Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1872, Page 2

W THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26; 1872. ARKANSAS. The Philosophy of Violence--- Cain’s Commonwealth. The State Between 1540 and 1872--- Biary of Its Public Life Conciuded, Railway Reading for the Cairo & Fulton Road. From Our Own Correepondent, W2SBINGTOS, Oct. 22, 1672, Seeking to restore a link in Commontwealth- histories neverforged, I have taken up Arkan- B8 4 That State might cry, with more sense shan Job,—whoee expression, under the ecircum- stances, always seemed to me irrelevant ; in- deed, amodern interpolation on Job's' period,— ¢ 0 that mine enemy would write & book !” To write a book on Arkersss, and continue affec- Lionate toward it, is indeed difficult. The bloody trail southwestward bas lod acrosg that State since La Salle was waylaid in the grasses of Tex- as. The new Territory was consecrated at Little Rock, nearly forty-five years ago, by the blood of its godfather, Henry W. Conway, shot deadin 2 duel, with sl Arkenzaslooking on ; and near- Iy every year bas addeda victim to *themonster practice.” Assassination end dueling, twin ‘demons, went together in this wild State, where there have probably been more people ehot, stabbed; and lynched without authority of law, than have fallen in open battle. - TEE STOCK. This state of society was not & paroxysm. It wes the superlctivo estension of backwoods wgorals on the Carolina parallel. Arkansas was the grandchild of Carolina and the Ishmael of Tennessee. A swarthy mixture of Gelic, Scotch-Irish, and Gallic stock- overcame. the Saxon composition, and the history of the Teviers (originally Xavier Fiench) followed from wild Western Carolina to Arkansas,—whera 0 of the family moulded the politics of the eerly State,—is an index of its civilization. With his one nogro behind him, and the Creek, Chickassy, or Osege Indien before, the Arkan- gas borderer differed from the emigrating Cherokes meinly in his want of sensibility and clemency. They croesed the Mississippi together, and were neighbors for years. Chero- %ee law became Arkansas law, and he who took life owed his own to the restof the victim’s fam- §ly. Dueling was rather a fine affectation, im- ported for Kentucky, and the Bowie-knife was 2ltogether more to the Liking of the Arkansas “traveller. i THE ABEANSAS PILGRD FATHER. As Tennessee organized and straightened out her civilization, she shook from her fringes ameny & desperado, who found a doleful sanctu- ary in the bayons of Arkansas, Anew creature arose on the besis of a man, aptly described as < half horse and half slligator,” which hated & clezn shirt, and accepted an habitual itch 28 a heslthy and gentle stimulant. By the river-side, the freeman robbed flai-boats and travellers, and pessed counterfeit moncy. In the interior, Lo was absorbed in 3 waylaying feud with the best family, and in whipping his one nigger. Farther west, he lived with a squaw and jump- wd a claim. In politics, Le forced his opponent to do maurder o retire, deviced banks 40 rob foreign and public credulity, slendered the heads of the opposite faction till all the ig- porant’ constituency hungered for bloodshed, <and then he led them off to Texas, on a mission of glorious liberty, driving their slaves before ‘them. Still, necessity and tradition, even in Arkan- &as, required some human institutions. Amongst ‘these was punishment, which was nine parts of justice. Bociety, therefore, vindicated itself through the indiscriminate offices of Judge Tynch; and this enables me to resumo the diary of Arkansas, to which I have slready devoted & couple of letters. NOTHING EXTENUATE! My motive in theselettersis tosupplyinforma- tion. And Isuspect my object to ba the discov- ery of the fact that tlie whole problem of the ‘Bouthern States lies in the two wickednesses of «of public dishonesty and private violence, The politicians r0b, sud the people kill. Neither he rulers nor the governed acknowledge the faw or enforce i d yet every aseasein- stion committed in Arkansas turns the head of £ column of immigration. Every duel forces in wnother direction a score of bright intellects, who conld assist to inspire correct pub- lic opinion. And every dollar of prodigal debt =added to the public burden affects every ‘material interest of the State to a certain degree. TEE BLOODY ADMINISTRATION. _The long period of dishonesty and direction, vigor and violence, which marked the cereer of the Jackson-Van Buren party was replac- ed in 1840 by & log-cabin and raw-oyster Admiri: tration. The raw-oyster survived the log-cabin, and John Tyler fussed with his domineering party for an eutire term, while civilization was Deglected. At this ers, when the public con- ecience was adrift, there being no perty to ran the Government, the Southwest became a pan- demonium. Texas led off with o war between the Reguh}turs and the Moderators, In the In- dian Territory, civil war broke out between the rerties of Ross and Ridge. Along the frontier ne of Arkansas @ Vigilance Committee was organized of 400 men, with an Executive Com- *mittee of 30, chiefly preachers of the gospel; and theee held a Court at Boonsborough, in Northwest Arkapsas, and compelled everybody to prove an alili, or be_hanged. Five innocent men were then put to death a$ one time, while ihe real murderers were delivered up by the Cherolees two years subsequently. RIVER PIRACT. 2 4 In 1841, the young town of Helena distin- guished itself by setting up o schemo to dostroy Tiver-thieves. One Barney Bedford took a steamer there with a band of armed men, and, 25 the boat dropped down the river, and the houest counterfeiters came aboerd fo buy pro- duce with their * quecr,” they were seized and held till the boat got to the mouth of {he river. There, at Island No. 69, tho_sheriff of the op- posite county, in Missiesippi, gave up the pris- oners to a mob of butchers, who tied 27 and drowned them, and many others were whipped. A war broke ont along the Arkansas shore at once, between Hugh Tully's band of counter- feiters and society ; from 50 to 75 folks were shot, aud the Judges end neighbors were warned. The mouth of White River was always a hor- rible place. There was a settlement here, called Montgomery's Point, where robbers were made welcome, and quite & town grew up on the pro- ceeds of murder and couutmaitin%- The pro- prietor died 2 fow years before the War, and had B lerge and mourning funeral. THE SECHET EMPIRE OF MUERELL. Socieiy failing to organize with spirit, crime grew comprehcnsive. As early as 1808, o band of robbers, 80 strong, mzde their rendezvous af the mouth of the Arkansas and at Stack Island. They had two Captains,—Clary presiding ot the Former place. In 1811, the boafmen asscmbled and stormed Clary's sottlement, whipped him, and sent him to jail at Natchez. But Stack Isl- and was & robber’s nest for years, as well as Point, Chicot. % Jobn A. Murrell, the most famous robber of tho Aississippi Valley, made Arkansosa * stamp- ing-ground " while it was a Territory, and roamed at will from Little Rock to the Post of Arkansas, and from Nashville to New Orleans. His pro- fessional avocation was to sell and resell negroes, Whom he seduced to Tun away and_submit to gele agein. _They