Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAR IN THE EAST .¶ Advices from the seat of war in Asia report the Turks as falling back. The Russians have advanced on Olti, Ishakirbaba, Bakanyish and Toprak-Kalch, the Turks slowly retiring. .¶ The Turks have shot a number of Russian spies found within their lines. .¶ The Bashi-Bazouks stationed in the vicinity of Constantinople are committing excesses, and there is much alarm among suburban residents. .¶ The Turks, it is reported, have now in the field 70,000 troops against the Montenegrins. To oppose this force the mountaineers can hardly raise 20,000, and their position is regarded as critical. .¶ The Czar is said to be sorely exasperated at the utter inefficiency of the Russian commissariat. .¶ The besieged Turkish garrison at Nicsics, in Montenegro, has at last been relieved and revictualed for a year. .¶ A cable dispatch states that the Sheik-ul-Islam has called for the funds deposited in the Islam treasury, to be applied to the defense of Turkey. This treasure is made up by the annual offerings of the pilgrims to the shrine of Mecca, and is estimated in amount all the way from 250,000,000 to 600,000,000 francs. .¶ Russian accounts report horrible outrages by the Bashi-Bazouks in the district of country known as the Dobrudscha. Villages and farms are wantonly sacked and burned, and Christian men, women, and children tortured, murdered and mutilated. .¶ A correspondent telegraphs from Cettinje : “Relative to the Turkish defeat near Spuz, later accounts show that there never was a worse panic or a more disastrous rout known in the annals of war between Turkey and Montenegro. It was only the artillery of the forts that saved the Turkish army from complete destruction. The Turkish dead cannot be counted, because they lie along the plain nearly up to Spuz, and the artillery of the city prevents approach.” .¶ A dispatch from Vienna says: “Russia has

invited Austria to make military preparations for the purpose of preventing tho Montenegrins from being utterly crushed.” The long-expected pros sing of the Danube by tho Russians was begun at Ibrail on the 22<l of June, and before the close of the day an entire army corps had marched across tho stream on jxmtoon bridges, without any serious opposition, and taken up a jiosition on Bulgarian territory. An Erzoroum dispatch announces that Bayazi<l i has been reoccupied by tho Turks after driving out tho Russian garrison. Tho Turkish War Department is absolutely destitute of funds, and the execution of many contracts is suspondod. Turkish''advices from Montenegro report that Huleimau I’asha has driven tlio, insurgents from Ostrok, and taken possession of tho town. The Turks now occupy all the strategic positions, and the campaign iu Montencgious considered over. Tlio announcement of the crossing of the i>»iiubo at Ibrail and Oalatz, on the 22d of June, is fully confirmed!. The programme was adroitly planned and carried out. It had beou ascertained by Russian spies that the Turkish forces at Malchin word in no condition to oppose a crossing, if mado in forco, and that only straggling bands of Baslii-Bazouks were to be met among tho low lands along tho river. Accordingly, before dawn a few barge-loads of Cossacks wore sent across from Oalatz and Ibrail, which are eighteen milos apart. They were safely lodged on tlio Bulgarian side of tho river, and in a short time effected (i junction. Thus was formed a cordon of Cossacks between the river bank and the enemy. Under cover of this cordon tho pontoons woro rapidly lowed into position, the bridges laid, and tlio Russian battalions, amid tho greatest enthusiasm, marched across the river, attacked the Turks and drovo them from their position. By noon of that day the Russians were before tho outworks of Mateliin, which they carried by charging tlio batteries. The" noxt morning Matebin was occupied, tho Tm-ks having evacuated it and fallen hack.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Pierre Joseph Lcfranc, the well-known Frpiich statesman, is dead. The editors and compositors of the two Turkish iiowsp4perß in Constantinople, 'Selamet and Mitsxavat, have been exiled, and publication of papers suspended. The scientific inquiry as to the practicability of a tunnel betweon England and France has been conipletcd. After thorough geological explorations and careful soundings the engineers have formed the opinion that the project is feasible. Gen. Grant will tarry in England somewhat than ho originally contemplated. A stupendous robbery has lately occurred in Franco. Nearly'half a million dollars’ worth of securities and railway bonds were stolen from a railway car wliilo in transit from London to Paris. The roblxjry was a bold one, and so skillfully executed that only a slight clew, if any, can be obtained to the perpetrators. Loth parties in Cuba scorn to bo growing fired of the soeplingly interminable conflict on that island, and it is not improbable that negotiations looking between the insurgents and the Spanish Government will shortly be commenced. England is determined to protect and guard the Suez canal at all hazards, and, with this purpose .in View, has decided to send an arniy of 15,000 or 20,000 trained Boldiors to Egypt. A Paris dispatch says a singular plot has been discovered in Egypt to blow up the banks of the Suez canal with nitro-glycerine. An Imperial ukase has just been issued in 'Eujssia, authorizing a loan of 200,000,000 roubles at 5 percent. Tho Russian rouble is • valued at about 80 cents. The (French Chamber of Deputies, after a week’s debate, has voted in favor of dissolution by 150 to 130. Tho wheat trade throughout Great Britain is reported depressed and stagnant.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Some indignation has been excited among the Hebrew population of Now York and Saratoga by the refusal of tho managers of the Gland Union Hotel, at Saratoga, to entertain people of their faith. Mr. Joseph Seligman, the wealthy Jewish banker of Now York, recently visited Saratoga and called at the Union, but was flatly refused apartments on the ground that tho presence of Hebrews in the hotel injures its business. The Grand Union is tho property of Mrs. A. T. Stewart. Tho class of 1880 (Freshmen) of Princeton College, numbering nearly 100 young men, has been suspended, and required to leave town. Cause, “ bulldozing” the faculty. Tho oil men of Pennsylvania are greatly excited in consequence of a remarkable strike in the “bullion” district. One well has been opened on the Henderson fsrm which produces the extraordinary amount of 4,000 barrel* of tw « oth nt that yield each ever afooo barrel*, Th* ts thi* benuun war

