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The weather To-Day.

WASHINGTON, August 20, $50 P. NJ
ProbabiEties-Southessterly to south
westerly winds and generally clear
weather will prevail on W ednesday over
the New England and Middle States /:
easierly to soutberly winds fro m Geor-
gis to North Carolina, with generally
clear weather over the Gull States, and
probably areas Of rain along the coast.
The regular afternoon telegrsphic re,
ports have not yet been received from
Western Tennessee to South ern Ohio
and L axe Michigan and northvestward,
as we'll as from Northern New Eng
laad and Canada
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Mr.. r. S. BLAIR, Of Richie c. H.,
West Virginia, while travelling in a
Pullman palace car on bis way from
Baltimore to Parkersburg last month,
was robbed of fine gold watch and
chain and sum OF money.
A day or two ago the company pre-
sented Mr.. Blair with another watch
and chain, and reimbursed his money
lost st.-Cumbrland NeDS.
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Vote for Immigration.

A Swiss correspondent offers the fol-
lowing advice:
To the People Of West Virginia.:
Vote for the new Constitution and
you will open the door OF immigration.
immigration only will give you the
rank in the Union wanted to rival the
West. By immigration only the riches
of your mountains will be explored and
made to produce an incalculable wealth
for you and your children.
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IRELAND.
Rioting and Excitement.

BELFAST, August 20, Evening.-The
disturbances were continued throughout
the day and extended to all quarters Of
the city. Several collisions occurred
between the rioters aud the special con
stables sworn in by the mayor, and
shots were to he heard firing in all
directions. In consequence OF the
threatening aspect OF affairs this after:
noon, strong bodies Of troops patrolled
the streets with loaded muskets and
fixed bayonets. The military reinforce
ments requested by the mayor and mag
istrates arrived during the day, and 1t is
believed that the strong military force
now in the city will be sufficient to sup
press the riots.
Excitement Over the Belfast Riots.
LONDONDERRY, August 2O.-The news
of the rioting in Belfast causes great
excitement IN this city. Disturbances
are anticipated on the arrival OF VIM.
johnson, the head OF the Orange order
from Canada He is expected to return
shortly. Every precaution will be taken
by the authorities to guard against an
outbreak.
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Thunder storm.

Fulton, ILL, August 2O.-A terrific
thunder storm passed over this section
Sunday night, the rain falling in
torrents. The depot at Port Byron was
struck by lightning and burned down,
with the telegraph instruments, DC.
The loss on the building is but slight,
as it was old.
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A LETTER from an old well known
citizen Of this place, nov residing at
Charleston, to q gentleman here, dated
Kanawha C. H., Aug. l4th, after speak
ing Of business, closes as follows:
I'VE had q fine meeting yesterday in
the interest of Col. Camden and the
Constitution. All that you may have
heard about the heavy majority Jacob
would get here, is simply mistake:
He will, of course, get the Radical aud
negro vote, but not many Of the Democ-
rscy." l..
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NEW YORK.
Another Strike.

New YORK, August 2O.-Quite a
formidable strike occurred among the
Long shoremen to-day at the Atlantic
docks, Brooklyn, where 200 men struck
on account Of two Of their number be-
ing discharged Saturday, and they re-
fuse to return to work unless the men
are taken back. OF the sixteen grain
elevators fifteen are now idle.
Major J. NJ. Bundy,
editor OF the Evening Mail, has pur-
chased from Robert Johnston, the pro-
prietor, an interest in that paper. The
Mail is the most popular and successful
evening journal in this city, much of
it's prosperity being due to the able
manner 10 which it has beer edited for
the past three years.
West Virginia the Battle Ground.
At the headquarters Of the sporting
fraternity, in this city, to-day, the ut
most excitement was displayed over the
coming fight between Mace and O Bald
win. A telegram from one Of Mace g
hackers states that the fight will surely
come off in West Virginia.
The Odd Fellows.
At the annual meeting Of the Grand
Lodge Of Independent Order of Odd
Fellows OF the State of New York, held
this morning, Grand Master E. S.
Raphs made the opening address.
General routine business WA transacted,
lodge degrees conferred on $50 members,
and officers for the ensuing year sp-
pointed. The reports show an increase
Of 5000 members during the past year
DR.. H0aard,
who was held and imprisoned by the
Spaniards, arrived at this port to-day
and took up his quarters at the Astor
House.
Bank Defalcati0u.
A defalcation involving between $20,-
600 and $4,000, on the part Of one Of
the tellers OF the Hudson County Ma.
tional Bank, Of Jerey City. has jus,
come to the notice of the public.
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IOWA.
Suicide OF n Minister.

