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 Sir " Hamilton, Astronomer Royal, oi
 Ireland, is dead. :. .a.s'l ..,...,
 -Gen, Beauresard took the oath of alle-- giencs in New Orleans on Saturday and will
 make application for pardon. e{paa 7 9i!!a'
 -.Juarsz, ,itis officially reported, has fled
 from El Paso to Chihuahua, but the fortunes ofthe Liberals are not therefore hopeless
 "A test vote taken in the Alabama State
 Convention decided. 5s to 34 against repudia.
 tion of the Confederate State debt si'""A H4
 = The State Convention of South Carolina has passed an ordinance repeating the. ordi- nance of secession, without debate. There was DO applause, Three delegates voted nay.
 = General Spinner, whose name appears on our greenbacks, and who has worked for four years anda half seventeen hours every day, losing only nineteen days of which 'eighteeB were by sickness, is now on a vacation in New York. He needs it.. 'Standish Barry acts as Treasurer in his absence. i9a '3 7 eV' = The most destructive fire that s eyer
 occurred in Maine swept through Augusta Sunday. The entire business portion of the city, extending from the passenger bridge to Winthrop-street and from toe river, to, above the railroad tract, is a smoking mass of ruins.
 Three whalers have arrived at San Fran cisco with the crews of several vessels captured by the pirate Shenandoah. The total number of whaling ships which up to our latest advices had fallen a prey to the pirate was thirty, tHen- F ty six of which were burned. Ten vessels are reported as having made their escape. s,s,tW ,.. = A large meeting of Texans was recently held at Hemsted, Texas, at which resolutions were adopted to accept the present situation of affairs, and to cooperate with the government in restoring unity and peace to the country. A State convention was also called for.' o' ,t A telegram has been received from Golum bia, s. C., that the State Convention assembled with one hundred members present. It is re- garded as the ablest body ever convened in { that State. Resolutions of ldiscontent were. offered, aud received only five votes, and they } were laid on the table. after refusal to print them. The Governors message strongly sus-
 tains the Presidents reconstruction policy
 . = The Reconstruction Convention; of Alaba-
 ma met at Montgomery. There were about ninety members present, comprising many of the best men in the State. Ex.Gov. Fitzpat
 rick, presided. It is supposed that their action
 will be modled upon that of the Mississippi Convention. Gov. Parsons hopes that resolu- tions will be adopted in favor of admitting ne- groes as witnesses in the civil courts.
 - The Massachusetts Republican Conven.
 tion met at Worcester, Hon, Charles Sumner presiding. Hon. Alexander H. Bullock, an ss old time Whig and for long period the Speak. , ier ofthe House ofAssembly, was unanimously + nominated for Governor, and Hon. Wm. CIaff- :, lin for LeutenantG Governor uL oi, 1 .5@s ,.s s a A military commission has been organ ized, and willproceedItos the trial, atSt Louis, !, of the burners of our 'stearmersupon thelaWes, tern rivers It is stated that the culprits, many of whom have been'a long time under arrest, have g large fund at their command and have s secarsd the services of Colonel J. W. Bell to T conduct thef defence. Subp9n;eG have been issued for Jefferson Davis, and, Secretaries 4 Mallory and ssddon, toitestify in the case. id a-- The time forthe disinterment and remov. al of the dead bodies of Union soldiers, buried in the Department of Virginia, will commence
 on the lst of October next It should be un- { derstood, by persons going to Virginia to re-, ' move bodies, that when graves are near sta ,I Itions of troops who are supplied with wagons, theuse of such vehicles wilLb be given for the purposs Of bringing in the remains to points at swhich the railroad or steamboat nansportat ion s :, can be obtainsd. 'soj,s ss ytisass3a IA 2 'ss79 tHuts adg Ia8 lns4Gg $ stuaoy-,
 = Yesterday, week the WTz military com missions adjourned: on account of the illness .ofsthe prisoner and has been unable to proceed since He is privileged to- sees bis wife, she having obtained ? pass from the War Depart ment permitting her, to visit him. The spirit iuat advisers Fathers Hamilton and Wheelan, whom heseekes spiritual comfort, ,.have not ,sset called upon him. He is getting somewhat Y better ih health.sf Heais necessarily occupied with his eassss fteaasnsly being engaged in writing until midnight.
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 w Recent developments show copclpsiyely that stolen goversnlent bonds have abeep saisposed of to inaoesat parties by altering the numbers oothefeoG Some bonds recently purchased have turned opt De of this characterl The alter ssatiops ara,iEsryT skillfully aexecptsd, and are