Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1878 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Barre and Lebiez, the murderers of Madame Gillet, were publicly guillotined, in the preßence of an immense crowd, at Paris, on the 7th of September. Nobeling, the Socialist, who attempted to assassinate the Emperor William of Germany, has died of his wounds. A London dispatch says that “over 600 bodies have been recovered of the persons drowned by the disaster to the excursion steamer Princess Alice. A large majority of the bodies have been recognized.” Later accounts of the murder of Mehemet Ali by Albanian insurgents report that his suite were not assassinated in the fight in which their master met bis death. The engagement resulted in the killing of 400 persons, Mebomet being surrounded and unable to escape. In the late fight at Bihacs, a small fortified town near the Dalmation frontier, the Bosnian rebels inflicted a loss of 600 or 700 men on the Austrian forces. The resistance of the rebels was so obstinate that the Austrians were compelled to retire and leave the place for the present in possession of the enemy. A Vienna dispatch says the Bourse is much disturbed by the retrograde movement of the Austrian army in Bosnia. Count Wilhelm von Bismarck, second hou of Prince Bismarck, has been elected Deputy to the German Parliament from Langensata, the Catholics turning the balance in his favor in consequence of his promise to be guided by his father’s conciliation toward the Church of Rome. A dispatch from Rome says in the negotiations between Bismarck and the Vatican it has been agreed that the churoh shall be ruled in accordance with the Prussian constitution, and that the Falk laws shall remain in force, but subject to a declaration as to the manner of their execution. The German Emperor has completely recovered from the wounds inflicted by tho assassin Nobeling. A Paris dispatch says a diploma has been awarded the State Departments of Public Instruction of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Kansas, the Milwaukee public schools, and the St. Louis public schools. Reports from Servian sources estimate the losses of Austrians in engagements with the Bosnians, between the 4th and 6th of this month, at about a hundred officers and three thousand men. It is stated that the Austrians, with heavy reinforcements, have commenced offensive operations against the insurgent intrenchments on the banks of the Save, but without achieving decisive results.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eust. A dynamite magazine exploded near Bradford, Pa.-, the other day, killing four mon. Their bodies were blown into a million fragments. South, Memphis dispatches of Sept. 9 represent the condition of affairs in that city as tiuly appalling. The new cases of yellow fever for the preceding twenty-four hours reached the fearful figure of 411, and the deaths about 120. Over 2,000 people were down with the pestilence. The doctors were working hard, but hundreds of persons were dying without being able to get a physician. "A walk or a ride through any street of the city,” telegraphs a correspondent “reveals the scene of death at almost every step, while the stench from rotting bodies is most loathsome, the number of unattended cases being so numerous that many are found daily only by tracing up the scent till its source is reached, and then it is often the case that three or four dead bodies are found in one room.” At New Orleans the number of new cases for the twenty-four hours was 144, and the deaths 87. At Hickman, Ky., 60 cases of fever were under treatment, in a population of 200. A dispatch of the 9th from Jackson, Miss., says: “ The fever has broken out at several new points in this State—. Bolton Lake, Lawrence station on the Vicksburg and Meriden railway, and Gilman station on the New Orleans road; Dry Grove, in Hinds county. No abatement at Vicksburg. Holly Springs. Port Gibson, or Greenville. At Grenada only three or four remain to be attacked.” The deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans, on the 11th of September, numbered 90; new cases, 258. Business was almost entirely suspended, and it was estimated that there were over 50,000 unemployed people in the city. At Memphis there was no abatement of the plague. A dispatch from that city says: “We have at this date 3,500 sick to provide for and 10,000 well people to feed. The average increase of cases is 100, and the average deaths 100 per day. There are no signs of abatement of the fever, though the weather has turned cold, and we have hopes that the back of the epidemic has been broken.” At Vicksburg there were 31 deaths, a slight decrease. There was also a slight decrease in the number of new cases. In the other towns of the South where the pestilence had found a lodgment there was no abatement. The number of deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans on the 13th was 58; new cases, 228. At Memphis there were 203 new cases and 93 deaths. The disease had assumed a mild form, and yielded more readily to treatment. Vicksburg reported 31 deaths; the wea'her was growing cool, and there was hope of an early abatement of the plague. At Holly Springs, Hickman, Brownsville, and other towns in the interior, there was little or no abatement of the epidemic. * A man named Vallour St. Martin, confined in the jail of St. Charles parish, La., for the murder of a colored man, was taken out at night by a mob of negroes and summarily put to death. He received the contents of at least fifty guns, and was literally riddled with bullets beyond all recognition. West. A small steamer was sunk, the other day, in the Missouri river, near St. Charles, and three of the crew were drowned. Two Deadwood coaches, one bound up and the other down, were recently robbed by three bandits not far from Hat creek, Wyoming. The treasure boxes were broken open and robbed of their contents—which amounted to little, by the way—the mail sacks were gutted of all registered letters, and the passengers relieved of their money, watches and jewelry. President Hayes and party, alter taking a trip up the Northern Pacific railroad as far as Fargo, Dakota, and inspecting the great wheat-fields of that region, returned to Minneapolis and looked in upon the Exposition. He thence journeyed to Madison, and was present at the opening of the Wisconsin State Fair. His Excellency next visited Milwaukee, where he was the guest of Hon. Alexander Mitchell. There was a hpavy frost in many

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JAS W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME 11.

