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, Telegraphic?Foreign News. London, Jone 9.?A despatch to the Times, from Rangoon, says jftBistcr For syth, British Envoy to Bnrmah, has boon instructed'to demand of the King an immediate explanation of the friendly reception given the Chinese general im 8Heated in the murder of Mr. Magary, ritish explorer. The Burmese are cat? ting tho telegraph. A steamship with the Sultan of Zanzi? bar and suite on board, has arrived at Gravesend. A Paris correspondent of the Thnes, alluding . to the rumors of RepubUcan movements in Madrid, says those who are watching the courso of affairs in Spain, are satisfied that the Alfonsist Government is apprehensive. They assert that the Spanish ambassador at Paris has renewed his complaints rela? tive to the tolerance of Carlism on tho frontier, and has warmly protested against ostensible charity fetes, the real object of which is to raise money in Paris for the Corlists. It is supposed France will pay lesB attention to these complaints than formerly, as Germany at present takes slight interest in the case of King Alfonso, whoso Government is too weak to pursue a course agreeable, to Germany. Competent authority (an attache of the Spanish embassy in Paris) officially report that the CarUstss muster 45,000 good soldiers, besides an equal number of second rates, and will con? tinue to be victorious so long as tho war is conducted as at present. A despatch from Vienna says the Princess Windi Bohratz has sent 300,000 florins to Don Carlos. At the Ascot meeting, to-day, the race for tho Royal Hunt cup was won by Thuringian; twenty ran. The Corona? tion stakes were won by Maud Victoria; seventeen ran. The Ascot Derby stakes were won | by Gilbert Spinaway; five started. Madrid, June 9.?There are rumors of a Republican movement, in consequence of recent military events, whioh prove that the troops. are unable to gain any advantage over, the Carlists. Toronto, Qnt., Juno 9.?A fire here, last night, destroyed property to tho amount of $150,000, Telegr?.Dhh3-*-ArTrerican News. Chablebton, June 9.?Arrived?Steam? ship Charleston, New York. Lee, Miss., June 9.?Tho boiler ox plosion, yesterday, damaged Smith's paper mill $25,000; two men killed and fourteen injured. New Yobk, June 9.?Mr. Evarts olosed his argument at 6.45 P. M, yesterday. He was particularly severe upon Tilton, and thanked the jury for their patience, and complimented them for having dono their duty faithfully as citizens. Tor-eea, Kansas, June 9.?While De? puty United States Marshal Ramsey and a posse were attempting to arrest two horse thieves, at Stockton, Kansas, yes? terday, one of them shot Ramsey in the abdomen and he died about an hour af? terwards. After being shot, Ramsey killod the man who shot him; the other thief escaped. Washington, June 9.?No truth in the report of additional $20,000 irregularity in the Treasury. Spinner adheres to the hope that the $17,000 package will bo recovered unless the notes are destroyed, and does not credit the theory that a visitor stole the package. Treasurer New is expected to reach bore to-mor? row. It is intimated that he will make some changes in the Treasurer's office on the 21st instant. Several important changes are also expected in the Internal Revenue office on the 1st of July. Sena? tor Morton had a lengthy consultation with Attorney-General PierTepont to? day, on the appointment of W. N. Hughes as postmaster at Columbia, Ten? nessee. The President has proclaimed the treaty for the extradition of crimi? nals, fugitives from justice between the United States and the Ottoman Empire. The treaty does not apply to any erimo or offence of a political character, and neither of the contracting parties is bound to deliver up its own citizens. Gen. Joseph D. Webster has been ap? pointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Chicago. Edmund M. Kline, one of the editors and proprietors of the Lancaster, Pa., Dally and Weekly Examiner, died this morning; heart disease. Probabilities?For the South Atlantic and Gulf States, stationary or falling ba? rometer, North-east to South-east winds, warmer and partly cloudy weather. Cincinnati, June 9.?By a rocent de? cision of the Supremo Court, funds be? longing to benevolent societies have been declared subject to taxation; in obedienco to this decision, tho Board of Equalization of this city has sent cita? tions to each society in the limits of Cin? cinnati, to show cause why they should not bo taxed on their money, credits, Ac. The Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Rod Men and all other societies