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New-York tribune., 1871-12-13
ExpLos1oN OF A LOCOMOTIVE - THREE MEN
KILLED.

CAIRO, H., Dec. ia locomotive attached
TO water train the Illinois Central Ralu osd expodeo
To-. ,ht near Centrsls Houck engineer, BrewingOn,
nremsn and Keen, brakeman, vere killed. The engine
WA demolished.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-13
FIRE IN HONEsDALE,RENN.

HoNEsDALE, Penn, Dec. 12.-The hardware
store Of Hartley Rogers the provision and nour store
Of Holmes Co.. the sOe stors OF c. n. Scott, the drns
store Of DR.. w. Brady and the cigar store Of Jacob
Miller were burned this afternoon. At one time tho
whole street threatened with Destruction by the
flames communicating to Durand q TOrreys boot and
shoe msuufsctOry. several families lived In the bprned
buildings who lost ueary all their household goods
Hartley b Rogers lose &l20o0; HOlmes 4 Co., about
$4,000; DR.. Brady $500 &C. NJ. Scott $4,000; the totA
loss will be about OOe0. The building occupied by
Holmes 4 CO. and Hartley Rogers etlSnss " W. b.
Holmes DE- Brady owned the other buildings.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-13
cRrns AND cAsuAL1Rs-bY TELEGRAPH.

CRI060 AND CAbUAII1G0-0I TEL80HAEh.
The Esgle Hotel. at Northampton, Mass, wss
partially dsseysd By ass ysssstay Lee. sWa hI1 tssrsA
1.-Two mail-carriers Of tho Islsnd Of Orleans,
wts As Wy V osssss vsss lssvssa b Mas asA ~ ~
o. Saturday lasl
..A bridge on tho Cincinnati and Indianapolis
s.sdss. iss sI.SsS
The jury IN the Blackburn eess q Chfhcothe,
Ohe rsetsrsd vsea lesesr6ay q nases - eea eegs~
nsuss It Ssv taAl vtn - sFgase ~ ~ SsaeeaV s
1.-Two brothefs named noHA!l one an engineer
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Timothy Quinn va f1$alN eabbe4 BY Nile
S,: aso:: ts ss',si =: az ~ 8 ~ ss - sse. s
- say axSs1 ht1he6A
..,'sJudse Delos IAks. who asesulted Charles D. E.
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Nc: Vs.: = =: 49,. q - .ss 5 sss'sf '''
....A Destructive fro occurred st Honssdals,
Irspsrty i.fl.:s sss Z A.sy naQsH sssHa..s.
Srsdys ~ yse>fs sssasS asy III ssvsssl b
issssssee
Geo. Anderson and John D. PattArsun, eEaresd
I'd o. nssiss Hdws1 Cssaais0 ~ Vssi s 1ssc OAs vsS
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New-York tribune., 1871-12-13

One Of the finest and most valuable pietures
in the art collection as warwick Castle Was Crce BY
Guido-unversally regarded masterpiece-forivhic
the present Earl Of warwick 10 said " have paid 2S
The coat Of the collection destroyed by the recent ire Is
estimated st A7oo and Il could not be replaced for
twice that sum-
New-York tribune., 1871-12-13
TIE GENEVA BOARD OF ARBITRATION.

THE GENEVA BOARD OF ARBITRATION.
A PRELIMINARY MEETING TO TAKE PLACE IMME-
DIATELY.
LONDON. Tuesday, Dec IL, 1871.
Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander COckburn
has gone Geneva attend the preliminary meeting OF
the Board Of Arbrators appointed under the Treaty Of
Washington The business to be transacted Is purely
formal viz the ratification Of the powers Of the Arbi
ators The British Government proposed TO dispense
with but the Washington Cabinet Obected and 1t will
necessary members Of the Board to be
person the appointed day. is possible that
at the first meeting complete organization may he
effected hut the probability s that nothing Will be at
tempted beyond the exchange OF credentials.
New-York tribune., 1871-12-13
FRANCE.

