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• Augusta, tla.
An unusual dish of horrors is served
up telegraphically this morning, in the
way of marine disasters, railway acci
dents. a bloody riot, death by drown
ing, murders, ete., etc.
Thebe is “ blood upon the moon ” iu
France, as well as in this country,
among the editorial fraternity. A
French duel is sometimes painful but
seldom fatal.. “Honor” is satisfied
among the Gauls by wounds instead of
death. The rapier is not so fatal as
the rifle and pistol.
One of the brightest and beat of our
exchanges is the Charlotte (N. C.) Ob
server. The editor of that paper has a
head entirely level. We are giad to
see that his lively sheet keeps the flag
of principle flying, and, amid so much
that is false in our country, preserves
the whiteness of the soul.
Hon. TANARUS, M. Norwood proposes to invest
iu a sheep and stock farm in Ware county.
—Savannah News.
Beware, Thomas. If .you will go into
sheep-raising, dose all the dogs in that
county with arsenic before settling down
to wool gathering.
An address from Col. Claiborne
Snead, surviving commander of the
Third Georgia Regiment, to the veter
ans of that gallant corps, giving infor
mation in regard to their approaching
reunion at Portsmouth, Virginia, will
be found in our city department.
The Fourth of July did not pass off
without a minor “war of races.” The
Vicksburg affair is just what maybe
expected, at any time, when the laws
of nature are violated as they have
been, by Congressional usurpation, in
Mississippi.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey will leave
England and propose trying their ex
hortations and singing upon the Paris
ians. There are many British and
American sinners in the-French capital
who need stirring up with a spiritual
long pole, but to the natives, who un
derstand no English, the revival busi
ness is apt to prove a failure. Later
dispatches contradict the report of a
Paris movement on the part of the
American evangelists. They will prob
ably hold on to the British a while
longer.
The meanings of the word parure
are these, as given by the French Dic
tionary: (1) attire; (2) dress; (3) finery;
(4) adornment, ornament; (5) of gems,
a set. While it is true that parure, al
luding to gems, is a set, it is equally
true that the word has other significa
tions, and it may be said that sets of
diamonds are “decorations for dress.’
Our luminous contemporary should
learn how to spell diamonds in French;
the proper way is diamants, not dia
mans.
The Garlis ts have come to the top
again, A recent report of their re
verses turns out to be untrue. If our
cable telegrams are to be credited, in
stead of being in retreat and discom
fited, Don Civblos is in luck and pro
poses a general advance upon the
armies of King Alfonso. Why don’t
they have a big battle and a decisive
one ? The war is getting rather tedi
ous, like that in Cuba.
The Baltimore Sun’s Washington cor
respondent )iays :
Several clerks have been set to work
overhauling the Confederate war records,
\or the purpose of preparing a history of
the ex-Cc4felerates elected to Congress,
the matter thus collected to be used as a
campaign document. It is not likely that
the most vigorous search among these doc
uments will result in the discovery of any
thing which will be very valuable as a Rad
ical c impatgn document. Tht'ee years ago
these very same records wore gone over for
me same object, and everything in them
that could be tortured for the benefit of the
dominant party was circulated broadcast
over the country.
While there is some little “cheek” in
Americans celebrating their national
holiday in London, the tirade of abuse
poured out by the Standard is ridicu
lous. It is true that, since 1860, re
publican liberty has been made a mock
ery of in the United States, but when a
London paper refers to the revolt of
the American colonies as “insane,” we
cannot “see it in those lamps.” The
Standard editor must stand sadly in
need of several blue pills at night and
two bottles of Congress water the fol
lowing day. A wet towel around his
hot bruins and low diet for a week
might reduce the fever in the head
and the bile in the body of this irate
John Bull.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Trial of Ex-Treasurer Parker.
CoLtnißU, July 6.—The trial of ex-
Treasurer Parker, charged with fraud
against the State, commenced to-day
before Judge Carpenter.
..— , * i
Reason is an historian, but the pas
sions are actors. — Rivarol,
Uc flail]} (Eonstitutionalist.
THE NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE.
Dreadful Steamboat Accident Near
Norfolk—Fatal Railway Collision in
New York—Riot and Bloodshed at
Vicksburg-—Drowning- Cases—Death
from Cannon Explosions —Assassina-
tion.
Norfolk, Va., July 6. —The steam tug
Lumberman, while returning last night
from Fortress Monroe, with a pleasure
party of eighteen on board, was run
into off Sewell's Point by the steamer
Isaac Bell, and sunk immediately in 50
feet water. Boats were* lowered from
the Bell, and several of the survivors
picked up. The following is a list of
the lost: Mrs. Elizabeth Hudgins, a
widow lady, and her colored servant;
George Wilson, Miss Jessie Frederick
Mrs. G. W. Baker, Capt. Edward Cook,
James C. Bornm, Harry Borum, of
Norfolk; Miss M. Borum, of Mathews
county ; the eugineer of the
Lumberman. Capt. Brown, of the
Lumberman, was struck on the head
and severely injured by tbe wheel of
the Beil, but he had strength left to
rescue his wife, who had to crawl
through the window of the pilot house
to avoid being carried down by the
fast sinking boat. Mrs. Brown was se
verely injured internally, and it is fear
ed she will not survive. Boats have
been sent down to drag for bodies.
Thomas Loucks, au old and well
known telegraph operator, died here
yesterday, aged 33.
New York, July 6 —Two passenger
trains on the South Side Road, near Fort
Rockway, collided. Twelve passen
gers were killed and 26 wounded, sev
eral supposed fatally.
Worcester, July 6.—Two young men,
James VVaine and Wade, were drowned
at New Worcester last evening.
