ha ebeen returned aa follows London 3,025,936, Manchester and! mburbs 668,001, Liverpool 479,806, BLrmin in Buffalo, on Christmas day picked up a wallet containing ten thousond dollars in $100 greenbacks, and at once took jit to a bank, to awit the discovery and demand of its ownor. --i-The general minutes of the annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, have just been issued.

It has 60 annual conferences, and a membership of 928,259, deing an increase over last year of 929. It has 7,175 traveling preachers, being aa increase of 854 for the year. The local preach ere numbered being an increase of 288J its total value of church property is estimated at which is $4,263,157 more than last year. All the benevolent contributions show an advance of more than one-fifth. In the Sunday School departrwt there has been about the same advance.

i --j-A New York millionaire, said to be afflicted with the leprpjyjLwAS-eureu'liy the President of the NewTYork Medical University, and in his gratitude tendered him a fee, but the doctor accepted only 1,600. --On 'Christmas morning, every gable, gateway or barn-door in Norway, is decorated with a sheaf of oorn fixed on the top of a tall pole, from which it is intended the birds shall make their Christmas Boston Journal saya that the dividends for tne past six months already announced by manufacturing, railroad and other corporations in New England, or which will' shortly be made public, as they are payable in January, denote degree of prosperity without a parallel. It has been the best six months ever known by the' manufacturers of cotton, several paying as high as 25 per while the dividends of the'railroads are large, showing an increase over former years'. --The Methodist denomination have donated to mission purposes the coming year a round million; four hundred thousand of which is ta be expended among the white and black population of the South. --The business of one of the leading domestic and jobbing houses in New York, for the year 1865, reached nearly $70,000,000.

--John C. Heenan the pugilist arrived in from Europe, December 26th. It is reported he is about'to take a porter house, in New York. The Toronto Leader ia publishing a series of medical articles written by Dr. Blackburne, the person charged with attempting to introduce yellow fever and small-pox among the United States soldiers during the, wir, --A musician in Salzburg ia playing the pic.no with a clothes brush.

yonng "swell" in London, who pai ed a fortune of $80,000 a year, now earns $5 a week as a driver. 1-- marriage is thus noticed by one of our cotcmporaries: Married, last week, John Cobb to Miss Kaie Webb. Lqpk out for little 1 spiders." j--It is said that diamonds have been found in Idaho, but the diteoverer has been drowned, and with him his secret per- knowledging the Bcntenoe the punishment deserved. A collision on the New York Central rai road occurred Dec. 80 at Port Byron, injui ing several persons, and killing a passenger and brake'man.

In New York on the aist ult, Mrs. onna (Sabey and her son Francis were suffocated to death by "gas from a Two other persons in the room were resuscitated by physiciansl Joseph F. Barker, in New York, while laboring under a fit mental caused by, pecuniary losses, recently shot himself. .1 A.few, weeks since, Mr. Christian Zimmerman, of Carbon county, Pennsylvania, while engaged in skinning a mule which had died of cut himself in the thumb.

A few days after the sore inflamed, which was folio abs'cesses forming in different parts of the body. These" were followed by severe 1 vomiting and diarrhoea. A fever of a typhoid character, accompanied by bloody diarrhoea, abscesses which had closed were now re-opened: his became vejr-y much swollen, both eyes w.ere closed, 5 and he afterward became delirious, which continued until he breathed his last. The djte- ease of the animal was undoubtedly inoculated into his system. Two young gentlemen of St.

Louia, pos-- sessed of more means than brains, and with a large circle of acquaintances, have announced the followingibet forNew Years. Mr; B. Lewellan beta with Mr. J-L. Smith that on New Years day he will dilve a span of horses in his round of visits, and make three hundred callfl between the hoiira of 9 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon.

The stakes are ssid to bje $500 a side. An Indian who had been, peddling work for some time past in Chicago, was killed last week in a drunken row, A machinist fell from a scenic bridge tit a theatre in Paris, and dashed out his brains upon the stage. The spectators for some time thought it was in the play. pleasing spectacle of a woman hfding a man, and the man-meekly submitting, was witnessed in the streets of Philadelphia, the other day: A young lady named Rose arrived at Louisville from Texas' on Thursday morning, on her way to Sheliby county, where she v-ras to be married. On her way to the Lexirig- AKD GMBAT WESfMHT BAIL- Atlantic and Great Western Bailway Company are making- vigowue preparations for completion of their enterprise.

