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^MACOiN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER J6, 1879.
VOLUMB IiIY—NOSe
BY TELEGRAPH
Galveston, December 7-—A dispatch
to the New* says: A well founded rumor
prevails that a party of twenty-five Mexi
cans have raided McCallen’s stock ranch
on the Rio Grande. The people of the
ranch were tied to trees while the premi
ses were robbed of money and valuables.
A large number of horses and mules were
driven off by marauders.
St. Louis, December 7.—It is reported
here to-night that a regular and a wild
freight train were in collision early this
morning on the Chicago and Alton Rail
road, near Jersey ville, Ill., and that the.
engineer, Richard Gilchrist, was killed,
ana an unknown fireman badly injured.
The trains are said to be badly wrecked.
New Yobk, December 7.—Bark Rein
deer, which arrived here to-day from St.
Perie Martinique, reports that most of the
crew of schooner City of Chelsea died of
fever on the passage.
Cincinnati, December 7.—The Super
intendent of Police was yesterday ordered
by the police commissioners to arrest
hereafter all persons found performing on
■Sunday in the theatres, concert halls and
variety shows of this city, as a result of
this action of the authorities most of the
shows usually open on Sunday closed
their doors to-day. Ilenck’s opera house
and one or two others opened tlds after
noon but their performers, to the number
of fifty, were promptly arrested, and to
night not a theatre and concert hall in the
city is open, where usully there are more
than twenty in full blast.
New York, December 7.—Mr. Tuckey,
first mate of the brig E. N. Rich, of Bos
ton, has arrived here, and reports that du
ring a heavy northern gale at Aspinwall
on the 20th of November his ship was to
tally wrecked in that harbor, together
with the Norwegian bark Albatross, the
American brig Adelc McLoon and the
French bark Georgianne—several others
being more or less injured. The gale
lasted five dayr, aud all steamers ran out
to sea for safety.
New York, December 7.—Mr R. S.
Mattison, road master of Panama, wlio
arrived at Panama from Aspinwall, gives
some interesting particulars of the storm
at the latter place. He left Aspinwall
Sunday morning to ascertain the probable
damage done to the track on Sunday.
The storm was raging at Aspinwall and
it must liavccon tinued until Monday
night. The damage done up to the time
he left was far in excess of that from oth
er previous storms. All of the vessels in
port except the St. Croix, laden with lum
ber for the Boston ice company, was lost.
All of the wharves suffered severely.
Several niontlis must elapse before the
damage done can be repaired. All the
steamers ran out to sea for safety and up
to Sunday morning had not returned.
New York, December 7.—A suit was
brought In the Marine Court by Joseph
Mitchell, who was apassengeron steamer
Champion, which was sunk off the Capes
of Delaware on November 9tli, through a
•collision with the British bark Lady Oc-
lavia, against the owners of the steamer
to recover $1,000 damages for personal in
juries and loss of property. On Thursday
last the steamship company presented a
petition for libel in the United States Dis
trict Court, in which the petitioners set
forth the beginning of the suit by
Mitchell, and allege that the injury,
loss, and damage to him did not result
from any negligence on the part of
the company — that the Champion was
staunch, sea worthy and properly manned,
officered and controlled, and that the col
lision was occasioned by reckless and im
proper management on the part of those in
charge of the Lady Octavia. With a view
to bringing all parties who may have
claims against the Steamship Companyinto
one action and with a view of determining
and limiting the liability of the company
in the matter of the collision, petitioners
abandoned the steamer and cargo for the
benefit of claimants, and asked to have a
trustee appointed to take control of the
property, and that the court grant a mo
tion to claimants, enjoining him from
bringing any other suits.
Tlie motion and injunction petitioned
for were granted yesterday by Judge
Choate in the United States District
Court, and Samuel H. Lyman, clerk of
court, was appointed trustee.
Tboy, X. Y., December 7.—A fire broke
out at 0 o'clock tliis morning in Sutlie-
] ami's boiler shops on the west side of
River street, and before it could be check
ed destroyed four large buildings, contain
ing the .boiler and machine shop,
laundries and several large shirt and
collar manufactories on that side of the
Street, as well as the German Lutheran
church and six tenement houses on the
cast side.
The fire was the most destructive known
in Troy siuce 18(52. Eighteen hundred
employees, 1,300 of whom are girls, are
thrown out of employment, ami the losses
amount in the aggregate to more than
$330,000. Several firemen were injured by
falling wails, but there was no loss of
life.
New Yor\, December”.—Tlie Herald's
eorres]>ondeut at Castlebar, Ireland, lias
liad an interview with Brennan, tlie Irish
land agitator recently arrested, for using
seditious language. The prisoner seem
ed cheerful anil even elated, and declared
that the action of the Government would
have little effect in retarding the land
movement, which could stand tlie sacri
fice of a few men in prison, or if necessa
ry on tlie gallows, lie denied using se
ditious language, and said the words us
ed by Davitt, which he endorsed, were
merely an enunciation of the principles
•of John Stuart Mill. If Gladstone him
self, he said, had used such language in
Ireland ns lie recently did in Scotland, he
too would have been in jail.
Brennan denied that die agitation had
.any connection with the sending of threat
ening letters or the commission of out
rages. Tlie laud agitation, lie said, hail
no sympathy for cowardly intimidation of
that kind.
On the removal of Brennan from the
court house to prison last niglit great
crowds, with blazing tar barrels, followed
the cart In which he was confined, cheer
ing the prisoner and hooting the police.
The car, however, was so strongly guarded
•that no attempt was made at rescue, and
the moli was finally, after some trouble,
dispersed. The land agitation received a
blow to-ilay in county Mayo by the sur
render of a large body of tenants, who
held farms of Sir Rodger Palmer. The
Dublin oflice of tliis landlord was to-day
crowded by hundreds who came to pay
their full rent after having, for a month,
.utterly refused to pay a penny unless they
•got a twenty-five per cent, reduction.
Sir Rodger is generally considered a
good landlord. He refused to reduce the
rents because they are already as low as
the Government valuation of holdings,
•and also because lie was convinced that
tenents being able to pay had been in
cited by agitators to refuse.
Paris, Docenilier 7.—M. Louis Blane
will shortly introduce a motion in the
Chamber of Deputies in favor of plenary
amnesty.
