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FRIDAY, JULY 30, 187*.
J. C. OAMAHRR, Editor.
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uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of in
tentional fraud. tf
A terrific tornado swept over Danville,
Vo., and vicinity on Monday night, the
track of the tornado being about a mile
wide. Roofs were blown off, chimneys
blown down, and great damage inflicted
,on the crops. There are many reports of
loss of life, and which need confirmation.
Tho Daily Journal boas la flint North
Carolina ships annually fifteen thousand
barrels of dried blackberries. North Caro
lina is a groat State. The story that chil
dren *ra*belled there and turned out every
snmmfr to browse on huckleberries is a
slander. Like vise that other one, that
dried herrings are the only circulating
medicine.
i Carroll is n good name for Governor of
Maryland, and we are glad the convention
got through without a destructive explos
ion. The Democratic candidate is of the
linongo of Charles Carroll, the Maryland
signor Of the Declaration of Independence,
and fitly leads the patriotic State in the
centennial year. Wo hope the Democrats
will all he able to Carroll nfter the election.
At a recent riflo nontest, when the last
Irish shut was fired, the ropes were broken,
although Mr. Yale was just about to pull
die trigger. The crowd rushed headlong
on tho ground, mid swept up beyond the
starting points. Colonel Rodino hud still
u shot. Ha laid down in the most char
acteristic manner, levelled his gtin, the
crowd fell back, but he was at the end of
a thin enough lane of the human folks to
make many a mnu tremble. Long and
steadily did ho lie, until in sheer admira
tion the crowd stood still and gazed on
him. At last he pulled the trigger, the
thud was heard, a bull's eye was repeated.
•'Old Reliable” came in for a tremendous
shout of applause, and the mutch for 1875
was over.
News is brought from the Black Hills,
of tho discovery of now gold fields, situa
ted on Sprqig and Uapid rivers,’ about 35
nile northeast of Harney's Peak. French
Crock was being deserted, although some
three hundred minors were still there. Iu
the gnlleya and streams and vicinity of
Harney's Peak, gold was found hut not in
paying quantities. A good many miners
wore leaving discouraged. Limit. Lawson,
of the 3J cavalry, who carno in with a de
tachment yesterday, says tho men were
Belling out their claims and disposing of
their mining equipage for almost nothiug.
About 800 miners are now in tho fields.
The Springfield (Mass.) Union says of
llio tramp nuisance: "It is not private
individuals alono that are annoyed by tho
hordes of beggarly and thievish nomads
that throng the country. The railroads
foci the peat severely. It is almost as im
posrible to keep the tramps off tho trains
ns it was to keep the frogs out of tho pal
ace of Pharaoh. A favorite method with
these gentry of tho road, when they wish
to travel between Boston nnd Albany, is
for all the party but ono to enter an empty
freight oar and shut the door. Tho out
sider puts the pin into the lock, and
when the conductor passes everything ap
pears right The outsider secrets himself
about the train us best ho can, nnd if ho
misses a ride that time ho takes the next
chance.”
Another Large Failure.
Otir commercial community wore startled
yesterday by the announcement of tho fail
ure of the banking house ofDnnoan, Sher
man & Cos., of New York, heretofore con
sidered oue of the most solvent houses in
the Union. Fortunately thri failure came,
ns did the heavy failures during the panic
of 1873, at a timo when the people of this
section had but little to lose; the sixty-day
bills which had been sold by our merchants,
having probably matured, aud if there are
any individual losses here they are most
likely small aud can he easily borne by
those upon whom they fall. Tho firm of
Dnncnn, Sherman <fc Cos. was represented
here last season by Messrs. Moffat & Tobler,
the latter of whom left her under a cloud
early in the spring. The former has been
absent about two months oil his summer
vacation. Thus, one by one, Henry Clews,
Jay Cooko, Duncan, Sherman ,t Cos. and
others who have undertaken to control the
entire financial affairs of the country have
collapsed. The efforts of these firms, who,
relylngon their reputed wealth, have sought
to coutrol onr cotton crop, our State
financial policy and our publics, have gone
by the board, and while the evil w hich
they have entailed upon the gcuerol pros
perity. must be borne, all may join in con
gratulations at a happy riddance. While
the getitlineD who controlled the destinies
of this last consignment to bankruptcy are
doubtless honorable men (they must have
been from some of their Southern associa
tions) by yielding to the temptation, and
adopting the unsafe aud reckless policy
which has ruled among tlio capitalists of
the cooutry’aluoe 18C1 they lmve brought
calamity on Uiomselvesand others. "Cob
bler. slick to your last,” is a good maxim.
Let bankers stick to banking, and not send
out dremmvrs for cotton or turn bull* or
bears in the gold |iooiu —SanainaA Mitts
[Far ni/Tuu's IsotrsnorsT.)
Baptism Essential to Salvation.
