Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1874 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1874.

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UP THE NILK. ET J0AQCI! MILLEK.

A srand old Neptune In the prow. With beard as blown by winds of eas. Gray browed, and stained wlta rata and s'onu ; A grizzled King. I see him now Stand up, turn dreamily, loot back . Alon;r the low boat's wrinkled track, , , Then fold a mantle round a form Broad bnllt as any Hercules; And so sit Bilentiy. . . Beside The turbaned sea-king sat his bride, . A great sad beao'y, iu whose eye Lay all toe peace of Paradise; -A un-bora bloiMoni, rudely torn ' - From out the lilies, to be woru Above a stern a breast as ere Stood king at e or uj where. A sal. sweet dreamer; one who knew Not anything of earth at all. . Nor c.tied to fecow its bane or bliss; A dove that did not touch the land. And this may be beciuse she drew Her p.U of Me rirjht fron the haid , K Ho l, and did aotclioose to ltirn The ih:u2H that make up earth's concern. Ah ! there be sonl none understand r like -iouils thev cannot touch the lnd, Drive aUhey may by field or town. ; Then we look wis- at this and frown. And we cry, "Fool," and cry, "Take ho.d O' c:u th and fashion gods of gold." ' Unanchord shl,-s. that blow ani blow, Sail to and fro, and then o down In unknown, ntu thalnou shall know, Vlth'"c one rii p!e off rc-nowui Ptr drifting dreamers sailing by, Thausceni to only live to die. Call these not fools; the test of worth Js not tüe ho'd you have of earth. 1,0 ! inere be Rentwt souls wea-blown Thai, know not oy i-. arbor known ; Aih! it may bi ilie rr:ison is They touch on lalrer, shores than this. Her mouth was Egypt's mouth of old, Pui.jcd out, and pouting full aud bold Vi;:i simple beauty. V uy, her mouth U'as roses gathered :rom the fjoulh ; The wnrni south aide of l'ursd Ish Then breathed uj on and handed down f?y angels rn a stair of stars. Yea. you had loved her for her eyesHer large and melancholy look Of tenderness, nd well mistook Her ad face tor som soul a frown -Forbidden at the golden bars. That eld abandoned beauty sat About her mouih. Yea, you had iald This creature comes from out the dim Far ;a uries. The worshipper Of old-rime beauty, seeing her. Had said : The great forgotten dead Vi fair deadH&ypi ou tha lim Of Time's remotest reach is here. And Story, who wrochtSemiramU And shaped the Sibyls, seel as; this. Had bared his bead, and, drawing; near. Had bowed, aud made a fchrine thereat, And all his life had worshipped her. That dreaminess that fills the eyes Of sun-born Pagan worshipper Was hers. Her soul seemed far away ; Shes-emed to see tili calmer atUes To see the white waves leap and play Kound isles in some far middle seas; sec cor.U reefs blown white wiih spume By winds made sweet with the perlume Of trailing vines and leaning trees, And she was very bad. $ ? 6 a c f All day Her two rounl hands, silk-soft and browa In her unsaihered garments lay Ila'f hid and doubled helplessly; All day she did not Kpoak or siir ; All day she leaned her wistfully And took no note at all ; ail day Her black abundant hair fell down In rippled currents over her. At night they touched the lily shore. And we passed on. In Diht indeed, Against the far white waterfall. 1 siiw no more, shall know no more Of her for aye. Aud you who read This broken bit of dream will smile, Half vexed, that 1 saw aught at all. The wave struck strophes ia the reed. And ail the sad sons of the oar Tiiat long, long night, against the Nile, Was: Nevermore and Nevermore Thi side that oilier nViore that lies Like Nile below the Paradise. I'aiko, Egypt, 1371. GENE UAL, NOTES. Tkere are 80) roibh families living in New York eity, most of whom belong to the poorer class. Lawrence Barrett has achieved a grand triumph at Boston.' both as Iliobelieu 'and Hamlet. He is ranked next to Salvini by the press of the "Hub." The Senate has passed the bill approp riaticg about ?1,000,000 to pay clainn allowed by the southern claims commission. The claim of Mr. Bailey, ol Louisiana, was allowed. . It is reported that Mr. George William Curtis and Colonel T. W. Higginson have consented to stump the state of Michigan in favor of the woman suffrage clause ia the new constitution. Church choir f alaries ' in Cincinnati run from 300 to $00 per year for organists; for soprano sinsrers, from ?250 to ?500: for tenors, from to 300; for contralto aud bas3 singers, from ?200 to 300. The Rev. II. W. S. Packard, acting pastor of the Congregationalist church in Boylston, Nc hhii. rt nrMnKtnr, rtfT,a, minister's sermons and of forging a csrtiflcatepf ordination in the Metbodht detiomi-1 nation, from which he withdrew to the Congregationalista. Scribner's monthly has gained quite a . , i , , Z suwe3 in England judging by the commen - daiions of the press. The publishers have tasten considerable pains to introduce subjects of an English character, and have also established agencies in that country for the sale of their magazines. , Dispatches from Europe speak of the continuation of the famine in India. Kations are somewhat irregularly i-sued to 3,500,030 natives, and many have died before assistance could reach them. The prospect is that crops of the season will - yield but - poorly, ana still greater distress is expected ta vail daring next winter. pre"South and West: or Winter in the Kock fnnntilTi " ia Inctnnt in T.