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The Hawkeye and Mollie McPike passed up Friday night.

The Burlington passed down yesterday.
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The Canada came up last night.

Eternity or Punishment Disowned by English Churchmen. - In addition to the sermon lately preached at the Chapel Royal by Rev. Charles Kingsley, several other clergymen of the Church of England have published their disbelief in the eternal punishment of the wicked. The Patriot of March 29th, says:

Mr. E. F. Litton, M. A.; the Rev. T. Davis, M. A., curate of Rivenhall, Essex, all contend that the natural immortality of the souls cannot be established either by reason or Scripture - that eternal life is conferred by God through Christ upon the redeemed, and that the wicked are destined literally to perish. We have heard, though we are somewhat doubtful of the authority, that Mr. Barton has been called to account for his book by the Bishop of Rochester, but after the decision in the Wilson case it is not likely that either he or any of those who think and write as he does will be hindered from promulgating their views."

Protestant Congregation at Great Salt Lake. - The American Home Missionary Society have planted a Protestant church at Salt Lake City, which is quite prosperous. Rev. Mr. McLeod, the minister, is fearless as well as prudent. He speaks and acts as the friend of the people, and the unsparing opponent of the vices and tyranny of their chiefs. Last winter he delivered a course of lectures on polygamy, in which the vices and essential brutality of the system were discussed with telling effect. Brigham Young had his reporters there and at one time a row was attempted by some rough fellows. But the speaker faced them calmly, and told them decidedly that he meant, as an American freeman to discuss fully this whole subject. Just then Captain Kittredge, commander of the city provost guard, marched in with a small squad of Uncle Sam's boys and led out the ringleader of the scoundrels, and since then the services have been conducted in perfect order and decorum.

Episcopal Newspaper Changes. - The Northwestern Church, at Chicago has assumed the more metropolitan title of the American Churchman: and the Episcopal Recorder which has been in existence forty-three years, and the Protestant Churchman (lately called the Christian Times,) for more than twenty years have united. The Episcopalian takes their place, published in Philadelphia, but also issued simultaneously in New York.

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Government fraud, at Nashville - Trial of Bruner.

Nashville, April 21

In the Bruner case yesterday Col. Charles Irwin was examined in relation to the business conducted in his department. Mr. McKay Hoge, formerly clerk in Capt. Irwins' office, and subsequently at the corral under Mr. Bruner, was next called. He testified that he had given one false receipt to Mr. Davis for between twenty-five and fifty mules, three or four to Hiram Henderson, one amounting to $22,000 or $23,000, one to W. R. Bruce, and one to Daniel Henderson. He believed vouchers were issued on each of the false receipts given the parties mentioned. The court adjourned in order to procure the books of Mr. Bruner. To-day Mr. Hoge was re-called and stated that he gave receipts for $23,000 to Hiram Henderson at Henderson's request; gave him several receipts at different times, and he always insisted on witness giving receipts for more mules than were received; also stated that Henderson told him it was honorable to defraud the government out of large amounts, but contemptible to cheat the government out of small amounts. The witness received for issuing the false receipt to Henderson $10,000. The proposition to issue false receipts was stated by the witness to come from Mr. Henderson. False receipts were also given to David Henderson, of Nashville, and W. R. Bruce, of Danville, Ky., the former for $12,000, and the latter for several comparatively small amounts. From David Henderson, through Geo. Barker, the witness received $4,000, and from Bruce $25,000. The witness, highest salary while employed as clerk in the department was eighty dollars per month. He stated that he frequently gave receipts for mules without seeing them or ascertaining their number. The witness stated that Bruner loaned him $6,000 at his request, to cancel a mortgage on his father's estate. The testimony of the witness entirely exculpated Bruner from any complicity in the issuing of fraudulent receipts, he having kept carefully concealed from the firm all knowledge of the transaction he had been engaged in, and that no false receipts had ever been given by him with Bruner's knowledge or consent at the corral of the Quarter Master's Department. The witness issued receipts to contractors simply on their verbal statement.

Fair for the Benefit of Friendless Or-
phans of
Soldiers and Sailors.

Washington, April 21

Yesterday evening forty colored prisoners at the jail, men, women, boys and girls, contrabands and natives, were, with their own consent, placed en route for Louisiana, under charge of an officer of the Freedmen's Bureau. They were all charged with petty larceny. The District Attorney has entered a nolle prosequi in each of the cases on condition that the prisoners would go South, and the Court will issue an order for the recovery of stolen goods, to be handed over to the owners, by the property clerk. About one hundred and twenty-five other colored persons, nearly all of them freedmen, left at the same time for the South, where they all are promised good wages.

Extensive preparations are being made for a Fair in this city, in aid of the National Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan Home for the friendless orphans of soldiers and sailors in every State and Territory of the Union. Mrs. Lieut.-Gen. Grant is President, and Mrs. W. T. Sherman Vice President. All contributions to this benevolent object should be addressed to the National Soldiers and Sailors Home, Washington, D. C.

Philadelphia, April 21.

A fire last evening destroyed the flax factory of James Wabash, on Ninety-eighth street and Columbia Avenue. The building and machinery were totally destroyed. The loss on the machinery is near fifty thousand dollars, and in the stock twenty thousand dollars. Insurance forty thousand dollars.

Boston, April 21.

The Metropolitan Insurance Company of New York, through their Boston Agent, J. F. Dobson & Co., reinsured on the 19th inst. all the outstanding risks of the Western Massachusetts Insurance Company of Pittsfield.

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Boston, April 21.

The lower branch of the Massachusetts Legislature rejected the eight hour labor bill, by a vote 109 to 51.

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