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to bring down the price of oil in Pittsburgh 20 cents a barrel in one day. .¶ Near Bridgeport, Pa., the other day, five tramps were killed by the falling of the walls of an old lime-kiln, in which they were sleeping. .¶ Eleven murderers, members of the notorious “ Molly Maguire ” organization, paid the extreme penalty of the law in Pennsylvania on Thursday, June 21. Six were hanged at Pottsville, namely : Thomas Munley, for the murder of Thomas Sanger and William Wren, at Raven Run, and James Roarity, Hugh McGehan, James Boyle, James Carroll and Thomas Duffy, for the assassination of Policeman Yost, of Tamaqna, one of the most cold-blooded and cruel murders on record. Four were executed at Mauch Chunk, viz.: Alexander Campbell and John Donohue, for the murder of Morgan Powell, a mine boss, at Summit Hill; and Edward Kelley and Michael Doyle, for the murder of John P. Jones, of Lansford, also a mine boss. Anthony Lanahan was hanged at Wilkesbarre for the murder of John Reilly. All the culprits died bravely, the most of them protesting their innocence to the last. .¶ Ben Butler has been presented with an elegant set of jewelry by some of his New York admirers. .¶ James Gordon Bennett has returned to New York. .¶ Since the recent executions in Pennsylvania, several deeds of violence have occurred, including two cold-blooded murders, that are almost directly traceable to the Mollie Maguires. Two witnesses in the late trials have also mysteriously disappeared, a number of persons have received coffin notices, and the law-abiding citizens of the anthracite region are greatly agitated by rumors that the friends of the executed Mollies are plotting for revenge. West. Tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad lias taken tho contract for tho removal of tho war munitions —consisting of 400 car-loads, or 50,000,000 pounds—from the St. Louis Arsenal to Rock Island. Financial circles in St. Louis wore somewhat startled, tho other day, by tlio announcement of tho suspension of tho First National Bank of that city, hitherto classed as “A No. 1” among tho financial institutions of tho city. It is stated that depositors will loso nothing. News comes by way of San Francisco of. a formidable uprising of Indians ill the region of Salmon river, Idaho Territory, tho massacre of many white families, tho gathering of the white settlers and friendly Indians for defense, followed by severe fighting, in which, according to tho latest accounts, tho latter wore getting badly worsted. Tho dispatches state that “ there is a general uprising of tho savages, and tho whole country is wild with alarm. Tho Indians arc massacring men, women and children in Camas Prairie, and settlers arc fleeing in all directions for safety.” The hostile savages belong to a tribe known as Nez Porccs, and are said to number 2,00 Q effective warriors. Gen. McDowell, commanding tho Division of the Pacific, lias ordered troops from a number of posts in tlio department to go to the sceno of trouble. Tho feeling among the Jewish citizens of Cincinnati over the Seligman affair has found expression in tho refusal of ovory Jewish house in the city«Jp deal with an agent of tho house of A. T. Stewart & Co. A number of firms, some of whom had dealt with that houso for many years, to the extent of over SIOO,OOO a year, canceled orders on their books and ordered else whore. Tho first reports of tho Indian outbreak in Idaho Territory wero not exaggerated. About thirty citizens were murdered on Camas prairie and that vicinity. The Indians, numbering from 1,000 to 1,500, are not ol the lowest class of hostilos. Tlio trouble with them is said to bo tho result of an attempt of tho Government to put tho Joseph band of Nez Perces on a reservation. To this they had consented, when one of their number was inexcusably shot by a white man, and all endeavors to secure tho punishment of the murderer failed. On Salmon river every white man was killed, but the women and children wero spared. There lias been some fighting between tho savages and tho white soldiers sont against them, resulting, according to tho advices before us at this writing, disastrously to the whites, about fifty of whom have been killed and wounded.

Dispatches from Boise City, Idaho, dated June 22, says: “The situation in Northern Idaho far exceeds in gravity any Indian outbreak of our day, and it will tax the best resources of the Government and of tho people immediately interested to subdue tho Indians and restore peace to tho conutry. At State creek the whites have fortified themselves in a stockade fort, into which havo been received the wives and children of tho murdered men, together with the families of the men who had escaped tho massacre. These women arc thus shut up in the midst of tho hostile Indians without adequate means of dofenso and without aid will certainly he overpowered and murdered, as the Indians declare tlicir determination to take the fort and murder tho men. Gen. Howard reports Ferry’s loss in tho engagement of the 17th inst., as one officer—Lieut. K. Holler, of tho 21st infantry—and thirty-three men. Heller was placed wounded oil his liorso by Capt. Trimble, but was afterward killed. Tho troops, though they allowed themselves to bo decoyed into ambush, displayed throughout tho action the utmost gallantry, and fought like tigers. About twenty-five or thirty soldiers wero killed in about the same number of minutes.” Tho town of Mitchell, Ind., was invaded the other night by a formidable band of vigilants, who hung two effigies and pinned a poster to their clothes warning law-breakers and evildisposed persons generally to walk a chalk-line Four desperate scoundrels jumped on tho train of tho Lake Shore road at Ligonicr, Ind., with the intention of robbing tho express cor. A party of detectives, who had gotten wind of the intended robbery, wero secreted in tho express car, and whon the four scoundrels, With blackened and masked faces, entered and began an assault on tho messenger, they sprung from their concealment, and, after a terrific hand-to-hand struggle, succeeded in conquering and handcuffing the wholo party. It was a very neat and well-executed job on the part of the officers. Had the robbers succeeded in thoir designs they would havo secured nearly $70,000 in greenbacks. Tho failure of S. Pulsifer & Co., heavy bankers of Peoria, HI., is announced. A small excursion steamer exploded her boiler on Lako /Minnetoka, Minn., tho other day. Result—Captain, engineer and one passenger killed ; pilot and ono passenger badly injured. A terrible tragedy has been enacted near the town of Gore, Hocking county, Ohio. John Weldon was found in a field with his head split open, and his sister and daughter were discovered in the house with their heads smashed. The deed was perpetrated by two men named Terrell and King, their motive being robbery. The fiends have been arr havo oonfeoed tho orlme. Tbrw waul! bojr*, »|ed mpoctively 9, 7 >&4 11 jmwj wbUt fc&thiftf la th* river at Chieif e,

