Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — Page 6

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. doings of congress. Mb. Sherman's resolutions on the Vir. ginia and Mississippi elections were taken up in the Senate on the 29th nit. The galleries were fall, in anticipation of a fiery political debate Mess s. Sherman and Mahone made speeches denunciatory of the Southern Democracy: bnt, to the disappointment of the galleries, the Democratic side of the Senate observed a policy of silence. ‘ The resolutions were thereupon passed by a strict partv vote — 33 to 29. Mr. Vest reported formally a bill to repeal the timber-culture law. Mr. Cameron introduced a bill to establish the Territory of North Dakota. Mr. Platt offered a resolution of inquiry as to the effcc: of the stock dividend of the Western Union Telegraph company, its consolidation with competing lines, or its regulations for the transmission of press news. The House resolution lor aid to destitute Indians at the Crow reservation was adopted, the amount bsing raised to SIOO,OOO. House bills were pased appropriating $3,730,000 to pay rebate on tobacco and $21,965 for the expenses of the Legislature of New Mexico. The House of Representatives passed a resolution, offered by Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, for the appointment of a special committee of five members to investigate the charge made by ex-Speakor Keifer that 11. V. Boynton, a correspondent, attempted in a corrupt manner to influence his action on the McGarrahan claim. Mr. Keifer cansed to be read a letter which he had written to the offender. Bills were introduced to prevent the adulteration of sugar, to bridge the Mississippi at St. Paul, to prevent the intermarriage of whites and negroes in the District of Columbia, to secure the s.ability of the paper currency, and to purchase additional ground for the erection of a public building at Galveston. Petitions signed by several thousand citizens of the Territories of Washington, Dakota, and Idaho, and of the District of Columbia, asking for a prohibitory liquor law, were presented in the Senate on the 30th ult. After some debate on the question of volunteers for the Greely relief expedition, the Senate adjourned, to attend the funeral of Representative Mackey. The House of Repres ntatives voted to enlarge the powers of the committee investigating affaire at Hot Springs, Arkanas. Bills were reported to establish a Bureau of Animal Indnstrv, to retire H. J. Hunt with the rank of Major General, to make postage on second-class matter two cents per pound, making further appropriations for public buildings at Erie and Council Bluffs, and to provide that no Territory shall apply for admission as a State unless it has sufficient population to entitle it to representation in Congress. The obsequies of Hon. E. W. M. Mackey were conducted by Rev. Drs. Huntley and Shippen. A large number of petitions for a prohibitory liquor law for the Territories and the District of Columbia were presented in the Senate on the 31st ult. Bills were introduced to pay employes of the Gove, ament the wages withheld in violation of the eight-hour law, and to relieve commercial travelers from license taxes. Mr. Sewell reported a bill providing that no regimental or company officer shay be detached for more than three consecutive years. Mr. Coke presented a joint resolution from the Legislature of Texas urging the improvement of Galveston harbor in the manner proposed by Capt. Eads. A communication from the Attorney General stated that his clerical force was insufficient to supply the papers called for by Congress. Adjourned to Monday, Jan. 4. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution asking the Secretary of the Interior to explain by what authority 189,000 acres of landavere certified to the State of Kansas for the benefit of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Pe road. The bill forfeiting lands granted to the Texas and Pacific Railroad sompany was passed by a vote of 259 to 1. A message from the President was received, transmitting the report of the Secretary of State in regard to the restriction of American hog products by Germany and France. After three weeks’ deliberation ana five days of debate, the House of Representatives, on the Ist inst, passed the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter by, a vote of 184 to 78. Strenuous efforts were resorted to by the Republican leaders to stave off a vore by filibustering, but when at 0 o’clock the Democrats conceded an hour for debate the opponents of Porter accepted the situation. Mr. Wolford was the first speaker. His arguments were in favor of the bill. Following him Mr. Calkins made a speech against Porter. Mr. Phelps next spoke at length in favor of the measure. Several short speeches were made, and then Mr. Curtjn closed the argument. The galleries were crowded, and intense interest was manifested when, the House proceeded to record it 3 verdict. An analysis of the vote shows that 164 Democrats, 18 Republicans, and 2 Independents voted for the passage of the bill, and 77 Republicans and one Democrat (Converse, of Ohio) recorded their names against it. A bill was introduced to prohibit the removal of House employes uuring vacation, except for causa Conference committees were appointed on the special Indian appropriation and the Greely relief schema The Senate was not in session

EASTERN.

Mrs. Catharine Mosier, residing near Erie, Pa., was scratched by a cat which she attempted to drive from her house a few days ago, and is now suffering from lockjaw. At Greensbnrg, Pa., a body of men have formed an oath-bound society, pledging themselves not to buy French products, and to boycott persons who sell them, until Franco j elieves the embargo on American pork. Suspended about the neck of Mrs. Louisa Helms, who was killed by a train at Paterson, N. J., were found a quarter-dollar, the wish-bone of a chicken, and a card giving her name and address. The proposed public exhibition of the Keely motor at Philadelphia has been postponed for a timo. Thomas Salmon, a liquor-seller at Woburn, Mass., was last summer sentenced to iail for a violation of the temperance law. While an appeal was being heard he was elected to the Legislature. The Supreme Court has justdocided that he must serve out his term in prison. At Brooklyn, N. Y., Axel Paulsen skated twenty-flve miles in 1 hour 32 minutes and 17 seconds, beating all previous records.

