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SI'NKEN TKEANIKK.
NEARLY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS AT THE
BOTTOM OF EAST RIVER, NEW
YORK.
New York Herald, July 3.]
Work upon the wreck of the Brit
ish frigate Hussar, sunk iu the Bust
river during the revolutionary war,
lias been resumed, after a suspension
of three years. On Thursday last the
sloop Tent was moored over the
wreck, which lies a short distance
below Port Morris, and within a
stone’s throw of the shore. In a
frame structure on the deck of
the sloop is a steam engine and
other machinery used iu submarine
work. The diver is lowered to the
wreck from a platform on the shore
side of the vessel. He made his first
descent on Saturday morning for the
purpose of making a general survey
of the wreck. He found but little
left or the old frigate. All that re
mains is the worm-eaten keelson,
knees and planking below the copper
line. The wreck is covered witli a
heavy deposit of smd and mud, and
several large bowlders have lodged
iu her hull.
The Hussar was 206 feet in length,
r> feet beam, and carried thirty-two
guns. She arrived in this port with
the frigate'Mercury and a fleet of
merchant vessels on Nov. 23, 1778.
Iu the Hussar’s treasury were .£580,-
000 in gold, and on the Mercury were
.0380,000, making nearly $5,000,000 in
ail. This treasure was sent over by
tbe British government to pay the
force engaged in war with the colo
nists. Two days afterwards the gold
brought over by t lie Mercury was
transferred to the Hussar, with
which, after taking on board seventy
American prisoners from the over
crowded hulks in the Wallabout, she
set sail for New London, Connecti
cut. Paul Jones was at the time
cruising along the American coast.
His feat oil' Fiamborough Head a
year before, lmd inspired the com
matder of the Hussar with a healthy
respect for his powers, and it was,
therefore, determined to make the
voyage by way of Hell Gate. It was
a hazardousous undertaking for a
vessel of her tonnage, but a negro
pilot had succeeded a short time be
fore in taking through another
frigate. The Hussar attempted the
passage with a favoring wind and a
high tide, and safely passed the most
dangerous points in the channel, but
with, a smooth course already iu
view, the frigate struck heavily on
Pot Buck. The swift current swung
her around, and she drifted help
lessly up the stream, past Ward’s
and Randall's Islands, making water
rapidly. When the vessel once more
obeyed her helm site was tilling so
last that the commander determined
to beach her at the entrance to a
marshy cove below Fort Morris. This
was done, and the crew, with the as
sistance of fanners at work near by,
held her to the shore by passing
hawsera around tbe large trees there.
A more dangerous point could not
have been selected, for the frigate
from amid ships hung over a preci
pice nearly 100 feet high. When the
tide began to fall, the strain upon
the cables wus tremendous. Some
parted, others pulled from the ground
the trees to which they were attach
ed, when the ship gave a lurch aud
went bodily over the ledge. Worst
of all, she carried down with her the
seventy hapless wretches chained to
her gun (leek. The officers and crew
escaped.
In 1784 the British government sent
over two brigs, and tor two summers
unsuccessful efforts were made to
raise the sunken frigate. Oue of the
brigs foundered while engaged in
this work, and now lies in thirteen |
fathoms of water, a short distance be-1
low the hull of the Hussar. The i
other was driveu off by the American :
government. Twenty-tive years claps- !
ed before another effort was made.
A company was formed and work be- |
gun in the spring of 1810, but with j
the clumsy appliances then in vogue
no progress was made. One enter- j
prise succeeded another, but with a ;
jike result. Over $50,000 wus expend
ed in constructing a coffer dam, which
proved too weak to resist the tide.
Over twenty years ago a company
was formed at Worcester, Mass., call
ed the NewEnglandSubmarineCom
pany, with Horace Barnes as Super
intendent. This company and its
successor, the Frigate Hussar Com
pany', have prosecuted the work since,
except during the past three sum
mers. They have now resumed oper
ations, and'hope by the use of im
proved machinery and anew process
to get possession of the golden treas- ;
ure buried in the frigate’3 hull. Mr.
Barnes is still superintending the \
work.
But little money has thus far been
taken from the wreck, and the sums j
found are supposed to have been the i
private hoards of officers and men. 1
In a stable at Fort Morns are stored i
human skulls and bones, and mana
cles worn by the drowned American
captives, together with musket bar
rels, cannon balls, flints and bullets,
pewter plates, etc. The British Mu
seum paid $1,500 for a bronze gun.
