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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jas. (J. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson,
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H. C. STEVENSON, Manager,
Augusta, Oa.
The Bank of California failed yester-
The New Orleans Picayune got up an in
surrection at Brashear City, but the Asso
ciated Press suppressed it.
There was a desperate riot between
whites and blacks in Mississippi yesterday,
in which eight negroes were killed.
War lias been declared between Panama
and Colombia. It will not amount to more
Ilian a respectable American election riot.
Georgia negroes had best be on their
guard. The old Union League has been re
vived. and it is announced it will make a
special effort South. It will bo along just
in time to get a portion of their proceeds of
tiie cotton crop.
We publish in the South Carolina De
partment an intensely interesting account
or the battle of Fort Moultrie, during the ,
Revolutionary War. It is contained in a
camp-tire letter, and somehow such writ
ing is always graphic.
The shipping of peaches to Europe is
something new. Packed in ice we can’t see ,
why they will not keep nine days, ir the j
shipment which left Philadelphia yester
day arrives all right it will inaugurate a j
new branch of commerce.
The Khedive lias a small African war on j
hand. It will not be long before his time
will come to strike for independence of the
Sultan of Turkey. If lie would take ad
vantage of the revolt of the provinces it
seems to us he would have an > asy victory.
Due no Ills stay in London, Col. Donn
Piatt, of course, visited the wax works or
Madame Tussaud. We have seen a good
many descriptions of that orignal of Mrs.
Jarley, but Piatt’s is the best and witti
est. His comments upon Americau celebri
ties in that exhibition are intensely funny
and sat rieal.
Old Uncle William Allen is not only
in good health, despite the falsehood of the
Toledo Blade, but he is also in the best of .
health and spirits. His recent speech in
Ohio, which we publish this morning, is a i
powerful effort, and one, too, that the Rad
icals as well as pin-back Democrats can
take very little comfort from.
When a lady of intelligence and culture ,
undertakes anything, especially a labor of ,
love, she generally performs her duty, in
many respects, better than a man. The let
ter of a Southern woman to the Grand
Army of the Republic, in behalf of Mr.
Davis, is the best thing of the kind yet
published, and completely annihilates the
Winnebago Savages.
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No apology has been exacted from the
Tripolitans yet for the insult to that au
gust individual—the American Consul. The
Eagle bird of Liberty—
" Proudly careeriag,
With wing ou the wind.
And eye on the sun,”
pauses in its flight until this stain is wiped
out. _ _
“Notwithstanding that the Atlanta Her
otJ is advertised to be sold at Sheriff’s sale,
it corues out in quai to form. And it looks
neat and newsy, too. It seems to be thriv
ing under difficulties.” So says the Savan
nah Xtws, and we are surprised to hear it,
for we thought the Herald had but recently
gotten upt: .firm financial basis. It has
pulled through many dark days, and no
doubt will do so now.
We call attention to the advertisement of
St. Joseph’s Academy, of Sumter, S. C*
The course of instruction comprises or
thography, reading, writing, grammar,
rhetoric, composition, ancient and modern
history and geography, botany, philoso
phy, chemistry, astronomy, and use of
globes, algebra, etc., etc., etc. It Is locat
ed in one of the most pleasant villages in
Carolina, and lias a high reputation.
The mutiny on board the schooner Jef
ferson Borden is thrillingly described by
a reporter of the New York Herald, who in
terviewed soiuo of the principal partici
pants. It was a drama of the seas, found
ed upon most terrible facts. No one who
has not had experience in these matters can
properly appreciate the fearrui character
of a revolt among seamen in raid-ocean.
The writer of this was once placed in such
a predicament, and, if he is still alive to
follow out his destiny as a landsman, it is
because what promised to boa tragedy
was suppressed by the promptness and
courage of the officers of the vessel upon
which he sailed.
The Detroit Greenback Convention is not
attracting a great deal of attention. Its
objects are not very clear, but we believe
its general purpose is opposition to an
early resumption of specie payments—in
other words, inflation. It is evident, how
ever, that ninety percent, of the politicians
of this country are fighting shy upon the
currency question—waiting to see how An
cient Bill Allen pulls through in Ohio,
aider which the papers will be lumbered
with convictions held from the beginning.
We believe, moreover, that the statesmen of
our country, who as a rule know litt e of
financial matters, are at a loss to know
what would be best to do. That trade is
dead or dying, commerce paralysed, all our
industries either stagnant pr running at a
loss, and armies of men idle all through
the States, every intelligent citizen knows.
The monied aristocracy of New York,
speaking through the leading daily papers
there, the administration of Grant, and
many of the leaders of the Republican
party, demand tiiat a large per centage of
the greenbacks now afloat be drawn in.
That the beggarly pittance now in circula
tion be lessened, holding out the illusion
that our paper money will by their process
be made as good ns gold. The oppo
sition demand more currency and insist
that it is utterly Impossible at the present
time to put specie in circulation, that fur
ther contraction means further shrinkage
.of values, reduction in labor, reduction in
*-eal estate, reduction in everything else.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Navy Orders.
Washington, August 26. —Orders; will
soon be issued changing the stations of
all the vessels of the Marine Revenue
Service. The change is necessary for
iron vessels from salt to fresh water.
War Between Panama and Colombia.
A telegram was received at the Navy
Department this morning from Capt.
Edward Simpson, commanding the
United States steamer Omaha, dated
Panama, August 26th, announcing that
the State of Panama has declared war
against the Government of Colombia.
The Department immediately issued
orders to Rear Admiral Mullany, com
manding the North Atlantic Station, to
hold all of his available force in readi
ness to proceed without delay to the
Isthmus, if necessary, for the protec
tion of American interests there.
The Tripolitan Difficulty.