were the only original bounty- Jampers. When is stock gave out, Murrell Fould kidnap a new supply, and, whenever in & tight place, murder his poor instruments. He was also the Jeader of a band of horse-thieves end counterfeiters, who met in’an isolated bayou, surrounded on all sides by swamps, in iesissippi County, Atk,, to devise suchcom- prehensive wickedness £5 & general glave revolt, “hile its instigators should ~take advantage of the panic 2nd Tob at will. He committed many jnhuman murders, and had people who inter- fered with him nssassinated. Being a fellow of no inconsiderable vanity, he related many of his crimes to a stranger who flattered his self-es- teem, end this stranger geve him up to the law. Ho died in n jail in West Tennesses, leaving & tradition which will outlast hundreds of years. Eis story was related by Vigil A. Stewart, his cantor, and published by Harper Brothers in 3800, THE BOND-ROBBERS OF LITTLE ROCK. About 1842-'43, the shamefal maniralation of the State finances of Arkansas altracted the at- tention of mankind only to a less degreo than the reg}:diution of Mississippi’s bonds by Gov- emor McNutt, in 1851 The King-bird of the State at this time was Ambrose H. Sevier, who lies buried under a mar- ble monument at the expense of the State. He was the preecriber of its morals and the organ- izer of its politics, The Real Estate Bank of Arkansas—one of two banking corporations permitted by law—had a capital of $1,500,000 in stock, which it loaned to plenters, 2nd took mortgages on their land. The State took these mortgages, and issued 1,600,600 of State’ bonds to the bank, payable toits order, and the rnnual interest to bo as- sumed by the bank. Of these bonds, $500,000 were indoreed by the benk over to the North American Danking & Trust Company, of New Yorl, toraiso funds. This Company pledged tho tonds to Hniford & Co., London brokers; and soon afterwerd the Trust_Company failed. At this, both the Real Estate Bank and the Statore- pudiated the bonds,and alleged in bar the frauds of their agent the Trust Company. Tlirtyyears afterward, tho carpet-baggera resumed responsi- bility for the Halford bonds, and the State was muleted for 1,700,000. But tuis wes not all. The Legielaturo of Arkanses, according to the Cincinnati Gezelle of 1843, received the following xeport of the be- havior of itsSenator, Sevier: TUnited States Senator Sevier and General T. T. Williamson were made Commissioners to sell tho State bonds in the East. They were accept- ed at par by Lovi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury, ond tho Smithsonian Institute be- quest, in gold coin, delivered up to them! They puid o, broker $5,000, paid thomselves £5,000 Zach “ g3 brokers,” took $14,000 apioce for ex: penses, loaned s friend in New York $8,500, ind then invested the remaining amount in South- western and Western funds, pocketing the dif- ference of exchange. The Committes found, of all this, but $15,000 specie in the bank vaults, and the assets almost valueless. A correspondent of the Little Rock Gazetle, March 16, 1842, said: “There is nothing to do Dut for all the banks to go into liquidation ; this delectable condition we have come to in four years, spending $1,500,000 1" Tho Phildeiphia Ledger of September, 1841, ehowed that Avkansas gob of the Smithsonian fund 538,000 for Stato bonds, on which the de- preciation was_already $242,000. It denounced the lending of Nationsl funds to States. Thus, the Smithsonian bequest was gobbled up by the Van Baren politiciens of Little Rock,— & town that Smithson had never heard of ; and Congress had to renew the bequest out of the public revenme. Arkansas and Sevier have a fine brown-stono monument at the City of Wash- ington. TOE FATEER OF THE PUBLIC FAITH, With all this scandal hanging over his head, Ambroge H. Sevier was re-clected to the Senate, Nov. 22, 1842, —although his first term was not 1o expire umtil 1545, He gob71 votes, and Pike, Whig, got _10. “Truly,” suys Niles' Register, “4his i3 taking time by the forelock.” In 1842, Governor Yell recommended the wind- ing up of the Stato Bank, to follow its proco- cious colleague. The buildings where these two iucnrpomtefi robbers divelt still stands in, Little Tock, near thejState House, their cotempo- Tary. Arkanses banking bad proved as fallacious and dishonest as Law's Miesissippi Bubble, which was based upon the productiveness of these regions, 125 years before. The Arkansas Senate of 1843 contained 16 farmers aud 4 law- yers; the House, 37 farmers, 14 lawyers, and 6 hysicians,—in all :66. 'Thres of the Washite iver counties yielded 30,000 bales of cotton in the seme year. . PANDEMONITN. Arkonsns now sympathized with the Cher- okees in their exterminating war, where Jesse Bushyhend, end John Ross, and John Rodgers led thecombat of the old removers and the nexw- Iy-azriven from Cis-Mississippi. By sympethiz- ing, T mean that the crimes of the Indian Terri- tory estended to Arkangas; for, all along the Indian line, assaesing lurked and low groggeries abounded. In this year of 1843, Judge Field charged the Grand Jury of Arkansas as follows: “In some parts of Arkansss, it is really dan- gerous for a Judge to_protect his station from insult or assert bis authority. If what he says or does is not exactly agreeable to the taste of some, he is in danger of aonihilation. Ono or twoProsecuting Attorneys in the northern part of the State have been wayleid and murdered for doing their duty. another pert, o Judge was berred out of the Court-Honse by the population, snd his {ife put in danger, merely because he wished to hold his Court as the law dirscted. Another Judgé was near bein%n:ttncke\i whilst on his bench, for exercieing his authority in keeping gilence in the - Court-House during business- houra. Another was forced by an armed ruffian to leave the bench and drink with him, and this while the Court was in session.” s POLITICS AND FINANCE IN POLE'S TDME. We firat hear of Henry M. Rector, the subse- uent Secession Governor, in the Little Rock Fasatie of Aoy 24, 1843, That virtdous peper gaid that the yeomanry of Arkansas tingled with indignetion to hear that Rector had suc- ceeded somebody else as.United States Marehal, By the way, the veteran editor of that paper had % county named for bim in 1862. There is & county in Arkaness named for all the old desperadoes: Conway, Sevier, Pope, Desha, Crittenden, snd Ashley. The carpet-baggers have sdded Sarber, Grant, etc. 5 In 1843, Van Buren was the first choice of the ruling element of Arkansss, and Calhoun the second, for President. 