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Ottawa, III., Saturday. July 3't 1H".
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Remittances may be made through money
ordei or regifctcrcd'lettcr.
Fisher, the U. S. attorney for the District
of Columbia, had to succumb to the inevi
table, in spite of the potent intervention in his
behalf of Bos3 Shepherd. "When the Prcsi
cent sent his dispatch to Pierrepou! ordering
him to "hold on" about Fisher, Pierrcpont,
Jewell and Bristow got together and told the
1'resident that if he proposed to be controlled
by the advice of Boss Shepherd rather than
ef his own cabinet ministers, they were ready
to resign. This scared Grant he left Long
Branch in a hurry and came to AVashtegton
held a cabinet council, and the result was
poor Fisher was bounced, though he pleaded
hard to be allowed to hold on long enough
to vindicate himself. As that would probably
occupy the rest of his natural life, the eabinet
were unwilling to grant the tune.
MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
For the last few weeks the newspapers have
been occupied more or less with the prelim
inaries of a trial in the U. S. Court at Bc-ivcr,
agent for the U. S. and Governor of the terri
tory, never in any of his report to the gov
eminent, or even in any address in the taber
nacle, remotely alluded to it, and any iinfor-
. ... . ... .. i. - ! .. ... ... . , -i.. i.t,.i..i .i
ill l tali 1 erritory, w nicn promises i' mm minue .uornioii caugiii manning on ine
the Beecher trial in inteiest it not in its pru-lsubject was quietly got out of the way.
rient details. The attempt is, after a lapse of ir fifteen years afterwards the courts of
sixteen or seventeen yeurs, to fasten the guilty the territories were more or less under the
upon and bring to puhishment the perpetra- control of the Mormon, so that no ell'ort to
tors (or, at least, as many as survive; of the. institute a judicial investigation of the mas
noted Mountain Meadov Massacre that took ncrc or to bring the murderers to trial was
place in Southern Utah in 1857, and of which : regarded as worth being made. ( f late, how
it has always been believed by most people ever, the gentiles have got possession of the
that the Mormons were exclusively guilty,' courts and there is a sufficient gentile popula
te spite of attempts to saddle at least a partition at Heaver to insure an honest jury, so
of the guilt on Indians. ! that now, for the first time, It has been re-
The facts may be briefly related as follows :'gurded as practicable to have the matter judi
It was in the year 1857 when the Mormons' daily investigated and have a fair tr of
had assumed an attitude of quasi-rcbellioii suehofthc participants in this bloody tragedy
against the U. S., and President Puchanaii us may still survive
had organized a military expedition to inarch
to Salt Lake city and bring them into sub
jection, that two large bodies of emigrants
The Chicago Time, in the subjoined para
garphs, makes "as plain ua the nose on a
I i . . ,, ,...i.:.... ..i ...i..t
started from Missouri and Arkansas overland , ",u " J- " ' "
t flif,,ri,i. .mssirm. of enurse. on ,h,.ir! stantly sees a great deal ,f nonsense in papers
i -op - '
route through the Mormon territory of Utah
The Arkansas party called themselves the
of a certain class:
The Chicago organ of the national banks
rimiuiiiMi!. thi fiiipstinn liou- tin nhi ilition of
"Tough Hoys," and are said to have b,etn u, those institutions can save any interest to the
wild, noisy, blasphemous set. The other, government. 'The bonds,' it says, 'will bear
Col. T. Lyle Dickey, of Chicago, has issued
a circular to the members of the 4th Illinois
Cavalry, the regiment which he raised and
commanded during the war of the rebellion,
notifying them that the Second Annual Ke
umon of the regiment will be held at Hlooin
ington, ill., on Wednesday, August 25th, li75.
Thotc wishing further (information can ad
dress Col. T. Lylc JMckey, at ''ruml Pacific
Hotel, Chicago.
company was from Missouri and Illinois,
and made upchlefly of married men and their
families, numbering, in all, about 140 souls.
They reached Salt Lake in safetj', but the
"Tough Hoys,'' finding the Mormons unfriend
ly, made no stoppage, but bore olf rapidly to
the southwest and got through to California
without molestation. The other party, how
ever stopped several days at Salt Lake city to
rest, recruit and replenish their stores. They
found the Mormons quite unfriendly, an pro
cured even the scantiest addition to their sup
piies with difficulty, but otherwise were not
uiuk-titrd. Leaving the inhospitable city,
they took the gouthuni route to San Hernar-
diuo. o sooner, however, bud they left the
C'ty, than they were exposed to $ thuuand
annoyances. Coining from Ihe two stalesj
from which fifteen yeurs before the Mormousj
had been expelled by violence, and now being
exasperated by reports of the advance of Hu
chanau's invading amy, the Ioruion's seem
to have settled it among ihcu-ielves that tills
body of emigrants, with their large number
the same interest in the hands of private in
dividuals, or in the hands of the banks, as
they do whun deposited in the treasury to se
cure bank circulation.' The question is an
old one, and the fallacy of the answer has
been exposed some hundreds of times. Still
another exposure may not bo out of place.
