Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

FMI WJLMMfiTtH. Bt a aecttMTtr the Pottofltee Appropria tion bill relating to third-cl*** matter, all trade** paper*, magazine*, book* and all printed matter, with the exception of clrcujlf. -rrM. ■!» ■*atate'ti»l- M *i rate of one cent tor every two ounce*, while ■Mrehandtee and aitoealbttmrculoß will remain at the former rate. Hon. lAt M. or Yalnd, entered upon hi* duties an Secretary of the Treasury Ke 7th. Congressman Edward Y. Parsons, of Kentucky, died snddsaly in Washington on the Bth. of • brain affection. J. D. Cameron, Secretary of War, addressed a letter to the President on the Bth, giving a history of Indian affairs, relating to the Sioux or Dakota Nation, detailing the arrangements made by the Government ■with such Indians In 1887. The terms of the treaty, the Secretary says, have been liberally complied with on the part of ths United States, and have been complied with by the great mass of the TWdUna, some of whom, however, have never recognised the binding force of the treaty, but hare treated it with contempt, and have continued to roam at pleasure, attacklng scattered settlements in Nebraska, Wyoming,MoittaMMtedDakota, stealingstock and murderingpcaceful inhabitants. In February last the Secretary of the In teri or notified the Secretary of War that the time previously given Sitting Bull and his men to return to an agency had expired, and that he and hi* forces stin refused to comply with the directions of the Indian Commissioners and that therefore the Indians were turned over to the War Department to be dealt with by th* army. Sec’y Cameron aaya the discovery of gold on the Western border of the Sioux reservation, and the Intrusion of our people thereon, have not caused this war. The young warriors love war, and frequently escapfe their agencies to go on the hunt or war-path, their ealyides of the object of life. Tri President, on the Sth, nominated Lieut. Fred Grant for promotion to a First Lieutenancy in the Fourth Cavalry. Box. Z. Chandler has been elected Chairman, and R. b. McCormick Secretary, of the Republican National Committee. A Washington dispatch of the 11th says President Grant had stated to P. M. Gen. Jewell that his resignation would be accepted, and the latter had thereupon tendered the aame to the President. The Associated Preeg says the moat intimate friends of Mr. Jewell were unable to account for this action of the President, except on the grounds of poßUcal lconsiderations. The PresideuXon the same day appointed BecondAasia’t P.M. Gen. James N. Tyner,of to seeoedd Mr. Sewell. Mr. Pratt, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, also resigned his position on the 11th, to takeqffect on the Ist of August 1 This action said to have grownodtOd hia opposition to the dismiss sal of Bpo<sal-Bfyenue--4gent Clajrke and other revenue pfflcials. At a meeting ot Gen. Custer’s*' old comrades in Washington, oh the evening of the 10th, resolutions of respect were adopted and steps taken for the organisation of a Custer Association. President Grant, on the 11th, received a letter of congratulation from the King of Italy, on the occasion of the Centennial celebration. Thb heat in Washington on the 10th and 11th waa excessive, and for the first time in the history of the Capital, building opera lions were suspended because of the heat, fece the Bth there had been twelve deaths from sunstroke, spd numerous ctfier person! were in a dangerous condition. The thermometer registered 103° in the shade. THEBA9T. Tu Massachusetts Prohibitionists met in State Convention at Boston on the Bth and nominated a State ticket, headed by John L Barker for Governor and. Dr. D. C. Eddy for Lieutenant-Governor. Resolutions were adopted declaring the license system a continuous and confessed failure, and advocating the giving bf The ballot te women, to be used for their uwn protection against the wrongs of the liquor, traffic. i >.« x Tub Governor of Maine, on the 7th, tendered to Mr. Blaine the appointment of United States Senator, to Bjl the vacancy caused by Mr,' Morrill’s resignation. On the afternoon of the Bth La Signorina Spelterina, a young Italian woman, successfully accomplished the fCat'of walking a rope spanning Niagara RtwG tnei the rapids below the Falls. At Newbw<, N. Y., on the night of the Sth, ...Eli** Atutoto, aged forty-niue years, to care rheumatism, wrapped herself in gagnenta saturated with kreosene, which took fire, and she was buhied. t* ‘ Tn petition of James Bagley arid' others tenet asidethe will bfA. T. Stewart has been Msmiesed by Surrogate Colvin. This dismissal ot the petition doe* not prevent proceeding* fobreak the will in other courts, and counsel for the claimant* say theywiOU press the matter. ; 4 A band of 800 Mormons, .who recently arrived from Europe, started from New Yofk on the 11th for Utah Borne of the men have a* many as eight Wives. Twx committee appointed by the St. Louis Convention to inform Gov. Tilden of his nomination for the fifeteiMmey by the Democratic party waited on Governor at his residence in New Ytakoatte evening of the 11th, and formally notifiad him of such Governor accepung tne pomination, in nmntey IhriU at any previous day f*f iMrty-fiv* years, «cept JulyS, 1872, when sixtyoight were reported. A number of fatal eases are reported from other Eastern. and Bouthero cities. In Philadelphia the thermometer indicated 102° In the shade, and the number of deaths from sunstroke fifteen. DueiN* the two month* ending on the evening at the 10th, 2,078,108 persons has visited the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. and the total cash receipt* were 1664,530.

