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| ship Samaria, from Liverpool, arrived
at this port last night about hali'pas'
ten.
A Gre broke out last nightin the store
room OF the United States lighthouse
ON Staten Island. Everything IN the
room was destroyed, but no damage was
done to the building. Loss unknown.
A terrible tragedy was enacted at NO
SO Vessy street this morning at STEIN
hardt a sehunlun's cigar factory Con
siderable trouble existed between Sehnn'
Inn and Alfred steinhardt, brother OF
the senior partner, which eliminated
this morning in the latter shooting schnn-
Inn in the head, aud aflerward shooting
himself Both are probably fatally
wounded.
BRooELYN, August ll.-William An
derson, aged tweniy.one, last night stab
bed young lady named Anne Canning
ham, aged eighteen. Anderson bad been
for some time paying his attention to
Miss Annie, who had refused his offer OF
marriage. Last night he met her coming
ont of her house, and after a few words
had passed between them he struck her
several times with a knife, cutting some
uglv gashes in her back. The police
then secured Anderson, when he plunged
the knife into his own breast The
wounds of both are serious. Anderson
was removed from the house and Miss
C. taken to her room.
Michael Savage yesterday accident
ally fell from the stoOp at his residence
on Dean street, and received fatal inJu-
ries. The accident aud its serious re
suits so alarmed bis wife that she went
into commissions, and died in short
time.
A bold strike for liberty was made
Friday last by twenty-one prisoners con-
fined in the codnty jail at Richmond
Staten Island. The men dug a hole
two and a half feet in diameter through
the floor and underwall during the day,
and only waited for darkness to make
their escape. The Sheriff fortunately
discovered the attempted escape and
thwaried it.
The Herald's special from Valencia,
Spain, says that previous to the surren-
der of Valencia by the Radicals to the
Spanish Government forces, ten thou
sand lcyalists we're concentrated before
the city under the command Of Generals
Martinez, Campoe, Salseda, Veterde and
ViIlacan. Eighteen siege guns were
placed in position, and the revolution
lists under Junta, seeing the condition oil
affairs, assembled in council to debate
upon the proposal to surrender the
city to the commander in chief OF the
besieging army, under guarantee OF
full pardon to all the insurgents within
the town. Junta expected that the city
would be burned if the terms of the
proposition made on the 9th inst. were
not conceded to. On the same day
there was a general stampede OF the
non combatants from the city, the fright
ened people being equally alarmed at
the prospect of enduring the dangers OF
a bombardment by the Spanish artillery
or the excuses of the insurgents. Two
days deliberation ensued, at the expira-
ton of which time the commander OF
the Spanish troops rejected the terms
submitted to him by the Radicals.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
have three iron steamers almost ready
for sea. One of these, the Coluna, is
expected from Chester, Pa, to-day to re-
ceive her furniture. She will 60 on the
line about the LIST Of September between
Panama and San Francisco. The other
two steamers are now receiving their
machinery at Morgan's Iron Works.
The cest Of each vessel will be between |
$3.50, 900 and 100000.