Mn. Editor : 1 beg leave to tsxyour col
umns one timo more, so that I may make
the object of my inquires and the awu-rti >na
I have made in former articles, so clear
that stupid minds, even "Querist himself,
may see and understand, and be forced to
acknowledge his error, and confess the
truth. My purpose now, is to be brief, and
only reoepitiilafo in a systematic form all
I Imve naked and asserted, and then show
the utter futility of "Querist's” efforts to
answer the one or meet the other in argu
ment
My first inqhiry was, "Is baptism essen
tial to salvation," giving reasons for mak
ing the inquiry, which ought to have been
satisfactory to the mind of any well in
formed man who is not an infidel or a
skeptic. I admitted that I was not a theo
biginn, and asked to be informed by men
of biblical learning ; but I am sorry to say
that none of them was willing to give the
public the benefit of thair learning—that
is if they bad any on this subject, or any
opinions that tl/cy could roly on and sus
tain by argument. So “Querist” com
menced his system of instruction, under
taking a tusk that tho most orthodox theo
logian would no more tackle than a wise
uud prudent ge lcral would an impregnable
fortification. And the only fact of which he
has convinced me (and I have no doubt
your readers) is that in his instruction ho
lias displayed more igneranco than I did in
my inquiry. If there are any tenable posi
tions against the essentiality of bnptism to
salvation, he was blind to them ;he has nev
er done more than take the negative of the
proposion, and his only argument is his
assertion: and the highest authority quo
ted in argnment is "Querist” himself. So
my inquiry remained unanswered, Then
I boldly and fearlessly asserted that bap
tism was essential to salvation, and now as
fearlessly reiterate it. Is that dodging tho
question as inexperienced and untutored
"Querist" would have you believo I have
attempted to do ? Now remember, Mr,
’‘Querist," until the inquiry is sntisfae
toriully answered to rny tniml, I stand to
tho assertion and pledge myself to sustain
it by positive scriptural declarations.
Whoever you are, I beg you in tho future
not to be so regardless of truth ns to again
assort that I have attempted to evade the
tine issue. Wbut salvation did I refer to,
and in what sense did I regard liabtism
as essential to that salvation ? It is mani
fest to my mind, if you can understand
plain languuge, that you would not render
yourself so obnoxious to the deuouncin
tion of a wilful pervertor of troth as yon
have in your last two artielos. If you
ennuot . understand plain language, then
your egotism renders you a subject of
sympathy and your language tho subject
of criticism. No*-, what sab ation did I
rofer to ? Didn’t 1 say “salvation from
past sins ? ” Is that evading the issue ?
Didn't I assert that “faith, repentance and
babtism were conditions precedent to
the remission of sills anil nduiittaneejnto
Chriat't kingdom ;” i did and now reiter
ate it; is Flint evading the issue. I have
stated in rny former articles, in language
that men and women of tho most con
tomptablo ability could fully understand,
that by faith tho heart was changed, by
repentance the life wits reformed, and by
baptism the relation was changed. These
are the three conditions of which I have
frequently spoken, and of which you are
so utterly ignorant. They perform three
different offices, and produce three
separate and distinct results. But "Quer
ist,” my willing instructor, is utterly inca
pable of understanding them. I did say
(hat a perfect law required perfect obedi
ence, and perfect obedience, or compli
ance, produced perfect results ; I now re
iterate it ; is that evading the issue ? I
did assort that these throe conditions were
all that were specified in the law ; I now
reiterate it ; is that evading tho question ?
I did say nothing more was needed, noth
ing less would do ; I now reiterate it; is
that evading the issue ? Wlint law wore
we discussing ? the law in reference to tho
remission of sins and tho admission of
aliens into tho kingdom. I did state that
by being baptized we performed tho last
condition required of ns, and rendered our
first act of obedience, and that it was by
rendering this obedience that our sins were
remitted ; I now reiterate it ; is that
evading the issue? And to this last "Quer
ist” answered and said “neither do I be
lievo that any act of obedience you can
rendor will savo you.” Now, reader, who
changed the issue from baptism to obedi
ence ? Tho truth is, reader, he don't
know wlmt issue means ; ho certainly dou't
know what constitutes the issue in this in
stance. "Querist says I did him great in
justice in my last article ; let us examine
and see if we did. He said, in referring
to Peter’s declaration or command to the
multitude, when he told them to "Lie bap
tised for the remission of sins, etc.,” that
the preposition “for” meaus "unto or on
account of. ” It is impossible for me to
recapitulate what I have said in former
articles, but simply refer any or all who
take an interest in these articles to my
last as to w hat I did say. 1 did state, nnd
now repeat that according to his construc
tion of the sentence, substituting "unto,
or "because of " for the proposition "for,”
Peter’s command would read, "Repent and
be baptised because of the remission of
sins.” "Repent* and be baptized" pre
cedes the preposition "for,” and "remis
sion" succeeds it, in other words, it is be
tween “repent and be baptized” on one
side and "remission of sins” on the other.