Don Pbdbo, the Emperor of Brasil, and Ns party sailed from New York on the 12th tor Europe, in the steamship Russia. Thb famous building in New York city AnowuuOntlcoarde*ba* beendeairtaed I by Bte. jffad been inßae for a numAof fear* amfo immigrant Spot. —— Wi i J I A Fgfa.ADßL.rHia spMal telegram t®he | BChlcfei Journal, sayajKton the ExpoSßionJ grounds, on the Uth, seventy-one persons were overcome by the intense heat and had to be carried to the hospital in tbk Eafidsdowne valley. Several similar cases occurred OH the 12th, and the thermo me ter stood at 104 degrees In the shade. «tt» mretr in NW YBHt'«fl'fflmnrz«‘ HIX- Th* following were the closlng qnotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, fl. 0501.07; No. 2 Milwaukee; 11. Oft 01.10; Oats, Western Mixed, 80038 c; Corn, Western Mixed, 52057 c; Pork, Mess, *20.00; Lard, UXc; Flour, good to choice, *4-8005.25; White Wheat Extra, *5.3007.75. CatUe, for good to extra. Sheep (shorn), 408 c. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 12th, cattle brought: Beet, *5.0005.25; medium, *4.500 *4-75; common, *4.0004.50. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *6:7506.80; Pbiladelphiae, *6.200 7.00. Sheep (shorn) brought *3.2505.00, according to quality. WENT AND SOUTH. A Lbavbnwobth dispatch of the 7th says Gen. Pope had Issued an order directing Gen. Miles, with six companies of the Fifth Infantry to report at once at the scene of the Sioux "war. The feeling over the massacre of Gen. Custer and Ns man was intense throughout the border Bt*tes and the Territories, and volunteers in large numbers have been offered the Government to avenge the slaughter. Jacob Rehm, one of the leading members of the Chicago whisky ring, and who was accepted by the Government counsel as a witness against his and therefore claimed and was granted immunity from the severest penalty of the* law, war, on the 7th, sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the County Jail and to pay a fine of *IO,OOO.

Gov. Hates, !n a letter dated July 8, has formally accepted the Republican nomination for President of the United States. A train ob the Missouri Pacific Railroad was boarded by a gang of robbers near Otterville, in Western Missouri, op the night of thp7th, and the express safes were robbed of about *16,000—*12,000 from the United States and *4,000 from the Adams Express Companies. All the robbers wore masks while on the train. Pursuit Was at once instituted after the brigands had taken their departure. > It is estimated that about fifty lives were lost and about *1,000,000 worth of property was destroyed by the recent storms In lowa, Gen. Sheridan sent a dispatch to Gen. Sherman, on the Bth, In which he expressed the opinion that there was no occasion to call for volunteer cavalry for the campaign against Sitting Bull. With the six companies of the TXdnty-Becond Infantry, Gen. Sheridan says. Terry’s forces will number about 2,000 men, and Crook, when joined by Merritt, will hive about the same force, which it is left to be implied will be sufficient for the movement against the Sioux. Gen. Terry’s official report ot the Little Big Horn fight confirms the previous reports of the disaster, and estimates the fighting force of the Indians at 2,500. A later dispatch from Terry, received on too Bth, indicates that the Indians had retreated, dividinginto two parties, one of which was going toward the Big Horn Mountains and the other eastward. It was reported in MRwAukee, on. the 10th, that the propeller St. Clair was burned on Lake Superior the night before, and that twenty-six lives were lost Sentences were pronounced on the 10th against the Milwaukee whisky conspirators, the penalties inflicted ranging from one day to six months’ imprisonment and from 3200 to *I,OOO in fines. The Chicago papers of the Bth announce an unusually brilliant meteor as having passed over the city on the evening previous, which lighted up the ground ten or twelve times more than it is illuminated by the fun moon, and leaving a very bright track, whieb was visible for fully four minutes. The same meteor was observed from Several other localities. A rumor that Gen. Crook and his command had been destroyed by the Indians was put in circulation on the 10th. An Omaha telegram of the 11th says that ( up to noon of that day no ’conftHnatlon bf this report had been received. Officers at headquarters there said suqh a calamity- was possible, though not probable. If beaten .at all, it must hafi -’been by Overwhelming nuttbers. Gen. Crook’s Roeebud fight w as,' in the light of recent event*, considered a .victory, ...