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tho other day, got beyond their depth and were drowned. South. A pitched battle was recently fought in Lewis county, Ky., between a party of law-and-order citizens and a band of horse-thieves, in which some fifteen men were killed and wounded. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Swiss mission, which Mr. George Schneider, of Chicago, resigned, has been tendered to and accepted by Mr. Nicholas Fish, son of Hamilton Fish, and at present Secretary of Legation at Berlin. The private subscriptions to the 4-per-cent, loan are not ooming in as rapidly as was anticipated by Secretary Sherman. Gen. Sherman has loft Washington for a tour of inspection among tho new military posts and routes on tho Yellowstone. Advices from Washington indicate that our old friend Sitting Bull has become an international nuisance. Correspondence is being exchanged between Canada and Washington looking to tho return of Sitting Bull and his followers to America, where thoy belong. Canada objects to his presence among the friendly Blackfeet. The subject, however, is full of difficulties. POLITICAL POINTS. Tho President has addressed the following circular letter to all prominent Federal officers throughout the country: Executive Mansion, Washington, June 23. Sin : I desire to call your attention to the following paragraph in a letter addressed by me to the Secretary of the Treasury on the conduct to be observed by officers of tho General Government in relation to elections : “No officer shall be required or pormitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with tho discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes of officers or subordinates should be allowed.” This rule is applicable to every department of tho civil service. It should bo understood by every officer of the General Government that he is expected to conform his conduct to its requirements. Very respectfully, E. B. Hayes.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The grain in sight in tho States and Canada is as follows : Wheat, 4,413,922 bushels ; corn, 10,370,741 bushels; oats, 2,212,54 G bushels; rye, 586,428 bushels ; barley, 694,625 bushels. A Halifax, (N. S.) dispatch says the Fishery Commission has adjourned until August. Tlio British claims against tho United States Hod boforo the commission aggregate $14,800,000. The fast railway trains recently inaugurated by tho East and West trunk lines havo been discontinued after a two-weeks’ run, the war is over, tho managers of tlio competing lines have entered into a treaty of amity, and freight and passenger rates havo, as a natural consequence, taken a shoot upward. There is a serious uprising of Blackfeet Indians in British Columbia. A camp of workmen on the Canadian Pacific railway was recently attacked, and the whole party murdered, with a solitary exception. A terrible calamity has overtaken tho city of St. Johns, Now Brunswick. Fire broke out in tho village of Portland, a suburb of tho city, on the 20th of June, and raged with fury for nearly twenty-four hours. The entire business portion of the town was obliterated. All tho hotels, banks and newspaper offices were burned. The area destroyed is nearly 200 acres. Tho wharves and a portiun of tho shipping, the Custom .House, a number of churches and public schools, and many hundred private dwellings were burned. A number of lives were lost, and thousands of people were rendered homeless by the disaster. Tho total loss will, reach $15,000,000, upon which there is about $6,000,000 insurance. A dispatch from St. John says: “Thousands of poople wander the streets, homeless and in despair. The destruction of provisions of all kinds seems to point to famine, and relief must come in speedily or many must perish from want. Few savod even their clothes." The Sunday-school Assembly to be held at Lake Bluff camp-grounds, thirty miles north of Chicago, July 17 to 27, promises to bo one of the most important and interesting gatherings of Sunday-school workers held for many a day. Railroads will give reduced fares, and ample provisions will be made to entertain, at small expense, all those who may desire to attend. Dispatches from St. Johns, N. 8., furnish the following additional particulars of the terrible conflagration in that city: The entire business portion of the city is destroyed. Not a leading establishment has escaped. All the principal dry-goods stores, the leading grocers, alf ship brokers, commission merchants, all the wholesale liquor dealers, flour, provisions, coal, salt, lumber, tea, West-India goods, are utterly wiped out. Forty-odd blocks or nearly 200 acres south of King street have not six buildings remaining. Every street, square, and alloy is filled with furniture, and thousands of people aro without either food or shelter. Thousands had to get away from the lower part of the city by boats. Of the 810 acres iu the city boundaries, 400 are burned over and 20,000 residents homeless. They have crowded in elsewhere or are under tents. The loss is still estimated at $20,000,000, and the insurance so far as known is about $8,000,000. It is said that all the offices will pay. The number of dead is reported to be on the increase, but the facts aro not fully known. Mrs. Crane and the young ladies of her school had to go to soa in ono of tho International steamers to save themselves. There were, many heartrending scones. A great quantity of goods saved fell into the hands of thieves, who eagerly availed themselves of every opportunity that afforded to carry off what they could lay their hands on. The following newspaper offices, with their plant and stock, were completely swept away: The Freeman, Evening Globe, Daily Telegraph, Daily News, Watchman, and Religious Intelligencer. Tho Globe, Telegraph, News, Intelligencer and Watchman had job offices attached. The churches burned are Trinity, St. Andrews, Germain Street Methodist, Germain Street Baptist, Christian, Duke Street; St. James’ Church, Leinster Street Baptish, Centenary Methodist Church, St. Pliillipi, Carmarthen Street Mission (Methodist), Pitt Street Mission, St. David’s, Reformed Presbyterian, Sheffield Street Mission-House. A Montreal dispatch announces that the office of the cashier of the Grand Trunk railway was robbed of $50,000 that had just been taken from the bank to pay employes. The loss of life by the St. John (N. B.), fire it is believed, will reach nearly fifty. Over thirty bodies have been recovered, and nearly as many ■ persons aro missing. All the large cities of the United States and Canada have responded to the cry of distress that went out from the ill-fated city of St. John, and substantial aid in th« shape of money, clothing and victuals i* pouring into tho eUy from every quarter,

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RAWING FLAMES.

