The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, May 23, 1887, Image 1

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{ ESTABLISHED I*so. ) 'i if. H. KBTILL, Editor and Proprietor. ) STEAMERS IN COLLISION. STEAMSHIPS BRITANNIC AND CEL TIC COLLIDE IN MID-OCEAN. During a Dense Fog the Celtic Dashes Into the Britannic, Causing Great Damage Several Steerage Passen gers Reported Killed and Wounded— Cowardly Conduct of the Firemen. New York, May 22. —Thursday, May 19, at 5:25 o’clock iu the afternoon, while the weather was calm and the sea smooth, with a dense fog, the steamer Celtic, of the White Star Line, from Liverpool, came into collision with the steamer Britannic, of the same line, from New York for Liver pool, striking her on the port side aft and doing considerable damage. The Britannic’s boats were lowered and filled with the women and children from the cabin and steerage iu a very orderly and expeditious mannner. PUSILLANIMOUS CONDUCT. It is to their shame that several of the men forced themselves into the boats also. Meanwhile, an examination was madeaiul the damage to the Britannic ascertained, and it being found that the vessel was not likely to foun der, such boats as wero within hail were re called and their occupants received on board. Others, however, had already boarded the Celtic. A pad was made and placed over the hole iu the Britannic’s ride, and she was turned about towards New York, having arranged with the Celtic to keep in com pany. SEVERAL STEERAGE PASSENGERS KILLED AND WOUNDED. The saddest result of the accident is that leveral of the steerage passengers, who were lounging about aft at the time of the col lision, were killed and several others in jured. Both vessels were accompanied by the steamships Marengo, from Swansea for New York, and the British Queen, from Liverpool for New York. They arrived at the bar at 1 o'clock this morning. REFUSES FURTIIER INFORMATION. The above report is from the purser of the Britannic, who refused any further in formation. Both of the steamers are an chored off the bar, being detained by the fog. CONFLICTING REPORTS. One report says that one man and three women were killed, while another says the victims were one woman, a child aged 13 and five men. FURTHER PARTICULARS. It is now said that James Trowbridge and three female steerage passengers were in stantly killed in the collision. There were many affecting scenes on the dock when the passengers arrived up to-night. Fathers, mothers, sisters, relatives and friends met and hugged and kissed each other with the greatest possible affec tion. The steerage and cabin passen gers mingled in one common throng, and while the friends of both were taken away to their homes, there were over fifty poor women and children with a few men who had escaped with just what they stood up in. Some even had not a full complement oi wearing apparel, and one poor woman had to take off one of her skirts to cover her babe with. DASTARDLY CONDUCT OF THE FIREMEN. The scene, when several of the firemen rushed for the boats,was described bv a lady passenger with a great deal of emotion. She said the firemen, nine of them, jumped into the boat and were ordered back by the Cap tain. Mrs. Brown says she did not see the Captain present a pistol, but she knows that he said he would kill any man who at tempted to get in that boat again or any other until the women wero saved. They were then taken on board the Celtic. The accident occurred about 5:30 in the after noon. There was no sea on at the time, but the ground swell was heavy, and a jump from the deck would have lauded one in the water, as the boats were bobbing up and down at a great rate. Eight or ten people were injured by the iron work as it fell or tho wood work as it was crushed in board. DANGEROUSLY INJURED. Four of these were too dangerously wounded to be takou care of on the steamer after it arrived outside the bar to-day, and were brought on tho steamer Fletcher to 1 incent Hospital. They were a boy, George Robinson, and Patrick Burke, aged 47, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who was taking his wife on a visit to Ireland; A. M. Lawler, aged 05. who was on his way from St. Louis to Ireland, and a young woman named Rose Kelly. Eurke has his ribs fractured and suffered severe internal injuries, and Lawler’s hip was dislocated, his ribs fractured, and he is suffering greatly from the shock. These men are in a critical condition. Hose Kelly "as injured about the back and legs. WERE BODIES THROWN OVERBOARD? The steerage passengers state that the known killed included three men, a woman and the girl. But they added their belief that two or three others whom t hey had not iy'di since the collision might lie among the dead and were thrown overboard, as they twy bodies were thrown over during the night A PILOT DESCRIBES THE ACCIDENT. Charles Richardsoiij a man who has had some practical experience as a St. George channel pilot, described what ho saw of the accident as follows: “It was Thursday night about 5 o’clock and wo were about :KM) Jmlos out, I should judge. I heard a shout that the Celtic was heading in to us. I stood °n the starboard side aft the mizzenmast and ran to the port ride round the deck house. The Celtic, as the vessel subsequently proved to bo, wus coming dead ahead full on one beam. I said ‘sure she’ll strike us;’ and I saw her trying to veor off, nut she was too close. THOUGHT THEY WOULD PASS FREE. ''" hen I first saw her the Celtic was about ’ yards away. It was foggy and I think we were both going under half steam. I thought when I saw her veer that she just miss us, and the Captain of tho Celtic wofi going to shake hands wit h our captain off tho bridge as the Celtic passed alongside, but when I saw he could not, miss us I jumped forward before lac mainmast on the port side to avoid lieing tli h >’ tailing timbers or rigging. Si t e w Celtic crashed into our boat just forward of tho mizzenmast. A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. As she scraped our side with her nose on ur deck j could fed the shock and hear ie heads of the bolts ily off one after another like the rattle of a light field bat inV lotion. 