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ReCreatlOES OF President Grant.
Capture Of Cuban FIIlbusterS,
Sailing Of More Expeditions.
WASHINGTON.

AcquitfaI Of MOIIie GaIns-IIIIcIt Dis
IIIIerIes-Issue of Short Currency
Negro Rioters 30 be Indicted, etc
WASHINGTON, July 20-The trial of
Mollie Gains, colored, for the murder of
James e. Iugle, n white man, watchman in
the Interior Department, in March last,
terminated to-day. According to her own
story, she had been on terms of improper
intimacy with the deceased, with the pros
pect of becoming q mother. She had
threatened TO kill Ingle and the lady he
had invited TO the inauguration reception.
Mollie was subsequently interrogaLed by
him when she repea e | the threat where
upon he drew a pistol aud place
il 10 her head, but could not discharge il.
The accused had atked him for money in
view Of the anticipated offspring, when he
Tepulsed her. A short time after this
scene she took advantage OF his lying on a
lounge at his boarding house, in which
she was a servant, and killed him with au
axe or a hstchet. The counsel for de-
Tense set up plea of insanity, and numer- 4
ous witnesses were examined on this point
The father of the prisoner showed that from 4
The time of great gIaad parents to the {.
present period insanity had been a ruling
afil Lection of the family. The jury, after an
absence Of two minutes, returned a verdict
Of not guilty Six Of the jurors were white
and the other six were colOred This is
the first murder trial in the District of Co.
lumbia in which the latter race have
served as Jurors.
ofders were received from the War De.
partment oday 10 suspend the recruiting
service in New York city, Carlisle, Penn
sylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio, and TO
forward Immediately all recruits to the
West for service on the frontier.
The Conservative negroes in Washington
are raising a subscription TO defrsy the
expenses Of indicting COchrane Radical ne
gro for mobbing Them and melting tp
riot at the recent election in that city.
Capt. Shirley, who recently visited
Judge J. s. Black, at York, Pennsy lvania,
says The latter is rapidly recovering from
his recent injuries 10y a railroad accident
rear Louisville.
The internal revenue bureau has re-
ceived information of the seizure of eli ht
illic. distileries in WakTOe lc There are
twenty five or thirty more distilleries in
that section. Collectors says the liqlor is
consumed in the vicinity of the dIstill er- |
lee.
The Treasurer has issued $50, 900 worth |
of new ten cent and SIS, 600 worth of new
fifteen cent fractional currency. The new |
twenty five and fifty cent notes will not |
probably be issued before the 1st of August. |
Col l. A Whitley, of Kentucky, died /
here this evening OF consumption. Col. |
Whitley was associate editor of the Louis |
vile journal during the rise, triumphs and |
fall of the Know Nothing party of Ken |
lucky, and for many years controlled the |
Baltimore Clipper. Subsequently be had
charge OF the Washington bureau of the
New Yolk Herald; aud during the past
few years has filled a prominent position
on the National Intelllgencer oI this city.
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THE change of-color of the leaves in
autumn from green to red has been at
tributed to the effect of acid, and it was
asserted that the green color could be
restored by submitting the leaves to the
action of an alkali. This hypothesis,
however, was advanced without any basis
of facts to support it, but the London
Anthen@um now asserts that the theory
has been established by experiment.
Autumn leaves placed under an exhaus-
ted receiver with Vapor ammonia, it is
asserted in nearly every instance lost the
red color and renewed their green. In
some leaves, such as sassafras, the black
berry and maple, the change was rapid
and could be watched by the eye, while
others, particularly certain oaks, turned
gradually brown, without showing any
appearance of green.
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ADVENT OF THE AsIATICs-MALAY
FUNERAL CEREMONIES IN NEW
ORLEANS,