No information has yet been received
here in regard to the action taken by
the United States steamers Congress
and Hartford, which recently arrived
at Tripoli to demand reparation for the
insult offered to the American Consul
and his wife in that city a short time
ago, though the officials here have no
doubt that the whole matter will soon
be arranged to the satisfaction of our
Government. The Congress and Hart
ford arrived at Tripoli last Saturday,
and it is not probable that any inter
course was held with the Tripolitan au
thorities before Monday. The negoti
ations are being conducted by Captain
Earl English, of the Congress. Should
the Tripolitan authorities refuse to
make reparation upon his demands,
Rear Admiral Worden, commanding
the European station, will be directed
to proceed to Tripoli with all his force,
and there await the instructions of the
Department.
London, August 26.—N0 information
yet received in this city that Tripoli
has conceded the demands of the
United States for satisfaction for insult
to Americau Consul.
Special River Report.
Washington, August26—7:3o P. M.—
The Mississippi has fallen twenty-two
inches at Cairo, twenty-seven inches at
Memphis, twenty inches at Helena, and
has remained stationary at Vicksburg,
where it is oue inch below the danger
line, aud has risen two inches at New
Orleans.
Netlierland Cousul.
The President has recognized Ernest
Wilhelm Lesser as Consul of the
Netherlands at Mobile for Alabama and
Florida.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TRADING
COMPANY.
Establishing the Central Office, and
Other Matters.
St. Louis, August 26.— The American
Board of Directors of the Mississippi
Valley Trading Company held a meet
ing here last night, at which Mr. Wor
rall, the managing Director, was in
structed to visit Louisville, Ivy., with a
view of establishing the central office
of the company at that point. He was
further instructed to visit ail the sea
ports from Norfolk, Va., to Galveston,
Texas, aud report on their adaptability
as ports of entry for the ships of the
company. He was requested to visit
all the railroads in the Mississippi Val
ley aud the Gulf States, and report
upon the facilities afforded by each for
the transmission of merchandize aud
products, and also upon the most de
sirable centres for operations of the
company ; aud upon agricultural mate
rial and other resources of the country
through which the several railroads
pass, so as to enable the company to
decide which are the most inviting
fields for immigration.
The last of the English deputation
left to-night for England. The direc
tors on this side of the water are E. R.
Shankland, of Dubuque, la.; John
P. Jones, of Barton, Ark.; J. T. Bonger,
of New York; Dudley W. Adams, of
Iowa; Col. D. A. Aiken, of South Caro
lina, and J. T. Smith, of Georgia.—
Others are yet to be appointed.
THE BRITISH TURF.
Tlie Ebor Handicap Stakes.
London, August 26.—The great Ebor
handicap stakes was run yesterday at
the York August meeting, and was won
by Lily Agues, Distinction second, Po
lonaise third, and the favorite, Aven
turiere fifth. Thirteen started.
The great Yorkshire stakes, for 3
year olds, which was run to-day, was
won by Mint Drop, Prince Arthur sec
ond, and Percy third. Five started.
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CHICAGO CIVILIZATION.
Attack on a Woman.
Chicago, August 26. —During an al
tercation over some goods upon which
Constable Keegan levied on to satisfy
a judgment of §24, Keegan inflicted
fatal injuries upon the woman who
owned the goods.
CINCINNATI CIVILIZATION.
Throat Cut, Robbed, Burned.
Cincinnati, August 26. Gustave
Humber cut an infant’s throat. His wife
fled for life.
Three masked men robbed the resi
dence of Wm. Mains, near New Haven,
Ind., then burned the building.
INDIANA CIVILIZATION.
The Beeclier Religion in a Deal' aud
Dumb Asylum.
Cincinnati, August 26. —The charges
of criminal connection with certain
pupiis of the Indianapolis Deaf and
Dumb Asylum by Thos. Mclntire and
E. G. Valentine, teacners, were found
by tho’ trustees untrue and uufouuded.
BANK “BUSTED."
Bauk of California Gone Up,,
San Francisco, August 26. — The Bank
of California stopped paying checks at
a quarter to 3 o’clock. Iu an interview
with Mr. Ralston, President of the
bank, ho said the bank has assets suffi
cient to meet all liabilities, and no ono
will lose anything, but at present there
L? no coin with which to transact busi
ness. 4 meeting is appointed with re
porters at 5 p. m., when more particu
lars will be given.
Mississippi Radical Convention.
Jackson, August 26.—The Republican
State Convention continued in session
till 4 o’clock. Geo. M. Buchanan, of
Marshall, was nominated for State
Treasurer. The platform contains noth -
. ing new.
i Another British Failure.
London, August 26.—Albert Cohn &
Cos., merchants, suspended.
_A_XJGLUTS T_A_. GLA.., FR \O AY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1875.
FROM NEW YORK.
A Rally for Inflation.
New York, August 26.—The New
York delegates to the proposod Cin- j
cinnati Inflation Convention held a
meeting last night. Speeches were j
made by Mr. Ottendorfer, Col. F. A. j
Conkling, Henry Kemp and others, aud
a committee appointed to draft an ad
dress to the people on the financial
question.
New York, August 26.—The Turners’
Convention, before adjourning, resolved
to urge upon the various societies
throughout the Union to have repre
sentation at the Centennial.
FAILURE OF A BALTIMORE SUGAR
HOUSE.
Sterling J. Ahrens fc Cos. Go Under.
Baltimore, August 26.—Sterling J.
Ahrens & Cos., the largest sugar im
porting house in the United States, sus
pended payment. Mr. Ahrens thinks
the liabilities amount to about two mil
lions, but that if the assets are judi
ciously administered creditors can ulti
mately be paid dollar for dollar. He
assigns as the causes for the failure the
general depression iu business and the
shrinkage in the value of coffee aud
sugar, of which the firm have large
stocks on hand. They also have large
real estate not at present available. A
detailed statement of their affairs will
be prepared as quickly as possible.
REUNION OF NORTHERN SOL
DIERS.
A Free Advertisement for the Thing.