WESTERN.

After an entertainment at Pana, 111., for the benefit of Emma Bond, unknown perrons hung Judge Phillips, who presided at the trial of Montgomery et ul., in effigy on the common. A barrel of gasoline in a hardware ■tore, at Alliance, Ohio, exploded with truly frightful results. The building was three stories In height. Five families lived in the upper portions of the structure. The building was totally demolished. Eighteen people were in the doomed place at the time, and half of them perished. The ruins took fire, and were partly consumed. A woman in the Street was fatally wounded. The boiler in the Twitchell shinglemill, near Blanchard, Mich., exploded, killing two men and injuring several others. Marquis de Mores reports a new disease among sheep on the Montana ranges, which has carried off 6,000 head of merinos sent from lowa and Wisconsin. There is an enormous falling off in the “hogcrop." Nearly 200,000 fewer hogs have arrived In Chicago this winter so far thaa came in last winter during the same period of time. A recent dispatch from Tombstone,

Arizona, says: “A messenger has just arrived from Opoeura, Sonora, and reports that the Apaches are murdering and ravaging that section. Four men have been killed since Jan. 25. The savages are thought to be a portion of Geroulmo’s band, for whom Capt. Rafferty, with troops, is on the lookout.” Farmers in the vicinity of Shabbona, IIL, find a ready market for seed corn at from $2 to $3 per bushel. Well-borers near Urbana, 111., struck a gas vein at a depth of eighty feet, which can be heard roaring at a distance of two miles. The Secretary of the Illinois Board of Charities has been collecting lithographs from theatrical companies, with which to amuse the insane patients.

SOUTHERN.

The first discovery of tin in this ountry has been made in King’s mountain, Cleveland county, N. C. The lower house of the Texas Legisture has passed a bill to punish fence-cutting by imprisonment from one to five years. A jury at New Orleans acquitted Troisville Sykes of the murderof Kate Townsend. Col. John G. Kasey has absconded from Bedford county, Va., of which he is extreasurer, leaving $60,000 for his bondsmen to pay. The extreme cold weather in South Carolina seriously damaged the oat* crop, destroyed early'vegetables, and killed doves, mocking birds and poultry. A negro, named Sandy Robinson, was lynched in Leon county, Tex., for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Latbrop. Stages running each way between Whitesboro and Gainesville, Tex., were robbed by three men, who secured SSOO. At Lancaster, Tex., Robert Halsh, a maniac, who had been kept confined at his brother's house for six years, escaped from his room, secured a knife in the kitchen, and after a desperate conflict killed his brother and made for the woods.

WASHINGTON.

The Committee on Territories has committed itself to the policy of suppressing the premature formation of States out of Territories, as was done in the case of Nevada, by agreeing to recommend the passage of Mr. Townshend's bill, which prohibits any Territory from framing a constitution or applying for admission into the Union until it shall have enough population to entitle it to representation in Congress. This would requiie about 160,000 people. f Nevada has but a little more than one-third of that number. Of 5,000 bills introduced in the House of Representatives, this session, 1,400 are for pensions. “I don’t think there is any show at all in the House, or Senate either, for the Reagan interstate commerce bill,” said Representative Robinson, of Ohio, in a conversation at Washington the other day. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: Interest-bearing debt — Four and one-half per cents $ 250,000.000 Four per cents 737.041,950 Three per cents 274.7U8.850 Refunding certificates 307.050 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,276,657,85) Matured debt $ 11,348,165 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tendcrnotea. 846,719.676 Certificates of deposit 16,880,000 Gold and silver certificates 211,387,671 Fractional currency 6,987.250 Total without Interest $ 581,094,577 Total debt (principal) $1,870,000,592 1 otalinterest. 9 493 399 Total cash in treasury 393V15’233 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,480'083’719 Decrease during January 11 958’003 Decrease of debt since J une 30, 188 L 65|007^487 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2 753 373 Debt on which interest has ceased.. ll’sia’lfl l . Interest thereon ’sos'ni Gold and silver certificates 211 387’c7i U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 16,880 000 Cassi balance available. - . 150.735’412 Available assets— Cash m treasury . $ 395,415,233 Bonds issued to Paciflcrailwaycompanies, interest payable by United States— Principal outstanding $ 64 6 ’3 512 nlterest accrued, not yet paid [ ’323*117 Interest paid by U nited States ci ,160 J9B Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service ..$ 17.516 too By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 665,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 42.089,499 Washington dispatch: “The Bandall men are not pleased that Mr. Morrison has so nearly completed his tariff measure, and that there is probability that the subject will Soon come up for discussion. The Morrison bill will provide for a general reduction of 20 per cent., but the silk and liquor schedules will not be changed.” Mr. Benny, American consul General at Shanghai, is said to have received peremptory orders from Washington to rent an office building owned by George H. Seward, at an extravagant price, and in consequence tendered his resignation and came home. Representative Springer threatens to introduce (a resolution calling for all the papers in connection with the case.

