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LATEST JTOWS SUMMARY. - WEST. Ban Francisco finances are getting easier. Col. Stanton’s expedition to the bad landB of Dakota has visited portions of the country hitherto unexplored,, between the Cheyenne and White Earth rivers, obtaining fossils of extinct animals. The population of the state of Minne sota hv the eensns this year nearly oil officiul and the remainder estimated is597,0liMWuui>l 439,706 in 1870,172,023 in 18^50, and 6,077 in 1850. California is sending two car loads of pears to the east every day, and the san guine Californians hope that in a few years they will realize more money from their ex ports of fruit than from their exports of wheat. The Black Hills negotiations, which have been in progress at the Red Cloud agency for some time, have come to an un successful termination. Not only that, but the commissioners on the part of the United States had a narrow escape from being at tacked by some of the infuriated red skins The corn crop in Iowa is becoming enormous in its proportions. In 1874 it was 120,000,000 bushels. This year the area is much enlarged, and it is estimated that the yield will be 130,000,000 bushels, which, if no disaster come to it, which does not seem probable, will be worth $70,000,000. About one-third of the wheat grown in the United States is produced in the three states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and this one-third is in round numbers a hundred million bushels. The heavy rains have damaged this crop somewhat in those states this year. The St. Paul Dispatch says that from the most trustworthy nfonnation that it has been able to obtain it would seem that in Minnesota five per cent, of the entire production for the year has been totally destroyed, while the damaged condition of a large proportion of the crops is equivalent to a further loss of about ten per cent. Th con tinued rains have delayed the operations of the farmers, and the crop of that state will not reach the market until several weeks later than usual. SOUTH. As far as known 178 lives were lost at Indinnola. Large contributions for Indianola and the coast sufferers are being sent forward from Austin, San Antonio, New Braunfels, Dallas, Waco and Shreveport; also from many northern and eastern cities. The Arkansas State Board of Finance has effected a loan of money sufficient to pay the expenses of the state government from July 1st of the present year to the 1st of July, 1875. A committee will be appointed to go to Washington and urgently appeal to congress to assist in rebuilding the levees of the Mis sissippi valley. The number of cattle shipped or driven from Texas this year is over 212,000 so far. Over 10,000 will be wintered on the Wucliita. Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart, the widow of the renowned confederate general of cav alry, has become an instructor in the South ern female college, Richmond, Va. One of the provisions of the new con stitution proposed for North Carolina is the following: No person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Christian religion, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testament, or shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom or safety of the State, shall be capable of hold ing any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this state. The venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce, of the M. E. Church, south, who is nearly n hundred years old, is stiil able to render occasional service in tiie pulpit. lie is a fraternal delegate from Georgia to the gen eral conference of the Northern Methodist church, which meets next year. The North Carolina convention has, by a vote of 63 to 56, refused to remove the disabilities of ex-Governor Holden, im peached in 1871, upon the ground that the oath of the members prescribed by the legis lature, restricted them from legislative action. An examination of the books of the Planter’s National Bank, of Louisville, reveals a defalcation of $105,000, taken during the last five years by the late teller, Louis Rehrn. It will be remembered that Relun recently robbed the bank safe of $100,000, and was apprehended before lie could escape, and the money was recov ered. An examination reveals a defalcation was then made. The loss amounts to 30 per cent, of the capital stock, and will fall on stockholders only, depositors being Bafe. The bank will go into liquidation. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has been considerably annoyed of late by the fabrica tious or misinformation of some Georgia pa pers that have been making him the general issimo of the hosts of the Khedive. The general tints writes to a pcrsonhl friend in New Orleans: “ I am very sorry to sny that the Khedive has not made me the magnifi cent offers reported by some southern editors, no do I know if lie is still appointing Ameri cans iu his Urray, Several of my acquaint ances have received such appointments, however, by making application through Mr. S. L. Merchant, No. 76 South street, New York, who seems to be the agent of the Egyptian government.” Galveston advices from Brazoria, dated 23d, confirm the reports first received from Matagorda. The town was washed away ex cepting only four houses, which remain standing. No lives were lost. The people were saved by clinging to the cedar trees in the vicinity. At the town of Columbia twenty houses were blown down. No lives are report lost. One man’ was killed at Chenango by the falling of a tree. Man- plantaiiuiis have been greatly damaged and