1 went below to look after n Hi. ", WHS under my care, and saw that ♦[:* * !( Je of the vessel was torn away. As ** Celtic scraped along our side the fierths, i l j lo People in them, wero pushed along, 10 People were crushed to pulp, on t ’’Ulticient human remains in a heap V' *to make about five bodies. It was „ ‘ f*™*!**® ight, and I hopo never to wit c* j ogain. Han not the Celtic n er course about two points she e crashed into us plumb on our ts k ” vnizzeu and jigger rigging and we bulwarks were carried away. Nothing ut our water-tight bulkheads saved us.” 9 UNJUST TREATMENT. Indian Traders Present a Long List of Grievances. Washington, May 22.—Senator Platt, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee, directed to investigate certain allegations with respect to the appointments of Indian tradesmen, has returned from the West, whither t-lie sub-committee went a fortnight ago to take testimony. The witnesses to be examined had been subpoenaed to appear at Arkansas City, a town on the southern bor der of Kansas, and they came for the most part from the Indian Territory. REMOVALS TOO SUMMARY. The complaints of the traders, who were sharply and ably cross-examined by Senator Blackburn, are to the effect that they wore summarily removed upon no substantial pretext, except that they were Republicans, and that personal, and political friends or the people now in high authority were given their places. The statements of the traders showed that they had an average of $20,000 each invested in their business. Much, sometimes all of their investment, was swept away by these changes, and men in middle and in old age, who had thought themselves pros perous and well provided for, were reduced at once to bankruptcy. The Indians receive an annuity and lease money, and are periodically in funds for a few days at a time; at all other seasons they are in debt to the traders, who usually have one-half or three-quarters of their investments out standing. OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND. Tho Indians pay their debts promptly enough to traders who remain in the busi ness and who can continue to trust them, but one whose doors are closed, or who, as in some cases, is peremptorily ordered away from the Territory, has no chance of re covering more than a small fraction of his dues. Whatever may be the verdict with regard to the blame-worthiness of the ap pointing power, in respect to these things as developed, Senator Platt thinks the commit tee will be a unit in the opinion that the power of arbitrary interference in the pure ly business affairs of private citizens, or making or breaking for tunes of worthy men, calls loudly for reform, and that whatever may lie the divergence of their views respecting the civil service reform in general, the Indian traderships ought not (as evidence shows they were not under former administrations) to be disposed of as the rewards of political service. After completing the taking of the testimony at Arkansas City, the com mittee proceeded by wagon into the Indian Territory. BOUNTIFULLY PROVIDED FOR. Almost directly south of Arkansas City lies the Kaw reservation, consisting of more than 120,000 acres of as fine laud as can bo found in the West, which is the sole prop erty of a tribal remnant, numbering exactly 197 individuals, counting women and chil dren. These people are worthless beggars, upon whom the best efforts of philanthropy are lavished in vain. The committee rode twenty or twenty-five miles across this res ervation without discovering a single sign of inhabitancy, except the wire fences or the cattle men and the buildings at the agency. MORE OF UNCLE SAM’S WARDS. Coming into the Osage country they found 1,500,000 acres reserved for about 1,500 peo ple, two-thirds of which number are lull bloods, as uncultured and worthless as their ancestors of a century ago. These people are, per capita, perhaps the wealthiest on the globe. If their trust fund and their lands were divided among them every man, woman and child would possess a fortune of about $12,000. ARISTOCRATIC RED MEN. A few of them have taken to farming, but this development is not all that might lie gathered from the bare statement. They toil not with their hands, but employ white men to do it for them. Fastidious aristo crats are daily seen coming to the agency in their gaudy blankets to purchase supplies. For their own consumption they select the most delicate viands, and will take nothing else, but for their white laborers they buy cheaper and coarser goods. The committee came back filled with the conviction that our national Indian policy is not accom plishing all that was expected of it. SPOILED BY KINDNESS. In their contact with experienced men, traders, agents and the employes they found it to be the almost universal opinion that to feed and cloth the savages and guard them tenderly against all influences and ne cessities which have served to civilize white non is not calculated to make them good citizens, in which opinion Senator Platt con fesses a deposition to concur. The Indians had, indeed, ceased to be dangerous as sav ages, but only to become the most despicable of all worthless idlers. A BASE FRAUD. The So-Called Irish Memoir Declared a Criminal Canard. London, May 22.— A telegram from Rome says a summary of tho so-called me moir on the Irish question has readied Rome. A second inquiry at the Irish College elicit ed another indignant denial of any knowl edge of any such document, which is de clared to be a malicious and stupid inven tion, devoid of the least probability. The glaring absurdity of the alleged memoir and the ignorance it displays are evident to every person who considers the nature and origin of the Irish College, so that the opin ion is general that it could not have come from Rome. “It is an outrage that such canards as this can only occur in the condition of affairs when men lose tbeir honor and journals sacrifice decency in order to gain party ends. The. prospects must be hopeless indeed when recourse is had to such criminal and unworthy means.” STEAMER WRECKED. Tho Thistle Loses Her Bowsprit, But Rescues Three Sailors. London, May 22.