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THE FOREST FIRES.
Widespread Devastation In PennsyI-
Vaufa

Widespread Devastation In Pennsyl-
Vanfa.
NEW YORK, May 10. "A Port Jervis spe-
cial Of the 18th, before the rains, says that
in Pike county, Penn, the fires cover ter
ritOry seven miles in extent, sweeping over
some ofthe best land in the section. Twelve
large steam saW-mills are destroyed, and
many dwelling houses. The lumber camps
Of Dodge & Meigs, eontaing several million
feet OF lumber, burned. The inmates Of
the cabin narrowly escaped with theirlives.
At WagontoTts, Callahous and DOwling's
settlements nothing was left but charred
aud smoking ruins. At DOgehs the fami-
lies were compelled to flee for their lives.
A quarter of million dollars viii not pay
the losses in this section. The land of the
Bloomington Grove Park Association has
been swept over and large numbers of wild
game destroyed. In Wayne county, Pa,
the fire compelled the suspension of coal
transport alton over the Delaware and Hud-
son Canal Company;s Railroad, leading from
the mines to Holesdale.
The lumber villages of Garter and Gould,
Pa, have been almost totally destroyed,
only two houses remaining in the two
places. Sussex, county, n. j., and Sulli-
van and Deleware counties, n. Y, and
Monroe county, Pa, are still being swept
over the forest fires, and the losses are esti-
mated as footing up in millions.
BINGHAMToN, n. Y, May 20.-About
2,G00 acres Of forest between this city and
Pennsylvania State line, we're burned over
on Saturday. The farm buildings were
saved with much difficulty. The rain Sat
urday night was timely.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Premier Seward has been interviewed on
The treaty of Washing on. lie thinks the
JohDson-C Clarendon treaty would be good
substitute.
The Cuban owners Of the blockade run
ner Edgar Stewart dGmUr to the United
States Wyoming towiI ct en to Key West
for trial. The Governor Of Jamaica rules
that the procedure of the American cap
tain it hostile and serious trespass on
British water. Meanwhile Spanish man
of war stands of at sea to gObble the block
ade runner at the erliest opportunity.
BY consent of Kaiser William, the imper-
ial army band of Germany will assist in
. the Boston jubilee.
The Senate of Missouri convene to-day
asa court of impeachment for the trial Of Cir
cult Judge Lucas
The Fifth Annual SchuetZenfest opened
yesterday at the Highlands, H., thirty miles
east Of st. Louis.
Sunday night another siX-story building
Of DR.. Jayne, Philadelphia was burned
down. Total loss S552,500. Insurance
1921 500.
j. w. Simonton, Superintendent Of the
Associated Press, has recovered $1,000 in a
libel suit against the Boston Times.
Valmaseda is unpopular with the Cuban
Spaniards,
The strike of various trade organizations of
New York for the enforcement of the
eight hour law, is virtually over, and has
met with complete success.
The Brooks wing Of the Arkansas Radi-
calls meet in State Convention Wednesday,
and will probably nominate Brooks for
Governor.
Recent arrivals at Halifax report the
wrecking of a sealing vessel off the coast of
Labrador on March IL. OF a crew of 81,
IS perished, and most of the survivors
were seriously bruised.
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ST. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS, May 20.-In the Berkley
trial this evening, Jno. w. Luke, Senior
Warden of st. Johns Church and one Of
the prosecutors in the case, testified to hav-
ing a conversation with Dr. Berkley in July,
1871, regarding the matter between him
(Berkley) and Mrs. Andrews, i'm which the
Doctor told him that at picnic in June,
1868, Ella Perry came to him in distress
and weeping bitterly; that he led her away
from the crowd and attempted to sOoth and
comfort her, and in doing SO he put
his arm round her waist, placed his hand
in a fatherly way upon OneIof her legs, but
did nothing more than that. He had ex-
planned the matter to Mrs. Andrews, but
she didn't seem to be satisfied; witness
subsequently saw Mrs. Andrews at BerBey's
request, and received from her the state
ment made by her child; saw Mrs. An
drews' letter TO Berkley and the latter's re-
ply, and after satisfying himself that Rich
ard Perry, son-in-law of Mrs. Andrews, and
one of the vestrymen of the church, be-
leved the statement of Ella Perry, that he
had requested DR.. Berkley to resign.
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CHATTANOOGA LIBERALS.

