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Mexico.
Forced loan at W OnIercy- Release Of an
American Prisoner.

MATAMoRAs, July 9g.-tNew York Herald
special. Gen. ROcha has leVlcd forced loan
of SS00O0 on Monterey merchants, payable with
his drafts, principally against the treasury, and
tile balance against the Matamoras custom
house. l lie drafts which have arrived at Mata.
noras viii be feCeited in the payment Of du-
ties. The country is IN worse condition than
ever before. The custom house at Vera Cruz
owes merchants half million dollars. Tam
pito is largely indebted, and Matamoras Is the
same. The collector shows a hostile spirit
against MatamOras merchants, which is sup
posed to be in the interest of Vera Cruz and
CampicO. The reaction Is strong in favor of
Lerdo de Tijada. The country is generally quiz
citing down.
A courier from Tampico has arrived with tel
egrams from the city of Mexico to the oath.
The new tariff increasing the rate of duties has
been suspended on this frontier for two months,
and goods imported will be permitted TO enter
under the old rates for that time. This change
is made on account of the suspension of bust
ness caused by the recent revolution.
Gen. Rocha has issued a proclamation at Mon
teTey tayorlng peace and amnesty to the late in-
surgcntS. Numbers of prominent reyoutiOnists
who have been refugees in Texas have obtained
permission TO return with their families to
Mexico.
The stage-coach and mails to the interior will
soon be resumed.
New YORK, July 30.-The Two Republics
(newspaperl OF the city of Mexico OF the 18th
instant contains an account of the recent release
of Charles Thiee, an American. He had some
time ago written several letters from Chiapas to
the United States minister at the city of Mexico,
but they were broken open on the route at
Oaxaco, and as they contained charges of muir
der and other outrages of Mexican officials per-
petrated upon Americans, false charges were
brought against Thielc, and he was imprisoned
four months The documents connected with
this affair have been forwarded TO Washington.
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New York.

NATIONAL LABOR PARTY CONVENTION.
NEW YORK, July 30.-rhc national labor
party, as represented by the delegates to the Co
lumbus convention and other members of the
labor party, assembled at 10 A. NJ. to-day at Ger
mania assembly rooms, for a conference on the
political situation.
Among those present were George r.. McNiel
and Edwin NJ. Chamhcrlin of Boston, Mass. !;
Alexander Troup and Geo f. Perkins of New
Haven, Conn; W. T.. Benan of Pennsylvania
Ira Steward of Cambridge, Mass, A NJ. Puett Of
Indiana, Damon Y. KilgOr and Mcdowell of
Pennsylvania, |. X. JcsSup, VIM. Connolly and
Coroner Young Of New York. and others, in all
about sixty e, Nj Chamberlain, who was pres
idcnt of the Columbus convention, was chosen
chairman and Mcdowell secretary.
Although the meeting was called for confer
encc, the proceedings were begun BY discussing
the prOpriety of expellng Messrs. Puett,
Groom and Cameron, a committee appointed
by the Columbus convention to inform Messrs.
Davis and Parker that they were the nominees
of the convention, but who. it was claimed, had
been guilty of dereliction of duty.
Mr. Pewitt made explanation of the action OF
the committee which had not previously been
given.
Mr.. Caswcll Of Maine presented Il resolution
accusing the committee of political treason. He
was called to order by Mr. Mcmahon of MasSa-
chuSetts who thought the convention out OF
order, and offer a resolution combining dcliber
atons to one point-labor and its needs He
continued to speak IN Remuneration of capital
and capitalists, charging the failure Of previous
movements TO the trucking political trcachery
of repr sentativcs. Principle is wanted now,
and a 1t claration OF pl .ncipleS is most pressing
before the convention. Several members eXcit-
cdly demanded the appointment OF committee
on credentials.
Mr.. kilgorc, whose lealty TO labor. as 10 party,
had been lmpu%ned, branded any man doubt
Ing 1t as liar and villain.
MIR. Dalton thought TINS premedltated at
Tempt to carry the aSsemblage Tor Grant or
Greeley. He would not have Grant, and could
not get "reeley. u'ond applauSe) lhe com
Inltlee was then appointed and a recess taken.
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From Central and South America
The Edgar Stuart-Chinese LabOTers-
Fatal Epidemic Among ChiIdrcn-Hn-
dinns Quarrel Over the Marriage Ques-
iOn-The New Minister 90 ChiIi-Thc
Mines.

