AIJiANY REGISTER.
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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.
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tlwn opening the tone before yon nml fast
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THOMAS J. SAFFORD,
Having pnrchascil the
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Has now on hand, and will manufacture
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lieen used It has received the highest en
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cates from prominent fnrmert In all pans
of the conntry, now in my hainls, will
testify.
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Albany, Oct, U, l7V8vi
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