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VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1877.
NO. 206
TOOMBS' SPEECH.
A Masterly Argument Before an
Atlanta Audlenee.
What (he Caamlln Die la Believe
(ha Orartaiiaud Faepla.
Atlanta Oonatitntton.)
On Friday evening laat a large number
of the friends and admitsra of General
Robert Toombs aeianadad him at the
Kimball House. Many ladies vara pres
ent and tba rotunda was densely peeked
with people.
On. IOBKT TOOMBS
van rapturously received, tie laid:
Gentlemen—Ton honor me over-mnou.
X feel the profonndeet gratitade to the
people' of Georgia aqd to the Oonvention
for the small servioe which I have been
permitted to do them. I have tried to
serve them honestly, faithfully and fear
lessly. f Applause, j The Oonvention has
to-day completed a grand work—a work
that will live
“Till wrapp’d In flamer the realms or either
slow.
And Heaven’r laat thunders shake the earth
below." (tiheers.)
They have to-day reproolaimed the
principles of eight hundred years—prin
ciples reoognized by the friends of lib
erty throughout the world, and that have
come down the 'corridors of time unim
paired to us, and we have thrown around
them additional guards. I wish calmly
to review the work and tell you what we
have done.
You have>in your bill of rights repro
claimed the great human rights whioh
belong to the people and are inalienable,
and wbioh have been in every Constitu
tion of Georgia since 1798. They are
rights which belong to freemen, and
which freemen will always maintain. fAp-
plan se.]
What have we done here ? Some peo
ple aaid we stayed here too long and Bpent
too muoh money. Well, those fellows
who complain about it never paid a dol -
lar of its expenses 1 [Laughter.] They
were not the friends ot the Oonvention at
the start, and are not its friends at the
end. Now, what baa the Convention done
to be oomplained of ? I say it has harmed
no man. We finished it to-day and one
hundred and ninety-two men signed it—
men of all pursuits and shades of opinion.
The merchant was there, the farmer was
there, the meobanio, the preacher, the
lawyer, the doctor, the editor, the rail
roader were there, and the grandest proof
that it harms nobody is seen in the fact
that all these representative men signed
it and pronounoed it “good 1 ’’ [Applause. ]
Hen will differ upon many propositions,
(and I like an honest difference of opin
ion), but they oounsel together and agree.
This constitution was agreed upon and met
the approval of the best body of men 1 ever
saw, and I have been in your legislatures,
your Bouse of Representatives in Wash
ington, your Henate of the United States.
[Applause.] This was a body of the pur
est, bravest and most unpurohasable men
that ever met and adjourned in this State.
You people of Atlanta are a thriving, go-
ahead people, and I want you to tell me
who has been hurt by the work of these
men ? Tell me whBt your grievance is.
What has been done to strike a single
blow at your industries or your enter
prises V Not one. I defy any man to
point to one 1
- You have gone through with yonr Exec
utive department. You have pinobed off
a thousand dollars from the Governor,
out down his secretaries (perhaps a little
too muoh), but still they have a very fair
. ohanoe to live on wbat is left. Suppose
the oonvention did take off a little here
and there, it was beoanse they felt for the
sufferings of their people, and so I say
“their very failings lean to virtue’s side. ”
[Applause. ] I am no demagogue. I al
ways dare to tell the people the truth and
have done so for forty years, and have
told them some that were not very aooep-
table to them, I would mnoh rather say
pleasant things to people, but I tell the
truth to the whole human race. There iB
no sham about me. [Applause.] I oau-
not flatter people for their good opinion.
I have been associated with this subjeot
of a Constitutional Convention' for five
years, and now I Bay to you, in the lan
guage of one of the greatest of French
orators: “Hake my name infamous for
everif you will but save the State! ’’ [Ap
plause.]
These people who complain about being
out down, - and who don’t like it, put me
in mind of a drunken negro that used to
be around when I commanded the vol
unteers. He was in the habit of selling
drams to the boys, and once, when the
liquor was soarce, he didn't put as muoh
in a drink as was usual. The boys com
plained about it, and told him that wasn’t
right, but Kincb wonld just say: “Well, if
yon don't like it, jess ponr it baok in de
jug.” [Great laughter and cheers.] Now,
I say if anybody don’t like what he is get
ting under this Constitution,[just let him
“ponr it baok in the jug 1" [Laughter
and applause.] I don't want to say hard
things. I am too happy I’’ [Applause.] I
feel too good. I feel kind to the mean
est man in the world 1 [Laughter.] Be
oanse I like this grand work—I am re-
joioed over it 1 It re-establishes here
upon our home soil the principles
of free government— the eternal
principles upon which freedom is sustain
ed. It is a grand triumph, and proves
again that
“Freedom's battle onoe begun
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Tho' baffled oft Is ever won 1” [Cheers.]
It oannot be defeated—never 1 never 1
never 11'. [Great applause.]
What have we done with the Exeeutive?
