Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1878 — Page 7

THE INDIAN A STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOHNING, JULY 3, 1878.

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE INDIAN WAR. Tne Outbreak Still Hp read lacThe Ravgn to doTnir Want-Depredations la Texan. Saw Fbaxcisoo, Jane 27. A Portland dispatch says: "It is the belief of old resident in eastern Oregon that all Indians in that section are disaffected, and that they will be ready on slight provocation to take up arais against the whites. Even the Warm Springs Indians, who have heretofore been strong friends of the government, and who have on several occasions rendered efficient service against murderous tribe of their own race, refuse to pit their forces against the Bannock, and it is thought that a large party of them will join the hostiles. It begins to look as if the Indians intend to do their worst this summer. INDIAN OCT RAGES 15 TEXAS. Galveston, June 27. Tne News special says the Sn Antonio stage was attacked by five Indians yesterday about five miles east of Pecos station. There were five persons on board, among them'Schetzky, of Chihuahua: Max Schutz, A. S. Robert, of Galveston, and Lieutenant Ayres. The Indians were lying along the side of the road within a few feet of tbe stage. Ten or fifteen shots were fired, and Max Schutz was wounded in the leg. This Is the first time tbat the large coach has been attacked in this vicinity, but it was not unexpected, as tbe Indians entirely ignore the presence of the military, whom they neither fear nor respect, and with good cause. For the past three months men have been repeatedly shot in this vicinity, but nothing has been done to chastise the Indians. A party of Indians visited Torres ranch on the Pecos and shot a man named Jas. Garsu in tbe ieg. tie was out in search of horses, and encountered the Indians in a corn field. On the 21th two cow men were attacked by Indians, and one of them named Jacob Jacques was wounded. This happened near Castle Gap. These Iodiansare from Mexico. Galveston, June 27. A News special from Mason, Texas, says: "The Indians referred to in my telegram of yesterday as haviDg' on last Sunday night raided and captured over 100 head of horses in the vicinity of Johnson's Fork were pursued and overtaken midway between Helmet, Cedar creek and Nneros. A lively skirmish ensued which resulted in the death of three Indiaus and the recapture of all tbe horses. The whites suffered no loss as yet heard from, unless it be tbe killing of a few horses. No additional particulars as yet. m SPA IX. THE DEATH OF VtfEEX MERCEDES ARRANGEMENTS KOR THE FUNERAL. Madrid, June 27. Tbe announcement of the death of the queen of Spain has been received with profound sorrow and sympathy throughout Kurope. Tbe feeling in Spain almost approaches consternation. Hopes were raised at the crisis of the disease that tbe vigorous constitution of the queen might triumph over a complication of maladies, but her constitution was made doubly perilous by the fact that she was expected to become a mother before the end of the year. The queen died about noon In the arms of the king, and surrounded by the royal family. The remains will lie in state to day and be conveyed to the royal mausoleum at tbe Esounal Friday. Tbe president of the medical faculty of the royal palace, in a bulletin announcing to the president of the council of ministers the death of the queen, attributes the painful event to nervous gastric fever, accompanied by severe intestinal hemorrhage. The Ohio Democratic Convention. Colcm bits, June 25.- The hotels are filled with delegates and visitors to tbe democratic .state convention which, meets to-morrow, among them Senator Thurman. It is proba ble D. R. Page, of Summit, will be ..ominated for secretary of state, and A. F. Hume of Butler for supreme judge. The platform will contain planks demanding an unlimited coinage of silver, the issue of certificates to purchase silver bullion, the reception of greenbacks for custc ru dues, indorsing tbe action of the last congress on tbe I'ottcr investigation and the president s southern policy, and also, probably, a plank declaring azainst communism, but in favor of congress and tbe various states so legislating as to revive trade and furnish employment to the unemployed. Colcmbus, June 20. The democratic state convention met in the Optra house this morning, and was called to order by John if. ibompson. A. r. Walling was chosen temporary chairman and Frank Kelly, of Cleveland, secretary. Alter appointing the commuiees ice convention toot a recess until 1:30 p. in. Tbe convention reassembled at 2 p. m. Durbui Ward was chosen permanent chair man and h. S. lodu, of Toledo, tccretary. The following ticket was nominated: For secretary of state, David IL Paige, of Summit; for supreme judge, A. F. Hume, of Butler; for member of the board of public worics, Kuan t ieia. of Kichiana. The following platform was adopted: The democratic party of Ohio In conven'lon assembled hereby reaffirm the following Clausen in tbe platform of the convention of July 25, 1877, indorsed by a majority of inorw than T1,0W lust fall by the people of Ohio. We renew im pledge of devotlou to the Union aud the constitution with the amendments. It declare as essential to the preservation of tree government a faithful adherence to the following principles: A strict construction of home rule, the sowm aAtr -kf tha 4 I