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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
SUNDAY, May 30, 1875.
The telegraph brings us intelligence
of some very disastrous fires in Canada
and the United States.
Paul Boynton has successfully crossed
the English channel in his water defy
ing suit.
iiM • M
According to the Paris Moniteur, the
steamship Schiller was lost on the an
niversary of the death of the poet after
whom she was named.
The last candidate for the assassina- ;[
tion of Bismarck did not mean any
harm. He only wanted to borrow
some of the French indemnity by
blackmail.
Our Atlanta correspondent records,
with something like a hurrah, that one
Swede has found his way from the
Northwest to the Gate City. This im
migrant did not have a dollar in his
pocket, and it strikes us that such
settlers are not very desirable.
Another expedition has left London
to discover the North Pole. What good
that Pole will do when discovered is
not very patent to outsiders. The re
mote Arctic regions will hardly become
summer resorts during this genera
tion.
Our Charleston letter is unusually
interesting this morning. It shows
that in spite of the strenuous efforts of
Gov. Chamberlain to enforce the law
against criminals, the criminal petty
office-holders endeavor to frustrate
him. It will take years to purify the
corrupt judiciary of that State.
Wf, received the Richmond papers
last night containing seven minion col
umns of matter of the proceedings of
the Young Men’s Christian Association
of Friday. We have r.ot even room
this morning for condensation. Events
crowd upon us with such rapidity and
volume, it is utterly impossible to pub
lish them in detail.
Political Conventions will be held as
follows: June 2d, Ohio Republican
Convention; June 17th, Ohio Demo
cratic Convention; June 22d, Califor
nia People’s Independent Convention ;
June29tb, California Democratic Con
vention ; July 7th, Wisconsin Republi
can Convention ; August 3d, Mississippi
Democratic Convention ; and Septem
ber Bth, Pennsylvania Democratic Con
vention.
Prayers for rain would be in order
this morning, unless Jupiter Pluvius
should put in an appearance before
this paragraph gets in circulation. A
pious minister in South Carolina, but a
great believer in certain weather signs,
was asked to petition the Throne of
Grace for refreshing showers. He re
plied : “My friends, I will do so, but
it is not going to rain till the moon
changes!”
An interesting excerpt from the
Philadelphia Times, in our news col
umns, details the rise and fail of Jay
Cooke, as well as the attempted sale of
his magnificent house at auction. Jay
Cooke was the financial savior of the
Northern cause, on several occasions,
but now there is none so poor to do
him reverence. When the great Cooke
had accumulated so many millions,
why did he not retire on his laurels
itttd play croquet the balance of his
life?
“But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And this has boen thy bane.”
Whoever has the bound file of the
Augusta Herald of 1799 will please re
turn it to this office. A war volume of
the Constitutionalist was loaned for
use in the Metcalf case, and sent to
Savannah. If any attorney, or any
oue else, can give us information so
that it can be recovered, we will be
much obliged. Ten missing war vol
umes were returned to the office yes
terday, aud we do hope others will be
brought back until all are recovered.
No one who can properly appreciate
the comparative worthlessless of a
single volume, yet its value as a
link in the whole series for over one
hundred years, can fail to appreciate
our effort to get back the property of
the office.
There is a man in Paris with a great
project. He proposes to light that city
with one lamp, and wants to suspend
it at a proper height by means of a
balloon. His argument is that all Pa
ris can be lighted on that plan as well
as an opera house. The authorities
have aprajudice against his plan, be
cause he boards in a lunatic asylum.
Ip Sniln fonstihitionalist
FROM WASHINGTON.
Decoration Day—Tears and Flowers
tor tlie Grey —From tlie Chesapeake
Day to the Gulf of Mexico without
Change of Cars.
Washingtom, May 29.—A1l business
closed. The President and Cabinet
were at Arlington. The managers of
decoration of the Confederate graves at
Arligntou, Tuesday, have concluded to
have neither oration, music nor pro
cession ; nothing but flowers and tears.
The President has appointed Charles
P. Lincoln, of Mississippi, Consul to
Canton, China.
Colonel Foreacre, General Manager
of the Virginia Midland Railroad re
ports the steam-lifter at Lynchburg
completed and in perfect operation.
Ihe palace car leaving New Orleans to
day will come through to Baltimore
without change via. Atlanta, Knoxville,
Bristol, Lynchburg and Virginia Mid
land. Likewise the palace car leaving
Baltimore Monday morning will go to
New Orleans by the same route, it being
the commencement of a permanent
line of through cars between the Che
sapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico.
foreign"news.
Another Polar Expedition—Paul Boyn
ton Triumphant—Bismarck’s Sup
posed Assassin a Blackmailer—End
of the Welch Strike.
London, May 29.—A1l the morniug
journals have articles on the Arctic ex
pedition, the departure of which is
fixed for 4 o’clock this afternoon.
Paul Boynton landed at Folkestone
at 2:30 o’clock this morning. He showed
but slight signs of distress, and was
loudly cheered.
Berlin, May 29.—Judicial investiga
tion shows that the offer of W T eisinger
to assassinate Bismarck was merely an
attempt to extort money, and the man
had no accomplices.
Munich, May 29.—Johann Klein, the
eminent painter, is dead.
London, May 29.—The strike in the
south of Wales is ended. The men
are submitting to the redaction.
Berlin, May 29.—The King and Queen
of Sweden are here, visiting. It is
thought their visit indicates Sweden's
support of the policy of the throe Em
perors.
London, May 29..—The Duke of Wel
lington has granted the use of the W’el
lington Riding School for revival pur
poses.
Asiatic Earthquake.
Two thousand five hundred persons
perished in Asia Minor by an earth
quake.
THE DEMON OF FLAME.
The Halyoke Disaster—A Terribie
Proportion of Women Burned to
Death—Some Expensive Fires.