In the lower part Of the city are few
families Of Malays. But under what
circumstances they ever removed here is
not known, but they preserve the cus-
toms and semi barbarous superstitions
that have distinguished their people and
country. They bury their dead at night,
and, like the American Indians, slaughe
ter upon the grave some animal the de-
ceased loved in life.
Saturday afternoon a young girl died
on Barracks street, and was buried Suns
day hight in the old cemetery on Gentilly
road. There being no priest of their res
ligien here, the ceremony was performed
by the oldest man of their country resid-
ing among them. He was clad in a long
black robe, and preceded on foot the
cortege which conveyed the remains to
the grave. Arriving there, the tomb
was anointed, and fish and some cake
placed in the vault. This was accom-
plished by ceremony at once solemn
and impressive. This over, a bird was
killed and laid on the breast of
the deceased, while all the friends
and relatives passed by the coffin,
each one laying their hand on the head
and saying in their native tongue the
simple word Farewell !" No tears were
shed. They do not view the transition
of the soul as an occasion of grief. The
solemn parting is but temporary separa-
ton, and the resignation they manifest
conclude an example Christians might
well afford to initiate. The ceremonial
over, the family returned home accom-
panied by their immediate friends and
fruit, and wine, and bread were given
to each in the name Of the dead. By it
they promise to preserve their constancy
to each other, and by their love for the
dead perpetuate their friendship.-N. O..
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THE WEST INDIES.
Unprecedented Drought Streams
Drying Up-Apprehended Failure of
Crops.

| Unprecedented Drought - streams
Drying Up-Apprehended Failure OF
Crops.
A drought of unprecedented severity
prevails throughout the greater part OF
tae West Indies. In the island of TRIMS
dad the drought is so intense that the
deepest wells in Port Of Spain are almost
dry. The country was completely burnt
up with heat, and several fires had oc~
CURED, with most disastrous results.
One of the fires had trayersed twenty
five square miles of country, destroying
in its course thousands of acres of grow
ing canes; and others had taken place on
cocoa plantations, with similar sad res
suits. In St Lucia the streams have
diminished to such an extent that the
mills are all at a standstil for want of
water to work them. In Guadaloupe
public and private cisterns are alike dried
up, and not adrop Of fresh water is to be
obtained. In the towns the inhabitants
are to be seen at the corners of the differ
ent streets pumping and drinking brack>
ish water; while the distress of domestic
animals and cattle is positively painful to
witness. In Grenada and Antigua the
young canes are perishing for lack of
moisture, months having elapsed since
they have had heavy fall OF rain.
In Barbadoes the weather has been
so dry that serious fears are enter,
tanned fer next years sugar crop.
And ia some parts of Jamaica the
people are actually giving nearly days
labor for single bucket of water; while
the water supply of Kingston, drawn
from river, distant about three miles
from the city, has so greatly diminished
as to awaken serious apprehensions of
consequences in the event Of fire break |
ing out in the city. Says one of the |
Kingston journals; "We can hardly |
dare to contemplate what our position |
would be if fire was now to break out in |
any part of the city. With the strong |
winds of the last few days, every thing |
parched up and dried around US,
and hardly water enough to supply one
hydrant to any purpose, only the good
Providence of God could save US from
the most fearful consequences" Of late
years the rainfall in most of the West
India Islands has greatly diminished,
owing in a great measure, it is supposed,
to the cutting down Of the large trees by
The free settlers in opening up fresh
grounds for the cultivation of coffee,
yams, etc. Similar consequences arisS
ng from the destruction of forests have
been noticed in the East Indies and else
where,
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RATS are great enemies of rice planta-
tiOns. In Java the rice cultivators have
nearly exterminated the rats by encour-
aging the most efficient enemy Of the
lesser rodents, the snakes and not very
long since an enterprising ship captain
brought whole cargo of snakes to Homo,
lulu, expecting to find ready market for
his live stock among the owners Of the
rice swamps. In this, however, he was
disappointed, for the authorities, in spite
of the charms of prospective rice pud-
ding, would not permit him to land his
Spakaa
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CLOTHING made from new kind of pas
per has been patented in England The
c0mponents of the material are said to
be some animal and vegetable substan~
ces never before used. When reduced
to a pulp, and bleached, the completed
fabric is a sort of felt, of extraordinary
pliancy, flexibility and strength. 1t can
belsewed with the needle as tightly as
woven fabrics, and already table cloths,
quilts, shoes and petticoats are in mar
ket, all made from the new material.
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CINCINNATI.