Particulars of the Great Conflagration in St. John —Graphic Description of the Origin and Progress ot the Irresistible Flame. [St. John (N. B.) Cor. Chicago Times.] Four hundred acres of St. John are today a forest of chimneys, and’ the remaining half of the city stands paralyzed by the awful blow that has fallen on the trade, wealth, and prosperity of the maritime provinces. With a Fire Department well organized and well equipped ; with what was at all previous times considered an ample water supply, and with the experience acquired by the extensive conflagration in your city, Boston, Portland, and other cities of the Union—despite all this, in less than twelve hours a torrent of flames, laughing at the pigmy efforts of mortal man, wiped out of existence the accumulated wealth of years, gathered from the sea and the vast timber forests of the interior. Commencing in a little Jog shed at the foot of the slip, well down to the bottom of the harbor, a Are that, had water been at band, could have been extinguished in less than fifteen minutes, sprung up that rapidly glided up the wharf, and intoju nest of low wooden houses along the street running at right angles to the slip. Fanned by a roaring wind, the fire crept up the crests of the many hills lying along the Portland road, and once at the summit, where the wind had a fuU rake, it spread in a northwesterly direction, through Mill and Dock streets, pouring down the long slope of the latter street in a torrent of flame that drove the steamers before it like chaff before an October blast. Massive stores of brick and stone lined this street on either hand, but they melted away before the intensity of the heat, and the same scene here as in Boston was re-enacted, where the stout wooden blocks held up their walls the longest. From Dock street to the water’s edge the wharves were studded with well-filled warehouses, whose inflammable contents seemed to increase the fury of the fire, that sprung from point to point with lightning-like rapidity. Sparks and huge cinders fell in showers over the devoted section, and, igniting as they fell, started minor fires that served to swell the huge monster from wiiich they sprang. On, on, down Dock street, came the flames, till Market square was reached; and here, for the first time, the sense of the city’s danger seemed to flash on the startled people. If the fire crossed the square, all admitted it would sweep Water and Prince William streets, but no one supposed for a moment that anv otlier section was in danger but this, which lay directly in the course of the wind. Once down to the end of Prince William street, the flames would be carried into the harbor, and nothing would be left to bum. Here, said all, the fire would end; for it could not possibly climb the steep hill to tlie left. A valley of ashes was the worst expected, and not a city in ruins. But out from their security were they startled, as from Canterbury, tliree 1 (locks away and lialf way up the hillside, came the startling cry of fire. A spark had caught in a wooden building. The engines were all engaged fighting flames in the valley below, and what could it do but bum, bum?

Up the hillside ran the flames. House after house fell iu rapid order, across the Market slip to the southern side. Thus the two fires sped ou, on a parallel course, leaving the narrow slip of a block between intact. At this time—some say a little before—flames were seen rismg from the barracks, an old wooden structure well down to the water’s edge, about midway the width of the city. This was the greatest blow of all, for around the barracks in all directions but toward the shore lay 1 docks of wooden houses, inhabited by businessmen and laborers. To extinguish this new conflagration, half a mile away from the lire on Water street was not to be thought of, and, as the wind rose to a howling gale, block after block went down, as if felled by a hurricane. Household goods, moved streets away for safety, a few minutes after being deposited in fancied security were swallowed up. The panic-stricken people, grabbing what little they could carry in their hands, fled to the higher ground, to the heart of the city. Two distinct conflagrations were destroying St. John, one gutting her business center, the other laying low the homes of her artisans. Yet another fire, and tlio gap between the two was bridged. A spark lodged in the high spire of Trinity Church, a tongue of flame crept down to the belfry, and the fire soon wrapped the historic edifice in its deadly embrace. From here to the Victoria Hotel, the pride of the city, was but a work of a few minutes. Twenty minutes more, and the ruin was consummated. Spreading northeast, south and west, the tire swept on, till tlie sun went down on 200 acres of the city in ruins. With the going down of tho sun the wind seemed to freshen, and tlie lire to quicken its terrible pace. Street after street was crossed, block after block swept away, till nothing was left from King street—the broadest and best in the city —to the water’s edge, save five isolated houses. The width of King street east saved the half of the city now standing. Here the firemen had an opportunity to fight the fire to advantage, and by copious supplies of water confined it to the south side of that street. On the crest of the hill, dividing King street proper from its eastern continuation, lies King square ; and this break helped to check the fire ; and back of this again, ou the upper side, was the old grave-yard, and opposite the stone Court House and jail. At this point the fire was cut off, and though it reappeared further down King street, east, for a section of a block, its force was spentjinjthat direction. Not so, however, along to the slope from King street to the harbor, nearly all of which was destroyed before it spent its fury and died, not without a fierce struggle, almost at the water’s edge at the rear of the town. The bounds of the conflagration are about as follows : The fire entered King street on the westerly side from Germain and Canterbury streets, extended northerly on Charlotte street to the St. J ohn Hotel, burning the Trinity school in its course to King square, and leveled to the ground the Lyceum, destroying the marble works of Mr. S. P. Osgood and Messrs. Millagan, proceeding to Mr. Robinson’s stable, across to St. Michael’s Hall; up Leinster street, and then back to King street east; down to Pitt street; from there almost to the bank, on Crown street, all the buildings south of King street have been burned, the exceptions being rare. In the other part of the city the conflagration was stopped about North street, having extended as far up Union street as Messrs. J. &T. Robinson’s. The Bank of British North America was saved. The police office and station opposite were burned. To depict the terrible effect of tail pttorMM 9l fire i? M hsposeibility;

but ite lesson is deeply engraved on the hearts of the men of St. John. Merchant and mechanic, rich and poor, are reduced to an equality. The loss of life was something terrible. Already thirteen bodies have been recovered, and the wildest rumors are afloat as to the number missing. Probably not leis than twenty-five lives were lost.