Holyoke, May 29.—Seventy-one dead;
twenty-two fatally burned; twenty
seven injured. Of the dead, fifty-five
are females and sixteen males.
Worcester, Mass., May 29.—A gran
ite block on Main street, nearly oppo
site the City Hall, was burned. Cause,
Mansard roofs. Loss, over $: 50,000.
St. Johns, N. 8., May 29.—A quarter
of a million tire. St. Luke’s Church,
sixty buildings and a ship on the
stocks were burned. A hundred fami
lies are homeless.
Wheeling, Va., May 29.—The River
side Nail Factory was burned. Loss,
$75,000.
Great Bend, Penn., May 29. — The
business porti< n of this town, two
banks, ten stores, the Masonic Hall
and the Post Office were burned. Loss,
SIOO,OOO. Incendiary.
New Y'ork, May 29. — A frame stable,
two men, eight horses and a number of
wagons have been burned.
FROM BALTIMORE.
Sporting News—A Mountain of Fat
Gone.
Baltimore, May 29.—Fourth day—
First race, eight started ; Risk won ;
time, 1:44%. Second race—Galway
won in 2:21%. Third race—Fadeladeen
won first in 3:40 ; Botany Bay won the
second in -3:37, and the third in 2:40.
Trouble won the steeple chase by half
a length.
Barnum’s fat woman, weighing 583
pounds and aged 29, is dead.
FROM NEW YORK.
Siezure of Whiskey— A Forger In
dicted.
New York, May 29. One hundred
and sixty barrels of whiskey from the
West were siezed in transit.
There are fifteen indictments against
Chas. L. Lawrence for forging invoices
by different vessels.
Business closes Monday for decora
tion.
Minor Telegrams.
Cedar Rapids, lowa, May 29.—J. H.
Eccleston, has been elected Bishop of
lowa by the Episcopal Convention, on
the sixteenth ballot, by one majority.
Hartford, May 29.- — A shell capsized,
drowning Camtron, of the University
Crew.
Omaha, May 29.—Colonel Mills has
destroyed the outfit and provisions of
the Black Hills expedition, leaving
them only enough food to last them to
civilization. Gordon, the leader i?; a
prisoner.
Great Barringnon, Mass., May 2‘)—
Masked men gagged and handcuffed
the cashier of the National Bank.
Being unsuc-eessfu l at the bank, they
robbed the cashier’s house aud de
camped.
Philadelphia, May 29.—Business is
generally suspended in consequence of
decoration day.
Halifax, May 29.—A man and two
girls were drowned by the capsizing of
a boat. s
Y. M. C. A.
Augusta Eloquence in Richmond.
Richmond, May 29.—Wm. A. Branch,
Ga.; W. E. Sibley, Ga.; C. W. Lovelace.
Ala.; J. H. Stuart, Ala., and J. P.
O’Brien, Tenn., are among the orators.
United States Bonds Not Taxable.
Atlanta, May 29.—Attorney General
Hammond, of this State, has given a
written opinion to Gov. Smith, that
United States bonds are not taxable by
the State.
Death of an Eminent Clergyman.—
The Rev. C. W. Andrews, D. D., of Shep
herdstown, West Virginia, one of tbe
most eminent divines of the Episcopal
Church, died in Fredericksburg, Va..
on Monday evening. He was on his
way to attend the Episcopal Council,
held in Richmond last week, when he
was taken sick, and stopped in Fred
ericksburg with friends. He was sixtv
eight years of age.
.AUGUSTA., GA„ SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 30. 3875.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
THE PREHBYTERTANS IN COUN
CIL.
An Evangelical Union in the Pulpit-
Preaching and Lecturing—Dr. Ir
vine—Reports and Overtures—The
Louisville Case a Mass of Gossip and
Twaddle—Lengthened Bitterness
Long Drawn Out.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.!
St. Louis, May 24.
Yesterday was a big day among the
churches here. All the Presbyterian,
Methodist, Baptist and most of the
English speaking Lutheran pulpits
were supplied by the ministers of tlie
Assembly.
The communion of the Lord’s Sup
per was dispensed at 3:30 p. m., in the
Pine Street Church, the seat of the As
sembly. The venerable Dr. Plainer
presided, and was assisted by Dr. J.
Leighton Wilson aud Dr. Brown, of
Richmond, Va. The church was
crowded and tlie services wero solemn
and impressive. In the evening, large
crowds tilled the churches in which
Drs. Palmer, Robinson and Irvine
preached. To-day the Assembly re
sumed their labors with devotional ex
ercises at the usual hour.
There will be, after to-day, a good
deal of hard work and some stormy
debates, on such questions as the
Reunion of the Northern and Southern
Churches,
the removal of the Mission books from
Columbia, H. C, the union of the Board
of Publication at Richmond with that
of the Reformed Dutch Church ; so that
the Assembly will have to sit at night
to get through with its work. To-night
Dr. Hoge
Lectures
before the Y. M. C. A., and Drs. Plumer
and Irvine before the annual meeting
of the American Tract Society.
Reports.
The Auditing Committee gave in their
reports of the Foreign Mission, susten
tation, evangelistic, colored, invalid
and relief funds, all of which were sat- i
isfactory. The committee compliment
ed the Rev. Dr. Mcllvaine for his great
efficiency and excellent business habits.
Dr. Gerardeau from the Committee
on Bills and Overtures, gave in several
reports, which were adopted.
The Assembly received and approved
the reports of several committees on
the records of the Synods of Nashville,
Mississippi, Virginia and other Synods.
Some forty minutes of valuable time
were spent in discussing the report on
the minutes of the Synod of Virginia.
The question was one of mere form, as
to ■whether certain statistics should be
embodied in the minutes or merely re
corded in the appendix.
The Vexata Questio
of Louisville, Ky., was brought up this
forenoon, and the greater part of the
sederunt occupied merely in reading
the papers of the case.
