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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1873)
j'*•' f- ’i ! and :n --• s -i that tiia!• 3gmnsr .-.in. in > ith>-r tln-rcf'jrf, the South is Bjfrged with being the peculiar friend Puid abettor of this species of homicide, her trnducers display their ignorance as strikingly as their malignity. This “relic of barbarism,” which they are pleased to term Southern, still survives in England, in France and in Germany countries which need not fear a com parison of their cultivation, their refinement, their morality with the Credit Mobilier civilization of the United States. In the second place, we cannot see that the custom—-no matter whence it came or by whom practiced—admits of any defense. It is violative alike of the laws of God, the laws of man and the laws of common sense. It is powerless to repair a wrong, or to redress an affront. It is not a test of manliness or courage, and it is the worst species of murder because of the coolness and the deliberation which enter into the offense. Its advocates usually say in its behalf that it prevents the disgraceful scenes which accompany street rencontres, and that it also does away with brute force, and places the strong and the Weak upon the same level. Wherein con sists the difference between a street fight and a duel, save in favor of the former, we are unable to discover. If it be a worse spectacle to witness one man assault another upon the sidewalk and pommel his body on ac count of a real or fancied wrong until the police or the by-standers interfere than for the same men to repair to some notorious place of “ meeting,” and, in the presence of a hundred gaping spec tators, shoot at each other until one or both fall wounded or dead, then this de- sense may amount to something. The other plea is equally as absurd. It does not place all men upon the same level; but, on the contrary, places the novice entirely at the mercy of the expert in murder. With regard to the courage which the duelist is supposed to require, it has often been remarked that in some of the most desperate meetings ono or both of the combatants wero cowards, and we venture to assort t hat fear—moral cowardice dread of the world’s opinion has caused more duels than desire to avenge injuries or heal wounded honor. The history of dueling, for instance, shows us that nine out of ten invitations to the field have been sent for causes the most trivial, and that men have often expiated with their lives a hasty word, a contemptuous gesture, or, as has been frequently the case, received their death wound from someone who had put. upon them a real or imagined affront. The folly of this modern substitute for the ancient ordeal of bat tle is abundantly testified to by the fact that the injured party is as often the suf ferer as the iujurer. It is a practice which can settle no point of honor, for the parties remain in the same posi tion after as they did before the combat. Take the Richmond affair—itis a typical duel of the age. McCarty publishes, anonymously, a poor and pointless epi gram, which was supposed to refer to a reigning belle. The matter is discussed at a club room, ami Mordecai, without knowing the author, impulsively asserts that if the piece was intended to bring the lady into ridicule it* writer was not a gentleman. The author discloses his identity and a quarrel ensues, which is finally lamely arranged. A few days af ter the parties meet again, and a con temptuous accent—a drawling, sneering intonation—brings about a collision and then a duel, in which the aggressor was only slightly wounded, while the aggrieved party is slain. Because Mc- Carty wrote bad verses and drawled his speech insultingly, one man is killed aiul another is to risk the gallows in a trial for murder ! Was there any logic in this? Did the injured party re-' ceive satisfaction along with a ball in ! his stomach ? We think not. Is the j <-<m tu belli —the wretched doggerel— j worth two human lives and the shame j and anguish of perhaps a dozen hitherto ■ happy families? There eau be no defense of this foolish j and wicked custom, and the sooner a j healthy public sentiment combines with j the law to exterminate it root and j branch the better it will be for society ! and for the country. j Oil! POBEIHN FINANCIAL RKLA TIONS. The New York Rulletin has a sngges-. tive article, ealliug attention to the heavy balance of trade against us for 1572, the imports for last year exceed ing the exports by $107,700,000, against j a like excess in 1871 of $52,200,000. We thus entered upon 1870 with a trade 1 balance of about $108,000,000, which, together with say four mouths of inter-; est on our foreign indebtedness (at the rate of not less than $75,000,000 per an num!, had to be liquidated by remit- i t anees of specie and securities. Under j the circumstances, and considering that j Continental fiuances are disorganized i and that the tendency of the Loudon money market is towards a decided ae- ] tirity, the editor goes on to say: •‘We arc confronted with the possi-1 bilitv, at least, of being called upon for | free remittances of specie during the next few weeks; and the question, there fore. is suggested, in what position do ' we stand for meeting such a demand?" , Concerning the available 1 supply of goto for shipment, the editor estimates , that the supply in the market for the two months may be estimated at $43.-, 000,000, while the withdrawals are likely to l>e about $19,000,000, leaving a bal- ‘ jtpice of $24,000,000 to provide for the j wants of export and for the necessary j stock L3 the banks. During the months of May and June last year (thd .Bulletin goes on to say) the specie exports amouuted to $20,000,. 000, and for the same period of 1871 to $21,000,000; the average the two! years being equal to the whOfU. above, balance available for export • : and slock. Taking the favorable sup position that the outflow of specie this mouth and next will not equal that of i whe last two years, yet we have a prob ability that the stock of gold in the .ank-s will be reduced, before July Ist, by t:.. rio-m to west, aud 'fenarkana, to a point near Fort Worth, by January 1, 1874. Four hundred miles had already been graded. The route west of Fort Worth had been thor oughly developed, but not yet definite ly located, except a portion of the San Diego division. A survey was made of the country between San Diego and the Colorado river, and the route enter ing San Diego from the direction of San Gorgonia river was adopted. Work has been commenced at San Diego. A con tract had been concluded with a con- structing company, and they saw no reason why the entire road should not be finished in five years. The summits to lie crossed on this line are about thirty-two per cent, less than those on the present Pacific roads. No train will be delayed from snow or other obstruction. The entire rail transporta tion will be less than eighteen hundred miles. The lines approaching the road from St. Louis, Cairo and Memphis, via Little Rock and Fulton, are fast ap proaching completion, and will form connection during the Fall. Arrange ments are being perfected for the com pletion of the road from Monroe to Shreveport, and negotiations are also pending that will probably result favor ably to the construction of the line from Shreveport to New Orleans, via Baton Rouge. Au extract from the report of the Chief Engineer, General Dodge, was also read, setting forth the resources of the country and other interesting facts, and the meeting then adjourned. Tom Scott, the great railroad consoli dator and developer, will build the Texas aud Pacific Railroad, and place the At lantic, Gulf and Southwestern States in the closest rail connection with the Pa cific. This road will not be either snow or ice bound even in dead of Winter, aud will, therefore, control freight and travel during the greater portion of the year to the States of the Pacific, not on ly from the Eastern and Middle, but Southern and Western States. PRESIDENT GRANT SUSTAINS KELLOGG. President Grant issued a proclama tion yesterday recognizing the usurper Kellogg as the legally elected and right ful Governor of the State of Louisiana. He pledges the whole power of the Gov ernment to sustain this creature iu his wicked usurpation, and commands all opposition to his administration to cease forthwith. Heretofore the Presi dent has contented himself with a quasi endorsement and an indirect support of his government. But now he comes out in his official capacity, as the chief Ex ecutive officer of the Government and as the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and de mands obedience, on the part of the people of Louisiana, to Kellogg and his rascally partizans. This ukase from the President of a so-called Republican country, is but in keeping with the antecedents of Grant, his administration, and the party which elevated and sustains him iu trampling upon the rights of the Southern States, and in violating the plainest provisions of the Constitution. This official recognition of fraud and usurpation in supporting Kellogg with the bayonets of the Government, must be recognized by all honorable men, of whatever party, as the crowning infamy of an infamous Administration. Let us hear no more from Southern men of Grant's magnanimity, integrity and ability. Public indignation is fatigued and outraged by this fawning servility. ’l'llK UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD SUIT. At its last session Congress authorized ; suits against the Union Pacific Railroad, and those of Us directors who were di rectors and stockholders in the Credit Mobilier. When these suits come of} we will have a second edition of the scenes witnessed in Congress last Winter. The Government is hungry to make the “ ring-masters disgorge, and the proba bilities are that thorn will be a fresh chapter of scandals and loud and per sistent. swearing on both sides. The history of the whole affair is briefly stated by the St. Louis Republican, from which it appears that the Govern ment issued to the company .