Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1873 — Page 1

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Miscellaneous Heading. PICTU’.RED AUTUMN LEAVES. BY MARY B. DODGE'. Gay autumn leaves ! we have seen you blendiag Your irised pennons in shadowy vale, And gather new glory upward weuding, In the savage iiorth-wlnd’s trail, From the mountain’s base To its crested space. Where burning'hues prevail! O, green and yellow aud crimson and gold, Out of the loom of the Infinite rolled, In wild luxuriance, fold upon fold! We are lost in half teunul wonder That the wintry wind, which is blatant and bold, Your blushes should deepen, your life unfold, Till, chilled to the heart by a love that is cold, You shrivel and die in russet mold, And are buried the deep snows under! Fair aulnm leaves! Can we wake rejoicing To loveliness doomed of its birth to pale? Cun we echo the melody.of your voicing, Mot moved by its latent wail, Thai sighs for aye Through the bright, array Grim Death must countervail? Yet, crimson and gold and yellow and green, Hush your low murmurs! for I have seen A power that is subtle and strong and keen To bear you across Time’s river. Where asllen garments never deniean The radiant fotnwjf autumn’s queen, But on through the aghs tu aureate sheen, Bating no jot of hot royal mien, She gorgeously glows forever. Glad autumn Jeaves! this benison lingers ll.ifling you over life’s wintry wave) In the heaven-born touch of the artist’s fingers, Whose passionate soul can save, By the wondrous skill Of a Mas er’s will, Fair forms front a waiting grave. So, green and yellow and crimson aud gold! Yo.iir eiucrald, ’topaz, and ruby unfold. Dreading no robber-king withered'aiiirdld Shall bid you your grace atirroudeVr - - Nay—flames that the.wiud and the sunshine hold, Till they joyously spread over wood and wold tin diaphanous haze of a wealth untold). Blaze on in your beauty, by naught, controlled, For art’s seal is set on your splendor 1 —October Galaxy.

A BACHELOR’S STORY.

lam an old bachelor. At sixty-five 1 can say 1 shall never be anything' else; • but, liKe all other men—all I have ever met, at least —I have loved, and hoped to be li'appy with my chosen bride. 3’hat passion and those hopes faded forty years ago. Since then I have done penan’ce for the hasty act of one night. I have shunned the society of women, and forbade myself the shadow of a hope that I might patch my shattered joys with new ones. At the age of twenty-four I was clerk in the establishment of Messrs. Carp & Cavil, lawyers. 1 had energy and ambition, health and opportunity—everything, in fact, that could be wished for by a man who hoped to.fight his way up in the world and win wealth ant] reputation. I was engaged to Grace Hunter, a pretty, delicate creature, so quiet that her pet name, Snowflake, seemed to be the only one suitable for her. Her step was noiseless, her movements soft, her voice mellow and low. She never herself entertained a large company by her conversation, nor did any one of those things that give a woman a reputation—for brilliancy; but her mental powers were very fine, and in a tete-a-tete she was enchanting, A lady to tlic heart’s core; in my eyes, at least, a perfect beauty, she might have been forgotten in a roomful of giggling, chattering girls. I adored her. I had felt that her love was a jewel worthy of an emperor’s •wearing, and I scarcely dared to utter the words that told her all I felt. Even now Iler high-bred reserve kept me at a distiacc. I was proud of her. I felt urnworthy of her. She was at once the saint whwm I revered, and the being whom it was to be my delight to cherish and protect until death should part us. . Six months had passed since she had promised to be mine. At the end of six more she was to give me her hand. I bad a small salary, but my-grandmother had left me n legacy-which- would enable me to go to housekeeping iu plain but comfortable style, and Grace was willing to fight life’s battles by my side. Life seemed bright, aud joyous to me on that night of mild winter, forty years ago, when I walked through the streets with Grace upon my arm, and looking down at her in her .white wrappings, with gleams of frosty starlight touching her black hair, wondered if the angels were fairer than she. We were going to spend llnruvcning at a mutual friend’s residence. There was to be music and dancing and cards, and sociable supp'er. I went because Grace desired to go. I talked; I sang; I turned the music for musical ladies; 1 walked through the Lancers. At last I found myself flirting with one of the female guests. There are women a man is obliged to flirt with. He does not admire them, respect them, or love them one whit; he docs not even desire their society; but he must be more ihrtu man ere he can refuse to respond to their advances. One of these women I know now, having played the looker on for so many years, Tran make any man appear to other wo- - men desperately in love with her, while he almost detests her. A woman of that kind was among the company. She had hands Hint delighted in soli touches of hands masculine; eyes that could cast glances bright and entrancing. She possessed attraction rather than beauty. What she said was nothin; her conversation had no interest, but I knew’ that I seemed absorbed by her—that T really was absorbed; in two words, that I flirted abominably with her. Grace, meanwhile, sat apart from me. She talked to others in her low, sweet tones. - Once she sang a pretty love-song. Quite calm and self-possessed, with no appearance of noticing my conduct, the thought that it troubled her never occurred to me. S*o that when the evening was over, and we had left the -house together, I was astonished beyond measure to see an offended look upon her face, and to hear an offended tone in her voice. I offered her my arm. She rejected it, replying that the ground was damp, and that her hands- were occupied w-ith her dress, but I knew that this was merely an excuse; and feeling myself in the wrong, and having swallowed more winethan I should at the supper-table, I grew very angry. “ May I ask what I have done ?” I said. ’• You know!” said Grace. “I know!” I repeated. “Nay, I know nothing of woman's fancies. You must' explain.’ 1 "I scarcely think it worth while,” said she. K TT'y‘ou do not know that you have done wrong to-night, I really should not care. You have neglected me, and devoted yourself to that, vulgar woman. I heard a lady near me say that you seemed to be tired of your bargain. She tliought that you were in love with that creature. So did other people. Under the circum-