Tho word cannot be made to mean one
iliiug us to repent, und another thiug as
to be baptized. We nsaert that there is no
rule of language that will give to a word
more thau one meaning at the same time
and iu the same place, and consequently,
whatever may be the meaning of the prep
osition “for” as to repentance is its mean
ing aa to baptism. They are connected by
the copulative conjunction and must not 1
be separated, but must sustain in this sen
tence the same relation to remission. If
it be true, as "Querist would have yon
believe, that men must be baptized be
cause tbeir sins are pardoned, it would
follow that men must repent for the same
tiling - that is, because their sins are par
doned. The preposition "for” is not used
in tho sense of "because of” a single time
in the bible. By referring to Mathew, xxvi
-38, you will find a very similarly construc
ted sentence : "Forthis is My blood of
the New Testament, which is shed for
many for tho remission of sins.” Will
"Querist” assert tlmtClilist shed his blood
because the sins of tho people were re
mitted. He is committed to it; he can't
get away from it, for he soys the preposi
tion •tor" means "because of or on ac
count of.” The trno meaning of Peter’s
command is repent and be baptised in
order that your sins may be remitted. But
"Querist’s” theory is that “by faith alone
we are saved," nothing else essential, and
quotes wlmt Paul said to tho jailor : “Be
lieve on tbs Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt bo saved, and thy house. ” It is not
likely he Would give to tho jailor a system
of pardon differing from his own. Shull
we upon this passage, regardless of the
context, build a theory of justification by
faith alone because it says nothing about
ropenteuco and baptism ? If so, may wo
not take the language of Ananias to Saul
and construct a theory of justification by
baptism alone, because be was told to arise
and be baptized, and not a word was said
about faith or repentance. Might wo not
with tho same propriety, and witli ns much
certainty, construct a theory of justifica
tion upon repentance alone, taking Peter
for authority. Ho said : "Repent and bo
converted that your sins may be blotted
out,” not mentioning either faith or bap
tism. So might wo take Peter’s command
on the Day of Pentecost and build a theory
of justification on that: "Repent and be
baptized,” leaving faith out of the theory.
Tho Apostles adapted their teaching to
tho condition of tho parties to be taught.
Peter didn’t tell the multitude on the Day
of Pentecost to believe, for they were al
ready believers, but told them what was
lacking—repentance and baptism. When
Ananias addressed Paul who was a believ
ing penetant, he did not tell him to believe
and repent, for both of these ho had al
ready done, but told him to do that, which
was lacking at that stage of his conversion:
"Arise and be baptised.” When Paul ad
dressed tho infidel jailor he commenced
with him in the nlphabct of tho gonpel
plan, “Believo on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Belief in that case, ns in every other, is the
first thing necessury ; nnd thon they spoko
unto him tho word of the Lord ; that is
teaching him further and perfectly the
plan of salvation ; and the jailor believed,
repented and was baptised the same night.
Now, Mr. "Querist," if by faith alono we
are saved, and repentence and baptism is
nouessential to Balvation, explain to me
and tho readers of the Independent nil of
this apostolic folly, and explain why
Christ commanded baptism in connection
with belief, if belief v.as sufficient ? If yon
enn’t do iZ, for the sake oi decency and
propriety give us no more of your twaddle,
but acknowledge, like a defeated man
should do, that you have taken a position
that is untenable, and that you cauuot sus
tain it.
And now, in conclusion, ns you say you
believe iu tho Lord Jeans Christ, I eutreat
you to repeut and be baptized for the re
u.iHsion of sins. If yon cannot answer
these points with biblical authority and
logic, please let mv inquiries remain aa
they are and have been—u nans we rial.
Inquirer.
In a recent report the committee on
fire patrol iu New York city sny that much
has been said and written by underwriters
respecting "dry-goods district," the im
mense amount of property stored within
its boundaries, tho water supply, narrow
streets, high buildings, etc., and the dan
ger of a sweeping conflagration. The in
dividual members of the committee par
take of this feeling, and obtained the pro
per authority to appoint a temporary
foroo for service in this district during the
winter, a similar request having been
made and tho service performed tho two
previous years. The duty of that force
was a patrolling one exclusively, and cov
ered an area bounded by Chambers street
on the South, West Broadway and Woos
ter streets on the west. Spring and Broom
streets on the north, and Crosby and Elm
streets and Broadway on the east. Within
this space ten patrol posts were establish
ed. The twenty blocks in this district eon
tain a value iu buildings and goods of
probably two hundred million dullard* nnd
should a “sweeping conflagration” ever
settle upon it there will be no need of any
farther reference to the Chicago and Bos
ton losses.
A singular effect of flame on an electric
spark has recently been noticed and des
cribed in the technical journals. The jet
consisted of a glass tube drawn out to a
point, and the flame had a length of about
an inch and a diameter of only an eighth
of an iueb. Inserting this between the two
terminals of a Holtz machine, tho length
of spark obtainable was at onco increased
from less than ten inches to over twelve,
tho full distance to which the balls could
be separated, The same increase was not
obtained by simply inserting a conductor
between tbo two terminals, a ball an inch
in diameter only lengthening tlio spark
about an inch.