1 . In 1344, there was a tremendous political con- test, there being a candidate of the central clique, of the Democratic boiters, and of the Whigs. The central clique had to withdraw two of the men they selected successively, on account of notorionsly bad character. The Bt. Louis Republican of Aug. 22 said : 4 “The whole bf them are better qualified for the penitentiary than for offices of honor or profit. Charges of fraud, perjury, swindling, nd forgery are deslt out against public men with 2 Tecklessness which amazes us.” Nevertheless, the regular candidste for Gov- ornor was elected, and the Democratic bolters polled only 1,200 votes. The acting Governor s2id, in his message, that the State Treasury was nob able to pay the in- terest accrucd on the State bonds, 8504507, nn- disputed interest; and, in the midstof these excesses, Chester Ashley was_elected to be Se- vier's colleague, vice Fuiton, deceased. Ashley +was a planter and trader in Northwest Arkunsas, from Massachusetts via Ilinois. He died in Washington, in 1848. Fulton had died at Rose- wood, near Tittls Rock, and was buried at the State Capital. Thomas 8. Drew was elected Governor in 1834, recciving 8,707 votes, to 2,504 for Boyd, boltér, and 7,087 for Gibson, Whig. The State Senate stood 21 to 4; the House, 64 to 11; Polk ot, the same v ear, 9,545 votes, Clay 5,122, for resident. 'The heavy Whig counties iwers here thie more refined plantera lived, 2s Chicot, Onzchita, and Phillips. - In 1845, o distinguishea citizen of Arkansas was hung for murder—‘Buffalo Bill.” The wrong man had previously been hanged for one of Bill's murders. About this time, the Missouri and Arkansas boundary line wss definitely settled. Curious revelations in nature had been developed by their gurvey; emongst other things, & spring, near Batesville, which discharged alone 20,000 " cubic feet a minute, and showed no bottom at 500 feet. There was o sharp contest over the successor- ship to Ashley. W. K. Sebastian got it, and re- mained in the Senato nearly thirteen years, till expelled, with his colleague, Mitchell, in 1861. A. H. Sevier presided temporarily over tho Senate, by request of Richard M. Johnson, Vico President, about this time,—J. J. Crittenden objecting that the Vice President had no right to name his proxy. The Helena Shield, of 1846, gnid that the State debt was $3,500,000, and sug- gested that the public creditor give up hisbonds, and accopt instead new fifteen-year non-interest- paying bonds. ARKANSAS IN POLK'S TIME. The Mexican War broke out in 1846, and Archi- bald Yell, M. C. elect, enlisted as & private in the Arkansas regiment,—partisan malice intimating that he did 80 to get popularity and reach the Senate instead. He became Colonel of the regi- f ment, marched it to Shreveport, La., and then to San Antonio, and was killed_at Buens Vista. In ihis regiment, Dr. Solon Borland, Sevier's protege aud editor, was Major. Borland and 50 ‘men, disobeying orders, were_gobbled up by the Mexican General Minion, ot Encarnacion, Jan. 23, 1827, “ without the firing of a 2 Yell himself had solicited General Wool to fall into this trap, but he was reserved for amore martial fate, Mis regiment fought well. and returned to New Orleans with eight companies and ouhv 233 men, and the dead bodies of Yell and Captain Porter. A quarrel in_this regi- ment led toa duel between ofticers Roane and Albert Pike, beyond Fort Smith, in the Indian Territory. Both game and both unsinged. Aikansss looking on by ihe Steambat-load. The quota of Arkansssin the Mexican War was one regiment of cavalry for the invasion, and one for frontier-defence. The Legislature, in 1846, stood, onjoint ballot, Democrats, 59, Whige, 21. A letter from Arkansas in the Louisville Journal, 1846, says: “ Qur’ population is now 145,000, yet we do not pay as much revenus into our Treasury as when we had a population a little short of 100,000. Our taxes are higher than then, and property of all kinds has gone down in valie. The back in- terest on our bonds AWQURIS {0 some $800,000 and upwards. How wo are to get out of our difficulties, God only knows.” ARKANSAS AFTER THE MEXICAN WAR. Just after the Mexican Wer, Bob Johnson— fiddler, organizer, lawyer, and reviver of Sevier's tactics—was sent to the Lower Honse of Con- gress, whence he gucceedod to the Senato, and reigned there politicel master of Arkansas, sur- rounded by » family as numerous as Grant's brothers-in-law. Thomas 8. Drew and John 8. Roane were the War and After-War Governors. John Borland, ¢ the fighting editor,” was sont to the Senate in 1843,—the Legislature standing 76 Democrats to 25 Whigs. C. I'. AL Nolan,— Whig editor, wit, and figliter,—got the 18 Whig votes. Johnson received 14,666 votes to Nevr- ton's 9,834, Governor Drew had recommended education and immigration. His successor, Roane, got only 163 majority. The people were tired of the Ring. Borlznd was sent to the Sen- ate again, after hehed served out the remnant of Sevier's term, by the following vote : Borlund, 71; Gibson, 15} T.S. Drevw, 9. Borland wasa native of Virginiz, rosh, intelligent, and no great improvement in temperament upon his redecessors. He had supplanted Sevier, and e was in turn supplanted by the Johnson fami- 1y,—those Pied Pipers who had but to fiddle and votes followed thom like children. Borland was sent Minister to Central America, 23 Seyier had been made Treaty Commissionor to Mexico. At Greylown, Borland protected & man who stabbed anegro; for this he was mobbed in the strects, and he resented it, Arkansas fashion, by order- ing Commander Hollins to shell out the town, which was done, to the great amusemont of mankind and the wrath of the English. Borland came home, but found, while Bob Johnson sbounded, no space in Arkanses for the soles of his feet, and he removed to Memphis and edited the Inguirer there with Jerry Clemens. THE LAST DAYS OF SLAVE AREANSAS. Between the Mexican War and the Rebellion, the State was generelly Johnsonized, with spasmodic intrusions of Thomss C. Hindman, of elena. In_ 1849, there was a small mining Tover towards Arkansas. In 1852, the Govern- ‘ment presented the State with 8,000,000 acres of swamp-lands. The same year, thers waos & Rail- road Convention at Little Rock, attended only by delegates from Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It was resolved to meke Momphis the emporium of Arkansas shipments, and the Momphis & Little Rock Railroad was according- 1y bailt over-a miserable route, so that it con- tinues to be o sort of man-trap. In Indian tr_arlm%( TIndian treaties, etc., the prosimity of Little Rock to the rich Indian Territory gave its lawyers and politicians great advantage. THE GREATER VIOLENCE COAING. The bren‘xiniup of Slavery drew near. Ar- kansas pleyed her part by the tiredes of Hind- ‘man, and by the cowardly attack upon Horaco Greeley by one of her loafers in Congress, pamed Matt. Rust, Dec. 20, 1860. David Hub- bard, Commissioner from Alzbzma, herangued the Arkansas Legislature for Secession. A big meeting for the Union followed at Van Buren. Breckinridge got in the State, 28,732 votes; Bell, 20,09%; Douglas, 5,227. ‘Thore appeared 3o bé for Union,. in 1861, 23,636 Co-opuration ~votes, and 17,987 for Secession,—Co-operation menning onlyto go out if the neighbors did. The Convention met March, at Little Rock ; on the 6th, Lincoln's message was received and de- nounced , at 8 p. m., May G, the State seceded, 69 voting affirmalively, and 1—Dr. Isaac Murphy, of Huntsville—negatively. The hall wes crowded, and, s every former Union member voied aye, there was a shout of approbation. At the end, there was a tornado of shricksand exclamations. The politicians, returning to their old game, at once Srdered 5,000,000 of the State bonds to be issued. AREANSAS UP. Prior to this, Fob, 5, 1861, Hindiman's gang from Holena took the United States Arsenai a Little Rock, and Solon Borland went up, With two steamers—tho *Talequah” and * Frederick Notrebe"—and 500 troops, and captured Fort Smith, April 26. To the Rebel Congress were eent R. W. Johnson, A. Rust, A. V. Garland, . H. Watkins, and . F. Thomason. Thomas C. Hindman was commigsioned Msjor General of the Confederncy, and_Albert Rust, Ed. W. Gantt, Solon Borland, J. B. S. Roane, T.A. Flournoy, and Albert Pike wero made Brige- diers. Pike afterwards_resigned, aiter quarrel- Ting with Jeff. Davis; Flournoy, Rust, and Bor- lznd died; Gantb joined the carpet-beggers; and Pike and Bob Jobneon are lawyers af Washington City. Hindman was assaésinated at his fireside. Marmaduke, an alion Genoral in tho State, kept up'the tradifions by killing, ina duel, at Bayou Metaire, Ark., Sept. 6, 1863, Gea- eral ‘Marsh Walker, shooting Wallier through the bowels. A fight taok place betweor the State Govorn- ment and the * Military Board.” Two dopart- ments were made of Arkanses, and Pearce, who commanded one, proved insubordinate, and de- gerted Ben. McCulloch in the field. The 22,000 troops generally refused to leave tho State. Hindman wanted to keep a great deal of sugar he had stolen, and pay off soldiery with it; and, for taking £1,000,000 from the banks of Mem- phis, etc., he was disgraced by the Rebel Gov- ernment, and General Holmes put in command of the forces of Arkansas. In 1863, Rector called out all the ams-beuin%upen , and Eoon afterward ren away himself, and left Arkaneas under the military domination of General Roane. Cotton was taxed £30 8 bale; factories of saltpetre, cotton goods, salt, &hot, cannon, etc., were established in Arkaneas. The penitentiary convicts at Little Rock made army wagons. A secret Union Society ] road over the mountain-part of the State, and con- sternation, born of native ignorance, prevailed. THE WAB IN ARKANSAS. Pea Ridge 1aid low the pretensions of an easy Trnlz!-msiaug{)uflomininn. The Union army traversed the hill-country on the White River line, and, although called off by circumstances, east of the Mississippi, and & part of the gun- bost fieet repulsed in the White River troughs, the Indian allies of Arkansas were cut off inthe west, and Hindman was shattered at Prairie Grove. Bob Johnson beat Garland for the Rebel Congress, and Harris Flannagan succeeded Rector as Governor. Arkansas Post surrender- ed. Marching up opposize sides of the Arkan- &as, the armies of the Union and the Usurpation skirmished a trifle, and, on the 10th of Septem- ber, 1363, the army of General Steel entered Lit- tlo Roci:. e are now powerless,” said the Mayor, C. P. Bortrand ; *we ask your mercy !” 3 Tt was tendered,—a new_thing in that_city. The Arsensl was recovered ; the levee of Little Rock was filled with burning steamers, cars, and Jocomotives. To Arkadelphia went the powder- mill, where it blew up. To Marshall, Texas, e- paired the Governor, Flannigan, and he signed s proclamation, with Moore, Lubbock, and Rey- nolds, the other trans-Missiesippi Mugistrates, saying 5 %5 immenee extent of our territory, the un- certainty of navigating our rivers, the unwhole- someness of the region throngh which our in- terior is approached, and the difticulty of trans- portation on our roads, present immense obstacles to the advance of the Bnem]{." Tt had cost 5,000 lives to march on Little Rock, —the result of the climate. A new and hopeful Union Civil Government, headed by Isaac C. Murphy, of Huntsvillo, aross at Little Rock. Had the people co-operated withit, carpet-bagging might have beon avoided. THE ABEANSAS TRAVELLERS RETULN. A movement in grand strategy followed in the spring of 1864. 1 X from the Arkansas, coxmarging on Arkadelphia. A gunbost-fleo: proceeded mp the Red and Washington Rivers, to clear the ey for a grand advance from Vicksburg. The army of General Banks advanced up the Bayou Teche and the River Red. The objective points iere Shreveport and Marshall and thence a fan-like sweep of all Texas. Had it been simultaneons and successfal, it would ‘haverivalled the great march of Sherman, Aeade, and Schofield, at & later period. It failed. Thede- feat of Banks at Mansfield was known to Steele in the heart of the Wasbhita country. He retreat- ed to Little Rock, galled and maimed at every crossing. The Provissional Union Government tottered, but Little Rock was never abandoned. Bterling Price gathered up an army and marched | to the gates of St. Louis. Behind him, brigand- age started up, like the furies,of the old civili- gation. Fort Smith was onlyheld by the be- seeching implorations of the Union people at Washington. _And, when the War closed out b; the victories inthe East, Arkansas was stil overrun by rangers, and the crops had to be planted and gathered in the shelter of block- houses. NEW AREANSAS. April 14, 1865, the Murphy Government abol- ished Slavery, and dis{nnch.{sad all who had ad- hered to the Rebel cause since April 16, 1864. The Suprome Cours prononncad sgainst the Ar- kansas test-oath, and soon the Secessionists carried the Murphy Legislature, and were about to impeach the State Judge and remove the Tressurer. Congress interfered, and in 1866 Qeclared that “No legal State Government now exists in Arkansas.” General Ord took command of the State, sent hme{ém"&s to ?‘B Dry Tortugn.u{ c;md lssnned an order against carrying concealed weapons. At the same time, he court-martisled an officer ‘who had stopped a newspaper. . Porell Clayton & Co. undertook the reorgani- 2ation of the State. The polls were kept open from Merch 18 to the beginning of April, 2ud it was declared that the Roconstruction Constitu- tion had been adopted by 27,918 votes for, to 26,597 against it. s A%ril 1, 1868, & blacksmith, with tools, opened the State House st Littlo Rock. July 2, 1868, General Powell Clayton entered WithLis carpet- ee Union columns_moved: bag. Aug. 27, 1863, he opened this carpet-b: a5 ook 1t & procsmation of martial law. The old desperadoes were met by cool, merciless or- inmznt{lun, and Dosth was faced by Death. uthorized fraud, in the name of fanaticism, had come to rule where violence, without au- thority, had ruled so long. In 1868, Genersl Grant was declared to have received 3,074 ma- jority, in & vote of 41,250. GaTE. THE LOSS OF THE GOLDEN HIND. Thrilling Statement by Captain B, F. Robbins. From the Boston Journal, Oct. 23, Captain B. T. Robbins, commander of the ill- fated ship Golden Hind, of Boston, which was wrecked on Mid Bay Rocks on the 24th of June Inst, arrived in this city on Tuesday, direct from South Americe. Captain Robbins has kindly furnished us with the data for the following nar- rative : The Golden Hind eeiled from New York with assorted cargo on the 14th of February last, bound for San Francisco. She wes in fine tzim, stounch and tight, and with o ship's company numbering iwenty-one, officers and men. The ‘voyage was barren of incident until the neigh- borhood of Cape Horn was reached, on the 19th of Mey. From this date until 18th of Juno fol- lowing, they experienced frequent heavy galos, and shipped heavy seas. On that day, after hevin:* been driven to the enstward of the Cape _.ee times by a succes- sion of temific gales, an nccident occurred to which all the subsequent disasters and_euffer- ings were due. The rudder wag_carried nway. Flie Captain had o temporary