„1 A Sioux City (Iowa) dispatch of the 11th says a man who had arrived at Fort Sully on that day reported that certain claims at Deadwood were paying *I,OOO per day. As high as *2,700 in one day had beep 7 taken out of some of them. Rich discoveries were continually being made. A RECENT Fort Sully speeial says the Indians who were into* fight with Cbster's troops assert that hi* remains were shockingly mutilated, his heart torn out," placed on the end of a pole and a war-dance hqid around it. and that the Chief RaiuJn-the-Face still possession of it Bishop Cheney has been elected Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bishop Cummings. At a special election held on the 12th Monty* Heath (Rep.) wa* elected Mayor of Chicago by a majority of about B,oooover two opposing candidates. In Chicago, on the 12th, Spring wheat, No. 2, dosed at 26K098c. cash. Cash corn closed at 46Xc for No. 2. Cash pat* No. 2 sold options were sold ch«xk»>eeves brought »4A0®5.00; medium grades, *4.2504.50; butchers’ stock, *3.000 3.75; stock cattle, etc., *3.0003.75.' Hogs brought *8.3006.85 for good to choice Sheep (shorn) sold at *3.5004 00 for good to choice. ■ ■ _ DOKUGN INTEUJGKIVCtt. Gbn. Santa Anna, ex-President of died at his residence in the City of Mexico, on the 20th nit, aged eighty-four years. '?*s In Switzerland, on the 7th, two passenger railway teains collided between Berne and Lausaunne. Both engines and a number of coache* were demolished, and ten persons were killed.

Dispatches received in N«w York on the I Bth sav it wa* reported by the United States ' Consul at Sun Domingo that an Insult was recently offered the United States flag at I dhuhmoit, Be troop*«f the Ilaytiengfiovfrn■he proto'-*^’ ll of Hair, from thMteatner f Sem|jn fronljir fern [of Austria) on the 9th announces the defeat !of the Servians under Gen. Ollmpics. A Vicuna dispatch of tire same date state* that the Servian* had been defeated in every engagement so far. Bjitena several thou- i -sand -Servian* arc reported to have been , FYWltoij The MlqUter of War J had taken personal command ot the army I intko field. A Belgrade dispatch totkeLonof the 9tb says the Servians had fought ten engagements during the preceding eigtil days, and had lost 5,000 men. I Fifty-two houses in the village of Elgg, Switzerland, were Im med on the 9th. Several persons are reported to have perished in the fiaihes. A German squadron left Salonica on the 10th with *ealed.orden to be opened at sea. A CfOqstantipople dispatch of thb 10th reports that a great battle had been fought at Pirot on that day. The Turkish army had been withdrawn from Saikchar, having failed to force the position and their flanks being threatened. • Advices were at Ragusa from Turkish sources, on the 11th, stating that a severe )>a)tki had bee* fought at Podgoritza the Turkish regulars and 5,000 Montenegfflis, In which the latter sustained a crush|ng defeat, losing 400 killed and 400 wounded. A Turkish gunboat had shelled the town- of Novbselo, which had been previously captured by the Servians. The Khedive of Egypt had sent 8,600 men to Constantinople and would Increase the contingent to 10,000,' ■' A Paris dispatch of the same date announces the capture of Ssilschar, and states that the Servians were hemmed in between two Turkish armies, with a prospect of ultimate capture. According to Sclavonic advices of the 12th, a force of 5,000 Turks had suffered defeat on the preceding day in an attack on th* villages of Kergueze and Techza, and been compelled to embark on steamers on the of Scutari! The Turkish loss was 400 and that of the Montonegrins 100. Sixty Serfiahfe belonging to one regiment had been shotfor’eowardice at Nlsch. A Constantinople dispatch of (Ito 12th says 'Hiykey had defaulted again in the payment WtM July iiitereston her public debt. A London dispatch of the 10th announces the failurq pt n Edward Cooke, a stockbroker, with liabilities of *680,000 and assets amounting to *42,000. According to an Edinburgh (Scotland) dispatch of the 12th, Disraeli, the British Prime Minister, had taken the direction of foreign affairs, to a large extent, into his own hands. CONGRESSIONAL. A resolution was adopted in the Senate. on the 6th. providing for a committee of three Senators to investigate the character, extent and efibet of the Chinese immigration to this country, with power to visit the Pacific coast for that purpose. such committee to report at the next session of Congress. The Impeachment trial was then resumed, and Manager Lynde opened the ease on the part of the prosecution. Eight witnesses answered to their names when the list wiis called. An objection was offered to any evidence on the gtbnnd that there could bt> no legal conviction, one-third