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and Western railroad company, at the following prices per ton: Grate, $3.55@3.57 % egg, $3.65@3.70; stove, $4.07 1/2; chestnut, $3.521/2. THE Vanderbilt will case was resumed at New York on the 24th inst. An offer was made to prove that in 1873, prior to the will, Commodore Vanderbilt told & lady that he had received a communication from his dead wife to leave the bulk of his property to his oldest son, 80 as to keep it together, and that he was going to do. The object was to show that spiritualism was not a mere speculative belief with him, but influenced him in business matters. AT Boston, Mass, on the 23d inst, United States Commissioner Hallett gave a decision in the case of Henry A. Parr, arrested some time ago on a charge of being engaged with others in the capture of the steamer Chesapeake, in the name of the Confederate government. The commissioner ordered the discharge of Parr on the ground that his case was covered by general amnesty proclamation of December 25th, 1868 THE Union Dime Savings bank, of Saratoga Springs, has closed. Liabilities, $153,000; cash on hand, $3,000; mortgages and real estate, $180,000. THE WEST. Two Ohio ministers-Revs. F. A. Spence and J. K. Davis-have been dismissed from the ministry for irregular conduct. THE following from Gen. James A. Garfield, in response to an inquiry will be of interest to western settlers. Persons entering a homestead after they have ceased to be soldiers, get a patent after one year's residence. Persons, actual soldiers at the date of entry, or who become 50 afterwards, if they served five years, require no residence. The commissioner's decision isright. I did not frame the law, but cencur with Judge Lawrence, who did." ELEVEN hundred and fifty bales of Texas cotton passed through Sedalia, Mo., on the 26th, over the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, consigned to Liverpool. This is the first shipment by rail from the gulf to foreign ports. THE Loker bank, a private concern, the oldest in St. Louis, Mo., suspended on the 25th instant for lack of business. Depositors will all be paid. Gov. BISHOP, of Ohio, commuted the sentence of Ralph Wintergill, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung in Columbia county, October 5th, to imprisonment for life. COL. MILES telegraphs the lieutenantgeneral from Fort Keogh, Montana, that six Sioux have arrived at the fort from the British possessions, being emissaries sent ever the line by Sitting Bull to ascertain upon what terms his people would be permitted to surrender to the United States military authorities. They represented that the Sioux who had taken refuge in Canada were very desirous of returning to the states. Gen. Sheridan answered that if they return it must be on terms of unconditional surrender. THE Odd Fellows' bank, Sacramento, Cal., has decided to wind up its business, and has made an assignment. The assets are believed to be sufficient to pay the depositors. HON. WM. N. MESERVFY, editor of the Webster County (Ia.) Gazette, died on the 21st inst., of hemorrhage of the stomach. GENERAL. IN the Wayne (Mich.) Circuit Court on 28th instant, an order was issued confirming the recent sale of the Detroitand Milwaukee railway to the Great Western Railway company of Canada, and authorizing the necessary conveyances. INFORMATION has been received by Capt. Howgate, at the signal office, that Capt. Tyson of the schooner Florence, of the Howgate Polar expedition, reached St. Johns, N. B., on the 26th. He has been absent fourteen months. SENOR ZAMANCONA, the Mexican minister, says the purpose of the Mexican government in sending five thousand troops to the border was to suppress raiding and aid the United States troops in putting down lawlessness. CONSIDERABLE commotion is created at Madison, Wis., among property owners, by the recording, on September 17, of a deed given by Dan Webster to David Hall, bearing the date of March, 1849, for sixty-five lots, including some of the very best business and residence lots in the city. The price paid to Hall was $10,000. Many consider it fraudulent, and should it be brought to trial it will be fought by the united strength of many wealthy residents. The title of all the property claimed under this deed is believed to be perfectly clear to the present holders, and quiet possession for ten years, under the laws of this state, with a reasonably clear title, confirms the holder in possession. THE American rifle team shot a match at Creedmoor on the 25th. Summer made the unprecedented score of 221 in a possible 225; Jackson reached 217, while the grand total reached 1,660 points against 1,655 of the team on the first, a year ago. THE Paris Patrie says: We learn that the difficulties between France, England and the United States, relative to the Newfoundland fisheries, have been arranged. The three cabinets are now drawing up a convention, which will obviate all future disagreements. WHILE an examination was progressing before Commissioner Maynard, at Marquette, Mich., on the 24th, in the case of the United States versus Samuel J. Tilden, two men suddenly entered 1 e office, seized the books of the New York Iron Mine company, which were being wed in testimony, and while one hurried wn the stairs to a carriage in waiting the her stood guard at the door, preventing eg.ess of anyone until his accomplice had secured a good start. Warrants were issued as quickly as possible and officers started in pursuit. They overtook the carriage some miles out of the city but found neither men nor property. AN estimate of the losses to the revenue on sugars for two years was sent to Congressmen Wood's committee on the 23d. The figures hich are said to have been prepared by a careful statistician, shows the whole loss to the government last year to have been over $2,500,000. The special agents have been ordered to prepare and submit to the treasury department the result of their investigations in the alleged
