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Tuesday Morning, August 31, 1875.
1 he great theme of discord in Germany
is of a religious character. Bismarck’s
laws on the one hand and Roman Catholic
indignation on the other keep things in a
lei inent. It is a pity that brethren cannot
dwell together in unity.
“Our Barnwell Letter” contains many
particulars of the threatened negro out
break in Aiken, Orangeburg, Colleton and
Barnwell counties. We are glad to learn
that all is at p esent quiet, although unu
sual activity has prevailed for several
weeks among the colored militia of those
counties. •
Ax Creedmoor, N. Y., on Saturday, sev
eral members of the Amarican Rifle Team
were defeated in marksmanship by an out
sider named Hepburn. What would John
Bull have done had we sent our best rifle
men to compete with him ? Well, he has
whacked us at boat rowing and steamship
building, and can afford to eat his beef in
peace.
What punishment is sufficient for a thief
who attempts to rob an editor ? The folly
of such a thing bears with it a serious pen
alty, unless indeed the robber should de
vote his attention to New York journalists,
who are supposed to carry a bundle of
greenback “rags” always about them. A
case of this sort is recorded in our tele
graphic columns this morning.
Perhaps that basket of luscious South
Carolina peaches was sent to the wrong
office. They were glorious, they were
greatly glorious, f hey were splendid, they
were magnificent. We ain’t a bit sorry we
didn’t think to divide. As to advising farm
ers, we expect hereafter, as heretofore, to
publish the best agricultural paper issued
in this city.
Old Father Spinner, now that lie has
emerged from the beguilements of the
pretty Treasury girls, has been talking
finance at Utica, N. Y. He takes
course between the contending factions,
and shows that the men who are making a
crusade against “rag” money, so-called,
are playing with dangerous tools. The
people are growing weary of being taxed
to death for a few bondholders.
Financiers in this country who attempt
to rival the Rothschilds seem to forget
that the members of that great firm are as
particular in their investments as though
they were conducting a corner grocery.
They have nothing of the “ wild cat ” about
them. Most of their would-be rivals run
their banks and speculations like Helm
bold ran his Hottentots and Buchu, and
they invariably meet with Helmbold’s
fate, or even worse than that.
We are gratified to learn that Salem
Butcher, Esq., of Augusta, has been re
tained as one of the lawyers for the State
in the insurrectionary cases. The law of
insurrection, especially in Georgia, re
quires both political knowledge and legal
antiquarian accuracy and research. No
better selection could have been made.
With certain branches of the law not often
investigated, but a mine of wealth to the
scholarly professional man, Mr. Butcher
is specially conversant.
Perhaps no more interesting article will
appear in to-day’s paper tlia* an obscure
paragraph in the Georgia General News
column upon the wonderful progress of this
State since the war. At this rate of progress
we will indeed soon forget there was a war,
and what is more, our Northern neighbors
will no longer look upon us as beggars.
The prosperity of Georgia is truly mar
velous. Let us rejoice and be exceeding
glad, for our day is near at hand like unto
that of the great nation when Augustine’s
footfall e hoed through the corridors of
Kou.e.
Attempts are being made in San Francis
co to fasten the disaster that overtook the
Bank of California upon some of the news
papers, whose editors poured hot shot into
th ■ management of that concern. The San
Francisco Examiner makes a noble and
truthful defense of the press. No bank, or
any other corporation, honestly and legiti
mately conducted, need frar public or pri
vate scrutiny. It is a pity, perhaps, that
the attacks made upon the wild, reckless
and gambling management of the Bank
of California did not commence at an ear
lier date. From all accounts Mr. Ralston
was a Napoleon of ii nance; but Napo
leons of all sorts, who rise to fame at oth
er people’-i expense and to their great det
riment, always end in disaster and disgrace.
Men, in any avocation, who seek to be
“ Napoleons,” should remember that they
will surely have their Moscow, their Wa
terloo and Sedan. The good, old-fashioned
stylo of doing business was the better plan,
for the substantial prosperity of the indi
vidual and the happiness of the public gen
erally.
Now that Turkey and Herzegovina have
both rejected outside intervention, we may
look for some lively hostilities. It is a
shame that four millions of Mohamme
dans should play f the tyrant over eleven
millions of people belonging to a different
race and different religion. One of the
great advantages possessed by the insur
gents is the bankruptcy of the Ottoman
Empire. According to Karl Blind, Tur
key has no security left for a loan but the
bracelets and bangles of the seraglio.
The New York limes shows that
this effete power "is sustained by that pub
lic opinion of Europe which protects the
holders of Turkish bonds, and by that an
cient superstition which teaches European
diplomatists that'Constantinople Is the
gateway to India. If it were possible that
a Serbian or Selavic Empire, extending
trn>ni the Adriatic to the Danube, should
spring out of the political chaos in Turkey,
European diplomacy would be appalled.—
If, as a consequence of such a change on
the map, the remainder of the Turkish em
pire should crumble, as it must do, we
should expect that three or four great pow
ers would instantly assume an offensive at
titude. Christian nations maintain Mos
lem supremacy in European Turkey. What
with an interest in the bonds of the mori
bund State, and fears of the consequences
of a division of the dead man’s effects,
these nations agree to keep the invalid
alive.” The same paper adds: “Never
theless, the end must some time come.
The new Christian empire south of the
Danube may not now arise. It is pos
sible that another Turkish loan may be ne
gotiated. It is likely that the Sultan will
inake terms with the insurgents; but these
things must be accomplished by the aid
and active interference of Christian govern
ments. The money must be borrowed in
London, Frankfort and Vienna. England,
Russia, Germany and Austria will prescribe
conditions of peace in Herzegovina and
Bosnia, just as they did in Montenegro, and
just as they secured for Servia that quasi
independence which now excites the envy
of neighboring dependencies of Turkey.
After all, it is only a shadow which re
mains of Turkey. Christian nations light
its battles and decide when peace shall be
proclaimed. It does not much matter what
formal steps Turkey may take in the trou-
Ylesof the Christian provinces. The real
power felt there does not reside in Constan
tinople.”
©)C (Aupsfo | Constihrticmiilist
Established 1799.
THE INSURRECTION.
Legal Proceedings—A Crowded Court
House —Lawyers Employed.
iSpecial to the Constitutionalist |
Tennille, Ga., August 30.
