Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAR IN THE EAST. Turkish accounts report horrible outrages by the Russians in Bulgaria. It is stated that Mohammedan children and old men are ruthlessly slaughtered and women outraged and carried off by the Cossacks. On the 16th of July the Russians from Sistova made an assault in heavy force upon and captured NikopoUs, oue of the Turkish strongholds on the Danube. This is regarded as a vastly important victory for the invaders, a* it secures them another crossing place and base of supplies. Another bridge is being thrown across the river at that point. The new Russian army of invasion.now being mobilized will be brought immediately to reinforce Ceil. Zimmerman’s corps in the Dohrudscli.t. • The meager details sent by cable of tlio attack and capture of Nikopolis by the Russians show it to have been the bloodicstbattle fought so fur in the war, as well as the most important victory achieved by the invaders. Under cover of a furious artillery fire a column of infantry stormed the outer works. The Turks fought courageously, but were beaten back at the point of tlio bayonet.. The loss on both sides was tremendous. Whole ranks of Russians were mowed down by the terriblo musketry, but others clambered over thoir dead bodies, and frantically sought revenge. Thus tlio battle continued all daylong. The Russians being reinforced in the afternoon by several battalions of Roumanians from Turna, crossing in boats at midnight, Achmed Pasha capitulated. Over 0,000 Turks, 40 pieces of artillery and 2 monitors were captured by the Russians. The report that tho Russians had crossed the Balkans is officially confirmed. Tho advanced guard now iTouth of tho mountains is commanded by Gen. Gourklia, and consists of cavalry, infantry and artillery. Twenty-three members of loading Kurdish families, inhabiting Russian territory, have been court-martialed and hanged by order of Gen. MolikolT. Dispatches from Bucharest of the 20th announce that tho Russians had completely surrounded Rustchuk, Unit a column of 50,000 was marching on Widin, and that those two places, together with Bhumla, would lie besieged with infantry. Abdul Kerim, Generalissimo of tlio Turkish army, lias boon dismissed, and Meliemet Ali appointed to succeed him. Mehemot Ali is a Prussian, whoso real name is Bchultz. Ite has shown himself capable as a division commander in Montenegro and elsewhere. ° *-v A Constantinople dispatch slates that a large section of society there believes that Malnnoud, Itedif and Abdul Kerim have sold tho country to Russia, and that the transaction was negotiated by Abraham Pasha. There was very little news from the Russian fordo that had* penetrated the Balkan pass from prenova to llciukoi. It was known that severe fighting lifffl boon going on between Gtn. Gourka’s cavalry and tlio Bashi-Bazouks. The main body of the Russians, it was believed, would advance by another route via Selimuo. Monkhtar Pasha telegraphs from Kars that the re victualing and reorganization of the Kars garrison is now complete. Hassan Pasha, who commanded at Nikopolis, and who is a prisoner, had an interview with the Czar recently. lie said that wliyn ho capitulated his ammunition was all gofip, and lie had boon obliged to kill three or four soldiers with his own hand for .caving their duty. The Government of Philippopolis reports that tho Cossacks have burned the villages of Pohanly, Baganly, Guczlidja, and Tehinakdje, near Kassanlik and Eskissghra. A Constantinople dispatch says : “The Turks are mm displaying groat activity. Troops and munitions- arc being dispatched in all haste. Unhappily the fortifications at Adrianoplo are very imperfect, not ovon armed.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

Idast. A. Hartupeo’s large foundry and machine shops, at Pittsburgh, l’a., wero burned last week. Loss estimated at $300,000. A man died in New York, the other day, with what tlio attending physicians pronounce a “genuine cuho of Asiatic cholera,” The Hartford CournrU advises tho public that it will lie very foolish for any one who holds a policy in the Charter Oak Lifo Insurance Company to sacrifice it. Tlio lowest estimate vet made liy any one of the value of the assets of the company puts them at $6,000,000. Even at that a policy is worth saving, and as soon as a receiver is appointed the necessity for making payments ceasos, and at some time each policyholder will receive his dividend on the present value of his policy* Forest fires are raging iu tho vicinity of Fort Fairfield, Mo. Vast areas of. timber-land are burned over and many buildings destroyed. Ex-Gov. Tildeu sniled from New York for Europe last week. Comte nay and Riley, two professional oarsmen. wore matched torowaraco on Gtcenwood lake, not far from New York. Large sums of money were staked on the result, and an immense crowd congregated to w itness the eonteit. Just before the start Courtenay was taken suddenly ill. He and his friends claim that lie was poisoned by some of Riley’s backers. Great perturbation among llic sports in consequence. ■West. Lieut. Col. M. V. Sheridan returned to Chicago a few days ago from the battle ground where the bravo Custer and liis troops were slain. The bodios of some of the dead were found to be decomposed beyond recognition. The bodies of the privates which could be identified were properly buried and the graves marked. The remains of twelve officers wero boxed and brought to Fort Lincoln. The bones of the gallant Custer will bo taken to West Point for interment. Those of Col. Custer, Capt. Yates, and Licuts. Smith, Culliouu and Mclntosh will bo removed to the National Cemetery at Leavenworth. The remains of the other officers await the action of tlnii; friends. Thoso of Lieut. Crittenden were given permanent burial on the spot whore he fell, in obedience to tho wishes of his father, who,objected to their removal. Following tlio failure of tho Butchers’ and Drovers and Second National Banks of St. LouiH, comes the announcement of tho closing up of tile North St. Louis Savings Institution and tho Bank of St. Louis. Tho Chicago Journal says: “Tlio crop news continues good—only good, and very good. There is no exception to tho rule. From the East, West and South the news is in the highest degree cheering, and embraces the entire range of tho products of the earth.” A Walla Walla (Oregon) dispatch says the Indians have killed three men and one girl on Cow creek. * A day’s doings in the Black Hills is thus noted in a dispatch from Doadwood: A camp of freighters near Crook City was attacked by a gan£ of horse thieves, who stampeded and got away with about seventy horses and mules. A war party of thirty-live Indians were seen on Spearlish creek. A party of ten Indians came down upon a ranch on the Red Water, fired sev-

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VOLUME I.

