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GUTzoT's ACCOUNT OF THE LAST HoURs OF La
FAYErTE.-No life, says Guizot in his memoirs, had
ever been more passiOnately political than his; no
man placed his ideas and political sentiments
more constantly above all other preposSession Of
interests But politics were utterly uncOnnected
with his death. Ill for three weeks he approached
his last hour. His children and household sur
rounded his bed; he ceased to speak, and it was
doubtful whether he could see. His son George
observed that with uncertain gestures he sought
for something in his bosom.
He came to his fathers assistance, and placed in
his hand medallion which he always sus-
pended round his neck. NJ. de Lafayette raised it
to his lips; this was his last motion. That medal
lion contained miniature and lock of hair of Ma.
dame de Lafayette, his wife, whose loss he had
mourned for twenty-seven years. Thus already
separated from the entire world, along with the
thought and image of the devoted companion of his
life, he died.
In arranging his funeral, it was a recognized
fact that NJ de Lafayette had always wished to
be buried in the small cemeteryl adjoining the
convent of Picpus, by the side of his wife, in the
midst of the victims of the revolution, the greater
part royaists and aristocrats whose ancestors had
founded that establishment. The desire of the
veteran of 1889 scrupulously respected and
complied with. An immense crowd soldiers.
National Guards and populace-accompanied the
funeral procession along the streets and bouevards
of Paris
Arrived at the gates of the convent of Picpus,
the crowd hated the interior enclorsure could only
admit two or three hundred persons. The family,
the nearest relatives and the principal authorities
entered, passing through the convent in silence,
and then across the garden, and finally entered the
cemetery. There no political manifestation took
place; oration was pronounced; religion and
the intimate "reminiscences of the soul alone were
present; public politics assumed no place the
death-bed or the grave Of the whose life they
had occupied and ruled.
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Receipts of Flour and Grain at New York
New YORK, Oct. l6.-The receipts of Flour and
Grain at this port to-day foot up follows Flour
$4,000 bbls Wheat, l02, 500 bushels; Corn, 50 900
bushels
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Buffalo (N.Y.) papers say that city hasn't shown
so much activity for years as now, while the West
ern harvess are being poured down on its wharves.
People are pleasantly reminded of the old times of
steamboatng, and forget their years of sorrow for
the DAYS that are gone.
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special train on Saturday afternoon last to visit
the coal and iron mines of Pennsylvania. He is
thoroughly at home in all that relates to these great
interests as he has need to be- since he is President
of one Of the largest railway companies in England.
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COMPLIMENT TO Ma. WooDs, THE SPECIAL CORES
PoNDENT OF THE LONDON TGMEs.-On Sunday even
ing large party, comprising several of the most
prominent members of the press and literary world,
entertained Mr.. Woods at dinner, mark of
inter national press respect, and a personal re-
cognition of those noble and manly qualities which
have endeared him to all whose opinion is worth
possessing since his arrival in this country Few
men who have visited US in delicate posi-
tien have managed to win such golden opinions, as
well from the public from his brotherhood of the
press, who take natural pride in that strict and
answering adherence to truth, and that brilliant
descriptive ability which have won him a reputa-
tion that reaches from the BOsphorus to Boston,
wherever is honored what is beautiful and just 1t
is almost unnecessary to say when we mention that
DemonicOs the of this pleasant festivity,
that the dinner perfection in every respect. IL
was presided over by Mr.. Wilkins, of the New York
Herald, and Mr. Stuart occupied the vice chair,
and the flow of peasantness and merriment and wit
carried this aesthetic gathering its sparkling tide
up to late hour at night. Few there who
were were, or who have known Mr.. W oods on his
journeys, in whose hearts his fresh, unaffected kind
ness, his brilliant ability and untiring enthusiasm,
have not built an enduring home that will survive
the pageants of the hour and most of the memories
| that surround them. Such men do honor to the
press and make it honored.-N Y. Tribune.