heretofore exempt on the ground of cha? rity and their seeming public benefit, have been included in the summons. Stockton, Kansas, June 9.?A horse thief dodged behind a pony, when he and Sheriff Ramsay revolvered; the thief died immediately and the sheriff in an hour. OoNConp, N. H., June 9.?The Legisla? ture met in joint convention to-day, and elected Person C. Cheney Governor. New Yobk, Juno 9.?Tho Brooklyn City Court room was packed this morn? ing with spectators as it had never been before during the trial. The ontronco of Mr. Ib ach, who was to deliver the clos? ing address, was the signal for a storm of applause, which was with difficulty checked by tho Court officials. Ex Judge Fallerton arrived shortly after and received a similar evation. The friends of the plaintiff were mustered in strong force, and scaroely a vacant space was to be fonnd in the room; tho ante? room and corridors were thronged with dissatisfied parties, who were unable to gain admission to the court room. The Elaintiff was early in his place behind is counsel, and was olosely surrounded by the surging multitude. . The throng was so great that Judge Neilson gave in? structions to the officers in charge of tho court to make some arrangements and prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Beecher and his wife were absent when the proceedings began. The Judge cautioned the audience to preserve the utmost silence. Beach then rose and said at last Theodore Tilton had an opportunity to be heard in a court of justice, after having been over? come with calumnies. At the church investigation, every one saw that Tilton and his witnesses wcro shut off from hearing, and it was no wonder that public clamor demanded that justice should be done to him in this unfortu? nate transaction. At this point Beecher und his wife came into the room und took their usual places in the Plymouth throng. Yesterday's Market Reports. New York.?Stocks active, at better prices. Money 2. Exchange?long 4.87$;, short 4.90J. Cotton quiet; sales 1,120? uplands 153; Orleans 16$. Futures opened weak: July 1517-32; August 15 21-32; Septomber 15 9-16? 15 f; Octo? ber 15 3-16?15 7-32. Wheat and corn lc. better. Pork firm?19.50. Lard firm?steam 13J. 7 P. M.?Cotton quiet; sales 1,285, at 153@161; consolidated net receipts 8,788; exported Great Britain 21,184; France I, 608;continent3,928jchnnnel583. Flour little better export demand and prices generally without a decided change; Southern steady and moderate inquiry. Wheat l?2c. better, with brisk export demand for parcels?1.27(a) 1.35. Corn opened a shade firmer, but closed dull and drooping?79?90. Coffee very firm and quiet?Bio ri6@194 gold. Sugar steady?8?@11L Molasses dull? 42@58. Bice quiet?73i?8$ for Carolina j prime to choice. Pork firmer?new mess job lots 20.00. Beef dull?8.00? II. 00. Lard firmer?13 13-16 prime steam. Whiskey steady?1.21. Freights to Liverpool steady?cotton sail 9-32; steam 11-32. Money easy?2$?3. Ster- | ling steady. Gold heavy?16$@16f. I Governments active and lower?new 5s 17$. States quiet and steady. Cotton not reoeipts 567; gross 1,375. Futures closed firm; sales 49,200: June 15 17-32 ?15 9-16; July 15 19-32; August 15 13-32 ?153; September 15 9-16?1519-32; October 151?15 9-32; November 15J? 15 5-32; December 15$?15 5-32; January 15 3-16?15 7-32; February 15 11-32? 15 13-32; Maroh 15 9-16@15 11-16; April 153?15 27-32; May 15 lo-16?16. Baltimore.?Cotton dull?middling 153; low middling 15J; good ordinary 14J; gross receipts 4; exports coastwise 280; sales 80; spinners 20. Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat quiet?1.25? 1.38. Sugar, corn and pork quiet and unchanged. Provisions dull and heavy. Shoulders 9A?93. Lard dull?refined 15? 151. Coffoe nrm?ordinary to prime cargoes 16? 183; jobbing 16.',?19L Whiskey 1.21. St. Louis.?Flour unsettled and little doing. Corn opened firm but closed dull?No. 2 mixed 70@78. Whiskey held 1.18. Pork easier?small lots 20.25. Bacon dull and little doing?clear sides 124. Lard lower?summer 12$? 12$. Cincinnati. ?Flour dull and declining. Corn steady?72?74. Pork dull?nomi? nally 20.00. Lard dull?12i?13$; kot tle 14? 141. Bacon dull anil only in limited jobbing demand. Whiskoy firm ?1.16. Louisville?Flour quiet and un? changed. Corn steady?63?75. Pro? visions dull and easier. Pork 20.00? 20.50. Bacon?shoulders 9J; clear rib 121?125; clear 12}? 13; sugar-cured hams 13J?13J. Lard dull?tiorce 15? 154 *. kpS 153?16. Whiskey firmer? 1.16. Bagging 131?14. Chicago.?Flour dull and unchanged. Corn active and higher?No. 2 mixed 67>j; rejected 65. Pork steady?19.50. Lard steady?13.50. Whiskey firm?1.17. Philadelphia.?