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September 4th The Pennsylvania Ceal Company's miners have resolved to resume labor when they get 10 per cent, advance. The old John Brown monument at Ossawattomie Kansas, was dedicated on the 30th in presence of ten thousand people. The sixth Baltimore regiment, two companies of which did the fatal shooting at the beginning of the strike, has disbanded. A dreadful fire has occurred in the Rosario mine near the city of Mexico, in which 24 lives were lost and many persons injured. The coal miners strike in Lehigh valley is virtually ended the late reduction of wages having generally been restored to the laborers. It is reported that the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company have negotiated a loan in London sufficient to fund the floating debt and leave a surplus. In the grand parade of the Knights Templars at Cleveland on the 28th, there were 175 commanderies in line numbering not less than 8,000 swords. The Public Printer has discharged a onsiderable number of printers and other employes of the government printing office at Washington. The famine alone has already cost the government of India eight million pounds sterling, and is costing five hundred thousand pounds per month. An agent of the American bridge Co., at Omaha, says the broken span of the bridge will be replaced by trestle work and Howe truss inside of twenty days. The U. S. consul at Liverpool, has informed the State Department that neither skilled nor unskilled workmen from abroad can find employment in England. Twenty-five carpenters, the last of the 300 under engagement for three years with the Manchester building firm. sailed from New York for England on the 28th. The prospects of a large fall trade in St. Louis are reported to be extraordinary good, and it is believed the volume of trade will be greater even than before the panic of 1873. The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railroad proposes hereafter to make ninety miles a day's run instead of sixty as heretofore, and a strike among the freight engineers and brakemen is imminent. The Indians heretofore reported as having turned back under Joseph to fight Howard, were merely on a horse-stealing expedition. They came within 25 miles of Virginia City and drove off 300 horses from Madison Valley. The Sandwich Savings Bank of Boston Mass. with deposits aggregating $1,100,000,has been declared insolvent. The difficulty is said to be due to shrinkage in value of property in Boston and other places on which mortgages valued at $400,000 are held. Howard had a slight skirmish with Joseph's band on the 20th, in which one man was killed and seven wounded. The same night the Indians stole 200 of Howard's horses. The Montana volunteers are returning home disgusted, many of them on foot. As rike of the miners of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company has been quashed by the announcement that the wages for August would be an advance of ten per cent. on July rates. In consequence, a better feeling prevails in the Schuylkill reigon. Since Brigham Young's death the government of the Mormon Church has passed into the hands of the twelve apostles, two of whom, Joseph Smith and Orson Pratt, are in England. It is not likely a president of the Church will be appointed for some time. The Papal bull regulating the procedure to be observed by the conclave of cardinals in case of the death of the Pope, has been completed at the Vatican. It empowers Cardinal Camerlandi to summon a conclave immediately or await the arrival of foreign cardinals. At Des Moines Iowa, on the 31st, during the consideration of the famous Iowa Central Railroad case, the charges of Isaac M. Cate of Boston affecting the fairness and impartiality of Judge Dillon's judicial action were considered and pronounced untrue, by the counsel engaged therein. An incendiary fire broke out on the afternoon of the 31st ult., in the town of Paris, Texas, which destroyed a large portion of the city, and resulted in the loss of several lives. The loss is estimated at from $1,000,000 to $1,300,000. The supposed incendiary has been arrested and lodged in jail. Gen Terry having reported at Washington that Sitting Bull with 1300 warriors had crossed the line, the proceedings in reference to appointing a commission to arrange for his return has been temporarily suspended. Sitting Bull is encamped between the Uilk & Missouri River near the Little Rocky Mountains. A train on the Missouri Pacific railway, at a road crossing near Laclede, about eight miles from St. Louis, on the 28th, ran into a covered wagon containing W. F. Richy, wife and two children. Richy was killed instantly, his wife died in a few minutes, one of the children is fatally injured, and the older had a thigh broken. The strike, which was imminent among the employes of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Railroads on account of the road's lengthening a day's run to ninety miles instead of sixty as before, with extra compensation for the labor, has been quashed by the road's acceding to the demands of the men who waited in a body upon President Shoemaker and explaining the situation to him. The order for increases distance was thereupon promptly revoked. The bar Association of Cleveland Ohio have telegraphed Gov. Grover of Oregon, now U. S. Senator from that State, relative to W. B. Higbee who is proclaimed by members of the association without regard to party, as an unmitigated liar, charged with forgery and embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretenses and adultry, and as having been expelled from the association. Higbee had made affidavit before Morton's investigating committee that money had been used to influence Grover's election to the U. S. Senate. On the 26th, Lieut. Schofield from the top of Mount Washburn Montana, observed the Indians when they killed a party of white men and captured and carried off two women and one man in Grizer basin. Short-