Vienna, December 7.—-A telegram
from Ceiuuige announces that S00 Monte
negrins, stationed at Vilika, were yester
day attacked by several thousand Albani
ans. The Montenegrin garrisons were be
ing closely pressed, when they were rein-
-forced by two battalions. The Albanians
wens finally defeated, but with great loss
London, December 8.—A Pesth dis
patch states that the Koros river has risen
rapidly in consequence of severe snow
storms and inundated the city. In Gross
Warde, in Hungary, thousands of inhabi
tants are fugitives. Many houses are de
stroyed and neighboring villages are
threatened with destruction. General
distress is increasing.
The dismissal of Midhat Pasha is de
cided upon.
It is estimated that one hundred and
fifty thousand persons are suffering from
famine in upper Silesia.
A land agitation meeting was held on
Sunday at Castle Rea, at which' Parnell
and Davitt were present. A collision
nearly occurred betweed the police and
the agitators owing to the presence of ten
Government shorthand reporters.
The well known Wesleyan Chapel, on
the City Road, London, founded by John
Wesley, was nearly burned down on
Sunday.
Steamer Arizona was discovered to be
on fire Sunday, where some cotton was
stored. Great difficulty was experienced
In getting at the fire, and it was not extin
guished until noon. It is supposed to
have been caused by spontaneous com
bustion.
A Paris dispatch 'reports that M. Le-
royer, Minister of Justice, has tendered
bis resignation, and it is to be accepted on
Wednesday. It is believed that M. Hew-
ald, Prefect of tlie Seine, will succed him.
The Under Secretary of Justice has also
resigned.
M. Waddington lias, for the third time,
begged President Grevy to relieve him of
thcPremierehip.
A Madrid dispatch says the resignation
of the entire Cabinet is in the hands of
the king.
London, December 8.—Tlie British
India Steamer Navigation Company’s
ship, “Eldorado,” with 85 passeiigers and
a Lascar crew of about 60, put into Ply
mouth Saturday last to repair damages,
sustained after a hair breath escape from
total loss in the Bay of Biscay, where she
lay for thirty hours during the storm on
Wednesday and Thursday, in a state of
total disablement. Nearly all her crew,
diving tlie whole time of her danger, were
incapacitated for duty by fear, and but
for the exertions of passengers there fa
but little question she would have gone
down. The waves broke one of tlie ven
tilating shafts of the vessel and flooded
pinwall; also those by the Colon, which
, -. , .. arrived yesterday. No arrangement lias „
the engine room, and all fires were extin- yet been made for sending the .mails for- sureties were professional straw bondsmen,
the Captain’s call, bail and pump water All fa confusion and uncertainty.
New York, December 8.—In conse
quence of letters received from the Secre
tary of tlie Irish National Land League in
from Wednesday night to Thursday night,
when the storm abated and the fires were
relighted.
London, December 8.—Tlie damage
done aboard steamer Arizona by fire, yes
terday morning, was confined to • a few
bales of cotton in tlie forward part of the
hold, where the fire originated.
Tlie fire of yesterday, which threatened
tlie total destruction* of tlie Wesleyan
Chapel in tlie city road, London. The
main chapel was greatly injured and the
historic building—Wesley’s mourning
chapel—gutted. Wesley’s pulpit was
saved. The beautiful frescoed ceiling fa
irreparably injured, and there are great
doubts whether the roof of the structure
can be restored.
Washington, December 8—Congress
man Lay, of Missouri, died tliis morning.
He has been in feeble health for some
time, but the immediate cause of his
death was paralysis.
The President sent tlie following nomi
nations to the Senate to-day:
Owen U. Denny, of Oregon, to be Con
sul General at Shanghai.
Dunham J. Craine, of New York, to be
United States Consul at Milan.
Robert W. Welch, of New Hampshire,
to be United States Consul at Cawara.
John Hay, of Ohio, to be Assistant Sec
retary of State.
Elihu A. White, of North Carolina, to
be Collector of Internal Revenue of the
2nd district of North Carolina.
Rodney C. Ward, of New York, to be
Collector of Internal Revenue in the 1st
district of New York.
In tlie House in the prayer this morning
the chaplain alluded in a feeling manner
to the death of A. W. Lay, of Missouri,
who had been cut down in the prime of-
life and usefulness. Immediately after
the reading of the journal, Mr. Clark, of
Missouri, announced to the House the
death of liis colleague, Hon. Alfred W.
Lay, stating tliat it was not his intention
at tliis time to speak as the love he bore
his late colleague would prompt him; but
at some future time he would do so. He
then offered resolutions expressing the re
gret which the nouse experienced at the
death of Mr. Lay, and providing tlie ap-
onlya question of how much annoyance
jid’ nagging the great Presbyterian de
nomination will alio* my enemies to
cany on toward me without official con
demnation. Ail I ask is that the Bynod of
Long Island or the. GeneralfAsscmbly of
the United States call "off my pursuers.
If the Presbyterian church want us they
can have us. If they don’t let them'say so
and we will all go together. This church
was built for me to preach in and here I
shall’ preach till God shall tell me to
stop." ’
New Yobk, December 8.—Max Ma-
retzek, who was missing from St. Louis
on Friday and Saturday last, dined
yesterday .morning and fa now staying at
the bouse of a friend, where he will be
kept in seclusion for some time by advice
of his physician. His mental and physi
cal • condition fa such that an interval of
rest is absolutely necessary for his resto
ration to health.
New Yobk, December 8. — Further
particulars of the great storm and flood at
Aspinwall state that about thirty miles of
tlie Panama Railroad was submerged, and
the freshet was the most destructive that
had been known there for years. At Ya-
tum, seventeen miles out, where the rail
road strikes the river, sixty-one houses had
been washed away and the people report
ed as destitute and suffering from hunger.
In short, all native villages and river
farms have been inundated. The live
stock are drowned and the poor inhabi
tants left to starve.
As soon as the news of the sad condition
•f the people reachedAspinwall a subscrip
tion was raised and several boat loads of
supplies sent out, but reports came back
that the relief, though timely, was inade
quate, and that to prevent starvation' fur
ther immediate relief was necessary. Un
der date of November 29th, it fa stated
that portions of the railroad are still un
derwater.
Reports afloat of serious damage to the
Paracoeas iron bridge, across the Chagres
river, are fully confirmed. Two piers are
undermined, and the bridge lias settled six
feet, and fa in danger of falling into the
river.
The-wash at Monidi will require several
days to repair, and it is thought it will be
fully thirty days before trains will again
be run.
