Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1881 — Page 2

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9 OFFICE. 12 MILLER'S BLOCK Corner Illinois and Slarket Ats. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. nter4 as second-class matter at the Poatoffica at Indianapolis, ma. TKBMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. StOlO Copy 9 1 y6&r imwm a aas S200 " " 6 months - 1.00 M 3 -Anrtl ,, M1 , .50 1 moQth...nM.ran...M..M .20 Gab of sixl year, each copy...... 1.75 tec. 1 year, each copy.. i .50 this papers ravy Kewspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce 8t.) where advertising contracts may be made for it In NEW TOK&.' Subscribe for the Leader. Lei every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a enne against humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. THERE 19 A DIFFERENCE. Throughout the length and breadth of our land on last Monday the thou sands of green mounds th'at hold our noble dead were strewn with flowers by loving hands. Could the dead themselves speak they would doubt less tell us that the preservation of the grand results achieved by their death and the perpetuation of our free institutions are after all the highest tribute we can pay their memory. With -few exceptions,- the orations delivered on this occasion last Mon day breathed the truest and purest sentiments of patriotic devotion to the cause for which so many noble lives were sacrificed. In his oration at Crown Hill, this city, Mr. Smith, among the many good things said, sandwiched some sentiments which the great mass of the lovers of freedom never accept. He says: I am satisfied that we do injustice to those who fought in the gray when we ascribe to them any less holy or worthy motives impell ing them to the fight than those which actu ated us. Through a series of generations it had been held by their ancestors,until it had come down to them as hallowed tradition that a man's first duty was to his own home and hia own Sta.ta Stich a. oati timon t "though politically a great evil, partook oi the nature or a virtue, and we can not wonder that when the hour of conflict came he was promptly found at his post for his State and home and against the general Government. And we must remember that there is only one distinction between rebellion and revolution, between treason and patri otismthe element of success converts the one into the other. tify au unholy cause. The slaveholders succeeded in domineering the Government for two-thirds of a cen The element of success can not sanctury, but they never succeeded in making these lovers of liberty ap plaud the crime of slavery. The sue cess of the South in the late struggle could nevr have made the world pay honor to a nation with human slavery as its chief corner stone. We do not do injustice to those who "fought in the gray" when we ascribe to them less holy and less worthy motives than those by which the noble boys in blue were ac tuated. The leadera in that struggle were actuated by the basest motives that ever impelled any set of men to resort to arms. For the young and ignorant who fol lowed their section without regard to motives, we have all charity. For the willful leaders, if now penitent, we have forgiveness; but we shall never forget that they were wrong and the boys in blue were right, and in the language of Governor Morton there is an eternal difference between right and wrong. The Journal very beautifully answers the gushing sentiment in. the following; "The fact that a great people hare been educated in treason does not make treason 'excusable, nor does the success in that treason in arms make it patriotism. If ignorance and prejudice can make a motive holy, then education and enlightment are not aids to freedom. The doctrine of secession had no foundation in history, law, precedent or justice. It was rank treason. Had it succeeded it would have been no less rank, nor its champions less traitors." Mr. Smith would do well to remember that a people who can hand down from generation to generation as hallowed tradition the cruel, beastly and bulldozing; institution of human slavery, are not likely to be troubled much about the question of honest duty. GENERAL NOTES. - General Kilfatrick is to sail forChlli next month, to relieve Mr. Osborn as United States Minister there. Colonel Jerome Bonaparte Is building a magnificent house in Washington. It la of handmade brick, brown mortar and brown-stone trimmings. ' ! Horace Stillmak, of Saybrook, Conn., wo . voted lor every Democratic candidate for President from Jackson to Hancock, died last Monday at the age of eighty-eight years. Ma. J. H. Wads, of Cleveland. Is about to present to that city nearly the whole of the handsome park which bears his name. This gift Includes more than 1 00 acres of forest Mr. C. W. Harrison, of Philadelphia, has been directed by the Governor of Pennsylvania to go to England and assist in preparing to remove the remains of William Penn to Philadelphia. Bishop Simpson sailed on Saturday for England to attend the CEcumenical Council there. A large number of his Church people gathered In

Philadelphia on Thursday to say good-bye to him. Eulogistic speeches were made and the good Bishop responded pleasantly.

