Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1877 — Page 2

The Bcosadaer Union. . • INDIANA.

General News Summary.

President Hatk and hi. party reached on the evening of the Mlh, from lhair Now England trip. Ex-Gov. Wilu and Gen. Aadenon, of the Returning Board, arrtvad at Washington on the IMA. They nM their rlilt And no COanncUoo with the Information filed agalaat tAem In New Orleans. a L. SruriOK, son Of the lata Secretary Stanton, died la Washington, on the 29th, A Wasm Moron dispatch of the 2Mb says Gan. Terry haring brought Information that Sttttag 8011, with warriors, was in csmp this side of the British Uaes, sU proceedings la regard to selecting a commission to arrange tor Als return to the United States had been suspended for the present. A WasmHeroic special of the Slat ult. soys that Sec’y McCrary and others at the War Department did not believe the report that Sitting Ball had left Canada and was advancing to meet Chief Joseph. Neither flea. Sherman nor Gen. Sheridan placed faith hi the statements of Gen. Miles’ scouts, sad were of the opinion that the rumors In regard to Bitting Ball’s return may have been heard upon the movements of a small band of hla warriors. _____ TUB BAST. Mono was transmitted distinctly over the etegraph wires from New fork City to Hartford, Conn., and back, a distance of 340 miles, on the 20th, while testing the new Edison telephone. A Pmnrow (Pa.) telegram of the 27th says the Pennsylvania Coal Company’s miners had resolved to resume labor when they were allowed 10 per cent, advance A call has been issued for a State Republican Nominating Convention to meet at Rochester, N. T-, on the 20th of September. Tn New Jersey Republican* will meet in State Convention at Tienton on the 25th of September. Tn Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar tn session at Cleveland, on the 2»lh, elected Dr. Vincent L. Hurlbut, of Chicago, Moat Eminent Grand Commander of the Knighte Templar of the United States, and selected Chicago » tj» e place for holdingthe next Triennial Conclave. Gold closed In New Tork, on Aug. Slat, at The following were the closing quotation* for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, (New), $1.28J<«1.30; No. 2, Milwaukee, (New), $1.21. Oats, Western and State, 28435 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 58 456 c. Pork, Mess, $13.10. Lard, S&BS. Flour, good to choice, $5.70<g6.10; Winter Wheat, $6.1506.75. Cattle, 9*@l2c for good to extra. Sheep, [email protected]. Hogs, [email protected]. At East Liberty, Pa., on Aug. 81st, Cattle brought: Best, $6 [email protected]; Medium, $5.00 @5.75; Common, [email protected]. flogs sold —Porkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia®, $5.50 @sd6o. Sheep brought [email protected] to quality. . At Baltimore, Kd., on Aug. 31st, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, $3.25 @4£V Hogs sold at [email protected] for Good. Bheep were quoted at [email protected] for Good.

WBT AND NOTH. ■ Two n*ANB of the eastern end of the Union Pacific bridge, at Omaha, were -blown down by a whirlwind, on the night of the 25th. John Pierson, the watchman at that end of the structure, was carried down the embankment, but not ao badly injured b t that he attempted, soon after the accident, to signal the w.tchman at the other end of the bridge to stop a train which was to start across the bridge at four o’clock a. m. Falling to get any response to his signal, be crossed the river in a boat during the storm, and reached Omaha In time to slop the train. The damage to the bridge was estimated at over SIOO,OOO, and it will take three months’ time to repair it. Txw dead body of the daughter of 8. C. Rose, of Washington Oonnty, Neb., who disappeared mysteriously, on the 14th, under circumstance* suggesting a second Charlie Rom ease, was discovered in Davis Creek, two miles from her father’s house, on the 26th. Can. Wilkinson, an aide of Gen. Howard, telegraphed from Lewiston, Idaho, on the 24th, to the effect that the council with the Northern Indians had been quite successful, all the Chiefs haring signed an agreement that they would go on the reservations designated. The Indians seemed peaceably disposed, and it was thought there would be no further occasion for apprehend. Ing hostilities from those tribes. A dispatch was received by Gen. Gibbon, at Fort Ellis, MonL, on the 27th, from Lieut Schofield, stating that the Nes Perces, under Chief Joseph, had, on the 24th, attacked a party and killed seven men, and captured two women and one man. Of another party attacked by them, nine were kilted and one escaped. The main camp of the Indians had crossed the Tellowetone, the warriors going back, on the 25th, to fight Gen. Howard. Tn Illinois State Savings Institution, at Chicago, suspended on the 28th, an assignment of the bank being made to Col. Abner Taylor. The liability to abont 14,000 depositor* is nearly $3,000,000, and the assets are said to be comparatively valueless, although on the face they nearly equal the liabilities. A statement of the condition of the affairs of the bank would be made as soon as an examination could be had. Tn lowa Democratic State Convention met at Marshalltown on the 29th, and nominated, by acclamation, John P. Irish for Governor; C. C. James for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor; N. E. J. Boardman for Supreme Judge, and G. D. Culle-on for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform adopted dedans in favor of a tariff for revenue only; the Immediate repeal of the Resumption act; the remonetisation of sliver; against further contraction and in favor of the retention of a greenback currency, and its substitution for National Bank bills; and congratulate* the country upon the acceptance, by the present National Administration, t 4 the Constitution a and padfle policy of Ideal self-government in the Bouthern States, ao long advocated by tbe Democratic party. The resolutions adopted also declare that TUden and Hendricks were duly elected President and Vice-President; favor a repeal of the Prohibitory Liquor law •<tn« State; Met that the righto of capital and labor are equally sound and alike entitled to legal protection, etc., etc. Bnionax Youwo died at Salt Lake city, on toe afternoon of the jßtb, after a six days’ Illness of cholera morbus. He was seventysi* yean of age, and had been President of the Mormon Church done 1644. The Church will bo managed by « quorum of the Twelve WMrdMMM. * e ° at * l * DCt Uheld “ nd A vwnNiwiD accident occurred on the Chicago, Bock Island A Pacific Railroad, abont seven miles from DeaMolnea. on toe morning of ton 20th. by which several lives wen toil, nod many other peraona received aeriona Injuries. A sodden rise In the east toaoch of Four Mile Creek had, it aoema, Bttdennioed the foundation* of the railroad

