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Friday Morning, Sept. 3, 1875.
The great Calvert Sugar Refinery, of
Baltimore, has resolved to make an assign
ment.
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The Briton lost one of his fine iron-clad
men-of-war yesterday by collision in the
Channel.
Probably the most brilliant article
evoked by the broken Bang of California
and its unfortunate President is that of
George Alfred Townsend (’“Gath,”)
which will be found in our news columns.
The Bank of California “is moving
heaven and earth,” as Sharon says, to re
sume. An effort is now making to get the
Oriental Bank, of London, to help it upon
its feet again. It is very doubtful if it will,
for the concern is too badly broken for any
sound business man to touch.
Germany yesterday celebrated the sur
render of Sedan. Napoleon the Great
taught Germany war, and Sedan was the
corrallary of Jena. It had better take care
that Sedan has not its corrallary yet to be
fought. The result of a war in Europe will
bo determined by preparation before it be
gins.
Indiana roughs killed and ex-Federal
Colonel night before last, and a subsequent
mob were only prevented from hanging
them by th - heroic efforts of the Dayton
police. ‘These butcheries must be put
down, if it r quires the assistance of the
United States Army,” as the Chicago Radi
cal Si >p Bucket would say.
Our respected coteruporary, the Atlanta
Constitution, usually very accurate, makes
a mistake in stating it published yesterday
for the lirst time the speech in full of Mr.
Norwood, delivered to the Oxford Alumni.
That address was published from the origi
nal manuscript in the Constitutionalist
of July 23d, and in a few days afterwards
issued from this office in pamphlet form.
We had a pleasant, though short, visit
from Mr. Jas. A. Bryan, traveling Agent of
the Augusta Constitutionalist, on Mon
day. In his perambulations through our
county, we hope Mr. B. will meet with suc
cess. The paper ho represents is one of, if
not the oldest in Georgia, being established
in 1739, and is the best interior daily that
visits our sanctum, and we can therefore
fully recommend it to our readers.— Waynes
boro Expositor.
At this distance the story of the robbery
of the Planters’ Bank of Louisville, yester
day morning, of SIOO,OOO looks a trifle Ashy.
If it happened as the cashier states it is the
boldest robbery even of these days of well
nigh universal villainy. An effectual plan
to prevent such a robbery as this is a com
bination lock or key requiring the presence
of three persons, and these persons should
never sleep at the same place. The robber
would be obliged to drag all three from
their beds, which it would he well nigh im
possible to do without raising an alarm.
The London papers of yesterday morn
ing declare that the news from Turkey is
unfavorable to the insurgents, that the re
bellion in Bosnia has been suppressed, and
that the Conference of all the Powers will
soon meet at R igusa to settle the difficul
ty. By tills is meant Herzegovinia must
submit again to the hated infidel yoke.
These powers are nothing if not intensely
selfish and jealous of one another. They are
afraid that if any province is detached
from the Turk it will soon be incorporated
with Russia.
We publish this morning the evidence in
t lie preliminary examination, at Waynes
boro, of some of the ringleaders in the late
effort to get up a negro insurrection. Three
of the negroes, Gray, Vincent and Hughes.
were fully committed. We also p blishthe
true bill found by the Washington county
grand jury against Corey Harris, Jerry
Waters and others, and a letter from ex-
Congressman Speer, written from Wash
ington, I). C., while he was a member of
< ’ongress, to Gen. Joe Moekis. These
•documents constitute a very important and
very interesting chapter in the history of
the insurrection,
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The first fall election came off in Cali
fornia on the first, last Tuesday. The dis
patches tins morning indicate that the
Democrats have carried the State. The
pres'igeof the brilliant victories it gained
last year is not broken by the vote in the
Golden State. lor will the tide of victory
stop until the ’Republican party Is swept
out of existence. Revolutions are slow in
their formation, but when they burst no
man can stay them if the cause is just. The
Republican party has been condemned by
the people of the United States. Corruption
has killed it. Revenge has made it odious.
Jt had a splendid opportunity to rule
i 1 he country for a quarter of a century,
hu t instead of adopting a policy of wisdom
and moderation, it sought to keep alivo
the auimositics of the late war by libeling
the people of the South, and disgusted
every honest man by grand and petty lar
cenies in offices in which their representa
tives had been trusted. It has totally
ruined our commerce on the ocean, prostra
ted trade on land and sea, and more than
all this broken down commercial confi
dence. It is necessary for the prosperity
of this country that this party be voted
down. And the country at large concedes it-
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We are glad September is here, that the
dull summer is gone, and that the fall sea
son is about to open. Reports from the
plant itions are all agreed that the fields
are white with matured cotton, and that
♦■very idle hand is busy picking it out. It
will soon be rolling into the city, trade
opened in earnest, and anew face put upon
everything. Whilst other States and com
munities are in the throes of a financial
crash, all is as serene as a summer morn
ing in the South. Wo have rubbed along
during the summer months, making no
thing it is true, but losing precious little.
The time is now at hand, however,
when a stream of money will be poured
into every portion of the cotton belt. No
people on earth ought to bo more wealthy
or more happy. Hard times should bo un
known. Wo remarked the other day that
twelve million dollars were paid out annual
ly in Augusta for eotion and cotton goods-
We can save at least half this money if we
only try. We must stop the indiscriminate
purchase of wholly unnecessary things
learn to raise our provisions at home, and
stop going so much In debt and paying
ruinous interest.
THE TURF.
Best Running Time Ever Made.
Hartford, Conn., September 2.
The first race (or horses of the 2:45
class was won by St. Julian, in three
straight heats, Sister second, and
Great Eastern third. Time,
2:23 3 4, 2 la the 2:23 race eight
started. The Race was won by Music,
Bella, second, and St. James third.
Time,
took the third heat. The riming race
■was won byKidi, Spendthrift second,
and Burgoo third. Time, I:42>£,
Best running time ever made.
% Constrhvtiom'ilist
Established 1799.
THE INSURRECTION.
New Evidence Introduced—Ruled Out
on Legal Grounds —Akerman Com
pliments the Counsel for the State—
Cordy Harris to be Released—Other
Cases go Over, etc.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Sandersville, Ga., |
via Tennille, Sept., 2,1875. j
The State introduced a number of
additional witnesses to-day mostly the
county officers, and offered evidence
going to show orders from Cordy Har
ris to the negro companies to march,
and if opposed in their plans kill the
whites, but Judge Johnson ruled it out
on legal grounds. Attorney General
Hammond and Salem Butcher, Esq.,
argued the case for the State and Mr.