It is a most painful case, originating
in a series of misunderstandings be
tween Dr. Wilson and some of his of
fice-bearers, and ending in a division of
his congregation-and a fearful quarrel
with his presbytery.
The presbytery forcibly dissolved the
pastoral relation between him and his
congregation; yet a large number of
th e congregation adhere to him as t heir
pautor, whilst the seceding part of the
congregation have filed a bill in chan
cery claiming the property.
In the quarrel several
Painful Personal Collisions
have taken place between Dr. Wilson
and some of his former friends both in
the Sessiou and in the Presbytery.
It is one of those perplexing and |
painful cases which no Church Court
can cure.
The debate will conic up to-morrow,
and the decision, so soon as it is
reached, will be mailed to the Consti
tutionalist.
St. Louis, Mo., I
Tuesday, 25th Miy, 1875. f
Dr. Gerardeau, from the Commitee
of Bids and Overtures, read a report
respecting the
Pau-Presbyterian Council,
which recommended that this assembly
should send a delegate to London this
year. It was resolved to place tlie re
port on the docket, and was made the
order of the day at 3 p. in. to-morrow.
This is a move in the right direction.
The assembly rejected the proposition
last year.
There is a very general feeliug in
favor of the confederation of Presby
terians, and this assembly seems to
have at last caught the spirit.
After the reception of this overture,
the assembly resumed the considera
tion of
The Louisville Muddle.
The stated clerk read extensively from
the minutes of the session, until he be
came hoarse and tired, when Dr. Jen
kins, of Kentucky, continued to read.
At 11 a. m. lie become wearied, and was
relieved by Dr. Palmer, of New Or
leans. Such a mass of gossip and
twaddle has seldom come before an
ecclesiastical assembly.
At 11:45 Dr. Palmer liauded the pa
pers to the stated clerk, who is now
reading. The papers seem intermina
ble, and many of the members of the
Assembly are getting impatient. They
complain that men should travel thou
sands of miles at great expense and
fatigue to be bored for hours and days
with the silly gossip of unseemly
wrangling between Dr. Wilson and a
few of his elders and members of his
church.
At 12 o’clock the reading of these
papers was suspended, by the Modera
tor amiouneing devotional exercises for
half an hour—a great relief to the
wean; members of the House.
At*3 p. m. the Assembly met, and
Dr. Wilson, stated clerk, continued
reading the interminable papers of the
Louisiville case.
At ;3:30 Dr. Wilson, wearied of read
ing, banded tbe papers to Dr. Junkin,
who is now reading them.
This point at which we have arrived
is the action of the presbytery in order
ing a dissolution of the relationship be
tween Dr. Wilson and his charge.
This presbytery order a dissolution —
1. Because the congregation were
culpable in not bringing the matter be
fore the presbytery much sooner.
2. Because the elders were culpable
in retiring from the church. They
ought to have remained in the church.
3. They are therefore enjoined to re
turn to the church.
4. The whole parties are enjoined to
seex the things which work for peace.
5. The elders are enjoined to report
to presbytery their compliance with
these orders.
Dr. Robertson was suspended from
the privilege of appearing before or
speaking in presbytery until he apolo
gize.
Mr. J. Adger Smythe is now on the
platform reading this wonderful bundle
of papers,
Dr. Wilson protests against all the
cruel and unjust actions of the presby
tery, as he regards them.
The presbytery appointed a commit
tee to consider whether charges should
be tabled against Rev. J. P. Wilson, D.
D. That committee advised that Dr.
Wilson be charged and cited to answer
for his irregular conduct. Against this
the members of the session and con
gregation adhering to Dr. Wilson en
tered a protest and appeal to the Gen
eral Assembly.
The Presbytery then addressed a
pastoral letter to the congregation.
All the papers bearing on these actions
were read before the Assembly. Mr.
Smythe finished the papers at 5 p. m.,
the hour of adjournment,
Dr. S. Robinson said there w’ere 16
points in the arguments, and as the
complainants and respondents will
move to be heard, he wished to know
if the Assembly would hear the parties
and take a vote on each of the points
separately.
Dr. Palmer held that there were just
two points to which the whole case
may be boiled down, and insisted that
the argument be confined to those
points which are purely constitutional.
The two points on which the whole
turns are:
1. That the Presbytery of Louisville,
receiving certain memorials, and, upon
the allegations contained in them, pro
ceeding to exercise its visitorial power
in the First Presbyterian church, did,
from the nature of the charges, com
mence what w 7 as essentially a judicial
investigation which should, therefore,
have been conducted under judicial
forms. The Assembly might properly
decide whether or not this point is weil
taken.
2. From the action of the Presbytery,
in proceeding to this investigation, Dr.
S. R. Wilson took an appeal to a Supe
rior Court—claiming that this appeal
operated an immediate suspension of
all proceedings, until it should be finally
issued. The Assembly might very
properly rule whether the appeal, in
this case, w T as of the kind to put the
arrest on the Presbytery which is
claimed.
A CHICAGO CRASH.
Breadstuff’s and Provisions Tumbling
—Wheat Falls Four Cents in One
Day.
[Chicago Times, May 25.]
The prominent markets on ’Change
were unusually excited yesterday. The
weakness that has characterized pro
visions and all the leading cereals for
the past week or more culminated in
a grand bear movement. All the influ
ence affecting the different trades, in
cluding the excessive stocks of all kinds
of produce on hand, the restricted ship
ping and consumptive demand, the dis
couraging eastern and foreign advices
about trade, and the improved crop re
ports from many sections of the coun
try, being favorable for a break in
prices, the bears lost no time in turn
ing the peculiar state of affairs to good
advantage.- Hence, on the opening of
business the interest in favor of lower
values promptly assumed control of the
entire situation, and from that time for
ward the Exchange room was the scene
of unusal animation. The bears hav
ing taken possession of the manage
ment of the several markets, the bulls
seemed powerless to offer any material
resistance, and prices steadily dropped
from point to point until the decline
suffered all around was sufficient to
create almost a general panic. Hold
ers, in fact, appeared to lose all confi
dence in the markets; margins were
called with more freedom than for
months past, and on all sides an un
healthy acd weak feeliug was exhibited.