Death Of ohm GIVen-A Terrible Deed
CINCINNATI, July 20.-John Given,
eashier United States Express Company
here, died this morning at Florence, KY.
John M. Meagher, an express wagon
driver, this morning at daylight with an
axe struck his wife in the head three times
cutting off one ear and fracturing her skull.
Supposing her dead be rushed TO the river
and drowned himself Meagher had been
married fifteen years. OF late he was
very Incorporate and disagreed with his
wife, She will scarcely recover,
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THE RAILRoAD FROM RICHMOND TO THE
OHIO.-It is understood that twelve
eminent New York capitalists have unr
dertaken to complete the work begun by
the State of Virginia before the war, Of
building a railroad from Richmond and
Washington to the Ohio river A party
of engineers and railroad men have Just
passed over the route, and say that it is
a very favorable one the distance be-
tween common points at the West and
the seaboard being less, and the grades
twenty-five per cent. less than any Of the
other trunk lines. Two millions OF
money have already been raised for the
proiect.-NeaU York Sun, july Is.
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The New Bedford (Mass.) Mercury,
Of the 7th instant, in an article on the
munifcent bequests Of the nobleshearted
philanthropist, George Peabody, says:
"Mr. Peabody, we learn. designs to
administer upon his own estate. Death
will find him possessed of only means
sufficient for becoming burial. He will
leave nothing for heirs to quarrel but.
His vast estate will not be tied up in
chancery, at the instiga ion of some ava
riciOus heir at law, to the sore disappoint-
ment and suferingof needy benefciaries.
He will finish his good work"
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A VIRGINIA farmer was arrested by
General Canby's Ku-Klux rot long age,
for dischsrging a negro employe on ac-
count of his politics. And now, Lizze
Van Lew, POstma'am Of Richmond, his
discharged her coachman because he
would not agree to vote on her side in
the late election; or, rather, because be
told one of the clerks in the postotfice
that he intended to vote the ticket that
all other white men were going to vote.
General Candy has not yet issued an
order for Lizzie's arrest, we believe; the
reason of this neglect being simply that
she is Radical, while the former was on
the other side Of the political fence.
So it appears to be confessed that Candy,
and the army under him, instead of aid
ing the administration of justice in Vir-
ginia, are devoted to the advancement Of
q particular party and the persecution OF
its opponents. That that is not the duty
for which the army was created, will
hardly be disputed even by candid Radi-
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CALIFORNIA.
The Pacific RaIIways-PrOfectIO TO
Chinese,

Chinese.
SAN Francisco, July 20-Col C G
Hammond appointed General Superin-
tendent Union and Pacific railroad ac>
cepted the position upon conditions that
difference with C R R be cOmpromis :
ed so as to admit good service to public
and fair rates. The Company agreed to
carry fruits to New York, at cent per
pound in greenbacks, also to arrange for
emigrant trains at fare from New York,
of fifty dollars, and from Chicago thirty
eight dollars. A number of leading citi.
zens organized society for the protec
ton Of the Chinese from abuse, by law>
less white men and boys.
The train on the Union and Pacific
railroad ran off the trark 80 miles from
PromontOry, broke through the trustle,
the engineer, fireman and one pessen-
ger were killed.
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BURGLARS IN A Masonic LODGE Room
During Monday night, the 18th inst.
burglars entered the rooms occupied by
Orange, Neptune and Ionic Lodges of F
and A. M, at the corner of Bleecker street
aud the Bowery, New York, blew open
a safe in Orange Lodge and stole the jew
els of the Order, valued at several hun-
dred dollars. They ransacked the library
of the Neptune Lodge, and destroy ed
several Masonic emblems in Ionic Lodge
Several other rooms in the building were
entered and property stolen amounting il
the aggregate to 81 800.
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FAILURES IN ENGLAND.-Seyeral cotton
failures are announced in the latest Eng-
lish journals. In Preston, Messrs. Geo
Smith d Son, Moor Brook Mills, had
been compelled to suspend payment, and
Messrs. Stead, Taylor and Stead, of Liv-
erpool, were preparing the necessary
balance sheet and statements. Nhssrs.
Smith & Son ran $4,000 spindles and
about 45O looms, and employed upwards
of 200 work people. The failures have
also been announced of Messrs r. d
w. jackson, cotton spinners and manu-
facturers, of Lancaster and Preston, who
ran $4,000 spindles and 900 looms, and
employed 800 operatives, and of Mr..
Bourne, of Brindle, near Preston, who
ran $4,000 spindles and 500 looms, and
employed about the same number of
hands. The cotton trade in Preston and
the vicinity-indeed, throughout Lam
cashire-is in a most wretched condition
and there are rumors Of other misfor-
tunes impending.
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QUICK DIsPATCH.-The town OF Helena,
in Montana, was nearly destroyed by
fire two months ago. To1day there is
scarcely trace of the fire in the pfinci-
pal business streets. One hundred and
twenty-four new buildings, worth not
less than 100000, many of them. subs
stantial brick and stone buildings, have
risen as by msgic from the ashes of the
town. This may be called quick dispatch,
indeed, especially when it is stated that
nearly all the stone used in building had
to be quarried, the bricks burned and
the lumber saved in the time named, as
well as the houses built.
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INCIDENT AND ACCIDENT