The company has purchased a large tract of the swamp land lying between Jersey City and Hoboken, including the river front extending from the Hoboc. Jten depot of the Essex Railroad to the property of the Erie Railroad Company, which is to be appropriated to the purposes of depots, wharves and workshops Th ey have also bought, for QOO, large machine shop iii.that vicinity, of which possession was taken on of JariuaryA The company is making locomotives rate of six per month; and instructions have been given at the works to prepare three coal wagons, of ten tons capacity, Jper day. Sir Morton Peto. has given assurances on behalf of. the Atlantic and Qreat Western Railway Company, that in connection with the struction of the roads from Point of Rocks to Washington, and from Connellsville to.

Cumberland, capital will be promptly furnished, and vigorous measures taken to complete the road connecting Cleveland via Youngstown with Pittsbuigh, find thus furnish to members of Congress and other parties visiting the capitol of United States, a line from the northwest, eighty- four miles shorter than any other. rf depot, she was run over by a wagon and so badly injured that ehe died in' a few hours. A Mr. Charles Windech of Detroit, while dancing the schottische with a lady, a ball last 1 week, and having made the circuit of the hall, staggered and; fell, and before he oould be placed on a lounge, was dead. He was lately from Titusvillk Pa- He died of heart A man named Artemue Ward, and his ife died at Worcester, from the effects of inhaling coal gas.

This is not the Artemus Ward of newspaper notoriety, A little eon of W. H. Fowler, near Iqujali- ty, 111., was burned lo death 18. His father was making a fence, and he watohlng the gap, having built a fire to keep himself warm, when his clothes took fire, he was so badly burned that he died in a few hours. -An intelligent lad 12 years old, who was stolen by Indiana so long ago that he cantaot remember the time 1 recently escaped ftom them and reached Mound Station, Colorado Territory, after riding a pony to death, and three days walking with scarcely any food.

He could speak but little English but is fast learning. If a man is "a wife is a casemate. case suppose THE MARKETS. Nsw Jan. his 6.

CfffTOH-- Steady; for middling. FLOCK Dull, And common grades lower. for extra State for common to good (shipping extra ronnd-hoop OUio, $9.00 for trade brands. Market closing and heavy for common grades. WBUKXY--Ball.

in-lota; held at 18.28. I GEMIC-- Wheat dull; and spring lower No.l Milwankee Bye quiet. Barley rather more active. Corn dull, heavy and lo lower; 88 i91e for unsound and for sound mixed Western, the latter price an extreme. Oats dull; fo sound Western, and for Bound do.

Pif ROUVX--Dull; crude and refined in bond at lower, Kt for new nrftw--closing at $28.00 for regular and 527.IktZd 5 for 1884-6, closing at $27.25 for regular, and 922.00® S2.50 for prime, and for prime mess; als brls new mess, for J'ebntary, March. April and Beef steady at', WsV ,00 for new plain tor old do; B.00@24.00 for new extra and for, old'do. Beef hams Westsm, fa4.25@34.50 meats quiet at llYL3c for shoulders, and hams. Bacon dull. Dressed hogs lower, at Western, and for city.

Lard rathe and less aetlre at also, 2,300 br seller's OHIOAOO, Jannary 8, 11 BROOM OOBtf-- Per ton, fair BBBVB8-- Block to prime 4.2!^ CHUBB. I 830,004, Briatol 162, --The and best way. to ohett is to have a heart in it --In San Francisco, a who picked up waterfall, had the tcnerityto inspect ita contcnU. found an average wages ef sewing IB a an4 a PubUn, Iraland, cants a oldahoe, j--A Weybridge, Vt, farmer, who refused $10,000 for his merino buck, had the chagrin of seeing the buck die few days afterwards, correspondent of a London paper suggests the idea' of a system of insurance against burglary. is suggested thai the fashion gaining favor with the ladies, now that cold weather on, of wearing their hair may be accounted for by fact that waterfalls has frit" of tho entire importation of the country oomea through the New York Cnatom Honae.

--Besides the Academy of Marie and nriastrcl New York if ill hate- eleven theatres next year. 1 --At the Catholic church at Manltowoc, on Chriatmma, the prient waa taking up a collection, a man grabbed the of tho box and ran off. rested and found be BGOB .31 FBCITB--Green Apples--Mich 8.00 10.00 Havana Oranges 12,00 Cranberries, 14.00 Dried N. Y. Apples .15 .83 63 Spring 1 7.25 7.00' Whitefish, OndBah, per hxtndred- 0.00 HOQS-MWdHnu to prime S.4Q LUMBER--first Clear 60.00 20.00 Common Dressed 87.00 24.00 Hew York Refined A.