The Court House was densely crowd
ed with whites and negroes. The law
yers are : For the State —Attorney
General Hammond, Solicitor General
Robison, W. H. Wylly, Esq., of Sanders
ville, and Salem Duteher, Esq., of Au
gusta ; and for the defense—Ex-Unit
ed States Attorney General Akerman,
(who has not come), J. H. Gilmore, S.
G. Jordan, E. S. Langmede, B. D. Evans
and Thomas Evans, Esqrs., of Sanders -
ville, and J. M. Stubbs, Esq, of Lau
rens county. Akerman appears for
Cordy Harris and all not represented
by the other attorneys. Nothing done
beyond charging the grand jury.
JUDGE JOHNSON’S CHARGE.
Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand
Jury: Having been properly advised that
a plot of insurrection, conceived and
framed by a portion of ttie black, for
the indiscriminate murder of the white
people of this and other counties, has been
detected and ext osed and that many have
been arrested upon the charge of com
plicity with the horrid design, 1 have called
this special term, under the 3245 section o f
the Lode of Georgia, for the purpose of a
full investigation and the trial of those
against whom, if any, bills of indictment
may be found by your body. Before enter
ing upon the task before you, 1 will submit
to you a few remarks which may enable
you to perform it intelligibly ami in the
proper spirit.
Under our Code (section 4315-6) you have
Ihe definition of insurrection and the at
tempt to incite insurrection, as follows :
“Insurrection shall consist in any combined
resistance to the lawful authority of the
State, with intent to the denial thereof,
when the mme is manifested, or intended
to be manifested, by acis of violence,” and
“any attempt, by persuasion or otherwise,
to induce others to join in any combined
resistance to the lawful authority of the
State, shall constitute an attempt to incite
insurrection.” Under the 4,317 th section of
the (’ode, the penalty for either is declared
to be death, unless the jury trying the ac
count recommend him to mercy, and then
the penalty is confinement in the peniten -
tiary not less than five nor more than
twenty years. You perceive from these
definitions that a single individual cannot
commit insurrection, The crime, from its
very nature, requires the joint action of
two or more. But one person can commit
the crime of attempting to incite insurrec-
tion.
The task before you is now to enquire
diligently into the matter of this allegen
insurrection in order to ascertain (1) wheth
er there has, in fact, been any insurrection,
or any attempt by any person to incite in
iusuirection, and (2) to indict, by bill or
presentment, such persons as you shal.
find to be implicated therein. It is import
ant for you to know upon what testimony
it will be your duty to find true bills or
to make presentments. On this point let
me impress you:
First—That you are not authorized to
lind a true bill against, nor present, any
one upon mere suspicion. You must be
governed by proof.
Secondly—'l hat you are not authorized to
iind a true bill against, nor present, any
one upon mere rumor or heresay testi
mony.
The law presumes every one to be inno
cent until lie is proven to bo guilty, and
the humblest as well as the highest citizen
is entitled to the benefit of this presump
tion. No one can be put in jeopardy of life
or liability upon mere suspicion, or rumor,
or heresay.
But while I thus instruct you, you are
not to infer that the law requires positive
ad irrefragable proof o*‘ guilt in order to
justify you iu finding a true bill against, or
presenting, any one for the commission of
crime. For it is not your province to try
parties and decide finally upon/heir guilt,
or innocence. That responsibility is de
volved by law up na petit jury. Investi -
gations before you are ex pat te —you hear
but one side of the case—that is, such tes
timony only as may be produced by the
prosecutor or informer. Hence it is impos -
sible tor you to say whether a party is ac
tually guilty or not. All you can do is to
find from the testimony before you, as a
grand jury, you believe the accused to be
guilty, in that case, it is your duty to find
a true bill or to make presentment, So
far from trying parties yourselves, it is for
you to say whether they shall be tried. If
the evidence adduced before you leads you
to believe that the party is guilty you
should find a “true bill,” or make present
ment, and thus decide that the accused
shall be put on trial; otherwise, you wit
find “no bill," which simply means that the
presumption of innocence in favor of the
accused has not been removed or rebutted
that you do not believe he is guilty, and
therefore he is not to be tried for the al
leged offence.
Now as to tho amount of proof necessary
to show a prima /act; case of gu.lt, 1 can
give you no definite rule. Each case must
'stand upon the testimony, viewed in con
nection with its attendant circumstances.
But in all cases the proof must be sufficient
to satisfy your consciences and judgments
that the accused according to that evidence
is guilty. On this point there is quite a
conflict among the authorities. On the one
hand it has been contended that the grand
jury should be satisfied of the guilt of the
defendant. On the other hand, it has been
insisted that in case there be “probableevi
dence the grand jury should find tho bill,
because it is but an accusation and the
party is to be put upon his trial afterwards.”
In my judgment, the safe and true rule is
this: Suppose you were a petit jury trying
the defendant, if the evidence before you
as a grand jury be such that if unexplained
or uncontradicted you would find him
guilty, then you should find a true bill. To
this, as well as to all other questions, three
kinds of evidence are applicable, to-wit:
direct, circumstantial and presumptive. Di
rect evidence is that which immediately
points to the question in issue. Crcum
stantial evidence is that which only tends
to establish the issue by proof of various
facts sustained by their consistency with
the hypothesis claimed. Presumptive evi
dence' consists of inferences drawn by
human experience from the connection
of cause and effect, and observation of
human conduct. In applying these various
kinds of testimony to the cases before vou
you should first determine whether there
is sufficient direct testimony, unexplained
and uncontradicted, to show that the ac
cused is guilty, if so, lind a “true bill.’
Or, if there be no direct evidence, or, if any,
not euough, inquire whether there have
been facts proved which by their consist
ency with the hypothesis of guilt tend to
establish the guilt of the accused, and sat
isfy your consciences and judgments tha - :
according to such evidence, uneontradicted
and unexplained, he is guilty. If so, you
should find a “true bill.” Or, if there be no
direct evidence, nor enough, in connection
with the circumstantial, to make out a case
of guilt, then inquire whether, from all the
evidence, both direct and circumstantial,
the necessary inferences drawn from hu
man experience, from the connection of
cause and effect, and the observations of
human conduct, uncontradicted and unex
plained, you are satisfied of theguiit of the
accused. If so, you should find a “true
bill.” On the other hand, if neither the di
rect, nor the circumstantial, nor the pre
sumptive, separately considered, nor all
these three kinds of evidence combined be
sufficient to satisfy’ your consciences ari l
judgments of the guilt of the accused, it
will be your duty’ to return “no bill.”