parts of the Northwest on the night of Sept. 11. A pairful report has reached Fort Keogh, to the effect that Gen. and an excursion part# bad been surrounded in Yellowstone Park by hostile Bannocks, and twen-ty-seven of the escort killed. Mrs. Miles and severaVotber ladies were with the party. Two deaths from yellow fever occurred last week at Gallipolis, Ohio, a point on the Ohio river 200 miles above Cincinnati. They are attributed to the tow-boat John Porter, which passed up the river three weeks ago, with seve.al ca.-es of fever on board, and was finally abandoned near Gallipolis, where it had since remained, anchored in the river. Much indignation was felt along the river that the authorities of Gallipolis should allow such a breeder of pestilence to remain afloat, and, to appease their wrath, the GaUipolians marched down to the river and scuttled the John Porter. A report has reached St. Paul that Sitting Bull and his entire force of warriors have returned to this side of the line, splendidly armed and equipped. A Memphis refugee died in Chicago of yellow fever last week. No alarm was manifested over the fact, as it is impossible that any new cases should be developed on Lake Michigan, owing to the coolness of the atmosphere. The editor of the Cairo Bulletin— Thomas Nally—died last week of yellow fever. The proprietor and business manager have fled the city, along with many others, and the paper has suspended publication. Gen. Miles, with a force of about sev-enty-five soldiers and friendly Crow Indians, encountered a band of Bannocks, a few days ago, in the National park, and gave the savages a severe whipping. Thirteen were killed and thirty-four captured. It is probable that this fight furnished the ground for the report that Gen. Miles and a party of excursionists had been surrounded and were in danger of massacre by Indians in the Yellowstone park. The September returns to the National Department of Agriculture give the average condition of the corn crop at 92, against 96 in August, and of the wheat crop at 87, against 92 in September of last year. It is believed by the Department that the total wheat yield will reach the popular estimate of 400,000,000 bushels. Official tables of the census of the District of Columbia aro just published. The population of Washington is 131,949, of Georgetown, 11,571, and of the county, 16,533; total in the District, 160,051. The proportions of white and colored are as follow.: Whites, 96,427; colored, 53,624, showing the extraordinary proportion of one colored man to every two whites. Advices from the West report that hostilities may probably be the remit of the tour of the Cheyennes to the North. They left their reservation in the Indian Territory several days ago, and are dafly expected to reach and attempt to cross the Union Pacific railroad. To prevent tho latter intention from being carried out, considerable military force has been concentrated at Sidney, Neb., which will move at a moment’s notice by rail to any point where there is reason to expect that the savages will attempt to pass the road. The regular weekly robbery of “ the coach from Deadwood” occurred the other night near Hat creek, Wyoming. The usual monotony was varied, however, by a fight between the messengers and bandits. “While the robbers were engaged in going through the pockets of the two passengers and the mail sacks the two messengers, who were riding about* 200 yards in the rear of the coach, came up, dismounted, and crept up within fifteen yards of the robbers, when they were commanded to ha t, and fired upon. The fire was returned, and one of the robbers fell dead. The others retreated to a gulch, keeping up a steady fire oa the messengers, who returned it, but dared not leave their position. The coach meantime had driven on, and, after waiting some time, and seeing that they were not strong enough to dislodge the robbers, the messengers mounted their horses and rejoined the coach, leaving the mail sacks lying in the road near the body of the dead robber. The messengers are confident that two of the robbers who got away are badly wounded.”

POLITICAL POINTS. The electors of Maine failed to make a choice for Governor on the 9th inst. The Greenback candidate surprised his competitors by polling nearly 40,000 votes. No one candidate having received a majority of all the votes cast, the choice of an Executive devolves upon the Legislature. The New Hampshire Republican Convention met at Concord, last week, and nominated Nathaniel Head fcr GovernorThe Prohibitionists of Massachusetts have put a full ticket for State officers in the field. The Greenbackers of Massachusetts met in convention at Boston and nominated Gen. Butler for Governor by acclamation. The Republican State Committee of Tennessee has nominated Dr. E. M. Wright for Governor, in place of Emerson Etheridge, who declined. Murch, who has been elected to Congress over Eugene Hale, in Maine, is a stonecutter. The Democrats of New Hampshire have nominated Hon. Frank A. McKeon for Governor.

Full returns of the Maine election show that the House will have sixty-five Republicans and two Democrats elected by the aid of Republicans, and twenty-seven Democrats and fifty-seven Greenbackers. Sixteen of the twenty-seven Democratic Representatives wei e chosen on the straight Democratic ticket over both Republican and Greenback candidates, and will hold the balance of power in the House. The other eleven were chosen by Greenback aid.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A dispatch frcm Austin, Texas, says : ‘Sheriff Kerber, of El Paso, reports to the Adjutant General that his deputy arrested, on the 18th ult, Antonio Alizares, a fugitive from the penitentiary, who is also under indictment for the murder of Judge Howard and others and put him in the San Elizario jail. The same night Mexicans from Mexico crossed the river and rescued the prisoner.” Northern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and the lower section of Canada were visited last week by a series of most destructive rain storms. Rain fell almost incessantly for three or four days. It descended in furions torrents, accompanied by high winds. Railroad bridges were washed away, and in some instances houses were carried ofl by the raging torrents and their inmates drowned. Railway travel was seriously impeded, and on many roads temporarily suspended. Toronto, Canada, reports that no such a visitation has been experienced in that vicinity since 1861. In Northern Ohio

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the damage to crops and manufacturing establishments is immense; the entire loss in Ohio alone, it is estimated, will exceed $3,000,000. In Western Pennsylvania the damage was equally serious, and in the vicinity of Meadville was attended by sad loss of life. A train on the Pittsburgh and Erie road ran into a floating culvert and went down, killing three persons. Six people were drowned by the sudden rising of the waters and the washing away of their houses, making the death-list nine in the vicinity of Meadville, while the property-damage is placed at $100,090. The galenas also severe on the lakes, and a number of vessels were driven ashore.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has appointed the exrebel Gen. Longstreet Revenue Agent for the district of Georgia and Florida. A Washington dispatch of the 17th inst., says: “ A circular was issued, on Saturday, by Treasurer Gil Allan, which takes the place of all circulars heretofore issued concerning the standard silver dollars. It names 120 national banks as designated depositories of the United States, to be supplied by the treasury, upon their application, with the standard silver dollars from the mint free of expense, in accordance with section 3,527, Revised Statutes. It is expected the coin furnished wilt be put into circulation by being supplied by public disbursing officers to manufacturing and other establishments, to other banks and bankers for distribution in like manner by them, and generally where it is be used as current money. The Assistant Treasurers of the United States are also authorized to use the standard silver dollars in their vaults for the general purposes approved in this last circular.”

BATTLE WITH BANNOCKS.