bridge over that stream and a portion of the structure had given away during the night, leering, the rails In position. The weatbound express came along about halfpast two In the morning and passed on to the bridge or culvert, when the engine, Baruum’s advertising car, the baggage, mall and throe passenger can went Into the stream, a distance down of twenty feet, and Were almoet completely demolished. The eceae at the time of tbe accident Is tald to have been terrific, the rain falling Id torrents, accompanied by wind, lightning and thunder. Up to the night of the 29th, twenty dead bodies had been taken from the wreck, and forty or fifty other persons were seriously or slightly Injured. Thu Chicago Interstate Exposition was fonnslly opened on the evening of the 29th. Thu Virginia Conaervatlve State Committee have selected Gen. James G. Field as candidate for Attorney General, and the Governor has appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Atty.-Gcn. Daniels, who was the Democratic candidate for reflection. Ton Grand Jury, at Columbia, 8. C., on the 29th ult, found true bills against ex LleuL-Gov. Gresvcs, ex-Treasurcrs Parker and Cardoaa, ex-Comptrolleri Dunn and Hoge, ex-Bpcaker Lee, and others, on various charges of fraud In connection with the discharge of their official duties. Ex-CoNrxDKitATi Admiral. Bemmes died at Port Clear, Ala., on the morning of the 30th ult. Thk Minnesota Republican Convention, for the nomination of a Slate ticket, la to be held at St Paul, on the 27tb Inst Bknator Morton was reported to be still improving, on the SOth ult, and his complete recovery was confidently looked for by his phyalciaus. Thr eight men condemned to from two to four months’ Imprisonment and a fine of fifty dollar* each, for Interfering with the operation of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railroad, were discharged from further durance by Judge Drummond, at Chicago, on. the 2Utb ult, on entering into bonds to keep the peace for one year.

Ex-Gov. Wilson Shannon died at Lawrence, Kan., on tbe night of the SOth ult Tun excitement In Chicago caused by the failure of the State Savings Institution continued on the SOth ult, large numbers of depoeltors congregating on the street in front of the bank building, and freely commenting on the outrageous swindle which had been perpetrated upon them, and showing bv their words and manner that, if they could have got hold of the absconding President, Spencer, or Cashier, Guild, they would have dealt with them In a summary manner. Some of the scenes and Incidents among the impoverished patrons of the defunct Institution are described as being pathetic and affecting in the extreme. Very many, including worklngwomen and laboring men with large families, had deposited their small savings during years of hard labor and close economy, in the bank, having implicit falt’i in its solvency, only to find, as the truth leaks out, that they have been systematically and unmercifully robbed of tbe profits of their toll and privations, and that, too, at a time when they need It most for the support of selves and families. The whereabouts of Spencer and Guild still remained a mystery, and Bulkley, tbe Assistant Cashier, who had much to do with the management of tbe bank, bad also failed to put in an appearance, and could not be found They have doubtless left for parts unknown. Tbe investigation into the bank affairs bad so far developed evidence of deliberate swindling on the part of the management. What percentage would be realized by depositors was still, on the SOth, a matter of conjecture, but it would be small, indeed. The dallv papers of the city are very severe In their strictures upon the management of the bunk, and especially upou the absconding officers, who seem to have deliberately laid their plans to leave tbe city before tbs final crash came. Runs were taking place on other savings banks in the city, but confidence seemed to be felt in business circles that no further failures would take place.