-Cotton dull?mid? dling 16; low middling 15$; good ordi? nary 14^; net receipts 40; gross 132. Memphis.?Cotton quiet?middling 14il?15; net receipts 33; shipments 301; sales 750. Galveston.?Cotton dull and nominal ?middling 145; net receipts 55; sales 430. Norfolk.?Cotton dull?middling 15} ?15J; net receipts 741; exports coast? wise 385. Boston. ? Cotton dull and nominal? middling 16; net receipts 355; gross 1,573; sales 32. Mobile.? Cotton unchanged?mid? dling 14};not receipts 3; gross 3; exports coastwise 387; sales 100. Savannah.?Cotton dull and nominal ? middling 15J ; net receipts 512; sales lOfl. Chableston.?Cotton Hat and nomi? nal?middling 15]; net receipts 198; sales 25. AroisTA.?Cotton dull, nothing doing ?middling 14J; low middling 14g; good ordinary 14; net receipts 18; sales 1. New Orleans.?Cotton easier but not quotnblv lower?middling 15J; net re? ceipts 307; gross 994; sales 1,200. Liverpool?3 P. M.?Cotton dull and depressed?middling uplands 7 11-16; middling Orleans 7J; sales 8,000, in? cluding 3,600 American; speculation and export 1,000; basis middling uplands, nothing below good ordinary, delivera? ble Juno or July, 71; nothing below low middling, deliverable June or July, 7a; August, 7 9-16. 5 P. M.?Basis middling uplands, no? thing below low middling, deliverable August or September, 711-16; shipments new crop, basis middling uplands, no? thing below low middling, 7 11-16. Secretary Delano gave great offence to Spotted Tail, last weok, by lighting a cigar at the Indian conference and smok? ing nnd spitting during the session. If the Indians bad seen a little more of the Great Father at the White House, they would doubtless have become used to cigars as an official pastime. A Bkoken Bind.?The Paris corres? pondent of a Western paper gives the whereabouts of some of the members of the old Tweed ring, the ''Boss? of whioh is now undergoing a twelve years' sen tenee on Blackwell b Island. ConnoUys with his family, is said to travel about the continent a good deal, generally spending his winter in Egypt He is said to be mnoh broken in heafth, and to "sit for hours alone on the piazza of the Grand Hotel, Cairo, Bhunned by everybody, with trembling hands and vacant eyes." He seems to havo /_>und that tho way of the transgressor is hard, notwithstanding it brought him the means of "spending $100 per day," and astonishing the Egyptian natives with nis prodigality. Tom Fields is in Bel? gium in poverty, having saved none of tho money for the acquisition of which ho was driven into exile. Genet has carried his burly and turbulent body into Spain. Ho has attempted suicido several times, it is said, but his courage gave out. He is reported to have saved considerable money, but to bo utterly cast down in spirit and plunged in a melancholy which is without alleviation. Sweeny lives in the Champs Elysees, keeps a fine house, spends much money, but sees little of his countrvmen. Tho New York World "adds: "The lesson taught by these men in their remote and luxurious exile, shunned in spite of their wealth and ostentation, and despised in spite of their prodi? gality, involves as stern a warning as does that taught by Tweed in his striped prison garb, sick, old, broken-hearted, and yet beleaguered by the attorney host as he sits behind penitential bars and watcheB the dark, whirling tides of the East Biver as they hurry past his island cage. Ill-gotten wealth won't prosper, and even the public till may not be robbed without bringing to the robbers and those who abet and share, tho fullest lagacy of shame and chastise? ment. Juni us wrote to Woodfhll: 'I have lived long in this world, and I affirm before God that I never knew a scoundrel who was not unhappy.' As things go in these evil ring days, this is a good precept for sucking politicians to put in their pipes and smoke. How the Cable Talks.?An operator sits at a table in a room darkened by a curtain. On his left hand stands a littlo instrument named the "reflecting gal? vanometer," the invention of Sir William Thompson, without which Atlantic tele? graphy would be a slow process, not ex? ceeding two or three words per minute, instead of eighteen or twenty, the pre Bent rate. This delicate instrument con? sists of a tiny magnet and a small mirror swinging on the silken thread, the two together weighing but a few grains. The electric current, passing along the wire from Valencia, deflects the magnet to and fro. The mirror reflects a spot of light on to a scale in a box ?placed at the operator's right hand, where, by its oscillation, the spot of light