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THE NEWS. Europe. The cable news is dated July 19. Political news in England is dull. The first general meeting or the Women's Franchise Society was held yesterday. The French regard the present Cabinet only as a temporary one. South America. We have dates to June 23 from Rio Janetro. A correspondence of some interest has been going on between Lopez and the Comte D'Eu, in which the former demands that the allies prohibit the use of the Paraguayan flag by the native battalions in the allied army. D'Eu had advanced with his army to Pirayú, about seven miles from Lopez's headquarters. Miscellaneous. President Grant, with his family and suite, arrived at Long Branch yesterday morning, and took rooms at the Stetson House. Colonel Whittlesey and a number of Virginia radicals are in Washington getting up documents to prove that the election in Virginia was carried by fraud. Amdavits are being prepared and will be placed before the Reconstruction Committee at the meeting of Congress. It is hoped by this to have the election set aside or else have an investigation held, and thus delay the admission of the State. The republicans in New Hanover county, N. C., (the Wilmington district) are divided on a choice for a legislator to succeed Colonel Estes. The white carpet-baggers have nominated a negro for the position, and the negro radicals, who have bolted from the carpet-baggers, have nominated a white man. Mayor Bowen, of Washington, has recommended to his city Council that the public schools of that city be open to children of both races alike. He also nominates Professor Vashon (colored) to be a member of the present white Board of School Trustees. Two Frenchmen employed in the silk mills at Pat. erson, N. J., fought a duel near the depot in that city at about half-past niné o'clock on Saturday evening. about some trivial matter that occurred in the mille. Their seconds failed to appear on time, and the two went to work without them. The weapons were pistols and the distance ten paces. At the first fire one was slightly wounded in the lip. Another fire was demanded, and both were severely wounded in the right arm. They then declared themselves satisfied, shook hands and swore to say nothing about the duel. They had to tell the surgeon, however, and the affair thus leaked out. The conservative negroes in Washington are raising a subscription to deiray the expenses of indicting certain radical negroes for mobbing them and inciting to riot at the recent election in that city. Ben Wade is in Washington. He highly lauds Sec. retary Boutwell's policy, is sore over the result 01 the Virginia election, thinks we ought to enter a wedge for the separation of Cuba from Spanish rule, and says he will probably stump Ohio for Governor Hayes. The Canadian government has decided to release Father McMahon, the Feman prisoner in Kingston Penitentary. He was tried sometime in the rall of 1866 for complicity in the Fentan raid at Niagara Falls and sentenced to twenty years in the Peniten. tiary. Several efforts were made by Secretary Sew. ard to have him released, but without avail. The present action of the Canadian government is taken without any reference of the matter to the English authorities. The Mechanics National Bank at Trenton had to suspend business for the day yesterday because the safe could not be opened. The maker of tbe safe sent his best workman to open it, but he did not suc ceed. A continued plying of crowbars and sledges finally broke it open. A fatal case of genuine Astatic cholera, not infectious, is reported in Newark. Miss Ella Rice, one of the young ladies named in connection with the Far Rockaway difficulty, denies all the allegations in reference to her being insulted on the beach or complaining to Corser. The new ten and fitteen cent currency has made its appearance. The twenty.five and fifty cent bills will be out shortly. The guage of the Missouri Pacific Railway was recently changed in twelve hours without the delay of a single train. Additional particulars of General Carr's victory over the Indians are received. Among the killed is a noted Indian chief. Mrs. Weizel is the name of al white woman who was rescued. Three Sioux Indians were killed by the Pawnee scouts on Republican river. General Eastman was wounded by Indians near Fort Benton on the 16th, and when the citizens of the fort heard it they killed three Indians who happened to be in the town at the time. A Pennsylvanian signing himself "Honesty, sends $400 to the Treasury Department, as a part his income tax, which he wishes to pay that way in preference to having the full amount of his income published in his coonty paper. A railroad bridge over the Marats des Cygnes, in Kansas, feti in ON Sunday, and four mea were killed. The valuation of taxable property in Necraska is $42,000,000, SIX times greater than *111 1862. or Mill