Troy, July ga large grindstone
burst at II. Green & Sons Spring Works in
North Troy this noon, one large piece
went through the south wall building,
another piece struck man fatally injuring
him.
NEW YORK, July 20 Professor Morse,
the distinguished telegrspher, sustained a
compound fracture of the les by falling al
Lis residence, near Foughkeepsie, Saturday
evening.
RICHMOND, VA, July 20-Oficial ma
iorityof Walker Is l0, ,202
Gen. X. L. Lee is al Rockbidge, Alum
Springs.
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WHAT CHRISTIANS CAN DO.-The
Emperor of China having prohibited
opium cultivation in any part of the Inns
perial dominions, the English are deter
mined to supply the Chinese with an
abundance of this ruinOus narcotic, and
to that end the cultivation of the poppy
is at once to be largely increased In the
Bengal Presidency, and the necessary
orders have been issued in time for the
cultivation Of next year We send mis-
siOnaries and rum to the East Indies
and the British rum and opium. Who
says this is not the age of progress
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VIRGINIA.
Radicals NOT Satisfied with the !

Radicals not Satisfied with the Result
NEW YORK, July 2O.-The Herald says
Col. Whitllesey and number of Virginia
Radicals are in Washington getting up
documents to prove that the election in
Virginia was carried by fraud. Afidsvits
are being prepared and will be placed be-
fore the Reconstruction Committee at the
meeting of Congress. 1t is hoped by this
to have the election set aside, or else have
an investigation held and thus delay the
admission of the State.
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The New YORK BUILDING OPERATIONS.
the superintendent of buildings in New
York city makes the following report fol
the six months ending July l, 1869
Plans and specifications for new buildings
submitted, examined and passed upon
727. OF these, 652 were approved, and
IS being indefinitely drawn, or contain.
ing provisions in violation of the law
were rejected. The number of buildings
proposed to be erected is L. ,2S9, classified
as follows: Firsteclass dwellings, 250
third-class dwellings 2S3; frst>class
stores, IS; second class stores, IA; thirdr
class stores, %; factories, 80; school, 5
stables, 2; churches, l3; public build
ings, l9-total ,2S9.
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MENIP is.

A County Officer Sentenced 10 the
the PenItentiRFy-The Crops, etc.
MEMPHIS, July 20.-Thomas E Leon
ard, late County Trustee, has been sen
tenceI to the penitentiary for five years
and fine inflicted of $4,000.
The wharf boat Prima Donna sunk at
Commerce, Miss, on Saturday.
News from every quarter give cheering
accounts cf the corn and cotton crops.
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LONG BRANCH.

Amer Jean Court Journal yement Is
of the President.
LONG BRANCH, July 20-President
Grant this morning took a stroll along
the beech. After breakfast Senator Thorn
as Murphy sent his team for the Presi.
dents use, which was accepted and long
drive taken along thesea shore. But very
few persons recognised the President. he
being alone. This morning the excursion
party from New York called upon him
and paid their respects. There are quite
a number of visitors here at present, and
extensive preparations are being made for
grand reception to be given on MoAda y
evening
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CHINA and Japan had an area of l ,4OS,
700 square miles in 1860, and pOpula-
ton of 475 millions of inhabitants. an
average of about 325 to the square miles
They have probably increased in popu
lasiOn since that time. No wonder the
governments Of those countries are anx-
ions to find homelfor few hundreds of
thousands of their oyerplus inhabitant,
In the land ofthe free and the home to
the brave"
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THE Prince of Wales must be the
prince of spendthrifts, if the stories about
his "straitened circumstances" can be
relied on. His annual income cannot be
much, if any, less than EI5O,OOO, and
may exceed that sum. And yet it is
proposed to appeal to parliament to
pay the princes travelling expenses in
the East, in consideration of his narrow
resources. Seven or eight hundred
thousand dollars year, one would think
ought to keep prince from begging,
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MACON.
The Trial of Turner.