rudder construct- od, and, after much difficulty, ehipped, bub it failed to steer the vessel in tho heavy weather which again came on. A continuance of heavy northrwest galos, accompanied by a heavy sonth- west sea, in spite of all the exertions of Captain Robbins, drove the ship on to Mid-dsy Rocks. This occwrred on the 24th of June. Tinding his vossel drifting upon the rocks, Coptain Robbing ot out_lis anchors, but these failed to hold er, and soon she was among the breakers and fast going to pieces. - No elternative was left but abandonment, which was effected very hurriedly, and with much difficulty, 2t abou’ 8 p. m. in_three bosts, con- taining soven men each, in charge respectively of the Caplain and first and second matcs. The gale was still strong when tho three boats’ crews set out for Charles Island, a sterile recf some 10 miles distant. The Captain arrived at the island near midnight, and munoged to lay under the lee of it nfil morning, when, being joined by the first mate’s bont, they made a temporary landing. The second matc’s boat failed to ap* pear, and as it bes never since been heard from, the inferance is thet it was swamped by thegale. Each bont, when it left the wreck, had about ten days’ provisions on board, but most of the bread was poiled during the passage from the sceno of the wreck to Charles Island, owing to the constant shipping of salt water. It should be remarked here that the weather was extromely cold as_well as boisterous, and that, being without sails, the boats were neces- sarily sropelled by oars. After a sojourn of three days on Charles Island, a desolate, rocky recf, barren of vegotation, the gale continuing with unabated fury all_that time, the two bonts gtarted eastward bound for Sandy Point, Strait of Magellan, the nearest ettloment. Tho sea wasatdl running high; but the prospect of starvation left no alternative. On the night following the departure from Charles Island, tho Captain's boat capsized, by which untoward accident the ship's instruments and nearly all the provisions and_clothing were lost. The boat wasrighted and bailed out, and the voyage continued without either charts of instruments with which to guide them on their s was made slowly eastward, the crews working at the oars during the day and Janding upon the rocky reofs, which lined their route, at night. Some of these islands contain- ed a stunted growth of trees, out of which the weary, starving mariners wore enabled to build fires; otherwise they must have perished from cold.’ As days passed their prograse grew slow- er, necessurily from the wealioned state of the men, who could keep at the oars only for ehort period at & timo. Then, again, heavy gales would set in, keeping them for days at one point. Soon their limited stock of provisions gavo out, after which for many deys their only means of sustenance coneisted of a species of muscle shell fish, which was found attached to the rocks, unnutritious, unpalatable, and_insuf- ficient in gmmtity or quality to sustain life for any considerable length of timo, It slso cansed caused constipation of the bowels. Rather than eat such food tho Captain went eight days al- ‘most without sustenance of any kind. Finally, the two boats reached an island some sixty miles distant from Sandy Point, where further prog- ress was rendered impossible in consequence of the wenkened stato of the crew and tho high winds that prevailed constantly. . ‘Here on the 23th of July, Edward White, one of the mate's boat crew, succumbed to the terri- blo ordesl and died. Next day, Charles Rem- burg and Dauiel Jackson, two'of the Captain's crew, also died from starvation and exposure. At about this time the shellfish diet could not e had for three successive dcys, the wind pre- venting the ebbing of the tide sufiicient to pro- cure them. The next to die was algo of the Captain’s crow, William Owen, the ship's car- penter. August 8, Frank Horvey, of the Cap- tain's bont, passed aiay. The Captain and the remainder of the crew were now in the last ex- tremity. Help must soon come, or it would come too late. And where could they look for human aid? There was only one chance in twenty that some friendly vessel might, in pass- ing, discover them in timo, ‘This was their only hope—s faint one at best. Fortunately $his one chanco in_twenty was given them, and they wero savedl On Angust 11, just forty-eight days from the time of shipwreck, tne survivors thereof were taken off tho island, whero lzy the stiffened, emaciated bodies of five of their number, by the sealing schooner Eagle, of Port Stanloy, Falkland Islands, and conveye to Sandy Point without delay. When taken on board the Eagle, the Captain of which proved to be & Rhode Island Yankee, and where they re- ceived overy attention possible, most of the men Wore 8o weals they had to be lifted over the ves- sel's gide. A d‘fl or two more of exposure wouid have ended sll their lives, and nono would have been left to tell the tale. At Sandy Point, which place they reached on the 12th of August, they Swere received by the Governor, Don Oscar Vicl, who kindly provided them with board, shelter, and clothing, of which latter they stood in great need. On tho 15th, the United States steamer Ossipee, Commander Joseph N. Miller, bound for Rio Janeiro, arrived, and took them all on board. They were shown every attention by the Commander and officers of the Ossipee. Ar- riving 2t Rio on thé 15th of September, the sur- viving crew of the Golden Hind, with one ex- coption, slugped on board the Ossipee, while Captain Robbins was given passage home on the gteamer South America, Captain 'rinklgmugh, arriving in New York on Mondsy. The Captsin speeks in the highest terma of praise of the of- ficers of the Soith America, and ssys he has re- ceived nothing but the kindest treatment since the day of his fortunate cscape from tho island of desolation. All the crew of the missing boat wore foreigners, with one exception, Thomas McGratte, of Boston. Captain' Robbins, who is & native of and residesin Plymouth, notwith- standing his misfortunes, is Teady fo try the voyage again. He is physically and mentailly a fine specimen of an American seilor. He is compactly built, and has muscles of iron. A less hardy man could mot have survived such guffering as it has been his fate to endure. e S oF Shakespeare’s Handwriting. It isnot,hinileas than marvellous that & man who wrote as he wrote—and, altogether, no man ever wrote lilke him—that poet, the author of such plays and such poems; that & man posses- sing 8o many friends and admirers, with whom his correspondence must have been extensive, ehould not have loft n -single line behipd him traced by his own hand. Of all his poems and plays thore does not exist & page, lino, asinglo word in manuscript. Al BE: espeare's manu- seript plays could not have parie%ed in the fire which destroyed the Globe Theatre, The author maust have made little account of them himself; but how great would our estimatiom be of a single act of ono of Shokespeare's plays in his own handwriting! We have just now smong us & parallel to the fulip mania.” Thousands of {uunds are willingly gaid for a picture, which he samo number of shillings would once have purchased. Rather, let us say that the shillings ‘were given for the picture, and that the poun by thousznds are given for the painter's name. ‘Well, what would not be willingly paid (for the sake of Shakespeare’s name) for the original manuscript, say of # Hamlet?” There woukl be » fierce fight among the competitors for even a single passage. Wo fancy the lines beginning with ¢ The quality of mercy is not strained,” or thoee that open with “She never told her love,” and hundred of others, .could not be had for guineas covering each lctter, What & conten- tion thero would be for the first love-letter, ad~ dressed to any one. A costly holograph! Alas! there are neither lines nor lettors. that have ‘been saved of Shakespeare’s handwriting is con- fined to a couple of signatures of his name to certain deeds, and in those subscriptions tho name is ssened differently. Even ‘tho forgers have not dared to produce a letter by Shakes- peare.