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Show INKLINGS.1 It is said if San Domingo is annexed, an-nexed, Hayti will next ask to be .similarly .sim-ilarly treated. The Erie It. R. company has executed execu-ted a consolidated mortgage on all its property for $.'50,000,000. - - An effort is being made to secure provision, by subscription, for the family fam-ily of the late Chief Justice Taney. The English army estimates aro increased in-creased nearly 3,000,0l)U over last vear, and the regular army raised '.),-980 '.),-980 men. , -' j Peter Cooper has-given the Cooper Institute $1(J0.000 for a reference library, li-brary, and $50,000 for a mechanics' reading library. , Ashbury is about to send a challenge to America fi.r another race for the Queen's cup, and will enter the new yacht Livonia for it. The Germans exacted four millions of francs from Rouen to be paid last Saturday, and two millions next day; also six hundred and forty thousand from the people of Fccacips. ... An Arkansas planter, who lias carefully care-fully noted . the work -of about sixty Chinamen, reports that they are better cotton-pickers than the negroes, and that they are very industrious and obedient, and at the same time cleanly in their habits and persons. ' They work for fifteen dollars a month and board, and live principally on rice and molasses. A curious lawsuit bas just been commenced com-menced against the Belleville & South ern Illinois Railroad. ' A lady who was shortly expecting an. addition to her family was traveling bn it, and was so jostled and troubled by the roughness of the road that the event occurred uiucn sooner than had been1 expected. In the suit, which she has brought against the company she lays the damages dam-ages at $10,000. . ' A Chicago paper, is of the opinion that to secure the prompt payment of the Alabama claims nothing is necessary neces-sary out to forward to fie British Ministry Min-istry a few copies of Harper' s Wcddj containing a likeness of our new Minister Minis-ter Plenipotentiary. Between the photographer and the engraver such a countenance has keen presented as will probably frighten Juhn Bull into an immediate settlement. , |