CENrREvILLE, August 2O.-Rer. G.
NJ. jerks, pastor Of the Presbyterian
Church in this place, committed suicide
last evening, BY shooting himself
through the head. No cause can be
definitely assigned for the act.
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Political

PORTLAND, Ne. August 2O.-Sscre
tary Robson will speak in this city TO
the Republicans On Thursday night,
and Frederick Douglass will address
a meeting shortly.
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Examination Postponed.

Samuel K. Silvia, charged with the
murder of Charles Marshall, an officer
of the whaling bark Europa, on the
20th of March, in the Pacific ocean,
came up from Edgarton in charge OF
Deputy Marshal Shaw this morning
and desiring a postponement of his ex-
animation, he was committed until to-
morrow. Silvia is only twenty years OF
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Suicide.
PITTSBURGH.
CONGREGATIONAL Nomination.

PIrrsBURGH, August 20.-The Liberal
Republicans and Democrats OF the 22d
district, to day nominated DR.. James l..
King for Congress.
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A ReyOlting Crime.

LOUISVILLE, August 20.-Jss. Haw.
kins was arrested here this morning for
committing rape on his daughter
aped II
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IT is known that when President
Lincoln was assassinated an intense
feeling prevailed throughout the North,
which, in many instances, exhibited
itself in mobs and brutal violence. 1t
was then considered a loyal virtue to
personally msltreat every individual
who did not yield unqualified assent to
the policy Of the National Administra-
ton. Anger and revenge took the place
OF all the gentler emotions Of the hu>
man heart. and the man who thirsted
most for blood was deemed the best
patriot. At this juncture Horace Gree.
ley resolutely stepped forth and used all
his exertions toquell the storm and pre-
vent the destruction of life and property
by the senseless and sanguinary mob,
az the following manly letter will tes-
tify:
"OFFIoE OF THE TRIBUNE.
"NEw YORK. May l6, 1865.
"MY DEAR SIR: 1 have yours OF the
Sth, for which l thank you. / heartily
concur with your view Of what should
be our national policy, and am dong
nv utmost to have mercy and mag'om-
imity its ruling attributes. Only let the
late insurgents join with US in saying
slavery is no more, and l think we shall
gradually mould the public will to our
views. Just now the assassination Of
President Lincoln has made the North
furious, but we shall outgrow that /
shall not hesitate 10 labor and suffer re-
proach in the service of heavGn blessed
charity and mercy.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
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River IeWA.

PIrrsBURoH, August 20-River still
falling with four feet two inches in the
channel. Weather clear and hot.
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ue,d for Examination.

Daniel C. Perki ms, broker Of this
city, was before the police court in
Nashua this morning and held for fur
ther examination on a charge Of issuing
bogus tickets on the Boston, Lowell
and Nashua railroad.
Suicide.
At Hudson, n. H., last evening, w.
s. Devins, Of Concord, Mass, held a
pistol under his chin and discharged the
weapon, the ball lodging behind his
left eve. He is not expected to live.
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BOSTON.
Distinguished Visitors

Hon. Charles Sumner and General
y. P. Banks arrived in this city this
forenoon, and during the day called
at the Liberal Republican headquarters.
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Famfiy Flour.

I'M BBIs .wAsHsa TON MILLS
lW White Wheat Fancy. Y. y
50 do ITbompsons Best" do. do Do.
50 do sMtaoun Ailis" do. do do.
Just received and for sale By z
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A RAIN OF BONES.


