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ifnungfon FRIDAY. JULY 3, 1874. CASBysi ' XGACY OF KECOW- SIBVCIION-JIJDGE BlSSELt. Our text this morning is to be found in the fraudulent pretence that the Eadical party regard the judicial ermine as too pure and holy a thing to e worn by the nominee of a political Dartv. and that it was because the negro Brewington, a negro who is out spoken in his views in regard to social equality with the whites, was actuated by this high and noble impulse, filling Jus soul with aspirations for the puri ty of the ermine, that he introduced a resolution into the Eadical judicial convention at Magnolia, declaring that the Badical sense of propriety was too great to permit it to make a nomina tion for Judge, and that it was for this reason also, that the convention adopt ed the resolution. It is indeed true that the lladical stomach has been too weak to make judicial nominations, in this and other districts; but what has has given them this sick stomach? Is it because they are too nice to fish in dirty waters, or because they think it will not pay? It so happens that the Radical stomach becomes thus nice and dainty only in districts where they know their party strength is not able to earrv them through without help. It happens further too that in each district in which they have a clear inaioritv they have gone regularly to work and have formally nominated a candidate forjudge. If it was wrong for the Radical party to nominate inAr,a TfnaaAll was it ricrbt for the Radical party to nominate Mr. Sey niour in the third district, and that too after more than a hundred ballots and was it right for the Radical party to nominate Mr. Hilliard in the sec ond district, the only two districts in which that party has a clear mnjority? How fraudulent then the pretence that Judge Russell and his friends set up about his not being a party candidate Tipirislature last winter AAUU w -""O orron oWl fliis district so as to make the majority a clear Conservative ma jority, instead of a clear lladical one, as it had been heretofore, we may rest assured that we would have heard nothing as to Radical sensitiveness about the purity of the judicial ermine. The difference between a clear Con servative majority and a clear Radical one is what's turning the stomach of the Radical party just now. And when, it may be asked, did this wonderful change come over 'Jinlge Russell's dream in regard to the im propriety of being a candidate of a party? There was a time when no such scruple disturbed his slumbers, or at least controlled his action, and that not longer ago than the last judi cial campaign. Then Mr. Russell was the candidate of a party a party that it was known could and would control the elections, and control them by t he aid of Federal bayonets. And it was as such candidate formally nominated and voted for at an election ordered by a Federal army officer in Charles ton and controlled by Federal bayo nets, that Mr. Russell obtained the seat he now holds upon the Superior Court bench of North Carolina! And this is the man, fellow citizens, that pretends his soul is too sensitive and his honor too high strung and his Btomach too dainty, to permit his party to makehim their candidate, lest thereby the ermine be soiled. A man who never wore an inch of ermine that was not blackened with Federal gun-powder and besmeared with all the political nastiness of the Radical party. A low estimate must that man put upon the intelligence of the people who expects to fool them by any such pretext as this. The man who for six years has held, and who to-day holds hia office by virtue of a partizan nomina tion, ratified at an election held when bayonets and bullets ruled the land, and when citizens of North Carolina voted or not, just as a fcnckles or Canby, might choose to declare in a military order, has little right now to put up a dainty mouth and expect peo ple to believe him when he says he thinks Judges ought not to be nomina ted by political parties. One of the most terrible wrongs done us in the days of reconstruction by the negroes, under the direction of the handful of carpet baggers, who then controlled our destinies, was the deadly assault made upon the purity of our time honored judiciary, when Jaybird Jones and Tourgee and Russell and Greasy Sam Watts were put in places once filled by Manly, by Caldwell, by Badger and by Ruffin ! One of the very greatest sources of satisfaction in contemplatingthe defeat of Judge Russell is that it will re move an ever aggravating reminder of the internal outrages and oppressions Leaped upon us in the days when Miles and Sickles and Canby ruled over us, and when bayonets and bullets usurped the place of the ballot box. The Civil Rights bill is Sumner's legacy of hate to the South. Judge Russell is the sole remaining legacy to this district of those horrible days of reconstruction, when arms prevailed and laws were silent. Without the military order of General Canby he would not to-day occupy a seat on the lecch. And this is the man that asks ns to j..-t iiiia back on the bench ! Will ye do it, people of the Fourth District, or Fill ye tell him you want none of the Sickles-Canby spawn to rule over you ? OAVIDNO rOIXti. "Rev. A. D. Hepburn, of Pennsyl Tania, has been elected Professor of Latin and French at Davidson College. Professor Hepburn was stationed here in charge of the Presbyterian Church at the close of the war, and his- con duct when the Federal army entered onr eity was not such as to leave a pleasant reeolleetion of him among our people. We sincerely regret the selection, as we tear it will do no good to Davidson College an institution that has our warmest wishes for its success. The use of soap-suds preserves flow ers. The most delicate blossoms can be retained in freshness for sometime by occasional applications. Wa MB, NEIL1L1 11 C KAY, AND SOCIAL EQUALITY. For ways that are dark and for tricks that are rain, the Radicals of North Carolina are a full match for the Heathen Chinee any day of the year. They are slippery kind of creatures and need watching all the time. One day when they feel strong they will not hesitate to avow their true sentiments and purposes, another day when they feel weak and know inai public opinion has set strongly against them, they straightway put up an honest moral mouth, and to hear them talk, one would think there were no patriots in the land so pure as they.1 Two years ago Mr. Neill juciuiy told the negroes if they would vote down the wealth and intelligence of the country and elect him, there would henceforth be no parlor and no kitchen. This year there is no man so bitter in his public denunciation of the Civil Rights bill as this same Mr. Neill Mc Kay. Yet, if Mr. McKay is to be elected, where will the votes come from ? Is he the nominee of a party of white men or is he the nominee of a party nine tenths of whose votes are negro votes ? Was he nominated by a Convention that opposed Civil Eights or by one whose delegates favored Civil Rights and practiced Social Equality Everybody knows that the delegates to the Fayetteville Convention that nominated Mr. Neill McKay, not only refused to put themselves ou record against Civil Rights and mixed schools, but that on the boat going from this place to Fayetteville and returning, all ate together at the same table and at the same hour without regard to race or color. And this was both before and after thsy nominated this same Mr. Neill McKay who is now so loud mouthed in his denunciation of the Civil Rights Bill. In Randolph last few weeks county within the there was a public gathering of the Radical