indicates the movement of the magnet, which are too slight to be directly Been. This littlo swinging magnet follows every change in the received current; and every chunge, great or small, produces a cor? responding oscillation of the spots of light on tho scale. A code of signals is so arranged by which the movements of the spot of light is made to indicate the letters of the alphabet. When receiving a message from Valencia, tho operator , watches tho movements of tho little j speck, which keeps dancing about over j the scale on his right. To his practiced eye, every movement of the spot of light represents a letter of the alphabet; and I its seemingly fantastic motions are spell : ing Out the intelligence which the puls? ing of tho electric current is transmitting between the two hemispheres. It is truly marvelous to note how rapidly the experienced operator disentangles the irregular oscillations of the little speck of light into the letters and words which they represent. . Climatic Attractions. ? The climate of San Francisco in winter is said by the Bulletin, of that city, to be "the best mean climate of the State?probably the host in the world." "Our winter," says tho Bulletin, "is, in fact, the spring of the East and of Europe. The lit Ids are green and aromatic. The flowers are blooming and the sky is bright and genial. The latter part of the summer corresponds with the winter in other lands, in this, that vegetation ceases, but from causes the very opposite. In the East, nature reposes for three or four months under a mantle of snow. Here vegetation is checked not so much by the frost as the blazing sun in a cloudless blue sky. The brown parched hill-sides of California correspond to the white ex? panse of Eastern landscapes. It thus follows that while the climate of San Francisco in winter is the best to which the invalid or valetudinarian can hasten, the climate in summer attracts the healthy and vigorous. In this summer we have another of those sharp contrasts which our city presents. In all other lands people leave the seaports for the interior to obtain a lower temperature. But San Francisco beckons the over? heated residents of that place by her health-giving sea-breezes." The only difficulty seems to be that the tnide winds, which last during the greater part of the summer, whirl along in their boisterous moments so much dust. These winds are said to be soft and saline when they blow from one point?South of West; a little harsher when they blow North of West by a point or so, but are described as bracing and invigorating to tho last degree. The last number of Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly contains the follownig announcement: "Personal and Special. ?Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin will be at home, at No. 2G East Fiftieth street, at ten o'clock daily, to their friends and to the friends of^he truth, lot it be what it may and lead where it may." A t tory is current in .Paris,.as follows: Vicumte de H~-;wfcs Seventy years | old, but retained tbe freshness of youth, mentally as "well as physically. This was tho result of un odd theory put into loner practice. He lived always mode? rately, systematically reserving a pro? portionate share of entertainment for his old age. Certain hooks, plays and places were avoided by him until the time pre? scribed for them arrived, when ho would enjoy them all the more because of the long anticipation. His appetite was re? gulated in the same cool manner. His object, he said, was to escape tiring of life, and to use the world's' pleasures in tho wisest and most rational way. In the realization of his plan, he only reached opera a short time ago. "The Huguenots" was the one selected, and ho was in a state of high excitement on the night ot his first visit to the Grand Opera House. He had a whole box, and, being an ardent lover of Meyerbeer's music, he was enthusiastic in his admiration of the entertainment At the end of the first | act, he fell from his chair nnd instantly I died. The undtie agitation had induced an attack of heart disease. In his desk was found a carefully prepared pro? gramme of pleasures that would have lasted until his eightieth year. It in? cluded a tour of America, the reading of Dickens' works, &c. It is fortunate for our politicians that destiny did not cast their lives and lots in Japan in the period when the hari kari was introduced in that benighted1 land. Hari-kari, as the reader perhaps knows, is the term appliod by the Japan? ese to the volunhvry suicide, which is the fate of every official in that countrv de? tected