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A REFORM PARTY.
Anti-MonopOIy Convention at Dcs
MOineg, Iowa.


ST. LOUIS, July 14.-A dispatch from
Des Moincs, Iowa, says an anlimonopoly
convention was held there Saturday,
which nominated a full county ticket,
elected delegates 10 the State conven-
tlon, and passed resolutions declaring for
no support to any man for office who Is
not IN full sympathy with producers and
manufacturers and opposed to monopo.
lies; also declaring ihat1he doctrine Of
vested rights by railroad corporations
which exempt them from legislative con.
troll has no place In the independence Of
FREQ people; demanding reform in the
salary Of public officers, dc1ouncing the
back pay grab and tho President lor
signing the law, and demanding its repeal
demanding q political reform, and tho
strictest economy IN State and county Of.
fairs. Italso invites all persons to join
this movement.
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CHICAGO.
Terrible Fight with KnIves-.Heavy
CITY Mortality.

CHICAGO, July IA terrible fight
with butcher knives took place yesterday
In saloon on Archer avenue, In which
John McNally was fatally stabbed by Jas,
Curray, whom no had attacked and who
appears TO have acted throughout In sell.
defense, McNSlly having driven him into
a corner and fought him until be (McNal'
ly) fell from the loss oi blood.
The weekly report Of the superintend.
ent on Saturday last, shows greater
mortality for the past week than for any
previous week during this or last year.
The weather yesterday and today was
terrible hot, and the nights are very op.
pressiVe. The thermometer to-day stood
81 70 93 In the shade.
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The Search for the PoIariS-- Depar-
Inre of TlRTeAA,


NEW YORK, July 14.-The Tigress sail.
ed this evening from the Navy Yard on q
voyage in search Of the Polaris. During
the morning q supply Of coal and water
was taken on board, and In the afternoon
a quantity OF clothing and baggage was
placed on the steamer. At five o'clock
the Tigress cast loose from her moorlng
and headed up stream. The men on re-
celvlng the ships Vermont and Corvette
Brooklyn manned the yards, and cheer
alter cheer was heard from both crews,
returned with q hearty good will
from the decks and rigging oil the Tigress.
expeditionary vessel, then steamed slowly
In the direction Of He'll Gate as she pass
ed the Government Battery one farewell
shot was fired. Tho Tgress then steadily
steamed along East river accompanied by
the navy tug Catalpa on board which
were Mrs. Greer, vile Of Capt. Greer
Mrs, Capt. Chandler and several olhel
ladies. Many ladies and children watch
cd the vessel from the Navy Yard docR
until she was out Of sight.
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Wan DHFARFnRHT,
OYRloH OF Fm UHIHV SIOHAL oFTIolR.
WLGHuaToH, D. O., July 1850 2. Z.
PROBABILITIES.

WLGHnsToH, D. O., July 1850 P. =.
PROBABILITIES. .
On Tuesday for the Gulf States, wester.
ly winds, warm and dry weather, fol-
lowed by occasional local storms.
For the South Atlantic States, q falling
barometer, southeast winds veering to the
southerly, partly cloudy weather and rain
on tho immediate coast
Far the Middle and Eastern States, q
higher temperature, soulhwesterly winds
and numerous local storms,
For the lower lakes and Ohio valley
southwesterly winds, higher tempera'
ture and generally cloudy weather.
For the upper like region, rising ba'
rometer, northeast TO northwest wlnd3
partly cloudy and clearing weather.
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HoN. CAssIUs II. CLAY, who was a firm
friend Of Mr.. LINCoLN's, but IL censor Of
Mr.. SEWARD, has written to tho New
York Tribune a powerful reply to Mr.
CHARLIE FRANcB ADAMS eulogy ot the
latter, In which the writer takes up and
answers with great ability the statement
Of Mr.. ADAMs, that Secretary SEWARD
was the intellectual superior OF Pres
ident LINCOLN. 1t Is not an altogether
pleasant controversy, this arguing over
the comparative greatness Of two
men, who were both great but
different, and who arc both In graves
which should guard their memories from
the attacks Of the living but since Mr..
ADAMS invited the debate, there Is no
Just way OF closing 1t until both parties
have spoken their views. Mr.. CLAY is
fercely scsthing and caustic against the
dead Secretary, and his letter will crate
harshly upon the feelings Of those who
believed Mr. SEWARD to be the greatest
man at Washington during the war. A
single paragraph will show the favor Of
his argument:
One Of the fatal legacies which military
men ever leave to a free people was Jack.
sons avowal that ITO the Victors belong
the spoils," which in that party Is higher
than country. But they never thoug ght Of
assuming more than the laws and the
Constitution allow. Not so with Seward.
As In Asia the bodies OF murdered chill
dren and the suicides Of gross superstition
are said 10 accumulate In the Gauges and
tester into that virus Of cholera which Is
the Scourge Of the world, so Seward by
sustaining corrupt men, plundering the
people Of will 90 long as they were loyal
10 him, carried from Albany TO Washing
ton that iata! system which threatens the
utter destruction Of the Republic.
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nenIIh or Thurlow Weed. .