Klan, and when dinner time came there not be ing room enough for all at one sitting, the matter was compromised by feed ing the party in squads of twenty at a time, and in order that there might be no doubt upon the point of social equality, each squad consisted of ten whites and ten blacks ! Those Randolph people belong to the same party that Mr. Neill McKay does, and yet Mr. Neill McKay de nounces the (Jivn KJgnts am i Ac tions speak louder than wordg. Mr. Neill McKay is recognized as a full brother in good standing by those so cial equality people and there is noth ing truer than that a man may De known by the company he keeps. Week before last at the Radical Congressional Convention, held at Yadkinville, to nominate a candidate for Congress against Hon. W. M Robbins, there was another demon stration that the Radical party practi ces what it preaches, and preaches what it practices. A correspondent of the Winston Sntint I writing to that paper says: The first thing I saw that was strik iupr was the Rowan delegation, half white and half black, sitting together in the gentlemen's hall in the hotel, smoking and discussing the features of the civil rights bill. This was the evening before the Convention. I next saw one white delegate and two negroes preparing to go to bed, they slept in the same room, there were three persons and two beds. I am not prepared to say how they paired on, but next morning they were seen dwelling "together in sweet unity, and washing their faces out of the same bowl, and using the same towel. If vou don't believe this, ask Dave Bringle, the P. M., at Salisbury. And so it goes. And yet men have the assurance to tea us there is no danger of social equality, and that the negroes themselves do not desire it. and would not permit it even if the whites would consent to it. White people need not delude themselves with any such idea. The negro will go to just places as he is permitted to go to, and he will stay away from other places only because he dares not attempt to go to them. He will go with white people whenever they allow it and he will stay away from them only when he is afraid not to do so. This principle and this alone settles the negro's theory and his practice about social equality. The seed that Mr. Neill McKay sowed two years ago, when he talked about no parlor and no kitchen, has borne abundant fruit. We see it every where around us. Mr. Neill McKay deliberately sowed the wind and he must not now grumble because he is obliged to reap the whirlwind. We told him then to b careful lest he loose a devil that he could not chain up again. Two years ago he told the negroes to rally to his support and that with success there would be hence iorth no parlor and no kitchen. This year they wait not for success, but in sist that with success or without suc cess, there shall be "no parlor and no kitchen", a dead unbroken level of social equality, negro and white, white and negro, all alike everywhere. r -fc.- i -I i- -t - i . - - iur. xeiu mcivay noes indeed pre tend to disown the child of his own be getting, an d to say that this is none of his work, but who believes him ? Do the negroes believe him ? Is there a single negro that will refuse to vote for him because of his denunciation of the Civil Rights Bill ? Not one, we ven ture to say. Mr. Neill McKay may denounce the Civil Rights Bill as bit terly as he pleases, and yet there is not a civil rights and social equality negro in the district who would not walk twenty miles on election day to vote for him. He does not endanger a single negro vote by the course he is now pursuing. And will white people be more cred ulous than negroes ? The man who once told ignorant negroes to "vote down the wealth and intelligence of the country" and that there would be "no parlor and no kitchen" if he were successful, can never reinstate himself in the good opinion of white men. JPUBKIC SPEAKI(;. Hox. George Davis will address the people at the followiug times and places : Jacksonville, Onslow county, Mon day, July Cth. Shoe Heel, Robeson county, Friday. July 10th. Kenansville, Duplin county, Tues day, July 14th. Cots. Robert Strange and W. Fos ter French, -will address the people of Columbus county, at Whiteyille. Friday, July 3d. CONCRE9SANDTHE PRESS. It appears, after all, says the Balti more Gazette, that the contest between the Senate and the press may not yet be over. The bill designed specially to drag a proprietor of a newspaper before the partisan tribunals in Wash ington, the creatures of Congress, has failed, it is true. But the law which prevented Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, being brought to Washington to answer for libel, has been evaded. According to the Washington corres pondence of the Tribune this is done by the following Act passed by the late Congress : An Act conferring jurisdiction upon the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatiues of the United States in Congress assembled, That the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction of all crimes and misdemeanors committed - i - i. - a a 1 1 1 1 4-.nVtla in in saia uisinci nut lawiuujr any other court, and they are required by law to be prosecuted by indictment on information. Sec. 2. That the provisions oi the thirty-third section of the Sudiciary Act of 1789 shall apply to courts created by Act of Congress in the Dis trict of Columbia. The ruling that a man could not be brought from New York here to be tried for libel before the Police Court, because it had no jury, is evaded in this Act by the first section, which turns the case over to the Criminal Court, which has a jury; and the fur ther question, whether the warrants of the courts of the District of Columbia are to be respected in the States, is set at rest in the second section, which confers upon all the courts of the Dis trict, including the Police Court, the same power to secure the offender in any part of the United States which any United States Court has. If the claim of the courts of the District, that a libel is published wherever the book or paper containing kit is circu lated, holds good, then an editor in San Francisco can be indicted for libel in the Criminal Court of the District, and arrested and brought hero for trial. Have Senators Carpenter and Conk hug been too sharp lor their oppo- nonto 9 Or too a if TVilnml net sntrn Riiv? THE PILOT IjAW.S UI l H'I'.l !T" ii:cisio. In the General Term of the Court of Common Pleas, of New York, before Chief Justice Daly and Judges Robin son, Van Brunt and Larreniore, decis ions have just,been rendered on appeals in several suits brought by Sandy nook pilots to recover pilotage fees, in which important questions m rela tion to the pilot laws are passed on and which will be read with particular interest by pilots generally. The facts in the case are these : Daniel Gillespie sued P. Zittlosen, consignee of the brig Sarah E. Ivenne dy, in the First District Court, before Judge Quinn, for his fees. He had offered his services as pilot to the brig at such distance from Saudy Hook as entitled hini to on shore pilotage, and he was the hist pilot oilerug. The master replied that he might come aboard to pilot the vessel, but he would not pay for oil shore pilotage whereupon Gillespie declined to go aboard. The vessel subsequently took a licensed pilot, who was paid for his services. Judge Quinn gave judg ment for the plaintiff, holding that he being the first pilot ottering, had earn ed his fees when his services were ten deied. Judge ivouinson, in deliver ing the opinion of the Common Picas affirming the judgment, says that the exigencies of commerce