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WASHINGTON.
Several Treaty Seals stolen.


The British Claims Commission.
WAsHINGroN, Sept. 26 The Commits
sioners under the Treaty of Washington,
with the agents and counselors on both
sides had an informal meeting at the de-
partment of State to day. They will not
transact any business until they secure
rooms elsewhere, which they will do in e
few days.
Secretary Boutwell, left for Cincinnati
tonight. ~
Radical Robbers stealing Treaty
- Sea1s.
Geo. H. Chase, Messenger at the Post
Office Department, and Frank McGraw,
watchman at the State Department, have
been arrested on charge of robbing the
latter department of q number of gold
and silver treaty seals. The accused on
being taken to police headquarters, and
finding the detectives in possession OF the
proceeds of their guilt, confessed to the
larceny of seven seals, which they had
melted and sold, and earnestly begged
they might be leniently dealt with, as it
was their first offence. Acting under the
direction of the prisoners, the detectives
recovered number of the gold and silver
nuggets into which the seals had been
melted, and which they were assured
were what remained of esven seals which
they confessed to have stolen from the
treaties in the Department of state sew
eral weeks ago. The Department claims
that ten seals have been stolen, as that
number are missing. One of the seals
was attached to the Turkish treaty, one
to the German Convention, and the 9th
ers to different treaties between the United
States and foreign countries.
The seals, most of which were gold,
were inclosed in circular boxes, some of
gold and others of silver, about an inch
high aud from three 10 five inches in di-
ame,er. Their money value is of course
not SO much of consideration as the enl>
barrsssinent under which the government
viii necessarily labor 10 replace them on
the important documents from which they
were stolen.
The value of the melted silver was $75,
while that of the gold wss several hun
dred dollars. 1t is roughly estimated
that the money value of the stolen seals
is between $400 and $500.
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FRANCE.

A Hait i'm the German Evacuation.
PARIS, Sept. 26.-The evacuation by
the Germans of the four departments
contiguous to Paris has been completed.
1t is known however that the Germans
have halted beyond the borders of those
departments waiting the announcement
that the signatures have been affixed to
the Alsace treaty.
The Entente CordiaIe with Russia.
The Standards Berlin advices report
that the relations of Russia, France and
Turkey have become more intimate. Cd
Minister Schenck has returned.
Isabelia-Another Bourbon Fusion.
PARIS, Sept. 26.-Ex-Qaeen Isabella
has summoned number of Spanish
Grandees to confer for the purpose of eff
fecting reconciliation between the elder
and junior members of her house
Emigration from the Rhine.
New YORK, Sept. 26.-Accounts from
Strasbourg say that the tide of emigration
from that section has been SO great that
measures had to be devised to check 1t.
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Mount OItret Cemetery.

The avenues in this new and already
beautiful cemetery are being improved and
new drives are being made. The rock is
also being taken up, whenever found, SO ts
to remedy all obstruction in digging
graves. Some of the avenues are being
graded and metsled, and ere long our city
can feel proud of such magnificent ceme-
tery. In few yards of the gate entrance,
on the slope q the hill where winds the
avenue, Mr. P. G. Breen has a force at
work excavstiDg for the foundation
of gstekeeper's lodge which is to be
forty eight aud a half by forty-two feet
fioUt with large bay window on the south
side, and three stories high with basement.
The building will be entirely Of rustic
some work by Wish & Kelly and sur
mounted by an octsgon tower. The plan
was drawn by Messrs. Dobson Il William
sJn, architects, and will be one of the most
unique specimens of architectural beauty
TO be seen in any city.
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MASSACHUSETTS,.
Ben Butler will Go 1t Alone.
Assembling of the State Con-
VentiOn.