You have all served as Grand Jurors be
fore this, and you have been instructed by
the charge of Court as to y’our duti- s.—
Hence wnat I have said may be unneces
sary. But in view of the gravity of this
occasion, and being animated with an ear
nest anxiety for you to do what is right, I
feel constrained to impart to you these
special instructions that y’ou may act un
derstandingly.
And now, gentlemen, I will submit to you
a few remarks in relation to the spirit and
temper in which you should conduct your
investigations. The phraseology of the
oath you have just taken is pregnant with
instruction. You have sworn that “y’ou
will not present any one from envy T , hatred,
or malice, nor leave any one uupresented
from fear, favor or inward or the hope
thereof, but that you will present all things
truly and as they come to your knowledge ”
This language addresses your moral sense
and binds your consciences to the throne ol
eternal justice, whilst, by it, you call upon
the Supreme Being to witness the solemn
obligation into which you have entered.—
Then, the spirit that should animate you is
that of strict impartiality and fearlessness.
Ordinarily, this admonition ivould per
haps be unnecessary. But the circum
stances which have brought us together
are well calculated to excite the indignation
of the most prudent and self-possessed. It
is impossible to contemplate with compla
cency a plot for wholesale, indiscriminate
and secret murder of one race by a part of
the other race, which two constitute the
elements of our social organization. It is
difficult to suppress a feeling of vin
dictive revenge against those charged
with thus plotting bloodshed and slaugh
ter. But you and I are here in a ju
dicial capacity, to administer justice
according to law, and not according to
human passions. We must not permit
ourselves to be sway’ed in our conduct by
any angry impulse, however natural; nor
our judgment to be warped by the rumors
which may have been circulated in refer
ence to the alleged insurrection. We are
sworn to impartiality; we are sworn to ex
pel from our bosoms every feeling of ha
tred, or malice, or revenge; we are sworn
to bo guided by the light of truth aud to
enforce the law just as it is.
Those who are alleged to have concocted
this plot of insurrection are colored people,
lately the slavesof the white race. This f.ct
is ealeulated to inflame the indignation of
the latter, and intensify their feeling of inse
curity. But we must watch ourselves on
tiiis point. They are free, and entitle ito a
fair and impartial trial. Tho law throws
over both races the same and equal pro
tection. Nor is this any new feature in our
Code. It is not the fruit of emancipation.
Even when they were slaves they were
shielded by law. and could not be punished
for violations of tiie criminal Code without
a fair and impartial judicial trial. In this
respect emancipation has conferred on
them no new boon, nor imposed upon the
whites any new obligation. Then, gentle
men, iu your investigations ignore the fact
that the accused are negroes; ignore the
fact that they were ever slaves. Beal with
them as free, and as if they were white,
and award to them their full legal right to
your impartiality. Let it be our conscien
tious resolve to afford them—that is, those
against whom, if any, you may find true
bills or make presentments—a fair trial ac
cording to that law of our State to which
all are alike amenabie.
In every community—and, gentlemen,
Washington county is not an exception—
there is a considerable number of men
who, under circumstances like those we are
considering, are disposed to adopt extreme
measures, and some will go 1 ven so far as
to advocate summary punishment irre
spective of the lorms and principles of law.
Fortunately in this instance (and it should
be recorded to the honor of this county, as
well as of all the other counties embraced
in the supposed insurrection) not a gun
has been fi ed, not an act of cruelty or vi
olence has bee a perpetrated by those who
were to be the victims of the alleged plot.
Such forbearance, under such circum
stances, is perhaps without a parallel. It
ought to acquit us of the untrue and un
kind imputations by those to whom the
facts are not known. But, gentlemen, I
am now speaking of those among us (if
there be such) who may feel impatient of
the restraints of law, aud who would coun
sel extreme and summary action. They
may disapprove of much that may be done
here. They may complain if you should
ignore bills of indictment that may be
preferred, or fail to present any who
are supposed to be implicated. Remember
that you are sworn to act without
fear. Disregard outside influence and
outside clamor. Shrink not from duty.
Follow where truth and justice and law
lead, and time will vindicate your recti
tude, and in the end your course will re
ceive unanimous approval. Duty, impar
tially performed,imparts consolation more
precious than rubies; but disloyalty to
truth and right leaves in the soul a sting
that is akin to 1 he “,-econd death.”
There is another class of censors—not of
us or amongst us—who impute the whole
of this grave affair to the machinations of
bad white men, who desire to bring about a
collision between the races, that the whites
may have a pretext for murdering the
blacks. This is contradicted by the fact
that throughout the whole affair not an act
of violence has been perpetrated against a
colored man. But Ido not allude to this
calumny for the purpose of refuting it. The
investigations on which you are about to
enter will show whether or not it is a
scheme concocted by white men for any
such brutal purpose. But I refer to it to
admonish you not to be influenced by it in
any wav or to any degree. Let it not ex
cite your prejudice against tho black
race, nor incline y u 10 shape your
actions with a view of conciliating
our maligners. Be firm and true to your
duty. Ignore every consideration calcula
ted to divert you from the path of inflexi
ble rectitude. The innocent should not be
prosecuted, much less punished; but the
guilty must take the consequences of their
conduct. It is of the utmost importance
that we adhere to the law—follow the law—
conform to tho forms and principles of law.
The law is our sheet anchor. Its mission is
to protect property, life and liberty. It
guaids with flaming sword the hovel as
well as the palace, and throws its tog is
over tho poor as well as the rich and the
mighty. Without law anarchy and revolu
tion must reign and society recede to the
darkness and cruelty of barbarism. Its su
premacy must be recognized aud main
tained; aud this implies not only the en
forcement when violated but also a cheer
ful obedience to it by all. Voluntary obe
dience to wholesome laws is the very es
sence of liberty, and the most distinguished
characteristic of a good citizen, aud their
firm aud impartial enforcement, when vio
lated, by a pure and intelligent judiciary is
the very essence of good government.
Then, bowing before the majesty of the
law, let us hold the scales of justice with
steady hand and unfaltering purpose.
FINANCIAL.
Gen. Spinner Gives Ilis Views—His
Conservative Course —“Rag Money,”
So-called, Good Enough for Him—
How the People are Bamboozled.