Columbus, 0., August 26. — The final
arrangement for the soldiers national
reunion at Coldwell, 0., September 1, 2
and 3, 1875, have been completed. It is
expected that Gens. Sheridan, Logan,
Negley, ex-Gov. Curtin and Hayes, Gen.
Coekerill, of Missouri; Gov. Allen, of
Ohio; Hon. G. H. Pendleton, Senators
Thurman aud Sherman, and Hon. Geo.
W. Morgan will address the camp.
President Grant is confidently expected.
A sword captured by Gen. Coekerill
from Col. Archer at Tilton station, Ga.,
will be returned to its owner with im
pressive ceremonies. Many States
have responded, promising large dele
gatiods.
NEGRO RIOT IN MISSISSIPPI.
Eight Negroes Killed.
Vicksburg, August 26.—A special to
the Herald from Macon, Miss., dated
the 24th instant, reports a riot at New
Hope Church, in which eight negroes
were killed and several wounded. The
riot was caused by a quarrel between a
white man and a negro about drumbeat
ing.
THE BLACK HILLS PURCHASE.
The Commission En Route.
Council Bluffs, lowa, August 26.
Senator Allison arrived here last even
ing, and will be joined to-day by the
remaining members of the Commission
to treat with the Indians for the sale of
the Black Hills. They will leave to
day for Cheyenne.
THE BEECHER-TILTON CONTA
GION.
More Suits Docketed—Worse and
More of It.
New York, August 26.—Notices of
issues in the suits of Theodore Tilton
vs. H. AY. Beecher, and also in the case
of Tilton vs. the Eagle and Thos. Kiu
sella, for libel, were filed in the clerk’s
office of tiie City Court of Brooklyn
yesterday by the attorneys for the
plaintiff. The City Court, for the Sep
tember term, opens on the first Mon
day of that mouth, when the calendar,
including the above cases, will be
called. If the attorneys on both sides
answer ready the Judge will fix a day
for trial. Joseph Loader, who has been
under arrest for perjury in connection
with the trial, was yesterday released
on §2,500 bail.
AN EGYTIAN WAR.
Tiie Khedive Puts Troops in Motion.
London, August 26.—The Times
makes the following announcement:
Alexander, Egypt, August 13. —Three
men of war with a force ot' troops and
marines aboard have been dispatched
hastily to that portion of the Egyptian
coast, bordering on Abyssinia, to punish
a body of blacks invading Egyptian
territory. Four thousand infantry are
held in readiness for emergency at
Suez. The Khedive is determined to
exact full satisfaction for infringements
upon his soil.
SHIPPING PEACHES TO EUROPE.
A New Experiment in Commerce.
Philadelphia, August 26.—Steamship
Ohio which sailed to-day for Liverpool
has included in her cargo 2,400 crates
of Delaware peaches. The steerage of
the ship had been turned into a refrig
erator lined with ice and provided with
fans for keeping up a constant current
of cold air. This being the first ven
ture of the kind its success is looked to
with much interest.
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THE MIDNIGHT GRIP PARTY.
The Union League Revivivus.
Philidelphia, August 26. —The Na
tional Executive Committee of the
Union League of America met to-day,
with ex-Gov. Wm. A. Newell, of New
Jersey, iu the Chair, and Thomas G.
Baker, of New York, acting as Secreta
ry. There was much secret business
transacted. An important movement
was inaugurated looking towards the
union of all elements of opposition to
the Democratic jfarty, especially in the
South.
THE WAR IN TURKEY.
Popular Sympathy for the Insurgents.
Belgrade, August 26.—Popular feel
ing iu Servia is to strong infav.trof the
insurgents that it lsieaiod the Govern
ment will experience great difficulty,in
preventing a conflict with Turkey.
The Greenback Conveutiou.
Detroit. August 26.—W00d, of Ken
tucky; Meyers, cf Illiuois; Daniels, of
Virginia; Mahoney, of Iowa; Allis, of
Michigan, and Buchanan, of Indiana,
addressed the convention. After the
adoption of a series of resolutions, the
convention adjourned.
English Muss with China.
London, August 26. —The Globe says
telegraphic intelligence has been re
ceived from China of an occurrence
which is likely, if not promptly settled,
to disturb the friendly relations exist
ing between England and China.
PIRACY AM) Ji RDEK.
THE JEFFERSON BURDEN MUTI
NY. %
A Chapter Surpassing! !He “Pirate's
Own Book—A Hero*’ Wife aud a
Gallant Cook—How flattie Raged
for Two Days in MiiV-Ocean.
[New Yor'- H Iwid.]
The Story of t)L Cook.
“My name is Henry Ari-en,” said the
cook, “and I come froL near Bremer
haven, in Germany. O * the night of
the 20th of April I \v;i : ; asleep in the
house on deck, next tof >he captain’s.
There were five men finvard, Miller,
the Russ-Finn, Klue, th| Frenchman —
I don’t know how to s# il his name—
Smith, the American, tie French boy,
and Jaiob, who is a fhvede. I was
asleep, and it was watch of the
mate, Charley Patterson who went ou
deck Bto 10 o’clock, and mith went to
tiie wheel. The captai| and his wife
were asleep in their owile bin. When
the second mate went In ward, Smith
said that the jibsheet w? cut; he cut it
with a knife, I suppostl mil he asked
Jacob Limber to go to Jhe wheel and
relieve Him, and the cea* id mate went
forward and saw thatyi e sheet was
parted. Smith and th§‘ second mate
went out ou tiie boom t<v ;ix it.
Murder by Treachery.
