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FROM WASHINGTON.
Cuba and the United States.

Cuba ana the United States.
Special Despatch TO The Evening Telegraph
WASHING GToN, april 29.-It appears that the Span
ish Government s very desirous Of disposing of
Cuba to the United States. Her main object appears
to be to get as large sum as possible. Her first
proposition to our Minister, General Sickels was
two hundred millions. The sum was then reduced
fifty millions, and finally to hundred mil
tions. Some time ago Mr.. Fish informed our Minis
Ter that the Government could not at present enter
tain any proposition looking to the acquisition OF
that island.
large number Of
Ohlce-seekers were ut the White House
to-day, who have been waiting some days for the
Presidents return. They were informed there were
no vacancies at present.
Great preparation is being made at the White
House for
A state Dinner to the Diplomatic Corps
tonight.
Desp stches received by the Secretary OF the Inte-
ror to day from The Indian country indicate
Trouble with the Indians.
ESome OF the peaceful tribes are on,the war-path.
Their complaint is that their annuities withheld
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Naval Orders.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-COmmauder s. p. Quack-
enbush is ordered to the Navy Yard at Norfolk as
inspector of supplies; Lieutenant Commander Chas.
w. Kennedy, Leutenants Murray S. Day and RUFUS
Waterman and Master Edw. w. Remey to duty on
the Coast Survey. Chief Engineer James w. Thomp-
son, Jr., to the Navy Yard at Philadelphia. De-
tached Master Fred. ii. Paine from torpedo duty
and ordered to the Wachusett.
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PhIIadeIphia Trade RepOrt.

SATURDAY, April 29.--Seeds-Cloverseed is dull
and nominal We quote at 794@skc. per b., as in
quality. For Timothy 1t is impossible to give relia
BILE quotations. Flaxseed is wanted at s2'O592'tO.
The Flour market continues duh and depressed.
There is scarcely any ioqulry for shipment and the
operations OF the home consumers are limited to
their Immediate wants. About 900 barrels sold, in
Guiding super6ne at $3.50; extras at S5'I596; /;
Wisconsin extra family at 81; Minnesota do. do. at
SIa7.25; Pennsylvania do. do. at So 50a7; Indiana
and Ohio do do. at s725aT75; aud fancy brands at
ss@s25,ss in quality. Rye Flour may be quoted
at s5b0@6T5.
The demand for Wheat is quite limited, and
prices are weak Sales OF 1850 bushels at 81 6O9 1896
for Indiana red; 81 559l'5s for Ohio do. do and
81 so for choice Michigan white. Rye is scarce and
nrm at SlI2@115 for Pennsylvania. Corn is coming
forward more freely, and prices favor buyers;
sales OF 1000 bushels at T5c. for yellow and I4c.
for Western mixed Oats are IN fair request, and
1000 bushels Pennsylvania and Western sold at CSC
6sc. In Ba'leY and Malt no sales were reported.
Whisky is In small supply aud commands full
prices; sales OF 70 barrels Western iron-oound
~ sse,
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FIRST EDITION
THE CIRCUS ACCIDENT.