Utica, N. Y., August 30.—Gen. Spin
ner has been interviewed. He ex
pressed himself freely on the linancial
question, and gave his theory as that
of an incontrovertible bond bearing in
terest at the rate of three and sixty
five hundredths per cent.; not Judge
Kelley’s paper bond, but one bearing
interest in gold, and capable of being
honorably and easily substituted for
our Government sixes. Ho denied be
ing an inflationist, in any sense of the
word, but said that, on the other hand,
he was no bullionist, and agreed with
nobody who describes and derides our
present currency as a “ rag ” currency.
He ascribed the apparent unpopularity
of such a bond to the efforts of the
banks to becloud and deceive the peo
ple with regard to its purposes and ef
fects. He predicted a time when their
reasons and false promises would be
understood and the people would take
the matter into their own hands and
demand legislasion that was in their
interest. The effect of such a bond as
this, General Spinner said, had been
studied out by him in all its ramifica
tions, and he was not only convinced
that it was a safe and wise measure for
Congress to eaget, but that it was the
only one possible whereby to achieve
a stable, equitable and permanent
financial basis for the Government. He
did not believe that there was much
significance in the attitude of the two
political parties in Ohio on the finan
cial question. Neither of them under
stood what they were quarrelling
about, and each was trying to throw
more dust than the other ; but he did
believe the financial issue a live one for
all that. It was the issue about which
the people thought the most, and upon
which they most demanded light and
right action.
Buffalo, August 30.—John S. Gason,
President of the Buffalo (N. Y.) and
Erie Bank, is dead, aged 73.
Raleigh, N. C., August 30.—Mayor
J. H. Separks, of this city, died this
moruing of pneumonia and erysipelas,
after a brief illness. He was esteemed
by all parties. His death was a shock
to the community. The funeral will
take place to-morrow,
AUGUSTA. GA.., IjUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1875.
HARD HONEY SMASHES.
A “RAG MONEY” TIDi|L WAVE.
Montreal Merchants Goinj; Under-
Ralston’s Affairs in a Tem’ible Con
dition—An Unnatural Cali i—“ Whis
tling in the Graveyard”—ihe Pulpit
on the Bead Dev eloper. J
Montreal, August 30.—Fourteen dry
goods firms were compellefl to make
arrangements with creditors*during the
week. r
San Francisco, August 29.-J-Althgugh
the Directors of the Bank ofiCalifornia,
as a Board, have persistently refused
to make public any of their proceedings
to-day, some facts have ti-s evening
been obtained from individual mem
bers. In view of the recent calamity
which has overtaken Ralstoii the Board
have declined to make |ublic any
discovery they have made until
after the funeral, wlierl startling
disclosures are promised, lit was ad
mitted by a member that fhey would
not have asked Ralston’* resigna
tion unless grave facts regarding his
management had come to Hight. All
the Board agreed he mus| leave the
concern. It was also practically ad
mitted that the bank could &ot pay de
positors in full—perhaps about eighty
pier cent. As regards what* has been
said of the influence extended by the
Call and the Bulletin in thei* strictures
upon Ralston in causing tfie crash, it
was also admitted that the ijicts prove
these strictures to have *been well
grounded, and that they could have
had no bad effect upon the bank had it
not been intrinsically weak. I The gen
tlemen interviewed were cisposed to
be very reticeut, but the aftove state
ment can be received as at): unwilling
expression of facts. $
Except in Los Angelos, wl|ere all the
banks are temporarily suspended, the
Bank of California failure! does not
seem to have effected the inferior.
The city to-day has resumed its
wonted quiet, the excitement of the
last few days having died tout, and a
general feeling of confidence has fol
lowed in banking circles. ]£o further
concern is apparently felt. U’he secre
tary of the Merchants’ Exchange Bank,
in an interview to-day, state* that the
bank will resume in the moiling with
out doubt, the transfers* from the
United States Treasury ant* coin col
lected from local sources having placed
the institution iu a condition to go on
as usual, aud no run is anticipated to
morrow beyond what may I*3 expected
in tho usual course of business. Tho
only other suspended bank?the Bank
and Trust Company, report* favorable
progress, but will not open l*>r several
days yet. To-morrow is general col
lection day, but it is confidently be
lieved that it will pass withojit any fur
ther suspension ; the larger Proportion
of the mercantile communit j being in
a condition to satisfy all diftnands on
presentation, aud a general disposition
evinced to render aid and ext ension to
those who need it. In the citjy churches
to-day the attendance wasi unusually
large, dra.vn by memorial sermons de
livered iu many of them on ithe death
of Mr. Ralston. The genera*! tenor of
the discourses was eulogistic of the
popular, able and generous character
of tho deceased, with due considera
tion in regard to the errors of his
course. The funeral takes? place to
morrow. i
Tlie Influence of tlie Press its Exposing
Financial Rottenness,
San Francisco, August 30.-i The Dem
ocratic organ iu this city, the-. Examiner,
referring editorially to the: efforts of
several ring journals to charge certain
independent newspapers with the re
sponsibility for the recenj financial
t rouble, by their criticisms of’-the course
and conduct of Mr. RalstLn, says :
“ We do not believe these r’ssaults on
Mr. Ralston, and his contemplated
schemes caused the suspension of the
Rank of Califordia. That c: ncern was
wrongly conducted, aud it reached the
conclusion which befalls al| misman
aged institutions of like character. But
if the journals named are justly charge
able with the suspension ol the bank,
they deserve credit therefor ’ Tho rot
tenness of its condition copld not be
exposed too soon. While We sympa
thize with the losers by its failure, it is
better for the public that n,he crash
should come before hundreds of our
fellow-citizens became involved in ruin.”
Two Bauks Fail to Resumfc—Throw
ing Tubs to tlie Whale,
San Francisco, August 30.- The Mer
chants’ Exchange Bank did not open
to-day, in violation of a positive as
surance on the part of thefsecretary.
The officers apparently are dess confi
dent of immediate resumption.
The National Gold and derust Com
pany Bank is still closed, officers
are unable to state when tl f -y will re
sume, but say the outlook icjfavorable.
Merchants Going to Protect—Attach
ing Bank Property in Ne>r York.
San Francisco, August 30. —A num
ber of cases were reported; to-day in
which commercial paper ha's gone to
protest, in some instances of prominent
firms ,;but as no disposition iit shown to
take any action on protestl or push
endorsers, in a majority of qises notes
have been partially paid anfl renewed.
