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AIJiANY REGISTER. tag pistet, EAKTEBN NEWS. Tha Canadian horse disease 1ms ap peared in the stables ot the Brooklyn oily Railroad. It has also broken out in Boston, and has become a public calamity in Buffalo. In the latter place omnibus companies have suspen ded business, and commercial men are alarmed. Miss Nellie ft rant and ex-Secretary Borie and family arrived In Sew York city on the Satfta, Oct. 22. President Grant and a numlier of friends wel comed them. Attorney General Williams ha gone to Virginia to participate in the cam paign. H. I). J. Pratt. Chief of the First Diplomatic Bureau of the State De partment, has resigned. The horse disease is raging in New York city. Up to the 23d inst. 7.000 liorses had it. Small-pox I represented a raging tearfully in St. l.onis. In the third week of October tlie number of cases is reported to have been 200. There was no improvement in Mrs. Greeley's health on the 2Ikl tilt. The horse epidemic was causing in tense alarm in N'ew York on the illd nit. About 150 cars and stages had been taken off. Four hundred horse were affected by the disease in Syra cuse. Seventy eases had occurred at Springfield ; in Boston it was worse than ever. Had appeared at Xew burg, N. Y. Xo horses were in the streets of Rochester, hand carts being substituted. The epidemic "its begiu ning to spread in Chicago. The clerks in the War Department at Washington have been granted leave to go home and vote". The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the following instructions to collectors at Rochester, Burlington. CpA Vincent and Port Huron : "You are directed, so long as the existing horse disease prevails in Canada, to allow no horses to be brought Into your port or district, from that coun try, unless perfectly satisfied tliat they are free from contagious disease." A dispatch to Washington from Mill iterBaneroft states that on the question of San Juan claim. Kmperor William has decreed that the claim of the United States is most in accordance with in terpretation of the treaty of June 15th. 1S46. Hon. John A Griswold was lying at the oint of death at Troy. N . Y., on the 24th nit At De Kalb, Ul recently, a balloon broke from it moorings and a hanging Tope eanglit the leg ot -loini ucMann a spectator, and carried him up a dis-1 tanee of 100 feet, wlien he managed to climb into the car. At a beiglrt of about 00 feet he jumped out and struck the ground dead. At Aurora. 111., on the 23th ilf.. M. B. Wlnttingbv. editor ot the y.w.V. was seized by apoplexy While walking along a mill race, and fell on his face into tlie water, wuicii was only a loot deep, and was drowned. The death of Mrs. Greeley was momentarily expected on the 24th ult. Tweed says he intends to fight his case through to a conclusion. The question of enforcing the Sun day Liquor law is absorbing much at tention in Chicago. Temperance jh-o-ple have announced a determination to put a strict temperance ticket in I lie new tor members ot tlie i.egisiatm-e. The attention of the Secretary ot State has lieen called to the abuse ner sisted in on the part of petty German States in transporting pardoned mur derers and highway robber to this country. The matter should be at tended to. On the 25th ult., it was estimated that from .'10.000 to 40.IHI0 horses v ,re affected in New York and vicinity with the horse malady. The disease had in no way abated in other Eastern cities. At Mayor Hall's trial in New York on the 25th ult,. ftarvey produced iiife a sensation by testifying that Hail Imd told him that he must do what 'Tweed and his associates told him. Tins testimony excited Hall. Baron and Baroness Rothschild have sent $2,000 to the poorest members of the Jewish community who suffered by the recent tire on tlie Bosphorns :" Knu-emindjank. Lord Moss's country seat at Lime riek. Ireland, was burned on the 28fh Ult. The country reform hill in the Prus sian Diet hacauseda conflict between the upper and lower House. The bill was adopted by the Chamber of Depu ties at the last session, and provide for local self government in tin: rum I ilisiMirfa 'in... II,..,,.,, r r l. . districts, ine notise ot liotw now oppose it. The majority of the Depu ties threaten to resign it tlie Lcnls fall to pass It. The Lmneror has de clared in favor of it. He insists that .the upper house shall bring tlie lock to an end by passing it . The President denies that he Intends to issue a proclamation recognizing the beliiggerency of tin Unbans. The horse epidemic has appeared at Halifax. Nova