~—Zemple Bar. INDIANA. The Vote As Officially Returned. ‘Wo have tabularized the official vote in the several counties of Indians, to show the resuld by Congressional Districts, as follows: ICONG., 1872,('Gov., 1872.||aoV., 1868. Lib. | Rep. || Demt.| Rep. || Dem.| Rep. RS B ) sommors. | 8| £ § BE 5 & H i & i [ g | ouawu 2228 ! 1,752} 1,625 1,671 1,ao1 2354 1,737 1,540] 1,306 1,429/| 1,380| 1387 1,76)] 2,157| 1,889 2,1771| 1.872) T,943 4,070]) 3,227| Bl272 1,711 1,888) 1,562 Total......}19,259/19,137](20,09218,415]|18,037116,623 William E. Niblack, Liberal, over William Heilman, Ropublican, 132 ; Hendricks over Browne, 1,677; Hen- dricks over Baker. 1,415, § & & S 3,085 117 2,086 2,861 1, 3,178 2423 1l 1,322 1,525 889 it 2,064] 1,624]| 2,505] 1, 19,530{13, 740l 19,617}12, 427 Simon E. Wolfe, Liberal, over D. W. Voyles, Repub- lican, 5,684; Hendricks over Browne, 65,790 ; Hen- dricks over Baker, 7,190, 5] 5] 5] =] B psozer o, | 2 HER IR : b g _Bartholomew..| 2,623| 2,121| 2,652 2,100]1 2,509| 2,007 Dearb 3,385| 1,94|| 3120} 2'014]| sjor2) F183 2,153| 2,249 2,122| 2,284]) 1,986] 2,225 2620] 2,785|| 3,603| 2802i| 2,300] 2,767 1,603( 1,834|| 1,685 1,849]| 1,473( 1,812 s90| ‘620|574 el 40| 's0d 2,2641 2,040)1 2,245 2,061]| 2,235( 2,08¢ 1,328| T461)( 1,207| 1,485|| 1,256) 1,429 s 16,367115,009}16,200]15,242 15,50515, 086 William 8. Holman, Liberal, over Willam W, Her- ¥od, Ropublican, 1,538; Hendricks over Browne, 958; ‘Hendricks over Baker, 419, SIENSIYIB S| EIEE 3 osmerw. | & | FHl 2| 8| & i : : g T Total......}i4,110/14,199 12,593 j13,170]13,593 Jeremiah M. Wilson, Republican, over David S, Gooding, Liberal, 380; Browne, 268; Baker over Hendricks, I wsysispuory] l CRPMPWIH B | ooy £8 4 it a8 & i v S o, 2,155/| 1,538 2,075 Total......[18,001] 118,69! Fohn Goburn, Republican, over Gyrus Liberal, 793; Browne over Hendricks, 541; Hendricks, 092, “*auaiogr [ **oyorapuryy | 1,3161] 8,826] 4,010 18,41118,653] 3,323 8 16,460 Morton C. Hunter, Republican, over Daniel W. 16,579 Voorheen, Liberal, 657 ; Browne over Hendricks, 2425 ‘Hendricks over Baker, 119, **4*au0i047) oy SR 19, 2 & 7621 4,169 '972| 1,518 7,670, 18,118 | 155011 16,488 Thomas J, Cason, Republican, over Mahlon D. Man- son, Liberal, 107; Browne over Hendricks, 543; ‘Baker over Hendricks, 047, s v quarosg Bal 8 .!"'J".‘;.!"J“ 28 1,208 1501 £ - 19,731] James N, Tyner, Republican, over Thomas E, White- sides, Liberal, 2,039; Browne over Hendricks, 27613 Baker over Hendricks, 2,279, %18 B N § sk z 5515 S0 ’67s| 2,764 1,117, 5400 1516 17 1,494 3318 1508] 2099 1250 1,467| 1.047 Total...... |17,082/17,058 14,692115,664 John E. Noff, Liberal, over John P. C. Shanks, Be- publican, 24} Browne over Hendricks, 417; Baker over Hendricks, 973. *BYOLPUIT LaGrange... Noble. . Henry B. Ssyler, Republican, over E. Van Liberal, 2,185 ; Browne over Hendricks, 2,085 Baker over Hendricks, 2,4%8, - = ] = 3| E B ommorxn | & 3 & 5t E 2% | et 114,299 Jasper Backard, Bepublican, aver Jobu A Honrigks, Liberal, 985; Browne over Hendricks, 943 ; Baker over Hendricks, 1,182, . VOTZ OX THE STATE TICKET, ¥aj.|| Repubiican.| ZLiberal, Maj. ‘Governor— 188,276/ . 188,722 {188,742 189,621 189,032] 783 180,004] 188,237 {169,857] 188,801 1188,664] 188,760) 1,148 Wildmen ... (GIoVer. o0 |[penny... .. 11,503 47 162 258 A MISPLACED SWITCH. Fatal Accident on the Eastern Eaile road—Three Persons Killed and Sixe teen Injured—Coroner’s Enguests From the Boston Aduertiger, Oct. 23, Yesterday forenoon the whole city and suburbs waa shocked by the intelligence that a_terrible accident had occurred on the Eastern Railroad. Though the first accounts, which stated that 13 men were killed and o large number injured, were grestly exaggerated, subsequent des- niches showed that the accident was the most sastrons to life, limb, and property thet has occurred in New England for many. em—exceifin; one. The caiastrophe oc- curred nt Seabcook, New Hampshire, about six miles beyond Newburyport, and was cauged by the Bangor express running into the rear of a {reight train on the turnout, by reason of & mis- placed switch. Three persons were killed and Beventeen wounded. The time of the disaster was at about quarter- st 4 o'clock in the morning. The local reight train left Portsmouth for Boston at 9 o'clock on the preyious evening. On arriving at the heavy up-grade at Seabrook it came fo a stand-still, being uneble to proceed, a5 the rails were wet and slippery. But the Bangor express- freight coming up behind, assisted it along and on the tarnout, where it was to wait for the Pullman express to pass by. The express-freight then went along, and ten minutes afterward the Pullmar train came along, and, the switch being misplaced, plunged with ferrific force into the rear of the freight train. The frain was go- ing at the rate of at least twerty miles an hour, and the shock was terribly effective. The en- g'np crashed into the saloon-car of the freight frain, which fortunately was unoccapied, pass- ing through and completely demolishing it. Tho ehgine was badly smashed ; 80 great was the force that the d:iving-wheals werae buried in the earth to the axles. Behind the engine was an Eastern express car, then a baggage and mail car, a emoking-car, & Bmag;llgar car, all belonging to the Maino Central+ Raifroad, and, last of all, -two Pullman sleeping-cars; the train consisting of six ‘cars in A The meil-car wes forced into and through the smoking-car “* telescoping” it. The smoking- car was demolished completely and the mail-car waa badly smashed. It was in these two where the persons injured were. In the Emoking-car were about twenty persons, and some were sleeping. It is remarkable that any one es- csped; as it wag, only one was killed outright. This was Captain Robert Norton, of Gardiner, Me, George Hayward, of Bangor, and & Mr. Walker, of Salem, were 5o badly mnjured that they died in a few hours. The cars took fire from the upsetting of the stoves, but the flsmes were promptly extinguished, and an additional calamity averted. The Pullman cars were nob injured in' the least, and the occupents wera hardly aware of the shock, so sofid]iua these cars built. The an cars and the bnigage car had the Miller platforms, and even the.latter was not broken up. The other cars belonged to the Meine Central, and had the ordinary plat- form; consequently they were b smashed. The cars