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Show LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. CHINESE DECISION. Washington, Sept. 2.-Acting Secretary of the Treasury French has rendered a decision that Chinese merchants residing in the United States, who go to China, are required under the laws, to obtain a certificate from their own government, and an order to return to this country just the same as Chinese merchants coming here for the first time. ANOTHER ASSESSMENT. Washington, Sept. 2.-The Post publishes an assessment circular emanating from the Republican campaign committee in the Third Congressional District of Louisiana, calling for a contribution of five per cent. of their salaries from employees of the Departments in Washington who are credited to Louisiana. CABINET NOT LIKELY TO CHANGE. Washington, Sept. 2.-Secretary Lincoln is much amused at the frantic endeavors of certain individuals to break up the President's Cabinet and furnish the Executive with a new set of officers. In conversation with a friend Mr. Lincoln took occasion to refer to the talk about the impending Cabinet changes and expressed himself freely and emphatically saying the greatest good feeling and cordiality existed between the President and each member of the Cabinet. All the talk about the Cabinet breaking up ?? not only unfounded but absurd, but if Secretary Folger is nominated for Governor of New York, he will probably resign; but if he should not be nominated there is not the slightest likelihood of a change in the Treasury Department. The object of Teller's visit to Colorado was to attend the Mining Exposition at Denver and not as a prospective successor to Senator Chilcote. One of his friends says Teller has no idea of leaving the Cabinet to enter the Senate for had such been his desire he would not have left the Senate to enter the Cabinet. The rumor that Postmaster General Howe is to withdraw from the Cabinet is fully as improbable as any other of the changes suggested. A DISPUTE. Denison, Texas, Aug. 31.-News from Indian Territory says Dave Kemp, and his nephew, Henry Kemp, got into a dispute at a ball at Bloomsfield Academy, last night, and shot each other to death. MOB MUDDLE. Cincinnatti, O., Sept. 4.-Mt. Vernon Ind., has been threatened with a mob, growing out of an effort to close the saloons on Sunday at 11 at night. About 1 o'clock, yesterday morning the residence of John Paul, City Marshal, was fired by a mob and burned to the ground. The Deputy City Marshal was terribly beaten by a gang of roughs. The telegraph and telephones were guarded to prevent communication with neighboring towns. Plymouth, Sept. 3.-The Telegraph Construction Company's steamer Scioto sailed hence, yesterday, to make renewed effort to repair the French cable. St. Petersburg, Sept. 4.-English agents have arrived at Odessa to purchase 28,000 head of sheep and cattle for the troops in Egypt. Two hundred and twenty head died en route, last week, from the heat. Kalsruhe, Germany, Sept. 4.-A train of cars running between Freiburg and Colmar left the rails near Hoechstetten. Fifty persons were killed and many injured. NOTIFICATIONS OF FROST. Washington, Sept. 2.-The chief signal officer of the army has issued the following important notice; A system of warnings for frosts, which threaten the tobacco growing sections of the United States, will begin September 1st and continue until November 1st, or until a killing frost has occurred. When a frost is anticipated in any district notification will be telegraphed from this office, if possible, 48 hours in advance. The telegram will define as clearly as practicable the region where the frost is anticipated, and state the time it may be expected. The telegrams will be sent to the different centres according to the schedule deposited in the telegraph divisions, and indications from, and addressed, at centres were there are stations of signal service, to the observer in charge, and at the other centres to the managers of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The lists will be modified, as occasion renders it necessary. Officers charged with official duties will take necessary action. THE TICKET FRAUD. Kansas City, Sept. 2.-The true inwardness of the Ross ticket fraud is disclosed by J. D. Cruise, general agent of the Santa Fe road, who returned, to-day from Hannibal, bringing 900 bogus tickets, representing an average of $25 each. The tickets were printed by W. H. Folsom, a printer at Quincy, Ills., employed by Ross. The printing began over three months ago, while Ross was located at Hannibal. Two months ago he removed to this city. Last Wednesday L. K. Hooper, general passenger agent of the St. Joe road, received an inkling, visited Folsom and adroitly worked the secret from him and secured 900 tickets which had been printed in compliance with a recent order of Ross, together with the letters of the latter. Folsom protests his innocence of any fraud. THE PARK LEASE. Washington, Sept. 2.-In the contract signed to-day by the Acting Secretary of the Interior, providing for the leasing of certain portions of the Yellowstone Park, it is provided that the rental shall not exceed $2 per acre, and that a failure to pay the rent or to renew the lease at the expiration of a term of ten years shall cause the property of the lessees to revert to the United States and the Government shall brake compensation therefor as may be agreed upon by Congress. The lessees are privileged to cut timber for telegraph poles and ?? and they are also granted such favorable land in the reservation as they may need for the raising of such vegetables and forage as they may use for visitors to the park. The contract expressing stipulates that no member or delegate to Congress or officer or agent of the government shall have any interest in the park. SERGEANT MASON. Washington, Sept. 2.