ALIENATION OF THE CROWN JEWELS TO THE
STATE.
PARIS, Tuesday. Dec. -, 1871
The National Assembly, at its session of to-
day adopted by vote Of $50 TO 27 recomIne ndation
from the committee having charge he subject, for the
alienation 70 the State Of the crown jewels.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04
tenns,

A St Louis woman got tired of seeinp n car
ofpowder lying around and threw il in The
stove. Her husband has already bought new
stove, and is looking around for his second
wife.
A man named Davis was seized with a fit al
Leavenworth day or two since, and in falling
he was plunged over an embankment and
went head first into bed of soft mud and sand
death. -
a COM nt-at-arms French of Washington has
one shot disguise of Ku. Klux, taken from
an entire S sait niGing in North Carolina 1t is
ton, trimmed a nne material used is black cot
ing loose coat. W whine Comprises long fam
'isor 70 drop when Necessary ' ne'met' with
Oollector Russell, who returned f,
European au tour, was met in Boston om ina short
large number of bis friends on steam oay by a
Gen. W. 7. Sherman was at Watar.n
T., wednesday, when he inspected the tr, N.
III madison barracks. He declined rece ,nto;ops
~ BENJAMIN Cahoon, a retired paymaster Of tho
Navy was declared insrne by a professio ,n9
commission at New York, Wednesday, 'eI Tbara
was suit pending for $4,000. AA'''
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

The Belfast journal says Sunday morning
last Mr.. Josiah.P. Cunningha of Swanville,
was found dead in his bed He had been uni
well for some weeks, but had recovered, and
marking. that he had not felt so well for a LONG
time. He retired at the usual hour. In the
morning, his daughter, finding that her father
was not up as usual, went to his room and
found that he was dead, lying in an easy and
natural position, with nothing to indicate that
he had passed at once and easily to the sleep of
death. Mr.. Cunningham was prominent and
respected citizen. about 81 years of age.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Mrs. Caroline McGreg0r died few DAYS
siuce at Lubec, of hydrOphobia. Early last
June she was playing, aboard a vessel 10 New
York, with poodle dog which had been pre-.
sented to her by a friend of her husband
hold of her fingers aud bit and lacerated them
The wounds vel, dressed and healed up after
her return home, and she thought no more of
it. A few days ago she complained Of being
unwell and of pains dartine from her hands to
her head accompanied with choking sensa-
ton. A physician was called to her, who pro-
nounced it a case of hydrophObia. She suffer-
ed severely for several days before her DEATH
She wonld not hear to her friends or relatives
being called to see her after being told by her
physician what her trouble was, SO none OF
them knew she was sick till informed of her
death.
YORK COUNTY.
Mr.. Frank Harmon of Buxton, had an al
most miraculous escape from death Wednes-
day morning. Mr. H. ia foreman in the mills
of c. W. McKenuey, Esq He was engages
in fastening key in a wheel in the lower part
of the mill when by msshit of the hammer
he was thrown upon the machinery. Fortu
nately he hnd the presence OF mind 10 cling tt
the machinery upon which he sti uck, and was
thereby saved from horrible death. A mill
man near at hand sprang and shat off the pow
er, and MIR. Harmon escaped with few bruises
IN GENERAL.
Only IL miles of iron remain to be laid tt
complete the line of the European and North
American Railway.
The Annual Session of the Maine Dental As
ISOLATION, will be held in Lewiston on Tuesday
August 18th. The meeting will be held il
Grand Army Hall.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

A New YORK exchange says that the
two sconndrels who committed one murder
and another deadly assault Sunday night on one
of the Second Avenue cars, are reported to
have been drunk. Foster the murderer of
Putnam was "craZy drunk" to use his own
words. 1t adds that at least four-ffths of the
violent assaults which take place n New
York and it might have added, elsewhere. are
superindaced by rum. 1t is an old story: but
none the less true. Many remedies hrye been
tried and many theories advanced and vet the
crime goes on. The Commercial Adrer-
tSset says there is an easy way to check the
great evil. The plan is to "pass law to pun
lsh any person found drunk in public, by i'm
prsonment for not less than one year. Make
drunkenness under such circumstances GRIM
inal, and depend ubon it the streets and nub-
lie places of New York would soon be relieved
OF most of the ruffians who now render the
lives of respectable citizens so insecure"
The impartial enforcement of such a law
would work radical change. 1t would re-
quire great expansion of prison room in the
State that enacted it and be morally certain
of an early repeal. What number of well.
known faces of all classes would be known no
more under rigid enforcement of such a
strtute.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

,,naorstood to represent the President. An
independent paper says "these things look
yell for Gen. Grants denomination, and
united Republican party"
A despatch from Suffers Creek, in the
mining districts Of California, reports that at
a democratic county convention the delegates
from the miners refused to support the NOM
nations, and were especially severe in criti-
cising Governor Haight. They held a sepa'
rate convention. Most of the miners, it is
said, will support Mr.. Booth and the whole
Republican state ticket.
The Butler County (Ohio) Democrat re-
fuses to "depart," judging from the following
which it published few days ago: "If the
new departure is Dead" said friend within
our hearing, the other day, "why not let ii
alone ?" "Why? because we want to bury II !!
We are not such heather as to refuse sep
ulture to the carcass of even such hybrld
devil as the ''new departure" We want td
bury it so deep and securely, by covering II
up with true democratic principles that 1t VIII
| never have a resurrectit IL"
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