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stances, I have a right to feel offended, insulted.” Perhaps she thought I would deny her charge. Perhaps she expected me to plead for pardon. God knows what possessed me. I answered only f “May I not talk to a pretty woman because I hope to marry you some day?” —“You Were flirt ing—almost making love to her,” she replied. “She is the sort of woman with whom, men fall in love,” I said; “ irresistible in’ her manner, I’ve heard she makes conqu sts everywhere; I don’t doubt it.” Grace looked at me with a stern face—white in the starlight as a marble statue. “Other women are always jealous of such women,” I added, “I am not jealous of her,” she said. “I would not be like her for a kingdom. She is a terrible woman. But since you admire her 'So you are free to tell her so after you have seen me to my door.” “Grace!” I said. “Miss Hunter, if you please, Mr. Rutherford,” said she. “We have both made a little mistake, easily rectified; that is all.” I felt, as I stood looking at her, that the effect of the wine I had drank was stronger upon me than I had thought, but I gave no heed tothe warning of my giddy head and rapid pulse. “Jus as you please,” I said. “I should think a jealous woman would curse any man’s life. I’ll go now. I won’t trouble jfou longer. Good-by.” We were not at the door of her home—we were about half a block from it; but I turned on my heel then and there, and left her. I staggered a little as I walked, and- I - was -hot and angry. .. I.made .my, way home, and without undressing fell upon my bed and dropped asleep. In two hours I awakened sober. I sat up and looked about me. The scenes of the evening recurred tome vividly. I saw how blameworthy I had, been,and a terrible grief oppressed me. I put my head down upon my hands, and burst into bitter tears. I had lost her, and with her all that made life precious. Then hope dawned upon my soul. I would write to her; tell her how T-unused to.liquor as I was, the winm had affected me. Springing to my feet I rushed to my desk. I drew from it pen and paper. I wrote a letter overflowing with remorse and tenderness. I read it and re-read it. Then leaving it upon the spot where it was written, I stood at the Window waiting for the tardy dawn, jealous of the slow hours that kept my missive from my darling. I had pqt out my candle when I left my desk, and the rooni should have been dark; but as I turned my head after a long and anxious reverie, I saw it was ..full of pale radiance like that of a moonlight. It startled me. Whence did the light come? Had a miracle occurred—had the moon risen again? Suddenly, amid the silvery light appeared a still whiter radiance. It slowly took form. A female figure, in white garments so bright that they . dazzled the eyes, stood bending over my letter. I remained motionless —to speak or stir was not in my power—and gazed on the strange object with terrified intensity. The figure seemed to turn the pages of my letter with its transparent hand. I heard a gentle sigh; then the head turned toward me, and I saw a face I knew’—the face that seemed the lovelist of all on earth to me, endowed with a mysterious divine beauty, for which no man could find words—the glorified face of sweet Grace Hunter. ” At the sight I burst the bonds that held me—bonds as tangible as though 1 could have seen them—and rushed forward. I strove to clasp my love, or her shadow, in my arms. A shock such as one might experience from an electrical machine flashed through me, and I fell powerless to the floor. When I recovered, the day had dawned, and under the blue morning sky the city Trad awakened; but my day never dawned again. My heart never awoke to life’s sweetness. To end the story in a few words, Grace Hunter never reached her. home’that night, and never was heard of again. The family imagined that she had remained with her friends, and were not anxious about her. 1 had left her within the sight of her own door, and why she did not reach it I shall never know’. But I did know that in some woful manner 'sluTtliecl that night, and that her parting spirit paused in its flight to bid me along farewell. I have outlived my youth, and the suspicion that fell upon me and embittered many years of my existence ; but I shall never outlive my love for Grace Hunter, or my remorse for that night’s w’oful work. I shall never outlive the knowledge that in the madness caused by wine and woman’s enchantment, I was theuCause of’ my darling’s death.