THE GRASSHOPPERS.

A Gentleman Wlio Bag Been Cultivating Their Acquaintance Thinks They Will Not Ravage the Country to Any Great Extent This Year. Prof. Cyrus Tliomas, of the Board of United StatcsEntomological Commissioners, passed through Chicago the otlier day, and was interviewed by a Times reporter, with the following result: “I came direct from St. Paul,” said Prof. Thomas. “On the same train were several persons direct from what is considered the native habitat of the grasshopper in the far Northwest. One was a Mr. Holbrook, who is pasturing sheep north, of Fort Shaw, on the Dearborn river. He has been in that section for three years, and has, within the last two weeks, passed over the section between Fort Benton and Dearborn river. With him also came Mr. George Gluck, of lowa, who came direct from Fort Walsh, in British America, and who has been iu that region for several years as interpreter, and who recently was at Woody mountains, where Sitting Bull is. ‘ 1 Both of those gentlemen assert very positively that the grasshoppers are nothing in comparison with the numbers seen there year before last. I have also seen two persons within the last three days who had just arrived from Tongue river and the Yellowstone. They make the same statement. In addition, several soldiers from various points in tliat section, returning home, make the same statements. I am, therefore, well satisfied that there will be no general invasion this season from the Northwest. Flying locusts may be seen going northward ; in fact some have already been seen at two or three points, and a few came down last Thursday north of Sioux City. But I do not think any serious danger is to be apprehended from these. ” The Professor gave some account of his travels in the Northwest. It was about a month ago that he started out on a grasshopper hunt. Pie lias been scouring around in Nebraska, lowa and Minnesota, and appears to have made a very thorough examination of the country, and picked up a good deal of grasshopper information. In Nebraska, except in the river counties, most of the grasshoppers are dead, and the survivors will not, he thinks, be able to do more than 5 per cent, damage to the growing crops. In lowa the young grasshoppers are mainly confined to a few counties in the northwestern part of the State. In certain localities they are sufficiently numerous to desolate the fields, if they are allowed to get their growth and go to ravaging for a livelihood. The Professor visited some seven or eight counties in Minnesota where the outlook for this year’s crop is very discouraging. The farmers are disheartened, and some of the farms have been abandoned to the weeds. This apparently doomed district is situated in the southwestern quarter of the State, and embraces a strip of country from thirty to fifty miles wide and seventy-five miles long. Prof. Thomas takes a very cheerful view of the grasshopper question, and believes the problem, so far as it relates to the young insect, has been solved. He says that by anotlier year the farmers will know Jiow to employ most effectively the various devices invented for the destruction of the pests. In his late tour he found that some farmers had used tar far more successfully than anytliing else, while others had driven all their young ’hoppers into “ last ditches” dug for their interment. In Cherokee county, lowa, tlie farmers estimate that they have destroyed, in ditches alone, at least 13,000 bushels, wliile 30,000 bushels of the insects have perished from too much tar in one of tlie comities or Minnesota.-

St. John, the Scorched City.

Tlie chief city of New Brunswick, on tlie Canadian Atlantic coast, is St. John, while that which is the cliief city and port of Newfoundland is St. John’s—tlie only difference in the orthography of the two being the addition of tlie possessive to the latter. It is St. John, not St. John’s, which was lately devastated by a terrible conflagration, involving a loss of about #16,000,000, and laying in ruins the better portion of one of the most substantial and prosperous cities in British America. There is not a finer harbor on this continent than that of St. John. Tho city lies at the mouth of the St. John river, on the bay of Fundy. Including its suburbs, it has a population of about 50,000. The greater portion of the town stands on a rocky peninsula; its streets are wide, generally crossing each other at right angles, and some of them are very steep and cut through the solid rock to a depth of thirty or forty feet. Tlie buildings of the city were principally of brick or stone. It is lighted with gas, and is supplied with water from Little river, four miles distant, by means of two iron pipes, which together have a capacity of 5,500,000 gallons a day. Adjoining the city, and (practically a part of it, is the town of Portland, which has a population of about 15,000. It is worthy of note as a fact in history, that St. John was originally founded by American loyalists who left the United States at the close of our Revolutionary war. Its city charter was obtained from King George HI. in 1785.

Dancing Tabooed.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South has squarely condemned all kinds of dancing. One of tlie resolutions says : “ Some forms of this amusement are more mischievous than others, the round dance than the square, the public ball than the private party, but none of them arc good, but all are evil and should be discountenanced, and we affectionately urge all our Christian parents not to send their children to dancing schools, where they acquire a fondness and an aptitude for the dangerous amusement.”

Fire-Works Disasters.

Reports from fire-crackers used in the United States in ten ycarfe : Value of imported Chinese crackers since 1866, #1,500,000 ; property consumed in two fire-cracker fires—one the Portland (Me.) conflagration, July 4,1866 —#15,000,000; value of all fires, the work of fire-works, #100,000,000; expense to fire departments—alarms, fires and false alarms—#2so,ooo; number of persons killed by 4th of July explosions within ten years, 320; number of persons maimed and wounded-'-losing eyas, limb*, etc.— 90,000, J

MOLLIE MAGUIRES.