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PASSENGER RAILWAY IN LoNDoN.-The first tram
way, or street railway, in the metropolis, of a
similar kind to that successfully laid down at Birk-
enhead, was to be laid down in a short time by
way of experiment, along Victoria street, West
minister, extending from the Broad Sanctuary, near
the new Westminster Hotel, to the Vauxhall bridge
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The Cincinnati EnQ1tiTer of Sunday saws:


During the financial embarrassments OF 1857
extensive manufacturing firm the West held very
large amount of the obligations of Railroad Companies
and no less than 100000, of various roads,
permitted to go to protest Matters looked rather serious
for the manufacturing firm, but by energetic manage
ment they enabled go on, and at the time
protect the holders Of the protested obligations Within
day two have learned that since the maturity and
protest of the notes. in 1857 less than eighty per
of the 100000 has been paid by the Companies and that
the entire loss upon the whole will not eventually, be
than six per cent Like instances of the prompt
payment of protested paper to that amount at time of
financial embarrassment extremely rare, and
cord the fact credtabte to the managers and
aging to the business prospects Of the Companies
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Official returns from seventy-hve counties Of In
diana, comprising about three fourths OF the State,
are published in the Indianapolis Sentinel. The
total population Of the given counties is LIZA $50
Population f.the same counties in 1850, S25, ,6S8.
Increase, 299,l l4S.
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Marine Disaster.
The Royal Squadron.

NORFOLK, Oct. l6.-The schooner Moonlight,
from Savannah bound to Philadelphia, has arrived
here in distress. Her sails, &C., were damaged in
the storm of Sunday last
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DR.. r. A. Munsell, formerly of Hartford, Conn,
was treated last week to coat of tar and feathers
and ride on rail at Rockville, Conn, for the al
legged abuse of female patients while under the in
huence of chlorolorm. The tarring and feathering
was perpetrated in open daylight.
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About fifty gentlemen, members of the Philadel-
phia Board of Trade, left that city on Monday, on
an excursion to the west they propose embracing
in their tour the cities Of Pittsburg, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis
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The great capitalist Rothschid has had a narrow
escape. The government of the King of Naples
had contracted with him for loan of three
millions of ducats, atpar, one per cent commission,
payable one million in ten days, and the rest in
fnrfv DAYS
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CnmD MANGLED BY RATs-In Philadelphia, on
Saturday, colorCd woman named Emma Anderson,
who lives in part of house in Eaken Place, run
ming from Currant alley, between Spruce and Lo-
Gust streets, went out to work, leaving her child,
an infant only nine weeks old, in the care of Mrs
Davis, who lived in part of the same house. Mrs.
Davis locked the child up in the room occupied by
its mother. Some time afterwards, hearing the
baby crying piteously, the woman repaired to the
and found that the child had been attacked by
rats. The animals had eaten away the nose, part of
one cheek and destroyed one eye. The poor infant
presented a shocking appearance. The child is
probably dead by this time
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Two merchants of New York have been arrested
on the charge of attempting to detraud the insur-
ance companies. They claimed damages for S3,S73,
| caused by slight fire on their premises recently
| but which is believed can be covered bySl .O00
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At the University of Virginia, up to Tuesday
evening last, 500 students had obtained from the
chairman of the faculty permission to matricuate.
This is a larger number than at the corresponding
period of last session.
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A New MANuFACrURING TowN-VmGtNIA Cry
1t appears that a town, to be called Virginia
city, has been laid out near Portsmouth, Va, by
an organized company, with the view OF establish
ing cotton mills, wOollen factories and iron works.
The Norfolk Argus says :--''Virginia city, as laid
out, lies inside of the world drenowned harbor of
Norfolk, in the State of Virginia. adjoining the
United S tate Navy Yard and the city of Ports
mouth, and extending for three miles along the
main harbor, between the Seaboard and r. X. r.,
and the Norforik and P. il. Il. and the Dismal
Swamp and Al6ermarle and Chesapeake Canals,
with the best harbOr on the Atlantic Ocean"
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There is a rumor in New York that Mr.. Forrest
the tragedian, was requested to play King Lear be-
fore the Prince of Wales Thursday evening
last-an ''of night" in his engagement at Nibio's.
Mr.. F. is reporedto have replied that he respected
the Prince, and hOnored his mother next to his
own but he could not alter his arrangements, and
would be obliged, therefore, to decline acquescence
to the rennest.
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PRICE TWO CENTS.