How to Hang Gates.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes: “In the spring of 1-867 I hung four-large gates. The posts were six by eight inches square, and were put in the ground two and one-half feet. The post that I hung the gate to was put down first and the gate then hung. I then set the Ot her pftst so as to let the gate shut inside the post, against two pins driven in the post, one foot from the top and bottom of the gate. Then I put a one inch pin through the head of the gate, putting the pin through the gate the same way the gate shuts" and extending through four inches; with tlmppint_of the pin elevated one inch. This pin was thus arranged'so* as to slip over the top pin in the post, with sufficient bearing to take out the spring of gate. In this way, when shut, the gate is supported by both posts. The gate is made of lumber, bars one inch thick, four or five inches wide, and eleven feet long. I take for the two heel pieces lumber one inch thick, four inches wide, and four feet ten inches long. I also take two pieces two inches wide for the*bead of the gate, that are set back three feet from the head of the gate. J then put a brace on both sides, running from the top of the center upright slats to the bottom of the heel pieces, all being firmly bolted together. The latch or bolt (three and onehalf feet long), is placed on the top of the third or fourth bar. A mortise is cut in the post for the bolt or lateh to slide in. The above four gates were hung in the spring Of 1 WGZ. They stand as firm to-day as they did the day I hung them. The Sierra Madre (Col.) Tunnel upon which considerable work has already been done, will be twelve miles long, and'its greatest depth—at St. James’ peak—will be 6,000 feet. The objects of this stupendous work are to afford a means of working the discovered .mines rapidly and cheaply, to discover and open new veins, and to afford a track for a railway.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 16, 1873.

Execution of Capt. Jack and His Associates.

An Associated Press dispatch of October 3 thus describes the incidents attending the execution of Captain Jack and his associates: At precisely 9:45 a. m., the interpreters, Capt. 0.0. Applegate and David Hill, explained to the culprits the nature of the order to be read to them by the Adjutant, and at 10 a. m. Adjutant Kingsbury read the orders promulgating the sentence of the Commission and the President’s order therein, with the orders of the Secretary of War and tire Department Commander in the premises. General Davis’ order had directed that .they be executed the day after their capture, but its execution was prevented by instructions from Washington to hold the prisoners until further orders. The friends of the peace policy in Washington raised the question whether the Modocs could be legally tried by a military commission. The point was made that General Canby was not acting as commander of the military forces, but as Peace Commissioner, and, therefore, a military commission could legally take cognizance of the crime; that the killing of Captain Thomas and the other officers and soldiers should be viewed as an act Of war, being performed while the parties were engaged in hostilities. These objections, however, were overruled by the President, and a military commission tried the murderers, and condemned them to be hanged. The two reprieved prisoners, Barncho and Slotuck, yet stood On the ground in front of the scaffold, shackled and under., guard. During the reading, the pinioned victims were seated on the platform of the scaffold,which consisted of uprights about seven feet high, surmounted by a crossbeam thirty feet in length. The platform was seton pine poles, eight feet below the beam, solid at the back, and, w’ith a hinged drop on which all were seated, with their feet on the drop,listening anxiously, but, of course, not understanding a word of it. The reading occupied- ten minutes, then the adjutant read the order of - com mutat io n in-4 h e case o f Barn ch o an d Slotuck, which was issued on the ground that they were merely acting under Capt. Jack’s-orders in what they did. The poor fellows were taken back tothe stockade, evidently happy at not accompanying the others to the happy hunting grounds. The coffins, six in number, had been placed directly in the rear of the gallows, two of them destined to be unoccupied, as the order commuting the sentences ot Barncho and Slotuck only arrived at 10:30 last evening, and preparations had been made for them likewise. The chaplain then offered an earnest and fervent prayer for the souls of the culprits, which was listened to attentively. At 10:15 the fatal nooses were placed around their necks, under direction of Capt. Hoge. It w’as necessary to cut off a little of Jack’s long hair, which was in the way of the rope. Capt. Hoge then bid farewell to the prisoners, and the black caps were placed over the heads of all the culprits. It must have been an awfal moment. At 10:20 they stood on the drop. The rope was cut by the assistant at a signal made by Captain Hoge’s handkerchief. The bodies swung round and round, Jack and Jim apparently dying easily, but Boston and Schonehin suffering terrible convulsions. Boston and Schonehin repeatedly drew up their legs, but the two others seemed to die almost instantly. At 10:28 their pulses were felt by Captain Hoge, and as I write they arg, swinging lifeless in the air. JV As the drop fell with a terrible deadly thug four poor wretched human beings fell into eternity, and a half-smothered cry of horror went up from the crowd of over 500 Klamath Indians who witnessed the awful spectacle. Wails of deep and bitter anguish went up from the stockade where the wives and children Of the poor fellows had a fair view of the shocking scene. An application was made this morning by the sheriff of Jackson County for the custody of the Indians indictee! by the grand jury, to General Wheaton, but it was refused.