$27,236;012 tliirty-year 6 per cent, bonds, which . amount was to have been used iu con nection with the private subscriptions in building the road. Certain directors of the road, howawer, formed the Credit Mobilier, gave out the contracts for building the road to themselves- iu one case letting out 58 miles of road that! had already been built, and paying $1,345,000 for it extra—and thus absorb ing the bonds of the Government, and the stock and bonds of the r. ad, iu a way that looks a little different from outright robbery. The Government, in j this present suit iu equity, will insist that the original subscriptions to the stock of the road were never paid; that the receipts given for them were fraudulent, and that the dividends of bonds, stock and mouev —the same dividends which the late Oakes Ames distributed among members of Congress, placing them “ where they would do most good”— were misapplied, and must be account ed for. The Government does not sue the Credit Mobilier, but it will reach the stockholders and' directors through the directory of the railroad company, the directors of one being the directors of .the other. The railroad company imagined that by the adriot trick of re solving itself into a second corporation aud waking contracts with it, they would be able to ewadn the law, and, in deed,Vy the skillful gifts of stock and divi dends to members of Congress, they did manage for a time to have all decisions made in their favor. But the suit in equitv wdl reveal the whole chapter of the fraud, and force the company to stand or fail »u the facts in the case. Under the contract to build the road from Omaha to tine IbOth meridian, the result, as stated by the Wilson commit tee in the last Congress, was as follows: This contract cost the Umon ,-z-ific Railroad Company -4 It ccAtV-* Credit Mobilier <.*»> US 43 j ‘ ‘ #5.168.233 84 Another contract wiit> building 661 miles of road from the 100th median, called the * ‘Oakes Ames contract. The • • Sr if WL m t f 4HL HKVj' A' ;-;j£’.o'b'A-. L. 'V;<v,v■ j /’tsr HI ' ■ el af* *7 • u d-.. i t I " little “yr.ipathy. WBBBgBI S1: OK THE OOI.D HMARKET. ,r!{ 111 -y artie!.-, doubt -» 1..-t’c-r tb.- gold -i.ip ■Mril li. dtiply biter iu tie Week, increasing supplies of sterling ■p. The writer says: W Our information from London is to the effect that very considerable negotia tions on American account have recently been made, of which the public here had no intimation until the accomplished facts were received from the other side. Messrs. Baring have taken charge of 55,000,000, or 000,000, Boston City Fire Loan, bearing 5 per cent , at 91 [ per cent, sterling; also, 52,500,000, or £500,000, Louisville aud Nashville Kail road Company, Memphis and Clarks ville branch; also, a pending loan of the same company, North and South Ala bama branch, £1,000,000 sterling, or $5,000,000. The Paducah and Memphis Company have recently placed $5,000,000 in London and Amsterdam. These op erations, outside the usual calculation on the exchanges with Europe, taken in connection with numerous small orders for various American stocks through the importing and banking bouses, suffi ciently account for the continued ruling of bills on London below the points at which it would pay the banker to ship American gold coin to profit. The World financial writer seems to know a good deal about what is going to take place in the future, and so we give his story below, as we give all other Wall street stories, for what it is worth: It turns out that the bear clique in stocks have judged the time good to buy gold, partly in hope of advancing its price, and partly for the purpose of having their gold carried in such a way as to embarrass the money market. They have bought five or six millions on Saturday and to-day, and the pur pose ascribed to their leaders is that of hiring some firm or combination to take the load off the market; which, they calculate, would bring money up to \ per cent, a day once more. The people who would earn a commission from them by taking tliis amount of gold off the market are easily counted; anil those who would stoop to a piece of business like tliis, so unworthy of a respectable banker, must be fewer still. The New York Express, of Thursday, corrected the exaggerated reports as to the losses of Brown Bros, resulting from the failure of a Southern house; the Journal of Commerce now supplies some additional facts of interest: Messrs. Brown, Bros. & Cos. have lost only between SIOO,OOO and $130,000 by the action of Halsey & Cos., New Or leans; Goldthwaite & Cos., Mobile, aud Halsey & Goldthwaite, Galveston, which firms have been dissolved. These con cerns represented this house at the South, and purchased bills of exchange for Brown, Bros. & Cos. from cotton speculators with whom Goldthwaite was interested, and who proved to be wholly irresponsible. Mr. W. I. Halsey, still in the confidence of the house, has the settlement of the business. Worse Than Credit Mobilier. —A fruitful subject for investigation is thus suggested to the next Congress by the Chicago Tribune: “The case of Phelps, Dodge & Cos. will come before theForty third Congress as Credit Mobilier did before the last session of the Forty second Congress. It will present a crime perpetrated under the forms of law more vile and degrading than the grand com bination for defrauding the Government in Union Pacific. It will involve offi cials who were engaged in a huge black mailing transaction, and will develop the nefarious ways and means adopted by spies, informers and vampires, who operate under the protection of Govern ment authority. The demand for this investigation will come from the entire mercantile community of the country, which cannot afford to permit one of its members to be bled after the fashion in which Messrs. Phelps, Dodge & Cos. were plundered, since they may all be sub jected to the same process.” As all the parties involved in this dis graceful affair are Republicans, it is doubtful whether Congress will do any thing to expose their iniquity. The Iron Interests of Georgia. A correspondent of the Monroe Ad vertiser thus speaks of the iron factories around Rome : The manufacturers of iron are well worthy of notice. To me they were sur prising. I had no idea of the amount and quality of wares manufactured. The first I visited was the Rome Iron Manu facturing Company. This is a large establishment. Within is the scene of busy life. ••Quaffs apes .estate nova per tiorea rura Exeroet sub eole labor.*' A heavy black smoke is curling above, one hundred and fifty operatives are moving hither aud thither, the wheels are whirling above and below, bars of red hot iron are rolling out, the heavy jaws are chipping off the nails. All is life. The scene at night is still more grand- Any one who lias ever read the ancient classics, and will step into this shop at night will be apt to feel like he is in Vulcan’s forge under Mb -Etna, where thunderbolts are made for Ju piter. This shop makes per day 500 pounds bar iron, 120 kegs of nails and 30 kegs of spikes. It consumes 25 tous of coal per day- It has two single and two double puddling furnaces, and is erecting two more large boilers. The bonded stock is $30,356; common stock, $72,300; authorized capital, $300,000. John C. Allen, President. Noble, Bro. A Cos., with a capital of Slttti.OOO—all Southern men—employing 90 laborers, tbej manipulate per day 12 to 15 railroad axles, 6d pgr wheels and heavy casting, machinery, eti>. They make a complete 40-horse power engine in a month, or 300-horse power in rive months. This shop uses up teu tous pig iron and two tons wrought iron per day. It consumes 25 tons of coal per week. Rome Stove, Hollow-ware and Ma chine Manufactory (J. J. Seay, Presi dent), has a capital of $30,000, employs 64 laborers, makes sixteen stoves, 2,000 pounds of machinery per day. In this shop Slaymaker’s school desks, and Arhardt's turbine wheel are manufac tured. This seems to bes yery active j and efficient company. In connection with these companies ! are several large furnaces near by, which do au immense business. The .Etna Company, Alfred Charles, President, and Hon. 