NEW YoRK, Sept. 26.-Intelligence
from Massachusetts reports that Gen.
Butler has stated that if cheated out of
the nomination at Worcester, he would
run on a separate ticket. Probably he
would run any how.
Counting Noses.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 26.-The
Republicans returns show the election of
LOCI delegates to the Worcester Conven-
iion, of which 492 were fer Butler and
629 against. Majority over Butler 1877.
These figures allow Butler the Springfield
delegation and nearly every other con-
tested case.
Reduced Majority against Butler
Attempts at Coalition.
WORCESTER, Mass Sept. 26.-The
city is crowded with delegates to the
convention of the friends of the different
candidates. A Committee of Confer
ence of the friends of Washburn, Rice
and Loring, have been appointed to bring
about a union of delegates against the
forces of Butler. The returns, as care
fully revised, show q clear majority
against Butler of over 80.
A Butler meeting was held this after
noon in Mechanics Hall, which was
densely packed, some 5000 persons be-
ing present. So much interest is centered
on the gubernstorial question that the re-
mainder of the ticket is scarcely men,
toned.
SpecuiatIOns.
Hon. Geo. F. Hosr is expected to be
present at the Convention. As he is q
pronounced Washburn man, it is stated
the friends of Butler will contest his
election to that position, thus making q
test question of their strength at the out
get.
The Committee of Conference of the
friends of Washburn, Rice and Loring,
have just come out and report that there
is no doubt of harmonious action in the
morning. The Butler men are more con.
tident than ever, and some of his enemies
concede his domination by the convsn.
tiop.
The Latest
Ia. M.-Since the adjournment of the
Conference Committee the confidence OF
the opponents of Butler is much incTess
ed, as the committee positively announce
that they will certainly agree on candi
dates who will be able to rally all the
delegates opposed to Butler. One report
points to Dawes as the man likely to be
agreed upon, while in other quarters it i:
rumored that Gov. Clsin will be the NOM
nee.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Another revolution threatens Peru.

Another revolution threatens Peru.
The cholera is abating in Germany.
The Grant family reached LeaVenworth
yesterday.
Vicksburg reports three new cases of
yellow fever yesterday.
:. The Davidson fountain in Cincinnati,
will be dedicated Oct. 6.
There is an oil well in Terre Haute that
yields rs barrels per diem.
A Philadelphia brewery fell yesterday,
seriously injuring four workmen.
Gen. Douai will prosecute the Inde-
pendence Beige for false charges.
Hon. Louis Papineau, leader of the
Canadian rebellion of 1887, is dead.
The National Council of United Amer
ican Mechanics convened in Baltimore
yesterday.
A terrible storm visited Raleigh, N. G =,
yesterday, prostrating the trees on the
sidewalks.
Five tourists were recently drowned in
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. No Anleri-
cans are mentioned.
At New York regatta Monday, four
oarswomen bore off prizes in the presence
of Is, 600 spectators.
DR.. John s. Winburne, American sm-
bulsncer in France during the late war,
has reached New York.
julius Reuter-, of the famous European
News Company, hss been Baronetted by
the Duke of SAKE Coburg.
The Anti-Tammsny Democrats hold
ward meetings to night to choose dele
gates to the General Committee.
Four acres of shops belonging to q
sheet and boiler plate company at Clev e.
land, were burned down yesterday.
Gladstone was feted at Aberdeen yes.
terday. He said he found the Irish ques.
iion difficult, but hoped TO solve it.
A California sheriff and posse had 9
severe fight Sunday with five of the es.
capped convicts from Nevada. Two were
killed on either side, and the cGmvictI
escaped.
The negroes in council at S. Louis,
| have adopted two Ethiopian holidays
Jan. and July 4. They have gone
back on the amnesty question, and en-
trenched behind the policy of the Repub
| lican Convention of 1868.
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POUGHKEEPSIE.
Terrific Explosion of a Powder
Mill.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, Sept. 26. There was
terrible powder explosion at Reck's pow
der mill, four miles west of Newburg,
this morning and over ton of powder was
burned. One man, Augustus Schultz,
was killed, his body being horribly
mangled. Several persons made miracu-
lous escapes. The reports were heard in
this city and in Rhinebeck and Hudson.
In this city buildings were shaken and
doors slammed. Loss by the explosion
$4,000.
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GREAT BRITAIN.