HAVANA, July 80, via KEY WEST, 3O.-As-
pinwall advceS to the 20th give the following
Captain Birdsall, commanding tug at Grey
town, was drowned while crossing the bar in
skih.
The Edgar Stuart is still in custody Of the
United States steamer Wyoming. A new cap
tain for the Stuart is expected in the Rising
Star. The Wyoming is awaiting orders from
Washington as to the disposal of the Stuart
Panama authorities continue their mcddling in.
reference with the vessel.
Eighty Cinnamon have begun work on the
wharyGs Of the Pacific Mail steamship com
pany.
The sthmus is delugcd by rains.
An epidemic resembling yellow fever exists at
Carthagena, but is fatal chiefly to children.
Reports from the lsthmuS of Darien say hostil-
tiles are progressing between the Choco ana
other Indian tribes. A number have been killed.
One tribe advocates intermarriage with whites,
while the others oppose it. The question OF Iu-
termixturc OF races is likely to become serious.
Lima advices to the TIN: The great national
exhibition opened on the LIST.
Mr.. Thomas, the new United States minister
to Chill, has presented his credentials.
Small pOx continues its raYagcS at Valparaiso
and other Gillian cities.
Two companies, with capital of a million
dollars each, have organized to work the coal
mines of Conception.
Immense quantities of saltpetre have been dis
covered in africa
In Ecuador many new schools have been
established and museums commenced in differ
ent towns.
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ored troops, aud that he was in advance Of them
IN supporting their rights.
Mr.. Douglass, speaking Of recognition by APP
pOintment TO Office saws that they have good
share. He found in one department alone two
hundred and lOrty-nine persons of color. On
the question Of personal recognition, his evil
dencc is very strong. He says, During my
varied public career of more than thirty years,
have, perhaps, more than any other colored man
Of my times, been brought into direct contact
with our nations great men; and, taking my
whole experience into account | affirm that,
after our martyrcd president, Abraham Lincoln,
and Senator Charles Sumner, no man in high
position has manifested in his intercourse with
me upon all occasions and in all places, mere
entire freedom from vulgar prejudice of race
and color than Ulysses s. Grant. have called
upon him often never to solicit office for myself
or for Others and have always found him to he
easily accessible, gentlemanly and cordial.
Like most OF YOU, when meeting distinguished
white persons, ] was on the lookout, when
meeting with General Grant, for some indiCa-
ton of the presence, in his manners and words,
of the slayery-born aversion TO my race. |
found nothing of the kind in him." Referring
to the San Domingo commission dinner, to
which Mr. Douglass was not invited, a fact OF
which Mr.. Sumner complains, Mr.. Douglass
says in effect that he was not a member of the
commission, was not with them when they
called at the White house. and has no more
right to complain than the white men who were
attaches in the same cause as Douglass.
In the conclusion of his letter, MIR. Douglass
SAYS: ''To vote for McSSrS. Greeley and Brown
would Justly inv te on our heads the contempt
and scorn of honest men. We should not only
brand ourselves as political knavcs, but as pOt-
iCal fools, merely marching to occupv Il position
to which we are invited by the democratic
party, which parry dnring the past forty years
has existed almost exclusively to make sure our
slavery and degradation as a race. - Washing
ton dispatch 10 the Globe.
The weather probabilities for to-day give a
possibility of rain.
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Political Intelligence.


MAINE.
BELFAST, July 30.--Ihe fifth district demo-
cratic convention to-day unanimously concurred
with the liberal republicans in the nomination
Of Frederick a. Pike for congress.
NORTH CAROLINA.
New YORK, July 30.-Ihc FINES Raleigh
special charges that plan has been arranged to
challenge and throw out republican votes all
over North Carolina. Two hundred have been
marked for challenge in Raleigh and 1888 out of
the 1900 voting population of Kinston, Lenoire
county. The state committee have sent dis
patches to every telegraph station warning re-
pubcans to be on their guard.
A Herald dispatch from Charlotte, N. c., says
that while Senator Schurz was addressing a
meeting there yesterday ar-alarm Of fire was
raised. Smoke was Immediately alterward seen
issuing from an unoceupied house in the heart
OF the city. The meeting had to cease for a few
minutes. The crowd dispersed in wild excite
ment, but the fire was cXlinguished Thecrowd
soon rallied however, and the speech resumed.
A negro was heard, a few minutes before the
alarm to say that he could kill and burn as well as
any kuklux, and thus speaking left the crowd
The tire was plainly the work Of incendiarsm.
Subsequently an investigation by the mayor
traced the fire TO the negro, who had meanwhile
taken flight.
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COUNTY NEWS.