-irrtanr? Ttia I author is the daughter of Canon "Kingsley, who ia at; present in this country. The London Times describes it as "one of the most fresh and pleasant, and in some respects the most original, volumes of travel that has perhaps ever, fallen from a young lady's pen." . , At the fourth national eaengeriest at Cleveland this week the following artists are in the program: Mme. Lucca, Mr. Carl Bergmann and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and there is an abundance of "strong" music, in which Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Schubert and Weber are largely represented. The chorus will number about 1,200. Queen Victoria not only countenances dandng, but 9he takes part In it hersell. While at the Balmoral Castle in Scotlaud sho attended a ball, and dancod with Prince Air ana i-rinceoeorKe,soi.s oiipe i rxr.ee oi les, and afterward took part in a reel with John Brown, ber attendant, and with I Donald S'ewart. her girae- keeper. This is i the first time the queen has danced since the : deta of the Prince consort. . . ; A white child has been born to a nero; coupie living in Wilmington, iortu tjaro Una. Its 'orm and features are perfect up to the bridge of the nose, the chin, mouth and nasal organ being not only well formed, but really handsome iu their symmetry and general appearance ; but, commencing with the eyes, the mce and head has the appearance of an animal, more resembling a white bear than anything else of the animal species. At the convention of the aboliticnista In

Chientro, lately, Mrs. J. G. Swisshelm Bald that the widow of Abraham Lincoln had beer greatly misrepresented. "Her influence," said Mr. Swissbeltn, "wm always on thJHid of freedom; she was always the frieyd of the slave cries of No!" and she wan the adviser of her husband on the abo lition question." Mrs. Swisshelm said she knew auch was the case from personal knowledge. Brooklyn Union There is a negro Sampson named Nelson da Lisle, in New Orleans. He is a horsedealer by proiesslon, and the trick of bis trade ia to take possession of horses in an unauthorized manner. Jle was denominated a horse-thief by ft court in Xew Orleans in iHO'.t and sent to the state prison, where he staved only six days of the five years

fawrded him. He broke iail by snapping Iron bars as if they had been pine sticks, and carrying the outer gait, and tied and hid. A few weeks ago a German family named Eibers, in Toledo, bought and ate some rarely-booked sausage. ' A few days ago the wife and two children died, after suffering lntouse agony, while Mr. Eibers was saved bv tX)ntinuous vomiting and a diarrhea wbi..h attacked bira immediately after eatiug the inflated meat. Examinations show that the deceased died from the presence of tricbira spiralis, which were found in immerse numbers In the flesh of the unfortunate victims. Arizoua Is a moderately cheap country to live in; that ia, cheap as to style and quality. .Flour is otily ?2. bacon 30 cents per round, ham 32 cents, beans 1() cents per p rid, coffee ?l, sugar 3- cents, beef 30 cents, pork 35 cents, mutton 13 cents, venison and antel-.ipa ii) cents, potatoes 3 cents per pound, bes'ts, turnips, onions and cabbage 5 cents per pound. Blacksmiths get 3 per day and lKard; carpenters, sjS and board; cooks, 830 per mouth and board; herders,?" to tj0 per month, board included; common laborers, ?l. A great problem in Antarctic geography has been solved by the Challenger expedition, now in the Southern hemisphere. The outlwof a great current from the South Inaian ocean has long been asserted by many physical geographers, and as strenuously denied by others. The Challenger explorer, however, found the current after leavinsr the Cape of Good Hope, and state that the gulf stream is only a rill compared with it. The breadth is about 250 miles, and it wa3 found to affect the temperature of the sea to the depth oi 400 fathoms. The landlord of one of the leading hotels in Philadelphia has often had much trouble in converting new hands into smart waiters. His first order to raw recruits was, "Give the gentleman soup before anything else." A recent arrival from the Green Isle had received his directions, and made ud his mind to act on them. The first for him to try them on was a verdant countryman, whodid not appeciate "soup." Pat brought the soup. Greeny say, "Don't want it." Pat replies, "Take it, sur." "Don't want it," says Greeny again. " Well,then,yees better take it, for the divll a bit will yees have to eat before yees swallow that." JUDGE LYNCH. THE MURDERER CLARK EVANS HANGE THE JAILER IS CAPTURED BY MEN WITH MASKS 1 FJE PRISONER SEIZED AND CARRIED CFF IN A WAOOX THEVICIIM'S BODY FOUND SUSPENDED FROM A TREE NO CLUE TO THE LYNCHERS. A special dispatch to the St. Louis Democrat from Carrollton, 111., dated the 21st, gives the details of. an outrage committed at that place on Sunday morning: At last we have the sad sequel to the horrifying details ei the recent Ilalbirt murder, in this county. which have been jriven in your columns, together with the particulars of the arrest oi one Ciark Evans, and his subsequent confefesion of the murder, and other Crimea of which be had been guilty in the course of tho past