a-1 I awa f Via tiilitn a w I vmcavj vra a iw v v a iiiq in ll4t,c J fV TT VI the separation of cnurch and stale, equality of an eittzsns uerore me law, iioerty or ludi. vidua! action un vexed by sumptuary laws, ab solute acjulesence in tne lawfully expressed will of the majority, opposition to all subsi dies, the preservation of public lands for the u6 of actual settlers, aud the maintenance and perfecting of the common school system. As pertinent to liue now pending oeiore the people. Keso ved, That the Investigation of frauds committed at the last presidential election in Florida and Louisiana ought to have been made by tbe electoral m mission. It refusal to do so was a violation ol the spirit of the law under which it was organized, and a gross outrage upon the people of the United estates, and whilst the decision m made by the Forty-fourth con grow of the question as to who should bo declared president of the United states for the present presidential term, was. In oar Judgment, politic, that derision ougut not to preclude the authentic investigation and exposure of all frauds connected with that election and tiie doe accountability of all who were guiltily connected with them. Resolved, The commercial and Industrial Stagnation thai has so ioug prevailed throughout the country, aud the consequent widespread suffering, In due directly to the pernicious financial legislation of the republican party, which we hereby arraign for lia acts, and charge, 1. That at a Uooe wnen the country wa weighed down with debt, created on a basis of a full volume of paper, added to bath the precious metals, a money. It enacted a weeping change In the mta-ure of values wholly in the interest of moneyed capital by demonetizing ail ver and decreasing the Ofitructlon of leg.il tender paper,and thereby wrongfnlly added, In effect, hundreds of mlhlons to the burden ot debt and taxes upon the eople. 2. By pursuing its me. client policy of contracting the paper currency and hoarding gold It has increased continuously the -vaian of money and securities that partake of the enhancement of money, and decreased tbe value of ail other property, and especially of capital denigued for productive use and required for the employment of labor; thus repressing Instead of fostering Industry, and compelling idleness Instead or sustaining trade and commerce, and now this party In Ohio put forward In Its platform tiie declaration lliat the financial question Has been settled. We deny this declaration, and whllo we

congratulate the. country that the downward course to bankruptcy and ruin iavolved In the republican policy has been partially averted by the democratic measures passed at the late aeaelon of congress, restoring the debtpaying power to silver dollars, aud made a law In spite of a presidential veto, and stopping the further destruction of greenbacks, we demand as further acta of justice as well as measures of relief the absolute repeal of tne specie resumption act and the lawful libera tfonofcoln hoarded In the treasury ; the removal of all restrictions to the coinage of all ver and the re-establishment of silver as a money metal the same as gold the sanoe as It was before Its fraudulent demonetization ; the gradual substitution of United Btates legal tender paier for national bank notes and its permanent establishment as the sole paper money of the country made receivable for all dues to the government and of equal tender with coin; the mount of such Issues to be so regulated by legislation or organic law as to give the people as-u ranee of stability in the volume of currency and consequent stability of value: no further Increase In the bonded debt and no further sale of bonds for the purchase of coin for resumption purposes, but the gradual extinction of the public debt; rigid economy in the reduction of expenditures in all brandies of the public service, and a tarlll for revenue only. Resolved, The Interests of the industrial, wealth product og classes are the paiamouut Interests of the veople cf the United States. Those whose labor and enterprise produce wealth should be secure In Its enjoyment. Our warmest sympathy Is extended to the laboring classes, who have Ireen thrown out of employment by the ruinous financial policy and unjust legislation of toe republican I -arty, and we pledge the democratic party to a reversal of that policy and a restoration of all the rights they are entitled to upon its ascendency to iower. Kesolved, That there can be no legitimate employment of an organized force in this country except to execute the law and to maintain the public pence; that no

violence should be countenanced to obtain redress for any alleged grievance, but should be repressed at every cost until relief caa be secured by legal methods. We congratulate the country on the adoption of the constitutional and pacific policy of local government in tbe states of the south so long advocated by the democratic party, and which has brought peace and harmony to that section of the Union. JOHN G. BEATS THE ENQUIRER. I CoLfMBes, O.. June 26. The democratic ! state central committee organized to-night by selecting John U. Thompson chairman and L M. Meilley secretary. The executive committee organized by electing John G. Thompson chairman, Jacob Rbinehart treas urer. Amos hberiy and M. A. mueherty, of Columbus; Frank McKinney, of Miami; A. J. Packard, of Mahoning; S. M. McMillen, of Washington, are the other