POLITICAL.

The Ohio State Prohibition convention to nominate a State ticket and delegatee to tho national convention has been called to meet at Columbus March 6. Beatrice, Neb,, dispatch: “About 1,000 citizens met at the opera house in this city for the organization of a John A. Logan . Republican club. Over 500 signed the roll of membership, and unbounded enthusiasm pre vailed. Logan clubs are being formed all over this State.” A petition to President Arthur, asking the reappointment of Ell H. Murray as Governor of Utah, has been largely signed at Louisville, Ky., by citizens of all shades of political belief. President Arthur has sent to the Senate the names of Richard 8. Tutblll, to be United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, vice Gen. Leake, term expired, and James A. Connolly, of Charleston, 111., to be United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, a renomination. The Republicans of the Second district of Kansas have nominated Edward P. Funston to succeed the late D. C. Haskell. Ex-Senator Dorße v, being interviewed

at Washington as to President Arthur's chances for the Republican nomination at Chicago, said that nine-tenths of the people were against him (Arthur), and that his chances of nomination were no better than his (Dorsey’s) own.

THE DEATHS OF A WEEK.

Hon. John Letcher, who served as Governor of Virginia during the war perion; Hon. Joseph Bond, of Waukesha, one of the pioneere of Wisconsin; John B. Wood, promi nent in New York journalism; Judge E. Hassenmufler, a leading (german citizen of Cleveland, Ohio; William Myers, a pioneer settler of Dubuque, Iowa; George T. Jenkins, of Baltimore, nearest surviving relative of President Madison: Giles B. Sloeum, one of the oldest citizens of Detroit; O. F. Bump, a prominent Baltimore lawyer and litterateur; Commodore Francis Bleecker Ellison, one of the oldest officers of the United States navy; E. W. M. Mackey, Congressman from South Carolina; Prof. Klinkerfus (by suicide), an eminent German astronomer; Judge John I. Campbell, an eminent lawyerof Rushville, III; Jonathan Lundy, a pioneer setter In the Maumee valley of Ohio; Henry D. Bannard, a prominent citizen of Detroit.

A WEEK’S FAILURES.

Failures reported by telegraph during the week were as follows: _ _ _ . Liabilities. G. T. Comins, prison contractor, Con- a cord, N. H..« ~ a $140,000 W. P. Bard, lawyer, Reading, Pa 60,000 J. B. &W. H. Anderson, grain, Mendon, Mich 40,000 A W. Underwood, dry goods, Terrell, Tex.. 20,000 John Borden, boots and shoes, Philadelphia 50,000 Heald & Jones, axle manufacturers, Philadelphia. 35,000 Leopold Steiner, boots and shoes, Philadelphia 20,000 Joseph Kuhn, money broker, Detroit.. 200,000 M. Gossett, dry goods, Independence, Mo < 21,000 Van Slicker’s cotton mill, Pittsfield, Mass 70,000 J. B. Pond, lecture manager, Bos’on... 11,000 Kable Bros., stock traders, Vincennes, Ind 10,000 Cleveland Paper company, paper manufacturers, Cleveland, Ohio 200,000 Daniel F. Beatty, organ manufacturer, Washington. N. J 175,000 James Bisland, cotton goods, New York 76,000 D. M. Hawkins, tobacco, Cincinnati... 30,000 K. J. Beame, shoes. Providence, R. 1... 100,000 li. Dim * Co., dry goods, Augusta, Ga. 36,000 J. H. Bettine, general store, Manor, Tex. 40,000 J. B. Wadswoith, cheese manulacturer, Morrisvlbe, N. Y 72,000 Wilcox & Co., boots and shoes, Detroit Haworth <fc Co., commission merchants, Liverpool, England 250,000 Jaa. Alexander, millinery, New York... 200,000 Forbes, Wright & Co., dry goods, Boston Bitting <fe Co , dry goods, Aurora, Tfax.. 40,000 N. W. Taylor, paper dealer, Chicago.... 150,000 American Lumber Co., Toronto 1,000,000 Thos. Bwan, restaurateur, Detroit 28,000 Jackson Bros., leather, Montreal 40,000 Taylor & Moore, queensware, Cincinnati 20,000 Perine & Co., woolens, New York 100,000 Merchants and Mechanics’Bank, Leadvtlle, Co'o 75,000 Pope Iron and Metal Co., 8k Louis, Mo 50,000 Mallory Bros., dry goods, Watertown, Wis 30,000 T. H. Baxter, dry goods. Birdseye. Ind. 20,000