CURIOUS WILL.-The following extraordinary
story Is in circulation. An aged gentleman plant
er in one of the Southern States has just died eav
ing fortune of 100000 which is to be disposed
of according to the provisions of his WILL and that
document is as follows:
81 bequeath all my effects to the children of nv
brother, on the following conditions: DESTROYS OF
marking my sense of the service which NV New
oundland dog rendered Inc in saving nv life one
day when was drowning, and wishing also to
provide for my housekeeper, | appoint my said
,mousekeeper nurse, tutor, and mother to my dog.
MY natural heirs shall, this account, paw to her
OUT Oh my entire fortune, a daily sum in the fol-
lowing manner: The daily payment shall continue
so long as the dog shall live, but not one second
longer During the first year after nv decease or
for so much of it as the dog shall live nv house
keeper shall receive So day; the second year she
shall receive $40 a day; the third year SIS; and so
on, until the death of the dog. In the course of
the month in which the dog shall die, there shall be
paid to my hQusekeeper for every day of the dogs
existence Sl25. On the day of his death she shall
be pai6'per hour of the dogs life, $3.50. In the
last hour of his life she shall receive for every min
ute that he lives $685. and for every second of the
last minute, $500. My notary is charged with su-
perlntendng the carrying out of my WILL"
rms eccentric gentleman appears to have enter
tanned for his dog sentiments similar to Bvron's
" hat the heirs will think or do we cannot say, but
we shall be much surprised if that dog lives many
and 50 seconds after O'Clock on the 30th day of
the month, the sum to be paid to the housekeeper
will be:
dave c10E
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ROBERT CHAMBERS, the distinguished Edinburgh
publisher, whose visit to this country has afforded
so much qualification to hosts of friends and ad-
mrers, was entertained few evenings since at the
residence of J. B. Lippincott, in Philadelphia
About one hundred distinguished guests were ln-
of Cbandos, Henry C. Carey, S. Austin AllibOne
and Robert Dale Owen. Mr.. Chambers is now Wis
iting Canada but revsits the States before return
ing to his home.
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Boor AND SHOE TRADE BosTON WITH THE SLAVE
SrArEs.-From the Shoe and Leather Reporter we
learn that 5,S44 boots and shoes were shipped
from Boston, by sea and rail- during the week end
direct to slave States, as follows: New Orleans 342
cases; Baltimore, 972; Norfolk, 17O Charleston,
2l3; st. Louis, G95; Louisville, 28G; Galveston,
50; Memphis, 40 Warsaw, Mo-, 65; Fayetteville,
n. c., 80; Georgetown, S. c., 50; Lexington, Ky,
80; Paducah, Ky, 22 and 34G cases, in small lots,
to sundry places.
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TIC EtOyHI StitlhIrOh.
PORTLAND, Oct. l6.-The Royal squadron
rived here this morning to receive the Prince of
W ales. The squadron anchored in the inner harbor
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Election ofaU. =. Senator

New ORLEANS, Oct. lG.--Advices from Mexico to
the 18th state that the Juarez government has Or
dered the restoration of the conducta lately seized.
General Degollado has been deprived of his
mand and ordered to be brought prisoner to Vera
Cruz
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ANOTHER CAPTURE OF EUGIyIyE SLAVES IN OHIo.-
The Cincinnati Enquirer of Sunday says:
A few days since, Deputy United States Marshal
Manson received information that party of six tu-
gitve slaves, who owed service in Mason county,
Kentucky, were living the Lake Erie shore,
about two miles from Sandusky. He took with
him posse of five six men, and on Friday even
ing, about eight o'clock, he came upon their quar-
They made a most desperate resistance, and
shouted "kidnappers p 'White men to the res
cue!" &c. They finally overpowered, and
although the Marshal and his aids were pursued,
and several times fred upon by powerful party of
successfully elude their pursuers, until they reached
the railroad track, between two stations There
they succeeded in stopping the down tram by
swinging red colored lantern, and, taking passage
arrived here safely yesterday afternoon. The tugi-
tives were taken before a United States Commits
sioner, where they owned they were slaves, and
were accordingly remanded to the custody of their
masters, and are, this, safe at their old Ken
lucky home.