The Liberals at Chattanooga see no good
sense in the attempt to place two electoral
tickets for Greeley and Brown in the field
in this State. They held a meeting Friday
night and resolved:t
WHEREAS, The Hon. Edward Fl. East,
as Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Liberal Republican party, has issued
n call for a meeting, to be held at Nashville,
on the 20th instant, to suggest a Peoples
Electoral Ticket, therefore
ResOIUed, That in our judgment it would,
at this time, be Unwise, impUlitic and de-
trimental to the best interest of the Ameri-
can people and of the candidates of the Lib
eral Republican party that an electoral
ticket, as is proposed in said call, be now
suggested in Tennessee.
ResOLUed, That the Chairman of this
meeting appoint five delegates to attend
said meeting in Nashville, and present the
last resolution to said meeting as the senti-
ments of the Liberal Republican party Of
Hamilton county.
The Chair appointed The following COM
mittee in pursuance of the above resolu-
tions Messrs. w. J. COlburn, DR., N.
Block, DR., William DeHart, A. Bohr and
William Shuttle.
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him. This is almost as fair statement as
can be obtained of the views of the Demo-
cratic members. They all very generally
doubt the propriety Of making speeches in
Congress against any Presidential candi-
date, or in favor of any one whose name is
to come before the Baltimore Convention.
VIEWS OF J. S. BLACK.
An interview with Judge jeremiah s..
Black is published here to-day, which CON
cludes as follows:
"Well," said the Judge, "I'll tell you
what we are going to do. The platform
put forth at Cincinnati is broad, fair,
Democratic platform. There is nothing
passive in that. Now, if the convention
that meets at Baltimore finds in its wisdom
that Greeley fits the platform, we will make
the best fight for him we can. l have no
question but when the canvass warns up
and men take sides, as men are wont to do,
that the entire Democratic party will be
found striving for the right"
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NEW YORK.
A woodh.,I international Split

NEW York, May 20.-The threatened
split in the InternationaIs took place yester-
day. The Federal Council met in the
morning and held very stormy session.
Sections two and ten, both French, the for
mer the Oldest in the country, presented
their withdrawal, and great confusion en-
sued. Excited speeches and mutual re-
ciimiDations were with difficulty restrained
by the chairman and more temperate mem
bers. The difficulty seems to be the failure
Of the offending sections to endorse the
ultra views Of the party who were respOn-
sible for the recent Presidential nomination
at Apollo Hall. Several other sections are
dissatisfied for the same reason. An
nouncement was made of the split to the
Internationals Of London, and the forma-
ton of a new General Council to be called
Universal Federalist Council.
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HAYTI.

How We Have EnsuIfed our Sister
RepubIic.-A Demand for Instantan-
eOus ReparatiOn.
NEW YORK, May 20.-Mail advices from
Hayti, state that an excitement was occa-
at Cape Hayti, on the 10Th of April by the
landing Of boats crew from the United
States Steamer Nantucket at Carrenge Tor
howitizer practice. Gen. Alexis comman-
der of the department chose to consider it
a hostile act, and despatched troops to as
certain the reason of the landing of foreign
guns and demonstrated with the American
Consul. at the request of the latter Capt
Carpenter re-embarked bis guns and men
and proceeded to Port Au Prince where the.
Haytien foreign Secretary made a demand
on the United States Legation for instant
reparatiOn for the insult.
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President to join with the Italian govern
ment in its protest against the intolerance
and cruelty praeticed towards the Jews of
Roufnania. Adopted.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole, Wheeler in the chair, on the sun
dry civil service appropriation bill, W hico
appropriates $l7,54f, ,673.
Having progressed as far as the tenth
page Of the bill, the committee rose and
the House took recess till half-past Z
o'clock.
The evening session was to be for the
business of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs
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THE ITABEAs CORPUS sUSPENsTC

THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION.
Great fears have been entertained at
Washington that the Grant project of auth
orising the President TO continue the sus-
pension of the writ Of habeas corpus during
the Presidential campaign would succeed.
A Western Republican member OF Con-
gross is thus reported by the Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
ciGL, writing on May II:
"The member remarked that be greatly
feared that the scheme TO keep in force the
Ku-Klux law until after the Presidential
election would be successful. When he
was reminded OF the fact that many of the
most clear-headed Republicans III the House
bad refused, yesterday, 70 support BEller's
plan for continuing the law, he replied that
these same men had emphatically refused a
wear ago to support the law when it was
first introduced, but that they lad sue
cumbed under The power ofparty discipline
and had voted for it,"
a Washington dispatch of May 10 says
s. The Senate fears that the habeas cor
Pus extension bill will fail in the House,
and hence the earnest desire to delay ad-
s2urIRlent by recalling It's resolution from
lie House to adjourn the 29th inst. The
iioUse, having kept the resolution two
mo1ths, is not disposed to accommodate the
Senate, especially Jas the House feels pref
ty confident that no bill giving Grant the
power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus
during the Presidential campaign can be
passed. The Democratic members at least
are resolved that there shall be no such leg
lation at the session"
The telegraph reports that the Senate
resolution to adjourn sine die on the 29th
last. was agreed'to by the House Monday,
so there is hope now that this mjschiev-
Gus piece oflegislation win expire that day.
Grants henchmen in the Senate, prominent
among whom is the vindictive Morton,
lave thus been thWarted in their efforts to
harrass and annoy the white people of the
South.
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TEE Philadelphia Age says Gen. Ferry,
reelected to the United States Senate fiom
Connecticut by , union of Democrats and
Republicans, was in command in that city
toward The close of the war,and that spoons
aDG other valuables were, however, perfect
ly safe from him, and no Democratic edi-
tors were seized and shut up ina fortress or
guard-house.
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Habeas Corpus
suspensionbill.