MACON, GA, July 2O.-The evidence in
the Turner case taken to-day, is volumin
Gus and conflicting, Marion Harris still
asserting her innocense, says she got the
counterfeiLs found in her possession, from
q colortd attache of the TreasGry Depart.
ment named Shuman. The court reae rved
its decision until Tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock.
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THE CASTOR BEAN AND THE Cotton
PLANT.-A Beaumont correspondent OF
the Jasper Newsboy says one stalk CT
the castor bean come up last year among
the cotton of w. II. Baldwin, Of that
neighborhood, and, that, although the
worms destroyed nearly his whole crop,
there were no sign of the worm within a
hundred yards of the castor bean plant.
A neighbor of his planted the bean in his
cotton fields to poison the moles, and his
cotton suffered no damage from worms
This year DR.. Baldwin has planted the
bean in every thirtieth row Of his cotton
These facts corroborste many similar
statements, some Of which we have pub
lished.- Galveston .NesCS.
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WHALE CATCHING BY ELEC-
TRICKY.

A London firm have just obtained 8
patent for a method, startling to cold
salts" in its originality, for catching
whales ty electricity. By their plan
every whaleboat is provided with gal
vanic battery. Wires from opposite poles
run down to the points of each. set o
harpoons. When the whale is sufficien.-
ly near, two harpoons are thrown as
nearly simultaneously as possible, and
when imbedded in the flesh of the
monster completes the circuit. The
charge is expected to be sufficiently pow
erful to paralyze the animal, so that the
small boat may advance and dispatch
h i'm at leisure.
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BOSTON.

proposition for a Musical congress.
BosTON, July 20.-Mr. E. Purge, a
gentleman who did great service in the
Peace Jubilee, has Issued card TO all mu-
sical societies and glee clubs throughout
the United States, asking them 10 send
delegates to a congress, to be held in Bos-
ton on the 22d of September. The object
will be TO effect a national organization.
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SCOTT, the carpst>bagger who is acts
ing under a negro election as Governor
Of South Carolina, seems to have been
utterly unable to find among his ebony
constituents people able to fill the offices.
He consequently made a pilgrimage to
Ohio recently, and one of its results is
given in the Toledo Blade, which intro
duces letter with the remark that it is
from one Hayward, "who went to South
Carolina a few weeks ago with some
others from this city, to whom Governor
Scott gave positions as State officers"
A whole volume could not better des-
cribe the disgusting denominations Of car
pet-baggery, than these three lines ad-
mitting the importation of vagabonds
into Southern State, expressly to fill
its offices.
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PARAGUAY.

Pr EpeCt of Another Battle Between
Lopez and the Allies.
New York, July 2O.-Rio Jaueiro
dates of June %, state a correspondence
Of some interest has been going on between
Lopez and the Count Deu in which the
former demands that allies prohibit the use
Of the Pa-sguayan flag by the allied array.
Deu had advanced with his army to
Puerayer, about seven mile, from LDl ez'
hesduuartGrs
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APPOINTMENT. Baldwin Hay, Jr.,
son of the late John Hay, of Clarke
county, Virginia, has been appointed
Vice Consul at the port of Jaffa, (anclent
Joppa,) Asia Minor. He is young man
twenty three years of age, and has been
resident of Athens, Greece, for several
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ARKANSAS.

Probable Capture and Murder of
Capt COIIyer.
MEMPHIS, July 20.-The horse of Capt
Collyer is in po session Of the negroes who
went in pursuit after the killing Of Haynes.
Tue suppcsition is that he has been cap.
tnred aud killed by them.