Akerman for defense, Akerman com
plimenting the Counsel for the State
for their impartiality and fairness.
Judge Johnson charged the law and
particularly urged the jury to discard
all prejudice of race. After being
out until half past eight the jury
finally agreed and returned a ver
dict of not guilty. Cordy Hariis
will be formally released to-morrow
and the special term wiil adjourn—all
the other cases having been continued.
The Sandersville Herald, of to-day,
contains a call for a meeting of the ne
groes of Washington county on the
18th of this month, at the Court House
door, to choose two men to send to
some other State to select a suitable
place to emigrate to.
Preliminary Trial of Joe Gray, Abram
Moore, Frank Vincent ami Frank
Hughes, of Burke County', Charged
With “Attempt to. Incite Insurrec
tion”—Decision of the Court.
(Specially Reported for the Constitutional
ist.]
Waynesbobo, Ga , Sept. 2,1875.
Of the leaders in the attempted insurrec
tion in Burke, noue are believed to stand so
prominent as Joe Gray, Abram Moore,
Frank Vincent and Frank Hughes, all of
whom are Captains, or Presidents, of secret
organizations, except Frank Hughes, who
is only a Lieutenant. 'The time for tiieir
trial was anxiously looked forward to by
the whites, and new developments of the
dark designs of our deluded colored people
were expected by all. Last Saturday was
the day appointed for the preliminary trial,
and at an early hour the court room was
well filled by botii race . To facilitate busi
ness, the court, in accordance with the
wishes of the attorneys in the case, ordered
the above named negroes to be tried one
and all at the same time.
The evidence, as sworn to UDon the stand,
is of interest, and I will give it only in sub
stance :
Berry Williams, sworn, said: I am Joe
Morris’ nephew. Joe Morris, when in
burke, lives on Mr. Applewhite’s place, in
a house of my father’s, situated about fifty
yards from the one in which I stay. J car
ried Morris’ mail for him twice, I heard
him say: “ The negroes are not getting
their rights, and the only way to get them
was by fighting.” He said he wis leader,
and if the negroes would follow and stand
up to him he would got their rights.—
The plan was for the negroes all to assem
ble at the cross roads, near Nathan Byne’s,
in Burke, on the 20th of August. 'They were
then to march to Waynesboro and “kill
out the race of whites,” from there to
march down with Morris and his staff to
No. 11, and meet Prince Rivers with his
staff. On the way down, they were to “kill
on out the whites, with guns, pistols, hoes
and axes, or anything of the kind they
could get hold of.” Frank Hughes, Joe
Gray and Frank Vincent received Joe
Morris’ order to assemble on the twen
tietu of August, acknowledged him
as leader, and said they would
follow and stand up to him. After
ail the whites in Burke and other coun
ties had beeu killed, the present offi
cers of the government would be deposed,
and Joe Morns and Prince Rivers would be
“head” and would “run” a government of
their own. The place to kiil the whiles was
made up between the head men last April,
but I v. as not let into the secret till last
June. I saw Morris’ order to the negroes
to begin killing the whites, read part of it,
and it was about the same thing as what
Mr. Kidgely read to me from a newspaper.
William Thomas sworn,said: Joe Mor
ris is leading everybody to ruin. He first
wanted seats on the jury, and next he
wanted negro commissioners: and he said
he did not think they could be obtained
without lighting. I never heard any day
specified for fighting. lam president of a
club at Barcamp. I saw one order from
Joe Morris, and I understood there was
“blood in it.” I heard Morris say that
the whites and blacks would have
to have a “skreemmish.” I was
here to a big meeting in the “Old Field,”
and understood frem resolutions there of
fered, that if wo would fight and get the
laud, it would become government land,
and we could then cut it up for ourselves.
Joe Gray was present at this meeting. I
don’t know Frank Vincent nor Frank
Hughes. These resolutions were adopted
on Joe Gray's drill ground, but if he was
present I didn’t see him. The companies
got drums for amusement, but they said
they would continue to beat them in’order
to annoy the whites, and cause them to at
tack us. My club was to meet at the beat
ing of the drum. Resolutions were adopted
in my clud to put to death any member
who divulged secrets, and my life h is been
threated since my arrest, if I acted as wit
ness against the negroes. I don’t know
anything about defendants in this case
proposing to kill the whites. Joe Morris
wrote to my company, but never mentioned
killing the whites. My club is composed
of two branches—a mustering crowd and a
laboring crowd—which together number
about one hundred and seventy men. I
saw there was nothing good, and wanted
to draw out. I act as a witness because I
think it is to my interest—a man ought
always to 1 >ok out for the strongest side.
Henry Byne, sworn, said : I never heard
a word of the troubles Joe Morris was go
ing to go up. After the whites attempted
to arrest Morris, I saw about twenty armed
negroes who said they were goiug to guard
him. I told them it was wrong, and they
went home.
H. H. Perry and L. M. Berrien, Esqrs.,
next went upon the stand, but the sum and
substance of their testimony was to show
that Berry Williams, nephew to Joe Mor
ris, had made too different and contrary
statements of the proposed insurrection.
They affirmed that Williams’ excuse as he
stated it to them, for making conflicting
statements was, “that he had been threated
if lie acted as witness against the negroes.”
Frank Lewis sworn, said: lam drill mas
ter in Joe Gray’s club, and never heard of
the insurrection till I was arrested. Joe
Morris and Joe Gray had a fuss, b cause
Morris wanted Gray to have arras in his
company, and Gray refused. I was Presi
dent of the Blue Ribbon meeting, called
the members to order and then left, Joe
Morris ordered the negroes to refuse to
work the roads, and a great many said
they would him. I opposed Morris,
because his speeches looked to war. We
allowed him to speak because many wished
to hear him.
Several other witnesses gave testimony,
but the tenor of their evidence was merely
negative. Several of them, however, af
firmed that Joe Gray said in their pres
ence that ho would work the roads when
ever he was called on,
Such are the prominent points of public
interest in the evidence of the above men
tioned trial. Doubtless I have omitted por
tions of the testimony, of importance both
to :he prosecutors aul defendants, but my
int uitions are impartial and free from pre
judice.