Ten blocks of business houses and dwellings in Paris, Tex., were destroyed by fire, on the 81st ult. Three hotels, the Postofflce, telegraph and express offices, were among the buildings burned. Many families were rendered homeless. Several lives were reported lost, but only one body had been found. Loss estimated at $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. It is said that a man named Taylor started the fire by pouring oil on the floor of a saloon and igniting it, remarking that he would burn the town. He was arrested and lodged in jail. "On the 90th ult, at Ossawatomie, Kan., the monujnent to John Brown was formally dedicated. Senator Ingalls delivered the dedicatory addre.-s, and Messrs. Haskell, Clark, Anthony and others, made short speeches. About 10,000 persons participated in the ceremonies. In Chicago, on Aug. 81st, Spring Wheat No. 2, closed at [email protected] cash. Cash corn ?«t(feed at 42%c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 aold at 23t£c; and 23j£c seller September. Rye No. 2, 52%c. Barley No. 2 (New), September delivery, 67(g 68c. Cash Mess Pork closed at $12.25. Lard, $8.20. Beeves—Extra brought $5.60@600; Choice, [email protected]; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.25@ 4.25; Butchers’ Stock, DO; StockCattle, etc., $2.75(83.50. Hogs brought [email protected] for Good to Choice. Sheep aold at $3.50(g4.25 for Poor to Choice.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. According to London dispatches of the 27th, the Russians, since crossing the Danube, bad lost, from sickness and the casualties of war, the enormous aggregate of 50,000 mien. Thb famine in India has already cost the Indian Government £8,000,000, and is now involving a monthly expenditure of £500,000. An extraordinary session of the Servian Skuptchina has been convoked, to decide definitively between war and continuance of neutrality. A London telegram of the 27th says Gladstone had written lelters to a Greek merchant In Constantinople, urging the Greeks to nnite with the Sclavs in an attack on Turkey. There was ereat excitement throughout Great Britain in consequence. A Paris dispatch of the 27tb says the French Ministry had resolved to prosecute Gambetta Before the Tribunal at Lille, for insulting President MacMahon and his Cabinet. Their was great excitement through out France, and it was feared that revolution would be precipitated. Tbs Army and Xaty Journal says Osman Pasha, the Victor in the Plevna battles, Is none other than ex-Marshal Bar&lne, of France, who was in command at the Gravelotte Battle, in the Franco-German War. Russian dispatches of the 97th state that the Russian troops still retained possession of Schipka Pass, and had not yielded an inch of their original position. The hills about the Pass were covered with Turkish dead, and It was believed the Turkish losses during the eight days’ fighting bad exceeded the Russian losses at Plevna. According to Pesth specials of the 28;h, the Bosnian insurgents had been totally defeated near Csernypotak and driven across the Austrian frontier. London telegrams of the 28th say the Roumanian Army would hereafter act with the Russians. The Servian Army, numbering 40,000 men. had been ordered to be ready for active service within three days. In several Hungarian Catholic chuff be* U dcumt have been sung «Ad prayers offered

for further Turkish victories. The Vatican haa Instructed the Bishops to prevent this in future. By a fire lu a mine near the City of Mexico, on the 19tb, twenty-four live* were lost and many other peraona were aerousty Injured. | According to a London dispatch of the 29th, the war had already cost Rusal* 800,000,000 rouble*. Thr Porte has directed the concentration of an army of 20,000 men at Timok, on the Servian frontier, and threatens the deposition of Prlnoc Milan If Servla begins war. Thb editor of the Madras Times, under date of Aug. 1, writes that 500,000 peraona bad already died lu Southern India from starvation, and that one-sixth of tbe entire population would die. Da Li’CCa, one of the largest merchants In Rome, Italy, has failed for $400,000, and absconded: A Pnra dispatch of the 31st ult. savs an English officer, just returned from Bchipka, says the loss on both sides from the Turkish assaults upon the Pass would aggregate 20,000 In killed and wounded, and that the dead outnumbered the wounded. Up to that time neither side had gained a substantial advantage from the tremendous sacrifice. The British Consul at Belgrade ha* remonstrated with the Prince of Servla on Its warlike attitude, declaring that, if the Servians be defeated, the Principality would be abandoned to the discretion of Turkey. -ON the 31st ult., Gambctta appeared before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, to answer to the charge of “insultingthe President andCablnctand exciting hatred between citizen*. ”, Thk Journal (In Alpes, a French newspaper, has been summoned before the Correctional Tribunal, for publishing an insulting remark relative to Gen. Grant. The freedom of tbe City of Glasgow was presented to tUe latter on the 31st ult. Shcmla telegrams of tbe 31st ult. announce that the Turks were assuming the offensive along the whole line. They had crossed the River Lorn and, after a brisk engagement lasting nine hours, driven tbe Russians from the right bank. The Turks admit a loss of 3,000 men and claim that the Russians lost 4,000. Prince Charles, of Roumania, baß assumed command of the United Russian and Roumanian Armies, comprising the western detachment An Erzeroum telegram of the 21st ult says tbe Russians had changed front, aud were then between the Turkish Armies and Adrianople. Constantinople dispatches of the 81st ult say the Turks were making supreme efforts to increase their fighting forces, and were quietly, but swiftly, putting every male capable of bearing arms into the army.

Ridicule and Reform in Spelling.

Ridicule is a powerful weapon, and it is as often used in a bad cause as a good revolver is. Indeed, the temptation to use it to further the ends of injustice is supreme, for derision will often serve to discredit an experiment or an opinion where logic would find no room to stand. Thus we see it summoned to promote fraud, hunkerism and retrogression. The Cincinnati Commercial turns it agaiifet the commendable movement to reform the barbarous spelling of the English language. Here the weapon is very effective, and is so simple that a child can fire it off. “ What can be thought of a mode of spelling,” says the facetious Commercial, “in which ‘come’ appears as * kum,’ and ‘ knowledge ’ takes tiie form of ‘ nolej! ’ ” And the question seems by the querist to be settled, and the projected reform overthrown forever. The Commercial reproduces some specimens of the proposed alphabets, applied to a paragraph, in order to ridicule their grotesqueness, and this is aggravated by numerous typographical errors, averaging about one for each three words. The effect thus becomes very ludicrous indeed.

We arc slaves of the eye. Mr. Robert Bonner recently said, with the sagacity which has given him success, “People cannot bear to change their habits suddenly. For one issue of a paper to look differently from the preceding issue offends the readers—it seems like an intrusion and an insult, and they resent it. Why, sir, I wouldn’t change the title of one of the departments of the Ledger, even for a better one, for $1,000." This characteristic of the human mind is the chief foe of all improvements and all reforms, but preeminently is it an obstruction to the phonetic reform, which appeals to the prejudices of the conservative eye. The abominable and unreasonable “phthisic” seems at sight better than “tizik,” though the former is wildly wrong and the latter precisely right. But if it is true, and it certainly seems to be, that if the language were spelled as it is pronounced, every child would save a year now waited on spelling, to apply it to valuable acquirements; and if it is true that the State would save half the money now spent on primaiy education, is it not worth thinking about ? And is it quite the thing for intelligent journals tc befog their readers by ridiculing it?—W. Y. Oraphic.