AaDeas corpus
suspension bill.
The Vice President directed the clerk to
read the order made by the Senate on
Friday that this bill should be taken up at
u O'Clock NJ. to-day and considered to the
exclusion of all other business until dis
posed of.
Trumbull said this order introduced into
the Senate an arbitrary rule, in violation Of
its tradition and history, and he moved to
reconsider the vote by which the order was
made. F.
Scott moved to lay the motion to recon-
slider on the table. Agreed to.
The War on the Press.
Hamlin offered the following aud moved
to refer it to the Committee on Privile ges
and Elections:
"Whereas, There has been published in
the Boston Daily AdCertiSer a card in the
following words:
'Wdshington, d. c., May II, 1S72.-To
the Editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser
-Sr: As you have published Senator
Conklng's slanderous attack on the As
sociated Press and some of its employees.
please give me space to say that all of his
statements relating to me, except the state
ment that / sit in the gallery, are absolutely
false. Respectfully, A. DEVINE,
Reporter U. S. Senate for Associated Press
E'And whereas said Devine has held and
now holds his place in the Senate gallery as
reporter for the Associated Press by favor
of the Senate, and said Devine having by
the publication of said card forfeited all
claims to future courtesy of the Senate;
therefore
"Resolved, That said A. Devine be and
he is hereby expelled from the Senate gal
lery."
Sprague objected to the present consider
alton of the resolution, and it went over.
The Senate then resumed Consideration
of the habeas corpus suspension bill.
Blair addressed the Senate in opposition
to the bill.
incidentally, brief remarks on the other
side were made by Sawyer, Scott, Clayton
and Spencer.
Cameron, chairman Of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, gave notice that he
would ask for an Executive session at noon
Wednesday. Recess.
At the evening session the consideratio n
of the habeas corpus bin was resumed,
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GRANT viii use every means to secure
his reelection. His latest effort is to buy
up the Southern delegates by future prom
ises to pay in subsidies and land grants to
Southern enterprises. lie viii find that
the delegates 10 Baltimore are not carpet
baggers.
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ISAAC PAUL,
p. WALSH,
T n HKDnU


The proposition referred to being sub
mitted, there were various resolutions in
troduced and considerable discussion,
when finally the following resolution,
offered by Esquire Wade, was adopted, to-
wit:
Be it resolved by this Court, That the
further consideration of this question be
deferred until the July term, and the pau
per lunatics be cared for at the State
ASYLUM upon the terms already agreed
upon with the Superintendent; and the
committee be continued, and that they
make further investigations and examine
as far as possible all places put upon the
market.
The following resolutions offered by Es-
auire Me&eham, were adopted:
Resolved, that it is the sense Of this court
that upon the election Of commissioner OF
revenue that any appointments heretofore
made by the judge cease, and that such ap-
pointments be declared at an end, aud that
the said commissioner elect be placed in
charge of all books for the collection OF any
and all back revenue due the county as pro-
vided for by section 10 Of an act passed
Dec. 6, 1871, entitled an act 10 provide for
the sale of lands which have been sold Tor
taxes, etc.
Be it further resolved, that the Judge OF
this court be required to place The sad COM
missioner in possession OF the b0Oks as re-
quired in the above resolution.
The meeting throughout was more har-
uonious than usual, there being nobody in
a bad humor at the hour Of adjournment.
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The Democrats of South Carolina are to
hold State Convention at Columbia on the
18th of June, to elect delegates to the Balti-
more Convention.
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We ARE inclined to think that the DEM
ocratic days Ofthe New York World and
August Belmont are few and short. Let
us give thanks.
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TENNESSEE Bonds closed in New York
last evening at 729 for the old issue and
723 for the new.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, May Y20.-Edmunds called
up supplemental apportiontment bill giving
one additional representative to each of the
following States: New Hampshire, Yer
mont, New Y York, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Tennessee, louisiana, Alabama, and Florida
Conkling said he thought the bill ought not
to pass and suggested that it be laid over
until Senators could examine it carefully.
Edmunds consented and the billwent over
The Senate resumed the consideration of
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CoTToN is in moderate request in New
York at 24!c for middling.
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GOLD is tending downward in New York,
aosing yesterday at 1880 11Ss.
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From Lexington to Long Branch.