NEW YORK, July 14.-Rumors having
been circulated that Thurlow Weed was
seriously III, the announcement Is made
that, although he has suffered recently
from q chronic difficulty, his general
health has remained as good as usual,
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AT about @ ockIMondsy Afternoon
in the river ten miles below Baltimore
Of Willow Grove o squSll struck and
capsized 3 sail boat containing sever
young men, four Of whom were Millel
spence aged II, Jacob Andrews 81, Bald
WIN Wilson ls and George Cook 20, wer
drowned.
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CINCINNATI.

College Presidency Decllned.sName
AbbTevIateds.ChOleTn.
CINCINNATI, July l4.-ReV. Dr.. Nelson
Professor Of Theology in the Lane Semi.
nary, has declsively declined the recent
Invitation 10 the Presidency oi Knox Col
lego. He will continue at his post in the
Seminary.
The daily edition of the Cincinnati
Times and Ctronics to-day appears as the
Cincinnati Daily Tines.
Two cholera deaths were reported here
today.
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No deaths from cholera to-day.
The Little Vendetta near Winchester

RICHMOND July l4.-IR the Clarke
county court, TO. day, LycurguS and Oscar
Little were indicted for the murder o.
their brother, Clinton. On being ar
raigued plead not guilty. This 10 The
afFay which occurred near Winchester
on the 9th Of July, in which several O.
the brothers Little were engaged, two O
them then and there being wounded, and
nna killed.
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SPAIN.

MADRID, July 14.-The successes Of the
Oarlists, and the outbreaks and atrocities
at Alcoy, have awakened strong feelings
against the Insurgents. Meetings are
being held In the provinces. At BARGE.
Iona, a very largo meeting was held last
niuht
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Explorations in the Rocky Noun.
IRlnB.

FORT MCPHERSON, NRB., July a.
Prof. Marsh and the Yale College explor'
Ing party returned here to-day from the
Mobarana river, where they have spent
the last month in geographical explora'
tions. The trip was successful and many
interesting discoveries were made. Many
new and extinct animals were found, and
among them several fossil horses, camels
&c. The party will all start tomorrow
for Fort BrIdger, Wyoming, to explore
the Utah mountains country.
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BOSTON,.

Will OF VIM. Whiting.-Labor Re.
form Convention.
BosTON, July l4.-The will Of the late
William Whiting gives 5000 TO Har-
ward College for scholarship, $1,000 10
the town ot Concord Tor It's public library,
$4,000 10 relatives and friends, and the
remainder to his wilG and children.
The Executive Committee Of the Labor
Reform party Of this State have changed
the place for holding their State ConVen'
ton from Worcester 10 Lowell. The
time fixed Is August 9th.
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FurIOus HurrLcane 10 Cauada. .

WALLACRTowN, July 14.-A furious
hurricane and rain storm passed over here
to-day, doing great damage 10 the build.
ings, fences and crops. The house Of Neil
Macarthur was struck by lightning and bis
am killed. |
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ChIId shnt al CnmbrIdge, o.

C1Nc1NNATI, July 14-At Cambridge,
Ohio, to-day, o nine year old son OF VIM:
Dade (colored) accidentally shot and
killed bis two year old brother,
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Conaagration az Amsterdam.

LISBON, July 14.-A dispatch from Am.
Sterdam to night says that an extensive
confederation 10 raging among the coal
stores In that city.
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G1A0EtelLiaeater.

