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MEMPHIS.

MEMPHIS, August t21.-President Grant
has directed Collector Smith to discon.
tinue the tearing up ol the track Of the
Memphis & Little Rock Railroad, after
Mr.. Greenlaw, the principal stockholder,
had explained the injustice Of the customs
assessed by Collector Smith.
F. " Rocket, editor Of the Public
Ledger, died last night, after protracted
illness.
The trial Of Joe Masso, for killing
Grove, his father.in.law, last winter, and
shooting his wife and mother.in.law, com.
mences at Bartlett, to-day.
The weather is Intensely hot. The
continued drought is beginning to tell on
the crop, whichHis shedding squares and
bolls.
Charles Kortrecht, aged ten years, son
Of a well known lawyer Of this city, was
drowned at the foot af Jefferson street
to-day, by falling out Of skif. The
body has not been recovered.
Corey Waters, who killed Spike Molin,
a few days since, has been indicted for
murder,
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cal firm Of Seward, Weed & Greeley. n
famous political combination, which has
long since been dissolved, and which has
been quite cast into the shade by the
nomination Of the junior member for
the Presidency. The Brooklyn IN. W
Eagle, a well posted journal on national
as well as local matters, says that "Wide
as has been the influence OF each Of these
men, heightened as has been his political
career, and deep hisinterest In the politi.
cal state-craft Of his time, neither one OF
the three ever controlled or belonged 10
movement 80 powerful, so novel, and
so different from and yet so character
isuc Of American politics, as that which
to-day has placed Horace Greeley in the
foreground OF national affairs. II Is safe
to say that at no time within the past
forty years has our national politics been
free from the influence Of one or more OF
these men. They were all great politi.
clans, and men Of keen insight into pop.
ular character. Weed, cold, saturnine,
cynical and subtitle; Seward, brilliant,
diplomatic and Of finer grain Of culture
than the others; Greeley, frank, outspoken,
OF the sledgehammer school Of logic, and
more popular than his partners, by rea-
son Of those very qualities, with the
masses whom he fought. One can easily
see the germs Of success in this mighty
intellectual combination; how the short.
comings Of one member would be filled
In by the exuberances OF another; how
one partner might succeed by sterling
blows where another had failed by dip
lomacy; and how each for all and all for
each might have raised TO very pinacle
of triumvirate influence the political firm
Of Seward, Weed 6 Greeley"
When Greeley seeded from the firm
the giant combination fell. And now
Seward, very old and paralyzed, and
Weed, white.haired, bent and crooked,
are talking with quavering and perhaps
querulous voices over the wonderful
prospects Of Greeley, over what they con.
slider the caprices Of fortune, while Gree
ley is streaming throughout the upper
regions ol the political armament like
comet, and they are spluttering in their
sockets like old tallow candles, about to
be extinguished in their own grease.
The Brooklyn Eagle thinks that the NOR.
al OF all this is "that the man who Is frank
and outspoken, though hard opponent,
is in the end gamer with the people
over the diplomat and the cunning maker
of combinations. That is the moral OF
Horace Greeley's success, or of William
Il. Stewards failure in the one great oh.
ject Of his life; Of the visit of Thurlow
Weed to Auburn to talk over this aston.
ishing movement Of political life with the
former sharer ofhis secrets and partner
Of his power"
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Arkansas Republican Convention.

LITTLE Rock, August 21.-The Repub.
lican State Convention met here to-day,
at 12 o'clock. A temporary organization
was effected by electing Judge Warwick,
Of Pulaski, temporary chairman, and ].
G. Corbin, colored, Of Pulaski, temporary
Secretary. Committees on Credentials
and Permanent Organization were sp.
pointed, when the Convention took q re.
cess until 4P.M. On reassembling, the
committees not being ready TO report, a
recess was taken until 7P.M The Con.
yention is very large one, every county
being represented. 1t Is now certain that
Judge Baxter, OF Batesville, will be the
nominee for Governor. The proceedings
so far have been very orderly.
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Demi-Rep. Congressional Conven-
tion at Toledo.