Hy excellent ftiend, the present Gover
nor, iB not disturbed. We don't bother
him. But they say the next fellow has
got to serve for three thonsand dollars 1
Well, that’s so, but if he gets in and don't
like it, let him “ponr it back in the jngl”
[Loud laughter and applanse.] Then,
there's the Attorney General and the Sec
retary of State, and all the balanoe of
them—if they don’t like what we gave
them, just let them “pour it baok in the
jog.” [Applanse.] We've all got to stand
the pressure of the times. I work for less
now than I did four years ago—we all do.
We must remember that we are poor—
P°°r. [Laughter and applause.]
Well, they talk about the poor salaries,
but I never fonnd any diffionlty in getting
men to take offloe at any prios. I don't
oomplain about our present offloera—they
have been very excellent public servants,
bnt they needn’t stay in offloe ' if they
don t want to. There are the judges ; we
struck off something from tbeir salaries.
I know they have to work hard; I know
how they feel about it I am a kind of
oonnty court lawyer myself. rLaushter 1
But if they don't like the $2. GOO or the
•3,000 just let them “pour it bark in the
jug!’’ [Great laughter.] Why, ona of
foot dodges of the Supreme Court told
me the other day that he thought they
were getting too muoh pay, and he's one
who has served you faithfully and honor
ably for forty years. [Cheers and ories
of “hurrah for Hifam Warner.’’] As the
Frenchman said, “Gold is the sweat of the
poor!” and when you deal with the sweat
of the poor you deal with a sacred thing 1
[Applause.] So thought the Convention
when they fixed theee salaries, and if any
one doesn’t like it he can let it alone and
get out of the way. They say “it lowers
the dignity of the Judiciary.” That means
“it lowers my salary." [Laughter.J Well,
let all of them that are dissatisfied “pour
it baok in the jug 1" [Renewed laughter.]
We oan get plenty of good men to take
their plaoea. We don't send out an im-
S rearing officer,like we did in Confederate
ays, to bring_ them into the servioe.
[Applause.] There will not be any need
for a conscript sot to get man to fill these
offioes, even at the lower figures. I say
there is honor in serving the State. When
I came to the bar there was William H.
Crawford—a great, strong man; a man of
splendid intellect, who oould live on oorn
bread and bacon at home and feel satisfied
with it—he served the 8tate for ft,800 a
year. That’s the God’s truth 1 [Laughter
and applause. ] If they oan make more
by going out and getting clients, let them
jo and do it. We have free trade in this
>usiness 1 [Applause. ] You do not find
anything in the Constitution that aayB a
man s/tall hold offloe; we don't force them
to hold office. The old Greek and Roman
idea was that if a man is not willing to
serve the State for the honor of it he is
not fit to serve it at all. [Applause.]
Then we come to the legislative depart
ment. That is the great thing. I came
here for that; that was my business here.
When my old friends and neighbors came
and asked me, “Will you servo us?” I
said to them, “Here are my friends ; if
you want me to serve you, vote for me. I
am going aver to Arkansas and Texas. I
went there and when I onme baok I found
they had everyone voted for me [Hon. P.
0. Hudson, of McDuffie—“Every one!”]
I have held too many offices. I have
served the people uDtil the enemies of my
country exoluded me, but I never was
beaten before the people and I never ex
pert to be. [Mr. Hudson, “And you never
will be."] (Applause.) We oame here
not to make a Constitution for the offloe
holders, bnt for the people.
I have been in a great many countries
of the earth and on the isles of the sea—
sometimes for pleasure and sometimes
from necessity, as for instance when I
ran away. [Applause.] The federal troops
oame to my house about half-past one
o’olook one day. Mrs. Toombs was tak
ing an acoonnt of what had been left us,
when they called. They left Mr. Stephens
out of town about four miles, but I didn't
like the idea of staying in Boston harbor
and Fort Warren, even in company with
Mr. Stephens. I preferred Paris, and so
I took my horse and soooted. [Applause.]
Take your bill of rights. It is one of
the grandest things that ever was uttered.
I had but little to do witb. Good and
true men made it, and I didn't vote
against a single provision of it. They put
in it the principles whioh have bean wag
ing down the oorridors of time for six
hundred and fifty-two years—the princi
ples upon whioh British liberty stands. In
olden times the King held absolute power
and abused it. The people rallied against
him and took away his power. Then the
nobility assumed it, and the people over
threw them and established free privi
leges. This is what Georgia has not had
Binee the war.
We found that in the improvements of
modern times, the Legislature had be-
oome dangerous. In the course of time
monopolists secured the Legislature, and
the railroads were given exemption from
taxation for millions of property. I say
these corporations robbed.the people, who
proteot them in the rights which they ex
ercise. In this State we have sixty mill
ions of this olass of property exempted
from taxation. As I have said before, the
owners of all |thiB have been chartered
libertines. They have been exempt from
taxation—they have levied penoe out of
poverty, and even taxed the nigger's soap-
gourd to pay the interest on their indebt
edness.