History of the Organization—How the Pennsylvania Murderers were Brought to Justice—A Detective’s Perilous YVork. [From the Chicago Times.] The Molne Maguires have been to Pennsylvania what tlie Ku-Klux have been to tlie South. Both came into prominence immediately following the war, and the two will go out simultaneously. It is claimed by well-in-formed persons that no less than a hundred murders can be laid at the door of Mollie Maguireism during tlie past dozen years, and to-day is the first time that the law has been able to execute its vengeance. It probably began as a sort of labor movement, but by-and-by been me a semi-political organization, and it is‘ not too much to say that at one time it controlled the politics of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All these general facts aro known of Mollie Maguireism, but - the inside view is still wanting, though a good deal of light has of late been thrown upon it. It was when the great coal centers, and especially Schuylkill county, were completely—politically and otherwise—in the hands of the Mallies, that Franklin B. Gowan, President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, who in former days had been Prosecuting Attorney for Schuylkill county, and was, perhaps, better informed ns to Mollie Maguireism than any other man outside of the order, determined, in the name of good order and civilization, as well as in the interest of the corporation he represented, to root out this curse. It is now four years ago that he conferred with Mr. Allan Pinkerton, of Chicago, with reference rto this matter, and three years were required before the work could be consummated, and a part of the murderers brought to justice. Civilization will ever owe James McParlan a debt of gratitude. When Mr. Pinkerton undertook to hunt down the Mollies, he looked about him for a trusted agent. He found one in James McParlan, a Catholic Irishman, who, at the time, was “ piping off” Chicago street-railway conductors for Mr. Pinkerton. McParlan entered, into the work with zeal, but with the understanding that he was never to be used as a witness. Being a good hand at most anything, he dressed himself as a miner, took on rough ways and at last succeeded in getting himself initiated a Mollie. Thereafter he was able to supply liis employers with considerable information as to intended murders, and by this means several lives were saved, while a dozen or more have been or will be brought to the gallows. Amcng the Mollie's James McParlan was known as James McKenna, ana he rose to be secretary of one of the lodges. Finally after several murders had been mysteriously frustrated, and the Yost and other murderers had been arrested, it became evident thaf. there was a traitor in the camp. At last suspicion fell on “McKenna.” He held his ground for a considerable time under most threatening auspices, but finally was compelled to made a somewhat precipitate retreat. McParlan’s experiences among the Mollies, as recited by Allan Pinkerton in a book just published, make exceedingly racy reading. When the time for trial came, and it seemed doubtful if the murderers would receive justice, on account of some missing links in the testimony, McParlan stepped manfully to the front, and signified liis willingness to testify. It was a supreme moment in tlie history of Mol-lie-Maguireism. When McParlan consented to give his testimony, the back of Mollie-Maguireism was broken. Those who hold that Mollie-Maguire-ism is far-reaching contend that the Mollies were known as the Ribbonmen of Ireland, and that the order sprung up at a time when there was an organized resistance in Ireland to the payment of rents. The malcontents became known as Ribbonmen, and they generally made their attacks upon the agents of tlie non-resident land-owners, or upon constables or bailiffs who attempted to collect the rents. Their object was to intimidate and hold in terror all those to whom they owed money, or who were employed in its collection. As a branch of this society, and growing out of it, sprung' the Mollie Maguires, and their name arose from the circumstance that, in the perpetration of their crimes, they frequently dressed as women, and generally “ducked” or beat their victims, or inflicted some such punishment as infuriated women would be likely to administer. How the association was transplanted to this country is not known. It never appeared in its true colors, but sailed for public purposes under the name of Ancient Order of Hibernians. According to McParlan, the pass-words and signals issued quarterly came from Ireland. These are issued to subordinate lodges in all parts of the world. The initiation is simple. The novitiate kneels bareheaded while a document called a “test” is read to him. The “test” contains the general rules to be observed. They arc to obey the officers in all things lawful, but not otherwise; to report if they hear members ill-spoken of, and to keep the secrets of the organization. The candidate then kisses the “test,” and is declared a member. There is a national office in the United States with headquarters in New York. The national officers are selected by the State officers, who are selected by the county officers, who are chosen by the division officers, who in turn are elected by the members of their division. The chief division officer is the “Body-master.” McParlan states, however, that the practice of

the organization in this country was widely different from the precepts laid down in the “test,” constitution or by-laws. Punishment is never inflicted for crimes committed on persons outside of the order. On the contrary, such conduct is highly esteemed, and if a member informs on anotlier who has committed a crime he is expelled. When a member has a grievance against an outsider, he lays his case before the head of the division, or lodge, that is the ‘ ‘ bodymaster,” and it is then considered by this officer, together with the most trustworthy members of the lodge, and these only. If the offender’s death is determined on, the “ body-master ” of neighboring division is called on to furnish men to do the work, the understanding being that the courtesy will be reciprocated when required. Thus it generally happened that the cold-blooded assassins would see their victims for the first time the moment they were about to take their lives. This bloody reciprocity obtained in the murder for which the assassins broke their necks to-day. Thus the murder of Policeman Yost was planned because he bail given offense to a mail named Duffy, whom he hal arrested some time before. The division to which McGlieehan and Doyle belonged was called on to furnish the assassins, and did *p, and in return Duffy’* division un-

$1.50 per Annum.

