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liquidation), is a"most gratifying one to its creditors. Their total assets are $3,468,504.94 liabilities, $2,203,326.02: excess of assets, $1,255,178.92. Over $16,000,000 in currency was received at Chicago by express between the 25th of September and the 2d of October. The new Michigan State House will be one of the finest public edifices in the country An unsophisticated gentleman hailing from New York city, was swindled out of $6,000 in Chicago, last week, by two gamblers. The Chicago Board of Trade gave $1,000 to the Shreveport sufferers The amount of bullion received at San Francisco from the mines during the quarter was nearly $10,000,000, and for the last nine months $24,000,000. THE St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette has been sold at auction to Joseph A. Corby for $25,000. THE Third National Bank of Chicago, which suspended during the late flnancial unpleasantness, has resumed business The survivors of Capt. Jack's tribe have been sent to Fort Russell, Wyoming Territory Ex-Congressman John Law, of Evansville, Ind., is dead, aged 77. Mrs. Horton, of Van Wert, O., the other day left her infant in a cradle near the fire-place, and went out to witness a circus procession. When she returned her child was burned to a crisp. The South. THE New Orleans Picayune estimates the cotton crop at not less than 4,000,000 bales The first Ku-Klux trial before the North Carolina State Courts has just come off at Raleigh, N. C., and resulted in the conviction of three persons- white and one colored-of murder in the first degree. They were sentenced A. to be hung on the 13th of November J. Stephens, cashier of the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company, has decamped with $6,500 of the institution's funds. The cotton crop of the Rio Grande valley has been seriously damaged by floods. The report, started by a Mexican paper, that armed United States soldiers had made another raid into Mexico, is untrue. YELLOW FEVER is raging as badly as ever at Shreveport, La., and Memphis, Tenn. At the former place the scourge is abated, if at all, only by the frightful depopulation it has already caused. The citizens of Memphis have issued an appeal for aid, addressed to the whole country, and begging for the co-operation of the mayors of the various cities to secure it. Money is most needed to buy food, The bury the dead, and shelter the orphans town of Lampasas, Texas, was recently inundated by the overflow of a creek which runs through the village. Twenty houses, including the postoffice and several stores, together with their contents, were swept away, and six or eight persons drowned. A herse ran away with a street-car in St. Louis, last week, and, colliding with another car, killed one of the passengers, and seriously injured four or five others Joseph H. Fore, of St. Louiswho some time ago murdered his brother-inlaw, who made three unsuccessful attempts to kill his wife, and who the other day came near murdering an attorney in court-has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. THE tobacco crop now being secured is the best that has been raised in Virginia for years past. President Grant has ordered 5,000 army rations for the suffering and starving people of Shreveport The De Soto Bank, Memphis, has resumed. THE ravages of the yellow fever at Memphis are frightful to contemplate. A dispatch of the 6th inst. says The number of deaths in the infected district yesterday was SO great that the undertakers were unable to bury the bodies, and to-day in two or three instances whole families were carried to the buryingground at one load. Scenes in that part of the city are beyond description. Those not afflicted are 80 demoralized that they can be of no assistance to the sick, but seem chained to the locality, and make no effort to get away. THE South was visited by the first frost of the season on the 7th inst During the height of the yellow fever scare a number of citizens of Little Rock, Ark., chartered sleeping-coaches on the railroads, in which they slept, going out several miles on the railroad in the evening, and returning next morning. An old Itaiian padrone, with fourteen boys, who arrived at Little Rock a few ago, was taken in charge by the Italians, his money taken away from him and divided between the children, and he was ordered to leave the city. The bagging factory of Richardson, Henry & Co., of Louisville, has been burned. Loss, $70,000. Washington. CHARLES WILLIAMS (colored) is to be hung at Washington on the 14th of November for the murder of Frank Cohn, a Virginia drover. The railroad lobbyists and land-grabbers are organizing for the coming session of Congress. A Washington correspondent states that Ben Holliday, the Oregon railroad magnate, has taken a house at the capital for the session, in order to press the indorsement of his railroad bonds on which the interest was repudiated last winter. The Northern Pacific interest also boasts of its ability to get a Government indorsement on the ground that its bonds are so well diffused, through the constituencies, that enough members can be got to vote for their relief It is reported from Washington that a majority of President Grant's Cabinet are in favor of restoring the franking privilege to the departments. The Postmaster-Genera will oppose the restoration, however, in his next annual report The Chicago Tribuue's special Washington correspondent gives some gossip about the vacant Chief Justiceship. Senator Conkling is said to desire that Judge Ward Hunt should have it. Judge Pierrepont and Mr. Wm. M. Evarts are also prominently mentioned, the only objection to the latter being the fear that he will not keep the place for any length of time. Butler's opposition to Judge Hoar is thought to be sufficient to defeat the latter prospects, while Justice Miller, of Ohio, and Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, are reported as ahead in the race. no The President has declared he will call extra session of Congress. While he thinks that the financial situation does not demand an extra session, he still makes the announcement that he will put out the $44,000,000 reserve" as rapidly as is consistent with the Treasury's interest. Fant, Washington & Co., bankers, have resumed business. SECRETARY RICHARDSON says that the Government will lose nothing by the suspension of Clews & Co., in New York, or Clews, Habicht & Co., in London: also, that if Jay Cooke & Co. pay 33 per cent. the Government will be no loser by the failure of the First National Bank. He thinks that the country will be gratified to find in the public debt statement that the reserve" has not yet been touched, though he reiterates his purpose of using it whenever he judges it to be necessary The public debt statement for September shows a reduction of $1,901,467. The following are the figures $1,235,000,200 Six per cent. bonds 488,567,300 Five per cent. bonds Total coin bonds $1,723,567,500 14,678,000 $ Lawful money debt Matured debt 15,756,130