four year?. At about two o'clock this morning the jail in this city was visited by a large number of men in wagons and buggies. The latter wa3 aroused by an alarm at the door, and the statement that the party on the outside were in possession of a party arrested for murder, whom they desired to imprison. Wnen the door of the anteroom was opened, some nine or ten men rushed in pushing one of their number before them, under pretense that he waa the culprit. Getting fairly in, the jailer discovered that they were all In disguise, either by wearing masks or with BLACKENED FACES, and at once suspected the object of their visit; but as quick as thought he was picined by several of the parly, pointing cocked revolvers at his head, and demand' "g t he keys of the main door and cells. Simultaneously, some of the party discovered the keys banging near the barred entrance, and took possession of them. While one-half the party held the jailor at bay, the other half proceeded to unlock the doors, going immediately to the cell where Clark Evans was chained down, and they released him by means of a hatchet and cold chisel. In a few 1 moments they rushed back to the entrancewithEvan8m charge, and hurried j him into one of the wagons. On looking out into the streets, the j.uior saw a large num ber of persons afoot, as well as in the buggies and wagons, and they hurried away in various directions. , He gave the alarm at once, but could not get enough persons together at the hour to pursue. The sheriff and deputies started out, but could not get on track ot the fleeing party. About 7 o'clock this morning ex-Sheriff Bfell, who resides at Providence, came in, bringing tte news that a man was found by some j passers-by J - . HANGING TO A TREE by the roadside, near the soutn approach to the Apple creek bridge. 'Hurrying thither, the officers ascertained that it was Clark Evans, the prisoner who was taken from jail but a faw hours before. The culprit was suspended in such a way that his feet nearly touched the ground by the bending of the limb, but be was dead ana cold. A corner's inquest was held, in the pres ence of a vast crowd of people, who bad gathered from all quarters. The corpse was taken down and placed in a tough box, made at the saw mill near by. and then de posited in the Providence graveyard. 01 course, the authorities have not the re motest idea as to who composed the lynch ine party: but the whole affair was well Planned and adroitly executed. One of the buggies evidently used by some of the MIDNIGHT VISITORS', broke dr.wn within a block from the jail, by ; running off of a small bridge. Doubtless as qae k R3 tbe horse3 could be removed from . .. a , . J1 the parties accompanying it fled, as in the wro found an old fot hat, the sleeve ot a old coat, two plugs of tobacco neatly wrapped In a portion oi one of the county papers, a quart battle with about half a pint ofV-bik y in it, and a small leather valise - : containing some heavy twine, acoidcm&ei and a hatchet. This ouggv has not been identified or claimed, but a rumor prevails that it belongs to a party near Whitehall. The whole affair has created a piofound sensation, and so outrageous was the murder committed by Evans that but few are disposed to blame the parties who have taken the law into their own hands. Tbe Vn-rtlrOTi rmorrw ia tn tha Viarwla ef t Via oViorlfT and will probably never be claimed.

THE CHILDLESS MOTHER.

II A BY CLEM If EC AXES. I lay my tasks down one bv one, i aut tn the l'ence In twilight's graee: Out of itsHliadow, soft and dun, bteals like a star my baby's Lce. Mocking cold are the world's poor Joys. - , llow poor to me all its pomp and pride! In ray lap lie the baby's Idle toys, In this very room the baby died. , , , TwUl shut these broken toys away " Und he lid where they mutely bide; I "will 6m'le in the face of the noisy day, Just as if baby had never died. ' - 1 wiil tt .e np my work once more, ; ' As if I had never laid it down; . v Vho will dream that I ever wore Motherhood' line and holy crown? ', j .; - . i Vho will deem my life ever bor t ' , ' ' Fruit the sweater in grief and aln? . Tlie flitting smile that the baby wore , Ontrayed the light of the loftiest brain. ' Ill meet hira tn the world's rnde din. '" Who bath outlived hia mother's kiss, Who hath forsaken her love for sin i I will be spared her pang in this. . . ,- . .. J ,-..".; Man's way is hard and sore beset; , Many masifall, but few can win. ' " Thanks, dear Shepherd ! My lamb Is safe, ; Stile from borrow and safe from sixu . - - JfeTcrtheless, the way is long,' And tears leap in the light of the sun. I'd g1 ve my world for a cradle son?, , And a kiss from baby only one. TRANssFOKMATIOX. LAURA C. REDDEN. But then you take my friend from me!' She looked into bisyes; The shy, awakening womanhood (Jrowu bolder from surprise. "Who finds a lover needs must lose A friend, however tried !" Choose you. the lover or the friend!" His deeper voice replied. "Ah ! let me keep my friend," she cried, "Whose gently guiding band Kuhdues my griets and plans my Joys, With such serene command J" "Mine is a man's impulse, and you Are wiser in your way. And cooler in your blood ; but I Xo medium course essay. "Our Ives must blend, or we must partThat fiat lies with you!" She could not say, 4 Depart from me!" For