TOLEDO, August 21.-The Liberal Re.
publican and Democratic Congressional
Conventions for the Sixth District, were
held here to-day. A conference commit.
tee was appointed, but could not agree
upon candidate, and the Conventions
adjourned until evening, with view to
harmony. The Liberals offered by reso.
luton to go into joint convention, pro.
vided candidate of Republican antece.
dents could. be nominated. The Demo-
Gratis declined this proposition, and then
nominated Hon. F. Il. Hurd, q Democrat,
Of Lucas county, for Congress by accla.
nation, and Hiram Young, Liberal, Of
Henry county, Tor Presidential Elector.
The latter subsequently declined, and the
Liberal Convention, alter passing q reso.
luton unqualifedly repudiating the nom.
ination Of Mr.. Hurd, adjourned without
making q nomination.
The Prohibitionists also held q Con.
vention and nominated Henry Moores, Of
this city, for Congress,
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Atrocious Murder In MissourI.

MARYsvILLE, August 21.-An atrocious
murder was brought to light yesterday by
the arrest OF man named Osborne at
Clearmont small town twelve miles
northwest OF here. 1t appears that 0s.
borne was travelling with a team and
covered wagon. He stopped for some
purpose, when someimen were attracted to
the wagon by the stencil emanating from
it. Upon examination five dead bodies
were found. Osborne confessed at the end
of rope that the murders were commit
ted by ono Williams, near Holton, Kansas,
and that he (Osborne) was employed to
haul the bodies out OF the way. He con-
fessed to having Travelled with this terri.
BILE load for five days. From memoran.
dunn found on the body OF one of the
victims II is inferred that these people
were a party Of movers, consisting OF a
Mr. Oms, wife and two children, and a
young man by the name OF Dickinson,
supposed to be brother OF Mrs. Oms.
They had Travelled from Minnesota to
Southern Kansas, and were probably on
their way to Nebraska. The last memo.
randa by the young man was at or near
Holton. The coroner held an inquest
yesterday, and the bodies were buried at
Clearmont.
Sheriff Wray has just returned, and
says that, though he saw the prisoner,
the people would not give him up.
Probably Osborne will be lost somewhere
in that vicinity.
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Tennessee Democratic Convention.

NASHVILLE, August 21.-The Demo.
cratic State Convention assembled at the
Capitol at II o'clock A. NJ, and after or.
ganization, Hon. John NJ. Fleming, Of
Knox, and Gen. B. F. Cheatham, Of Cof.
fee, were nominated for Congressman for
the State at large. Gen. Bate spoke in
favor Of Cheatham, who was nominated
by a decided majority. Andrew johnson
would not permit his name to go before
the Convention. It Is thought he may
run as an independent candidate, though
this Is uncertain. ...
Having nominated a candidate for
Congress, the Convention took up the
nomination for Elector. Gen. Bate, a
member of the Democratic National Ex.
ecutive Committee, having been pro.
posed declined, and recommended a Lib
eral Republican. Ex-senator ]. s. Fow.
Ter received the nomination.
Gen. Bate, while speaking this morning
for Cheatham for Congress, pledged him
self TO support Andrew johnson should
he be nominated. There Is much specu
lAtion relative 10 Johnson's intentions. Il
Is believed by many that he will run as
an independent candidate for Congress
against Cheatham, but he has never indi
Gated such intention. Intimate friends
declare he will be candidate.
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Labor Convention at Columbus..- A
.. Slim Affair, 't