Vicksburg, July 6. —The disturbance
at a negro meeting at the Court House
yesterday grew out of a difficulty be
tween two white men, one of whom
was dangerously wounded. A pistol
was then drawn by Ben Allen, a colored
politician. He was knocked down by
the whites and seriously beaten. Soon
after this, a fight took place between a
Gegroand a white man, in which the ne
gro’s skull was broken. A shot was
fired mto the crowd by a negro riding
in a hack, which was returned by
the whites. During the melee two ne
groes were killed and one seriously
wounded. Everything is quiet to-day.
No farther troubles are appprehended.
Boston, Juiy 6. —Two girls were
drowned at Lewistou, Me., while bath
ing, also a lad at South Framingham
and another at Plymouth, N. H.
Four fatal accidents by the bursting
of cannon are reported from Maine and
New Hampshire.
Chicago, July 6.— A dispatch from
Desmoines says: “Saturday evening, as
a large number of persons were return
ing in company from Greenfield, Adair
county, to their homes in the country,
they attempted to cross Middle river,
in a wagon, which was swollen from
recent rains. Oue wagon upselfand
Mrs. Thomas Montgomery and her
babe, Mr. A. Montgomery and his little
child and J. R. Baker were drowned.
Memphis, July 6.—Robert N. Yerby
was shot and killed on a steamer near
St. Louis. The murderers ordered the
captain to stop the boat, which was
done, when they took to the woods. It
was an old Arkansas grudge.
Searching for Bodies of the Drowned
—Death by Lightning and Damage
by St, rm—Watery Graves—3aw-Mill
Explosion and Loss of Life.
Norfolk, V a., July 6.—The sinking of
the tug Lumberman last night has
created a profound sensation here.—
Various rumors are afloat as to who
was to blame but no definite conclusion
can be arrived at until an official in
vestigation takes place. Ten were
drowned and only three bodies have
7een recovered, two of these, Joseph
Wilson and Miss Borum, were found
near Fortress Monroe, nearly two miles
from the scene of disaster. The body
of Miss Frederioi was found near
Sewell’s Point. A section of the Nor
folk Light Artillery Blues have to-day
been firing twelve pounder guns about
the spot where the bodies are supposed
to be lying.
During a thunder storm this after
noon in Portsmouth, two youths,
named Guthrie and Hubbard, were
struck and killed by lightning, and the
schooner Windward, lying at the wharf,
had its main mast splintered.
Nyack, N. Y., July 7.—A heavy rain
storm, accompanied by lightning and
thunder, passed over this city this af
ternoon. Two men, Abin Newman and
Jacob Tucker, were instantly killed by
lightning. Houses were unroofed,
trees uprooted and other damage done.
Fall River, Mass., July 6.—A party
of seven lads while bathing at the
junction of Wautuppa Lake and Que
guechan river to-day, joined hands and
walked off a sand bar into deep water,
where six of the number —John W.
Fielding, James and William Jacques,
William Dyer, Francis Kane and Geo.
McManus—were drowned. The seventh
lad reached shore and gave the alarm.
Little Rock, July 6.—The boiler of
a saw mill near Hot Springs exploded
Saturday, killiug four and seriously in
juring others.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Appointments —Emigration Statistics —
Yellow Fever Notes.
Washington, July 6. —A large num
ber of appointments, among which are
Lester Markmau, postmaster at Madi
son, Ga., and F. E. Grossman, collector
of customs, Fernandina, Fla.
Fourteen thousand emigrants reached
New York in J une ; same time last
year, 20,000.
Wm. C. Nichols has been appointed
assistant treasurer at Chicago.
Advices at the Navy Department
from Key West report one death and
two new cases of yellow fever this
morning.
KEY WEST.
The Fever Abating.
Key West, July 6 —There were no
deaths from yellow fever here yester
day. The weather is cooler, with oc
casional rain and squalls. The sickness
is abating.
[Signed] T. V. Harris,
Health Officer.
FROM CHICAGO,
A Black and Tan Grand Jury.
Chicago, July 6. —The grand jury of
the July term of the Criminal Court
were impanelled this morning, and
consist of eight negroes and sixteen
white men.
Glycerine can be used in lamps for
illuminating purposes.
Bonner, of the N. Y. Ledger, owns 80
horses.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 7. 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The C&rlists in Luck—They Defeat the
Alfonsists and Propose a General
Advance —Roman News—-Duels of
French Editors—American Festival
in London —A Bilious Growl from
one of John Bull’s Pups.
London, July 6.—The Carlist Com
mittee have advices from Toloso July
3d, which say : “Our artillery repulsed
eight thousand Alfonsists between
Leoin and Alio in Navarre. A column,
fourteen thousand strong with supplies
for the relief of Vittoria, were defeated
beyond LaPuebla. Don Carlos has
taken chief command of the Northern
army. A general advance has been de
cided upon. The report of Dorregaray’s
defeat is false. Several Alfonsist offi
cers have lately joined us. The city
aud fortress of Molins de Rey, nine
miles from Barcelona, surrendered to
the Carlisle with their garrison, cannon,
munitions and prisoners including seven
superior officers.”
Rome, July 6. — The Pope appointed
several Bishops, among them Dr.
Herara, of Santiago de Cuba. Signor
Blanc succeeds Chevalier Conti at
Washington.
Paris, Juiy 6.— Different groups of
the Right met to-day and decided
against a dissolution of tfie Assembly
in August.
Granier de Cassaguae holds Gam
betta responsible for insulting language
used in La Republique Frdncaise and
demands satisfaction.
Rosate, of La Presse, and Perivier, of
La Figaro, fought in Belgium. Perivier
was slightly wounded in the chest and
arm.