'H. D. Cothran, Secretarv ■ capital, $79,000; operatives, 200 to 250; makes ten to twelve tons pig iron per day, worth S4O to s4o per j ton. 5 Stonewall Iron Company, Hon. W. D. Cothran, President: David Adams, Sec- j retary and Treasurer ; capital, sloo,oooj : 150 to 200 operatives ; makes 12 to 15 j tons pig iron per day, worth S4O to $4.) per ton. . j Woodstock Iron Company, Daniel j Tavlor, President ; Samuel Noble, Sec- j retary ; capital $150,000; 200 to 250 hands ; makes 20 to 25 tous pig iron per day. Decampsie Don Company, General Warner, President; W. F. Mason, Sec retary and Treasurer; capital, $100,000; turns* out 15 to 20 tons per day. Cornwall Iron Company W. D. Coth ran. President; Thomas MeCullock. Secretary; capital, $100,000; makes 10 j tous per d«r. • Bartow Iron Works, Hugh O Neal,. President, F. J. Stone, Secretary ; capi tal, $120,000 ; turns out 25 to 30 tons per day, pig iron, worth $45 to SSO per top. Captain J. G. Clarke entered upon his duty as postmaster at Savannah, on the 19tli. ROME. SSsK the Pope - The Rulers of the Future. from Rome, of April 18th, ha “ The health of the Pope to liav improved, although hi.- ■Hft still swollen, but -till doubts to whether he will regain his of his successor naturally BBT- public attention. The Italian appears to wish that the Pontiff should be Cardinal Kiario Archbishop of Naples, who is on K>od terms with the civil authorities, and who rendered useful assistance in the last municipal elections. I believe that in reality the Cabinet would be pleased to see a rHigvous party formed in the Parliament, provided that the dynasty was accepted Such a creation would form a real conserva tive element which is now wanting. But that this desideratum will ever be ob tained is very doubtful. The clergy, who wish to continue the combative policy engaged in by Pius IX., are said put forward Cardinals Pauebianco or dc Lucca. The former of the last named is a “icilian monk of very austere habits and decided principles. He/Isa man wmSUves like the ancient ceqrfibites, fasting aud is said to be of a \ky energetic character.— He would pßpcbly be a fighting Pope. Until now ine name of Cardinal de Lucca bad not been pronounced, yet I think that he has a. very great chance, simply because he lives retired, and does not mix in any intrigues. I have frequently met him in the solitary walks he takes daily, sometimes on the de-1 serted road along the Tiber outside the Angelica gate, or in the quiet avenues of the Villa Borghese. He is only fol lowed by his servant and a carriage of modest appearance drawn, as is usual, by a pair of black horses. He is a man of middle height, with a bright and in tellectual eye, and of a firm and digni fied presence. I have rarely seen aphysi-1 ognomy that has made more impression \ on me, and I believe he is destined to ; play an important part in the future of I the church. I have questioned about him many of the old Romans, who have little sympathy for the clergy, and who are acquainted with all tire gofesip, true or faLe; but they tell me nothing is known of Cardinal Lucca excepting that he is a very intelligent man, and that his name is rarely mentioned. I thought that a greater eulogium could not be pass ed on him. Whatever may be the choice of the future conclave, it may be well to bear in mind the election which took place at the end of the last century, in circumstances analogous to the present. Cardinal Cliiaramonti passed for being a Jacobin, and Pope Pius VII. presided over the European restoration and re established the Jesuits. But the Italian Government can or will permit anew Pope to continue the protesting attitude taken up by Pins IX, is by no means certain.” THE POISONING CASE IN NEW YORK. The Facts Plainly Told. [From the Evening Post.] A morning paper yesterday devoted a large part of its space to a long story about the poisoing of several servants in the family of a well known citizen. The poison, according to this account, had been administered by the butler, and freat efforts were said to have been lade by all the members of the family to keep the matter a profund secret. An errand boy employed at the house where the poisoning was reported to have taken place was found lying sick at the home of his mother, Mrs. Moffat, in West Twenty-eighth street, by the re porter, who claimed that the woman acted as through she had been bribed to conceal the true facts of the case. The reporter afterwards ascertained that the poisoning occurred at the house of R. M. Blatchford, No. (5 East Four teenth street, and assorts that all infor mation was refused him by the family. In his story, moreover, reflections are east upon the butler and others. The following is the account of the poisoning, as told by members of the family: On Saturday, May 10, Mr. Blatchford called the cook, Mary Gaffney, accord ing to the usual custom, and wished to know what the servants required for tlieir Sunday dinner. She asked him to order some corned beef, which was ac cordingly purchased. The servants ate their meal on Sunday much earlier than the other members of the family, who luckily did not partake of the beef. On Tuesday five of the servants w°re taken suddendly ill, most of them suffer ing from severe pains in the lower limbs, accompanied with a soreness through all the muscular system. Vomiting was .also frequent, and the faces of all were flushed, while the upper part of the mouth became dry, with a sensation of burning beat. Other dangerous symp toms becoming manifest, Dr. Harris, the regular family physician, was summon ed on Wednesday, aud, after making a careful examination of the several cases, came to the conclusion that the symp toms had been caused by some arsenical compound which had entered the sys tem of the sufferers. He immediately prescribed the necessary treatment, and analysis was made of the flour, tea, sugar, coffee, butter and bread, but no traces of arsenic could be found. The cause of the mysterious illness remained unsolved until Dr. Harris was told by Mrs. Moffat, while visiting her son (who was prostrated with similar symptoms), that a man named Miller, who lived in a shanty at Ninth avenue and Sixty-ninth street, was in the habit of calling at Mr. Blatcliford’s kitchen to collect swill, and had been given a large piece of cold corned beef, of which he and his family had partaken. Dr. Har ris and Mrs. Blatchford, upon learning the facts, visited Miller’s house, and found himself, sou and two daughters suffering in the same manner with the servants. As soon as these facts were ascertain ed, the remainder of the beef was given to Mr. Neergard, the President of the Board of Pharmacy, who is now making : a careful analysis. All the druggists on several avenues were informed of the | circumstance, and every effort was made to obtain information in relation to the sale of the poison. Unfortunately, Mr. Blatcliford called at several markets upon the day the beef was purchased, and he fails to remember the place where it was bought. He started to visit the different shops this morning, and may probably find some trace to-day . All the servants poisoned are now rapidly recovering, and no fatal results are apprehended. Every attention has been shown the sufferers from the start by Mr. Blatcliford, his wife and daugh ter. The family physician has been in constant attendance, and Mrs. Blatcli ford has been unremitting in her efforts to contribute to the comfort of all. The errand boy, Samuel Moffat, who was taken home by his mother, has been visited by Dr. Harris and Mrs. Blatcli ford every day since las sickness, and many acts of kindness, oil the part of Mrs. Blatcliford have apparently been misconstrued into endeavors to bribe j the mother to secresy. Mrs. Moffat is a ! woman in very poor health, and Mrs. Blatcliford, who is noted for her char itable nets, has largely contributed to- | wards her support for many years. W hen i asked in regard to the cause of the hoy s | sickness, Mrs. Moffat naturally felt diffi dent about relating the circumstances, through fear that her benefactor might think that she had done wrong, and con sequently refused to say anything.— When Mrs. Blatcliford was informed of this, she kindly remonstrated with her, and told her to relate everything, as there was no reason why the plain facts should not be told. The cook was taken from Mr. Blatch ford's home, st her own request, to that of her brother, where has also been daily visited by Mrs. Blatcliford and Dr.