The Englishmans and passengers, which
arrived on tlie 24th ult., are still at As-
-rr
Runners have Just started J>y order of
Ouray to bring in those Indians called for
by tlie commisssiori.
Washington, D. C., December 8.—
For the South Atlantic States, generally
Jiigher pressure, winds mostly from South
east to northeast, colder partly cloudy
weather and possibly occasional lightjrains,
except higher temperature iq southern
Washington, December 8. — The
United States Supreme Court rendered de
cisions this afternoon in the; following
Southern cases: William C. Oates vs. First
National Bank of Montgomery!from the
United States Circuit Court for the Middle
District of Alabama. Judgment affirmed
with costs and. interest. ' i
E. L. May and Samuel Pasco, executors,
et. al., vs. L. C. Rice, assignee; from the
United States Circuit Court for the North
ern District of Florida.', jOecree affirmed
with costs.
•City of Brownsville vs. Pedro G. Cava-
friend among yoii. You wouldn.4, give
v-jlccuiui, oiu., uvmiiuivireuujk/uua 1E0 justice and that fa why I. want to go to
of the United States for the Eastern-Ufa- ^Wafehington vtherol cah-lmvA fi*ufoa<.
trict of Texas. Tlio controversy in this friend.” ~ > -T
case relates to the title to certain lands in
the city of Brownsville Texas,
one Madame Cavazo?- was originally
seized by virtue of a Mexican igrant, but
of which the municipality of Browns
ville claims she was dispossessed by
expropriation proceedings instituted by
the town of Matamoras, under the laws of
the Mexican State of Tamatilipas, in 1827
This Court holds, in-apcordance with a
resolution of the Congress of Tamaulipas,
which had occasion to investigate the case
in' 1848, that under the .Constitution of
that State, no legal expropriation of
private property for public use, could be
made without previous payment of com
pensation to the owner thereof! that since
no Such compensation fa shown to have
been made in the present case, tlie town of
Matamoras never acquired legal oWner-
skipof the property, and the city ofBrowns-
ville cannot lay claim to it under the ex
propriation proceedings of tlie aforesaid
town, and the legal title thereto fa in the
defendants in error. Judgment affirmed
with costs.
The case of the Florida Central Railroad
Company vs. J. Fred Schultz came up iu
the Supreme Court to-day on motion to
vacate the recently accepted supersedeas
bond for $100,00(1 on account of its worth
less character. It is alleged that the bond
to secure an appeal of this case was noth
ing .more than a Straw bond; tliat the
some of wlitm were fugitives from justice
and all of whom were so worthless that
the affidavits of four of tho sureties were
false and perjured, and that Mr. L. Engle,
President of the Florida Central Railroad
Company, was knowingly concerned in
Dublin, a conference of the representa- ] tKe f ratK i. Tho counsel for the Central
tives of the various Irish National and i Railroad Company admit the insufficiency
other organizations and gentlemen un- [ of tlie bond, b u t deny that Mr. L. Engle
conhected with any Irish organization was ^ aware of its worthlessness or had
held last evening at the residence of Dr. | anytUng directly to do with itsprocure-
Fhillip E. Donlin, to consider the beat j luent . They ask for the substitution of a
means of giving a reception to Charles new band an dtBe granting of a new order
Stewart Parnell, M. P., on his arrival hr 0 f supersedeas,
this city, and to sustain the Irish fanners
in their present struggle. There were j
present a number of well known Irish ; i n
leaders. It was decided tliat a large SehatiJ to-day abiU entitled an act to aid
meeting should be held and delegates • *l ,e 61011
be asked from all Irish societies. (W «t«s m the preamble that $ol0,000 have
mittees of arrangement were appointed to recently been covered back into the
carry out this plan. An organization was ; United Treasury from the appro-
efferted yesterday at Hamilton Park Ho- pHatimis for pay and Wties of colored
tel of sympatliizers with the Irish farm- . soldler3 > wlllch remained -nnclaimed after
ers, and resolution* passed, calling upon “ ven years, owing to the impossibiKty of
all freemen to lend a helping hand ton "“"rants, and asserts
people who are starving upon their native \
soil surrounded by a fertile land, whose ; P eo P' e sbonld liave^ tlie benefit of said
products are absorbed by avaricious land- | money ^for tlieir educational improve-
lords, who do not live in Ireland. Tlie nf 1
press of America fa implored not to look j norfufin,itniisttt
with apathetic eye upon millions of bun-
gry people. All churches and Irish socio-
ties are solicited to agitate the matter and i
raise subscriptions to provide bread for . ^ ie cducation of the colored people,! iz.
^Ireland 2 ra0the ”’ dlildrCU |
Washington, December 8.-A bill, 5^*“*
covering the disputed lottery questions, AU a ji ta i Georgia, University, a id Straight
will shortly be prepared anil introduced j New OrleaM, Louisiana,
in tlie House, sustaining, it is believed,tlie j Thfttnutecsoftheseii^itutmnsareto bo
rvruitinn taken hv tlie Rost-office Denart- : en t*tled to use the interest on the bonds
position taken DJ me lost-omce ucpaix- in sucll TOanner as in their judgment will
ment.
New Orleans, December 8. — Tlie
Presbyterian Synod af Mississippi, em
bracing tlie States of Mississippi anil
Louisiana, at a recent meeting, after an
exhaustive discussion, sustained the ap
peal of Rev. S. P. Linn, from the Presby
tery of Louisiana, refusing to remove its
sentence of suspension, and ordered that
body, iu view of all tlie facts, to restore
him at once and fully to the church and
the gospel ministry.
Singapore, December 8.—Intelligence
has been received here that Prapeccha,
son-in-law of Thomas G. Knox, late Brit-
noinftnent of a committee to consist of bli political agent and Consul General at speeches
U ™S*ok, lias been barbarously beheaded . Saturday
seven members and three Senators to take
orders for superintending the funeral cere
monies.
Tlie resolutions were adopted, and tlie
Speaker appointed Mr. Clark, of Missouri,
Morrison, Hill, Bingham, Chalmers, Cul-
kins anil Ryan, of Kansas, of sucli com
mittee oil tlie part of the House. The
House then, as a mark of respect to tlie
memory of the dead Representative, at
12:15 adjourned.