nTHR MAIL DERANGEMRNTs.-Thsode-
Tsnpemeut Of the mail service on the Bal
tmers road, through the stupidity or de-
sign Of some Of Mr.. CREsvEIL's subordi'
mates Is radical and general. Merchants
here are expGriencIngthe most unaccount'
able and vexaiious delays in communicate
iup with their customers In West Virgin
ID and western Maryland. 1t takes In
some cases three days 70 get . letter 10 oI
from points q hundred miles distant. A
merchant In our Office last evening said be
had Just received q letter from Parkers
burg which had been on the way three
days. Yet the mails coming 10 to this city
are not so obstructed as those going out.
when no mails are sent out from this city
till six O'Clock in the evening, the Clncin'
natl papers actually get here by the time
the Wheeling papers leave the city.
The same Is true Of the Cumberland pa
pers. Ofcourse we complain OF this ar
rsngement as an outrageous discrimina'
tiou sgains! the Wheeling papers. But
It does not affect Us alone. It affects eV.
ery merchant and manufacturer 10 the
city who has customers that are supplied
with goods from the city by the B. & o.
and ParkerSburg roads, Every difficulty
in the way Of prompt communication
with those customers helps 10 drive them
TO Baltimore or Cincinnati. Their orders
can be executed more promptly In
either Of those cities than r, here;
and they will soon be driven TO
those markets If the present difficulties
continue. Besides this direct interest,
Wheeling merchants and manufacturers
have an indirect interest 10 the cirCula-
ton Of the Wheeling papers, and suffer
wherever II ia obstruCted. Wherever
these papers go they advertise the city, Its
affairs, It's enterprise, and especially the
business ol their advertisers, and nothing
does so much to make territory tribu.
tsry to city as 10 have the newspapers of
that city scattered broadcast and Contin.
uslly through its villages Cut of thepa.
pers from any region, and that region will
soon learn to look in other directions
both for news and for trade. 1t Is in
this way the business people OF Wheeling
are harmed by these persistent and in.
genIous efforts to destroy tho circulation
OF Wheeling papers east and south Of this
city In West Virginia, and in this way tho
injury to the business Of the city is at
once more Insiduous and more disastrous
than might at first appear. We do not
say that BANGS and his subordInates are
paid TO arrange these mails Iu the interest
OF Baltimore and Cincinnati publishers
and merchants. We do say II they
were SO paid they could not earn their
price more efeciuslly than they are doing.
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Gen. Amos Pillsbury, for many years
Superintendent Of the Albany Peniten-
tisry, died Monday, aged 6s,
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BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT

Exclusively to the Intelltsenser.
J. 3 " -s-
(By the Western Union Line.
Once Northwest cor. Of Main and Monroe sul
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17
News and Other Items.

The first female graduate of the University
of Michigan has married one of her classmates.
Nearly all the jewelry manufacturers in New
ark have struck work.
Experiment has shown that the expectation
of live bees to Europe will not pay at the pres
ent freight rates of steamship companies.
Mr. Wilkie Collins was taken SO seriously i'll
at Syracuse last Sunday evening, that he had to
postpone his reading in Rochester on Monday
Wendell Phillips is announced to lecture in
New York on Some Bad People" Whom
will he hit?
Mr.. Jefferson Davis is suggested for the chan
cellorship of the University of Georgia at
Athens, in place of the Rev. DR.. A A Lip
scomb, who purposes to resign.
An apple tree in Maysville, Kentucky, which
is known to have borne full crop as long ago
as 1895, was also fruitful this year, and still
looks green and fourishing
Unseemly quarrel-Tbe dispute between the
High and Low Church Episcopal bishops over
the communion table used by prominent MEM
bers of the Evangelical Alliance.
Sxty-four million postal cards have been sold
during the five months they have been in use
in this country. This is greatly in excess of
the estimates.
The New York papers are starting rumors
about the resignation of Secretary Richardson,
just as they often did in regard to Mr.. Boutwell,
while he was at the head of the Treasury De-
partment.
The San Francisco Bulletin says that Walla
Walla valley, with million bushels Of wheat,
can send to market only three hundred thou
sand bushels. because of the lack of transpor-
tation.
Grace Greenwood's wanderngs in the can
ons and gulches of Colorado have been embit-
tered by the theft of her shaws and quantity
of linen which she had hung out to dry on the
convenient shubbery.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17
STATE NEWS.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

AhooSIOOk COUNTY.
The North Star says that Mr.. Egery of Ban
gor, was at New Sweden this week. to consult
with the Sleam Mill Companies in regard to
taking charge of the mills. Both companies
proposed to Mr.. Egery to give up to him the
steam mills, all they had paid Mr.. Egery to-
wards them, the buildings, land on which they
stood, ETC., providing he will guarantee to RIM
these mills in New Sweden. He thinks he will
accept OF Their proposition. He also intends to
put IN grlst mill and good machine for saw
ing boards.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
In connection with the session of the Frank
lin county Teachers Institute which will com
mence in Pennington next Monday. under the
drectlOnQf Hon. j. w. Corthell and Prof
f. A. Allen, there will be convention
of the town committees and supervisors in the
county, Friday, Oct. Oath
At a meeting of the delegates from the
Franklin county and North Franklin Agricul-
tural Societies. held at Strong Thursday Oct
ID Albert l.. Bradbury of Avon, was elected
member of the Maine Board Of Agriculture
for the next three years.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Ninety-six lives and $75S,O0O of property
have been lost by marine disasters in the dis
trict of Castine during the last ten years.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
William Truesdale was badly injured at
Gardiner, Tuesday, while shackliDg cars.
Monday afternoon the bridge across the Sc
basticook at Clinton, gave way as a drove of "a
cattle were passing over it. But one OK was
killed
The ball of the House of Representatives
has been entirely renovated The walls are
painted drab color. and the desks have been
grained light mahogany.
KNOX COUNTY.
A Thomaston shipmaster has disregarded the
nd 1aup had IT.,
day.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17