MISCELLANEOUS. Advices from South Australia are to the effect thhat the surplus of wheat for ex* port will be 18,000,000 bushels. A Cincinnati journal estimates the supply of wheat in the United States at 175,030,000 bushels, with 35,000,000 more in flour. Mr. Shaffer, Secretary of the lowa Agricultural society, estimates the corn crop of the State at 171,000,000 bushels. Considerable corn is being brought from Kansas for feeding, but farmers will have no more to do with seed from the Southwestern States. Hon. Judah P. Benjamin telegraphs from London a denial of the letter published in Thurlow Weed’s autobiography, and attributed to him, in which he proposed that the Southern States might, under certain circumstances, conclude to return to their allegance to Great Britain. The letter is printed in another column. Business failures in the United States and Canada, according to Dun’s report, rose again to ‘ the neighborhood of 400, the precise number being 373, and the increase for the week 56. The average number in flush times by the same report has been 100. The first legal execution in Claiborne county, Mississippi, • since 1346, took place last week at Port Gibson, where Simon Bonner was hanged for tho murder of James R. Light. J. C. P. Collins was executed at Ne vnda City for robbing a stage in 1879, and killing a banker named W. F. Cummings. The latter was carrying bullion bars valued $7,000, which his murderers sold in New Orleans and Louisville. Frederick L. Ames is a director in fifty-two railway companies, Jay Gould in twenty-four, and Hugh J. Jewett in twenty.

FOREIGN.

John Bright, in a speech at Birmingham, England, declared that Honry George should have tried his foolish land scheme In America, where it could be cheaply tested, before attempting to foist it upon countries with institutions ten tlmos as old. Agrarian irritation is so bitter in the Russian provinces of Pskow and Vitebsk that a collision between the peasants and the troops is imminent The inhabitants of the beleaguered city of Sinkat have oaten all the dogs In town, and nothing remains but the horses and one bag of barley. C. W. Thomas, Sons & Co., London stock brokers, have defaulted, and one member of the firm hus absconded. While their assets are large, their liabilities are about 54',150,0C0. The Egyptian government sent the wrong man with Gen. Gordon who was to be the new Sultan of Darfour, and the youth has been drunk ever slnco he left Cairo. The hired men who cheered when the Comte de Paris wont into tho Paris depot on his way to Spain have been sontenood to eight days In jail. The Chief of Police of Budah-I’esth, Hungary, has sent to the Police Department at New York full details of the robbery of a chest containing 240,000 florins from the postoffice in that place Jan. 5 last. Rewards are offered for the recovery of the money and arrest of the thieves, who, it is believed, fled to America. Capt. Austin, an American marksman, is giving exhibitions of his skill In Great Britain. At Leicester he twice shot a potato from the head of his daughter, but at the third attempt the ball plowed the scalp, and he was placed in arrest. The chambers of agriculture in several counties of England hare requested that

the importation of cattle be restricted, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Gallmeyer, the singer, who has just died at Vienna, left a will directing that her body be dissected in the death chamber and then consigned to a pauper’s common grave like that of a beggar. She wished that there should be no flowers, no service, and no coffin. William Meagle, a witness in the Phoenix park trials at Dublin, complains of constant persecution and assaults at the hands of sympathizers with the assassins of Cavendish and Burke.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

| i J. P. Whitehead, formerly a minisI ter of the United Brethren church, hanged himself at an Ohio town near Columbus. Capt. Kirkland, of the receiving-ship Colorado, volunteered to command the Greely relief expedition, and will be assigned that duty. The Mississippi Senate has passed a .b.ll for the formal trial of habitual drunkards, and, at Judges’ discretion, for the appointment of guardians for the same class on their confinement in the lunatic asylum. The President of the West Shore road says that $5,000,000 would complete aud equip it, when annual earnings of $12,000,000 would be insured. The Legislature of British Columbia represents to the Dominion Parliament that there are 18,000 destitute Chinamen in that province, and petitions for a law imposing a tax of SIOO per annum on each Celestial. German capitalists are organizing at Hamburg to acquire possession of territory in the island of Borneo in opposition to the British Company. The commander of the Turkish forces has informed the Council of Ministers that a Turkish expedition to the Soudan is : impossible without English help. Nineteen members of Parliament attended the Parnell conference at Dublin, E. Dwyer Gray presiding. Edward Shiel and John E. Redmond were appointed “whips.” The meeting decided to oppose the London municipal bill unless a similar measure is introduced for Dublin. Other plans were formulated, and resolutions of regret at the death of Wendell Phillips were adopted. The Vigilance Committee of Brown County, Nebraska, suspecting Thomas Durand of being &, bad horse-thief, hanged him six miles from O’Neill, but he afterward managed to cut himself loose and fled the country. From Nov. 10 to Jan. 30 102 business houses closed operations in Idaho, mostly in the mining camps. It is said they are only resting during the winter and will resume business again in the spring: Peter Clifford, a brakeinan, was assassinated in his doorway at Rendville, Ohio, and lived only long enough to charge the crime upon the Hickey brothers. Four of the latter and a brother-in-law named Reddy were placed in jail. The following evening a large body of citizens took Richard Hickey and Reddy from the jail. The former was •executed, but the latter wa6 returned to custody after the rope broke.