P, P. Johnson appeared as attorney for
Hughes, Col. J. D. Ashton for Moore, Vin
cent and Gray, and Jones and Rodgers as
prosecutors. There being no evidence
against Abram Moore, he was discharged,
but Hughes, Vincent and Gray were com
mitted to jail to await trial at the next term
of the Superior i ourt. Lora.
Indictment Against Cordy Harris,
Jerry Waters and Others.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Sandersville, Ga., Sept. 2,1875.
I enclose you the indictment against the
insurrection prisoners, Cordy Harris, Jerry
Waters, and others. It reads as follows:
State Georgia, Washington County.—We
the grand jurois, selected, chosen and
sworn for the county of Washington, to
wit: Theophilus J. Smith, foreman; Law
son Kelly, George W. Kelly, Littleton L
Adams. John N. Layton, Charles D. Hard
wick, William J. Jordan, John J. Brown,
William Archer, Hugh L. Peacock, Thomas
D. Cullen, John E. Harrison, James Barron,
Lafayette Watkins, Doctor F. Chambers,
Benjamin L. Jordan, John R. Miller, Wil
liam G. Hailey, Henry Poyier, William Wal
ler, David L. Burns, Francis M. Brantly, in
the name and behalf of the citizens of Geor
gia, charge and accuse Prince R. Rivers,
Joseph Morris, Francis Murkeson, Cordy
Harris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Houston alias
Neil Wood and Jerry Simmons of the county
and State aforesaid, with the offense of an
attempt to incite insurrection, for that the
said Prince R. Rivers, Joseph Morris, Fran
cis Murkeson, Cordy Harris, Asa Gilmore,
Neil Houston alias Neil Wood, and Jerry
Siam ons, in the county aforesaid, on the
twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, and on divers other days be
fore and since said day, and before the find
ing of this true bill, with force and arms,
unlawfully and feloniously did attempt, by
persuasion of the colored citizens of said
county and adjoining counties, an I organ
izing the mail colored citizens of said coun
ties into military companies, oath bound,
to follow the orders of their officers, and by
falsely representing to Jake Moorman,
Benjamin Davis, Benjamin Wright, John
Chillis, James Wright. Tobe Norris, Gilbert
Duggan, and the other male citizens of
color of said counties, that the laws of said
State generally, and especially as to juries,
public schools, and the tenure of real and
personal property, are partial to the white
citizens and unjust and oppressive to the
colored citizens of said State and of said
counties, and by other means to the jurors
aforesaid unknown, to induce said Jake
Moorman, Benjamin Davis. Benjamin
Wright, John Chillis, James Wright, Tobe
Norris, Gilbert Duggan, and all other col
ored citizens of said counties, to join in
combined resistance to the lawful authori
ty of said State, by which juries are em
pannelled, public schools are organized,
and rights of property are secured, with
intent then and there to the denial of said
authority in said counties, and then and
there intending that said denial of said au
thority should be by the colored citizens of
sdd counties, manifested by acts of vio
lence, to-wit: by the practical abrogation
and subversion of said laws in said coun
ties unlawfully, by the burning of the
courthouses and consequent destruction of
the evidences of the tenure of the lands in
said counties, and by the forcible and un
lawful taking away from tho white citizens
of said counties their lands and household
property, and unlawfully and forcibly ap
propriating the same to the colored citi
zens of said counties, and by the indiscrim
inate unlawfully killing of the officeis of
said caunlies, and all other the white citi
zens thereof who dared to oppose them in
their said nefarious plans, contrary to the
laws of said State, tho peace, good order
and dignity thereof.
August Special Term, 1875.
John W. R bison,
Solicitor General.
William Worthen,
True bill: Prosecutor.
Theofhilus J. Smith, Foreman.
*.•
Among the documents captured at Mor
ris’ house was this letter from ex-Congress
man Speer, by which it seems that his ne
gro constituents staggered even him in
their demand for “lights:”
Washington, D. C., April 4th, 1872.
Mr. Morris — Dear Sir ; Your favor of the
23d ult., together with accompanying pe
tition, has been received and contents
noted. W hat you and petitioners ask for
is impossible to be accomplished. Sucli a
thing lias not nor cannot he done in the
United States. If you could only bo here
and investigate the question for yourself
you would see how hopeless your ease is,
and also the utter absurdity and total im
practicability of your request. Why, sir,
there is no man nor set of men in tho Na
tional Congress that could do anything on
the line that you indicate. I vote as square
ly Republican as any man in Congress, and
stand as ready to serve you and your peo
ple as any man living, hut when you want
anything done you must ask something
that is reasonable. I have done more for
vour people than any member of Congress
from the South, but! cannot do that which
is an impossibility. Respectfully,
Thomas J. Speer.
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GORDON IN MISSISSIPPI.
Enthusiastic Reception at Holly
Springs—The Great Georgian in
the Mississippi Campaign.
[Special to the New Orleans Picayune.]
Holly Springs, Miss., August 30.
Intelligence reached this place this
morning that Senator Gordon, of Geor
gia, would pass here this afternoon on
his way to meet his engagement at Ox
ford, Miss., where he and L. Q. C. La
mar are announced to address the peo
ple of that place next Wednesday. It
was at once determined to give him a
becoming reception, and at the same
time invite him to speak at this place
before he left the State. Quite a large
number of our citizens, accompanied
by the fine band of our town, boarded
the street cars and made for the depot
to meet the south bound train.
Gen W. S.Featherston was accorded
the honor of making the welcoming
speech. The train was an hou ’ate,
but the people waited patiently its ar
rival, which soon occurred, and there
upon the reception committee stepped
aboard and found Senator Gordon in
the smoking car. He was evidently
unconscious of his being the object of
so much attraction, music and parade.
Very soon, however, he came forth,
amid the shouts of the citizens and the
playing of the band. This was Gor
don the battle-scarred soldier and
statesman, of Georgia, meeting the
people who had so often, in days gone
by, welcomed Jefferson Davis, and
scattered flowers in his way. Gen.