In the Central Park Museum are
other mementoes of the wreck. Ob
stacles to be overcome are numerous
and great. The ship’s treasury was
located in the run of the vessel. The
kentledge (irony and shingle (stone)
ballast have, by the action of tbe
water, become joined together in a
mass almost as dense as cast iron.
This mass overlies and surrounds the
treasure, and has to be drilled or
blasted through. Eternal night
reigns around the wreck. Electric
lights have failed, and owing to the
swift tides the divers can work only
at slack water.
♦
Sunstroke.
The peculiar cerebral congestion
known as “sunstroke” was so named
from the popular belief that it was
the result of a sudden concentration
of the sun’s rays upon a focal point,
and the name survives the absurd
misconception out of which it grew.
We know now that the disease may
attack persons who are not exposed
to the sun’s rays at all, and that in
fact it frequently occurs at night, al
though in the greater number of ca
ses the attack is felt in the latter half
of the dav, partly because the heat
is greatest then, but more largely,
perhaps, because the heat and labors
of the earlier part of the day have
exhausted the subject’s vitality, and
VOL. 2.
produced to him conditions favora
ble to the development of the dis
ease. For a like reason persons who
have recently passed or are passing
through exhausting ordeals, persons
| exhausted by watching, trouble, by
; anxiety, or by mental strain of any
: kind, are peculiarly liable to sun-
I stroke. The disease is fatal in a lit-
I tie more than half the cases, and
i persons who recover are believed to
j be more subject than before to nt
i tacks of the kind. They are less able
than beforo to endure either
heat or nervous exhaustion,
and extreme eare of themselves is
always enjoined by physicians. It is
Ia peculiarity of the disease that par
tial recovery does uot necessarily
promise complete recovery or re
move the prospect of speedy death.
In many eases the patient begins
what seems to be a recovery, aud the
symptoms continue to grow better
for a time; but within a day or two
there follows a serious effusion with
in the cranial cavity which results in
death. Another danger to which
patients are subject is that of falling
into pulmonary disease as a result of
the congestion of the lungs which
usually accompanies the cerebral
congestion,and is the cause of the
stertorous breathing which common
ly attends sunstroke. Patients who
recover from the original malady
sometimes do so only to die of the
consequent pulmonary affection.
Persons are always liable to the dis
ease in our climate in the summer,
and no pains should bo spared to
guard against its attack. Over-ex
ertion, especially of the brain, anxie
ty, worry, and undue exposure to the
sunlight should be carefully shunned.
The trouble may be avoided by sim
ply keeping cool, both metaphorical
ly and literally; aud of the two the
metaphorical keeping cool is by no
means the least important.
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Tlie War in the Fast.
Should Servia draw to its support
Montenegro and Roumania the
smallest success would produce an
immediate alliance. The allied
Sclaves will be able to put in the flid
a force of nearly 300,0ut) men of all
arms, and including the norailna
vmjska, or national army of Serbia,
the lundwehr of Roumania, whose
army is organized on the Prussian,
model, and the nabia, or territorial
militia landxtrum of Montenegro.
Such a force amounts to nearly one
in live of the ablebodied, population,
and is practically a levy at; masse not
to be maintained for more than a
single campaign, and unable to un
dertake a distant march. The most
formidable as well as the host drilled
of these contingents can be furnish
ed by Roumania, which has a stand
ing army amounting to 45,130, armed
wile the needle-gun and Krupp’s
rifled cannon.
The force includes also twelve
squadrons of Dcrobautzi Cossacks,
drilled as Uhlans, aud supplying a
force of cavalry, a branch of the ser
vice in which Servia and Montene
gro are singularly deficient, and with
which Turkey always has been well
provided. Rut a very few competent
cavalryloffieers are needed to turn tlie
Easlii-Bazouks into irregular cavalry,
every way equal to tlie Sikh regi
ments of India. The lundwehr, the
frontier regiments, the “garden mo
biles,” the garrison troops and tlie
Derobautzi landstrum of Roumania
furnish nearly 90,000 more troops,
aud make a total force in the two
Danubian principalities, Moldavia
Wallaohia, of 135,000 men. Servia,
on tlie other hand, has, under the
treaty of Paris, a standing army—
sloycra voyska —of but 8,000 meu, the
two successive bans-the army is or
ganized on the Swiss model—furn
ishing 148,348 men, both of which arc
now in the Held, and bring the total
force of ail arms up to 156,348 men.