Further Partlcu1ars-The Coroner's In
vestigation-C Carelessness of the Drivers
Another Accident Barely Averted.
The Newark Advertiser of last evening says:-
The Coroners jury on the accident to Bar
NUNS caravan at Crawford, yesterday rendered
q verdict THAT Theodore Conklin and Edward
Dyer, on the 9th day of April, 1871, at Gran
ford, In Union county, accidentally and by mis-
fortune we're run over and killed on the New
Jersey Central Railroad; and we further find
that no blame is attached to the employees of
said Central Railroad Company" Certificates
of burial we're then given Nr. Cook by the
Coroner, and the bodies of Conklin aud DYER
will be inferred at once by Mr.. Barnum's mana
ger:
The locomotive struck the two hind mules and
the forward part of the wagon with the velocity
of q cannon ball, and scattered them in pieces
on every side. The wagon was smashed to
atoms and strewn with its contents along the
left of the track The two mules were instantly
killed and hoisted twenty feet distant into a
ditch on the right Dody Conklin was thrown
fifty feet into the air. He fell on his head,
making a dent in the earth two or three inches
deep and breaking his neck. The boy Welsh
was also flung into the air, striking on his head
in his descent. The others were scattered here
and there along the road. The engineer of the
train was bruised about the head by the flying
debris and some of the woodwork of the loco
motive was broken. Blood was spatered over
the engine and over the smoking car nearly its
entire length. The force of the collision was
such as to cut the traces OF the two for ward
mules like knife, and set them free uninju
They Immediately bolted, but were afterwards
captured several miles up the country.
Mr.. w. w. Cook. the principal manager of the
circus, on hearing of the accident, telegraphed
TO MIR. Barnum, who was in Bridgeport attend
ing lawsuit as witness. The following reply
was received
"Bury the dead dc Gently. Send the wounded to
Bellevue Hospital, New York Have them treated
well. Pay all expense. P. T. BARNUM."
In accordance with this Mr.. Cook had q
sleeping car put on the o'clock train aud the
wounded sent to New York. They were re-
ceived at Bellevue Hospital and placed under
the best surgical treatment at once. Little
Tommy Walsh is sinking fast.
The cavalcade we learn, also met with mar
row escape at the Jersey street crossing at Eliza
beth in the morning. The drivers were care
less, allowing the ponies and mules to follow the
wagon at the risk of being run over by the
trains The engineer of the New Bruins wick
train saw them in time to blow down brakes,
coming near to a stand STILL thereby saving the
animals The flagmen at the crossing could not
prevent their crossing ahead of the train.
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FROM THE WEST.
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Exclusively to The EUening Telegraph.
Disappearance of a Revenue Collector
Indians Obstruct Railroad Track.
ST. Louis, April 29.-A despatch from Spring
field, Mo-, says a report is current there that
George d. Orner, United States revenue eollec-
tor of that district, has disappeared with some
ten thousand dollars in Government funds.
band of three hundred Indians appeared on
the Kansas Pacific Railroad yesterday between
Eagle Tail and Monotony, and somewhat OBJ
strueted the track. They are thought to be a
portion of the band that recently entered Mono
tony under white ia to trade With the people.
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FROM NEW TORE.
The Stock Exchange,

NEW YORK, April 2s-W. Is. Clarke was to-day
nominated for President OF the Stock Exchange.
Hessrs. X l.. Culling ana ;. Sanders were nomi-
mated as members OF the Governing Committee, in
place Of Frederick White aud D. A. Purdy.
The Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Co.
has declsred semi-annua dividend OF two and one
half per cent, payable May 18th.
VIM. bradford, the Artist,
sailed to-day, on the steamer Batavia for England.
He takes the picture "Arctic Summer" painted for
Commodore Ashbury
The Erie Troubles.
In the suit OF Heath against the Erie Railroad,
before Judge Blatchford, this morntDg, argument
was heard to the order to be entered on the de-
cislon on the demurrer. Mr.. Field claimed that the
demurrer was sustained In every material point and
other side asked for order that would allow his
clients 70 amend their complaint.
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FINANOE AND COMMERCE..
EVENING TELEGRAPH OFFICE
Saturday, April %. 1871.

Saturday, April 20. 1871. !
There is moderately active demand for cap
ital to-day, but not more than the average for
the last day of the week. The demand for COM
mercial paper both at the banks and outside, is
very active, lenders being anxious to find settled
employment for their Increasing balances during
the period when money and business are dull.
Easy rates are invariably offered for good paper
having three to four months to mature, but there
is no vitality to the market. The banks are
taking all the good paper offering at per cent.
Call loans move freely at 5Cd6 per cent on Gov
ernment bonds and other desirable colaterals.
The Government list is strong all through our
quotations, showing a further gain on closing
prices yesterday,
The stock market was less active but almost
uniformly strong. Sales of State 6s, second
series, at 1878, and City 0s, new bonds, at
1929.
Reading Railroad was quiet but strong at 55%
a55 3-16, but no sales were reported. Pennsyl-
vania sold at 661(@665s; Little Sehuylkill at
1885, Camden and Amboy at l26, and Northern
Central at 4354 Oil Creek and Allegheny was
very strong and in demand, with sales at $50
5311
Canal stocks were dull, the only sale being
one of Susquebanna at 10.
The balance of the list was firm, but the sales
were restricted to Manufacturers Bank at 1890
81; Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Railroad at
2411l and Central Transportation at 4616.
The progress of the new United States loan
is shown by the following communication from
the Treasury Department.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, d. c.,
April ~, lsIl.-Messrs Jay Cooke Co, Phtladel
phia, Pa-Gentlemen:-Sn SUBSCRIPTIONS received from
national banks this day ss folows:-
lansing, Mich, Second National ...,....... .$25000
HauodsbuTg, KY, First % 10000
New orleans, La, Union =" ....-....,. 900, 900
Total subscriptions to date, s6l,57O,9OO.
JOHN F. BiGEfiow Chief of Loan Division.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES
Reported by De Haven Bro. No. 4Os. Third street.
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BaItimore Produce MarIket.