The abolition of banks would save no inter
est, but the abolition of their circulation
might. The abolition of the circulation of
he banks would save the interest on the
amount of bonds which an equal amount of
greenbacks would purchase, less the tuxes
which the banks pay on their circulation.
This is as true as any proposition in mathe
matics. The amount of national bank notes,
we will suppose, is 350,LMK,i(J0. If these
notes were withdrawn, an equal amount of
greenbacks could be issued without neces
sarily depreciating them at all, and these
trreenbacks would buy, in round numbers,
-'JOtj.OOG.OtM) of six per cent, bonds, at present
rates, and there would be a saving of some
$ I7,7flu7'u() annually as long a the green
backs should remain outstanding, less
500,000 taK on circulation i that Is, iherc would
be a nut saving of more than fourteen mill,
ions. This is as certain a the pronosltlon
that two ami two w;i!.u fuur."
Another point in reference to the national
PENDLETON.
The speech of Geo. II. Pendleton at tialllp
olis, Ohio, last week, is such a ditlerent in
terpretation of the Ohio platform from that
given by the inflationists generally, and, at
all events, presents Mr. Pendleton's own finan
cial pos'tion in alight so different from that
in winch we have been taught to view it, that
we feel it both a pleasure and duty to state
what his exact views are as thus newly ex
pounded. Mr. Pendleton declares that he is a "hard-
money man," and that a "return to specie
payment snouiu on Kept steiwny in view;'
that the "democratic party of Ohio," as he
understands the party, "points to the middle
path of safety," avoiding both contraction
and inflation. He states that the "measure
for the volume of the currency is the wants
of trade,'' and that this is to be determined in
the "judgment of the government;" that he is
in favor of "coin as the basis of currency,
and that a paper currency should be conver
tible into coin at par."
There is some darkness (not to say absur-
dity) in what he utters about measuring the
"volume of currency by the wants of trade,"
for if there is to be such a gauge of the vol
ume, then a good part of the rest of his argu
ment against further cantraction at present
would fall to the ground, for nothing is plain
er than that the present financial condition
proves that this volume of carrency just now
is in all the leading cities in the country
largely in excess of the "wants of trade." It
is not more currency the country wants, but
more trade. Instead of bringing up the vol-
ume of currency, the ellort just now should
be to increase the volume of trr.de.
However, barring his nonsense about the
"volume" business, we can get along with
Mr. Pendleton pretty well if he will stick to
the text as far as he has gone, and take no
other departure from what we now under
stand to be Jus financial platform, to wit:
1. Ketire ttiu national bank notes with green
backs; 9. Make greenbacks redeemable in
gold or government bonds with gold ; and 3,
mako greenbacks equally with gold receiv
able for dii'Ic on Import and all otlirr pub
lic dues. j
boaro of trade operator. He married a yoimif Gen. Sherman, In hi book, says Gen. Gran t
Michigan girl, by whom he had several ehi!- w,ts n,-,t tlriink at Shiloh.and that he believes
dren; tln-n died, Icavir.g Ins family penmlew it could be proven that there was nothing
They became so reduced that the oldest of tin- there to be had to get drunk on. Gen. Sher
eliildren a boy kept body and mhiJ together IlU11 ,Voiild only need to prove the first prop,
by turning bootblack and peddling m-won- (iti ,n. The second would bo conclusive.
X' .. .1 . . I. . : , i
pels. ,Mh- iiicunu i;niHi-s minims l.'nay
was a real French Marquis, and that ail hi.
vast estates in France and title have descend
ed to his family in America, so that the wid
ow becomes a marquise or marchioness and
and the son a marquis.
THE OLD LANDMARKS.
The Jacksonville SnatinrJ, we are happy t
find, has abandoned its paper money vagaries
Galloway, aired 13 years, sou of
Mr. Fi.u;k Galloway, residing in the village
ot'To.'iica, was drowned on Saturday last,
while bathing in the Vermillion river near
Lo'.Vel!.