Two Stories-Take your Choice.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-Disrseh, at ban
quet at Hughenden, proposed toast to
the Queen, and accompanied it with q
speech of feryent eulogy of her msjesty.
Her duties, he said, were excessive, and
no Englishman was under such complete
control of the political traditions of the
country as its sovereign.
LONDON, Sept 26.-World Special
Disraeli, in speech at Hugenden to-day,
declared that the Queen was physically
and morally incapacitated from reigning
any longer. The CONSERVATION is so
great that some journals will suppress
this portion of the speech. Others will
publish it.
Alexis on the Wave.
The Russian squadron escOrting the
Grand Duke Alexis sailed from Falmouth
for New York TO day.
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SYRACUSE.
Meeting of the Radical Fac
tiOns.
The State Convention To Day.

Syracuse, N. Y, Sept 26.-The
gathering in anticipation of the ConveD-
tion is unprecedently large. The hotels
are filling up rapidly. Prominent party
leaders are here in large numbers. A
large New York and Brooklyn delegation
favorable to Mr.. Greeley are quartered at
the Vanderbilt. Neither Mr.. Fenton or
Greeley are here yet Both sides claim q
majority of delegates. There are indica-
tions of large and spirited Convention.
Rival Delegations from New York
City.
New YoRK, Sept. 26.-Great prepsra-
tions are going on among the politicians
gathering at Syracuse to morrow. From
this city and Brooklyn there are delega>
tions from both wings of the Republicans.
1t is thought there is preponderance in
favor of the Greeley wing. The most
prominent and influential members OF the
respective delegations seem desirous OF
having harmonious action and combining
all elements opposed to Tammany for the
purpose of securing honest legislation to
change the municipal government.
BILE Measures.
The Tribune, taking the view that one
great object of the convention should be
reform, states that 1t has learned with re-
gret, that the Customhouse party intend
10 use forcible measures 10 extort from
the convention some expression in their
favor, and that money has been raised for
this pupOse.
Trying 10 C0mprOmise.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 26,-Andrev ].
White will probably be temporary and j.
Il. Griswold permanent chairman Of the
convention, but the leaders evince q pur-
pose to try and corciliste and harmonize.
The present intention is to present three
propositions relative to the local contest in
New York: First, to endorse and sustain
the State Committees action in reOr9sn-
izing the party; second, to authorize the
State Committee to perfect said organiza-
ton, thus providing means for curing any
existing defects and completing the enroll
ment Of all Republicans of either wing;
third, If this is accepted by the Greeley
Fenton men, both New York delegations
are to be admitted on equal terms to the
present convention. The administration
men believe they can carry the two first
propositions without a vote of either city
DELEGATION.
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New RIock of BuiIdIngs.

Mr. John Whorlsy is erecting a fine
block of buildings on South Summer street,
near the corner of Elm street. When COM
pleted they will be two stories high, with
handsome bow windows in front, and with
flights of stone steps at the street entren-
.ces. The red brick front will be relieved
by small balconies above tbs doors, and q
portion of the foundation about three feet
above the ground level, being built of cat
stoue, will give it rich solid appearance.
The brickwork is nearly finished, and Mr..
Whorley expects to have the buildings
completed before Christmas. The block
wdl cost $40, ,O00, and will be among the
most attractive residences on Summer
s}Faaf
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A New JERSEY paper asserts that the
father of lad belonging to Whippany
has received the message given below,
which the elad forwsrdedsby carrier pigeon
from his vessel, the home of the bird be-
ing ct Montclair. The Trenton Gazette
says q calculation of the time showed
that the bird averaged over $50 miles an
hour:
DEAR FATHER: Sept. 10, 1871, lat. 50
deg. 9 N, Ion. "A deg. II W., 800 statute
miles from Montclair, n. il will let
the young female bird Tempest so with
this note at exactly 10 o'clock A. M, New
York time. She is good for 200 miles
an hour. All well.
HARRY G. BLEECKKR.
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BALTIMORE.
The Commercial Convention
An Interesting Day.