The Dreaded Tarantula.

A party of Sacrament&ns returned ■ home last evening from a trip to the mountains, bringing with them two deer skins, one wildcat skin and a few other trophies, including two tarantulas—dead ones. They had a little incident attending the transportation of these specimens which occasioned considerable alarm. It occurred in Cache Creek Canyon, on Wednesday, as they were returning home. The tarantulas, for lack of a better receptacle, were inclosed in a cigar-box when caught, about ten days ago, and this box, carefully tied up, was deposited beneath the seat'of the vehicle. While they were jolting through the canyon the seat slipped and the two men occupying it found themselves dropped suddenly into the bottom of the wagon. One of them struck the cigar-box, crushed it, and immediately felt that something had hurt him. A glance showed him that be was resting on the tarantulas, and, with a yelT of “I’m stung!” he jumpedfrom the wagon, and dashing his hands behind him, as though desirous of lifting himself out of his boots, he bounded wildly along the road, then turned and made for the wagon, shouting to his amazed and alarmed companions: “Whisky! Quick! I’m dying! Why don’t you hurry ?” The other three men—there were four in the party—reached simultaneously for the demijohn, broke off the cork in their haste to pull it out, and in an effort to knock off the neck of the demijohn, to save time, broke the entire concern, and nearly all the contents were lost. About a pint of the liquid was saved, however, and without saying as much as “Here’s leek," the party that was bitten swallowed it. Soon he began to feel belter, and eventually felt % markablr well that it was evident the poison had been forced to succumb. Then the work of straightening up the contents of the wagon was commenced, and the tarantula box was carefully lifted out and examined, when, behokl! the “bugs” were found perfectly lifeless, and so dry and stiff that it was evident that they had been dead more than twenty-four hours, while a couple of tacks in the broken cover of the box conveyed a very good hint as to the naturd of the injury which the bold hunter had suffered. —Sacramento (Cal.) Union. - - -»■« -eAn old tin pan doesn't “point a moral” as often as it “adorns a tail.”—A’orrwUmn Herald.

MIHCELLiNEOUS ITEMS. —You will often have to get round • man in order to get square with him. — l The heaviest crop this year will be the fall elections.— Burlington Hawk-Eye. —Cloves are unopened flowers of a small evergreen tree, that resembles in appearance the laurel. • — l There ia one cord which contains knots that no man can untie, and that!* the cord of wood. —A mosquito cannot fly as high .as an eagle, hut lie cart bully all the Christian graces out of a man a great deal quicker. — Hawk-Eye. —“ Have I not a right to he saucy if I please *”• asked a young lady of an old bachelor. “Yes, if you please, but not if you displease.” — Harper' s Bator says that a refined person can hold an car of green corn np tn the mouth, but only in one hand. The other hand should be reaching out for another ear. The potato bug doesn’t think of his stomach all the time. He is passionately fond of the odor of exquisite flowers, and his favorite resort is in the tuber rows.— Free Brest. —Those who have had faith in Prof .Tice as a weather prophet are completely disgusted. Nearly every prediction he placed on record for J uly turned out a mistake.— Chicago Journal. —Alexander Dumas, the novelist, lately remarked, in Paris, that the reason rich people are not happy is because they do not sufficiently devote their wealth to making others happy. —A small child asked by a Sun-day-School teacher, “ lYliatdid the Israelites do after they had crossed the Red Sea?” answered, “ I don’t know, ma’am, hut I guessed they dried themselves.” —“Well, Mr. Sniffles, have you posted the ledger ?” asked an employer of a new clerk. “Yes, sir,” sail Sniffles; “I’ve posted the ledger, hut it was too big to go into the letter-box, so I had to take it inside.’’ —lt makes a boy heurt-sick as the winter's wood begins to loom up in*Bteadilygrowing piles in the hack yard, and he sees his mother making preparations for organizing him into “a working man's party. ’ ’ — Exchange. —Mr. W. A. Croflut said, in a lecture recently, that the world owed no man a living; on the contrary, the man owed the world for his living; lie owed it for the clothes on his hack; for his hooks; for his culture; for the ages that had preceded him.