London, July 6.— Moody aud Sankey
go to Paris, wUere they will attempt to
hold revival meetings.
The festival given by the Americans
at the Crystal Palace was a grand af
fair. Marble Hall and the banqueting
room were magnificently decorated.
Thousands visited the Palace during
the day.
Two hundred persons were present
at the banquet given by the Americans
last evening in honor of the anniversa
ry of the declaration of Independence.
Among the guests were U. S. Grant,
Jr., son of President Grant; Messrs.
Hoffman and Chesebrough, of the Le
gation in London ; Messrs. Woodhou-e
and Stevens; Hugh McCulloch; Gen.
Bradford; the American Consuls at
Dundee and Southampton; H. M. Watts;
Dr. Livingstone’s son ; Naval Con
structor Barnaby; Sir Frederick Per
kins and Henry Richard. Members of
Parliament.
The Standard of to-day contains an
exceedingly violent article against the
celebration by Americans. It says:
“None but Americans would venture
upon such a display of bad taste and
discourtesy as was shown in yester
day’s celebration, and none but Eng
lishmen would tolerate it. It is hardly
deceut for any loyal Englishman to
participate in the celebration of Eng
lish disasters. The American in
surrection was about the most
unprovoked rebellion in history.
In the present times, forbearance
and conciliation on the English side are
returned by America with insult and
abuse, which is only encountered by
cringing flattery, and this Dean Stan
ley calls “reconciliation and peace
making.” The Standard, in conclud
ing its article, says: “Among Americans
there are but few not actually partici
pating in the general system of public
plunder in the country, who would not
joyfully exchange their institutions for
the order, honesty and loyalty of this
Empire, from which a century ago
they made their insane revolt.”
A F russian Hospital to be Established
at San Francisco—Gambetta Not In
clined to Fight—Moody and Sankey
to Stay in England.
Berlin, July 6.—Dr. Kullz is about
to leave lor San Francisco to superin
tend the erection of a naval hospital,
which the Government has decided to
build in that city for nse by the squad
ron in the Pacific Ocean.
Paris, July 6. —Gambetta has de
clined to accept Granier de Cassag
nac’s challenge to fight a duel, on ac
count of articles published in the
Republique Francaise. He says he
cannot hold himself at the disposal of
the first comer among his political
adversaries, as he has other duties and
responsibilities to fulfil towards his
party, France and the Republic.
London, July 6. —It is denied that
Moody and Sankey intend opening
meetings in Paris. There is no falling
off in the number of attendants at their
meetings here. Large numbers of
persons continue to visit the “Inquiry
Rooms.”
Another Great Failure in London—
A New Spanish Constitution—The
Crops.
London, July 6.—John Rankin & Cos.
have failed. Their liabilities are esti
mated at about $12,500,000.
The British gunboat Lively sails
from Portsmouth for the Spanish coast
to protect British interests in the ports
threatened by the military operations
of the Carlists and Alfonsists.
The report of the recall of M. De
Goutant-Biron, the French Ambassa
dor at Berlin, was groundless.
The Mark Lane Express of this week
says the weather is calculated to
greatly hinder haying and harvesting.
Dryness is required—consequently the
prospects are rather threatening for
the future. The prices of wheat are
a shilling higher, and in some markets
two shillings.
Ups and Downs of Spanish Hostilities
—Egyptian Gossip,
Madrid, July 6. —Gen. Loma has
effected a junction with Gen. Queseda.
The Diario says it has reason to be
lieve that Dorregaray’s army, feeling
incapable of resisting aa attack of the
Alfonsist forces, left Cantaveija and
crossed the river Ebro, and is now
marching into Catalonia. Several guns
of heavy calibre have been disembarked
from steamers at San Sebastian, and
are intended for the detached forts at
Renteria. The carlists have erected
fresh batteries against San Sebastian.
The French gunboat Oriflamme has
arrived to protect the interests of
French subjects.
Madrid, July 6.—The Commission of
nine members, appointed to prepare
the draft of anew constitution for the
kingdom of Spain have concluded their
labors. The draft opens with a decla
ration of individual and religious liber
ty. The Legislature is to consist of a
Senate and Chamber of Deputies, com
posed as in other liberal monarchial
States. The magistracy is to be irre
movable. It is believed the constitu
tion will be adopted without modifica
tion. It is rumored that the Alfons
ists have captured Canta-Yiega. The
Carlists have cut the railway between
Huesca and Barcelona at Tordienta. •
Paris, J uly 6.— C01. Long, formerly
of the United Btaf.es army, now in the
Egyptian service, has arrived in Paris
from his second expedition to the Niain
Niam country, where he is extending
the authority of the Khedive. He
brought to Cairo five specimens of An
thropophagi, including a female of the
Akka, or Ticketicke dwarf race. The
Khedive decorated him with the order
of Medjidic. Two negro soldiers aided
Col. Long in a desperate encounter at
Lake Mroole, which Col. Long believes
to be one of the many sources of the
Nile. Col. Long leaves shortly for the
United States.
A BAPTIST CENTENNIAL.
Address ot' Dr. J. L. M. Curry —The
Birth of Religious Liberty—Liberal
Donations, Ete.
[Reported for the Baltimore Sun, July 1 ]
A meeting was held last night at the
Seventh Baptist Church, corner of Paca
and Saratoga streets, Rev. Dr. Brant
ley, pastor, to take into consideration
the subject of utilizing the coming cen
tennial of American independence by a
thank offering to pay church indebted
ness, aud to endow the higher educa
tional establishments of the Church.
Nearly all the Baptist clergymen in
Baltimore, and many prominent lay
men were present.