Featherston, in an eloquent and ap
propriate manner, addressed Senator
Gordon, and expressed the joy and
pride the people of Mississippi felt in
extending a warm and hearty wel
come to Georgia’s honored aud faith
ful Senator. He then invited him
in the name of the people of
Marshall county, to address them be
fore he left the State. Gen. Gordon
responded in an easy, graceful and
charming speech of ten minutes. It
was full of eloquence and patriotism,
worthy of the occasion and the orator.
It was drank in like good wine by the
audience, who sent, up cheer after
cheer. When the Senator had con
cluded, then came the hand-shaking,
and noticeable here was the corniug
forward of Capt. Cliff, of tho United
States army, stationed at this point,
aud his being introduced, Gen. Gor
don expressed his pleasure and grati
fication at meeting an officer of the
old army, and paid other pleasant
courtesies to him.
Senator Gordon has no plans beyond
his speech at Oxford. He informed
your correspondent that he would ad
dress tho people of Marshall county at
an early day. You shall be advised.
__ H.
INDIANA ROUGHS.
Killing an Ex Federal Colonel—A
Mob Resisted.
Dayton, 0., September 2.—Yesterday
Wm. Dawson, ex-Colonel of an Indiana
regiment, while attending a wedding
party at Barlaw’s Hill, having refused
admission to six roughs, was stabbed
by Jas. Murphy in the abdomen, and
died in a few minutes. Three hundred
persons gathered around the jail last
night with the avowed purpose of
lynching Murphy, but were prevented
by the entire police of the city.
AUGUSTA. GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 3875.
(ALIFORMA ELECTION.
The Democracy Carry the State—The
Officers Voted For.
California held an election Wednes
day, the Ist, for Governor and other
State officers and four members of
Congress. The last contested election
in the State was for President, in 1872,
when the vote was as follows: Grant,
54,020; Greeley, 40,718; O’Conor, 1,050.
For Governor, in 1871, the vote was:
Republican, 52,581; Democratic, 57,520.
The State officers are elected for four
years, and the leading candidates the
present year are these ;
For Governor—Timothy G. Phelps,
Republican; Wm. Irwin, Democrat.
For Lieutenant-Governor—Joseph M.
Cavis, Republican; James A. Johnson,
Democrat.
For Secretary of State—Edward
Hallett, Republican; Thomas Beck,
Democrat.
For Controller—J. J. Green, Republi
can; J. W. Maudeville, Democrat.
For Governor—W. E. Lovett, Tem
perance; John Bidwell, Independent.
For Lieutenant-Governor—J. V. B.
Goodrich, Temperance; Romualdo
Pacheco, Independent.
For Secretary of State—W. H. Bax
ter, Temperance; William Roush, In
dependent.
For Controller -Joel Russel, Tem
perance; Laureu E. Crane, Indepen
dent.
Messrs. Goodrich and Raxter, of the
Temperance candidates, have declined
their nominations. For members of
Congress the candidates are:
Ist. District—lra P. Rankin, Repub
lican; William A. Piper, Democratic;
Samuel Branuan, (bolter).
2d. District—Horace f. Page, Repub
lican; Henry Larkin, Democrat.
3d. District—C. B. Denio,Republican;
John K. Luttreil, Democrat.
4tlk District—S. O. Houghton, Re
publican; D. P. Wigginton Democrat.
Ist. District—John F. Swift, Indepen
dent.
2d. District—Charles A. Tuttle, Inde
pendent.
3d. District—Charles F. Reed, Inde
pendent.
4tli. District—J. S. Thompson, Inde
pendent.
Tiie people of California also vo
ted on the same day upon the ques
tion of calling a convention to revise
the constitution of their State. A ma
jority of the aggregate vote of the
State cast for members of the Legisla
ture will be requisite to call the con
vention, a mere majority of the votes
east directly upon the quostiou not be
ing sufficient by the terms of the law.
The full list of officers to be chosen in
the State is as follows; Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor, Secretary of State,
Controller, Treasurer, Attorney Gen
eral, Surveyor General, Clerk of the
Supreme Court, four Representatives
to the Congress of the United States,
twenty members of the State Senate,
the full House of Representatives, and
county and other minor officers.
The Returns.
San Francisco, September I—Midnight.—Thel—Mid
night.—The election returns are coming
in slowly frpm tho interior, and there
is nothing yet to indicate the result of
the State ticket. In this city it is
thought Clayton is ahead for Mayor.
Vote in San Francisco about 25,000."
The Democrats Elect the State Ticket
by a Large Majority.
San Francisco, September 2—2:45 a.
m.—Election returns to date are mea
gre, but indicate that the Democrats
nave elected their State ticket by a
large majority. Houghton, Republi
can, and Huttrell, Democrat, for Con
gress, are probably elected in their re
spective districts, the third and fourth.
No returns have yet been received from
the city precincts. 3a. in.—ln the Sec
ond Congressional District the fight is
between Page, Republican, and Larkin,
Democrat. Tuttle, Independent, in the
same district, is rn’icfi behind his ticket.
The impression is luite general that
Piper, Democrat, fo* Congress, in this
district (the first) is ifhead, but all spec
ulations as to the rei|ilt, in this city at
the present hour, an| useless.
San Francisco, September 2 —3 P. M.
—The few scattering 'returns from the
city do not furnish lany indication of
the vote. The Independents are very
confident they havt elected most of
their city officers e; eept the Mayor,
which is doubtful. ' here are no later
returns from the ini prior.
Washington, Sept rnber 2.—Nothing
later from California
commodori Collins.
Grand Honors to t ie Dead Officer.
Kingston, Jamaica,fclugust 25.—Advi
ces from Lima, Augiiit 13, relating the
death and funeral ol Admiral Collins,
say the greatest horlirs were paid by
the Peruvian Government to the de
ceased. The Ministlr of War issued
an order directing hiliors due to a Gen
eral of a Division in| active service be
shown to the memo|y of Admiral Col
lins. An infautry reJinient of the line,
squadron of cavalry land two sections
of flying artillery wire sent to Callao
:o take part in the Mineral. The pro
cession to the Protestant Cemetery of
Bellavista, was a short mile from port.
In this mournful <|>rtege were Min
isters of War and Mmrine, Foreign Af
fairs and luterior, almost all members
of the Diplomatic aifi Consular Corps,
aud a large number <|f the most promi
nent foreign resident! of Lima, together
with mauy distingi. ished Peruvians,
die American Miuisti r and officers and
men of United St ites mentof-war.