The Parisian reDorts that Princess Jeanne Bona parte, daughter of the late Pierre Bonaparte, will be led to the alter, after the conventional period of mourning, by wealthy American . Montgomery Blair Is President and Chief Justice Walte and Secretary Windom Vice Presi dents of an Association which has teen formed at Washington to build a Homeopathic Hospital. John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who has been nearly a year In Europe for health and recreation, is on his way hnme. and is exDected to arrive in New York daily. Governor IIott, of Pennsylvania, has ap pointed George W. Harrison, of Philadelphia, to proceed to England and assist In preparing tne remains of William Pitt for shipment to Philadelphia. Mr. James Rev ell, a Boston journalist, has started from New York on a byclcie for Boston. The distance is 240 miles, and he ex pects to accomplish the journey in three days and two nights. Mr. J. G. Whither wrote to Mrs. Lucy Stone at the Woman Suffrage meeting In Boston: I see the good cause is steadily gathering ground. The action of the New York Legislature Is full of encouragement." The graudsen and namesake of Hugh S win ton Legare, the eminent jurist and orator of South Carolina, who was President Tyler's Attorney General, on Monday last was nominated by President Garfield to a cadetship at West Point Mrs. Gladstone Is a benevolent woman and does many kind things for the villagers of Hawarden. She has given them an excellent coffee-house which is open weekdays and Sun days. She has also established near the castle a home for orphans. Many of the Gladstone ser vants have been on the estate twenty, thirty and forty years. We do not believe the story that Roscoe Conk ling wrote to his tailor: "I want a new suit of clothes. Haven't time to be measured. Go to Art Gallery and measure statue of Apollo Belvldere and make a suit by that measurement" We don't believe it, for we don't believe that Roscoe would admit that the statue would come any where near his form in perfection. Boston Post Ms, Stephen A. Hcrlburt, of Illinois, exMember of Congress, who was recently nomi nated Minister to Peru to succeed Jndge Chrlstiancy, said last evening that he had not accepted that mission, and was not certain that he would do so. The tender of the office by the Adminis tration was a surprise to him, and the early ad journment of the Senate prevented his declining the offlce. He left for Washington last evening in connection with the matter. New York Herald. Exits rE Girardin, it Is well-known, Uved on the most unfriendly terms with his second wife. The house was large enough to permit them to dwell entirely separate from one another. One day Madame de Girardin had an important communication to make to her husband. Taking a small sheet of paper she wrote: "The Boudoir to the Library: Would like to go to Switzerland." M. de Girardin, imitating her concise style, responded: "The Library to the Boudoir: Go." That was ail. Miss Genevieve Ward has the happy faculty of making women her admirers and friends. Women sometimes say that they think most highly ot the man who has the best and sincerest friends among his own sex, as that circumstance is taken to be indicative of sterling character and real worth. There is no reason that the same rule should not apply to women, and if so. Miss Ward possesses a character of no ordinary quaUty. She expects to entertain on the other side this summer "Jennie June" and "Aunt Fanny," and Mrs. Lang try Is one of her most ardent admirers. She sails for England on June 1. This little story about George Eliot is told by a Maine lady, who met the novelist at a hotel in Switzerland, just after "Romola" appeared. One day Mrs. Lewes was reading aloud in French to a little girl in the garden, and the American drew near to listen to the musical tones. Presently Mrs. Lewes glanced at the intruder and said : "ifeyou understand?" "I do not care for the matter," answered the American; "I only came to listen to your sweet voice." "Do you like it?" said Mrs. Lewes, with some surprise. The American warmly expressed her admiration, and George Eliot's face lighted with pleasure as she took her hand, saying, "I thank you. I would rather you would compliment my voice than my 'Romola''" - IRELAND. CONTIN CATION OF THE RIOTS, Dublin, June 1. A report reached Limerick that three policemen had been killed during an eviction riot in County Clare. Rioting in Clonmet has been resumed. The police and soldiers charged the mob and many people were wounded. The troops finally cleared the streets. During the service of eviction writs on the island around the coast of Donegal, the assistance of Her Majesty's gunboat Gos hawk was taken. The inhabitants attacked and destroyed the Goshawk's small boats, when the gunboat opened fire, with what result is not known. The Inspector of Police has visited various posting houses in Kilkenny and warned car-owners and car-drivers if they refused to supply cars to the police and military in the future, the owners would be fined 20 each and the owners imprisoned. The President of the Ballina (County Mayo) Branch of the Land League has been arrested and taken to Kilmainham Jail. It is rumored that six persons have been shot dead at Tulla, near Ennis Clare, by the police during the riot A sanguinary collision is also said to have occurred in the town of Scariff, the- same County. The Castle partisans say the people are inflamed to such a pitch, and are so demoralized by the agitation, and that they are also flushed with partial success over civil and military power and becoming daily more daring. The soldiers and police are incensed, not merely against the populace, but against the authorities, who will not permit them to defend themselves. There is some risk of this indignant feeling assuming a form dangerous to discipline, and may lead to an irrepressible outbreak of fury against the populace or acts of retaliation upon the inhabitants of the garrisoned districts. A Determined Governor. Littlk Rock, Ark., June 1. A breeze was created here to-day by the action of Governor Churchill suspending and placing under arrest Captain Sam T. Hilzheiru, State Guard. The Governor appointed Hilzheim Mustering Officer of the First Military District, accompanying the same with an order to muster in a National Guards Company cem posed of colored men of Pine Bluff. Hilzheim declined the appointment, and in a letter to the Governor stated he did so for reasons that should at once be patent to the Governor. The Governor immediately issued orders punishing the Captain for disobedience of orders. The Captain replied in a defiant letter, demanding trial by Court Martial. Immediately on receipt of the latter communication, the Governor ordered Hilzheim under arrest, and issued an order for convening Court Martial. Lieutenant Harrison has been placed in command of the Company. It is stated that the Governor has determined the colored Company shall be mustered in, and will issue orders to that effect to Lieutenant Harrison. A Cold Blooded Marder. Deäver, Col., May 31. This evening E. L. Stickney, a mining man, entered the boarding house t the corner of Seventeenth and Stoul streets, while the boarders were seated at the table, pulld a revolver and opened fire on M. T. Campan, a real estate agent Two shots struck Campan, causing instant death, and another pierced Mrs. Devereaux through the heart It is mid Campan has for some time had improper relations with Mrs. Stickney, but was drawn on by her for blackmailing purposes, and that two months ago he was compelled, at the point of a dagger, by Stickney to sign notes amounting to $10.000; that he paid several of them, and then refused and could not be compelled to pay the remainder because no consideration was stated in the notes. Since then Stickney has several times threatened Campan's life. The shooting of Mrs. Deveraux was accidental. The murderer is in Jail.

THE FATED STEAMER.