An Account of Gallant Gen. Miles’ Last Victory. [Mammoth Park (Wyoming Ter.) Telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean.) A courier just in from Gen. Miles’ camp brings the report of a fight with the Bannock hostiles. On the Ist Miles left the Crow Agency for Clark’s fort. On the afternoon of the 3d the Crow scouts brought in word of the Bannocks coming through the pass. Miles went into camp to prevent being seen by the hostiles, and sent out scouts to watch their movements. The scouts noted the night camp of the Bannocks and reported. The first intention was to attack the Bannocks on the night of the 3d, but it rained all day, end the darkness became too thick for operation. At 2 o’clock on the morning of the 4th Miles started forward to attack with twentyseven men es the Fifth Infantry, Capt. Bennett commanding, and thirty-five friendly Crows. At 4 o’clock in the morning the force reached the Bannock camp, deployed in skirmish line, and, when within fifty yards, commenced firing into the hostiles, who were taken completely by surprise, being all asleep at the beginning of the action. The Bannock camp was protected by steep bluffs in the rear, and a bend of the branch of Clark’s fork in front. The troops on the right of the line fired across the river into the Bannock camp. The Crow allies on the left fell back from the position assigned them by Miles, and permitted a few Bannocks to escape, otherwise every one would have been killed or taken prisoner. The battle lasted for two hours, the Bannocks, though few in number, fighting with desperate obstinacy. The result was that Capt. Bennett, Company B, Fifth Infantry, of Little Rock; a French scout, and one Crow Indian were killed on the side of the troops, and thirteen Bannocks killed. Private McAtee, Company G, Fifth Infantry, was wounded in the wrist, the stock of his gun being shot away. Thirty-four Bannocks, men, women and children, were taken prisoners and sent to Fort Keogh in charge of Gen. Bull, who, with four companies of the Second Cavalry, arrived the day after ( the fight. The Crows captured the Bannock herd of about 200 head of horses. Twentytwo Indian horses were killed in camp. Not more than three or four Bannock warrior escaped. Capt. Bennett was shot through the heart and fell dead early in the action, leaving Miles the only commissioned officer present, Lieut. Bailey being at Bowlder creek. Although a few Bannocks are believed to have gone south to the Shoshone Agency and a few toward Fort Hall, it is believed that Miles closes the Bannock war, as he did the Nez Perces, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Lame Deer’s campaign, and safety for travelers in the National park is believed to be insured for the remainder of the season. Gen. Miles is expected to join the main body of the Yellowstone expedition in two days and proceed through the park.

Funeral of a White Elephant.

A curious ceremony has recently taken place at Siam, on the occasion of the death of the eldest of the white elephants—one of the idols of the Siamese. He was bom in 1770, and died in his temple at Bangkok. A whole people bow down before this famous Albino divinity; it is the emblem of the kingdom of Siam. The most beautiful presents are given to these animals, because, influenced by a belief in a metempsychosis, the Indians believe, even at the present day, that so majestic an animal cannot but be animated by the spirit of a god or an Emperor. Every white elephant possesses its own palace, gold dishes and harness studded with precious stones. Several mandarins are appointed to wait upon it, and they feed it with cakes and sugar-canes. The King of Siam is the only person before whom it bends its knee, and the monarch returns this salutation. Magnificent obsequies were prepared for the defunct idol. Some hundreds of Buddhist priests officiated at the funeral ceremony. The three surviving white elephants, preceded by trumpeters and followed by an immense concourse of people, accompanied the funeral car to the banks of the Menam, whither the King and the dignitanes of the state had come to receive the mortal remains. They were then transported to the other side of the river, and there buried. A procession of thirty vessels, decked with flags, formed a part of this curious ceremony. All the floating houses, which are ranged in a double line, on the Menam, numbering upward of 60,000, were ornamented with flags of all colors and other symbolic attributes.— Galignani' 8 Messenger. There was a big fire in Huntington, Mass., and Alfred Wells refused to have the goods removed from hie store, believing that the risk of thieves was greater than of the flames. So the stuff was burned. The insurance company refuses to pay, because the policy required Wells to use all possible means to save the property. Wells holds that he did what seemed best for that purpose. The question is to be tried in court.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct FrinciplesF

THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE.

Horror* ot the Pestilence at Memphis —The Subtlest Scourge Ev<r Known —Heartrending Scenes. [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) The following letter from a prominent citizen of Memphis to a commercial house in this city is exceedingly interesting, and contains some facts and topics we have not seen elsewhere. It is written from Camp Joe Williams, four miles south of Memphis : We have had a trying and desperate fight with the fever at this camp, but I begin to feel we have conquered. You can form no idea of the distress. Women in childbirth, surrounded by little ones, quartered in tents, see one by one pass from their sight on to the hospital, thence to the grave. Soon the babe is born, yellow as gold ; the mother lingers a few days, and then she, the last of the household, is put under the ground. We save no women who are attacked. Such as are pregnant miscarry; others, when attacked have premature hemorrhage before the regular monthly period, and there is no cure for such. Yesterday a women and two pretty daughters, of 12 and 16, walked from the train to my tent, and reported for assignment to quarters. From my familiarity with the disease, I at once remarked : “ Why, woman, your two girls have the fever.” The eldest one said: “ No, sir, indeed; I never felt better in my life. I had a little chill yesterday, but am well now.” Her pulse showed 125, temperature 104, eyes glassy, skin puffed, and the whole countenance a beautiful pink. In order to quiet and gratify the' mother, I put up a tent near me for the night Next morning I had them examined, and both were sent to the hospital. I was down/here this noon. The mother is prostrate with nervous prostration and the children lie in the Potter’s field. Just now I toted a fellow to a tent near the hospital. I have had men hunting him all day. He has been dodging us. He swears nothing is the matter with him. His pulse is 135 and temperature 106. H’l is literally burning up. He will be dead by noon to-moirow.