~ An Interesting Day.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 26.-The National
Commercial Convention assembled at 10
A. N, Hon. r. NJ. Bishop presiding.
Prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Fuller.
The Tennessee River.
Mr.. James, of Tennessee, submitted
reported relative to the removal of OBJ
sIuctions in the Tennessee river, accom-
panied by resolution requesting Con-
gress to make an appropriation for such
purpose, under the control of the Secre-
lary of War. Referred.
Henry G. Davis, United States Senator
from West Virginia, appeared and took
his seat as delegate.
Oppressive Taxation.
Resolutions being in order the States
were called and a number sent up and
under the rules appropriately referred.
These resolutions embraces almost every
subject, such as the removal of duties on
salt, lieuor and coffee, and tolls on the
Louisville canal; requesting Congress TO
establish bonded warehouses for storing
tobacco and whisky in Cincinnati, ST.
Louis, Chicsgo and other cities.
Ku-KIuX and Martial Law.
Arnim, of South Carolina, offered
resolution asking the convention to ap-
point a committee of three, whose duty
shall be TO prepare and present President
| Grant in The name of the convention, q
memorial asking him not to proclaim
martial law in South Carolins, unless the
| responsible citizens thereof refuse to use
| their influence 10 bring every person to
Justice who is charged with aiding the
Ku-Klux.
| The resolution also directs the same
committee to issue an address to the
people of South Carolina, urging them to
do their utmost duty in srresting every
person who is proven to have committed
| deedsk known ss Ku-Klux outrages.
| The resolution was laid on the table
and the convention took recess.
On re assembling the presentation of
resolutions continued, among which were
the following: Toe regulation of the
sale of petroleum by Congress; the work.
ing of coal mines and the enactment of
stringent laws for the protection of
miners and labOrers; relative to railroad
freights in the South; relative to post
offices and providing against the duplica-
ton of the names thereof.
Water Lines.
A resolution was also offered by hIr.
Monroe, of Iowa, endorsing and approx
ing the action of the Southern CONNER
cial Conventions held at Louisville il
1869, and that at Cincinnati in 1870, re
latiye 10 water line communication be
tween the Mississippi river and the sea
board, comprising, first, connection
through the States of Wisconsin and Hi
nois, between the upper Mississippi and
Lake Michigan; and second, a connection
of the Mississippi river from the moutt
of the Ohio with the Atlantic seaboard
through the Ohio, Kanawha and James
rivers and Ksuawhs canal, and third, the
removal of all distractions to an easy sn(
cheap outlet from the Mississippi TO the
Gulf, and urging On Congress a speedy
completion of the same-sn OF Thicl
was referred.
The convention then adjourned till
| O'Clock tomorrow.
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Mrs. Gen. Haskell, State Librarian, has
received from the conservatory of Mr.. L.
@. Lishev donation consisting Of quite
handsome collection of flowers, for which
she desires to return thanks through our
columns. Mrs. Haskell has made many
improvements in the Library, smong which
is a beautiful aquarium, containing gold
fish, that has been placed in the reading
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a Good Move.

To assure thai portion of the public who
have 10 travel on the Northwestern Rail
road tina! the road is safe Ind in good con-
dItiop, acommittee, consisting of Mr.. John
NJ. Bass, Sg., and several directors of the
\ gshville fnd Chattanooga Railroad, leave
tbs city this morning for the purpose OF
examining the condition of the Tennessee
river bridge, aud ether trestle work on the
North western Railroad.
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MEMPHIS.
Beat Ais Wife TO Death.

Beat Ris Wife TO Death.
MEMPHIS, Sept, 26.-The wife of Jas.
Armstrong, ship carpenter, residing On
Brinkly avenue, died suddenly last night
under circumstances which excited the
suspicion of the neighbors, who notified
the Coroner. An inquest developed tie
fact that she had died from the effects of
beating by her husband, who was ar
rested this evening and committed.
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CHINA,

English Residents Getting Alarmed.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-The British citizens
in Hong Kong have forwarded a memori-
al to the government, complaining of in
cfeasing insecurity of life and property,
and asking the adoption of measures to
remedy the evil.
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Nine wOrkmen Killed.

MONTGOMERY, Sept. 26.-The boiler in
Hardemon's mill, twenty miles north of
Montgomery, exploded yesterday. of
eight employees, five were killed and one
fatally injured. One person was hurled
1O5 yards up the hill and terribly man.
gled. The mill Is q total wreck.
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FoF DOorkecper.