Mb. Van Wyck, of Nebraska, introduced a resolution in the Senate on the 4th inst., which was agreed to, providing that no dividends shall be made by the Union Pacific road except from the net ca- nines, and that no new stook shall be issued or mort ages created without leave of Congress, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. Various petitions from Union soldiers for laws for their benefit were handed in. Mr. Logan presented a protest against the passage of the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. Bills were favorably reported to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy; to make eight hours a day’s labor in Government workshops, and to pay wages for legal holidays. Bills were introduced to enable the p ople of Dakota to form a constitution; to provide artificial limbs for exsoldicrs; to erect a public building at Tyler, Tex., and to prevent the miblication of lottery advertisements in the TeiTitories. The Chair presented resolutions adopted by the Legislature of Ohio favoring a tariff for revenue. In the H< me Mr. Morrison, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, introduced a bill to revise the tariff on imports. It makes a reduction of 20 per cent, on numerous articles, but prevents any reduction to a lower rate than the Morrill act of 1861. The bill was referre 1. The oath of office was administered to Mr. Hammond, who has been ill since Congress convened Mr. Houk offered a resolution directing the Committee on Education to inquire into the working of agricultural colleges aided by land grants. Bills were introduced—to punish officers of the Uni ed States for the illegal use of money at elections; authorizing a survey of the passes between the affluents of the Upper Missouri and Columbia rivers; to prevent the sale of certain Pacific railroads before the United States bonds and interest shall have been fully paid; for an export tax on cotton ; to declare Good Friday a legal holiday; appropriating $125,000 to improve the Colorado river; and for the relief of the Lady Franklin bay expedition. Mr. Springer presented a fnemorial from New Mexico making grave charges against Chief Justice Samuel B. Axtel.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Reeves $ 7.50 @B.OO 6.IK) (O! <>.75 Flour—Superfine 2 7.5 $ 3.50 Wheat—No. 2 White 1.01 $ i.us No. 2 Red 1.04 $ 1.09 Corn—No. 2 r>«> $ ~o 7 Oats—No. 2. 42 @ .14 Pork—Mess 1.5.3-, <<515.75 Lard 0954$ .09!£ CHICAGO. Reeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 0.75 $ 7.23Common to Fair 625 $ 0.75 Medium to Fair 5.50 $ 6.2> Hogs 5.75 $ 0.75 Flour-Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 $ 5.7 >- Good 10 Choice Winter.. 5.00 $ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 91 $ .92 No. 2 Red Winter 99 $ 1.01 Corn—No. 2 52 $ .50 Oats— No. 2 30 $ .37 Rye—No. 2 57 $ .58 Barley—No 2 02 $ .04 RutTer—Choice Creamery 22 $ .34 Eggs—Fresh .34 $ .36 Pork—Moss 10.00 $10.50* Lard 09 & .oiiJ4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 91 $ .92 Corn—No. 2 52 $ .5.2 Oats—No. 2 30 $ .37 Rye—No. 2 58 $ .59 Barley—No 2 58 $ .00 Pork—Mess ic.oo $16.50 Lard 9.00 $ 9.25 , sr. Louib. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 $ 1.06 Corn—Mixod 47 $ 49VA Oath—No. 2 32 $ .33 Rye 58 $ .55 Pork—Mess ; ic.oo ,016.50 Lard 09 @ .09U CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 lied 1.03 $ 1.04 Corn 1 so $ .52 Oats 30 $ .37 Pork—Mess 10.00 $10.50 *•*“ T««bo. •”* Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 $ 104 Corn—No 1 52 $ .64 Oats-No. 2 35 $ .37 DETROIT. F10ur...., 5.50 $ 0.2« Wheat—No. 1 White 1.03 $ 104 Corn—No. 2 53 <w .55 Oats—Mixed 37 @ .38^ ' • i»Du»ifbm mIM CORN-NO. Oats—t.ixed 34 $ .36 „ east liberty, pa CatttE—Best... 6.35 (it 7.25 £* ir • •••'• 6.50 $6.35 Common 4.75 $ 6.7* 6.M) * 6.75 SH *“’ 4.76 A 6.U

DEATH BY RAIL ROUTE.