require that provisions of law should be mado for the employment of persons of competent skill and ability, known as pilots, to take charge of vessels bound to and from the ports or the harbors, who shall be at all times in readiness to render them aid and assistance. The faithful perform ance of such duties is onerous and res ponsible, requiring great skill and an intimate acquaintance with ail the in tricacies and perils of the harbor, and incessant exposure to all the perils of so hazardous a calling. The main tenance of such a system for the lar ger ports also requires regulations giving them efficiency and permanen cy. It is the policy of the law to af ford encouragement to such a class of persons to engage in cruising at a dis tance from land and venturing and hazarding their persons and property to the perils of the eea, by ensuring tnem some adequate and certain re ward therefor by way of pilotage. The law to promote vigilance, awards the right of pilotage to the pilot who is ready and first offers to perform the services. Such fee, by fair construc tion of the statutes, should go to the pilot first speaking or offering his ser vices as pilot to such vessel. This was in no sense a penalty imposed, but the right to recover conferred, was rem edial, and grew out of the consider ations he had stated, and presented a case where the compensation was adjudged to be earned when the services were tendered for perform ance. The law having, by examina tion and license, provided properly qualified pilots, the master of the ves sel wTas not justified in capriciously re fusing the services of the one first offering. The statute on the subject was in narmony with the rule of the common law. In the case of John Dollo against M. T. Wright, there was no refusal of the services of the pilot. He was taken on board, and some time after ward the Captain asked and was in formed that the vessel was about sixty three miles south southeast of Sandy Hook. It being a fair night, the Cap tain invited the pilot to "turn in," or go to bed until the Highlands were in sight. This lie did. They came in sight at half-past twelve in the morn ing, when the pilot went on deck. He did not agree to accept in shore pilot age, but it was claimed that by "turn ing in" he forfeited the "offshore" pilotage. Judge Quinn grave indc- ment in his favor, and Judge Robin son, in affirming it, says: "There was no contradiction that the pilot was requested to 'turn tn,' or that in se doing he was, under the circumstances, guilty of any neglect of dutv. and the pilotage fee for off shore, allowed by statute, was earned bv tender and readiness to perform the duties." .HISS I.AtUSA ALEXASDEIl. In re-publishing our article in de nial to the slander in regard to the death of Miss Laura Alexander, the Charlotte Southern Home savs: While in the act of penniner a denial of the base calumny put in circulation by a Georgia female sensationalist, of public notoriety, we received the Wil mington Journal containing the above pertinent remarks. We are in posses sion oi miormation to sustain every word our cotemporary has eaid on this monstrous slander. The testimow of thoso who were constantly associat- fid with npr in Ijt vnlli a letter from Boucicault, for whom she exerted the last effort of her feeble frame, unite to extol the virtue, the amiability, the beauty and umblemish ed character of this noble heart ed girl. The charge of habitual intox ication is a thing to be hooted at. To a friend of the writer, Miss Laura, only a few months before her death, refused to toush eyen tvine when urged to alleviate her phsijal suller ings in that manner. The cause of her sudden death is a matter of proof. A celebrated physi cian had warned her of the danger she wag incurring by her unwearied exer tion an the stage : but her great zeal " - t-ri..UVs L UX 11 I II I ajid Arnbitjon, fcept Jier At work till At the very moment of success, voice and strength failed her. Then her spirits broke, and death claimed her for his own. A nooier soui aoes not survivu her. And perhaps an apology is due her memory for dignifying with a de nial so vile a slander emanating from so low a source. We were much gratified also to see that the Raleigh Crescent, in which the slander had been inadvertantly published, expressed in the strongest terms not only its regret that the arti cle had appeared in its columns, but its entire disbelief in it. Wethinkjit as little as those papers can do, that gave circulation to so gross and wanton a falsehood, is now to publish the truth. Ifew Hanover County Affairs. Point Caswell, N. C, June 26th, 1874. Editors Journal: In and through the columns of your , - - i-f n : 1 . paper, the township oi uasweu wibuco to communicate with other townships of the county in regard to a matter which she considers has been for the last eight or nine years a material drawback to the interest of the Demo cratic party, especially as regards county nominations. Now sir, if we have a party, and that party has prin ciples, it is by those principles we must stand or fall. Have we in the above named years, asserted our rights and principles in this county as far as regards county nominations ? We do not recollect it at this time. We have stood watching the disrup tions of the Republican party, and thrown our strength by actually voting or not, with the Republican party, and what have we gained by? This township has always been of the opinion that we should always have run a straight Democratic ticket, beat or no beat, in order to keep our land marks fresh and well known. But when you propose to an individual to run or be a candidate, what is the reply? It is this: That he does not wish to contend against the odds; or in other words, does not wish to be slaughtered. We would not give a pin-feather for a man who is always willing to fight when he knows he can whip. And one word of inquiry from Caswell Township, which is simply this: Whence, and from what source did our Executive Committee obtain this one man power, that is to say that the Chairman of this Committee is to say what w hat man out of each towuship shall represent the people of said township? We care not from what source it comes, or by what power, it is not Democratic, and it is taking the power out of the hands of the people. Now sir, in years gone by, it was the custom of the Democratic party that each precinct, or what is now styled township, should assemble together in mass and select from the mass who should represent them, and send them to Convention either tramelcd or un trameled, as the case might be. Cas well makes this proposition to her sis ter townships and wards of the city, that we select some suitable point for holding a Convention of the people of New Hanover county and therefrom select a straight forward Democratic ticket and put them through to the best of our strength and ability. Cas well suggests Rocky Point, Lillingtnn or Point Caswell, as a suitable place to hold raid Convention. For tae iii'iu rial. IjiT.ts it.i.e, June 30. If I have due Mr. P. Rat I iff any in justice, 1 sincerely regret it. I only gave what was, and is yet, the cur rent talk and belief, though from Mr. It's card, my information must have been incorrect as to the length of time he had known of the break inthe road. Mr. R's statement that lie don't know who 1 am, is as singular an th:'t other which places liis mill "half a mile" from the rail road. And now, I "quit". I. For the Journal. Coin rtarison. Comparisons are not always odious. Let us compare the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad with onr Sea Side Rai'road. When the now flourishing