The trading, however, was liberal,
though the business transacted was
mainly on local speculative account, a
good share of the property sold belong
ing to interior parties who were unable
to meet the demand for increased mar
gins. As compared with last Saturday’s
closing quotations, prices fell off 4c. on
wheat, 3%c. on corn, 2c. on oats, lc. on
barley, 30a35c. per bbl. on mess pork,
20a25c. per 100 lbs. on lard, and %c.
per lb. on meats. Wheat, corn and
mess pork were the principal articles
traded in, though oats, barley and lard
attracted a liberal degree of attention.
Considering the depression in the
markets, the number of failures was
quite limited. Indeed, aside from the
suspension of Messrs. G. P. Comstock
& Cos., who were apparently unprepared
for the bear raid, the failures reported
were really unimportant. In the case
of Messrs. Comstock & Cos., arrange
ments, it is understood, were promptly
made by Mr. Comstock to allow the
firm to commence payment this morn
ing. The firm has more than abundant
means, we are assured, to meet its ob
ligations, but as its funds are tied up
largely in grain in transit, the un
looked for decline in prices forced a
temporary suspension to allow a con
version of some of its available prop
erty.
[Chicago Tribune, May 25.]
The peculiarity of the present situa
tion is that city operators (on their
own account) are generally long, while
the shorts are in the country. Hence
a sudden call for very large margins
may slightly overtop the money on de
posit here, and it cannot be augmented
inside of a few hours time. That is
practically the case in this instance.
The short interest is unusually strong
now, in a financial sense. Many of those
who usually export have been on the
short side of the deal, as they were
unable to operate in the other direc
tion, and a good deal of other capital
has been “short tempered.”
The decline of yesterday did some
thing toward placing tbe markets on a
shipping basis ; but it is only natural
that the markets at other points should
weaken in sympathy, making it neces
sary for ours to recede still farther.
Thi3 is only natural, when we have so
much wheat, corn and pork here wait
ing for an outlet. The great trouble
with our markets is that stocks have
been allowed to accumulate too much,
and they must be reduced before we
can hope for strength in quotations.
A country divine of Georgia thus
condoled with the widow of a deceased
member of the Legislature : “I cannot
tell how pained I was to hear that your
husband had gone to heaven. We were
bosom friends, but now we shall never
meet again ! ”
George Cary Eggleston argues that
it; does not pay as a business venture
to marry a rich wife. His observation
leads him to believe that the expense
of maintaining such a wife is usually
greater than the income which her
property can b© made to yield.
In Germany there are nearly one mil
lion more women than men, and wives
do not lift the hair of husbands so read
ily as in countries where the supply of
the sex is more limited.
THE BELL TOWER TRAGEDY.
Au Important Witness in the Boston
Child-Murder Case—Piper Identified
An Interview by the Rev. G. H. Pen
tecost With the Alleged Murderer-
Piper a Reader of O bscene Books.
[New York Herald.]
Boston, May 25,1875.
There appears to be no abatement in
the public excitement over the murder
of little Mabel Young in one of the
South End churches last Sunday. Lit
tle else is talked of, and the papers are
liUed with theories as to the motive of
the cruel fiend. Concerning the guilt
of Thomas Piper, the sexton, there
seems to be scarcely a shadow of a
doubt. Besides his own strange and
excited conduct since he was taken in
to custody, there are circumstances
constantly developing which indicate
him as the murderer. A reliable man
called upon the Chief of Police to-day,
and stated that he was passing down
AVarren avenue on Sunday afternoon,
about three o’clock ; that he saw sev
eral persons standing in the vestibule
of the church, and that as he was walk
ing along on the opposite side of the
avenue he saw a man emerge from a
window on the avenue side of the
church, and let himself down to the
sidewalk, a distance of about ten feet.
The Missing Link.
The man then immediately entered
the church by the sexton’s door; the
young man had seen the person on the
street several times, but did not know
that he was the sexton of the church.
He was confronted with Piper, and
fully identified him as the man he saw
jump out of the window. The window
in Question is in the staircase, leading
from the vestibule to the gallery of the
church, and the supposition is that
Piper, after committing the horrible
deed, came down from the belfry, lock
ed the door, and, instead of descending
into the vestibule, where he would have
met the persons who were there en
gaged in conversation, leaped from the
window and entered the church unseen
by all save the young man who now
comes forward aud supplies this im
portant link of evidence.
Piper’s Previous Practices.
It has been discovered that during
the past three or four months Piper has
enticed and allowed a large number of
little girls residing in the neghborhood
to play’ what is called “Tag” in the
church. Some of the little children say
that he was in the habit of caressing
and kissing them ; but it is also hinted
that his actions in some instances were
not in accordance with morality and
virtue. A few weeks ago a little girl
named Florence Leland, daughter of a
highly respectable family living near
the church, told her parents that Piper
asked her to go into the belfry with
him and see the pigeons. Last Fall a
daughter of the Rev. Wm. B. Wright
told her mother that from Piper’s be
havior in her presence she thought him
to be a bad man and was afraid of him.
Girls at various times told their parents
the same thing, and since the arrest of
the sexton for the murder many other
children have told things showing evil
in the fellow, S : nce, a witness has been
found who identifies Piper as the man
he saw jump out of a window in the
church, on Sunday afternoon, as above
described. Piper has been made ac
quainted with the fact of his identifica
tion. He dcuied that he got out of any
window there that day. When told
who saw him jump out he replied,
“Well, 1 gusss that’s the fellow’ I have
seen several times loafing about the
church in the morning.” “Did he ever
take little girls up into the church
tower?” inquired the officer. “0h,n0,”
cried Piper. “Well, you have,” re
sponded the officer, “and you have fre
quently chased little girls around the
vestry, with the doors locked, and
kissed them.”