eral shots and lisappeared. The Cheyenne and Dead wood stages were stopped near Cheyenne river by six road agents, who roblxid the live passengers of all valuables. A telegram of the 19th from the seat of the Indian war in Idaho Hays : “Since the rough handling which Joseph and White Bird have received from Gen. Howard, the war seems virtually ended. The Indians were badly whipped and thoroughly demoralized by the heavy stroke received, and are said to be divided in opinion, and quarreling among themselves. Small parties are constantly breaking away from the main baud, coniing in and surrendering themselves up to Gen. Howard. ’ A Portland (Ore.) dispatch of the 20th states that the regular cavalry and Lewiston volunteers came in sight of Joseph's band near the Weiner Camas ground. Tho savages fired upon McCouville’s scouts, constituting the advance guard, killed two and wounded two, and came near sun-minding the whole party. The whole force, regulars and volunteers, that had been engaged in the -pursuit thereupon beat an inglorious retreat, leaving the Indians masters of the situation. A gang of Mexican horse-thieves recently made a raid into San Diego county, Cal. They were pursued and two of the thieves killed. A number or citizens went across the lino to see about the matter, and were arrested by tho Mexicans. Great excitement was caused among the Americans at tlio outrage. At last accounts they were arming, and it looked as if tho affair would become a serious one. HO Mi 11. No action has been taken by the War Department toward ordering more troops away from the South. The Second infantry, recently on duty at Atlanta, having been ordered West to reinforce Gen. Howard, but few troops are left in the South.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has appointed Bayard Taylor Minister to Russia. The Treasury Department has issued tho fifty-second call for the redemption of the 5-20 bonds of ’OS. The call is for $10,000,000 eonsols of ’65, of which $7,000,000 are coupon and $3,000,000 registered bonds, principal and interest to be paid on and after the 19th of October next. The interest will cease on that day.

POLITICAL POINTS.

Ben Wade writes a letter denying the report that ho approves tho President’s Southern policy. The question whether members of Iho Republican National Committee come within the scope of tho recent order of tho President forbidding all Government officials from having any connection with political organizations was discussed at a Cabinet meeting in Washington the other day. It was decided that members of the above-named committee who are in the employ of the Government must resign from one of their positions. The conversation between the President and Gov. McCormick, from which a different opinion resulted, was wholly of a casual nature, and not of a decisive character. In tlio New Hampshire. Legislature, the other day, majority and minority reports w ere made by the Committee on National Affairs. The majority report set forth that Hayes was elected President by the people, and so declared bv the Electoral Commission, and that any movement to reopen the question would be both mischievous and contrary to public interests, etc.; tiro minority report recited the withdrawal of troops from South Carolina and Louisiana, and approved the President’s course, etc. The majority report was adopted.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Tlic Orangemen of Canada are raising a fund to build a monument to young Ilaekctt, killed in the Montreal riots on tho 12th of July. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has been having serious trouble with its striking employes. At Martinsburg, W. Va., tho militia Was called out to break the blockade caused by tlio strikers. The rioters fired on the soldiers, wounding one man. The fire was returned with better effect, one rioter being killed and several injured. Dispatches of the 18th from Martinsburg, Grafton, and other points along the Baltimore and Ohio railroad iu West Virginia, announce tho striking firemen and brakemen in quiet but determined possession of tlio company's property. At Martinsburg the strikers, numbered over 500. At llie Sand House station, a little further west, 450 or 500 strikers had fortified themselves. At Keyscr the strikers, several hundred in number, received information that a company of militia would probably reach that place 011 tho train east for Martinsburg, and resolved that if this company attempted to board any train they would be torn to pieces. At Grafton thero was a mob of several hundred, who threatened death to any One that attempted to run a train out of tho place. This was the alarming aspect of affairs when Gov. Matthews, of West Virginia, telegraphed to President Hayes that he was unable to quell tho disturbance with the forces at his command, and requesting that United States troops be placed at his disposal to put down the 1110 b. The President thereupon issued a formidable proclamation, in tho usual form, commanding the rioters to “disperso, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes,” etc. An order was also issued from tho War Department directing two companies of infantry and one of artillery, under command of Gen. French, to proceed immediately to Gov. Matthews’ assistance.

A Pittsburgh dispatch of the 19th says: “ All brakemen mid conductors on outgoing freight trains east on the Pennsylvania railroad struck here tliis morning, and prevented others from taking their places. A now order of the company doubling up trains and dispensing with one-lialf of tho employes was tho occasion of the strike. Congregating to the number of several hundred at the outer depot, the strikers stopped all freight trains, and compelled engineers and firemen to abandon their posts. All the freight employes of the Pan-Handle, Pittsburgh and Connollsvillo branch of the Baltimore and Ohio and Allegheny Valley branch of tho Pennsylvania railroad struck at Bp. m. No freights are leaving the city except on tho Fort Wayne and Chicago. Tho engineers of tho Pennsylvania railroad and branches hold a meeting and unanimously resolved to strike.” A telegram of the 19th from Martiflsburg states that tho arrival of the military and the arrest of the ringleaders of the strikers had produced a favorable effect, most of the strikers having retired to their homes. At Grafton and other points along the Baltimore and Ohio road the strikers were still holding out. Burned : Almost the entire business portion of Owensboro, Ky., loss $50,000; the shoe manufactory of T. A. Coolidge, at West Marlboro, Mass., loss SIOO,OOO ; a match factory and shoe-blacking factory 011 Fourth street, Philadelphia, loss $40,000. Robberies ; The house of David Garves. at Brandywine Springs, Del., of SII,OOO in United States bonds, SIOO in cash, and valuable jewelry ; the People’s Bank, of Newport, Pa,, of