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An English correspondent declares that
the boasted navy of Turkey consists of
some expensive iron-clads, which never
tempt blue water, but are moored iu sum
mer opposite the Button's palace at Dol
ma Baghtche, and iti winter go into com
fortable quarters inside tho bridge of the
Golden Horn. Their chief occupation is
firing salutes when his Majesty goes to the
mosque oil Fridays. Furthermore, the
Turks have no engineers who cau manage
them, but depend on Englishmen.
Drouth is reported all along the line of
the North and South railroad in Alabama
and Montgomery county. We think the
drouth is pretty general throughout the
cotton region below the Southern line of
Tennessee,
THE GROSSEST SLANDER.
llow Good Men May be .'.littaken.
How a Christian Gentleman's Motives
May be Misconstrued.
I>r. W. W. Hicks* Oirfuflnn Bettcrolence
to a Chritaian La<l y* Voforiunat
Daughter.
WOMAN ! LOVELY WOMAN ! COMES
TO THE RESCUE.
To Save the Rev. Gentleman From Igno
miny and Shame.
Woman** Testimony Bet Aside t>y the
“ Morning New*’*—Cruel ICdltor*
We take the privilege of warning every
good man traveling through Florida and
stopping at Live Ouk, to put on his good
behavior, to keep his eye skinned and his
lips closed, and if anybody happens to be
drunk, especially the daughter of a Chris
tian colored lady, arid although his chris
tian virtue swell up in his heart almost
bursting it with sympathy, we suggest,
that hard as tho temptation is to resist,
(that is to do good, of course, which is the
highest aim of every minister), he had
better Dot march around with them in the
night air. Wo certainly think it isn’t best
to take them to agin Loffse iu the suburbs
to protect their virtuo. No one doubts
but it was best for tho Christian ladie's
daughter, who had in an unguarded mo
ment become intoxicated, but we don’t
tliiuk it best for tho reputation of a Dr. of
Divinity, especially at Live Oak, where
that man Keep of tiro Time* and a few
other gentlemen live, who are wicked
enough to believe that a virtuous Dr. of
Divinity—a Christian gentleman that sym
pathises with colored Christian ladies— un
fortunate daughters—and when they have
not where to lay their heads, and the night
is dark, and they might lie in danger of
the insults of wicked men and ei[>oged to
the walking pestilences of the night—takes
them, gently lends them to a neighboring
gin bouse, puts them in a little bed of
cotton, and then goes away to return by
and by where his beloved wards, his Chris
tian sisters’ daughters lie dreaming. Of
course lie only returns to listen if they are
breathing sweetly, and ascertain if their
virtue is still secure. What a wonderful
development of the Christian graces I How
beautifully it illustrate* tho benevolence of
a good man's heart I As on act of charity
it has no precedent. The Apostles never
excelled it in any act of benevolence ; iu
deed, we think they never equaled it
But yoii must remember that Live Oak
was not iu their circuit, and consequently
they never saw n colored Christian sister’s
daughters drunk. We are inclined to think
flint the Apostles were dignified old gen
tlemen and wore somewhat particular as to
the company they k< pt. But strange to
say, there was Mr. Mike Qnilty and several
other gentlemen, all iid to be good men,
watching this midnight scene of Christian
lenity. This wtmderfwl condescension !
This extraordinary demonstration of Chris
tian benevolence 1 Yet, strange to say,
that these men, said to be good men, made
the night hideous with their jeers and per
secutions of this reverened gentleman
while engaged in this labor of loye ; while
acting as a guardian angle, watching and
shielding the parity and virtue of a col
ored Christian ladie’s drunken daughters.
And then, oh, wicked Qnilty 1 how wrong
it was in you and your associates to go and
tell Keep, when you knew he would pub
lish any meatiness that occurred at Live
Oak. No r tho facts have gone to the
Morning Metes, and consequently to the
whole world. None but one good lady
ever doubted the facts, hilt this pure mnu's
motives are misunderstood. Why didn’t
yon tell of his gentleness and kindness
nnd the purity of hia intentions. Oh,
wicked Qnilty, Keep, Morning Mews and
other 1 Miscoustrucqi of good men's in
tentions! How could you question the
Doctor’s motive in taken two drunken ne
gro women to n gin house and putting
them on a bed of cotton, nnd then only
went back once where his love lay dream
ing ! Don’t yon see how you might have
been mistaken iu construing his motives.
If it hadn't been for that tattling Morn
ing Mews the whole world wouldn’t have
known it, nnd the revorued gentleman
might have satisfied at. least tho church
that honored him with "D. D.” How
ever, as the church knows him well, they
will fnlly understand and appreciate his
motives and deeply sympathise with him
in this persecution, ns it will be so called.
How can anybody doubt his Christian con
sistency who is familiar with his political
orthodoxy. He would never have quit
tho Radical party of which he was a zeal
ous member while iu Charleston preaching
in a negro church, if he had not come to
Macon where tho whites were in the as
cendency; whereupon principle (of course)
he became an earnest, zealous Democrat,
Peter like denying any former connection
of the Radical party. And he never would
have qnit tho Democratic party to rejoin
the Radicals if he had not gone to Florida
where the negroes and the outcasts of the
earth were iu the majority. This is his
political consistency, and how cau any
man doubt his religions consistency.