Weldon liailroad was projected it was ridiculed by the majority of people. I he idea seemed preposterous. What ! build a road one hundred and sixty miles in length (then the longest road in the world). Doubt was ex pressed, by the knowing ones, that it could not bo built. Soon, however, the spado was brought into requisi tion and the road was built, and where does it stand to-day ? The real estate of the city of Wilmington then only amounted to 8300,000. Cold water was thrown upon the enterprise and only a few determined men insist ed that it should be built. W hat was the result ? We had men then equal to the emergency men that talked little, gave liberally, and acicd sub stantially. Many are living to-day who can recall the happy countenances of McRae, Mcllhenny, Cowan, Dudley, Dickinson, Potter and others when the road was finished. Wilmington then began to prosper and we owe her prosperity, in a great measure, to the enterprise of those gentlemen. Now hero is a email road of only eight miles, which will benefit Wil mington alone, a home institution which we can look upon with pride, leading to a healthy and pleasant re sort, and you say it cannot be built when the necessity for such a road is admitted by all; (shade of the Mighty) think of it business men. vou who seek to please those whom your busi ness relations are with. What better excursion can bo offered your friends from distant cities than a sea bath, or a bait of our great delicacy, the pig fish, going there a short quick triii over the railroad to the seashore. Your late excursion was a success. Many of your visitors had not seen Old Qcean, what a grand sight it must have been to them who for the first time beheld, "The bridegroom sea toy ing with its shore, its wedded bride, and in the fullness of its married joys, retires apace to see how fair she looks, then rushes up to kiss her." It was expressed on more than one occasion by the Charlotteonians how pleasant it would be to have a rail road to the Sound ; then we could come down, bring our families to this healthy resort, and every week visit them. Here are facts and figures ; r.s before stated, when the Wilmington v Weldon railroad was built, the real estate was 300,000, now it is above millions, still you cannot raise a small sum to build a small rail road. Well, it is to be hoped that you who have not aided or abetted this enterprise, will take a sober second thoucrht about it and lend a helping hand, it will be nefit you. The grading has com menced in good earnest, the right men are in the right places, and if you will aid them a little all will be well, and in the completion of the road, you will gladden the heart of the capitalist as well as the poor laborer. Senex. Politicians who are searching for motives for the appointment of the new Postmaster General may perhnps get a valuable hint by considering the a . i - ,i u -' t . situation of his father-m-law. In be liefs, mental traits and personal tastes, Mr. Chandler and the President are congenial, and the President is known to have long looked upon the Michigan Senator as one of his trustiest friends. Mr. Chandler's term is about to ex2nre and his re-election has not been con sidered a matter of absolute certainty. Doubtless the President could in no way render him such effective assis tance as by placing his son-in-law in possession of the patronage of the Postohicie Department. This may not explain the mysterious problem, but it is at least a suggestion which Jthe speculators will think it worth while to turn over and look at from diffe&enj; aides. , THE BEECHER SCANDAL. ;IIAVK CHARGES AI3AIXST Til 13 FASTOK OF XIIE PI,Y3IOIITH CIBlRCII. Xilton's itcaaons for Withdrawing' From the Society Xlic Wood hull Expose The Triparllc Agreement AVIiv the Church Shrunk From rii investigation of the Scandal An Attempt to Bur Forg-iveness From Tillon-Thc Ifribe Itcfused Heecher's Pica for Pardon, Ac. The Beecher-Tilton scandal is one of those things that will not die, and apparently every movement made to hush it up leads to some demonstra tion, bringing it freshly forward to public attention. As already briefly reported by telegraph, Mr. Theodore Tilton has written a long letter to Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, moderator of the Congregational Council recently held in Brooklyn, in reply to certain mis representations which he says were unintentionally made by that gentle man.1 Tilton says he had been for fifteen years a member of Plymouth Church, and had become an intimate friend of the pastor. The knowledge came to me in 1870 that he had committed against me an offence which I forbear to name or characterize. Prompted by my self respect, I immediately and forever ceased my attendance on his ministry. I informed him of this de termination as early as January, 1871, in the presence of a mutual friend, Mr. Francis D. Moulton. T I Ii T O N S WlTHDKAWAIi FliOM THE CHUECH. The rules of Plyrc outh Church of fered me a choice between the two methods of retirement one, to ask a formal method of dismissal; the other, to dismiss myselt less formally by pro longed absence. I chose the latter. Several powerful reasons prompted me to this alternative. The pastor communicated to me, in writing, an apology, signed by his name. He also appealed to me to protect him from bringing reproach to the cause of re Iigion. He alleged that an exposure would forbid him to reasceud the pul pit. These and other similar reasons, I had no right or disposition to disre gard . At length my absence from the church, an absence, the cause of which not three members of the congrega tion beside the pastor knew, begaii to excite comment in private circles. Tins woonni nn expose. Ai tev many calumnious whisperings, near and far, a weekly paper in New York, in November, 1S72, published a wicked and horrid scandal, a publica tion which some persons in the church ignorautly attributed in its origin and animus to me, whereas I had previous ly spent many mouths of constant and unremitting endeavor to suppress it, an endeavor iu which, with an earnest motive but foolish judgment, I made many ill-directed sacrifices in my repu tation, position, money and fair pros pects in life. Tn May, 1 873, occurred the surreptitious publication of a trip artite agreement signed by II. C. Bowen, If. W. Beecher and myself, an agreement which had, so far as I was concerned, for its object to pledge me to silence against using or circulating chnrges which Mr. Bowen had made against Mr. Beecber. THE WEST INDICT'.ir.NT. Tilton then relates, at some length, the stejis taken by Mr. West to cite him before the Plymouth Church on a charge of circulating scandal against the pastor. The charges formally brought a few weeks after, though nominally against himself, were really against the pastor. lie cheerfully co operated in defeating West, and wrote a letter declining to accept a copy of the charges addressed to him as a member, on the ground that he had, four years previously, ceased connec tion with the church. Por this letter ho received the pastor's prompt and hearty thanks. An understanding was then had between Mr. Reccher and himself that West's indictment was to be disposed of by a simple resolution that he (Tilton) had, four years previ ously, terminated his membership. This was to put West's case quietly out of court without scandal. To Til ton's surprise and indignation he sub sequently learned that the report would declare that, "whereas he had been charged with slandering the pas tor and been cited to meet the charge and had pleaded non-membership, therefore, resolved, etc," and upon appearing in