—The Maine State bounty of five dollars for every dead hear has not only caused the bringing of many from Canada, hut it is said to have made bear-raising a paying business. The State paid $2,725 In bountica last year, and the supply appears to be increasing. —“ Why,” asked a teacher in the Baptist Buuday School, “did Solomon tell the sluggard to go to the ant ?” “ Because,” said a thirteen-year old boy, “he knew his aunt would have him out at the wood pile or in the onion bed every afternoon as soon as school was out.” — HawkEye. —The question will soon rise what are wetodriuk? Mr. Gout'll and Mr. Murphy say wc must not drink malt or spirituous liquors. Dio Lewis ravs coffee and tea are poisonous. The New York papers graphically describe the perils of drinking the milk for sale in that city, aud all the medical papers together with the journals of Cincinnati warn a thirsty nubile agains the deceptive attractions of ice water. What is there left to imbibe?— Detroit Free Press. —Closefist and his son lived together. They were both exceedingly economical in their habits. Young Closefist was not anxious for his father’s death. lie knew the old man’s money was all right, and there was no necessity to trouble about it. One day the old man fell dangerously ill, and asked his son to run for a physician. Closefist, junior, with a long face: “ But, father, you know how these doctors charge.” “Never mind, my son, it will be cheaper, funelals are awfully expensive just now.” —Justice—“ Mr. Snicklcfitz, you will please come forward and be sworn.” Mr. 8. (who is an ex-Justice himself and is up to “snuff’’) —“ Chudge, I like not dot." Justice—“ Why what’s the matter? You and Mr. Barstow, who w ill be here to testify directly, were the only persons who saw the assault, and we arc depending upon vour evidence.” Mr. 8—“ Chudge, I wo’d like dot Parstow to destify first." Justice —“ Why do you wish him to testify first, Mr. Snicklcfitz?” Mr. B.—“Pecan*', chudge, dot Parstow is a rashcal, und if he destify after me he wo’d make me ou-et a liar!”— Lake Superior Mining Gazette.

—He was an innocent-looking individual: butter would melt in his mouth, and it did. He was an artist, too. He called upon the janitor of the Wesleyan University aud said he had been sent to Middletown to sketch the building for Harper & Brothers. He made himself so sweet that the janitor asked him to stay all night with him, and gave him a nice breakfast in the morning. After breakfast he said he Lvould go down to the hotel and get his tools and commence his work. He went. It is presumed they were lost and that he is looking for them still, as he has not yet returneJ. The janitor may have entert iaed an angel unawares, but more than likely he entertained a tramp.— Uaitfnd (Conn.) Post. —A curious suit for alimony has recent ly been decided in New York. Something over a year ago Elizalxth Moore got a divorce from her hushauo, Austin D. Moore, and the Court granted her $2,500 alimony Six months aftei ward they were re-mar-ried, and payment of the alimony was stopped. It was not long b fore she ugsin applied for a divorce, but the Court decided that the second marriage was void, so that there was no necessity for a divorce. She then brought suit for the unpaid alimony, of whicu there was $1,575 in arrears, and the fact of the stc nd marriage was offered in defense. Tli: Court ordered that the alimony he paid, h lding that Moore, in his second marriage, wus guilty of a misdemeanor, and would not be permitted to set up his own viol it ion of the law as a reason why he should not comply with the judgment of the Court?'

Brigham Young.

Brigham Young is dead. This news has been flashed all over this land and Europe. No other American is Better known than was this remarkable man. His soul took its flight at four o’c!ock on the afternoon of Aug. 29, after an illness of six days. He died at his home, if a man of his surroundings could be said to have a home. It would he carrying charity for the dead too far, and be too great a disregard for truth, to pretend that his death was a loss, or that the world will deplore his departure from it. On the contrary, Brigham Young has long been looked upon as the pillar whereon polygamy rested, the prop without which it could not withstand the pressure of modern civilization. Consequently, his death brings hope that the “ peculiar institution” which is now disgracing the continent and demoralizing, retarding and blighting in every way an otherwise thrifty Territory wiii disappear. Therein consists the significance of his ' death. This hope - may be disappointed. Things come ana go so unexpectedly in this strange world that perhaps Brigham, in this regard, may be more puissant dead than alftre. Be this as it may, the expectation is certainly reasonable. Very few men have the iron will and vast capacity for management which the deceased Pyesi-

dent ol the Mormon Church possessed. His sons are weaklings in comparison, and so are all the Twelve Apostles, as the dignitaries of the Mormon Church are called. Thesystem of polygamy is utterly abhorrent to modern ideas. It belongs to antiquity and barbarism. Our ancestors, even as savages, had too much good sense to practice it, but the people from whom our religion came accepted it as a matter of course. It is probable that a great many of the Mormons are sincere. Perhaps the President of the Church was. His oourse in the early days of Mormonism would indicate it. Brigham Young was a Yankee of the most pronounced type. Born in a little out-of-the-way town of Vermont, Juno 1, 1801, he possessed the shrewdness and tenacity characteristic of the sons of the Puritans. His education was very meager. He joined the Mormon Church as early as 1842, in Ohio. It was then in its infancy. It had not developed Into a polygamic monstrosity. It was born of that prolific parent of fanaticism—expectation of the bodily second coming of Christ. During the period of trial and persecution, Young stood heroically by his predecessor in the Presidency, Joe Smith. When he led the people, like a second Moses, through the wilderness of the plains to Utah, a generation ago, he did a grand thing. That burial of a handful of hardy men on the banka of that Dead Sea of America, Salt Lake,- was one of the bravest and most admirable enterprises of history. One tannot but be lost in admiration in the contemplation of such indomitable determination to meet destiny single-handed. With all its Danite infamies, tne Mormon settlement proved a great blessing to the country, furnishing a most convenient and necessary half-way house between the Pacific Slope and the East. The Pacific Railroad project owes more to Brigham Young than to any other man, albeit he had no philanthropic or patriotic purposes. He was as destitute of patriotism aid philanthropy as an oak tree. But the march of events used him for some g*od purposes, and we may hope that his me will prove to have been a public benIflt. Brigham Young leaves behind him a /vast estate, to be divided among his nuSerous wives and children. He kept the ormon people in abject poverty, the greater part of them, and appropriated to himself the wealth they produced. His property ought, in strict justice, to be con(seated and distributed among the people whom he deprived of it by playing on their superstition. But nothing of the kind will be done. His heirs will keep wiat the lawyers do not get. But it is mtrally certain that the Mormon grangers, once treed from his personal despotism, will begin to lay by for their own families the surplus profits of their tillage. On the whole, then, the public has no cause to limp a single tear upon the bier of the dehd Mormon. As he takes his place among the spent forces of humanity, he leates a vacancy through which the sun of letter days may throw hia beams upon the people he has so long ruled with a rod of iton. —Chicago Journal.