Till recently, the regular army and
the lirst ban were armed with the
Peabody breechloaders, and the sec
ond ban with the Green rifle. With
in the last three months, however,
the Servian War office has purchas
ed 64,000 Snider rifles, and there are
good reasons for believing that the
entire force is armed with this weap
on. The artillery is less efficient
than that of Roumania, and unless it
has been recently remodelled, is
largely light lield muzzle loaders.
The cavalry, all told, amounts to
less than a thousand men. The
standing army of Montenegro is lim
ited to its gendarmerie nenjanice,
amounting to 8,000 men, but every
able-bodied man is enrolled in the
militia rmder a territorial organiza
tion, and this system affords a slight
ly-drilled force of mountaineers,
•25,000 strong. To oppose these
forces. Turkey has an armed force
of 580,100, active army, reserves and
tributary contingents. Not more
than a fourth of this force, including
irregular cavalry, could, however,
he employed along the lino of the
Balkan.
♦- ♦
Don C a hi.os at Montgomery.—
Among the passengers over the M.
&M. li. R. yesterday morning was
Don Carlos, of Spain, accompanied
by a party of six friends, to-wit:
General Ponce da Leon, Marquis de
Monsurret, and four|members |of the
Don’s staff, who served with him du
ring his campaign in Spain. The
Don and his friends visit this coun
try on a pleasure tour, purposing to
do all the points of interest, includ
ing of course, the Centennial and
Washington. They will remain in
the East about a month, and then
proceeding Westward, will cross the
continent, to San Francisco. Don
Carlos is a young man of about 32,
and of a stalwart, commanding fig
ure, fully six feet two inches in
height. He speaks the English lan- i
guage quite fluently, and is pleasing i
in his address, although he is in- t
dined to be very reticent in presence
of strangers, Gen. Ponce de Leon is
a line looking old gentleman of
about sixty, and served on the staff
of Don Carlos’ father, as well as on
the latter aspirant to the throne of
Spain, while he himself was at one
time ambitious to mount that pedes- j
tal. They travel incog, and iu a
quiet, unostentatious way, are known
as J. Monsurret, and de Leon as J.
de J. Cervantes.— Montgomery Bulk
letin 7 lit.
From the fishing grounds of Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia aud Newfound
land, comes the intelligence of large
catches of cod, mackerel and her
ring. For many years codfish have
not'been so abundant, large catches
being made every day. Mackerel of
fine quality have already struck in,
and large “stops” have been made.
A good year’s catch will do a great
deal to wipe off the accumulated in
debtedness of tbe fishermen to the
outfitters, also to meet the obliga
tions abroad. — New York linnet tit i>th.
The City Mill*.
Corn and Wheat ground at City Mill for
usual Toll. junl trlwAwtf
THE TIMES.
COLUMBUS, GrA., TUESDAY, JULY, 11 1876.
1 NEGRO RIOT IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
A MILITARY COMPANY DEFYING
TDK I.AIY—I.OCAI. AVAR.
.
f Special to Ttmea by 8. .t A. l.iuo.J
Augusta, Ga., July B.—Wo take the
| following report from the Gonstitu
| tiotuilist of to-day:
HOW IN HAMBURG.
On the fourth of July the colored
| military companies of Hamburg, S.
jO., just across the river, were out
j parading. They were halted by the
I captain and cauie to a parade rest
with the line aoross a publio road.
While in this position, two white gen
tlemen who had been to Augusta
were returning to their homes in
Edgefield, S. o,,and coming to where
the negro troops were resting, askod
a sufficient number of them to
move sufficiently to permit them
pass. This civil request was indig
nantly refused, and the gentlemen
wet* otherwise grossly insulted. The
next day they returned and made
complaint before Prince Rivers, the
colored magistrate, who had the of
lleers arrested for their misconduct.
During the preliminary trial a ne
gro named Doc Adams, who is the
captain of the company, became so
obstreperous aud insulting to the
court that the magistrate tlned him
for contempt. This ho retused to
submit to, aud was backed aud en
couraged by his oompany on
the spot. Seeing that a difficulty
would likely ensue, the magistrate,
Priuce Rivers, postponed the case
until last evening at 4 o’clock, at
which time all parties were warned
to appear at tlie trial.
The gentlemen who wore ag
grieved were a Mr. Butler and his
friend. They came down to Hamburg
yesterday, aud a large number of
their friends camo with them, among
whom was General M. C. Butler, who
was counsel for the plaintiffs. The
negroes swore in advance that they
would submit to no punishment in
flicted by tlie magistrate, and were
loud and threatening iu the expres
sion of their views, and the colored
company proceeded to arm them
selves with their muskets and pistols
and defied the law. The magistrate
ordered the company to deliver up
their arms; as under the state of
feelings which then possessed them,
it was possible trouble might arise.