There were twelve persons on board the
schooner Fanny Bucklin of Rockland, sup
posed to have been lost near Cape Breton in the
gale of August oath: Capt. Edward Bucklin
aged 46 years, his wife Emeline Bueklin aged
about 43 years, their two children, Fanny aged
Is and Eddie aged years, the mate Mr.. Kill
by of Freeport, the cook of Portland. and
three seamen whose names ere unknown here,
and two passengers from Nova Scotia,
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
1t was Leonard Hill, esq.,, of Bradford. who
was injured at Exeter by being thrown from
has been made. A runaway horse dashed
against his wagon, causing it to upset and his
horse to run Mr.. Hill was thrown ont and Sc
riously injured having one of his arms broken
in three places. He has been taken to his home
i'm Bradford, but has not yet fully recovered his
consciousness He is about 70 years of age
PIsoATAoUIs COUNTY.
The force in the Brownville slate ouarries
will be doubled the coming spring.
The new spool factory at Foxcroft is nearly
ready to run, and will employ rs hands.
The paper pulp mill at East Dover. is rapid
ly approaching completion, and will employ
about 40 hands.
WALDO COUNTY.
The store of A. w. Bickford in Burnham,
was burned Saturday.
YORK COUNTY.
Fears are entertained for the safety of the
schooner Addie Jordan of Saco which sailed
from Brunswick, Ga, for Amboy, N. j., the
9th ult.
At Cornish they feed cattle on hay that has
been cut 45 years, says the Times.
A man applied for lodging at the Biddeford
police station Wednesday night, alleging that
the hotels were full A fellow confined for
drunkenness howled so dreadfully that the
stranger drew his wallet, paid the druuxards
fine and had him released. Then he slept the
sleep of the just
IN GENERAL.
There are 1870 lodges of Good Templars in
this State, with membership of betWeed IA
600 and $1,000. Since last April ten new lodges
have been organized.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17
A TERRIBLE AFFAIR." Lesson to Collegians

A TERRIBLE AFFAIR." Lesson to Couegidns.
The telegraph, several days since, made brief
mention of the death of Mortimer Leggett, son
of the United States Commissioner of Patents,
and student at Cornell University. From de-
tails recently received it appears that young
Leggett was undergoing the ceremonies of ini-
tiation into college secret society, the Kappa
Alpha fraternity. The members of this society
gathered on the banks Of creek a little out.
side the village, and Leggett, the candidate for
initiation, was blindfolded and subjected to the
usual ceremonies, which appear to have been
rough and errel. While they were in ,,rogress,
Lesgett and the two young men who had him
III cparge fell over the brink of the precinice
into gorge fifty feet below. There thew waro
found by their companions, Leggett with his
skull fractured. and the other two serions,, =. ,5
possibly fatally injured. Leggett lived about
half an hour after the fall.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17