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$5,000 in money and $1,500 in ' bonds; the First National Bank, of Canandaigua, N. Y., of $17,000 worth of stocks and bonds; the coach from Dtadwood to Cheyenne was stopped by highwaymen at three different points in the region of Cheyenne river, on the night of July 18, and when the passengers got through running the gantlet they found themselves minus money, arms, blankets, in fact, everything but their clothes. The status of the great strike of railway employes on the 20th, briefly stated, was about as follows : The only trains that were being run on the Baltimore and Ohio road in West Virginia were under guard of United S tates soldiers. There had been no collision between the strikers and troops, the blue cc ats being held in the highest esteem. Gen. French, at Martinsburg, issued an order warning the strikers that the troops must not bo impeded, and that whoever undertook it would do so at their own peril. The strike had extended as far West as Newark, Ohio, and the Sheriff of the county read the riot act and made a demand upon Gov. Young for military assistance. The strike on tho Pennsylvania road had increased to formidable dimensions, and there was the most intense excitement at Pittsburgh. Between that city and East Liberty tho road was literally blockaded with freight trains, heavily laden with goods for all parts of the East and West. The Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (Gov. Ilartranft being out of the State) issued a proclamation of warning to the Strikers, and ordered out the militia. The strike had extended to the Erie railway, the men quietly quitting tlio trains as fast as they reached Hornollsville, N. Y. The Fifty-fourth regiment of State militia was oidcred to proceed from Rochester to Ilorncllsville, and the Seventy-fourth was ordered under arms at Buffalo. The strike on tho Baltimore and Ohio road extended into Maryland, and at Cumberland all the trains were stopped and a complete embargo placed upon traffic. The police arrested a man named Reuch. A large crowd attempted his rescue, and several shots were fired by the officers, butnoone was hurt. Several buildings were set on fire in the town, and the depot telegraph office was gutted by the rioters. A train bringing a detachment of militia to Cumberland was fired upon, and one of tho trainmen wounded. The violence and lawlessness having been brought to tho knowledge of the Governor of Maryland, ho issued a proclamation warning the strikers to desist from acts of lawlessness, and at once ordered the Fifth and Sixth regiments of the Maryland National Guard to proceed to the scene of the disturbances. As the Sixth regiment was proceeding on its way to the de;-ot, in Baltimore, it was stoned and fired into by a crowd of roughs in Baltimore street. Several of tho militia were knocked senseless by stones, and a volley was tired into tho rioters, killing one man. This only served to incense the rioters still further and augment their numbers. The regiment continued its march to tho depot amid a perfect stotni of stones, brickbats, and an occasional pistol-shot. Whenever the crowd pressed too close; they were fired into, And thus a running fight was kept up all the way to Camden stat’oiK' The net results of this battle, which earned an excitement in Baltimore almost equal to that of the 1861 riots, was ten rioters killed!-quid a largo number wounded ; one Captain, two Lieutenants, two sergeants, and two privates of the military wounded, none of them, however, dangerously. The statement telegraphed East from tho scene of the Idaho Indian war, to tho effect that seventeen citizens were surrounded by savages and Col. Perry refused to send troops to their relief is found on investigation to be a wicked falsification.

A Great Sleeper.

Stonewall Jackson slept a great deal, though the men of his command believed that he never took repose. Whenever he had nothing else to do he slept, especially in church. Ho could sleep anywhere and iu any position, on a chair, under tiro, or on horseback. During a night-march toward Richmond, after the battles with McClellan, writes Col. Kyd Douglas, in the Pennsylvania Times, “ lie was riding along with his drowsy staff, nodding and sleeping as he went. We passed by groups of men sitting along the roadside, , and engaged in roasting new corn bj> tires made of fencerails. One group took ns for cavalrymen,with an inebriated Captain, and one of the party, delighted at the sight of a man who had found whisky enough to be drunk, sprung up from tlie fire and, brandishing a roasting-ear in his hand, leaped down into the road and, seizing the General’s horse, cried out, ‘ I say, old fellow, where the devil did you get your liquor?’ In an instant, as the General awoke, the fellow saw his mistake ; and then, bounding from tho road, he took the fence at a single leap, exclaiming, ‘ Good God, it’s old Jack hand disappeared in the darkness.”

Black Hills Currency.

A correspondent of the-St. Paul Pio-neer-Press describes the use of gold dust as currency as tlie greatest nuisance of the Black Hills. Each man is provided with bis buckskin sack, and, no matter what he buys, be it a plug of tobacco for 10 cents, or an outfit for several hundred dollars, he must weigh the amount out in dust. This is a vexatious process, and of course it cannot bo often repeated without a considerable percentage of waste. Gold is taken at $lB in greenbacks, and all shopkeepers give two prices. A movement is on foot to remedy this evil by adding a considerable percentage to tlio prices of goods sold for dust, and many of the more sensible miuers are beginning to sell their dust as they bring it in, and do their trading with paper money. Formerly there wasmuch risk in taking gold dust, as it was mixed with a material that it was impossible to detect by any test except that of acid, and few could spare the time to submit the dust to that process. Now the dust is comparatively clean and safe to handle.

A Singular Result of Emancipation.

Strange ns it may seem, the emancipation of the serfs in Russia has increased the number of wolves in that country. serfs used to act as their masters’ driversin the great wolf-hunts, which formed a national pastime; but since the liberation the wolf-hunt has gradually become unpopular, and consequently wolves are having a better time of it. Thus, M. Lazarewski, iu a pamphlet published by the Russian Ministerial printing office, estimates the number of wolves iu European Russia alone at not less than 200,000, and shows tfift while tho average annual loss of human lives in the years 1849-51 was only 125, the number of victims iu 1875 was no less than 161. The loss iu domestic animals is valued at about $12,500,000 annually, and that in wild animals at about $42,000,000. —New York Nvcning Post. A Fbench veloeipedist, M. Emile Houberden, recently rode 151 J miles in twenty-three hours, including stoppage.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles

GREAT RAILWAY STRIKE.

Collision Between the Strikers and a Body of Militia at Pittsburgh. A Large Number of People Killed and Wounded. Great Destruction of Property—Uuparalleled Scenes of Violence.