In tlie Senate Mr. Voorliees offered a
resolution declaring that the Senate bail
heard with deep regret the proposition of
the President and Secretary of the Treas
ury in their messages to inaugurate new
and uncalled for financial agitations, and
tlie destruction of tlie most necessary cur
rency now in circulation, and that the in
terests of tlie country required a free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver of
exact equality, and that it fa the part of a
wise financial policy to maintain the pre
sent volume of greenbacks in circulation
and preserve their legal tender quality
unrestricted as to legal effect.
The resolutions were laid on the table,
to be called up by Mr. Voorliees here
after.
A message was received from tlie House
announcing the adjournment of tliat body
upon the announcement of Representative
Lay’s death, and the appointment of a
committee to make arrangements for liis
funeral, and requesting that a similar
committee be appointed by the Senate.
The Cliainnan appointed Vest, Kirkland
anil Walker, anil at 2:55, on motion, as a
mark of respect to the memory of Mr. Lay,
the Senate adjourned.
The nomination of Secretary McCrary
was taken up for consideration, and the
committee, after a brief discussion, author
ized the chairman to report it back to tlie
Senate, with a recommendation that it be
confirmed.
New York City, December 8.—
Rev. Mr. Talmage yesterday, before
commencing his sermon, made an answer
to the proposal of the trustees that the
Tabernacle congregation go out of tlie
Presbyterian denomination. He reviewed
the proceedings in his recent trial, anil
age tl -
sending to religions newspapers letters
packed with financial falsehood.
He says he does not wonder at the out
burst of righteous indignation of his board
of trustees against those ecclesiastics who
are incensed because liis church will not
iy for the stillctoes with which they
have been stabbed. He said it would be
very difficult for him to leave the Presby
terian church, as he was bom in it and
loved it.
“I believe in Brooklyn Presbyterians
and in the Long Island Synod and in the
•on both sides. Two’ more battalions of ; General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Montenegrins have since been sent to Vil- ' church, and in God tlie Father Almighty
ika. and in the holy catholic church. It fa
at Pecliim, Siam, and that Prapccclia’s | Aj
father and brothers have been inipris- *
obed.
Paris, December 8.—M. Leon Cliattcau
had a private interview with President
Grevy to-day, anil presented a petition
from*the inhabitants of New Orleans in
favor of the establishment of a line of
steamers between Havre anil New Orleans.
M. Cliatteau pointed out the advantages
of a French line of steamers touching at
Baltimore. Tlie petition will be submitted
to a cabinet council. 31. Dliatteau sails
for America from Havre on the 20tli inst.
London, December 8.—A dispatch from
3Iadrid to the Daily News say a tlie leaders
of tlie Conservative party have threatened
to abandon and defeat the ministers if
tlie scheme of rapid abolition of slavery
and reform was persisted in. Under
these threats Premier Martinez Campos
lias permitted alterations to be made in
the draft of the bill which lias changed
the whole tenor of the measure to such
an extent as to convince the Liberals that
Premier Campos lias completely surren
dered to tlie Conservatives. Tlie resigna
tion of the ministry would seem to indi
cate that they liad not surrendered, but
that they despair of carrying out the
scheme of Premier Campos.
A Madrid correspondent of tlie Daily
News says he learns from Cuban members
of the Cortes, that tlie course pursued
by Premier Martinez Campos, in submit
ting to an ameudiuent of the reform bill,
may lead to a serious development of tlie
Autonomist movement in Cuba, when
the Creoles become convinced tliat noth
ing can induce the Spanish statesmen to
depart from the fatal colonial policy which
caused the first rising in Cuba, anil
the loss of American maintenance.
Charleston, December 8.—Tlie case
of the South Carolina railroad was before
the United States Circuit Court this morn
ing, on motion for a full hearing and final
decree, on which an appeal to the Su
preme Court might be based. This was
opposed, and the Court refused to grant
the motion on the ground that no final
decree could be made until all the credit
ors had been called in. _ An order will be
best promote the ends for which they are
chartered; but the principal of the
bonds fa to be inalienable. * .
Denver, Col., December8.—A special
dispatch to the Denver Tribune, dated
Los Pinos, December 0, says: After Jack
had refused to name the Indians con
cerned in the White River massacre, all
the Chiefs retired to Ouray’s house for
consultation. A man who was after
wards sent from the Agency to Ouray’s
with hay for tlie Indians’ horses, reports
that the Utes were decked out in feathers
and war paint, and were making fiery
speeches and indulging in wild dances.
noon tlie Utes came into the
said his enemies liad not been content grimted to^morrow appointing a referee,
with assaulting him, but had tried to dam- -before whom the creditors will be surn
ame tlie financial credit of the church by moned to prove their claims, and the case
presented for final hearing at the April
term. An order was granted permitting
the receiver of the road to tender hills of
the bank of the State of South Carolina in
payment of State taxes, and to litigate
points of law thus raised.
Los Pinos Agency, December 8.—
The following answer to the demand of
the commission lias just been delivered by
Ouray: “We will deliver for trial Doug
lass and those Indians engaged in the
massacre of Meeker and his employes,
provided they are tried in Washington.
The people of Colorado are not frendly
and a feirtrial here or in New Mexico fa
not to be expected.”
t ncy and took seats. General Hatch
ressed tliem at length, setting forth the
full demands of the commissioners, their
right to make tlie demand and the pa
tience already exercised with tlie Utes.
“To-day,” he said, “fa your last chance.
We will wait no longer. We want our
final answer and we want no evasion.”
The list of tlie Utes charged by the
agency women with taking part in the
massacre was then read and the question
put by General Hatch: “Will you surren
der the men whose names are in tliis
paper to be tried and if guilty punished,
and if innocent acquitted?” The question
was put twice and after consultation eva
sive answers were returned both times,
when the question was repeated tlie third
tune. Ouray replied: “How do you
know the Indians you blame were in tlie
White River massacre? We cannot de
pend upon what those women say.”
“Tliat fa what we depend on,” said Gen
eral Hatch.
General Adams then addressed tlie In
dians, making a speech of over an hour’s
duration, and saying, among other things,
that the Commissioners did not want to
punish Colorow Jack and others wlio
took part in the Tliombugh figlit, but tlie
cowardly dogs who participated in the
massacre of unarmed men at the Agency.
He closed by saying: “We want those
Utes and we will have them.”