—The new racing yacht Thistle lost her bowsprit and was otherwise damaged in her run from Clyde to Cowes during the gale on Friday. While on this trip the Thistle rescued three men in a life boat belonging to tho steamer Hark away, which hail foundered. Sixteen lives were lost when the steamer went down. The life boat originally carried six persons, throe of whom succumbed to their great privation. TELEPHONE INTERESTS. Decision of the Supremo Court Ex pected to Favor tho Bell Company. Washington, May 22.—The United States Supreme Court is expected to an nounce its decision in tho great telephone case to-morrow. No extraordinary efforts havo been made to ascertain in advance what the decision would be, because it lias boon generally understood among the lawyers interested that it would lie generally in favor of the Bell Telephone Company. A Vicious Hors® Kills His Keeper. Winchester, Va., May 22. — Clydesdale, a horse belonging to Thomas Nelson, in Clarke county, killed his keeper, Mohlon Hodmen, yesterday afternoon. He crushed his arm, knocked him down and trampled on him. This is the mmmi the annual has killed. 'mßWtMrt. SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 23, 1887. THE NAVY’S VETERANS. REV. TALMAGE ON REMEMBERING SEAMEN AT DECORATION TIME. Why Honors Should be Heaped Upon the Graves of Those Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships—The Sailor’s Useful ness in Peaceful Commerce and in “War’s Rude Alarums.” Brooklyn, May 22.— As this is tho time for tho decoration of the graves of those who fell iu tho war, the naval posts invited the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., to preach a sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle appropriate to the occasion, as, often in the annual commemoration, but little had been said of those who served in tho navy. An American flag adorned the pulpit, and tho congregation sang with great spirit: • My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty. Dr. Tahnage’s text was from James iii, 4: “Behold also the ships.” He said: If this exclamation was appropriate about 1,860 years ago, when it was written con cerning tho crude fishing smacks that sailed Lake Galilee, how much more appropriate in an age which has launched from the dry docks for purposes of peace—the Arizona of the Guion Line, tho City of Richmond of the Inman Line, the Egypt of the National Line, the Germanic of the White Star Line, the Circassia of the Anchor Line, the Etruria of the Cunard Line, and the Great Eastern, with hull six hundred and eighty feet long—not a failure, for it helped lay the Atlantic cable, and that was enough glory for one ship’s existence—and in an age which for purposes of war hns launched the screw-sloops like the Idaho, the Shenan doah, the Ossippee, and our ironclads like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and the Dun derberg, mid those which have already been buried in the deep like the Monitor, the Housatonic, the Weehawkeu and the Teeumseh, the tempests ever since sounding a volley over their watery sepulchres, and tho scarred veterans of war shipping like the Constitution, or the Alli ance, or tho Constellation that have swung into the naval yards to spend their last days, their decks now all silent of the feet that trod them, their rigging all silent of the hands that clung to them, their portholes silent of the brazen throats that once thun dered out of them. If in the first century, when war vessels were dependent on the oars that paddled at the side of them for propul sion, my text was suggestive, with how much more emphasis, and meaning, and over whelming reminiscence we can cry out, as we see the Kearsarge lay across the bows of the Alabama and sink it, teaching foreign nations they had better keep their hands off our American light, or as wo see the rain Albemarle, of the Con federates, running out and in the Roanoke, and up and down the coast, throwing everything into confusion as no other craft ever did, pursued by the Miami, the C*es, the Southfield, the Sassa cus, the Mattabesett, the Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, the Louisiana, the Minne sota and other armed vessels ali trying in vain to catch her until Captain Cushing, twenty-one years of age, and his men blew her up, himself and only one other escaping, and as I see the flagship Hartford, and the Richmond, and tne Monongahela, with other gunboats, sweep past the batteries of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi flows for ever free to all Northern and Southern craft, I cry out with a patriotic emotion that I cannot suppress, if I would, and would not if I could: “Behold also the ships.” At the annual decoration of graves, North and South, among Federate and Confeder ates, full justice has been done to the memo ry of those who fought on the land in our sad contest, but not enough has been said of those who on ship’s deck dared and suffered all things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea, help me in this sermon! So, ye ad mirals, commodores, commanders, captains, pilots, gunners, boatswains, sailmakers. surgeons, stokers, messmates and seamen or all names, to use your own parlance, we might as well get under way and stand out towards sea. Let all land lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four bells! Never since the sea fight of Lepanto. where three hundred royal galleys, manned by fifty thousand warriors, at sunrise, Sept. 6, 1571, rrfet two hundred and fifty royal galleys manned by one hundred and twenty thousand men, and in the four hours of battle eight thousand fell on one side and twenty-five .thousand on the other; yea, never since the day when at Actium, thirty one years before Christ, Augustus with two hundred and sixty ships scattered the two hundred and twenty ships of Mark Antony and gained universal dominion as the prize; yea, since the day at Salamis the twelve hundred galleys of the Persians, manned by five hundred thousand men, were crushed by Greeks with less than a third of that force; yea, never since the time of Noah, the first ship captain, has the world