person at tho meeting he was told by the report that he had been served with the charges and re quested to answer them. He conse quently arose in the meeting and said in Mr. Beecher's presence that if he had slandered him he would answer for it to his face, and Mr, Beecher re plied in an equally public manner that he had no charge to make. THE CONGREGATIONAL COUNCIL. Next follows the history of the Con gregational Council, accompanied by letters from various persons and a criticism upon the acts and language of that body. Tilton continues: "I solemnly aver, and no man shall gain say me, that the reason why Plymouth Chuch avoided an investigation into the scandal with which I was charged, was not because I, but another man, had brought dishonor on the Christian name, and yet the other person, a clergyman, permitted his church to brand me beforo the council with an accusation which, had I been in hib place and he in miue, I would volun tarily have borno myself instead of causing another to do so." AN ATTEM1TE1 BRIBE. I will add a quotation from a letter which I had occasion to address to Mr. Beecher, dated May 1, 1S7I. Henry Ward Berchcr: Sin Mr. F. B. Carpenter mentions to me your saying to him that, under certain con ditions, involving certain disavowals by me, a sum of money would or could be raised to send me, with my family, to Europe for a term of years. The statement compels me to state ex plicitly that so long as life and self- resjicct continue to exist together in my breast, I shall be debarred from receiving, either directly or indirectly, any pecuniary or other favor at your hands. The reason for this feeling on my part you know so well that 1 will siare you the statement of it. lours truly, Theodoee Tilton. Mr. Tilton then goes on to produce a mass of letters and correspondence, in which we discover no new facts until wo come' to the following, ad dressed by Mr. Tilton to Dr. Bacon: Pleaso forward to Mr. Beecher the letter which I am now writing, and ask him to inform you, on his word of 1. t . il. T 1 , . iionor, wneiuer j. nave ueeu ins niaii- derer, whether I have evaded my just responsibilities to Plymouth Church, whether I have treated him other than with the highest possible fairness, and whether ho has not acknowledged to me, in large and ample terms, that my course toward him in this sorrowful business has been marked by the mag nanimity which you apparently inti mate has characterized his toward me. If you will write to Mr. Beecher as I have indicated, I will thank you for a lino as the words or substance of his replj Iu reply to this letter, Rev. Dr. Bacon sent the following, duted New Haven, April 10: Jhur Sir: Not being in Mr. Beecher's confidence, I have doubted what to do with your letter written a week ago. I was not and am not willing to demand of him that he shall admit me to his confidence on a matter on which he chooses to be reticent. But, as the letter seems to have been written for him quite as much as for me, I have now sent it to him without asking or expecting any reply. It is now between two and three m6nihs, Mr. Tilton adds, since I re ceived from yonJihe following leLter. and s I . hare not heard that 'Mr. J Beecher has made a reply either to you or to me, I am at last forced to the disagreeable necessity of borrow ing a rsply in his own words, as fol lows: beecher's confession. Brooklyn, Jan. 1, 1871. I ask Theodore Til ton's forgiveness. and humble myself before him as I do before my God. He would have been a better man in my circumstances than I have been. I can ask nothing except that he will remember all the other breasts that would ache. I will not plead for myself. I even wish that I were dead. II. W. Beecher. The above brief extract from Mr. Beecher's own testimony will be suffi cient, without adducing the remainder of the document, to show that I have just ground to resist the imputation that 1 am the creature of his magna nimity. The New York Times, in publishing the correspondence, says : " Mr. Beecher's own admissions as quoted by Mr. Tilton, are certainly very strong, and will, perhaps, startle many who hold that the lives of ministers of religion should correspond in some de gree with their preaching. The solemn warning, 'Be sure your sin will find you it,' is not limited in its application to the hearers of the Word, but ap plies to the preachers thereof also. Mr. Tilton declares that he would net have published a line on this unplea sant subject but for the persistent at tacks which have been levelled at him by the friends of Mr. Beecher, and there seems no reason to doubt his word." the latest developments. New York, June 28. F. B. Carpenter, the artist mention ed in Tilton's letter to Beecher as the who had said that money could be ob tained to send Tilton and his family to Europe, if they were willing to go, has been interviewed and says: "A few days after the adjournment of the council, I had occasion to call upon Beecher, at his house, iu connection with a matter wholly disconnected with that scandal. Iu the course of some friendly conversation, I men tioned the fact to Beecher that Tilton had just finished his book on which he had been engaged for a year, and add ed that the excitement of tho council had depressed him considerably, and that I, in common with several of his friends, wished he could go to Europe. Beecher said he thought it would be an excellent thing for him to do. In reply to this I said that recent busi ness embarrassments stood in the way. lo which Beecher answered, that if Tilton desned to go means would be provided. I did not understand, from anything said by Mr. Beecher, that he made this proposition in order to se cure Mr. Tilton's silence in regard to the scandal. The matter only come up incidently, and he could hardly have expected that I would bring it up. I told Tilton what Beecher had said, and it enraged him greatly, although it was a long time afterward that I learned he had written to Mr. Beecher about the thing." I'OS'I'II IMIOliS t i II AX I X I ' I i :. Fortune I. oft to a lieiitlemaii One Klndlr Act. tor From the .New York Sun. Inthe spring of ISfit Mr. Barnr.m organized an exhibition tour of his "little people" through New York and the Eastern States. General Tom Thumb and 1 lis diminutive wife were the stars of the troupe, and Mr. Wil liam Li. Miller was the manager. Hav ing exhibited at Burlinerton. Vermont. the troupe came by boat to Whitehall, New York, one Friday night in June, anu took quarters in the principal hotel in that old fashioned village. -The tour up to that time had been ex traordinarily successful, and Mr. Mil ler's cash box was well tilled with crisp greenbacks. On Saturday the General and his twenty-two pound wife felt disposed to rest after their extended travels, and kept their rooms. Mr. Miller, who is a fisherman, and can cast a rly against the wind with Teter (Jill himself, set out to explore the Whitehall brooks for speckled trout. Beforo quitting the hotel he took his cash box into the General's room and left it in his care, with a warning to keep his eye on it, and in case of his going out to leave it in charge of the assistant manager of tho troupe. A ROBBERY. Early in the afternoon the General and his lady went out for a walk, for getting the cash box, and leaving the room door open. While they were gone a chamber-maid entered the room, opened the cash box. took out the contents nearly 2,0JO and took r rench leave. At 5 P. M. Mr. Miller returned with a string of trout, and having occasion to use pen and ink, went to the cash box, where thoso articles were always Kepi. j.o nis dismay he lound only pen and ink