‘Harris. The other servants who were so strangely poisoned are Louis Trenthardt, the biitler;Margaret Bergon, housemaid; Catharine, the laundress, aud Helen and Mary, two maids. All these people have been in the service of the family for many years. There is every reason to believe that the servants will recover. The greatest harmony of feeling exists among them, and they are equally indignant with their employers at the hints which have been thrown out in relation to the case. So far from any mystery being observed in regard to the poisoning, ali the mem- j bers of the family are willing to contri- j bute all the knowledge they possess in I regard to the matter. GEORGIA ITEMS. The City Gouncil have donated S3OO to the Griffin Fire Department. A vein of magnetic iron ore has been discovered in Lumpkin county, near Dahlonega. The Schuetzen Gesellscbaft of Savan nah, at their recent festival, receded j about $2,500 as gate and privileges ; money. The Mitchell heirs have employed i Gen. Toombs, and have commenced suit | against Gor. Brown and Lochrane to re- j cover their Atlanta property. Jane Herring, colored, of Decatur I county, who murdered her father some I months since, has been pronounced in- i sane, and ordered to the Lunatic Asylum. < The Forest Gity Boat Club, of Savan- j nah, has received anew paper sheii called the Nina —forty feet nine inches in j length, seventeen inches in width, and will puli four oar*. This new candidate for aqnatie honors will ne entered in the j approaching regatta at Savannah. HOW IT FEELS TO DROWN. ' Dr. Hoffman s Experience of the Dixon Baptism. , [From the Chic»go Tribune.] My w fe aud I went to see the bap tism of the converts, and took up a po sition on the bridge, about thirty feet from the first pier, and be&veen it and the abutment. We were surrounded by people—men, women and children.— Suddenly, while Mr. Pratt was entering -the water with a female, I heard, a re port similar to that made by a smalt can non, and in au instant the water closed over me, and I felt that something was pressing me down. A heavy weight ap peaifed to be over me. I did not sink to the bottom. I was perfectly conscious, and immediately thought of getting out if possible. My hands came in con tact with the trestle work, and, crawl ing np as if ascending a ladder, I was fortunate in tin'ding an opening, through which I crawled aud immedJilely rose to the surface. I was then, as near as I saiyudge, about seventy or eighty feet shore. I swam toward the it my strength gave ° u iiZ'/iiile swimming, some Jjl^on. Veen under the water, caughtroldof uiy left leg and graspedtight for a minute, preventing me fron going forward. The person let go as suddenly as lie liad taken hold, and I gave a stroke or two, when I en countered a dress. Thinking it was my wife, uiio was standing when the span fell, I grabbed it, but, having become enervated, I was obliged to let it go. I was almost exhausted at the the time, aud do not know that the dress was that of my wife. I did not notice it particularly. My thoughts were almost solely confined to her, and I imagined, when I saw the dress, it was her's. When I sank I was still sensible of surroundings. I went apparently very close to the bottom. The current rolled me over and over, and my hands fre quently came in contact with the gravel. I could feel the water running down my throat and in my ears and all at once experienced the most delightful sensa tion. I seemed to be at peace with everything, and perfectly happy. My whole life flashed before me like a flash of lightning, the events appearing in sequence, the most prominent appear ing to be indellibly impressed upon my mind. Circumstances I had forgotteii appeared vividly, and I did not want to be disturbed. I should have preferred to remain where I was. While in the midst of a beautiful reverie, thinking wliat my wife would do if she were saved and I were drowned, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I was pulled out and placed on a rock. I was almost insensi ble, but gradually came to myself. Oh, how sick and wretched I felt. After remaining on the rock about an hour I was taken to my home. Here I commenced vomiting, and frequently ejected water and partially-digested food until 4 o’clock in the afternoon. I was taken out of the water 600 feet below the bridge. I was very thirsty after vomiting, and tried to drink some water, but the taste was so disagreeable that I could not bear it. The only way I could quench my thirst was by putting vinegar into the water, about an ounce and. a half to a quarter of a pint. That struck me as a rather curious circumstance. I was greatly astonished at the number of events that passed through my mind while under the water. Nothing that occurred during childhood was evident, but everything since I was about nine teen years old appeared before me as if photographed. The sensation I ex perienced while the water was going down my throat was not unpleasant. It seemed as if I was going on a journey and was surrounded by all kinds of beautiful things. While on the rock I felt very bad aud desired to be let alone. The sudden transition from the beatific state in the water to the dry land seemed to have a bad effect, and made me in different to what was going on around me. Several people came to me and wanted to take me home, but I told them to let me alone, I was so miserable. The corpse of my wife was found after she had been in the water about three hours. It is said that Mrs. Hoffman’s counten ance was lighted up with a life-like smile, so peaceful and suggestive of such pleasant thoughts when dying that everybody’s attention was attracted to her. Sumner’s Divorce. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer, May 14.] It is announced that the Hon. Charles Sumner has obtained a divorce from his wife on account*of five years’ willful ab sence from his bed and board, which is a ground for divorce under the laws of the State of Massachusetts. We have a suspicion founded upon the gossip of Mrs. Grundy, who, in this instance, we are quite stare, lia§ not not made a mis take, that) Mrs. Charlis Stunner has really secured the sundering of the mari tal tie rather than her distinguished husband, although it appears in his name. Mrs. Charles Sumner was, at the time of her marriage, a widow, young and blooming, still in her twenties, and, we believe, without any children. Her first husband was the eldest son of Mr. Hooper, a millionaire Congressman from Massachusetts. It is believed in Wash ington that Mrs. Sumner had a good le gal ground for a divorce against her husband, recognized as such under the laws of all countries and States, but that she was unwilling to plead it both from motives of delicacy to her and to himself, and that, therefore, it was mu tually arranged that she should absent herself for a period that would give the Senator a legal right to cancel the matri monial contract. We know not how it may be, but it has been said that a jealousy on the part of the honorable Senator had con siderable to do with this unfortunate proceeding. When the parties were married, one, we presume, was in the neighborhood of three score, and the other a score and a quarter. There was, therefore, naturally a disparity of years and of tastes and habits. This almost universally produces an unhappy marriage. But in this instance it was aggravated. Mr. Sumner was not only a bachelor of long matured habits, but he had formed other connections and associations peculiar to himself even aside from that fact. For instance, it was said that he always had his car j riage at the door at any ball or party they mutually attended, at which he j would say, “Madam, it isnowlO o’clock; lit is time to go home, and our con- I veyance is below.” She would reply, !“I am happy to hear it. You are sleepy ! and tired. Go home and go to bed, but :I am not yet ready. I will follow you !by and by. So good night, my dear. ” Then, as we have said, the Senator was said to be morbidly jealous of a certain gentleman connected with j the Prussian Embassy, whom he had himself introduced to his wife, and i extolled in the highest terms, and j which gentleman afterward escorted her to many evening amusements, which : her husband’s habits forbade him to at- j tend. One day this young attache re- j ceiyed * very peremptory letter from j Berlin ordering him to return home im mediately, and recalling him from the j Prussian Legation. He was thunder- j struck by the intelligence ; not con- j scions of any offense against his Gov- \ eminent, he could not conceive what it I meant. He therefore wrote to an in- i fiuenfial friepd at home to make in quiries of Gount Bismarck as to what I was the real reason of this very extraor- I dinary proceeding. In reply he was in- i formed that the Chairman of the Senate j Committee on Foreign Relations, who j was then Senator Charles Sumner, had j written a letter requesting his recall, I and that tfie Count did not consider that he was authorized to refuse a re- ! quest coming from such an influential \ source in the Government to which he j was accredited. Os course the young ] Prussian gentleman duly informed Mrs. Sumner of ali this, and rumor hath it j that that lady was not at all pleased with | the conduct of her husband in the matter. The German Secretary returned home, ' and for a time the cloud upon the mar- ! ital relations of the Senator disappeared. 