all that che could do. Tut 1? I give j-cu all," she cried; "My life, my love, my soul ; The surety of my happiness (Joes into your control !" An answering look, a clasping; arm. A passionate caress .Man's old reply to woman's words, Nor yet believed the less! THE WOMAN'S LOT. George Elliott. Bear wltcesi, I am caim. I read my lot As toberly as if it were a ta1e Writ by a creeping feuilletonist, and called "The Woman's Lot; a Tale of Every-day ;" A middling woman's to impress the world With h gh supertiuousness; her thoughts a crop Of chick-weed errors or of pot-sherd facts. Smiled at like some child s drawing on a slate, "üenteei?" "Oh, yes, gives lessons; not so gcod As any man's would be, but cheaper far." "Pretty?" "Xo; yet she niafcg a tlgure at For gxd society. Poor tiling, she sews Both late aud early, turns and alters all To suit ths changing mode. Some widower Might do well, niarrying her; but in these days! ell, sne cau some wuai ege ner narrow gains By writing, just to furnish her with gloves And droskles in the mln. They print her things men lor cnarity." u:i a arg s me! A harnessed dog's, that draws a little cart Voted a nuisance. THE CANINE CUHSE HYDROWIOBIA. TICK DEATH OF DR. FRANCIS BUTLER OF HI DROPIICBIA HIS THEORY AND ITS REFUTATION THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, ANTIDOTES AND CUBES FOR TUE DISEA8E. The New York Herald of the 19th inst, gives tb.8 followiD account of tho death of Dr. Butler, a celebrated doz-fancier of that city: About five years ago this community was violently excited about mad does and our danger lrom their presence. A. Mr. Ludlam bad perished under this dreaded disease. Many men of influence gave tbe community their views on tbe subject. Among others, Professor Butler wrote the Herald a )etter, which is reprinted herewith. It will be seen that on the 21st of February, 1ST, Dr. Butler, who had had more experience of does and their ailments than any other man among us, held firmly to the belief that persons who go into spasms of terror at sight of water do so, not lrom an Inoculated disease by the tooth of a rabid member of the caniue race, but from the workings of fear, imagining a poison in tbe veins which has no existence in fact. He adduces cases of persons who have taken hydrophobia from dogs whose- subsequent health proved them sound at the time of the supposed inocculation with virus. More over, be believed mat persons even il actually afflicted with the malady, which he considered exceedingly rare, if it existed at all, could be certainly cured by simple appli cations of caustic and ealt .bathing. lie esteemed.it his duty to disabuse the public ot the hideous prejudice wnicu it held against poor brutes made frantic by the kicks and contumely of a cruel world, and hunted through the hot streets with yells aud stones till they fell exhausted in some sheltering retreat, ready to dis from lear and excessive effort. "Give the poor whelp a rest," says this friendly writer, "he wants but good food, shelter and plenty ol water to be a trusty companion and valued friend of man." To Dr. Butler's care the lover of dogs committed their pets when they showed signs of illness. In this way he received a Spitz six weens ago. "snap" was sick. Dr. Butler attempted to relieve mm Dy a mouthful of common salt, which, in his bauds, bad often worked wonders lor dyspeptic dogs. It did not suit "Snap's" palate. - ile seized his friend by the thumb and inflicted A SEVERE WOUND. lie was secured, 'inewouna was at once cleansed and poulticed. An assistant. In taking the dog to Dr. Butler's Brooklyn place, by Roosevelt street ferry, had the misfortune to let the brute escape from his covered basket. He ran j'elping and foam ing among the ingntenea Doai load or passeneersas tnev were lanamg, Dit an un known man, and was killed by a policeman. Dr. Butler knew there was no danger of hvdrophobia. He treated his wounded thumb attentively and with skill. Nature Bmiled on his endeavor and it was soon healed. Dr. Butler was not well. For years had been a prey to indigestion, and it was now tormenting him. But as for the dos bite, that was a mere nothing a for eotten.trifle. He had been bitten countless times before. - Last Monday morning Dr. Butler sat down to bis breakfast, feeling In better health than he had been for a long time. A cup of tea being handed him, he noticed a strangly disagreeable feeline f choking, and was unable to swallow it. lie then asked for a seidjitz powder, which, when beinz brought, caused a recurrence of tho choking, and was instantly rejected with uncontrollable aversion. Dr. Butler also complained of a pain ia the back of the neck at the base of the brain. His wife, who is a lady of culture and good judgment, at once sent for the family physician, Dr. Francis M. Lorette, of No. 529, Grand street, Williamsburg. On his arrival Dr. Butler said to him that he thought he had taken cold; he had pains, he said, in his head and neck. .He alluded to the dog bite, but said, "Of course, you know that has nothing to do with this trouble, which evidently comes from my getting a

cold." The doctor thought best to acquiesce in tbe patient's view, and to treat the matter as being unconnected with any notion of canine origin. He asked the sufferer to drink a glass of water. This being brought.