where he expected to find ijj.uuu. Hurried questioning of the little people developed the story of the temporary desertion of the room, and in a few minutes tho desertion of the servant girl was made equally man liest. Mr. Miller sought out the sheriff of tho county, and in a short time fleet pursuers were on the track of the dis honest handmaiden. Tom Thumb wanted to join in the chase himself, and was only dissuaded from doing so by the entreaties of his wife. Before bed time the sheriff returned with the dust-begrimed and travel-worn girl, who had walked and run over fifteen miles. She was tired and penitent, and voluntarily confessed that she had stolen the money. In extenuation of her crime she said that she was about to be married and desired a wedding trosseau. Going in to the General's deserted room f he saw tho money box. The temptation was too much for her. and without stopping to consider the possible con sequences, she opened the box, took tho money and fled. Being asked what she did with the money, she produced all but about 200 of it, saying that she had lost that sum. She was so distressed, and seemed so contrite, that Miller, after some inquiries as to her previous character, decided not to prosecute her. On the succeeding Monday the troupe went to Saratoga. The news of the theft was known to but few of tho villagers of Whitehall, and these few charitably kept the se cret, so that the erring girl kept her position. A WINDFALL. After the war, when business began to brighten up, Mr. Miller left the show business, and went back to mer cantile life, entering the firm of Hurd, Morrison Sc Co.. of r90 Broad wa v. He did iiot hear ;wj tiling oi' the girl from the time of the theft until two or three weeks ago, when a letter from a Mr, Stebbins, of Whitehall, recalled her to his memory. Mr. Stebbins letter recited a few incidents of her history since the theft the leading one being her marriage to a weaitny lumber dealer, who lived but a few years, leaving all his prop erty to his young wife. Two months ago she died having devised $150,000 to Mr. Miller in gratitude for his act of forbearance in 1SGI. Mr. Stebbins said he had spent much time in his search for Mr. Miller. Finally, hear- ii.g i.J" :: p.-r on '.villi his initials in a saddlery firm on Broadway, he ha4 written to ascertain i ' he was the agent of the httlo people 180i. In conclusion, he informed him that a large lot of lumber formed part of the property devised to him, request? ed him to take it away, and told him as soon as his identity had been estab lished his draft for 8200,000 would be duly honored. The Wadesboro' Herald says the net proceeds of the Masonic Festival in that place, on the 24th nit, for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum, foot up From New Orleans Picayune PfANTIXCJ AFTEKTIIG 1XOOD. A E'ew I'ost-Ui luvian Difficulties. A correspondent in Iberville recounts some of the trials and discouragements which have attended the replanting of overflowed fields in his section. They appear to be as great as in tho case of Plaquemines parish, and, except to people incapable of despair, utterly in surmountable. Truly, our State has been sorely afflicted. Whether we are to recover is not yet clear : Bayou Jacob, Iberville Parish, La., ( June a, l74. s To the Editor of the Picayune: Ihere are so many all over our com mon country that take so deep interest in our welfare, and are supplying us with the necessaries of life, that it is but just that they, those who have been so liberal toward us, and are yet con tinuing to feed us, should know exactly the situation of the people in this vast overflowed district. I see by some of the papers that it is said that we have planted our lands, and may expect to reap in the course of time. The lands in this neighborhood were the first and last to be uncovered by the waters, and at the first sign of dry land planting commenced with fine prospects. Some ten days since the rains commenced, and it rains not only every day but several times a day. Every man and boy that could draw a furrow or put a grain of corn in the ground, white and black, owners of plantations and their laborers, all with common consent went to planting. But what can be done against so many difficulties that beset uaton every side? Let me enumerate some of these backsets, and tell me was ever a people so tried. The rains won't per mit us to plow ; we take off our shoes, and with stick in hand, follow the re ceding waters; the coons follow us at night and dig up about one half of what wo have put in the ground; the worms follow tho coons, and we again follow the worms, and so on. What escapes both these pests is choked by grass and drowned by water (rain). We are obliged to thin out and hoe in the mud. The men are wet to the skin about one-half of the time. To plant potatoes is almost impossible likewise. If we are fortunate enough to be able to break up the land, be fore we can ridge or hill, a heavy rain spoils all the work. Xhe people labor under so many difficulties that the wonder to me is that they do not give it up; but, to their credit be it said, they fight against all these difficulties with un ceasing courage. The lands have been made so fertile that every grass grows as if a vast bed of guano had been eown over it. To add to our misfortunes, that dreaded disease, the charbon, is killing ell hundreds of animals in the back country. The rains have had the effect of starting the grasses, so much needed by our poor rnimals, which were almost starved to death. Indeed, indeed, hard to bear are our trials, but He who feeds the birds of the air will ex tricate ns. M. SciiL.vriiE. A PRECOCIOUS YOUTH. Xiic Trouble of 'lsriorilif ltim!u- IMiersou. r 'o- This boy was a crood boy. He would have been an angel to-day but for the deceit of this false-hearted world. He wasn't one of a set of triplets, and therefore didn't have honors showered down upon him in his early days, but old women said there was foundation there for an orator, a great general, or a philosopher, and old men exam ined his head and said it was level. Nothing particular hapjiened to Chris topher Columbus until the eighth year of his reign. His childhood days were full of mud pies, the butt end of shingles, paregoric, castor oil and old straw hats with the front brim worn off. Ho was a deep thinker and a close observer for a small boy, and he was just innocent enough to believe things which other boys pitched out of the window without a second thought. When Christopher was going on nine years old he heard some one 6ay that "a penny saved was two pence earned." He therefore laid a big Bungtown away in a crack under the mop board, and every day he looked to see it grow to two cents. He had confidence and patience, but at length both gave way. Then he got the cent out one day and Mrs. Norton's baby swallowed it, and that was the last of that Bungtown. The youthiul Chris topher didn't believe in maxims quite as much as b?fore, but he hadn't cut all his eye-teeth yet. When this boy was a year older he heard some one say that "the truth was mighty and must prevail," and that the boy who always spoke the truth would surely make a good and great man. He commenced to tell the truth. One day he got his father's razor out and hacked it on a stone, and wheu the old gent came home and asked who in blazes had done that? Christopher Columbus srhe Up and said : "It was I father; I notched your old razor. " "You did eh?" sneered the old man as he looked up into a peach tree; "well, I'll fix you so yon will never notch another razor for me!" When tho lad was about twelve years old he read