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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The World says Greeley is hard at work upon a new encyclopedia, which will be published soon. In tho Saratoga race yesterday, for t puree of $1, Out), for three miles. Ba&eu beat LittJctoo in 5:4.'i;. At Pittfclord yesterday od tho New York Central road an express train .-ollided with a coal train. One or two persons were killed and several iDjurcd. The New York Liberal Republican jxpcutive committee say they are re-oeivioff re-oeivioff letters from prominent colored nen promising to favor Greeley and Brown, j Alfred S. Dusenbury, a New York j 'awyer, tuk'id.jd on Thursday evening I by shooting himself at Irs house. His ! "inH ia pnnpo-cd to hive been aifrcted by sunstroke The Washington Chronic'e says the President in lisTI ordered the removal of consul central Butler, and that it is certain he will no loocer di.-i7rac the American name abroad in any ctliciaJ capacity. A Washington dispatch hay a the Tiflioulty about Carey's holding oo as collector at New Oilcans, is, the administration ad-ministration Kepublicana recommend person to succeed him, and there-'"re there-'"re the Pic.ident holds bis resignation, resigna-tion, At Geneva great precautions have been taken to secure the becreey of the proceedings of tho board. The Eog-lish Eog-lish party in consequence havo refused 'o go inte any secrecy. A Dumber of Italians have sent a congratulatory address ad-dress to count Sclopis, Longfellow is to be taken immediate-'y immediate-'y to Long Branch where mobt of the horses tin t have ran at Saratoga will ruo in tho Long BraDch races in August. Harper says that should Longfellow fully Tecover and ho til to race again ho would not let him start on another race if he were certain ol winning JIUO.UOO. At midnight of Thursday an attempt was made to assassinate the king aud queen of Spain. Their carriage wat tired on as they were driving home from the palace garden. Neither, however, was hurt. Ooe of tho usas -ins as captured and two were killed. The excitement in the city is intense. In the Saratoga impeachment case vesterday, Beach, Barnard's oounsel denied tho statement that one of Bar nard's counsel had advised Barnard to resign. Uu then read a plea denying ihat hu article of imnpni-hmcnt w-. ado Jtcd by the assembly. Johnson, clerk of the assembly, was sworn and -aid, if articles of impeachment weru adopted ho would have had a copy. He bad none. A Washington dispatch says the letter let-ter recently published by Kcavis, from :eoator Sumner, was written a year ago while Greeley was in Texas and when ho was talked of as a possible candidate. Greeley recently declined to furnish money to (sustain a newspaper newspa-per in Washington, saying, "I do not consider that a legitimate political expenditure. ex-penditure. If tho people will not sustain sus-tain a newspaper there favoring my election, we must do without it as best we may." A Harrisburg interviewer reports ; Cameron as saying the opposition of : Forney and his Press to Hartranft for : governor doesn't amount to a puif of wind now. Forney is self-reproachful therefore and nurses a fancied bitter-; ness towards everyone else. He is spiteful to Hartranft because of the unpleasant admission he was compelled 1 to make in the Evans fraud. It is be licvcd Forney will soon find some reason rea-son for deserting Grant. He doesn't think SlcCJIure or Moorhead have much influeLco. The latter has been grumbling since he left congress, a few years ago. |