From the Pittsburgh papers we glean the following particulars of the tenable deeds of violence, growing out of the great railroad strike, enacted in that city on Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22 : Nearly 2,000 troops arrived in Pittsburgh from Philadelphia at 3 o’clock on the afternoon of Sunday, the 21st, and a few minutes later they left the Union Depot for the scene of disturbance on the Twenty-eighth street crossing, marching out along the track, and preceded by the Sheriff and his posse comitatus. The Sheriff and his posse reached Twenty-eighth street shortly after 4 o’clock, by which time an immense crowd had congregated at that point. The hillside was literally black with people, a vast majority of whom had been attracted to the spot by mere curiosity. No demonstration was made until the Black Hussars, of Philadelphia-. who were dismounted, were ordered to clear the Twenty-eighth street crossing of tho crowds. The moment the Hussars attempted to execute the order they wero assailed by the crowd on the hillside, who sent a shower of stones with the force of meteorites upon the soldiers. A number of the latter were seriously injured, and their companions, goaded to desperation, commenced firing. The first shots were aimed above the heads of the crowd, which hadjiow become a mob, but the shower of stones continued. Then some of the mob drew their revolvers and fired at the military, but their shooting was wild, and was much less effective than tho missiles which had been hurled. The military then fired directly into the crowd, and the volley proved to be most disastrous to the assailants. The excitement at this moment was simply indescribable, and it was not until after some moments that the effect of the firing was made known. It was soon ascertained that fourteen persons had been killed and the same number wounded. The crowd, however, soon rallied, and so vigorous was their onset that the military were forced to retire from their position. Then the strikers retreated, and started in the direction of the arsenal for the avowed purpose of seeming arms and ammunition. Three of the lulled were women, and of the wounded a large proportion were women and children who were among the spectators on the hillside. Very few of the strikers were among the killed or injured. Owing to their sympathy for tho strikers fully ono-lialf of the Pittsburgh militia stacked their arms and dispersed. The strikers and their sympathizers were incensed beyond all measure at the killing of their comrades. To the number of several thousand they made a raid into the city, the puny police offering no resistance, marched into a number of gun-shops and relieved them of their arms and ammunition. A battery was also taken from the arsenal. Thus armed and equipped, the rioters hastened back toward the round-house, bent upon avenging tho death of tlicir comrades, and uttering the most terrible threats against the “insolent Philadelphia mi lilia.” The latter, meantime, had taken refuge in the round-house. Upon the approach of the rioters three of them endeavored to steal out of tho building, but, being discovered by the mob, they were riddled with bullets and instantly killed. In a short time the roundhouse, with its 400 besieged militiamen, was closely invested by the mob, and all egress cut off. They were surrounded by at least 10,000 desperate men crying aloud for their blood, and vowing that not one- should escape alive. The excitement was terrible to behold. No such scene was ever witnessed in this country befpre. To add to the horror, of the scene, the rioters applied the totch to a large oil train, and the light from the flames lit up the entire city. The fire Communicated to other cars, and soon 200 or 300 ojj, them were roduceu <.O ashes. Many of these trains were laden with valuable goods, and the loss from this source is estimated at $2,000,000. Many of the cars burned were loaded with grain and general merchandise. Thieves plied their vocation during the night with untiring industry. Trunks containing fine clothing, silks, laces and other goods were Pi rst open, and their contents appropriated. Flour, hams, fruit and other eatables were carried off in immense quantities. Scarcely a soul in tho whole town slept during the niglit. Such excitement has never been known in this part of the country, and old army officers say that the howling crowd and the peculiarities of the situation conspired to present an aspect never rivaled by the horrors of war. The streets were filled with women -wringing their hands in despair and shrieking piteously for their husbands,, sous or fathers, who were in the riot. The crowd itself was largely composed of women who, in then - frenzied fear for their relatives, made the horrible night hideous with their lamentations and wailings. Among the killed outright by the militia were a number of women, over whose bloody bodies friends knelt in the very agony of despair, sometimes calling upon them for a word, and again urging the crowd to seek double vengeance for the outrage, as they term it Tho mangled bodies of children shot down while clinging to the garments of their crazed mothers marked, too, the terrors of the night, and wrought the crowd to a pitch untamable and indescribable. It should not be inferred that the rioters were all railroad men or strikers. Iron-work-ers, stevedores, miners, thieves, thugs from Baltimore, and tramps from the surrounding country, poured in to swell the 1110 b, generally leaving the lighting to railroad men and devoting their own attention to plunder. The hills overlooking the track and tho nowfamous round-house were jammed with people, maddened by the excitement of the night and clamoring for vengeance for the friends they had lost under the murderous fire of the soldiery. Men with pallid, distorted faces rushed hither and thither, their hands clenched and their teeth set. The strike was not thought of. A passionate hatred for the men who had opposed them, and a hellish desire to root out the soldiers, had taken possession of the original strikers, and, reckless of any and all consequences, they struggled only to work some terrible damage to their opponents. This feeling was aided by the disaffection of the local militia, and the manifest sympathy on the part of citizens generally lor the men who claim to have been interrupted by foreign intervention while fighting for their rights. But to return to the siege of the j roundhouse. The mob, at about 8 o’clock in the evening, commenced firing into the building. The miiitiamen returned the fire with fatai effect. At each volley from the besieged building some of the rioters fell, and a scream of rage went up, and the anger of the crowd knew no bounds. A constant fusilade was kept up between the militia and a portion of the strikers until far into the small hours of the morning. The main efforts of the crowd, however, from midnight Saturday until 5 o’clock Sunday morning, were directed to firing the building's and cars, hut about half an horn- later the mob which had been besieging the military left for some unexplained reason. This afforded the troops, wild were in actual danger of being roasted alive, an opportunity to emerge from the building, and they succeeded in reaching Liberty street in a very few moments. They quietly formed iu line and marched up to Thirty-third street, and thence to Pennsylvania avenue and Butler street. Their objective point was tho United States arsenal on Butler street, where they expected to obtain shelter. While turning into Butler street, however, the leaders of the mob bad discovered . tlicir retreat, and fully 1,000 men, fully armed and supplied with ammunition, followed in pursuit. Some of the troops fired at the citizens, either accidentally or intentionally, as they moved along, and this added fury to the cry for revenge. When they

