Disastrous prairie fires are spreading over a -portion of Kansas. At Key West prairie fires cf. n be seen in. almost every direction every night, and the damage bids fair to be enormous, •;proving more disastrous than drought. A woman. «amed Weekly, living just across the country line in Osage country, was so dread fully burnt that her life is despaired of. She was -toying to keep the fire from burning her. A wan was caught m running from the fire burnt. Dw-ellings, fences, ungatliered crops, and hay -stacks are all consumed. 4aiother fire is sweeping near Wickita. "{Hundreds of bushels of grain have buen de- Advices of the 23rd of October report that •Greytown, San Juan Del Norte, was the scene 'Of an aggravated riot during the two previous weeKs. It appears to have been the result of a conspiracy between some prisoners and outside confederates, to murder the Governor—judge of the place and notary public—on the evening of the 30th ult. The Governor's house was attacked, and fired into, one policeman was killed, and sevei-al injured. Almost the entire population sided with the rioters. The Gover nor Sir Julian Odval, tendered his resignation, appointing the Acting English Vice-Admiral in his stead. The foieigners, sixty strong, armed themselves, and upon the arrival of eighty soldiers from Fort Gastello, they re-in stated the Governor, and the town became quiet. Another attack is anticipated, and pre parations for flight are being made by the in habitants, and Government ordered the prose cution of the rioters. _ A duel occurred at New 1 ork m a top floor, lOiJ, Delaney street, between two Polish Jews, named Joseph Goldman, and Moses Piscalt. ■*4oldman was shot, and instantly killed; PLscalt was mortally wounded. They were partners m jewellers, and the tragedy is sup posed to have arisen out of a business quarrel. Six missionaries, five of them ladies, sailed for India and South Africa, being sejit thither by the American Board of Foreign Missions. In Cape Breton it is calculated over 20,000 -miners will, tin's winter, have to depend on ex ternal aid for subsistence, owing to depression in the coal trade. A horrible murder has been committed at

Springfield, Missouri. 