Rev. Dr. Fuller opened the meeting
with some remarks, and introduced
Dr. J. L. M. Curry, formerly a member
of Congress from Alabama, but now a
minister of the Baptist Church and pro
fessor of history and English literature
in Richmond College, Virginia.
Address of Dr. Curry.
Dr. Curry said he had recently heard
anew definition of the word centennial
that he liked, which was that “every
man must give one hundred dollars.”
He said the Old North State had had
its Mecklenburg, Massachusetts its
Bunker Hill, and next year the nation
would have its grand national centen
nial, but it seemed to him more appro
priate to commemorate and do honor
to those who had established our re
ligious liberty, and do homage to
opinion.
The Declaration of Independence.
He though the Declaration of Inde
pendence was right, while many things
that were nauseating and even crimi
nal had been done in the name of
liberty, he knew of no name under
which more crime had been done than
under the name of religion, yet re
ligion was nevertheless right, as was
the Declaration of Independence still
right, notwithstanding the failures and
crimes which had followed it. He did
not know a man, not even Washington
or Robert Lee, whom he would make a
king.
The Baptist Fathers.
He proposes to speak of the Baptist
fathers who availed themselves of
national independence to secure religi
ous liberty, a favor far more valuable
than that of civil liberty. Our Baptist
fathers were not satisfied with the
guarantee that there should not be
any religious tests as qualification for
office, aud demanded greater guaran
tees should be given, which secured
the amendment to the Constitution
against an established religion. t
A man must cease to be a Baptist
when he favors religious persecution.
- -**•. WtlOiKPi ** f
Church and State.
A church ceases to be a New Testa
ment church when it is in union with a
government. The absolute exemption
of every man from civil obligation
or restraint to worship God or not,
according to the dictates of his con
science, is religious liberty. He said
the first experiment of divorcing
church and State was begun in Rhode
Island, and it had become a cardinal
principal of-the Baptist Church. It was
impossible to be a Baptist and be op
posed to religious liberty. Rhode
Island was the first civil government
in the world that ever existed that
proclaimed the doctrine of absolute
sole liberty of conscience. It was ab
surd to claim that Lord Baltimore was
the first to proclaim it. There was not
a word in the charter of Charles the
First, in bad or good Latin, granting a
man sole liberty, and no man out of an
insane asylum ever could so translate
it. Under that charter a man who def
nied the trinity could be put to death.
Under the old Maryland law John
Quincy Adams, Edward Everett and
others could have been imprisoned
and whipped for sentiments they had
uttered.
He challenged the world to produce
an instance where the Baptists had
ever denied the rights of religious lib
erty. Thomas Jefferson said his fiercest
struggle in Virginia was to separate
Church and State. John Adams said,
in 1774, you had as well expect a Bap
tist to support the Port Bill as to in
duce him to give up religious liberty.
With the exception of a few infidels,
Baptists were the only people who con
tended for the principle.
Luther, Calvin and Knox were great
men, yet they were all in favor of the
power of the government to compel
men to conform to religious creeds, He
mentioned these facts to inspire his
audience with the value of the princi
ples of th% right in man to worship
God as he pleased. This principle is
not yet secure. The New Testament
teaches that governments can neither
tolerate nor be intolerant.
An established church is ex-vi ter
mini—by force of the power. The ar
guments of Gladstone were as unan
swerable as the 47th problem of Euclid.
You cannot separato morality from
politics. There is a large party in the
United States who are in favor of en- ;
grafting Christianity into the Constitu
tion. When you do that you are legis- 1
iating on the subject of religion, i
Whose religious views will you put into
it? The religion of what sect? My
sect or your sect? The 1,700,000 Bap
tists in this couutry is the testimony of
God’s approbation of the Baptist
Church, brought up in one hundred
years from 20,000. The fact, involves
great responsibilities. Does not it de
mand that as God has honored you that
you owe Him a thank offering? We
should extinguish the indebtedness of
our church and do something for its
honor and glory, and for the Southern
Baptist educational institutions. In
twenty-five years the century will close,
the telegraph will articulate through
this country as the veins do through
the human system. Let us show the
world that the struggles and trials of
our ancestors find in us a worthy suc
cession.
Liberal Contributions.
At the conclusion of Dr. Curry’s
speech, Rev. Dr. Williams made an ap
peal to the audience to contribute $14,-
000 to pay the debt of Maryland Union
Association and the mission churches
in the State, and to add SI,OOO to their
subscription of $12,000 already made to
Columbian College. In response to the
appeal about SB,OOO was subscribed.—
Dr. Williams announced that Mr. W.
W. Corcoran, of Washington, had do
nated a farm to Columbia College, near
Washington, valued at $250,000, upon
condition that SIOO,OOO be raised by the
first of July, and that the requisite
amount had been subscribed, half of
which had been paid in cash, and the
donation secured;
BEECHER.
What Some Southern Preachers, Law
yers aud other Folks Think of the
Case.
[New York Herald.]
Georgia.
Atlanta, June 23, 1875.—1n answer to
a request made by your correspondent
for their opinions concerning the Beech
er case, the following lawyers com
plied :
Mr. O. A. Lochrane, one of the most
successful lawyers iu the State, and
once a Judge of the Supreme Court of
the State, said that if he was one of the
juiy he would acquit Beecher “on the
ground of doubt,” and that his private
opinion was that the defendant was not
guilty at all.
Col. Thomas Glenn, Solicitor General
of the Fulton Circuit, said that from
the evidence he did not believe Beech
er guilty o.f adultery, but he thought he
was guilty of indiscretion.
The clergymen visited by your cor
respondent were unwilling to speak
about the case.
South Carolina.
