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# NEWS OF THE DAY.
It is now thought that the proposition for a constitutional convention in Illinois is defeated.
Petitions addressed to General Grant are being circulated asking that a lady be appointed post mistress at St. Louis.
A fire on Friday night in Bennington, Vt., destroyed Mount Anthony Hotel, and badly damaged the new building owned by T. W. Park. Loss, $35,000.
W. W. Corcoran, former banker in Washington, is going to build there an asylum for indigent women, with accommodations for from sixty to seventy persons.
The Baton Rouge Advocate says hand cars are running to a point four miles distant from Rosedale, but the road will not be open for freight or travel for several ecks yet.
A fire Saturday morning entirely destroyed the saw mill of Rosco & Co., in the northwestern part of Philadelphia. The loss is estimated at $25,000, with but small insurance.
The latest scheme for Indian pacification proposes to teach the squaws to weave bright colored blankets and set the warriors to raising sheep.
In a Jenkins account of a fashionable party in New York, we find mention of "Miss —, white Swiss fluted tulle and a model Grecian bend."
The wife of Philip Hart, a merchant of Jackson, Mississippi, was found drowned in a cistern on his premises, in that city, a few days ago. She was a bride of but a few weeks.
A fire at the House of Refuge in Baltimore, Friday morning, destroyed the engine house, watch factory and other out-buildings, with 300 tuns of coal. Loss, $10,000. The main building was uninjured.
A few nights since, a boy at Niagara Falls stretched a cord across the street a little above the pavement "just for fun," and a German fell over it, breaking his collar-bone and receiving injuries which will lay him up for several weeks.
The Sugar Planter (La.) notes the progress making in repairing the Grosse Tete Railroad. The lake has been reached, and but a few days more of good weather are necessary to complete the work to the Grosse Tete. Other repairs are progressing as rapidly as possible.
The Milwaukie Sentinel says: The Wisconsin State Bank affair is in a fair way of settlement. An arrangement has been made by which the smaller depositors are to be paid in full in a few days, while the larger ones will receive 80 per cent. cash, and the balance in a short time.
A Washington special says: It is asserted on authority claiming to be official, that the United States government has given no instructions whatever to Minister Reverdy Johnson since his departure for Europe, to guide him in his negotiations for the settlement of the Alabama claims, and that all the credit attaching to his course during the past six weeks is due wholly to himself.
A terrible tragedy occured at Dubuque on the night of the 12th inst. William Brown, an upholsterer, walked to his wife, who was lying in bed, and shot her dead. He then shot himself in the abdomen, but is still alive, although in a critical condition. Domestic difficulty was the cause of the crime. A family of five small children is left without a protector.
At a council of members held at the Tuilleries, proof was adduced of the existence of a conspiracy to overthrow the existing order of affairs in France, and a resolution was adopted providing for the use of the most vigorous measures for its suppression. The public journals will be exempt from interference if they refrain from inciting the people against the government.
# General Sherman furnishes the following list of troops serving in Montana, with their situation, location, etc.
Camp Cook, west bank Missouri, near the mouth of Judith, commanding officer Colonel Andrews, thirteenth infantry, four companies, 400 enlisted men, thirteen officers. Fort Shaw, south bank Sun river, eighty-two miles north of Helena, commanding officer Major Clinton, thirteenth infantry, four companies, 278 enlisted men, eighteen officers. Fort Ellis, in Gallatin Valley, commanding officer, Captain Yamotte, two companies, 171 enlisted men, and four officers. Total number of men and officers 980.
The fire which destroyed the Sherman House at Syracuse on the 13th, originated in the kitchen of the hotel at about 3 o'clock. Many persons escaped by jumping from the windows. Mrs. Burdell, the landlady, sustained a broken thigh by falling from a window. The principal losses and insurances are: Samuel Larned, owner of hotel, $45,000, insured for $25,000; Mr. Burdick, furniture, etc., $12,000, insured for $8,000; Edwards, clothing, $10,000, insured for $4,000; J. W. Yale, paper hangings, $18,000, insured for $12,000; C. H. Ithor, $25,000, partly insured. There are a number of minor losses, which are partly covered by insurance. The total loss and insurance are about as first stated.