A Train Dashed Through a Bridge and Fired Sear Indianapolis. Seven Persons Drowned or Boasted, and a Number More or Less Injured. From Indianapolis papers we glean the following particulars of the recent distressing railway accident near that city: A south-bound accommodation train on the Indianapolis and Chicago air line due here at 10:30 a. m. met -with a terrible accident when seven miles from this city, at Broad Ripple, where the railway crosses the White river on a truss bridge of two spans, each 150 feet in length. The engineer had gone to the baggage car for a drink of water, and the locomotive was in charge of the fireman. When the locomotive reached the center of the bridge the fireman felt the structure sinking. He had his hand on the throttle, which he opened, giving the locomotive all the available steam. The engine sprang forward with great force, breaking the couplings between the tender and the baggage car. Tim locomotive kept t&e-jrack, but the baggage and smo.dng cars sod soother coach dropped through and piled up m s mass it the foot of the pirns, the smoking car being partially telescoped on the baggage car. The wreck was partially subm-rged, but the portion above the water immediately took fire from the stoves. The fireman declares that when he looked back after the locomotive reached the south end of bridge the cars were on fire and smoke was obscuring the scene. News of the wreck reached this city in a short time, and a wrecking train, with surgeons and other assistance, was at once made up and sent to Broad Ripple. On reaching the wreck a chaotic scene was presented. The bridge and cars were yet burning, and those present were so lacking in presence of mind as to be unable to extinguish ihe flames or afford relief to the sufferers. The officials of the road went to work vigorously and systematically, and In a short time the fire was extinguished and the search ior bodies was begun. Six persons were either killed outright or burned to death. The remains recovered were bnrnert and charred almost beyond recognition, being horribly mutilated, and the only means of id'eritifidation was the finding of incombustible trinkets known to be the property of the dead men. The scenes at the wreck were extremely distressing. The dead were in the ruins of the smoking and baggage cars, and these, the one on top of the other, were in deep w. ter. At one end of the smoking-car lay a man with his skull crushed and life extinct. Across him, close to the red-hot stove, lay Lynn Clark, a heavy timber binding one leg immovably. C. C. Loder, one of the passengers, tried to find the ax with which each car was provided, but it was on the other side of the car, in three feet of water. "For God’s sake, don’t desert me!” cried Clark. We did not desert him," said Loder, "until the flames scorched ns, and we were almost suffocated with smoke. Before leaving I kicked ont the window close by Clark, and left him in agony. Presently the flames burned the timber in two close by Clark, and he crawled out of the window which we had broken for him.” "In five minutes after the train went down," said Conductor Losey, "the entire wreck was wrapped in flames. In less time than that all who had not escaped already were drowned. Frightful screams came from the ruins near the pier, hut with two buckets and no boat we were powerless, and all that we could do was to close our ears and pray for death to relieve our comrades.”

A BIT OF SECRET HISTORY.

Alleged Letter from Judah P. Benjamin, Proposing that the South Should Resume Allegiance to Great Britain. The following alleged letter from J. P. Benjamin, then United States Senator from Louisiana, to the British Consul in New York was left among Thurlow Weed’s papers, and is given in the volume of memoirs of his grandfather which Thurlow Weed Barnes is now carrying through the press: New York, Aug. 11,1860. Dear Sib— I exceedingly regret your absence from New York at this time, as the important object of my visit is to have a personal and confidential interview with you. My apology for this breach of conventional usage, in presuming to address youswithout the formality of an introduction may be pardoned in consequence of the very extraordinary nature o( the business w hich induced me to approach you without the friendly intervention of a third party. Indeed, it would not only have been unwise but actually dangerous lor me to have borne a letter of introduction. Having assumed the whole responsibility of this very critical step, I cannot use too much caution and circumspection to insure my personal safety and the successful accomplishment of the mission I have in view. Therefore, I prefer trusting to my own judgment in approaching a genteel stranger on such business, to that of bringing into my service the scrawls of Governors or members of Congress with whom, perhaps, you areas little acquainted as myself. Thd official confidence which your Government seems to repose in you, by intrusting to your charge its great commercial affairs in the most important city on this continent, I think is sufficient to warrant me in trusting to yonr discretion, patriotism, and loyalty a secret of the greatest importance and interest to her Brirannle Majesty’s kingdom. The present disastrous condition of political affairs in the United Statrs (which has no parallel in the past history of the oonntry) seems to have split the great Democratic party into many contending factions, all of which are so hungry after public spoils that its disintegrated parts render them an easy prey to the opposing black Republicans. The doctrines maintained by the Republican party are so unsuited to the great interests of the whole South that an election of their candidate (which is almost certain) amounts to a total destruction of all plantation interests, which the South, as sure as there is a God in heaven, will not submit to. Sooner than yield to the arbitrary dictates of traitorous allies and false friends, who have proven recreant to the solemn obligations of our old Constitution, we will either secede from the Union and form a separate Government, or, upon certain conditions, at once return to our allegiance to Great B.itain, our mother country. Many, very many of the most wealthy and influential planters throughout the South have already discussed this alternative, in the event of the election of Mr. Lincoln, and the popularity of the proposition seems to pass from one to another almost with an electric rapidity. It is true they have made no public demonstration of their intentions, for such a course would be attended with direlul consequences at this time, but the pear will be fully ripe before November. Gossiping newsmongers with babbling pothouse politieiena are not allowed to know what is going on in their very midst. Select dinner parties come off every day thioughout the whole South, and not one of them ends without a strong accession to our lorces. I have even heard some of them address each other by titles already. My object in approaching you is to cultivate your friendship, and procure your co-operation in aid of accomplishing this grand object of returning to the dominion ot onr fathers' kingdom. Through your kindness and loyalty to your Queen, I am desirous of properly approaching her Majesty’s Minister at Washington City, with a view to tho accomplishment of this great end. If you will condescend to grant me the necessary assistance for this purpose, you will soon receive the meritorious reward of your most gracious Qu* en. and the hearty cheer from eve ry true Briton’s heart for having aided in the return of the national prodigals. Reposing that confidence in yon which yonr position in life warrants me in dcing, you must at present excuse me for not signing my name for fear of an accident. This much you may know: 1 am a Southron, and am a member of Congress. whose untiring perseverance will never ceise until the object I have thus boldly undertaken is fully occomplished. Be so kind as to answer this as early as possible. Allow me a p - rsonal interview, and, if you cannot come to New York, address your answer to “ Benjamin," in eare of some one at you i office.