Tiffs they peremptorily re
fused to do, and furthermore
threatened to assassinate Rivers
at night for having given it as
his legal opinion that they were lia
ble to a line for obstructing the pub
lic highway. The colored oompany,
numbering about fifty men, then re
paired to an old brick houso in town
and fortified themselves, and defied
Rivers and his posse. Rivers at once
summoned a number of persons to
assist him in upholding the law and
vindicating its majesty. This occur
red at a little before sundown. Some
two hundred men, mostly from
Edgefield, surrounded the building
and demanded a surrender, which
was refused, whon a general firing
was opened on both sides.
As might be expected, the news of
this state of affairs soon reached this
city, and a large number of people of
both colors repaired to the banks of
the river, while some crossed the
bridge. The firing from tho en
trenched negroes upon the beseigers
was kept up pretty lively for an hour
or so, within plain view of the hun
dreds on this side who had assem
bled.
Two young men were firing
from behind an abutment
of the C. C. & A. Railroad bridge,
when two negroes slipped through
the tall weeds on the edge of the riv
er, and coming up unperceived in
roar of them, shot end killed a Mr.
Merriwothcr, son of Dr. Merriwether,
of Edgefield, the ball striking him
behind the ear, killing him instantly.
The young man who was with Merri
wether turned and fired at tho ne
groes, killing one dead. The other
threw down his gun and made an ef
fort to escape, but was pursued and
captured by the young man, and
brought in as a prisoner.
At this juncture a party of men
were seen carrying across the bridge
a piece of artillery which had been
taken from this side. In tho course
of a few minutes the loud thunder of
cannon is heard, and the flash lit up
all surrounding objects. It was dis
charged three times at the house, with
but little damage. After the three
discharges from the cannon, a lull
of an hour occurred, when, it is re
j ported, four negroes from the be
j leagured house, came out, and
i after firing attempted to escape. A
volley was poured into them, kill
ing one outright. The other three
escaped.
At ten o’clock they were firing
j from the cellar of the building, and
i the Besieging party were acting cau
! tiously and calmly. At 1 o’clock a
! sharp rattle of musketry was heard.
Tho arms held by the company
have been ordered returned to the
Governor, and they are held contra
ry to law. The negroes positively re-
I fused to give them up when ordered
to do so by Rivers, who is also Chief
of the State Militia in addition to his
position as magistrate, has fled to
this side for safety.
At 1} o’clock this a. m., the firing
had ceased and most, if not all tbe
rioters were under arrest and most
of their arms captured with them.
About thirty prisoners are under
guard, some with arms in their
hands, while others either secreted
or destroyed them. Thus far every
thing has been conducted in as or
derly a manner as it could possibly
have been done under the circum
stances, and the capturing party has
been very forbearing in the treat
ment of the murderous crew.
From the Augusta Chronicle of Sunday.]
About 12 o’clock general search
was made throughout the town and
resulted in the finding of flftoon
more negroes, making twenty-nine
in all. A negro who attempted to
escape, was shot In several places
and badly wounded. The negro
Lieutenant, John Thomas, who as
stated above, was shot in the back,
was expected to die from the wound.
A young man named Morgan was
accidentally shot in the leg by one
of his comrades while pursuing a
fleeing negro. Ho was firing at the
negro, together with others, at the
time. His wound, while painful, is
not considered dangerous.
The negroes who were last eapfflr*
ed were discovered hid away in cel
lars and under floors.
The prisoners wore kept under
guard last night and will be turned
over to the oivil authorities of South
Carolina to-day.
It is said that the ammunition in
the possession of the negroes was
furnished to them by a white man
named Schiller who cuine over to
Augusta and purchased it yesterday
morning.
At one o’clock the Augusta boys
returned home and left the South
Carolinians in possession of the
town.
It was rumored during tho evening,
that the negroes had telegraphed to
Charleston for Federal troops, but
tho rumor could not be traced to any
authentic source.
None of the arms held by the ne
groes were captured, but a quantity
of ammunition was found iu one of
the houses.
Since writing the above, we learn
that seven of the prisoners were tak
en out and killed. At about two
o’clock, or a little before, the roll was
called of the prisoners, and those
who were considered ring-leaders of
the disturbing element in tho county
were carried to a corn field near the
river and turned loose. As they ran
they were fired upon and killed. One
of the men shot was named Attaway,
a County Commissioner and a mem
ber of the Legislature. The prison
ers died almost without a groan. The
remainder were then turned loose.