reached the arsenal the commandant refused to admit them. He said he had but ten men, and would be powerless to hold the place if the mob should attack it. He consented to take care of the wounded, and they wore accordingly carried into the hospitals. The main body of the troops continued their march out Butler street, a fusilade being kept up on them by the mob as they moved forward. The shots fired killed one of the soldiers before they reached the arsenal, and nearly opposite the cemetery gate, fully a mile above the arsenal, two others were killed and were left lying on the sidewalk. They continued their flight and crossed over to the north side of the Allegheny river, 011 the Sharpsburg bridge, the mob following them as rapidly as possible. After reaching the north side the troops scattered, and in this way the mob was divided into very Rmall bodies. , One man of the mob followed the PhiladelE hians, took the gun of one of them, and, eeping up the trail, shot and killed seven men. It is said thirteen of the militiamen wero killed during the retreat. In the meantime the city was in a state of anarchy. Thousands who had not joined in the pursuit of the fleeing troops gathered about the burning buildings and trains, and assisted in spreading the flames w herever they had not been applied. By 7 o’clock p. m. the fire had extended from Milevale station to Twentieth sireet and enveloped hundreds of cars, 125 locomotives, the extensive machine shops, two round-houses, the depots and offices of the Union Transfer Company, blacksmith shops, store-houses, and numerous buildings making up the terminal facilities of this mammoth corporation. The torch was applied to the large Union Depot, and the building reduced to ashes. All the Pan-Handle trains in the yard and depot buildings, together with the bridgesover Washington street, and tho immense elevator at tho Union Depot, were next fired, and wero soon a mass of ashes. There were no fire engines, no police, and no military to interfere and prevent this terrible work of destruction. The mob wore in undisputed possession of everything, no one daring to interpose even a remonstrance, and quickly and thoroughly was the work of desolation planned and executed. The total destruction of the property of the Pennsylvania railroad and freight left in its charge, and also that of the Pan-Handle railroad, including the 125 locomotives, cannot be less than $8,000,000. A low estimate of the value of the locomotives at the present time would place them at $2,000,000, though they originally must have cost over $3,000,000. The Union Depot and hotel destroyed, owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, cost in the neighborhood of $600,000. The grain elevator cost over $1,000,000, and was owned jointly by the corporations of the Pennsylvania Company, though ostensibly it was run under the title of another corporation. The freightsheds of the Pan-Handlo railroad wore very complete, and they were filled with valuable freight, all of which was either stolen hv the mob or destroyed by the fire-demou. The dispatcher’s office on Washington street was destroyed, and in its wake followed several small dwellings located near the brick-yard. On Sunday evening the citizens of Pittsburgh took decision to protect tho city from the total destruction which was threatened by tho mob, and, organizing themselves in large numbers into a vigilance committee, proceeded to tho scenes of arson and plunder, where they were successful in staying the hands of the thieves and incendiaries. A compromise was effected by tho Fort Wayne Railroad Company, whereby the latter concede to the strikers the wages paid previous to the last reduction ; tho strikers thereupon returned to their places and assisted in getting the rolling-stock in motion. The loss of life during the thirty-six hours’ reign of lawlessness in Pittsburgh is unknown at this writing, but it will certainly reach forty, and perhaps fifty, killed outright. A large number were wounded, some of whom cannot recover.

THE STRIKE AT OTHER POINTS.

From tlie dispatches of the 22d of July we glean tlie following : At Cumberland, Md., the Baltimore and Ohio road was still blockaded, the strikers having everything their own way. Freight cars wqre broken open by the mob, and a largo quantity' of provisions and other things were carried away. Women and children, with bags and baskets, assisted in the depredations. The authorities were unable to guard the property. At Baltimore there were several collisions between the police and the rioters, resulting in a few broken heads. Tlie Governor of Maryland called on the President for military assistance, and the latter issued the customary proclamation commanding “ all persons engaged in or connected with said domestic violence and obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to, their respective abodes.” Nearly all the troops and marines at Fortress Monroe and Norfolk were ordered to proceed at once to Baltimore, and Gen. W. S. Hancock was directed to go from New York and assume command of the forces. The strike on the Erie was spreading, and •serious trouble was anticipated at Buffalo and other places. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Ciiicago train men inaugurated a strike at Fort Wayne, and resolutely declared that they would allow no trains to move from that point. At Vincennes freight trains were stopped on tlie Ohio and Mississippi road, and a general strike Was thought to be imminent all along the lino. At Indianapolis hand-bills were posted, calling a public meeting of all ‘ in favor of crushing the railroad monopoly.” The strikers began operations at Reading, Pa. They tore up the tracks, burned tlie Lebanon Valley bridge and a number of freight cars. At Buffalo ami other points in New York the firemen and brakemen on the Lake Shore road struck,and all freight traffic was stopped. The Governor of New York issued a proclamation warning strikers against acts of violence, and calling upon all good citizens to aid in suppressing disorder. Several regiments of New York militia were called out and dispatched to Buffalo, Hornellsville, and other threatened points. Incendiary strikers burned a train of thirty-live oil cars near Baltimore.

Joseph’s Victims.

The following is a list of the soldiers killed and wounded in the battle fought between Gcu, Howard and Chief Joseph’s band of Nez Perces Indians on the 11th and 12th of July : Killed. ‘ —ln the Fourth Artillery— James A. Workman, sergeant, company A; Charles Marquard, corporal, company A ; Charles Monntaindon, private, Company E. First cavalry—Juan Plater, private, company E; Mayer Cohen, pi’ivate, company E, First infantry— James Doyle, corporal, company I; Eison Compleon, private, company I; Jol in H. Heinean, drummer, compauy I; William Hutchinson, private, company C ; Edward W. YkotT, private, company B ; David W. NcNally. Wounded. —Capt. E. A. Bancroft, Fourth Artillery. T wen ty- first infantry— Lieut. C. A. Williams, Sergeant Repert, company I, severely ; private Shafther, company I, severely ; private Garreau, company I, slightly ; W. E. Skede, company I, severely ; Sergeant Kinklc, company I, slightly; Corporal Murphy, company I, severely ; Private Buchoii, company B, severely , Private Winters, company B, slightly ; Private Barton, company B, slightly ; Sergeant Eaches, company C, severely ; Private McGrath, company H, severely ; Corporal Connelly, company H, severely. First Cavalry—Sergeant Hauser, company E, slightly ; sergeant Simpson, company L, severely.

Youthful Depravity.

One night last week a passenger train on the Long Island railroad left Jamaica for Long Island City, and, when crossing High bridge, a structure thirty feet high, the locomotive struck an obstructiou on the track, which it jumped over, alighting on the rail again, as did ten cars following—the eleventh pushing the obstacle from the rails. Upon examination it was discovered that a bar of iron had been placed across the track and fastened by a log of wood. Thomas Kelly, a lad of 15, was arrested, and confessed that he and three others had placed the obstruction upon the bridge for the purpose of throwing the train over into the creek so that they might plunder the dead and wounded. They calculated that at least twenty people would be killed. Kelly’s father is serving a life sentence in Sing Sing prison for murder.