And talking of negroes, I understand
them. I owned five hundred of them
before the war. They know what sort of
master they had, and in my county I
never Iobg one of their votes. But I do
say they know nothing about government.
[Applause.] I remember that some fel
low from Bomewbere about Cherokee- -I
believe bis name was Wofford—made a
great to do because I said they were sav
ages. They are—just as muoh as those
that oame over in the Wanderer to Savan
nah before the war. They are of the
human raoe, but they are not my raoe.
They are a lower order of human beings.
God Almighty made them, but he made
them just as he does other things in
nature. He made the race horse, the
draught horse, and he made the jaokass—
and he makes fools in our own raoe. We
whipped the Radioals in their own fight,
when they first tried to force the negro
upon us. It was said that I threw the
whole Yankee nation into “trepidation”
beoanse I said that if they would let me
make the Constitution the negro would
never be heard of. That iB so. But in this
Constitution I take away none of bis
rights. That is a matter for society. We
exclude only idiots and thieves. Nobody,
I hold, shonld have the franchise except
those who are fit for it, and that is wbat
your Constitution has provided for. That
iB the Constitution which Georgia will live
under when you and your posterity are
gone. You have shut out the women, bnt
you have done that on what I conceive to
be a right principle. The brave soldier
does not carry his jewels into battle; and
it is our duty to keep purity, virtue and
honor out of the ring.
I am getting along in years, bnt I am
one of the young men of the State, I be
long to the boys; I am one of Young
America. I am a “conservative,” though
I bate the word. I think it is the mean
est word in the English language, but I
am compelled to aocept it. Ordinarily it
means that a fellow has no principles, or
that he is afraid to avow them. It is the
hurtful temporizers who hang around for
popular favor who have been np here for
the purpose of aggrandizing themselves.
Bnt there were honest men standing in
the Convention working for the truth and
I say that though I have served yon for
forty years, this was the boldest, broadest
and most unpurcbasable body of men that
I ever saw. [Applause.] Some of them
may have been dull, and oould not spell
very well—(I am a bad speller myself)—
[applause, ] but they were men who stood
for Georgia and the rights of the people;
and they have built you a monument
which will survive for all time. We have
tied up the Legislature and stopped the
voting of endorsements and the giving
•way of the people’s money. This, of it
self. will be worth millions to the State.
So far as the public debt is oonoerned,
we never owed a dollar until the war
came. We don’t owe a dollar of that
debt whioh has been declared fraudulent.
I was opposed to paying a oent of the in
debtedness that was made by these fel
lows who preyed upon us after the war;
but when my oountrymen aaid “let as pay
it along as we are able,” I went with them.
When they talk of “repudiation.” I repu
diate the debt made without my authority,
or that of my government. If that be repu
diation, I am one of the repudiaters.
And what do they say to that t Why,
these Wall street people say they will
■hut Georgia out of the market I hope
they will. Curse the fellows 1 we want
no oredit. Those people np there have
no purpose except to rob the universe.
They would sell their fathers’ sepulchre
and their mothers’ oofflns to get money.
I want nothing to do with them. I will
only pay what I am bound to by the au
thorized arts of my agent, and not other
wise. It there is any bondholder here,
1st him get up and tell me when I shall
be bound. I pay my debts, and no man
oan say to the contrary; and I say that
Georgia is not bound for a dollar of that
debt. Bullock and Kimball were nothing
but robbers—and Fatty Harris' Legisla
ture to boot. They are a set of scoun
drels who oame down here by military
authority, and who sought to bind Georgia
to pay millions whore she received notbi
ing. I want no more of this Bort of bus
iness. Who brought those fellows here f
The enemy—the army rather—the public
enemy. You are under no obligations
to them and owe none of their debts.
Some innooeut men have boon entrapped
by them, and those things you
owe. Let us stand by every
dolar that wo owe. Let our
$11,000,000 of indebtedness stand,
beoause we have said that it ought to. I
I will sell my shirt if necessary to help
pay the last shilling of it.
Your new Constitution has locked the
door of the Treasury and plaoed the key
in the bands of the people. We have
told your cities that they shall not go ou
and ruin themselves—that they shall not
ruin the people. We say to them “halt 1”
for this Constitution is a sentinel with
arms in its hands to command corruption
to stop. I say “halt 1” Ibe tax payer says
“halt 1" justioe aays “halt 1" and yon have
got to halt. [Laughter and applanBe.J
You shall not be voting away the people's
money, yon shall not tax the poor and
give away their sweat. There has been
enough of that in the past.
This railroad question iB a big question.