Just read what a true woman says of Dr.
Hicks, who voluntarially conies to his res
cue. What ninn could bo so ungallunt as
to donbt her word, but that tattling Morn
ing Mews man, whose heart is perfectly
hard as to woman’s delicately sensitive
feelings, when truth is involved comes out
| boldly nud cruelly, and introduces Dr.
Hick’s own statement to contradict her.
Oh! wicked man of the Mews, is therein thy
j heart no sympathy for woman, especially
; one who came before the public iu defense
jof one of our sex ? How noble, and pure,
just, and good she must'be. We think
| she must be one of those pure, delicate,
; unsuspecting, philanthropic school inarms
now engaged in exploding negro ideas.
What wondrous love is this !
Here is what she writes to the Augusta
Constitutionalist :
“Seeing s miserable piece in your paper of this
morning, and knowing what I <lo, I feel so strong
ly urged to say my say to yon that I cant keep
quiet. Dr. Hicks being at the North with hw
family at the time that Florida paper reports him,
ho of course could not he gallanting the todies
round the town, and of course the prospective
oath of the Informer could hot lie taken truth
fully. So I hog yon will contradict most posi
tively this statement of that paper. That it is an
infamous fabrication, and a filing that nndcr no
circumstances could happen to Dr. Hicks, lot me
assure you,”
These being the facts, the course of the origin
ator of this calmhnv is an outrage upon decency
and journalism, and we congratulate ourselves of
having been hi some measure tic means of show
ing up tho infamy of this aspersion, of a distin
guished and aide public man. We ask that our
friends of the Havsnnah Morning Metre, through
whose columns the traducing article was brought
to our notice, to aid us in its refutation by in
serting this correction.
What conclusive testimony that would
have been for the reverned gentlemen, if
it hadn’t been for that long-tongued Morn
ing Mews, that won’t keep a secret even
when the reputation of a Dr. of Divinity
is involved, and tho veracity of a woman
is at stake, publishing the Hicks editorial
in the Femcmdina Observer, in which he
admits that he was at Live Oak at the
time guarding a colored Dina’s virtuo in
a gin house. This editorial was published
on the 24 th ; the ludy’s defence of him, in
which she attempts to prove an alibi by
showing that he was iu tho North on the
10th, the time that he is churged with im
prudent conduct at Live Oak, was publish
ed the same day in Augusta. Dr. Hicks
didn’t leave for the North until the 23d,
the day before his editorial was published.
We are sorry for this dear little woman
whoso feelings were so wrought upon that
she couldn’t keep qniet, but we think it
would have been better if she had held
still, —
But tell that lassie,
If a lassie she he,
For her spunk she has an admirer,
And that admirer is me.
And should again the Morning Mews
Attempt to prove the lassie untrue,
We'll give him a list of our views
And ask him who hit Billy Patterson.
TELKGKAIMIHJ.
YELLOW FEVER.
Washington, July 27. Commodore
Cooper telegraphs the Navy Department,
from Pensacola, that he fears there is some
local cause for the fever at Burrsueaa.
Surgeon General Beall lias received the
following from Key West: “One death
from fever yesterday—a relapse during
conTalesence. Only one new ease is re
ported daring the last twelve days. Tho
thermometer is eighty-nine degrees.”
Reports received by Surgeon General
Barnes, U. S. A., from lirevet Major Gen
eral lirannan, commanding Fort Barran
cas, Fla., anil George M. Sternberg, Post
Surgeon there, show that the yellow fever
is raging at that place. On the 21st inst.
there were six cast s, and on the morning
ol tho 22d fifteen. The commanding of
ficer or. that day asked authority to have
as many nurses as might be necessary for
the fever patients, aud expressed the opin
ion that every one there would have the
fever who had not hud it before. The
Surgeon-General, in reply, telegraphed
him to hive aa many nurses as lie might
need, aud said: "Any assistance this of
fice can give you is at your disposal.”
On tl e 21st tho command was moved
from Fort Barrancas to Fort Pickens, and
six new cases were reported from the latter
place on the 22d, making in nil twenty-six
| there, ono with the black vomit. On the
123d seven new cases and one death were
[ reported from Fort Pickens. On the
morning of the 21th thirty-nine cases were
reported at Fort Barrancas, one very low
and two dangerously aiek. The sick were
well cared for, and there was no panic.
Oue Assistant Surgeon from New Orlenns
arrived on that day, and two more had
been ordered to the post by the Depart
ment Commander. Later iu the duv six
cases reported, but no officers were among
them. The wife of Lieutenant Ingalls aud
hisfihild were attacked that day, but there
were no deaths. Fifty-three cases were
reported np to six p, m., of the 26tli inst.,
and four deaths -among the latter Col.