Was Captain Hall Poisoned?

I nan an interview with Morton, the Second Mate, who was Captain Hall's favorite attendant during his last sickness. The statements he made he bade me not disclose. They were, however, of so startling a nature that I felt it my duty to give them to-day to the Vice-Consul to aid him in the investigation he waspros■ecuting. I accordingly yesterday waited on the Vice-Consul and gave him my~ln-~ formation that he might get it officially from Morton. He at once told me he hail already had these statements from Morton. I further ascertained the testimony of certain others was corroborative so flit of Morton’s, and I am* satisfied that the Vice-Consul, who is a lawyer,- leans to a theory seriously implicating Dr. Bessel. Morton says Hail and Dr. Bessel were not on good terms. Hall returned from the journey which preceded his fatal illness in perfect health, and was only a short time in thecabin when, after taking some coffee, he became sick and vomited. He solemnly affirms that the Doctor told him on the second day after Captain Hall’s illness that it vould be fatal. Hall complained to Morton that “they were poisoning him.” Bessel gave Hall injections, ostensibly of quinine, but it is hinted that morphine was used. Morton apparently believes that Bessel killed Hall in order that he might rob him of the honor of discovering the North Pole. Bessel.believed that the expedition was sure to be successful. With regard to Buddington, Morton affirms that Buddington was sometimes loose in his haband gave offense to Hall, who on mere than one occasion showed his marked disapproval. He, however, .scouts the idea that Buddington killed Hall. A formal document now given up to the Consul, a holograph of Hull, and written a lew days before bis death, expressed perfect confidence in Buddington. The crew aver that the' sailing-master drank, but never was absolutely intoxicated. Morton charges Buddington with showing the white feather as to proceeding north through the ice. At consultations with Hall and his brother officers he called him a perfect coward, yet wiihall a man too timid to crush a mdsqfiito were it under his foot. The carpenter, Mr. Coffin, who made the bier for Hall, speaks or the facepf the corpseas having been the mosj natural of all the' many dead faceu he has seen It was perfectly calm, devoWoTcOfildrtians or expression of pain, and particularly fresh -in color. Postinortem rigidity alone bespoke the pres-' ence of death. Buddington and the Doctor are not

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friendly. The former gives out that, he knows a deal which he would not.,say to any one save to the Consul or the United States authorities. The common seamen refuse to say anything, and generally plead ignorance of what was dope in the cabin. The only conclusion we can come to on the whole testimony is, that cither Morton speaks the truth or labors under an hallucination, which is shared in by the Captain, or that both of them have formed a damnable conspiracy against an innocent man. The Captain and Morton roomed together; the officers and crew were all rooming in one hotel, with the exception ot the Doctor, who roomed at the Royal Hotel, where he was a very great favorite with all the guests, and won golden opinions by his exceedingly frank, pleasant manner. His rciicence as to the details of the Captain’s illness was in consequence of a deliberate resolution, to which he- persistently and successfully adhered, despite all the endeavors of members of the press to secure information from him. Both Buddington and the Doctor are prepared for arrest immediately on their arrival at New York. All who have enjoyed Dr. Bessel’s acquaintance pray God that the dark accusations may prove utterly groundless. Dr. Bessel and the other officers and members of the crew cannot.be said to be very friendly. Buddington has been drinking slightly since his stay in Dundee. It is certain that he is in a state ot considerable trepidation and anxiety about something. Probably he anticipates a severe overhauling from the Navy Department. So far as the charge of poisoning, against Buddington, goes, it is negatived by Bessel, who aflirms stoutly that Hall died a natural death. His conduct on shipboard is vindicated by a formal paper left by Hall. With the crew, generally, Buddington is on capital terms. The most singular “feature of the whole matter is that Tyson’s party made a chargp of foul play, and that the same charge is reiterated by certain members of Buddington’s party, but against another individual. Hall, one may say, died with the word “Excelsior” on his lips. “Find the Pole; never mind me,” was his last utterance. — Dundee (Scotland} Cor. N. Y. Herald.

The President and the Panic.

