, 1874-09-17

of 10 miles square is blackened and
charred. The City of Ottawa is full of
smoke from the fires, and ashes fall
thickly in the Streets he sE .,aq
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.--TLere is great
excitement at Green Point, Long Island.
over the disappearance of a three
mouths old child of Jacob Haeer. a
wealthy German. The babe was taken
out Tor ride BY a discharged nurse, who
did not return till next day. Her story
is. that she was captured by two men.
who took the babe from her and shut
her up in house, from which she after
ward escaped. The police believe she
either killed the child or hid it for the
purpose of blackmailing the parents.
LONDON, Sept. 10.-A Paris dispatch
says Guitzot. Author and Statesman, is
in comatose state. Death is imminent.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10. Republican Con-
vention of Sixth District adopted rules
endorsing the State Committees recon-
mendation that the Republican State
Convention make no nominations. The
recommendation of the State Central
Committee will be carried out by the
Convention, as there seems little doubt
that it will be strictly in favor Of the
ticket nominated by the Independent
Reform or the Farmers Convention
which is headed by VIM. Gentry, farmer
and native of the State. sa5
COLUMBIA, s. c.. Sept. 1o.-Up till
near noon, the Republican Convention
had done nothing. A fight is going on
in Committee on Credentials on the ad.
mission of certain contesting delega,
tions, the result of which will involve
the nomination or defeat of Chamber
lain. f"t t-S '-''lo
RUTLAND. Vt, Sept. 1O.-Judge Po-
land publishes letter in the Rutland
Herald this morning, Withdrawing his
name from the Congressional contest in
the Second District. -,,
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1O.-;A call for a
consultation of Republicans Of recon-
structed States to be held at Chatta,
nooga. Tenn, Oct. Is. is being signed
by prominent Republicans. The call
says: All Republicans, whether of these
or other States, who still earnestly seek
to D,aintain the principles on which the
Union was defended and to inaugurate,
which in the South reconstruction was
begun and who feel an interest in the
preservation of law, order and the rights
Of citizenship, are invited to attend this
consultation. All should become pos
sessed of the facts as to the true condi,
ton in their respective localities, SO that
an authoritive statement may be made
to the country. F-
New York. Sept. President Or,
ton of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, denies the rumor that his
Company have purchased controlling
interest in the Franklin, Atlantic g. Pa
ci6c Telegraph lines, with the intention
OF absorbing them. E. D. L. Sweet, Of
the Atlantic & Pacific, also denies the
statement.
New YORK, Sept. 1O.-The Graphic
will to- morrow publish Moulton's adj
ditional statement in reply to Beecher
in its three o'clock edition. E, Il i...
Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 1O.-Douglas
Jameson, one Of the negroes taken by
the mob from Trenton jail, is here in
Jail, in charge of the U. S. Marshall. l.
who refuses all communication with
him, but it is believed from disclosures
made by him the deputy arrested five
men at PIckettsville last night who were
concerned in the Trenton affair, and
two others for whom warrants were out
came and surrendered themselves to the
Marshal. -
BUFFALO, Sept. 10.-At the running
races at Buffalo Park to-day, the race
for the Buffalo cup. $1,000. 21s miles,
was won by Katie Pease, Lizzie Lucas
second, Wanderer third. Time, 4:28L,
the fastest cup time on record by6 sec.
onds.
LIVERPOOL. Sept. 10.-The steamship
Alexandria, which was sunk in Mersey
by a collision with the Spanish steamer
Tornes, has been raised and taken to
the Dry Docks. She had only ballast
on board. The Tornes has also been
dockod.
LONDON. Sept. 10.-Ship Eu1ine, on
voyage from Shields to Alden, took FIRE
and was destroyed. 81 of her crew,
who escaped in two boats, have arrived
at st. Helena, after voyage of over
one thousand one hundred miles, during
which neither boat saw the other. The
third boat. containing the remainder Of
the crew, has not been heard from.
PARIS. Sept. 10.-The newspapers
here publish an official Carlist dispatch
acknowledging that the Royalists fired
on the German gunboats Albatross and
Nautilus at Guetaria. The dispatch de-
clares that the vessels were endenvoring
to effect landing of armed men. Ha
HAVANA, Sept. 10.-The Captain. Gem
eral to-day issued decree ordering out
Immediately for active service five per
cent. of all the volunteers enrolled in
the Island, to serve until the first OF Ap-
ril next, which will add about 3, 500 men
to the army.
The Government has obtained loan
from the banks Of over one million in
bills and $500. 900 in gold, giving pro~
mise to return it shortly.