1 But by and by, as it was announced to the publie, and, we think, by an agree ment between the parties, Mrs. Sum ner’s health required that she should leave the American Continent, and breathe for a time the air of Europe. This was accordingly done, and the at mosphere has been So bracing and the scenery so pleasant —to say nothing of her companionship—that she has lin gered there so long as to enable Mr. Sumner to obtain the divorce for willful absence required by the statute. Mr. Sumner will resume his old bachelor re lations, and his late wife—a young, handsome and wealthy widow—will be a prize to be contended for by gentlemen of position who are in the matrimonial market. An Arkansas Feud —The Last Male Member of a Family Killeib [From the Hot Springs (Ark i Courier.] We are informed by a gentleman di rect from Polk county that John Flynn, the last male member of the family, is killed. It will be recollected that about ; one vear ago a trouble arose between ; the iVvmberlvs and Fynns about a horse race; that is, one of the Wymberlvs whipped one of the Flynns at the race, and the next day two oi the Flynns— father and son, the former an ex-feherilt and the latter then acting She riff—went to Wymberly’s house and shot at \\ym berly. Wymberly returned the fire and ; succeeded in killing both of them, i Blackwell, * tfon-injav qf_ Jdynn, br., | thpn took out letters ol administration on his father-in-law s estate, and the , Flynns were opposed to his selling the property and shot? The Flvuns were then arrested and one of them imprisoned, while tli£ other proved an alibi, lm‘ was stiot as he was coming j out of the Court House. John Flvun, j the last one, broke jail about Christmas, 1 and had been Jviiig around and making trips bock and forth in the Indian Na tion. Ou Saturday last they heard of his being in the neighborhood, and pro curred a warrant for his arrest and went in search of him. They came upon him about dajlight last Sunday morn ing. }}e drew his weapon and made fight, «nd then tiu- posse tired upon him, sfiooting him through the body and through the head. THE POLARIS. The Story of the Rescued- C»pt. Hall Poisoned -The Victim of Envy—The Simple Statement of An Esquimaux —An Open Polar Sea in Sight What Might Have Been. New Youy, May 22. —Esquimaux Joe, in a published statement, speaks in a disapproving wiG'V.f Capt. Hadding ton,, the sailingffiiaster of the Polaris, and says Hall \tas poisoned, and that Hall so expressed himself to him, saying there was something bad in the coffee which he drank on returning from the sledge expedition ; that it made him sick, and thvt he had a burning sensa tion. Hans Christianas statement is to the same effect. The prevailing impression among the unfortunate nineteen who were left be hind was that Buddington had willfully abandoned them to their fate. He hail been anticipating the breaking up of the ice for sometime, and if he hud wished to have taken Tyson and his compan ions ou ho could easily have represent ed matters to them in such a light that they would not have ventured to be absent at so critical a juncture. But no such intimation was given to the men on the ice. The vessel did not drift away so suddenly that the men could not have been rescue! iroiu their perilous position. Tyson says : I cmld have got aboard the vessel that night, and been Vhere now, but would mi leave tine women and children. My duty wsef °n the ice. I thought he would gi>*t 'back to us the next day, which hercould have done. The breaking away was caused by the floe to which the ship was fastened drifting between the land anil some ice bergs that were jammed. The jam broke up and the floe and the vessel broke away. It was about nine or ten o’clock at night. The temperature was about zero that evening. It had been nineteen degrees above. Capt. Tyson thinks the ill-feeling and bad designs of Buddington and a few others who were accomplices had •con tinued from the first on account of Capt. Hall’s determination to go as far North as possible, and Buddington’s determina tion, from fear or whatever cause, that lie should not. After Hall’s death most of the others were in favor of con tinuing and pushing North, and Tyson says that Buduington several times ex pressed his determination to send them (Tyson and party) on the road to hell as sooii as opportunity offered. He charac terizes Buddington as a great scoundrel, and declares that he purposely aban doned them to destruction. He gives Myers the character of being energetic and qualified in his department, but thinks ho wars not sufficiently aware of the condition of affairs at the time of the separation and the possibility of rescuing them, (o bo able to give any opinion upon it. Capt. Tyson did not speak fully as to the death of Capt. Hal). He appeared to be deeply grieved and reticent upon the subject connected witli his adven tures that especially touched his feel ings, even his own sufferings. No doubt Capt. Tyson anil Mr. Myers are in pos session of information which they are unwilling to communicate yet, but which will doubtless be made public at the proper time. Joe says, partly in answer to inquiries and partly speaking on his own account, without being interrogated at all : Very fond of Capt. Hall. Didn’t like Buddington; always talking behind back ; asking story all the time. Some men here in St. Johns and some in ship used to quarrel. I went with Capt. Hall on purpose to go sledge to north. After Hall died Buddington wouldn’t go. I tell Buddington I come to go north. He wouldn’t let me go. Buddington and I quarreled good deal about it. I went with Hall on last sled, and Hans and Chester, the mate. We went fifty miles north of the ship ou ice and land. Found musk ox tracks on land. Sun nearly gone. When come back to ship Hall told ine when sick somebody give him something bad. He was sick two weeks. Buddington did not take care of him. I think it not right. Made me feel bad. Sick man, good man too. Throat swelled something. Could not drink. Said he burn inside. I stopped up with him every night with another man. Hall was in cabin. I talk to Hall much. He no talk to oth ers as much as me. I didn’t see Hall on first night after he came from sled. Came aboard with him in afternoon. He looked well, happy, and spoke nice. The four of us (Hall, Chester, Hans and Joe) had coffee when came aboard. I had mine in my own room underneath cabin. Hull in cabin, and the two others in galley. At 10 o’clock that night my wife told me Hall very sick, vomiting, eat something. Next morn ing I go see him, and say what matter. He alone in cabin. He say, yon pretty well, Joe ? I say yes He say yon drink bad coffee last night ? I say no. I ask him did he drink bad coffee ? He say something bad in coffee I drink last night, making me sick and stomach bad. Same morning he get very sick, vomit ing. After five days ho feel better, wake up, and say he want to see my little girl, and say to her lie think he would leave'lier, but didn’t like. After he get better he get four doctor books to try and sec what make him sick. He study hard and say to me that name is mailing me sick. (Joe explained that Capt. Hall here pointed to name in one of the books which he read out. It was something about poison.) I think after Hall die everybody watching one an other. He no understand wliat they mean. All afraid somebody put down poison in water, bread or something. It looked like if he was poisoned to me all the same. Buddington didn’t like to go to cabin. He was quarreling all the time. Hans Christian’s statement upon lliis, though much briefer, is to the same effect. The correspondence says the expedition had passed what Kane sup posed to be the Polar sea which now proved to be a sound. Beyond this they penetrated into Robinson’s channel and there, on the last day of August, 1871, many important circumstances unmis takably indicated the existence of an unfrozen ocean beyond the channel. Mild weather, with fogs and mists brought down by northerly winds, could come from no other source. Land was visible to the north and west of this body of water a great distance. Now was the moment to embrace the present favorable opportunity which was liable to be defeated by the slightest sudden change, anil by a prompt continuation of their hitherto successful adventure achieve the glorious goal for which they had hazarded so much. But here, on the eve of an easy victory, arose that fatal differenoo of opinion which blasted all the heroic explorer’s prospects and rendered fruitless that mighty energy and labor which had already led him such a distance over barren and inhospitable regions of the North. Sailing-master Buddington had several times expressed anxiety to go no farther, and strongly urged the necessity of retreating to Winter at Port Hope nearly 240 miles south of their present highly advantageous position. Hall de termined to proceed if possible and would not consent to this latter proposi tion. Haddington, however, perissted. Before concluding to retreat Hall called a council, consisting of himself, Capt. Tyson, Cheater, the mate, and Budding ton, to consider which course was most advisable. At this council Capt. Tyson strongly advocated Capt. Hall’s views and urged the impropriety of desisting. The brave and the right cause was over ruled, to which circumstance it is possi ble Capt. Hall owed his death. If the vessel had continued on its course, as Capt. Hall desired and urged, the expe dition would in all probability have been crowned with success and the dreams of geographers and explorers been realized. But an unaccountable timidity, the