BALTIMORE, April 29.-Cotton quiet; middIIng up
land, 14H@14kc; low middliDg, 13L@13Lc.
Flour duh and prices favor buyers; Howard
street superhne s575s6.l2H; do. extra. s6509T'25;
90 family, 81 2599 ;City Mills supernne So 62k9725;
do. extra, s7@s; do family, ts'25sl1; Western su-
Pearrnne' 80 76@Sd2H 90 - extTs sesI&S IS
cbo,co White o. faiT 10 o. nrme HS5 5aS
i'75; prime to choice red sl75@l9O; fair to good,
s150@1 so; common 81 30@1 AS; Ohio and Indiana,
sl55@1'5s; Pennsylvania. 81 50@l'55. Corn-white
Southern steady at 76@17c yellow southern quiet
at 77c.; mixed Western steady at 7l@7sc Oats dull
at 67@Gsc Mess Pork quiet at $40. Bacon hrmer;
shoulders, Sc. rib sdes l0c clear rib, 10Hc. hams,
l6@16hc. Lard quiet at l2c. Whisky unchanged.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
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Trao er.r.xr Gtota..o,.k

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Treasury Statement.
WASHINGTON, April 2e.-The United States Trea-
surer holds as security for circulating notes.
$685. 800, and as security for deposits OF public
moneys Sl5,7l6,500 mutilated notes burned during
the week, sS54,96o total burned s42 s23, ,224 Bank
currency issued for bills destroyed S334 $50; total
amountissued s42 225 953 Balance due for mutiated
notes, s597, 7,271; bank circulation outstanding this
date, f315, ,034, $50; national gold bank circulation
issued 10 date, s440 600; shipments of notes during
the week. ST. ia OF fractional currency s6s5 966
receipts of fractional currency during the weeks
220OO; fractional currency counted and destroyed
during the week s934 400; internal revenue receipts
during April, s9,340,el5. Total receipts, current
fiscal year to date, s12O,6s ,273.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran
ic
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FROM WASHINGTON.
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Death of James Nj. Mason.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-Hon. James Murray
Mason, ex-United States Senator from Vir-
ginia, and Minister to England under the late
Confederate Government, died at his residence,
the "Cluens," near Alexandria, Va, at 10 o'clock
last night.
For some time his health has been failing, and
within the last month he had lost his eyesight.
He died of general debility, the seat of his i'm
mediate complaint being the nervous system,
which was generally deranged. He has been
unconscious for day or Two, and died very
peacefully.
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FROM THE WEST.
LEY Associated PRnss.1

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SVvill MIX.
ST. LOUIS, April 2o-Darymen Of this city have
formed an association to resist the enforcement by
the Board Of Health OF regulations recently adopted,
requiring them to furnish samples OF milk FOR a6aly-
Zation previous 10 its being sold also, requiring
tn to keep the stables In strict sanitary con-
dition, and cease feeding dstllery slops to COWS.
Fire In Warren, Ohio.
CINCINNATI, April 29.-The sash and blind factory
OF B. f. Heiner Co., and dwelling OF David Dren-
ner, at Warren Ohio, ere burned yesterday loss,
s2l, 900; insurance $4,000 in the Lycomng river and
$1,000 in the Lorillard.
Fatal Accident.
james Murphy, an Irlshman, was run oyer by q
train In this city last night and killed.
The Afternoon Papers
when consolidated viii be called the Times and Chro-
nicls. Tie Chronicle editorial sta run the papers.
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FROM CUBA.