It is the biggest that was ever before the
world. When we chartered them first in
Georgia, wo gave them one-half of the
old wagon rates, beoanse we didn’t be
lieve they were able to haul heavy
freights, and we gave them what we
thought was right. Since that lime hu
man genius has given ns great inventions
whereby these railroads are enabled to
oarry thirty tons where, before, they
oould only oarry five. Every screw,
wheel and rail has been given to them by
human genins. Wheuever you allow
them to go on in perpetuity they appro-
S riate the work of human genius, and
«ve the peeple victimized. Weil, but
they say they are broke. I am glad
they are. I say they ere not entitled to
as great consideration as the pawnbroker
reoeives. As the great political econo
mist, Adam Smith, says, all human labor
and genins are appropriated by the few.
Look at the railroads of to- day and com
pare them with what they were forty
years ago. They never made a single im
provement of their own. They never im
proved the steam engine. They never
improvod upon a Bingle attachment. They
never invented the air brake. All these
were the inventions of other people, and
when the inventors'patents run out, these
inventions belong to all the people, and
should be fr«e to them. The railroads
wanted the Legislature to give them this
exclusive right, and they partially suc
ceeded, bnt they couldn’t oome it over
this Convention. The Convention, how
ever, said they shonld not have it. It
said that where it ooBt only one-tenth of
what it did, when the railroads were char
tered to transport a ton, these fellows
should not put the whole genius of the
world to their uses without paying for it.
I don't suppose you people understand
this question. I know you don’t, but
there are some men who have your inter
ests at heart who understand it for you,
and you ought to thank God for it.
[Applanse. J
You have got no taxes. We have Btop.
ped the oities from robbing you. We
have prohibited the Legislature from giv
ing them tho authority to rob you. I
never knew an improvement that benefit-
ted the publio that could not be passed by
putting it to vote of the people, and I toil
yon, if you want to save this blessing to
your children, stand up as one man for
ratification. [Applause.] You may be
misled, but still yon will learn the truth
and follow it. Here is Angusta that is
nearly bankrupt, Savannah that is broke,
and Macon that in in a not muoh better
condition; but Atlanta stands with her
credit in taot. She has denlt fairly and
honestly with her creditors and I hope tho
people of Georgia, for what she has done,
will make her the perpetual Capital of the
State. How did you save yourselves
from the fate of your sister oities ?
You bad the wisdom to Bsk the Legisla
ture to put a check upon yourpower even
before the Convention met. You had
wise men here to control your affairs.
You had lost $G0O,0O0, stolen from you in
the Air Line railroad, and vast sums in
other enterprises. You saw wbitber you
were drifting, and you stopped it. You
are entitled lo be the oapital of the State.
I would not give a snap of my finger for
the opinion of any man who lives. I wish
to give in my aocount to the Great Father
that in all trusts I have acted uprightly.
You have before yon a Constitution that
is not equalled in the United States, or
anywhere else in the world that I know of.
I do not propose to say that I am perfect.
What I oppose may be as good as what I
advooate. I know that these men who
made the Constitution were wise and
honest, and now that their work is done,
I like it, and will do all I can to ratify it,
and I invite you to assist mo in the grand
and noble work. [Applanse. ]
A Curlone Can of F.iitliunnala.
The old Greek idea of euthanasia—a
happy passage from this life to the life
beyond, bas just bad a singular illustra
tion in Florida. The viotim—we know
no other word that seems to fit the oase
so exaotly—was Mrs. Julia L. Keys, a
daughter of the well known story writer,
Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz. Like her
mother, she was well known in literature
—one of her poemB, “The Dreaiq. of
Looust Dell,” having been widely oopied
and admired. With her husband, she
lived in Calhoun county, Florida, and for
some weeks previous to her death, had
been in very bad health. She was of a
nervous temperament, and Beemed to have
a morbid dread of physios! pain. About
the beginning of the present month Bhe
felt thgt her reaovery was impossible, and
on the 10th she died of chloroform ad -
ministered by her husband at her own
request. The widower, writing on the
day of his wife's deoease, say sthat “she
might have lived a few days longer;” “I
talked with her about dying; she said she
had no fear of the horeafter—no dread,
only of the pain of dying. She begged
me to give her chloroform when the time
came and let her die easy.” And the time,
in the opinion of the hnsband, unsup
ported, it appears, by medical counsel, did
come, and when he saw her in a condi
tion of what he oalla “strangling," he
gave her the bottle; she inhaled the chlo
roform, put a few drops upon her hand
kerchief, and so passed away.
The factB herein sot forth constitute, as
it seems to us, the basis of au investiga
tion which should at onoe be set ou foot
by the authorities of Florida. It is too
early in our civilization—or too late, os
the case may be—to allow n hnsband lo
aid his wife in committing suioide.—At
lanta Constitution.
PA PA I, MATTERS.
HEALTH OF POPE AND INTRIGUES.
London, August 21).—The Time*' Rome
correspondent telegraphs the Popo is suf
fering great prostration, and has hardly
strength to attend to any business. An
iutriguo has commenced which is pre
paratory to a oriais, and some of the car
dinals are holding meetings to provide for
an emergency.
Weather.