A young in in named Dunlop, ut Marissa,
Hi., last week, while binding wheat in the
field, was bitten by a rattlesnake in the foot,
and before relief could be given him the poi-
The money in the U. S. Treasury has now
been twice counted once just before vld
Spinner retired and again when Mr. New
took possession of the oflke. Hy Sokiuer'.s
count the treasury owed hun one dollar, and
Mr. New's conn agrees with Spinner's to a
penny. This don't, however, restore to the; no proof.
other rich boolyj were legitimate objects for
under by the ''Saints."
All the settlers south of Salt Lake lived in
Decatur, in this state, is in a whirl of ex
citement oyer the discovery of a gold mind T
lu luaL viuiuuj. 11 nucnis 1,11 laox iui
particles have been found in a side hill and
brook in that locality, and an old Australian
miner, who has examined the indications, is
said to express the opinion that the gold exists
in paying quantities. A company has been
formed to prosecute investigations until the
extent and richne-s ol the deposits cau be ascertained.
f 1 1 t I A-
UI nor. - li.m eamu, wugouti, luriiliure and , bunks about, which ll.rre is .1 m-eat mml nf
nonsense uttered in the papers already refer
red to, is their supposed enormous profits
from the bills they get in return for the bonds
walled towns, and as they approached any of they deposit with the U. S. Treasurer. The
these the emigrants found the gates closoJ coinmon way of putting it is, that a bank
against them and the people unwilling tost-12 with say $ 100,000 capital deposits that amount
them supplies of any sort. They found, also, of bonds with the treasurer, on which it
that messengers had preceded them, and that j draws C per cent, interest, and in addition gets
they were harrassed and annoyeu apparently i $00,000 in bills from the government, which
on a preconcerted plan.wherever they touched, jit loans at 10 per cent, realizing 10 per cent.
One excuse given for this by the Mormons on its rnpilnl, and so on.
afterwards was, that the " l ough Hoys" in Do those who are in the habit of putting
passing over the route a short time before the case in this way, recollect that in addi
had committed all sorts of outrages; also that tion to the SlOO.OoO in bonds the bank denos-
these emigrants had destroyed their crops,
its with the treasurer it also deposits about
run oil' and killed their cattle, robbed their $5000 with him as a "redemption fund," and
lien roosls, Ac, ol winch, however, there is must keep a reserve of gieenbacks in it
of a year ago, and gives us a really sensible'"1 UM mHLU s" ,ar lut" " ytem that he
article in favor of "getting back to ti,e 0,v died in less than eight hours afterwards in
landmarks"-that is, the old treasury note' -!rf'il, "O'-
system of ante-war titnes. The following ex-i Hev. Peter ; recti, a Methodist, preached a
tracts are in the right vein and suggest ideas sermon in scottsvillc, Illinois, and invited
worth thinking about : iany dissenter from his doctrine to reply.
That Independent Treasury scheme "di- Mr. Olbert, a Uaptist, accepted the invitation,
vorced," as IJcnton phrased it, the Federal Brother Larr, an adherent of the clergyman,
!Ka Brother Olbert to stop talking,
bilities in specie and Trfixun AV. Thesel nuirrel ensued, then a tight, and the mcet
treaswry notes were to be receivable for.Wjing ended in confusion. The factiens met
Government dues and customs. These treas. mst jn courti wLere h f(H1r,t with canes
ury notes, beinir always in dcmind for the! , i.s. ,.., , . , '
tmvment of customs, and for land, the then, st0,iCS' ku,VCS d pi.tols, but nobody was
only sources of revenue, became a 'jiU-olpd lll-'u "tgutfy hurt.
currency, and always commanded a premi-j The inflation or prices una wages in Gcr
denomination than $5U; but among the great, having its legitimate effect in a stagnation of
cotton factors and importers they displaced! business and increase of rents. Many men
nearly all other currency. They were not are out of work and Berlin has become a
" egal tender," but what was more to the pur-., , ,,, ,i t i
poe, they were not discredited by the T(.rv' "-re expensive city than London, while many
authority that issued them. They paid cus-''1" manufacturing establishments are shut
toms; they paid for land; they paid salaries; ting down and others closing altogether,
they paid for supplies for the army and navy ;j ,, ,, . r,... . , '
they paid interest on the bonds theiusclvs. 1 " latt CarPt'cter. of 'sconsin, has been in
There was no distinction wade in. their p.ty- j terviewed on the subject of the nextPresiden
iny quality between them and gold. The dc'cy, and while he modestly disclaims all aspira-
F?xis a,,tJdrBt,on'.in t rcti,,u .ji,r,r-cxi,res8cs the
them, tor they were better than gold to hun- 0PlmO11 lb:tt (,l'-'nt Wl11 be tlie republican
die in paying duties an 1 making exhanges ' candidate o:i a hard money platform, and
Luuer ineir ueneueent innuence goM ;iovel Judge Davis, of Illinois, the candidate op
into this country, or staid here, or would ,'".i i !..,.