off spring of craven cowardice or other im proper motives, annihilated the hopes of Capt. Hall. Bmldington, from the position which he occupied, was master of the situation. He said, thus far you have gone, you shall go no farther, and he was obeyed, reluctantly, of course, j as a matter of necessity. A New German Coinage. —The Prus sian Government proposes to do away wit.i the perplexing variety of indepen dent coinages that prevail among the pettv States of the Empire, by making them all conform to anew and improved j standard. The gold currency Gtobe j based upon the valuation of the mark, ’ which is about equivalent to our silver j quarter; and the silvercoinage will be in five-mark, oae-mark, and half-mark I pieces. Smaller coins will be either of ; copper or nickel, the issue being limited j to the maximum of two and oae-haif marks per head of the population, while j the maximum amount of silver is fixed j at ten marks per head. The striking of j tie new coins will be open to competi tive bids from she different State mints, and the expense of the manufacture charged to the whole empire. After a long and trying illness, which had' confined him to his residence for upwards of twenty years. Mr. James W. May, of -Charleston, died on Tuesday. FIGHTING EDITORS. \ Ttie Atlanta MYr— Abrams vs. Htyl»r|J —Billet Dop« and Shot Guns. w [From tho SfcYiuyialj Advertiser.] Apropos of the subject Tffa Herald, is still on the war-path, sliflmg at every body, even Joe Brown. AaSaiUs heard ou Tuesday that Styles hadWitimated that lie was a “ nigger,” andrsent him thi§ note : , ' f\L AtS*’ 20. Caret/ I V.,ls!ylcs: r-. Sir —liyhas come to my knowledge, from a reliable source, that you Mave put in circulation a report that I have negro blood in myjfeins. * I desire to know whether dry not my information is correct. An immediate aud unequivocal reply is instantly demanded. , 1 am, sir, Alex. St. Clair Abrams. The belligerent Abrams followed up this epistle with a shot gun, which he shouldered and marched down to the Kimball House. It seems very strange that he should have selected so a promi nent a place, and so prominent a weapon, if he really intended to slay the Albany quill driver. As might have been foretold, the fiery Modoc of the Atlanta tribe was arrested before he could use his gun upon his opponent. He was taken to tho barracks, where he bared his arm aud opened a vein in a dramatic manner, and asked if that looked like negro blood. Agassiz says there is no difference in the races, so we C*m"t see why Mr. Abrams was so u«- u-rts.mable as to expect the talented po lice to make an analysis on sight.— Abrcms is quite a decent white man, andVarey, the tnagnijiqus, should not have lVt intimated anything to the con trary, immediately after the shot gnt* fid-eo fie sent the following let ter to' Col. Alston, which Abrams re fuser! to accept: Co>- C. A. Alston, Atlanta: The communication handed me this day by yourself, signed by Mr. Alex ander St. Clair Abrams, needs this reply. I am not the author of any report in re lation to Mr. Abrams’ blood, but did say if he was a son of a certain family of Abrams he had negro blood in his veins. I made inquiry a few days ago, and satisfied myself that Mr. Abarms is not of the family reported, and have fre quently so stated since, fully acquitting him of the imputation. I make no such charge against Mr. Abrams. Respectfully, eic., Caret W. Styles. Please hand to Mr. Abrams as my re ply,to his communication, which I trust will be satisfactory. C. W. S. Toe latter, wo were told by Alston, intends to lull Styles, if it takes him all his life time. This is very wicked in deed, and we trust Mr. Abrams will, in stead of slaying the Albany man, go on editing the Herald in a peaceful, loving manner. Styles isn’t ready to die yet, by long odds, anil Abrams can make more money on the Herald than bj shooting him. But there is no predict ing wlnit the latter will do as soon as he gets rid of the policeman who has had him in charge for two days. THE VIENNA PANIC. Cause of the Panic—Speculations in Real Estate. The following from the Brussells Cote Libre, of May 3, shows that real estate speculations had much to do with pre paring tho Vienna Bourse for the panic which recently raged there : The Vienna Exchange is on the eve of a monetary panic, chiefly arising from the locking up of money in real estate speculations, in anticipation of enhanced values through the instrumentality of the international exhibition. The real estate speculation mania has been run ning riot for sometime past at Vienna, and no less than forty building socie ties had been formed. Whether these building associations have been lack ing the ordinary prudence in the selec tion of lots, or whether they have mis managed affairs in some other shape, suffice to remark that the locking up of funds withdrawn from the open market has been considerable. To cap the climax of stringency, the real estate be longing to these companies, lias, instead of improving in value, declined, and they cannot raise the money on it they calculated to obtain. Tho amount of money thus withdrawn from the open market appear to figure up no less than 200,0u0,000 florins. Fortunately, how ever, the crisis cannot, in any evijnt, last long. The crops of all over Austria anil Hungary are represented to promise a most brilliant yield, and tho harvesting in the empire commences as early as June. Even supposing, then, that the exhibition did not of itself produce all the results expected, the money which is to flow into Vienna and Austria in gen eral in payment of the gigantic crops anticipated, will greatly contribute to wards replacing financial affairs upon a sound and normal basis soon after the apprehended storm shall have passed by. The Dry Goods Business.— The New York Bulletin, in its review of the dry goods market, says the movement in all descriptions is quiet; also that the com mission houses dealing in domestic cot tons are unusually dull, and there is a manifest determination ou the part of jobbers to purchase only from hand to month. The agents for woolen manu facturers look upon the season for light weight goods as being over, and their energies are now bent upon the distribu tion of Fall styles of cassimeres and coatings to the clothing trade, and their efforts in this direction are meeting with a fair measure of success. As to foreign goods, the Bulletin says : There has been a noticeable improve ment in the city retail trade within the last few days, and if the present fine weather should continue, an improved inquiry for certain fabrics which have been sluggish hitherto is almost certain. No branch of the trade has suffered more from the backwardness of the sea son than white goods, and the opera tions of the city retailers in these fabrics have been light up to this time ; but there is already an improved feeling and freer distribution of Victoria lawns, organdies and other muslins, as well as embroderies. Thf. Anniversary or tiie American Bible Society. —The report of the Sec retary of the American Bible Society, which held its fifty-seventh anniversary in Philadelphia on Thursday, shows that the receipts for the year were $069,007 06, including $354,067 12 for publications ; $139,454 60 from legacies, and $125,- 897 53 from donations. The payments have been $656,419 77, and about $72,000 will be necessary to meet outstanding obligations. New translations and revisions of the Bible are in progress in Arabo-1 urkish, Armeno-Tnrkish, Hebrew-Spanish, Azer bijan-Turkish, Chinese, Mandarin, Col loquial and Japanese ; several sets of new electrotype plates have been made or are in progress at the Bible House, five sets are in progress at Beirut, and one set for an American Reference Bible at Constantinople. The new publications at the Bible House were six in number, five of them in foreign languages, and five of them wore printed in foreign lauds. The number of volumes manu factured at the Bible House was 780,850; printed and published abroad, 273,366 p total, 1,540,216. The number of vol umes issued was 1,201,245, representing sixty different languages and dialects ; 426,700 copies were oircnlated during the year. The gratuitous work for the year amounted in value to $263,865 32. Os this sum, $86,235 51 were cash ex penditures in foreign fields, besides more than 11,581 volumes sent from this country. The Liquor Trade.— The organ of the liquor interest in New York has taken pains to collect and group t;ll the facts connected with the trade in this country. The amount of tax on spirits collected by the United States in 1872 was $49,475,516 36. This represents about 100,000,000 gallons, worth at wholesale $85,000,000, but which brought, at retail, about $317,000,000. This aggregates a money interest of over $400,000,000. The beer trade pays a tax to the Government of $8,573,- 498 46. This represents a retail value of over $212,000,000, which, added to the value of the article to the tnrers, represents a money interest of about 8300,000,000. The wine trade represents an interest of $75,000,000. The import trade of liquors, beer and wine, represents a retail value of liquors of $27,000,000; of beer, $2,806,05); of I wines §135,000,000; or a total of nearly j $165,000,000. Added to. all this the invested in buildings ami ma-1 chinery, etc., together with the expenses ; connected directly and indirectly with j the trade, the footing is at least $1,500,- ! 