Randall's child. No officers had then been
attacked. Mrs. Brennan, tho wife of the
commanding officer, was taken sick that
day. The patients were having all they
needed. Three additional physicians and
a hospital steward arrived from New Or
leans on tho evening of the 25th. No cas
es had been reported from Fort Pickens
since the morning of the 2otli. This morn
ing the Surgeon-General received tho fol
lowing telegram from Post-Surgeon Stern
berg:
“Fort Barrancas, July 27, 1875.
Taken sick, oue officer (Lieutenant Desz
ler), two children and five enlisted men ;
died, three enlisted men and one child ;
remaining under treatment, one officer,
twenty-seven enlisted men, one officer’s
wife (Mrs. Ingalls), seven laundresses and
servants, nud thirteen children.”
DUNCAN, SHERMAN A Co’s FAILURE.
New York, July 27.—The doors of Dun
can, Sherman & Cos. were clotted at 11:25
o’clock. Only in a general way can the
causes of the suspension be ascertained.
It is admitted Unit the house has lost very
largely on cottou ; iu fact, that iatheprio
pal source of loss. Involvements with va
rious railroad enterprises, old and new,
also entailed losses. The liabilities are
understood to be betwrn five and six mil
lions. Dnncnn returned from Europe
about two weeks ago, and has since been
making careful examination of his assets
nud finds that they are largely inadequate.
He resolved to endeavor to get new cash
capital, and having failed to do so determ
ined that it was best to suspend and make
a general assignment for the benefit of all
creditors. The indebtedness is disiributed
all over this country and Europe, a consid
erable amount being iu the form of letters
of credit, held by travelers. The house;
was founded in 1850 by Alex. Duncan.
Watts Sherman and A. Butler Duncan,
the latter being the head of the present
house; The present firm has leen in
operation about ten years. Great sympa
thy is expressed for the firm, particularly
for Mr. W. Butler Duncan. The credit of
the house was good up to the hour of sus
pension, and had Mr. Duncan chosen to
avail himself of this, his house need not
have suspended. The greatest excitement
prevailed iu the lower part of the city. As
soon as the rumor of the suspension be
gan to be circulated, large crowds of peo
ple collected, a majority of whom, how
ever, were attracted about their office.
Many attempts were riUide to gain ndmis
siou to the building, but the doors remain
ed obstinately Mosed. Even a telegraph
messenger boy was unable to gain admit
tance until he bethought him of the buck
entrance, on Bine street, and even then
he was compelled to hand in his dispatch
through an iron grating. Inside, the nu
merous clerks could be seen at their desks,
busily engaged with their books, but en
trance was denied to all. At one o'clock
there was still much excitement in the
neighborhood of the banking house, but
no new developments of importance had
occurred. It is understood that a full
statement of the affairs of the house is in
preparation.
The following announcement has just
been made by Duncan, Sherman & Cos.:
"A careful examination of our business
and affair) shows ns most unexpectedly
that through losses aud misfortune our
availabe assets sre so reduced that we are
compelled to go into liquidation. We
reached this conclusion with deepest re
gret, but the fact np to the latest moment,
our unexampled credit having remained
unimpaired, would have compelled us, if
we continued business, to hazard new
obligations and receive new confidences,
which we were unwilling to assume. For
the protection of all onr creditors, without
distinction or prefernee we have this day
made a general assignment to Hon. Wm.
D. Shipman, of this city, whose address
for all matters connected with our affairs
will be at onr late banking house, No. 11
Nassau street. (Signed.)
"Duncan, Sherman & Cos.”
KEOBO BIOT APPREHENDED,
Cincinnati. 0., July 27. —A dispatch
from New Orleans states that a riot is ap
prehended at East Feliciana, where the
negroes have assumed the offensive and
are collecting and arming through the par
ish for the supposed purpose of capturing
the town of Clarion. Great excitement
prevails throngbtout the parish, and a
number of whites have armed and con
gregated to patrol the town. A hud feel
ing bus existed between the races iu tiiat
parish for some months.
STORM IN SWITZERLAND,
New York, July 27.—A German letter
states that in the storm of the 7th inst.
there was literally an ice storm, accom
panied liy a cyclone, which lasting not over
fifteen miuntes, or midnight, wrecked
every window nnd skylight, smashed in
roofs, and did incalculable damage. The
suburbs suffered terribly also, all crops
being destroyed. Tho ice fell in masses.
Grant Does It.
When Prof. Marsh and others talk about
appealing to the President for aid and
comfort in squelching the Indian Ring,
and in bringing official thieves anil knaves
to justice, they must be ignorant of the
most notorious events which have passed
before the public eye, or elss they
are the victims of an insane infatuation.
Everybody knows that this Ring could not
have stood a day without his personal and
positive approval.
Grant is directly responsible for the out
rages which have been perpetrated upon
the Indians, und the more so lor having
pretended to he their protector and friend,
when in fact he connived with the scoun
drels who not only stole their supplies and
annuities, but plundered the Treasury at
the same time.
At this very hour his brother, Orvil L.
Grant, Ims secured a monopoly of the
most valuable trading posts among the
Indians, and is able, by control of tho
army and orders from Delano, to drive
honest men out of their business, and to
use public property without paying for it.