There are fresh arrivals. We have 400 who have been out from the city sufficiently long to be regarded safe. We are building houses and establishing a new camp to which all who have been beyond the infected districts ten days will be removed. If no more arrive we will be able to say we have snatched from certain death 455 souls. The camp is laid out in streets ; each tenement is numbered, and a complete register is kept of every inmate. New arrivals occupy a street called Quarantine square. We have quartermaster, commissary, undertaker, physician, purveyor and military force. We have a large warehouse and brick oven, souphouse, and every appointment the emergency suggests. This disease is yellow fever, or is, in fact, the malarial fever of this coast, intensified by the introduction of ship or Asiatic fever. It is the most subtle scourge the world has experienced, and l affles all medical experience. A person of intelligence, when first attacked with the malarial symptoms, if he be administered to at once with the usual treatment, wrapped up in blankets and nursed carefully, may pull through. None but the rich can, in times like the present, command special attention. The masses are treated by the wholesale, and all alike. Few recover. The first symptoms are heaviness and a slight chill, then suppression of the urine, puffed face, glassy eye, beautiful flushed skin, pink eye-lids, pulse 120, temperature 103 to 106. Soon vomito begins, which is simply a slight hawking sound and spitting of a coffee-ground substance from the stomach, which sinks to the bottom of the vessel. The patient, after each emission, feels well, and would get up if allowed. No pain, no evidence of concern, either by look or action. The pulse begins to run down to 90, 80, 70, 50, 40; then comes the pinched nostril and mechanical breathing. They sit up; want to get up; are induced to lie down, and quietly pass away. Thursday night, as I was making the rounds, I saw a woman returning from the infirmary with a vial of medicine. It was sprinkling a little. She went in her tent, lit a candle, and lay down. In a few moments I heard an alarm. Women and children were running wild about that portion of the camp. 1 hastened there, when my eyes beheld a most heart-rending sight. This woman’s babe, 9 mouths old, was crying on its mother’s breast, and she was dead. The child was cared for, the mother taken away, and the tent burned with its contents.

"In the Valley of Death."

Mr. J. C. Tucker, of Chicago, who, taking his life in his hands, ventured into the very jaws of death, writes as follows from Holly Springs, Miss.: When I left Chicago one week ago I firmly expected to go in a few* days where the fight was the thickest, and I have not been disappointed. I am in the “Valley of Death,” and the prospect of any of us escaping is not very flattering. Upon my arrival here yesterday from New Orleans with an experienced physician and a corps of white nurses, we found everything in utter confusion, and the wildest state of excitement prevailed. I cannot begin to portray in words the condition of affairs here. I served through the Peninsula campaign with McClellan, and there became accustomed to scenes of excitement and death; but what I witnessed yesterday and to-day in this town, in the way of black vomit, fever and delirium, by far surpasses all former experience. In the first place we were landed on the railroad some two miles from town, as the train would not stop at the depot lest by so doing ft would not be allowed to stop at other towns where no fever existed. We got to town as best we could. Upon reaching town we found but two members of the Howard Association left, the others being either sick or dead. They, Cols. Walter and Holland, worn out with work and loss of sleep, grasped our hands with an earnest, heartfelt “ God bless you for coming.” When I told them I was an humble representative of Chicago, and proposed remaining with them till the end, they were not slow in manifesting their feelings of gratitude to the Northern people for so promptly coming to their aid.

I found every store, bank, and hotel closed. Everybody looked like death, all save 600 out of 3,500 having fled, and these were either sick or at the bedside of friends. Only two of the doctors were able for duty. With great difficulty we found a little to eat Prompt action and system were found necessary. I was at once placed in charge of a large hotel where a lady had died the day before, and which was now deserted, to be occupied as a supply depot and hotel for nurses and others. We imme-

diately sent into the country for eggs, butter, chickens, etc , procured a force of colored servants, thoroughly disinfected the building, and now we are feeding over 100 people, and are issuing tdf the sick what little we have, of champagne, wine, beef-tea, etc. Another death in our hotel to-day—-genuine black vomit, and the patient conscious to within ten minutes of his death. I was at his bedside while he wa* dying, my clothing having been spaankled with carbolic acid and I inhaling'trom my handkerchief. He died in coavulsions. I am now obliged to write in a hurry, as I have really more work that I can attend to. We can herdly get negro servants at the rate of $3 per day. They will not go into a room where there has been a death at any price.- Bodies are buried in a half hour after the breath has left them.

A Terrible Death.

[Brownsville (Tenn.) Telegram.) A terrible calamity occurred here at 2 a. m. Carl Groves, a distinguished exConfederate soldier, was burned to death. He was recovering from a bad case of yellow fever. He had been pronounced convalescent. Dr. Haywood had discharged him as needing no further attention. Late yesterday evening he showed unmistakable aberration of mind. On hearing this, his brother went to him, and found him dressed and about to leave the house. He was forced back to bed. He quieted down at 9 p. m., and seemed to have recovered his mind. The brother left the house, and a nurse in care of Groves, with instructions to go for help if he became boisterous and unmanageable. At 1 o’clock a. m. Groves lost his reason and grew wild. The nurse went for help, and, in his absence, the Benderson residence, in which Groves was sick, either caught or was set ou fire, and was destroyed. Groves’ body was found to have been burned to cinders; only a portion of the blackened form was left. Hundreds gathered about the ruins of the house, and looked upon the sickening spectacle with feelings of sadness and gloom. Groves was generous-heart-ed, popular and well known in West Tennessee.

DEATH IN THE MINE.

Detail* ot the Terrible Disaster in Wales. The full extent of the terrible disaster in the coal mine at Abercorne (says a cable dispatch from London), is now known. At half-past 2in the morning the flooding of the pit was commenced. At that hour the fire was within a short distance of the bottom of the shaft, and all hopes of further rescues had to be abandoned. When this decision was announced to the relatives of the 251 men still in the pit the scene was terrible beyond description. Thirteen additional bodies were recovered before the flooding of the pit began.

Abercorne colliery is the property of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Company, one of the largest iron and coal proprietors in South Wales. It is situated a few hundred yards from Abercerne railway station, in the Western Valley section of the Monmouthshire railway. The pit, which is 300 yards deep, and one of the longest and bestworked in the district, was yielding 1,000 tons of steam coal daily. The machinery for winding, pumping and ventilating was of the best kind, and the use of safety-lamps in the mine was rigidly enforced. The cause of the explosion cannot even be surmised. Three detonations were successively heard on the surface. The frame works and castings of the pit were thrown to a height of 80(( feet alcove the m?>uth of the shaft. The colliery employed upward of 1,000 hands, of whom 373, taking their turn, or “shift,” went down at 11 o’clock in the morning. Twenty-one of this number came up at noon, up to which time nothing had occurred to create a suspicion of danger. At 2:30 p. m. a loud rumbling noise was heard, quickly followed by a flash of flame from the pit’s mouth, and a column of smoke, dust and debris ascending high in the air. The explosion damaged the winding-gear, thus destroying the only means of communication with the men in the pit. As soon as the gearing could be repaired, working parties were sent down the shaft, and eighty-two men and boys, working within a few hundred yards of the shait, were rescued; but it became evident, as the attempts were made to advance into the workings, that little hope could be entertained of any life surviving. About 400 yards from the bottom of the shaft are stables, and here fourteen horses were found dead. Beyond this point the explorers could not go, on account of the impurity of the air and the prevalence of choke-damp. Volunteer explorers succeeded in bringing out ten or twelve men very much burnt, also seven dead bodies, but it is feared that no others can be for the present got at, in consequence of the fire extending, and there remains no reasonable hope that any further lives will be saved.