The Steamer Victoria Collapses, Drowning 175 Persons Intense Excitement. London, Ont, May 24. This evening at o'clock the steamer Victoria, with over 000 excursionists on board, was returning from Spring Bank, and when near the cove of the railway bridge, one mile below the city, the boat suddenly collapsed, like an egg shell, and became a total wreck, level with the water's edge. All passengers were instantly plunged into the stream, more than half of them being underneath the debris. The first news which reached the city was brought by the survivors, who struggled through the streets wet and weary. The news fell like a thunderbolt, and a Mam pede took place for the spot. Arriving there, a horrible sight met the view. Fifty or sixty bodies had already been recovered, and were lying on the green swara, some distance up the bank. Those arriving from every direction crowded around? anxious to see if any relatives were on board. Several hundred families were represented on the excursion and the wail of anguish that arose at the sight of the victims was heartrending. Fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters rushed about panic-stricken, endeavoring to identify relatives. By 7 o'clock about eighty bodies were recovered from the wreck where the water is twelve feet in depth. Almost every minute some victim was brought to the surface and conveyed to the bank. The steamer Princess Louise was early brought to the spot and the victims placed on the upper decks. Fires were lit on the bank overlooking the river, and petroleum torches were brought and the search continued. Up to the pres ent hour about 150 corpses have been se cured. Among the dead are James Robert son, Manager of the Bank of British North America: J. C. Meredith. Clerk of the Dis trict Court; William McBride, Assessor and Secretary of the Western Fair As sociation; Mrs. William Ashburg, William Millman. a Montreal commercial a ent, and two sons of J. Rogers, plumber. All is confusion at the present moment The land ing at the foot of Dundas street is now crowded with people all waiting in breath less expectation for the arrival of the steamer Princess with the bodies. The total loss will aggregate 175. FURTHER PAPTi:tLARS OF THE DISASTER. Lowdos, Ont, May 25. The bodies still unclaimed arc being inclosed in shells and removed to the drill shed, where they can be visited by anxious friends in search of missing ones. The story of the disaster, as fiven by competent witnesses, who were on road, shows that the ill-fated vessel was on her last trip, and that on setting out from Springbank to return to the city she had nearly all her passengers on the way down, and in addition a large number who were waiting on the wharf to be conveyed home The number on board on the return trip is estimated at 700, a burden out of all propor tion to the strength and capacity of the vessel. Shortly after passing Woodland Ceme tery the boat began to rock, and tne crowd surged from one side to the other with each oscillation, rather enjoying the fun than being in any way alarmed. One passenger stated that the number of youths on the upper deck took delight in keeping up the rocking motion by moving from one side to the other, while others shouted gleefully, "LET HER SINK; we II oni7 nave to waae ashore, it is saui by some, though denied by others, that the officers in charge endeavored to induce the passengers to remain quiet, but their efforts were unavailing, ine crowa surgea ironi side to side, and with each movement the vessel took in an inch of water on the lower deck, to the terror of some and the delight of many more of those below. No one seemed to foresee the danger. Suddenly the position became alarming. When nearly opposite the Cove Bridge the water, to the depth of a foot or more, rushed in on the south side of the boat, and the crowd surged again to the north, the boat slowly follow ing the movement by listing over to that side. This time the vessel almost turned on her edge, and the deck floor became ele vated to an angle not far from perpendicu lar. All at once the supports of the upper deck gave way with a terrible crash, on account of the unnatural position and great weight imposed. Over the railings the people tumbled in hundreds headlong into the deep water, and to make the situation more terrible, the whole upper decks and supports went crashing down uion the wretched victims TEARING AND BRUISING the struggling mass of humanity which thus became engulfed in the dreadful watery tomb. The scene that followed beggars des cription. Between the wreck and shore could be seen scores of human beings who had become liberated from the mass o debris, and were battling with the element into whose cruel grasp they were so suddenly thrown and slowly, but surely, yielding to its power. Many who were so stunned by the crash as o be unconscious, sank without an effort The work of recovering bodies then began and has continued unremittingly ever since The steamer Princess Louisejcarne alongSide a few minutes, and in a short tune both her decks and every available inch of space was taken up with dead bodies. Tears came into the eyes of many a man of i ion nerve as he gazed upon the bodies of boys and girls as they were taken from the river clad in their holiday attire, and were carried in sympathizing arms aboard the Princess Louise. Meanwhile the tidings were conveyed to the city, and crowds of anxious ones flocked to the scene to learn, if possible, the fate of some one on board who was dear to them. Many of the bodies were terribly bruised and mangled from the crash of timber which came down from the upper deck, and in many cases the features bore evidence of a desperate struggle, which must have taken place. A visit to the scene shows the Victoria to be a complete wreck, being literally an ill-constructed vessel broken into splinters. It is said, on good authority, that her boiler was not properly secured, and it shifted with the rocking of the boat. Hardly any portion of the vessel is visible above water. WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAYS. Captain Rankin, who had charge of the ill-fated Victoria at the time of the disaster, makes the following statement: "We were on the last trip for the day, having made three trips previously. We had not a very heavy load going down, as there was plenty of room on board, but when we got to the wharf at Springbank there was a large crowd waiting, and before we could get the passengers off the boat the others rushed on tne afterpart, jumping and climbing in every direction. I ordered them down off the top deck and main deck, and threatened I would not leave the wharf till midnight if some of them did