of the Senate having already deterifiined that the defendant was not. when im peached, a civil officer of the Government, which objection was overruled by a unanftnous vote. Foabor five witnesses were then examined....ln the lipuse, the Geneva Award bill was passed—loß to *.H. A'new Conference Committed was appointed on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, the former committee having been unable to agree. Conference Committees were also appointed »n the Sundry Civil Appropriation and the Silver bHls. The Senate joint resolution : for the completiolAof the Washington Monument was passed uuanjtpously. Bills were passed in the Senate, on the 7th to provide for the”' sale of the Fort Kearney military reservation in Nebraska; to remove the political disabilities of Gen. P. O. T. Beauregard, ot New Orleans. A resolution was adopted requesting the Pr sident to inform the Senate whether the Sioux Indians made any hostile demonstrations prior to the invasion of the treaty reservation by gold hunters, andf*Fwhat purpose the present military operations are being conducted -whether for protecting the InOMns in their treaty right, or for punishing them for resisting the violation of the treaty between them and the Government. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was ffisenssed, tad a new Conference Committee was appointed. A Conference Committee was appointed on the Sundry k Civil Appropriation bill. The Impeachment trial ‘was proceeded with..‘..Bids"were passed ia the Rouse—relieving the State of Kansas from charges on accfmnt dr Ordnance stores furnished to the Territory of Kansas; Senate bill providing that the rank of Paymaster-General shall be that of Brigadier-General i providing for the repeal of all lbws anthorffttng thb appointment of civil engineers in the navy; torequire the Pacific Railroad Conrpanies to Create * linking fond to reimburse the united States. A Conference Committee was appMrted on" the SandTy Civil Appropriation bill. W the Senate oa the Bth, the bills contiuuing for ten days the act recently passed to prortde temporarily for the expenditures of the Govfor the same time the act authorizing the Congressional printer to continue foe* publie printing, were passed. A bin ,r <ro2 cotrtpreuon O' tne wMmugion Monument. IMO Impeachment trial waaresumed, and further testimony taken... .In the House, several private bills sm&. * North Platte River and east of the summit of the Big Horn Mountain, In Wyoming Territory, open unexpected death. o f his colleague. Mr. Parsons, ahd a committee was ordered and appointed to sn- ' ftaeral and rttend the remains to In the Senate, on the 10th, the House bill to continue for ten days longer (he tat to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Governmentfes jMssed. The Impeachment trial &KS7B»«’fc’®SFd3eS*K ten days longer tbeOOt defraying temporarily the ordinary ano necessary expenses of "the Government, and also continuing for the same length of time the bill allowing public printing to be carried on. A reeolntion was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for information in regard to the origin anti object of the military expedited against the Indians, and for copies of the official ordew relating thereto. Announcement was made of Mr. Blaine’s resignation as a member pf the ObMimittflfe w— appointed on the Conenlar and Dinlomatic bill. Adjpurned to the jpnendmente to the bill to amend Jibe Bankrupt act were disagreed to tn the ‘ Senate|bß>tte 11th. and a Conference Committee waa appointed. In the Belknap Impeachment trial tire witnesses examined were Messrs. Caleb P Marsh, H. 8- Brinkerhoff, Gen. W. B. Hazen, and Heister Clymer. ...House not in session. Thk credentials of James G. Blaine, appointed as Senator to succeed Lot M. Morrill o Maine, resigned, were presented In the Senate, on the 12th. The prosecution closed its evidence in the Impeachment trial, and several witnesses were sworn for the defease.... In the Honso, a resolution was adopted on the Louisiana contested election case, declaring Darrell, the sitting member,’ entitled to tbe seat. Bills were passed—providing for the sale of the Fort Kearney military reservation in Nebraska; Senate bill providing for the sale of a portion of the reservations of the confederated Oteo and Missouri Indians of Kansas and Nebraska: relating to the promotion of Commodores on the retired list in the navy. A resolution waa adopted declaring Mr. Schenck’s connection

with the Emma mine tranvactlons. while United States Minister to England, a* 111-advised, nnfortuuate and inconipatirhj with the dtttiee of his poeitiun. f

The Massacre of Custer and His Men.