The Savings Bank Failure in Chicago.

Thi worst news the Time* has been calleaupon to communicate to its readers since the panic of four years ago, is the fact tint the State Savings Institution has failed.! This calamity has been expected for sone weeks, but it will be none the less disastrous to the thousands whose fortunes ae thus swept away, for, while waiting for the apparently inevitable crash, Aey have been powerless to protect themseres in any degree frem its consequences! The “sixty days rule” tied the hands ol depositors and left them completely a the mercy of the managers. The institutidi, whose career is now closed, was organized twenty years ago, and for the greater part of the intervening period its management commanded . the full confidence of the communly. In 1872 Mr. D. D. Spencer obtained a large interest in the concern, ind very soon afterward the gentlemen Who had till then controlled it found means of disposing of their interests. Spencer secured $270,000 worth of the stock, while the bank itself owned $200,000, and only a paltry $30,000 remained lor the persons who nominally filled the directory and the executive offices. The exact extent of the legal responsibility of these persons for the course of criminal mismanagement upon which the bank then entered, and which has led directly to the present catastrophe, remains to be ascertained. About their moral responsibility there is apparently no room for question. It was their business to know, if they did not, what their President was doing with the funds which the public entrusted to their keeping. These funds were in almost every instance the hard-earned savings of the poor; the provision made through continual self-denial for the inevitable r ‘rainy day.” They represented the bread of the widow, the fatherless, the aged and infirm. The hopes of tens of thousands were bound up in the little sums which, accumulated dollar by dollar, and poured into the treasury of this bank, swelled the grand total of its deposits, as shown by a hasty glance over the books yesterday, to $2,931,756. The owners of this sum number, perhaps, twelve thousand. Probably there are not a hundred of them who w!fi not suffer serious inconvenience from the failure of the bank. Doubtless there are thousands of them who will suffer inexpressible hardships from it. Their money has been squandered in wild speculations; sunk beyond recovery in reckless ventures; buried in real estate for which there is no market, and from which there is no hope of realizing more than a fraction of the investment. The bank made an assignment, yesterday, to Mr. Abner Taylor, who will proceed to ascertain and realize the value of the assets as soon as practicable. There are no means at present of making an estimate as to the percentage of the dividends which may be ultimately made.— Chicago Time* , Aug. 29.

Schipka Pass.

A correspondent, an eye-witness of the battle in Schipka Pass, telegraphs: On the 25th, while riding backward from Schipka through the night, I passed masses of reinforcements, artillery and infantry, hurrying forward. Their strength ought to secure the safety of all the important positions. The same correspondent telegraphs from Bucharest, on the 26th: Information follows me that fighting at the Pass is still raging, having been again renewed to-day; but Radetzky continues to hold his own.. It is now a question of endurance. But I adhere to my impression that Schipka Pass is safe, and unless Suleiman Pasha can run the column through another pass he will wreck his army by thus dashing it continually against Schipka. The correspondent affirms that Schipka Pass consists meiely of a section of- the Balkans, lower than the surrounding heights. There is no pass properly so-called, but merely a track over this lower section or ridge, which is extremely broken and hilly. The highest point of the road is flanked on either side by a spar commanding it, and also a ridge behind the first of these two spurs can rake the road leading to the Russian positions. The spurs break ofi abruptly and precipitously, affording no access to the valleys north of the Balkans. Their sole use to the Turks was the afford, ing of positions from whence to flank the central Schipka riige. It is possible also for troops to descend from them, struggle through the intervening glens, and, climb ing the steep slopes of Hchipka Ridge, give hand to each other or reach die road which runs along its summit. This done, the Schipka position would, of course, be turned, but the advantage would be of