member-'. The committee adjourned to meet in Cincin nati at the call of the chairman. Northwestern Crops. St. Paul, June 25. The Pioneer-Press today publishes crop reports from some forty points in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The general tenor is that in this state wheat is in an exceptionally fine condition, with a largely increased acreage and a promised yield over last year. Fears of lodging of heavy grain by late rains are not well founded. In northern Iowa the crop is well advanced and in good condition, except in a few localities where chinch bugs or rust threaten damage. The corn is backward in both states. Lire Old Men. It is not a little remarkable that the men now busy at the horseshoe table in the lierlin congress, somewhat presumptuously trying to make a new map of Europe for tbe next generation, are all old men. Prince GortschakolT was born in 1800, Lord Peaconsfield in 1805, and Prince Ilismarck in 1813. The youngest of the three is 'to, the next 73, and the oldest 78. Thus all had their birth within the present century and although Bismarck owes to a stormy youth and to brandy an inconvenient cutaneous disease and an irritable temper, and Disraeli's bodily condition is very feeble, and Gortschakotf leans heavily on his cane, and standi with one foot, as it were, in the grave, each and all are in full, active possession of their extraordinary mental faculties. The emperor of Germany was born in 1797, and, in his 82d year, he is now, despite the wounds recently inflicted on him by the assassin Nobiling, stronger, physically, than either of the trio of emineat statesmen just named. The late Pius IX. died this year at the age of 80, and his successor, Leo XIII., is but OS. Lord Lyndourst was born at lJjston, Mass., in 1772, and lived to be 91. Lord Brougham was born in 1779, and lived to be 81. Lord Lansdowne was 81) when he died, and the late Earl Russell was 8C. Guizot was 87, and Theirs was 80. f ount de Waldeck, French artist and arcb.-volcgt, died in 1875 at the age of 101. All these old men wera very much alive almost up to their last breath. So were Lord Brougham, who died at 89, aud Lord Palmerston, at 81. So arc John Bright at 07. and Mr. Gladstone, who writes about old Homer, and diacussea domestic and foreign politics, and cuts down trees as lustily as ever, at 74. So, too, were Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a signer ot the American declaration of independence, who lived to be 91; and four presidents of the continental congress John Jay, 84; Thomas McKean, 82; rilias Boudinot, 81, and Arthur St. Clair, 84. The fir3t chief magistrate of our republic, George Washington, died when he was but G3. Five other presidents of the United States lived to be 80 or more John Adams, dying in his 92d year; Thomas Jefferson at 83; James Madison at 85; John (juincy Adams when almost 81. and Martin Van Buren at 80 Six more lived until past 70 James Monroe, who died in his 72d year; Andrew Jackson at 78; John Tyler, at 74; Milliard Fillmore, at 74. and James Buchanan at 77. Stephen Girard died at 81, and John Jacob Astor at 85. Chief Justice Marshall lived to 80, and Chief Justice Taney to 87, both far beyond the juvenile Judge Sutherland, who, according to ex-Mayor Hall, ought already to have retired from the bench on 'account of his age, w hich nobody would have guessed. Charles O'Conor is 74. George Bancroft and Caleb Cashing are each 78. bimon Cameron, at 80, is still deemed not safe against the wiles of Widow Oliver. Thurlow Weed is 81. Peter Cooper is as amiably visionary in politics and as active in beneficence as ever at the age of 7. The death of William Cullen Bryant, a victim of sunstroke, is now being everywhere mourned as premature, even at 84. Richard Henry Dana, the poat, who first introduced to the public the author of "Tbanatopsis" mom than 60 years ago, survives him at the age of of 91. Walt Whitmau, the -good gray poet," notwithstanding his venerable appearance, tbe result not of years, but of his patriotic toil in taking care of sick and wounded soldiers during the late war, is only 59. Oliver Wendell Holmes is 69. Whittier and Longfellow are each 71. Emerson is 75. Victor Hugo is 70. Charles James ;Matthews is 75. Buckstone is 78. Carlyle is 83. If it were aiot indiscreet to say anything about the agesot women numerous instances of longevity, at least equally striking as those which precede might be citsd. . It will sullies to allude to the well attested case of the countess of Desmond, in Ireland, who reached ber 140th year, and is said to have renewed her teeth in extrems old age, and that of Susan Edmonds, who, in the 95th year of her age, had her hair change to black and again become gray prevtons to ber death, at 105. SimiUr mysterious changes in the color of the hair ar sometimes remarked nowadays with much younger women. Without adding to the many ungallant editorial conjectures as to the age of Miss Anthony, thr subject may be dismissed with the consolatory scientific deductions from statistics relating to it, that according to lluffon, from 90 to 100 years may be allowed as the natural life of man; that according to Hauler, man's extreme limit of life might be not lets than two centuries; and, finally, that according to Dr. Sweetser, the average duration of a human life has in no time, of which we bave authentic knowledge, reached so high a figure aj at the present day.

MARTYRED HRS. 81'BHATT.