Licentious Literature.
To this Piper turned away aud an
swered not a word. It is reported that
he lias been given to reading obscene
literature. If such be the case, the
fact may tend to show the motive which
actuated him in certain questionable
operations lie is accused of having of
late engaged in, independent of this
murder.
Piper in Court.
The accused was arraigned in the
Municipal Court this afternoon, on the
charge of wilful murder. When Piper
was brought into court there was con
siderable commotion about the court
room. AU present manifested a great
desire to get a full view of the prisoner,
whom they seemed to regard as little
less than a monster. His name being
called his counsel waived the reading
of the complaint, when he was ordered
to be committed to jail and there safe
ly held for examination on the 4th of
June next. Piper took a seat low in
the dock, and after having onee enter
ed the enclosure he did not show his
head above the rail. Many people
crowded about the dock, led by au ir
resistible curiosity to see Piper—a cu
riosity which the officers of the court
found it impossible to entirely restrain
the gratification of
An Interview with the Pastor.
The Rev. G. H. Pentecost, the pastor
of the church in which the deed was
committed, visited the supposed mur
derer aud ex-sexton in the basement of
the City Hall this morning and had a con
fidential talk with him on the subject of
the murder. Piper appeared sadly af
fected and said he was not in his right
mind on Sunday and could not remem
ber anything of the murder. This plea
seems rathei absurd, as parties who
met Piper during the day are of the
opinion that he was of sound mind.
Mr. Pentecost is the clergyman who, a
year or so ago, found in this city the
boy who, it was alleged, was sent away
from Brooklyn to prevent him from
identifying some parties then on a crim
inal trial there.
The Pomeroy Murder.
This last tragedy, as well as others
which have lately taken place in Massa
chusetts, has naturally revived dis
cussion concerning the fact of Pomeroy,
the fiendish boy murderer. He is now
under sentence of death and thousands
of citizens, including many woman,
have petitioned that the law’s decree
may be faithfully and speedily execu
ted. The Executive, however, does not
act in the matter, and the murderer
still lingers in jail. About, a month ago
it was his intention to commute his
sentence to imprisonment for life, but
these latter events and the excitement
among the people mry work a change
in the mind of the Governor.
Minister’s Sons.—Rev. Dr. Miner, of
Boston, says it’s all a mistake about
ministers’ sons being such a hard lot,
and adduces convincing figures. Out
of thirty such youths at Tuft’s College,
while he was President, not one went
to the bad, and only five of the sons of
two hundred and sixty ministers in his
own (Universalist) denomination veri
fied the old proverb, which gets no bet
ter support in the statistics of other
denominations.
OGONTZ.
AN AMERICAN PALACE UNDER
THE HAMMER.
Realizing Assets for Jay Cooke’s Credi
tors—Rise and Fall of the Great Fi
nancier of the “Rebellion”—The
Home of boundless Hospitality Closed
Forever.
[Philadelphia Times, 2Gth.]
It is not far from the city to Ogontz; but
a short twenty minutes’ railroad ride
through the beautiful country of rurai
Philadelphia and lower Montgomery and
the visitor lands at the Old York road sta
tion, and then, walking beside a well-kept
turnpike for half a mile, he sees before him
the long sweep of green thick-set hedge
that fronts and encircles the close-clipped,
slowly rising lawn at whose summit
stands the stately mansion once tenated
by the great financier, from the effect of
whose sudden downfall the complex busi
ness interest of a great nation have not
yet recovered. A pretty gray stone lodge
stands by the gate, and entering, a broad
avenue leads with a great swinging curve
to the front of the house, from which a
similar avenue stretches away to another
gate and porter’s lodge at the upper road
front of the grounds, while directly from
the centre of the building a straight
wide graveled walk, enclosed on cither side
by a tall hedge of Norway spruce, leads to
the counterfeit presentiment of an ancient
run half overgrown with creeping plants.
In the rear the ground slopes slowly down
ward through a grove of tall chestnuts to a
pretty brook, whose waters here and there
gurgle over and around the great stones
that endeavor to bar their passage. In
front the grounds are all that the most
consummate skill of the landscape garden
er could create, while from the rear of the
house, dowu the forest-clad hill, and across
the brook to the long stone wall t iat bounds
the estate on that side, all save the clear
ing of the underbrush from among the
trees is nature, charming as always when
left to her own sweet self. The mansion
placed amidst all these artificial and natu
ral beauties is indeed a lordly pile. Built
in the Italian style, of a cheerful gray
stone, quarried on the farm of the
estate, with dressings of Quincy cut gran
ite, four stories in height, with "two towers
each a story higher, it looms above the tali
trees a landmark for miles around. On the
first floor is a wide porch on each side, iu
the rear a porte cochere, arid on the front
an Italian balcony, and adjoining the ear
ner tower a beautiful conservatory. The
rooms within are a large and handsome
parlor and library, dining-room, musie
roorn, sitting-room, office, pantry aud
kitchens, and on the three upper rooms a
billiard-room and thirty-one spacious bed
rooms, besides store-rooms, baih-rooms,
etc. All through the house are great wide
halls aud grand stairways finished in hard
woods, and every convenience that the in
vention of the times can apply, and every
where there are paintings aud statuary and
rare engravings—rich c trpets, costly fur
niture, lace curtains of rare beauty and
price, bric-a-brac, articles of vertu, and
the numberless very pretty and cost
ly adornments that the possessor of
exquisite taste and boundless wealth can
alone gather and command. Bogan in 1864,
and every day suggesting some new beauty
or convenience to bo added or an old one
improved upon, the house and grounds
were scarcely completed when, on the 18th
of Sept mber, 18?4, Jay Cooke A Cos. became
bankrupt, aud within one week yielding all
he possessed to his credit >rs, Mr. Cooke
removed forever from the magnificent
home he had created. He would be, indeed,
devoid of sensibility, who, wandering
through these grand saloons so often filled
with wit and wisdom and wealth and
beauty, could avoid a pang of sincere and
unselfish sorrow at a calamity that robbed
a man of such a home as this, the well
earned reward of an energy exhaustless, a
financial sagacity and foresight unparal
leled and an integrity uniiupeached—and
all at one fell swoop swept from his grasp.