not get off. One gentleman Mr. Powell, of London Fast said to me: you? Vftll a M w f ni n r . n f . n CP m.jiA diu iivh pv'iiij V9 j'Uk lue Uli, me and I said: 'You had better get off.' He did so, and is now alive. Very few paid any attention to my order, and only about fifteen or twenty went off the boat. After we started a number of the people on the lower deck began singing and moving around. Presently I noticed a slightly different action on the boat. Being unable to leave my post at the wheel, I sent a boy down to the engineer to ascertain if there was any danger. She was listing some to the starboard, and as I was getting more anxious, I sent a boy down again. He returned with word frjm the engineer that unless we could straighten the boat there was danger. I was looking forward to a sandbar about 200 yards ahead, on which I intended to beach the boat. That was my determination, because I was beginning to get anxious. Just then a couple of rowboats came alongside, the occupants of which were racing, and the crowd rushed to the side of the boat to see them. The engineer then sent up word that we had better try and get the crowd to go aft. because water was coming in. Just then the crowd made a rush to the port side, and as they did so the vessel just took a lurch and went port bow down. Then the boiler shifted from its position and went through the side. I believe the vessel would have recovered herself only for the boiler

going over, and as it went it carried away the miain deck, and that let down the top deck with the crowd above. There were not 100 people on the lower deck, because the space below is largely taken up with the boiler and machinery, the aft part of the boat went down, but the fore part came to the surface, and the boat was spread about six feet apart. The result was that many of the passengers were imprisoned between the water ana top deck which came down above them, but they had a breathing space of a foot or so, which would have saved many had not the others persisted in climbing on the floating deck, thus crushing it down and smothering those underneath. I rescued

one man who had been under this deck for our minutes before it went down, and I did all I could to prevent the people from climb ing on it A great number had tne presence of mind to swim out from under the deck at the side or end, and in this way were saved. Ina few minutes all thus imprisoned were drowned, and then I swam to the shore and sent to the city with all speed. The tonnage of the boat was about nineteen tons, nat bottom, scow-shaped at both ends and registered to carry 400 passengers. I don't think we had more than 4. on board, because there is not standing room on the boat tor that number at eight inches space to each erson. The boiler left the deck before I eft the wheel. The stanchions from the main deck were the main supports of the upper deck. She was well stanchioned, but there were braces. Had left the saving ap paratus for 4ÜO jersons. The boat was going up slowly, and the syphon and pony pump were both working. I attribute the disaster to the fact that the vessel leaked, because when I sent the boy down the engineer said there was half an arm's length of water in the hohl.- I was praying earnestly that we might reach the sandbar, where 1 intended to beach her until we could get help. I spoke to the people on the upper deck to keep quiet and they were tolerably agreeable: on the lower deck the Purser, a son of Manager Parish, had the greatest difficulty. He came up and told me there was a lot of young fellows below whom it was impossible to keep quiet I would have run on shore only the bank was so steep and I knew it was useless, because she would have turned outward on touching the bank. The boat was managed by myself, an engineer, fireman, two deckhands and the Purser. She. made two trips on Saturday, two on Monday and three yesterday previous to the disaster. She now lies in the river with her top works all broken up. I never was asked to run the boat ashore as was stated bv Parish. The Ieople standing forward of the pilot-house were obedient to my orders, but those on the lower deck would not mind what was said. They were a pretty bad crowd." Mr. Parish, the Manager of the Company, states the accident was the result of overloading the vessel. He had not been able to ascertain from the number of tickets sold about the number of passengers on board, but he estimated them at from 500 to 000. The vessel, which cost about $17,000, is a total wreck and good for nothing, and as the insurance policy covers the loss by fire only, it is not applicable to this case. ANOTHER VERSION. 11. (. Montgomery, a leather merchant of this city, one of the passengers who escaped from the wreck, gives a version of the disaster that differs in some imiwrtant particulars from those already published. Montgomery says the steamer was greatly overloaded. He was on the promenade deck; does not know what may have been going on down on the main deck, but is sure that all the ieople he sarr were thoroughly quiet and orderly. There was no chasing about the boat nor pranks of any kind. As sdon as the boat started, however, she proved to be deeply listed to the starboard, and the passengers on the promenade deck were requested to move over to the port side. Some then did so, but still the steamer did not straighten up to any perceptible extent. Again the passengers were requested to move over to the port side, though a large majority of those on the promenade deck were already over there. At this time he looked down the companion-way and saw considerable depth of water on the main deck, which, as he then feared, accounted for the extraordinary listing of the steamer to the starboard. A very short time after this, and onljr a moment or so before the disaster, the Captain passed through the crowd, remark"If you don't keep over to that (the port) side, you will have TO SWIM FOR IT. At this several more of the passengers moved over to the port side, and the boat suddenly righted, and then listed heavily on the port side, which was not more than forty feet from the bank. Down she went with astonishing rapidity, and to save themselves those on the promenade clutched the stanchions that supported the awning overhead, but they snapped like pipe-stems, and a second later the supports of the promenade deck gave way and the whole wreck slid down to the port or shore side of the hull into the water. Montgomery caught hold of an iron rod ox bracket of some kind in the awning, and, holding to this, managed to keep his head above water for some sec onds after the collapsed promenade deck beneath his feet had gone into the water. His position at this