We learn that before tho shooting
took place a dotail of twenty-live
men was made and ordered to
take the prisoners to Aiken to
jail. Oil the way it was determined
to kill the ringleaders, and the shoot
ing was done as described. Some
gentlomen from Augusta interfered
and saved the lives of three by per
suading the guards to let them bring
the negroes to this city. They were
taken to tho Gity Hall and discharg
ed. The man who was shot after be
ing captured—John Thomas—was
also brought to the City Hall. He
cannot possibly recover. The list
now foots up ten negroes killed; one
white man killed, another severely
wounded. The wounded man is in
tho hospital. As tho remainder of
tho prisoners were turned loose they
were fired into, but it is uot known
whether any of them were killed or
not.
LATEST.
Special to tbe Timcs.J
Augusta, Ga., July 10. -There is
nothing new beyond what lias al
ready been published. The negroes
wore moving away from Hamburg
all day yesterday. The statement
in the Chronicle <£■ Sentinel of yester
day, about ten negroes being killed
after their surrender, is almost en
tirely without foundation. Two ne
groes were killed while defying the
civil law with arms in their hands.
One was wounded after his arrest.
He was first Lieutenant of the
negro company. He died yesterday
v. m. About thirty were captured and
placed under guard. Gen. Butler di
rected them taken to Aiken, 8. C.,
jail. After ho left the guard called
the roll aud determined to kill the
ring-leaders, which were only three.
The Captain of the negro company,
Doc. Adams, is still at large. Negroes
killed, six; whites, 1; wounded, 1.
Rivers is holding an inquest to-day.
Verdict not yet reached. Everything
is very quiet. The excitement has
entirely subsided. There are no
troops in Hamburg, as reported.
N.
TEL KG K A I*ll IC ft I'.H.U ARY.
A fire on Sunday at Elgy, Switzer
land, destroyed 52 houses. Two per
sons are reported missing. .
John Edward Cooke, stock and
share broker of London, has failed.
His liabilities are $680,000; assets
$42,009.
The propeller St. Clair has been
burned on Lake Superior. Twenty
seven fives wero lost.
Who can place a value on health and
strength? Every man, woman and child
should take Dr. J. 11. McLean’s Strength
ening Cordial and Blood Purifier. It will
give you rich, pure blood and make you
strong and vigorous. Dr. J. JL McLean’s
office, 314 Chestnut street, St. Louis, Mo.
New Gloucester Cheese; Received Fresh
every week. J. H. Hamilton.
jun2o tf
Excursion to Atlanta, July 111. 18(6.
Fare for round trip from Columbus,
$4.00. Tickets good fer four days. Union
Springs brass and Columbus string bands
will accompany the excuision.
CONGRESSIONAL.
MOMIAY, Jt’l.Y lOTII
SENATE.
Washington, July 10.—Mr. Hamlin
asked tlie Senate to take up and pass
the Houso Post Road Bill. The Bill
was taken up and then temporarily
laid asido.
Mr. Eaton offered a resolution di
recting the Secretary of War to re
port to tlie Senate the number of the
United States troops of the various
armies in the Southern States, with
the location of each regiment or part
of regiment, commander, and detach
ment.
Mr. Sherman presented a petition
for a convention to modify the con
stitution of the United States—reject
ed.
Mr. Edmunds called up his motiou
to amend the Rules of the court so as
to limit the jH®tneqt on the offer or
objection to evidence, or on Incident
al or interlocutory evidence. After
considerable discussion made, the
amendment offered by Mr. Conk
ling, providing that consultations
may be held with open doors, and
that Senators may ask questions
without reducing them to writing,
the amendment was rejected—yeas
23, nays 24.
On motion of Mr. Kernau, the res
olution wus amended fixing the limit
of time for argument on such mo
tions to 15 minutes.
As amonded, the resolution was
then adopted—yeas 26, nays 10.
The regular order was demanded,
and the Senate proceeded os a court
to tlie impeachment trial.
Whitelaw Reid was called by the
managers, and remembered the Fort
Sill matter.
Question—State whether after its
appearance any communication,
either personally or by letter, was
made by the Secretary of War as to
the authority for that letter, or any
communication iu relation to the
matter ?
Objected to by Mr. Carpenter, and
the objection was sustained.
Question—Did you roeeivoany com
munication from Gen. McDowoll on
this subject ?
Objected to, aud objection over
ruled.