in fraud or dereliction of duty. Of course we do not advocate the adop? tion, in this country, of the practice of making every public officer who betrays j his trust impale himself upon the sharp point of a dagger. Wo live in an en | lightened oge and a froo country, and, moreover, our politicians carry nothing sharper?not even in their heads?than a gold toothpick. And then, if this awful law was enforced, we fear the result of the influx there would certainly be to Hades; of tho turmoil that would be created in that kingdom, and of tho miseries that would be visited upon this unhappy nation wdien the members of the thousand and one rings that now have their being came trooping back, with added experience from the bourne of sinners. Cinderelia's Glass Slipper Not Glass [ at All. ?Was it really a glass slipper by means of which the darling Cinderella triumphed over her unnatural relatives and won the hand of tho prince? No, that is a philological blunder. The story of Cinderella was a tradition before it was put into print In tho French of Charles Parrnuft, medinsval French, the phonetic equivalent of verre (glass) was vaire, a kind of variegated or spotted for. The first man who translated the spoken into the written legend is an? swerable for the introduction of. vane instead of vaire, and hence for changing the slipper of the ancient story into the now universally accepted glass slipper. The rerre is a manifest ubsurdity. The pretty Cinderella could not have danced in it. The fur slipper, on the contrary, has abundant excuse for its appearance in the story, tor was not the wearing of "fur and other pelletery" rigidly bidden by the sumptuary laws to all but princes and princesses? The Quuhada tribe of wild Comonches, who have been ridding in Texas for the lust five years, and for whom General McKenzie has been looking in vain, sur? rendered at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, last week, having been induced to como in by Dr. Sturm, who had been sent out to them. They number 407 men, women and children, and have about 2,000 ponies. Nearly ull the Indians belonging to the Fort Hill agency are now in, only one small band, not re? garded as hostile, being out, and it is understood they are returning. The Georgia Ku Klux have got a new dodge, and want to put our Radical bre? thren at tho North off with tho plea that the frequent niysterions disappearances of colored men of Into in South-west Georgia are explained by the fact that cat-fish in the Chattahoochee this season are so large and voracious that they run away with hook, line, polo, darkey and all. The ' French savan, who created a great commotion by pronouncing the j story of Jonah and the whale a fable, will probably refuse to swallow this tale of the cat-fish. F.varts drew a large number of ladies on Thursday and Friday of last week. Voting, pretty and fashionable girls crowded into the court room, regardless of the salioious substructure of the law? yer's address, and appeared as much in? terested as though they wore examining a new bonnet or dress pattern. They steretch their pretty necks to get a glimpse of Beecher, and it is said they insist that he is innocent. Beecher is evidently the most successful ladies' man in the country. The Newton correspondent of the Piedmont Press says: Not long since a Sentleman of our town went to see Mr. ohu Barnes, said to be the oldest man in North Carolina. He says ho is 120 years of age. He is quite blind and very helpless; though he can still hear tolerably well. Ho has a heavy head of hair. He seems almost anxious to die, and wonders why the Almighty pormits him to livo so long. Mr. Barnes is still a tine looking man. Gen. Tom Thumb, of Bridgeport, Con? necticut, who has taken thirty-two de? grees in Masonry, the highest attainablo save one, rode in the grand procession in New York, Wednesday, as one of tho escort to the few who have taken tho thirty-third degree. He occupied Mayor Barnum's coach, which was lent for the purpose. The Grand-Army of the ^epnbllo fak- I ly smothered tho statue of Lincoln in I Union Square, New York, with flowers on decoration day, and performed wor? shipful acts to the stone image. No flowers and no revorenco were tendered, however, to the statue of George Wash? ington, which stands on the other side of the square. That neglected hero stood a marble emblem .of salvuble principle, renounced and insulted. A special agent of the Treasury has made a brilliant bit at Washington, by Uhe capture of a $10,000 lace dress and other lace goods, valued at $10,000, which had been smuggled into the country and