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W. Tc THOMPSON. Editor.
THURSDAY, JULY 8. 1875.
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Page.
The C ause Mistaken for the Effect.
The Washington Capitol has an edito
rial on the monstrosity of the Beecher in
famy, in which, in attempting to account
for the fearful social demoralization
which has cropped out in the investi
gation, the editor clearly mistakes
cause for effect—in other words, puts
the cart before the horse. He says:
“ The cause pivoted upon an offense as
antagonistic to the very being of society
as it is to good jorals and religious pre
cepts. To name it would have at one
time been offensive to ears polite ; to
have discussed it in mixed society would
have assured a banishment from circles
which laid any claim to respectability.
But ‘the times are changed, and we are
changed with them.’ The publicity of
the affair is regarded as an event incident
to an abnormal condition—a condition
that is the inevitable sequence of a civil
war, that leaves a people subject to any
and all bad influences which may take
hold of them.”
We agree with the editor of the Capitol
that the iimes are changed and people
have changed with them, but we cannot
agree with him that the Brooklyn filthi
ness is “an event incident to a condition
that is the inevitable sequence of the
civil war.” A little reflection should con
vince him that the true state of the case
is, as Capt. Cuttle would say, “quite the
rewarse.” The truth is, the civil war—
with all its “legitimate results”—all the
evils, political, financial, moral and social,
that have followed in its train—was the
“inevitable sequence” of that “abnormal
condition” of Northern sentiment denomi
nated “progress.” and which for years
previous to the civil war had been taught
by that school of self-righteous, phara-
saical apostles of higher law morality,
political and religious infidelity,
agrarianism and free love, of which
Henry’ Ward Beecher was a con
spicuous leader. The Brooklyn scandal,
iike the civil war, is only a legitimate se
quence of the false doctrines, political,
religious, and social, which they taught
and which too many misguided people
have fanatically embraced.
Sharp Tax Evasion.—Government se
curities, or promises to pay, are not
taxable, and greenbacks, not being money,
but an unredeemed promise to pay
money, are not liable to State or muni
cipal taxation. While this is true as to
greenbacks, money is taxable by State
and municipal authority as personal
property. In some States every man is
obliged to make a return, under oath, of
the personal property held by him on a
given day. In elucidation of the fact
here stated, the Journal of Commerce re
ports that a citizen of Boston, feeling
himself aggrieved by what he deemed a
sharp praatice in the collection of taxes,
turned all his personal property into
greenbacks and made a special deposit of
it in bank over the return day. He then
returned it as invested in government
securities, and dared the assessors to levy
a tax on it. They did not push him to
pay, but kept very still about it for fear
the habit might be catching.
Coin and Currency.—On the first of
May the coin balance in the Treasury
was $94,025,609, a larger sum than for at
least eighteen months previous. The
currency balance at the same time was
only $1,090,375. On the first of this
month the coin balance had run down to
$79,854,410, and the currency balance had
increased to $3,973,951. There is more
probability that the currency receipts
will now be sufficient to meet the ordi
nary expenditures of the government
without the necessity of recourse to gold
sales. In the event of this contingency
it is understood that the Treasury will
most likely again suspend the sales of
gold after this montlf, and resume the
policy of accumulating it.
Mrs. Bessie Brown, aged twenty-three
years, was murdered near the Brown
street entrance to Fairmount Park, Phil
adelphia, Saturday, by her husband,
William W. Brown, who used a shoe
knife, cutting her throat. Deceased was
of prepossessing appearance, but had left
her husband on account of his jealousy
and ill-treatment. They had met in a
beer garden Saturday evening, and it was
when leaving that place the murder took
place.
There is no reason for disbelieving the
story that comes from New Orleans as to
the new Holy Alliance of Morton, Pinch-
back and Casey, as explaining Morton’s
visit to the Crescent City. Casey is to
go to the Senate, Pinchback is to be made
Clerk of that honorable body, and Mor
ton is to get, in 1S70, the votes of all the
colored people who do not know or may
have forgotten how, a few years ago, he
was in the habit of alluding to the negro
in terms the reverse of complimentary.
California, which is always early with
the wheat harvest, is already gathering it
in the southern counties. A general re
view of the yield of wheat in that State
shows that whilst this year’s crop will be
below' that of last year, it is not a failure
excepting in a few special districts. It
is rather to be classed among good har
vests, there being no rust and no smut,
and the grain being reported from all
quarters of good quality.
Battle-Flags ami Bunker Hill—The
Road to Reconciliation.
F. B. Thurber, of New York, writes to
the New York Tribune endorsing a cor
respondent’s suggestion ‘ ‘for the gather
ing of all the battle-flags of the late war,
and other trophies of a destructible na
ture, for a grand bonfire, to take place at
the Centennial Exhibition on the 4th of
July. 1870.”
Mr. Thurber is evidently in a gushing
mood after shaking hands and drinking
spruce beer at Bunker Hill. But why
bum all the battle-flags and trophies of
the late war ? The better way to bury
resentment and restore fraternal relations
between the sections, would be to undo
some of the wrongs that have been in
flicted upon the South. Unfortunately
for the country, the most of these are
irreparable. But if Mr. Thurber is sin
cere in his desire for reconciliation, let
him propose some measure of practical
reparation. Let him propose • that all
thn. unconstitutional and unjust laws
that have been passed by a vindictive
Radical Congress for the oppression
of the Southern people shall be stacked
up in Independence ^qciare and burned,
and that the horde-of carpetbag thieves
who, under Federal authority* for ten
long years have insulted, outraged aud
robbed both the people of the South and
-the government whose bayonets pro
tected them, shall be mustered on Boston
Common, tried, convicted and hung,
with Beast Butler at their head. Such a
disposition of the worst of all the
“legitimate results of the war ” would be
but a simple act of justice, and could
not fail to convince the people of the
South of the sincerity of the pro
fessions of their Northern breth
ren. Sentiment does not meet
the case Bunker Hill celebrations,
clam bakes, spread eagle speeches and
shaking hands are all very well as far as
the}' go. But something more is needed.
