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NEW YORK, October S.-The great
trotting match between Mountain and
Lady Thorn, for $50, 600, mile heats, best
three In five, In harness track heavy
came off this morning. Mountain won
very easily IN three straight heats.
Time 2:263, 2:29 and 2:19.
A telegram from Ellsworth, on Friday,
stating that Gen. Butterfield had been
taken prisoner, is untrue. Gen. Butter
field is here.
HARTFORD October S.--Returns of the
election in this state yesterday have been
received from thirty-ODe towns. The
democrats gain five towns, although In
the democratic strongholds there is a
falling off from English's msjOrity Of
last spring. Some seventy towns are TO
| be heard from yet.
RICHMOND, October S.-The following
! facts relative to the coming trial of JEFF
! ferson Davis are from the best authority
! The trial is set for the fourth Monday In
| November and as the government will
not interfere, there will be no postpone
ment by the counsel. The Offense Of
levying war against the government will
/ be testified to by Judge Scarborough, Of
Norfolk, Hon. John Good, member Of
/ the Confederate congress, and Capt.
Heudren, who were compelled to appear
before the Norfolk grand islEv to testify
! to the fact upon which the Indictment
was made. There viii be very few, IL
any, witnesses for the defense. The fact
OF levying war being admitted, the pros
ecution will then proceed with the legal
argument that the prisoner is guilty OF
treason, and the counsel for the defense
will argue that he being citizen Of the
state, and under its law prior allegiance
was due to il, and not to the United
States It has been positively asserted
that Chief Justice Chase will preside
but the supreme court will not commence
its session until the first Monday De-
cemher.
PARIS. October IN. Aehille FOuld,
the eminent statesman and fnancier
died last night, aged sixty'four years.
LONDON, Oct0ber7. Late advices from
China report that a violent and destruc-
tive typhoon had visited the harbor of
Hong Kong, causing great injury to the
shipping. Several vessels were driven
ashore and are total wrecks; others were
sadly damaged and disabled. Destruc-
ton among the Chinese craft was very
extensive, the shores being strewn for
miles with fragments.
LONDON, October 7.-The last steamer
from South America reports the Spanish
fleet still st Monteviedo.
LONDON, October Z, p.m.-It is said
that Lord Derby will resign the premier
ship.
The London papers this morning pub
lish the report that Earl Russell, who is
now in Ireland, was Frustrated by sick
ness; but the correctness Of the report is
positively denied this afternoon.
nf IN a rgu nd
Thornton, the present envoy at Rio ia (
neiro, will be appointed ambassador to |
the United States.
A dispatch from Oddin announces that /
the steamers of the expedition for the /
relief of British soldiers have sailed from |
that place for the Abyssinian coast.
A telegram from Athens, September 1
23d, says hostilities had recommended in .
Gambia. Combats in which the chris
tians obtain the advantage are taking
place daily The Turks have been at
tackled and driven to their entrench-
meuts.
Rumors are current in Madrid that
had been arrived at on the
question pending between Spain and the
United States OF COiOmb bia, relative to
the capture OF the steamship Cuyster.
A royal decree has been promulgated
effective force of the standing
army OF Spain not to exceed $1,000, 900
men.
a commission has been appointed by
The Russian minister of justice to ex-
anime the question Of the abolition of
for debt.
ANTWERP, October THE press Of
Vienna publishes as authentic a sum-
mary of a conversation between the czar
and Faud Pacha, who recently waited
u him. The czar said it was indispen-
iable that Turkey should give up Crete
o Greece; and told Faud TO represent to
he sultan that it would be better to have
Russia for a friend and neighbOr than to
rust TO supporters at the other end of
he world, who, while setting themselves
orth as the defenders Of the Turks in all
are only in reality follow
ng the policy of that same neighbOr.
Tell his majesty, added the Russian
that his neighbor may one day
ease to be conservative, and then Turkey
would find her opposed TO the forces he ,
las at his command.
PARIS, October IA report is current
hat Prussia receives with favor the ap-
zeal of the Haytian government to the I
European sOvereigns against the treaty {
f September and will support the de- .
lands of ItalV in regard to Rome. .