Scotia. T.amareaux. Republican, Is elected Municipal Councillor of Paris. Daniel Drew's wealth is now esti mated at 140,000.000. It Is reported that Chas. Perry, I'. S. Consul at Aspinwall. is dead. Judge Xielson ha refused to bail the conductors of the Brooklyn, X. Y. Cftroai'efe, accused of libelling District Attorney Britton. The Vermont Legislature lias elect ed Justin S. Morrill I". S. Sen.vtor for the next term, beginning on the 4th of next March. President Thiers has received a con gratulatory dispatch from President tiraut on the progress ot Meiamiicau isui in France, as indicated by tlie late elections. The Paying Teller of the State bank of Virginia has been discovered a de faulter to the aniomit of fHUXHl to (30,000. He is missing. 'Hie St. Louis Germans at a recent I meeting passed resolutions pledging to support no candidate for the Legisla ture who would not pledge himself to oppose temperance laws. Paris papers foreshadow the adop tion, by the National Assembly, of the Constitutional amendment making Thiers President for life, and creating an Upper Chamber, and the ollice of Vice President. Senator Stunners' health is reported in a critical condition. The worst features of spjnal difficulty have re turned in an aggravated form, and it i- thought he will never return home alive. The President lias addressed the fol lowing reply to a note from Geo. H. Stewart, Chairman ot the Executive Committee ot the Board of Indian Commissioners, in reference to the In dian policy : MT Dear Sik: Your letter of the 25th inst.. asking if any change in the Indian policy of the Administration is contemplated, is received. Such a thing has not lieen thought of at pres ent. If the policy toward the Indians can be Improved in any way, I will always lie ready to receive suggestions on the subject. But if any change is made it uitist be On the side, of the civilization aiuK'hritiaiiizatio!i of the Indians. I do not believe our Creator ever placed different races of men on this earth witHi the view of liavingtlie stronger exert all its energies in ex terminating the weaker. It anycliange takes place in the Indian policy of tlie Government while I hold tny present ollice, it will be on the humanitarian side of tlie question. Very truly vours, U. S. GRANT. On the 28th u!t.. the horse disease was stili making alarming progress in Xew York : also in Albany. It Imd reached the principal cities of the East. Accounts have been received at Washington of a raid over the Mexi can border a few days slnee by a gang of American marauders living along the liio Grande on the Texan side. Plunder was the sole object. When j Mexican officers attempted to impede their progress, they murdered the Alcalde and several Mexicans, and i then burnt down the town. In the fight, two Americans were killed. Military authorities have taken steps to arrest the entire gang Bench warrants were tamed at New York, on tlie 2ftth nit., for the arrest of fames H. Ingersoll and John D. I'arringtou. charged with forgery. The grand jury Is said to have found j a tin nier liHiieiiuein agaiu-i cuy w eia! in eighteen eases. Tfte horse disease 111 New York on : the 2th. was said to lie spreading at ; an alarming extent. The number of cars running had decreased very con- slderably. "Freights were aeenmnlat- i ing at some points, i lie streets aiong j the docks and piers look like Sunday. I Losses ro the business community was i already large. The situation in Brook lyn was just as bad. It i denied that the disease exists in Chicago. Vlie disease had appeared at Brunswick, Maine. The Board of Selectmen atNorwalk, Conn., on the 2 ith nit., admitted to the rights of an elector, Mrs. Sarah M. T. Huntington, She intended to vote for "residential Electors. She is the first female voter admitted. William Craig, a young negro, was couvicte I of rape Oil Mrs. Lottie Day tun, a white woman of twenty-four years of age. and was sentenced at Cumberland, DeL, on the 28th ult., to death. Joaquin Miller took a drive in Cen tral Park. N. Y.. recently, with tkl. Teiinie C. Clatfiu. Mrs. Victoria Wood hull and col. James Thomas. The 8ttn says they were the ol nerved of all observers, About 25 horses died in New York ot the epidemic on the 27th ult. Near ly even horse wa affected In Syra cuse, the disease was abating in Beaton. Oxen were being used there extensively. A beautiful girl the daughter of one of t he wealthiest residents of Hartford, was found drunk and clinging to a lamp-post In New York the other (lay. jwiuner.ba retwwid to JLoralen. Bancroft has gone to Italy. There isn't a white