If the statement OF some of the residents
| of Louisiana are to be credited, Dame Ma
ture has recently been playing strange
pranks in that part of the country. A writer
to the New York JolQ7aoi of Commerce
whose, veracity and good standing is vouch-
ed for by the editorof that paper, gives the
following particulars of strange phenome-
non that occurred in Carroll Parish last
month: Z SO 81
He says that heavy storm visited that
parish some days previous to the date Of
writing, the 21st ult., and during the storm
fish bones fell to the ground by the million.
These bones seemed to come from an ex-
eeedIugy large black cloud that was passing
st the time. The shower of bones was at
tended by heavy fab of rain. 80 ----
The correspondent says that the bones
ratified on the roof of his house like hail
stones. This strange phenomenon extend
ed over belt Of country ten miles in width
By many miles in length. Accompanying
the letter were seven of the bones, varying
from one inch to two inches and one-six-
teenth in length, from seven-sixteenths of
an inch to twelve and half sixteenths of
an inch in breadth, from one inch to one
inch and niDe-sixteenths in length, and
from one and half to three-sixtesnths of
an inch in thickness. They are of an ir-
regular diamond shape. One side Of the
bone is nearly fat, having on the under
side, which is worn smooth, three small
apertures, as if veins or tendon had passed
through them. These specimens have been
shown to experienced coast fishermen, and
also to learned ichthyologists, but they are
not able to ascertain to what particular
kind of fish the bones belonged. They all
agree, however, in the opinion that they are
veritable fish bones.
Several theories have been advanced in
explanation Of this strange phenomenon.
1t is generally conceded, however, that the
bones must have passed through the air for
hundreds, and perhaps thousands of miles.
The inhabitants of the parish believe that
they were brought by water-spout or a
whirlwind from the western coast of Mex
leo or Lower California, across the CONT
nent, as the wind was blowing at the time
violently from the Southeast,
We have heard of its raining cats and
dogs, but fish-bone showers are something
altogether unprecedented.
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UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE.

/. is net they alone who are trJ ing pur-
posely TO convert or corrupt others who ex-
ert an influence. The doors of your soul
are open on others and theirs on yours.
You inhabit house that is we'll nigh trans
parent, and what you are within you are
ever showing yourself to be without by
signs that have no ambiguous expression.
If you had the seeds of a pestilence in
your body, you would not have more &C
tive contagion than you have in your tenn
pers, tastes and principles. Simply to be
in this world, whatever you are, is to exert
an influence-an influence compared
to which mere language and per-
suasion are feeble. Is your example
harmless? Is it ever on the side of God
and duty? You cannot doubt that others
are continually receiving impressions from
your character. As little can you doubt
that you must answer for these impress
sions. If the influence you exert is uncon-
sciously exerted, then it is only the most
sincere, the truest expression of your char
acter. Do not deceive yourself in the
thought that you are, at least, doing no in
jury, and are therefore living without re-
sponsibility. By mere look or glance, not
unlikely, you are conveying the influence
that shall turn the scale of some ones i'm
mortality. Dismiss, therefore, the thought
that you are living without responsibility;
that is impossible. The true philosophy of
doing good is, first of all and principally, to
BE good--to have character that will of
itself communicate good. There viii be
active effort where there is goodness of
principle; but the latter we should hold to
be the principal thing, the root and life of
all.
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R1ARKE Ts By TELEGRAPH