time was terrible. Be low the deck, which had sunk from under him, he knew scores were perishing, and drowning LIKE RATS IN A HOLE, while the awning, to which he was clinging. was rapidly sinking, pi.1 burying beneath it men, women and children, whose piteous shrieks rent V. air on every side. Mothers, with children clinging about their necks, would beat the water madly with their hands, and, with eyes starting from the sockets, utter shrie- after shriek; till at last a half-smothered cry that ended a sickening gurgle told they had gone down beneath the flood. But even this was not the most hor rible of Montgomery's experience. While he still held his head above the water he could feel child -en, whose little heads were swept under the water some seconds before his own, CLUTCHING AT HIS LEGS, a in what he well knew were their dying struggle. Drowning mothers grasped him frantically and piteously implored his help. Montgomery asserts there was no teetering or rolling ot the steamer from side to side. one was listen 10 ine starboard all tne way up tne river till just at the time of tbe acci dent, and then she rolled suddenly to the port and went to pieces just as one would sweep a deck of cards off a table. Mont gomery is of opinion that the upset would have not been attended with half as fatal results had the steamer been properly con structed. Many or perhaps all might have been saved had it not been that they were swept down by the sudden collapse of the flimsy upper works and buried in the wreck where strong men and prattling chil dren were alike helpless. Star Route Rumors. A Washington special of the 28th says: The air was full of startling rumors last night, but to-day's heat appears to have dulled them off. One of these not mentioned iu last night's dispatches was to the effect that Brady, Dorsey and others connected with the Star Knute ring had been indicted by the District Grand Jury. It was ascertained from a law officer of the Government that there was no foundation for the report. Nevertheless it found a good many believers today, and caused quite a sensation. The truth Is, the Grand Jury have not had a single witness or pajxjr pertaiuing to the subject before them, nor have any papers reached the District Attorney's office. It may be stated that the only move looking toward an indictment or other mode of prosecution is that during the investigation bv the Post Ollice officials one of the law officers o'f the departments is making a collection of such evidence as will be of service in the prosecucution, and it is understood that the Attorney Ge-.eral is being kept fully posted as to what is lietng developed in this direction. In spite of all the stories to the contrary, is is stated by a gentleman connected with the contract office that no evidence has been obtained criminating Brady bevond what has been published, and literally nothing upon which an indictment might be found. ' lie says. In fact the newspapers manage to keep a long way ahead of the investigation on most points. After the Chinese Pan Francisco, May 27. A Bodie dispatch says: " Some lrrcsponsioie parties demanded tne discharge of the Chinese employed on the railroad approaching the town. On refusal, about forty armed men went to the Chinese camp, about thirty miles distant. The railroad peopisseuta courier to the camp, and had the whole outfit, with their supplies, transferred to the island in the center of Mono Lake. The rioters, not being prepared for a long campaign, returned to town and endeavored to raise a fund to provide provisions, but with slight success. The movement has not the sympathy of the people or of the Miners' Union, who disavowed any connection with it"

DEATH OF COMMODORE NUTT.

The Genial Little Dwarf Peacefully After a short Passes Away but Eventful Career. New York Herald, May 2G.J In a room at the Anthony House, on Broadway, laid yesterday all tha't was mortal of an American citizen who, during his short life of thirty-seven years, probably shook hands and conversed with more crowned heads than any other living American, saving perhaps one distinguished and one -minus GeneralUlysses S.Grant and Tom Thumb. It was the lifeless form of the little dwarf, Commodore Nutt that lay in what might have served for a child's coffin in the semi-darkened room, with a ray of sunlight streaming aslant the waxen face, on which suffering and pain had left no impress, while the dead dwarfs wife a youthful blonde, in stature a little below the average height of woman her eyes suffused with tears, gazed regretfully on the tiny form draped in the trappings of death, moaning again and again, as she pressed her lips to the ashen brow, "My poor boy, my poor boy." George Washington Morrison Nutt, for that was the full name of the genial little manikin, was born on the 1st of April, 1844, at Machester, X. H. His father was a farni.er, holding the position of City Marshal. The boy s parents were large, hearty folks, the father weighing upward of 2Ö0 pounds, and though he had five brothers and siäters, onlv one of the family was, like himself, published in a small edition, and with that one, his brother, "Major" Rodney Nutt, the dwarf throughout his life maintained the most affectionate relations. Until the lad was about fifteen years of age his Liliputian fame had hardly spread beyond his native town, but some time during 1859 P. T. Barnum heard of the Manchester phenomenon and soon made his parents so tempting an offer for his services that in 18G0 he was first presented to the gaze of New York sightseers at Barnum's Museum, Broadway and Ann street, which then occupied the site whereon now stands the Herald establishment. Here he was for a long time a great attraction, not only on account of his small stature for he was only three feet six inches in height but by reason of his pleasing manners, lively antics and unfailing good humor. Unlike most dwarfs, he had a pleasing countenance, and, moreover, was in no way deformed, be ing, indeed, built in perfect proportion to his height. HIS TOUR ROUND JHE WORLD. In 1SGJ, at the suggestion of Mr. Barnum, a troupe of midgets was organized for a trip around the world. The party was made up of Tom Thumb and his wife, and Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren, and during the following three years this quartet of little folks visited almost every part of the habitable globe where dollars or their equiv alent were to be gathered by the exhibition of the "human form divine" in its most condensed shape. Japan, China, Australia, India, Arabia, Egypt, France, England, Ireland, and Scotland were each in turn visited, and, at the expiration of three years and a day after leaving New