The abnegation and atonement must not
be all on one side. Right, justice, truth,
self-respect, demand something else than
soft words and flag burnings. The fra
tricidal strife of which these flags are
glorious symbols, of which neither side
need be ashamed, was not without wrong
—that wrong was not all on our side.
Let the North do its share towards re
pairing the wrong. Reparation is im
possible, but there must be right and
justice, and restoration of constitutional
rights and equality, before there can be
lasting reconciliation.
The editor of the Boston Globe, also
yielding to the patriotic influences of the
late Bunker Hill jubilee, exhibits his
ignorance of Both the sentiments and
the wants of the Southern people. From
the article which we publish on our first
page, it will be Seen that the editor, in
the fullness of his recently awakened
commiseration and pity for the be
nighted and impoverished South, pro
poses to make it New England mis
sionary ground.
Radicalism, in carrying out its ideas of
free government, has forced the fran
chise into the hands of hundreds of
thousands of ignorant negroes of the
South, who know about as much about
the principles of government as a hog
does about theology. This was certainly
a great outrage not only upon the South,
but upon American civilization. But it
will be poor atonement for the wrong
to send missionaries among them
to teach them New England ideas
of politics and morals. Experience
has shown that in their new relation the
morejthey are left alone by outside, alien
influences, the better both for themselves
aud the country. As for the whi tes of
the Scuth they stand in no need of New
England missionaries to teach them the
principles of constitutional self-govern
ment. Their thorough knowledge of and
devotion to the principles of Repubhcan
government, in the discharge of all
the duties of citizenship, State and
Federal, in council, and in the
field the Southern whites have, in the past,
shown themselves as capable as their
brethren of the North. They feel them
selves fully qualified to manage their
own affairs, and all they ask' is to be let
alone to work oat their own destiny under
the Constitution and laws.
The
the Beecher
The Augusta Constitutionalist protests
against the present of a pair of buzzards
sent by the Mayor of Charleston to South
Carolina’s Centennial Commissioner Gur
ney, on the ground that it is a great ic-
sult and disgrace—to the buzzards ! The
editor says he cannot see what crime the
buzzards have committed to be thus
thrust into such disreputable company.
The will of Mrs. Harriet Douglas Con
ger had been rejected by the surrogate at
New York, on the ground that the testa
trix was of unsound mind at the time of
the execution of the will. She had willed
$240,000 to foreign missions, having been
induced to leave the bulk of her estate to
religious organizations from a morbid
fear that unless she did so Satan would
take possession of her soul.
Steamer Day.—The steamers sailing
from New York for Europe on Saturday
were the Egypt and City of Brussels for
Liverpool, the Ethiopia for Glasgow,
and the Oder for Bremen. They carried
out 015 cabin and 1,490 steerage passen
gers.
A Cincinnati correspondent says that
there will be no split among the rank and
file of the Ohio Democrats on the cur
rency question, because the rural Demo
crats as a body really think they want
more monev.
Qold and Greenbacks.—The New York
Day Book puts the case thus: “It is
necessary to repeat, on general princi
ples, every Democrat is a hard money
man, but we are in an abnormal condi
tion, and rules of finance which would
apply to France to-day do not apply to us.
We have not gold and silver enough in
the country, through the depleting that
curse (the great debt) has brought upon
our gold reserves, to get a specie banking
basis. We never shall get gold enough
while the debt is held abroad, and, there
fore, the fates seem to force us to base
the rag currency on a credit. The West
and South need more money, redeemable
money if they could get it, but irredeem
able must answer if they can do no bet
ter, and as the Ohio Democratic campaign
has had the issue (repudiation) forced
upon it, if Ohio goes for the Allen plat
form the significance will be ominous
and startling ”
The third term isn’t quite dead yet.
That noble body of patriots, the “Re
publican members of the House of Rep
resentatives of the General Assembly of
Alabama,” held a meeting on Saturday
last and unanimously adopted this reso
lution : “ Resolved, That in President
Grant we recognize the patriot soldier
without guile, whose valor and heroism
saved the republic in the hour of its
greatest peril, as well as the honest, ca
pable and faithful defender of the consti
tution and the Union, and the fearless
executor of the laws; and that we are
not fully persuaded that the best inter
ests of all the people of the United States
will be more efficiently promoted by the
election of another as his successor in
1876.” It was also voted that a copy of
this resolution be sent to President Grant.
Disagreement of
Jury.
There seems to have been just about
as much regard for the rules of decency
and propriety in the deliberations of the
Beecher jury as there was in the trial
itself. While it is evident that there
were three men on the jury who had
respect for their oaths, and were gov
erned in their final decision by the over
whelming weight of evidence against the
defendant, it is equally apparent, made
so by their own disclosures since their
discharge, that a majority of the jury
entered the juryroom and returned to
the box unreasoning fanatical, parti-
zans of the Plymouth pastor, in whose
bigoted minds no amount of evidence,
however convincing, would have justified
a verdict of guilty. According to the
New York papers it has been ascertained
that the balloting of the jury showed
considerable fluctuation, the first ballot
being nine for Beecher and three for
Tilton, after which it was eight to four,
seven to five, six to six, and again nine
to three. Finally, on Saturday, accord
ing to juryman Taylor, Mr. Jeffrey, one
of Tilton’s adherents, was induced to con
sent, with Flate and Davis, the other
Tilton jurymen, to a verdict for the de
fendant. This was to be communicated
to the rest of the jury and to his honor
at eight o’clock that evening, according
to the private arrangement, though no
ballot—12 to 0—was taken. Then came
a catastrophe. In the course of some
desultory conversation upon matters re
motely connected with the trial, Mr.
Carpenter, who, in common with all the
jurymen, was ignorant of the turn affairs
had taken, let fall the unlucky remark as
to the issue : “My son-in-law had a bet
upon our verdict,” said he. Upon this
Mr. Flate started up, and said, forcibly
enough, that if that was the case his vote
should return to Tilton; and an unpleasant
feeling at once arose, which led to discus
sion and resulted in the irrevocable return
of Messrs. Jeffrey and Davis also to their
original vote. The jury stood nine for
Beecher and three for Tilton again, and
continued so through all the succeeding
ballots.