Mehemet’s Ali’s Death.

Later advices from Constantinople give further details of the circumstances attending the death of Mehemet Ali Pasha. It seems that at Gusinje, Plava and Kolasin, even before the arrival of Mehemet Ali, complete anarchy had gained the upper hand, and upon his arrival in Jokovo he found the greatest excitement prevailing among the inhabitants. He was violently upbraided with having come to Albania to hand over the land to the Servians. The agitation went on increasing, finding vent especially in the vehement abuse of Abdullah Pasha, Mehemet Ali’s Adjutant. The house selected by Mehemet Ali for his lodging was fired by the Albanians of Jokovo and Ipek. Then the fight began between the incendiaries and Mehemet Ali’s escort, in which twenty men of the latter fell. Toward evening, though the intervention of some Ulemas, the conflict was appeased, the insurgents promising to observe a peaceful attitude. About 6 o’clock in the evening, however, 'in Jokovo, where Mehemet Ali still remained, the struggle broke out afresh, resulting in the death of Abdullah Pasha, with several officers of the escort, and the house in which they took refuge was fired. Mehemet Ali succeeded in escaping from the burning building and in concealing himself in a shed close by, but his hidingplace was soon discovered, and he was mercilessly put to death.

It is not generally known that the Chinese make very fine razors, and that for a long period no European shaving knife could compare with theirs in keenness and durability. A fine edge is a necessity with them, /since they regularly shave their heads—carefully omitting the pigtail—without using soap or any other emollient. They only moisten the scalp with a little warm water,

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

Open Letter from Peter Cooper to John Sherman. My Dkxb Sir:—Since I had the honor of your call at my house, and since the letter I sent you and the receipt of your reply, I have reflected seriously on the few minutes’ conversation I had with you on that occasion, and on the acts ot government since that time. I hope you wiU recollect how earnesUy I endeavored to show you that tbe constitution has made it the first and most important duty of congress to take and hold the entire control of all that should ever have been allowed to circulate as the money, the weights and the measures of the nation. In all that I have written I have labored to make plain the fact that the establishment of justice, with the making of the necessary and proper laws w&rs the most important duties enjoined on congress by the constitution of the United States. I believe I have shown that nearly all the financial laws that have been passed during and since our last war, have been passed under the advice and in the interest of a class of men who have been allowed to control the moneyed interests of our own and other countries. Tne worst of these laws were passed in direct opposition to your own earnest and elcquent declarations made by you in 1869 in the senate of the United States. You there and then wanted the country in the most emphatic language, showing that a national policy designed to contract the circulating medium would cause gold to appreciate in value, as it has since done, so that gold will now purchase double the amount of real estate that the same amount of gold would have purchased four years age. You were right when you declared “ that every citizen of the United States had conformed bis business to the legal tender clause of the law ” for the regulation of the currency. You were also right, in 1869, when you gave to congress that most timely warning against any attempt to shrink up and contract tbe volume of legal money which the government had been compelled to issue as the only means for the nation's salvation. At that time you declared, in language never to be forgotten, that an act of government intended to contract tbe currency of the country, would paralyze all industries, as it has done. You made it plain that the purchasing power of gold would increase in the same proportion. The contraction has actually shrunk the value of nai estate to a condition where it cannot be sold or mortgages obtained on it for more than bait tbe amount that the same property would have brought four jeurs

ago. Those cruel financial acts of the government have cost the nation thousands of mi lions of dollars, and have brought wretchedness and ruin to the homes of millions of the American peo. le, proving what you said in the s< uate in 1869 to be true. You then declared that such poles “would be an act of folly without example in ancient or modern times.” I here quote from my last published appeal in tehaf of those suffering milions whose lawful money and property have been, I repeat, wrongfully taken from them by a course of legislation in direct violation of the first and most important requirement of the constitution of our country. That constitution, as I have said, covers in a few words the whole of the nation’s wants. It must never be forgotten that there is no effect in nature without a cause equal to its produc:ion. In view of this fact, I have found myself compel! d by an inextinguishable desire to do all in my power to call and fix the attention of tbe American people on a cause that has actually brought upon a great nation all those dire calamities so admirably foretold by you in your speech made in the senate in 1869. The American people have come to know that our country has been subjected to a cruel national financial policy—a policy that has (as I have said) converted the people’s money, that was actually found circulating as a national currency at the close of the war, without cost to either the government or the people, into a national debt. Your speech in the senate was intended to show that a nation’s currency could not be contracted without bringing ruin on the debtors and on tbe laboring classes throughout our country. We may well ask what will the people do when they come to realize the fact that their money has not only been wrongfully taken from them as a circulating medium, but has been converted into a national debt, and that debt has been unjustly released from bearing any part of the burdens of the state or national taxation. To show the ruin that the contraction policy would bring on the country, you declared in the senate “that every citizen of the United States had conformed his business to the legal tender clause of the law,” regulating the currei cy of the country, In my late appeal to all legislators and religious teachers, I have demonstrated a tact that cannot be disproved, viz: that all the legal money paid out by the government for labor and property during the war, was beyond all controversy the people’s money. To establish justice, this money must be given back to them in the purchase of all the outstanding interest-bearing bonds of the government.