The With Uta Indian Ktpc<l*Sßf ielegT*«B totliatuwpot the f(tilowitafparti ( ®]an^leanted/>n Uta arrival of flelk Terry’* forces M ÜBaceita' of the carnage: At an early hour the head of the column entered a plain half a mile the left bank of the. Little Big Horn, where had recently been an immenae Indian Village, extending ( throe railea along the at ream, and where were still standing ruderal lodges with lW?£B«laughten:d arppnd them and Bodies or nine chiefs. The ground wa* strewn everywhere with carcasses of horses, cavalry equipments, beside* buffalo robes, packages of dried meat and weapons and utensil* belonging to Indians. On this part of the field were found the clothing ot L<eut«, Sturgis and Porter, pierced with bullets, and a blood-stained gauntlet belonging to Col. Yates. Further on were found the bodies of men, among whom were recognized Lieut. Mdhtosh, the interpreter from Fort Rice, and Reynolds, the guide. Just then a breathless scout arrived with the intclligcncc that Col. Reno, with a remnant of the eventh Cavalry, was entrenched on a bluff near by, waiting for relief. The command pushed rapidly on, and soon came in sight of a group surrounding a cavalry guard upon * lofty eminence on the right bank of the river. Gen. Terry forded the stream, accompanied by a small party, and rode to the spot. All the way the slopes were dotted with the bodies of men and horses. The General approached, and the men swarmed out of the works and greeted him with hearty and repeated cheers. Within was found Reno, with the remains of seven companies of the regiment, with the following named officers, all of whom are unhurt: Cols. Benteen and Wler; Cants. Felix Maylan and McDougal; Lieut*. Godfrey, Mathey, Gibson, Die Rudid, Edgerly, Wallace, Varnum and Hare. In the center of the inclosure was a depression in the surface, in which the wounded were sheltered, covered with canvas. Reno’s command had been fighting from Sunday noon (the 25th) until the night of the 26th, when Terry’s arrival caused the Indians to retire. Up to this time Reno and those with him were in complete ignorance of the fate of the other five companies, which had been separated from them early on the 25th to make an attack under Custer on the village at another point. While preparations were being made for the removal of the wofrnded, a party was sent on Custer’s trail to look for traces of his command. They found awaiting them a sight fit to appall the stoutest heart. At a point about three miles downi the right pank of the stream. Gutter had evidently attempted to ford and attack the village from the ford. The trail was found to lead back up to the bluffs and io the northward, as if the troops had been repulsed and compelled to retreat, and at the same time had been cut off from regaining the forces under Reno. The bluffs along the right bank come sharply down to the water, and are interspersed by numerous ravines all along the slopes ana ridges, and in the ravines lay tho dead arranged in order of battle, lying as they had fought, line behind line, showing where defensive positions had been successively taken iip and held till none were left to fight. Then huddled in a narrow compass, horses and men were piled promiscuously. At the highest point of the ridge lay Custer, surrounded by a chosen band. Here were his two brothers and his nephew, Mr. Reed, Cols. Yates and Cooke and Capt. Smith, all lying in a circle of a few yards, their horses beside them. Here, behind Yates’ company, the last stand had been made, and here, one after another, these last survivors of Custer’s five companies h«d met their death. The companies had suc- , cessively thrown themselves across the path of the advancing enemy, and had been annihilated. Not a man has escaped to tell the tale, but it was inscribed on the surface of these barren hills in a language more eloquent than words. Two hundred and sixty-one bodies have been buried from Custer’s and Reno’s command. The last one found was that of Mr. Kellogg, correspondent of the Bismarck Tribune, ana also, I believe, of the New York Hn-alit. The following are the names of the officers whose remains are recognized: Gen. Custer; Col’s Keogh, Yates, Custer, Cooke; Capt. Smith; Lieut’s Mclntosh, Calhoun. Hodgson and Reilly. All of these belonged to the Seventh Cavalry. Lieut. Crittenden, of the Twentieth Infantry, who was serving temporarily with the regiment. Lieut’s Porter, Sturgis and Harrington and Ass’t-Surgeon Lord are reported missing, as their remains were not recognized; but there is small ground to hope that any of them survived, as it is obvious that the troops were completely, surrounded by a force of ten times their number.

The Railroad Bobbery in Missouri.