Thus it is made to appear that a ver-
diet of acquittal was virtually gambled
away, and the spotless saint of Plymouth
is really the victim of the indiscretion of
his own friends. This story is hard to
believe. It is much more likely that the
money influence which defeated a righte
ous judgment in the case and prevented
the conviction of the hoary adulterer and
perjurer did not depend upon contin
gencies, but was brought to bear directly
on the decision of the jury by being
judiciously placed where it would do the
most good.
If there is one intelligent, unpreju
diced person who, after reading the testi
mony given on the stand in this disgrace
ful case, and the correspondence between
the principal parties to the suit, has yet
lingering in his mind the slight
est misgiving as to the guilt of
Beecher, he need only to read the
masterly resume of the case given in the
editorial columns of the New York Times
of Saturday to have such misgivings en
tirely removed and his conviction of guilt
irrevocably confirmed. If nothing else
had ever been published in reference to
the Beecher case this article of the Times
would carry conviction of Beecher’s guilt
to every unbiased mind.
The Times closes its review of the trial
with the remark that there is only one
good result that can possibly follow : it
may lead people in Brooklyn and else
where to distrust the new Gospel of Love,
and to allow no priests or ministers to
come between husband and wife, or to
interfere with family ties or sully family
honor; lastly, it may induce them to re
turn to the older and safer moorings,
which alone can prevent society from
drifting into chaos.
If this should be the fruit of the trial,
a scandal which has poisoned the air for
six months past will not have been drag
ged to the light in vain.
LETTER FROM NEW ENGLAND.
Centennials and Anuivernaries — Agri
culture-Down East Politics—.11 iacelIa-
neous Notes and News.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
The Hon. John Kelly, of New York,
was violently assaulted on Broadway, on
Thursday, by a man who had been dis
missed from one of the city departments,
and had supposed he owed his dismissal
to Mr. Kelly.
Ignorance and Incompetency.—The
grand jury of Edgefield county, South
Carolina, in their presentment recently
made, handled the corrupt county officials
without gloves. Of the County Commis
sioners they say two of these officials can
neither read nor write, and the other is
utterly unfit to manage so important an
office. “It is useless,” says the report of
the grand jury, “to recur to the fact that
these men were presented at the last
court for incompetency, and your Honor
informed some members of the grand
jury that they could not be presented for
incompeteny or be removed except by
impeachment. We would respectfully
suggest if it is the only manner by which
they can be removed, that they be im
peached at the next session of the Legis
lature.”
^Twenty -seven murder cases have just
been disposed of in ihe United States Dis
trict Court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, be
fore which tribunal all the criminal cases
from the Indian nation are brought. Out
of this number eight persons were con
victed of murder in the first degree;
seven of those convicted, including two
boys, one aged seventeen and the other
nineteen years, will be hanged together
on the 3d of September next. On the
8th a negro was killed after his convic
tion while attempting to escape from the
gnard.
During his wanderings in the West,
the Postmaster General made special in
quiries of all the Postmasters he met as
to whether there were not many old stage
lines on which the mails were yet being
carried, and which might be discontinued
without detriment to the service, by
reason of the railroads distributing the
mails along their lines. He found sev
eral cases of this kind, and requested
Postmasters to notify him of all such
useless service, as he is satisfied that a
material saving can be made in the States
he visited. It is often the case that the
old State service is still kept on the books
while the railroads are carrying all the
mails, the business of the Department
being so large as to make it very difficult
to find and correct all the little wastages.
One steamboat line is now paid $10,000
per annum for carrying the mails, while
there are railroads on each side of the
river, and an investigation has been or
dered with the intention of cutting off
the steamboat service, if found unneces
sary.
The Washington Chronicle thus hits the
Kitchen Organ on the Wilson question :
“If Vice-President Wilson is the leaky,
gabbling, indiscreet politician ho is rep
resented to be by a contemporary, we
wondor that its editors secured his nomi
nation to his present position by the Na
tional Republican Convention, as they
claim the honor of having doue. Accord
ing to their own statement, he possessed
all these bad qualities before his nomina
tion, and they were as fully aware of his
weakness then as they are now. Some
may think that if his name had not been
suggested in connection with the Presi
dential nomination, the present attacks
upon him from this source would not
have seen the light.” This must mean
that Grant inspires these attacks.
Washington National Monument.
The society in charge of the projected
completion of Washington national mon
ument has issued an appeal in that be
half, from which we make the following
extract:
“As we celebrate the anniversary of
the nation’s birth, let us remember him
to whom, above all other men, we are in
debted for our liberties. The monument
to commemorate a people’s gratitude to
George Washington has stood in its un
finished condition for twenty years with
out the means to carry on the work, and
now, as the glories of the ‘American jubi
lee’ are gathering about us, it should be
completed. In the name of patriotism,
gratitude and national pride, the Monu
ment Society renews its appeal to the
country for aid to discharge a duty this
nation owes to the brightest name in
human history.”
About six hundred persons assembled
in Independence Square, Philadelphia,
Saturday night, and adopted resolutions
declaring in favor of popular government
and encouragement to co-operative associa
tions; that no charters should be granted
except on the principle of dividing sur
plus among all employes in proportion to
their earnings, after paying expenses and
interest on capital invested; that forcing
specie payment should be abandoned and
a legal-tender paper currency be substi
tuted, and appealing to President Grant
to “cut loose from tho money changers
who have of late controlled his actions.”
Speeches were made in English and Ger
man.
Buckfield, Me., July 5, 1875.
anniversaries.
Since the Bunker Hill centennial pub
lic interest in New’ England has been
largely directed to its literary anniversa
ries. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Tuf.s,
Bates, Andover and many other smaller
institutions have celebrated their com
mencements after the usual manner.
Harvard celebrated its two hundred and
thirty-fourth commencement last Wednes
day, at which addresses were delivered
by Professor James Russell Lowell, Gov
ernor Gaston, Judge Hoar and other
prominent literary men.
But these anniversaries will soon be
over, and as the hot w r eather approaches
the dwellers of the cities flit away to the
country, to the seaside and mountains;
and I will follow their example and invite
the attention of the reader to that por
tion of the country which has alw’ays
borne the distinguished title of
WAY DOWN EAST.