When they went ou ; on the boom
Smith had a capstan l&r. I did not
see this, as I was asleep, out they con
fessed it afterward to u|r; and Smith
knocked the second nuifC- on the head
wi th the capstan bar an4l|stunued him,
aud then threw him oil 4 into the sea,
and he wasn’t seen auf i more. Then
they called up tiie firs'*.'mate, Corry
Patterson, and Smith ■& 1 Miller and
Klue jumped on him au| knocked him
wi th the iron capstan biu, aud he said
“Oil!” and they threw if f n overboard,
and be wasn’t seen agaiipeither. Jacob
was at the wheel, but not know
of it. Tiie first mate stfeod by Jacob’s
wheel and cried out: IWhat do you
want?” and they told 1| n that some
man had broken his leg|; The French
boy was then gagged by:|them. I was
asleep, and I heard a Voice that was
Miller’s say outside of t house: “Get
up, a man has broken h:|j4eg.” I heard
the missus (the Captain’** wife) talking
to the Captain iu their §>wn cabin. I
looked out of my windo| ; and saw Mil
ler plainly; there was a lue moonlight
out; Miller had something behind him
in his hand; he shook is fist at me
and I didn’t know what fit was for. I
heard the Captain’s lacy; say, “Don’t
go out, Will,” and Mill® said to the
Captain, “Why don’t yo>.|oome out aud
help the man that brokj his leg?” I
looked out of my room to see If I
could see either of tin* mates, but I
could not see them, that
there was something vjp'ong, and the
Captain said, “Go forward aud see if
you can find the mates.*" The Captain
called for the mates and there
was no answer. Then I |vent out and j
went forward on tiie aboard side,
and stood close to Miileilmd Smith.
Suspense and 'ijfi’i’or.
Klue was with them aawi was looking
aft, where the Captain’s Subin and my
room were. I said to filler, “Where
is that man with the broien leg? and
they said, “He is lying in the boat
across the forward liatcif’and I asked,
“Where are the mates ?’ *tnd they said,
“They are all right,” Aid also they
said to me, “For God’s slice, why don’t
you go forward and hplp that poor j
man with the broken let*?” and I an
swered, “Oh, no ; you fjon’t fool me.”
1 thought that thero Mas something
wrong. I then went a(| and told the
Captain that I could not Joe or hear of
the two mates nor the Fgnch boy. It
was then after eleven o’ijick at night,
and I went back into my loom and staid
there uutil about thre io’clock iu the
morning. The Captain Sid I fastened
the doors and windov* because we
thought that they mighiSnake a rush,
and we were frightened because we
couldn’t find the mates. <§ r hen daylight
came I went forward wigs an iron bolt
in my hand. The Captaichadadouble
barrelled gun, but it water in it.
and he dried it and it with shot.
I went to the main ha||h, aud they
could see me. I said 2gain, “Where
are the mates?” and said, “They
are all right,” the sa2e as before.
They then said, “Come nlrward and we
will tell you and I said,
“You leave me alone; if will go iu my
galley.” The galley aiu l the fence,
where six of tiie menslincluding the
boy) slept, has a paimion between
them. I lit a fire in thtj|galley, and 1
came out after awhile tfj 1 got a revol
ver. It was a flve-baijeled one. It
never had been fired, ajfcl I came out
and tried one shot; th<V were hiding
behind the house. Thew’ame aft after
awhile with stones and \ >ttles. Miller
had stones, and 11 Id h*;u I would go
forward to see where tit mates were,
and asked him to irojl the stones he
had. He wouldn’t do itf. They all had
st inrs and bottles. I fiiVd one shot at
Kllue, but I didn’t wanted kill him. I
didn’t hit him that tinnv. The Captain
had a revolver, and he j- stood further
aft; but it was hard to l£; any of them,
as they would run forward and back
and throw stones and bgftUes at us.
Homeric Skii’in|: fling.
The Missus came for|s rd and cried
for them to sut render tj-ivl to give up
the mates, as we didn’t yShow what had
become of them; but fi|iey wouldn’t
answer us, but kep firing'*tilings at us.
If they had got the C.*| tain’s wife I
think they would hajj thrown her
overboard. I saw Smitjfstoop down to
pick up a piece of boanljand I shot at
him and hit him in lie fingers. I
thought lie was dead, iff ause he tum
bled over, but he didu’liuallo. I saw
Klue dodging on tiie l*|>kout, and I
fired at him. He was li|i|jhing at me.
When I had fired all Mhy charges I
would go in the galley j||l load again.
This kind of fighting kt** up up all tiie
day. Klue laughed at || a good mauy
times, and I said, “By pod, I will hit
you yet before I get thmjgh witli you.”
The Captain commenccld to fire quite
lively, and his wife wont J go in and out
of the cabin and watch 11 / her husband;
but she didn’t know ,v to load. I
forgot to say that the Ijfinch boy had
been gagged and tied; if * he got away
and came aft. He had V revolver, but
he didn’t hit any of thefcf The revol
ver was no good. DurilijJ the shooting
I at last hit Klue in tin* muscle of the
arm, and I think the city fain hit Smith
in the wrist. Miller tip. rushed for
ward with a piece off Von from the
stove and struck the if ptain in the
face and cut him, ancl hj svas bleeding.
Then we went aft and e|£red down the
topsails. Jacob was arc with us, but
he didn’t do any fightifd Ho was at
the wheel most of the tilfo. Sometimes
he left it and the sehoo|| would drift
a good deal. She was kill > taking wa
ter, and we would go oiii and work the
pumps for a while, aikif len we would
have some more figl||ng. Towards
uiight of the first day i*|.er the mates
were murdered the Gap*lin’s wife came
forward and begged of them to tell
her where the “boys” were—that is, the
mates—and she spoke to Smith, but
they wouldn’t answer her. We had
bread aud a little water and some cold
salt beef, but we couldn’t cook. We
would do a little fighting and then we
would eat a little. I believe I fired
forty to sixty shots at them. The boy
was too frightened to do anything. The
second nigflt we had to watch all night,
and we kept ourselves in the cabin and
kept a good lookout, and we could see
Miller and Klue aud Smith walking up
and down to and fro.