of every express train which goes over the Esstern Railrosd, with the exception of trains made up of Maine Central cars, have the Miller platform and the Westinghaus brike ; and, had this train been, 50 equipped, it it highly robable that few, if any, would have been in- ured. The conductor, Mr. A. N. Goodhue, was in charge of the Pullman express at the time of the Rovere accident, and it is somewhat a‘mgfllu that he shonld occupy the same position here. The engineer, Mr. Patnam Newhall, did not seo that the switch was wrong until within 200 feet. It was then toolate to even.reduce the speed with the old-faghioned brakes. However, he signalled * down brakes,” reversed the .en- gine, and then jumped, esceping with but few Scrafches. His fireman remained on the engine, and was uninjured, though he was_thrown into the tender, where he was half-buried under the wreck. The switch was turned by C. F. Dow, of Seabrook, who was & brakeman on_the local freight. He soys thathe switched the freight train on to theturnout, then replaced the switch to allow the Bangor freight to pass by ; he put the lock in its place,” but-did not turn the key. He thon went back toassist inhandling thefreight at the station, and once went back to eee that all wesright. He says that it is not the custom to lock & switch when a train is soon touse itagain. ‘Bat Mr. J. B. Smith. the conductor of the freight train, says that as soon as the zccident happened be examined the switch, and found the padlock banging from the chain. Itis understood that Manager Hatch and Superintendent Preacott ex- onerate Mr. Dow from blame, and are of the opinion that it was done by some person mot connected with the roed. e news of the dis- sster caused the most intense excitement in Newburyport and the adjacent towns, and in this city was the general themeo of conversation. Surgeons went from this city, Salem, Newburyport, and Portsmonth, to tend the wounded, who were brought away in the Pullman cars, Some were left in Newbury- port and Salem, but the most were brought to this city. All the available workmen of the Eastern Railroad were despatched to the spot, and the company’s shops in Salem presented a deserted appearance. The people in the vicinity did everything in their power to_alleviate tho pains of the sufferers. Captain Robert, Norton of Gardiner, Maine, bad recently bought a house in South Boston, and his family had left their home with the fur- niture, on the boat the day before. He was mbout 45 years old, and had sailed for the Brad- streets of Gardiner. He had been in the ice-carrying business, and was well known in this city. He had in his pocket-book $1,000. In his pocket was a gold watch and & wallet. His pocket- book was covered with blood. In his pocket were lotters addressed to Captein Robert Nor- ton, care of Bridgo, Lord & Co., Boston. The following is the List of the killed and wounded : XILLED, Coptain Robert Norton, passenger, of Gardiner, e George Hayward, passenger, of Bangor, Maine, " Walker, passenger, of Salem, Alnsa, WOUNDED, William L. Palmer, mail agent, of Salem ; badly ime jured, but o bones broken, Wil recover. Thomas 5. Sanborn, mail sgent, of Bye, New Hamp- shire; leg broken snd badly hurt, G James W. Blaisdell, passenger, of Bruns- wick, Maine ; badly hurt. Drvid F. Howard, passenger, of Bangor, Maine ; in- Jured infernally, ,Gepiin Cucts, passenger, of Bowdoipham, Maino 3 right leg T~ven, Wl Tairbanks, of Winthrop, Maine; left thigh L. 1two bad cuts on the head. Eben 3x. . _aerson, ger, of Annapolis, Fova Scotia ; flesh wonnds in the face and on the right leg, Jacob Edwards, passeng apolis, Nova Sco- er, of 4 ; clothes torn, and ug,-ndy injured in the legs, express train ; plbest Gaodhie, congucios o the express tfal ands jsmmed, o o in extinguishing the George W. Trott, pussenger, of “Baring, Maine ; slightly injured. Ernest C. Holbrook, passenger, of Portsmouth, N. foot jammed and leg scalded. : 43 scalde iomis B Gatmoil, boggage master ; William Allen, 37 years old, messenger on the East- ern express, residing at 73 Chambers street, Boston, in- jured on 1.}};;-1 and é;w. i o p Elisha Lipre yesrs old, farmer, belonging to Somerville, m:.',"ieg 208 hand Injured. S ‘Asron B, Houdlette, 41 yeara old, saloon-kecper, at 1269 Tremont street, Boston, shoulder and chest in- “H, d, 28 years old, clerk, belonging toSt. ohn, N. B., one leg and o fear injured. ol Charles Estes, 24 years old, brakeman on Railroad, residing at Eliot, M¢,, abdomen braised, *The last five are at the Massachusetts General Hospi- tal, and at about 9 o'clock were quite comfortable, and were doing well. = _ A Coroner’s inquest on the disaster has began its sitting at Portsmounth. —_—— An Adroit Robberye From the Memphis Avalanche, Oct. 23. Monday afterncon one of the boldest and most daring robberies ever committed was perpetrated in the Exposition building. Among _the hun- dreds of exhibitors are Messrs. F. D. Barnum & Co., the well-known Main street jewellers. They have on exhibition a fine and valuable display of watches, chains, lockets, rings, brooches, and diamond jowelry.. The case i8 usually surround- ed by & crowd, cach and every one of whom i8 continually bréaking that commandment, which says ““Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s,” eiC., as they admire the meny costly articles shown. In the arrangement of the case Messrs, Barnum & Co. had the diamonds, four Tings and a cross placed in tho front park of the show case, while behind™ era the ofher articles menf, . gho 800%° Monday aftenoon the cl: called ewsy for a moment, 8004.0rg0 wes' policeman asked him to guard thé g to ‘_ 1il his roturn. Tho man of brasa “Da club nodded an sssent, \ps 83 ing up to mear ] alss turned his back to i, and I —csi o the crowd passing by. When the clerk r after not over a two minutes’ sbsence, he the show-case door, which he had lsft lock 4, slightly ajar. Tn an iostant he knew that the case bad been *sneaked,” and, npon & close ex- amination, he found four diamond rings misaing. Ono of the ringa is & olitaire, valued at 31,000. Theo other threo are clusters. One of themis of nineteen small stones, snother' of thres largo, and the third of fen small diamonds surrounding & large sapphire. The four rings are valued at 53,000 Fortunate'y the lexge croes, an elegant affair of eleven largs. stones, and valued at £5,000, was not sent down thet morning by Barnum & Co., who are conse- quently just what amount wesithier then {hey’ would have been hed it been in the case. The robbery was undoubtedly committed by professionals, of whom two or more weroin the Job. A skeleton key was nsed to open the door, Shich was also propped up by some brenzes and abox. Up to last ovening noarreste been made by the police. ey GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Destructive fires have been raging in the pine- ries of Clerk County, Wis. = - —The subscription to the Texas Railroad is still 24,250 short in New Orleans. =1 —Marquette, Mich., claims to be increasing ixs permanent population ot the rate of 4,000 yearly— _Tho Dartmonth students haye subscrd £1,800 for boating purposes. A 3425 ‘boat-house. ia the first item. s e —Citizens of Montans are sefl'r“:::‘;{:! tating the project of & North & South