seen such a miraculous creation as that of the American navy in 1861. There were about two hundred available seamen in all the naval stations and re ceiving ships, and here and there an old vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade thirty-five hundred miles of sea coast, greater than the whole coast of Europe, and, beside that, the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumber land, Mississippi and other great rivers, cov ering an extent of t wo thousand more miles, were to lie patrolled. No wonder tho whole civilized world burst into guffaw of laugh ter at the seeming impossibility. But the work was done, done almost, immediately, done thoroughly, and done with a speed and consummate skill that eclipsed all the his tory of naval architecture. What brilliant achievements are suggested by tho mere mention of the names of the rear admirals. If all they did should be written, every one. 1 suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be writ ten. But these names liave received tho honors due. The most of them went to their graves under the cannonade of all the foils, navy yards and meriof-war, the flags of all the shipping and capitals at half mast. But I recite to-day trie doeds of our naval heroes who have not yet received appropri ate recognition. “Behold also the ships.” As we will never know what our nntionnl prosperity is worth until we realize what it cost, I re-call the unrecited fact that the men of the navy ran especial risks. They had not only the human weaponry to contend with, but the tides, the fog, the storm. Not like other sliqis could they run into harbog at the approach of an equinox, or a cyclone, or a hurricane, because tho harbors wero hostile. A miscalculation of a tide might leave them on a bar, and a fog might over throw nil the plans of wisest commodore and admiral, and accident might leave them, not on the land ready for an ambulance, but at tho bottom of the sen, as when the torpedo blew up the Teeumseh iu Mobile bay, and nearly all on Lined perished. They were at tile mercy of the Atlantic anil Pacific oceans, which have no mercy. Much trnii jieste as wri eked the Spanish Armada might any day swoop upon tho squadron. No hiding behind the earthworks. No digging in of cavalry spurs at the sound of retreat. Mightier than all the fortresses on ail the coasts is the oc-ean whan it bombards a flotilla. In the cemeteries for Federal and Confederate dead are the bodies of most of those who fell on the land. But where those are who went down in the war vessels will not be known until the sea gives up its : dead. The jack tars knew that, while loving arms might carry the men who fell on the land and bury them with solemn liturgy, and the honors of war, for the bodies of those who dropped from the ratlines into the sea or went (town with all on board un der the stroke of a gunboat there remained < the shark and the whale and the endless tossing of the sea which cannot rest. How will you find their graves for this national decoration? Nothing but tho archangel’s trumpet shall reach their lowly bed. A few of them have been gathered into naval cemeteries of the land and you will garland the sod that covers them, but who will put flowers on the fallen crew of the exploded Westfield and Sliawsheen, and the sunken Houthfield, and tho Winfield Scott. Bullets threatening in front, bombs threatening from above, torpedoes threatening from be neath and tiio ocean with its reputation of six thousand years for shipwreck lying all around, am I not right in saying it required a special courage for the navy? It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a war vessel going out through the Nar row's, sailors in new rig singing: “ A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep 1” the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships, the docks immaculately clean, and the guns at Quarantine firing a parting salute. But the poetry is all gone out or that ship as it comes out of that engage ment, its decks red with human blood, wheeihouso gone, the cabins a pile of shat tered mirrors and destroyed furniture, steer ing wheel broken, smoke-stack crushed, a hundred-pound Whitworth rifle shot having left its mark from port to starboard, the shrouds rent away, ladders splintered and decks ploughed up, and smoke-blackened and scalded corpses lying ainoug those who are gasping their last gasp far away from home and kindred, whom they love as much as we love wife and parents and children. Not waiting until you ore deud to put upon your graves a wreutb of recognition, this hour we put on your living brow the gar land of a nation’s praise. O, men of the Western Gulf squadron, of the Enstern Gulf squadron, of the South Atlantic squadron, of the North Atlantic squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the Pacific squadron, of the West India squadron, and of tho Potomac flotilla, hear our thanks! Take the benediction of our churches. Accept the hospitalities of the nation. If we had our way we would get you not only a pension but a home and a princely wardrobe, and mi equipage and a banquet whilo you live, and after your de parture a catafalque and a mausoleum of sculptured marble, with a model of the ship in which you won the day. It is con sidered a ' gallant thing when in a naval fight the flagship with its blue ensign goes ahead up a river or into a bay, its admiral stand ing in the shrouds watching and giving orders. But I have to tell you, O veterans of the American navy 1 if you are as loyal to Christ as you wero to the government, there is a flagship sailing ahead of you of which Christ is the admiral, and He watches from the shrouds, and tho heavens are the blue ensign, and Ho leads vou towards the har bor, and all the broadsides 6t earth and hell cannot damage you, and ye, whose gar ments were once red with your own blood shall have a robe washed mid made white in tho blood of the Lamb. Then striko eight bells! High noon in Heaven! With such anticipation, O veterans of the American navy 1 I charge you to bear up under the aches and weaknesses that you still carry from the war times. You are not as stalwart