Witness said he did receive a letter,
which lio produced.
THE TEN DAYS EXTENSION BILL.
At this point, 12: 30 i>. m., the court
took a recess to permit the reception
of the ten days extension bill from
the House. The bill was taken up
and passod.
The court t hen resumed its session.
Caleb P. Marsh was then called.
Had resided in Now York about
eight years, four in the furniture
business and four in the tea import
ing business. Hud paid sums of
money to W. W. Belknap for the first
year and a half in sums of $1,500
quarterly, after that semi-annually.
Four certificates of deposit were
shown, which witness states lie had
endorsed to the order of W. W. Bel
knap, and he thought ho had in eacli
ease forwarded them by mail. Al
ways sent the money according to
his directions in eacli case. Had no
letters or telegrams from Secretary
Belknap; had destroyed them all.
He was asked to give about the form
of one of his notices to Belknap of
a remittance. After objection and
agreement by counsel the question
was admitted.
At this point Mr. MacMahon called
upon the defence to produce the let
ters and telegrams from Marsh called
for in the notice served on them.
Mr. Carpenter said that all the let
ters on the Fort Sill matter were offi
cial, and could be found on the War
Department files.
He appealed to the Court to adjourn
over until Wednesday, in order to
allow the defence to arrange its testi
mony; but without acting on the
appeal, the Court, at 4:50 p. m., ad
journed.
The Senate then went into legisla
tive, and thence into executive ses
sion, and after some time spent in
executive session, adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Randall, of* Pennsylvania,
offered a bill to extend the appropri
ations of the last fiscal year to ten
days longer from the present date
passed.
On motion of Mr. Bauming.of Ohio,
the Secretary of War was directed to
report to the House the object of the
military expedition under Generals
Crook, E. Ferry and Gibbons, to
gether with the circumstances that
led to the organization of the expe
dition, with copies of all correspond
ence bearing on the case, with copies
of all orders relating thereto.
The House then took up and passed
the bills from the private calendar
agreed to in Committee of the Whole
on Saturday.
The Speaker laid before the House
a letter from Governor Conner, of
Maine, announcing that he had ap
pointed Hon. J. G. Blaine a Senator
of the United States, and that ho had
resigned as a Representative of the
Third district of that State, to take
effect on July 10th.
The regular ordor having been de
manded, the Speaker proceeded to
call the roll of States fer bills for
reference only. Very few bills were
offered, and they were principally of
a private nature.
By Mr. Seales, of North Carolina,
authorizing the appointment of a
commission of three Representa
tives and two Senators to visit the
Indian Territory, and to roport upon
the conditions of tho Indiuns there,
the necessity of anew form of gov
ernment, and also to report what
further legislation is required in re
lation to tho conduct of Indian af
fairs—referred to Indian Committee.
By Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, bill to
confirm the orders, decrees and
judgments of the provisional courts
of tlie State of Louisiana—referred.
By Mr. Page, n bill relating to de
posits In savings banks, and declar
ing them exempt from taxation when
the bank does no other business ex
cept to receipt deposits—referred.
By Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, joint reso
lution authorizing and directing the
Secretary of State to cause to be pre
pared and publish a complete history
of geographical surveys and scientific
explorations ordered and prosecuted
during the century just closed, In
cluding tho surveys of rivers and
lakes and all topographical and mil
itary surveys of the interior, and ap
propriating a sufficient sum of money
to carry out tlie provisions of the act
—referred.
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WAMHINGTON YEW*.
Washington, D. C., July 10.-3,200,-
000 dollars was received at the re
demption bureau of tho Treasury
Department Saturday, for redemp
tion, being the accumulation of the
week. To-day 7,944,396 dollars was
reoeived.
Attorny General Taft says that if
Col. D. P. Dyer, U. S. District Attor
ney at St. Louis, has been removed,
as has been reported, he knows noth
ing about it.
The sub-judiciary committee inves
tigating Mr. Blaine,to-day postponed
the further examination of Messrs.
Mulligan and Fisher until to-morrow
morning.
The House Committee on elections
have discussed in the election con
test of Platt vs. Goode, of the Nor
folk, Va., district, to refer tlie mat
ters back to the people of the Dis
trict for a now eloetioti.
Mr. Blaino has formally accepted
Gov. Conner’s appointment as U. S.
Senator, aud has resigned the posi
tion of Representative in Congress.
The vacancy thus created will not be
filled until the regular State election
in September. Mr. Blaine’s health
is reported to bo steadily improving.