000,000. The capital of the new “ Anglo-Cali fornia Bank,” proposed to be establish ed in San Francisco, is 5i,300,000, or $6,000,000, in 59,*»i) ordinary'shares of 420 each, and 600 founders’ shares at £1 each. The directors are Henry Hitchcock, Hugh McCulloch, Reuben D. Sassou, W. F. Scholfield and Isaac Selig man. It is proposed to commence in July pmu, with a capital A6OO,O(kA or 8:1,4)0,00.0, A fuss in the Browning family in Mcmigomery county, last I’riday even ing, resulted in the death of John L. at the hands of Silas Browning, his uuele. LOUISIANA CRFSHEdT TUB IRON HAND of -«rg K Ty|{ RIVETS HER yiiVri^^ANT A Shame atnl DisgyWe to the Country —Grant Sustainryfhe Usurpers With the Army unit Navy—Official Procla mation Sustaining Kellogg. Washington, May 22. The following proclamation has excited surprise in all circles. Senator West is equally sur prised with others: a proclamation. Whereas, Under the pretense that Wm. I*. Kellogg, the Executive of the State of Louisiana, and the officers asso ciatjtt|Rwitk him in the State adminis tration, were not truly elected, certain turbulent and disorderly persons have combined together with force and arms to resist the laws and constituted au thorities of said State ; and whereas. It has been duly certified by the proptx lo cal authorities and judicially determined by the Inferior anil Supreme Courts of said State that said officers are entitled to hold their offices respectively, and execute and discharge the functions thcreof;aml whereas, Congress, at its late session, upon a due consideration of the subject, tacitly recognized the said Execu tive and his associates, tiienu and now in office, by refusing^ o take any action with respect thereto, and whereas, It is pro vided in tlie.Oonstitution of the United States thn/the United States shall pro tect every State in the Union on ap plication of the Legislature or of the Executive, when the Legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence; and whereas, It is provided iu the laws of the United States that in all cases of insurrection in any State or of ob struction to the laws thereof, it shall he lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the Legislature of such State, or of the Executive when the Legislature cannot he con vened, to call forth the militia of any State or States, or to employ such part of the land anil naval forces as shall be judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or caus ing the laws to be duly executed; and whereas, The Legislature of said State is not now in session, nnd cannot be con vened in time to meet the present emergency, the Executive of said State, under section 4 of article 7th of the Constitution of tho United States and the laws passed iu pursuance there of, has therefore made application to me for such part of the military force of the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect said State and the citizens thereof against domestic violence, nnd to enforce the due execu tion of the laws ; and, whereas, It is re quired that whenever it may be neces sary, in the judgment of the President to use the military force for the pur pose aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse, anil retire peaceably to their respective homes within a limited time. Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do here by make proclamation, and command said turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date, and hereafter to submit themselves to the laws and constituted authorities of that said State, and I in voke the aid and the co-operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold the law and preserve the public peace. In witness whereof I have hereunto sot my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twenty second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and of the Inde pendence of tho United States the •ninety-seventh. By the President. U. S. Grant. J, C. Bancroft Davis, Acting Secre tary of State. Washington, May 22.—1 tis stated in Republican circles that some time neo Kellogg applied for United States assist ance, but was persuaded to withdraw it, and the national Executive regarded it of no effect. It is probable that the President, who was absent at the time, never saw the request, as tho denial of a previous dispute i that such applica tion had been nu de came from the President’s lips. The proclamation of to-day is stated to be prompted by Car penter’s pressure upon Kellogg to renew the application, and the personal repre sentations from Carpenter to the Presi dent by telegraph of the dangerous con dition of affairs in Louisiana. Hence the renewed application from Kellogg, and the present proclamation. THE DEAD JUDGE. The Will of Salinou I*. Chase. Washington. May 22. —The will of Chief Justice Chase was filed to-day in the office of the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. It is dated the 19th of November, 1870, anil is as fol lows : “I nominate 11. D. Cooke, of the Dis trict of Columbia, to ho tho solo execu tor of this, my last will and testament. After tho payment of all just debts, I make tho following bequests : The in terest on SO,OOO at 7 per cent, to my neice, Jane Auld, during her life, and if her daughter survive her, the principal thereof to be paid ou them equally ; SIO,OOO to the Wilberforce University ; •SIO,OOO to Dartmouth College ; what ever sum may be due to me by my late brother, E. J. Chase,-of Lockport, N. Y., to be remitted to liis widow and ad ministratrix ; the picture of Chief Jus tice Marshall presented by the members of the bar and other citizens of New York, to the United States for the use of the Supreme Court ; the residue of my estate to be distributed iu equal parts to my two daughters. I commit my soul to God in Christ Jesus our Sa vior through the Holy Spirit.” S. P. Chase. Witnessed by R. C. Parsonsand Jacob Sclmcken. The will was to-day admit ted to probate and record, anil tho ex ecutor qualified and gave bonds inasum of a hundred thousand dollars, which covers the estimated value of the per sonal property of the deceased. The remainder of the estate, consisting of real property, is estimated to tie worth $150,000. The will is in the hand writing of Mr. Sclmcken, who was, at its date, the Chief Justice’s private sec retary. THE RIVER HORROR. Further Details of the Tragedy. Memphis, May 21.—A terrible tragedy j was enacted on the steamer Phil Allen \ while lying at Jillewild, fifty miles be- j low here this morning. A planter named , Morgan, who, in company with his j fiancee, had gotten aboard at Friar’s Point, was shot and instantly killed by John Cannon, who was somewhat under J the influence of liquor, and who hail in- | vited Morgan and several others to take I a drink. While standing at the bar a j dispute arose, resulting as stated above. ! After the shooting Cannon went to the j clerk of the boat, asked for a package of mouey he had deposited, and after get- j ting it jumped ashore and made his es- j cape. The murder was one of the most unprovoked that ever occurred. > Morgan was an entire stranger ta Gan- j non and never exchanged .. word with [ him. Cannon was drunk and had ! threatened to kill one of tho clerks of the boats, and while walking down the cabin saw Morgan sitting in a chair, j with his feet ou the back of another, and approaching him, said, “ You are a j damned fraud.” Morgan, without mov- | ing, replied, "You are a liar," where-1 upon Cannon put a pistol to his head j and fired, Ho then made his escape us already reported. Cannon was a des- j perate character, and attempted to kill ' Ins own sister sometime since, ft is | thought he will attompi to reach Texas, 1 THE SP ANISH REPP U*,l CA N FIASCO,. HepubUcan Greasers Butchered and Pari, lifts Greasers Threatened A Huge Farce on a Small Scalp \ Uis grace to Civilization, Bakcelivna,, May 33.— Later dis patches Rum Sanahuja states that the twenty who surrendered were butchered. The fate of forty others is unknown. They are believed to have been killed. The atrocities of the insurgents, have caused intense excitement h«<e. The | militia demand that tb,v. insurgent pris- , oners held here qhail be given them for | butchery. The authorities refused to | i surrender them. They have been buns-1 ferred from the fort to YU.«el» iu the harbor for safety. It is projgibje that a j number of well known earlists will be arrested and hekt as hostage:,. A levy j tn mount, is expected to W 4 ••gainst the j Garlists, Barcelona,, May 32.—Gen. Valarde j has isstLod liis proclamation calling all the males between fourteen and sixteen ! years of age into the Republican col- ! umns, and threatening the infliction of heavy penalties upon all municipalities which shall thwart Ra operation. FROM OHIO. Republican State Oonvewtiou. Columbus. May 2& —The Republican Convention has met. Noyes lias been nominated fox Governor and Hart for Lieutenant-Governor. The platform is mostly a recapitulation of the industry of Utft country, which should have the cheapest and best transportation. Jt demands pure official conduct and the punishment of unfaithful officers. It denounces Credit The in crease of salaries is condemned as un wise, and it favors shortening proba tionary term to citizenship. 