From tho sliip the 1: ody was brought
to shore, followed byltnoro than twenty
boats from the Onward and Richmond,
\M Peruvian war veiseis aud several
merchantmen in tin harbor. At and
near Molewere statio ied the division of
troops from Lima, 1 o prefect of the
province, the port ac rdiral and ail offi
cers of yard. At al out 4 P. M. the
services of the Eng ish church were
read over the remai is of tho Admiral
in the cemetery oj B llavista.
EADS’ JE I’TIES.
Meeting of j Engineers.
New York, Septem >er 2.—Tho Board
of Engineers, invite*! 'by Capt. Eads
for consultation ou lithe work at the
mouth pf the Mississippi, met in form
al session to-day. GJn. Barnard of the
United States Engineer Corps, was
ebosen President. Cajt. Eads addressed
the board, requesting an examination
and criticism of his [ lans. The board
spent the day discus ling the location
of the jetty now. be ug built. Before
the formal session*began President
Grant visited the rooin of the board,
and remained somejftime in conversa
lion with the members relative to the
work. I
Peace m CMombia.
New York, September 2.—A private
dispatch announces the signing of a
peace by the commailder of the Colom
bian forces and cornmfinder of the forces
of the Insurgent cop ‘ States.
THE BROKEN GOLD BANK.
The Directors in Session—No Re
sumption Yet.
San Francisco, September 2.—A per
son in confidential relations with the
Directors of the Bank of California,
states this evening with reference to
the rumored meeting of stockholders
to-morrow that he has no knowledge
of such meeting having been called.
Also that the examination of the ac
counts had not sufficiently progressed
to enable the directors to make a
j definite statement as to the condition
of the bank. The directors are in session
to-night but nothing is known of their
proceedings.
Endeavoring to Arrange With the
Oriental Rank.
There is reason to believe that the
Directors of the Bank of California are
endeavoring to effect arrangements
with the Oriental Bauk of London
looking to assistance from that
quarter, in contemplation of resump
tion but nothing definite is known as
yet.
It is believed that the Stock Board
will reopen next week. All clerks of
the Bank of California were discharged
yesterday. There are signs that money
will soon be easier. In addition to the
disbursements by the United States
Treasury, the United Staets branch
mint in this city will be ready to issue
about two million dollars in coin in a
few days. The prospect is brightening
and the feeling buoyant.
Suit to Recover $25,000 in New York.
New York, September 2. —Judge
Brady of the Supreme Court granted
an order of publication on the suit of
Drexel, Morgan & Cos., v .s\ the Califor
nia Bank, to recover $25,000 in gold on
affidavits that the defendant is a for
eign corporation, whose president is
dead and whose cashier lives in San
Francisco and which has no officer in
this city on whom service could be
made. The suit is not for deposits,
but on a circular note.
Confidence Being Restored.
San Francisco, September 2.—The
feeling on the street this morning is
cheerful, even buoyant. The Mer
chant’s Exchange Bank opened its
doors at the usual hour. The National
Gold Bank and Trust Company report
an improvement in their outlook for
resumption. The officers are evidently
in good spirits. The Board of Brokers
have a meeting this a. in., at which
some action is expected looking toward
tho reopening of the Board, though
it is thought some settlement of the
affairs of the Bauk of California
will be a necessary precursor to open
ing the stock bonds. The report of a
called meeting of the stockholders of
tho Bank of California is unfounded,
as the directions and friends of the
Bank are still at work trying to ar
range matters. There is a strong feel
ing among well informed financiers
that arrangements will be made to se
cure tho depositors against loss,
whether resumption takes place or not.
On the whole, affairs seem to be look
ing up, and the best of feeling prevails
in monetary and commercial circles.
I>. O'Mills Gives a Guarantee—The
Bank All Right.
D. O’Mills authorizes the statement
that capitalists interested in the Bank
of California will obtain a transfer of
stock from stockholders relieving them
from liability and guaranteeing them
against any loss, and will subscribe
funds necessary to place the bank in a
condition to pay all demands and put
it on a sound basis. Should any sur
plus arise in the settlement it will be
credited pro rata to stockholders. This
arrangement will go into effect in a
few days. *
THE CALVERT SUGAR REFINERY.
An Assignment Ordered.
Baltimore, September 2.—At a gen
eneral meeting of the Calvert Sugar
Refining Company, a majority being
present, the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, That the President and Direc
tors of the Calvert Sugar Refining Com
pany be requested to make an assignment
of all their property and effects to B. F.
Newcomer and C. Morton Stewart, for the
benefit of all creditors in accordance with
the report of the Committee submitted to
day, and that their commission shall be
one per cent., but not in any event to ex
ceed SIO,OOO each.
Baltimore, September 2.—The com
mittee of tho Calvert Steam Sugar Re
finery creditors made an elaborate re
port of the condition of the company.
Assets.
Total stock of sugars and bone black,
$589,014; cash in bauk, $41,353; open
account and bills receivable, $783,000;
making a total of $1,413,907. Due by
Stirling, Ahrens &Cos., $1,033,488; cost
of refining and machinery, $009,974;
total assets, 3,057,429.
Liabilities.
Bills payable, $2,585,748 63; other lia
bilities are estimated at $100,251.37;
total liabilities, $2,086,000.
The committee recommend that the
creditors should at once require an as
signment to be made by the Calvert
Sugar Refining Company of Baltimore
to proper trustees of the entire assets
and property of the company for the
benefit of all the creditors, without
preference or priority, and that said
trustees bo invested by the creditors
with full power and authority to oou
tinuo the refinery until all the present
stock of sugars, molasses, &c., is work
ed up and to convert the product
and all other assets into money as
speedily as pqesible, and also to make
sale of the refinery, real estate, ma
chinery, good will, &c., pertaining to it,
and so soon as sufficient funds are in
hand to admit of paying a dividend of
ten per cent., such dividends should be
declared and paid, and further divi
dends from time to time as fast as the
money can be realized. The following
resolution was then adopted:
Resoived, That the President and Direc
tors of the Calvert Sugar Refining Com
panv be requested to-make an assignment
of all their property and effects to Messrs.
B. F. Newcomer and C. Morton Stewart, as
trustees, for the benefit of the creditors, in
accordance with the report of the commit
tee submitted to-day; and that their com
mission shall be one per cent., but not in
any event to exceed ten thousand each.