in a little book that "honesty was tho best policy." He didn't more than half believe it, but he thought he'd try. He went to be ing honest. One day his mother sent him to the grocery to buy eggs, and Bill Jones induced him to squander the change m the purchase of soda water. When he got home his mother asked him tor the little balance, ana Christopher explained. "Spent it for soda, eh ?" she replied. "Here your poor old mother is work ing like a slave, and you are around swilling down soda water! I don't think you'll swill any more, I don't! Come over my right knee." And she agitated him m the liveliest manner. Xhat night as he turned on his downy straw bed the boy made up his mind that honesty didn't pay, aud he resolved to cheat the whole world if he could. When Christopher was half a year older he came across the injunction: "Be kind to tho poor." He did not know whether it would pay or not, but he set about it. He knew of a poor woman who sadly needed a spring bonnet, and he took over his mother's, along with a few other things, in cluding his father's second pair of boots, his own Sunday shoes, and so on. He went around feeling very big hearted until the old gent wanted to go to the lodge que night, and then it came out. "Gin away my boots, ch ?" inquired ! the father; "lugged your mother's ! best bonnet oft", eh? Well, I don't think you'll remember the poor very much after to-night." And he pbuuded Christoiiher Col umbus with a pump handle until the boy fainted away, and even then didn't feel as if he had made a thorough job of it. They fooled this boy once more. He heard a rich man say that every body should "make hay while the sun shone." So when there came a sunny day he went out, took his father's scythe down from the phita tree and Went to making hay. Hj broke the scythe, cut down the tulips, and hacked his sister in the heel, am his motjier came out and led him around by the hair, and bounced him until he almost went into a decline. They couldn't bamboozle this boy after that. He grew wicked every day of his life, and before his eighteenth birthdav arrived he was hung for murder. He said he didn't care a huckleberry about it, and died without making' the usual Fourth of July oration. STATE NEWS. The Baleigh Sentinel snys: The rope with which John Allen Ketchev was hung Friday at Salisbury was obtained by a gentleman from this city, who was present at the excution and has been presented to A. W. Frapps, who has it on exhibition at his saloon. An extra from the Rockinsrham Courier office says : The Conservative Executive Committee for llichmond county, after consultation, have deter mined to postpone the time of holding the County Convention to Friday the 10th of July, instead of Friday July rd, as heretofore announced. John Allen Blake, tho black devil who outraged Miss Haley, near Mor risville, on the 22nd ult., was tried at the Superior Court in Kaleigh, on Tuesday, and sentenced to be hung on the 21th iust. just one month and two days after the commission of the deed. This we loam from the Kaleisrh JYcics. The Charlotte Southern Home says: We have been shown some heads of white wheat averaging 75 full grains to the head and one head having 90 large size grains clear, clean and pretty enough for an ornament in a young lady's bonnet. This wheat was raised by I. B. Henry on lands owned by J. H. Carson, Esq. The Cherokee Herald savs: F. T. Axley, Esq., has just brought to our office some very rich gold bearing rock and argentiferous galena, found in Cherokee county. Where these are found there are more of the same sort. Oh, for a few enterprising miners to look up and work our mines, and we would not mind the panic. A thousand amends to this from tho Charlotte Democrat: Why don't the people hang the scoundrels who rape women on the highways ? Last week a respectable young white woman was violated near Morrisville, Wake coun ty, by a negro man, and he has not yet been executed. The punishment for such a crime ought to be speedy. The Newton Vindicator says : Two negroes, Joe Sherrill and Julius Wil son, were committed to jail in this Xlace last Tuesday, charged with com mitting rape nion the person of Mrs. Susan Deal. The evidence shows a most foul crime, and tho perpetrators will doubtless receive their just reward at next Court, unless they are turned loose to "save expense to the county." The Hillsboro Recorder says: We regret to learn that tho miil of Mr. W. W. Guess, in the county, was the eastern part of recently burnt, to gether with a largo quantity of grain. The mill had recently been repaired, and the dam, which was carried away by a freshet in thp winter, just recon structed. The loss is a serious one both to the proprietor and the neigh borhood. Tha Monroe Enquirer says: The wheat crop in this county has not turned out so well as it was thought it would, owing to the rust getting into it, but from all v.e can learn we are satisfied that a:i average crop will be made. Cotton and corn, although they got a late start, are doing finely, staud of cotton is very good rii 1 II!? Wc have been having splendid seaso s, and it 13 sincerely hoped that the farmers may be b.Yssed with abundant crops. "A cannon shot recently deposited iu the Boston Museum is marked with the following inscription : This twelve-pound conical shot fired from a Confederate battery at the battle of New Berne, March 11, 18fi2. It passed sideways through the body of Samuel Lines of company F, 24th Massachu setts Regiment, killing hini instantly, and thence into a tree, from which it was afterward cut by his comaade, II. N. Cu minings, by whom it is pre sented." The Charlotte Observer says : Mr. Alexander Hunter, in tho "Northern part of this county, has discovered a gold mine on his premises. At present it promises a very fine yield. He came to the city yesterday morning loaded with specimens and bearing a letter - m t " tit i s . irom jroi. lverr, rotate ideologist, in which that mineralogist gi ves it as his opinion that his mine will pay to work it. Ho proposes in a week or two to commence work, and we shall have something more to say about it. The Asheville Citizen says : Tom Easterly, came to Hominy sec tion in this county during the war, refugeeing from the Kirk radical cut throat of East Tennessee. He was a blacksmith by trade, and worked at his business in Hominy for some time, then moved to Leicester where he re mained until about one year ago, when he returned to his old home in Ten nessee. A few nights ago some men, supposed to have been his old enemies under the Kirk oppression, went to his home, took him out and hung him. Easterly was said to have borne a very good character was industrious and peaceable. The Asheville Pioneer says : On Sunday last, Mr. Wilson, of Brevard, took from his trap, a fish which has attracted considerable attention. It was 41 feet long, and had a bill resem bling that of a bird, 14 inches long, and three broad. Its month was di rectly under the eyes, and measured seven inches in width. It was 18 inches in circumference, with tail fins 14 inches broad. It weighed 28 pounds, and its color resembled that of a pike or jack-fish, except the head and bill, which were spotted, With the exception of its head, this s-ingular fish was entirely boneless. The Raleigh Crescent savs: Mr. Aquilla Comptou is an aged old coun try gentleman that lives in Orange county about nine miles from Hills boro. Now Mr. Compton is not up to the times and if he has a lead mine on his farm he doesn't know what it is worth. But a few days ago, while building a new house on Mr. Co nip ton's land, they found a rock that weighed heavy and a