Among the excellent executive qualities of the President there is one which has always most pleasantly impressed those who know him, and that is his tranquil firmness when his duty seems to him clear. Those who served nearest him in the field say, that in the wildest whirl of battle be was never known to lose his selfpossession, nor to swear. He has an admirable temperament for a President, especially at a time when every body in distress turns to the Government for help. This was strikingly illustrated during the lute panic, on the Sunday that he and the Secretary of the Treasury came to New York to consult with the bankers upon the situation. The excitement that morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel was unprecedented. The corridors and parlors swarmed with a multitude of frenzied people, who supposed that incalculable disaster impended, and that the President had the power of staying it by a word, and of saving the country from financial, as he had already saved it from political, ruin. Among the crowd were many of the men who are famous as capitalists, and who are supposed to be masters of finance—a supposition not based in every inatance upon the most accurate knowledge. There was also in the throng a distinguished lawyer, of politics opposed to those of the President, Mr. Reverdy Johnson, whose advice and opinion were eagerly sought. It was a crowd of speculators and gamblers in railroad slocks, with some of those whom they had involved, all passionatelj’ desiring that the President would use the public money for their relief. The President asked for the law that would authorize him to touch it tor such a purpose.—The distinguished lawyer instantly conceded that there was no lawful authority’ to do it, but that the situation of the country was so threatening that the President ought to assume the power of dispensing With law, and trust to Congress to approve his course. Even the habeas corpus act, he said, is suspended in moments of extreme urgency, and is the Treasury reserve more sacred than personal liberty? If the distinguished lawyer said this to the President, the President probably replied that the habeas corpus is suspended under the express authority of the Constitution, and that while in the existing emergency he was anxious to do all that he possibly could under the law, he was unwilling at such a moment to put the law aside and establish a precedent of such momcntons consequences. But whatever he said, his decision was fixed from the first. He went to the verge of li is undoubted authority, but he refused to dispense with the law. It is another of the many proofs which the President has constantly .given of ’his sincere patriotism. He came to the Presidency a victorious soldier, peculiarly unfamiliar with civil administration, and taunted with maintaining headquarters at the White House. But. among all American Presidents there has been none more scrupulously loyal to law than General Grant. And never was that fidelity more desirable than during a Presidency immediately following a war, which always diminishes the sanctity of civil authority? Usurpationsand dispensations with the law might have been expected from a military President, and at a time when an abnormal situation would have seemed to justify them. But General Grant has shown no such disposition. He has not only not assumed extraordinary power, but he has sought to avoid even the opportunity of exercising lawful authority, as in the case of emergencies in the Southern States. If there has been fault, it is not his, but the law’s. Among the great services which General Grant has rendered to the country, not the least is the tranquil and modest firmness with which he has maintained the authority e bf law.— Harper's Weekly. A discovery has been made in the Paris Academy of Science that hydrogen, hitherto considered an element, is in reality a combination of two elements, one of which is nine times as light as hydrogen and twenty-five times as light as ordinary illuminating gas. The new element is called abaron, meaning weightless. It will not burn, ext inguishes flames, is without odor, taste, or coloy. The discoverer, is M. Lebarre, a wgjl knqjvn chemist, and his discovery was not an accident,-but the result of a series of successful experiments. .Oni.Y about 500 feet of the Hoosac ''Tunnel remains to be bored. The completion of the undertaking is promised •by November 15.