Dr. Butler seized it with uoin nanus ana put forth a muscular six foot man's full strength in the desperate endeavor to please his old friend, the physician, by giving him this simple proof of the absence of hydrophobia, in vain. No effort was able to carry one drop of the crystal liquid to his stomach. The attempt caused a violent paroxysm of the suffocating sensation, and evidently caused the patient dire distress. Affecting to think Dotning of it, Dr. Lorette, whose experience had shown him the same un mistakable symptoms before, treated it as ol no consequence, endeavoring to soothe . THE DOOMED MAN. ' ' . 1 - i He Wrote a prescription, directing Its administration as soon as possible, and assur ing the stricken dog fancier that he hoped to see him better at his next call, left tbe room. Taking occasion to see- Mrs. Butler, be told her at. once to make the requisite arrange ments, for her husband's dreadful doom was imminent and bevond the power of medical skill to turn aside or postpone. From that hour till. Tuesday night all that could be done was essayed to counteract that grasp of me siaver which at irequent intervals tormented that stalwart man with the sensa tion of suffocation, as though a hand were tightly griped about his throat, so a3 to totally preclude inhalation. At 9 o'clock Tuesday evening the total disbeliever in hydrophobia died from the bite of a rabid dog, after tortures tbe most poignant of which human nature is susceptible. The following extracts are inide from the letter of Dr. Butler above referred, to: As there exists in the public mind much of doubt, fear and misapprehension with regam to the causes, symptoms, preventives and cures of the f-"called fearful maladay, hydrophobia, I deem it not amiss, through you kind permission, to tender a few remarks on the subject for the benefit ol the com m unit v. These I will condense into four heads causes, symptoms, antidotes and cures. - First The causes are almost as various in tbe "genus cams" as in the "genus homo." Amonghese I would enumerate indigestion, internal obstructions, exposure to tho sun and to the intense heat of fire, foul meat or undigested matter putrifying in the stomach; mats of hair, etc., blocking the passage to tbe main canal; splinters ot bona sticking in the throat, stomach or intestines; lack of water, sudden frights, and, perhaps, the most fearful of all, the rabies, engendered Dy tho worry and excitement, overstraining and exhaustion ot natural passion, rampant and raving, yot unappeased. Numerous irstances oi this have come under my notice, where an over-ex-cited quadruped distressed in nerve, body and bone, then pelted, driven and consequent! v half crazed, has become a prey to the cudgel, the brickbat or the gun; while the poor brute ßly required rest, shade, peace and a pail of water. Second Symptoms. The symptoms of so-called madness are not always si Hilar. Sometimes sullenness of movement, wild waadering of the eye, disordered appetite, devouring of textile fabrics, gnawing of the chain. Dread oi water I have never noticed rather the reverse. Lockjaw is not uncommon, producing insatiable hunger and consequent ferocity. Continued costiveness tends to disorder the whole nervous fabric. Distemper olten has the same effect for a season. Third The Antidote. Feed the dog moderately on wholesome food. Give sufficient exercise. Keep him away from the fire and out ol the street alone, lest the disease be increased by irritation among other dogs. Let him have an abundant supply of fresh water, and do not place him where he cannot una shade. Fourth The Cure. There aro numerous grades of lightheadedness in the canine spe cies, from tnes.ight at to the "raving ma niac." 'ine Dest reined v is to produce as far as possible a thorough and sudden change in the system, by cleansing the stomach by vomitives and tbe bowels with purgatives. In all cases I have found COMMON TABLE SALT the most speedy and effective, with which his mouth should be filled. A second dose is seldom necessary to purify the stomach Saturating the whole body with salt, by keeping the animal wholly immersed m a full saltwater solution until he is almost be yond recovery, then reanimating by rubbing. will seldom lau to produce tne desired con valescence. With regard to persons bitten. an immediate application of wet salt (after sucking out tbe wound thoroughly.) and applying caustic, if at hand, or cutting out the part.if advisable, keeping tne bite thoroughly saturated for twenty-four hours, I consider an excellent remedy. Or, ii there were cause enough to warrant it, the patient might be immersed in salt water till a reaction could be produced in the system by restoration, after a sousing bordering on drowning itself. I believe this operation might be effectual where the malady had fullv declared itself. as by this treatment I have been eminently successful iu curing demented animals them selves. Above all, the person bitten should as much as possible, shake off all foolish excitement, and should be discouraged by others to run into any nonsensical fear. Fortun ate, indeed, it is that cases of real bydropho bla are so lew and iar between. The record I tells us there was not a single case in London last year. Many I have cured from the madness of sunstrokes by shade, retirement and cold water. Yet these have nothing to do with hydrophobia, as generally underStood; but, as I before intimated, 'the antidote is better than the cure." Therefore the best safeguard with suspicions dogs is a strong chain, staple and collar until all doubt3areset at rest. I have been bitten often enough by hounds with"fighty imaginations," without the least fear or dangerous result. I, have had in my possession over 10,000 dogs, of all breeds, sizes and generations, yet have had but one case of unmistakable hydrophobia which was brought to me for treatment. As he was a powerful brute I had him well secured (as I wish all such were) with a chain, collar and staple. He ' hopped down half a pail of water. 