have done so but for the baleful influence of TV "r muauon
a thousand "wild cat" and other kinds 0f Pla,form- As Judge Davis is quite as sound
ragmllls." These treasury notes carried us' a- hard money man as ever Grant was, one
through the Mexican war, without imitorhlly; would be inclined to gtlt'M, in a rough way,
inereiiirnr t if tin , ic i Hlir f 1 1, .,.., ..l, . . . . ' 6 "
J ' ' I
Treasury the forty thousand dollars that wercj In this
stolen from Spinner u mouth before he ictiied. i tlie last s
nor does it account for the one thousand dol
lars sl'A'M n weel; ago from Mr. New.
In this Way the emigrants at length parsed
having been a
enough to "v
fillan, a clerk
department, t;
lowed to hold on to olllce long
ndicate" himself. James Gil
long employed in the treasury
: his place.
According to the most .-'-liable advice from
the Hiark Kiln there me now about piiwi
niicers at Work there gathering gold, few of
them gathering over tv. oor three doIhirV.vorth
a day, and many not that much, w hile the new
arrivals average. ) a day. As the military
are preparing for a general movement against
the aggres.-.ors, it is likely tua. soon there will
be some- pretty lively times among these bold
adventurer-.
The Aurora Iln-i'd claims the location of
the idij,'. ...,. jMiat place on t!i ground
Aurora ('. ' "l a fiinly ''""is'1 a bigger
q-.ioai of yny other city of its
to find out. Thus far but one Important wit. tin. lima- l. la-eli. i, nmkn limn i, iho nwc.
The truth is, the banks find solit-
vaults to take care of its circulation? The
whole amount of dead capita! the bank must
settlement and came to Mountain hold in reserve on account of its $00,000 iia-
Meadow, where they made a halt to rest and, per it gets from the government is about
recruit their cattle, preparatory to entering 120,000. Now suppose, instead of using
r- the Great Desert. Fxactly what occured here, these S'.M.OOO bills the bank gets from t!j
Avery,tiie;chief clerk of the treasury depart, iexc-pt tlie general and terrible fact that aH( government to bank upon, the bank placed
nient at Wa-hii'g'.on, who was recently indict-'the (inigranls were massacred, is what the 'these $120,000 In Its vaults and used that sum
ed by U.S. grand jury at Si. Louis fir taking I S. Court in the present trial is attempting! as its active capital? How much less would
pay of the whiiy ring, has, like his friend
Fisher, received the grand bounce, without
ip Kiinger Miinii, ami he was at the time of : tie profit in taking this "loan without inter
the massacre a Mormon "Bishop." Afler-j Cst': from the government, that many of them
wards, however, he deserted the Brighamilcs are returning their paper and taking up their
and joined the Smith branch of the Mormons, bonds, and all of them would as soon do so as
-i that, as against the parties engaged in the not. We state tiiis to show that the proposi-
murder, Ninth is testifying against a sect to tion to withdraw the national bank circuh
which he is hostile, and allowance is to be tion entirely and issue our entire paper circu
mane for ins evidence to that extent. Hei lalion directlv from the national treasury Is
i l t . . .
ness nas iieen examined, jus name is I hil-!cnt way
one to which the national banks are not as
violently opposed as many people imagine
at least from motives of self-interest.
Several of the largo city dailies, on the an-
h .: n the
!oubt.
TiiAMi's. ' tt iwa has i-een eu-itigh of the
tramp nuivuicu lately, di ar knows, but
there has b-'-n a good deal of building going
on here and -one demand for labor, they have
doubtless kept clearer (,f us than some other
places. We Infer thi to be the ea-e from the
fact that they have been apparently so much
more nutnerou-, tNewliere. The Mendota
AV.-j of tlie 2:id mivs:
Last Tue-d iy, a gang of these tramps, mini,
bering C2, boarded and took pO"(-sSioti of a
freight tram ne.ir Tunica, on the 111. Cent. I!.
II., and won! I not pay their l ire, and would
not be put off, an 1 compelled t lio conductor
to bring tlo tii a. lar as M.-n-iota, where tiiev
unloaded. M tr-lril Forri-tal iva, on the pla't
f irm, find ; ursuaded rmrn'oets of them to
strike out ;n'o the country to S) (.k work, and
most of tiii in went.
Natu:ai. (ivs Siy, the Mendota ;,Ws:
" 3Ir. Jiianehard, three mile, S. W. of Men
dota, utili.es gas from nature's gascmeter,
Liauedowu in the in'ernal regions of the
earth. Ills g.. ; well, one of the wonders of
the world, connected by a ga.vplpe with hi
house, famishes uband.;nt gas to light and
wirni his entire house. He expects soon to
extend a pipe t his cooking stove so the good
cooking of that house can bedotie with gas.