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Defeat of the Insurgents.
HAVANA, April 2S.-Advices from Santiago de
Cuba say that the Spanish guerilla Colonel
Benitez encountered the insurgents at Cienoga
Abejucos, near Bayamo, killing four and taking
prisoner Captain Juan Corona, who has been
eXecuted.
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NSw YORK, April 20. - stocks active, but
nGt so strong as at the opening. Money
steady at per cent. Gold, lllS. 6-N0s, 1867.
90. 1855, new. lls; do. 1857. l13; do. 1885, ll3;
le-4Os 1O9'S Virginia 6s, new 72N Missouri6s, 92%
Canton Co., s4H; Cumberland preferred, 32; N Y.
Central and Hudson River 1908; Erie, 2l1I Read
ing, 11Oh; Adams Express, SIS Michigan Central,
1925; Michigan Southern 112H; Illinois Central,
ls41S: Cleveland and Pittsburg 124'G Chicago and
Rock Island, 19H Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, 994 /;
Western Union Telegraph,60.
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New York Bank Statement.
New York Produce Market.

NEW YORK, April 29.-COtton unchanged; sales
5000 bales middings at 15Ic. Flour shade firmer;
sales $500 barrels State at S6T5@66o Ohio at s6'15
Wheat quiet and held higher; new spring at 81 47@
l50 winter red and amber Western at 81 81 l'52.
Corn hrmer aid stock scarce; sales 1000 bushels
mixed Western at 1870 sc. Oats quiet; sales
12, 600 bushels Ohio at 659GTHc. Beef quiet. Pork
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FROM THE DOMINION.
Mr.. w. w. COrcoran
tttIa 90 eiar to-day

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Prince Edwards Island.
CHARLoTTETowN, April 29.-The New York New
foundland and London Telegraph COmpany's cable
connecting this island with New Brunswick, was
repaired yesterday afternoon.
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FROM THE SOUTH.

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Marine Disaster.
KEY WEST April 29.-The steamer City of Gal
weston, from New York April %, twisted the for
ward section OF her shaft Thursday night Off the
Tortugas and returned this port last night. She
viii probably be tOWed to Galveston.
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The large and intelligent black dog belong
ing to the Providence Police Department,
knewn as "Dan," is a valuable animal, and is
said TO have been the means of saving the lives
of no less than Eve persons since becoming the
property Of the city.
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FROM .VEW ENGLAND.
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The Ten Hour Bill.
BOSTON, April 29.-TAe Ten Hour BILL amended to
apply only to minors under eighteen, passed tAe
Housa nv lR1 tn AZ
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Beecher Oh Public Schools.