It was not as a mere matter of personal
pride that Mr. Cooke erected and adorned
this spacious and beautiful mansion. Es
sentially generous and hospit able to a fault,
he louud, as his wonderful success in
placing the hundreds of millions of Gov
ernment loans during the war brought him
more and more in contact with the great
ones of the land, the necessity of erecting
an establishment where lie could dispense
with lavish hand the hospitality his posi
tion demande 1; and when com
pleted his home was the scene of al
most one continuous series of entertain
ments, at which attended Cabinet officers,
Senators, Generals groat in war, Ministers
and distinguished visitors from foreign
powers—men great in linanee, in law, in
theology, in art, in literature. His roof has
sheltered alike the glittering-eyed envoys
from far-off Japan and the stolid redskins
who live by the waters of the Upper Mis
souri. To-day these halls are desolate, and
before another sun shall shine upon them
will, with all the fair lands that surronud
them, pass beneath the unsyuipathizing
stroke of the auctioneer’s hammer.
Never, on this side of the ocean at least,
was so large a fortune accumulated so rap
idly aud dispersed so suddenly as that of
Jay Cooke, lie had been with the banking
house of E W. Clarke A Cos. for about
twelve years, when in 1860 he entered into
partnership with Wm. C. Moorhead and es
tablished the firm of Jay Cooke A Cos. in a
small room on the first floor of the build
ing the whole of which floor the firm after
ward occupied. The rebellion soon after
broke out. aud then this marvelous finan
cial sagacity was almost at once emp oyed
by the Federal Government to place the
loans made necessary to supply the im
mense sums of money required to carry on
the war, and the magnitude of his opera
tions on behalf of the government can be
appreciated when it is known that he suc
ceeded in selling, either personally or by
his agents, five ftundred and twenty mil
lions of the bonds known as five twenties,
and eight hundred millions of those de
nominated the seven-thirties. It was then
that his wealth accumulated so rapidly that
at the end of the war the firm was actually
worth theonormous sum of nearly five mil
lions of dollars. For the placing of the five
twenty loan uuder the administration of
the Uuited States Treasury, by Mr. Chase,
Jay Cooke A Cos. received % per centum,
out of which advertising, to an almost in
credible amount, and commissions to
agents had to be paid, Mr. Chase only al
lowing the sum of $l5O for advertising.
When the 7-JO loan was about being place J,
Mr. Fessenden was Secretary of the Trea
sury, and believing that the national banks,
then just getting well into play, would be
the readiest agents, Mr. Fessenden em
ployed them to sell the bonds. But the re
ceipts were so small that Jay Cooke A Cos.
were again solicited to act as agents for
the government. How they succeeded is
too well known to be repeated here. Every
dollar of the 153,000,000 of dollars of the
two loans passed through the hands of tho
firm, and in addition to tho percentage al
lowed by the governmenti for the 7-3os one
half for 250,000,000 and five-eighths for the
balance, out of which percentage advertis
ing and all expenses were paid by Jay
Cooke A Cos ) they had, as they only remit
ted weekly to the treasury, the use of mil
lions of dollars always, which in some
way were drawing interest. Hence their
enormous profits, beside which tho pos
session of these immense sums en
abled them to control th ■ money mar
ket of the continent. Said a weli
knewn Third street broker yesterday: “ I
have known Jay Cook to stop many a pan
ic during the war by going into the front
of the battle, and by judicious purchases of
Government, securities restore the tone of
the market so suddenly that those who had
been on the very verge of giving up every
thing for lost wondered what they had
been scared at; bat there is not a man iu
the country that could do such a thing
now.” Mr, Cooke was a firm believer in
his destiny, and, cool and wary headed as
he was, was confident that he could not be
overthrown. It Wis armed with this that
he embarked his fortunes in the Northern
Pacific Railway project, and if ever a finan
cial enterprise promised success it was
this if tho strength <. f the projectors was a
sufficient warrant. With Jay Cooke A Cos.
were also interested capitalists, who, with
that firm, represented capital to the amount
of $200,000,000. Again, by lineral and judi
cious advertising, joined to the well-earned
reputation of the house, Jay Cooke & Cos.
succeeded in selling the bonds toau amount
sufficient, notonly to c omplete five hundred
miles of the rofcd to the Pacific, but
equ pped, as it s to-dav, with lolling
stock sufficient for its uses, hail it reached
the far-off waters of Puge, bound. But
then came the Chic igo fire, a catastrophe
that if any m in had prophesied ho would
have beom consigned t > a lunatic asylum,
and when the h iuso of Jay jCcoke A Cos.
went down great was tho fall thereof.—
They who had embai ked with the now
bankrupt firm in the North Pacific were
able to disentangle themselves without loss
other than the money invested, but so in
extricably were the fortunes of the fallen
house and the railroad that was to glrdlea
continent involved, that both suffered a
like calamity without hope of recovery.
And then the members of the firm of Jay
Cooke A Cos. lost their all, even to their
very hearthstones; and therefore it is that
to-day. at noon, Ogontz, the stately, the
beautiful mansion, with its pleasure
grounds charming as Eden, and its broad
lands ast fattening with the springing
grain, is to be sold at publie outcry to the
highest bidder.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Water Works —Holtzclaw and
Jack Brown—The Vanguard of West
ern Immigration—The Sunny South
—Gunning for a Preacher—Dots.