LIVERPOOL, July 10.-Cotton dull;
middling uplands 105611d; do. Orleans
1116111d. Sales 5000 bales; speculation
and export 1900 bales.
New YORK, July 10.-Cotton lower,
middling upland 24c.
NEW ORLEANS, July 10.-Cotton NOM
inal; Sales 125 bales; good ordinary
20Ic; low middIings 22Ic; middlings 23c;
receipts "a bales; no exports; stock 17,70S
bales.
ST. LOUIS, July 10.-Cotton dull and
nominal.
CINCINNATI, July 10.-Cotton dull and
nominal; middling 23c.
LOUISVILLE, July 10.-Cotton dull and
lower; middling 23ac.
MEMPHIS, July 10-Cotton dull anu
lower; low middling 22ac.
SAVANNAH, July 1O.-Cotton greit;
middling 23sc; sales bales; stock 1890.
CHARLESTON, July 10.--Cotton dull;
middlings nominal; net receipts PIG bales;
stock 6,780 bales.
MOBILE, July 10.-Cotton dull and NOM
inal; middlings 233c; net receipts 7 bales;
stock 2,056.
GALVESTON, July 10-Cotton nominal;
good ordinary 20tc; exports to Great Brit
ain 50 bales; stock 635 bales.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, July 10.-Consols for money
92J; on account 92a6923. United States
5-20s of '62 9155; do '65, 92aa; do 'G7, 924;
10-40s, 80.
PARIS, July 10.--Rentes 54f. Csc.
FRANKFORT, July 10.-United States s.
2Os of '62 SO.
LIVERPOOL, July 1O.-Weeat, California
white 12s. 3d.; red winter Us I'd. Flour
27s Sd. Corn 26s Sd.
Rev York Money Market.
NEW YORK. July 10-Money easy at 4 to
5 per cent. Sterling dull and steady.
Gold more active and firm on increasing
shipments; all business done at 1l35 OLA.
Loans from to for carrying, and in one
case per cent. was paid for the nse of
small lot. Clearings S20,O0O,OOO. Specie
engagements for Europe 81 100000. Gov
ernments strong and fraction higher at
the close. State bonds dull and firm. The
speculative interest on the Stock Exchange
conferred on Erie. The stock opened at
5G5 and declined to 53s and rallied
to "a. This decline wss caused
by an unfavorable report and decline at
London, where stock closed at AZ. The
balance of the MAJ ket was intensely duh
and the fluctuations comprised within
from J to ! per cent. alternately, up and
down. The dizziness on Stock Exchange
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| the walk attractive to the rats. In the
course of single night some ten, twenty
| or even more rats may GO down, and if the
! island was not there they would be found
most all alive in the morning quietly swim.
ming around; but the provision of the little
island saves the trouble ofkilling them, be-
cause their egois ic instinct of elfpreser-
walton causes them 10 fight for the exclusive
possession OF tie Island, on which, In the
morning, the strongest rat is found in soli-
tary possession. all the others being killed
and drowned around him.
Second, the New York plan: The floor
near the rat hole is covered with thin
layer of moist caustic pOtassa. When The
rats walk on this it makes their feet sore;
then licking their feet makes their mouths
sore-and the result is they shun this To-
cality, not alone, but to tell all the rats in
the neighborhood about it, and eventually
the house is entirely abandoned by them,
Notwithstanding the neighboring houses
may be teeming with rats.
Third, the Dutch method, this is said to be
used successfully in Holland; we have, how
ever, never tried it. A number of rats are
left together to themselves in very large
trap or cage, with no food whatever; their
craving will at last cause them to fight, and
the weakest will be eaten up BY the others;
af er short time the fight is renewed, and
the next weakest is the victim, and so i
goes on till one strong rat is left. When
this one has eaten the last remains of
any of the others, if set loose the animal
has acquired such taste for rat flesh that
he is the terror of ratdom, going round seek
ing what rats he may devour. In an in
credibly short time the premises are aban-
doned by all others, and viii not come back
before the cannibal rat has left or has died.
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A. GENUINE HORROR.
The Two StOut Arms and q Leg of q
Young Man Sever ed by an Axe.