The statement of Mr. Conkling, the bag-gage-master, is probably as clear as any that could be obtained. He says that the train left Otterville, a little town 175 miles from St. Louis, at a few minutes after ten o’clock, and made fair time on the down grade which extends several miles east from there. As the train entered a long, deep cut known as Rocky Cut, about two and one-half miles east of Otterville, the engmeer suddenly caught siglit of a signal light. Not suspecting anythihg more serious than an obstruction on the track, the engineer put on the air-brakes and reversed his engine. The distance was so short, however, that the train did not stop Until the engine reached A piled, ties tlrnt lay across the track a little' east of where the light had been. The engine climbed up on the ties, rising fully ten inches off the track, and then stopped and of its own weight settled back upon tlie track. The first intimation of mischief which the passengers had was a demoniac yell" from fifteen ot twenty men; and a large number of, pistol-shots, given before the train had 'arrived at a halt. In less than a moment the report went through all the cars that the highway robbers had possession. The scene was then Wild. Women shrieked, tome fainted, and many bf the men crawled down under the seats of the cars. Some began to take out their money and jewelry for the purpose of hiding it under the seats, but others, seemingly utterly paralyzed, remained in their seats, blanched and-trembling. Meanwhile the yells and pistol shots were continued without, and the passengers had every reason to believe that a massacre was in progress. Although there were probably fifty revolvers among the passengers, nobody seemed to have a thought of organizingk defense. Tne end doors of the express car were closed and locked,’ but the side doors, as usual in summer, were open. The express messenger, Bushnell, was among the first to take in the situation, and before the train stopped he dashed through the cars to the rear sleeper, and giving the key to his safe to a brakeman there, made him put it in his shoe. The wheels had hardly stopped turning when two men, with navy revolvers/ jumped upon the engine, and covering the engineer and fireman with their weapons, suggested very quietly that they had better remain passive. The suggestion was acted upon, and the engineer and fireman were marched into the baggage car and kept under guard. At the same instant that the engine was boarded, three men were lifted upon the shoulders of others to the side door of the express car. So cooly desperate were they that they seemed to care nothing for the

ruk of thus lioMly oferjny th* Offtm <hwr way. Tlie express messenger, ah before stated, had fled, but Conkling, the bag-gage-master, wa* in the car. They at oncjLtookcharge of tlia exprfe key's wen* Jleßaid Sat IM did not liave them. They sMvhefo jiiinß and not |B<ling the keys,jFe«rke<!ihat li witaid pdrimps be bettlr ror linn if Ke tolß wM&e tliev were to betfeindPWe anoe* at the villainous-looking shooting irons, and said that he guessed the messenger had the key*. ere is tho mesßcn- 1 ger?” was the next question. He said the messenger hail just stepped aft. They placed Conkling in front of one of the nnvie< ami nyd.ed him along very calmly tlwough the car*. requesting that he point oat the ocreas messenger whenever he should come to him. As tne quartette passed throug* the cars with ugly masks and their gleaming revolvers, the effect op the passengers seemed very depressing. , They sat like statue* in their seats, and those who were snugly cuddled up under the foot-reste did not, seem to takesuffleient interest ihthe proceedings to poke out their head* and lootc. The scene wa* in striking, contrast with outside, whore the pistols continued to pop and thd[robbers to yell. The men found the agent in the rear car, and Conkling pointed him out. One of them remarked sententiously to Mr. Bushnell, at the same time diverting his revolver that way, “ Give us the keys, my Christian friend, and be quick about it.” The remark was very effective, and the brakeqian's shoe soon yielded up the keys. Ohe man remained as a guard over the agent, while the other two marched Conkling back to the express car. The fellow in the sleeper marched up and down occasionally, with Bushnell in front of him, and terrorized the passengers most painfully. Afl he wa* going to the forward end of the ckr on one occasion, the negro porter remarked, in a suppressed voice: “If any of you gents has got a revolver, now’s a bully chance to pop that fellow backet the head.” One of the suffering travelers immediately broke out in mortal terror: “Sh—h—h! Don’t get us all killed.” The men who went forward opened the Adams Express Company’s safe, and the entire contents