(From our Regular Correspondent-!
Atlanta, Ga., May 28, 1875.
Nature seemed to have had an eye
to business when it scooped out the
beautiful little valley hanging ju9t on
the edge of town, for it is a natural res
ovoir for the water works. This na
ture-made resovoir covers an area of
about fifty acres and is calculated to
hold about about two hundred and fifty
thousand gallons of water. This water
is furnished by two small but prolific
branches and a great number of springs.
All that was done to help nature was
to throw up a dam on the sloping end
and the water is retained as nicely as
you could wish. The two branches are
small, but never-failing, and it is esti
mated that both will furnish the reso
voir with two millions of gallons in
twenty-four hours. From the dam to
the head of the pond is about three
quarters of a mile but the width is va
ried, owing to the irregular shape of
the valley. The depth of the resovoir
at the dam is forty-two feet. This dam
is of peculiar and substantial construc
tion. It is fifty-one feet high, three
hundred and fifty feet thick at tho base,
built of clay with strong rip-rap. It is
twenty feet wide on top, and the back
is terraced to the base, and will be soon
in grass.
The tower, situated a short distance
from the dam, is built of rock, and is
forty-five feet high. Its base is square
in shape, eighteen by twenty feet for a
distance of twelve feet, then it takes a
circular shape, and has a diameter at
the top of eight feet. Passing through
the tower from the summit is a thirty
inch outlet pipe, which prevents the
resorvoir from becoming too full.
There is also a pipe of the same
size for waste water, which can be
opened or closed by a valve from the
top of the tower. With this, the re
sovoir can be drained easily and rapid
ly for cleansing, etc. A twenty inch
pipe, with two valves, connects the re
sovoir with the engine. In addition to
the two escape pipes alluded to, a
series of cauals fringe the border of the
resovoir ready for use in case of an
overflow by freshets.
The ponderous engine has four
cylinders eighteen inches in diameter
with a twenty-seven inch stroke. The
smoke stack is one hundred feet high
and built of brick. The main pipe
from tho engine is sixteen inches in
diameter. The pipe line from the works
to the center of the city is four and a
half miles long.
The exact time t hat the gurgle will
be heard in town is not known. But
the A tlantese are an impatient people,
and will hurry the thing u p if it only
brings enough iu town to dilute a mint
julep by the fourth of July.
I have thus discussed at some length
on these works because your city, be
ing so well provided for in that line,
can appreciate the efforts of a strug
gling village to cleanse itself with a little
water.
A New Appointment,
It has been pretty well settled that
Holzelaw, the Internal Revenue Collec
lector at this point, has been removed.
Jack Brown—the famous Jack of
Southwest Georgia fame—has been ap
pointed in his stead.
Holtzclaw has been sitting on the
ragged edge of auxiety for a long
time. It has been the sole desire of
some of his party to removo him ever
since he has been in the offlc-e. They
have urged him, told tales on him,
chunked him with threatful rocks from
long taw and short taw, but Holtz, still
sat on the ragged edge and grinned.
Jack Brown, who has hankered for an
office, and hung around the President’s
apron strings for ever so long, is now
as happy as a June sunflower.
From the Grasshopper Region.
Sometime last January Mr. Thomas
P. Janes, the Commissioner of Agricul
ture, received a letter from a Swede, in
Kansas, stating that he was one of a
large colony who had gone to
Kansas to stake their tents;
that they had failed to find
the milk and honey and mild climate,
and other luxuries claimed by North
ern immigration agents; but on the con
trary found the winters cold and the
summers hot, and to make matters
worse, the grasshopper came in all his
glory and uumerousness and ate up all
the poor fellows could make. He also
said that on seeing a newspaper article
on the profits to be derived from fann
ing in Georgia, he ventured to write to
Commissioner Janes, begging informa
tion. This information was cheerfully
given by letter, and Mr. Janes thought
no more of it. Imagine, then, his sur
prise when on yesterday Mr. Aubert,
tho Swede, walked into the Commis
sioner’s office and introduced himself.
He had buudled together his effects and
with his two boys and daughter, left the
grasshoppered county and struck out
for Georgia. He arrived here without
a dollar in his pocket and with nothing
to eat. Mr. Janes gave him all that
was necessary and then sent him to his
farm in Greene county. Mr. Aubert is
a fine-looking old gentleman, and is as
honest as he looks. Being very intel
ligent, he will be able to relate con
vincingly all the advantages of Geor
gia, and will no doubt bring hundreds
of these thrifty, honest people to our
State.
The Sunny South.
Among the numerous literary papers
that find their way from the North to
our news counters, there is not one of
them that can compare in typography
or literary merit to the Sunny Soulh.
It has a bona fide circulation of ten
thousand copies, and its subscription
lists swell daily. Itg contributions em
brace the best and finest talent of the
South, and its editorial conduct is al
most faultless. Mr. Seals, the editor
and proprietor, is a thorough editor, a
deep thinker, a polished writer and au
ardent lover of pro:se literature. It is
not Atlanta’s paper hut Georgia’s pride,
and I am sure that no true Southron
can scan its pages without a feeling of
gladness that the South possesses such
a worthy paper. It should go to every
family in the Southern States.
Shooting a Preacher.
The Rev. W. J. Fackler has made
himself quite famous in this city as
well as in other cities of the State by
his efforts to turn sinners. He has, with
other Baptist ministers here, succeeded
iu causing many to unite with the
church by his open-air meetings and
JNTew Series—Vol. 3. ISTo. 107
earnest handbill appeals. He is a
printer, but some few days ago left
the types and turned his attention to
preaching the Gospel. The tramping
propensity of the printer clings to him
yet, and he goes from one place to an -
other in his good work. Day before
yesterday he was at Norcross. That
night while preaching he was fired at
by some unseen party, the ball whiz
zing through the glass and causing
consternation among the congregation.