York, the little people arrived oil bandy Hook, after one of the longest and most successful starring tours on record. After taking a much needed rest the little "Commodore, who had by this time developed some musi cal and dramatic talent, joined a combina tion ot tiny artists, styled the Ueakin Lih putian Opera Company, and played with some success throughout the country for a year or so. He then went into management, and, with his brother, the "Major," opened a variety show at Portland, Ore., but the venture did not prove particularly success ful ami he soon sold out and went on to San Francisco, where he started an enter tainment of a like nature at the corner of Third and Mission streets, adjoining which temple of the muses he ran a saloon, where, as "mine host," he attracted a large daily and nightly gathering of thirsty souls. He tired of San Francisco, however, before a year had passed, and again organized a theatrical trouie and traveled with them for some time, but the venture not proving a sue cessful one he again came East and entered into business in this city on Sixth avenue. But the Commodore was a veritable rolling stone, tnougu lie was iar more successful as a moss gatherer than tht proverbial bowlder, and after a few months he abandoned his saloon, and during last summer acted as Superintendent at the Rockaway Pier, where his trim little figure, his consequen tial walk and merry laugh will still be fresh in the memory of those who visited that salubrious locality in search of health-giv ing ozone or the tooth-teasing clam. In February last he was again upon the road with a show, and later still was a member of a hilarious combination known as the "Tally ho." FATAL SICKNESS. Three months back he was overtaken with sickness,, which was at first thought to be rheumatism of a malarial tvpe, but some eight weeks ago it became evident that he was suffering from Bright's disease, and though all that medical skill could do to alleviate his sufferings was tried he was seized with spasms on Sunday last, and, rapidly sinking, he passed peacefully away in the presence of his wife and his cousin and manager, Mr. D. C. Purdy, at ten minutes to 5 yesterday morning. " The Commo dore was a genial, whole-souled little atom ot Humanity, ana will be regretted by a host of 'friends. His generosity to those who gained his affection was un bounded, and it is stated by his cousin, Mr. Purdy, that when Barnum paid him $30,000 for a three years engagement he gave onehalf of the money to his favorite brother. the "Major." Though it was very generally believed at one time that he had married Minnie Warren this was not the case. The "Commodore" did not enter into the matri monial state until some two vears and a half ago, when he espoused in Redwood City, Cat, the lady who survives him. It is un derstood that he leaves quite a considerable sum of money, but he never made a will. The body will be removed to Manchester, N. H., the place of his birth, to-day, and will be there interred in the family vault riIYSIOX.OGY.IX PUBLIC SCIIOOLS. Ir. Hammond Denounces the Present Sys tern of Instruction Deleterious Effects of Imperfect Information on Youthful Minds. New York Herald. "One of the evils of the present time is the superficial knowledge of things that people pick up." said Dr. Hammond yester day. as he walked out of the University Medical College, to a Herald reiorter who was waiting to get his views on certain points in popular education, "and not the least of these evils is teaching anatomy and physiology to boys and girls as parts of a V'l. .,1 n.l,,,nt!iin " V UllllllUll lUUUHlUll. "Why. Doctor?" "It does a great deal of harm and scarcely any good. "But, surely, Doctor, anatomy and physiology are good things to know? "Yes, for those who have to apply them, but certainly not for infants, and, above all, not for girls." "Well, that israthera new idea, is it not?" "By no means. It is one heii by many physicians and others who have given attention to the subject and there is scarcely a day that I do not see in my practice the deleterious results of giving a superficial insight into those seiendes to young men and women." "For instance?" "In the first place, the books used are necessarily mere outlines, and therefore give very imperfect views of the subjects to which they relate. Anatomy and physiolocan only be properly taught by dissection and experiments under the direction of skilled teachers, such as we have in Medical Colleges. Of course the pupils get no such instructions as this. They are given some one of the popular school books on these sciences to study and then to recite to teachers as ignorant as they are themselves, for these teachers know nothing more than what they have got out of the same works, probably the day before. The consequence is that scarcely the shadow of anything worth knowing falls on the pupil's mind. The good that is done is nothing at all." MORBID CURIOSITY THAT BRINGS ON DI8EA8K. "But besides this negative result there is a positive one of more importance. The bov or the girl learns just enough to excite curiosity and apprehension curiosity relative to matters of which it is better they should be instructed by parents instead of picking up knowledge in regard to them from all

sorts of improper sources, and apprehensions based on insufficient information of

the existence of disease of the various organs of their bodies. A young ladv scarcely fif teen years old informed me a short time ago that she was sure her pancreas was diseased." "My dear child ,': I exclaimed, "what do you know about your 'pancreas?' " "it s the organ, doctor, that emulsifies the fat I am sure the fat I cat is not emulsified. and so I have stopped eating all kinds of fat things." "Was she very stout?" "She was as thin as a rail and was actually half starving herself from a mistaken idea based on the little smattering of knowledge she had that her 'pancreas' was diseased. She had no symptom whatever of pancreatic disease, and her emaciation was the result of her morbid fancy." "Actual disease is, however, often induced by the imagination excited by imperfect knowledge. The stomach, the liver, the heart are thus peculiarly liable to be affected. It is even common with medical students when they begin to study anatomy and physiology to imagine they have diseases of the organs of which they read, and to which their attention is directed, and it is only after fuller information that they get rid of the abnormal notions. Sometimes actual disease is produced in them." K KEP CHILDREN IX IGNORANCE. "But, Doctor, you would not Keep boys and girls in entire ignorance of the anatomy and physiology of their own bodies?" "Yes, I