The meeting theu adjourned. At a
meeting of the Board of Directors af
terwards they consented to carry out
the recommendations of the creditors
and their counsel. Thomas J. Donald
son was Instructed to draw up the bill
of assignment.
A HUNDRED THOUSAND FIRE.
Congress Hall, at Sharon, New York,
Burned.
Sharon Springs, N. Y., September 2.
Congress Hall, owned by Fred. J. BaDg
and J. H. Gardner & Sous, together
with the sulphur bathing houses, was.
bestroyed by fire, which originated in
the engine room of the bathing houses.
Loss, SIOO,OOO. Insurance not known.
THE DEAD BANKER.
“GATH’S” REMINISCENCES OF
RALSTON.
His Personal Appearance and Mental
Habits —His Associates —A Drive to
His Country House—His Family—
The Men Who Broke Him Up, and
How.
(Correspondence of Philadelphia Times.)
Saratoga, August 28th, 1875.
The first day I met Ralston was in
his bank, in 1871, a plain, strong edifice
on the chief banking street of the city,
built on columns, especially for its uses.
The large area of the bank was a mere
waiting place, and tho counters were
filled with piles of gold coins, gener
ally in tvveiity-dollar pieces, which were
paid and received by the trowel and
the scale. The inner office overlooked
the operations of the clerks, aud there
sat Ralston, a man with the eye of a
pilot and the dispatch of a ticket-seller
at a theatre. He was, as I remember
him, cleanly shaved, except at the jaws,
where his beard was dipped ; a loose
collar left hia throat open and gave
him something of a sailor’s style ; he
had no vest over his frilled shirt, in
which were diamond studs, small aud
neat; he had a hail-fellow air, with a
touch of scrutiny in it, and aptuess at
doing business and courtesy by turn
with almost equal dispatch. The
powers for which Thomas A. Scott and
other lightning men of a period are
noted; instant decision, followed by con
fidence in that choice, were transpa
rent in the man. He had a good head,
and particularly a good forehead, with
dark hair striving to curl around the
ears aud temples ; his eyes, were blue
ish gray, apt to snap, and his teeth had
acquired a terrier-like habit of biting
off his decisions with a species of com
mand which gave the only appearance
of want of feeling to his animated and
Democratic expression. He is recalled
to me at this day as the image of a
naval officer, not a financier—a sort of
Nelson or Decatur at the mess table.
That open neck, those curling locks,
t he look of enterprise and courage, and
the comgly, broad shouldered, trim and
springy figure arise upon my mind iu
this hour of his tragedy as the por
trait of a seaman ; he lived his youth
by water and he died in the breakers.
He said to me—of whom I suppose he
had heard at a snatch and had merely
a vague notion, of why and whence I
came—that I must come that day to
the Occidental Hotel at 2 o’clock. —
“ Sharp,” he said, “ for I never wait,
Gath !” At the same time he invited
my host, Gen. Hutchinson, whose son
was an officer of the bank, to accompa
ny me. In the room at the time were
D. O. Mills, tho President, aud Selby
the Mayor, who was suspected of be
ing the bank’s candidate for Governor
against Newton Booth. At Selby’s
works Ralston was drowned; Sel
by is dead. Booth is one of
the parties to the fight against the
bank, which has been one of the causes
of this catastrophe. Mills was a cleri
cal looking gentleman, of no great
magnetic or business force, whom
Ralston’s operations had made richer
than Ralston. The latter kept the
cashier’s place because it involved the
personal administration of the bank,
: the rough-and-ready work, while Mills
was made president. At that moment,
as it seemed to me, California was the
seat of a power built up by Ralston,
and of a hate of that power naturally
engendered by its sagacity, threatening
the general comfort and charity of so
ciety. Latham had just come to opu
lence with a rival bank built on English
capital, the London and San Francisco.
Latham was an Oliio boy, who had i
reached the governorship of the State,
a colder and more cultured man than
Ralston. The course of Latham’s life
was toward domestic elegance, paint
ings and refined society; Ralston’s en
joyments were wholly physical and
masculine, a rapid team, a yacht, the
development of the earth, and the
wrestling of wealth from its recesses for
the sake of more development and still
more wealth. Latham was a money
lender mainly, a Shylock; Ralston was
an Antonio as well, with ventures on
the sea and a bench on the Rialto also.
Asa banker solely, Latham’s policy
was the wise, conservative one; he
worked very little in combination with
other,enterprises; Ralston covered the
coast with his faith and intimidated
the populace by his courage. The puff
and speed of the steamboat on which
he was bred attended the man; there
he obtained both his coarseness and
his method.
At 2 o’clock I was at the Occidental
Hotel. Ralston was already on the box
and I climbed beside him. On the seat
behind were two English engineers,
fresh from India and yet tanned with
its suns, who had been brought to the
coast by Ralston to lay out a plan for
irrigating the San Joaquin Valley. We
started at once, the horses on a trot
and run as they liked, Ralston driving.
Half the year ho drove this tifty-two
miles a day into San Francisco and
back. It was his recreation; he had no
driver. The wagon one of tho “0”
spring, Kimball teams, in whose manu
facture ho was largely interested, and
it had run every competitive style of
wagon off the Coast of the Pacific. We
galloped over a long causeway, took
a broad dirt road within sight of the
bay, passed Mills’ new house, and at
the thirteen mile house a man came
out the horses. At seven
teen miles we stopped: Ralston mixed
drinks at the bar, where he may former
ly have operated, and the horses were
changed with the wagon tongue. At
tweuty-six miles we turned from the
high road into the green valley of Bel
mont, and stopped at the banker’s door
at one hour and’ thirty minutes, from
San Francisco twenty-six miles, partly
over cobble-stones and causeways. Bel
mont was the weakness of Ralston ; a
huge wooden house with bays and ve
randahs, with thirty or forty bed
chambers, and all tho lower floors a
series of salooss, with waxed floors and
open sashes. The stables were a mu
seum of wagons, new or disabled ; a
meadow close by was full of crippled
horses, sick or sprung from such driv
es we had seen ; tropical and native
plants surrounded the mansion, which
looked like a sort of fantastic summer
hotel. Here, it was understood, the
bank allowed Ralston a sum of money,
©25,000 or ©50,000, to entertain novel
ties and distinguished visitors. A ser
vant took each of us and showed us to
bed-rooms complete in the comforts of
our period; water, gas, spring beds,
etc., yet nothing was “ loud ” or showy.