Washington, August 28.—Indications
—South Atlantia States falling barometer,
wanner easterly winds on the ooasts with
partly cloudy weather, possibly followed
in interior by oooler northwest winds.
HEATH op HKIUUAM YOIIHU.
SKETCH OF UIS I.IFE.
Special to Enquirer-Sun,)
Balt Lake, August 30. — Brigbam
Young died this aftornoon.
[Brigbam Youug, the Leader, Prophet,
and Ruler of the Mormons, was born at
Whittingham, Vermont, Jane 1, 1801.
He was the son of a farmer, and acquired
eduoation enough lo give him a plausible
address. He at first connected himself
with the Baptists, and for a time preached
in that connection, though be was never
ordained. In 1831 or 1832 he removed to
Ohio, and joined the Mormons at Kirt*
land, then under tho leadership of Joseph
Smith. His shrewdness and energy soon
gave him influence with them, and he
was chosen one of the twelve apoBtles in
1835, soon after made their president,and
was sent out to make converts to the failh.
He was with the Mormons in all their
early troubles, aud became their leader
when Smith was killed. He abandoned
Nauvoo with most of the MormonB in the
spring of 1840; persuaded hia followers
that the Balt Lake Valley was tho Promised
Land, and after enduring sovore hard 1
ships in the passage over tho plains in the
winter of 1840-7, arrived at tho present
site of Great Balt Lake Oity in July, 1847,
and founded a settlement there. Of this
colony, and the subsequent additions to it
by immigration, Young became the abso
lute ruler. In the spring of 184!), the
colonists organized themselves into a
State, with the title of “The Btate of
Deseret,” and applied to Congress for
admission into the Union; this was refus
ed, but the Territory of Utah was organ
ized, and Brigham Young appointed Gov*
ernor. He remained in authority from
1850 to 1854. At this time, from the very
considerable immigration and their isolat
ed position, Yoang felt stroqg enough to
defy the United States Government. In
1857, a Governor who was not a Mormon
having been appointed, and his life being
threatened, President Bnohanah sent a
large body of troops there to enforce his
authority; a compromise followed, and
the Mormons remained peaceable. Polyg*
amy was openly proclaimed in Utah in
1852, and Brigham Young has several
wives, besides many others “sealed to
him” bb “spiritual wives." One of his
wives, the fifteenth in order, left him in
1874, and soon after petitioned for a
divorce from the United States Courts.
Pending the suit, the Judge decided that
Young should pay her $3,000 for oounsel
fees, and make her an allowance of $000
a month. His late history is familiar to
our readers.—Ed.]
Senator Con III Ing v«. Hayes and hU
Policy .
Washington, August 2!).—A Utica
correspondent's letter, narrating private
oonversations of Conkliug witb his
friends, is oaptionod by tho New York
Sun % “Mr. Conkling on Politics.” lie
believes that Tiiden was really elected,
hut that llayos’ title is honorably good.
The letter concludes: Mr. Conkling’s
echoing friends do not hesitate to de
nounce Hayes’ policy with unmeasured
severity, and I am assured that their
words reflect his opinions.
Third Motel lilt; of Mara Dlacovered
New York, August 30.—A third satel
lite of Mars was discovered by Dr. Henry
Draper, of Now York and Prof. E. B.
Holden, of Washington, jointly, on Au
gust 26th, at Dr. Draper's private observ
atory at iiaatiugs on the Hudson.
VIRGINIA.
OEN. FIELD NOMINATED AND APPOINTED
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Richmond, Va., August 29.—The Con
servative State Committee last night se
lected Gen. Jas. T. Field, of Culpepper
oouuty, as tho nominee of the Con
servative party for the Attorney
Generalship, vice Raleigh T. Daniel, de
oeased, and Gov. Ilemper to-day appaint-
e 1 Gen Field for the nnexpired term of
the late Attorney (General.
Iowa llumocralN.
Special to Enqulror-Sun.]
Mabhialltown, Ia., August it!).—The
Democratic Stato Convention met to-day.
J. Cook was temporary ohairtnan.
They declared Tiiden must be vindicated
by a reuomiuatiou in 1880 amid great
cheering.
THE INDIANS.
Sitting Bull, with 1,300 Warrior*, In
tho United States.
Sharman’s Dispatch—Buro Howard Keeps
at a Safe Distance.
Washington, Angnst 29.—Gen. Terry,
who arrived here this morning, brought
information to the effect that Sitting Ball,
with thirteen hundred warriors, is in
aamp this side of the Britinh line, and all
further prooeediiga in regard to selecting
a commission for his return to (he United
States hare been suspended. Terry re-
mains here several days to oonsnlt with
the Secretary of War, as to what plans
shall be adopted oonoorning the Sonx
Chief.
HOWARD hasn't whipped any dody yet.
The following wss reoeived at the War
Department:
Helena, Mont., August 28.—General
E. D. Townsend, Washington, D. O.: I am
just baok from Benton and show all well.
