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TEST NEWS. There are eighteen inches of snow at Jamestown, N.Y. The Court of Commissioners of the Alabama Claims has adjourned till the 19th new will Had of January. The number of hogs packed in Cincinnati to the 20th is $295,971; the number packed the same time last season was 295,557. RH Messrs. George P. Rowell & Co.,state that during the week ending Saturday thirty-three newspapers of all sorts have suspended in the United States and the British Provinces. Of these four were daily, fifteen weekly, three semi-monthlly, eight monthly, and three quarterly. During the same period twenty newspapers and periodicals were established, including one daily, sixteen weeklies, one semi-monthly, and two monthlies. The banking firm of Green & Cranston, of Providence, R. I., suspended payment on the 18th inst., and made an assignment to James V. Smith. The liabilities are represented to be $1675,000. The assets-firm and individual-are said to be $800,000. MONTREAL, Dec. 18,- The Recorder sentenced four of the rioters at the City Hall, this morning, to six months' imprisonment each, at hard labor. The police are kept on guard and the desti. tute working men are prevented from gathering in crowds. Work is promised some of them on Monday. HAVRE, Dec, 17 -The American fish ing schooner, Abby M. Heath was recently abandoned at sea. "The crew were picked up and safely landed at this port to-day. Ex-Senator Richardson, of Illinois, is dangerously ill at his home in Quincy. Mr. Charles O'Conor, of New York, is recovering. A grand dinner was given in Philadelphia to the President, Supreme Court, M. C's, &c. MacDonald, the convicted Ringster, says, "Babcock is as innocent as I am, The small-pox has broken out in the Penitentiary at Columbus. Naples, December 21.-Mount Vesuvius shows a gradual increase of fire and smoke. The instruments in the Observatory are in motion, and Prof. Palmieri predicts a long period of eruption. London, December 21.-Henry Wainwright, convicted of the murder of Harriet Lane, in White Chapel road, was hanged at Newgate to-day. Two hunting parties of Cheyennesand Arapahoe Indians, 50 miles west of Camp Supply, had a fight the other day, wounding several on each side. Fraudulent school bonds have been discovered in Kansas, and the Governor had demanded the resignation of the State Treasurer, Samuel Lappiet. At Meadville, Pa., on Monday, James Pease vasinstantly killed, and five others seriously injured, by the falling of an iron bridge over French creek, on which they were working. Near Wellington, Ohio, on the 20th, David M. Tennant, a farmer, accidentally shot himself about daylight. He was at the barn trying to shoot an owl. The ball passed through his lungs. At Berea, on Saturday, two young men, Joseph Hulse and Asher Wellington, were out hunting, the latter walking ten feet or so in advance, when Hulse's gun went off, the ball entering Wellington's leg, below the knee. He died Monday. Cincinnati, December 20.-At a meeting of Methodist preachers to-day, a resolution was offered censuring Bishop Haven and the Boston preachers for their expression about the third term. The resolution was the subject of a long discussion, and themeeting adjourned without taking action upon it. Detroit, Mich., December 20.-H. D. Winsor, who was arrested et Buffalo in June, for forging the name of Bernard, Stroh &E. W. Hudson to a large amount of paper, the proceeds of which were used in the Utah mining speculations, was acquitted by the jury without leaving their seats, on the ground that Winsor had auhority to sign the name. Milwaukee, December 20.-In the U. S. Circuit Court to-day Babcock, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the revenue, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment and a fine of $2,000, and one-half the cost of the trial. Sentence was suspended in the case of Reynolds, his partner. St. Louis, December 20.-It is pretty definitely ascertained that the amount of money obtained by the express robbers Saturday morning was $8,000. Had the robbery been committed before the train reached Mexico, Missouri, the amount would have been much larger, as it would have included all the western remittances to Chicago. Philadelphia, Dec. 19.-Three immense meetings were held to-day by Moody and Sankey. Mr. Moody preached on the good effect of using the little word "No" at the proper time. Mr. Sankey sang some of his sweetest hymns. Elyria, Ohio, December 19.-William Schumch, of Amherst, Ohio, while walking on the track to this place last evening, met two tramps, who attempted to rob him. In the struggle he was thrown under the fast mail which was passing at the time. One arm was cut off, and he received other bad injuries. The tramps escaped. Sandusky, Ohio, December 19.-Otto Bauman, 14 years of age, was drowned on Saturday while skating on the lake, Dear here. He resided here. His body was not recovered. General Babcock did not reach St. Louis on Saturday, as he was expected to. His counsel, Chester A. Krum and Judge Medill, appeared before the court, and after some discussion notice was ordered to be served on Babcock to appear and plead to the indictment against tim on January 11th. Louisville, December 20.-The escape of sixteen prisoners from the Henderson county jail, 80 worked upon the mind of Mr. Denton, the jailer, that he committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He left a note saving "I make this, my last state-