8AJLT 1 Jine EliBOTKICITY FKOM Gazal, a French savant of some, eminence in the scientific world, has discovered a plan by which to utilixe of terfails, not only upon the 8pobut at great distance froni'the fall. By plan, the mechanical force of the fall ed into electricity by the action of water upon combination of somesriiat'Similar to of an ordinary mill for grinding oorn or sawing lumber, only that his mechanism will act upon a magnetic electrical appara economy of the process is as remarkable as its physical character. By itsufficent magnetic force can be generated by "an ordinary fall of water, to work all the telegraph lines of the continent. Genes ee Tails, which are thing, of beauty in high water, and always of practical ralue to the "Flour under this invention, electrify toe world. SEIZUKB Two BY THB STATK despatch from St.

Louis, January 3, says: Governor Fletcher took possession to-day of the St. Joseph and Atchison and the Atohisou and Western Bailr.oads, known as the Platte County Road, in consequence of the default of ia payment'to the State of three hundred and according to- the law of the Missouri Legislature, passed last winter, under which these railroads were sold to Messrs. Stringfellow, Carpenter and Burns, and providing for forfeiture to the State if the above ment was not made on January 1st" vJHie Governor appointed a State Agent to operate the roads until they can be sold again pursuant to law. The ejected, par. ties have entered aj protest, and litigation will probably follow, the Governor's action.

--The Milwaukee and Minnesota way company have complied with the -decree of the court and paid something like half a million dollars, which gives- control of the eastern division of the La Crosse road, and a large portion of the rolling stock. The money as advanced by Jay Cooke and others. A lively fight will doubtless itow be held upon the franchise of the western division--the Milwaukee" and Minnesota company claiming the right to the road through. --Commodore Vanderbilt and other prominent capitalists in the east have been talking up a plan for a new railroad line from New York to By building a branch road of eight miles from the Housatohic railroad at to- the Harlem road at Dover Plains, a continuous line from Iffew York to' Montreal jwill he secured, with the exception of a short distance between rloosio, JT. and the Western Vermont railroad.

nri- brts 670 do; .60 .75 .26 ,00 .80 .24 .33 .36 1,50 2.00 LOO 1J.OO J.6 .36 6.60 0,50 T.4® 8.00 1.00 1.24 16.00 --An Atchison dispatch gives the imm- mtfte of the overland freight business for 1 the year. The number of firms engaged ia 27, and the capital invested $0,000,000. The aggregate amount of shipments during the pstBl 12 months was 20,500,000 pounds of assorted merchandise, freighting business of that oity ia seven fold larger than in 1861. --The Nashville and Chattanooga railroad has begun a suit against its lata President for; one million dollars for permitting the rebel government use the road its machinery during the war. Dairy, without Hrmh-Bnp.

ta --Are the sufferings of half froien by inch weather we now baTfac. and thft pleuure of I hawing out, reckoned together, more or lem desirable than a cteady continuance of moderate weather Are tbe and plcairarea of tnarrleA reckoned together, more or lew than a continuation of single bin sednrtc. Are tbe aanoyanoes of a flea bite, and the fen scratching reckoned together, mere or destrabfe than exemption from wicked' insoet SJA man pursnetbf We think so. MATRIMONIAL--Here is matrimony in a legal point of Wife, (complalningly), I third of the Husband, (triumphantly), all law- allow8 And here in a fool-ologteal point ef view 4 "I think, wife, yon a great many ways of calling a fool." "I think, hwtband, that yon a Ways of being one." LATEST BOOK dence Journal "sarcnstieally" of aaw gome of the pieces in this book are, in a MUM, humorous. The fanny poetry the pathetic make ns laoxh, aad It, ii certain hsmorons." A 0XKAT obMrramt poet tbns apoitfopbisea the order ef Hoi whales that sail not at your Tour flesh iUamiMtw Tour bones make women great." THB PITXISS or --On a fence in Berkshire to im glaring Dr.

Pryor's Cough BalssaB- 1 mmA below, "Bny Yonr in PHtatWA." Wamx that load of Massachusetts Oregon, it is 'rcposd tQ ftjvai a.