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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The New York and New Haven steamer, C. H. Northam, was burned at the former city last week. Three colored men perished in the flames. The vessel was valued at *175,000. The failure of Evans, Dalzoll & Co., iron manufacturers, Pittsburgh, is announced. Their liabilities are estimated at $700,000. David Stillman and wife, aged invalids, were found in their dwelling. murdered, at Bridge port, Ct. A colored man is held on suspicion. We:t. A number of the contractors and employes on the new Custom House at St. Louis have been indicted by the Grand Jury of the United States District Court. II has been developed that this costly structure, upon which Uncle Sam has already spe 1 between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, does not rest upon volid stone, as specified in the contract, but that 100 of the foundation piers, at leart, are composed of unsubstantial concrete: but these are not half the developments: now made, nor a tithe of those yet 0 come. Information comes om the West that, while moving the Sioux from the Red Cloud Agency to the Missouri river, 1,700 of them broke away, and are now on the war-path. Gen. Terry has ordered the cavalry to prepare for a winter campaign. Those who thus eserted are operating in the Deadwood country, and have already attacked trains and caused general consternation. The desperad Frank Raude was conveyed from St. Louis to Galesburg, 11., on the 28th ult., and lodged in the Knox county jail. The Second National Bank of Lafayette, Ind., bas been compelled to suspend basiness in consequence of the heavy defalcation of the cashier, Charles T. Mayo. His stealingsamount to about $60,000. A farmer near Champaign, III., has lost by cholera, within a few days, ninety-five hogs. The direase is spreading in that section. The real name of the desperado Frank Rande is Charles Arthor Van Zandt. Ho served five years in the Northern Indiana State prison, and was one of the most nuruly convicts that ever stepped inside of a penitentiary. L. P. Hilliard, A. W. Edwards. John Reid and Martin Ryan, officers of the collapsed Pretection Life Insurance Company, of Chicago, have been indicted for perjury in swearing to false statements of the financial condition of the concern. George W. Stanford. Hunry Greenebaum and E. F. Ranyan, late members of the West Chicago Park Board, have also been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the city. Charles McGill, of Cleveland, Ohio., became incensed at his wife because the persisted in leaving him, and murdered her by shooting nine pistol bullets into her body, A young man named Henry Blackman, living near Birmingham. Mich., quarreled with his mother and sister, in the absence of his father, and wound up by shooting and killing them both, and setting fire to the house and barn. Sou h. A Columbia 61. C.) dispatch says Congressman Smalls, who was recently convicted of bribery, has been sentenced to a term of three years in the State prison. Bishop Marvin of the M. E. Church South, died last week at bis home in St. Louis, aged 54 years. J. J. Wright (colored), Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, has resigned. Gov. Wade Hampton, of Sou b Carolina, in his message to the Logislature strongly, deprecates the repudiation of the State's obligations, and argues that the scitlement of the public-debt question should be made on a basis which shall not impair the credit of the State. He urges the fostering of the public-school eyetem, to give education to all classes. Two sensational tragedies, with love and jealousy as the inciting causes, are reported from the South. At Montgomery, Ala., Antonio Nicrosi shot and killed his flame, Miss Aurelia Sharp, and then blew his own brains out. At Norfolk, Va., a boy of 19, named Godfrey, killed Miss Winingder, aged 17, and then shot himself. Four of the directors of the Union Banking Company, of Baltimore, have been indicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the creditors of the bank.