By this plan a partial justice can be established and the general welfare of the nation can be surely and effectually promoted. This plan will return to all tbe original holders of government bonds nearly double the amount in the same kind of legal money that was originally paid lor the bonds at the time they were first issued. The holders of these bonds should not complain, after having b en so kindly treated by a government that has altered the laws four times on their urgent solicitation, and on a most ridiculous pretence, namely, that such alterations in the laws were necessary to strengthen the credit of a nation that had just conquered one of the greatest rebellions ever known. All that is now, or ever has been needed to secure a continued prosperity, was and is a national currency, made permanently rece cable for all forms of taxes, duties and debts, public and private. ' It must be just such a money as Secretary Chase declared our greenbacks to be. He said a “ greenback is simply the credit of the American people put in the form of money for circulation among the people whose whole property is represented in its use. When I was secretary of the treasury, the question arese how should the soldiers in the field and the sailors in ships be fed. * * * I found that the banks of the country had suspended specie payment. Whit was Itodo ? The banks wanted me to borrow their credit, or pay interest on their credit. They did not pay gold or propose to pay themselves, but wanted me to buy their notes. I said: “ No, gentlemen! I will take the credit of tho people and cut it up into lithe bits of paper.” This is the true idea of the greenback. It is the credit and the property of the American people made to serve the purposes of money It was that money that saved the nation’s life, when gold and silver had entirely failed to meet the wants of the nation. Our paper money did all this, notwithstanding a part of its purchasing power had been repudiated by an act of government. This money can be made an ever-strengthening bond of national union, by making the people’s money so found, the permanent unfluctuating measure of all values, and never to be increased or diminished only with the increase of the inhabitants of our esuntry. Such a currency can be made as uniform in its purchasing power as the yard, the pound, or the bushel measure.

The constitution of our country has also declared that congress shall hate power “ to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or any department of office thereof.” The Declaration cf Independence expressly says that it was to “secure these rights that governments are instituted among men ” and that- “ whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish It, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its power in such form as to them shall seem most likely effectually to promote their safety and happiness.” And further, that Declaration states that: “ All experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than they are to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absslu'e despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to provide new guards for their future security.” “Such has been the patient sufferance” of the American people; they have long borne with a course of financial laws that were as cruel as they are unjust. By these laws there has been taken from the people the very money which the government had authorized and paid out in exchange for all the forms df labor and property used and consumed by the government in a four years’ struggle for the national life. This money was actually paid out to the people, as I have said, for “value received” by the government. It was clothed with all the legal attributes of money, and sanctioned as such by the supreme court of the United States. It had become the people’s money for all intents and purposes as effectually as though it had all been paid to them in gold. The government had lost all control over this money so paid to the people, except to tax it as all other property, to meet the current expenses of the government. This money had been used for ye»r3 by the government and the people as a national currency, costing the government nothing but the paper on which it was made, it had been allowed to circulate as legal money until, as you declared when a senator, “that every citizen of the United States had conformed his business to the legal tender law,” regulating the currency of the country. The people are compelled to remember the noble sentiments you expressed in 1869, when you gave to congress and the country that most fearful warning against any attempt to shrink up the volume of legal money which the government had been compelled to issue for the nation’s salvation. You declared on that occasion, in language never to be forgotten, that: ♦ . * ♦ * “Tee appreciation of thejcurrency is a far more distressing operation than senators supposed.” * <* Ton then stated that “ It is not possible to take this voyage without the sorest distress to every person except a capitalist out of debt, or a salaried officer or annuitant. It is a period of loss, danger, lassitude of trade, fall of wages, suspension of enterprise, bankruptcy and disaster. To every railroad it is an addiilon of one-third to the burden of its debts, and more than that deduction to the value of its

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stock. • • ♦ * It means the ruin of a'l dealers whose debts become twice their (business) capital, though one-third less than their actual property. It the fa lof a*l agricultural productions, without any great redaction of fixes. What prudent man would dare to build a house, a railroad, a factory, or a barn, with the certain fact before him that the greenbacks he puts into his improvement will in two years be worth 35 per cent more than his improvement is worth. * * When that day comes, all enterprise will be suspended, every bank will have contracted its currency to the lowest limit, and the debtor compelled to meet in coin a debt contracted in currency ; he will find the coin hoarded in the treasury, no adequate representation of coin in circulation, his property shrunk not only to the extent of the agpreciation of the currency, but still more by the artificial scarcely made by the holders of gold. * * * To attempt this task by a surprise on our people, by arresting them in the midst of their lawful business, and applying a new standard of value to their property without any reduction to their debts, or giving them an opportunity to compound with their creditors, or to distribute their losses, vtou'd be an act of folly without an example of evil in modern times. ’ It would be literally impossible for you to havs drawn a more perfect picture of the scenes es wretchedness and ruin that you so manfully opposed in the senate in 1869, a policy that you then declared “ was an act of folly without example in ancient <r modern times.” It seems unaccountable how you, with your views, as expressed, could have drawn the resumption act, and now use all the powers of your mighty mind to consummate a ruin that you so well described as an “ act of folly withont an ex ample in ancient or modern times.” Those frightful evils you then predicted in the senate are now being painfully verified be the many thousands of failures that are annually taking place as the result of the unjust and unconstitutional law®, that have been passed. Laws promising to pay some four or five millions in gold which the government did not possess and could not command. The constitution has never given to congre«s any such unreasonable power. It has made it the duty of congress to “ coin the money and regulate the value ihereof,” without saying whether money should be coined out of gold, silver, copper, nickle, or paper. That this unconstitutional promise to pay money in gold which they could not command, has been further made an occasion for congress to listen to, and adopt, the advice of the men who control the moneyed power of our own and other countries. These men, have, by their arts, succeeded in ob taining from our government a course of financial legislation to advance their own interests as a class. They havo doubled the expenses of the war by their in defeating a financial law in the senate that had passed the house of representatives alter the most mature consideration.

DANGEROUS CLASS. The banks and the moneyed interests of our own and other countries have prevailed on our government to so change the laws as to make the bonds that were at first made payable in natiopal money to be paid in c >io. They next got the law so altered as to make coin mean gold. They then succeeded in getting tie gold bonds relieved from being taxed for any part of the burdens of the state or national government. It should be remembered that all bonds were originally issued to be payable in currency. This currency our government had deliberately depreciated by r,fu ing to receive it for duties on imports, or interest on bonds. And then our government allowed war taxes to continue until they had taken from the people the very money the government had stamped and paid out, as so many dollars of real value, made legal money to be used as a national currency to enable the people to exchange commodities, and furnish all the supplies that were needed in a four years’ struggle for the nation’s life. W hen that life was saved, the people had become the rightful owners of both their currency and their country. Qur government had no constitutional right to invalidate contracts by lessening the volume of the national currenc -, after the same had been issued and allowed to circulate as legal money in the payment of debts for so many years.