From the Memphis Appeal, July g.
DR.. Taylor of the County Hospital had
his professional attention drawn yesterday
morning to the peculiar condition Of one
Heinrich Hammersmidt, q good looking
young German of about twenty-six years.
He had been taken down the river from
Charley Morris's Pacific Place, few miles
above here, and was put off at the landing,
thence conveyed TO the County Hospital in
Fort Pickering, and the services of DR..
Taylor summoned at once. The Doctor
proceeded to examine the injuries
of the man very carefully. He
found that both arms were nearly severed
in two at the elbow joints, and the left leg
was entirely severed at the knee. The
Doctor was in doubt what to do in view of
the fact that there might be legal squabbles
in the Criminal Court hereafter about it.
He therefore called in other physicians and
held consultation, which resulted in the
unanimous decision of the party that the
left leg and arm should be amputated, and
that the right arm should be allowed to
take its chances for a few days at least.
The operation was very satisfactorily per-
formed, and the young man aid he felt
better after it. Being stout and hear
ty, he is likalJ to recover. He was resting
sWeetly las night.
The mysterious part of the bloody b1si-
ness is, he will not tell how the thing oc-
Cured or who did it. He said it was done
with an axe, which was aimed at lis head,
and throwing up the left arm that member
caught the blow at the elbow joint, and was
cut in two as neatly as if done with a sur
geon's saw. Another blow aimed at the
head was caught on the right elbow, which
Jared neatly in the same manneS but was
not injured so much as the other, the stroke
not being so heavy or deliberate. In turn
ing to run away the AK was thrown at
him, and CAT hing the cap of the left knee,
severed tb joint. This occurred on
Saturday orning, and it is a mystery
why lie d d not bleed 10 death. He
arrived here yesterday morning, and
had surgical aid a few hours afterward.
How be could live thirty hours after such
fearful N ltiIation, without any succor Of a
skillful character being extended to him, in
dicates the possession Of great physical pow
ers and vitality.
Warrior theories have been suggested to
account 1r his silence In regard to who dad
the axeing " perpetrated the injuries One
saws he attempted to stop saw mill, and
is ashamed to own it. Another hints that
perhaps it was a woman did it, which
would also partially aGcohnt for the reti-
cence OF she victim. If it had been done
by brother laborer, there does not seem
to be gol reason for the wounded mans
silence. The facts will doubtless be deyel-
oped very soon.
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THREE WAYS TO DRIVE AWAY
I

Macon and eireumjacent parts is terri
bic country for rats. These rats are said
to be an imported species-tracing their
origin to the East Indies and transferred
thence by ship to the American ports prob
ably by way of Europe, and penetrating
lhe interior with railway freights. They
are of great size-extraordinarily cunning
and productive and destructive beyond all
reasonable Iimits. When they get posses
sion of a stable their EatieRs-operate like
an internal revenue tax on the corn of the
mules and horses whether in crib or stall
or sack. When they infest the out
houses, enclosures and storerooms,
the ingenuity of cook, steward and house
wife is sorely beset to protect food and sup
plies from their depredations, and they are
death on eggs in the nest and infantine
poultry.
We find in one of our exchanges three
plans laid down to get rid of them, and
print them for what they are worth:
l. The old French plan; this is followed
chiefly in Paris by men who make it a spe-
cial business. They take deep tub with
water in the bottom, and little elevation
ia the middle like an island on which is on
" place for just one rat to sit. The top
is covered, and has large balance valve,
opening downward; on the middle of this
valve piece of fried pork or cheese is fix
| ed, and when rat walks on it to get the
cheese the valve goes down and drops
the rat in the water, and moves back into
position. A road is made from rat hole
10 the top of the tub by means of piece of
board rubbed with cheese, so as 10 make
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sugsestIOns for summer

1t is of great Importance that the syste m
should be in vigorous condition when the hot
weather commences. The effects of high tenn
perature upon an enfeebled frame are always
more or less disastrous The loss of substance
and the declensiOn of nervous power, occasioned
by excessive heat, can only be compensated by
the active, healthful and regular exercise of all
the bodily functions by which the waste of ma
ture is replenished and the vital energies re-
newed. The great utility of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters as means of t0ning, invigorating and
regulating the organs of the body, is universally
acknowledged, As tonic it stimulates the flag
ging appetite and acceIerates digestion; as cor
reotive it neutralizes acidity of the stomach and
relieves fiatElency; as an alt rative and mild
aperient it regulates the liver and the bowels; as
an anodyne IT promotes tranquil sleep; as a
wholesome stimuIant it imparts frmness ana
elasticity to the relaxed and trembling nerves,
and as a blood depurent it purities the vital
stream. The value of such specific to the weak
and debilitated is beyond all estimate. To in
valids wilted down by the sultry heat of midsum-
mer it is as refreshing and WALKING as the cool
night dew to the sun-soOrched flowers. Com
posed of vegetable elements only, with basis Of
pure dffusive stimulant, it is safe and palatable
as well as medicinal. In fever and ague districts
and wherever the natural conditions are cOndU-
Give to epidemic disease, it is considered the
best safeguard against paalariOUs infection, and
the speGdiest remedy for intermittent and re-
mittent feVers, jy9 deod1wSw1t 3dp