The Indians hail a consultation in a low
tone among themselves, but did not seem
inclined to reply at all. General Hatch
again rose and asked if the guilty Indians
were to he given up, saying he had made
liis last appeal. No one moved or spoke
for a few moments, *wlien Colorow Jack
liglited the big “pipe of peace.” Eacli In
dian present drew liis knife and laid it on
his knees. The question of peace or war
being the one pending Colorow then
passed the pipe to the next man without
smoking, and it went around the circle.
When the circle was finished, he jumped
to liis feet, stretched up to his full height,
pulled his belt around until Ids knife
sheath was in front, and snatching liis
knife out, threw it quivering and ringing
upon Hie floor. Instantly evciy Indian
present laid his hand on his knife or pis
tol. The two parties stood fronting and
defying each other for some moments, each
waiting for the other to make a forward
move. There were hut six white men in
the room, while the Indians numbered
twenty-five, though there were fifteen sol
diers in an adjoining room.
Finally Ouray spoke, saying, in sub
stance, tliat they would deliver up the In
dians named only on condition that they
should be tried in Washington. Colora
do people, he said, are all our enemies,
and to give them up to be tried in this
State would be to - surrender them to a
mob who would hang them. We will
bring those twelve men here for you to
see, and those whom you decide guilty
President- shall determine their guilt or death: “Careful ? Pshaw! I have laid
innocence. torpedoes under the fire of Yankee guns}
The chief spoke with great arrogance I guess-el can lay one in damned Yapkee
Tvvatera when' none .of/their gaps arc
around-” death'was his apswer.
• THE GEORGIA
and boldness. " Ouray added ibi
require about a week to bring the men
General Hatch told: him he accepted the
proposition as far as bringing the men was
concerned, but'as to taking'them to
Washington he would have first' to tele
graph Secretary Schiirz to get: permission.
Colorow and Jack were immediately dis
patched to bring in the twelve named, in
cluding Douglas and Fersune. They .said
they would return in five days..
After they had gone Ouray spoke, reiter
ating his statement that this > Utes could
not get justice in Colorado and could only
get It in Washington. “You, there,” said
Ouray,' (meaning General
Adams and their legal: adviser Salere) “art
all my enemies. I am one against three
You hate me, you are all ColoradO mefi
and are French devils. I have not one
tow, December 8.—•'There fa a well
led suspicion that one of theprinci-
concerhed in the plot against the
Czar’s life by the explosion here last week
fa a returned convict from Siberia.
Madrid, December 8.-HCing Alfonso
has entrused Senor Posada Hertera, Presi
dent of Congress, with the formation or a
now cabinet. Senor Herrera fa now con
ferring with various party leaders.
A SUBMARINE MONSTER.
en MenXiving Twenty-four Honrs
under Water—HowGnnboats were
Blown to Atoms During the War.
From the Philadelphia Bee rd j
The death of J. R. McClintock, in Bos
ton Harbor, while experimenting with
torpedoes, furnishes a finale to a history
closely interwoven with the rebellion.
McClintock was a resident of New Or
leans, and during the war his name was a
terror to the men of the United States
Navy who were located in Southern wa
ter*. It was he who introduced the tor
pedo mode of warfare, which before had
not been recognized as a legitimate arm
of the service. He was the inventor of
the submarine vessel which has become
famous in the history of the late war as
the destroyer of the United States gun
boats Milwaukee, Tecumseb, and the
Housatohic at Savannah. The : latter
named boat bad, been lying for days with
700 pounds of gunpowder under her, and
every means known to tho rebels had been
exhausted for exploding it, but without
avail. McClintock was sent for with bis
submarine torpedo vessel, and within an
hour after launching the formidable
though contracted vessel, the Hdusatonic
and her 400 men were blown to atoms.
McClintock’s Vessel was forty feet long,
built cirgar shape, and was five feet be
tween decks. It was so constructed that
it Would float at any depth under the
water or on the water. The manner of
operating it was to sink it to a depth suf
ficient to pass under the keel of the vessel
to be destroyed. From the stem extended
an arm from which was suspended the tort
pedo, which was paid out by a rope in the
vessel. The torpedo itself was construct
ed so as to float at any given depth also.
After passing under the ship to be destroy
ed the torpedo vessel was brought nearer
to. tty* surface of the.-.y^ter, and propelled
as rapidly as possible away from the fated j
ship. In this manner the torpedo, which
■ wonU.be forced against the
side of the slnp with sutnerem, £31v« <« v-
plode it and thus ^complete its deadly
work.
Before entering upon the hazardous ex
periment of attempting to live in an air
tight vessel under the water, McClintock
consulted Prof, Robinson, of New Orleans,
and other scientific authority to ascertain
how long it would be safe for him to re
main under water in his novel invention,
and also to explain to him what sensations,
he might expect to experience when the
oxygen in the air had been consumed
to such a degree as to render liis
situation dangdrous. Prof. Robinson said
to 3Ir. McClintock he might remain under
water two hours, but gave him no infor
mation as to what his sensations would
be' when the oxygen had been con
sumed. Without further light than tliis
the daring McClintock went down for the
first time in his boat alone, and finding
himself as able to breathe ireely under
water as above, he remained in his sub
marine shell for five honra. In the next
experiment he took another man down
with him, and continued the time.
He experimented to increase the
number of persons in the boat until he
had ten men in his vessel; and instead of
remaining under water but two hours the
ten men lived down: among the fishes for
twenty-four hours. The boat was pro
pelled by a windlass attached to a screw,-
and was worked by band, and could be
raised to the surface or lowered to any
depth at will with all possible ease, and
guided iuany direction, so mat be could
as effectually defy the enemy in locating
his position as a porpoise does who leap
out of the water, plunges out of sight
again, and afterward appears in tho direc
tion least suspected. This vessel, how
ever, after destroying the Housatonic, was
itself lost. There were on it at the time
of doing its last deadly work ten English
men, and it was supposed by McClintock
that after destroying the Housatonic the
vessel was driven out to sea in a storm,
and that it finally wont’down.
At the time of the fatal accident In Bos
ton harbor, McClintock had his plans per
fected for constructing another submarine
vessel, which was to have been an im
provement en the former one in the mat
ter of propelling and several other impor
tant features. Instead of being propelled
by hand, he had ifivented a motive power
to supplant hand-power; the vessel could
be lighted with ga*; an apparatus for sup
plying oxygen liad been contrived; also
means for compressidg and emitting air
from chambers containing compressed air.