Retreat of the Assassins.
Toward two o’clock in the morning
of the second night we couldn’t see
anything of them any more, and at
daylight we came out and tried the
pumps, and while we were pumping we
couldn’t see them at all. We got iu the
house back of the galley on deck, there
are six bunks in them, and they barri
caded themselves in and shut them
selves up so that we couldn’t get at
them. We tore the lashings off the
windows of the house on deck, so that
we could get them. They tried to cut
the lashings of the boat and get her
adrift. We saw one sail during the
flight,but couldn’t hail it, for our hands
were lull. Jack was mostly at the
wheel. They closed the door of the
forecastle house. I looked all around
the deck and among the cargo to see
if they were intending to attack us :
couldn’t find them anywhere. Then I
looked iu the windows of the forecas
tle to see if the mates were in there,
and couldn’t see them; took the boards
off the starboard side of tiie fotecastle
house. I saw Miller iu there Fr.day
and I fired at him. The Captain says,
“ Dont fire ; they will shove the mates
forward if they get them tied, and you
will hit them, sure,”
Tough Work.
I cried out to Miller, “ Come out of
there and give yourself up, aud let me
put the irons on you or I will shoot
you.” Tiie Captain was by me, with a
revolver, waiting to get a chance for a
shot. The Captain said, “ What arc
you doing, steward ?” He was on the
other side. I said, “ Miller is in here
and won’t come out.” He said, “Don’t
shoot; you will be shooting the mates.”
I had some boiling water ready by this
time, and I got a boiler full and threw
it on them, but it didn’t do any good,
because they were all covered up with
canvas and cloths, and we couldn’t
scald them. We bored holes in the
wood work aud fired a dozen or fifteen
shots into them. I saw Smith, and I
think I hit him. It was about eleven
o’clock the second day when they sur
rendered. We asked them where were
tlie mates. Klue cried out to stop fir
ing. “ Where are the mates ?” asked
the Captain. Klue said “ They are over
board;” and tiie Captain said, “ Who
killed the first mate ?” Smith said, “ I
billed him,” aud then he asked again,
“ Who killed Charley, the second
mate?” and Miller answered, “I killed
the mate.” Then the Captain said to
them “ Put your hands through the
windows and we will put the irons on
them.” We made a chain fast to Klue.
He was shot through the ribs by me.
He was lying in a bunk. We put them
all in irons. They said that they were
to land somewhere and scuttle the
ship. They were always quarrelling
about something or another; they had
plenty of time for it, for it was a long
passage. When we got through there
were about fifteen or twenty shots in
their bodies, I think. That is all I
know of it, I think, the cook concluded.
The Last Act.
The Herald reporter then called on
Mrs. Emma Patterson, the Captaiu’s
wife, in the cabin, who seemed very
much distressed, and the tears came
into her eyes while she spoke. She
said, in substance:
“I do not think that if they had got
between my husband aud the cabin
that I would ever have seen him again.
I had a strange presentiment a day or
two before that something terrible was
going to happen, and when I heard the
noise I woke the Captain up and told
him not to go forward, because I
thought it so straugo that a sailos
should come aft to speak to the Cap
tain, who was asleep, when the mates
were about. And I did not want him
to go out until I saw the mates. Du
ring the fighting I had to watch ail
the time, and I went aud asked the
men twice where the boys were, and
when the French boy came in tiie night
and tapped at the window we let him
in, and I could not believe that, they
had killed the boys, as I supposed that
they had them tied up, because the
French boy told us that they had tied
and gagged him, aud we supposed that
they hud done the same with the mates,
and that they only wanted to get the
vessel and take it. I tried to speak to
Smith because he was an American,
and he always turned his back on ine
and wouldn’t answer, aud I lost hope
then for Charley and Corry aud feared
that they were dead. I think that if
they had seized me that of course my
husband would have rushed forward
to protect me and then they would
have got him and killed him, so I did
not endanger my life for fear of ex
posing his. Ido not know whether I
would care to go to sea again if my
husband would stay on shore; it Las
been such a terrible tiling to me, tiie
loss of the two boys,” Here the tears
welled into Mrs. Patterson’s eyes, and
seeing how distressed she was the in
terview was terminated.
Boston, August 26.—Tiie Jefferson
Borden mutineers were examined to
day, and fully committed for trial.
They murdered the first aud second
mates.
Marine Disasters.
Ban Francisco, August 26.—The ship
New York, from Liverpool, arrived
with twenty-four of the forty crew
down with scurvy of a malignant type.
The disease is not confined to-the black
crew. It also attacked the officers,
who had plenty of fresh provisions.
Every precaution will be taken to dis
infect tiie vessel. A court of inquiry
will be held.
Signal Office Reports.
Washington, August 26.—The
schooner Charles W. Holt, from George
town, D. C., arrived at Norfolk last
evening in distress. She encountered
a heavy northeast gale ou the 23d and
24th east-southeast of Chinooteagua.
Lost head stay, fore rigging, galley,
and everything moveable about deck ;
also split fore sails.
Offioers of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company report a brig with fore
mast gone 14 miles northeast of Cape
Henry. A tug has gone to her assist
ance.
Norfolk, Va., August 26—The brig
E. H. Rich, from Baltimore to Boston,
loaded with coal, lost her foremast out
side tho Capes aud was towed here by
the wrecking steamer Resolute.
San Francisco, August 26. —The
grand jury found a true bill against
Miiler, alias Woodruff, for embezzle
ifleht.
GOV. ALLEN SPEAKS AGAIN.
He Denies that He Will Retire—On
the Contrary, He Will Radiate—
How Bad the Republicans Are—The
Democracy—A Strong Indorsement
of Cary.
