AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, July 1.

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AMERICAN NEWS. San Francisco, July 1.

The latest coup on the New York bourse b the " clowning " of the millionaire, Cyrus "W, Field, by Jay Gould and Russell Bage

in the matter of the Mahnattan stock. Field was compelled to surrender 50,000 shares to Gould for needed money. On the 29th June, the trial of "Jake Sharp, a millionaire New Yorker and alderman briber, ended with his conviction of being guilty as charged. The verdict surprised overybody, as the man was thought to bo rich and influential enough to keep outside the swing of the sword of justice. The penalty is not more than ten years at hard labour, or a fino of 5,000d0L, or both. Speaking of the verdict, the New York press says in effect that it has " cleared the air." Five men were killed on June 13th, and many wounded, by the explosion of dynamite cartridges at the liunan mines, four miles from Chattanooga, Tcnn, The employees of the mines are convicts. Swaims of Hies, answering the description of can thai ides or Spanish flies, visited portions of Missouri during the second week of June, and not only devoured vegetation with avidity, but vesicated, the bodies of human beings in a most painful manner. Fully a thousand people in one town, Trenton, were covered with WUtors on the face and hands, caused by this. .insect. All lights were put out at night. Reports from Key West, Florida, of June 29th, were to the effect that yello.v fever was rapidly spreading in that phce. Out of ioity-six cubes to date, nineteen have died. An investigation of the Insane Hospital on June 29th at Waul's Island, New York, .showed a frightful condition of affairs. The lunatics arc treated with greater brutality than madmen were subjected to a ccntuiy ago. The management attributed the ten ible .suffering to the Boaids failing to appropriate suflicient means to piopcily meet the wants ot the institution. The town of Marbhlield, YYii-con^in, A\as almost swept out of existence on Juno 27th, by a tremendous* conflagration, kindled by a spark from a locomotive falling in a lumber yaul. 2,000 people wcie lcndeicd huubek.-s. Property lobb -will be not le-fc than l,Coo,o(X)dulri. The iriopressiblo conflict between the white and black races broke out at Oak Ridge, Louisiana, on Juno 27th, and the itsulfc was than m\ negroes wcie killed and bevuii whito men dangerously wounded. The inciting cause of the light in this instance "wab an attempt to arrest a negro for ciiurinall> n&vuilting a white ghl. A .schooner has arrived oil Delaware Breakwatci for the puiposu of locating the place uheiethe British sloop-ot-t\ar i). E. Biook W{it> .sunk in an engagement with an American \es>el tow aid the close of the last centurj,. The Brook was letm uing to England from South America, where she had captured tin cc Spanish vessels laden with gold and siher bullion, and, according to iepoit, hud 10,(;(K),000dols. on boaid. The wicrl.eis aie .set-king to recover a portion of tliis treasure. Tiie R \. Mr Paiker, of London, having declined to Si 11 the Plymouth Church pulpit, the place has been accepted by Rev. Clnule.s Stowe, nephew of the late Hemy Ward Beeehcr. Fears of a general uprising of the blacks in South Carolina weio expressed in despatches irom Charleston on June 19th, and also of a. massacre of the whites. The negroes have formed into clubs and have their meetings at the dead of night, and aimed pickets are stationed outside the meeting places. 000 tioops have been sent into JLaurens county, where the danger threatens.

A Vendetta. What was known as the Tollivcr- Logan Vendetta in Rowan County, Kentucky, wag hi ought to a summary end on June 21st by Nheiiff Hogg and posse surrounding a hotel in Morehead, which Tolliver and his partitans had bairicaded, and killing four of the Tolliver family, for resisting arre&fc on a, charge of having murdered two Logans. The feud had lasted two yeais under the leadership of Craig Tolliver, a noted desperado, and had led to the wastage of thousands of dolkus worth of property and the lot.s of twenty-one lives. One curious episode of the affair is that, with his hands red with blood, Tollivftr had the audacity to run for judge, and voters being afiaid to ballot against him, he was elected. While in office, he used his position to " get even " with Logan and his other enemies. With the death of Jbimself and Jus brothers, peace and prospeiity in the county are looked for.

Spiritualistic Investigation. A body of distinguished American scientists, appointed under the will of the late Henry .^iebort, of Philadelphia, to make an impartial investigation of the so-called phenomena, of .spiritualism, reported on June M that up to that time they had not been cheeied in the investigation by the discovery of a single novel fact ; that a professional juggler had performed before thorn, withoutdetection, much more wonderful teats in slate-writing than any done by mediums, and he afterwards explained the details of the tiick. Siebert left 60,000d01. to maintain a chair in the University at Pennsylvania for the purpose of this investigation. The Commission consisted | of H. Howard Furniss, the Shakesperian scholar ; Dr. William Pepper, Provost of the University ; Joseph Leidy, anatomist and naturalist ; Gcorgo K. Koenig, Professor of Chemistry ; George S. Fullerton, Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy ; R. Ellis Thompson, filling the Chair of History and English Literature ; and Coleman Sellers, Civil Engineer.

Cornish Girls in Mormoiidom. Eleanor Paston and Amelia Clegg, who with sixteen other young girls, were recently brought from Cornwall to Utah by Elder Bascom, unceremoniously left Salt Lake City, without waiting to be " sealed " to the elder, to whom they were assigned. They say they did not like the looks of his other wives. Wandering about they met Elder Junius F. Wells, who took pity on them, dressed them in male apparel, supplied them with a sum of money, and put them on a train for the East. When at a safe distance, they made known their sex to some ladies, who fitted them out with more suitable clothes. An Omaha lady took a liking to Miss Clegg, and provided a home for her. Miss Paston arrived in New York on Juno 9th, having an acquaintance in a countrywoman living in Brooklyn.