The Lay torpedos, which are regarded as
the most effective, and which the inventor
sold to the Russian government for a
very large sum of money, are operated
by compres*cd air and steered by
electricity. These torpedoes carry
b signal which marks their Course to the
operator, but the signal is also a warning
of their approach to the enemy. To pro
tect ships from torpedoes of this character
they are supplied with what are known as
“crinolines,” a wire netting,, whieh can
easily be lowered around tbe skip. As It
requires a hard substance for tbe torpedo
to strike against to cause it to explode,
tbe wire netting destroys tbe • force and
prevents it from coming in contact with
the ship at all. McClintock’s submarine
them, preferring to remain in 'hfa own
made' a tour of the world, ad3 was struck
’in the’eye by anovertri^e eggupon reach
ing lifa naRve soil* "When wp remember
this, we cheerfully let the Phonograph's
country. On the 16th OfOctoMk be, was
to exhibit to a company of Boston capital:
fats, wlio were to pay $100,CI0Q for the idea
how effective an explosion he coiiM make
with a newly invented torpedo. 1 The tor
pedo was about ten inchessquare; it con.- , ....
tained a chaige equal to the bunting remarks falLunnoticed.
power of 480 pounds of gunpowder, and _• CoifUJfBCS Daily Times: A paragraph
could be set off by a forty-pound blow; • fa going the rounds of t}ie press that “Gen-
After having destroyed’ hundreds of teralEU Warren, of Houston county, said
Yankee lives and millions of dollars in he was thp firet man in Georgia who ever
Yankee gunboats in Southern waters, he »picked a hundred pounds of cotton in one
. o exclaimed, when cautioned to be careful day. This occurred about fifty years ago.”
shall be taken to Washington aud the in using the torpedo which caused hfa It piay be very true that General War*
Th Ebeautifiil vase of native grasses ar
ranged and exhibited at tho jfair of the
Southwest Georgia Industrial
by Mrs. F, L. Bridge, has been presented
by her to the State Agricultural Depart
ment.. Z"-,V tTj i " * ‘
: CoLUipus fa infested wi^b ‘a gang of
brutes who iqutilsite the cows, i - * •
’ ^a gbay mulo lias died in Oolnmbus.
This fa the first death among unmortgaged
gray mules on reoord.
^ TftB body of Oscar Ricks, a young gen
tleman wlio went to Bainbridge from
Florida to attend tbe fair, and. whose mjfa-
terious uisap^arauce was noticed at ^he*
time, was found recently in the Flint
river, six miles below that city. Ricks
had three hundred dollars In nn posses-
sion, and it fa supposed that he was mur
dered for hfa money.
If tbe Grant boom in Georgia fa weak
now, where will it be when the small boy
lets off a bunch of Christmas fire crackers?
“What is the use of suffering-day after
day with chills?” asks a patent medicine
card.' We never could see the use of it;
but there are people to whom life would
be perpetual ennui unless a chill shook
them up every other day.
A phrenologist has examined the
head of everybody in Arlington, and pre
dicts that the owner of each head will die
rich at the age of ninety.
Marcellus Thobnton fa the Clement
Attachment of the Augusta Evening News.
His yarns are the most remarkable in the
market.
31b. J. W. Walker, one of the candi
dates for Intendant of Jonesboro, who,
after being beaten with a stick, shot and
instantly killed G'eoige Mansfield, the
opposing candidate, Is in a critical condi
tion.
It fa estimated by the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist that the advance in cot
ton has resulted in a benefit to that city
of over a million dollars.
The residence of Mr. W. C. Williams,
of Sumter county, was entered while the
family was at supper, and a trunk con
taining valuable papers and $117.50 was
stolen.
The residence of E. G. Simmons, Esq.,
of Americus, has been burned. Loss,
$2,500. Insurance, $1,500.
We learn from the Advertiser that a
colored preacher of Coffee county, nanred
Joseph Belli ended a list of misdemeanors
by stealing a watch. He has decamped.
‘Tn a free fight in Gwinnett county one
of the. Dillards lost an ear.” So says an
exchange. --This reminds us of a jury
’ an assault and battery
case in one of tho wire grass counties. Of
the twelve men in the box, not one could
be found WUU liaa -y—. oar* .am] nose
complete. The prfaoneer who had lost,
his front teeth and one oyo brow, says he
chose this remarkable jury tliat he might
be tried by liis peers.
The Brunswick Advertiser fa responsi
ble for this:
Warts on the human hand are quite a
nuisance, and how to get rid of them often
a; quration of interest. There lives in
Liberty county, where we visited the past
week, a colored woman who professes to
take them off by some secret charm. A
little nephew of the writer, who had
thirty-eight of the homy excrescences on
hfa hands, called on her recently for
treatment. She counted carefully the
warts, aud securing an equal number
of grains of com, rubbed each wart
with a separate grain of com, caus
ing some of the larger ones to bleed.
These thirty-eight grains of the “staff of
life” were carerally preserved and carried
home by the doctress, who informed her
patient that hfa warts would drop off in
eight days. On the seventh day every one
fell off, leaving the skin smooth and soft.
Now the question arises, what was it that
•caused the warts to drop? We can vouch
for the above statement, as we have it
from the best of authority—persons with
whom we have been intimate for years—
who were present at the time.
• Middle Georgia Times: The Macon
youths are bringing their knowledge of
jatin to bear upon a document issued
years ago by the Pope of Rome. The prize
i'or tlie best translation fa a copy for Mr.
Butler’s forthcoming history. They must
have an immense load of knowledge
on the subject. The. conveyances are
stalled somewhere along the road.
Georgia Uomc Journal: A murder was
committed on last Monday niglit, in the
White Plains neighborhood. Two young ne
gro hoys,we leam, named Henry Alexander
and Edward Aslily got into a difficulty
about a piece of bread, mid the latter
drew a pjstol and shot Alexander in the
head, lulling him instantly. An inquest
was nel^ on Tuesday morning, and a ver
dict for murder.returned. Ashley fa now
in jail awaiting trial.
Weekly Democrat: Last Friday, Mr.