Charleston, June 10, 1875. —Now
that the evidence in the Beecher case
has closed, the Herald reporter has
made an effort to get at the state of
public sentiment in regard to this much
vexed and elaborately discussed ques
tion. To do this is a much more diffi
cult task than oue would suppose.
Among the laymen there is no trouble;
but the clergy are reserved and silent
upon the subject, and the moment you
say Beecher to them shut themselves
up in their shells like Fulton oysters.
Of the fifty or sixty clergymen in this
city I have found but two who would
express an opinion upon the subject,
and these gentlemen only consented to
do so with the understanding that
their names should not be made public.
One of them is the pastor of the French
Huguenot Church in this city, a gentle
man of erudition and a man of pure
aud unblemished character. In an
interview with him the reticence
of the clergy was freely dis
cussed. Said he: “ I think that the
minds of the clergymen of Charleston
are about equally balanced upon this
unfortunate affair. They are disposed
and wish—heartily wish—to believe in
Mr. Beecher’s innocence, but are at n
loss to find a pretext for doing so, and
are at a loss to find a justification for
condeming him. They cannot make up
their minds to believe him guilty. It
was a hard thing to do at best. For
myself, I have read every line of testi
mony and every word of the argument
of counsel, and, although I have never
ventured to express an opinion as yet,
I have a very decided opinion upon the
subject. I think that Mr. Beecher is a
fool, but I do not believe him to be a
criminal, and I think the jury will bring
in a verdict of acquittal.” I think the
opinions of this gentleman may safely
be taken as a reflex of the sentiment of
a majority of the Protestant clergy
men of this State. He is an extremly
popular man. not only with his own
congregation but with everybody,
Mr. George W. Williams is the weal
thiest man in c harleston, and i3 proba
bly one of the most cosmopolitan
thinkers in the South. He is a member
of the Methodist church. He said
Beecher had been made a fool of by the
women, but I don’t think that he did
auytbing criminally wrong. I suppose
the jury will fail to agree upon a ver
dict. I don’t see how they can do any
thing else.
Mr. James B. Campbell, one of the
leading members of the bar, said: “It’s
a very peculiar case, and to tell you
frankly I believe that all the parties to
the case are innocent, ”
Mr. A. H. Browa, the leading admi
ralty lawyer of the South Carolina bar,
thinks that if he was on the jury he
would bring in a verdict of one cent
damages for the plaintiff—a verdict
which would fix Beecher’s guilt without
endorsing Tilton.
Hon. Geo. J. Cunningham, mayor of
the city, is a Baptist, a very long
headed business man, and entertains
conservative views on most subjects.
His opinion is that where there is so
much smoke there must be some tire.
Said he, “If Beecher is not guilty in
this business, Tilton and his friends
must be the most unmitigated rascals
on the face of the earth. How in the
name of heaven could they trump up
such a case ? I can’t believe it. There
must be something wrong. lam at a
loss to see how the jury are going to
decide the matter.”
Tim Hurley is at present Treasurer
of Charleston county, and a member of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, Rev. R. H. Cain, . pastor.
“Having read the evidence,” said Hur
ley to me, “I came to the conclusion
that Beecher was guilty. The argu
ments of Mr. Evarts and Judge Porter
have convinced mo that Mr. Beecher is
innocent, but I indulge strong fears
that Mr. Beach’s argument will carry
me back to the impression created in
my mind by the opposiug speech of
Judge Morris.”
All that Remains of the Assassin
Booth. '
[Washington Letter to the N. Y. Express.]
I happened up to the Surgeon Gen
eral’s office the other day on business,
and while waiting I took a stroll
through the museum up stairs. This
is in Ford’s old theatre, where Presi
dent Lincoln was shot. Among the
many thousand specimens I was shown
the third, fourth and fifth cervical ver
tebra taken from the neck of the assas
sin Booth, while near by, in a small
vial, was a portion of the spinal cord
from the cervical region. The stranger
would not know to whom these be
longed, foe there is nothing to inform
him, nothing but a number and a de
scription of the wounded parts from
which they were taken, and the follow
ing announcement: “From a case
where death occurred a few hours after
injury, April 26, 1865.” I know the
correct history of them, for there was a
Rochester boy with mp, who, acting as
orderly for Dr. Otis at the time (who
cut these little bones and cords from
the neck of Booth), carried them up to
the museum. This was John Callahan,
formerly of company M, Btli New York
cavalry Strange to say, these relics of
Booth are placed very near the place
where stood the box in which his victim
was when shot. Seeing these things, of
course my mind went back to the
martyred President, especially were
my recollections of what I had beard of
him and his family more vivid in view
of the late afflictions that have befallen
his widow.
Attempt to Reconcile Tilton and
His Wife. —A correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says Miss Florence
Tilton is engaged to be married short
ly to Mr. A. B. Martin, the witness who
figured in the trial as the frequent vis
itor at Mrs. Tilton’s. He has been
playing the part of the mutual friend
in trying to bring Mr. and Mrs. Tilton
together again, and reconciling them,
ECHOES FROM THE DUNGEON.
The Manacling of Jefferson Davis.
[Hampton (Va.) Letter to the Springfield
Republican.]
There are some interesting characters
here who can spin yarns. I will only
mention Capt. Titiow, the Sheriff, who
did good service in the war, and now
superintends a very poor specimen of a
jail with a good whipping post, an in
stitution which ought to be extensively
revived. The captain, an affable gen
tleman with a keen eye, and so troubled
with rheumatism that he has to em
ploy a good deal of leisure in attending
to it, interested one as having been the
personal keeper of Mr. Jefferson Davis
when incarcerated in Fortress Moaroe.