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A SERIES OF SEVERE WINTERS PREDTCTED.-A
French meteorological named Renou predicts Sc
ries of severe winters, of which the approaching
winter is to be the first and that of 1871 the most
severe. NJ. Renou thinks he has discovered that
these groups of severe winters return in fOrty-one
years. and that the increase of spots on the in
dicates them. He also finds that unusual displays
of aurora boreais and frequent earthquakes are
simultaneous with the increase of spots on the sun
and severe winters.
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A late letter from the United States Commission
er of Pensions says there now but eighty nine
survivors of the Army of the Revolution whose
names were placed upon the rolls for pensions.
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FIRE IN PurLADELPHrA.-Ther was a conlagra-
ton in West Philadelphia on Monday evening, the
coaloil works of Helm & Co., together with a
large amount of other property being destroyed
The fire commenced in the oil works and spread
with the rapdity of ignited gunpowder. A work
man was seriously injured. The loss will amount
to between $4,000 and $4,000, upon which there
is not dollar of insurance. The fire appears to
have been the result Of careessness.
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Pn0T0GRAPHING THE CRY OF BOsroN FROM 4 BAL
LoON.-Mr. King, the aeronaut, ard Mr.. Black, of
Boston, photographer, made an ascension from
Boston Common at noon Saturday, in the bal
Photographic views of the city and the surrounding
country. The Courier says: They rose about l, 200
feet with rope attached. The atmosphere was re-
markably clear, and Mr. Black succeeded in getting
several good views of the eastern and southern sec
tions Of the city. The cow-pasture character of
our streets is finely presented, and as depicted,
Boston looks very much like toy town that a boy
has built of painted blocks. A glimpse is given Of
the ocean, and the white sails Of schooner are
clearly defined. When the views were completed
the balloon drawn down and they were placed
in the hands of Mr.. Blacks opera tors when he and
Mr.. King started on an aerial excursion. The pic
lures, in very brief time, were transferred to
paper.
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GEN. MoRA.-Juan Rafael Mora was born at San
Jose, the Costa Rican capital, in February, 1915.
He Inherited high social position. His grand
father emigrated from Catalonia in the early part
OF the last century, and his uncle, Don Juan, was
the first to succeed, in the supreme magistracy of
Costa Rica, the royalist deputies of Madrid Bred
to mercantile pursuits, Mora visited this CITY for
the hrst time on a commercial errand in 1885 lie
made but a short tarry here and returned to min.
gle in political affairs in his own country His ac-
tive intelligence and great aptitude for affairs made
him strong political position, and he was elevated
to the Presidency of the Republic in October, Is4S.
The term of his Office was marked by the intro
duction OF many valuable improvements in the cap
ital The University ofSt. Thomas, new theatre,
the government palace, and the hospital of San
Juan de DiOs, erected under his immediate
supervision, at cost of over quarter of a million
OF dollars. Besides these works of embellishments
he pressed forward to completion the grand road
from Punta Arenas to San Jose, succeeded in pro
curing from the Costa Rican Congress an annual
grant of SIS, 900 for the support of mail routes as
sisted the growth of new towns concluded a treaty
with Spain, wherein the independence of Costa
Rica was recOgnized; and had Just granted con-
tract for the construction of an iron bridge over the
river Barranca when the revolution occurred which
swept him from power. Deposed and disheartened
General Mora found his way to this city in the fall
of last year, and received 4 cordial welcome. Du-
ring his residence here, he actively engaged in
correspondence with his adherents at home and
LETT the city a few weeks since to undertake that
expedition for the recovery of his power which has
so suddenly proved fatal to him. The details of his
defeat and execution we give elsewhere.-N Y.
Post.
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The Chicago Press says, that on Tuesday, the I'd
of October the freight receipts of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad exceeded the round sum of $4,000,
being the largest days work reached in the
freight department of that road.
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BOARD OF TRADE.

Committee Of Arbitration for the month of October
A A. CHAPMAN.
r. D. BROWN, L. W. GUNTHER,
JOHN S. BARRY, JOHN r. COX.
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The Court of Claims met in Washington on Mon.
day; Judges Loring and Hughes present. The new
rooms just finished and fitted up for this body are
very fine.
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Monstarv anb Commercial 8tbitm.
RALTIMoRE. Oct. 16. 1860.

BALTIMORE, Oct 16, 1850.