Indeed, this is the veritable town which
gave birth to Seba Smith (“Major Jack
Downing”) whose “Down East” sketches
nearly half a century ago gave a humor
ous coloring to American literature.
Oxford county, from which I am
writing, is situated among the highlands
of Maine, bordering on the New Hamp
shire line, and straggling away over
mountains and through forests to the
Canada line on the north. In point of
scenery the whole country is charming
in summer, though somew’hat dreary in
winter. There is a great variety of lake
and mountain scenery, which is very
pleasing to the eye, winning many visi
tors during the hot weather. In the
northern part of the county is a chain of
lakes, forming the head waters of the
Androscoggin river, which afford a popu
lar resort for anglers and those who seek
recreation away from the haunts of men.
Large numbers visit these waters every
spring and fall from all parts of New
England and the Middle States, and
trout fishing there is unsurpassed by that
afforded by any other waters in New
England.
Our warm season here is comparatively
short and subject to sudden changes.
Though we reckon June as one of the
summer months, yet we have little real
summer weather before July, and bj T the
last of August we begin to have re
minders of coming cold. So, in reality,
we have but about two months in which
one may luxuriate in his straw hat and
linen suit.
OXFORD COUNTY
contains no cities, but is dotted over
with farm houses and pleasant villages.
In the villages there is more or less man
ufacturing in a small way, but most of
the inhabitants are engaged in agricul
tural pursuits. The surface for most
part is rough and hard to cultivate,
though well adapted to grazing, and along
the streams are some broad and beauti
ful intervals. Mowing machines and
other improved farming implements are
used quite extensively. But the nature
of the soil and climate is too severe to
render farming a very profitable employ
ment. By industry and close economy
all may acquire a comfortable living, and
many a competency, but few become
wealthy.
The agricultural prosperity of this sec
tion has materially declined during the
last decade. Twenty years ago the fnrme^
who bought his flour was an exception.
Almost every one raised his own bread
stuff, and had com and oats to sell; but
now the exception is the other way. The
farmers depend almost entirely on the
West for their flour, and largely for their
corn and oats. They have a little stock
to turn each year, and they realize ready
money from their sheep, and these are
their principal sources of income. In
some sections hops are grown quite ex
tensively, yielding a good income, and
the apple crop here is an important one.
But this year the latter crop is almost en
tirely ruined by caterpillars, which have
spread over the whole country like a
scourge, divesting the orchards and many
forests of every green thing. With this
exception the crop prospects of Maine
are very fair.
POLITICAL.
The annual election of Maine, coming
earlier than most of the other States, has
given that State the prestige of being a
political indicator, and every four years
it becomes the battle-ground on which
the best talents of both parties are em
ployed. “As Maine goes so goes the
Union,” has been a political proverb
ever since the election of Harrison, when
it was rendered quaintly memorable by
the popular campaign song of “ Tippe
canoe and Tyler Too.” But it is appar
ent that as the country has grown older
and States multiplied, it has lost some
thing of its old-time significance. The
election here last year was anything but
an indicator of the public sentiment ex
hibited in the elections which followed in
other States, and had the election come
later, it would probably have resulted in
smaller Republican majority.
This year promises but little political
interest. Last year’s canvass was ex-
Geptionably dull, but it was enlivened a
little by the Senatorial contest amoug
the Republicans, which resulted in re
turning Hamlin. But row we have
nothing to create political excitement.
The two parties have held conventions
and nominated candidates for Governor.
Gen. Connor, of Augusta, is the candidate
of the Republicans, and Gen. Roberts,
of Bangor, of the Democrats. Both of
these gentlemen were in the army during
the war. Gen. Roberts has been a candi
date for the same office once before. He
is a gentleman of high standing, and one
who would do credit to the
Ch ief Magistrate.
Reasons Why Henry Ward Beecher
Must be Held Guilty.
[From the New York Sun ef Monday.]
I. Because his letters put in evidence
in the trial cannot be rationally explained
on any other hypothesis than that he had
committed adultery with Elizabeth R.
Tilton.
II. Because his letter of contrition,
especially, either means adultery or it
means notlnng.
III. Because his conduct from the
beginning of the scandal up to his ap
pearance as a defendant in court, is the
conduct of a guilty man, and hot the
conduct of an innocent man.
IV. Because he paid $7,000 to Moul
ton “to keep Tilton quiet,” and mort
gaged his house to raise the money.
V. Because, during all those years,
when a single manly declaration from
him, “I am innocent!” would, if it were
true, have ended the whole scandal, he
never once said that he was innocent;
and though sore pressed to say that he
was not guilty, he declined even to say
that; and, in fact, never would say it till
he was brought to bay in court, and
compelled to spe*k.
VI. Because when Dr. Storrs wrote to
him telling him that he had learned of
the scandal, professing faith in his inno
cence. and desiring to render him ser
vice, he refrained from replying, and did
not as much as sav: “I am innocent.
God bless you for your belief in my inno
cence.”
VII. Because when Mrs. Bradshaw
wrote him an affectionate letter imploring
him for God’s sake to tell her he was in
nocent, he positively refused to answer,
and instead of giving the desired assur
ance, begged her to join with him in
keeping silence.
VIII. Because when his sister, Mrs.
Hooker, proposed to him that she should
go into his pulpit and read to his people
his confession of his guilt, he put her off
with devices and evasions, but refused to
say even to her that he was innocent.
IX. Because he did not dare to produce
Elizabeth R. Tilton on the witness stand
in the trial, when the plaintiff offered him
the opportunity of so doing.
X. Because Elizabeth R. Tilton has not
only confessed in writing that she and
Beecher were guilty of this sin and crime,
but has confessed to several persons
orally namely: to Mrs. Bradshaw, before
mentioned; to Mr. and Mrs. Richards,
her brother and sister-in-law; to Flor
ence Tilton, her daughter ; and notably
to Miss Susan B. Anthony, to whom the
confession was made in her <ywn house
after an angry quarrel with her hus
band, during which Miss Anthony pro
tected her against the fury of her husband.
XI. Because Mrs. Moulton has sworn
that Beecher repeatedly confessed to her
his adultery with Elizabeth R. Tilton ;
and nothing has been adduced to shake
her credibility.