0U» RED BROTHERS. The “Pitts” and “PinfH” Going to Defy the White Mail’s Bullets—“Olil - Sliave Head” on the War Path The Poor Indians on the Texas Border Nineteen Warriors Killed and Forty Squaws Captured. San Francisco, May 22.—Dispatches state that the Modocs are going to ward Pitt River country. Trails show that the Modocs and the Pitt River Indians have been in constant communi cation. It is believed that the Pitts are with Captain Jack now. The Pints arc also out of their country. Twenty fivc*Piuts were seen in Surprise Valley, but suddenly disappeared. It is report edkthat much ammunition has been sold to the Pitta. They have held several councils. Their attitude is thercaton ing. Old Shave Head tells them they must fight or go to the reservation. A company of forty volunteers from Douglass county, Oregon, passed Port land to-day, (it route for the Modoc country. San Antonio, May 22. —C01. McKenzie, commanding at Fort Clark, has failed to stop the raiders who crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the Kickapoos ou Mexican soil. They killed 19 war riors and captured 40 squaws and much plunder. There is much indigna tion across the Rio Grande on account of this incursion. Col. McKenzie lost one killed and two fatally wounded. Advices from Fort Sanders, Wyoming, say that two companies of the Fourth Infantry, en route for the Modoc war, has been ordered to remain here. A General Indian War Preparing Lo • Donning llis War Paint The Recent Border Fight—Threatening Demon strations. Washington, May 23, —General Jeff C. Davis ranks as Major General while commanding against the Modocs. He officially reports that two hundred war riors of the Yankton tribe have left the reservation to join the hostile bands of the Upper Missouri. These Indians will muster five thousand strong. An official dispatch confirms Col. McKenzie’s vic tory over the Kiekapoo and Lipon In dians. The dispatch does not say whether the fight occurred on Mexican territory or not. Virginia City, May 23.—A letter from Spruce Mountain, Nevada, reports In dian affairs as having about reached a crisis. The painted Indians have been stealing lead from the furnaces and buy ing ammunition. They are having war dances, anil have notified settlers to leave. The impression here is general that an Indian outbreak is being planned. The Yarn of the Scouts -The Jack Family Brilliant Success of ttie Sol liters--The Army Captures Four Squaws. Fairchild Ranohk, May 23.—A cou rier has been intercepted by Gen. Davis, en route from tho lava beds to Bremers, whereupon the Warm Spring Indians and scouts liavo been recalled, and the programme changed. Gen. Davis lias established his headquarters at Fair child, 23 miles northwest of the lava beds. The scouts say that the soldiers scaled a ridge twenty-live feet high in the face of the Modocs and drove them away. Capt. Hnsbrouck did not lose a man, and captured a squaw. The reportof the operations for the last, few months says that Shack Nasty Frank, Shade Nasty Jack, Shack Nasty Hill, Steamboat Frank and Ellen’s Man Hook er, Jim’s Father, Boston Nick and several other Modocs were killed and many wounded. Curly Headed Jack was seriously wounded. Little John was unable to move rapidly and delayed tho Modocs. At this stage the Warm Spring Indians made some hostile demonstrations and captured the squaws. In the stampede Mrs. Hendricks aliatt Limpsey threw her child away hoping to escape. The squaw killed the child and brought it to camp. The captured squaws are Mrs. Wechmotel, two sisters of Boston Charlie, the mother of Black Jim and a girl. No braves were cap tured. Two Indians have been sent to tho Modocs, offering them terms of surren der. General Davis reports no trouble apparent among the Klnmarths. Later.— The Modocs must bo fifteen miles away. The rftjuaws taken before Davis talked much, but gave little in formation. Tho MoJoes number fifteen men, fifty squaws and children. The Modocs wanted to talk with Davis alone, but Davis sent word lie did not want a peace talk, but would allow them till Friday to surrender. After that he would kill every Modoc found with a gun. The private dispatches as received in Washington are vague, and give no idea of the real situation. Yreka, May 23.— The Creek band of fifty men, women and children, surren dered to-day, anil were placed under guard. Fifteen warriors, among whom were Bogus Charley, Slmek Nasty Jim, Curley Head Charley, Head Doctor Franklin, and others of the best fighting men Capt. Jack had, surrendered. Their surrender appears to have been uncoil ditionnl. It. is supposed that no warriors are now with Capt. Jack, whose where abouts are unknown. San Francisco, May 23.— Tho Bulle tin publishes a graphic account of tho surrender of a part of the Modoc tribe. The war is considered over. Gen. Dn vis and hisstaffare separated—some be ing at Yreka en route for New Orleans, The few horses ridden by the Modocs. were gaunt nnd weak, and' scarcely able to bear the women and children as they rode into the camp. All tlio braves wore portions of the Federal uniform, and all entered into tlio camp in funeral procession. There was no noiso among the soldiers, and the Modocs said nothing. Gen. Davis advanced, and was formally introduced to Boston Charley, who is twenty years old, and speaks English well. Hii smiled sweetly, and shook Davis by the hand. Davis demanded their pistols and other arms, and then assigned them a camp, telling them they would bo shot if they attempted to escape. There were half naked children and squaws who c.ouhl scarcely hobble, Fairchild says there are twenty still in the cottonwood. Their dissatisfaction is confirmed by tho captain of the lmml, who said ho parted! with Capt. Jack eight days ago. Tin* army is divided into squads to pursue. Capt. Jack and his party. Hooker Jim, the Lost river murderer, has just surren dered. Washington, May 23.—-Official dis patches received here to-night from Gen. j Scofield aay that Gen. Davis, reports! | that about half the Modoos being whip 1 pod and hard pressed by Hasbriuik. ; have surrendered unconditionally. Gen. j Davis sa‘ys he will push the pursuit of | Capt. Jack and his party, and hopes to | end the war soon. Fort Sanders, Wyoming Territory,, | May 22. —Two companies of the U'onrtlt j Infantry, en route for the Mo,joe seat | of war, have been ordered to remain | hero. THIERS |\ TROUBLE. IIIS ADMINISTRATION TOTTER ING. • Exciting Keene in the Assembly Thiers Attempts to H|ieak A Storm of Objections, lie Descends the Tri bane-—His Friends Still Sanguine. Paris, May 23.—The debate on tho interpellation was introduced by tho Conservatives, after which there was great confusion. Tho Chamber voted ami by large majority refused to hear Thiers. President Thiers then mount ed the tribune to speak, but instantly a storm of objections and protestations came frorq the Right and Right Centre, which, ,ras met with contrary cries from other side. A scene of excitement, and confusion followed, which lmfiles, description. '1 he President in vain endeavored to make himself heard. His voioe was j drowned in the uproar. Finding that j the house would hear him, M. Thiers i descended from tho tribune, and con - suited with the Minister of Justice, M. 1 Dufnuro, who took his place in the tri - I bune anil scoured silence. He said j that lie h&J been instructed to formally notify ehe Assembly that in accordance I with the law adopted at tho last session, r the President had decided to address j the House in person, and requested an adjournment until to-morrow morning, j wlion he would proceed to deliver las I speech. The Chamber accordingly adjourned. A SfMs'ial meeting of the Deputies of 1 the Left has been called at nine to-mor row evening. The Left were pleased with Dufaure’s speech and conduct, but no decisive action wan taken to-day, and the supporters of the movement are hopeful of securing a majority of twenty against interpellation. Alexandria.— Alexandria, in Egypt, lues grown more rapidly than any city on the continent. In 1843 its popula tion was about 60,000, and now it is nearly 800,000. Some idea of the im mense lalior which has been expended in improving the harbor may lie formed from the fact that a breakwater is in process of construction, to lie when completed a mile in length. It is to bo composed of 20,001i blocks, each one of not less than twenty tons weight, placed upon a bod of smaller stones. This breakwater will enclose a harbor with a superficial area of 1,500 acres, nowhere of a less depth than thirty feet. In tlie midst of tho grand canal, a company of English engineers are at work blasting out rooks, and employ constantly about 2,000 men and forty steam engines. In 1871 the exports amounted to 30,000,000 and the imposts ta 175,000,000 francs.