He was unfortunate enough to have
committed to him the painful duty of
putting the Confederate ex-President
in irons. It was one of those stupid
blunders which, were it possible, should
be consigned to oblivion; but, since
that can hardly be, it is well enough to
know that it was at the time regarded
by sensible men like Capt. Titiow as a
wholly unnecessary and gratuitous in
sult. The officer in command had or
ders from Secretary Stanton to iron
Mr. Davis should any exigency require
it. But there was no such exigency.
He was secure in the inner apartment
of a casement, with sentries in the gun
room that opened from it, and other
sentries outside in front and rear by
night and day.
When Capt. Titiow, as ordered by his
superior officer, Gen. M , entered
the casemate, the blacksmith following
him with the irons, Mr. Davis was
seated on his cot, there being no furni
ture besides but a stool and a few arti
cles of tin-ware. When he glanced at
the blacksmith and comprehended the
situation,he exclaimed, “My God 1 this
indignity to be put on me f not while I
have life.” At first he pleaded for op
portunity to inquire of Secretary Stan
ton. Then his excitement rose to fury
as he walked the cell, venting itself in
almost incoherent ravings. Tho captain
at length calmly reminded him that as
a soldier he must be aware that, how
ever disagreeable the duty assigned, it'
must be performed, and that, as in duty
bound, he should perform it. “None
but a dog would obey such orders,” re
plied Mr. Davis, emphasizing his de
termination never to be manacled alive
by grasping the stool and aiming a very
vicious blow. The sentries rushed for
ward to disarm him, but were ordered
back into their places. Capt. Titiow
explained that such demoustraGons of
self defense were foolish and useless,
and that it would be much better for
Mr. Davis to submit to the inevitable
necessity. But, while receiving this
advice, he took the opportunity
of grasping "the musket of one of
the sentries, and in the furious endeav
or to wrest it from him, quite a scuffle
ensued. That ended, the captain took
the precaution of clapping his hand on
his sword-hilt as he perceived Mr.
Davis’ eye was on it, and at once or
dered the corporal of the guard to send
into the casemate four of his strongest
men without side-arms, as he feareH
they might get into the wrong posses
sion and cause damage. They were
ordered to take the prisoner as gently
as possible, and, using no‘ unnecessary
force, to lay him upon the cot and
there hold him down. It proved about
as much as the four could do, the
writhings and upheavings of the in
furiated man developing the strength
of a maniac, until it culminated in
sheer exhaustion. When the unhappy
and shameful task was done, Mr. Davis,
after lying still a while, raised himself
and sat on the side of the bed. As his
feet touched the floor and the chain
clanked, he was utterly overcome ; the
tears burst out in a flood. When he
became calm he apologized in a manly
way to the captain for the needless
trouble he had caused him, and they
afterward maintained mutual relations
of personal esteem and friendliness.
It becoming necessary for Captain
Titiow to examine Mr. Davis’ person,
he was somewhat surprised at liuding
that he wore upon his breast an amulet
with an effigy of the Holy Mother and
other religious devices wrought upon
it, and an inscription showing it to be a
present from Pius IX. He seemed to
regard it as precious, and to be very
sensitive with regard to any handling
of it.
Having what he feared a serious
affection of his eyes, and consulting
with Capt. Titiow about the choice of .a
doctor, one after another was put aside
apparently on the ground of their New
England origin ; but when Dr. Craven
was mentioned, “Where does he come
from?” the answer came, “New Jer
sey,” the Confederate Chieftian’s coun
tenance brightened at once with the
reply, ‘Til have him.”
Which is the Superior Rifle?
Apart from boasting the Journal of
Commerce holds that to the weapon
used something is due. The editor
says that—
The old controversy of muzzle
loaders versus breech-loaders will rage
again, fof*it happens that all the rifles
handled by the American team are
breech-loaders (Sharpe’s and Reming
ton’s) while the Irish staked all upon
Rigby’s muzzle-loader. It will take
more than the winning at Doliymount
to shake the faith of Great Britain in
the superiority of the muzzle-loader.
But §hould the Americans gain the
day at Wimbledon against the English,
Scotch and all, that decisive event
would, it is thought, do much to revo
lutionize British opinion on this point,
obstinate as it is. The English sharp
shooters use the “Medford” rifle, and
the Scotch the “ Ingraham” both
loading at the muzzle. The merits of
the two great classes of rifles would
therefore be distinctively at stake ; and
a favorable issue for the Americans
would cause, it is believed, the very
general introduction of American
breech-loaders for the most delicate ser
vice in England and over the Continent.
This would make international rifle
matches pay. _
The South. —A Washington dispatch
says : “It is very gratifying to record
that for the first time in the long pe
riod of the ten years which has elaps
ed since the close of the war, those who
sit in high places exhibit no disposition
to stir up political feeling against the
South. This is the first Summer since
1865 that this city has not been made
the headquarters for tho dissemination
all over the country of the most malign
slanders upon the Southern people. It
seems safe to say that this unhappy
business is at last at an end. The
Southern people must have some feel
ing of this kind, for all the intelligence
which comes hero from that section
represents the aspeot of business affairs
as most hopdful.”
Rapt attention—Being knocked on
the head to come to order.
F. B. Swindler is a merchant of Den
ver.
-NeWf'lSerios—Vol. 3. No. 13 )
THE DETROIT WHIRLWIND.
A Few Incidents Attending a Scene of
Terror and Dismay.