GREAT INSULT TO A WHITE GIRL.-Any-
thing which makes man laugh heartily in
hot weather is worthy of welcome, and an &C
count OF spelling school in Bucyrus, Ohio, is
match in this syllable seminary, everybody
was spelled down save the daughter of The
Democratic Forum and young mulatto miss.
the child of barber. The words ''irreligious1
and "sacriligious" were put out; the white
girl mispelt both, and the dark colord girl won
the photographed laurels. Upon this, the
indignant parent published an article on the
subject in his Forum, in which, of course, he
asked as. that ancient question, "Hnw would you
like to have your daughter marry negro r.
"a query considered by many minds as an
unanswerable settler. Then a Republican
newspaper defended the victorious yellow
maid, and the editor of The Forum respond
ed that 'the feelings of his family had been
wounded in most unprofessional manner"
1t must be some consolation to Black men to
see what asses some White men make of
themselves,
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

The WEsTFIELD EXPLOSION Coroner Kee.
nan has selected the following Jurors for the
inquest on the victims of the Westfield disas.
ter: L. M. Bates, importer of silks, 451 Broad
way, George e. Nichols, dealer in furs, Az
Broadway, John Thompson, importer of fancy
goods, al Broadway, William Thompson of
Brooklyn, employed at s. Howard street. The
inquest will be held Immediately in one of the
rooms of the court house or tho city hall, large
enough to hold the crowd expected to be pres
ent. Fifty witnesses have already been sum-
mOned
The number of deaths from the accident is
now estimated at from 70 to 49, Michael Kel-
ley OF Brooklyn, died yesterday from injuries
received by the explosion. Several persons
are still missing, including Bernard Gillespie,
a staten Island tailor, who came up to the city
T ~ .ne morning to visit his married daughter.
Iwenty-four victims of the explosion still re-
very low condition. 80
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04
INvrsftdArloN ov mara FeaRysoAr fl1s.s.

INvEsfidATIoN OF THE FfRRYBoAT DtsAs.
rER.-Dr Vanderweyde who has made the
freaks OF steamboiler explosions a special studv
for ten years, and has recently given illustra-
ted descriptions of boiler explosion in the
Manufacturer aud Builder, examined the boil.
er of the Westield Tuesday, and states that
the cause of the accident was five-fold: 1. The
defective design Of this style of boiler bad
workmanship. B. The iDjudicious and care
less method of testing. 4, Negligence of the
engineer. 5, Indifference of the proprietors.
The official inquiry, under the direction of
Mr.. Addison Lowe, supervisor of the New
York inspection district into the condit on of
the boiler of the Westfield at the last ipspec.
ton, was commenced Wednesday morning
The board of inquiry consisted of Leonard A.
Boole of the local inspection district, and Mr.,
Hill of Boston. The latter persen was sum-
! moned to replace Mr.. Mathews, one of the in
| spectors, who is one of the witnesses.
Mr.. Mathews said he gaze the certificate
| freely and would have Travelled on the West
| field last Sunday He did not try to lift the
valve, because it was of no use without steam
pressure, but everything appeared free ard
| clear. He tested the boiler at "a pounds nv
| drostatic pressure and the gauge would ipdi.
| cate 80 pounds. The diameter of the boiler was
| ten ieet; be had no means of knowing its
| thickness, but should think it was quarter OF
| an inch thick He never know of safety
valve not working unless arrested by the en-
| gineer Had no conversation with the engi.
neer as TO his qualifications. Even if the safe
ty valve opened, the steam might have cot to q
dangerous point, and they were generating II
rapidly. The shell showed no signs of weak.
ness. There were two patches on the bottom,
over the seams. Witness served his appren
ticeship as engineer nine years in the naval
service and was engineer on the Pacific coast
Jacob IL. Vanderbilt, president of Staten L.
land railroad company stated that the company
| had three boats He considered the Westfeld
the best. She was built in 1862. Her engines
| were built by Allan and she was, though the
Oldest, the best because it was made before the
war, when better iron could be got and he pre-.
ferred the cOlored engineer, Robinson, to all
the rest. The West6eld was to have been pu,
into the dock that day, but not for anything
about the boiler, but for cleaning the fues, etc
The pilot was just over the boiler and the
| captain over the other end of the boat wher
| the explosion occurred. He bad no idea of the
cause The Westfield was not an extra boat.
The inqairy was then adjourned till to.mor
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