This brother is doing among the Indians
wlmt brother-in-law Casey did among the
people of Louisiana, until public indigna
tion compelled a change of policy.
Until the rascalities of the Whiskey
Ring were laid so bare that defence of
them became dangerous, Grant was the
main prop, advocate, and personal friend
of the chiefs of that organized gang of
public robbers. The proof of this con
nection was furnished to the Grand Jury
at St. Louis, when a number of these
rogues were indicted, among whom fig
ured supervisors, agents, gangers, and
! collectors ot the internal revenue.
Soon after Mr. Bristow came to under
stand his work in the Treasury, it was
j made apparent that large frauds in the
1 sale and transfer of whiskey were commit
ted in the West. At that time, howev, r,
| the strength aud extent of the operations
!of the Ring were not clearly understood,
: though suspicion lmd fastened upon both
officers of the government and manufac-
I tnrers.
In order to put n check on collusion be
tween these parties, the Secretary of the
Treasury issued an order changing the Su
pervisors from one district to another, so
ns to break the principal liuk in the chain
between Washington and the illicit distil
lers. That order spread alarm in the ranks
of the Ring, tint they were equal to the
emergency. John McDonald was the Su
pervisor at St. Louis nnd the head centre
of the combination. He started at once
for Washington with a fine span of horses
and a full understanding of the President’s
tastes and habits. He wus baeked np by
the leading Republicans from the West in
both branches of Congress, and appeared
on the scene aa a commander to give or
ders, rather than aa a subordinate to obey
instructions.
He did not trouble himself in the least,
about Mr. Bristow, who was too small
game for a sportsman of his quality, but
directed his attentions to the President
and Measurer Balicock, with whom he
held the closest terms of friendship nnd
business. Between the Supervisor, the
horses, nnd the Measurer, the order of the
Treasury was reserved without a word of
conference with the Secretary. A venal
officeholder, who knew the method of re
moving obstacles, was more powerful at
the White House than the most responsi
ble member of the Cabinet.
When 'McDonald had gained his victory,
be could not restrain his enthusiasm, and
telegraphed to his accomplice, formerly a
clerk in the Internal Revenue, these sig
nificant words, refreshing in their slang:
“J. A. Jon-*:
"Dog dead. Goo no hangs antitudilnm- Sun
aiiines. McDonald.”
That was the' first notice of the great
fact that Bristow liad been beaten and that
the dog was dead. Then followed imme
diately another dispatch to let the Ring
know how the thing was done, and upon
whom they had to rely. It is brief, but
explicit:
“Jotrs: ’
‘•I rode out with the President to-day. Write
to-morrow. "McDonald.”
That ride was much re mar kail upon at
Washington, as was the fine span of
horses that McDonald had brought all the
way from St. Louis, and placed where
they would do the most good. The two
settled the business for n time, aud until
Bristow had narrowed the circle of fire
around the plunderers, and finally cap
tured them with their own weapons.
What the President did for the Whis
key Ring and McDonald, he did for Ship
herd and the Washington Ring ; for Dela
no and the Indian Ring ; for Secor Robe
son and the Navy Ring ; for Creswell and
the Straw-bid Ring ; for Belknap and the
Army Ring ; for Wiiliams and the Carpet
bag Ring. They all revolve around the
White Rouse, and it will doubtless be
shown in good time that his Measurer
Babcock is the intermidiary, negotiator
for, and beneficiary of this collection of
rogues and scoundrels, whose highest aim
is to acquire wealth by the most scandal
ous means.— M. F. Sun.
The Rev. Edward Galvan, a Unitarian
pastor at Brighton, Mass., is accnsed of
cruelly treating his little son, and an of
ficial investigation is being made.
Sunbeam*.
M. Theirs has declined to become •
candidate for a Senatorship.
A movement has been begun in St.
Louis to erect a monument to Gen. Blair.
The Duke D’Atimale has proclaimed
that if France wishes sincerely to become
a republic, he, for his part, is perfectly
willing to bow down to that kind of sov
ereignty.
An nparntns for drying bay by artificial
heat has, after some years of experimen
ing, been brought iuta sur-CMaftil opera
tion by its inventor, Mr. Gibbs of Ching
ford, in Essex, England.
Pendleton, Allen, aDd Thurman bare
all joined tails like good monkeys, and are
swinging around the circle of a dollar,
which is sometimes round and sometimes
square. Now you see it, and now you
don't.
Bismarck’s set have raised a howl that
the French Enibassedor at Berlin is en
tirely too thick with the Ultramontane
Society of that capital. They will next be
for keeping him into his kitchen and find
ing him on too good terms with the cook.
The CHpjter charges that no report has
ever been made of t’ 3 fund raised lor Dau
Bryant's family, and adds that some of
the money obtained by theatrical perform
ances to aid the sufferers by the Chicago
fire is still on deposit in a bank, in that
city.