Tbe Crime or Her Harder Avenged on Her Executioners Tbe Brand of Call on Her Murderers Tliey X!e Violent and Miserable Deaths The Martyr of tbe Wblls Uohm and the Martyr or tne'Arsenal. New York Star, June 22. I observe that the sad story of Mary E. Surratt's death has been revived. Ford, of Baltimore; Richardson, of Boston, and Ben Pitman, the court reporter at the conspiracy trials, and now of Cincinnati, had each published his version of it As I was here at tbe time of the trial and judicial murder, 1 send you my views on the subject: Thirteen years liave come and gone since the bullet of John Wilkes Booth was sped forth on its horrible mission ot assassination. Thirteen years have come and gone since Mary E. Surratt died on the gallows in atonement for the great crime with which it is now known that she had neither lot nor part. TWO MARTYRS TO THK VKT.H OK THE SATANIC YOUTH. The one was tbe beloved chief magistrate of tbe triumphant republic, innocent, unsuspecting, and hurled headlong into eternity; the other a pious Christian widow, equally innocent, and dragged forth hooded and masked and ironed to the gallows where they etrangled her to death. For some time after tbe execution the demon of wrath stalked abroad through the land, and the multitude said "Amen" to her death. But the evidence of ber innocence could not be covered up for long. Now and then we beard two or three remorseful revelations uttered through the lips of congressmen, showing that somebody was not at Ceace wi hin; that the blood of a woman ad left its stains on the conscience of one or more of the actors in the conspiracy trials. Presently KCTLER ARRAIGNS MXiJHAV and tells him he will have to account to God for the life of Mrs. Surratt, and Bingham, agitated at the malediction, started like a guilty thing affrighted. Presently Senator Jim Lane, who, with Secretary Stanton and Judje Holt and Senator King, had taken an active part in preventing the daughter of Mrj. Surratt from seeing President Johnson and telling that infatuated and perhaps misled executioner to stay his hand and not todo murder on innocence presentyl,we say.poor Lane blew out his brains in St. Louis, and then it was said Mr. Lane had never been happy since the taking off of Mrs. Surratt After a while Senator King went into a store, and, buying several pounds of s?iot, started for the river, tie jumped in and was drowned. At a later day it is observed that an unwontedjuelancholy tits on Mr. Stanton. For years he had dreamed of and sighed for a bencher's neat in the supreme court of the United States. The president's appointment and the senate's confirmation crown tbe dream with fulfillment But tbe melancholy (till rides him like a witch. He has been more or less an invalid for some weeks when the news of the judgeship is conveyed to him. The surgeon general advises him to take the air, to ride forth among cheerful scene, and to shake off what he deems the despondency of a sick room. The attendant is sent for to shave Mr. Stantcn, and they prevail on him to ride down as far as the capitoL The barber finishes the toilet and the dretsing-ease is closed and returned to the bureau-drawer. For a short time the ex secretary is left alone. When some memberj of the household re-enter the room Edwin M. Stanton is discovered stretched on the floor with A HORRIBLE OA8II IN HI8 THROAT and a razor by his side. Surgeon General Barnes is Hashed for by telegraph, but it is too late. Stintonis past surgery; the life blood spurts over the walls and floor.- The arch chief of Mrs. Surratt's executioners has executed murder on himself, and the spirit ot the martyred woman, with hood and nunacles. such as glazed the eyes of the beholders at the arsenal, seems to flit across the clumber of the suicide. As if conscious that another link had bjen forged in the chain which appeared to drag down to untimely death all who figured in the execution of Mary Surratt, the friends of Mr. Stintm attempted to conceal the cause of his shocking end. But sooner or later the facta here ttitcd will be vouched for by those who know them to be true. Surgeon General Barnes has never denied them. He can not do so "From a sudden and unprovided death, 0 Lord, deliver us." Such is tbe language of the Christian litany, the supreme appeal of men for mercy. Did Andrew Johnson,' who wa deaf to the agonizing shrieks of that jxor child ot Mrs. Surratt, whom Stanton and King and Lane repulsed from the human mercy seat, ever appeal to heaven in the beautiful words of tbe litany? Was he saved from a sudden and unprovided death when it came his own turn to die? Let it be hope! that he was for the sake of his eternal salvation. Cut it can not be forgotten that the ex-president, after having been hunted down like a wild beast by his own party, and that, too, when be was trying to do his duty, after having been betrayed and sold out by General Grant In a shameless manner; after having bsen impeached and tried and almost convLt-d, and finally, after having triumphed over all his fo?s and been borne back lo tbe senate on the tidal wave of democratic ascendency, it can not, it must not, be forgotten that AKPREW J0H5S0N FELL DOWN IX A FIT, and died of apoplexy almost within the hour which had seen him well and full of lusty life. "From a sudden and unprovided death, O. Lord, deliver us!" What a terrible moral do not these pregnsnt examples teach! Oat of the world, hip and thigh, the sword of a higher vecgenance than man's hath Muitten tbe sheddera of an innocent woman's blood. Is there a Nemesis in pursuit? Does the b'ood of the innocent cry out from the ground, or is it all a mere distortion of sickly brains, an idle array of imaginary coincidence? But truth is at last fairly afoot. The great black lie which Weichman told is pantiDg and staggering still in front, kept there yet by reason of the love justlv felt for the martyred Lincoln, but not to be in the ascendant 'long. At last THE TRUTH CATCHES THE LIE. The cowardly John Surratt, who had stayed in Washington long enough to be the occasion of this great trouble, and who hadn't th filial courage to return there and strive to avert it or perish with his mother, is arrested, brought back and tried. And then the truth Hies forward and lakes the glorious lead. Nobody talks of Mrs Surratt as a guilty person'sincj the trial of her son. THE MABTTB Or THE WHITE