New York, August 30. —Judge Brad
ley, of the Supreme Court, granted an
attachment on the property of the
Bank of California in this State, to re
cover $15,000 deposited with |hat bank.
Mysterious Gold Transfer,
naif a miilion dollars ini gold was I
transferred by the sub-tresjsury here
to-day to banks in addition |o amounts
previously reported, but ijj was not
stated to what banks it has j|one.
Minor Telegrams,
Long Branch, August 29. — {Articles of j
agreemeut have been signed between
Johnson, the English champion, and
Andrew Frantz for $2,000 .'Did cham
pionship of the world, to a match
in the ocean, a distance of jKlvo miles,
within ten days from date. )
Lawrence, Mass., August 30.—The
Atlantic Mills resumed ajter seven
weeks’ idleness. They employ 1,000
hands. |
Montreal, August 30.—(general W.
T. Sherman, of the United states, and
family are here.
Chicago, August} 29.—Dr. A. K. Pat
terson, in charge of the asylum where
Mrs. Lincoln is confined, writes to the
Tribune denying the receuf statement
that he has given a certificate that she
should be discharged. He oidsay that
under certain circumstances it might
be safe for her to visit he| sister at
Springfield, but she is at p&sent more
perturbed in mind than whet) he made
the statement to her son. \He denies
the story of her being locked up, She
receives visitors and has bpe use of a
carriage to visit her friends in Batavia.
San Francisco, August 30. -The Dep
uty Collector at Antioch, Contracosta
county, seized Jost’s distillery and 26,-
000 gallons of spirits, valued at $50,000,
on the charge of illicit manjluacture of
whiskey, j
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS.
Another Revolution in San Domingo—
The Tripoli Trouble—Servians Help
ing llerzegovna—Troops for Cuba
—Khokand Rising Against Russia—
Details of the Capitulation of Seo de
Urgel.
Havana, August 29.—Another revolu
tion has begun in Santo Domingo. Ex-
President Baez has been proclaimed
President by the revolutionists. The
cities of Santo Domingo aud Puerto
Plata remain loyal to President Gon
zales. Captain General Valmaseda has
sent a Spanish war vessel to protect
the Spanish citizens of Santo Domingo.
London, August 29.—The United
States steamer Congress arrived at
Malta to-day, and proceeded to Corfu
and Venice, after landing tho American
Consul at Tripoli and his family. Their
absence from Tripoli is deemed expe
dient, lest new and unpleasant inci
dents arise.
Bagusa, August 29.— One thousand
Servian volunteers, under the leader
ship of Zures, have entered Herzego
vina. Mehemet Ali has been recalled
by telegraph, aud has returned to Con
stantinople. It is rumored that an In
surrection has broken out iu Albania.
Madrid, August 29. —The Ministerial
■Council have decided to send 12,000
troops to Cuba by September 29, and
10,000 more in October. Transports to
convey them have already been char
tered.
Paris, August 29. — It is semi-offici
ally announced here that iu conse
quence of the unanimous wish of
France there is now reason to hope
that the Catholics of Germany will
make no pilgrimage to French terri
tory.
London, August 30. —A Berlin dis
patch to tlie Times says a body of Rus
sian troops have taken the field against
Khokand. The insurrection has spread
to the southern districts and Russian
Turkistan. The town of Khojerd is in
tho hands of the insurgents, whose
priests are proclaiming a holy war
against tho infidels.
A Beilin dispatch to the Daily News
says the Herzigovinian insurgents re
ject the advice of European powers to
suspend hostilities. They demand in
dependence of Bosnia.
A special dispatch to the Daily News
from Bourg la Dame says a formal
surrender of Seo de Urge! occurred on
Friday. The citadel was handed over
to the Alfonsists Saturday. Fifty Car
lists were killed and one hundred
wounded during theseigo. Eight hun
dred prisoners were taken, including
three officers.
Gen. Joveilar has asked permission
to return to Cuba. He considers his
presence here no longer necessary.
The Turks in Mostar —The Servians
Invade Turkish Territory—Active
Warlike Preparations—News from
the Polar Expedition Garibaldi
111—The Lord Mayor of London Re
ceives a Papal Order.
Vienna, Augusta 30.—Three battal
ions of the Turkish expedition which
landed at Kleck have reached Mostar,
the capital of Herzegovina. They met
with no opposition on the march.
Four thousand Servians have entered
Turkish territory and eucamped at
Novi, where they have seized the tele
graph lines. Bauds of Servians have
appeared in the Balkan Mountains, en
deavoring to excite Bulgarians to rise
against the Porte.
London, August 30.—A Berlin corres
pondent of the Times telegraphs that
Northern Bosnia is involved in rebel
lion against the Porte. The insurgents
of Herzegovina have established a na
tional government in Montenegro and
Servia and are actively preparing for
war. The official press of Montenegro
does not conceal its sympathy with tho
movement.
London, August 30.—Late advices
from the Government Polar Expedition
have been received from West Green
land. The Alert and Discovery had ar
rived at Disco after a pleasant passage
from England. Both sailed from Rit
tenbenk, July 17th, for Upernavik. All
on board were well. Preparations have
been made for pushing on as far north
as possible in the Alert, and for sledge
expeditions beyond to the pole.
Rome, August 30. —Gen. Garibaldi is
at his home iu Caprera, where he is
confined by illness, resulting from over
work on his scheme for the improve
ment of the Tiber.
Dublin, August 30.—The Pope has
conferred the grand cross of the Order
of St. Gregory on the Lord Mayor of
Dublin.
Bosnia and Servia In a Blaze of Re
volt— Monienego to Join in the Fray
—A Great War Imminent.
London, August 30.—A special to the
Times, from Berlin, says there is no
doubt tliat all northern Bosnia, along
the river Save, is iu full rebellion. Fugi
tives who have sought safety on Aus
trian soil number 8,000 and are mostly
the wives and children of rebels who
have deserted their villages and made
for the hills. In Herzegovina the in
surgents have formed a national gov
ernment, under Lynbobratich. Insur
gent leaders have been assured by their
Montenegrin friends that very shortly
all Monteuego will come to their assist
ance. Iu Servia military preparations
continue. At Belgrade the war office
has ordered the arms aud accoutre
ments of the militia, including surgical
apparatus, to be made ready for imme
diate inspection. Servian militiamen
have been directed to provide them
selves with three days food should
they be called out. Provisions are be
ing stored in fortresses and arrange
ments have been made to seize all the
horses in the country.