man In Choctaw county. Alabama. Some Georgia ladies flogged a bo gus doctor for quackery. Xewbnrvjiort pits in for about ?5, 000.000 of the Geneva award. An ex-Confederate General has Joined the Yale Scientific School. Russia leather umbrella covers are the latest expensive weakness. There are 5.000 Whigs in Alabama who have not voted since the war. A band of .Jew have started out to beg enough to rebuild Jerusalem. Twentv-seven persons died from snmll-Kx in Boston last week. The Jesuits propose buildinga third church in New York city. The Memphis Savings bank has suspended. Liabilities. $175,000. Greeley Democrats are reported as stampeding rapidly to O'Conor. Minister Washburne arrived Washington Oct. !9th. He had hour's talk with the President. Speaker Blaine made a speech Chicago the other night to an assem bly ot ten or twelve thousand hearers. The story that Schuyler Colfax is to become an editor of the Tribune is emphatically denied. The Democrats and Liberals in Ohio are denouncing each other furiously in Ohio, "(io It wife, go it bar." David S. Meyer, a stranger, suicided in Cincinnati last Monday with a ra zor. The National Democracy, of New York, have nominated John McCool for Governor. L. 11. Kormendy. gymnasium pro prietor of Chicago, shot himself (lead at the Brigg's House on the 27th ult. Mayor Medill, of Chicago, compelled the closing of nearlv all the saloons last Sunday. He declares he will en force tlie law until it is repealed. A niece of Daniel Webster is run ning a Bostou lodging-house, and her husband sells fish. : She only married for money. A stranger, registering himself as Louis Patterson, of Baltimore, M. 1). suicided at New Orleans last Monday, with morphine. Minister Washburne says he came from Paris to vote for Grant and to take part in the campaign, and will return to France a soon as possible. The total number of votes on registry in New York is 14H.710 as against 152.502 last October. In Brooklyn the registry is 75.577. It is stated tiiat during the past year a house has Iwn finished In Chicago every hour of every working day. In Philadelphia it has been one every twentv-ninc minutes. FOBKIUX NEWS. Tlie political situation in Mexico was Improving on the 14th nit. It was thought tlie administration of Tcjnda would le a success. The Mexican Congress was reported to have created a Senate. riling: b of amnesty to the J''euian. Tlie prln- Ciple speaker took strong grounds. Official advices from St. Petersburg, Bus., report tlio discover- of a eon- spiracy in Caucasus for the overthrow of the Russian authority in that Pro- viuce. The leaders were secured and imprisoned. ; . Thoophi'e Gnntier. poet, novelist and critic, died at Paris, Oct. 23d. The Germans evacuated Rbeins, on 4 I. , I., ,1,1 ... ,(.,., the 2tth ult., and a French garrison man-lied in amid great rejoicing, Rowwela, aiii-oniinentCoitimuiiist in Paris, was found guilty of the charges against him. and sentenced to death. Premier Blake iumI Treasurer Mc Kerare, ot Toronto. Canada, have re signed in order fn sit in Parliament. A Vau apu. Sxi kk Box. Carafa. anthrr of " Massaulello." whose death was lately announced, was anything but rich, The most certain part of his ineonie was a snuff box. This was given hint thirty years ago on his saint's day, as a mark of friendship, by Baron Rotltseblhl. Twenty-tour hours afterward Carafa sold it to the jeweler from whom it wa pnrohAsetl for seventy-live luis d'or. The follow ing year the Jiarou gave Carats the same snuff box. and Carafa again dis posed of i; for sofeuty-five luis d'or. This went on uninterruptedly during the Baron's life, and even after the Baron's decease his son ountlnnei to present the snuff box to Carafa on each siKCeeding saint's day. It had become a tradition in tlielr family." Children should lie early taught w hat to do in the emergencies whleh are constantly arising in life. Not long ago two Ws and two girls were playing near a creek not far trom Buf falo. One little girl went beyond her dejith into the water, but was rescued by a dog In ample time to save lier iii If nmiwr means had been used. Instead of carrying Iter to the i.earost to the Egyptian method of brick house, or obtaining assistance from ! ing. house, or obtaining assistance from older people thau themselves, the otlier children knelt over tlie body and prayed for the recovery or their play mute. Of course she died. POLITICAL. Jeff. Davis says he doesn't care .....i. ...I. . i. n I . i. , I to vote fiir the ass who spoke to ' lJai I him. The Greeleyites of Glenville, X. Y.. I have erected a