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. A Paris dispatch of the 3d says the city on that day had been full of exciting and conflicting rumors looking to the speedy estabI lishmcnt of the monarchy. Count de Cham- ■ bord would issue a manifesto shortly. AHofife, Italy, dispatch of the 3d says that the Pope, on the preceding day, in an address to a delegation, had used the following language: “Confusion has entered the enemy’s eamp. They strive to induce me to leave Rome, but I never will.” A special dispatch of the 3d says that Central Asia had become in an extensively disturbed condition. A civil war had been raging in Khokan against the ruler. The Turcomans of the desert around Khiva were obstinately fighting the Russians; the Afghans were fighting the Persians, and Yakoub Bey was fighting the Chinese in the. extreme limit of that Empire. Bokhara seemed to be the point of contention. It was said that the Russians would be compelled in self-defense to take the same course toward Bokhara which had recently been taken towards Khiva, and reduce it to the condition of a Russian dependency. A dispatch from Cartagena, Spain, «f the 3d says that the insurgent frigates had’not been much injured during the late bombardment of Alicante, and that they proposed soon to attack Valencia. London dispatches of the 3d say that Parliament had again been prorogued until December 10. Advices from the Cape of Good Hope are to the effect that sickness had broken out among the troops on that coast. Out of one detachment of 104 marines, 90 were in the hospital. A chimney 220 feet high, m* the village of Northfleet, had fallen, killing five persons and mainiug a dozen others. A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, of the 4th, says a financial panic had prevailed in that city for several days. A special dispatch from Paris, of the sth, states that 350 deputies of the French Assembly hail pledged Themselves to support n motion for the restoration of the monarchy. Thiers bad consented to the proposed alliance between the Republicans and Imperialists, as the only means of preventing the restoration of the monarchy with Count de C'hambord as Henri V. . _ A Madrid dispatch of the sth says that General Noriones had offered the Carlists battle before Estella. They refused to fight, and had hastily evacuated the place, which was immediately occupied by Government forces. A Paris dispatch of the 6th says the trial of Marshal Bazaiue, by court-martial, for misconduct at Forbach and Metz, had been commenced on the morning of that day. The impression prevailed that he would be condemned to death and then pardoned. A Madrid dispatch of the 7th says that on that day a column of 2,000 Insurgents had made a desperate sortie from Cartagena, but were driven back with heavy losses in killed and wounded. A dispatch had been received at the Ministry of War, from Gen. Noriones, announcing a great victory over a large bo'dy of Carlists in Navarre. . . . .. A London dispatch of the Bth states that there had been an extensive riot in Cornwall in consequence of the arrest of a couple of miners by the police. Several hundreds had attempted to rescue their comrades, buildings had been gutted, and several of the police had been taken to the hospital badly hurt. THE NEW WORLD. The New York State Democratic Convention reassembled on the morning of the 2d, and adopted resolutions inviting the co-operation of all citizens who agree with the principles enunciated by Jefferson, including State rights and the supremacy of civil over military authority; denouncing the Congressional salary bill, those who voted for it, those who have taken back pay, and demanding its repeal; pronouncing the Republican party unworthy of the confidenc e of the people, because they allowed the Crcdlt-Mobllier frauds, and failed suitably, to punish those who were engaged in them; denouncing Federal interference in Louisiana; demanding a revenue tariff which shall stop enriching one section of the country at the expense of the other; demanding also a return to specie payments; scouting the President’s "pill for panics,” and pointing the country to the true remedy and cure in the tried and historic principles of the old Democracy. A resolution was also adopted recognizing the “Liberal Republicans” as worthy coadjutors, and inviting them to cooperate in the efforts to restore pure government in State and Federal administrations. Diedrich Willers, Jr., was nominated for Secretary of State; Asher C. Nichols, for Comptroller; Daniel Pratt, for Attorney-General; Thomas Raines, for Treasurer; 8. 8. Sweet, for State Engineer and Surveyor; James Jackson, for Canal Commissioner, and G. W. .Jjillspaugh, fur State Prison Inspector. A Galveston (Texas) telegram of the 2d says that the town of Lampasas had been inundated recently by the sudden rise Of a creek that ran through the place. Twenty houses had been carried away including the PostOffice and two stores. Six persons had been drowned. On the 3d, business In Chicago had nearly recovered its wonted aspect. Banks were receiving and paying out currency freely, and the paper that fell due was very generally met, Country collections were said to be favorable, and the indications were that the money stringency had very nearly passed. Manufacturing establishments bad generally reduced the hours of labor or reduced the wages of labor, and few men, comparativelv. had been discharged. New York dispatches of the 3d say the market had very nearly rec Wered from the effects of the late panic, although prices continued to ruleflow. Gold nad sold as low as 109% for CltSlring-House certificates, which Would be equal io 108 in currency. The failure of Albert Cole, a stock-broker, had been announced. A Washington dispatch of. the 3d says that the Mint at Philadelphia had been ordered to coin double eagles at the rate of $10„000,000 a month. The California Mint had also been directed to run at its full capacity in gold coinage and trade dollar. Ex-Governor Cooke, of Jay Cooke & Co., bad said that the members of that firm had pooled their private and personal assets, and would place them at the command of their creditors in liquidation of their They propose to p y every cent they owe, both principal and interest. The President had determined to draw upon the $44,000,090 reserve, if necessary,' to aid the movement of the crops. A dispatch from Dubuque, lowa, says an examination just made into t(ie affairs of the Merchants’ National Bank of that city had shown that R. A. Babbage, the Cashier, had abstracted from the bank, by

