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with immense damage to the crops ard

order ct the United States Court OF the
franchise and property of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company which was to
have taken place to-day. has been post
poned until August 18th. The reason
for the adjournment is incompleteness
of preliminary details and conditions
I for the sale az d the desire of the COM
missioners to have everything so ar
ranged as to avoid future embarrassment
to purchasers.
NEw YORK, Aug. 3.--Arrangements
are in progress to secure all creditors
travelling abroad with letter Of credit
and circular notes on Duncan, Sherman
& Co. They will probably be paid at
the Union Bank, London.
Gold closed at 12A@12s.
Boston. Aug. 3.-Minute guns were
fred here to>day as mark of respect
for ex-P President Johnson, and flags are
at half mast,
New YORK, Aug. s. Mr.. Gibbs states
that the mortality among the poor chill
drenin this city is averaging 100 day.
chiefly cholera snfantum. He calls for
volunteer physicians.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre states
that coal miners propose another strike.
New YORK, Aug. g. Judge Morris.
coansel for Tilton. this afternoon, served
notice on Sherman and Sterling. at
torneys on record fox Henry Ward
Beecher. to be prepared to answer in a
new trial On the first Monday in Sep
tember.
TERRE HAuTE, Aug. IA disastrous
flood is raging in the vicinity Of this
city and various other localities through
out the State. The river opposite the
city is fully three miles wide and still
rising. Several houses are flooded down,
some live stock and millions of bushels
of wheat in the stacks and stocks fioated
past. Over six million bushels of corn
are reported drowned out. Every house
in Bloomtown is inundated. Seven
houses at Reelsville on the Vandalia
and Vincennes railroad, with three miles
of embankment have been washed
away. Thirty brides, besides trestles
and embankments. are completely gone
on the Evansville and Charlottesville
road. Seven bridges are gone on the
E. T. II. and G. The I. and St. Louis
road is in bad condition. the bridges at
FERN being nearly all gone. The river
is still rising.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-All Executive
Departments and also offices of other |
departments of the Government are
closed to-day, out of respect to the
memory of ex-President johnson. Flags
are at half mast and emblems of mourn
ing in various localities.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.--The number Of
deaths from yellow fever at Barrancos
has been 25 out of 72 cases. There
have been three new cases and one
deaths since Saturday.
VERSAILLES. Aug. 2.--The Assembly
to-day passed the bill constituting the
Senate and the Channel Tunnel bill.
MADRID, Aug. 2.-Oficial dispatches
report that General Martinez Campas
continues the cannonade of Leeds Ur-
gel. Carlist Generals Saballes and Dor
,egaray have attempted to descend on
the plain before Barcelona. but were
met by Alfonsoists forces, under Gen.
Weller and retreated to the mountains.
MADRID, Aug. Am official dispatch
announces that Gen. Weller has routed
the Carlists under Saballes at Caledonia.
The Cariist General Dorregary is at
Benja.
ToEoNro. Aug. 2.-The morning pa,
pers contain eulogistic obituary notices
of ex-President johnson. The Mail
says: "In intellectual capacity, he was
not to be placed beside Jefferson, Adams
and other fathers of the Republic, but
he had much of their spirit of personal
and patriotic virtue, and we NAV say
that he was the last American President
of the old school"
The Globe says: "He must now be
numbered with other great men whose
lives we're shortened as result directly
or indirectly of the fierce and terrible
struggle through which the nation
passed.
TORONTO, Aug. 3.-The British Negro
emancipation was celebrated by the
colored people throughout the Dominion
yesterday.