as you would have been but for that nervous strain and for that terrific ex posure. Let every acne and pain, instead of depressing, remind you of your fidelity. The sinking of the Weehawkeu off Morris Island, Dec. 6, 1863, was a mystery. She was not under fire. The sea was not rough. But Admiral Dahlgren, from the dock of the flag steamer Philadelphia, saw her gradually sinking, and finally she struck the ground, but the flag still floated above the wave in tho sight of the shipping. It was afterwards found that she sank from weakness throagli injuries in previous ser vice. Here plates had been knocked loose in previous times. So you have in nerve, and muscle, and bone, mid dimmed eye sight, and difficult hearing, mid shortness of breath, many intimations that you are grad ually going down. It is the service of t wonty-three years ago that is tolling on you. Be of good cheer. Wo owe you just as much as though your life-blood hail gurgled through the scuppers of the ship in the Red river expedition, tor as though you had gone down with the Melville off Hatteros. Only keep your flag flying as did the illustrious Weehawken. Good cheer, my boys! The memory of man is poor and all that talk about the country never forgetting those who fought for it is an untruth. It does forget. Wit ness how the veterans sometimes had to turn the hand-organs on the street to get their families a living. Witness how mth lessly some of them have been turned out of office that some bloat of a politician might take their place. Witness the fact that there is not a man or woman now under thirty years of age who has any full appreciation of tho four years’ martyrdom of 1861 to 1865 Inclusive. But whilo men may forget, God never forgets. He remembers the swinging hammock. Ho remembers the forecastle. He remembers the frozen ropes of that Jan uary tempest. He remembers the amputation without sufficient ether. He rememliers tho horrors of that deafening night when forts from Isitli sides belched on you their fury and the heavens glowed with the ascending und descending missiles of death, and your ship quaked under the recoil of the one hundred pounder, while all the gunners, ac cording to command, stood on tiptoe with mouth wide open lest the concussion shatter hearing or brain. He remembers it all bet ter tiian you remember it, and in some shape reward will be given. God is the best of all paymasters, and for those who do their whole duty to Him and the world the pen sion awarded is an everlasting heaven. Sometimes off the coast of England the royal family have inspected the British navy manoeuvred liefore them for that pur pose. Iu tho Baltic Sea the Czar and Czarina have reviewed the Hussion navy. To bring before the American people tne debt thoy owe to the navy I go out with you on the Atlantic Ocean where there is plenty of room, and in imagination review the war-shipping of our three grent conflicts— -1776, 1812 and 1865. Swing into line all ye frigates, ironclads, fire-rafts, gunlaiats and men-of-war 1 There they come, all sail set and all furnaces in full blast, sheaves of crystal tossing from their cutting prows. That is tiie Delaware, an old Revolutionary craft, commanded by Commodore Decatur. Yonder goes the Constitution, Commodore Hull commanding. There is tho Chesapeake, commanded by Captain Lawrence, whose dying words wore: “Don’t give up the ship;” and the Niagara, of 1812, commanded by Commodore Derry, who wrote on the back of un old letter, resting on his navy cap: “We have rnet the enemy and they are ours.” Yonder is tho flagship Wabash, Ad miral Dm Sint commanding; vender, the flagship Minnesota. Admiral Goldsborough commanding: yonder, the flagship Philadel phia, Admiral Dahlgren commanding; yon der, the flagship San Jacinto, Admiral Bailey commanding; yonder, the flagship Black Hawk. Admiral Dorter commanding; yonder, tho flag steamer Benton, Admiral Foote commanding; yonder; the flagship Hartford, David Glascoe Farragut com manding. Ami now nil the squadrons of all department*, from smallest tugboat to mightiest man-of-war. are in proeoaiion, docks and rigging filled with the men who fought on the stvi for the old ilug ever since we were a nation. Grandest fleotsthe world ever saw. Sail on before all ages! Hun up all the colors. Ring all the l>elTa! Von, open all the port-holes. Unlimbor the guns and load and fire one great broadside tout shall shake the continents in honor of peace and the eternity of the American Union! But I lift my hand, and the scene has vanished. Many of the slhjvs have dropped under tho crystal pavement of the deep, sea-monsters swimming in and out the forsaken cabin, and other old craft have swung into the navy yards and many of the brave spirits who trod their decks are gone up to the Eternal Fortress, from whose easements and embrasures may we not hope they look down today' with joy upon a nation in reunited brotherhood i At this annual commemoration I bethink that most of you who were in the naval ser vice during our late war are now in the afternoon or evening of life. With some of y'ou it is two o'clock, threo o’clock, four o’clock, six o’clock, and it will soon bo sun down. If you were of age when the war broko out you are now at leust forty-eight. Many of you have passed into the sixties and the seventies; therefore it is appropriate that I hold two great lights for your illumination —the example of Christian admirals conse crated to Christ and their country, Admiral Foote and Admiral Farragut. Had the Christian religion been a cowardly thing they would have lmd nothing to do with it. In its faith they lived and died. In our Brooklyn navy yard Admiral Foote hold prayer meetings and conducted a revival on the receiving ship North Carolina. and on Hub baths, far out at sea, followed the chaplain witli religious exhortation. In early life on board the sloop of war Natchez, impressed by the words of a Christian sailor, he gave Ills spare time for two weeks to the Bible, and at the end of that, declared openly: “Henceforth, under all circumstances, I will act for God." His lust words, while dying at the Astor House, New York, were: “I thank God for all His