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tached to the agreement, about which so much has been said, and which has been kept out of sight so,far, contains several items showing that the firm owed the President $2,408; G. Blaine, $30,000; Gen. Babcock, $5,600; Gen. Dent, $2,500, and Senator Edmunds a small amount. A Philadelphia telegram of the 24th says official returns of the recent election show that Gordon, Republican, received a majority of 14,294 for Supreme Court Judge, and Mackey, Republican, received a majority of 25,352 for State Treasurer. The Apollo Hall Democrats and the Republicans, on the 24th, nominated Julius Wadsworth for Congress, to represent the District formerly represented by the late James Brooks. S.S. Cox is the Tammany Democratic candidate. A New York dispatch of the 24th says that sixty-eight indictments had been found against A. L. Roberts and J. Gleason, for forging New York Central and Buffalo & Erie Railroad bonds. A meeting had been held in that city, of the House of Bishops, and Rev. John S. Spaulding, Rector of St. Paul's, Erie, Pa., had been elected Missionary Bishop of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. A New York dispatch of the 25th says that Peake, Opdyke & Co., the dry goods firm that suspended short time since, had so arranged their business that they had been able to resume. The stock market on that day was thoroughly depressed, N. Y. Central selling as low as 871/6. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 25th an nounced that E. W. Clark & Co., the wellknown bankers of that city, had resumed business. This had largely tended to establish confidence in that city. The Harmony Cotton Mills, of Cohoes, N.Y., and the Newburgh Steam Mills, of Newburgh, closed their establishments on the 25th. A New York dispatch of the 25th says bold and skillful attempt at forgery had just been discovered at the Sub-Treasury. The forgery consisted of a legal-tender note of 1868 for $100, with a genuine face and forged back. The forgery had been skillfully executed by splitting the bill in two, by which $100 bill could be so transformed as to make two bills of $100 each, one having a genuine face and forged back, and the other a forged face and genuine back. A Brooklyn, N. Y., dispatch says that the grand jury on the 25th had indicted Whitelaw Reid of the N. Y. Tribune, and Charles A. Dana of the Sun for alleged libel upon Judge McCue, of Brooklyn. A disastrous conflagration occurred at Canastota, N. Y. on the New York Central Railroad, near Utica, on the 27th, which burned over six acres of ground, destroying three hotels. thirty-two dwellings, and between forty and fifty business houses. The fire was the work of an incendiary. The loss amounts to $150,000. The testimony in the Stokes case was closed ou the 27th, and Mr. Tremaine, for the defense, began his address to the jury. The West. A Springfield dispatch of the 21st says the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad Company had dismissed the suits brought against Myers and Creary some months since, for refusing to pay more than three cents per mile for passage over the road. The commission of United States engineers appointed by the War Department some time ago to examine and ascertain whether the bridge now in process of construction across the Mississippi River at St. Louis will, when finished, obstructnavigation have made very elaborate report. They find that the bridge, as at present designed, will prove a very serious obstruction to navigation, and as it is impracticable to change the plans of the bridge, or to raise it, except at an enormous cost, they recommend a canal, or open cut, behind the eastern abutment of the bridge, 120 feet wide, extending from point 500 feet above the bridge to 300 feet below it, with a draw of the same width. They also recommend that arch trusses, like those of this bridge, be in future prohibited in plans for bridges over navigable streams. A St. Louis dispatch of the 21st says the A Attorney-General had commenced proceedings a in the Circuit Conrt against the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company in behalf of a Mr. Cottrell, a policy holder. The petition charges that the charter of the company has been forfeited for several years by reason of t sundry acts of malfeasance and usurpation. The court ordered writ of quo warranto to , issue, returnable on the first day of the December term, and notice to that effect to be served on the company immediately A Yankton, Dakota, dispatch of the 22d says the Grand Jury of the Territorial Court, after being in session for week, had returned an indictment against P. P. Wintermute for the murder of Secretary McCook, charging him with manslaughter only. The United States Grand Jury, at Spring field, Illinois, on the 22d, returned bills against ex-Collector John T. Harper for embezzling $4,619. A prisoner confined in the Springfield jail had offered to reveal and secure the conviction of the murderer of the late Hon. Sharon Tyndale, once Secretary of State, provided he can be assured of pardon for the offense for which he is now confined. On the 22d, Goldsmith Maid trotted against time over the Dexter Park track, at Chicago, for purse of $5,000. She took the purse in 2:17 1/2 This was the best time ever made in that city. The National Convention of the Patrons of Husbandry met in Chicago on the 22d, according to announcement, and organized by the election James M. Allen, as President, S. M. Smith, Secretaryand S. T. K. Prime, Assistant Secretary. Delegates were present from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, New York, Indiana and Minnesota, numbering about 300. A Committee was appointed to consider and report upon all resolutions offered. Several were thus offered, discussed, and then referred under the rule. The National Board of Trade was in session n in Chicago on the 21st, 22d and 23d. On the n latter day the Convention discussed, in all its bearings, the question of transportation. An able and exhaustive address was made by W. M. Grosvenor, of St. Louis. The second and concluding session of the National Convention of the Patrons of Husbandry occurred in Chicago on the 23d. The gathering was entirely harmonious and earnest. Railway monopolists were critically den nounced. The following resolutions, among others, were adopted: n WHEREAS, The duty of a Government is to protect its people Capital, cted by unscrupule e minds. reads the profit of their labor. Men of great wealth revel in luxury. while those who the money aredestitute of many of the comforts of life Our State Legislatures have made laws deriving us of our land, from which we have t title from the General for the benefit of railroad companies, because it seemed for the y good. Subeidies have ranted them, and has. with lavish hand. given them public lands- the people's and the