XII. Because Theodore Tilton and
Francis D. Moulton, in their testimony,
which likewise remains unshaken, con
firm and corroborate all these different
kinds aud facts of evidence.
XIII. Because all the undisputed, ad
mitted facts comport with his guilt, while
forty-nine fiftieths of them cannot, with
out being twisted out of all shape, be
made to comport with his innocence.
For these reasons Henry Ward Beecher
must be held to be guilty. Guilty of
adultery, guilty of lying, guilty of perjury,
guilty of treachery to every man and
woman who trusted him.
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MORNING
NEWS.
Midnight Telegrams.
THE AMERICA* RIFLEMEX.
Another Yietory for the Team in
Ireland.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH PAMPERS
PET ADULTERER.
HER
State as its
Alford.
The joint stock establishment known
as Plymouth Church, with its star per
formers, and its unique collection of
strictly business Christians—such as Sam
Wilkeson, Joe Howard, Brother Shear
man, et al.—is believed by Mr. Beecher
to be misunderstood by the outside
world and the carnal mind. Ho said
last night :
“There have been said a good many
things about this church by persons who
are ignorant of its workings. My own
judgment, unwarped by passion, the
fruit of years of acquaintance with it,
is that by the blessing of God there has
been brought into co-operative labor in
this church a body of people such as has
rarely been paralleled. ’ ’
This last remark, says the Hartford
Times, is emphatically true. And we
will even go farther, and endorse Mr.
B.’s further remark, that they are “not
perfect in wisdom, but remarkable for
individualism. ”
The negotiations of the English Co-
operators with the American Patrons of
Husbandry, with a view of bringing about
a system of international exchanges of
manufactures and products, have con
tinued for some days at Washington, the
headquarters of the Executive Commit
tee of the National Grange. The diffi
culty presented by the fact that the Co-
operators are not a secret society, while
the Patrons of Husbandry are, is met by
the formation of a trading company,
having the support of the united Co
operative body in Eugland, and the prop
osition is to have two branches of the
company—one in England and one in
America—through whom the interna
tional exchanges are to be effected. An
American will be sent to England to
watch the interests of the Grange branch,
and an Englishman to America to watch
the interests of the Co-operators, while
an Englishman, already chosen, who has
been in the country twenty-three years,
will be managing director. The capital
of the, company is twenty-five million
dollars. The proposition will, it is be
lieved, be reported upon to-day.
It’s Hard.—On Saturday last, says the
Washington Star, an employe of the
navy yard, who has been on duty at that
station continuously for forty years, was
discharged. He now walks the streets,
aud meeting- his friends informs them
that “working for Uncle Sam is very un
certain employment.” Another wail
comes from a Treasury emplo}’e who has
been discharged after a service of thirty
years. He has come to the conclusion
that republics are ungrateful.
The government no doubt justifies
these removals on the ground that men
who have been 60 long in public service
should have stolen enough to enable them
to retire. If they have not done so, it is
conclusive evidence that they have not
the capacity to qualify them to hold of
fice under a Radical Administration.
The new Zoological Garden in Cincin
nati promises to be a credit to that city.
The grounds are sixty-six acres in extent,
are well drained and pleasantly diversified
in hill and dale. Some of the buildings
have beeu completed, others are now
under contract, and at the end of the
present year $200,000 will have been ex
pended on the grounds and buildings,
while $100,000 more are to be applied to
the same purposes during the year 1870.
Shipments of foreign animals will soon
arrive, and the garden will be open to the
public on the 1st of September next.
The society is well supplied with funds,
and its officers are determined to make
their garden an institution which will
compare favorably with the most cele
brated of those in Europe.
It pleases the organs of the national
banks to howl “repudiation” at the men
of the West who ask for relief at the
hands of the money kings. These gen
tlemen, who have heretofore ruled and
shaped the finances of the country, are
familiarizing the people with an ugly
word. All men seek to be honest, and
all men pay their just debts when they
can. It is never good policy to force the
debtor into a corner. The men who are
demanding specie payments and forcing
the government to pay the bondholder,
are impoverishing the people, and caus
ing the awful shadow of repudiation to
fall upon the land. Deal leniently with
the overburdened people, Messrs. Task
masters. —Cindn nati Enquirer.
BEECHER’S SALARY RAISED TO ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Trial of One of South Carolina’s Plun
derers.
THE LATEST RIFLE MATCH.
Belfast, July 7.—The contest for the
Mayor and Citizen's Cup was held on the
range on Lord Dufferin’s grounds. The
distance was one thousand yards, and
each man was allowed five shots, the
highest possible score being twenty.
Several thousand persons witnessed the
shooting. All the members of the Ameri
can team and reserves took part. The
contest was exciting, especially towards
the close, and the result was doubtful up
to the last shot. Colonel Gildersleeve,
Mr. Lee, of Belfast, and Mr. Johnson, of
Dublin, made remarkably fine shots.
When all had fired their five shots each,
the scores were announced as follows:
Gildersleeve (American) 19; Lee (of
Belfast) 19: Fulton (American) 17;
Johnson (of Dublin) 18; Bruce (Ameri
can) 17; McKenna (of Dublin) 17; Wylee,
1C.
The crowd cheered the announcement
with great enthusiasm. The tie between
America and Ireland was then shot
over. According to the terms agreed
upon the men had three shots apiece, and
each shot was watched with breathless
interest. The result was again a tie,
Gildersleeve’s and Lee’s scores being ex
actly alike, each making two bull's-eyes
and a centre, counting 11. The excite
ment arose to fever-heat as they began to
shoot off the second tie, and both men
were cheered vociferously. The final re
sult was a victory for Gildersleeve, who
made three bull’s-eyes in succession,
scoring 12. Lee made 10. The vic
torious American was wildly ap
plauded by the excited spectators.
In the course of the shooting for the
cup, Bodine, Daken and Coleman, of
the American team, made misses, and
were obliged to retire, in accordance with
a rule which requires the withdrawal of
any man who misses the target. A con
siderable number of the Irish competitors
also retired under the rule, including
Wilson, a crack shot.