1' is a great saving of fuel, gives intense heat
UL1 i$ s'j clean. It cost only $r,o to fix up
these Loi.it gas -voiks of his :.nd yields a profit
of nearly that every year; a ;ooj per cent, on
capita! m.-es'.td."
The last Illinois legislature, now that the
esact figures h ive been ascertained, turnsout
to Lave cost the itatc $2'.'T(J2, while the pro
ceeding republican legislature, no longer in
fce6sion and composed of the same cumber of
members, cost the state morf than double as
much th.it Is 43i,CG2. - Illmoi will da
well enough if the never La) a worse leula
tare than the ht. .
states, however, as is well known tleit tlw.l
massacre was committed by a bam! of regu
lar Mormon soldiers, under coinniaud of their
regular officers, and he further says they ac
ted throughout under direct orders from Briir-
hain Young himself. Whether all this is! H"" '"' 11 Springfield correspondent, have
true or not, however, there is no doubt the b('t'" I,11,,lisllills!r something like the fnllow
murder was the work of Mormons, ami that ' '"S r'-'l"creiice to the revised statutes of lsTl :
they did it with a ferocious brutality that And now a diflicully arises about the dis
i t,, ,. , . ., ... , tribution. It is provided that the county
would have shamed the worst tribe ot Apache (.t,ks kt,,.p ,,,., ,-,r s;lIe llt tW() at)JA
or Coniaiicne Indians. 'I he emigrants had! per copy, but no provision r as made to pay
parked their wagons and stood a seige for the expense of transportation. Thus the
three days, during which somcd'them , clerks naturally object to pay express char-
, , I ges out ot their own pockets, and so the books
hec, killed and more wounded. li.t in the ,,lliceof Ihesecreta.y of state. Com-
'1 hen says this witness: I plaint having been made to this olllcer he
"Lee ("ii trial for the murder) went out with has appealed to the attorney general, whose
a while flag, a man from the emigrants nieti opinion in the case being interpreted is to the
t hem ; Lee and the man sat down on r lie grass ; 'effect that if the clerks will not obey tile law
had a talk; don't know what they talked ; j there is noway to make them. "So if any
Lee went with the man into the " intrench ! body wants to know the law of this state they
incuts. After some hours they came out, and, must find it out the best way they can.
the emigrants came up with'thcir wounded i ,ir County Clerk has found a section (sec.
lit wagons. Aliead id Hit; wounded were
those hm t in tlie three days previous fight ;
said the Mjiiiioiis and Indians could not oust
tlie emigrants; nei came the women, next
the men; as the emigrants came up, the men
halted, aud the women on foot; the children
and wounded went on ahead with John D.
Lee. The soldiers had to be all ready to shoot
ut tlie word ; when the word "Halt !' was glv j six or eight dollars for as large a county as
en; I tired once; don't know if I killed thei I.h Salle) tliat the coiintv clerk must be u
small pattern indeed who is not willing to
01, page lool, in the law in reference to the
printing and distribution of the Uevised Stat
utes by which he is entitled to collect his ex
penses out of the county, doubtless a section
overlooked by this Springfield wiseacre. But
the expense is so trifling anyhow mot over
man or not. All were killed at the hist shot;
saw the women afterwards dead with their
throats cut
1 saw as I came t;p to them, a man kill a
young girl. The men were marched in double
"file first, then thrown in single tile with sol-
ditis alongside; heard the emigrants con
gratulating themselves on their safety from
BIO FAILURE.
Wednesday's despatches from !Xew York
somewhat startled financial circles by an
nouncing the failure of the great banking
house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., for thirty
years regarded as one of the very staunchest
banking houses in New York city. Their li
abilities are placed at six millions, and con
sidering their almost unlimited credit all over
the world, the failure is as notable as that of,
Jay Cooke it Co., that precipitated the great
panic of 1S73. Happily, however, this fail
ure is not likely to bring any such wide
spread disaster in its train. The relations of
the banking house of Duncan, Sherman it
Co. were mainly with Europe, and very few
bank of this country find themselves in the
least involved in the disaster. The most se
rious su'verers among our own people, it is
said, are those who are traveling in Kurope
and carry letters of credit from this firm.
Many of these, finding their endorser slipped
from under them, will doubtless have to en
counter many annoying if not serious embar
rassments, and may be expected to make
trackst homewanl by the very first available
steamer.