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Letter from Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, of St Louis-The A, It, C of Civil-Service Reiorm —New Light on Mr. Hayes’ Policy. What means the word reform? Improvement. What means civil-service reform ? Clearly the improvement of tho civil service. The question, therefore, is simply, Has Mr. Hayes improved our civil service ? Not whether he may, or shall, or wifi ; not whether he means to; not whether he is right or wrong, sincere or insincere, patriotic or hypocritical in his professed desire, but simply, Has Mr. Hayes improved onr civil service ? A Republican of considerable intelligence, as well as influence, told me within the last hour that Mr. Hayes was determined to and w ould ruin the Republican party by bis “policy” of reforming the civil service. Tnis question, therefore, is plainly, Will Mr. Hayes rain the Republican party? Of course, as Republican leaders assert that this ruin will result from the “reform,” we can assume tho assertion to he false if it is shown that there is not only no real reform, but, practically, scarcely a change in our civil service, so far as principles or measures are concerned, from the former regime. And this I mean to show. And thus I mean to defend Mr. Hayes from the charges of violent Republicans.' Surely he cannot seek the rain of his party, if, in the main, the civil service is exactly as it was under Grant. Now for facts. Where has Mr. Hayes improved the civil service ? Let me first speak of my own city and Slide, and of my own actual knowledge. / Mr. Hayes has hot removed a single official in St. Louis, or in Missouri, who was appointed by Grant. He has not made the slightest change. Everything is exactly as it was during the days of Grant. The Postmaster of St. Louis owns the whole organization or machine of the party as in fee simple. This Postmaster’s name is Fiiley. Filley is a member of tho Republican National Executive Committee ; has enough village postmasters iu tho State committee to be its absolute “ boss has enough employes of the postoftice in the local committee to have absolute control of the city organization of St. Louis, where scarcely any nomination can be made without his assent. Now, do you think this is magnified? I assure yon it is rather short of tho truth. Nor have I the least feeling against Mr. Filley. Ou the contrary, I believe him to make an efficient Postmaster. But to illustrate Mr. Hayes’ idea of reforming the civil service it is perfectly proper to state facts and truths, and it is an undeniable truth that in all the United States there is not a postoilice more thoroughly prostituted for partisan service than the one in St. Louis, not a Postmaster who is a more energetic, skillful and practical engineer of machine politics than Mr. Filley, nor a person who wields a more compact control of the whole party machine of his own State than this same Postmaster.

Where has he improved the civil service ? Certainly not iu New Orleans where Madison Wells, indicted for forgery, fraud, and crime, is Uiiited States Surveyor of the Port; where Anderson, the other infamous-Returning Board rascal who stole the Presidency for Haves, is a silent partner in spoils of the Collector of the Port, Mr. King, appointed by Mr. Hayes at Anderson’s request; where “Jack” Wharton, a notorious blackleg and chief accomplice in stealing the electoral vote of Louisiana lor Mr. Hayes, was appointed by the latter United States Marshal. Surely Mr. Hayes must bo acquitted of the oharge of reforming the party there. Perhaps it is in Florida that he has improved the civil service. Certainly he has not proved himself ungrateful to the scoundrels who stole the electoral vote of this State. Every one of them was appointed to some Federal office. Stearns, the last carpet-hag Governor, and a most notorious villain, received a very fat berth ou the commission to examine the land claims Hot Spr iugs, Arkansas. It was one of the very first appointments of Mr. Hayes. MeLin, the negro member of the Florida Returning Board, was made a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. The other man who acted on the Returning Board, as well as the penitentiary convict who acted as a fraudulent elector and cast the 185tli vote, also hold positions in the service of the United States. So Mr. Hayes must be acquitted of the charge of reforming the civil service there. Has he improved it ! in South Carolina ? Scarcely. He appointed to the most important position in the State, that of United States District Attorney, one of the most infamous car-pet-baggers, and the one who did more to accomplish the theft of the electoral vote of this State than anybody else except Chamberlain. In Baltimore ? He removed a Collector for whose character Mr. Hayes, to use his own written language, entertained the “highest regard,” simply to gratify the most corrupt newspaper and ring in the State. In Toledo? He removed Postmaster Dowling against the most emphatic protest of the population and of nearly every merchant of Toledo, against tho protest of tho Postmaster General himself—to appoint, well, whom ? A Mr.. Reed. And what were Mr. Reed’s claims? They were twofold. He has a paper in Toledo, and his brother has one in Cincinnati. Surely 110 one will hesitate to acquit Mr. Hayes of the charge of reforming the civil service there. Where has he improved it. Not in Cincinnati ; not in Chicago ; not in Milwaukee : not in Detroit; for there has been scarcely any change in these -places. And as there can be no reform or improvement without change Mr. Hayes must here, too, be acquitted of the ehirge brought against him. lam not aware that a single Federal official has been changed in the great city of New York. And, in Philadelphia, Mr. Tutton, who was originally appointed by Grant for questionable services at the Babcock trial, is still Collector, and iu Boston the head of the Custom House is still Collector Simmons, against whoso appointment by Grant tho whole press and the entire Congressional delegation of Massachusetts, except Ben Butler, protested. Is the reform in our administration abroad ? Wasliburne is the best of the lot. lie has been removed to give way to Noyes, who is of Mr. Hayes’ State, and is said to be, by those who know him best, a man utterly unlit for the position—a political blatherskite of low tastes, vulgar instincts, little ability, and still less character. There is 110 improvement here. Piorrepont, however, whose flank eyism makes his further stay in London a disgrace to the republic which he so ridicule usly misrepresents, is retained iu the faee*of the scandalous fact, conceded by friends of Mr. Hayes, that Piorrepont, during the last campaign, sent a draft of $10,00l) lor election purposes to Mr. Hayes directly. So there is 110 improvement here. Kasson, whose reputation for private as well as political character is very had in his own State, and who could not be reelected in his own distric’, is sent as Minister to Vicuna. Certainly no improvement there. Osborne, of Kansas, of whose gross corruption as United States Marshal —Delahey, the United States Judge, and Osborne’s father-in-law, was forced to resign to escape conviction —there is overwhelming proof, is sent as Minister to Chili. Certainly not much of a reform there. And unless the improvement of our civil service abroad is found in the appointment of Mr. Hayes’ private secretary as Consul at Frankfort, or Hayes’ friend Coiuly—the editor of the paper in Columbus most fulsome in its puffery of the acting President—who draws the large salary as special Ambassador of the United States to the Sandwich islands, though he stays in Washington, Mr. Hayes must be acquitted on this head, too. Where, then, has he improved it ? The echo is—where? In Washington? In his Cabinet? Conceding all they claim for the two rhetorical and ornamental 'members of the Cabinet, is there much of an improvement in the Cabinet as a whole ? Where, again I repeat, has Mr. Haves im proved the civil service ? If not abroad nor at home, if neither in principles nor measures, if neither in the Cabinet nor in the Custom Houses—where ? The answer is clear in my mind. Mr. Hayes has refci mod the civil service —on papier. On papier, by circulars, orders, interviews, the telegraph, and the amiable Associated Press agents at Washington—whose daily reformatory and puffatory effusions suggest the question whether they arc paid out of the United States treasury, by the pircscnt administration, instead of the press association—the Government is gloriously and daily reformed. But I tear only on paper. 111 piractico there is certainly no change pierceptible. And it is no new but a very old practice in rulers, rhetoricians aud demagogues to profess and promise one thing and practice another. But, measured by practice and not promise, deeds and not words, Mr. Hayes cannot bo rightly accused of “civil service reform.” To vindicate him from this charge of Republican malcontents was the generous object of this letter. Cape May, N. J. Joseph Putjtzeu.