party melted it in a smith's furnace and said it was white lead. Tho old man Cornpton then found a rock that was very heavy and with his own hands he cleaned out his forge and melted the rock, and sure enough it was the real lead. The Weldon News says: An unfor tunate affair occurred up the Chowan River on Wednesday night last. The steamer Ella was returning up tl e river from Edentou, and, about mid night, near Petty Shore, ten miles below Winton, ran into a small row boat in which were two white men named Piland and Morris. It was dark, but a signal of distress was heard, the steamer was stopped, a life boat lowered and Piland picked up in a bruised condition. Morris could not be found and was of course drowned. These men were aware that it was time for the Ei!a, and intended clear ing the waj', but neglected doing so, went to sieep, and putting out no signal, wero not seen, but run over and one of the men buried beneath the billows of the Chowan. It 13 proposed in New York to estal lish training schools for domestic ser vants in connection with the Bureau of Emigration at Castle Garden or else where. The emigrants are fhsttobe sorted like a lot of apples. They then go as classified into training wards. These cooks, waiters and chamber maids ill learn at leistthe rudiments of household work. Then there is c be an lidvanced school into which tl 3 mosj; promising pupils will be drawn; aud under a competent teacher will learn the finer arts of cookery how to tickle the gullet o Aldernn.h Gob: ble or the Hon. Mr. Guzzieum, the mysteries of boned turkey aud soft crabs, and how to call American dishes by French names, and summit of all one chance in thousands how to cajole some decrepid gourmand into that terrible puniehment of senility "marrying his cook." HEADQUARTERS. HALE DECLINESTO BE POST MASTER GENERAL. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. FURTHER REDUCTION OF CLER ICAL FORCE. Washington, July 1 Noon Mr Hale has finally declined the Postmaal ter-Generalship on account of impaired health. His successor will J10t be named for several days. United States consul Strave, whose term of office had just expired, died at Quebec. Strave had been promoted to tho legation at Leghorn. Washington, July 1 Night. The public debt statement issued to-dav shows a reduction during the mnntJ of June, of 2,180,190. The currencv balance is $14,576,010, and coin Uf ance $74,205,304, coin certificates $22,825,100, special deposits held for redemption of certificates of denoait. $58,760,000. P81t8 The comptroller of currency hag called for statements from the National Banks of their condition at the close of business on the 26th nit. The President to-day appointed Charlej F. Couant to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Saw yer. Mr. Conant has been clerk in the warrant division of the Treasury for nine years, four of which he acted as chief of the division. He :s from New Hampshire. Reductions of employees in the public departments continue. A large number of males and females were dismissed to-day. In the Patent office to-day, a clerk who had been discharged became tem porarily insane and divesting himself of all clothing, seized a bayonet from the model room and rushed through the halls. There was great consternation and tho clerk was finally taken in charge by the police. A. C. Cattell, who was appointed one of the District Commissioners, lias finally declined. Blow and Denuison accept. It is expected that a Commissioner in Cattell's plae and a Postmaster General vice nail, will be appointed to morrow. There was a Cabinet meeting to-day, at which the subject of the Post Office appointment was discussed, but the President, as yet, lias made no deter mination. At the meeting Creswcll stated upon leaving, that he would act until his successor was appointed, but that lie intended to insist upon leaving the Department as soon as possible. On returning to the Pott Office De partment, in reply to a question whether he would not reconsider his resignation, he said emphatically, "No, I was in earnest when I resigned and would be glad to bo relieved to-morrow." Johh B. Tacker, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices and Tost Roads, is men tioned in connection with the office. EUROPE. SERRANO TO COMMAND THE REPUBLICAN ARMY. CARLOS AND WIFE ATESl'ELLA. RUMORS IN REGARD TO Cn.VS DEATH. CON- RETORTS OF A SACRE AT FEARFUL ESTELLA. MAS- Loxdon, July 1 Noon A special dispatch to the Standard says that Marshal Serrano has decided to take command of the Republican army immediately. General Zv.bala has arrived at Taf fata. Bayonxe, July 1 Noon Don Car los and h:'s wife have arrived at Estella where they were received with great rejoicing. Londox, J uly 1 Night The Times' raris correspondent telegraphs that among the stories current, there is one to the effect that Marshal Concha was killed at the instigation of Serrano, because he was an Alphonzoist. There is also another notion, that by the death of Concha the influence of Ger many is increased, which is unfavora ble to tho restoration of the dynasty attached to the Pope. The Atlantic & Great Western R. R. Company have declined to receive and pay to-day, the coupons on their first mortgage bonds. A report reaches here that an acci dental fire in two houses near Estella, was made a pretence by the Carlista for the massacre of all wounded Re publicans who fell into their hands at the battle at Muro. CUBA. HALF TAXES TO BE GOLD. PAID IN Havana, July 1 Noon Capt. GeD. Concha has issued a decree, requiring, oa and after the 1st of July, the pay ment of fifty per cent, in gold of the regular taxes and duties . The rate a: which paper will be received in pay ment of these dues is to be fixed by the government. Tho decree of June 4th, authorizing Banks to sell gold for the payment of land taxes. Is re voked. A lighter with thirty-five pereons on board capsized to-day oil" tho village of Cojiman, six miles east of Havana. Sixteen were drowned. ELECTRICISMS. James P. Saunders was tliot, Yonkers, N. Y., by the defendant a case he was prosecufiuer. lie at in is Past Grand Sire of the Odd Fehows, aud is well known. He received two shots, one of which it is feared, will prove fatal. The affair occurred jiwt as Court was adjourning. Rev. Dr. Willis, of Redwing, ac cepts the Bishopric ofJWisconsin. By news from Port au Prince, dated tho 17th ult., it is learned that Gen eral Micheal Domingue, was linani rucusly elected by the National As sembly, President of the Republic of Hayti. Admiral Palo, the Spanish Minister, sailed yesterday from New York for Spain. The Iowa Republican State f Conven tion met yesterday at Des Moines. There was a very large attendance.' The majority for the Constitutional Convention in Arkansas is estimated at sixty thousand. ' At ten o'clock yesterday morning; at Memphis, M. p. 'Welsh." a veil known attorney and candidate fcr Clerk of the Criminal Poijrt, was shot by B. B. Burnes.also an attorney, and probably fatally wounded. THE W'KST, AND STILL ANOTHER EV PARTY. Br.ooMiNc.To., III., July 1 Noon At the State Temperance Convention seventy-five delegates, including twen ty women, formed an independent party. Among the nominations waa Miss Jennie F. Welly, for SuVii:itei. dent of P;;bliw Instruciioi.. TJIE CABLfr THE FARRAjiAY A TUTAb WE(JK. Halifax, N. S., July 1 Night. r Tho steamer Faraday engaged in laying the new Atlantic cable, left Halifax, a week ago, and intelli gence from Pictou just received repre sents that she struck an iceberg off Halifax and is a total wreck. Further particulars are expected soon.
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