In Mr.. Beecher's sermon of June 10, he
made the following remarks concerning
public schools which we copy from the
publication of J. NJ. Ford & Co.:
''Then, next, the common school must
be studiously employed to build up, not
simply light and knowledge, but that SYM
pathy between men which comes from their
mingling together in the same sphere of
life. | look upon this indirect effect of
the common school as one of its blessings
particularly i'll this land, where SO many
classes are to be comminuted and mixed.
1t brings together the children of the rich
and the poor, and lays the foundation for
kindly interest and sympathy between them
which they will never Outgrow as long as
they live.
Il remember that the year l came to
Brooklyn, found in one of the churches
man who had been a boy alongside of me
in old Litchield. We had gone to the
implanted brown schoolhouse together.
We had secretly whitfield the benches
together. We had together caught flies
instead of ideas. We had played together.
We had whipped each other-taking turns
from day to day. And so we had grown
up, he the child of an almost outcast shoe
maker, and the child of-Dr. Beecher.
l.
sooner did he mention his name then my
blood tingled, and we grasped hands as if
we had had the same mother. 1t was
because we had set on the same bench in
the common school, and had played togeth-
er when boys, although our parentage and
conditions in society We're far apart-things
which boys know but little about. And
think we cannot over-estimate that sympa-
thy which comes from the mingling of the
high and low, the rich and the poor, the
strong and the weak. The common school
lays the foundation among boys for
knowledge of each other, Il confidence i'll
each other, and n sympathy with each
other which will not wear out during their
whole life.
al believe in colleges and academies,
and select and high schools; but would
rather see all of them perish than to see
the common school perish. l would fain
have the common school made so strong
and SO good, SO large and SO luminous, SO
full of the marrow of good things, that
they who dwell in the neighborhood of it,
no matter how rich they may be, cannot
afford to send their children anywhere else.
Make that which you do for the common
people better than that which can be done
by select classes in the community for
lileIisclNcs. 1 uey tie ooiiis, tHlS III IudSSit-
chusetts and especially in Boston. Make
such provision for the education of the
commonest people, that the richest uncom-
mon people will come suppliantly and ask
for their children the privilege of partici-
pating in the advantage of the common
school. And keep it common. Bring every
body to it, and let them there learn each
others brotherhood. And thus, society,
beginning and passing through the COM
mon school, will form sympathetic associa-
tions which will go on unfolding them
selves afterward, and which will no more
be forgotten by men than the wide spread
ing branches of a tree forget the roots
from which all their magniiicence draws
cnxtapopoa -
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have no health and no physique. Slate
pencils, lily-white, horse-hair, plumpers,
cotton, india rubber, steel corsets and
arsenic, have done their work until adul-
iteration seems to be getting almost as
applicable to our American women as to
American whisky. But Antoinette Brown
Blackwell tells us that she has found
healthy women even in America-rosy-
checked maidens whose education has not
contracted their chests OF their intellect,
who have established harmony between
mind and body by educating the mental
faculties and still retaining fair share of
physical duties. Such girls, as wives, will
bring health and refinement to the farm
love of labor where duty demands it, and
a love of literature, taste, culture and
music, making home attractive, and de-
stroying the contrast between home society
and college associations. BY woman's aid
only can we hope to destroy the supposed
antagonism between education and agricul-
ture, and elevate our calling by drawing
the young men back to farming after fin
ishing their college course, and thus bring
idg into practical use the latest develop
ments of science.-COuntry Gentleman.
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Alexander the Great i'm China.

After Alexander had made war against
Paor, he marched against the emperor of
China. The monarch did not consider
himself equal to the conflict, and went in
disguise to the Grecian camp. He was dis
covered and brought to Alexander who
asked him how he could act in such
manner The emperor replied, 81 was
anxious to see you and your army. L
could have no fear on my own account, as
| knew was an object of dread to Alex
ander; besides, if he we're to STAY me, my
subjects would instantly raise another
king to the throne. But of this can have
no fear as | am satisfied that Alexander
can never be displeased with an action that
shows solicitude TO obtain his friendship"
The conqueror was completely overcome
by this truly Chinese flattery, and conclud-
ed treaty by which, China was spared, on
condition of paying tribute. The emperor
returned to his capitol to make prepare
tions for the entertainment of his great
ally; and the third day he returned with
an army, the dust of which announced its
great numbers, which made Alexander
prepare his force for battle. When both
lines were opposit /, the emperor of China.
with his ministers and mobiles, alighted and
went towards the Grecian prince, who
asked him why he had broken his faith.
81 wished, said ihe emperor, "to show
the number &C my army, that you might
be satisfied / made peace from other mo-
tives thah an inabity to make war. 1t
was nom consulting the stars that l have
been, led to submit. The heavens aid you,
and war not not with them Alexan-
der was so gratifed that he released the
emperor from paying tribute.
NJ Martins China.
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The delay in the L. p. Road has been
owing to the snow drifting into the cuts,
where there has not been, apparently, any
need of snow fence or shedding heretofore.
MANY places the snow had to be hauled out
it was so compact and hard frozen that
snow plows could not remove it. We are
glad to say, with all the delay, and some
times some suffering from exposure and
hunger, there has been no serious amount of
either, and not life lost. The Railroad
Company have been the largest sufferers,
having provided for all the wants of pas
sengers, when delayed, free of cost, which
many will bear cheerful testimony to-
Passengers, as we'll as railroad men, have
endured all cheerfully, with few exceptions,
and rendered every assistance in their
power. We hope the worst has passed, as
trains are now arriving some seven hours
behind their usual time. There is an
immense amount of freight delayed, wait
ing for the road to be cleared of obstruction.
The Company are vigorously prosecuting
the work on the bridge across the Missouri
River which will no doubt be finished by
early summer.
Your former toHnsman, S. M. purnell,
Esq. has found a more genial resting place
OH the Pacific shore, at San Francisco,
where snow storms do not prevail.
OCCASIONAL.