COLUMBUS, August 21.-In answer to o
call OF the chairman Of the Executive
Committee Of the National Labor Reform
party, eleven delegates who participated
in the Labor Convention held in this city
last February, assembled in Convention
in this city, to-day, and organized by
electing e. NJ. Puett, Of Indiana, Presi.
dent, and A. Q. Cameron, OF Illinois, Sec.
retary. Ono delegate was present from
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, and eight
from Ohio. Massachusetts was represent
ed by proxy. A Acommittee appointed for
the purpose, reported resolutions declar-
ing 1t inexpedient at this late day to NOM
mate candidates to fill the vacancies
caused by the unexpected withdrawal
OF David Davis and Joel Parker; that as
the labor reformers will not be represent
ed at the coming Presidential election,
this leaves all the members OF the Labor
Union party free to vote as they deem
best; that the Convention advises the
advocates Of labor reform to use all
efforts to advance the principles of labor
reform; a system OF organization for
the future government of the party; ad-
vising all labor re(ormers, in those places
where they have no candidates OF their
own, to vote for those who have proved
themselves TO be most in sympathy with
principles of labor reform, and recommend
ing the maintenance of their district or
ganization. Hugh Cameron, of Kansas,
as the minority committee, submitted q
resolution, in effect declaring it to be the
duty OF the labor reformers to abide by the
decision Of the Cincinnati and Baltimore
conventions and support Greeley and
Brown. Alter q lively discussion the
majority report was adopted, only Mr..
Cameron voting against it
A letter was read from Henry Beeney,
Secretary Of the Land Reform Associa.
tion Of New York, declaring that the In.
terror Department, under Grant, had
squandered millions of acres Of the public
land, thus proving them to be no friend
to the laboring men, and that between
Greeley and Grant the labor reform men
should vote for the former, as the most
likely to advance the interests of labor
and laborers. The letter was placed on
file.
a resolution was adopted continuing
the National Executive Committee ap.
pointed by the former Columbus Con.
vention and authorizing the committee to
fill vacancies in the States where no labor
organizations existed, providing that the
States in which vacancies occur shall fill
them on the request Of the committee.
The Convention then adjourned sine
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American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, August 21.--The
annual session OF the American Associa.
tion for the Advancement of Science, as
sembIed in the Congregational church, at
10A. N. About $50 members were in at.
tendance. The retiring President, Pro.
lessor Asa Gray, of Cambridge University,
called the meeting TO order after prayer
by Rev. Young. Prof. ]. Lawrence Smith
Of Louisville, took the chair. The con.
gress proceeded to organize, various com.
mittees were appointed and a number Of
new members were admitted and scien-
tific subjects assigned proper sections.
Eighteen papers we're filed for future read.
ing. At a public reception this evening
W. B. Allison, United States senStor, de.
livered the welcoming address, responded
to by Professor Gray, after which they
adjourned till 10 NJ. The session prov,
ed to be the largest and most interesting
Of any yet held.
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NEW YORK CITY.

New York, August 2l,-Five owner
Of fat boiling establishments have been in
dicted. " g
No new cases OF yellow fever have
been reported. -
Geo. Kingsland, a bookkeeper in the
Hudson County National Bank OF jersey
City, has decamred to Europe, being dc.
faulter tor 20,000-"Wine and women. u
The Grand Lodge OF Odd Fellows o.
New has York rejected tho constitutional
amendment for the the admission of mem.
bers who have been expelled for more
than ten years to q beneficial member.
ship. .gra1 I...T~..T
The were offers of bonds 10, day
amounting 10 $3,23G650 at 118 6.10 10
114t. Two millions were beloW 1t4.. Z
Mark Twain sailed on the Scotia
for Europe. .-.r.--
The steamer Scotia took $117,4OO in
specie. ~ -
The horse Harry Basset Is said TO have
been barred out Of Monument Course in
the future. T
Under the verdict Of the coroners Jury,
Mark Flanagan was committed to await
trial for the murder OF his wife. 70I I
Samuel Windley, q brother Of Miss
Fannie Hyde, indicted for the murder Of
George Watson, was admitted to bail in
$4,000. ' ''
The protection Of the police was asked
to-day by several Brooklyn companies
who recently resisted the demands Of the
Longshoremen. At six o'clock this even.
ing a crowd Of Longshoremen got on the
dock OF the elevator Manhattan. =. I
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Temperance Movement In New York,

SYRACUSE, August 21.-The commit.
tees OF conference recently appointed by
the various temperance organizations Of
the State, to call State Convention, TO
be held after the nominations by the DO.
litical parties, met in joint session to-day,
and determined to call a Union State
Temperance Convention, to meet in this
city on the 10th Of September next, to be
composed Of two delegates appointed by
the temperance electors of each Assembly
district who favor the promotion Of tenn.
perance reform by political action. The
movement appears 10 be in the interest OF
an independent nomination, and to fore.
shadow full temperance ticket for State
officers In the present canvass,
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FOREIGN.
IRELAND.
The Belfast RIots...CIty Quiet,
Though Rioting Not Ended,