NUMBER 20.

xlertook the work of killing John P. Jones, the Lansforxl mine-boss, who had discharged McGkekan, so incurring the latter’s enmity, and the contract was faithfully performed. For fifteen years this murderous organization terrorized Schuylkill, Carbon, and Luzerne counties, committing arson, murder and robberies with absolute impunity. The first murder laid to their charge is that of F. W. S. Langdon, on the 14th of June, 1862. Langdon was a breakerboss at a colliery near Andenried, Carbon county. He was attacked by a party of men and literally beaten to death. For this murder Jack Kelioe, a big mogul among the Mollies, and whilom a vast political power, has been sentenced to dcatli, and will no doubt hang. Alter that murder followed murder in rapid succession, until it was asserted that in Schuylkill county alone the number of victims numbered fifty-five in the course of throe years. The center of all this crime was Tamaqua, in Schuylkill county, where Policeman Yost was murdered. It was here most of the deviltry converged. The Mollies were also known ns “Buckshots,” “Blacjt Spots,” and “ Sleepers,” and it is alleged of them that they always opened their conclaves in which murder was concocted by calling for the divine blessing and guidance on their deliberations.

Osculation.

Kissing was universally practiced among the early Christians as a part of their religious rites. The first disciples kissed each other at their agapes, or love-feasts, just as the initiated did at the Eleusinian mysteries, in token of brotherhood. In 1397, however, notwithstanding St. Peter’s exhortation, the Council of Carthage forbade all religious kissing between the sexes. Several later sects have at various times sought to bring back the institution of the kiss of peace ; but, though doubtless peculiarly edifying to the young folks, it has been found prudent and necessary to prohibit the xxse and continuance of the same, and to go back to less godly forms of salutation. It still lingers, however, both in the Greek and Roman clixirclies. At the solemnization of matrimony among ourselves, it has for long been an established custom for the bride to be kissed at the conclusion of the ceremony by both the groom and the officiating clergyman—an appropriate and, generally, most satisfactory termination of the marriage rites. This is sometimes followed by a good deal of promiscuoxxs kissing among the relatives and familiar friends of the two contracting parties. Beyond this, we are not aware of ‘‘ kissings” forming any part of our religioxxs observances at the present epoch. The Bible is fxili of kissing, and some passages where it is mentioned are replete with softness and tenderness, while others teem with treachery and revenge. Jacob’s interview with llacliel at the well; Joseph’s reception of his brethren; Moses meeting his father in-law, Jethro; David’s kiss of peace to his erring son Absalom and to his friend Jonathan, and the passionate kisses bestowed on our Savior’s feet by the penitent Magdalene —are a few of the former class ; while Jacob’s kiss, in which he robbed Esaxx of his birthright ; Joab’s treacherous salxxto of Amasa before his murder of the latter; and that dreadfxil one of the traitor Judas—which lias become the type of all treachery—are some of the most remarkable in the last-named category. Wo could pxirsxxe oxxr investigation ad infinitum were wo to confine oxxrselves to the sacred volxxme, bxit enoxigh has been said for our present purpose. , Kissing is, as may be supposed, of freqxient occurrence in Shakspcare, and generally in a contract-sealing sense. We find the expressions, “Press my sign-manual on her rxiby lips,” “Seal it with a kiss,” etc. England, in Sliakspeare’s time, had gone back sadly from the earlier days of reticence—as practised in olden times—when a man wonld as soon have thoxxglit of kissing his wife in his daughter’s presence as we woxxld now think of performing the same grace in church. At the present day kissing is a common mode of salutation among even the men of many nations. We may instance Germans, among whom it is no uncommon sight to find two great bearded and mustached giants kissing each other like a pair of turtle-doves. But the most pleasant—tender, bxxt at the same time perplexing—salute is that bestowed xxpon one by the women of Norway, who, after having pxxt yoxx to bed and tucked you xxp well between the sweet-smelling sheets, bend their fresh, fair faces, and kiss yoxx honestly xxpon the beard, withoixt a shadow even of shame or doubt. When a Czar of Rxxssia dies, his corpse is affectionately kissed, and the same custom is observed with the Jews. When a Jew is dying, his nearest relative kisses him, to receive his last breath —a custom which, wo have already shown, obtained among the ancient Romans ; he is kissed, when dead, as a farewell, and again when carried to the grave. This custom, we learn from scripture, was in vogxie in the days of Jacob, whose corpse was affectionately kissed by Joseph.— Applctom' Journal for July.

Substitutes for Ice.

The following are recommended by a Southern newspaper as freezing powders, which may prove useful in hot weather where ice is not attainable : 1. Four pounds sulphate of soda, two and a half pounds each of muriate of ammonia anti nitrate of potash ; when about to use, add double the weight of all the ingredients in water. 2. Equal parts of nitrate of potash and muriate of ammonia ; when required for use, mid more than double the weight of water. 3. Nitrate of ammonia and water in erpial proportions. Carbonate of soda and nitrate of ammonia, equal parts, and one equivalent of water. Dublng the past year the number of original advertisements for “ missing friends, or next of kin, ” in the London Times, was 700, and the number of persons named therein about 3,000. The Treasury Solicitor advertised for the next of kin of twenty-six persons. The amount of money reverting to the Crown by reason of these intestacies is seldom stated; but in one case—Mrs. Helen Blake’s—it amounted to $700,000. From one of these advertisements it appears that the heirs of a person who emigrated to America in 1083 are wanted to claim a fortune of $2,000,000. The plethoric, feverish life which was once characteristic of Stamboul has departed, owing to a long series of wars and bankruptcies. The city of to-day, no more like the voluptuous and unrestrained capital of the past than chalk is like cheese, is in the last stages of da* crepit old age. Pera is the nourishing portjc-B.