Curtis, Windsor, N S for do; David Torrey, soule.
Clark's Island for do.
Sid, schs Empire, Effort Abby Gale, Koret, VIM
McLoon Benjamin, Hillsboro, Ella, G Rogers, and
others.
BOSToN-Ar 18th, brig BENZ Young Cole. Port
johnson; schs Annie Bliss, Simmons, and j b Mar
shall, Marsholl Baltimore Blauna Loa. Sanbom,
Elizabethport; Evelyn, Crowley, and Ophir, keene,
Port johnson: sinaloa, Sprague; Susanna, Wood
Weehawken; Ida L Howard, Williams, and Paos,
Ober Hoboken; Ontara, Spragqe, do; Lark, 6uptiii.
and A Cook smith, New York vou ro,nono,no.
schs Mary B Harris, Mitchell. Philadelphia; Abby
Morton. Written, Providence.
Ar 10Th, schs Samuel Fish, Holbroos Alexandria;
Alabama Wall, Elizabethport; Lettie Wells, Watts,
dol Mary Sands. Percy, Port johnson; Mand Null
loch. Pike, Hoboken.
Lark, Guptill. Calais; Owen Kinds, Clendenin do.
PORTSMOUTH-Ar 18th. scbs Benz Reed, Adams.
Philadelphia; W Woodruff, Haskell, Georgetown;
Sid 18th, sch Lucy Amelia, White Eastport.
Below 18th, brig Manzania, Benson, Portland for
Elizabethport; schs Bonaventure, knight. Boothbay
for Boston; DR. Rogers, Alley, CALAIS for do Caressa,
Sadler. Ellsworth for do.
SALEM-Ar 14th, scbs Ada Ames, Adams. Port
Calais.
Ar 10Th, scht Alaska, Clark. Philadelphia; Ellen
Perkins. Mitchell, and Cicero, Cookson Port john
son; Effort. Pendleton; Koret, Durham; L L Mills.
Armstrong; Mary, Hallowell; Olive Warren; New
Zealand, Haskell and Ocean Ranger, Whitney, do;
II Treat, HodgdoD, Eizabethport Simpson,
Pike; Olive Elizabeth, Randall, and Restless Has.
kell, Elizabethport; Julia, Perry, Hoboken.
FOREIGN POETS.
Sid fm Cadiz 23d glt. brig Maurice, Bartlett, for
Gloucester.
Ar at Rio Janeiro Aug 90 barque Templar, Bart
lett. Baltimore (and cid Sept Tor do.)
Sid Aug %, brig Harry Stewart, Weeks, for New
Orleans.
Sid FIN Demarara Goth ult, sch Harry White, Hop
kins, Jacksonville.
In port 25th, brig Miller. Parker, from N York,
ar 18th, for do.
At Lingan, CB 18th inst, brig Daisy BoyntoD, APP
pleby, for New York, ldg.
Ar at st John, NIB, 18Th inst sch Maggie Quinn,
Foster, Portland; 18th. Howard Holder, Molder do;
Mary Sawyer, Jonesport K Bickford, Harris, Vir-
gnia, with ship TIMBER 18th, Industry, Knox, and
Janet S, Somerville. Portland.
CID 14th, sch Nellie Bowers, Stackpoe. Havana.
SPOKEN.
Aug 25 lat % &c s. Ion SO 81 ship Topgallant, from
New York for San Francisco.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17
Troops of Ailments vanquished.

On account of the promptness with which it checks
the fevers generated by unhealthy exbalation Hos
letters Bitters is considered indispensable fami
ly medicine on the boroers of our Southern and
Western rivers and in settlements where the
the plough ana the axe for the first time disturb
ing the s0litudes of nature. Its reputation however,
is not confined to such localities Wherever the
elements of disease rife it is the safeguard
OF health; wherever sickness prevails it is ecacous
a remedy. Among the serious diseases which it is
guaranteed to control are Indigestion, hiousness,
and all the minor ailments connected with derange-
mepts OF the stomach, the liver and the bowels such
as heartburn, headache, atulence, costiveness,
ton of the heart trembling of the hands, noises in the
ears disordered vision disturbed sleep, and mental
inquietude AS these physical and mental disturb,
the system, they should be at correctedas they
always may be, by a course of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17

AT the present rate, the exports of the
country the present year will exec those of
1872 in the sum of Sl41, 200, 900, while the i'm
ports will be nearly s50,OOO,O0O short oftbose
Of last year; so that when the figures are made
up on the last day of December, the foreign
imports of the country will be less than
seo0ooO,O00, while It's exports, exclusive of
specie, will exceed se5O,oO0,ooo Thus the
country changes the balance of trade which
was against us in 1872 TO the amount OF
Sloo,ooo,ooo, to s50,0ooOoO in our favor.
me result is as marvellous as it is sat:sfac-
tory. -
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17

Hon. JAMES w. NEsMTH, the newly
elected Congressman from Oregon, is a ma
tive of Maine and man OF character and
ability. During the war he served as United
States Senator from that State and was con-
spicuous as patriotic war Democrat, serv
ing on the Military Committee. He has been
thirty years resident of Oregon.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17

AT the meeting of the Free Religionists in
ton advocated the taxation of church prop
erty, Including sectarian schools. He claimed
that such property should be taxed on the
same ground as any other, for in the case Of
the destruction OF any one OF these churches
the other property to pay the damage done to
"dead-head" property.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17

THE Rockland Free Press takes occasion
to sharply criticise the charge of Chief JUS
tice Appleton in the Mink murder case, on
the ground of its being an argument for The
State and because he INDUCED in differences
and hypothesis rather than an explanation of
the law"