CHIPS.

■ Tallulah, Gr., has two women deputy revenue collectors. Mrs. John Wood, of Brooklyn, got the Idea that hor husband had six other wives, and went crazy. Florence Harskr, of Mexico, Mo., suicided because the bridegroom came not at the appointed time. Beecher expects that the people who goto torment In the next world will And Jonathon Edwards there. A white man was found froxen to death under a tarpaulin, in New Orleans.

GASOLINE'S DIRE WORE.

A Terribly Fatal Explodoa at Alliance, Ohio. Several Persons Killed and a Nnaber Maimed. [Telegram from Alliance, •fcte) About 4 o'clock p. m. a terrible explosion occurred in the business center of the city. Glass in windows for blocks along Main street was shattered, and oonsternatioo reigned supreme. Men lost their senses, and smoke and. dust covered everything for a radius of a quarter of a mile. When the arose it was discovered that the explosion had occurred at the brick business block of F. M. Orr, occupied on the first floor as a stove and tin store, and in thesecond and third stories as tenement apartments. The block was leveled to the ground, and two brick blocks, one on each> side, suocumbed to the shock, while others, farther away, were shattered, riddled, and. badly injured. In a few moments flames arose from the ruins and the Are alarm was sounded. Such excitement prevailed that the fire gained so much headway as to nearly consume the ruins, and burned two houses before it was got under control. Meanwhile the scene was harrowing in the extreme. It was known that six or morepeople were killed or were then imprisoned In the wreck, and Would perish by fire. Men, women, and children, bareheaded, wringing their hands, and relatives of the Inmates -of the buildings destroyed, wandered about in despair at their inability to save the unfortunates. F. M. Orr, Elmer Orr, his son, Mrs. Homer Highland, his daughter, Mrs. Frank Evans, and two children aged 2 and 4 months, were known to have been in the building at the time of the explosion. These all perishedThe woman and children were in the second and third stones, and are supposed to havebeen killed by falling walls. Mr. Orr and soa were both spoken to while confined under the debris, but were burned to death. Many were also wounded. Besides those .mentioned there were two or three others in the store at the time of theexplosion whose names have not been learned, but who were spoken with beneath the rums before life had been crushed or burned out of them. At present all those previously known, to have perished have been extrioated from the debris. Some of these are charred and mangled beyond recognition. The work, however, of clearing away the rubbish and searching for the bodies is being vigorously pushed forward by the aid of such light as is afforded by the moon and a bonfire in the street. d The scenes immediately following the disaster were well calculated to affeet the most indifferent. The buildings were an indescribable mass of ruins. Men and women rushed about frantically beseeching that something be done. Homer Highland, whose wife and v child perished in the fiatnes, was almost beside himself with grief and horror, as was also Frank Evans, whose wife and two children likewise perished. Mrs. Orr was completely prostrated by the shock. The great loss of. life resulted from the foot that the second and third Btories wore used as dwellings. The persons within were not all killed outright, as could be too plainly told by their audible but unavailing cries for help. Every means that could be was used to rescue the victims, but the rapid spread of the flames, notwithstanding the heroic efforts of the fire company, booh drove the rescuers baok. The grocery store of Mr. McConnell, adjoining, had Borne seven or eight persons in it, but all of them were dragged out not severely hurt. The explosion was caused from fumes of gasoline, a child of Mr. Orr having turned the faucet in a gasoline barrel, allowing the fluid to run out on the floor. Mr. Orr sras mopping up when the gas arising from the oil ignited, from a gaslight and the explosion occurred. John Curry and -Charles H. Hayden, of Duprez & Benedict's minstrels were blown out of Orr’s store, through a plate-glass window, and carried clear across the street, where they were picked up badly injured and carried to a hotel, but will recover. The explosion was felt and heard for a distance of two miles, while those in the immediate vicinity thought for a moment that there bad been an earthquake. Some idea of its force may be guessed from the fact that a team of horses standing in the street in front were thrown against the walls of the building on the opposite side. The Orr blook was one of the finest in the city, and was completed only last fall. It Is a total wreck, as are the Miller block and the building occup ed by Mr. Fullerton as a leather store, and by Miss Stanley as a millinery establishment. A reasonable estimate of the value of the property destroyed would be $50,000, a very small part of which wascovered by insurance.