There fair business done to day in Stocks but
the transactions in them not heavy. As the
yesterday the bulk Of the business done in the
Mining fancies and for this class of the market
continues depressed The sales include GOO shares Gard
ner Hill from sex down to $64, the closing sales
being made s63 600 shares Guilford at from 81 Sc
down 500 shares Rudisell at s1H, 1900 shares
Consolidated at 81 44G1 $500 shares North State at 81
I106, closing at the latter figure which is advance
1l6 and $500 shares Deep River at from SIX down to
rs cts. Springfield frmer. There sales
made but it closed at $3S bid s3H asked these figures
being advance Of q to on the closing quotations
Of yesterday For Railroad shares and bonds, and in
deed all the stocks the list with the exception of Min
ing stocks the market quite strong. The sales of
Railroad stock include so shares Baltimore and Ohio
$50 buyer days and 300 shares Northern Central
at s23 cash, and 100 the figure buyer days.
The former stock closed at s79k bid, $50 asked
buyer GO days, and the latter left off at s223 bid,
s23 asked regular way. The sales of Railroad
bonds include $1,000 Baltimore and Ohio 1855
at 81 and 81 800 Northern Central 1855 at 66&
and note also sales of $1,000 Missouri 6's at so,
and 81 100 Baltimore City 6s 1890 at lOOA. There
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad dividend certif
Gates offering, but hear of sales being made They
closed to-day at &C bid rs asked
In New York to-day stocks generally lower. Erie
advanced at the first board but fell eff at the second
e. New York Central declined q; Reading %; Cleveland
and Toledo y; Michigan Southern II Michigan Southern
guaranteed y; Rock Island e; Harlem ~ and Galena
and Chicago z. Virginia 6's improved however u; Mis-
souri, 6's 4; and Canton Il.
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD.
TUESDAY, october 16 1860.
$1,000 Missouri 6s, so 1850 shs. Guford -2.4i
21O0 Bait. 6's, '90-100AI 900 g boo 2h
1000 B. & o. RR BIDS. 500 " b60-244
1857 500 shs. N C. Con.
1900 n. c. RR. BIDS. NJ. Co b60 01at-144
's5-66H 500 % -1S
so shs B. & o. RR. 500 :" g b60fat- q
b60-sO 1900 shs. North State
200 shs. NC R.R. -23 Mining Co. b60-
100 Z" b60-23 1000 - i
100 Gardner Hill 1000 /" b60-1O6
Mining Co., boo OK 400 shs. Deep River
200 " b30- 64 Min. Co. -.S7H
200 -63ll 500 81
100 d" bot 81 400 90 &c b60-.S7H
1000 shs. Guford NJ. 500 g - b60-.sl
Co. b6O-256l 1000 g -.75
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Later accounts from Honduras allege that the
story about Walkers addressing the spectators,
cocted by the Honduras authorities or fabricated
in Havana.
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Baron Renfrew, in speaking of the fremen s
torehlight procession in New York on Saturday
night, said that in no country had he witnessed an
exhibition of like character at all to be compared
with it.
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BRiTIsH OFFICIAL TRADE RETURNs.-The British
Board of Trade returns for August, indicate con-
tinued extension Of the trade of that country. The
falling off as regards the Indian markets has been
more than cOunteracted by the demand in South
and North America, Turkey, and elsewhere. The
exports in August we're eleven per cent. larger
than in August 1859, and twenty-one per cent. lar
ger than in 1858. The comparison of the eight
months exports presents an increase of two per
cent. on last year, and sixteen per cent. on 1858.
The exports of cotton manufactures has now at
tanned the enormous monthly amount of "a, ,OS9 337,
or including yarns, which figure for 1894 1898, little
short of f5 000, 900. Woollen and linen goods fg-
nre for a large increase, the American demand
beinp also the chief stimulus in this Not
withstanding the increased importation of bread
stuffs England has not up to the present time, i'm
norted so much wheat and -four by ten per cent. as
7 A. ainhf m mn he of 1S5o
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The Postofiice department has perfected arrange
ments for expediting the service OF the mail be
tween New York and Boston. The new arrange
ment will take effect on the first of November.
Elk President Fillmore is to speak at Memphis,
Tenn, this month";