The inilise Is said to have tuado too heavy
udvanuts on cotton, and to have been badly
scoaped in un attempt to bull the gold mar
ket during the recent rapid decline of that
metal in Wall street. While, however, the
disaster will have no immediate seriously
disastrous effect on this side, it must add
greatly to the already more than serious finan
cial distress in London.
OUt Of the CIVil War t ll-V Constituted nunrl..
oue-li&lf(f Wliut wa tLvu cuiittd the rmbi:c,"ard,J' Urlcnter s best hokl
debt. ' i -
The fatal blunders of legislation during" the
war were 1st. making treasury notes a "legal,
tender;" 2d, as if to add idiocy to blundering,,
making them non-receivable for customs;!
3d, making the interest on the bonds payable
in coin
FOREIGN NEWS.
La Salle had a three days' pigeon tourna
ment this week. The biggest match was the
sweepstakes on Wednesday afternoon, for
$130. There were 13 entries, ten shots each.
Geo. II. Coleman, of Peru; (,'. K. Austin, of
Clinton, Iawaj Mr Wells and Louis Taylor
shot 10 straight birds each ; Doxey.of Geneseo,
Mr. Sherman, W. T. Mason, of La Salle,
Hitchcock and ClarKsoii, each 9; Butterlield
and Cool, each st; and Grant, of La Salle,
0. In shooting oil the lies in this match
Austin got away with first money, Doxey cap
tured second, and Stock, perforce, contented
himself with third.
In the editorial contest between Stevens, of
the La Salle 'v.vt, and Kuggles, of the Men
dota U'dhtiii, the f irmer suffered an inglor
ions defeat, scoring only one bird to his op
ponent's four. Oh Steve!
The wet weather on Tuesday and Wednes
day interfered a good deal with the tourna
ment, m that it was far from as successful as
it would otherw ise doubtless have been.
pay that much tor the public convenience.
This is not, however, Intended as an apolo
gy on our pait for any of the real blunders of
said KevUcd Statutes which, in whole and
in part, are probably the nio-d bungling piece
the Indians at last. John M. Higbee came of woil; of the sort ever perpetrated In this
up and ordered iny si pi. id to Inc. Lee, like' country. A number of the chapters are in
tlic re-t hadlire arms; noeinigrants escaped;! ; uul f itlL.(,mprchc-
saw soldiers on horses taking on the wind 1 . .
those who ran; saw a man run; saw Bill! siblo or contradictory provisions, a striking
Stewart on u horse go after him and kill h i in ; example of w hich is this law itscll for put
saw one wounded man ben for his lile. Hig. n,,. Mi,,tutit in force and nrovidinir for
's
bee cut his throat; the man said. "I would
not do this to Toll, lligbee;" he kuew him;
after 1 fired, was told to gather up the little
children; as I went, saw a large woman run
ning toward the imi ii crving,'"My husband,
wii"oiis with wounded out on tlie ground and, printed belore thai date before theie was
throa's were cut; went on and found chil- any law to authorize the printing:
their printing and distribution. It was so
biingliiigly arranged that while the statute?
link effect on July 1, the law for their publi
cation did not take etlect until that date
dren ; 1 put them in a wagon and took them
to llaiiibliu'a house.
The cbildreu under two years of age (' o
young to remember or tell the story) hKdc
were tit veil.
Thus the tragedy was commuted, tt.e spoil
divided, the children distributed, and thence
forward, ainoc'Nlio Mormoni, tbe word on
the subject!-. ctn.'. Vine?, as Indian
Thursday's New York dispatches say:
Messrs. Duncan, Sherman iV Co.. Lave ar
ranged with a London house t take up their
letters ot credit now in the hands of Ameri
can tourists in Europe. This will prtveut a
good deal nf hardship, and quiet the appro
hensions felt here by friends of these unfor
For once, at least, the ngeutsof Uncle Sam
uel were too sharp for Wall street. It tran
spires that, while it was well known that in
July the U. S. Treasury would need large
sums of gold to pay the interest on the pub
lic debt, it was also known in Wail street,
that so far as the published figures showed,
the U. S. Treasury had no such amount of
gold at its command as would be needed. A
pool was accordingly formed in Wall street
to get up a coiner in gold, so that, when Bris
tow came around to buy the gold he needed,
be coiil 1 be bled without mi rcy. Duncan,
Sheiman A: Co. wi re at the head of the pool,
and bore the bi lint of it. They bought many
millions at H!, 17 and even as high as IS per
cent, premium. But when Bristol's payday
came, to the utter amaenirnt and iliscomti
Hire of the pool, he had all the gold he needed.
