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minute and four seconds, which IS the best time he has yet made. The steamer Euterpe left New York on the 9th for Havana, with her original cargo of munitions of war. Eastport, Me., was visited by a severe hurricane on the 4thinst., which destroyed large portion of the town. Several yesa sels were lost with all on board. It than was thought the loss could not be less $500,000. A freshet on the Swift river, in Oxford county, caused a rise of thirty-six farms, feet in twelve hours, which flooded and swept away houses, barns, &c., rendered the farmers impoverished and houseless. The people barely escaped and fled to the mountains. The building used for storing nitro-gly cerine at the Hoosac Tunnel was blown up on the 9th, and three men were killed. RevThe first anniversary of the Cuban the olution was celebrated in Baltimore on 11th, by a procession, and an oration at the Masonic Temple. Over a million gallons of whisky officers have seized at San Francisco, the as claiming been that it was not pure Bourbon thererepresented, but is fraudulent, and fore is liable to seizure. There was almost a total suspension of business at Washington.on the 11th, Pierce. in respect t the memory of ex-President and All of the Departments were closed, the municipal offices and banks transacted Flags nothing of a public character. suspended at half-mast, and minute were fired during guns were The the day. first anniversary of the Cuban revwas observed in New York city on A civic celebration the evening, in Cooper olution in the 11th. Institute, took which place by the friends and Susquehanna Railroad was The crowded Erie of Erie Cuba. fight has ended amicably; the terms leasing acthe Susquehanna for 99 years on ceptable to the stockholders. A New York telegram of the 12th states be criminal proceedings would soon instituted that against the Wall street gold manipulators for organizing a conspiracy to damage the public. At the meeting in New York, on Rail- the of the stockholders of the Erie 12th, road Company, the Gould-Fisk ticket Gould was unanimously elected Directors. Jay and was subsequently chosen President, James Fisk, Jr., Comptroller. James Cunningham, colored, has of Man- been appointed Postmaster of the city chester, Virginia. The Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, the defeated the Omaha Base Ball Club on 11th-65 1. Southern Commercial Convention The Louisville completed its organization was the at 13th. Ex-President Fillmore chosen permanent President. Another fearful storm was experienced the East on the 12th and 13th. at The lock-up in the village of Charlotte, two Y., was burned on the 13th, and McN. Alexander Fisher and Michael to the sailors, Lane, of Eiyria, Ohio, belonging who schooner Cascade, of Green were burned Bay, were prisoners in the lock-up, to death. In the destruction by fire of a dwelling Albion, N. Y., on the 13th, a young burnat woman named Jenny Reynolds was fire was ed to death. It is supposed the caused by the careless use of kerosene. In the Commercial demonstration is es- at Louisville on the 14th the procession timated to have been seven miles in in length, was three hours and a quarter hundreds passand ing given point. There were varivehicles a in line representing the interof manufacturing and mercantile of the ests ous of the cities around the Falls Ohio. The Navy and War Departments have sysin the adoption of a uniform united tem of signals, to be used in their branches of service. recent case in the United States has In a Court of Baltimore, which it District appealed to the Supreme Court, banks of been shown that three National as was Baltimore have been lending as high eighty per cent. of their capital for speculative purposes. A dispatch from Springfield, ascertained Ill., on the says it had been definitely of the 16th the corn crop in that section years, State that has not been better for many if ever. The First National Bank of Austin, Nevada, has failed. The monthly report from the Bureau shows of for the month of July, $35, Statistics, value of exports to have been same the and the imports for the of 432,835, $37,604,886. The total tonnage during month engaged in foreign trade tons vessels the month was, entered, 1,020,704 cleared, 1,028,094 tons. OcCustoms receipts from October 1 to tober 9, inclusive, were $4,679,706. The argument in the Yerger case in com- the Court at Washington was General Supreme the 15th by Attorney Carmenced Hoar, and on answered by Mr. J. M. lisle. The Governor of New York State has of fixed the 18th of November as a day thanksgiving and prayer. PERSONAL. Jefferson Davis arrived in Baltimore on the 9th, from Europe. The flags on the City Hall and public halfin New York city were the memmasted buildings on the 9th, in respect to ory of ex-President Pierce.