THE Crops. "A gentleman from the upper
Kennebec says that the hay crop from Bing
ham to Fairfield is about twO-thirds as much
as last year, which was considered light crop.
The grain crop in that section will amount to
very little, many pieces being already moved
to save it from the grasshoppers. Potatoes
promise well now, and there will be good
crop of corn with the usual length of season,
it being little late.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

LIE Machias Union says that Mr.. Kimbalil
hiiows now to work with his own hands, .
and adds: LET us have hard-isted me-
chanic for Governor of Maine.n Yes hu all
means-Mr. kimball's fists have become in
durated to an incredible extent, "sittng,n as
a correspondent lately said, sin his gass-par-
titioned, photographed, elegantly furnished
office, surrounded by crowd of waiting
men," Sitting thus and growing richer on
the profits of other mems toll is what Sena-
tor Sprague, Gen. Butler, Mr.. Kimbal and
the Machias Union call being "a working
man" and "hard-fisted mechanic"
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

JOHN w. DOUGLAS, the new Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, vice General Pleasonton
is citizen of Erie county, Pennsylvania. and
is admirably qualified by abundant expert
ence to discharge the duties of that position.
As Assistant Commissioner he obtained a
full insight into its machinery, and by his
suavity and energy secured the confidence of
the Executive and members of Cabinet and
Congress. He is sound lawyer and in the
prime OF life. In hearty sympathy and CO.
operation with Secretary Boutwell,, he will
promote the efficient and successful collection
OF the internal revenue.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04
.a The PoPE's CoUP D'ETAT.-The Rom e
.lx...A &c

,s The PoPEs CoUP D'ETAT-The Rom
correspondent of the London Neacs says:
The collapse of the temporal power has sore
ly damped the spirits of the lnfalliblists, and
has greatly raised the courage of those who,
with varying degrees of frankness and vigor,
were opposed to the last Papal move. Cardi-
nails and Monsignori, whose opposition was of
mitigated character, while the strong cur
rent OF UltramOutane passion ran in full tide,
and whose opposition Was mitigated by the
supposed necessity of sinking minor differen-
ces in the interests of the temporal power, take
now another view of the question with the
Italian Government de6nately established in
Rome. These Cardinals and Monsignori have
ing no longer any reason to be silent, are
speaking out The temporal power is gone.
Whit if the spiritual authority in Bavaria and
Austria, in the Rhine Provinces, in many a
French diocese, should share the same fate
The Liberal party in the Vatican are DESTROYS
of warding of this mischief. They are at
present doing everything in their power to
make Plus IA.-if not absolutely retrace his
steps-that would be to great, too public, too
signal humiiation-at least slacken speed,
and no longer hurry downward on the steep
and dangerous path which he has been lately
treading. Should their efforts prove altogeth-
er unsuccessful they will openly side with
Dollinger and Father Hyacnthe. These are
no vague and idle dreams-they are the plain,
straightforward assurances of great Cathalic
churchmen, by whom such course is regard
ed as the sole means capable, if not of saving
st. Peters bark, at least of constructing such
a raft or life-boat as may enable them 10 reach
the shore in salty. Nor must it be forgotten
that these men have their own personal jea-
ousies and vanity and ambition of which the
hopes and aims are menaced by the attitude
of the Pope, and by the new administrative
instruments at his disposal for giving effect to
to his schemes, his desires, or it may be his
mere caprice. 1t is well known that he pro-
poses by special bull, possessing the sanction
of his newly assumed personal infallbility, to
ovcrrule and override the ancient usages of
the Sacred College. By the exercise of this
new authority he will nominate his successor.
Cardinal Patrizi is designated as such, and the
Cardinal will be authorized to assume at
once the Papal tiara without the regular sum.
monng and legal formalities of conclave.
Cardinal Patrizi is also associated by the Pope
in the cares of the present, as preparatory to
those of his own future Government 1t NAV
perhaps interest the author of "Sartor Resar-
tus" to be informed that among the most
pressing anxieties of the future Pontiff at the
present moment is the idea of so completely
remodeling the dress of the clergy both secu
lar and regular, that is shall no longer associ-
ate the persons of the wearers with the men,
ories of medieval times, but place them, in
outward garb at least, on footing not great
ly different from the rest of their fellow -citi-
ZenS.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