goodness to me. He has been very good to me.” When he entered heaven lie did not have to run a blockade, for it was amid the cheers of a great welcome. The other Christian ad miral will lie honored until the day when the fires from above shall lick up the waters from beneath and there shall be no more sea “Oh, while old ocean's breast Bears a white sail, And God's soft stars to rest Guide through the gale, Men will him ue'er forget Old heart of oak, Farragut, Farragut, Thunderbolt stroke!” According to his own statement FArragut was very loose in his morals in early man hood and practiced all kinds of sin. One day he was called into the cabin of his father, who was a ship-master. His father said: “David, what are you going to he anyhow ?” He answered: “I am going to follow the sea.” “Follow the sea,” said the father, “and be kick's! about the world ami die in a foreign hospital?” “No,” said David, “I tun going to command like you.” “No,” said the father, “a boy of your habits will never command anything,” and his father burst into tears and left the cabin. From that day David Farragut started on anew life. Captain Pennington, an honored elder of this church, was with him in most of his battles and had his inti mate friendship, and he confirms, what I had heard elsewhere, that Farragut was good and Christian. In every great crisis of life he asked and obtained the Divine direc tion. When in Mobile Bay the monitor Te cumseh sank from a torpedo and the great war-ship Brooklyn that was to lead the squadron turned back, he said he was at a loss to know whether to advance or retreat, and he says: “I prayed, ‘O God, who created man and gave him reason, direct me what to do. Shall Igo on?’ And a voice commanded me: ‘Go on,’ and I went on.” Was there ever a more touching Christian letter than that which be wrote to his wife from his flagship Hartford? “My dearest wife, I write aim leave this letter for you. I am going into Mobile Bay In the morning, if God is my leader, and I hope He is, and in Him I place my trust. If He thinks it is the proper place for me to die I am ready to submit to His will in that as all other things. God bless and preserve you, my darling, and my dear boy, if anything should happen to me. .May His blessings rest upon you, und your dear mother, and all your sisters and their children.” Cheerful to the end, he said on board the Tallapoosa in the last voyage ho ever took: “It would be well if I died now in harness.” The sublime Episcopal service for the dead was never more appropriately read tlian over his casket, and well did all the forts of New York harbor thunder as his body was brought to our wharf, and well did the minute guns sound and the bells bill as in a procession having in its ranks the President of the United States and His Cabinet, and the mighty men of land and sea, the old admiral was carried aim'd hundreds of thou sands of uncovered heads on Broadway and laid on his pillow of dust in beautiful Wood lawn, Sept. 30, amid the pomp of our autumnal forests. Ye veterans who sailed and fought under him, take your admiral’s God and Christ for your God and Christ. After a few more conflicts you too will rest. For the few re maining fights with sin, and death, and hell make ready. Strip your vessel for the fray; hang the sheet chains over the side. Send down the top-gallant masts. Barricade the wheel. Rig in the flying jib-boom. Steer straight for the shining shore, and hear the shout of the Great Commander of earth anil Heaven as He cries from the shrouds: “To him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ON FREE 80IL. O'Brien Arrives at Niagara Falls Greatly Exhausted. Niagara. Falls, May 22.—Mr. O’Brien arrived here to-day and was met by over 200 of his friends, who carried him to the carriage and then escorted him to the Inter national Hotel. He Is severely injured and greatly exhausted. The doctors say that the floating eartilagesof the eighth and ninth ribs are partially detached. There is also an in dentation in the cartilages themselves. An inflammation of the base of the lungs is the result, and beside# Mr. O'Brien is suffering from severe cold. He will probably he laid up for three weeks or more. A MISPLACED SWITCH. One Telegraph Lineman Killed and Three Others Seriously Injured. Baltimore, May 22.—A shifting engine on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at Buy view station, neur this city, this afternoon collided with a passenger car In which were fifteen telegraph linemen, waiting to he taken to Chester, Pa., where they were to go to work. Hnowrlcn Clemmons, of West Virginia, was killed instantly, and John Martin, Janies E. Hare and Oliver Buckalu were seriously injured. Buckalu will prolxi bly die. A misplaced switch caused the col lision. ___ ‘ Paper Mills Burned. Norwich, Cons., May 32.—The mills of the Reade Pai>er Comjswy, near VeflMiilles, were destroyed by fire to <Vy. The loss it, 370,000 and tlie insurance isUtbout S3iTK)O. SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT. Phases of the Weather for the Past Week. Washington, May 22.—Tho signal office has issued the following weather and crop report for the week ending May 21: Temperature—During tho week past, tho weather lias been warmer than usual in all the agricultural districts east of tho Rocky Mountains, except in Florida and Texas, where the deficiency in the temperature averages alut 26”, a daily average of about 3" below the nominal. From the Missis sippi valley eastward to the Atlan tic coast the excess of temperature for the week was from 25“ to 60”, a daily average of about 5” warmer than usual. The excess of temperature for the season previously re ported in the Eastern Gulf States, Tennes see, Central Mississippi and the lower Missouri valleys lias been inereased by the warm weather of the past week, while a de ficiency of temperature previously retried for the' season in the wheat and com regions north of the Ohio river anil in tho upper lake regions, lowa and Minnesota has lieen reduced, | thus lcavingj the thermal condi tions in these sections at the close of the week near normal. THE RAINFALL. During the week there has been a