It seems, without the knowledge of Wall
street, he had for weeks belore In-en privately
selling U. S. 5 per cent, bonds for gold, as lie
claims he had a right to do under the resump
tion law of lat spring, and thus easily got
all he needed. The result w:is that gold at
oHce went down to 12, the p! gamblers lost
millions, an 1 Dunc-tn, Sherman V Co., went
up the spwiit.
Chicago has a veritable romance in real
life by one of her city y.i wu"'i suddenly turn
ing up a French Marquis. A Frenchman
uamed Bellay was well known thre for years
as eking out a precarious subsistence as a
(ii-pat Itrhain,
On" of '.hoie ambitious mortals to whom no
By this series of financial 'blunders, misery is jo great as obfcurlty,has been made
the specie basis was uestroyeu; then, to ag-. happy bv suddenly leaping into conspicuous
gravate matters, an all-absorbing (uc(aMvas,llo.ork.tv, IIe is a mcmbl.r of pariiumcut.
created for gold instead of treasury notes; the' ,,.'., ,.., ,, . . , , '
bonds, instead of staying at home, were rush-, an J b,s name IS """sull. He has had a hob
ed out of the country, and an incessant, im-0)' tor years, founded on unquestionably a
poverishing outflow of gold, in the face of an shameful abuse, in reference to the safety ot
equally incessant dem and f ,r it, to pay the I merchant ships. He has written a book on
interest on these bonds to foreign holders. , . . . ,
All this was done in the interest, and at the! tlll; subJc'c, Kn'J failm- la lbiU wai' to Ket tLc
instigation, of bank and gold monopolist-,, public ear, got himself elected to parliament,
first to destroy the treasury notes, then to where he at once demanded of the ministry
make a market for dear gold, and finally to the in,ro,iuctioa of biH to remedy the tvil
make room for a modintd system of national . . . .
banking. All this was done in Contravention ; ,iC conil'a,ns of- whlch that billf the mcr
of the PKorr.K, and for th'i benefit of the ehairj ships afloat are unseaworthy, mere
Uothschilds and other mo.iev lords of Lu traps to increase inordinately the rates of in
rope. The Pkoim.k have pai l dearly tor it. wrance an,i mur(irr ,,oor seiimen. The min
Ihe civil war, With all its destruction, was . , , , . ' ., , . , ,
not half so impoverishing to the people' W ac knowledging the evil complained of
And now the Democratic pany is agiir)'..M -N!-t, Vt Hot to tHc c!vnt alleged, agreed
called on to place the country in the saint to have a bill p.icd ?n llo subject, but very
financial path that it did thirty vears tgo, in , , . ,., . . . , . ,.,. .,
isiti i ,i on ,-. i r 1 i much short of wtv. Ait'. 1 1 tnsol! wanted,
is i J, and that then proved .-o successful aud, , ... , .
so beneficial. " hereupon, on lue introduction of the gov-
Therc is no authority anywhere-T.ttside ti.e-: ernmeat bill Instead of Pliiusoll's in the
Federal Congress that has a right to i"iK-: ;10r.se, the latter made a "scene." lie tie-
I'i'.'i11.11 firrcuIu,,,! :'S m"IiCy', nounced the bill as "an attrocious sham," and
states are prohibited from doing so, and what. , , , '
no state can do, no private corporation oi.ght ; charged the government with "willingly play,
to be allowed to do. Federal money i' all teg into the hands of maritime muiderers,
that ever ought to be allowed to circulate as ;lltfj,ie anj outside the house, to secure a con
money anywhere in the United Spates. 'tinuanceof the present murderous system.
I desire to unmask the villains whosit in this-
NEWS ITEMS.
Stupendous and viviunary
is the project
'.n.itr the liri.is'i chan-
house, fit representatives of more numerous
but not greater villains outside. I demand
that my bill be proceeded with. Failing In
may seem, the tunr.t!
m l UlieiTiirtfi. itvl iv ,, .ti, !i or ict inn die an
., , n. . .... ,, ... , .. , e this, I lay upon the hc-iids of the premier ana
sensible entcrririsc. I lie hritish House of 1 f ...
Commons has passed a bill granting a char
ter to the undertakin
doubtless approve it ;
j and the Lrrds will
while the Fjeneii A--
on a similar
sembly have acted favorab
bill.
The wife of a firmer named A iam Fox,
liviug near Dwight, Livingston c runty, com
mitted tuicnle on the SUd lust, b; drowning
herself. She put her head into a barrel of
water and held it there until lif.w; as r.tinrt.
Family troubles are assigned as the cause
Peopltf who imagine that aii their kid
gloves are it;, potted will be s.irpri-e-d to learn
that there is a large mamif.ieti ry of those ar
tides , in Ml. Pleasant, Iowa, win : xe large
quantities are shipped to New Y'-rk.