1 made no attempt to cure hiu, but carefully watched bis gnawiegs and ravings till per fectly enervated and prostrate from sheer exhaustion, his pulse gradually grew fainter and weaker till it ceased to beat. GRANT'S WORST. THE PRESIDENT NAMES BOSS SHEPHERD FOB A DISTRICT COMMISSIONER THE SENATE REFUSES TO BWAIXOW HIM EX-SENATOR CATTELL GETS THE PLACE. Washington, June 23. The president this afternoon sent the to senate the names of Alex. A. Shepherd, late governor of the District of Columbia, William A. Denison, of Ohio, ex-pestmaster general, and Henry T. Blow, of Missouri, formerly a member of congress from that state, and afteiward minister to Bengal, as a commission to govern tbedistriet until tbenewform of government shall have been prepared and auopted. Tbe senate was in session about two hours and a half on the nominations, the debate bei rg altogether coniined to that of Shepherd. The senators freely and strongly expressed themsalves against, it, while there were but few defenders. Finally the nomination rwas laid on tbe table, by, a vote of ik against i U. Tbe other nornlnatlonsj-warn , confirmed without a division. After the recess of tbe Senate the president, tq complete the number, sent in the name ol A. G. Cattell, ex United States Senator from '-New Jersey; who was soon thereafter confirmed." "This gentleman ia the only one of,-the commissioners who has real estate in this city, but all are non-residents.

ANTI-SLAVERY. REMINISCENCES, :

' -, A STORY TELLER. ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS CONCERNING THE '"UXDEBQROUND RAILROADS" CHARACTERISTIC SAVINGS AND DOINGS OF BEN ; WADE, LEVI OOFFTN, AND OTHER ABOUTIONists. '.:;' ';' General James S. Brisbin writes to the Chicago Tribune concerning the late antislavery re-union; and be takes occasion to add some valuable and ' very . interesting reminiscenses of his own knowledge: ' Why did not the old man Brisbin, when talking about his dead friend, Gamaliel Bailey, also tell us of the underground railway, and bis connection with it? How,' in the days of slavery, he and Levi Coffin brought up hegroes from Memphis and Nashville in store boxes, . labeled "Cotton Picker," "Cotton Planter," 'One Cotton. Machine," etc.? How, on one occasion, at Louisville, when the steamboat bands rolled a package on the wharf, the nigger ' sloshed . about ' so he broke the box and . rolled out, to the as tonishment ot the iventuckaans.wbo never af terward would allow any Southern package consigned lo Levy Coffin to pass without a eareful examination? . Why, too. did not tbe Doctor tell us the destruction of the Aboli tion newspaper , at Coviccton. Kentuckv. and how it was pitched into the Ohio river Dy a mob? I should have liked also to have heard Levi Coffin explaiu, as he once did . to me, the aifüculty of h!dmg away niggers and still telling the truth when the Marshal came hunting for thtm. Scene Boiore the war; a house in Cin cinnati. Two negroes, newly arrived, aud evidently plantation hands, eating heartily iu the kiteben. Two planters and the Marshal ol Cincinnati coming hastily up the street. A lady (Aunt Katie) enters the par lor ! hurriedly, and, addressing a broad brimmed Quaker, speaks: Lievi, make thee haste, 1 see strange men coming with that pestilent Marshal." I LiVi goes out aud meets the men at the gate.) Marshal Good morning, friend Comn. We are seeking for two rnuaways. Collin Two escaped slaves thee would re capture? Marshal and both owners Yes. ves. Can you tell us where they are?1 ' Uomn Was one boy very black and rather heavy set; the other yellow and but slightly Duuir , Both owners Yes, yes! You describe them exactly. , Comn I saw two such boys, not half an hour since, pass this gate; and if you haste, you may yet overtake them at tne depot oerore toe train leaves. Away go the marshal and ' THE SLAVE OWNERS, while Coffin re-enters the house, and, addressing his wife, says: "Mark, Katie, I did but say the boys passed the gate, but said not whether they went in or out. Go, hurry them with their meal, while I hitch up the old gray horse, and drive the poor souls a station or two beyond the city, where they can embark with safety." It would be interesting to know what has become of the old white horse. He must have died long ago; and if ever the colored people go to erecting monuments to men who set them free, they ought not to forget the faithful old beast who hauled more than three hundred of their race on their way to froedom. It would have been almost worth a trip to Chicago to see the living actors of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and have gazed once more on the benevolent faces of Levi Coffin and his old wife, Aunt Katie, he now over seventv-three, and 6he seventy-one years of age. Coffin was the leading spirit of the underground railroad, and reallv the president ot that peculiar in stitution from 1836 to 1SG3, when it ceased to be necessary, the negroes being 6et free by Abraham Lincoln.except those in Kentucky, where a brancn ol