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—- % J nnoc—^ ',h If 'Ssa' t4l a > '■* * ? t «« > -i j-j" iiwi* O ^.^3. tjuji. ^4. *4 4<i •** smseu CL1SBT, JONES & REESE, Pbopxutobs. Tn Fikilt Jovm Established 1826. ^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, _