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THE KU-KLUK INVESTIGATION /!
SAVANNAH CUsT0M-HOUsED DEFALCATIOSl
A VESSEL ASHORE.
TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKES
The Pope About Going to Corsica
The Pope's successor being Discussed!
THE SPANISH MINISTRY!
The Pope About Going to Corsica [!
The Pope's successor being DIssussedl
THE SPANISH MINISTRY
Financial Sc Commercial!
The ku-Klux Inyest,gation.

Washington, July 25.-Hon. Thomas
Hardeman, of Macon, Georgia, testified
before the committee to-day. He knew of
no Ku-Klux organizations. The whites,
instead of the blacks, were kept from the
polls by intimidatien-the negroes having
taken possession of the polls. There had
been no organized violence or opposition to
law, except in one instance, where num-
ber Of negroes attempted to tar and feather
one Of their own color for voting the Demo-
cratic ticket, but that was easily sup.
pressed. ia ,,g h es 5l.r s.
The Pope About Going to Corsica--IIis Success
sor Being Discussed, &C., sc.
Neao York, July 25.--aA cable dispatch
to the Herald, dated London the oath inst,
says that the Popemay leave Rome at any
day.. Preparations for his reception are be-
ing made at the Chateau, at Cortc, in Cor
sica. Valeri, the owner Of the chateau, has
had an understanding with Cardinal Anto-
nelli. and is to place it at the disposal Of
the Pope. " tH5aFlst IS
There is movement going on in France
to guarantee the Pope a temporal sovereign
ty over Corsica. The Pope wishes to pub
lish a syllabus in regard to the occupation
of Rome by the Italian government, and
declaring that the measures, Withholding
from him all temporal power, are void.
Measures have already been taken in
Rome to prepare for the choice of the next
Pope. 1t is proposed.to choose one who
may be more moderate in his ideas and not
unfriendly to Italy, and by this means ef-
feet a compromise with the Italian govern
ment. Cardinal Camilla De Pietro Is men
toned. 5q aas sts9 4 l.sse rfsu
The disposition made by the French
Chamber, of the petitions in regard to the
temporal power, is equivalent to laying
them on the table. aaass -asf}
The Savannah Custom House Defalcatiom.
Washington, July 25.-Dr. Walsh, who
is here, has received dispatch from Wit
mans (the assistant collector at Savannah
relatives, stating that they had arranged
the custom-house defalcations satisfactorily.
The Spanish Ministry. w
London, July 25.-Dispatches from Mad
rid, in relation to the recent ministerial
crises, have been somewhat confused, forit
now appears thatthe members of the Cabi-
net, framed by Serrano, have taken the
oath of office. The Minister of War act $
as Minister of State, od interim. Many
Spanish officials have rendered their resig-
nations.
Iefr1Dle EurtnquakeSe
London, July 25.-The Standard pub
fishes accounts of series of terrible earth
|auake shocks, which have recently occur
red in one of the Phillipeni Island. More
than 200 persons We're swallowed up and
every one of them almost instantly killed.
Sixty bodies of the dead have been recov
cred. The rest of the inhabitants fled from
the island, which is utterly depopulated.
Vessel Ashore.
Norfolk, July 25.--The brig Muscovado,
with a cargo of sugar, bound for Baltimore,
is ashore on Body's island. Assistance
will be sent to her from here. f'ti
Tclegraphic Summary.
The reports that ''Red Cloud' was pre-
pairing for the war-path are contradicted.
Charles Dyke, assistant engineer of the
Fulton-the first steamer on the Hudson
and engineer of the first boat down the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans,
is dead. He was S5 years old. - s
The wife of Gideon Lee, and grand
daughter of John C. Calhoun, died at Car
mel, New York, Sunday, aged 26 years.
New York Markets. a'iieg
Eeso York. July 25--Flour dull Wheat firm.
Corn firm Pork quiet at Sl4.504l4.62 Lard
dull. Cotton dull, buyers and sellers apart
Uplands, 20s4 Orleans, 2lss i sales sss bales
Turpentine scarcely firm at 56@5s Rosm
steady at ss.l2,4 for strained. Freights firm.
3 aff Financial. aaai
| Ne,o York, July 25.-Stocks firmer and tolerak
bly, active. Governments duh and steady. State.
| bonds dull and heavy. Money easy at 3 per
| cent. Gold at l2tll2h. Exchange-long, l.l0A;
short, l,loS, .ei% a