FITZ-JOHN PORTER.

The Vote by Which the Bill for Hit Relief Passed the House. Yeas—Adams (N. Y.), Alexander, Arnot, Bagley, Baljentine, Barbour, Bayne, Beach, Belmont, Bennett.Blanohard, Bland, Blount, Boyle, Breckenridge, Broadhead, Buchanan, Buckner, Burleigh, Cabell, Caldwell, Candler, Carlton, Cassidy, Clardy, Clay, Clements, Cobb, Collins, Connolly, Cook, Cosgrove, Cox (N.. Y.), Cox (N. C.), Crispi, Culberson (Tex.), Curtin, Dargan, Davidson, Davis (Mo.), Deuster, Dibrell, Dockery, Dorsheimer, Dowd, Duncan, Eldredge, Evans (8. C.), Farreli Fiedler, Findlay, Finerty, Follett, Foran, For* ney, Fyan, Gibson, Glascock, Graves, Green, Greenleaf, Halsell, Harmor, Hatch (Mo.), Haynes, Hemphill, Henley, Herbert, Hewitt (N. Y.), Hewitt (Ala.), Hill, Holman, Hopkins, Houseman, Hunt, Hurd, Hutchins, James, Jeffords, Jones (Wis.), Jones (Ark.), Jones (Ala.), Jordan, Kean, King, Kleiner, Laird, Lamb, Lanham, LeFevre, Lewis, Long, Lore, Lovering, Lowry, Lyman, McAdoo, McMiilin, Matson, Maybury, Miller (Tex.), Mitchell, Morgan, M*orrison, Morse, Moulton, Muldrow. Murphy. Murray, Mutchler, Neece, Nichols, Oates, O’Hara, O’Neill (Mo.). Patton, Pierce, Peel (Ark.), Phelps, Poland, Post, Potter, Pryor, Pusey, Rankin, Ranney, Ray (N. EL), Reagan, Reese, Riggs, Robertson (Ky.), Robinson (N. Y.), Rockwell, Rogers (Ark.), Rogers (N. Y.), Rosecrans, Scales, Seney, Seymour, Shaw, Singleton, Skinner (N. C.), Slocum, Smith, Snyder, Spriggs, Springer, Stevens, Stewart (Tex.), Stewart (Vt.), Stoclsslager, Storm, Sumner (Cal.), Sumner CWis.), Taylor (Tenn.), Thompson, Throckmorton, Tillman, Townshend, Tucker, Tulley, Turner (Ky.), Turner (Ga.), Vanalstlne, Vance, Van Eaton, ward, Warner (Tenn.), Wellborn, Weller, Wemple, Wilkins, Williams (Wis.), Wilson (W. Va.), Winans (Mich.), G. D. Wise (Va.), V\ olford, Wood, Woodward, Worthington, Yaple, York, and Young-184. Nays—Adams (Ill.), Anderson,Atkinson, Barr, Bingham, Boutelle, Brainerd, Breitung, Brewer, (N. Y.), Brewer (N. J.), Browne (Ind.), Brumm, Calkins, Campbell (Pa.), Cannon, Converse, Culbertson (Ky.), Cullen, Cutcheon, Davis (Ill.), Davis (Mass.), Dlngley, Dnnham, Ellwood, Evans (Pa.), Goff, Guenther, Hanbock, Hart, Hatch (Mich.), Henderson (Ill.), Hepburn, Hiscock, Holmes, Hooper, Horr, Houk. Johnson, Keifer, Laey, Lawrence, MoCoid, McCormick, McKinley, Milllken. Morey, Morrill, Nelson, Nutting, Parker, Payne, Payson, Peeiie of Indiana, Perkins. Peters, Pettibone, Price, Reed, Robinson (O.), Rowell, Russell, Ryan, Skinner (N. Y.), Spooner, Steele, Stephenson, Stone, Strait, Strnble, J. D. Taylor of Ohio, E. B. Taylor ot Ohio, Thomas, Wadsworth, Wakefield, Washbnrn, Weaver, White of Minnesota, and Whiting— 78. Paired—Blackburn and White of Kentucky, Brown of Pennsylvania, Ennentrout, Howey, Hitt, Eaton, Wait, Budd, George, Kasson, Talbott, Kelley, Randall, Miller of Pennsylvania, Ketcham, Warner of Ohio. Wilson of lowa, Rioe, Covington, Holton, Valentine, Hardy, and Ellis.

ALL SORTS.

v Tin has been discovered in North Carolina. Govrrnhent telegraphy does not pay In Canada. A Washington boy was arrested for laughs Ing at a policeman. Three girls, all under nine years of age, have been arrested at Schenectady, N. Y., for shoplifting. Since tho act of Congress went Into effect against the importation of spurious t3as, 226,000 pour ds of the vilely adulterated stuff has been oondemned. Dances for married people only are a feature of Oshkosh social life.