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Show GENERAL. York Aevrs. New York, Sep. 22. The joint committee com-mittee of the common council have nearly completed arrangements :.t the Farragut t-bscqaies. When the G:c--r,V-f with the Kcains shall rea-h tiie harbor, a salute will be fired from live forts ; and on shore a civic sa.v.te of a hundred can will also be fired. A procession will then escort the rciitatins to Woodland cemetery. At a meeting of the American Association Asso-ciation for the relief cf the miseries on the ba-tle fields, held yestordsy. Mir. Eiish3 Harris estimated the killed and wounded in the European war v.p to Sept. 1st at ISO.vXO. It was decided to make an appeal to the American people in b-.half of the wous.'.el 1; was siatc-d th.it the societies in F.ir.ipe had already raised, on Aug. 16th. 2,-123.734 2,-123.734 francs. The developments in the case cf the detention of the one hundred and twenty passengers, who were to have sailed on the steamer Xi.iirt.v tor France, on Tuesday, presents a very singular state of affairs. The French residents of New York are highly in-dienant in-dienant at this act of the government officers. The passengers who were taken from the steamer were discharged on the dock without examination, and their baceage was carried off on the Isiifayftte. They are said to bo without with-out means, and passes have be-. n offered of-fered them for the next steamer, which dcs not leave, however, until October. Yesterday. M. Condort, attorney tor the French consul, called on Commissioner Commis-sioner Botts. Marshal Sharpe and the district attorney, but all of them refused re-fused to take any action in the matter, and so the case stands. The remains of the late L. M. Gottschalk, who died in South America, Amer-ica, arrived in this city yesterday. It is the intention of his friends and the musical artists of the city to have a grand requiem mass performed over the body at St. John's Church, next week. Democratic Committees. Rochester, Sept. 22. The Democratic Demo-cratic State central committee, appointed ap-pointed by the convention, met at F.s-borne F.s-borne House last evening, and organized organ-ized by the election of Samuel J.Tilden, chairman, and Win. Cassey, of Albany, secretary. The executive committee was also appointed. The next nieotimr takes place at New York on the ;:ih of this month. Quick Justice. Pittsburg. 22. Cyrus Adams knotted knott-ed down and robbed the paymaster of the Shoenburg's mill of eleven thousand thou-sand dollars yesterday afternoon. He was tried to-day and sentenced to twenty-four years' imprisonment by .fudge Stow. The prisoner shot tw.ee at the policeman who arrested him, which increased his punishment. The prisoner will be in the penitentiary within twenty-four hours n(W eoiniiiii-ting eoiniiiii-ting the robbery. Sued for I.i In ( . Boston, Sept. 22. - Jbiiiham ,V Thayer, publishers of the Tinus, ; re sued in the Supreme Court for libel, by J. W. Simonton, of the Associated Press. The matter complained of con-ists of a series of articles which the plaintiff avows reflect on his personal per-sonal integrity in the administration of the affairs of the A-soeialed Pre- . Simonton's friends claim the-e articles arti-cles arc unprovoked and so daily malicious as to leave him no tuber alternative than to force hi awiihuits to face their own charges. Pn!ilt 'iclimond,22. 1 he Bejuiblie.in state convention met this morning. A bun-died bun-died and fifty delegates wore pice it, repic-entiiig every emiicy . pi two. dohn A. Hariiiau, ! A':;-t ta ooinr.y, was eho-en pp'sideo'. The Fiepubliean I'm ,..;,.,..! no mi nation cor, ven i ioi i ii ; he l i -i i, y iu; i di-trict, ysord. y uodhiated l't. N ir- toll, Colol. d. !'.', ( 'aliLr-S. The white members ot' the e uiveiiiion wilhdrew ami nominated lr. Peiglan, whi e. The contending thirties today ti-ried to kubinit the dili'c ultj to the nation d executive comiiiit'e" for aihiMa'n. |