The hurricane which swept over a
portion of the city of Detroit on Sun
day evening last seems, by the details
which reach us by mail, to have been
more severe than was indicated by the
dispatches. The following incidents
are furnished by the Detroit Free
Press:
The greatest destruction was south
of Grand River aveuue, from and in
cluding Fourteenth street to Eigh
teenth, between Magnolia aud Linden
streets. Its track was perhaps one
hundred and fifty feet wide, and within
that limit nothing could resist its tre
mendous force. Houses were takon up
high in air, shaken into fragments, and
in many instances scattered over terri
tory a mile in extent. Indeed, flying
pieces ot timber were seen whirling
aloft and flying about fully two miles
from the place where the work of de
molition began.
A little babe, seven moaths old, the
child of Carl Peca, who lived on Four
teenth street, was found in the street.
Mrs. Nan Duzen, a widow with two
children, on Fifteenth street, had gone
up town to visit her father, and when
she returned her house was nowhere
to be found. It had been carried bodi
ly at least two hundred feet, torn to
atoms and scattered far and wide. The
only recognizable portion of the build
ing found was the front door. Freder
ick Rademacher, who lived at 748 Six
teenth street, was sitting at home with
his wife and two children, when he
suddenly felt himself hurled through
the air and saw the walls and timbers
of his dwelling flying in every direction.
He escaped with a slight scalp wound,
but his wife was more seriously injur
jured. The children were also* consid
erably bruised.
Where at one moment stood a row of
substantial houses, the next witnessed
a scene of devastation impossible to re
alize, with scarcely a vestige of tha
buildings in sight, so utterly were they
swept off the face of the earth. Every
where were heard the cries of the
wounded, whose bleeding and mutilat
ed bodies were pitiful to look upon.
Richard Bates, aged eleven years, was
caught up and carried into the topmost
branches of a tall elm which stood od
the commons near his mother’s house,
at the corner of Fifteenth and Linden
streets. His violent contact with the
limbs tore the clothing from his person,
and he fell dead to the ground, a dis
tance of fully fifty feet.
The house of Martin Schneider, at
the corner of Sixteenth and Linden
streets, was totally destroyed, but both
Mr. and Mrs. Schneider were miracu
lously saved by a cupboard, which pro
tected them from the falling timbers.
When they were rescued both were
found to be quite unhurt. It is said
that six or seven persons were killed.
Incident upon incident illustrating the
peculiar action of this storm-cloud,
whirlwind, or whatever it was, might
be related if time and space were at.
OOCLALLiO/llvl. ThU lIGIOOO noro vouiipj
over a barn and thrown to the earth
dead, and numerous smaller domestic
animals were made to perform some
most astonishing gyrations.
Houses on the outer edges of the
track of the storm were punched full of
holes by huge timbers that were whirl
ed along and over end ; shade and fruit
trees were uprooted and carried a long
distance ; bricks and toppling chim
neys rattled down and struck fleeing
men and women, and through the roar
of the storm eame the most appalling
shrieks. The two-story frame house
on the north side of Grand river ave
nue, second house west of Twelfth
street, was occupied by Mrs. Goodhue,
with four children.
The inmates of the house at the time
of the storm were at tea, and, hearing
its approach, went to the door. Mrs.
Goodhue comprehended the situation
at a glance, aud directing her com
panions, the household crouched down
in the corner of the dining room before
the base of the brick chimney, where
they remained until the danger was
over, escaping unhurt, although pieces
of lumber and furniture were flying
promiscuously through the building.
The house on the corner of Twelfth
and Brigham streets was occupied by
Henry Ford, his wife and five children.
While at the supper table a horrible
hissing sound caused Mr. Ford to turn
his head when he saw, as he says, “An
inky black cloud coming towards his
house, the air beihg filled with the
debris of buildings.” Scarcely knowing
what he did, he gathered his family
about him and started for the back
door. He reached the door of the kitch
en, which opened in a wood shed, just
in time to see the shed lifted bodily
away from tho main building and
dashed against his back fence, com
pletely demolishing both structures.
Standing there in amazement, the fam
ily were still further affrighted by see
ing the roof of their dwelling arise and
sail away, followed by a wardrobe, ar
ticles of clothing and household furni
ture, until the rooms were literally bare
of everything movable. Strange to say,
not one of Mr. Ford’s family was in
jured.
The surface of the ground beneath
the trees where the cloud lifted pre
sented a terrible scene. Sticking into
the ground at ail angles were peices of
wood, from the size and shape of a
shingle to the doors, sections of roofs
and walls of houses. Piled promis
cuously were trunks, kettles, stone jars
and broken funiture. Curiously inter
mingled were the mangled bodies of
chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and in
numerable small wild birds, while
weirdly flaunting from the stripped and
broken branches above, giving terrible
life to the desolate picture below, made
doubly desolate by the approaching
ing shades of night, were fragments of
clothing,, bedding and carpeting. Over
fifty persons were more or less in
jured.
A Foreign Minister’s Fall from Grace,
LSpecial to the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Diplomatic circles are much ex
ercised over an incident in connection
with a member of one of the foreign
legations. The gentleman aforesaid
was detailed tef proceed to one of the
Northern cities to make certain inves
tigations for the benefit of the naval
service of his Government. He fell into
bad company, was perfectly oblivious
of his own actions for several days, had
a personal rencontre in a faro bank, in
which he was much bruised, and came
back here without any report. The
gossip of his associates is that he will
be ordered home.
Last year the tolls of the Suez Canal
were £1, 000,000, and the operating ex
penses about one-fourth of the amount
received. This year £1, 250,000 will be
taken in, but the expeuse of repairs and
other necessary outlays will absorb at
one-half the earnings. The oost
of this great waterway was about $95.-
000.000 of our money.
THE RAILROAD WAR.
