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(Hcvhtmtni mmirer. 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.