little avail till the road had been opened by carrying the fortified positions on it. Tlie road over Bohipka Ridge constitutes, for an army, the only practicable line of communication in this section of the Balkans. On the 21st, when the fighting began, the Russians were a little over 8/000 strong, with forty cannon. The Russians on this day had mines In front of their trenches, which were exploded as (he head of the Turkish assaulting parties were msssed above them. It is reported that a large number of Moslems were blown into fragments. By the evening of the 23d, the Turks had so worked around on both the Russian flanks that it seemed as thougli the claws of the crab were about to close behind the Russians, and that the Turkish column climbing the Russian ridge would £ve a band to each other on the road in e rear of the Russian position. At this supreme moment the two Russian Generals, expecting momentarily to be environed, sent a telegram to the Czar telling him what they expocted, how they tried to prerent it, and now, please Goa, when driven into their positions they would hold these until reinforcements slibuld arrive; at all events, tney and their men would hold their ground to the last drop of their blood. At six o’clock'there was a lull in the fighting, of which the Russians could lake no advantage, since the reservei were all engaged. The men were beaten out with neat, fatigue, hunger and thirst. There was no water within the Russian lines, and the men lay panting on the bare ridge, reckless of the fact that it was swept by the Turkish rifle fire. Others doggedly fought on down among the rocks, but were forced to give ground. The cliffs resounded with the triumphant Turkish shouts. It was at this juncture that reinforcements, under Radetzky, arrived. Radetzky took command of these, with others who arrived subsequently, which brough up the number of the defenders of the Pass to about 13,000. The road, even in the rear of the Russian positions, along which the reinforcements had to advance was swept by the Turkish fire, and the reinforcements suffered heavily. The object of the battle of the 24th was to clear the Turks from the well wooded position which flanked the Russian positions on the road. The fighting was confined to musketry, and continued all day desperately. The Russians could make little impression by a front attack on the Turks. The correspondent says: Occasionally at some point the Russians would he hurled clean back out of the wood altogether. I could mark the Turks following them eagerly to its edge, lying down while pouring out a galling fire. The troops charged with making this front attack merely succeeded in preventing the Tuikish efforts to work around to the Russian rear. It was therefore decided at noon to deliver a counter flank movement. The two battalions executing this movement had to advance under a tremendous fire from the Turkish mountain guns. The fighting on the Turkish front and flank lasted for a full hour, but at last the Turks were seen withdrawing their battery of mountain guns near the right flank, which was a sure sign that danger menaced it if it staved longer. Their left battery followed the'ir example, which showed that the Russians gained the ridge on the Turkish left also. There remained but the central peak of the Turkish position; that carried, the ridge would lie ours, and our right flank would be set free from dangerous pressures on it. _

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—William Lloyd Garrison is remarkable for his youthful appearance in his old age. A writer in a Liverpool paper says: “No one would take him to be in his seventy- thi-d year. He is one of the youngest septuagenarians I ever saw.” —“ Lou ” Hubbell, “ the strong man of the world,” once well known in the circus arena, is in the Poor-House of Putnam County. In his time he could hold back two yoke of oxen, and support a weight of 1,800 pounds resting on his arched hands and feet, with his stomach upward.— N. T. World. —Mr. George Grennell, of Greenfield, Mass., now ninety years old, the firet Presi dent of the Troy & Greenfield Railroad Company, and who stuck the first spade into Hoosac Mountain, made his first trip through the Hoosac Tunnel, the other day. He went through with his family by special invitation of the railroad managers. —King Alfonso of Spain has welcomed Minister Lowell. After the first embrace, the Kine said in broken English: “ Yaas, Mseer, Yer Highness—l hear off you so mooch. Craaate noeet! Write pooty grrrand, lofely: ‘ Zekel creep, up quite onbeknown’—hal I—vot you sayln’oublier pas—l remember him!” And Hosea Biglow put his hat gently over his face and said, in a faltering voice, "And even that is not my best, Yer Majesty!”— N Y. Graphic. —Mr. George William Curtis writing of official precedence inhis ‘‘Easy Chair,” saysA • Senator gave a dinner, and when the moment arrived, he turned 1.0 the senior Senator of the United Slates, who was present, and asked him to hand out the lady of the house. 1 But 1 see the "Secretary of State,’ replied the senior. ‘No guest in my house takes precedence of the senior member of the body that makes Secretaries of State,’ was the lofty reply.” —An amusing incident of the reception of the Presidential party by llie young ladies at Rutland. Vt., is related by the Boston newspapers. As the story goes, they arranged themselves in line, with boqueta in their hands, ready to throw them upon the President. Being in some doubt when the great men moved along, as to the proper person on whom to bestow their honors, they very naturally took the best-look-intr man in the party for the President, and bestowed their favors accordingly. In consequence, Gov. Vain Zandt was almost smothered with roses, and had to beg Mrs. Hayes to set the matter right. She did not care, however, to interfere, and so the fun went on.

—The story that Moulton is financially embarrrassed, and that Tilton offered to loan him several thousands of dollars, is going its rounds in spite of the contradiction it got in the Brooklyn Enq'e, where it first appeared. The fact is that Mr. Tilton has not offered to loan Moulton thousands of dollars, for two excellent rc asons: First, lie bad not the money to loan; and second, Moulton is not financially embarrassed. and does not need to borrow mdney. The tale was manufactured out of an incidental remark which bore about as close a relation to the finished story as the original rib said to have been taken from the side of Adam bore to Eve.— N. Y. Exprats. —One of the largest diamonds ever found in the South African fields belongs to Miss Schreiner, a tempeiance preacher. It weighs 288 carats and is called the “ Faith Diamond.” It is said that one of her brothers would not become a Good Templar on any consideration unless he found a rare big stone. Miss Schreiner finding all ordinary means of converting him to Good Templar principles in vain, at last prayed that be might find a large diamond. Soon after the monster gem was unearthed, and the brother, who was a partner in the claim property, was as good as his word. He became, and is still, a consistent Good Tempiar. Local merchants have offered SIOO,OOO for the stone. The lady is an enthusiastic temperance advocate, and preaches with wonderful ability. ■ ■■ ■ nm It is essentially effeminate to have no opinions, but to abound in convictions.

The Recent Terrible Aeeident on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad.