some literally tom to pieces, and sugar- houses, gin-houses, fences and everything partly or wholly blown down. The great losses can not be reported. MISCELLANEOUS. The fast mail service is voted by the post-office depnrtmentadecidcd success. The public debt statement shows a re duction of over three millions and a half dur ing September. Detective Pinkerton has expended $18,000 trying to find Charley Ross, and still he is at it. The number of postal money orders issued during the year ending June 30, 1875, was 5,003,323, amounting to $77,431,251.58, an increase of $3,006,396.87 over the previous year. The secretary of the treasury has given directions for the retirement of $304,584 of' outstanding legal tenders, that amount being 80 per cent, of the national bank circulation issued during the post month. Until further orders the outstanding legal tenders will be $373,941, 124. The agricultural report for August and September gives the condition of wheat where harvested for nil states as 79 per cent., quality poorer than for several years. The oat crop is superior in quality and quantity, mostly secured in good condition. Of bar ley, the average of the country in 85 per cent. Potatoes are ten per cent, above aver age ; the wool crop is a full average weight, or little above, in nearly all the states. To bacco has fallen ten per cent, below an aver age. Hope, New York and Wisconsin, which together produced from three-quarters to four-fifths of the entire crop, have largely increased their acreage. The comptroller of currency reports that 83 national banks have been organized since the passage of the act of Jun. 14, 1875, with a capital of nine million, two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars, to which cir culation has been issued amounting to $3,023- 730. Total amount of additional currency is sued since the passage of the act is $10,218,- 000, of which $1,740,000 lias been issued to Pennsylvania,$114,000 to West Virainia,$369,- 000 to Kentucky, $234,000 to Ohio, $331,000 to Indiana $100,000 to Illinois, and $121,000 to Iowa. Total amount of legal tender notes deposited for the purpose of retiring circula tion from the passage of the net of June 20, 1874, to October 1,1 875, is $25,042,749 of which amount $7,700,000 lias been deposited by New York, $605,000 by Massachusetts, $361,000 by Connecticut, $322,000 by Pennsylvania, $618,- 000 by South Carolina, $443,000 by Louisiana; $2,840,000 by Missouri, $1,894,000 by In diana, $3,703,000 by Illinois, $763,000 by Iowa, and $600,000 each by the stutes of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The amount of national bunk circulation out standing to-day is $2,000,000 less than on June, 20,1874, and $4,000,000 less than on Jan uary 14, 1875. Amount outstanding to-day is $347,863,742. The solicitor of the treasury has given his opinion that a license upon the capital of a national bank cannot be en forced, and that state officers have no right either to examine or except reports from na tional banks. ______ EAST. Mrs. Young, the mother of the little girl who was cruelly murdered in the belfry of Warren avenue Baptist church, Boston, has been taken to the insane asylum, the fate of her child having deprived her of reason. Matters at Fall river are quiet, but it is the quiet enforced by bayonets. The labor troubles there are begining to attract it guutl deal of attention outside, Mrasrs. Gresswell, Purvis and Leipold, commissioners of the F reed man’s Having mul Trust Company, amounce that they will com mence puying a dividend of 20 per cent, on oil audited clams ou the first of November. The splenic fever, or Texas cattle dis ease as it is generally called, which caused so great a mortality among cattle in the west a few years ago, has recently made its ap pearance in Now York, the animals affected having undoubtedly contracted the con tagion from Texas cattle brought north for slaughter. . A dispatch from Richmond, Me., re ports that the captain, his wife and 14 out of a crew of 19 of the ship Emily Southard were lost by the wrecking of that vessel on the English coast a few days ago. Capt. Woodsworth is the ninth sea-captain from Bowdoidhnm lost within the year. The horse distemper, which threatened heavy losses of stock in New York a few days ago, has nearly disappeared from the the stables of that city. The reternary sur geons say the disease is not like the “ epizoo tic ” that prevailed several years since, and they suppose it to have been brought on by the sudden cold weather. A horse disease similar to it has just appeared in Washing ton, but does not seem to be doing much harm yet. FOREIGN. The Carlist leader, Gamande, has been defeated at Castillo, in Catalonia. A fearful storm has done immense damage in England. At Manchester a large mill was prostrated. No lives lost. The rebellion in the Turkish provinces appears to be as formidable as ever, if not more so. The is a great deal of privation and suffering incident to the general up heaval. ' v - There are N only 46,000 Jews in France but their importance there in art, politics commerce and finance is out of all propor tion to their number. Eminent engineers in France are work ing assiduously at the problem of construct ing a bridge between France and England. Payton, the absconding teller of the Machunics bank of Montreal, is reported to have embezzled over one hundred thousand dollars. Dispatches from the Swedish Arctic expedition report its arrival at Hammerfest, Norway. All the officers and men were well. Important maps and scientific collections have been made. The