The Indiens hero got across the Yellow
Stone below the leke and above the fells,
killing two parties of visitors to the Gey'
sera, bnt sparing the ladies. Howard bos
replenished his stores and ia in
pursuit. Other parties watoh their
issue east of the mountains. I will start
West for Missoula the day after to-mor
row aud oontinue to Walla Walla, but the
garrisonB here are small, so that I will
have little eaoort. Gibbon should be
reiuforoed, and the fid infantry Booms
most available. If Sheridan applies and
the Seoretsry of War approves, yon may
order it to Ogden, Utah, thence to maroh
north to Montana. After this affair
over, Howard will return to Oregon, leav
ing Gibbon here. He ie too weak. I see
no signs of danger from the North, bnt
it is apprehended hero.
[Signed] W. T. Sherman,
General,
FRANCE.
Prosecution of Gambatta-No
Freedom of Speech,
Special lo I A. Enquirer aw.]
Paris, August 29.—The publio prose-
outor yesterday issued summons whioh
will be served on Gembetts. Witnesses
will shortly be heard by a magistrate,
oherged witb the preliminary examina
tion. Relative to Gambetta’a trial, the
Franeaise asserts that the charge of incit
ing to hatred end aonlempt of tho Govern
ment lies been abandoned, os it wonld
have involved a trial before a jnry at the
Assizes, when the newspaper reports
oould not have boen prevented. Of tho
offenses whioh are triable by a corrective
tribnnal are : An insult to the Ministers
is punishable with from flvo days to
one year’s imprisonment end a fine
of from twenty-five to 2,MH> franoB; an
insult to the President witb one month to
three years imprisonment, and a fine of
from 109 to fi,000 francs ; and an attaok
on the President’s oonstitutional rights
and authority with from three months to
five years imprisonment end a fine of
from 1100 to 6,000 francs.
Throe other proseoutions are instituted.
M. Ghsrdron, Senator from Savoy, is
oharged with making a political speeoh at
an illegal meeting, and M. M. Phellipae
and Durand,ex-deputeis,are oharged with
making seditions speeches in the Uounoil
General of Rhone.
BANK OF ENUf.ANW.
ITS BAT* AND POLICY—PIIOSI-EOT OP IN
CREASED POOD IMPORTS.
Special to the Enquirer-Sun.}
London, August 29.—The Times, iu a
fluanoisi article oommenting on yester
day’s okange in bank rates, says: Inde
pendently of the possible farther with
drawals of gold by the German Govern
ment, the bank bad to oonsider more what
is likely to be the export of bnllion to
Amerioa in the future than what has aotn-
ally been sent thither. The bills sent in
for discount yesterday were probably ne
gotiated in anticipation of tho withdraw
als of gold to-day for that quarter, to
meet the grain shipments, and whether or
not the outer market oan maintain even
ita present terms for three months' hank
bills, and time support the bank in its
endeavor to torn exchanges in oar favor,
there is little doubt that the decision
taken yesterday was wise. Reports from
oar own provincial districts tell as that the
heavy rain is general, and is oausing consid
erable anxiety, while in the midland coun
tries the gathering iu of the harvest is seri-
onsly impeded. The Black Kea is prac
tically olosed and we have, therefore,
every reason to expert we must not only
take very muoh larger quantity of grain
from the United States than we have re
quired in former years, bat that we must
pay a larger prioe for it. This being the
coho, the Bank has no other oourse open
to it but to plaoe itself in e strong defen
sive position in good time. If the bad
weather in this country continues the
position con easily become aeriona for the
Bank of England, for the export of gold
in that caae, looking at the comparatively
email general imports of the United States
from Europe, soon runs into many mil
lion sterling.
|| Actor, K. L. O«ven|iorf, | tip lug-
Special to Enquirer-Sun.J
New Yoiik, August 29.—Mr. Stephen
Fisk of the Fifth Avenue T'heatro, re
ceived a telegram to-night from Oanton,
Pennsylvania, whioh says E. L Davenport,
the tragedian, is breatbing'.hia last, and
has bidden adiea to hi* family,
RAILROAD HORROR.
TRAIN PLUNGES INTO A SWOLLEN
CREEK IN IOWA.
IIXTEGH KNOWN TO BK KILLED.
SOU* BODIKS WASH AWAY—MANY WOUNDED.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.}
D*s Moines, August 29.—Details of a
railroad accident on the Chicago, Rock
Island A Paoiflo Railroad at the East
Branch of Four Mile Creek, seven miles
from this oity, are beginning to arrive.
The number of killed are estimated from
10 to fiO. A1I the train bnt the sleeping
oar went down into the stream. The
engine is completely out of sight.
Bernum’s show car went down among
the rest, and it is said all of the eleven
ooonpants but one were killed.