Spanish Finances.

The Spanish Government’s reputation is now so bad that it can only borrow money on security. The Semaine Fi-

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 24.

nanciere recites the measure by which money was obtained to pay the coupon due on the new Spanish 2 per cent. debt. The Banque de Paris, representing a syndicate, advanced $2,100,000 on an assignment of the ’ stamp duties. The Government in this way will repay $340,000 a month, and extinguish tlie debt in seven months.

A RIGHTEOUS VERDICT.

How au Agent Tried to Cheat a Widow, and What a Chicago Jury Did About It. A Chicago jury lias rendered n verdict which will be approved by that large number of persons who have been deluded into signing contracts the purport of which they did not understand. An agent of the Victor Sewing-Machine Company visited a young widow, a Norwegian, who supported herself and child by working on a sewing machine. The agent proposed to sell to the woman a Victor machine for SBS, and take an old Singer for sls, and agreed to furnish S3O of work a month, retaining $5 a month until the machine should be paid for. No other terms were spoken of, and, when this arrangement was fully understood, the agent prepared a contract from a printed blank for the woman to sign. The widow was unable to read English, and, after the agreement had again been explained as before, signed tlie paper, and the macliine was delivered. Tlie widow went to the office of the Victor Company for work, but could not get any. Tlie agent called for tlie money in a month, and, in course of time, took the machine away, refusing to give back the old machine taken in part payment. The widow sued to recover SBS, and a verdict was given in her favor. The paper signed proved to be an agreement to pay rent for tlie use of the machine, and providing that, upon failure to pay any part of the rent, the sewing-machine company might terminate tlie lease and take possession of the machine, and that the company might at any time “take possession of the machine when it may deem necessary to secure itself against loss.” Across tlie face of the lease was printed in red ink a proviso that “ any contract made with any canvasser or agent different in any respect from the terms of this lease, will not be binding upon the Victor Sewing-Machine Company under any circumstances.” The Judge held that this limitation could have no effect where the instrument itself never had any validity. The moral of all which is, that people should carefully scrutinize tempting inducements offered by any kind of agents, and should never sign their names until they know exactly what they arc binding themselves to do.

Western Railway Slocks and Ronds.

The following table shows the total stock and bonds in Western railroads, with the amount paid last year—lß7(s—- - stock and also on the bonds : Total Stock. Paying. Michigan $ 55,038,171 $ 1,218,935 Indiana 89,022,207 4,188,150 Illinois...: 220,137,041 98,215,513 Wisconsin 52.790,744 12,274,483 Minnesota 39,503,529 2,004,977 lowa 68,304,151 22,748,200 Missouri 122,040,991 None. Kansas 33,730,037 None. Colorado 17,989,300 None. Nebraska 3,954,890 None. Dakota 11,500,000 None. Total $705,828,931 $140,610,24!) Tioncht. Paying. Michigan $ 83,230,008 * 71,700,198 Indiana 100,029,041 38.844,800 Illinois 184,137,025 113,593,075 Wisconsin 60,698,077 36,003,500 Minnesota 45,728,850 20,329,600 10wa... ' 47,795,900 10,572,000 Missouri 108,210,000 58,457,000 Kansas . 56,954,004 20,385,000 Colorado 12,015,500 12,650,509 Nebraska 14,811,948 None. Dakota... 1,200,000 None. Total U... $715,388,149 $383,642,273 From the above table it will be seen that interest was paid only on two-fifths of the Illinois railroad stock; how much interest was paid is not stated. In Indiana not one-fortieth part of the stock paid any interest, and only a third of the bonds. They all make a bad showing? —Chicago Tribune.

Piety and War.

Tlie Turkish commanders mix piety and war in a confusing way. One Major General, wrote : “The battle was very fierce and lasted three hours, and, glory to God, five of the enemy were killed.” The loss of an iron-clad is thus reported by a Turkish Admiral: “The steam launches approached to within a short distance, and may God preserve the remaining ships of our fleet. At this time the imperial iron-clad called the Sword of the Lord received a blow from a torpedo of the fish kind, which proceeded from the steam launch, and it exercised such an influence on her stem that she sank ; and, thanks'to the Most High, all the officers and crew escaped. This sad occurrence was doubtless a necessity to the great God, as is well known. He always gives victory after such defeat.” A General in Asia thus chronicled his success: “We had ten martyrs killed and twelve wounded, and 300 of the enemy went to perdition, and as many more were wounded, which we cannot but ascribe to the spiritual aid of the Prophet, and to the favor shown by the Almighty God toward our glorious Sultan, the refuge of a universe.”

Attracting the Public Eye.

Jim Brown, a worthy German, died, in Franklin recently, and his next friend, also a worthy German, was appointed administrator to settle up the affairs of his estate. The administrator called at a printing office the other day to have posters printed announcing that the goods of the late Brown would be sold at public auction. “ I vant you to write up dose fulls in some kind of stliyle,” said the administrator, whose mind runs much to business ; “ I vant somding dat vill attract dcr public eye, und pring in der beoples from tier kountry,” The printer asked for a suggestion or two. “ Mrs. Brown und minesclf liaf dalked it over,” continued the business man, “ und we want you to head dose bills somtlings this vay”—and he marked on the wall with his cane to show that he wanted big letters—“Hoor-raw! hoorraw ! Jim Brown is dead !”

More Troops for Cuba.