The extent of the hospitality rather
than its intensity fUled the imagina
tion. Our host disappeared until the
banquet began. The occasion of this
banquet was the retirement from busi
ness, as the head of tho great Almaden
mine, of Samuel Butterworth, Esq.—
This was the friend of Daniel
Sickles on the day bo shot Philip Bar
ton Key; a military-looking man
of great pride, severity and enterprise
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 26.
of character. He anticipated Ralston’s
death by dyiDg of two attempts to dis
sect his liver and seek the origin of tho
disease there. Tho stomach is what
ails the successful Californian; lie lives
too high. There were seventy-six
guests present, all men, and among
them were his neighbors—Bell, the
Barrons, both Millses, “Duke” Gw>n,
the brother-in-law of the Marchioness
of Lome, Victoria’s daughter, Lord
Clifford, and all that was distinguished
on the coast. Nick Biddle, in his
greater days, never had such hospital
ity to give, nor gave it with more quiet
bounce. There was a blessing asked
by a Bishop, who drank his wine like a
man, but no speeches broke the variety
of the service with their dull monotony.
I caught a glimpse of Mrs. Ralston at
a balcony window opening on tho stair
way. At midnight a special train took
the company back to San Francisco,
but I remained, and the next day Rals
ton drove me over the country to his
neighbors, tho Haywards, Barrons,
Howards, Bells, Mills, etc. We were
gone all day, except at the dining hour.
He was a gentleman in liis bearing, hu
morous, enjoying the air—the prospect
and the vision of the future of Califor
nia he presented with such torse, man
ly, practical strength.
I omit any conclusion to this part of
my visit, as I may take it up at another
time. Let me speak of some of the
circumstances of his fall. The Bank of
Nevada, which is to rise on the ruins of
the Bank of California, is to be tho
property of Flood & O’Brien and Fair
& Mackey. They are all Irish, and
Flood and O’Brien were a few years
ago a sort of Durar and down-town
Delmouico to the operators on Califor
nia street, keeping the liquor and lunch
place there. They caught the air and
secrets of the patrons of their house,
and tried mining speculative stocks a
little. As they increased they got an
engineer to iook about the Comstock
lode for them and picked up a mine
I supposed to be worn out called the
“Hale and Norcross.” This mine they
soon developed into anew source of
actual wealth. They paid for it 70
cents per share when the wholeamount
of shares afloat was only five thou
sand. As they brought out the bul
lion they watered the stock, and
it went up hundreds per cent. Then
they built crushing mills, and began to
feel under their shafts to the west
mine. There they discovered a real
bonanza, for in those mining ventures
there is a reality as well as romance,
and while the proprietors of the mine
were asleep or ignorant, these Irish
miners picked up their stock and began
to take $1,600,000 a month of bullion
out of this new acquisition. The stock,
of course, was watered and went sky
ward. Only four men owned all this
wealth, Mackey possessing two-fifths
of all. Thus, mining bullion, at the
rate of $20,000,000 per annum, genuine
mining, these parvenues became a
power beside or against the Bank of
California. But Ralston and Sharon
owned half tho crushing mills and the
railroad at Virginia City. The Flood
and O’Brien crowd began to build
other mills £ud to compete for the
greatest mines and the bank’s monop
olies as well. A struggle ensued over
the Yellow Jacket mine, and the
two rival parties chose .a com
promise directory. It was renewed
over the Savage mine. The Flood and
O’Brien party beat Ralston and Sharon
out. The multitude looking on began
to see that the bar-room party had got
the upper band over the soda fountain
party, for D. O. Mills began life in Sac
ramento selling soda' pop. He never
mixed the mountain dew, and tansy
roots, begorra ! Nor flavored drafts of
i mint and rue with the price of Angos
tura ! Poetry, my lord! As I have
said, here were the saloon keepers on
top. They had undoubted genuine
bullion wealth. They proposed to
Ralston’s party to step down and out
and let them become the Bank of Cali
fornia. The Earl who took a Roman
Senator kiudiy by the beard and asked
permission to rest in his chair was civil
beside such an offer to the man who
had been powerful on that coast since
1852, and had ruled it since 1864. Rals
ton refused. Flood and O’Brien and
the rest of Milesia immediately or
ganized the Bank of Nevada, with five
millions of paid-up capital in gold, and
made Louis McLane President.
The difference between Ralston and
Sharon and Flood and O’Brien was
this: The latter went at mining wil
ling to wait for a return, plodding and
feeling about in secrecy, Fenian style ;
Ralston wanted his gains at once. His
theory of business was “now and
dften;” the new comers worked on the
principle of “quiet ami sure.” Besides,
Ralston’s management of the crushing,
milling, assaying and railroad power
had got to be a monopoly ; he had sus
tained the Republican ticket generally,
and the new Irish party was, of course,
Democratic, He had been friendly to
the Central Pacific Railroad, which had
just absorbed tho Sacramento Union
newspaper. Tho allies of this paper in
San Francisco, the Bulletin and the
Call, two strong journals, independent
in politics, knew that Ralston held
such a mortgage on the Alta Califor
nian, their rival, that he controlled it.
Ho the new Bank of Nevada, under
Louis McLane, the son of Andrew
Jackson’s Secretary of the Treasui y,
the Bulletin and Call and the Demo
cratic and Independent parties went in
together against the bank of Ralston.
Its credit was impugned, its master in
dicted. His money and the bank’s—for
lie was the bank —its whole genius— and
his private account ran parallel with the
bank’s- —were distributed in a hundred
material enterprises, mills, wagon
works, real estate, woolen mills, irri
gating dams, acqueducts-what not?