The enthusiasm in Belfast for the
Americans shows no signs of abate
ment. After the contest the members
of the American team and their
friends, accompanied by the Mayor,
aldermen and other leading citizens, made
an excursion on Belfast Lough. The
party were entertained at Clandeboye,
Lord Dufferin’g country residence. Mayor
Lindsay proposed the health of Lord and
Lady Dufferin. The toast was drunk
with enthusiasm. Captain Hamilton,
the brother of Lady Dufferin, responded,
expressing his pleasure in receiving
the gentlemen of the American team.
TRIAL OF A DEFAULTER.
Charleston, July 7.—The trial of
Parker, the ex-Treasurer of South Caro
lina, for frauds against the State amount
ing to nearly half million dollars, begun
in Columbia before Judge Carpenter to
day. The jury is composed of five whites
and seven blacks. The prosecution is
conducted by Attorney General Melton.
The accused, who has been in jail for
months awaiting trial, is represented by
a strong array of counsel. The Attorney
General, in opening his address, promis
ed to show, by the clearest proofs, that
Parker had appropriated over four hun
dred thousand of unpaid coupons. The
hearing of evidence was begun, and will
probably consume several days. The trial
is watched with intense interest. If it
results hi conviction, it will probably be
followed by a series of prosecutions of
the reputed official plundering of South
Carolina.
A Sharp Lawyer.—The Melbourne
(Australia) Argus tells the following
story: “A gentleman of the legal profes
sion, at one of the great mining centres,
having spent a gaudy evening at a leading
hotel, found the fresh air too much for
him Instead of reaching the bosom of
his family he gravitated to the lock-up,
with the much-needed assistance of a ser
vant of the Queen in full uniform. The
lock-up keeper didn’t know him, and
couldn’t send for his friends to bail him
out, as is frequently done by those ten
der-hearted officers of justice. So he
was allowed to sleep until seven in the
morning, when he was aroused and
asked his name, which he promptly
said was ‘Johnson.’ He obtained soap
water and a clothes-brush, and was re
freshed by a cup of tea. He then pro
posed to the lock-up keeper that the
officials should walk beside him to the
Police Court. When the time came this
was done, and, by keeping the officer in
earnest converse, it appeared as though
the lawyer was engaged upon some busi
ness before the court, and, when the
name of Johnson was called, he calmiy
rose and said, ‘I appear for the prisoner,
your Worship.’ ‘What!’ said the Police
Magistrate, ‘do you deny that he was
drunk ?’ *Ok, no,’ he replied, ‘he was
very drunk, but is very sorry fur it.
‘Five shillings or six l ours’ imprison
ment.' said the police magistrate. ‘I will
pa}- nis fine myself,’ said this ready
witted gentlemau, who, in this instance,
showed that the man who is his own
lawyer hasn’t always a fool for a client.
Sketches Among Icebergs.—The steam
ship Scandinavian, whilst off the New
foundland coast on the passage to Balti
more, was for thirty-six hours among
icebergs, through which she cautiously
threaded her way. Sometimes she was
within the ship’s length of the monsters,
and a fine view of them was had. At one
time one hundred icebergs were in sight,
and the whole number seen in the thirty-
six hours is stated to have been two hun
dred and fifty. Mr. Jones, chie'f officer
of the steamship, sketched many of them,
and his collection is an interesting one.
The icebergs are in all shapes, and in
many instances of great height, one hav-
ing an altitude of three hundred and fifty
feet above the water. Fancy can find
resemblance to many objects among
them. One seems to be a great ice
cathedral with its lofty spires, another an
island of ice with a modest-looking coun
try church at one end; others are formed
with gigantic arches, and in others are
deep caverns. Some of these icebergs
have grounded in water that is one hun
dred fathoms deep, showing how far they
extend beneath the surface. Those that
have grounded will probably remain sta
tionary all summer, whilst those afloat
will pass out into midocean. Mariners
fear the small icebergs that are only a
few feet above and many below the sur
face more than those of huge proportions,
which can be easily discovered.—Balti
more Sun.
AtU’crttsmcntsi.
CUBA MOLASSES.
2Q HHDS. PRIME CUBA MOLASSES land
ing this day, and for sale low from wharf.
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WM. H. STARK & CO.
THE CIGAR TAX.
Washington, July 7.—Replying to the
Secretary of the National Tobacco Asso
ciation of the United States and leading
parties in New York and other cities,
pretesting against taxing cigars by a
coupon upon each and every cigar, the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue says
the law gives him no power to make so
radical a change in the mode of collecting
the tax.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Augusta, Ga., July 7.—The warehouse
ot the Langley Manufacturing Company,
including 300 bales of cotton and several
hundred bales of manufactured goods,
was struck by lightning to-day and set on
fire. Two steam engines from Augusta
rendered assistance. The loss is from
$25,000 to $30,000. No insurance.
CONNECTICUT FAILURES.
New- Haven, July 7.—Tyler, Frost &
Co., wholesale grocers and liquor dealers,
have failed. Their liabilities are $150,-
000 to $200,000 ; also, William H. Brad
ley & Co., carriage manufacturers, with
liabilities amounting to $250,000.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, July 7.—The Cotton
Exchange of this city has appointed four
teen delegates, with John Chaffee as
chairman, to the National Cotton Ex
change Convention, to be held at White
Sulphur Springs, Va., July 21st.
HEALTH OF KEY WEST.
Key West, Fla., July 7.—No deaths
from and no new casesof yellow feverhave
been reported since my last dispatch.
(Signed) J. V. Harris,
Health Officer.
PAMPERING AN ADULTERER.
Brooklyn, July 7.—A large meeting of
Plymouth Church pew-holders unani
mously advanced Beecher’s salary from
$20,000 to $100,000.
Melons! Melons!!
J^INE WATERMELONS for sale at $10, $15
and $20 per hundred, at Basement 95 Bay street.
jy8-l D. Y. DANCY & CO.
PEACHES, MELONS, &c.
A RRIVING THIS DAY, by railroad:
SOFT PEACHES, bushel crates.
AUGUSTA MELONS.
GRAPES, two and three-pound boxes.
For sale by
L. T. WHITCOMB'S SON,
jyS-tf 141 Bay street, Savannah.
©xrursions.
GRAND EXCURSION
—TO—
AUGUSTA.