HOUSE A SI) THE MARTYR Or THE AKSEXAL had both fallen nnder the strokes of bloody executioners The evidence in John Surratt's trial proved to demonstration that abduction was the plan and plot of the conspirators, and that it had fallen through, and had been abandoned long before the thought of murder eotcred the mind of Booth. The ahductioi scheme having been exploded, its plotters had separated, gone north and toutu and t j Camula, and the tiling was at an end. The evidence further proved that Booth first thought ot assassination only a few hours before he went in such a cowardly manner and shot the president. When battled in his abduction plot by the fall of Richmond and tbe overthrow of the southern confederacy, he was inspired by the devil to shoot the president Because this was made plain at the trial, and because of this alone, John Snrratt escaped the gallows. MRS. 8UKRATT'$ PRESENTIMENTS. Both the martyrs eeemed to have presentiments of this sad end. Mrs.- Surratt was overwhelmed with anxiety for her worthless son. Having observed during the winter preceding her death tbat John was associating with persons of rather doubtful character, she advised him against such company,

and nrred him to leave Washington, go to the country (she owned a farm near the city ), and by all means to shun the men in wbox company she had seen him. The scoundrel Weichmann, a boarder in her house, was one of these, but owing to bis sanctimonious hypocrisy she excepted hira from the others. This infamous creature was privy to all the plans which the abduction plotters had hatched to carry the president to Richmond. Mrs. Surratt had treated the ingratc more as a son than as a stranger. He knew of her perfect innocence, of her violent opposition to John Surratt's associations, of her anxiety for him to leave Washington, of her upright holy life and stern religious discipline. Yet when Secretary Stanton tent for him after the assassination, and with butcherous instinct threatened him with punishment if he failed to connect Mrs Surratt with the conspiracy, the pusillanimous villain turned state's evidence and perjured his black soul by swearing away the life of an Innocent woman who had ever shown him a mother's love. Writers of all parties have agreed in execrating this perjurtd witness. He will go through life with the brand of Cain on his brow. The revelation lately made In tbe Baltimore Gazette by Mr. John T. Ford tells the sad story in plain and simple, truthful words. It proclaims the innocence of Mrs. Surratt, and forecasts the verdict of posterity. It gives notice to the bloody-handed actors in the martyrdom of the arsenal who still survive that at length the American people, ever fair and just when they see and know the truth, have become aware that a poor,

defenseless woman, loved of her neighbors for her virtue?, of edifying character to all who knew her, innocent as an angel in heaven of the blood of tiie other martyr, Abraham Lincoln, was nevertheless put to death by a monstrous perversion of law and civilization, ot religion and humanity. Their bloody instructions have truly returned to plague the investors. LINCOLN SEES HIS Da'xGER, In the cass of Mr. Lincoln the presentiment amounted to a superstitious conviction that he must soon die. "It was just after my election in 1800," said Mr. Lincoln to his secretary, John Hay. "when the news had been coming in thick and fast all day, end there bad been a great 'hurrah, boys, so that I was well tired out and went home to rest, throwing myself on a lounge in my chamber. Opposite to where I lay was a bureau with a swinging glass upon it, and in looking in that glass I saw myself reflected nearly at full length; but my face, I no ticed, had two separate and distinct images, tbe tip of the nose of one being about three inches from the tip of the other. I was a little bothered, perhaps startled, and got up and looked in the glass; but the vision vanished. On lying down again I saw it a second time plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler say five shades than the other. I got up and the thing meltod away; and I went off, and In the excitement of the hour forgot all about it nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come up and give me a little pang, as though something uncomfortable had happened. Wheu I went home I told my wife about it; and a frw days after I tried the experiment again, when, sure enough, the thing came back again; but I never succeeded in bri aging the ghot back after that though I once tried very industriously to show it to my wife, who was worried about it fo me what. She thought it was 'a sign tbat I was to be elected to a second term of otlic?, and that the paleness of one of tbe faces was an omen that I should not see life through the last term." (Pp. 47G-477, Limon's "Life of Lincoln ") Nor was this the only period when President Lincoln seemed to be confronted by his Damon. In the second volume, page 3, of Ins "Civil War in America," the historian. Dr. Draper, says: "As is not unfrequently observed of western men, thera were mysterious traits of euperstitution in his (Lincoln's) character. A friend once inquired tbe cause of a deep depression under which he seemed to be suffering; 'I have seen this evening agtin,' he replied, 'what I. once taw before on the evening of my nomination at Chicago. As I stool before a mirror there wre two images of myself a bright one in front and oye tbat was very pallid standing behind. It completely unnerved me. The bright ona I know is my past; the pale one my coming life. And feeling that there is no armor against destiny,' he added 'I d) rot think I shall live to see the end of my term. I try to shake off the vision, but it still keepj haunting mc.' " All these presentiments of bo'.h martyrs may have proceeded from nervous excitement or other natural causes. But it is a fact that both Mr. Lincoln and Mrs. Surratt were oppressed by forebodiDg of a gloomy fate Impending over them. Nations, like men, must take comfort from sorrow. It makes holy a cause; it sanctifies an individual. A favorite American writer says: "Crowns of roses fade crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and crucifixes take deepest bold of humanity." Virginia City Chronicle. When the lightning express train from this city reached Reno the baggage was at once transferred from