John W. Higdon, son of Mr. J. J. Higdon,
one of*our most esteemed citizens, was
the victim of an accident which cost him
his life. He obtained the consent of lifa
father to go to miL 1 and take hfa gun so
that he could hunt on the road and while
waiting there. Arriving at the mill, he
jumped out of the wagon and grasped the
muzzle of hfa gun and attempted to pull
it out, when it discharged, the whole load
entering the yoflng man's breast. He
lived only twenty minutes after the occur
rence. t
The unfortunate was a premising young
man, seventeen years of age, and the pet
of hfa family and neighbors. And his sad
death, is deeply regretted by our whole
community. It was a heavy blow to hfa
•fond parents, who had just lost a younger
son on theftth of November. ; They have
our sincere condolence in their deep, un
fathomable sorrow. .
” How .many of our noble boys have
ended* their lives in like manner. How
many mothers and fathers brooding over
ren was the first wait who picked a bun-1 now passess, all chances favdr tberogui
dredpounds of cotton in. Georgia, l>ut he l Wh at Js required is a general law, alik
Took*, of this city, and Mr. George Be- equally, according to their merits am
dell, father of Mr. W; R. Bedell, of this riglits, without preferences of any sor
work on the same 1 farm. Mr. Tooko In- take-some, action on snch an Impm
forms us that Mr. Bedell, then a fiiten-
year old boy, on one occasion picked two
hundred pounds of cotton in a single day.
General Warren must date further back,
get up more cotton or lay down the laurels
for Mr. Bedell:
A Serious Accident.—Enquirer Sun:
Yesterday afternoon several ladies met
quite a serious accident near the cemete
ry. They were returning from the ceme
tery (from, tlie funeral .of. Mrs. Knowfa)
in au express ‘ ivirom.' Tub oaaipAnts
Were Mr. acid Mrs. Jasper Pittman, Mrs.
Sidney Smith; Mrs.: Hu K. Lamb and a
TlHy lfijwaited untifthe other vehides —Fifteen thousand cattle have been
had gone to the city.- The horse was not driven out of Falls county, Texas, on ac-
frightened, but had been -standing count of the drouth. 1
; -^naim- ^nug5uyrcn, of New
road he turned ■ very suddenly,* running ” e , rse J*> denies any knowledge of tho re.
the wheels on the-right side in - a ditch
torpedo vessel gave no warning of its ap- .... - .,
proach, but silently, and secretly, and ef- blighted hopes, and the Joss of the pride
: actively performed its death-dealing mis- -of-their heart* can trace the cause of such
sion. .deep sorrow, to the, careless handling of
In the year 1868 a royal commission fire areas. T . , 1.
met McClintock at Halifax,-where 'tempt- p D there no remedy for the evil ?
iug offers were made to him .to enter tne ;
British naval service; bat he declined
Just a month since Mr. Higdon lost an
other $on, a boy eleyen years of age. r.
A man’S ’greatness is a target. Grant'
which overturned the vehicle, throwing
the occupants some distance. One lady
was hurled at least ten feet. Sexton
Odom being near rendered all possible as-,
sistance. Dre. J. W. Pitts and S. N.
Jordan wore summoned to the scene, and
found the injuries not so bad as was at
first thought.
Sirs. Lamb’s left shoulder was dislo
cated. It was set by Dr. Pitts, and she is
now doing well.
Sirs. Smith had a severe contusion on
the head and was badly shocked.
The othera were badly bruised.
The wagon was uniqjured, with tlio ex.
ception of a broken shaft.
As an instance of what a girl can do
when sho'tries, we give tho following, taken
from the .correspondence of of the Sumter
Republican:
.We saw while on. : this trip, a Miss
Fannie Bateman, of Dooly, wlio with her
aunt, spent the night at Mqjor Veafa.
This young lady was one of seven chil
dren left to a widowed mother, by the
demise of her father last year. The home
had been desolated by the cyclone two
years since, and nothing was left but the
] louse under which the entire family took
refuge during the blast. She has, to skip
over many details of useful service, done
the ploughing and managed the crop, and
notwithstanding a disastrous drought has
made over one hundred bushels of com,
a fine crop of potatoes, peas, paid off the
debts, etc. She fa only sixteen years of
age, converses well, and lias a neat pre
sentable person.' If this dpes hot speak
well for her, and offer encouragement for
those .in indigent circumstances, what
will ? God bless the enterprising spirit,
and crown such fortitude with success and
happiness, say we.
Evening News: A remarkable case of
surgery has been reported to the French
Academy of Medicine. A carpenter near
cut off the big toe of hfa right foot with
an axe. Tee toe was held to the foot by
small thread of skin only. Dr. Ganey
detached: the too entirely, and having
washed it aud the wound on the foot,
brought 1 (he surfaces together again aud
held tlrein in place with strips of lint
soaked with, colodion. When the colo:
dion liad sat, another strip was wound
around. An apparatus was used also to
keep all parts of the foot immovable. In
*«o-onty-four days after the Accident the
cicatrization was pertect.
feSufXle inthaTdty^te.fe
Colonel A. S. Hamilton, State Senator
from the Twenty-first district, told Gover
nor Colquitt and Attorney General Ely
the day the Macon aud Brunswick rail
road was to be leased that if Georgia liad
a Governor and an Attorney General,
there would not have been any trouble in
the matter.
How to get From England to France.
In addition to the tunnel enterprise
which fa still progressing, another project
has been started to bring England in
close connection with her ancient ene
my and rival France, by means of a regu
lar ferry across the channel. The London
Railway News of November 8th says:
Wo had an opportunity of inspecting the
finished plans of a channel ferry of huge
dimensions by which it fa proposed to es
tablish railway communication with the
continent without the break of bulk for
goads, or change of carriage for passen
gers. The construction fa a novelty in
ship-building, being similar in design to
Hie new ship being built for the Czar of
Russia, except that instead of being
shaped like a turbot a “sole” would more
nearly represent her form. A huge sole
650 feet long (about as lougasthe Great
Eastern), 150 feet wide (more tlran twice
the width of the Great Eastern), but
drawing only eight feet of water, of im
mensely strong internal cons traction, pro
pelled by a number of paddles, and
screws astern, -having beneath the skin a
railway station holding 180 trucks, and
along the middle of the back magnificent
passenger accommodation, 450 feet long
and 50 feet wide, the remainder of the
back giving place tothewave3 to break
over as the huge fish glides quickly
through them. Such fa a brief descrip
tion of tlie monster vessel that fa to bridge
tlie channel and make sea-sickness and
miserable accommodation a thing of the
t. But this fa not tlie whole scheme.
