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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Oakes Ames is becoming weaker. Sir Bartle Freer will return to England Eng-land immediately. Fowler & Slocuoi, of New York, have failed. Liabilities i5UU,000. A dispatch from Home says the condition con-dition of tho Pope is precarious The rate of discount at the Bank of England is lour and a-ha f per cent. The widow of the late major general W ood died on Wednesday, aged eighty-sia. Figuc-ral, Siodaul, and other political poli-tical refugees from Kain, have arrived at Lisbon. It is reported that Laura D. Fair has secured railway tickets to go to Cincinnati. - Don Alphonzo and band tro surrounded sur-rounded near Igualda, and it is thought they will surrender. The remains of lieutonant Sherwood wore sent east from San Francisco on Wednesday morning. A HouriDg mill, platiing mill, and several shops burned at Medina, N. Y. Loss not ascertained. A. room h;iB been fitted up on O'Far-rol O'Far-rol street, San Francisco, for the reception re-ception of tho body of general Canby. Henry Ward Beechcr is to visit San Francisco next month, Dr. Stone having hav-ing received a letter from him to that eliect. Twelve offers for bonds, on Wednesday, Wednes-day, in Now York, at from 15.49 to 10.4'J. Tho amount to bo bought is h;f!f'a million. Fire at the Montreal tanneries, on tho 6th, burned tho greater portion of the village. About one hundred families fami-lies are homeless. A railway accident near Pesth, Germany, Ger-many, on tho 6th, killed 21 porsons and injured 40 others, some fatally. Six carriages wcro completely demolished. demol-ished. Four hundred pavement laborers aro now on a strike in Orange, N. J., and tho contractor has asked for protection pro-tection for his property. Tho Italians have affiliated with the Btrikers. Flags on tho New York city hall, oustom house, and other publio buildings, build-ings, hotels and newspaper offices, are at half mast in respect to the memory . of the late chief justioo Chase. Don Carlos has given orders to Bhoot the oure of Santa Cruz, for his excesses ' and cruelties. But as ho confines his i operations to tho mountains it is , thought ho will not be captured. t Only three of tho orow of thejhip Tennyson, whioh foundered at sea ' February 22d, were saved, including Wm. Nayes,second mate. They floated for eight days on a piece of the wreck. The immense tank in the reduction establishment of Sohoenman & Co., Chicago, exploded Tuesday, tearing out one sido of the building, killing three men and a boy and scalding two others. Negotiations are progressing in Washington, to turn over the land granted by Texas, to the Parisians who purchased El Paso bonds, and thus relieve General Fremont from tho judgment of the French courts. A letter from Spain says tho Carlists army in Navarre numbers 35,000 men, 1,000 of whom are armed with pikes, and the remainder with superior rifles. Co-operating with them aro twenty-two twenty-two bauds, numbering 22,502 men. Tho Taxpayers' uniun, of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, held a meeting last night and issued an address to the people on the importance of coming to the municipal election, and urging the selection of men, regardless of parties, of merit and worth alone. A letter from Orangeburg, S. C, states that oaptatn Gallagher, who is stationed there, was fatally shot by a discharged soldier who, while drunk, invited the oaptatn to take a drink and upon the latter declining, slapped him in the face. The people of Newburgh, N. Y., aro exercised over the closing of the colored) schools, and assigning the pupils pu-pils among the schools now used for white children, A general withdrawal with-drawal of tho white ohildren from the schools is anticipated. The steamer Atlantic has been completely com-pletely blown up. Fourteen bodies were recovered un Sunday and Monday; Mon-day; but few valuables were found. The New York Wrecking Company are heavy losers. The blowing up of the steamer is condemned as injudicious. |