the Virginia and Truckee railroad company, which stood cm the truck in front of the Cbamhstrin hotel, a wooden box, 1G inches high, 32 long and 23 wide, whtch had been checked to lie no, remained on the Virginia and Truckee jcar until tbe baggage bad been loaded on the Cv'iitral Tacitic train, when tbe railroad hands returned, and no one appearing to claim the box, it was carelessly thrown on a truck and taken to the baggage room. There it was transferred to A. J. Hartley, station baggage master of tbe Central Pacific railroad at Iteno, who stood it up on one end and rolled it out to tbe Central Pacific baggage room, about 100 feet away. There the box (which bad been banged about in the way which baggage smashers are noted the world over) was thrown on the scales and its weight ascertained to be 132 pound?. The box having been stool on end on the scales it was roiled off carelessly into a corner, and the baggage master turned to leave the refill. As he did so. he heard a faint moan proceeding from the box. Thinking be must be mistaken, lie listened for a moment and heard another moan. This led Lira to examine the box more closely thau before. He saw two rounl holes about three-fourths of an inch in diameter on one side, and two smaller holes at each end, while on another side, on which there was no holes, chips of wood about a fourth of an inch thick had been inserted, evidently to keep the cover from closing tight. Upn ascertaining these facts Mr. Hartley no longer doubted that the box contained a human being. Hartley at once opened the box, when be ascertained that the contents consisted of a very pretty youngCIdnese woman In an insensible condition, in consequence of her having been fctood on ber head while tbe box was being banged about the depot She had a blanket with ber, which was spread on the floor,and she was put upon it, when tbe cool sir soon revived her. Tne door of the baggage room having been left open to admit frean air, a Chinaman walked in. As soon as the woman set eyes on him her face became wreathed in smiles and she stepped forward to throw herself in his arms. Ah Jack, the Chinese interpreter, was sent for, when the woman and man told him their story without restraint The woman said she was not yet eighteen years old, and was brought from China about a year ago. A few months ngo she came to this city and became enamored of Ah Kim, the young Celestial with her, who tried to purchase her freedom from the agent of the Sam Sim company in this city. The agent demanded $3 cash for tbe girl, however, and her lover b iing unable to Eay tbat sum, she agreed that she should be oxed up and shipped in .the manner detailed abov, unknown to the Sam Sim company's agent

SCIEaTIHO WOHDXRS.

PrafeNtor lUtlsoa ExplaUM His Itteat Discoveries Tbe Tavdmeter and Electric Governor Hovr the Secrets of the Saa Are to bo Ferreted Oat. INew York Herald.l The latest marvel from Menlo park is the "tasimeter," or instrument for the measurement of pressure, which Professor Edison has just completed. It is to be. used in the scientific expermenta to be made by astronomers from all parts of the world at Denver, Colorado, next month, during the total eclipse of the sun, visible at that place. Professor Edison starts for that state on the 8th of July, accompanied by Professor Draper, Birker and other scientists from this section of the country. The results thus far obtained from the tasimeter have been almost incredible. Used in connection with the galvanometer of Sir William Thompson, it has been found to record the pressure cf one five hundredth thousandth part Of an inch. Hitherto the most delicate instrument known to science for tletermining the heat in the different parts of the so'ar spectrum has been the thermopile. The great improvement of the tisimeter over tbe thermopile is illustrated in a simple manner by Professor Edison. A few inches from the former he placad a hot iron. It tie flee :ed the needle of an ordinary galvanometer one degree,; then he held his little finger four inches fiom the tasimeter with tbe same galvanometer, and it swung tbe needle around tix degrees. In explaining tbe workings of his new invention to a Hera'd reporter, in his laboratory at Menlo park yesterday, the inventor laid: 'We now study the mint ry by means of tbe sun. We bave found by the aid of the spectroscope that there are metals in tbe sun which are unknown on earth, as well as metals here the existence of which in the sun have thus far not teen discovered." CtRIOI S KXPKRIMENTS. The professor then made a number of curious experiments. "See here," said he, taking up a thin strip of vulcanized rubber and placing it between two small upright iron posts in his tasin eter; "this is highly sensitive to heat a little causes it to expand. At this end I place carbon. I found out that silk coated with conducting lampblack, pressed in tbe form of a button, was wonderfully sensitive to tbe passage of electric current Put upon it the pressure of one-half millionth of an inch and it will allow the passage of a current strong enough to deflect Sir William Thompson's galvanometer one degree. Of course greater pressure deflects the needle more." Professor Edison then took an ordinary galvanometer and put it in electricity circuit with his tasimeter and held his hand tour inches away from the vulcanite strip. Instantly the needle of the galvanometer moved rive degrees. Next he lighted a gas jet five fect away, and the needle moved four degrees. Toen he held a match a distance of Bix inches and the heat Indicated 11 degrees in the galvanometer. Breathing slightly on the robber expanded it sufficiently to mark 30 degrees, Thesj results the professor produced without the improved galvanometer, which he explained was icfinitely more sensitive. meascbi.no moistcbe. Professor Edison next introduced between the posts a slip of gelatine, in order to measure moisture. Moistening a piece of paper slightly with his tongue he held it three inches away. The deflection was eight degrees. A breath on the gelatine moved the pointer thirty-five d-egrees. A drop of water on the end of his finger, held five inches away, indicated a moisture of eleven degrees. A lighted cigar, at a distance of nearly a foot dried the atmosphere suffic iently to cause a deflection of seven degrees. Water in a bottle held near by made the needle vibrate. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. . The professor next explained the method propose! to b 3 adopted in the astronomical experiments to be male with his tasimeter. Instead of vulcanized rubber, platina will be used, the latter having been found to gam aod lose heat muci more readily than the former. The tasimeter, unlike tne one expen men tea upon as above, is to be smaller and of di Here at material, brass being used throughout. It will be inclosed in a recepticle of ti", which in tarn is placed in a second receptacle of the same metal. Between the two will be kept boiling water for the purpose of preserving evenness of temperature, as boiling water attains no higher temperature than 212 degrees Fahrenheit The spectrjsope will then bj male to concentrate the heat into a t ill opening in the tasimeter, where, falling on tne platina, it will cause expansion a:d corresponding pressure1 of the small carbon button, allowing the passage ot the electric current in a degree commensurate with the pressure. Attached to and forming part of the tasimeter is an appliance for measuring the degree of expansion or contraction of different metals nnder similar temperatures. Profefsjr Edison found the heat of his band expanded tbe platina one five-thousandth part of an inch. . ICEBERGS MADE HABMLESS. Tbe great inventor has already taken steps to use his new discovery for the protection of vessels at sea. He s'ated to the writer his method as follows: "I arrange the carbon button as a highly sensitive barometer, and, inclosing it in a case, connect it with the keel ot a ship. I then run a wire to the captain's npom into fn ordinary galvanometer. Any change of temperature, as you see, is at once indicated. Coolness of the water will contract and warmth expand and the corresponding deflections be placed at once before the eye of the captain. The approach of an iceberg will, therefore, be known long before there is danger of collis'on. It may also be used to indicate any abnormal heat in any part of the ship's hold, thus giving timely notice of the breaking out ot fire." A MSCOVKRY IN TELEGRAPHY. In experimenting on his tasimeter, Professor Edison made a highly valuable discovery in telegraphy. Ever since the first line was successfully worked by Professor Morse the great and apparently insurmountable obstacle to constant and aninterrupted communication was the effect produced on the electric current by changes in the atraospoere. Rnin always made the lines work with difficulty, and frequently in heavy storms the escape of tbe subtle fluid in the moist air made tan wire practically use'e-s. The professor's discovery is what he calls an "electric governor," ac'ing on the te legraph line as a steam governor does on an engine. It obviates the necessity of adjusting the magnet armature along the line. One placed in the circuit regulates the entire line, preserving the evenness of current throughout The loss of 60 percent of the battery power is felt no more than a corresponding gain. Diminution in the strength of the battery from any cause, atmospheric or otherwise, is prevented by the "governor" from having any perceptible effect on the instrument on any part of the line. The professor desired it to be understood that tbe discovery was based on a suggestion by a practical telegrapher. WHAT NEXT? Professor Edijon has also found by his experiments with the tasimeter that it will weigh infinitesimal articles as Well as tbeir mou-tun;. For instance, he took a fibre of paper, and by placing it in his new apparatus found it to be quite ntayy. Then he experimented on a gnat, connecting the instrument at the same time with his most sensitive telephone. Tbe result was the deflection of the galvanometer to indicate the weight of the diminuative insect, while the telephone echoed the sound made by the insect's feet on the disk. By arranging it with an anamometer arm and cup and causing the lever to press on the tasimeter it recorded the pressure of a faint gust of wi:id. T SE ME3APH0NE. Noth withstanding the heavy drains on his intellect by the numerous wonders in process ot construction iq his laboratory, the

Erofe ssor continues daily at work perfecting is megaphone. Yesterday he placed the field megaphone in front ot hia laboratory and gave the rubber tubes to the writer so that he might personally test its strange power. Then he hurried across lots nearly a mile, and standing on tbe brow of a hill whispered, "Do you hear this?" Tbe words came distinctly notwithstanding quite a breeze was blowing at the time. When be spoke in his ordinary lone, the wcrds reached their destination as distinctly as if the distance intervening were a foot instead of a mile. .' Again he whisperea, giving the legend of Mary and her little lamb. Every wotd was beard by the writer with perfect distinctness. EDISOX'S LITERATCP.E. While the megaphone was tt-IIirg the story of Mary the potman came in with a bundle of letters, and tbi! pro'csor hurried back to his office. Several of thoM- missives were from deaf people in all puts of the country. Some we e very atnus ng. One writer from a v es ern town saia t' ac he was a lawyer, but that he experienced much difficulty in trying cases in court by reason of his being partially deaf. "Send one along," he wrote. "I know it is five feet long and a bulky object, but that don't make any difference; so long as I can hear with it I am satisfied." As he laid away the missive Professor Edison laughingly remarked, "If that lawyer leveled one of the megaphones at a western judge he would fine him for contempt of court." "You have a great many letters from deaf people, I suppose?' queried the reporter. "A hundred a day," replied the prcfeisjr. "I had no idea so many were arHictrd. and lots of them come here personally. There was a poor fellow here the other day who made me morerejoiced at my discovery of tbe megaphone than I was ever before or ever expect to be. He came in modestly and asked me to show him one. He was an old man, and very, very deaf, so that I bad to shout with all my lungs to make him hear. 1 took one down and put it to his ear. Then I played the organ over there. You ought to have seen that poor old man's eye sparade," continued the professor. He stid, "God be praised ; that is the first time in twenty years I have heard the sound of music. It made me feel good."