-Mr. Bigelow, Sergeant Mason's counsel, intends soon to apply for a writ of habeas corpus in the United District Court for the northern district of New York, if his client is not released upon Judge Advocate General Swaim's opinion recently submitted to the Secretary of War. General Swaim in this opinion holds that the court marshal had no jurisdiction to try Mason and there is no evidence in the case to show that Mason committed the offense charged against him. One of Bigelows arguments in the petition for the writ will be that the Secretary of War has no judicial authority to overrule the opinion of the Judge Advocate General. FIRES. Cairo, Ill., Sept. 2.-A fire at Harrisburg, Salina county, last night, destroyed several stores, loss about $20,000. The fire is supposed to be incendiary. Harrisburg, Sept. 2.-The puddling department of the Chesapeake road works was damaged by fire to the amount of $50,000; insured for $10,000. The men were out at the time. CASUALTIES. Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 2.- John D. Wickizer and Chas. Kline were building a school house near here, when the structure full crushing and instantly killing there. Cheyenne, Sept. 2.-Yardmaster George Stevens, was killed this morning by the yard engine, and his body frightfully mangled. The cause of the accident was owing to the foot of the deceased being caught in a frog. KILLED HIS CHILDREN. Mexico, Mo., Sept. 1.-Geo. Green a farmer here, was divorced from his wife, some time ago, the decree of the Court allowing him to visit his children (aged four and two) twice a month. Yesterday, on one of his visiting days, after playing with them for a couple of hours and when about to separate from them he drew a revolver and shot the two little ones dead. Pursued by the neighbors he blew his own brains out. New York, Sept. 3.-The reporter, yesterday, called on John W. Rhoades, agent of the New York News Company to ascertain whether Egyptian war had produced any increase in the demand for newspapers and what other causes might affect their circulation. "The increase," said Mr. Rhoades, "since the Egyptian war became a matter of public interest has hardly been appreciable. It does not exceed one or two per cent. The demand for newspapers remains very steady under all circumstances. During periods of general business depression there is very little falling-off. With the American public newspapers have become a necessity. Since the daily papers here have such extensive use of the Atlantic cable to obtain European news the demands for English papers have declined fully fifty per cent. The number now is very small. The Egyptian war has caused a slight increase in the demand for the weekly edition of the London Times." New York, Sept. 2.-A 3-year old thorough bred, a sister to James R. Keene's famous Foxhall, will leave by the steamer Spain, on the 9th inst., for Liverpool, where she will be met and taken charge of by A. K. Finley, the leading horse breeder of Australia, at present in England. This finely bred young mare is at present at Cameron's stock farm on Staten Island, where she was brought from her native place, the noted Blue Grass region of Kentucky. She will be taken to Melbourne, Australia. St. Louis, Sept. 2.-Colonel Swinley, of the English Royal Artillery, purchased in this market to-day 500 mules, for service in Egypt. They range from five to nine years of age, and from fourteen to fifteen hands high, and are pronounced by Colonel Sweney and Dr. Cox, his veterinary surgeon, the finest mules they ever saw. This is the only purchase so far made in this country. They will be sent by rail at once to New York, whence they will go direct to Alexandria by steamer. New York, Sept. 4.-The tide of homeward travel to the United States has set in and is now so enormous that every city in Western Europe is full, and in Paris it is almost impossible to obtain bedrooms. Never before, it is the universal testimony, have so many Americans been in Paris as there are there now. More English is now spoken than French in the chief resorts at the French capital, and the comical laments in the Parisian papers over the Americanizing of the city and the driving of the native population out into remote suburbs, do not seem very much exaggerated. Atlantic steamers are so full that passage to New York cannot be got all through this month. Chico, Cal., Sept. 4.-The Chico Hotel, Armory Hall, and a few small cottages burned, yesterday. The loss is about eighty thousand. Paris, Sept. 4.-Anti-religious disturbances similar to those at Montirean Les Mines have recently broken out near the towns of ?? and Commentry. Eight crosses were torn down and destroyed. Madrid, Sept. 4.-Marshall Serrano is declared he would consent to become Prime Minsiter to King Alfonso in the event of Senor Sagasta's failing to carry out the promised radical reforms. Marshall Serrano believes it possible to bring over to the dynasty the mos important groups of the Democracy, if the King assents to the re-establishment of the Democratic constitution voted in 1869. |