A speoisl to the State Reyister from the
wreok says there are sixteen killed so far as
known, aud twelve bodies sro out on tba
bankB ss follows: Billy ltakHtrsn, engin
eer; J. K. Bolt end daughter, Houu, Iowa;
Win. Gumming, newsboy; Mrs. Emma
Babcock, soliool touoher, Ruck Inland
Ills., and seven of Barnum’s men. Fonr
dead bodies are still seen in tho wrook
but oannot he got out at present.
Mrs. J. K. Bolt, whoijp' husband and
daughter are among the killed, is badly
injured.
The aooident was oaoasioned by the
waehout of a bridge, and ooourred shout
four o’olook this morning.
Tho following are injured: W. G.
Puma, Dee Moines; A. J. 1’utrickH, Con
ductor; Mrs. D. A. Stebliins, Panther
Creek, Iowa; S. S. JFerguson, Andalusia,
Ills.; J. L. Graham and wife, I)es Moines;
L, S. Speneer, Latbrop, lows; J. Brown'
ing, St. Louis; Dr. Campbell, wife and
daughter, Fisbkilwa county, Ills,; M.
Harrington, Washington, lows; Dennis
Shannon, Iowa City; Mrs. Mary Hoff,
Norwalk, Iowa; Mrs, C. Fallrtk, Moline,
Ills.; Beu Truck, the fireman.
LATER.
Oue more body has been recovered,
that of qnite an old man with the name J.
S. Fergnson in bis hat. In a car not yet
uncovered, several more bodies osu bo
seen. The oar on top of this is now be
ing lifted off with ropes and pnlleys. Tho
bodies so far recovered are now being
loaded on oars to be sent to Des Moines.
It is thought that several bodies have
floated down the stream the water in the
channel of whioh is over 20 feet deep.
The wounded and uninjured have all been
sent to Altoona.
UHEAT IIKITAIN.
MTKAMBBS—RUN DOWN—TORRENTS or RAIN
RUINING HARVESTS.
London, August 29.—The agent of tho
Inman and White Star steamers announce
that next week they will rename trips lio-
tween Liverpool and New York.
Tho British bark Nuolementn, from
Ternntja for Boston, was run down Au
gust 16th end sunk. The crow saved.
A Times dispatch from Dundee yester
day says : Rain has fallen iu ’.orrentB all
over tho north ot Scotland, almost with
out intermission, siuoo last night. Tho
harvest reports from all quarters are most
desponding. FloodB have oansed great
damage in South Wales. The weather in
the English midlands and elsewhere iB
also very bad.
TITIERS.
London, August 29.—Titians was oper
ated upon again yesterday. She is very
week and suffers greatly.
KENTUCKY.
SHERIFF AND HIS UBOTHEIt-IN-LAW
KILLED BY TUB TOWN MARSHAL AND
FRIENDS.
Louisville, August 29.—A special from
Danville says Welter Sanders, late Hhoriff
of Linooln oonnty, and his brother in
law, Jack Balland, wore killed on Monday
at Riohmond, Madison oounty, by Uus
Edwards, Town Marshal, and a parly of
friends.
FAILURE*.
anlOAGO SAVINGS BANK GOES Ul\
Chicago, August 29.—'Pile State Hov.
ings Rank baa been estaliliHhed twenty
years. The offloera of the bank give the
liabilities at $2,988,fill!), assets $2,724,-
690, Depositors mostly poor people.
BANKRUPTCY AT ST. LOUIS.
St. Louis, Angast 29.—John King, an
extensive lard and oil dealer, has gone
into voluntary bankrnptoy.
NEW YORK SAVINOS BANKS DON'T APPRE
HEND A PANIC.
New Yobk, August 28.—A number
of savings banks in the eity were visited
this afternoon for the purpose of ascer
taining if they wonld be effected in any
manner by the threatened panio among
the savings banks in Cbiosgo.
In the oases of all banks visited, bow
ever, tho offloera were positive that the
panio would not spread to this city, and
that there would bo no exoitement among
depositors. They Hay that all weak points
have been weeded out, and that the banks
now open are sound. A much bettor
fooling prevails tbev deelared now among
depositors, than existed a year ago.
•ennlur Morton Uctllllg Well,
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Riohmond, Ind., August 29.—Morion
is still improving, and friends are san
guine of hia recovery.
General Forrest tala I ■ j ill,
Bpeelal to Eoqulrer Sun. |
Memphis, August 29.—General Medford
Forrest, the famous Ooufederale cavalry
officer, is dangerously ill at Bailey
Springs, Ala., from chronic diarrhoea.
^Friends have little hope of his recovery.
THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR.
THE RUSSIANS DESIRE PEACE.
TUbi CZAR IS REPORTED ILL.
BOSNIA INSURGENTS CRUSHED—RUSSIANS
STILL HOLD BOHIPKA PASH, BUT TUBE*
CLAIM THEY ABE SUBBOUMDED AND HAVE
LOST HEAVILY—RUSSIAN WOUNDED 2,840
—KILLED NOT KNOWN.
THE CZAR ILL.
