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# WEST AND SOUTH.
The National Grange on the 27th elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Master, Adams, of Minnesota; Overseer, Woodman, of Michigan; Lecturer, Mortimer, of Cincinnati; Steward, Haughan, of Iowa; Assistant Steward, Symmes, of Kansas; Chaplain, Forsythe, of Illinois; Treasurer, McDowell, of New York; Secretary, Kelly, of Louisville; Gatekeeper, Dinwiddie, of Indiana; Ceres, Mrs. Adaras, of Minnesota; Pomona, Mrs. Woodman, of Michigan; Flora, Mrs. Moore, of Indiana; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. Hall, of Louisville.
Rande, the murderer, was delivered to Illinois officers by the St. Louis authorities on the 27th and taken to Galesburg, Ill.
Twenty colored people were drowned in the neighborhood of Buchanan, Va., during the recent flood. The destruction of property in the town and county is unprecedented.
A party of thirty colonizers left Pittsburgh on the 28th ult. in a flat-boat, intending to travel by river to Arkansas. A short distance from shore one of the steering oars broke and as the boat entered the Ohio River it struck a coal barge and broke in three pieces, throwing the emigrants into the water. A Swiss family named Rife-father, mother and two children-and an unknown man perished. The others were saved with the greatest difficulty.
The South Carolina Legislature met on the 27th ult. Swaits (colored), President pro tem. of the Senate, resigned as Senator, and Woodruff, Clerk, also resigned. Gov. Hampton sent in his annual message on the 28th. He strongly deprecates the repudiation of the State's obligations and urges the fostering of the public-school system to give free education to all classes. The special committee to examine into the election of Senator Patterson submitted their report. They examined about forty ex-members of the Legislature-white and colored Republicans-of whom twenty testified that they were bribed by Patterson or his agent; the others testified that offers of bribes were made to them and refused. Every witness testified that it was known among the members that Patterson was purchasing his election.
Two indictments for murder have been returned against Frank Rande by the Grand Jury at Galesburg, Ill.
Associate-Justice Wright (colored), of the South Carolina Supreme Court, has resigned. The Second National Bank of Lafayette, Ind., has closed, owing to the defalcation of Charles T. Mayo, its cashier. The shortage will reach $60,000.
Ex-Treasurer Cardozo, of South Carolina, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment and $4,000 fine for conspiracy to defraud the State, and Smalls, Congressman, for accepting while Senator a bribe of $5,000, to three years at hard labor in the Penitentiary.
The National Grange on the 30th ult. adjourned to meet at Richmond, Va., next year. The Grange Bulletin was ordered to be discontinued.
The Missouri River was frozen over at Atchison, Kan., on the 30th ult.
Greenebaum, Runnion and Stanford, former Chicago Park Commissioners, have been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the city out of $60,000, and the officers of the Protection Life Insurance Company have been indicted for perjury in swearing to false statements.
The loss in Hardy County, W. Va., from the late flood will reach $400,000. Farms have been completely washed away and hundreds of farmers are ruined.
A communication addressed to Secretary Evarts by the Chinese six companies in San Francisco calls attention to the fact that the United States have received from China nearly $800,000 for outrages on American citizens and property in China, while the Chinese have been robbed and murdered in California and in not one case in fifty have the perpetrators been brought to justice. They desire that Chinese immigration be restricted within certain limits.
The Indians are again raiding on trains and murdering in the Black Hills. Two freight trains were captured and three ranchmen killed near Spearfish on the 1st.
Congressman Smalls, of South Carolina, has been released from prison on $10,000 bail to await the Supreme Court's decision on his appeal.