The amount of called 1862 bonds yet
outstanding is S11, ,933, JOG.
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COUNTY COURT.
9The Proposed County Lunaiie AsJ-
Ium.-ActiOn Deferred until the July


Ium.-ActiOn Deferred until the July
Term.
An adjourned meeting of the County
Court was held esterday-Judge Smiley
presiding, and forty Justices present. The
object Of the meeting was to hear the re-
port of the committee appointed to receive
propositions and examine suitable sites for
the location of the County Asylum.
The following report from said commit
tee was submitted:
Your committee to whom was referred
the report Of the committee on County
Lunatic Asylum, with instructions to re-
ceive propositions and examine suitable
sites for the location of said Asylum, and
receive estimates of the cost of necessary
buildings, beg leave to report that we have
received various propositions, and have ex-
amined various sites, and herewith submit
to the Court for their consideration the sew
eral proposals handed in TO us, and are
ready to give to your honorable body the
result of our examinations, and any
other information in our possession. We
would here suggest the prOpriety Of decid-
ing first, whether the Court viii unite the
Pauper Asylum with the Lunatic Asylum
or not, in. order that it may more easily be
determined which would be the most suit
able locality for the Lunatic Asylum.
THOs. 7. SMILEY,
ISAAC PAUL,
VT.
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Cox offered resoluSon requesting tht
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STATE LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, December 3, 1872.
was over.

i IL.
: The Senate assembled ut IL Nj. Prayer
by Rev. Mr.. Webster.
Mr.. Whitsemore presented the follow
ing Communication, wlIioh was received
OF infolmntion:
DEPOT QUARTERMAsTEn's OFFICE,
CHARLESTON, s. c., Dec. 2, 1872.
10 the Honorable the Senate and House cf
Representatives Of the State Of South
Carolina.
GENTLEMEN: I have tho honor to in.
form you that the United States hns re-
gently purchased the tract of land stu.
ated in the County of Darlington, and
near tho town OF Florence, known as the
National Cemetery" and used as such
by the United States. I am directed by
the QuartermasterG General of tho Army
to mako application to the Legislature
Of South Carolina to cede jurisdiction
over said tract of land to the United
States. as required by tho provisions of
the Act Of Congress approved February
20, 1867, and by paragraph 16 of Section
8, Article T, OF the Constitution of the
United States. I'would, therefore, most
respectfully request that you will, at
your present session, introduce and
adopt the necessary resolutions ccdipg
said Jurisdiction. have the honor to
be, very respectfully, your obedicnt ser
want, G. W. BRADLEY,
Capt. aud A. @. M. U. s.. Army.
Mr.. Whittemore, from the Committee
on tho Judiciary, to whom was referred
the following bills, reported back the
same, with the recommendation that
they do pass: To amend an Act entitled
IAN Act to amend sundry sections of
the code of procedure relating to the
Circuit Courts;" to amend IN Act enti-
tied AN Act to establish q new judicial
and election County from portions of the
Counties Of Barnwell, Edgefield, Lex.
ington and OraDgeburg, to be known as
Aiken County"
Mr.. Maxwell, from The special Joint
committee appointed On the part of the
Sennte to make the necessary arrange
ments for the Inauguration OF tho 10.
vernor elect. reported that tho commit.
toe had performed the duties assigned
them, and that the Inauguration would
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PARTIES IN FRANoE.-In view Of re-
curing political agitation in France, and
the frequent reference made in the cable
dispatches to the several party divisions
in the French Assembly, the following
will be Useful for reference: First, the
extreme ''left" or radical wing consists
of about seventy members, whose chief
exponent is Louis Blanc. Second, the
republican left or moderate republicans,
about 160 in number, OF whom Greyey
is fair type. Third, the left centre, or
still moro moderate republicang OF tho
conservative school, with about 40 mem
bers, under the lead OF Chasney. Fourth,
the centre right or Orleanists, about 100
In number, with several titled lenders.
Fifth. the right or monarchists, who
prefer Henry Y or vi. They number
about 100. Sixth, the extreme right or
ultra-monarchists, numbering about
sixty deputies, who are waiting for Hen
~ and his white Gag, under the lead OF
Count de Beauregard. No party has a
majority, aud therein lies the strength
of Theirs.