deficiency of tho rainfall in all the sections east of the Missouri and the lower Mississippi valleys, while slight excesses are reported in Texas, Northern Arkansas and Central Dakota. The deficiency in the rainfall for the season is general, the only sections reporting an excess being Northern New England, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Northwestern Da kota, Oregon and Washington Territory. The large deficiency in the rainfall pre viously reportM in the Southern States east of the Mississippi still continues. In the cotton region east, of the Mississippi more raiibis needed, but the recent showers and the warm weather leave the crop in ft favorable condition. In the Western Gulf •States the excellent weather of the past week lias improved the crop conditions except 111 Northern Arkansas, whore too much rain is ropoi’ted. In the grain regions of the Ohio valley, and in Missouri, Kansas, and Ne braska, the weather during tho week has been generally favorable for com and wheat. In Michigan, Wisconsin and Min nesota, and Northern Illinois the weather has been reported as favorable, hut the crops are likely to lie injured owing to tho absence of rain. Telegraphic reports re ceived this morning (Sunday, May 22) show that local rains have fallen during tho past eight hours in the sections where t hey are the most needed, as follows: Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, Dakota and Kansas. A RICH NEW YORK FAMILY. A Few Points About One of Wall Street's Characters. New York, May 21.—Among the flying financial horsemen of tho Stock Exchange and one of tho boldest of its stamping squadrons is a man of slender build, slightly under the medium height, of dark com plexion and handsome features, named Louis Bell. Seen on the street ho has a rather boyish appearance, although he is about 37 years of age. He is worth lietwoen $300,000 and $400,000, and is ono of the boldest of the Board Room traders. He is a brother of the present United States Minister to the Netherlands, who married the sister of James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of tho New York Ilf raid Louis Bell secured his business training in the banking house of Brown Brothers. Desiring to strike out for himself, and his father being a man of large wealth, he joined the Stock Exchange and soon be came known as a daring and successful operator. Like all other speculators, he has ha/1 his reverses, but in the main has been successful. Sometimes he loaves Wall street for several months at a time and retina to his farm at Oyster Bay, on Long Island, where he raises Ayreshlre, Jersy, Alderney anil other blooded cattle. Ho is considered one of the keenest brokers in the Stock Ex change and is frequently retained by large operators like Gould, Sage, Connor ana others to buy or sell big blocks of stocks when these operators do not wish to bo identified with the movement. As he deals so largely himself such transactions are generally credited by “the street” to his own account. His father, Isaac Bell, is one of the wealthiest men in New York. He is one of the pillars of tho Union Club and lives in fine style in Twenty-second street. He is a member of Tammany Hall, and was formerly in the Board of Aldermen, when it was no dubious honor to be a member of that body. He inherited largo wealth from his father, Capt. Bell, who was largely interested in ships in the days when our merchant navy whitened every sea and was the boost and glory of the young republic, Isaac Bell embarked in the cotton business in Savannah anil was very successful. He came North, took a prominent part in various financial operations and became a director in a number of railroad companies and banks, os well as the Farmers’ l/tun and Trust Company. Isaac Bell, Jr., now Minister to the Netherlands, and elder brother of the well-known Board Room operator, like his brother, received his first business training in tho firm of Brown Brothers & Cos. Later on his father estab lished him in business at Charleston with Artur Barnwell, well known in tliataection. The influence of his father secured a large clientage among European spinners more especially, and the firm was very successful, making in addition to its regular commissions some very advantage ous turns in the market on Its own account, so that in a few years Isaac Bell, Jr., was able to retire from business. Ho is more genial and popular than his brother, Louis, who is called parsimonious, and in every respect less kindly in his instincts. During a visit to Europe Isaac Bell, Jr., met Miss Jeannette Bennett, who, it is understood, had refused numerous offers of marriage, and having embraced the Roman Catholic faith it was further understood contemplated entering a convent. The brave and popular young broker wooed this attractive lady nevertheless, and society whs soon in a flutter of surprise over the announcement of their engagement. Mrs. Bell has always been highly esteemed for her quiet, unobtrusive manners, her kindliness of nature and her generosity in rescinding to the appeals of charity. She is worth in her own right something over a million. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bell ilevideil their time between this country and Europo. They made their summer home at Newport, where Mr. Bell owns a fine mansion. He was an enthusiastic sup porter of Mr. Cleveland in the ITesidcntial oimjiaign of I"H4, and it was understood that his ap[>ointmeiit us Minister to the Netherlands was due partly to this fact and partly to the support given to Mr. Cleveland by the New York Herald., Mr. Bull wanted the post, however, of Minister to Belgium, and felt some disap pointment on finding that it hiul been given to another, but he accented the honor of going to the NctheriiUMls —what there was of It and such as it was in these times, when. foreign ministers have less importance than in the days Ixjforc the Atlantic cable—and ho bus filled the post very acceptably. Oscar Willoughby Riggs. (PRICE $lO A VEAR. 1 1 5 C ENTS A COPY, f HONORS PAID TO PASCO. SERENADED BY HIS FELLOW-LEG ISLATORS. Monticello "Right Pert” Over the Eleo* tlon of Her Favorite Son—Taking th