T HE LITERARY AND BENEVt -LENT
CIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE _ PAUL tin
f ive an excursion to Augusta on SATURDAY
oly 10,1S75, for thebenefi of the new Cathedral
Trains will leave the Central Railroad depot at
mittee: Mowing Com-'
C. F. Wheelan, Chairman.
M. O’Brien, E. A. Laffltteau, R. E. Roe
F. G. Ryan. A. J. Maloney, J. O’DriscoU
M. Murtagh, John King, Jno. DeMartiu,
J. M. Reynold^,
H. A. Dumas, T. J. Barren,
M. McCarthy, M. F. McCrohan.
Tickets at M. •.Quinan’s, Fernandez’, Pavilion
Hotel and C mmittee. je21,2S,3o,jy6 7 s 9 “q
HO! F0RTYBEE.
SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.
THE STEAMER
LIZZIE BAKER
Captain LaRose, 9
W ILL leave Padelford’s wharf EVERY st*\-
DAY MORNING, at 10 o’clock, for TYI'FF
ISLAND. Returning steamer will leave Tvb,-*
wharf at 5 p. m., sharp. J
NO LI4UOR SOLD ON BOARD.
Fare for round trip, FIFTY CENTS • me* 1 ,
and staterooms extra. Tickets must be purchaseS
aj office before going on board.
je21-tf A. L. RICHARDSON, Agent.
pleasure Resorts.
THE GREAT
Pleasure Resort
OF SAVANNAH!
ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE PLACES
TO VISIT DURING THE HEATED
SEASON IS
ISLE OE HOPE!
W here Buckingham has made ample
provision for the COMFORr and PLEAS
URE of all. Visitors can now enjoy DEUuht
FULSALT BATHING, by taking the 10:251
x., 3:25 p. m., or 5:10 p. m. traioe. SPLENDID
BATH HOUSES, for ladies and gentlemen with
in a few yards of the terminus.
PLEASANT ROOMS can be obtained for the
season.
The DANCING PLATFORM, extending over
the water seventy feet, covered and provided u ith
seats, is CONSIDERED THE FiNEST in the
country.
Every accessory to PLEASURE AND EN-
JOYMENT may be found at Isle of Hope, and
Mr. Buckingham, proprietor of the refreshment
establishment, is determined that all visitors
shall be pleased. je29-lm
£ry ©ootis
REAT BARGAIN
-IN—
DRY GOODS!
wray,
No. 147 Broughton Street,
OFFER FINE
DISINFECTAINT
CARBOLIC ACID
FOR SALE BY THE GALLON OR BOTTLE AT
O. BUTLER & CO.’S.
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$50 REWARD.
O UR RETAIL ICE HOUSE on the comer of
South Broad street lane and Floyd street,
having within the past few days been twice
broken int^, and meats and melons stolen there
from, we do hereby offer the above reward of
FIFTY DOLLARS for the apprehension of, with
proof to convict, the burglar, thief or thieves.
jyS-2 HAYWOOD. GAGE & CO.
FOR KENT,
B RICK STORE, two stories and cellar, in
Market square, No. 177 Congress street,
now occupied by Messrs. J. & W. Rutherford.
Possession given 1st October.
Apply to
WM. F. BLOIS,
No. S3 Broughton street, southeast corner of
Abercom. jyS-Tu&Flm
POCKETBOOK JLOST.
1 >ETWEEN Mrs. Muller’s, near the Canal, and
.> this city, a Pocketbook, containing about
one hundred and fifty dollars. The finder will be
rewarded with one half the contents.
jyS-2 WM. SWOLL.
A^JJJoble Response.—A lady, the wife
of a prominent author and lecturer,
formerly ai^sident of New Or^eflns, after
listening to v ^Mr. Steph^j^s Fourth of
July oration, inS^thurtk, on Monday, in
the course of wkich^ he made a strong
appeal in bpfehlf of the T8inladelphia Cen-
as asked if she ^auld be pres
ent at the celebration, when she proudly
replied: “Not as long as Louisiana is in
©bains.”
A Snug Arrangement Abolished.—
Washington dispatch says the two
spacious rooms in the Treasury building,
which have been occupied by the late
Treasurer as sleeping apartments for the
last dozen years, will probably now be
put to public uses, as Mr. New has en
gaged lodgings outside. There was notj
of course, any authority of law for such
use of the public proper y. It has been
frequently commented upon by members
of Congress, both in public and in pri
vate, but for some reason nothing was
done to put a stop to it, although the
Treasury, like most of the other depart
ments, has been sadly cramped for
space.
An extract from the Bozman (Montana)
Times says the Nez Perces and Bannock
Indians have combined against the Sioux,
and that the Sioux were being over
powered. The steamer Bozman, of the
Pease expedition, was sunk near Hunters’
Springs about two weeks ago, and all the
arms and supplies and Pease’s papers
were lost, but no human lives were
sacrificed.
Female Luxury in France.—The Paris
correspondent of the London Daily Tele
graph writes to that journal: “Our latest
novelty in the way of female luxury is
eminently characteristic. It is now the
fashion for ladies, ^ike snails, to travel
about with their own houses—not exactly
on their backs, but with their trunks.
Several grandes dames de par le monde
have had constructed bathing machines,
or rather bathing cabins, which can be
taken to pieces and put together again in
a few minutes. They can be packed up
in a box like a telescope umbrella or a
camp stool. These fastidious females
have had their houses built of varnished
wood, and their monograms engraved on
the street door. The inside is lined with
white leather or wadded damask, and
provided not only with every imaginable
toilet luxury, but also with a small stool.
I was looking to-day at some bathing
habiliments, so elaborately adorned with
braid as to resemble the costumes of the
young ladies who disport themselves in
burlesque. Now, if there is one place
more than another where coquetry is un
necessary, it is in the water. It is true
the French baigneuses seldom allow the
sea to come up higher than their knees,
and that they often have to walk half a
mile from their cabin into the water. It
is is to be hoped that their new temporary
cabins will not fall to pieces at tHe first
gust of wind. If this catastrophe were
to happen, the ladies would have to adopt
the plan I once saw pursued at a small
watering place in Spain, where they
donned and doffed their bathing costumes
at home, and walked valiently through
the streets dressed a la Mrs. Bloomer.”