The Troubles of Don Carlos.
Rome, August 30.—The Voce Della
Verita says, editorially, the capitulation
of Seo de Urgel may determine Don
Carlos to disband his forces and await
a more favorable period to renew the
struggle.
Madrid, August 30.— 1 t is officially
announced that Quintinalla’s band of
Carlists has been completely routed
near Santander.
Conflicting Accounts from Montenegro.
Berlin, August 30.—The steady
growth of the rebellion may be in
ferred from the following possage in
the Montenegrin official journal, the
Glas-Cerenagorza: “The insurrection
is fast assuming formidable dimensions.
Symptoms of serious designs multiply.
Men are yearning for war, and oily
tongued diplomacy is impotent to pre
vent them this time. The insurrection
is sure to result in emancipation. Not
the rulers but the nation will decide
what is to be done. If the rebellion be
comes general, Servia and Montenegro
will not be idle spectators. Now or
never !”
Vienna, August 30.—The Correspon
denz says Montenegro has completed
negotiations with Turkey, by which
the former binds herself to remain
neutral between Turkey and Herzego-
vina in consideration of certain terri
torial concessions.
Cable Speculation—lnternational Law.
London, August 30.—Shares of the
United States Direct Cable Company
to-day advanced one shilling, on a ru
mor that the Faraday had succeeded
in repairing the cable. Shares of the
Anglo-American Company declined two
shillings.
The Hague, August 30.—The Insti
tute of International Law has approved
the three rules of the treaty of Wash
ington as a basis for defining the du
ties of neutral States.
The Dundee Strike —Cardinal Mc-
Closkey and Other Cardinals.
London, August 30. -The strike of
mill operatives in Dundee, which began
July 28, continues, but it is believed to
be nearing the end. Negotiations are
in progress for a compromise, and a
satisfactory result is expected soon.
Rome, August 30.— Cardinal McClos
ky is expected to arrivo at Rome on
September 4th. He will only receive
the ring and the titles pertaining to his
new dignity. He will* not receive the
hat, because its investiture would en
tail a grand public ceremony. The
following Prelates will be created Car
dinals at tlie next Consistory : Autici,
Mattei, Pacca, Randi, Siineoni, Vitel
lesclii and the Archbishop of Rennes.
The Carlists Discouraged.
San Sebastian, August 30.—Intelli
gence from Tolosa is to tho effect that
the Carlists are greatly discouraged.—
Don Carlos is at Durango.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Robbing an Editor—A “ Crooked ”
Treasurer—Conflagration—Tremen
dous Rain Storm.
New York, August 29. —This morn
ing a burglar entered tho residence of
Win. Young, managing editor of the
New York Sun, at 239 Dean street,
Brooklyn. Ho found his way to Mr.
Young’s bed and chloroformed
both him and his wife. While the bur
glar was searching through the room,
Mr. Young recovered consciousness aud
gave the alarm, but the burglar es
caped with only fifty dollars, which he
found in Mr. Young's pockets.
Trenton, N. J., August 29.—The Gov
ernor h is been here all day in reference
to the defalcation of the State Treasur
er. The amount of the defalcation is
certainly sixty thousand dollars. There
is some talk of an extra session of the
Legislature to appoint anew Treasurer,
and another idea is that the Treasurer
may resign, aud in that event the Gov
ernor can appoint anew one.
New Rochille, N. Y., August 30.
Six business houses were totally burned
here this morning, entailing a loss of
about $50,000. Insurance small.
Washington, August 29. — There was
a heavy rain storm here to-day, two
inches and eighty one-hundredths of
rain having fallen between 7:35 this
morning and 4:35 this afternoon. The
rain at no other point in the country
during the same time exceeded the
fourth of an inch. There was consid
erable damage to property all over the
city, particularly on Pennsylvania ave
nue.
A Kidnapping Case—Horrible Death of
a Colored Minister—Gunning for
Cats Causes the Death of Two Girls.
Philadelphia, August 30.—Wm. West
ervelt was arraigned on an indictment
for kidnapping, conspiring to kidnap,
conceal and extort money in connection
with the Charlie Ross affair. The panel
of the jury is progressing.
Long Branch, August 30.—Rev. Wm.
Vandev'ere, pastor of the Shiloh Pres
byterian Church, colored, of New York,
was run over by a coal train, cut in
two, and horribly mangled.
Boston, August 30.—Yesterday, at
Hopkinton, twenty miles from Boston,
a boy named Morris Ryan, aged 16
years, started down stairs with a load
ed gun, intending to shoot a cat, wheii
his sister Mary, aged 15, who desired
to savo the cat’s life, caught her broth
er by the shoulder to pull him back.
At tiie same moment two other young
er sisters came to the head of the
stairs. In the scuffle between Morris
and Mary the gun went off, killing
Mary and one of the other sisters. A
third sister was wounded in tho arm
and Morris was wounded in the leg.
Spontaneous Combustion—A Religious
Murder—Tramps on tlie Rampage-
Fatal Duel in the Dark,
Jersey City, August 30.—A factory
of gun cotton anil chemicals exploded,
it is supposed, from spontaneous com
bustion.
Columbus, 0., August 30.—Jas. Dunn,
Catholic, and Robert Coulter, Protest
ant, had a heated religious discussion.
Coulter shot Duun fatally and escaped.
Elizabeth, N. J., August 30. —Seven-
teen tramps, who were locked up Fri
day night, threaten vengeance. They
burned three houses on Sunday.
Waco, Texas, August 30.—A duel oc
curred last night in tho dark, between
Chas. Carrick and John M. Turner, at
a distance of four feet, with six-shoot
ers. Three shots were fired. Turner
was killed. The quarrel arose from a
trivial matter.
Arrest of an Assassin.
Memphis, August 30. —Aleck Stephen
son, the negro who assassinated James
H. McNeill last Friday, near Scanlan’s
Landing, Arkansas, was arrested and
committed without bail, he having been
identified by McNeill’s hands as the ne
gro seen escaping when the shot was
fired. It is believed Stephenson was
instigated to kill McNeill by other par
ties.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
A Triangular Controversy Between
Bishop, Priests and People.