Such money having been paid out by the government for “value received.” cannot be lessened in volume without invalidating ccntracts. This our government has done by having drawn from the people their money, which represents all forms of labor and property which the people had given in exchange for the money they received. Was it not a most absurd act of legislation to invite foreign capital, in the shape of gold to take up our good money at 40 and 60 cents on the dollar, and turn that money into a government bond at par, payable both principal and interest in gold 1 Was ever a nation more deliberately and cruelly put under a heavy yoke of bondadge by its rulers ? All these unjust acts must be rescinded. The peoplejlwill not submit to them when they come to know their nature and purpo e. It must be manifest to all, that commerce cannot be regulated wirh foreign nations, and among the several states without a national s stem of money as a standard, over which congress can exercise an entire control, ibis can never be done by the use of geld whi.e congress allows local hanks to expand and contract, appreciate and depreciate the money of the country in their own interests as a class. THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS BIGHT when he said that “ bank paper mu.-t be sup-PBES-SED, AND THE CIRCULATING MEDIUM MUST BE RESTORED TO THU NATION TO WHOM IT EBOTERLY belongs.” He wisely declared that “it is the only fund on which the government can rely for loans; it is the only resource which can never fail them, and it is an abundant one for every necessary purpose.” CONGRESS HAS NO EXCUSE. I find it impossible to frame an apology for a congress that could make an unconstitutional promise to pay hundreds of millions in gold which they could not command, instead of promising to receive such money as the government was compelled to issue as “the only resources which can never fail them.”

Money so issued and accepted by the people should have been considers >, as it was, the most sacred treasure that our count) y had ever po sessed. It should have been held as more especially precious after it had fed and clothed our armies, and had carried our country safely through a most terrible war, proving to the world that President Grant was right when declared the money so iesued by the government was the “best currency our country had ever possessed,” and that “there was no more in circulation than was needed for the dullest period of the year.” If our government had taken the advice cf Franklin, Jefferson, Calhoun and Webster, tn the enactment of financial laws, they would nover have put our country in the power of the most dangerous community of banks that obtained power in any country, '"hey would also have saved to our country the one-half of the cost < f the late war, and the disgrace of being compelled to sell our nation’s bonds at some fifty or sixty per cent, below the face value of the bonds. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, in the senate of the United States, has drawn for the American people

A MOST FRIGHTFUL PICTURE of the course of special legislation, that has taken from the people, as I have before stated, the people’s money, and has converted the same into a national debt. The following startling amounts have been wrung from tne toiling masses of the American people, leaving the debt in the main as large as ever. The senator says “ the bondholders had, up to 1869, received SLCO,COO,(hO of prefit before they got the principal of their bonds made payable in gold!” It can be shown by the treasurer’s report, from year to year, giving the amount of bonds sold each year, and the premium on gold from 1862 to 1869, that the purchase of the bonds with paper at its face value, and the purchase ot the paper at the discounts gave a profit to the bondholders as follows:” AN ACCOUNT TF THE BONDHOLDERS' CLVAB PROFITS, arising from no investments at all, may therefore be stated in the following tabular form: 1862$ 28,138,989 1863 94,555,713 1864 366,554,532 1865 110,159,367 1866 53,757,183 1867 167,915,741 1868 253,159,765 On acc’t of 5 per cent bonds 98,297,864 J0ta151,012,536,204 This most remarkable statement was, as Senator Beck declared, “carefully and truthfully prepared.” The proof is in the official records. “It will satisfy the country,” said the senator, “ and ought to satisfy the bondholders and their advocates that they ought not to insult a suffering people whose hard earnings have gone to enrich them, by any complaint of want of good faith to them in the effort we are making to save the country from bankruptcy.” As the present secretary of the treasury yon have before you all the facts referred to in Spalding’s and other histories of the public debt. On June 30th, 1864, there were then outstanding, United States notes: Greenbacks $131,178,670 80 Postal fractional currency 22,894,877 25 Interest bearing legal tenders 164,671,877 25 Certificates of indebtedness 160,720,300 00 National Bank notes 25,825,695 00 Old State Bank circulation 135,000,000 00 $944,190,693 09 Seven-thirty treasury notes, temporary deposits for which certificates were issued $72,856,160 CO The record shows that there were oustanding in October, 1865, SB3 ',- 000,000 of seven-thirty treasury notes, which, Assistant Secretary Spinner states, were engraved, stamped, and paid out to the soldiers as legal tender money, at the close of the war 5830,000,000,000

Making 51,955,377,634 41 This amount of legal money was paid out by the government and accepted by the people asjso many dollars of real value, and bad thereby become the people’s money, which, as I said before, President Grant said, “ was the best currency that our country had ever possessed. And that, “ there was no more in circulation than was needed for the dullest season of the year.’ Our government, in addition to all the other acts of class legislation, has taken from the American people their small currency that was costing them nothing, and has put in its place, unsolicited by the people, a more inconvenient silver currency, thereby creating a debt of some forty millions of dollars to be paid by the already overtaxed people of our country.

Mi th regard to the demonetization of silver, every intelligent man must see, that inaspauch as