would, except in regard to one or two matters, which they don't learn in school, and of which their fathers and mothers should impress them. As to telling them about the heart and lungs and livers and spleens and pancreas and kidnevsin the superficial way in which they are told about them in schools, I would stop it altogether. Perhaps anatomy and physiology should be thoiottghly taught in Colleges to voung men who have reached adult age, but young wo men should be taught nothing of the kind at any time. There are much more suitable things for them to learn. It does a woman narni lo Know where her liver is: for in stance, I am quile sure that the large in crease in diseases of the nervous system among women in recent vars is to a great extent due to the pernicious system of calltheir attention in schools to organs that they had better know nothing about. I know that such attention deranges their health, mentally and physically. COJIMON COUXCIL. The regular meeting of the Council was held Moudav evening, at which there were present at roll-call eighteen members and seven absent. A large number of proposals for street improvements were opened, read and referred to the Committee on Contracts. CONTRACTS AWARDED. The Committee on Contracts reported in favor of awarding tbe contract for grading and graveling Lincoln avenue and sidewalks, from Beeler to Newman street, at 9 cents per lineal foot front on each side. For grading and graveling Newman street and sidewalks, from Hill avenue to Pendleton road, to R. II. Patterson, at eighty-seven cents per lineal foot front on each side. For grading and graveling Newman street, from Pendleton road to Brookside avenue, to R. II. Patterson, at sixty-five cents per lineal foot front on each side. For grading and graveling Newman street, from Brookside avenue to Clifford avenue, to R. Carr, at eighty-seven cents per lineal foot front on each side. For grading and paving with brick the south sidewalk of Michigan street, from Fast street to Massachusetts avenue to J. W. Smith, at fifty-four cents per lineal foot front on each side. ESTIMATES ALLOWED. The City Civil Engineer submitted final estimates in behalf of It. P. Dunning and J. W. Hudson for grading and bowldering the first alley south of Georgia street, from Illinois to Tennessee street; total estimate, $532.89. In behalf of H. C. Roney for grading, bowldering and curbing the gutters of the first alley south of Ohio street, from Pennsylvania to Delaware street; total estimate, $521.80. The I., D. andS. Railway Company notified Council of their acceptance of the terms of an ordinance passed at the last meeting of the Council, and on motion of Mr. Thaiman, their communication was referred to the City Attorney. The Board of Health asked that special orders be given to the regular police force to give particular attention to the cleaning of yards and alleys in their several districts. The request was concurred in. The City Civil Engineer reported that various stone crossings were needed on Washington street, and the report was referred to the Board of Public Improvements. SOUTHERN PARK. The report of the Committee on Public Property in favor of ejecting the lessees of the Southern Park, after twenty days' notice by the City Marshal was concurred in. The Street Repairs Department expended for May, $5,578.42. Total expenditures to June 1, $41,409.51. ELECTION OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS. The following named persons were appointed as Judges of an election to be held on the 11th of June, for the election of School Commissioners from each of the following Districts: Fifth District Adam Scott, Inspector, and John Mclntyrc and John Rupp, Judges. Sixth District John Minteith, Inspector, arid James Cummings andWilliani Buehrig, Judges. Ninth District Thomas D. Amos, Inspector, and Joseph Cephons and John Schier, Judges. - WATER MAINS. A resolution was adopted that water mains be laid from the corner of Nebraska 6trect and Madison avenue east in and along Nebraska street to East street; thence north in and along East to Coburn street; also, in and along Illinois street, from Seventh to Tenth street; thence in and along Tenth street from Illinois to Meridian street; thence in and along Meridian street from Tenth to Second street, connecting with the water-mains now located at or near the in tersection of Second and Meridian street. The report of the Committee in the matter ot granting the use oi tne routnern 1'ark to Captain Edward Barry and Jacob Baas, for a picnic on July 4, was that the privilege be granted, provided no intoxicating liquors were sold in said Park on that day. Con curred in. FREE BATHING HOUSE. The Committee appointed to report on the motion of Mr. Fritchard, providing for tne erecting of a free bathing house at some point above the pork houses on the river, reported that the estimated tost would be $500, and recommended that the City Engineer select the best locality for its erection. Concurred in. The ordinance prescribing the powers and duties of the Police Board, and regulating the. organization of the police force, was taken up, and, on motion, action was postponed on it until the first meeting of the Council in July. On motion, action on the purchase of the "Three Notch I toad" for $1,200 was postponed. The Committee on Streets and Alleys, to whom was referred the petition of "Brothers of the Sacred Heart," asking for the vacation of a certain alley south and opening a fif teen foot alley on the west side, reported in favor of granting the petition. Adopted. An ordinance to re-grade and re-gravel South Meridian street from Washington to Louisiana street was passed. ORDINANCES INTRODUCED. To erect lamp posts on Yeiser street from East street to Madison avenue. To grade and gravel Last Pearl street and sidewalks from Benton to Cady street. To pave sidewalks of Spann avenue. A motion was adopted that the Board of Public Improvements be added to the Com mittee on Ordinances and City Attorney i the reference made to said Committee di recting them to report an ordinance dividing the city into sewer districts. Mr. Bryce s motion that the union uepot Company be again notified to put up gates across Illinois street, and if not attended to

within five days to be done by the City Marshal at' the" Company's expense was adopted. A motion was adopted that the Committee on Water ascertain and report at rcxt meeting how soon the Water Works Company will be able to furnish water fit to use. ORDINANCES PASSKI. To improve the first alley east of intersection of South street ami Yirginia avenue, from South street to Virginia avenue. To improve New York street, from Delaware to New Jersey street. Adjourned.