finally deposited with a pawnbroker for $385. They were form? erly the property of the Empress Euge? nie of France, and were sold with her jewelry in England after the fall of the second Empire. California is now actually suffering from the too sudden influx of popula? tion, and her papers are discussing the qnestion, what is to become of the peo Ele who are inconsiderately rushing into er borders. Indeed, tho wave of emi? gration towards California just now, is spoken of as one of the most singular in the history of the movement of popula? tion, because there is no apparent reason for it. A Cincinnati woman says: "I never knew but one woman, in my life, who chose to make her husband's shirtB, and confessed she liked to do it; and she had nothing else to do; could leave them any moment: had some one else to make all the button-holes; had ready-made bosoms, and when she finished her half dozen, was presented by her delighted spouse with twenty dollars in green? backs. No wonder she liked it" The philosopher J. N. has lived to see his views approved and adopted by his countrymen, and tho recent reports of decoration day ceremonies must be plea? sant reading to the impecunious sage. It has been ten years since he first un? dertook to prove that the North and South were both right, and now he has his reward. An artesian well has just been com? pleted in Milwaukie, Wis., which proves a success. It is 1,049 feet deep, 170 feet of which was bored through magnesian lime rock, and 194 through sand-stone. The wator flows at the rate of C.000 gal? lons n day. Mrs. Hone, of Connecticut, said she would hang herself if Rose wasn't homo at eight o'clock. When he came in at night she was suspended to a beam, cold. and dead, and he rubbed his hands and whispered: ' 'There's a woman who couldn't tell a lie!" I It has been given out at Washington that suit is to be commenced against F. j A. Sawyer, recently Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, for some $20,000 which he failod to pay over when serving as Collector of Internal Revenue in South Carolina. "We read in de good book," says a colored Baptist brother down South, I "of John do Baptist?nebber of John de Methodist" And that, says a Charleston correspondent of the New York Observer, is the reason most of the colored South? ern people aro Baptists. The Governor has appointed O. P. Wheeler, Census-taker, Marion; F. D. Mears, Census-taker, Orangeburg, vice (iirardeou, resigned; A. F. Browning and W. H. Girardeau, Trial Justices, Orange burg; S. R. Mellichamp, Notary Public, Orangebnrg. The grand jury of Clarendon County have presented the County Commission? ers for paying medical bills for persons who aro not paupers, and do not proper? ly come under the classification of "in? digent," and also for paying money for work not done. [ J. B. Johnson, a champion swimmer, and Thomas Coyle, of Chester, Pa., have made arrangements to swim a match in j July for $1,000 a sido, in the Delaware river, from Chester to Philadelphia'; dis? tance sixteen miles. i Beach says ho will only speak two davs to the scandal jury. That will please the Jury. One of them, Mr Jefferson, has been ruined, "financially, by being taken away from his business so long. The "John Bclton O'Neale," the pas ' senger engine on the railroad from Abbe? ville to Hodges, has been doing service for twenty-five years, and is now in good running order. Tho editors comprising the Alabama pross association, many of them accom? panied by their ladies, are in the city, the guests of the Buffalo press. They visit Niagara Falls to-day. A stock man, named Phillips, shot another, named Chabbucks, dead yester? day, in St. Louis, during a quarrel. Phillips is arrested. McMurray A Davis, cotton brokers, and Koopman A Bothschild, dealers in millinery and dress goods, in Charlotte, have failed. The young man Cunningham, hung at Ashville, N. C, recently for the murder of Sternburg, was onl}' twenty years of age. The boys of Augusta are wild over a velocipede race, which comes off on Sa? turday next. Mr. James B. Coleman, of Newberry, died on the 7th; and Mrs. Martha Hodge, an aged citizen of Hodges, on the 30th. | The essenco of Grant's third term let? ter is that he is still a candidate for the Republican nomination or any other. A rattle snnko, with twenty rattles, was killed in Marion, near Hays Swamp, on Sunday morning, the 6th inst "Mankind," once said a preacher, "includes woman, for man embraces woman." 37 deaths in Charleston for week end? ing 4th?whites 10: colored 27. One of the oldest citizens of Augusta, Mr. W. H. Jones, died on the 8th.