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At Large. THE Pennsylvania democratic central com mittee has decided to hold the state convention at Pittsburg, August 26th. Bayard TAYLOR, in a letter from Egypt, gives an account of the recent discovery of a race of pigmies in Central Africa. ALL the Roman Catholic Archbishops of the United States are in convocation at Cincinnati, it is supposed to consider the advisability of increasing the number of Archbishops. ABOUT 500 Knights Templar have signified their intention to take part in the parade, a Indianapolis, on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the introduction of Templar Masonary into Indiana. STEERAGE passengers are now booked from Liverpool to New York for $15. THE following newspaper gentlemen were entertained recently in New York by Cyrus W. Field: George Brown, editor of the Toronto Globe; Horace White, of the Chicago Tribune Henry M. Watterson, of the Louisville Courier Journal; Murat Halsted, of the Cincinnati Commercial: Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican : Albert G. Brown, the new editor of the New York Evening Post; Whitelaw Reid and John Hay, of the Tribune; Gen D. S. Sanford, Morris K. Jesup, R. B. Minturn. THE First National Bank, at Medina, Ohio, suspended recently. It is said the assets will pay the liabilities. THE Chicago base ball club in their games thus far have been successful, and promise a victorious season. THE House Committee on Patents have agreed to report favorably on the request of Mr Winans, of Baltimore, for leave to take out a patent on his cigar ship. He made an application for this some years ago, but it lapsed some time since, and required a special act of Congress to enable him to take out a patent. NAVIGATION opened at Duluth May 4. CHARLES ERNST, the prison keeper attacked by the murderer Waltz, the day before his execution, has since died from his wounds. SOME of the government officers complain of the refusal of Congress to increase their salaries. The commissioner of the general land office resigned a short time since because he could not live on his salary, and the commissioner of patents threatens to do likewise. DR. I. I. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, who has made three journeys in search of a passage to the north pole, will sail for England from New York about June 1, and will sait from Dundee, Scotland, for Iceland, to join in the millenium celebration about the 20th of the same month.