A man whose face bad been badly burn
ed went to Mechanicsville, N. Y., and at
the opera was mistaken for a small-pox
patient. The terrified by standers fled,
aud soon the whole village was in conster
nation. On tiiq following day about two
hundred persons were vaccinated.
Napoleon’s court drank up the pay of
ninety thousand soldiers in the year 1860,
in addition to their regular iucomes and
extras. 'Die pay for these ninety thous
and was a fictitious draw, a nice way of
putting it on paprr to the Corps Legisla
te!. If such things were, Worth and Se
dan could be.
The cirenlar on affairs in Greece, sent
on the 24th nit. by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs at Athens to the great representa
tives abroad, gives a full contradiction to
tho rumors circulated by the German pa
pers as to the intended abdication of
King George, and the disturbed state of
public feeling in the Greek capital.
Eliza Willard, whose sweetheart went
to a Boston picnic with another girl, hur
ried to the Meriden street bridge, Chelsea,
aud jumped off. The distance to the wa
ter was twenty feet, and doubtless on the
way down she had "time to change her
mind. Anyhow, she screamed for help
when she rose to the surface 1 , and was res
cued.
A farmer, whoso cows stepped over the
! bounds of his brush fence and waudered
off, sought to keep them home by placing
over each of their eyes a handful of damp
plaster of Paris, which, when hardened,
rendered them blind. They were discov
ered by some parties fishing, aud a com
plaint was entered against their inhuman
owner.
New England is infested with tramps—
such fellows as cat at the free-sonp houses
and sleep at the police stations in the cit
ies during the winter. They will not
work when the chance is offered. In sev
eral places the authorities set them at
work sweeping the streets in payment for
food and lodging, and the result is a rid
dance of vagrants.
The following advertisement appeared
in an English newspaper: “Wanted, im
mediately for spring planting, 10,000 dock
and 10,000 thistle seeds, to enable me to
leave my farm as I would wish, and ac
cording to the provisions of the new Ten
ant Eight Bill, ns drawn np by the cham
ber of agriculture, to enable tenant farm
ers to do justice to their landlords.”
Egypt has two enlightening rulers who
desire to put that country on the civilized
track ; they are the Kidhive himself aod
his minister of Foieign Affairs. They
hold that, while the doctrine of “Egypt
for the Egyptians” is a sound one, still, to
run the machine on that system, n little
: more foreign talent and skill are needed.
The old fogies growl at this.
Those persons who began to eat large
quantities of fish a few years ago, and
have kept up the practice ever since with
out having experienced the desired in
crease of intellectual capacity, may thank
t the New Orleans Republican for this ex
planation: “Unless a man has brains, it ia
useless for him to eat brain food. It has
never been claimed for fish that it creates ;
it only strengthens the brain.”
On his visit to the great silver and elec
tro-plating work's in Birmingham the Sul
tan or Seyyid of Zanz bar observed that
the word “Birmingham” reminded him of
the Arabic word “Birmiuham,”. which
meant a “wellof them,’ and that Birming
ham appeared to be truly a well of rare
and wonderful things.
Mr. Conway says that a picture by
i Broughton in the British Itoyal Academy,
called “The Bearers of the Burden," rep
resents a big, brawny fellow sauntering
with his hands in his pockets, end behind
him three weary women are overladen
with his household property. Two men
were looking at the picture, and one of
them said, without any intention of joking,
“That’s the way the poor workingman is
burdened with women,”
Two men were recently' charged before
a London magistrate with wilfully maim
ing forty horses belonging to the London
Street Tramway Company, doing damage
to the nroonntof £l3O. They werefnrther
charged with stealing about six pounds of
horse hair, which it appears they took
from the manes and tails of horses nnder
their charge as employees of the company.
This they sold to hair dealers. They were
committed for trial.
The other day, when the stamp clerk at
the Vicksburg Post Office refused to “lick
on” a three-center for an old lady who
wanted to post a letter, she stood back,
give him a glance of scorn, and indig
nantly exclaimed : “Well, if folks ain’t
getting powerfnl peart and sassy these
days f I believe if Gabriel should blow
bis trumpet to-morrow that half the young
folks would want to get on starched shirts
afore they went to heaven.
The unreasonableness of a mob was
shown at a picnio a few miles from St.
Louis. An eight year old girl was enticed
away from her friends, and soon after
ward was found in a thicket smothered to
death. There was no indication of the
identity of the murderer. The infuriated
people arrested a stranger, against w hom
they had a suspicion because be had not
been in sight all the time, and he only es
caped hanging through the intervention
of a brave sheriff. Subsequently it was
proved that he was certainly not guilty.
“For want of water I am forced to drink
water ; if I had wr.ter I would drink wine.”
This speech is a riddle and here is the so
lution. It was the complaint of an Ital
ian vineyard man, after a long drought,
and an extremely hot summer that had
parched up all his grapes.
A young lady, after reading attentively
the title of a novel ealled “The Last
Han,” exclaimed, “bless me, if such a
thing were to happen, what would become
of the women?” “What would become
of the poor man ?” was the remark of an
old bachelor.