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THE ROSE TREE AND THE PANSY. A FABLE. A rose Irco in my gabion grows, And on it blooms the red, red rose; With perfumes swrot it lllls the nir, And bright its hue, its form so fair, And by its side a pansy lies— A flower like wings of butterflies, Of indigo, and white, and green, Its color* interspersed are seen. The sun was shining hot o’erhead, When to the rose the pansy said, “ Your straggling, widespread branches cheat Me of the sun's l>right rays and heat; So through the night in cold I lie, , And through the day for warmth I sigh. All through your selfish, spiteful ways ; But pride, like other tilings, decays. And so will yours, for die you must, • And, withering, crumble into dust.” Then quickly answered, stung with pride, The rose, who thus began to chide: “ How dare you, little puny thing, With such impertinence, thus bring Against me charges, quite untrue, And wicked, base and monstrous, too! But so it i the world all o’er. Impertinence is jjitro to bore Its friends, and charge its fix's with all” The crimes that e’er can thorn befall.” And thus went on from day to day This grumbling,- till at length away The summer passed. - . * All winter through The snow was deep upon the ground ; But, covered o’er, the pansy found • A skelter from llie biting Blast, Which nipped the rose tree, and at last Killed it outright andjeft it dcud. The pansy lifted up.its head When spring returned, erect with pride; The mid-day sun his glances plied * XTpou it in a streaming tide Of glowing heat —it drooped and died.

WIT AND HUMOR.

A pious young lady—Tho church bcll(e). A roou man is to be avoided—Ho lacks principal. When is a soldier not a soldier ? When lie’s mustered. Why is an angry man like ft camel ? ’Cause lie’s got his back up. * An Indian woman is a squaw; therefore an Indian baby is a squawling. It is affecting to bear an “ old maid ” singing her poodle to sleep to the air, “ If ever Lcease to love.” A Mayor out West lias determined to kill half the dogs in the city, and tau tlieir hides with the bark of the other half.. t It is not the loudest expressions that show the strongest feelings. (Still waters run deep, and a watch ticking can.be heard farther than a bed ticking. A boy, having been told that a reptile, is “an animal that creeps,” on being asked to name one on examination day, promptly and triumphantly replied, “a baby.” The fanner shoxxld sow bis P’s, keep his U’s warm, liive his B’s, remember wliat he C’s, take care of the V’s, teach liis wife not to T’s, pay all he O’s, and take liis E’s. It is xxseless for physicians to argue against short-sleeved dresses. The constitution of the United States says that “the right to bear arms shall not be interfered with.” A little boy asked a laxly who made her teeth. “My Creator,” she replied. “ Well,” said the little fellow, “ Dr. Eorbusk made my ma’s, ami they beat your’n clean out o’ sight.” “My dear,” said a gentleman to a young lady to whom he thought to be married, “do yon intenxl to inako a fool of me?” “No,” replied the lady, “uature has saved me the trouble.” Old bachelors will reaxl with subdued joy the following epitaph on one of their order, written by himself : At threescore winters’ end I died, A cheerless being, sole and sad ; The nuptial knot I never tied, And wished my father never had. A man liaxl blue glass put in his wife’s sitting-room—to match her eyes, lie said. She returned the compliment by having red glass pxxt in her husband’s library—to liiatcli his nose, she said. He didn’t' seem to appreciate the compliment. A Yale graduate may thoroughly understand Greek grammar, but, when ho comes to fill his big meerschaum pipe, and finds his tobacco box empty, bis disappointment is just as keen as if lit) luul never studied anything but English composition all the xlays of liis life. “Ma, wliat is bulker?” inquired u bright-looking child, tho other day. “ I’m sure I don’t know, my son; where did yoxx hear the worxl?” “ Why, at Sunday school; yxyi know they sing, “ We’ll stand the storm, it won’t be long, we’ll lanker by and by.’ ” “ Let me see,” said the nurse of a sick man. “ The xloctor saixl one tenspoonful every ten minutes. That makes six every hour; say seventy-two xluring tho night. I shall give liim seventy-two spoonfuls right; away, and have a chance to get a little sleep"myself.” Now is the time for lovers to get spooney over ice-cream, she taking a few pretty dabs at his vsinilla, and lie borrowing a taste of her chocolate. This process inspires conliilcuce in the day when they will be throwing cornexl beef and cabbage across the table. A Chicago lady, whose colorexl coachman is a curious specimen of his race, lately observed to some friends that at times “the man was a perfect enigma,” and all hands were not a little tlumbfoundotl to hear the laxly’s youthful sxin break out with the exclamation : “ Why, of course, lie’s a-nig, ma—just see how black he is !” , Thebe was quite a company of fashionable guests sitting rxiund the table (ifter dinner, wlio-kappened to xlisagrec as to the date of a certain event of which they had been talking, when the host’s 8-year-old-’un attemptexl to expedite the solution of the problem by suxldcnly asking: “Why, mamma, what xlay was it you washed me?” The Ohio Slate Journal tills of a village clergyman who, visiting a parishioner suffering from a lingei-ing disease, exprcssexl to his wife a hope that she someximes spoke to him of the future. “I do, indeed, sir,” was the reply. “ Often anxl often I, wakes liim in tho night and says:'‘John, John, you little think of the torture as is prepared for you.’ ”

Fred Douglass Revisits the Scene of His Servitude.

Frederick Douglass, Marshal of the District of Columbia, recently visited St. Michaels, Talbot county, Md., for the tirst time since he lel'ty a fugitive, fortyone years ago, and was well received by his former master, Capt. Thomas Auld, and by William \V. Brad', who taught him reading, arithmetic and geography fifty years ago. In an address to the colored people Marshal Douglass said: “ If, in twenty years from now, the colored race, as a race,‘lias not advanced beyond the point where it was when emancipated, it is a doomed race.” He encouraged them to earn money and keep it. A poor people are always a despised people. To bo respected they must get money and property. Without money there is no leisure; without leisure, Bo thought; without thought, no pninHi