DmMoiNKd, lows, Aug. 18. The bridge on the Rock Island Road where the disaster occurred was over what is known as Little Four-Mile Creek, nine miles east of Des Moines. It is a little stream, generally ijulet, and never before known to be as high as it was made by the unprecedented rainfall of yesterday morning and the sight before. The bridge rested on a stone arch twelve feet in the clear, by walls flvs feet thick. The bridge is approached fnm the east around a curve and down a grade. It is thought the rails were lift standing alone as' the train apnroachsd, and the engineer who had slackened his speed till he came in sight of the bridg*. supposing all was right, dashed m>on it The channel of the stream was forty Dr fifty feet wide, and the banks about twenty feet high. The locomotive, in its wild dash, landed at th foot of the wedern side and half buried itself in the esrtt. Barnum’s car was next the engine. It dropped into the channel. The baggage tnd mail-car followed, passed directly ov«r It, smashing it to pieces, but going to the bottom, a bar of iron runningclear through it. The men In that car escaped aivs. Even the lamps were not put out. The first passenger-car pithed headdown into the channel, when the water was at least fifteen feet deep. The next car was plunged nnder this, telescoping with it, and the next telescoped hfif through the two preceding it. The dceping-cur did not go into the wreck, Bim|ly because there was not room for it. Its occupants were jarred, but none of them seriously hurt. The most of the killed veie In the car in front of the sleeper. The scene at the time of the iccident is described as having been terrific. Rain was falling in torrents, accompanied by wind, lightning and violent thunder. The crash put out the ligkts. and the scene of terror ensuing may well be imagined. The men who were not injured and could get out, went to woik at once to rescue the livlne and the wounded. They bad to go a mile to a farmhoute to get axes to chop them out, but they worked heroically, and by daylight had tie most of the wounded rescued. There were many pitiful sceoesand tender incidents. One mother wai killed sitting between two children who escaped unhurt. Ore little girl whohadlain in the water for four hours with a heavy man lying dead beneath her body, was discovered to be breathing, and was rescued and restored, and now showsnosign of injury. The dead were brought here on a train, reaching here at eleven o’clock, Bome twenty-five of the wounded cane with them.' The officers of the road were at the wreck all day, caring for the dtad and wounded, and have been and are doing now all that can possibly be donefouhem. The number of killed is estimated all the wav from ten to fifty. All the trah but a sleeping-car went down into the stream. The engine is completely out of sight. A special to the State Regiiter frem the wreck says there were sixteen killed so far as known. Twelve bodies are out on the banks, and four dead bodies are Sill seen in the wreck, but cannot be got ait at present.

Omaha, Neb., Aug. 30 R. M. Cherrie, of the firm of A. L Meeker & Co., Chicago, and neioe, at rived here to-day from the scene of tin disaster on the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, east of Des Moines. Mr. Cherrie says: “ The accident occurred about half-past two o’clock In the morning. It was raining fearfully at the time—pouring down. [ was in the sleeper, partially awake, and felt two or three slight jars. I raised the window and looked out, and heard the rush of waters below. I knew something had happened, though I could see nothing. It wss very dark. I got up and put on my pants, and the first thing I saw was people rushing out of the rear end of the car next to us, and it was not long before I knew the character of the terrible accident. Of course, everything was confusion, and it was some little time before those who were unhurt could get to work and relieve the others. It seems a stone culvert had recently been built, and on each side of it was trestle-worK that was being filled up with earth. The fireman, who escaped, says everything looked right when they ran on the bridge, but the next thing he knew was that ne vas lying alongside the engine in the mud below. Engineer Rakestrarc! called to him, but that was the last the fireman heard of him, and he probably died almost instantly afterward. There were thirteen persons in Barnum’s advertising car. The car was completely annihilated. Seven of the occupants were killed, three badly wounded, end they will probably die, and three were slightly wounded. It was a miracle that anybody at all got out of this car. One of the wounded men was carried down stream and landed on a small island, from which he was afterward taken off. The baggagecar shot across and over the engine, and landed on the bank beyond, with a rail through it lengthwise, and one through it sideways. It sits flat on the track, right side up, but without the trucks, which disappeared in this wonderful leap. The employes in this car were not hurt, strange to say, and even some blooded pigs th at were being shipped by express were unharmed. The baggage was not damaged at all. The smoking-car then came along, plunging downward, the rear end raising up and allowing the next passengercoach to go under it, and then the next car went under this last coach, and the rear ends of the two last coaches resting on the bank. There were three cars thus wedged in, one on top of the other. A lady crawled up through a hole and got on top of the smoking-car, with a child in her arms, and got down on the roof of the next car, where she left the child. She then returned down into the smoking-car and brought up another child in the same way, and next helped out an old lady frem the same place. I helped her down from the car myself. Out of that hole which she had left, we took five or six others, among whom was the conductor, who was badly wounded, while several pers&ns got out themselves without aid. All. that we helped out were severely wonnded. We then went into the car and made a thorough examination, but found nobody but dead persons of whom there were four or five. By this time it began to grow a little light, so we could see better to work. Up lo this time we had feared that the cars were going to tip over, but we now saw that they would remain upright. We got under the rear of the top car, as well as nnder the other two cars, and released four more that were fastened in. We used rope to pull them ont. A corps of physicians and train-wreckers now arrived from Des Moines, and they all went to work with a- will. The physicians especially deserve the greatest credit for their untiring efforts to relieve suffering. They did noble work. The ladies 'in the sleeper also rendered efficient services in assisting the wounded. A girl who was pinned last in the wreck was finally released from her dreadful situation. About eight o’clock we counted ten persons in that pit. We had to cut out the side of the middle car in order to rescue several persons. There wss more loss of life in this car than in any of the others, except Barnum’s. Eighteen dead bodies were taken out last night when we left. There were thirty wounded, four or five of whom will die. I cannot describe the terrible scene and do it justice in any respect. No one can realize such a situation unless he be there to witness It, and even then he cannot picture it to others in all its vividness of detail as he himself viewed it.” y