The Belfast RtotSsssCIty Quiet,
Though Rioting Not Ended.
LONDON, August 21.-A dispatch from
Belfast, last evening, says that the city is
quiet, though the rioting Is not ended.
The prisoners captured by the civil and
military authorities were conveyed To the
jail under strong escort Of troops. No
demonstrations were made toward 0 res
cue, The municipal building Is strongly
guarded and the streets patrolled by cav.
airy.
A dispatch from Lurgan says the dis.
orders there have been suppressed and
the town Is quiet. ....
A dispatch from Belfast, this morning,
says tnat during the riOting yesterday q
policeman named Moore was shot and
killed, and a number Of other casualties
occurred, Tho mob, when not engaged
In wrecklng houses, assaulted individuals,
who were shameiully treated, including
Mr.. Bergin, editor Of the Northern Star, .
Catholic journal. All the schools and
most Of the mills are closed. Nine magis.
trates are now on duty. Although the
streets were pStrolled last evening BY the
military crowds collected and the excite
ment and rioting continued. Thirty riot.
ers were arrested yesterday and lodged
into prison. At midnight the city was
comparatively quiet, though occasional
shots were heard. 1t Is reported that
several personal encounters between the
rioters and special constables occurred.
LATER AND woRsE-THE AUTHORITIES
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES
TALKED OF.
BELFAST, August 2l.-P. M.-The hopes
Of the restoration Of quiet which were ex-
cited yesterday by the rather more peace.
full state Of affairs, have not been realized.
The condition, as shown by the reports
received at headquarters, was worse than
ever last night. The authorities are pow
erless against the depredators, though
supported by an armed force OF fully
5000 men. The school houses have been
destroyed, and 1t Is with the utmost diff.
Guilty that some of the churches are pre-.
served from sharing their fate.
Grave mismanagement on the part of
the authorities issuspected. The general
dissatisfaction Is so great that respectable
citizens intend to form vigilance commit.
tees for the arrest and summary punish
ment OF offenders.
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THE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATS.
Platform Adopted in Georgia.


ATLANTA, August 21.-The platform
adopted yesterday by the Convention Of
Straight Democrats declares that the
Government Of the United States is lin.
tied to the powers delegated by the States
for specific purposes, having no original
inherent power whatever; that the Union
Is federal in character, incapable Of exist
ence without the States; that the perpetu.
alton of the Union depends upon the pre-
servation Of the integrity Of the States;
that the rights Of local State governments
in the subjection OF military TO civil au-
thonty and the habeaS corpus in time ol
peace, are not subject to any solemn con.
stitutional obligation on the part OF the
federal government of any kind what.
ever, but the Government is under sol.
emn constitutional obligation not to in.
teriere in these matters. 1t is understood
that Alexander H. Stephens is the author
Of the platform. s.s
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LYNCH LAW IN ILLINOIS.
Murder and RetributiOp at Olpe,

Murder and Retribution at Olney.
CHICAGO, August 21.-A cold blooded
murder followed by swift and terrible
punishment, is reported at Olney, Illinois.
On Saturday night last, Jefferson White,
a farmer, quarrelled with Henry Houltz,
who was at work with his threshing ma
chine on Whites farm. Itappears White
had some time ago killed Houltz's dog,
and at the same time threatened Houltzs
life. Some words passed In relation to the
matter, when White jumped on his horse
and rode to his house, took his shot gun
and after shooting of the load OF bird
shot that was in 1t, reloaded it with buck
shot and returning to the field where
Houltz was, rode up TO him and placing
the gun so near that the discharge burned
the clothing, fired the load, killing him
almost instantly. The murderer then
rode into Olney, and after consulting q
lawyer gave himself up to the Sheriff and
was placed in Jail. In the meantime
Houltz's wife, to whom he had been mar.
ried less than a year, prostrated by her
atHiction, was prematurely confined and
died Monday night. The same night,
between two and four hundred armed
men rode up to Jail in Olney and over
powering the guards, burst in the door
and took White out and hanged him to
tree in the court house yard, and after
satisfying themselves that he was dead,
rode quietly away.
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SOME OLD POLITICIANS.
Curious Tagaries of Poli,lcs..sew.
ard Weed & Greeley.
Ierou The Blluuore sunN