Will Other Southern Lines Cut Katies
Considerable interest seems to ibe
felt in St. Louis concerning the railroad
war that has broken out with such re
newed vigor. The Times, of Thursday,
says:
“To-day the St. Louis and South
eastern Railroad will commence selling
tickets from St. Louis to Nashville for
$2 50, the result of general uneasiness
among Southern lines and particular
bad feeling between this company and
the Nashville aud Chattanooga.
“The Southeastern runs from St.
Louis to Nashville, Tenn., direct, and is
318 miles in length. Tho Nashville and
Chattanooga runs from Chattanooga,
Tenn., to Nashville, and thence to Co
lumbus, Ky., where connection is made
with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway for St. Louis, and by
this route the distance between St.
Louis aud Nashville is 378 miles. The
St. Louis and Southeastern Railway was
some time ago shut out of Greeu'Line
freight shipments by the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railway, aud upon Mon
day the Nashville and Chattanooga
Road issued peremptory orders re
fusing to honor tickets and receive and
deliver baggage checked via the St
Louis and Southeastern Railway. The
latter road has, by way of retaliation,
reduced the passenger tare to Nashville
to $2.50, and made arrangements to
protect their through travel and
tickets.
“It costs the Southeastern $1 25 to
transfer each passenger across the
Ohio river, and costs the other road
as much to cross the Mississippi, con
sequently, they cannot get much be
low $2 without incurring an actual
outlay on the part of the company be
yond what it receives for fare.
“How the Nashville and Chattanooga
roads will meet this move of the Sout l#-
eastern remains to be seen. At any
rate the tight promises to be lively.
The Southeastern is not the only St.
Louis railroad that promises to cut
rates, and there are several other lines
now preparing schedules at greatly re
duced figures, aud the probabilities are
that there will be a general war of
rates among the Western railroads.
Some of the railroad managors Realize
the necessity of doing something to
increase busiuess, and with this end in
view cut rates will be resorted to.
Such a move will necessarily force com
peting lines to reduce, thus making the
war general.”
ADDRESS OF COL. CLAIBORNE
SNEAD.
To the Surviving Veterans of the Third
Regiment of Georgia Volunteers.
Comrades ! As the last commanding
officer of the old Third Georgia, I take
pride and pleasure in directing your
attention to the approaching re-union
of our regiment at the scene of our
first year’s service, and the home of
many cherished friends—the city of
Portsmouth, Va.—on the 4th aud sth
A.ug.lo)-, 1575
Members of the regiment and friends
invited by them, can procure tickets
for the round trip, good for twenty
days, for sl2 each. Efforts will be made,
and doubtless consummated, for trans
portation over the Georgia roads at
half rates.
Each company will report, as soon as
possible, by letter to Capt. A. A. Winn,
Secretary of our Survivors’ Associa
tion, at” Savannah, Ga., stating the
name and number of veterans, and the
number of friends invited by them, pro
posing to join in the excursion. It is
particularly requested, that there be no
delay in making these reports, in order
that the r equisite transportation may
be provided, and that circulars may be
prepared bearing the names of all mem
bers of the regiment participating in
the excursion.
Capt. S. A. Corker, and our former
Quartermaster Sergeant (George N.
Dexter), have consented to precede the
regiment, and make all necessary ar
rangements for our coming. Com
panies will rendezvous in Augusta on
the 2d of August, reporting to our for
mer Quartermaster (Capt, Alexander
Philip), No. 256 Broad street. *
Each company will provide its mem
bers with a badge of ribbon, marked
“Third Georgia Regiment and bear
ing the letter of the company, andee
that the baggage is distinctly labelled
with the name and company of the
owner. The Washington Artillery of
Augusta have kindly consented to give
one hour’s notice of the departure of
the train by a salute of thirteen guns
on the afternoon of the 2d of August.
Col. R. B. Nisbet, a former com
mander of the regiment, will deliver
the regular address on the occasion of
our re-union.
Assemble then, Comrades, in Augusta,
on the 2d of August next. A few hours
will transport us to the scene of our
entrance upon that military career
which, with all its hopes and anticipa
tions, its glories and reverses, is now
in the past. There let us renew, face to
face and hand in hand, a comradeship
which, formed amid the glitter of steel,
and with the flapping of warlike ban
ners, still survives in the scattered and
peaceful remnants of that proud regi
ment which kept its guns ready and its
flag unspotted to the last.
Claiborne Snead,
Former Colonel of Third Georgia Regi
ment,
A Pithy Sermon to Young Men.
You are the architect of your own
fortunes. Rely upon your strength of
body and soul. Take for your motto,
self-reliance, honesty, and industry; for
your star, faith, perseverauce and
pluck, and inscribe on your banner, “Be
just and fear not.” Don’t take’ too
much advice, keep at the helm and
steer your own ship. * Strike out.
Think well of yourself. Fire above
the mark you intend to hit. Don’t
practice excessive humanity— you can’t
get above your level; put potatoes in a
cart over a rough road and the small
ones will go to the bottom. Energy,
with an invincible determination, with
a right motive, are the levers that move
the world. The art of commanding is
to take a fair share of the work.
Civility costs nothing and buys every
thing. Don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t
swear, don’t gamble, don’t steal, don’t
deceive, don’t tattle. Be polite, be gen
erous, be kind. Study hard, play hai'd.
Be in earnest; be self-reliant. Read
good books. Love your fellowmen as
you love God. Love your country and
obey its laws; love virtue. Always do
what your conscience tells you is your
duty, aud leave the consequence with
God. _
Mrs. Lizzie Pettit Cutler declared in
a recent lecture on “Flirts of Modern
Society,” that “it is always the noblest
1 and best men who are ruined by the
flirt.” True; and hence the painful and
singularly nervous anxiety we have al
ways manifested to keep out of heir
way,— Courier-JoumaL