the mysterious road, with General Burbridge, John M. Palmer and myself as conductors, was operated aa late as 1 ,st 1 and 18Ö5. Mr. Coffin went to Live in Cincinnati, and often bad at bis house, and secreted about the city, aa many as eight fugltive negroes at one time. In a single year he forwarded to freedom ly slaves; and, during the thirty-five years of his active connection with the anti-slavery cause,Coffin led, clothed, sheltered, and aided to escape over 3.000 slaves. Even after the war be diJ not cease his exertions in behalf of the neero. but collected money, both in this country and England, and lorwarded thou sands of cases oi snoesana ciotmng, ana tons of food, all over the South. I was then in Kentucky, and I can testify to the great crood the Anti-Slaverv Aid Society did in helping along the poor negroes of that state. Why did not Levi umn give us a iuu account of bis anti-slavery experience? It would have formed an intensely interesting and instructive page in the proceedings of the late convention. Tbe attendance of OLD BEX WADE should have been secured, and the old Ohio war horse should have been brought out and made to speak of those dajrs when he, Sumner, and Wilson bore the anti-slavery standard aloft in the Senate ot the United States. How strangely the proceedings of the Senate before the war now read. The L-jccmoton bill is under consideration, aud Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, referring to the minorityof which Mr. Wade is one says: "The majority have rights and duties, and I trust there is fidelity enough to themselves, and their principles", and the country, in the majority, to stand together at all. hazards, and crush this factious minority." Instantly Mr. Wade is on his feet, and shaking his fist at Toombs, roars out: "Have a care, have a care, sir; you can't crush me nor my p-eople. You can never conquer us; we will diefirgt. I may fall here in Uie Senate chamber, but I will never make any compromise with any such men. You may bring a majority and outvote me; but, so help me God, I will neither compromise nor be crushed." Then there i3 confusion and excitement, and one of those violent scenes so common in those days ; but Mr. Wade stands firm, and bears his state proudly forward in the face of the whole slave power. The Senate is proceeding quietly, and Mr. Evans, of South Carolina, a grave and good old man, is speaking of the anti-slavery doctrinse, and exhibiting a copy of Garrison's Liberator with its horrible pictures of slavery. Turning to Mr. Wade, who sat near him, the senator asks : "It is not too bad that such a Eaper should be allowed to exist? Can it a possible that any patriotic citizen of the North will tolerate such an abomination?" Senator Wade puts on his spectacles, and, looking at the title of the paper, exclaims, in surprise: "Why, Senator , Evans, in Ohio we consider this . ONE OF OCR BEST FAMILY PAPERS." There is a roar, and even southern senators hold their sides. All laugh but Evans, who has great respect for Wade, and who, as ho turns sadly away, says: "I am sorry to hear vou say so, Mr. Wade: it shows whither we are drilling." Ou anowier occasion, h senator has just said to Mr. Wade: "If you don't stop, your abolition doctrines, you will break up the Union; the southern men will secede, sir." Mr. Wade, holding out his band,, with a comical expression on his .countenance, says: 'Good-Dy, senator, ii you. are going now, -aha l pray you, aon t doiay a moment on my, account." j, Itis hotday in.,tbe,i6enate, and everybody is Load. ; Wade has just collided with Ddugla3, and Pugh, Wade's own colleague, come toi the- - help of the great IlliDoisan. Perhaps he thinks now is the time to crush the Ohio abolitionist who overshadows him In the Senate, : At all events, Pugh, who is a man of both' ability and respectability,

rise and taunts Wade with a question relative to his belief in the common brotherhood of mankind. "I have." eavs Wade, "al wav

heretofore believed in the doctrine of the Declaration of Independance that all men are born free an! equal,' but of lata it appears that some men are born slaves, and, I iney are not DlaCK. so ail the world might know them." - Aa h Ran tVii Wade levels his finger at Pugh, and for several moments stands nointine at him in si lence, with a scowl aud expression of ferociousness never seen on his face before. Slowly the index finger falls, and the burly senator sinks back into his seat amid profound silence in the chamber. . The Kansas-Nebraska bill is up, and Wade has just said: 'I know very well with what a yell of triumph the passage of this bill will be hailed, both in the Smith nA in Pandemonium." Brown, of Mississippi, a small, dwarfish looking man, Interrupting w juu &auif wau is going on merer Laughter. , . - . , , Senator Wade: "I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot thftr hut t it is pretty evident that there is a free commuuiudLiuu ueiween . THIS CHAMBER AND PURGATORY, ' ' . and, unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that com munication is kept up." TGreat laughter. . - - o -f and a voice on the southern side. "I euess he's got you, Brown." . Tha same dav Mr. Tbo-pr a ConütA. f - - T5 - , " VJ UUU1 JNortn Carolina, is drawine a elowi n er rii'!nin ot slavery. He says he has been nursed by a black woman, and grown from childhood to manhood under her care. lie loves his old olack mammy, and now if he was going to Kansas or Nebraska, and the opponents ui mis um succeed in promoting slavery