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silver now forme more than one-half of the coin money of the world, that the < fleet of demonetizing silver must not only lessen the volume of the world’s money, but must appreciate the value of gold in proportion as the value of silver has been reduced. The plan for demonetizing silver is said to have been first presented to the great bankers of Europe, assembled st the Paris expedition. It required but little examination to show them that the demonetization of silver would appreciate the value of gold, and add hundreds of millions to their uealth, if they could only persuadmhe American government to join with them in the demonetization of silver. Those bankers appo’nted a committee to visit onr government foi the accomplishment of their object, which as the Commercial Record states “ The suggestion of the house committee made by the gentlemen from England in regard to the demonetization of silver, was incorporated into the house bill and passed ” NOTHING GAN BE MORI IMPORTANT for us as a nation than to ascertain and remove a cause that is shrinking the values without shrinking debts in the same proportion. Our national policy, in trying to force specie payments on a debtor country, is now producing a similar condition of wretchedness to that which was brought on England, by their attempt to force specie payment on that country, after a suspension of more than twenty years. Daring all ihat time their paper money had not only carried their country through their wars with Napoleon, during more than twenty years of suspension of specie payment, but that same paper mon y had secured to England the greatest national prosperity ever known in that country. This policy, according to Sir Archibald Allison, brought on England a greater scene of widespread bankruptcy and ruin than all the wars, pestilence and famines than had ever afflicted that country. Notwithstanding the warnings of such an example, Mr. McCulloch, in his address, made at the banquet given by the chamber of commerce in New York, spoke bosstingly of his earnest efforts, both personally and in writing with member s of congress ifi trying to persuade them to allow him to take out of circulation the people's money, which (in his address) he states “ had all the legal attributes of money.” He stated that in the very year in wnich the war closed, the REDUCTION OF THE DEBT WAS COMMENCED, and this reduction has been steadily continued, to the amazement of foreign nations. He adds: “ In none of the treasury statements which I have seen, since the advent of the administration, has any mention been made of the reduction of the debt, previous to the present one. * * * A person looking at one of these statements would suppose that the reduction of the debt was commenced with Gen. Grant’s adm'nlstratlon, while in fa't, the previous reduction had been reported of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars, according to the books and published s'ate meats of the treasury, while a larger sum than this was paid to the war and navy department, which did pot yet appear on the bocks of the department.” Thus does Mr. McOnlloch speak of having contracted and taken out of the currency of the country, during his administration, some five hundred millions of dollars, that ha I been paid out by ths government and r< ce’.ved by the people as money, possessing, he declared, '‘all the legal attributes of money. ” SECRETARY MCCULLOCH’S GREAT MISTAKE consisted in his regarding the money, actually authorized and paid out by the government for value received, as something to be got rid of as soon as possible. Mr. McCulloch stated at the banquet, that this legal money that was then serving the country so well, “gave him more anxi. ty than all the rest of national debt.” It seemed that it cost him much writing and a great d al of personal effort to persuade senators and members of congress to show him to take from the American people, by a continuation of war taxes, the very money that the people had received as dollars in payment for all the labor and property that had been consumed in the prosecution of the war. I do not wonder that Mr. McCulloch found that “It required the strongest kind of personal ant written arguments ” to persuade senators and members oj congress to allow him to take from-the people their money, and convert the same into a national debt, alter the same money had been allowed to circulate until (as I have said) it had bought and sold many times more in value than the whole property of the nation. It crime is to be measured by the misery it produces, the act of taking from our people their money, and converting it into a national debt, must rank as one of the most unjust and cruel acts ever known to any civilized legislation. Ido most HEARTILY UNITE WITH SENATOR JONES, when he says: “ the present is the acceptable time to undo the unwitting and blundering work of 1873, and to render our legislation on the subject of money conformable to the constitution of our country. * * We cannot, we dare not, avoid speedy action on ybe subject. Not only does reason, justice, and authority, unite in urging us to retrace our steps, but the organic law commands us to do so; and the presence of peril enjoins what the law commands.” The claims of a common humanity, with all that can move the manhood of the American citizen, demand of our government the return to the people of their currency. WF. MUST GET BACK OUB CURRENCY. This can be done in a way that will restore prosper!’y to the paralyzed industries of our suffering country, and establish justice in obedience to that first and most imperious requirement of the constitution. It will only requue an act of congress declaring that the people s money actually found in circulation at the close of the war, shall be returned, as I have said in the purchase ut a.l the outetandlog interest bearing bonds of the government. Such a national policy will put ihe tools of trade again in the hands of the people, and will enable tlfem to work out their salvation from the enslavement of an interest bearing debt, created by taking their own money wiongfullv from them, and then by converting the same into national interest. bearing bonds, that now hang like a millstone on the neck of the nation. In the fervent des re of promoting the welfare of onr common coniury, I subscribe myself, Yours respectfully, Peper Cooper.

Why a Boston Girl Fainted.

A Boston man and his esthetic daughter are spending the summer in this city. Last evening they were sitting on the front piazza when the father requested the daughter to read him the evening paper. “What shall I read about?” queried the Boston girl, as opened the paper. “ Read the European news/’ responded the father.

The Boston girl began: “It is rumored that Beaconsfield will not accept the decoration of the ” —and then she blushed a deep red and stopped. “Proceed,” said the father, after a pause. “I cannot,” returned the Boston girl, blushing still deeper. “Why not?” inquired the father, in some surprise. “Because I do not like to,” replied the Boston girl, painfully. “Nonsensei” exclaimed the father, sternly; “read the item, I tell you.” The Boston girl caught up the paper in desperation, stared at it in a stony manner, attempted to speak and fainted dead away. When she had been restored and the excitement had subsided, the father took the paper out behind the house, turned to the dreadful item and read: “It is rumored that Beaconsfield will not accept the decoration of the garter.” —Rockland Courier.

The Governor of Ohio and the Jews.

The following correspondence explains itself : Cincinnati, Sept. 9. The Hon. K. M. Bishop: De ah Sib : In your proclamation of the 7th, recommending a day of prayer on behalf of the yellow-fever sufferers, you call on all Christian people to assemble on the 13th, in their respective churches, to offer up prayers to Almighty God to alleviate the sufferings of the South. Did you mean, by the use of the term “ Christian people,” to invite to prayer for the alleviation of a national calamity only those citizens of Ohio who profess and recognize the principles of the Christian religion? Respectfully, Daniel Wolf, B. Simon. Cincinnati, Sept. 9. Messrs Daniel Wolf and B. Simon : Deab Bibs : Your communication this date was received by me with considerable surprise. My object in recommending a day of prayer for alleviation of the scourge which is now afflicting the South was simply to secure the united invocation to Almighty God by all who believed in and recognized His goodness and mercy ; that He would interpose His Omnipotent Power, which alone can save, to stay the progress of the terrible scourge which was devastating a large portion of our common country. The word “Christian” was used by me only as a general term, intending to recognize all who recognized and relied upon Divine protection in the hour of need, and by no means intended to exclude any of any sect, belief, or school, who would give a prayer for the alleviation of a plague, and, least of all to exclude the people of whom you are members, who are recognized and illustrious for deeds of mercy and charity. Respectfully, . Richabd M. Bishop, Governor of the State of Ohio. Chauzy is the-name of the French General who is anxious to step into President MacMahon’s shoes in 1880,