Dispatches are being continually
received at the War Department from
all parts of tho Wost, offering volun
teers to aid in the Indian war. Of
course these offers cannot be accept
ed under the law, but they tend to
show what excitement the late Custer
defeat has caused.
The House this morning passed a
bill to further extend the appropria
tions of last year ten additional days.
It refusod to recognize the Senate bill
passed on Saturday, taking the
ground that in all matters pertaining
to appropriations and tho revenue
should originate in the House. Later
in the day the Senate passed tho
Houso bill; consequently the wheels
of Government will continue to re
volvo for ten days longer.
I-real Britain.
London, July 10.—Mr. Edwards
Pierrepont, the new IT. S. Minister,
has arrived here, and will bo pre
sented to the Queen at Windsor Cas
tle to-morrow.
The Standard, says it understands
that the Foreign Office has received
a report of the preliminary inquiry
at Aukland in tho proceedings of the
British war vessel Barrancouta in
connection with recent affairs at the
Samoian Islands, and it has been
considered desirable to order the
vessel home.
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KRIUHTI.Y Hill 1 :All* Till! MMItNING.
ENTHUSIASM FOBTILDEK AND HENDRICKS.
Special to the N. O. Democrat.)
New York, July 7.—Tilden and
Hendricks will carry the State of
New York by an overwhelming ma
jority. All dissensions in tho party
have been healed, and Tammany and
others who opposed Tilden’s nomi
nation will support the ticket as en
thusiastically as the original Tilden
meu. Tho nomination of Tilden has
infused new life and spirit into tho
commercial classes, who believe that
his election will bring about an era of
reiorm and of renewed prosperity.
There is already a better and more
hopeful feeling everywhere.
The Democrats now count on car
rying Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois
and Michigan. There is a perfect
furor of enthusiasm throughout
those States for Tilden and Hen
dricks.
The New York Democrats claim
that Tilden and Headricks will carry
even South Carolina and Louisiana
by 25,000 majority. The National
Committee will work with tremend
ous energy, and with a determination
to carry tlie country. Tilden is the
most skillful party manager, as well
as tho ablest statesman in America;
lie inspires his party with enthusiasm
and confidence, and his forces seem
already to be driving the Republi
cans. The party feels him as a groat
army does a great general, and is in
spired. We hear nothing but Tilden.
New York will rol! up a Democratic
majority from seventy-five to one
hundred thousand in November.
Grant is universally condemned
here, by all parties, for the slaughter
of Custer and his command. If
Grunt, they say, had used the troops
against the Indians, instead of quar
tering them upon the South for par
tisan purposes, the nation would
have been spared this barbarous
butchery. A.—
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Hussies anil Wtasons.
I am offering the remainder of my stock
of open Buggies and Studobakor Wagons,
cheaper than ever. Mr. Thos. DeVore,
who has an office in tho Repository, will
serve customers my absence.
febll tf Thos. K. Wynne.
Hid LA MIS IN MlftftUl R|.
TRAIN WRECKED AND ROBBED.
St. Louis, July B.—An eastward
bound train on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad left Otterville. Mo., a few
minutes past ten o’clock last night.
When two and a half miles from the
last named place, in a deep cut, the
engineersaw a signal light to stop.
Thinking there was some obstruction
on tlie track, lie applied tlie air
brake. After running a few yards he
discovered a pile of trees and lumber
on the track. Ho comprehended the
situation at once, but could not stop
the truin, and it was not till the lo
comotive had climbed partly upon
the pilo that tho train camo to a
stand. At the same instant a dozen
or fifteen men appeared with terrific
yells, and discharging pistols, dush
od at the train, two pimped on the
engine and with navy revolvers, cov
ered the engineer aud fireman, aud
threatened to kill them if they offer
ed any resistance. They wore then
marched into tho baggage car and
placed under guard. At the same
time threeotherrobbersclimbed into
the express car, by u side door which
was open. Bushnell, tho express
messenger, however, had been
too quick for them and
had dashed through tho train
to the rear aleoper and giving his
safe keys to a brakesman, made him
put them in hi 9 shoes. Mr. dunk
ling, baggage man of tho train, was
in the express car when the robbers
entered, and they demanded the
keys of tho safes. He told them he
was not messenger and had no keys.