i means of false entries, $267,289, and that the President, Mr. Sheffield, had abstracted $161,977. The ravages of the yellow fever in Memphis and Shreveport, according to Press dispatches of the 3d, had largely increased. In the former city over S,(XX) people had left by the various trains, many of whom were ill at small towns where they went. The Odd Fellows had Issued a call for contributions from the Order throughout the United States. There had been 24 yellow fever interments on that day. In Shreveport there were 17 yellow fever interments. The President had ordered 5,000 army rations to be shipped to that place for the benefit of the sufferers. Captain Jack and four of his companions were hung at Fort Klamath, Oregon, on the 3d. The late hour at which the dispatch was received on the morning of the 4th prevented the publication of full pirticulars. The sentence of Siotuck and Barncbo had been commuted to imprisonment for life on Alcatras Island, in San Francisco harbor. The Chicago Timex of the sth says that during the week ending October 4, $15,475,000 in currency hud been received by the three express companies having offices in that city. This was, of course, exclusive of sums brought by individuals for investment. The banks of that city had begun to discount sparingly. A Philadelphia special of the 4th says an elaborate deed of trust had been executed by Jay Cooke and his partners, conveying to Mr. Rollins and Mr. Cote all the firm’s property, partnership and private, Including their wives’ dower right, to be administered for the benefit of all the creditors of the firm, - and each five per. cent. realized to be ..fUateife.. uted. Tliis had been done to prevent the dispersion of the estate under the bankrupt act, and it was thought that, by prudent management, the Cookes would pay dollar for dollar and have a large surplus for themselves. A New York dispatch of the 4th announces that Peake, Opdyke & Co., a large dry goods house, bad suspended, with liabilities amounting to $2,500,000. hamper & Co., grain dealers, of Boston, Mass., according to a dispatch of the 4th, had suspended, with liabilities for oyer $300,000. A Washington telegram of the 4th says that absolute quiet prevailed with regard to the financial situation. A Dubuque (Iowa) dispatch of the 4th says the feeling against the defaulting cashier, Babbage, had become very bitter. The authorities had! eci compelled to guard his bouse with a band of policemen to prevent acts of violence fibm an outraged community. The virulence of the yellow-fever epidemic at Memphis, according to a telegram of the 4th, had largely increased. Hundreds of the poorer classes were dying uneared for and dying for want of attention. The interments on that day in the potter’s field, alone, as reported by the county undertaker, had reached thirty in number. The whole number of yellow-fever deaths for the day exceeded forty. This included only paupers and those for whom coffins had been obtained at the undertakers’. . ... s. A New York dispatch of the 4th- says that the arrival of the Polaris survivors in that city, on the steamship City of Antwerp, on that day, had been signalized by the arrest of Capt. Buddington and his confinement in the Navy Yard. Later the Tallapoosa left for Washington with them. A New Orleans dispatch of the sth says the New Orleans National Bank had gone into liquidation. The house of Cavoroc had failed. —-A New York correspondent, writing from Dundee, Scotland, recently, has reiterated the story of the poisoning of Captain Hall, of the Polaris, and indicated Professor Bessels, of the expedition, as the person who committed the deed. In order to arrive at the facts in the case, the Secretary of the Navy, according to the dispatch of the 6th, had instituted another examination of the survivors. A New York dispatch of the 6th announces that the “Graphic” balloon, being the old affair revamped and rejuvenated, with Prof. Donaldson and his associates, had started for Europe on the morning of that day. The ascension was an excellent one. Mr. Donald son was accompanied by Messrs. Lunt and Ford. The balloon rose rapidly from the starting point, and floated majestically towards the ocean, and when last, seen was moving towards Europe. Later, a dispatch had been received from New Haven, stating that the balloon had reached ' Canaan, in the’ northeast corner of the State of Connecticut, at 1:25 p.'m., when it had been caught in a storm. Donaldson allowed enough of the gas to escape to enable them to bring the gas-bag near the earth, when they all leaped out, and the balloon escaped. i A Washington dispatch of the 7th says that the Civil Service Commission, in session in. that city, had recommended the appointment of E. (). Graves, fur several, years Chief Clerk of the Treasury, as Examiner-in-Chief. It would be his duty to organize local boards of examination for candidates for the civil service. Subsequently the President had appointed him. - -- -- The Board of Equalization for the State of Illinois had completed its labors on the 7tb. The estimated value of all lands in the State of Illinois, according to their opinion, was $1,245,760,454. A New York dispatch of the 7th announces the suspension of Wylie, KueVals & Co., su-gar-dealers. A Memphis telegram of the 7th says that, on that day, more cases of yellow fever had been developed than ever before. Over 600 persons were under treatment. The deaths numbered forty-two. Among the latter was Rev. Father Carey, of the Dominican priesthood. At Shreveport the interments were less numerous, probably because the material with which to operate was less abundant. The town had become almost depopulated. The New York State “Liberal” Convention met at Elmira, New York, on the Bth, appointed a Committee and adopted resolutions congratulating the peopie upon the growing disposition to oppose any perversion of civil authority; reaffirming the principles set fort at Cincinnati more than a year ago; denouncing the Congressmen who voted for and retain the so-called back pay, and applauding those who returned it to the Treasury; regretting the Preaident should so mistake the morality of the American character and disregard the honor of the American name as to officially sanction the bill, and charging the Republican party with the responsibility of its passage, and demanding its repeal; regarding as of the highest importance that lines of transportation between the East and West be improved, so that no interest can justly complain of the facilities afforded; deploring the corrupting influence of the great ■ .... .- ■. 1 . .d**’ .