Tr way to connect with the Union Pacific. —Thomas McClelland, a brakemsn on the Northern Drvision of the Milyaukee & St. Paul TRailroad, fell under an engine and was imme- diately killed, at Richfield Station, Wis., Thuss~ day dfternoon. - _ _The cotton crop is_moving to_foreign ports ith unexampled rapidity, caused by the want of' cash at the South, and the desire to take advans tage of the high rates of foréign exchange upon exports. - —The Troy Marble Comga.u has received the contract for furnishing the United States with 900,000 head-stones for the National Cemete- ries, from its quarry near Rutland, Vt. —There is & rumor that the Spragues, of Rhodo Island, who have furnished and are still Turnishing Augusts, Me., with mills and facto- Ties, are going to build in Bath, Me., and have been negotisting with a view to the purchaso of Iand there. i —Henry Uline, who has been occupied of Iata in meking slterations in the machioery of the ‘Arctic flonring mill, at Minneapolis, met with & ‘horrible and fatal accident, Thursday afternoon. —A gingular legal contest has been insugurat- ed in one of the New York Courts, to recover pos- session of certain real estate deeded by & man who alleges that he was married while k, and conveyed his property to his wife under the same circumstances. : — The Baltimore & Ohio Railroed Company has ordered that hereafter no freight trains ghall be run upon that roed on S\mdag, except- ing those freighted with live stock, and 3 i order will be put in forze on- the Conrellsville Road. This will not interfers with the Sunday passenger trains. E — Advices received from along the lines sever- ally surveyed for the route of the Cincinnati Southern Railway warrant the statement that right of way through Kentucky will be granted to the Trustees free of expense. —As a counterpoise to the accounts published of the exodus from Alsace, it _is znnounced that 500 young Alsacians have joined the German depots, a large portion of them being one-yeat men. —An old lady from Warren, R. I, while visit- ing her son, Caleb Short, in Fall River, went to the door to see the torchlight procession of the firemen, and, making a misstep, was gre itated off the platform about two feet, and fell, strik- ingonthe back of her neck, and expired in- stantly. Near La Crosse, Wis., the other day, Wales E. Gile, visiting his grandfather's, was shot and killed by an exuberant cousin who pointed am % empty pistol ” at him. —The City of Denver reports only 52 deaths in four months, and charges that 12 of them were ‘consumptives, who came to the Territory when ‘beyond hope of recovery. It will bs recommended to Congress that the entire building of the General Fost Offica Department, in Washington, be aised to pnt & nbng under, becauss an sdditionai story on top wonld spoil the architectural effects. —A few days since, a young lady of Urbana, Ohio, who had been ill a short time, died. and and the body was prepared by sorrowing friends and attendants for interment, and placed in the coffin. The night before the day of the funersl, & number of ynunilu.dy watchers wore seated in a room sdjoining that in which the coffin bad ‘h:en pmegfi . Then, gfn:gflyfl i& fl'xelu- con- stergation, the of the dead girl appear- P lhm Sad spolio Taiatly. Whon the horrified attendants had somewhat oyvercoms their f:l;fhe, seeing that the eng‘pnued corpsa was really a thing of life, they took measures to care for their friend so startingly restored to them, almost from the very grave, and ehe re- ceived proper atten tion, 2nd is now, we atetold, likely to recover. - PERSONATL. Shenks will not contest Nefi's seat in Con- gesg, ‘but will enter at once upon his reward in e Pacific Railroad service. — Judge Moses 3. Granger, who has been ap- ointed Supreme Court Reporter in Ohio, tice e J. Critchfield,declined, will remove to Colum- The managers of Tyndall’s scientific lec- tures say that_ he i‘l‘yndall) will, realize over £20,000 Zrom his winler's work. i ¥ — The Prince Imperial of France will don the uniform of & Cadet of the English Royal Artil- lery immediately after the winter vacation at the Academy. : —The Prince of Wales and Lord Strathnairn have been made Field Marshals of Great Britain, vice Burgoyne and Pollock, deceased. Wales is Colonel of the Tenth Hussars, and Strathnairn of the Royal Horse Guards. Strathnairn gined bis honors and his Peerage (1366) as Sir Hugh Henry Rose. —J. Milton Turper, our Minister to Liberia, has sufficiently_recovered strength to appear in Court, at St. Louis, as the prosecutor of his colored brother Wedley, for mgnbing bim in the heat of debate. —Colonel A. A. 0. Rogers, formerly of Chica- 0, and lato member of Congress from Arkaneas, purchased & fine residence two miles oub from Memphis, and will henceforth be a citizen - of Tgnn}::zsa«a st - = —Bishop Gil Haven has returned to his family in B_ononiwh%re‘filwfl.l mmmxi? il after giving, when he will go to his new fiel T e o —DRalp] aldo Emerson and his daughter Ellén haye decided to sail for Europe, t:gpand the winter ihere. The shock Mr. ¥merson re- ceived ab the partial burning of his honse ren- ders a partial suspension of his-literary labors necessary. —Two ancient Catholic families of England and Wales have been united by the marriage of Cahorins Hbert, gratiangbie of fhe Tate ‘atherine Herl hter of ' the late Lord Llanover, of Lfirl::nh.ug —The l})reaiéing officers of the next Legiala~ ture of Massachusetts pre-ordained already. At least the party organs point out Dr. George B. Loring for Fresident of the Senate and Spesker Sanford, of Taunton, for re-election in the House. : —The gerious illness of the Hon, John A. Griswold, of Troy, N. Y., has cansed bls wife and family to hasten their departure home ‘froxt Europe. They sailed last Saturdsy. —The heirs of Sir Francis Drake, with an eye to a division of one hundred millions, when they get it, have formed themselyes into an associa~ tion, with a constitution and by-laws, an initiae tion feo of $10, and an annual payment of 82. —There are eight Oxford firat-class men in the resent British Cabinet: Mr. Gladstone, Mr. 'ardwell, the Eaxl of Kimberly, ;Viscount Hali- fax, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Mr. Goschen, and Sir Roundell Palmer. —John P. Brace, who died in Litchfield, Ct., & fow days since, had, 88 Principal of the Hartford Femalo Seminary, trained 2 number of young ladies who have since become very well known. Among them are Mrs. H. B. Stows, Mrs. Isabella B. Hooker, Mra. W. Field, Mrs, Cornelius DuBois of New York, Mrs. Wilson of Brooklyn rs, Marahall O. Roberts, and others. —TWilliam Schouler, lately deceased at his resis dence near Boston, was, many years sgo, the editor of tho Journal, sad finally of tho Allas, in that city, and, in 1857, became editor of the Cincinnati Gazefle. Subsequently he edited the Columbus (Ohio) Journal for & few months, and then ref ed to his old home. He was Ad- %tmt General of Massachusetts during the ar Administration of Governor Andrews, and, at the time of his death, was an Electoral candi- date on the Greeley ticket. His later geu’a o ease and retrospection have been worthily em- ployed in writing <ketches of the public men and measures in golitical period preceding the War.