Louisville, August 30. — Within the
past week considerable commotion has
been created among the Catholic clergy
and laity of the Diocese of Louisville,
growing out of the removal by Bishop
McCloskey of Rev. Father Bax, Pastor
of St. John’s Church, of Louisville, and
his transfer to Bowling Green, Ky., in
place of Rev. Father de Vries, who was
ordered to Hardinburg, Ky. Father
de Vries refused to go, and appealed to
Rome, which action, and other circum
stances of a rebellious character con
nected with the removals, caused Bish
op McCloskey to depute Very Rev.
Father Blanchet, Vicar General, and
Very Rev. Father Dunn, Chancellor, to
proceed to Rome for the purpose of
representing him, and they are now on
their way there. St. Johu’s congrega
tion made an appeal to the Bishop to
rescind the order removing Father Bax,
but without effect. In order to allay
what threatened to become a public
scandal, Bishop McCloskey concluded,
although contrary to usage, to explain
matters from the pulpit yesterday, de
fending his action, and assigning as the
cause of the trouble that Father de
Vries had refused to furnish the yearly
report of the financial condition of his
parish, for which he was removed to
another parish.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 22.
THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA.
History of the Bank—lts Connections
—Operations of the Bank and its
President.
The Bank of California, whose sus
pension has been announced, was at
the head of the fiscal institutions of the
Pacific coast. It was organized in July,
1864, under the laws of California, and
had at that time a capital of $2,000,000.
This has since been increased to $5,000,-
000, on which sum a regular monthly
dividend of one per cent, was paid. The
bank is understood to have had very
large reserves. Its list of officers and
stockholders includes the names of
many of the leading citizens of Califor
nia, and its influence extended to every
part of the country. Its foreign rela
tions are also unusually extensive. It
has correspondents and drew directly
on London, Dublin, Paris, St. Peters
burg, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg,
Bremen, Berlin, Leipsic,‘Vienna, Frank
fort-on-the-Main, Copenhagen, Stock
holm, Christiania, Goteborg, Locarno,
Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Now
Zealand, Hong Kong, Shanghai and
Yokahama. The following are the
principal agents of the bank: In New
York, Ludlow & Cos.; in Boston, Tre
mont National Bank; in Chicago, the
Union National Bank: in London, China
Japan and India, the Oriental Bank
Corporation. In addition to these the
bank has agencies at Virginia City and
Gold Hill, and correspondents in all the
principal mining districts and interior
towns of the Pacific coast. The Presi
dent of the corporation was \V. C. Rals
ton, and the Cashier, Thos. Brown.
As tho bank was concerned in a great
variety of industrial enterprises in Cali
fornia and the adjacent States, the im
mediate effect of a suspension will be
most unfortunate. In various ways the
policy of the institution has been one of
encouragement of the young industries
of the State. With an astonishing com
mand of the details of business, Mr.
Ralston, the manager, has taken an in
terest in every scheme that promised
to aid the commercial prosperity of the
Pacific coast, and yield a fair return on
an investment. Among the recent in
vestments of Ralston was the Palace
Hotel building, San Francisco, an enor
mous structure, said to be the largest
hotel in the world. This caravansary,
to cost about $2,000,000 when finished,
was to be ready for guests on the Ist of
October next. Mr. William Sharon,
United States Senator from Nevada, re
cently purchased Ralston’s interest in
this enterprise. Whether justly or not,
the bank, or its managers, has been re
puted to be engaged in a vast number
of mining schemes, some of which have
been costly and unprofitable. The prin
cipal stockholders, however, are men of
great wealth, and their assets, aside
from any interest in the property of the
bank, must amount to many millions.
Although the hand of the manager was
felt everywhere, it is supposed that he
was not largely interested in the recent
“bonanza” mining excitement in Cali
fornia and Nevada, though it was
impossible that that strange move
ment should not affect the affairs
of the bank. The master spirit of the
Bank of California was William O. Ral
stou, one of those keen, restless, “kings
of business,” who make their mark
wherever they go. Until within a year
or two Ralston was cashier of the bank,
and D. O. Mills was president. At the
retirement of Mr. Mills, the cashier was
promoted to the head of the institu
tion. Visitors to California, if promi
nent men, whether lawyers, lecturers,
editors. Congressmen, distinguished
foreigners, financiers, or business men,
did not consider that they had seen
the institutions of the country unless
they had visited the magnificent bank
buiiding, and had been entertained at
the princely country-seat of Mr. Rals
ton, at Belmofh, in the Santa Clara val
ley, not far from San Francisco. The
famous financier was a quick, alert man,
of few words and decisive character.—
His dispatch of business was something
marvelous, and the popular belief in
his infalibility amounted to a supersti
tion. His opinion of men, business pro
jects, and in financial matters general
ly, was considered conclusive. His
personal power in the States and Ter
ritories of the Pacific was great. The
influence of the corporation of which
he was chief officer was felt every
where.
California Speculations.
The failure of the Bank of California,
while immediately caused by a depos
itors’ run, was directly the outcome of
a conflict between two classes of Cali
fornia speculators, one the Bank of
California, headed by Mr. Ralston and
Mr. Sharon, and the other headed by
Messrs. Flood, O’Brien and Heydenfelt.
The latter party have established a
bank in San Francisco call the Bank of
Nevada, with a cash capital of five mil
lion dollars in gold, and a right to in
crease to twenty millions. Incidental to
this right have been the mining prop
erties known as the Savage, the Cale
donia, the California, the Ophir and
the Consolidated Virginia. The three
latter are known as the Big Bonanza
mines, and the Bank of California
partly obtained control of them. In
getting this control the stock of the
California was run up from 60 to 800,
was then multiplied by five, which
would make the highest price 160 ; it
has since declined to 58. The Ophir
stock, while they were getting control,
advanced from 80 to 700, was multiplied
by five, making 700 represent 140 in
new stock ; it has since declined to 46.
The Consolidated Virginia, during the
progress of getting control, advanced
from 86 to 780 ; it was yesterday 267.
The losses on these speculations are
typical of other transactions, and throw
light on the causes of the impairment
of the credit of the bank and its break
down. The operations of the bank in
the hotel line are too well known to
need mention. That the bank has been
strained of late and pinched has been
evident to bankers here, who have
shunned their bills, from the fact that
in the past sixty days most of the bills
offered in this market have been those
of other institutions, indorsed by the
Bank of California. The inference has
been that the Bank of California had
hypothecated securities with those who
lent their bills, and that this borrowed
exchange was used to obtain funds
needed to carry on the large opera
tions of the bank. In the borrowed
bills which have so appeared were those
of the Bank of British Columbia and
the Bank of British North America.