were indiscriminately dumped into" a long wheat sack which had been brought for the purpose. ’lt was found that none of tiie keys would lit the other safe, and an active little man whd seemed to be a sort of inside manager, and who, by the way, was the only small man in the entire crowd, rail forward to the engine and got a pick, with which he attacked one of the panels of the safe. Ik struck several blows that were not very effective, when an immense fellow who was with him stepped forward, seized the pick, and with ti)e blows of a Hercules soon broke a hole thd 'pafiel. He | then squeezed his hand through, the hole was so small that he only tor* off a lot of skin, without getting any boto-„ He then drew his hand out with an oath, and the little man burst out laughing at him. “Let me get at it,” said he,^yl t wear a number Seven glove, and botWffe hands will go where one of your mauleffi wont.” He soon relieved the safe of W entire contents, which were emptied into the sack. , They then seized the newsboy’s chest, and breaking it open, took everything that they cared for. The stable* seemed right in hand, and in a moments all of them were munching cakes, apples or candies. The robbers next seized the JA K. and T. letter-box and broke it open, Mattering the letters and papers all over the car, but finding nothing that they wanted. They next proceeded to the Adam* express freight car, but found nothing that was valuable and portable therein. Having now completed their search, one of them suggested that they search and rob all of the passengers, but the leader very promptly rebuked him, commanding Xhe men not to touch a passenger under any consideration, as they had secured enough without going to that extreme. While all this was going on within, one stalwart fellow was parading on either side of the train, calling out to his comrades who lined the top of the banks on both sides of the cut, to shoot the head off of any one who might stick his head out of the window. It could be seen, 100, that there were men up there to obey the command, even,, though the occasional shoot ing and almost continuous yelling did not preveit. At tlie time this injunction was first delivered, the plucky little newsboy had fired his little pop-gun of at revolver through one of the wmdows, and tlie robbers laughed at it as though it were a huge joke, one of them remarking: “Hearthat little thing bark.” The shooting, of which there was so much, seemed to be entirely for the purpose of intimidation, as nobody -wis hurt. From all the circumstances, it would seem that there were not so many men as the passengers were led to believe, hut that the loud orders and much shooting intended to keep up appearance#. Having finished their work, the little/ man shouldered the well-filled wheat-bag, and the crowd started off with a goodbye, boys.” They stopped long«nough, however, to tell the baggageman that it would be well for him to go back some distance and< remove the obstructions that had been placed there, as they might make mischief to the next train. The conductor, baggageman and one qr two others acted on this, and.going back a quarter of a mile, found a very sqlidand well-arranged wrecking trap, which. t*ey dismembered. While there they could hear the robbers talking and laughing a* they went over the hill half a mile away. The engineer and fireman resumed their the train, after a delay of an hour and ten minutes, started for St. Louis.— St. Loui» Republican, July 9. —An agonizing occurrence is reported by the Port Jervis (N. Y.) Gazette: A fanner, Horace Miner, wa* chopping in the wood* near Waymart AX noon hi* ■wife carried his dinner to him. He was engaged felling a tree wheft she arrived at the spot, and she stood near waiting for him to get through. She had in her arms a child a few months old. The tree in falling lurched in the direction of Mrs. Miner, and before she could get out of the way it came crashing upon her, one of the largest branches Striking her and pinning bom her and her child to the earth. Miner ran to tlie spot. He could not see his child, but hia wife wa* lying with her face turned up, and gasping in- death. Miner at once set to work to extricate hia wife and child from their terrible position. The branch of the tree lay across Mrs. Miner, and it was evident the child was beneath the mother. The husband, to extricate his wife and child, was compelled to cut away the branch, which was seven inches through, and before he had finished the task he saw his wife die before his eyes. He removed her body from beneath the tree, and found his child crushed to death, having been pressed deep into the ground. The husband,' almost frantic, took both bodies in his arms and carried them a mile through the woods to his home.

Nominal and Real Wages.