A Compositor' Murder ami Suicide. New York. Mav 29. Edward Dezendorf, a compositor, living with his wife, mother. sister and brother at 14 Prince street, Brooklyn, to-day shot his wife, inflicting a mortal wound, and then killed himself. It see .us Dezendorf had been drinking much of late and had mnuent nuarrew with his wife. This morning he arose in a bad humor, and after quarreling with his wife went out and did not return until afternoon. He entered the ba.seu.ent where his wife and sister were talking. Pacing the lloor intx-d-ily a few times, he asked Iiis wife to step up stairs, as he had something to say to her. As thev went up to the parlor the MMer went into the kitchen. The hiband and wife renewed the ouarrel and the sister occasionally heard the wife tapping on the lloor with her toot. rvon alter she heard a pistol shot, followed bv a heavy fall on tbe floor. She ran up stairs screaming and calling to her brother. The parlor dour w as locked and she ran to the back stoop and looked in at the window. At this moment she saw her brother raise the pistol to his breast and tiro. The screams of the girl brought her mother to the sjot, but they were unable to get into the room until an officer living near and off duty scaled the fence and broke open the door. DezendorlF and wife were both lying on the lloor in a pool of blood. He gasjK-d a few times and expired. Mrs. Dzendorff was unconscious and bleeding profusely from a wound jut over her left breast. The physicians were of the opinion that she could not long survive. The murdered woman and suicide leave three children. WHKliington News. Washington, June 2. Samples of fioiiror other powdered substance are declared unmailable, except when put in transparent bags and sealed "so no particles can sift through. The bags must be inched in boxes or tubes made of hard w-ood or metal, with sliding, or clap. or screw lids, and without sharp corners. The Treasury Department to-day purchased 400.000 ounces of tine silver for delivery at the San Francisco, Carson and Philadelphia Mints The National Board of Health re-elected the present officers. The quarantine mafter is disposed of, tbe Executive Committee being empowered to use its discretion rda tive'to requiring vessels bound for New r leans to stop at Ship Island or Port Fads. The Board adjourned sine die. The Treasury Department will to-morrow issue another circular letter relative to excursion steamers fur the information of officers of the Inspection Se rvice in general, as well as for the information of the traveling public, who are invited to present at the proper offices authenticated proofs of violations of steamboat laws, m order that the offenders may be prosecuted. Inspectors will be required to. exact from Captains and owners strict : compliance in all cases with instructions. Southern Immigration. A New York telegrarr , of the vih, mvs: The Southern States are actusdty entering the field at last in competition for a i-hare of the vst immigration which is now iHiuiiug into the Country. Mr. Long, President of the Southern Immigration Society, will go to r.uropc on Srtturdav to cstalJisa emigration ajrencies in Liverpool, London. Copenh.:eiU"' Stockholm.. Hamburg, Bremeu and Aunie.rdm for the states of Arkansas. Louisiana ar.d Ttxus. In a visit to the CumIc Garden authorities yesterday he said that these States were prcj.nfcd to oner extraordinary induccmeuts to . immiffrat For Jbe present, at least, these States and tfje ' wilrof ds leading to them would co-onerate to provide free tra:iirtation to all i in migrants v. ho wouid come thr-re to tettle. The States are oilV-ring to settle the incomers free of charge in salubrious locations; to assist the farmers among ihem in taking up homesteads and in tret tins a start, and to see that all the artisans are provided w ith work. Soine of these Southern people, as for instance the Unard of Immigration of suth Carolina, are tjndiiur out that it is not absolutely . necessary to establish Europe in branches. 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! BR; BEE VE! TIIE Indian Botanic Physician ' LATE OF LONDON, ENGLAND,The moot nurceiwfnl catarrh, lung and throat doctor in America, i i-prinaruMitly looatnl at Ih? corner of Illinois ami Loni-iaua ttrtcts, Indianapolis Indiana, her he will examine all din'-aer, anc tell the complaint vlthont akinf a tingle question. CConnultation Free, iifeitlier German er Ktiglit-h PEUJIiXFST CrRES! lr. Reeves warrants a permanent cure of tl following dix'-ae; 'tW ud tunn-re, itching anc lr.tru iuvr, cured vi it In at iin tr Itifti umein ; cucera enrol in, all their form u itliout the knife -t sicktiesi of the patient. The Potter ha crsr.-d t in dred of thi Ireadful canker of the human loniy, which has halfled the accuiinihttcd fkill of a. 1 1 i i renu'dit-R exc I anything known to medical science, lie defies the- world to brii g him a cae whert there is tnffl I-lit vitality toauKtaiu the j kU-ui. that he can not cure. Any peix-n wl-hiug further information or treatment, should pive hiai a call. Kheumatisra cured and warranted to atay cured in every case. All f rmt of Itlfxxl nutl RUlu OlHeaie are lVtmnnrntlj C'nre! ! Sncli a tetter, aalt tlieum, crofula or syphilitic orea, trictref-, acini nal weakness or pp-rmatii hnea, primary and secondary syphilid, gouotrho-a. or chronic venereal, kidney or urinary dinpHaca -t ithet sox, younger old, no matter how had. He challenge ft comparison with any physician in Ann lira in curing thefM dieau4. ' I.-m of inaf.lH-u-1 restored. the loc'or can refer to bundled thna aflected ho credit their present exintouce to being cim-d ly him. All moles, birth-marka and fr-ck!ea removed. Alo, 11 the various diseanes of the oje and ear. FOR TflE LADI1S ONLY! A lady, at any period of life, from childhood to the grave, may, if ill, suffer rem one or mote ol the fol lowing diseases, which ,tl.e Loctor will positively cur: Liver compUict, irnlig. ption of the ftomach, nervoua weak beaer lung lib'-Hses, etc., pre laphua ot the vagi pa or womb, lencotrhu-a er whiten, auteveraion, retroversion, antiplexiop, r JropIexion, r ulceration of this organ, sick headache, rln-uinat iMii and sciatic pains. ' lropfy termaDently cured in a thort time without tapping. Vnll or write lo it-. ollie, cor. Illlnnl and Lnlalnii MtreetM, 1 ullnnnilli Initial!?. , ' Private medical aid. All dineaxeaof a secret nature speedily cured. If in trouble call or write perfectly confidential. . AKT CASK OaVYITISKT HABIT CUBED IN TK2? DAYS.