DOG L.OST.
BLACK AND TAN TERRIER PUP,
three months old, with cropped ears; had a
piece of red tape around his neck. A liberal re
ward will be paid for his return to the son heast
comer of Barnard and Gaston streets. jyS-1
A,
WANTlJJL>,
A COLORED BOY, abont sixteen years old,
to work in a store. Apply at No. 173 Coi
gress street. jyS-1
©rocmes aua dprovijaionsi.
Brutal Crime—Et. Wayne, Indiana,
July 2.—Last night a farmer named Jas.
Strickland, living about fifteen miles
from here, was arrested and lodged in jail
at Antwerp, Ohio, on a charge of com
mitting a rape a short time since under
brutal circumstances upon the person of
a little girl named Louise Haney, thirteen
years old. Strickland is an old man, well
known. His alleged victim also belongs
to a respectable family. His arrest has
caused a great sensation in the neighbor
hood.
“We read in de good book,” says a col
ored Baptist brother down South, “of
John de Baptist—never of John de Meth
odist.” And that, says a Charleston cor
respondent of the New York Observer, is
the reason most of the Southern colored
people are Baptists.
HOLCOMBE, HULL & CO.
WHOLESALE GROCERS
PROVISION DEALERS,
ir>;; and 155 bay stkebt,
Have in Store and Landing;
50,000 lbs. SMOKED C. R. SIDES,
20,000 lbs. SMOKED SHOULDERS,
50,000 lbs. C. R. SIDES, DRY SALT,
30,000 lbs. BELLIES, DRY SALT,
50 bbls. MESS PORK,
25 casks CHOICE HAMS, MAGNOLIA,
150 half-bbls., kegs and tubs BEST LARD,
500 bbls. WESTERN FLOUR, all grades,
150 bags Common to Choice RIO COFFEE,
100 packages TOBACCO, various qualities,
100 bbls. WHISKY, Common to Choice.
For sale at
JLOWFST MARKET PRICES.
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Champion & Freeman,
NO. U* BRYAN STREET,
WHOLESALE DEALERS I*
CHOICE FAMILY
GROCERIES AND LIQUORS,
ARE OFFERING FULL LINES OF
Flour, Bacon, Fisli,
Sugar, Coflee, Itice,
Soap, StarcU, Candles,
Potatoes, Apples, Onions,
Canned Ooods, Pickles,
Preserves, Nuts, Crackers, &e.
“B” SELECT WHISKY.
We are sole agents for this celebrated brand,
recommended by the medical fraternity as a pnre
article. je23-tf
COLOR’D DRESS GOODS
—AT A-
Great Reduction.
R ICH COLORED STRIPED SILKS at a great
reduction.
Rich Black Brocaded GRENADINES at a great
reduction.
Rich Plaid and Striped Blark Silk and Wool
GRENADINES at a great reduction.
Fine Silk and Wool Plain Black GRENADINES
at a great reduction.
Colored and Black LINEN LAWNS at a great
reduction.
PARASOLS and SUN UMBRELLAS at a great
reduction.
Great bargains in White DIMITY QUILTS.
Great bargains in White MARSEILLES
QUILTS.
Great bargains in LINEN NAPKINS.
Great bargains in LINEN TOWELS.
Great bargains in LINEN DOWLAS.
Great bargains in Ladies’ SUITS.
Great bargains in Children's LINEN SUPS.
Extra bargains in SASH RTBBONS.
Extra bargains in BALBRIGGAN HOSE.
Extra bargains in Ladies’ LIN EN COLLARS.
Extra bargains in Hamburg EMBROIDERIES.
Extra bargains in PIQUE and other TRIM
MINGS.
Extra bargains in White PIQUES.
Exrra bargains in White Plaid NAINSOOKS.
Extra bargains
LAWNS.
in White Stripe VICTORIA
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DeWitt, Morgan A Co.
DliESS AND FANCY GOODS
GREAT REDUCTION!
B lack iron grenadines, worth $125,
for $1.
PRINTED MUSLINS, 15c; former price, 35c.
COLORED GRENADINES at 15c; former
price 40c.
W r HITE VIC. LAW’NS. 40 inches wide, ISc;
very cheap.
Bargains in WHITE GOODS.
SUMMER SILKS at S*c—reduced .
FRENCH PERCALES, 15 and 20c.
BLACK GRENADINES, 25c.
BLACK CREPE MARETZ, reduced price.
Case fine 4-4 SHIRTINGS at 10c.
IRISH LINENS at 37^c—very cheap.
300 yards CAMBRIC EDGINGS at 10 and
12Xc—very cheap.
1 case LADIES’ WHITE HOSE at 12#c.
GENTS' LINEN HEMMED H’DXF'S at 25c,
worth 40c.
jy5-tf DfWITT, MORGAN CO.
gangers and grofcm.
JAMES HUNTER,
liROKER,
DEALER IN
Coin, Securities & Exchange,
No. llO Bryau Street,
(Geoigia Historical Society Building).
L OANS NEGOTIATED. Advances made on
securities placed in my hands for sale at
current rates. Real Estate bought and sold on
commission. .
Ms. H. J. THOMASSON will take charge of
the Real Estate branch of my business, ana will
give his personal attention to the leasing of houses
and collection of rents. «*epl-tf
&cmoral$.
REMOVAL.
JJOWELL & DENMARK, ATTORNEYS AT
LAW, next to the southeast corner of Whita
ker, on BAY street, over Boehm, Bendheim
& Co. iy
Notice of Removal.
HAVE removed my Law Office to No. 99 3*7
street, Commercial Range.
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S. YATES LEV Y.
lo £ent.
FOB KENT,
T HAT large and commodious residence fro nt *
ing west on Pulaski square, between Macon
and Charlton streets, with all the modern
irovements, either furnished or unfunrsneo-
’ossession given immediately, or 1st Novemoer.
jel5-lm APPly 10 BLUN & DEMKP.K-
gotirrs.
T HIRTY days after date, a Tmnfc and con
tents, the property of J. V. Stoat, mil oe
sold nt auction to satisfy claim forbeard.^
je!2-lm For Mrs. L. T. Whitcomb-
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