The Cat in the Meal Tub.
[Courier-Journal.]
From August, 1874, to August, J 75
the mining stocks created in San Fran
cisco have aggregated §117,000,000.
Such a vasf expansion of speculative
business is probably without Parallel
in modern times, and in a section of
C p t Jn tr: r. of -i tj ' e FWiation and wealth
of the pacific States, it demonstrates
simply that the people had become
thoroughly intoxicated with specula-
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Correspondence invited from all sources,
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Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
tion. Thero was of course a vast
amount of rascality in the manufacture
of such an amount of mining interests
on paper, but the credulity which
offered a field for such undertakings
would be impossible except in an era
of mere speculative madness.
The finale of such a course of busi
ness operations would naturally be of
the same sensational character. The
edifice falls not column by column, but
crumbles instantly, all in a heap, as if
wall and column were mere dust. There
has been no warning, but in a single
day the bubble has collapsed, and the
dupes are wondering at their own in
fatuation. We do not expect that this
catastrophe will put a definite eDd to
mining stock speculations, but it ap
pears reasonably certain that another
mania like the last cannot gain head
way until tho present crop of fools
shall have passed away, and until the
memory of their mishaps shall have
been dimmed more or less in tho minds
of their successors.
The Operations of the President of the
Bank of California.
[From the San Francisco Morning Call.)
Suppose our eminent speculator, Mr.
Ralston, had been able to carry out a
few of his more brilliant operations,
what would have been the result? In
the first place this geatleman owned
land near Belmont and parts of town
sites on both sides of the bay south of
the city, which ho desired to render
valuable by the construction of a bridge
at Ravens wood and a direct lino of rail
way following the bay shore. With this
object in view Mr. Ralston was quite
willing that the city of San Francisco
should be taxed $2,500,000 to be given
to a company to build the Ravensvvood
bridge. Next, he was just as ready to
have the city make a present of $lO -
000,000 to himself (Win, C. Ralston) and
associates to construct a railway to
Colorado.. Here wo have $12,500,000
for two items which this enterpris
ing man was desirous of having tho
tax-payers of San Francisco contribute
to enrich William C. Ralston and his
friends. Next comes $15,500,000 which
this gentlemen of enlarged views
wishes the city to pay for the fran
chise and material of the Spring Val
ley Water Company and tho Calaveras
cow pastures. This franchise, also, it
should be borne in mind, would bo’for
the benefit of William C. Ralston and
his friends. Here we have an aggre
gate of $28,000,000 for speculation
which we may credit to the brilliant in
tellect of a single man—William C.
Ralston. Let us see how much money
this would bo for each man, woman
and child in San Francisco to pay.
Placing our population at 230,000 it
would require nearly $122 for every
person in the city. The man who says
Mr. Ralston would not swamp the city
if he had his way does not know what
he is talking about.
The Cincinnati Enquirer covers the
telegraphic account of the San Fran
cisco Bank failure with tho following
head lines :
“ Gone Up—Here’s Your Only Solid
Basis—The Great California Gold Bank
Knocked Higher’n a Kite—And the
Mourners Go About the Streets IR miug
for Some of the ‘ Money That Chinks ’
—Yes, Verily, They Would Gladly In
flate Their Pockets With ‘lrredemable
Rags’ or ‘National Lies,’ But They
Can’t Get ’Em—The Largest Sugar Im
porting House in the United States
Fails for Two Millions—And Still the
Glorious Radical Resumption Ball Goes
Gaily Rolling On !”
Cliicago’s Female Lawyer.
The Chicago Legal News rejoices in
noting the fact that Miss Hulet, of the
Chicago Bar, is succeeding well in her
practice. She appears before Judge
Blodgett, of the United States District
Court, in a bankrupt case, in the Cir
cuit Court in a common law case before
a jury, in the Probate Court in a con
tested will case, or before the Chancel
lor in a divorce case with the same
easy manner and confidence that she
would before a Justice of the Peace,
and with an ability much above the av
erage lawyer. In debate she is able
and ready, and never taken by sur
prise.
“ Dang it!” remarked a Sunday
School superintendent at the breakfast
table the other morning, as he helped
two half-scalded flies over the brink of
his coffee. The old lady shifted her
spectacles to the top of her head, and
glared at him in astonishment. “Oh.
well!” resumed the half penitent
offender, “it isn’t likely that our Heav
enly Father is going to punish us for a
damu or two in fly time.”
FROM WASHINGTON.
No More Gold for San Francisco—
Treasury Items—Yellow Fever at
Barrancas Agaiu-Naval Nows-Whis
key Regulations.
Washington, August 30. Several ap
plications for transfor of gold from
New York to San Francisco have been
declined. The Government has used a
considerable amount of gold recently
purchasing silver. There is no proba
bility that tho Treasurer will make ad
ditional transfors. The Treasurer and
express companies have agreed upon
87 cents per thousand dollars for trail*
porting national bank notes.
The Surgeon-General has received
the following from General Brannan
at Fort Barrancas, to-day; ‘‘There
were two new cases of yellow fever from
Fort Pickens—one Saturday and one
yesterday. The troops were moved
into camp outside the fort last night.”
The Navy Department has advices
from Rear Admiral Worden that the
insult to our Consul at Tripoli was
amply atoned for and satisfactorily
settled.
The National Bank Examiner has
been dispatched to San Francisco to
examine into the affairs of the National
Gold Bank and Trust Conjpany
A half million of legal tenders were
destroyed, being eighty per cent, of tho
national bank notes issued this month.
Collectors are instructed that after
the Ist proximo no survey of distilleries
will be made except with the aid of an
assistant specially designated by the
Commissioner for the specific distille
ry- nev T designation of assistant**
will be made for each distillery desired
to be surveyed.
FROM MONTGOMERY.
Disappearouce of Yellow Fever.
Montgomery, August 30.— The yellow
lever has disappeared from Barrancas,
and no further fears are entertained .
The Mayor of this city has issued a
proclamation, on the recommendation
of the Board of Health, removing the
quarantine against Pensacola, as that
city is perfectly healthy.
Portland, Me., August 30.—Captain
Green Walden, of the marine revenue
service, la dead, aged 79.