pole surrounded by an exceedingly appropriate emblem a white hat over a weather-cock. We are told things ought to lie for gotten. What have ti e Republicans done? Has one traitor been tried? Has ever a ieople shown such absence i of vengeance as the I nion people of the United States have done? If. what I pray to God to avert, the Democrats come in again under Greeley.it re qiilres no prophet to foretell that we shall see a very different spirit on the I part of the victorious Democrats. I shall vote for Grant. Fruneh Lieber. A life-long Democrat is said to have left a ineeting-house on a recent Sab bath, in the town where he resided. ! because the minister made too frequent I use of the phrase, "tiraut we beseech ! thee." He wouldn't stand that. The great navigator. Raphael Sem- i mes'is stumping Texas for Greeley and Brown. The possibility, should Horace be elected, of Semmes becom ing Secretary of the Navy, adds great- j ly to the enthusiasm with which he is ; received. The newspapers in some places in the United states, where there are a i good many Irish voters, are calling upon their reader to vote for "Mo Greeley." The discovery that "Mr. i MoGrceley" is an Irishman has been i made a little too late in the day to have any effect. TheSedal'm, Mo., Demm-nt throws up the sponge. On Weduesday last ; it wrote: "The elections on yesterday point unanimously to the re-election of Grant and the downfall of the Re- 1 public. We were worse beaten than we would have been on a straight is sue, and our downfall is doubly paln- : fill to us from the fact that we have sowed to tlie wind." and have noth ing to reap. We have no heart to re view the situation to-day. We win only say that we are beaten, demoral ized and well nigh overthrown." It is really painful to note the "de jected havior of the visage" of your ; average Democrat in these times. ! Hope and ambition alike seem dead j within their hearts. They all look as if the were practicing for a funeral. ' We would endeavor to console them j if we knew how. But we can't. We must sadly leave them "plnng'd in a gulf of dark despair." Charles Francis Adams. Jr.. in his : recent Quiney. Mass.. speech, uttered ', a good filing when he said : "I can assure those now so industriously as I sailing him, (Giant) that they are ; guilty of a grave error of judgment, if j they fondly lielieve that the men who stood by him, irhen lead w.y in the air, will lie driven from his side by tlie hurling of hard words. James Buchanan vetoed the Home stead law. but the Republican party "j j ' . j T.,e Memphis papers relate a fishy ; story of a bold adventurer, who jumped off a steamboat coining up the river, j thereby saving the life of a pretty and j favorite poodle dog, and who I likely ! to gain a fortune and a wife for having ; done so. An aged maid of money and sourness, who was a passenger on the City of Helena, trom Vickshurgto ; St. Louis, dropped her dog into the river as the steamer was coining up j inr mmi ,11111 iittywniviiv juw.ii iu- , pathized with the lady, and saved the 1 life of her pnrp while risking his own. j He became a fast friend of the ladv ; had bis quarters transferred from the 'deck to the cabin, and has every pros i poet of becoming a husband (ami a millionaire) in St. .Louis within a month. -n... i.,.M .....l I, ,.vi,l, , ,-,. An old French ofHcer was relating a story of a battle with the Prussians in the late war, when lie was greatly an noyed by the repeated interruptions of a forward young lieutenant who had his knowledge of that battle by "hear say." yet continually chimed in with, "Yes, yes, that's right." The exas perated narrator had mst reached the l critical moment when there was a gen ! era! action along the whole line. His regiment was onleied to tlie front. It j charged. "Monsieur." politely cou- tinned the sunerior, turning to his troublesome hearer, "It was there that I was killed. Rlease continue the story." Egyptian Bricks. An Austrian savant 1 said to have discovered, by means of a niicroscoiic, lii a stone taken from the pyramid of Dashonr. many interesting particulars connected Willi tlie Hie 01 Hie miciciii r,y punus. The brick Itself Is made of the mud of the Nile, chopped straw and sand. i thus confirming what the Bible and Herodotus have handed down tons as Egyptian method of brick-mak- The Lonlsvllle Exposition contains a lock of hair six feet long, cut from the head of a Swiss peasant girl. JOB PRINTING. ALBANY REGISTER PRINTING HOUSE WITH NKW AND FAST t'OWER AM) HAM P 11 E S S E S. 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