Two of the robbers then put Conk
ling in front of them, and with re
volvers at his head marched him
through tho train, demanding that
ho should point out the messenger
when they came to him. In this
way they passed through the train,
to the terror of women and children,
and the great fear of male passen
gers, many of whom had crouched
down under the seats and hid them
selves in various ways. Arriving at
the sleeper, Cockling pointed out
BusUuoll, and a robber demanded
his safo keys of him. Under the cir
cumstances there was nothing to do
but yield, and Bushnell took the
keys'from the brakeinaa and handed
them to the robbers. One of the lat
tor then stood guard over Bushnell
and the others marched Conk
ling back to the oxpress car, where
they opened the Adams safe and put
tho entire contents into a wheat sack.
Not being able to open the safe witli
tlie keys they got from Bushnell, one
"man went to tlie engine, got a pick,
and broke iu a panel of the safe. Its
contents also were then put into the
sack. Tho robbers then took a Mis
souri, Kansas & Texas Railroad letter
box and broke it open, but finding
nothing they wanted, they scattered
the letters over tlie floor of the car.
They also wont to the Adams Express
freight car, but fouud nothing there
that seemed worthy of notice.
While those acts were being per
formed the remainder of tho robbers
were making the night hideous by
inarching up and down, outside the
train, yelling liko deatli and firing
off pistols, in this way the passen
gers were completely torrified, and
not tho least show at resistance was
made. Whon their work was done
they departed in a southerly direc
tion.
It is understood that a party of
citizens are in pursuit, and at last,
accounts were only ten miles behind
them.
As far as can bo leaned, the Adains
Express Company lose some $4,000,
and the U. S. Company about $12,000,
but these amounts may prove to be
below the actual figures, reports be
ing in circulation that the loss is
much greater, from the fact that the
train had four days express matter
from Texas on board. The express,
however, deny this, and say that dur
ing the break in the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas road their valuables
bad been brought from this State by
another route. The railroad compa
ny started the Sheriff of Bettis county
with a posse in pursuit. General
Bacon Montgomery, of Sadalia, a
noted fighter of guerillas during the
war, has also gone in pursuit with a
party of picked men and struck their
trail some ton miles south of Otto
ville.
Another party has been sent from
Clinton on the Missouri Kansas, aud
still another from Lebanon on the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad. The
entire country between the points
named will bo thoroughly scouted
and from tho well known character
of the men sent out there is good
prospect, at least, that some of the
miscreants will be captured. The
robbers wore masks, aud none of
them were recognized.
“Then tho Lord called Samuel; and
he answered, ‘Hero am I.’—l Sam.
iii. ;4.”
“And the Lord called yet again,
Samuel. And Samuel arrose and
went to Eli, and said, ‘Here am I, for
thou didst call me.’ And he answer
ed, ‘7 catted not, vug non; lie down
again.’—l Sam. iii.; 6 ."'—St Louie
Globe-Democrat.
“Anil tho Lord called Samuel again
tho third tirno, and he arose aud
went to Eli, and said, ‘Here am I; for
thou did’st call me. And DU per
ceived that the Lord had called the
child.”—l Sam. iii.; 8.
* * * * * *
“And the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Be
hold, I will do a thing in Israel at
which both the oars of every one
that hgareth it shall tingle.”’—l
Sam. iii.; 11.— Courier- Journal.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH.
COTTON markets.
JULY 10, 1876.'
LIVERPOOL: Quiet and unchanged.
Receipts 7,000, American 1,000
Mid. Uplands 5 13-16 Mid Orleans 5 J 5-16
August and Sept, delivery from Sa
vannah or Charleston, Low Mid. 5 19-ITi
NEW YORK: Easy
Ordinary 8 3-16 Good Ordinary 9 13-lfi
Middling Orleans li i5-ll> Middling
Alabama llj Low Middling 10 13-16
Middling Uplands
Receipts at all points to day 959.
Exports to Great Britain 4,870 to Coast,
wise to Continent 123
Consolidated receipts 1295.
Exports to Great Britain 8,632, to
France 2,822. to Continent 1,488.
Stock 239,6.37.
Eutuhes: Sales
July, 11 19-32.(8}
August, 11 9-16(8
September 11 13-10®710
October, U}®9-32
November, i l}®9-32
December, 11 5-32® 3-10
January, 1877, 11 0-16®
February, “ 11 15-32®}
March, 1 1 ]}®ll-10
April, 11 20-32® 13-16
May, 12 29-32® 15-10
SAVANNAH: Receipts 92 Ex
ports —to Great Britain to Conti
nent Coastwise 688 Middling
10} Low Mid. 9} G. O. 8}
NEW ORLEANS: Receipts 603. Exports
—to Great Hiitain IJIGto Continent 823 to
Coastwise
Middling 11}. Low mid 10} GO 9}
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