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Show EASTERN Sl'ARKS. Further gloomy accounts are received re-ceived from the southern inundation. inunda-tion. Minister Washburn has declined , the appointment of 8ccretivryuft.il; Treasury. The testimony in the Swing trial, in Chicagu, has closed. The prose-;' prose-;' cation is unanimously voted a failure. A caucus of liepublican Hcnotoru failed to fix the order of busimws with special ryferenco to the civil rights bill. The jury in the case of ex-Citi . Treasurer, Sprague, of Brooklyn, charged with emU'zlement, has brought in a verdict of not guilty. r A passenger on the brig AViu titwcitH, from .luiuuicii to New York, has urrivrsd, and says the brig wns run into by a ateamer and that the crew abandoned her and he escaped on a plank. Tho commissioners appointed to investigate tho charges against Dr. J. J. Savillc, agent of the rfioux, Jicd Cloud agency, and E. A, Howard, agent, Whetrttone agoney, report the same groundless. |