Gov. Allen addressed the Democratic
masses of Highland, Fayette aud Ross
counties, Ohio, at Greenfield on Fri
day. Referring to the report that he
intended to withdraw because of ill
ness, be said : “I am happy to an
nounce to you that I have never in my
life been seriously sick ; that I have
never spent three days from necessity
upon a bed, aud that I now stand be
fore you with five perfect senses, and
with a vital organization which prom
ises to me as much life as any man has
a right to expect who has lived to my
age without experiencing in any
particular the impairment of his
vital organs. With regard to those
rumors, of course it is as easy
when a man sits down to manu
facture a story, to put two things in it
as one. I can not reply to all the ru
mors which are put afloat, but I can
say to you this ; That I never have aud
never will withdraw from a conflict in
which the liberties of my country are
involved. Sick! Sick of what? If I
could be rendered sick by anything, it
would be by the nausea, by the malari
ous influences which this Administra
tion has inflicted upon the country.
There is something for the pure mind
and stout hearts-of the freemen of this
country to be sick of. But you have
it now in your power to pass this nuis
ance off'. You have it now in your power
to purify tiie contaminated air by
breathing in its place, through tho free
luugs of a free people, a purer atmos
phere. Retire ! Nothing would please
the enemies of the people more than
my retirement. Retire, while my eye
is fixed upon approrching dangers that
threaten the liberties of my couutry
mon ? Have I ever been known to re
tire when a patriotic act was possible ?
No, my friends, if the Republican lead
ers, tax-gatherers, have no other hope
to rely upon than ray withdrawal they
ought to shake hands with fatality and
retire. I cannot gratify them. Great
God ! I have too many Democrats to
gratify ! I can’t even get sick for their
accommodation. I have been in aii
sorts of corners aud tight places, aud I
could not incur an acc’deut for
their accommodation. They had
better get up soms other hope than
tiiat, for if their hope is in my with
drawal, or iu my being beat, it is a hope
less hope. I suppose our friends of the
press around here will put this iu, so
that there may be no mistake about it,
that I never looked better, as I cer
tainly never felt better than I do this
day. And lam just opening the bat
tle. I take my position at tho capital
of the State next Monday, and I radiate
from there into every hole aud corner
of the State, until this party of plun
derers and usurpers shall bo made to
know that a majority of the people of
Ohio are still free, and determined to
remain so. That being done in Octo
ber, we will let events for tho future
shape themselves.”
Speaking of the long Republican rule
of the qpuntry, he said: “For nearly
sixteen years, mark you, a set of men
who call themselves Republicans have
had the absolute aud unrestrained com
mand of this Government. The Demo
cratic party has not oul> nad it in its
power to make a law, but it has not had
it in its power to prevent a law from
being made. This length of time has
passed, and what is tiie condition of
the country ? That is the question.— !
Are you all content with tiie condition ;
of the country ? Are you all content j
with the immense mass of taxation uu- j
dor which the country is laboring?—
Are you couteuted to know that you
pay thirty millions of dollars "an
nually to the Federal Government,
all of which goes out of the coun
try and is spent abroad ? Are you con
tented to know that the soil of this
country produces very little more at
the hands of the farmer than is neces
sary to keep his family iu sustenance?
Are you couteuted to know tiiat there
is not a farm which, pays three per
cent, on its money value; that there is j
not a farmer who can lay up anything i
at the end of the year, because so large j
a part of the products of his farm is j
taken away in the form of taxes? Are |
you contented to see fully 1,000,000 of I
the American people seeking lai or, and i
not able to gel, it? Men who don’t |
know three days ahead _ whether they ,
will have enough bread in their houses i
to stay the outstretched hands and era- '
vings of their poor little children? Are |
you willing to see this stato of things, :
and are you willing to see it when you !
know that a very iarge proportion of \
the taxes you have paid have been sto- |
len and plundered under the name of i
defalcation?”
He then went on to assert that the
Republicans did not dare to tell Grant,
“right to his face,” that they protested
against the third-term principle, and
continued : They did not want to trust
the Democratic party with any power
in the country, for they knew that if
the Democratic party got a majority in
the two houses of Congress there
would be a good mauy more defalca
tions revealed ; there would be a good
mauy more rogues drawn out of their
holes where they had buried them
selves. They did not want us in power
any more than a notorious rogue
would want the grand jury to meet.
The great jury of the Americau peo
ple have already passed upon them,
and recorded their [condemnation in
twenty odd States of this Union. The
Democratic party! Where is the
crime that it ever committed? It began
to exist by resisting despotism in the
form of the old alien and sedition laws.
Every German, every Irishman, every
foreign-born man, woman, and child in
this laud are where they are and what
they are because of tiie outstretched
arm of the Democratic party, which in
vited them to come within tiie folds of
the flag of tho United States. The
other side say wo are talking about by
gone things. That is true. We are
able and are never ashamed to allude
to bygone things. The very privilege
that these men have now of abusing
Democrats, as they have been doing for
sixteen years, they owe to the Demo
cratic party; for if the old gag-law hacj
been put iu force, they would have
been as hoarse as they wore in 1840.
Their mouths would have been filled
with a gag but for the outstretched
hands of the Democratic party. That
party removed the gag, and said to
every man, Federal and Republican,
‘ Now speak out like a man,’ We have
been speaking out ever since, and we
intend to speak out, and we intend
that the people shall have an opportu
nity to speak out for themselves. My
friends, notwithstanding the notice that
you heard read about my health before
I commenced epeaking, I do assure
you it would give me great pleasure to
go on with this speech for two hours
paore; and I could do it with just as much
ease as I did in 1832, when I often spoke
four hours at a clip. But I would rather
that you should hear my friend Gen.
Cary, and my other ; riend who sits be
hind me, Gen. Powell, who are our two
candidates, one for Lieutenant Gov
ernor aud the other for Attorney Gen
eral, both men after our own heart.—
You wifi hear them, and you will be as
much gratified by them as you possibly
could be by me or anybody else. Igo
to Columbus on Monday to take up my
position in the centre of the State.—
From there I shall move in every direc
tion which presents a speck of danger.