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corporations whereby agricultural interests are crippled and the development of the country retarded; asserting that the eternal policy of the States and municipalities should not be interfered with by the Federal authorities; charging the Administration with being responsible for the recent disordered financial condition of the country, and regarding as of paramount importance a return to specie payment. The Convention also resolved that the thanks of all freemen are due to the tribunal \wbich has vindicated the right of local trial by jury and the freedom of the press. A State ticket was nominated as follows: Secretary of State, Diedrich Wilier?; Comptroller, Nelson K. Hopkins; Attorney-General, Daniel Fratt; Treasurer, Thomas H. Raines; Canal Commissioner, James Jackson; Engineer, Sylvanus H. Sweet; State Prison Inspector, M. K. Platt. A Washington dispatch of the B<h says that the Germans of the District of Columbia, at a meeting held on the preceding evening, had declared that they would not support any man for office whe pledged himself to adhere “to the pernicious cause of so called temperance.” Benjamin De»n has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Third Massachusetts Congressional District. An Indianapolis dispatch of the Bth says that nil work on the Canada Southern Railroad, in Northern Indiana, bad been stopped by the Sheriffs of the several counties through which itruns, taking prosession of all the company’s property. According to the Chicago Journal of the Bth, the Third National Bank of that ci’y bad opened its doors again. A St. Louis dispatch of the Bth says that finances in that city had not worked as satisfactorilyas was anticipated.TheUnion Bank suspended on that day and had decided to go into liquidation. A Washington telegram of the Bth says the President had appointed a commission for the erection of a military prison at Rock Island, 111., as follows: Colonel Nelson A. Miles, of the Fifth Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. H. French, of the Second Artillery; Major Tbos. F. Barr, Judge Advocate; Rev. E. C. .Wmeß,oJLNewY.ork,gecretarypftheNational Prison Association, and 8. R. Brockway, of Detroit. Delos C. Culver, of Jersey City, according to a New York dispatch of the Bth. had just been declared a bankrupt. He was Vice-Presi-dent of the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad Company, and his liabilities aggregated $8,000,000. A New York dispatch of the Bth says that Stokes was arraigned for the murder of Fisk on the morning of that day.

The old saying, “go up iike a rocket and come down like a stick,” was never more strikingly illustrated than in the case ot the Graphic balloon, which came to such a final apd ridiculous ending on Monday. The aeronauts rose with their provisions, with their boats, with their blinkets, with their European guide-books, with everything necessary to a long and pleasant or rough and uncomfortable voyage- across the Atlantic. The carrier pigeons were aboard, and the gushing young men who accompanied Mr. Donaldson had their note-books and pencils in hand. They soared away amid the loud cheers of the multitude, and, like sensible mariners, struck directly out for “the continent.” Donaldson was happy; Lunt and ford were feverish; the pigeons were scared. Ford wrote dispatches and dispatched the pigeons with them. The notes were hopeful, even exuberant They told of Donaldson singing “Do They Miss Me at Home,” and declaring that the “dream of his life was realized." They announced that the “easterly current" had been struck, and that everybody was happy. But about noon the balloon began to ' encounter difficulties. It rained; it blew; it knocked the big bag around as a wellswung bat would toss a ball. The monster descended; it swept over the trees and ditches, and hedges, and finally Ford and Donaldson leaped out, and fortunately gained the ground uninjured. Lunt went up again, but finally jumped from the car into the top of a tree and fell through to the ground belqw, suffering n<r injury, however, barring a few : scratches. The adventurers landed in New Canaan, Conn., and having secured the remnant of the balloon returned home by rail Thus collapses this Graphic bubble, that has in all respects proven the greatest fiasco of the day. As a fitting finale to the whole thing, we append the following verses on the subject, sent to us by some lunatic who has evidently watched the progress and culmination of the affair with much care and interest. A OBAFHIC TALK. Mr. Wise he wouldn’t go, And he thus Broke up ihe show; When up Hepped bold Donaldson accordin ; Saying: "Give me plenty gas. And I promise yon to pass, Like a streak, to the other side of Jordan. So they fnrntsbed Lunt and Ford, And the hero stepped aboard. When the thing arose as though ’twas etherialized. And says Donaldson: “My boys, Toot your horn and make a noise; Oh! the dream ot my manhood now is realized,’ And from the upper regions. By the frightened carrier pigeons, Mr. Fold he sent dp-patches light as Eden; Saying: “We have done our errant. We have struck the eastern current. And we’ll write you the particulars from Sweden.” Oh how the monster sweeps Over rivers, and over streets— And the grandest view ’twas ever seen affordin’; RL-ing upward to the moon— This bu»xiu’ blg balloonG.,ing straight to the other side of Jordan. But the' weather so seraphic Wouldn't last; and that ’ere “Grapitic” Got a blow from old Boreas, as he roar'd on; Got wind and raiu and bluster. Till the big inflated buster • Kind o' paused in its passage over Jordan. Said Donaldson to Ford, As the monster pitched and roar d: “I have left some earthly business unattended; And I think I’ll slop to see If the Graphic Company Are possessed of any gases not expended. Said the other daring fellers: “We forgot our nmberellere, . .. And we cannot go to Europe while tis ralnin ; Let us jump.” And so they did— And their legs were almost hid In the marshes of the “happy land of Canaan. I am ready here and now ‘ To put up my band and swow '* ' ’ I will not be fooled by any more Sach lingo. Let the “currents” and the breezes Blow whichever way.they pleases,: I'm fur common modes of traveling, —Octodsr 8. Minnesota farmers who sowed winterthresbed wheat have been the losers. One man, who last vear raised 32,000 bushels, 3aps but 11,000 this year, a difference hich he ascribes to the use of winterthreshed wheat as seed.

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