report is confirmed that Don Carlis has dismissed Gen. Sabollos from his command to which Gen. Contelles has suc ceeded. The Alfonslsts continue to push operations in the neighborhood of Hernia. It is reported that dissensions have occurred among the Carlist leaders, Dorre- garay, Mcndira and Pemla, which Don Carlos himself is unable to reconcile. The Carlist leader Germande lias been defeated at Cas tillo in Catalonia. Several sanguinary engagements hare taken place in Herzegnvinia between a body of 1,200 insergents and 4,000 Turks. The first engagement was fought on the 28th ulti mo near Kleparaitza, and two engagements followed on the 29th and 30th near Frump- tarizza. The insurgents lost fifty-six men and the estimated loss of the Turks 500. On account of their inferior numbers the insur gents were obliged to retreat. The wrath of the English over Hon duras finances is justifiable. M. Guiterrez, the Honduras minister, misrepresented affairs to British capitalists and got $29,003*,000 for the purpose of effecting “ internal improve ments.” As the revenues of the state are only $988,000 and the governmental expenses far exceed that sum, it is likely that the aspiring capitalists in England are not likely to get their money back very soon, nor will they lend any more after the recent develop ments. We arc to have a royal visitor, next year, who will be heartily welcomed—Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who lias secured the sanctiou of his chamber of deputies to a proposed absence of eighteen months in Europe and the United States, taking iu the the Philadelphia Centennial, of course. Dom Pedro has proved himself the most intelligent ruler that South America hns ever seen, and Brazil hns made steady and rapid progress through his reign. He lias always shown himself a warm friend of the United States. So far as outward appearance goes, the Cubin insurgents arc as determined to-day as they were eight years ago. They have just promulgated a war order that nil mes sengers from the Spanish party bringing pro posals of peace based on any other terms save those of Cuban independence, will be treated as spies. There is not much sub mission in that. The successful landing of their late filibusters has fully supplied them with munitions of war, and their spirits and courage seem as fully reinforced. The Fast Mail Trains.—A feeling has prevailed among commercial men since the establishment of the new fast mail trains that their interests were being sacrificed to those of the morning news papers by the post-office department. The idea got abroad that mercantile let ters were delayed until morning, and that the time of transmission to the west was thereby increased instead of diminished under the new arrangement. A number of merchants and publishers of evening newspapers met at No. 17 Broadway yes terday, and Major Bangs addressed the assemblage, explaining the system of railway service of the United States very fully, and said that the city could not possibly be better served than it is at present. The morning trains from this city had been arranged to catch most of the through trains in the west. Thus everything combined to render a fast evening train of no practical 9value. In planning the new service all these things had been carefully weighed, the principal object being to accommodate the large cities which are the distributing agencies. Should any new considerations of impor tance be offered to the department Major Bangs promised that care would be taken to give them the attention they might demand.—N. Y. Tima. —There are in France, according to the last census returns, one hundred and one thousand seven hundred and twenty- six persons who have titles and over three hundred thousand others who use the prefix du or de, or de la. There are, however, really only about thirty thou sand scions of nobility in France, and it is stated that of these but forty-six— three princes, seven dukes, eleven mar quises and thirty-five counts, can prove tne creation of tneir title and trace back their lineage anterior to the seventeenth century, a period of two huhdred and seventy-five years. —‘‘Uncle Pete” was asked to sub scribe fifty cents to his parson’s salary yesterday. “Can’t do it, I tell ye. Kase dere’s mighty hard times ’proachin’ on hyar I ” “ Oh, no, Pete, de scraps is good, and we hab plenty money dis winter! ” “ You’se a fool 1 How kin dat be when I heer Mr. Jeemes up dar at de bank say dat de Clilorafomy Bank done busted, jis like dat Freedman bank did ? Can’t 'scribe nuthin,' honey, but I’ll lend de preacher my wood saw aud buck, ef he wants to yearn somfin.” This proposition was not accepted. African Explorations.—A compa ny has been formed in Berlin which pro poses to found at Choa, the most south ern province of Abyssinia, a permanent settlement, in order to send out scientific expeditions into the unexplored portion of Africa, and to develop the commerce of the country. The objects of the com pany are, however, supposed to be more commercial than scientific. The great drawback iu growing cab bages successfully and to profit~is in failing to have a large proportion of head. To make them head uniform and well, hoe often, especially in dry weather, and as soon as surface dries after rains. Don’t allow a crust to form around them. A thimbleful of salt scattered over them occasionally will be found beneficial. American locomotives cost 20,000 silver roubles each, and German locomo tives 18,000 to 20,000 roubles, but the American locomotive is fifty per cent, more powerful than the German.