No Uo.-A gentleman writing from Park
.na, Iiscataquis county, says that paper
a was pens passed around for signatures, for
aIo.ner candidate for Governor. but II di5 NOT
meet sufhclent success to entitle IL - nv,
first class failure. 1t is foregon NJ 'e e ealeu
Sion that SIDNEY PERHAM will 60. uoiioi''-
the mass of the. Republican voters Of NJ. sun
simply because he is careful, honest, indus
trious and intelligent official.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

THERE are those beyond the newspaper of.
fees who will rejoice at the announcement
that Secretary Deano has settled the "cam D
OF william McGarrahan and the opposing one
OF the Idria Mining Company by dsciding
against both. What will take its place?
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04
P0liticaINOfes,

Ex-senator Morgan appears now to be
armed with the olive branch of peace to the
Republican divisions in New York, and it is
sa,d that his mission is likely to be successful.
"peing accepted by Fenton and Greeley, and
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04
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The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04

So notorious has the story of the transac-
tons of the Ring become that they have be-
come the topic of gossip at the watering places.
The Saratoga correspondent OF the CONNER.
cial Advertiser in his recent letter gives the
following:
The Hon. Demas Barnes-leader of the
Brooklyn Democracy-and whose excellent
ideas on the national finances during the
Thiity-eighth Congress "did the State some
SERVICE" is frank in expressing his opinion
as to the duty of the Democratic Party in re-
gard to Hall and Connolly.
"Do you believe the Times charges are
truep" [ asked Oh the steps OF Congress Hall,
yesterday. -
"Of course--they are proved beyond a
doubt" replied Mr.. Barnes.
"What can Tammany do?" asked.
"Why, Tammany must denounce these fell
lows and join with the Young Democracy In
riddiHg the National Democratic Party of this
damnable incubus and shame, or Tammany
must itself sink beyond resurrection. If we
90 into the next election with these political
and financial parasites (Jef. Davis and Hall),
we will meet, and justly, with an overwhelnl-
ing defeat"
"What can the party do?"
"Do? Why the Young Democracy must de-
nOunce these fellows, put them in their pOliti-
cal grGUes, and accept a platform of reform, "
said Mr.. Barnes, Indignantly. "The Young
Democracy of New York have known OF these
operations for months, knew it in Albany last
winter, and they are now heart and hand
with the Times. This is not Republican
thunder against dishonesty which you hear
rumbling through the country-it is the
| thunder of common Democratic and Republi-
can honesty; and the man or party who pub
| licly or privately defends these men might as
well commence to dig his political grave"
"Why, Sheriff O'Brien and all the Young
Democracy here admit and condemn the
stealing on the part of these men and the old
Tammanyites, and We'll all start the Young
Democracy so vigorously next Fall that Tam
many will have to stand from UNDER"
General Babcock, General Grants chief of
staff, says the President knew of the false and
outrageous New York accounts some time
ago, and that ex-congressman Morgan, who
owns "a per cent. of the Times stock, told him
General B. at the Astor House, about the
projectede1pOse.
"Why did not General Hall stop it?' asked
B."
Gle did try to-" said Mr.. Morgan. "When
he and Connolly found out what was up, they
offered the Raymond heirs $105O0 for stock
which originally cost ST. 900; then they went
to Bonner, of the Ledger, and Simonton, and
offered $4,000 to each for stock which was
worth about $4,000, and we had to buy all
this stock ourselves las we were permitted by
co-partnership papers to do) to keep it out Of
the hands of the ring. Fooled in this, they
came flat to George Jones, and offered ST 900.
900 for the Times. Mr.. Jones, who, with my
self, owns eighty four per cent. of the paper,
consulted with me, and we decided to reject
all offers, and go ahead and make the fight
against the ring" Fernando Wood still ar
CUES in favor of Hall and Connolly.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-04
Portland Observatory.

MO Stranger should leave the City without visit
IN ing the Observatory on MurjOy's Hill. From
the cupOa 217 feet above the Sea. may he seen the
entire City, the Ocean to the HORIZON Casce Bay.
with its 1865 Islands The White Mountains 80
miles distant. and with the powerful Telescope
mounted in the cupola objects 80 miles distant in
every direction may be DISTINCTLY seen, The views
here are SAID to unsurpassed for beauty and va
rety by any in the world. Coz gress street cars pass
every Is minutes. SN jy22 3m