curious TaSaries of PolitIcs-.Sew.
ard, Weed & Greeley.
'''ol The Baltimore SUM
H., !! T 1ss been mentioned in the papers
SA S'. lauTLCw Weed has lately visited Au.
S, Sulu, ana held converse with Wm II
seward, otthat town, over tho poIitical
,,sns1 S,Sns o. tAe times. 1t is a suggestive in
sauce ~ IN many respects. For a Quarter
SSaeeASSaFy SsSn Mr.. Weed, editor Of the Al
,Sa TSaay ENHing journal, was considered
St,OlLGr SScWOlLGr otthe politics of the Emnire
A. H'Tre, TS lie was as powerful in New York
R,,t tlOLnS kltchie once was in Virginia,
- SHa were men well versed in tie school
% Pohues, What there was IN ils theory
So.',,p 4, ~ Practice that those men did NOT nm,
vy.o'nlu WnrS ,.a was not worth knowing, Both
'O5 "vte ,! men oi general culture and Of social
ana political distinction, One bss "a 'JC,H1 Ioma
which C pissed Sss away, spared the change
o,SS. Sa ma mas come over the country; l6e
eSoD,S cr' s,lll v, fingers, though not active
N S az 80 10 the front Of politics, but mot
iImS WlG rS Saat he does not remember the
lien lien, Tne9 u aeii he was looked upon as a Pres.
What tho influence of VIM II son,o.a
"a All bc Oisa ietlA 10 American politics none need
SeSs,tou,' tu'OtIed; ot ne Governor OF New York ;,
Ss,sSn.G,t SS, =, me United States, Secretary Of
UpSIiC Siuu[lng aa the most exciting period Of Of
h E,'i,S iUiaAlrs Affairs since this county achieved I
n .u,oagspI,endence, and, twelve wears 400
GnTSGSnay GnSSa.y sure Of the Presidepcyl BSt
s%,uUSs Us!wgen ! &c the cup and the In there
sITSy Iy slip" is often verified in poIilie
VIM nj i y ! seems but as yesterday that
sSs S rl.f =, Seward might have stood spainst inst
I'd Il, bST'd, ~. He had apparently devoS ,ls.
sior,oIilI.e M IiIe % one object, and fortune @ new.
voyasS S0S 81 him ill., Just as, alter M ESu, Ionr
kee 81, sr,,O, ae was entering the harbor, bIs
up birS a.Si vi against the rocks, and he was
atorrbG y ,bO VI l4s leader Of The Israelites
20 DoiH, T Ioe y wilderness, though there {
butdc, SIuTs :, y respect, that "he died on the
Aud.S \ Nool Jordan, in sight Of the promised
poor Is IN SS az us Rss he there, and none SO
'NS said to be an ancient polii,
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WASHINGTON.
THE sEPTEanER INTEREsr.

WARRINGTON, August 21.-The Treas
ury Department will, on the 26th Of the
present month, commence payment Of in
terest without rebate on the 10.40 bonds,
due September 1st.
An order was issued from the Internal
Revenue Office to-day, directing gaugers
TO gauge all packages used for the sale Of
termented liquors. II they find the pack.
ages too large, they either will be branded
a size larger or turned over to the brewer
to be cut down.
A treasury warrant for $525 ,22s, in set
tlement ol Kentucky war claims, was
transmitted to-day to the Governor Of that
State.
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The Torrid Term.

CHICAGO, August 21.-Thc weather
here is about the hottest ever known.
CAIRO, ILL.,, August 2l-John Sack.
bergur, Merriam Marcus Silverbery and
John Scheel, members Of a fire company,
were prostrated by the heat to-day while
attending the funeral Of the late J. B. Ty.
ler. They will probably recover. The
weather Is intensely hot.
LOUISVILLE, August 20.-The past few
days have been excessively hot. One
case OF fatal sunstroke to-day, a number
not fatal. The stock Of the vehicles and
street cars are suffering, several died on
the street.
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River News,

LOUISVILLE, August 21.-River risen /
foot, and rising; 4 feet inches in the
canal and Q feet Q inches in the chute
Weather very hot. Business very dull.
The Directors will postpone the closing
Of the canal till Wednesday, on account
OF the rise.
CA1Ro, August 91.-River stationary
Weather clear. Thermometer 90 degs
at dark.
CINCINNATI, August 91.-River 10 feet
8 inches, and falling,
PrTTsBURoH, August 21.-River-three
feet three inches in The channel and gradu-
ally receding. No arrivals or departures
Weather very warm.
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Liberal Republican Meeting at
LeaVenWoFth,

LEAvENwoRTH, Ks, August 21.-A
large meeting Of Liberal Republicans
was held here tonight and addressed by
some of the ablest speakers in the State.
Col Sam Wood, one Of the original Free
State men Of Kansas, was one of the
speakers. In referring to the policy of
the present Administration, he said the
order Of things should be reversed. The
equality policy should be enforced in the
South and the war policy among the In-
dians. This sentiment was furiously ap-
plauded. The meeting showed more
Greeley strength here than was antici-
pated.