lucic, lb can cot wKe ms oia mammy with him. Turning to Mr. Wade, he says plaintively, "Surely, you will not prevent me from takinsr mv old mammv with mat'' Certainly not." replies Wade with a ludi crous tone of voice; -'but that is not the diticuuym me mind or the Senator. It is because, if we make the TWritnriaa froo hA cannot sell his old mammy when he has'eot i. .i . i . - . . uer mere. .Again mere is a roar, and Badger's plaintiveness and tears become ridiculous nur 7 ajla 4a nw,-,t 1 . . slaves are not property in the cocstitutional meaning ofthe term. He says: "If a man carries his horse out ot a slave state into a free one, he does not lose his property interest in him; but, if he carries his slave into a tree state, the law makes him free." Senator Butler interrupting: "Yes, but they won't stay with you; they love us so well they will run off and come back in spite of your boasted freedom." Mr. Wade, smilingly: "Oh, yes, senator! I know they love you so well you have to make a fugitive slave law to catch them." Roars of laughter. The anti-slavery cause is mil of such incidents; and, when Eastman comes to make up his book, I hope he will gather them up to lighten the obituary pages, and not make his work a charnel house lull of dead men's bones and funeral services. I wish some one in the abolition convention had given us a history ofthe "Wellineton Rescuers." and Of " ' DAVID WILMOT, one of the greatest anti-slavery man of his day.The former I can myself supply, aud will do so at my first leisure. Wilmot ought not to rtA naj&SArl nrA r in cilonnn An cii-l, on important occasion, ;md although I never loved a trimmer, whi'jh is another name for compromise, still David Wilmot deserves to be remembered by his countrymen, and his name must be written in on ol the foremost pages of anti-slavery history. If, bowever, he had been the husband of Mrs. Spratt, they would never have licked the platter clean, for David was too polite by half, and could never bave been induced to take the last knifeful of butter, tho last niece of meat, or the last spoonful of gravy. It took old Ben Wade to cry down the slavery cause, and yet he was always popular with Southern men; for, as Toombs, of Georgia, 6aid of him in the Senate, " My friend from Ohio pnta the matter squarely. He is always honest, and I wish to God the rest of you were like him. He says what is the difference, and it is. He means what he says; you don't always. He and I can agree about everything on earth, except our sable population." , A TERRIBLE CALAMITY. FALL, OF A. FLOOR. THE CROWDED PARLORS OF A CHURCH SI5K TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE ARE INJURED A NUMBER KILLED. Syracuse, N. Ym June 23. An appallng catastrophe occurred fcere to-night. A strawberry festival was being held at the parlors of the Central Baptist church, when without any warning the floor gave way, precipitatimr room full into the story below. The pan-r was on the second floor, and the room uti'i raeath was also full. A fire alarm was iuiii.-iuiately given and tbe firemen hurried to i-M scene. Soon ten thousand people wer here, and tremendous excitement prevailed. It is impossible to give the particulars at this hour. Five dead bodies were taken out, and the work baa hardly commenced. Probably a hundred persons are more or less injured, many very seriously. SECOND DISPATCH. The following are among the dead bodies recovered: Dr. O. E. Wainwright, Mrs. Wainwright. Miss Minnie Thomas, a child named Ostrander, a little girl named Leonora, a little girl named Horton, Mrs. Theodore Holmes, and a little girl named Winnie Collins. The Rev. George T. Dowlicg, pastor of the church, is dangerously injured, also bis wife, who is not expected to live. Tbe Rev. H. J. Eddy is seriously injured. Two hundred persons are injured, some dangerously. THIRD DISPATCH. Tbe following were taken out dead: Dr. Wainwright, Mrs. E. Austin Barnes, Mrs. James Crow, Mrs. Jekard, Miss Gussie Carpenter, Miss Abijah Verder of Utica, Miss Graco Holmes, Miss Winnie Collins aged 13 to-day, Hattie Leonard five or six years old, John Austin Ostrander a boy about nine aged 14, Lulu Horton, aged 12. Mrs. Dr Wainwright will undoubtedly die. Ex-Al-. derman Austin Barnes is very seriously Iniured. Rev. Dr. II. J. Eddy is slightly in jured. The bodies are supposed to be an recovered now. It is impossible to get the names of all the injured to night. The citv is filled with lamentations. The sce'ne in the streets around the church baffles description. Thousands are gathered there, asking after their friends, waiting for the dead and attending to the injured. The entire police force and fire department ofthe city were called out, and took charge of the work of recovering the dead and wounded. The broken timbers were hoisted up with difficulty. The walls of the church did not fall in, but are t-eri-ously damaged. The church is. comparetivel'y.a new one. A few minutes before the lloor gave way it trembled so that many persons left the room, fearing an accident, which had been predicted by may. The accident was caused by the giving away of a joist that supported the floor. The joist ran from both sides of tbe room across a stringer, the middle which was supported by iron rods from the roof. The stringer gave way, pulling the ceiling and roof down upon the people and precipitating them into the room below. The work of recovering was exceedingly slow, as it had to be done in the dark, and it was feared every moment that the wall would fail in.