It fa proposed to reduce the railway travel
between London and Paris by 100 miles
as compared with the Calias route, 70
miles as compared with the Bologne
route, reducing accordingly the fares to a
little over one-half those now charged,
while the whole time between Paris and
London fa to be reduced to eight or eight
and a quarter hours. A new line of rail
way from London to a point east of
Beacby Head and the great ferry to
Dieppe, and the new direct line from
Dieppe to Paris, makes almost a straight
line between the two great cities, and the
communication would be as perfect as it
fa possible to make it.
The connection between the ferry and.
the shore rails will be effected at all states
of the tide by means of a movable plat
form on an incline; and, as the loading
and unloading will be accomplished eas
ily within an Lour, it is expected that tlie
ferry will make two trips each way every
day.
This scheme, we can only remark, fa as
worthy as the present means of communi
cation is unworthy of “the age we live
in.”
tant question.
The above remarks apply with equi
force to the merchants of the South. N
business should be allowed to be conduct
ed where there are no checks and the part;
cannot be held responsible. But we su;
pose there will be rogues to the end of th<
world, and 'all that fa poeslble in
premises fa to be guarded and circumsj^
in every transaction with these men who
have India' rubber consciences and al
ways fail full-banded.
Cemmeicial Honor.
- The New-York Commercial Bulletin
complains that many of the parties in that
city before suspending, were guilty of gross
misrepresentations, and sharp practice af
terwards. It asserts that the disclosures
port that he is to be appointed minister to
England, and says'ho will not accept the
office. ~
Gold.—?Fhc steamship Brittanic from
Europe, on Saturday, brought $1,200,000
in American gold coin and British gold
bars. Thesteamship Donan, from Europe*
brought $07,000 in American gold coin
and British gold bars.
—The twin daughters bom to the Vis
countess Mandevilld have’been duly nam
ed and baptized. Sira. 'William K. Van
derbilt, of New York, standing as god
mother to the Lady Alva Montague, and
Miss de Rothschild, of London, as god
mother to the Lady Alice Montague.
—The Vicksburg, Shreveport anil Texas
railroad was sold at Now Orleans Monday
to Henry R. Jackson, intrust forthu
bondholders. It was sold subject to a
lien of $294,606 08, with interest at five
percent.from April 1C, 1875. Mr.Jack-
son’s bid was $60,000.
— 1 The French Government ha3 directed
the Governor of Senegal, Western Africa*
to send an expedition to' explore tho re
gion lying between the Upper Senegal and
the Niger Rivers, and report on the feasi
bility of tho construction of a railway be
tween the two rivers. -
—-The charters of the National Banks*
which were granted for twenty years,
begin to expire in 188?, one hundred and
seventy-nine of these institutions having
been chartered before January 1,1864.
It fa said that a good many shrewd men
iu Congress are looking forward with
gratification to the time when the banka
will want favors at their hands.
—Chicago now has a right to claim the
proud title of the city of hogs. In 1854
Chicago murdered only 08,849.hogs while
Cincinnati killed 421,000. This year Cin
cinnati slaughtered 798,584 while hoggish
Chicago got away with 5,100,000. Even
St. Louis fa ahead of Cincinnati on the
hog business. In the latter city tlqs year
979,261 porkers departed this life.
A Remarkable Combination.—Col
onel Ellison S.Keitt, a South Carolina pol
itician of some note, has —; ttea a lettcj .
to the Charleston NciosTand Courier,
which he seriously suggests as a Presiden
tial ticket General Grant for President
and Senator Bayard for Vice President.
Colonel Keitt thinks “Grant fa the most
renowned citizen America has overpro
duced, whilst Bayard, for purity of lifo
andlovo of country, is a household word.”
—Louisiana’s new Constitution fa adop
ted. Some of its prominent features are
the reduction of Stato taxation to six mills
on the dollar of assessed valuation; a poll-
tax of from one dollar to one dollar and %
half for public schools; biennial sessions
of the Legislature aud a vast reduction la
theaxpense of the State -Government.
The Governor nominates to all officers
and the Senate confirms, and tho Legisla
ture cannot contract debts or issue bonds
except for war purposes. State elections
arc to be held every four years, in April.
A Prlest Elected to a School Com
mittee.—At the municipal election at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday,
Father O’Brien, a Catholic priest, was
elected a member of the school committee
by a huge n majority, upon the distinct
ground that he is a supporter of the free
public school system and a rigid opponent
of the course of ^Father Scully, the priest
who has been agitating tlie subject. An
appeal in behalf of Father O’Brien’s elec
tion was circulated throughout tho city,
headed by the Rev. A. P. Peabody, the
preacher to Harvard University..
Grant’s Movements.—Tho Ex-Presi
dent sends the following letter toNevr
York: Galena, Illinois, December 2.—
To Hon, HamiltonFfah, Jr.: My Pear Sir:
I have your letter of November 28, sug
gesting that December 26 or 29, probably
tbe latter, would be convenient days to
have me go to.New* York. The 29tk will
suit me quite well, but siuce I wrote you
last, an invitation has been sent to accept
a special .car to Key West, Florida, and
passage from there to Havana, to leave
New York, Philadelphia or Washington
about December 26 or 27. If I accept
tliis, I will not go to New York before my
return next spring. On tbe whole I think ~’
it fa better to defer going until that time.
If anything should detain me so as to
make it necessary to goto New. York, I
wilt inform you as soon as I am made
aware of it. Very truly yours. -
U. S. Grant.
\ —The Russian Government proposes to
construct a railroad, for purely strategic
purposes, from Orenburg to Tailikend.
This line will be 1,650 miles long, and
will lie for the most part-through the high
and dry Eaiglifa Steppe, a sterile regioa
only inhabited by a few wild nomades,
and comparatively worthless for com-
were “Uglily discreditable,” and by false j merce. A single track road through this
swearing these dealers have been able to J rugged country will cost $100,000,000, and
buy new. stocks upon the same terms as
the soundest merchants, financilly, in tlie
community. The Buffet in justly charac
terizes. such practices as “pure fraud.”
That reliable journal says the-“ remedy
lies in a' cbange off our bankrupt laws;
it fa not expected to pay anything beyond
aiding tbe military power in a prospective
straggle with Great Britain for supremacy
in India. A Russian railroad bank, it is
reported in the London Daily News, will
guarantee five per cent, interest to capi-
and it is here where tlie cheek, once made, j talista who may undertake the construc-
would be most effectual. With such a tion of the road. It is not stated who will
multiplicity of State, insolvent laws as we guarantee the bank, _