London, August 29.—Special dispatohs*
to the Peris papers report the Ozsr ill.
He will be advised io leave for a health
ier locality than that of general head
quarters.
BOSNIAN INSURGENTS DEFEATED.
A special to the Standard from Pestba
announces the Boenisn Insurgent! again
totally defeated neer Czernypatak end
driven over the Austrian frontier.
RUSSIANS WANT PEACE.
The Post's Berlin correspondent tele
graphs : I have reoeived a special tele
gram from the Danube announcing that
tho highest personages at Rnssien head
quarters have expressed esrneet deeiree
for poaoe ou a condition of protection to
Christians guaranteed end the reform
ptomised by the Porte carried ont. Tba
Post is a notoriously Torcephile paper and
tho foregoing, moreover, is in direot
contradiction with all news from other
souraeH.
BUHIPKA PASS—TURKISH 8U00RSSES.
The Daily News has the following spe
cial :
Suumla, Tuesday, August 28th.—Yes
terday, .Suleiman Pasha gare the assault
on tbo Rnssian position in Sobipka Pass.
At 9 o'clock in the morning the battle,
whioh was sanguinary, lasted until 6 p.
in. The enemy who were assailed on both
flanks wore unable to resist the attaok,
and tho Turks gained possession of all the
earthworks at the opening of the defile.
A telegram to the Times from Bbnmla,
also says Suleiman Pasha baa OAptured
nearly all tho Russian positions. The
Russians lost fi0,000 [ ? Doubtful.—Ed.]
killed and wounded.
Tbo Stamlard's dispatoh from Shnrala,
says it is reported that the Russians have
abandoned their works, and that Snlei-
man Pasha ia puraning them. This laat
version Beams to be exaggerated.
TURKS REINFORCED FASTER THAN RUSSIANS.
London, Angnat 28.—The Daily News’
correspondent with the ltnssisn head
quarters before Plevna, seys the Turks
have been receiving' reinforcements more
rapidly aud in greater numbers than the
RnssiauB, and arc beginning to take the
offensive all along the line. They are
also keeping the Russians’ Plevna front
on the continual i/ui vine by oonoentra-
ting troopa as it about to attaok.
■I0NGAIIIANB PRAYING FOB TURKS.
The Daily News’ Vienna dispatch says
in several ohnrobes of Hungary • Te
Deum has boen oelebrated and prayers
offered for farther Turkish victories. The
Vsticau has instructed the liisbope to pre
vent this in the future.
RUSSIANS WOUNDED 2,180—DON'T KNOW
THE DEAD.
London, August 29.—Advices from
Russian headquarters, at Gorny Htuden,
dated Anguat 28, says: AU is quiet this
morning. Onr troops maintain their
positions. The Turks remain under eover,
behind the neighborhood heights, out of
rsngo of our batteries. The total number
wounded from AngnBt 21 to August 27 is
2,180, including Ofi offloera. The number
killed is unknown. Everything is quiet
in the direction of Plevna and Loftsoha.
RUSSIANS SURROUNDED IN SOBIPKA PASS.
S|i(jrinl tu Knqiiirur-Sun.J
Constantinople, Angnst 29.— Suleiman
1’aBba telegraphs, August 28 : Our on-
tronehod line of investment is only lfiO
paces from the enemy’s fortifications..
We still hold the commanding Alikrid
Jebel heights. The Russians are blouk-
adod on three sides. Every effort is being
wado to complete tbo blockade by ontting
them off from the road to Gabrova. The
Russian forces bavo been cruelly deci
mated and have retired to their fortified
positions. Cannonading and outposts
engagements are carried on intermittently
WASHINGTON.
CANDIDATES FOB POSITIONS IN TUB HOUSE.
Washington, August 29.—The question
of the Speakership is already meeting a
lively discussion, the names of the follow-
ing gentlemen being prominently men
tioned : itaudall, of Pennsylvania, Goode,
of Virgiuia; Scales, of North Carolina;
Sayler, of Ohio. The friends of each are
hopeful. Ex-Oongresaman Caldwell, of
Alabama, is said to be a prominent candi*
dale for the Clerkship of the House.
House, of Tennessee, is mentioned as
the coming Speaker for the Mississippi
valley.
MARINE INTKLLIUENVR.
Nkw Yokic, August 29.—Arrived: City of
Now York, llljjparcboa.
Arrived out: Mizpab, Emanuel.
Homeward : Anna, Hampton Koads; Lucie
Roadman, Doboy; Augusta, Wilmington.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.)
Savannah, August 39—Arrived : San Ja
cinto.
Sailed : Juniata, Geoappold, Oen. tiarues.
Special to the Enquirer-San.)
Boston, August 29.—Arrived : Seminole.
N*w York,August 28.—Arrived : Strasburg.
Bark Happett,from Bull Kiver for Hamburg,
put Into this port to-day, In distress. On tho
2lst of August, during a gale, she sprung a
leak and lost sails.