Oath of Office Swearing in the New Speaker—Sudden Activity of the Leg islators Sundry Notes. Tallahassee, Fla. May 22. Senator* elect Pasco was escorted to his home in Monticello yesterday by a ljrge number of legislators und citizens, who were cordially received by the citizens of Monticello. Several speeches were made by Senator Pasco, Speaker Lamar and others. An ele gant. supper was then served at the hotel and tho brass band from Tallahassee, with several hundred persons, serenaded Senator Pasco at his home, whore they were warmly wel eomed and refreshments served. After pro longing the general merriment in honor of Jefferson's favorite son, the (lariy returned to Tallahassee on the midnight train. Secus tor Pom*ii and Speaker Lunar " ill return to-night, and at 11 o’clock to-morrow Mr. Lamar will accept the Speaker ship and Mr. Pasco the before lx>t 1 1 houses of the legislature aii'ii* large crowd of visitors who are riving. < in Tuesday night Senntor Pasco’s cello friends will give a grand ball at the lienn Hotel, this city, complimentaryßSjJ their honored townsman. Persons fromßi| over the State will attend. burning the midnight oil. yj The Senate held their session until night Saturday and passed the bills (he mechanics* and lalmrers’ lien and ing a criminal court of record for county. Much time was B|ient nil Important militia bill specially ing to Jacksonville. T3js It is now very evident t hat a large of important, business will lieleft unfini-AtifHß There are 3(H) lulls now pending, not which can possibly be acted upon. 'CBSt measures which the constitution requin <B| lie adopted have not yet lieen acted and if these necessary matters are not after at once it suems that an extra will lie ntiwilutely necessary. A great of work can lie done during the two weeks of the session, but the us 1B talking heretofore indulged in to extent must Is- avoided. Tii-morrow Mr. Pasco will vacate Speaker's choir. Hon. W. B. Lamar installed as his successor, and the Hons. 1). lilnxham, E. A. Perry, George McWhorter and ethers have lieen invitodß address the Legislature on this great rejoicing, which will la- in by many from all parts of the State. A grand reception will lie given mentary to the -senator-elect, and a jubilee will la' hail by the friendsof the Senator and the new Kjieoker. Pasco continues to receive letters of gratulation from all over the Union, the Hon. W. B. Lamar is continually infl "• ccipt of cordial expressions of pli asure friends who rejoice over his the (Speakership. .spf The new Sjieaker, Lamrr, was lorn county he now so ably represents, on 12, lK f i<). lie graduated at the I Georgia in 1873 and then studied lawJHßj lif banon Law School in Tenm.-eaee in In 1875 he began tho practice mBI law in Tupelo. Miss., but in returned to his native county, entered uisiii the practice of his in Monticello, where he soon good practice. In 1H77 he was elected < 'Mp of the Circuit Court, and in 1882 he BP chosen County Judge, which place he hlii until his election to the present Legislature in 1888. His father whs an officer in the Confeder ate service and was killed on tho battlefield. His uncle, Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, is Socre* tary of the Interior. MOUNT VERNON. Excellent Record of the Ladles’ Asso ciation In Charge of the Place. A Washington letter to the Now York Herald says: The ladies of the Mount Vernon Board of Regents will probably remain in s.-sslon until Monday, and will on Sunday attend the old Pohiek church, not far distant. They are naturally proud of the harmony which has always prevailed among the members of tho board. The Mount Verdoa Ijai lies’(Association was the one orgunfaa tion which was composed of members ITota,.. the North and South both of which was not disintegrated, or at least divided, by the war between tho States. During the war both armies rsported the Mount Vernon estate us hallowed ground, where no fighting must occur, and the members of the Ladies 1 Association resumed their meetings in the most amicable manner as soon as possible alter the war was over. Another source of pride is that the purchuse of Mount Vernon and its preservation, the restoration and furnishing of its once bare rooms, have all boon, from first to last, the work of women, and tbut Congress has never been asked to appropriate a cent for anything connected with Mount Vernon. One of the vice regents tells how she re pelled with projicr scorn the suggestion It seems a Congressman once amiably made that if the Mount Vernon Indies’ Associa tion wanted an appropriation for Mount Vernon from Congri-ss it was hut ii'M-essary to ask for it and it would be made and of generous size. “\Vhat!” she indignantly exclaimed, as If there were sacrilege in the very idea, “ask Congress for money for Mount Vernon I Never! Do you suppose we would let Mount Vernon lieooine u lounging pla :■ for Con gressnien and even for Comfressmen at large nr a Congressional picnic ground! No, sir; Mount Vernon belongs to the Indies’ Mount Vernon Association of the Union, and they will keep its hallowed asso ciations free from taint.' There has been great mortality among Gen. Washington’s relatives within a few months. Each of hw brothers had large families, which have hail many deeceAlanti, anil it is said that Lawrance Wash A jton, the former owner of Mount Verncm had forty grandchildren. Lost winter thus out of four of Gen. Washington's nieces id the same generation died; two, one of wuom was Senator Buck's wife, dying within turn* days i if each other. and Sirs. Washington, ttie vice regent West Virginia, Dire her genealogical to Mount Vernon when she went therein attend the council. Both by marriage ile.si'c-nt mi - is related to Gen. •She was fairly weighed down with the bß| ilcn of the fruit and olive branches have sprung from the original stem of George Washington was so renowned offshoot. ”ja $75,000 FIRE. J U. 8. Express Company’s Stable Horses Burned in Jersey City. Jlj Jersey City, May 22.—'Tho United BtoiM Express Company's stable, at Henderson ai^H was almost consumed by On tlie second floor nearßl e kept, and all but 30 or 8S Tie loss is fully $75,000.