The enemy’s money was in a pile, and
being replenished at the rate of $1,600,-
000 a month. Meantime gold was high in
New York, and the United States
Treasury buying. Tho saloon keepers
kept their pile at home. When Ral
ston reached out for it they would not
loan. He could not pay drafts and ac
ceptances. They would not now take
his bank as a gift, as the moment was
opportune to totally demolish Ralston’s
combinations and take what was prof
itable out of the wreck of the estate,
particularly the “Union Mining and
Milling Company” and railroad of Ne
vada. This road had almost literally
cost lialston nothing, being paid for by
the mining companies, and it had been
Aladdin’s path to him. The strong
man had made himself so strong that
there was nobody to save him. And
when he saw D. O. Mills and the soda
water people take his bank and order
him to leave the room,
“Then, in a mantle muffling up his face
Or eat Caesar fell.*'
He went from that bank where he
had been the pleasant autocrat for
eleven years and threw himself into
the sea; for there was no religion he
had ever learned except generosity and
enterprise. He died a bold man at the
end of a drama where he had been the
hero throughout, and his death had
that heathen quietness and fortitude
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in it which his face became. Not per
fect, nor yet an example, he had a mas
tiff character. The worst of all is that
so much kindness and chivalry were
not parts of any formula of living
which the historian can commend.
Bred roughly, inspired by a Garrison,
he had nothing for his wealth to orna
ment but a social spirit and love of his
coast and her development. The
poorest Chinaman in California was
wealthier in poverty than this leader
of the coast. Louis McLane, who has
been a good while on the Pacifiic 3ide,
is a son of Doris McLane, of Delaware,
who afterward settled in Cecil county,
Maryland, and family in Baltimore.
Gath.
Ralston’s Farewell.
[San Francisco Dispatch.l
I have just learned that on Thursday
evening, at half-past 5, Mr. Ralston as
sembled the entire clerical force of the
bank and said his last words : “ Boys,
I have been hounded to my death, but
the many absurd stories you have
heard of me are not true. lam very
sorry for you all and will always do all
I can for you. Good-by.”
Why He Sought Death.
IChicago Tribune.]
He did not dare to live and read the
morning papers’ whining appeals by
whining clergymen, extenuating if not
justifying the wholesale robbery of
thousands of persons on tho ground
that of the other people’s money he
bad appropriated he was always a will
ing contributor to build up God’s
church and to pay the salary of God’s
minister, who in preaching the com
mandments to his congregation of
bankers, and speculators, and gam
blers, carefully omits “ Thou shalt not
steal.” Ralston was a man of the world,
and he preferred death to being the
victim of such an apology.
Mr. Ralston, in his lifetime, was a
hospitable entertainer. His house was
a home to whoever was admitted to it.
He lavished the luxuries of life upon
his guests ; all that he had or could
procure was at their disposal. He did
Hot, however, fill Lis house with any
one class or profession ; his hospitality
was cosmopolitan. Ho did not make
bis house the asylum for clergymen to
take back with them to their flocks
glowing invitations to invest in the
railroad or other stocks and bonds
which he was trying to palm off upon
the public. In his prosperity he scorn
ed such an act as this, and in his ruin
—though he had not plundered auy
churches or robbed widows and or
phans through tiie instrumentality of
priests—he lacked the courage, so con
spicuous iu others, to meet the matter
of-fact people whose money he* had
taken and lost.
This man Ralston had braved the
perils of snags and boiler explosions on
the Mississippi river, when a violent
death was a mere question of time iu
his profession. He had braved the
perils of the poker table when a revol
ver and eternal vigilance were essential
to success in the game. He had lived
in Central America, literally fighting
for his existence. He had traversed
the mines of California and Nevada,
where weakness and cowardice invited
murder. But down iu his heart, plant
ed there perhaps by a mother’s love,
lived the lesson that stealing was a
crime of which every man ought to be
ashamed, and one demanding the ex
clusion of the guilty from the counte
nance and respect of all people whose
respect is worth having. He was aware
that all his predecessors lived and
flourished, and were magnates in so
ciety, pillars in the church, and rulers
in government; still he had not the
courage to imitate their boldness, nor
the oourage to brazen out, as they do,
the mendacity of their acts; and so, to
avoid the shame that should attend
such meu as he, he sought death and
eternity as preferable to wordly pros
perity, execrated and despised even by
himself.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Collision of War Vessels in the Chan
nel-Sinking of the Vanguard.
London, September 2.—lntelligence
received here this noon of a collision
in the channel between her Majesty’s
war vessels, Iron Duke and Vanguard,
resulting in the sinking of the latter.
No lives lost. Both are double screw
iron ships, armor plated and of 6,034
tons each.
The Prisoners of Seo de Urgel.
Madrid, September 2.—Gen. Martinez
Campos has arrived at Ripoll, on his
way to Barcelona with the Carlist pris
oners captured at Seo de Urgel. Tho
Bishop of Seo de Urgel, who was also
captured, will bo imprisoned in a for
tress at AlicanL. vvhero he wi 11 await
tho decision of the Government in his
case.
The War in Turkey—Reverses of the
Insurgents—A Peace Conference.
London, September 2. — News from
Herzegovina is of a conflicting charac
ter. Its general tenor is unfavorable
to the insurgents, who have been un
successful in several recent encounters
with the Turks. The rising in Bosnia
has been effectually suppressed* Tho
previous reports of assistance given
the insurgents there by Servians and
Montenegrins are not sustained.
Belgrade, September 2. — A party of
Turks entered Servia, in the neighbor
hood of the Stolatz Mountains, and
assassinated several villagers and
stole some cattle. The Government
has notified the foreign repi'esentetives
here of the violation of its territory by
the Turks.
London, September 2.—A special to
the Times from Vienna says the
Austrian and Prussian Consuls in Al
bania have arrived at Ragusa. They
will join the German Consul there anti
go to Mostar to meet the French and
Italian delegates and Server Pasha,
when the conference for the pacifica
tion of the troubles in Herzegovina
will bo held.
East India Cotton News.
Bombay, September 2.—Heavy rains
in Baroach District will necessitate re
planting a large part of the cotton
crop there.
Telegraph Negotiations Off.
New York, September 2.—After nu
merous consultations between commit
tees appointed by the Western Union
and Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Companies, to effect terms of consoli
tion, no plan acceptable to both sides
could be decided upon, and conse
quently negotiations have been termi
nated.
Cardinal McCloskey.
Rome, September 2.—Cardinal McClos
key will arrive the 9th or 10th. He will
first go to Turin, and may perhaps
visit Florence. Ho will take the title
of Cardinal of the Church of St. Mary
of the People.
It is horribly said that the distin
guished tragedian is getting on Boothi
fully.—[N. X. Herald,