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iMalirv’ji independent. *— mmm ——————•— l FRIDAY, JULY 30, 187*. J. C. OAMAHRR, Editor. Newspaper Law. so l. Any'pereoo who takes a pspor regu larly from the post-office—whether directed to hie name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not—ii responsible fm lite payment. ’ai 3. If ft person orders his pnjier discon tinued, ho must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to sertd it until payment is made and collect the whole amount, whether tho paper is taken from the office or not. 8. The Courts have decided that refnsing to take newspaper* and periodicals from the post-office, removing and leaving them 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. ■■ - - —■■ ■ ' ■ 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.