Athol is to have musical convention in Sep
TENDER.
A Grant and Wilson club was organized in
Athol Saturday evening.
Athol people complain of bad roads in that
town between the two villages.
The store of C.. B. Elwell in Warren, was
broken open Friday night and few goods and
pennies stolen.
The valuation of Millbury is So $40, 1856; an
increase of $44S,37S over 1871. The rate of tax
alton is $3.50 per $1,000 The total amount of
town, county and state taxes is S31 800.
The assessors of Uxbrldge have completed
their labors and lind the total valuation of the
town to be 81, 1872, 900. The amount raised for
state, county and town purposes inclusive, is
S2O,61O85. The rate of taxation is $1O7O per
$1,000.
The Sabbath schools connected with the WOr-
cester and Middlcsex Union Congregational
churches held picnic at Walden Pond. Con-
cord, yesterday There was large attendance
present. Speeches were made by several clergy
men, superintendent, and others interested in
the Sabbath school cause.
The first session of the second district court
ofsOuthern Worcester will be held at Uxbridgc
on Thursday, August 1, Hon. Arthur A. Put
nam, justice, presiding. A court room is to be
fitted up in the old academy, and will no doubt
be so arranged and presided over that rogues
will be struck with awe.
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He RcFHIeS Sundry FOr%cries and False
hoods That Have Appeared.

BosToS, July 30.-Tho following letter from
Senator Wilson explains itself:
NATICK, Mass, July go.
j. q. Cp'rer, Esq, State JoWndt, Madison,
Wisconsin.
My Dear Sir-The mail has just brought me
your note and extracts clipped from newspapers
purpOrting TO be speeches made by me. In an
Swer to Your queries, ! have to say that they,
and all thoughts and words of like character
which have appeared in the papers, are pure in
ventions, wicked lUtgerieS, absolute falSelIOOdS.
Never have thought, spoken or written those
words, nor anything resembling those words;
nor anything that the most malignant sophistry
could torture into those words. ] could not
have done SO, for they are ablorrent to every
conviction of my Judgment, every throb of
my heart every aspiration OF my soul
Born in extreme poverty, having endured the
Hard lot the sons OF poverty are too often forced
TO endure, came to manhood pasSiOnately de
voted to the creed a human equality. All my
life | have cherished as a hri9at hope, and held
and avOwed as living faith, the doctrine that
all men, without distinction of color, race or nat
tiOnality, Should have complete liberty aud
exact equality, all the rights | asked for my =
self My thoughts, my words my pen, my
votes, have been cOnSeCrated for more than
thrty-SiX years TO human rights. In the CON
stitullonal convention of Massachusetts, in eight
years service in her legislature, in more than
seventeen years service in the senate OF the
United States, in thirteen hundred public adj
dresses, in the press, in speeches and writings
that would ell many volumes aad make thou-
sands of pages, have itcrated and reiterated
the doctrines Of equal rights for all conditions
Of men.
is 1t not, my dear sir, passing strange, then,
that partizaDship should so blind men to sense
Of truth, justice and fair play that they could
forge and print abhortent scntimeRts-senti-
ments insulting to God and fiian-and charge
nm Ub
cause of equal rights at home, aud whose pro-
found sympathcS were ever given to the friends
of liberty OF all races and natiOnalites
abroad2 Yours truly, HENRY WILSON.
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to all the covenants solemnly given in the
adoption of Il republican platform, with Horace
Greeley as candidate. There can be no back
ward step,
With no common sympathy have observed
that Mr. Hendricks a leading democrat, whom
J knew ard esteemed in the senate, has recently
announce his acceptance Of the constitutional
amendments, with their logical results. lie
proposes, rs Il proper key note to the cXtraordi-
nary move ncnt now swelling TO a sure tri-
umph: lust laws and public virtue This
is worthy aspiration, entirely fit on this occa-
sion. My key note is: "rhe unity of the re-
public and the equal rights of all with
reconciliation" Such is my cry and
wherever my voice can reach, there do insist
upon all these, humbly invoking the blessing
of divine providence, which belieye~muS rest
on such cause.
Accept my best wishes for yourselves person.
ally, and for the people you represent, and believe
me, gentlemen, to be your faithful friend.
CHARLES SUMNER.
To DIR. Augusta, Vim. IL. A. Wormley, and
others.
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The POpo County Disturbances Judge
NEny,H Court dRVcrnwcd

ST. LOUIS, July 3O-The Democrats Little
Rock special says that the Pope county disturb
auces are attracting great attention. The Off
GERS and loyal men consider it unsafe to remain
at home. One has gone TO Kentucky, several
are here and many Others are lurking in the
woods. Judge Mays court was practically
overawed on Thursday last by the presence of a
large body of armed men who pretended to be
guards for one of the prisoners, charged with
attempted assassination of Deputy Sheriff Will
liams, aud who was also armed. Under these
circumstances it was thought unsafe for wit
neSses to appear and testify. Judge May did
not arrive TO hold the court. The town was
again filled with armed men, and the sheriff and
Others charged with killing two or three per-
sons deemed ii safer to leave the county, having
wayed examination and given bail for their APP
pearing at the regular term OF the court.
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Frederick Douglass has published careful
letter reviewing Grants relations to the col
ored race lie began by asserting that the pres.
idcnl's record shows HIM to have been always
faithful and sincere friend Vi Mi. Douglass
race; there is nothing 10 justify the accusation
by Mr. Sumner or any one else that he is or has
been otherwise. From this postuate he pro-
ceeds to review Grants career under this head,
showing by orders, letters, etc. written in the
field, that he sagaeiousy and practically cared
for the protection and well-being Of the freed
people; that he at once sustained the policy
Vi the Lincoln administration in regard ~ col
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SUMMER RESORT.