Among the scientific visitors who have re cently explored the mysteries of Menlo park were M. Andre, director ot tbe observatory at Lyons, France, and M. Angot, professor of pbysics of the Lycee at Paris. They had just returned from the Kocky mountains, where they had been to observe the transit of Mercury. They expressed themselves highly pleased with the various inventions of Prof sxr Edison, and made a number of curious experiments with some of them. WThat pleased Professor Andre most however, was the "vocal engine," a diminutive apparatus which revolves a wheel by the sound of the voice. Wind will not move it, however strong, but a whisper causes it to revolve. In speaking of it Professor Edison was exceedingly nonchalant, "Oh, it don't amount to anything for practical purposes," he said, "I got it np only for amusement." Ueneral Chalmers on tbe Northern Dem ocrota. Brigadier General Chalmers, a confederate member of congress from a strong "black" republican district of Mississippi, expresses extreme disgust with the treatment his section received at the hands of the northern democrats in the lae congress. Says the Memphis Avalanche: The northern democratic leaders were untrue to tne noriti during the war, and have proved themselves untrue to both sections since the war. This is their record, and it is a question tor every honest man in the south to decide for himself whether he shall permit lartr names that no longer mean anything to tttand between him nnd justice to bis people and section. General C'naimers Is right. By blind adherence to the arty, for the sake of old associations, the south Is beim; starved to death. And in commending his speech the Vicksburg Herald Is right In saying of the northern democrats, tbat "If they continue to turn a deaf ear to the demands of the south for an equal share in the benefits of the government, she will be Justified In Solidifying in another direction, and sacrificing sentiment to interest." An extract from General Chalmers speech will convey an idea of it all: I have loved the democratic party from my youth up, and what I said to northern democrats was more in sorrow than in anger; but, sir, I believed what I said, and I usually say what I believe. When a southern xnau remembers the gross inequality of government aid in the past, and when he see that inequality about to be re-enacted ; when he sees a reduction of the tariff struck down in the democratic boiie; when he sees a democraic senator from New York opposing a subsidy to a Brazilian steamship line for New Orleans after mUuoz have bf.en expended for New York; when he sees the Northern Paciflc bUl, granting a subsidy in lands equal to fifty millions iu money, passed by northern democratic senators, without a dissenting voice, while they r fuse even to fix a time to consider the Texas Pacific; and when he sees democrats in this house opposing the Texas Pacific and yet voting a subsidy to the Northern Pacific, he begins to ask himself why he bits suffered ho long and endured so much for the democratic party. It is tiue tbat northern deiooo--ats imve suffered many thinfc lor as, and I honor them for it; bat, fir, we bave endured tenlold more for them. There neer wax a day nor an hour when all of our pel seen: ions would not have inxtantly chatted if we had joined the republican party. But we loved the name; we loved the hallowed associations; we loved the ancient glory of the democratic party, and we have endured for It tains, penalties and privations as great as those which St. Paul suffered for the Christian religion. We resisted every temptation and c uiik to the northern demociacy. They have indeed helped us, lm. we have helped them as much. We lifted them up from being a despised minority into a majority in this house ana in !h' Union. And I warned them in my Texss Pacific speech, and 1 now warn them again, not to drive us from them by refusing todo justice to our section. We love the party, but we can not afford to be starved te death by It. An Animal C'aonliif. At Peel's river Canada, on one occasion, a very old carcajou (tne trappsr's nsmefor tbe glutton) discovered a marten rod. on which was nearly 150 traps. Tbe line was visited about once a fortnight, but the beast fell it.to the way of coming ofteaer. It was determined to put a stop to his thieving and his life together, cost what it m'ght. So six strong traps were set at es many different points, and also three steel trap For three weeks all attempts to catch the bsst were without success. The animal ar fully avoided the traps set for his own benrfif, uod seemed to take more l-light than ever iu demolishing the iiurteri traps and eat n? the martens, scattering ths poles in every direction and caching (biding) what bait or martens he did Dot devour on the spot. As the trappers had no poison in those days a gun was set on the bank of a little lake. The gun was concealed in same low bushes, but the bate was so placed tbat the carcajou must hte it oo the way up to the bai.k. The path to tbe gun was blockade! by a small pine tree, whicu completely bid it On the first visit afterward it was found that the beast had gone up to the btit and smelled it, but left it untouched. He bad next pulled up the pine tree thit blocked the path and gone around tbe gun and cut th line which connected tbe bait with the trigger just behind the muzzle. Then he bad gone back and puiltd the bait away, and carried it out on the lake and devoured it at his leisure. There the string was fiund. It could Karcely be believtd tbat all this had been dine designedly, for it seemed that faculties fuMy on b par with human rtawn would be required ior sucn an exploit it uone intsntionaly. Everything was rearranged and the string tied where it had been bitten. Bat the result was exactly the same for three successive occasions, as could plainly be seen by the foot prints; and what was most singular of all, each time the brute was careful to cut the knot a little back of where it was tied before, as if actually reasoning with hirrself that even the knot might be some new device, and therefore a source of hidden danger he would prudently avoid. The trapper came to the conclusion tbat that carcajou ought to live, as he must be something human, if not worse. He gave it up and abandoned the road for a period.