Mt. James 5 Moore. an intelligent, en-
erretic printer OF Nashville, is candidate
for doorkeeper of the House of Represen-
tatives at the approaching session. Give
him the position, and thereby secure a
good doorkeeper.-CJarksCjAe Chronicle
Sent %
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THE WEST INDIES.

Appalling DISn ster-2OO Coolies
Drowned.
KINGSTON, Jam, Sept. pa coolie
vessel from India for Martinique has been
lost on the coast of that island with all
hands. Tive hundred bodies have washed
ashore.
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EnprONenlentS.

Saull NJ. Ament is building handsome
two story brick residence on the corner OF
Carroll and Maple streets. The founda-
tion is Of stone, and is twenty-six feet
front by fity-one feet back 1t will con-
tain ive rooms, and when fni he'd be q
very desirable homo. Adjoining this Mr..
Terry is also having brick kouss built.
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GRANT
Going Back 10 GaIena.

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-President Grant,
who accompanied the Chicago and South
western Railroad excursionists to Kansas
last night, viii return Thursday to his old
home at 'Galens, and will leave there for
Chicago on Saturday, remaining here over
Sunday.
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IEx-sENATOR DOOLITTLE,s

We again yield nearly our entire edito-
rial spscsto extracts from ex Senator
Dooliiile's speech. Those of our friends
who viii read this speech will not deem
an apology necessary from us for having
surrsEdered so much of our space to this
eff RI
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LONDON, Sept 26.-It is reported that
a correspondence has been discovered in
the Tuiileries, developing plan to put
Napoleon on the throne of Belgium.
The discovery occasions a sensation in
Belgium.
New YORK, Sept ga Paris dis
patch says that the Steele discredits the
reports appearing in yesterdays paper of
plot being discovered for the restors-
ton of the Empire, and asks for an inves-
tigation.
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HOWEVER many friends you have, do not
neglect yourself, though you have thous-
and. not one of them loves you so much as
Won ought to love yourself.
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TIE late Mrs. Margaret Kalbfus, of
Baltimore, left ali but $24, 900 of her
estate, valued at $3.50, 900, to the Hu-
name Impartial Society and the Aged
Women's Home, of that city.
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KNOWN unto God are all future events
and contingencies. have thrown myteit
blindlold, and, trust, without reserve,
inso his almighty hands, WhitefeLd.
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CorroS is reported active in New York
Yesterday. although middling is quoted
down to 1880.
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| MON AND AMERICAN.

9oLD was weak in New York yestei-
day, opening at 1l4a, aud falling to ia,
but rallyirg to the former figure before
the close.
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THE TURF.

Exciting TrOt over the Narraganset
ParE.
Providence, Il. l., Sept 26.-The races
over the Narragansett Park to-day were
well attended. The three thousand tVe
hundred dollar race, for horses that never
beat 2:24, was very exciting, requiring SIX
heats to decide the contest.
| .. Summary.
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TESxKssrE RoSDs closed in New York
last evening at III for both issues.
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TIE greatest charm of books is, perhaps,
that we see in them that other nen have
suffered as we have,
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one of twenty-five, Sr of twenty, who
would either give or lend 1000 esch to
run the schools to the summer vacation
Finally the means were found, and the
schools have been kept up, and are now
moving on more protperously than be-
fore. The crisis hss been passed, and for
the future there is no apprehension Of
embarrassment in thst most important
branch Of the public service. Without
running into buncombe on this subject
and still insisting that the schools, As 9TH
er departments, should be conducted with
tconomy-I insist that they shall be main
tsined. There shall be no truer friend of
free public instruction, and do not ad-
NIT that in the past it has had any truer
friend than myselt."
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Near HUI O MIIIhOu UUMes
BALTIMORE, Sept. 26 The court martial
for the trial of PAymaster Hodge COM
menced at Fort McHenry to-day. The
prisoner, through his counsel, pleaded guilty
to all the charges. The sentence will not
be known till promulgated by the War De-
partment.
The exact amount with which Hodge is
officially charged of embezzling is $44O,-
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