These Heights, embracing OF over 100 acres,
beautifully situated the town of Falmouth upon bun
overlooking the sea the summit Of which an elegant
Observatory has been erected the accommodation Of
visitors Directly opposite, and in plain view, Vine
yard Haven Oak Bluffs and the lghlani Is ut Marthas
Vineyard.
The grounds are suitably divided into extensive Parks,
Avenues and Building Lots, which latter are being sold
with rapdity proves this to be the most desirable
location for Summer Resort the New England coast
Tire cool breezes from the ocean which fan these
Heights render the Of summer here one of comfort
and delight. The facilities for Fishing. Boating, Bathing
and Driving arc unsurpassed A commodOub Hotel has
been opened under She efficient management Of
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Geneva Arbitration.


LONDON, july 9O-5 Mt is reported that
the Geneva board gf arbitration have adopted
the following method Of diSposing of the bust
ness before it: The case of each ship is exam
ined separately; the arbitratorS next decide
What principles applicable to the case, by which
it stands or fails. No definite amount of dam
ages is then fixed upon, hut when the eXamina-
ton OF all the cases is completed, the tribuna
will review its separate conclusions and agree
upon the total sum of damages.
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Senator Wilson left last night for Indiana.
A. u. Ely, well known lawyer, died yester-
day morning of consumption, at his residence
in Newton.
John Z. Lindsay of Vermont has been APP
pointed acting secretary of the national rcpubli.
can liberal committee, in charge OF the New
York headquarters.
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CnI,a.

New YORK, July 30,-A letter from Santiago
de Cuba reports several minor successes for the
Cuban insurgents at Sauna, Guantanamo, Bara-
jagua and other points, and asserts that they
are preparing to resume hostilities ON larger
scale They have recently been provided with q
new supply of arms.
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CITY MoRrALITY.-The total number of
deaths recorded at the office of the city clerk for
this city during the week ending July twenty
seventh, was thirty-siX, eighteen males and
eighteen females. Fourteen died of cholera in
two OF cholera morbus, two of lung fever, two
Of brain fever, and one each of measles, heart
disease, whooping cough, inlantile weakness,
disease Of the spine, exhaustion and drowning.
Of twenty-onc deaths among children tiye years
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Fires.

BALTIMORE, July 30.-St. Timothy ball at
Centrcvllle was burned on Monday. The one
hundred and fifty boarderS escaped
OswEGo, July 30.-A fire this morning de-
Stroyed the new Hotel block on West First and
Seneca streets, owned by +. I. Carnngton, +.
kngslOrd, and Others. Insured for S25, 900.
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REFEREE CASE IN FITCHBURG.-A referee
case of some importance, occupying three day S,
aud concluded yesterday, has been tried in
Fitchburg, before Hon. George NJ. Brooks, NJ.
G., Of Concord, referee. 1t was between parties
claiming the estate of the late Nabby Norcross
of 1empleton, who died in 1870, aged 92.
Amasa Norcross of Ftchburg and S. Cady of
Templeton appeared as counsel for the guar
dian of Nabby Norcross and for Still
man Norcross, her son, creditor of
tho estate; Croker of Lcominster appeared for
the administrator of the estate; and II. b.,
Staples ofWorcester appeared for the admins
traitor and for the Ager heirs, who are grand
children of the deceased, aud for Silas S. Nor
cross, her son. The principal question in issue
related TO Stllman's liability to support his
neither under bond also to the title to certain
notes growing out of the gift of Nabby Nor
cross TO her grand children, the Alger heirs. The
evidence was very conflicting. 1t was case
growing out of a regular family quarrel. and
the testimony involved no very crcditable revea-
tons Of the private history of parties.
Decision reserved.
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BRooKyILLE, Kansas, July 3O.-A passenger
tram was wrecked at Coon Creek station ON the
Kansas Pacific railroad, yesterday, the bridge
over the creek having been DESTROYED by a water
spout Five immigrant passengers were killed.
aud baggage-master Wallace and eXpressman
hiddcr were seriously injured.
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VIM ), Groesbeck of Ohio writes letter Civ.
ing in his adhesion to Greeley. He saws: ~
differ IN politics with Greeley, who was not INV
choice; but he has been chosen with extraord.
nary unanllnity and Is now before us as the only
representative Of reconciliation"