State Bank (St Louis, MO)

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Ten persons were killed outright and twenty wounded-some fatally it is thought. A CARRIAGE was struck by a railway train at a crossing in New York city. Of the occupants, Mary Redwood, Mrs. Stephen Callahan and Patrick McNamee were killed and three children of Mrs. Callahan seriously injured. ### THE WEST. THE suit of the Bank of Commerce, of New York, against the Bank of the State of Missouri, to recover $400,000 which has been before the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, was decided on the 4th inst., by Judge Dillon, instructing the jury to find for the plaintiff in the sum of $445,582. The original loan of the Bank of Commerce was one million dollars, $600,000 of which was returned, leaving a balance of $400,000 due when the State Bank suspended. This sum, it is said, will nearly cover the assets of the State Bank, and leave depositors out in the cold. EXTENSIVE prairie fires in Dakota have burned thousands of tons of hay along the Red river valley and left the country desolate. A COURIER arriving at Ogalalla, Neb., on the 3d, reported that the Indians were committing horrible depredations along the Republican river. They had killed every white man on their route and carried oft all the stock. A BAND of runaway Indians crossed the Kansas Pacific track on the 1st instant, 60 miles east of Hayes City, and when eight or ten miles north of the station, came upon a lot of cattle-men when a hand-to-hand fight ensued, resulting in the loss of eighteen citizens killed and five wounded. A dispatch from Leavenworth dated the 2d instant, says the troops had a fight with the Indians, but does not name the place, Lieut. Broderick, of the Twenty-third infantry, was wounded, and Corporal Steward and five soldiers were killed. The bodies of thirteen settlers who were killed by the savages, were brought to Buffalo station. A PORTLAND, Oregon, dispatch says: Forest fires in Tillamook section have done a great amount of damage. The fire has swept over a large section of country, destroying houses, crops, fences and bridges. Recent heavy rains have extinguished the fires. Two of the Mexicans who were recognized as the murders of ex-Sheriff Williams and ex-Clerk Finley, of Santa Clara county, near Tucson, Arizona, were captured in Sonora, and shot by order of Governor Marescal. Two Ohio ministers-Revs. F. A. Spenc and J. K. Davis-have been dismissed from the ministry for irregular conduct. ### THE EAST JEWISH circles in New York are highly excited over the marriage of the daughter of rabbi emeretus, of Temple Emanu-El, which occurred on the 3d iust., within the period of the ten penitential days. The rabbi himself performed the ceremony. Rabbi Gottheil and the officers of the temple refused to give countenance to the action by attending. A STOW-AWAY was found in the hold of the steamer City of Chester on her arrival at New York on the 4th inst. His name was James Donnelly, a Scotchman, and during the voyage of eleven days had had nothing to eat or drink, being reduced to dire strait of drinking his own urvine. THE trustees of the Peabody educational fund completed their labors at New York on the 3d inst. At the request of General Taylor there were spread on the minutes the acknowledgement of gratitude from the people of the south for the succor extended by the people of the north in this hour of affliction. THE schooner yatch Okoresta, of Cleveland, 32 feet long, arrived in the Hudson river on the 3d inst., after a voyage of twelve months. She reached the ocean via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, through the gulf of Mexico and will go home by the Erie canal. THE Vermont legislature assembled on the 2d inst. James M. Martin was elected speaker and Henry N. Aewell, clerk. THE grand jury at New York has made a presentment declaring the elevated railway line a nuisance, and an invasion of private rights. LAW officers of the government have taken steps to eject parties from possession of about one thousand acres of land in the Pennsylvania oil region. This land was taken in part payment of a debt due the United States by the Venango county bank of about $60,000. AT a meeting of operators of the Lehigh, Pa., coal region on the 30th for the purpose of establishing prices for October, it was agreed to advance 10 cents on the line and 15 cents on city trade. THE Dime savings bank, of Hartford, Conn., was enjoined from further prosecution of business on the 30th ult. A COMMITTEE of the New York bar association is investigating charges of extortion against the sheriff and county clerk. The weight of evidence is said to be great. ### GENERAL. THE United States steamship Plymouth sailed from Portland on the 4th inst., for Santa Cruz, having been ordered to protect American citizens there. THE great boat race, between the Canadian, Hanlan, and Courtney, the American oarsman, took place at Lachine, Canada, on the 3d inst. Hanlan won, coming in a length and a quarter ahead. Time of race, 36 min., 22 sec. There is a strong belief prevalent that Courtney bartered the race, and much indignation is felt by his friends. Fully 10,000 people witnessed the exhibition. NEARLY complete returns from twenty-one counties in Colorado give the Republican state and congressional ticket 2,100 majority over the democrats. The remain-