The matter will be thoroughly inves
tigated.
Newsygraphs.
Hon. J. J. Hickman was re-eleete I
Right Worthy Grand Templar of the
World, at a meeting of the Lodge hi
Bloomington, Illinois. The Good Tern
plars all over the State were glad r >
learn of this.
The weather is still hot. The dust
has been laid a little by a wee drop of
rain, but the agony is still fearful.
Mr. S. DeF. Lines, a well known
printer, died in Macon yesterday of
consumption. He was a native of New
Haven, Conn., but has resided iu the
South a long while. He leaves a wife
aud one child.
Col. L, P. Grant is spoken of for the
General Superintendency of the Geor
gia Road. He is the receiver of the
Air Line Road.
Mrs. Twilly, wife of Rev. W. R. Twil
ly, a Methodist minister in Paulding
county, committed suicide last Tues
day afternoon by hanging herself. She
had been deranged for several years.
The fare from Atlanta to New York
is §29. No round trip tickets by any
route will be issued this season.*
Roanoke.
CONFESSION OF A DYING THIEF.
The Remarkable Death-Bed Story of
Barnum’s “Vancouver, the No-Hair
ed Man of Vancouver Island.”—He
Was Born in Connecticut—His Sub
sequent Life of Crime —Confession of
Murders and Burglaries.
Trot. May 20.
A few weeks since an old man was
arrested iu this place having in his pos
session a horse and buggy which he
had stolen from a livery stable in Nor
wich, Chenango county. The man gave
his name as Burr Doming, and was no
ticeable for the absence of hair on his
head and face. Shortly after his arrest
he was taken ill, and continued to grow
worse until Saturday, when he died.—
The day before he died he requested a
clergyman to be summoned to his bed
side, as he desired to make certain re
velations and confess ions before he died.
The story he told, or portions of it,
have just been made publie, and is one
of the most extraordinary narratives
known to the records of crime.
He was born, he said, in Sharon,
Litchfield county, Conn., and the fact
of his having no ha r attracted the at
tention of P. T. Barnum when that
showman first started out. and who en
gaged him to travel with him. Bar
num advertised him as “Vancouver,
the no-haired man of Vancouver’s Is
land,” a feature of the early exhibi
tions of Barnum which will be remem
bered by many yet living. He was with
Barnum seven years, and then left him
to follow a life of crime, which he ad
hered to ever after. He was married
eight times, and seven of his wives, he
declares, are yet living—one in New
York, two in Philadelphia, one in Con
necticut, one in New Orleans, one in
Lockport and one in Boston. He said
he had been concerned in no less than
300 burglaries since he left Barnum,
three of which were attended with mur
der. He had been arrested 115 times,
and served many terms in prison,
ranging from six months to two years.
The last time he was sentenced was
in Buffalo. He was an accomplice of
Dau Noble in the celebrated bond rob
bery of 1869, and in 7.870 he was tried
at Buffalo and sentenced by Judge
Boardman to five years in Auburn
prison. He served two of it, and was
then pardoned out by Governor Hoff
man at the petition of friends.
After leaving Auburn Peming went
to Canada. Ho had been there but a
few months when he joined a gang of
burglars and planned and helped to
execute the robbery of the St. Cathe
rines’ Bank. He was arrested before
he could leave the province, all the
rest escaping. When put upon trial
he succeeded in establishing an alibi
through the testimony of one Mary
Washburne, a supposed respectable
seamstress of St. Catherines, but in
reality the wife of one of the gang and
an accomplice in the robbery. There
is a reward, Deming said, of s>,ooo still
standing for the arrest of the parties
engaged in the St. Catherines’ robbery.
They got away with about $20,000 and
a large amount cf bonds. These lat
ter, aceordii g to the dying criminal
were buried in Delaware county,
near the Ulster county line, and are
there yet for all he knew to the contra
ry. Deming said that the robbery of
the United States mail of five bags of
valuable matter at Utica a year ago
was planned by him, but he did not par
ticipate in the robbery, although he
knew all the parties engaged in it, and
how they have managed to elude jus
tice. He was one of the gang who com
mitted the Comstock robbery, also In
Utica, which he said, did not yield the
amount that was reported as taken, it
being, in fact, an unprofitable job. Be
sides these leading crimes in which he
was concerned, Doming confessed to be
log a leader in numerous others which
acquired but a local reputation, but
which were important as to the profit
they yielded. He claimed to know who
broke open the Port Jervis Bank in
1869, when about 850,000 in money and
bonds were stolen, and said he was one
of the watchers outside when it was
done. Deming also said that he knew
who robbed and murdered Mr. Edwards
a few months ago at Cooperstown. It
will be remembered that Edwards, who
was a wealthy resident of Coojrerstown,
was attacked at night at his residence,
robbed and murdered. By a hat which
was left behind by the murderer or
murderers a supposed clew was ob
tained to a party concerned in the
crime, aud he was arrested. Deming
said they had not got the right man;
that he knew to whom the hat belong
ed. He gave a detailed account of that
crime, mentioning the names of those
concerned in it, and made mauy extra
ordinary developments, which the au
thorities who now have the sworn con
fession will not, as yet, divulge. Dem
ing lived but a few hours after making
his statement, and was fully aware of
his approaching dissolution.' Opinion
as to the truth of his confession is con
siderably divided—many believing that
a dying man would not trump up the
stories he told, and others claiming
that Deming was crazy. An investiga
tion of the statements will bo made,
and their truth or falsity settled at
once.
Said Pat: “ Faix, where wud ye find
a modern house that has lasted so lonjj
as the ancient ? ”