By nominal wages is meant the sum nt money which tlie laborer receives from his ,c " or ' < a a week, a okitM as the case may be, or which Ire reAves for wo|k when done by tha pieceS The value of this money to him upon tire comforts, necessaries, or immries that he can buy with it. He works for money and is paid in money; yet he expects speedily to spend the money TOT "bls f -vn support, or tnoPof his family, or tha. of both- Jlja money-wages are turned into tjiejifeus. of'fi«Jng, and these means, consisting in tlie food ha the clothes iw puiclmeti? tte lodging for which bc an< l OIC fuel thut Warm* him—tiie things which he edhsumes or his real wages. The money received for his work is .aimnjy.theinqjium by which hekecureS' these 1 cbmfbrt*. ’ ‘ If he earns more money than he Gifts ipends, what he saves and perhaps put to interest is still a medium of securing future comforts. His saving haarofarenceJta future wants, just as his current expenditure refers topresent wants, In both cases money yisiuiply a means to an end. Whether, thyn, the laborer receives high or low wages in the real stmae,cannot be determined by merely computing the amount of money paid to him for tlie work of a day, a wqek, or a monffi. The purchasing power of tlie money in his hands is to him a very material question. If we suppose his nominal wages to be doubled, and that the prices of the commodities that he must buy for his own consumption and that of his family are also doubled, then the nominal increase of his wages would be of no advantage to him. What he gains by this increase he loses by a corresponding increase of prices. His labor has no increased purchasing power. So, if his nominal wages were reduced onehalf, and prices were to sink in the same proportion, he would lose nothing by the change. What he lost by the decrease of wages he would gain by tlie doorcase of prices, or the increase iu tha’ purchasing power of money. We see abonce that, in respect to the wages question, the character of the money in circulation among the [people is matter of tlie most vital importance to the laboring class. If the money, owing to its character and the great facility of incyeasing’the supply, has an exceedingly fluctuating value, as expressed in prices, wjijch is always jeasq with irredeemabte interest is more seriously RSsCttd than that of those who are the labor and have nothing else tojßffl’. The general fact, as shown by tee history of all such money is that the prices or commodities rise more rapidly and fluctuate more violently than wages or the nominal price of labor. ■■■■nriMlidtefe in wages tojljow the thfo so ( ‘ s ” 9 ' cilfetesnafply libbr is anvays plleed at a disiflvantage. The laborer cannot wait to take advantage of Uiese . oSciJlations in prfCes He must Rell his jlabor at once; had then he must at once spend tire largest part, if not all, of his for his sup--.-Ws earnings must, be jmoed into the means of living. Honest money; stable money; money that by r a natural law graduates the supply to tlie demand; money that is pot only flw product pte but whose exchange value is baser! on and measured by that labor ; money that feints toward an equilibrium' between prices and wages—this is the kind of money that best serves the interests of the laboring class. When they receive it they have a guaranty that their nominal wages and real wages will maintain a due proportion to eaeli other. The experience of the yioj^L,has- long since settled the question tliatjinaney, in order to possess these characteristics, must consist of the precious These metals furnish the value;, and, if a paper circulationjie. added thereto, as tlie means of econouiizingjts power and prompting tlie copveniepce of the people, it tausf at the'/iption of tte hold-' er, be convertible into a value ftrorency, or it will become itself the source great evils. • , There is no class in the conftnunity more interested than the laboring hlass in getting rid of the system of Irredeemable paper money. Most of them probably do not understand the relations between this money and the wages question. Yet, if they did understand the facts as they really exist, and as they affect their interests, not one of them would be found among the inflationists or vote rtffh any j)arty not thoroughly committed to the policy of specie payment? Paper money is a curse to every man who ’Works for wages and needs to consume his Wages in carrent expenses.— New Yorlc'independ■ita. *■'-’• , ► I <4 MW ~' -I ■■ MS A gentleman of this city related to us a day or twp'fece following circumstance. He‘stated that week "while walking in hi* a p o ] e on which he had placed a box for the accommodation of tte Mack maraas during their annual visits, Ke observed teat they were flying around in rather a strange and confused manner, frequently, fluttering down almost to the ground, then rising again and circling about the box. Stopping a flew moments to watch them he ob served, sitting among some raspberry vines, a house-cat intently eying the birds hud making that peculiar mQ(iop frith its tail which it always does wfieiLV»tching for its prey. The martins becatee more and more noisy with their chattenlgs and more rapid ip their gyrations around the spot where puss had seated toarself, frequently al&ost flying Within ner reach. Finally one alighted on the ground a foot or two fiffm her, and with a sudden spring she seized it and made off to eat it at her leisure. The gentleman is satisfied that the bird was charmed, and that -his cat had a martin for his breakfasteverd.morning.—Eufaula (Cal.) Nm». The Panama Star and that the circulation of counterfeit American half eagles ha* been more eilehSWe than was generally supposed. These rourious coins are said to be of such perfedt workmanship as to deceive the most acute observer. On May 25 the Governor of Panama, with a body of police, went on board a steamer in the harbbr find succeeded in capturing three offte* most exTom total value a oft farm product*, inchteteg antajririlßns to sat XMiOTBof K aggregate are credited are: Illinois, *210,0M.000; New York, S1®;000,000; Ohio, *198,000,000, and Pennsylvania, *183,000,- - Thirty millions of rabbits are con' sumed annually in The fur ia largely used In the-manufacture of silk hats. What’s the difference between all night revelersand those who retire early ? The ones sin-till-early, the othxrs scintillate-