I shall stand upon the field to the last
hour of the contest, and if it should be
my misfortune to fall, I will fall as the
old Roman said it became an Emperor
to fall. I will die standing, and seek
no bed to repose upon.”
WAX WORKS.
How Sundry Americans are Waxed in
Madame Tussaud’s London Show.
IDonn Piatt in the Washington Capital.]
If one really wants to get at the
length, depth and breadth of this sort
of thing, let such anxious inquirer visit
Westminster Abbey aud Madame Tus
saud. The one represents the worship
of the commons aud the other worship
of the aristocracy. We cannot say that
in neither can be found any of those
kings of thought that waged conten
tion with their time's decay, but if ail
were stricken out save what these two
gave us, England would make,but a
weak show in the world of intellect.
Westminster, with its stony record, is
crowded with the names of men and
women who favored the human race
by consenting to being born. They
gave no thought one cares to remem
ber, no deed the world troubles itself
to commemorate, while Madame Tus
saud’s record of wax for tho vulgar
glitter of crowns—crown jewels, royal
robes—and tells in wax all that West
minster exhibits in marble and bronze.
And yet Jarley’s, as Dickens immor
talized t he little woman, is a jolly place
to visit, especially after night. The
crowd is great. The place has a wide
reputation. Omnibuses stop and the
conductor sings out “Madame Tusso,”
and you mention that name in tiie hear
ing of a hansom and the horse starts
on a canter of himself. The first room
to the left holds the dead Louis Napo
leon as ho appeared lying in state at
Ohiselhurst. The face is well done in
wax, being that of a man who bled to
death. The likeness is good. There is
the same retiring forehead, the same
weak chin and mouth, to say nothing
of the features so damnably out of
drawing, as we saw them some twenty
years since, when this effigy iu wax
and old clothes carried a name that
was a terror to Europe, for Europe
saw the monkey and feared the tiger.
Near tiie dead imperial fraud stands,
strange to say, Charles Dickens. In
the dim light about the imperial bed
Charles appeared startingly real—that
is, it resembled Dickens us he might
have appeared escaping from an asy
lum for lunatics. There is an insane
glare in those glass eyes that makes oue
shudder and laugh at the same time.
We did not laugh long and loud
when we reached the group intended to
represent Lincoln, Johnson and Grant.
The artist who created that lot ought,
with the lot, be put at auction and
knocked down to the highest bidder,
at least knocked. If someone in au
thority would take down that mon
strosity in front of the City Hall on
Fourth and a-lialf stroet (what an in
fernal name for a street), paint it and
then screw in two demoniacal glass
eyes, the result would be about the
same as the figure before us called
President Lincoln. Of course it is an
improvement on Vinnie Ream’s veally
attempt, for Vinuie only copied, or
tried to copy, Mr. Lincoln’s breeches,
and boots, aud here we have the gen
uine old articles; for Mme. Tussaud,
with that energy and enterprise for
which she is so celebrated, purchased
in a sale of the family effects the very
identical clothes worn by the immortal
Lincoln. Mme. T. is accurate as to
costume. Johnson, Andrew, is better.
The likeness is good. There is that
same dt-vdopmeut of muscle around
the base of the nose and mouth that
always makes his accidency look as if
he smelled the “night soil” our learned
and elegant Board of health are always
discussing. Tiie stony stare of two
glass eyes favors the expression that
gave our late President the name of
the inebriate administration. The
figure only needs a Constitution and a
few flags to make the semblance per
fect.
As for Ulys., we were pained to write
—the attempt is a ruinous failure. The
artist tried to make our gifted Presi
dent appear as a gentleman, and the
further he followed that delusion the
more positive the failure. It is said—
but of course we do not credit the slan
der—that the figure now doing duty as
President Grant was taken from the
chamber of horrors, where they say it
stood as the likeness of a gentleman of
a cheerful disposition, who had been
tried and hanged for the murder of all
his friends, relatives and connections,
even to his brothers-in-law. Now,
while Grant has certainlv murdered
the Republican party, and 'now threat
ens the Government he is supposed to
administer, his singular care of his
friends, relatives and connections, in
cluding the brother-in-law, shows how
preposterous is the story. Mme. T.
knows that a first class assassin is far
more attractive than our king of the
Yaukee Doodles, even with all our cry
over him as a corn-fed Ceosar. As it
is, Mme. T. finds that she will either
have to removo tho figure or protect it
by a brass railing, for tiie American
visitors begin to scowl at it. One of
the attendants, a volatile Frenchman,
said to us:
“Your American people do not like
him so mooch never more again. Last
night a ver’ big American shook bees
Jist undor hoes nose. Good gracious, I
think he go to knock zee leetle Yankee
President in zo face, aud ho give me a
hundred dollars for him to put one bay
window on hees countenance. C’est un
chose extraordinaire zat bay window in
ze countenance.”
We tried to tell our friends that if
they went into the American business
at all they should give us some of our
more popular and emiuent men, such
as Ben Butler, Zach Chandler, Pig-Iron
Kelley and Cedar Rapids Dawes, and
others, but we found old volatile in
tensely ignorant, mixing our great
statesmen up in a frightful muddle
with the Beecher business, Charley
Ross and tho American team ; so we
wended our way to the chamber of hor
rors, where we saw sixty first-class
criminals, with glass eyes, all promptly
and properly hung, and we pledge ouv
word of honor as a gentlerqnn aud a
journalist that the resQnflblanea to our
late House of Representatives was per
fectly appalling.
Rome, August 26.—The wife of Gari
baldi is dead.
JNew Series—Vol. 3, INo. 20.
JEFF DAVIS.
A Southern Woman’s Letter to the Sol
diers of the Grand Army of the Re
public of Illinois.