News received at Washington irmn
West, Florida, shows the ylio-v . -vtr
prevailing there in an epuki.iic !
Barrancas, where the death- are :
day. Stringent steps are M ;e-.i t
spread northv.ar 1.
Anna Eliza Ellsworth, :.ge.l '1
sole heir to tlie great e!a
Ellsworth of Blooni-ngt ':
his colleagues the blood of all who shall per-
isli next winter from preventive causes, and
denounces against liim ami them the w rath of
God."
PLimsoli, for these- and a column more of
similar remarks, was forcibly ejected from
the house. But he had gained his object.
He had created a sensation made himself
notorious got the whole nation to thinking
seriously about the abuse he complained of,
an t the government will be compelled to
hare a decent law passed on the subject.
The recent financial squall in England has
led to direful results in the manufacturing
districts. Notice having been given at Ash
ton, oidham and othei points of a reduction
of wages, a general strike follow ed, and there
upon. 1") mills were closed at Oldham, SI at
-till I), m, lee. and flftv at Ashton. in all throwing
mi ; also -t over o,0oi) oneratives out of work. The most
;r or five a-serin us distress among the operatives is in
prcvetit inevitable.
Floods are still reported from different
ye i- -, the p uts of England. Ou the 25tU the waters of
lu
ll ay in Westiield, .Mass. she w
the family and the e-tati now
grand parents, aunts and uncles
Had she lived to maji.rity, she
been worth spHhU'iO.
A Miss of fifteen, a? ''"yi. tiling, Iowa, last
Tuesday, w alked int.) tl.e l"i; -t Na'i n.i! Hmk
f Lave liveri the river N'etie, at Peterboro, rose from 13 to
(H,- l "n WeV.ne-1.!,! ,,.et ahovc the ordinary level. The rise
; ...e ois. 1 1 wus
to the
I -he child,
v-uld icivc
an
d tried hard to per.- !,;
iie
was his duty to :n irry her ir.;:i:e
sooner. Her l.mgu.u ' w :.s, to -
emphatic, a it w:.s Li.-, -revolver.
A'tiio.'jl: ;
hole iu the t lh r's i t,
tcr his brain. 1' -r !.
aught we km. v.- r, : b
pears to have Lu .i . c :
ise undseductioi:.
A Wnioii i p.
"short" on th.' I ",
. . ,,it -
uud.cn that bedrooms in ounuins
along the river were flooded aud the sleeping
inmates barely escaped with their lives. Four
thouvmd acres of grazing land are flooded,
betwesu Earith and Deubiirgh, and 3,0O cat
tie deprived of pasture. The water is three
and fmr tV-et deep on -1,000 acres of land near
WhUtlescy.
1 he weather at latest dates, however, had
settled and there was a revival of hopes re
specting the harvest. The rnpid rise in
wheat which had been full four shillings per
quarter for the previous week, had been
checked, though the Mark I.ji.c Kjrpvas
thinks "a return to the former low rates is
imno-s'ble."
The Bank or England on the 2'.nh reduced its
r who h id b wiieitt rate f,f' discount to V i ner cent. One hua-
; 1 1),. u .1 ot'T; ideberorerc.,l mi l eighteen thousand pounds in gold
el.i-r tii.lt It
iate'.y it'n t
V 'he ie is.
in 'Ve b itri-; of ;i
- ::rg-;;i.i rt m id" a
: didn't -e -m To ( !!
:-.')0'!f then and fur
running y-t. It ap
1 of brc-ich of ;.rom-
the ri-e a wiek a.o was scojie 1 title.' tune went into the B mk if England ou balances
of f.j.ood. IL-'J bitter take a few . li- ' ;he same day.
mhis in draw : .'.-. :, as ujioii the whole a Messrs. Moody and S inkey are making a
somevhat sifer ..mil tit.in ihat ff operating tour in north Wales. On Monday next they
iigaiu-t the Chi. !,., B...-..'! d" Trade gam- wi'. a,,jt at the laying e-f the corner-stone of
bier. the Pn-sbjterian church at P.oscth, near
Mr. John ii, aged eigh'v-f.uir, jerked the Wrexham,
ci.-gnr from the m mUi f a "loafer who wa: S:r Francis B.ndHeid, formerly Heutcn
smokmg in a P.-st m stiett car, at. d then sat ant governor of Upper Canada, and well
him down. Tlie old man got nettled becau known as an author, is dead,
the follow had a,ktd him "wlint he was going. Parliament is expected t J bt prorogued,
to do about i" , about the Hth of August.
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