A letter from Madrid says the Spanish authorities are preparing to send 25,000 men to Cuba in October, to fill the gaps caused by disease and death. The Ministers propose to raise the necessary funds to forward these reinforcements by another appeal to the association of planters and fluanciers who furnished the advance for reinforcements sent out a year ago. Their privilege over the Cuban customs revenue will be increased and prolonged to insure payment of the interest and annual sinking fund. The Ministers have allowed the Cortes to undf rstand that, if necssary, the Government will make even a greafey sacrifice.

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BRYAN O’COYLE. Bsyau O’Coyle was a broth av a boy, c He delighted in tumult, and strife-was liib joy. Did iver ye hear av a scrimmage or broil, In the thick av the ruction was Brian O'Coyle. ■ Brian O’Coyle had a pond av his own : “ Clane it out!” sqid his friends ; said he, “ Liwo it alone; Whin the wather is gone there’ll bo plinty av soil, And a foine spot for pratees,’ said Brian O’Coyle. Brian OVoyle a bridge did design, He built the two iuds, but the tads wouldn’t jino ; Whin hi- srtw the result av his wisdom and toil, “ It will wear ail the longer,” said Brian O’Coyle. Brian O’Coyle he established a school, But tochers and scholars all fled from his rule. “ Bedad, I’ve a tliriek the desavevs to foil. I’ll be tochers and scholars !” said Brian O’Coyle. Brian O’Coyle built a road through the town, / To make us remimber his native and renow n Whin we said, “That is hardly according to Hoyle ‘ It’s accordin' to me !” said bowld Brian O’Coyle. Brian O’Coyle found his money was spirit, faith, that's lucky !” said he, “now 1 can’t 'o.-e a cint ; I’ll depitul on me credit to make the pot boil. And I’ll live on me taxes !” said Brian O'Coyle. . — Jloshni Tni nKct i)>t.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Spirit of the times—Whisky. A hard-shell Baptist—The turtle. A summer lium-bug — The mosquito. Good suits for bald-headed men. Mo’hair. A colored Postmaster is now called a black-mailer. Texas wheat is to high that grasshoplioppers have to walk on stilts. Why is a pond lily like a whale? Because it comes to the surface to blow. Why is the letter “s” like a lamb? Because it is the beginning of “ sheep.’ What mental process most nearly resembles a minute's reflection ? Second thoughts. “ John, you said Sally kissed you ; did you kiss her back ?” “ No —l kissed her face.” The most sentimental exercise yet known is said to be women’s eyes swimming in tears. 1 As a man drinks lie generally grows reckless ; in his case the more drains the fewer scruples. A little girl was suffering from the mumps, and declared that she “felt as though a headache had. slipped down into her neck.” .“My luck,” exclaimed a Bohemian, “is so atrociously bad, that I believe if I were to invest in soap, washing would go out of fashion to-morrow,” The following is a true copy of a letter received by a village sol tool-master : “ Hur, as you are a man of nolege, I intend to inter my son in yonr skull.” An eccentric clergyman lately said in one of bis termons that about tlie commonest proof we have that man is mode of clay is the brick so often found in liis hat. “If there is anybody under the canister of heaven that I have in utter excrescence,” says Mrs. Partington, “it is the slanderer going about like a boa constructor, circulating liis calomel on honest folks. ” A Pennsylvania Dutchman, who married his second wife soon - after the funeral of the first, was visited with a two hours’serenade in token of disapproval. Ho expostulated pathetically thus: “I say, poys, you ought to !>e ashamed of yourselfs to be making all dis noise ven dar vas a funeral here so soon.” Artist What do you do in this lonely place, Donald, when any one is sick and tlie doctor is ten miles oft ?” Donald—“ Oh, we sliust gie her a dram.” Artist—“ But supposing that has no effect?” Donald—“We shust gie her another dram.” Artist—“ Yes ; but supposing that does not do?” Donald —“ Oh, we shust gie her another dram, and if that does nae cure her site’s no worth curing. ” — Punch. f He came back to liis mother, looking very forlorn, with a big red] swelling under liis left eye, and four or five handfuls of torn shirt boiling over his breeches band. “Why, where on earth have you been?” she asked. “Me and Johnny’s been playin’. lie played lie was a pirate, and I played I was a Duke. Then he put on airs, and 1 got mad, and t- “Yes, yes!” interrupted liis mother, In r eyes flashing, “and you didn’t flinch ?” “No, mother; but the pirate licked.” “Doctor,” said an old lady the other day to her family physician, “kin you tell me how it is that some people is born dumb? ” “Why—hem ! —certainly, madam,” replied the doctor; “ It is owing to the fact that they come into the world without the power of speech.” “ Lame ! ” remarked the old lady; “ now just see what it is to have a physic edieation. I’ve axed my old man more nor a hundred times that ar same thing, and all I could ever get out of t him was, ‘ Kase they is.’ ” * N

A Gymnastic Calf.

Mr, Tlromas M. Linton, of the firm of Clark & Linton, is the owner of ?m active and promising calf, which will certainly amouut to something in time, if his neck is not broken by accident. This calf, when ho finds his Stable doors open, amuses himself by climbing the stairs to the second floor, and views the surrounding neighborhood from an open door. When surfeited with landscape he jumps from the door to the roof of an adjoining shed at Alio great risk of his spine (but thus far without injury), and then cavorts around until lie jumps, or falls, to the ground, while his anxious maternal parent watches his movements with an expression of solemn anxiety.' His owner has repeatedly tried to hold the animal to the ground floor, but the word “Excelsior” has been pinned to his budding horns, and he is bound to go up or die. In order to check his gymnastic tendencies, Mr. Linton will be forced to anchor him down to the stable floor, or feed him on shot until his jumping capacity is destroyed. This rampant veal is the only juvenile Ham Patch of his kind in Minneapolis," and deserves respectful consideration from Mr. Bamum or any other man partial to living curiosities.— St. Paul Pioneer-Press.

The British Army in Egypt.

The British forces for the army of Egypt, under Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Saele, are the Eighth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first Hussars, Foity-second, Seventy-first, and Seventy-fourth regiments (Highlanders), the One Hundred and First Bengal Fusileers, a brigade ot the Guards, comprising the Second Battalion of Coldstream Guards, and the First Battalion Scotch Fusileers ; a battalion of the Welsh Fusileers, two regiments of the line, a battalion of sharpshooters, and 5,000 native troops from India. These troops will make a force of about 15,000 men in Egypt.