[Memphis Appeal.l
Soldiers: —You say Jefferson Davis
is a “ coward and an arch-traitor.” If
you are brave men and true, you will
make good your words or retract them.
If Jefferson Davis is a traitor, and
treason is crime, come and take him ;
prove his treason and hang him, as a
traitor should be hung. A traitor is
one who betrays a trust. If Jefferson
Davis had ever betrayed the trust put
in him, the Southern people would have
been the swiftest and the loudest to
cry—“ Hang him! hang him!” If
Jefferson Davis is guilty of the crime
you charge, your Government is weak
and criminal not to bring him to just
ice. For years he lay in prison waiting
a trial; he is yet waiting; at any hour,
any moment, he will stand his trial.
Let his guilt or innocence be
shown to the civilized world. When
you charge Jefferson Davis with the
crime of secession, remember your own
honored and now sainted Horace Gree
ley, as well as other leading men of the
North, was an earnest believer in the
right of secession. In the New York
Tribune, of December 17, 18G0, Greeley
says : “If it (the Declaration of Inde
pendence) justified the secession from
the British Empire of 8,000,000 of colo
nists in 1776, we do not see why it
would not justify the secession of 5,-
000,000 of Southerners from the Feder
al Union in 1801.” In the Tribune of
February 23,1861, five days after, Jef
feison Davis was inaugurated at Mont
gomery, Greeley used these words:
“We have repeatedly said, and we
once more insist, that the great princi
ples embodied by Jefferson in the De
claration of Independence, that gov
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the govern
ed, is sacred and just, and
that if the Gulf States choose to form
and independent nation, they have a
clear moral right to do so.” In the
Tribune of November 9, Greeley fur
ther says: “Those who would rush
upon carnage t ) defy or defeat a sepa
ration demanded by the popular vote
of the Southern people would clearly
place themselves in the wrong.” Sol
diers of the Grand Army remember
which side “rushed upon carnage to
defeat that separation” to which the
South had a “clear moral right.” Re
member there was not a day, nor even
an hour, when the South "would not
gladly have made peace on the bas’s of
independence. And when you talk of
the horrors of Andersonville, remem
ber that figures tell a tale that you can
not deny; figures show the death-rate
in Northern prisons was greater than
in Southern, and this despite our
poverty, our starvation, and destitu
tion of medicines. Remember what
side was always willing to exchange
prisoners, and which side sternly re
fused to exchange. Grant said “Tt was
easier to feed than to fight rebels.”- -
Some time ago a letter appeared in the
Albany Argus, charging the Anderson
ville horrors squarely home to Grant.
Gen. Hitchcock, Butler, and others,
wanted to exchange. Grant forbade it.’
Grant sent this telegiaph: “On the
subject of exchange, I differ from Gen.
Hancbck, It is hard on our men held
in Southern prisons, but not to those
left in the ranks to fight our battle.
To release all the rebel prisoners North
would compromise our safety here.”
Gen. Butler said this order of Grant’s
caused the death of more thau twenty
thousand men. But more than all else,
soldiers of the North, when you speak
of Andersonville, or Libby," or Sauls
bury, or Belle Isle, you should remem
ber these prison places were in the
bosom of the land on which your Gov
ernment had let loose the bloody dogs
of war. These prisoners were in
the bosom of a land fighting to defend
itself from a million of armed men.—
The men who suffered in those prison
places had come to us with shot and
shell, with sword and fire in their
hands. They killed, they burned, they
destroyed, they desolated. When you
talk of your war-made widows, your
sonless mothers, come and look on
ours. Or do you suppose we have not
hearts to feel as you of the North ? Do
you think we are stone or dull clay,
that you add to our griefs your per
petual taunts? You have conquered
us, you have crushed us, you are our
masters, you have taken our swords,
our guns, our forts, our ships, you have
disbanded our armies and disfranchis
ed our best and most honored men. If
you choose to call secession a crime,
you can do it; you can hang us because
we claimed the right to secede. If you
choose to say the belief in States’ rights
is treason you can do so, and hang us for
such belief. But if such opinions are
to be held as crime, you should so set
them down in your oode of laws, and
annex thereto the penalty you say they
deserve. If you choose to play the
tyrant over us and establish an inquisi
tion over free thought and free speech,
you can do it, but you should first make
out your code of laws, that we may
walk warily. What monstrous injus
tice is that government guilty of that
leaves what it calls treason so unde
fined that even wise men and loyal
souls like Horace Greeley made the
dreadful mistake of preaching it to ono
hundred thousand people? Jefferson
Davis is no greater criminal than the
men who put him at the head of the
Southern Confederacy; if ho deserves
hangiDg so do they; if he is unworthy
to stand on your soil and look vour
soldiers in the face, so are millions of
our men unworthy. When you call
lnrfi a coward and an arch-traitor, you
call them oowards and arch-traitors. If
you hate him with that bitter and ma
lignant hatred, we will accept it as our
portion also. A Southern Woman,
Long Branch Races.
Long Branch August 26, -Iu the one
mile race Spendthrift tvas the winner •
time 1:45. In the mile and a half race’
for three year olds, Papermaker was’
the winner j time,
and three-quarter race, all ages, Osage
was the winner ; time, 3:44. Wise, who
rode Donuybrook, was ruled off the
track for throwing off the race.
Ihe Russian and Khokau War.
London, August 26.—1 tis repoi ted
that the Khokau insurgents have sur
rounded the city of Khojend, a large
city fifty miles from Khokau. Commu
nication between Khojend and Toseh
kend is interrupted. The authorities
of Taschkend are arming the Russian
inhabitants of the city.
“ Memoir of by the ed
itor of the Ogden (Utah) Freeman-.
H Be it recorded as part of the history
of Utah, that a Yirginia born and bred
lady camo into Utah unacquainted with
a single soul, and within a period of
six months organized, established and
conductad tiio Ogden Freeman , took
charge of two infant sons and gave
birth to a third,”